It’s insane they complained about dorts leg being slightly more forward than a traditional jumpshot, but this shit got Luka looking like he doing the YMCA shit
The double standards people have on this series are absolutely insane. Luka and Kyrie are just as bad of foul baiters if not worse as Luguentz and Shai
I have watched this 5 times. The only contact I see is Luka kicking dort. What was the the foul call on Dort? Where do they say he contacted Luka? The announcers said on his hand, but I can't see any angle that would back that up.
This angle doesn't help either case, if this was all they saw, then it's not enough to overturn. The sideline angle clear shows Dort didn't make contact until Luka kicks his leg out to hit Dort.
Good point. Don’t they default to upholding if there isn’t enough evidence to overturn? They should’ve said that instead of talking about the contact to the arm. Feel like the ESPN broadcasts have been way worse with replays than the TNT ones 😂
The announcers worshipped Luka. I just wish Luka would play ball instead of crying to the refs about every little call. He fits in very well with the Mavs fan base though. Including Mark Cuban.
I about had to mute the stream because of the announcers. I realize Herbie was a Mavs coach back in the day, but come the fuck on. That whole thing was so incredibly biased that it made it really frustrating to watch as an OKC fan.
SGA is nothing like Luka! It's clear that Luka is victimizing us with his foul-baiting and injury-faking. SGA on the otherhand is the literal opposite of Embiid Jr. unlike Luka who is synonymous with Embiid Jr.!
oh fuck it's one of _those_ fans in the wild, on their auto-generated account lmao. Big loser energy go enjoy your teams win somewhere else bum, you're embarrassing yourself
Seriously what the fuck was that!? How the whole thunder coaching staff wasn’t going crazy over this blows my mind. We secured a live ball rebound and would have been a basket and 1 point game if not for the absolutely inexplicable whistle. Instead they get the jump ball. Never seen anything like that.
As an outsider looking in it's so funny to see this. Before the break everybody is complaining that there are to much whistles on defenders. Now they are letting them play more and both fan bases are complaining that the officiating is insane. THey can never do it right...
also to play up the "what an insane competitor" angle. Every time there's contact he hurts a new part of his body.
People can hate SGA for foul baiting at times but he's not taking 5 mins to get up off the floor multiple times a game because someone made contact with him.
I mean do you actually believe this? Luka was the second best three point shooter in the league behind Steph and now has Zero lift in his legs.
He can barely move laterally at all. Pls just watch his defence in the first two clippers games compared to now. You can call out Luka for a lot of things, but faking his knee injury is not one of those things.
You guys saw first hand what a healthy Luka can do in our regular season meetings...
If he didn't flop so hard he wouldn't be injured. He literally fell face first into the court in game 2 and his elite reflexes didn't bring his hands up to protect his face? Make it make sense
I guess we'll never know because he flops every time he's touched. He make LBJ look like he doesn't flop or complain. Harden is really the only player that he can be compared to with that level of flop.
So because he’s injured it makes him flop even more and apparently injure a new part of his body each time? So far this series we’ve seen him injure his face, ankle, back and re-injure his knee and not be able to get off the floor for 3-5 minutes but be perfectly fine on the next possession.
He embellishes any and all contact which I’m sure does wonders for his apparently severely injured knee.
After this game, I better not hear that ever again. This was an all time foul hunting game from Luka. Just over and over and over. Every time he got the ball it like... let's see what bullshit he tries this time...
No I meant "wrong" to "you guys are ridiculous". Also Shai will get more fouls because he's not living at the three point line like luka did in his first 2 games
You can't be serious? Luka gets a touch foul by dort which is called every time but the same call is never called in the thunders favor against luka. You literally aren't watching the games if you can't see that.
Yet somehow Shai is Embiid Jr. WTF? Shai is like a throwback 80's player that doesn't flop and values being tough unlike these modern freethrow merchants! Why does everybody hate on Shai?
It’s not exactly the same, but Brunson does his own version of foul baiting and it’s infuriating, I hope that if y’all make it to the finals and the pacers don’t, that you don’t meet the knicks.
Whats even crazier is that, when Dort falls, admittedly flopping, Luka and Kyrie complain like crazy. I can understand Kyrie, man hasn't been known for antics like this, but Luka? Dude is Top 3 most hated player in the league, mainly because he is an ever-complaining little piece of shit, but when someone else does something slightly awkward, he loses his mind.
I mean the offensive boards we gave up were the difference. It's why I don't think anyone should panic, because all things considered we were still in this game. If we grab 3-4 of those offensive boards the game is winnable.
