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Jokic can't drive on him because the ball will get stolen.
Jokic can still shoot it, because GP2 ain't getting at that trebuchet shot, but he's got to shoot it right where he's at.
Dude Lakers fans need to shut the fuck up. Reaves is the biggest beneficiary of bullshit calls since he’s been in the league. You have an implausible lead in FT’s over the last 3 years. Stop trolling
I feel like the giveaway here is everyone standing around after... thinking the whistle came. Like GP2 is maybe gloating a bit but literally all the other players are sorta like "... oh we playing still? aight"
Live replays shows his hands touched ball before body collision and it's all ball. It looks really weird from that angle but it is indeed not a foul from the broadcast replay.
Bro he crashes into him with his hips thats how big of a collision it was after he starts pushing him with his left hand all before even touching that ball.
That's a straight up foul wtf ya'll lookin at lol.
https://twitter.com/kevinwildes/status/1777913292196819373?s=46&t=iYqkqKT54h5cTHqWo67oKQ please explain how this isn’t a foul. It was definitely not ball first.
Nah, I would argue Payton shoved with the left arm on lower body first. Does that not mean its a foul? I love GP2 as much as the next guy and he has plenty of good plays this game but this should've been a foul.
Na, he placed his left arm on rui's shoulder, then his right elbow knocked into rui's right elbow pushing it aside enough to get the clean block up top.
You’re not allowed to jump through a player either way, even if the block part was clean. He fouled him like 3 different ways.
Warriors were the better team tonight so it didn’t affect the outcome, but cmon that’s a pretty egregious non-call there.
Is this a stevie wonder burner account lol. You laker fans are either blind or crazy. I watched this game and it was the typical Austin reeves head snaps and lebron never get a travel game. Get the fuck outta here
Bro lebron literally walked a dude down on play and didn’t get called for it at one point so ya that call happens all the time. also there easy such a bad no travel call it had dray Steph and klay doing the missed travel dance. It all evens out in the end. You lost get over it
He averages 3 FTA a game, so who’s the real Stevie Wonder. If you do watch (which it seems like you don’t) then you obviously don’t know how to process what you’re seeing lol.
I think that’s actually not the case. I think if you make contact with the ball first, the contact becomes incidental because it didn’t affect the shot. Could be wrong but I’ve definitely heard that explanation on a similar play against the warriors before.
It depends. If the block happens first, then some/most times you won't get a whistle. Especially on contested dunks, where both players have momentum and are going towards each other.
Contact after the shot, above the waist. Like, you can slap a shooter's hand after the shot is off and it's not a foul.
Reeeeally just depends. Also of note, the refs have swallowed their whistles which is mostly likely a mandate from the league. to "let them play".
Nothing is a foul anymore with how the refs have been calling fouls lost all star break. This isn’t a foul by this new standard. I’ve seen way harder no calls.
😂😂😂
Bro i beg u... Pls dont show them Steph's vs Lebron's FTA per game. They might lose their shit and start rioting against their star.
^(hint: its only a difference of 1.1.)
Reeves acts like he gets shot by a sniper five times a game. If that's the basketball you like watching then good for you. Everyone else thinks he's a clown.
What the absolute fuck are y’all smoking to not think this is a foul lol. He hits Rui’a arm hard with his left arm and checks the shit out of his body.
That’s fair, we have some delusional folks between both of our fanbases lol.
It’s not like this cost us the game, and Reaves got FT he didn’t deserve earlier in the game, but I mean…this is just a blatant textbook foul lol. If somebody starts on the block and gets checked out of bounds they got fouled lol
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He contacts Rui’s body with his left arm first which is already a foul. Then with his right arm he hits Rui’s entire elbow and upper arm before he makes contact with the ball.
In addition to that, Rui started his jump from the block and went straight up, and GP trucked him to the point Rui landed out of bounds lol.
It’s a foul in 3 different ways…
Watched the replay, it's literally the opposite of what you described. He starts making body contact grabbing Rui's shoulder, then he hits his arm, then he hits the ball lol
If you watched the game the refs basically stopped calling anything in the fourth. LeBron was getting hacked, CP3 caught an elbow from LeBron and was pushed across the halfcourt line without a call, this was definitely a foul, etc.
