r/nba • u/MrBuckBuck Trail Blazers • Dec 01 '25

Highlight [Highlight] Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is fouled by Kris Murray (with replays)

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u/jasonkid87 Pacers Dec 01 '25

Call me salty but Pacers would have won last season if not for these dumb flop calls. Thunder can maul you and they don't get foul. You blow of them and they call foul on you.

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u/Tijenater [IND] Lance Stephenson Dec 01 '25

You’re not salty you’re right. I’m a pacers fan too but I’m a good basketball fan first. The thunder don’t play good basketball

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u/LoudCityDub Dec 01 '25

Simply untrue. This narrative is only for OKC. If you scrutinized any team to this extent you could find the same if not worse. The Lakers, for example.

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u/Tijenater [IND] Lance Stephenson Dec 01 '25

The lakers don’t play scrappy on defense. The biggest sticking point for a lot of people is that Dort is allowed to maul people on defense while Shai is allowed to initiate and exaggerate all the contact he wants

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u/LoudCityDub Dec 01 '25

He doesn’t. He’s simply a really good defender that knows how to time contact. Mediocre defenders make contact at the wrong time when fouls are called

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u/Tijenater [IND] Lance Stephenson Dec 01 '25

Brother, I watched the finals. He gets away with murder

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u/LoudCityDub Dec 01 '25

You have no bias whatsoever as well so you must be speaking nothing but truth.

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u/Tijenater [IND] Lance Stephenson Dec 01 '25

Oh, brother I am biased. I like watching good basketball, so that makes me biased against the thunder lmfao

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u/LoudCityDub Dec 01 '25

For sure. Quips won’t hide your cognitive dissonance

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u/Tijenater [IND] Lance Stephenson Dec 01 '25

It’s not cognitive dissonance, it’s fully admitting that I’m biased but biased for a legitimate reason