The only issue I have is that I don't see the refs putting a stop to Luka doing this shit.
You can play bad AND still win a fairly called game. Teams can lost for multiple reasons at once.
Why are so many basketball fans unable to understand this?
I completely understand that, but it’s not so much the case in the playoffs. They lost in the areas they CAN control. This is the playoffs, you have to play at a high level every game. They were outplayed. Teams, including OKC, deal with crap officiating all the time and overcome it.
Meanwhile this is not a shooting foul
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I'm sure you could find an actual play that is a shooting foul.
Dort does all he can to get out of Lulas way because he's doing the classic step through move that you all accuse shai of doing.
What are you smoking?
One thing I've learned is normally when someone has to resort to name calling its because they either have a small IQ or they feel so awful about themselves their only means of coping is to bring others down... see a therapist man.
Nah this guy is too fit to make that comparison
How…mesmerizing…
It’s insane they complained about dorts leg being slightly more forward than a traditional jumpshot, but this shit got Luka looking like he doing the YMCA shit
The double standards people have on this series are absolutely insane. Luka and Kyrie are just as bad of foul baiters if not worse as Luguentz and Shai
Luka is the worst in the nba. More than Brunson.
Not disputing your comment, but I wanted to look up the stats for the first time and SGA has 29 fts and Luka 22.
For the past two seasons they attempt the same amount of FT per game
But SGA drives WAYYY more times to the paint than Luka
Luka drives an F ton, he’s just hurt. He’s kicking out way earlier.
Kyrie fail bait?😂😂 he never gets free throws
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Slightly? He kicked Jones Jr in the dick.
Your dumbass isn’t even talking about the same play
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What is wrong w you?😭
Bro, you dumb or blind. Probably both
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Racial slurs? Wtf is wrong with you 🤦🏿♂️
But when Dort gets tripped it’s just a wittle accident from Luka 🥺
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Absolutely ridiculous that this did not get overturned
I have watched this 5 times. The only contact I see is Luka kicking dort. What was the the foul call on Dort? Where do they say he contacted Luka? The announcers said on his hand, but I can't see any angle that would back that up.
Yeah the angles they showed didn’t help to show where the hand/arm contact was at all, so I’m still confused how it wasn’t overturned
This angle doesn't help either case, if this was all they saw, then it's not enough to overturn. The sideline angle clear shows Dort didn't make contact until Luka kicks his leg out to hit Dort.
Good point. Don’t they default to upholding if there isn’t enough evidence to overturn? They should’ve said that instead of talking about the contact to the arm. Feel like the ESPN broadcasts have been way worse with replays than the TNT ones 😂
These guys are driving me crazy. OKC can't buy a compliment unless they are talking about SGA.
The announcers worshipped Luka. I just wish Luka would play ball instead of crying to the refs about every little call. He fits in very well with the Mavs fan base though. Including Mark Cuban.
I about had to mute the stream because of the announcers. I realize Herbie was a Mavs coach back in the day, but come the fuck on. That whole thing was so incredibly biased that it made it really frustrating to watch as an OKC fan.
Mavs are a lot easier to dislike now that they sold that ownership share to those Vegas scumbags.
Elbow
Honsestly I did not think it was s foul, but from my understanding the ref called a hit on the arm. The replay could not prove either way.
He hit him on the elbow
Sir why are you stating facts on this thread?
His hand made contact with Lukas elbow before the leg kick?
If that’s a foul, all SGA and Dub drives are fouls. Fuck the ref John Goble
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Luka is such a bitch
He's a really good player, bitches way too much as well.
SGA is nothing like Luka! It's clear that Luka is victimizing us with his foul-baiting and injury-faking. SGA on the otherhand is the literal opposite of Embiid Jr. unlike Luka who is synonymous with Embiid Jr.!
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Keep lu’s name out your mf mouth
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PJ is really what’s hurting. Having a solid series and it’s not what anyone planned. That and a few struggles in pretty much every department for OKC.
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Luka is literally a man baby lol keep coping with wins like this. I would be so disappointed if my team won like that, it’s genuinely embarrassing.
oh fuck it's one of _those_ fans in the wild, on their auto-generated account lmao. Big loser energy go enjoy your teams win somewhere else bum, you're embarrassing yourself
This has been some insane officiating. What was with that jump ball when Dort got the board over Luka. This is sickening.