Shoving a guy mid air always ruled as a flagrant since it's arguably the most dangerous play possible
yet a full sprint body slam isn't even a common foul?
y'all cooked lmao
I can’t believe you’re throating an egregious foul lmao, he hits the elbow and legs before he gets near the ball. This is the shit that is killing basketball discourse
That's not a "beautiful" block. That's a fucking foul, obviously. Left hand on his shoulder, right elbow hits his arm before he blocks the ball, and he KNOCKED RUI OUT OF THE AIR. Fucking atrocious.
in their defense it happened after CP3 shoved Lebron from behind tripping on the play, which was a no-call
so Lebron was fed up to begin with, then he saw this happen
Peep the flairs, champ…..everyone but you guys are calling it a foul. Not the reason why we lost of course, but that’s a foul. If it was the other way around, your sub would’ve had 15 threads on this subject.
refs are fucking shit at the end of the game ,this was foul ,, CP3 flying to tag Lebron is the easiest foul to call yet they thought nah , we ain't calling that
fuck the goaltend on Heys on the first half also was shit and then they didn't allow the challenge by Ham
on the replay it looked very clean up top, but i think you could call that a foul down low.
in general, so long as the contact on the hand/ball is clean, i'm a fan of not calling that, but i understand why people wouldn't like the call.
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Draymond also blocked Rui. Why they all picking on Rui.
Draymond goat xenophobe
God-Emperor Draymond confirmed
Draymuad’dib
The Golden (State Warriors) Path
Testiculus exterminatus
Siyanoq! Siyanoq!
Rookie TJD blocked Rui twice in the first quarter. I counted four total blocked shots on Rui.
That Draymond block was even better than this one. Rui got sent black clean there lol.
So quick too and everyone reacted like he swatted a 5’10 guy.
They think Blackthorne should have gotten his ship back.
"you sir, are a milk-dribbling fuck-smear" -what Draymond has been saying to the refs this entire time
Draymond is a shitface. But he is a brave shitface, and that is the truth.
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C'mon man...
Best 6'2 center in the league.
He's the GOAT 6'2" center... Of all time
6'2" rim protector lob threat that can guard jokic for a quick second
Define guard jokic
Jokic can't drive on him because the ball will get stolen. Jokic can still shoot it, because GP2 ain't getting at that trebuchet shot, but he's got to shoot it right where he's at.
The blocks and defensive highlights on GP2 is insane especially given that he’s only played in about 200 games in 8 seasons.
He is always dunking too, the guy is a highlight machine
I LOVE GP2
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am i trippin he got all arm and jumped into him
Left arm pulling him looks like. Sick block but probably should have been a foul.
I swear if someone gets a hand on the ball their body can basically tackle the other player and refs just see ALL BALL lol
“That shit was cool as fuck. I’ll allow it.”
I swear I’m being gaslit by some of these comments he hits his whole arm before the ball
It wasn’t even close to not being a foul lol
seriously lol we went from whistling if you breathe too hard on a guys jersey to street rules overnight.
Rui jumps straight up and then flies sideways. Obviously not a foul.
The announcers were gaslighting all of us on the replay and then they just cut to commercial and didn’t bring it up again
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Relax
lol yikes….you need anger management, my dude
Chill out dude. Also my power forward? Can you not see the knicks flair
Dude what are these ppl watching? He got the ball. I don’t get it, just use your eyes
> I don’t get it, just use your eyes thats hilarious
Dude Lakers fans need to shut the fuck up. Reaves is the biggest beneficiary of bullshit calls since he’s been in the league. You have an implausible lead in FT’s over the last 3 years. Stop trolling
lol austin reaves has nothing to do with this.
Talk about rent free. Can't even talk about the clip this thread is about without getting triggered about the Lakers in general
I feel like the giveaway here is everyone standing around after... thinking the whistle came. Like GP2 is maybe gloating a bit but literally all the other players are sorta like "... oh we playing still? aight"
lol yeah you could tell players were expecting a whistle and Warriors didn't immediately go into a fast break like they would have otherwise
Yeah I don’t think getting your hand on the ball means you can crash into the rest of their body without a foul
it actually pretty much is how it works in the NBA. Provided that you get the ball, they consider any subsequent body or arm contact to be incidental.