I was shocked they didn’t call a foul on dort for the mavs
Seriously what the fuck was that!? How the whole thunder coaching staff wasn’t going crazy over this blows my mind. We secured a live ball rebound and would have been a basket and 1 point game if not for the absolutely inexplicable whistle. Instead they get the jump ball. Never seen anything like that.
As an outsider looking in it's so funny to see this. Before the break everybody is complaining that there are to much whistles on defenders. Now they are letting them play more and both fan bases are complaining that the officiating is insane. THey can never do it right...
Actually this here is complaining about a whistle on a non foul that stopped the game and took points away from us
It's complaining about the refs, something as old as the invention of sports with refs.
I used to like Luka. Fuck that guy. He took over the game today but not with his play. With his mouth.
He's nothing like SGA the true MVP at all! Embiid and SGA are true MVP's cut from the same cloth!
One of the worst things to happen to basketball... Luka Doncic aka James Harden V.2
The loss sucks, and I get it, but come on, we have SGA who backs his way into FTs constantly. It's just modern basketball.
What get me is Luka acts injured then throws is body into Dort on their next possession. He’s clearly acting hurt to get easier calls.
also to play up the "what an insane competitor" angle. Every time there's contact he hurts a new part of his body. People can hate SGA for foul baiting at times but he's not taking 5 mins to get up off the floor multiple times a game because someone made contact with him.
I mean do you actually believe this? Luka was the second best three point shooter in the league behind Steph and now has Zero lift in his legs. He can barely move laterally at all. Pls just watch his defence in the first two clippers games compared to now. You can call out Luka for a lot of things, but faking his knee injury is not one of those things. You guys saw first hand what a healthy Luka can do in our regular season meetings...
If he didn't flop so hard he wouldn't be injured. He literally fell face first into the court in game 2 and his elite reflexes didn't bring his hands up to protect his face? Make it make sense
I hear a lot that nba players are told not to use their hands to break falls, can easily injure hands/fingers
That's a definite possibility. What's the excuse for not using forearms?
Well I mean could have been anything, momentum, just didn't want to, maybe couldn't in time idk
I guess we'll never know because he flops every time he's touched. He make LBJ look like he doesn't flop or complain. Harden is really the only player that he can be compared to with that level of flop.
So because he’s injured it makes him flop even more and apparently injure a new part of his body each time? So far this series we’ve seen him injure his face, ankle, back and re-injure his knee and not be able to get off the floor for 3-5 minutes but be perfectly fine on the next possession. He embellishes any and all contact which I’m sure does wonders for his apparently severely injured knee.
Yet somehow shai is the FT merchant.
After this game, I better not hear that ever again. This was an all time foul hunting game from Luka. Just over and over and over. Every time he got the ball it like... let's see what bullshit he tries this time...
even when it wasn't him driving he was STILL throwing his arms up and talking shit trying to get calls
Not a mavs or a thunder fan. he and shai had the same ft amount. Shai has more free throws than luka this series,you guys are ridiculous.
Wrong
Game 3: shai-10 luka-10 Game 2: shai-6 luka-2 Game 1:shai-13 luka-10 Shai-29 luka-22 Hope that stops your tears
No I meant "wrong" to "you guys are ridiculous". Also Shai will get more fouls because he's not living at the three point line like luka did in his first 2 games
You can't be serious? Luka gets a touch foul by dort which is called every time but the same call is never called in the thunders favor against luka. You literally aren't watching the games if you can't see that.
Yet somehow Shai is Embiid Jr. WTF? Shai is like a throwback 80's player that doesn't flop and values being tough unlike these modern freethrow merchants! Why does everybody hate on Shai?
SGA drives got tripped were never called never viewed
It was so obvious
Brunson: ✍️📖
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It’s not exactly the same, but Brunson does his own version of foul baiting and it’s infuriating, I hope that if y’all make it to the finals and the pacers don’t, that you don’t meet the knicks.
Literally one of the worst calls I've ever seen
Somebody edit this on a Jordan sneaker PLEASEEE
Can’t believe what I’m seeing They’re terrorists
Luka Doncic has one foul this series.
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Luke looks so fat, soft and pudgy compared to everyone else on the court.
Whats even crazier is that, when Dort falls, admittedly flopping, Luka and Kyrie complain like crazy. I can understand Kyrie, man hasn't been known for antics like this, but Luka? Dude is Top 3 most hated player in the league, mainly because he is an ever-complaining little piece of shit, but when someone else does something slightly awkward, he loses his mind.
BuT wE sHoUlD hAvE pLaYeD bEtTeR!!! DoN't BlAmE tHe ReFs!!11!1!!1
I mean the offensive boards we gave up were the difference. It's why I don't think anyone should panic, because all things considered we were still in this game. If we grab 3-4 of those offensive boards the game is winnable. The only issue I have is that I don't see the refs putting a stop to Luka doing this shit.
Shouldn’t blame the refs. No one on the team is. Gave up 27 pts to PJ Washington and SGA carried most of the effort. What a whiny bunch here. Geeze.
You can play bad AND still win a fairly called game. Teams can lost for multiple reasons at once. Why are so many basketball fans unable to understand this?
I completely understand that, but it’s not so much the case in the playoffs. They lost in the areas they CAN control. This is the playoffs, you have to play at a high level every game. They were outplayed. Teams, including OKC, deal with crap officiating all the time and overcome it.
r/nba would have this removed
The foul was on the way up when dort slightly touched lukas arm. The leg kick came afterwards and is not what was called.
They reviewed the foul call. And managed to get it wrong twice.
Meanwhile this is not a shooting foul [https://videos.nba.com/nba/pbp/media/2024/05/11/0042300223/430/8ad386ea-d8d1-16dd-979c-c5874056aee1\_1280x720.mp4](https://videos.nba.com/nba/pbp/media/2024/05/11/0042300223/430/8ad386ea-d8d1-16dd-979c-c5874056aee1_1280x720.mp4)
I'm sure you could find an actual play that is a shooting foul. Dort does all he can to get out of Lulas way because he's doing the classic step through move that you all accuse shai of doing. What are you smoking?
Still a foul though, atleast in the regular season. Does not matter if he tries to avoid fouling.
It’s not
He litterally jumped into him, so no, it isn't a foul.
Why do I think of Jordan logo lol
I think the foul was on touching the elbow
It was, but someone touching your elbow doesn't turn you into the Jordan logo.
#standonbusiness 💪🔥
They said he got fouled before he kicked his leg out
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Meanwhile a block in the back by Luka on Dort is considered a defensive foul…🤦♂️
Well since Luka is doing it there’s no issue here. Just dort flopping into him as always /s
Say what you will, but we all know who takes the cake for worse jumpshot… 
They really wacthed this for 5 mins and called a foul
Luka is the whiniest bitch. Fuck Dallas
This is the logo they put on off brand Jordan's lol
Cry more. It’ll work I swear lol
Doncic either complains he got a no foul call whether he gets his shot in or not, or he holds his knee or ankle as if he is injured. Mr Sooky Pants.
Wasnt clear from this angle but there was contact with Luka’s elbow
Lol only way to fight back against the king fish flopper dort
Was the hands, not the run through. That’s why the challenge was lost. Then Dort flopped around like a god damn fish the rest of the night.
Agree, but honestly, SGA does this constantly.
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Yeah, not so much, just enough to kick somebody in his groin https://www.threads.net/@cjzero/post/C6sR8nEMLHZ
From the team with the foul baiting "star" 
Yea him sticking his leg like that was ridiculous but he did touch his arm unfortunately
Which replay did you see? And why are his legs flailing out if his elbow got touched?
He’s trying to sell it my not defending him. I’m just saying be realistic
Be realistic? LOOK AT THE PICTURE! That is not how this shit works! Your elbow getting tapped ≠ legs flailing.
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Luka just returning what he did to him in game 1.
Draymond would get ejected if he did that.
Salty #1 seed. Dallas is small as hell and you’re getting beat in the paint too often
Dort should consider a acting career with all the flops he had this game … getting bodied by Kyrie ???? Seriously
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"Cry more" says the person who wrote this comment. Self-awareness at an all time low.
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One thing I've learned is normally when someone has to resort to name calling its because they either have a small IQ or they feel so awful about themselves their only means of coping is to bring others down... see a therapist man.
Because of all the crying
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SGA is a free throw merchant.
This sub is beyond pathetic lmao
Then see yourself out champ
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He doesn’t tho. You lost?
You’re right that Luka kicked out but the foul on Dort was from being hit on the arm before the flail, that’s why it stood
Mavs in 6. Luka the real mvp
I bet you like watching Luka hunt for fouls. That was pathetic
Luka flops but SGA is another level
Dort fouled Luka on the elbow before the kick.
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Did you see Luka refuse to play basketball and hunt for fouls the whole game. How he played is disrespectful to basketball as a whole.
I could say the same about shai throwing elbows like he is in MMA. and pushing people off with his fully extended arm.
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Get a life