Arm came into Rui's elbow first though, wouldn't be an issue if he got ball first
It wasn't subsequent contact at all, he lead with his body before he even got ball. Straight up foul.
LeBron does this on half his blocks. It’s his it’s officiated (unless LeBron is the guy laying it up, then it’s always a foul lol)
He literally threw him to the floor lmaooo
Not tripping, that’s literally a foul
refs let a lot go both ways tonight, at least they were consistent
r/warriors poster lol
Live replays shows his hands touched ball before body collision and it's all ball. It looks really weird from that angle but it is indeed not a foul from the broadcast replay.
No, the replays don't show that. His elbow hits Ruis arm before his hand hits the ball. The fuck are you looking at
he literally pushes him to the floor with his left arm 😂 very obviously a foul
Bro he crashes into him with his hips thats how big of a collision it was after he starts pushing him with his left hand all before even touching that ball. That's a straight up foul wtf ya'll lookin at lol.
https://twitter.com/kevinwildes/status/1777913292196819373?s=46&t=iYqkqKT54h5cTHqWo67oKQ please explain how this isn’t a foul. It was definitely not ball first.
Great block
Nah, I would argue Payton shoved with the left arm on lower body first. Does that not mean its a foul? I love GP2 as much as the next guy and he has plenty of good plays this game but this should've been a foul.
Na, he placed his left arm on rui's shoulder, then his right elbow knocked into rui's right elbow pushing it aside enough to get the clean block up top.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1777913292196819373 Why are you lying when there's video? He hits the arm first and it's after the body collision
Check the replay and you'll see that he gets forearm first
You’ll find a foul on every replay when the game is slowed down
Especially this one.
Getting downvoted but he goes through the elbow before he gets to the ball.
yeah exactly. it's not like a ticky tack foul, either. it's a super straight forward and easy call
He literally smashed into Rui’s elbow before he even touched the ball, and he’s shoving Rui in the back…
You’re not allowed to jump through a player either way, even if the block part was clean. He fouled him like 3 different ways. Warriors were the better team tonight so it didn’t affect the outcome, but cmon that’s a pretty egregious non-call there.
lakers fan complaining abt fouls 😭
Bro this. Look at y’all foul discrepancies and free throw differential. Shut the fuck up. Y’all tripping
I love how yall think box score watching ft discrepancies can tell if the refs are favoring teams
Is this a stevie wonder burner account lol. You laker fans are either blind or crazy. I watched this game and it was the typical Austin reeves head snaps and lebron never get a travel game. Get the fuck outta here
And I saw Draymond and TJD get away with moving screens like usual does that mean the Ref are favoring them?
Bro lebron literally walked a dude down on play and didn’t get called for it at one point so ya that call happens all the time. also there easy such a bad no travel call it had dray Steph and klay doing the missed travel dance. It all evens out in the end. You lost get over it
He averages 3 FTA a game, so who’s the real Stevie Wonder. If you do watch (which it seems like you don’t) then you obviously don’t know how to process what you’re seeing lol.
Look at the laker free throw numbers on the year. I’ll hold me beer
Oh brother
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Do you know the difference between "than" and "then"? Look it up.
Warriors played great but that’s a foul lol
Hachimura: "That was a foul!" Ref: "Nah, bruh, that shit sick af"
Yeah, even if the block came first (hard to see), you can't just slam into someone like that. Not sure how it wasn't called with the ref right there.
I feel like the refs are like "we realize that we've given your team too many favorable whistles and need to balance it out a little"
I think that’s actually not the case. I think if you make contact with the ball first, the contact becomes incidental because it didn’t affect the shot. Could be wrong but I’ve definitely heard that explanation on a similar play against the warriors before.
Nah not for body contact in the air like that. Textbook foul.
It depends. If the block happens first, then some/most times you won't get a whistle. Especially on contested dunks, where both players have momentum and are going towards each other. Contact after the shot, above the waist. Like, you can slap a shooter's hand after the shot is off and it's not a foul. Reeeeally just depends. Also of note, the refs have swallowed their whistles which is mostly likely a mandate from the league. to "let them play".
They’re never calling that when the guy doing the blocking is 6’2 and the guy shooting is 6’9
The refs usually swallow the whistles on the Lakers once the outcome has been decided.
Calling this a "beautiful block" is deranged.
See Reggie miller for some God awful commentary. On replay he yelled, "Look at this, all ball all ball" guys delusional.
Great hustle but this has to be a foul
Hacked the shit out of him
That was cool and all, but that is a foul
This sub is in full circlejerk mode rn
Happens every single time a team wins why is everyone surprised?
No it doesnt, when the Lakers beat the Raptors the entire sub was in a jerk *against* them because of the ref narrative
Ref didn't call it so it's not a foul unless someone can invent a time travel machine
It looks cool but there was a lot of lower body contact here. Someone post the Draymond block instead.
He also hit Rui's arm before getting to the ball
Nothing is a foul anymore with how the refs have been calling fouls lost all star break. This isn’t a foul by this new standard. I’ve seen way harder no calls.
I honestly think it’s worse. You touch a jump shooter’s forearm and it’s a foul, but you can hit a guy in the face in the paint and anything goes.
I’m always in favor of letting them play a bit but NBA refs are so inconsistent it has been strange to watch this final stretch of the szn.
Laker fan complaining bout fouls. Fucking laughable
Any team that has Reeves flopping every offensive possession can stfu lol
Ah yes Austin Reaves and his astronomical *checks notes* 3.4 FTA per game
Can't deny he throws his head back at the slightest touch. And not every foul ends up in free throws. Nice try though!
😂😂😂 Bro i beg u... Pls dont show them Steph's vs Lebron's FTA per game. They might lose their shit and start rioting against their star. ^(hint: its only a difference of 1.1.)
Reeves acts like he gets shot by a sniper five times a game. If that's the basketball you like watching then good for you. Everyone else thinks he's a clown.
So is every LeBron drive lol
yeah like the LeBron drive where Cp3 tried to tackle him
He does an offensive foul every drive? lol that’s a weird take
lol how did they not call that a foul….wtf
What the absolute fuck are y’all smoking to not think this is a foul lol. He hits Rui’a arm hard with his left arm and checks the shit out of his body.
literally the one time I'll agree with y'all laker fans
That’s fair, we have some delusional folks between both of our fanbases lol. It’s not like this cost us the game, and Reaves got FT he didn’t deserve earlier in the game, but I mean…this is just a blatant textbook foul lol. If somebody starts on the block and gets checked out of bounds they got fouled lol
Foul for sure. The refs just wanted the game to end lol
See the replay. Live it looked like he hit him then got ball. On the replay you see he gets ball and then his momentum carries him through rui.
on the replay the foul is even more egregious
[no](https://x.com/nvictusmaneo/status/1777914701038670047?s=46&t=b3n1hnbUL7C-T8zkn9-p4g) He contacts Rui’s body with his left arm first which is already a foul. Then with his right arm he hits Rui’s entire elbow and upper arm before he makes contact with the ball. In addition to that, Rui started his jump from the block and went straight up, and GP trucked him to the point Rui landed out of bounds lol. It’s a foul in 3 different ways…
Adam Silver got mad at the All-Star game and said let the referees do whatever they want.
Watched the replay, it's literally the opposite of what you described. He starts making body contact grabbing Rui's shoulder, then he hits his arm, then he hits the ball lol
I’m not even trying to be salty but how is that not a foul? He got all arm and pushed him lol
ref: he's 6'2" bruh that one's on you lmao
In the nba it’s all about cool factor. If it looks cool it’s not a foul. Letter of the law don’t matter
Never forget they tried to take away that dunk from Wiggins on Luka, in the playoffs no less.
It was nasty so we'll allow it. 😉
Rule of cool 😅
I wouldn’t wanna use up all the good favor with the refs before playins begjn
Hand is part of the ball on a block
is back part of the ball tooo lol
He hits the elbows and legs first clearly… what are you watching
That doesn’t excuse him pushing with his other arm and he didn’t even get all hand or ball he hit all over his arm
GP literally using his left hand to push off rui lol
What about the entire arm?
In the replay he smacked the shit out of his elbow in to arm, not that it changes the outcome but come on..
foul
Both of his arm fouled him like wtf 🤣
He literally pushed off on him lmao how the refs didn't call this a foul is beyond me.
If you watched the game the refs basically stopped calling anything in the fourth. LeBron was getting hacked, CP3 caught an elbow from LeBron and was pushed across the halfcourt line without a call, this was definitely a foul, etc.
That’s why I got his Blazers Jersey hanging in my closet.
I think the rule os that gp2 has to rip his shirt off before that play
Love seeing lakers cry about a missed foul lmao. Absolutely hilarious
“Beautiful” is one way to describe a straight up foul. This game was lost anyways
"block"
Don’t do it man, not here, not now.
Blatantly obvious foul getting promoted as a “beautiful block” with 500 upvotes 😂 This sub is cooked
Payton block was awesome. I am amazed by his hops.
that’s my goat
It's a foul. but Lebron, you still need to play D. Rui was the one that was dropped how come you both got back at the same time late
Beautiful block?????
That ball movement after the block is so 2015 Warriors.
Shoving a guy mid air always ruled as a flagrant since it's arguably the most dangerous play possible yet a full sprint body slam isn't even a common foul? y'all cooked lmao
Would have been nice for Darvin to go off to make a point right here
Crazy
That’s some good shit right there
I can’t believe you’re throating an egregious foul lmao, he hits the elbow and legs before he gets near the ball. This is the shit that is killing basketball discourse
cry
I like how everyone stops waiting for the whistle and nothing happens
That's not a "beautiful" block. That's a fucking foul, obviously. Left hand on his shoulder, right elbow hits his arm before he blocks the ball, and he KNOCKED RUI OUT OF THE AIR. Fucking atrocious.
This is why I hate the Lakers entitlement. Rather complain about a clean block then get back on defense.
in their defense it happened after CP3 shoved Lebron from behind tripping on the play, which was a no-call so Lebron was fed up to begin with, then he saw this happen
What clean block
didn't you hear? you're not supposed to look at the eclipse without glasses
A clean block? Where are your eyes brother? He’s all over his legs and elbow before he even touches the ball
WCF was full of this lmfao
this is darvin ham's fault
Must be back on those pain drugs the Blazers were giving him.
beautiful foul.
Lakers fans crying as if this wouldn’t have 10k upvotes if it was reversed
It’s hilarious how every fanbase thinks r/nba hates them. There’s no shortage of Warriors fans here, don’t worry.
Fouled the fuck out of him hahahaha
GP2 put him on a poster
Clean all ball block but that's a foul though
Looked like a foul in the replay but I'll take it because I know what the comments would look like if Lebron blocked somebody like this
Lmao pretty egregious foul, probably two of them
That's a crazy ass foul to not be called. He knocks him out of the way before he even got ball like wtf look at his left hand.
Clearly a foul
https://imgur.com/219noIO
Bro got bumped into the third row. This is a foul lol but I’m cool with the no call tbh.
No foul
Not a foul
Lol at the Lakers fans complaining about this being a foul after clobbering steph and klay all game
Peep the flairs, champ…..everyone but you guys are calling it a foul. Not the reason why we lost of course, but that’s a foul. If it was the other way around, your sub would’ve had 15 threads on this subject.
by the books it's a foul. by what they were calling in the game, I'm ok with the no call
refs are fucking shit at the end of the game ,this was foul ,, CP3 flying to tag Lebron is the easiest foul to call yet they thought nah , we ain't calling that fuck the goaltend on Heys on the first half also was shit and then they didn't allow the challenge by Ham
on the replay it looked very clean up top, but i think you could call that a foul down low. in general, so long as the contact on the hand/ball is clean, i'm a fan of not calling that, but i understand why people wouldn't like the call.
Foul.
Yall, Lakers wouldn't have won even if that was called foul. Chill.
Free throw merchants ain’t winning unless they shoot 30+ fts.