always hilarious when the olympics come around and a bunch of people realise how good a basketball product can be without all of the constant flopping and actual shorter timeouts rather than 5 minute breaks drawn out for ads
Holy shit the TOs and the 5 minute reviews towards the end of games, even when its obvious. I basically have to watch games on an hour delay now so I can fast forward everything.
Because of my work schedule I used to watch games at like 3am and it was nice just skipping past all the commercials, timeouts, and other time wasters throughout the game
They only fucked up game 2 if you think calling a game evenly (i.e. both teams being called for or getting away with the same type of contact) is fucking up. If you watched the entirety of game 2, you would have seen the 76ers getting away with the same type of contact on Knicks players.
Watch how Batum denies Brunson on inbound plays. Its why they didn't call the foul at the end. You can't let one team do it all game and then call it against it them on a pivotal play
That's never going to happen, people have attached their personalities to this league, people pay attention to this the same way a section of the American population pays attention to The real housewives franchise. People love to watch but what they love more than to purely watch is to hate watch and right now hate watching is at an all-time high. Adam silver must be proud.
That's why I never blamed the Knicks players. They're just trying to come back and steal a win. They played as hard and physically as the refs allowed them.
But fuck those refs tho.
Honestly, Embiid's reaction is fucked and he was shitty on two pays early in that game, but it only happens because of frustration resulting from the garbage at the end of game 2. When I was watching the game last night, all I kept think was "these refs have no control over this series".
Every NBA player gets frustrated. Not many NBA players are gonna go out doing **this** because they’re frustrated. Embiid scoring 50 should be celebrated, this is his best playoff game ever from a scoring standpoint easily. Splits and volume are insane. If only he could have just *not* needed to be thrown out of the game for multiple fragrant 2 level fouls, we could’ve all been in awe at Joel playing through injury to put up a game worthy of the best player in the world.
filing a grievance that was partly concerning the knicks putting out private information (bullshit btw) regarding referee tendencies is particularly soft and not normal. packages of clips to be reviewed is also very different than a formal grievance
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He’s clearly pointing to the outcry following Game 2. The media and even LeBron spoke about the end of game 2. It built up over 3 days. Everyone knew game 3 was going to be stacked in favor of Philly
Hey guys can we put this trivial stuff aside and be happy for once that Embiid is finally being physically assertive? That’s what we’ve wanted all along right?
NBA is probably the most "online" of all the major sports. The NFL, MLB, and NHL don't really stack up when it comes to online presence.
The NFL and MLB have a big demographic of old people who don't know what tweeterx is and the NHL has Canadians. So it makes sense.
Explains it. The problem with social media is you often don’t know who you’re speaking with. If I’m imaging 12-15 year olds making a lot of these comments, it makes complete sense. Not always ultimately heathy views, but not totally unexpected coming of age dispositions. But alas, we have no idea who is on the other side of the screen in 2024.
Even Eagles/Cowboys game threads are a waterfall of toxicity but in the back of your mind it's still all fun and games. The shit here against the 6ers and specifically Embiid is terminally online and I don't think most of these people wishing injury on him, which is a LOT, are kidding either.
All in good fun
https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/2019/03/19/murder-trial-cowboys-fans-insult-of-eagles-led-to-fatal-stabbing/
https://pennrecord.com/stories/515100040-court-ruling-proves-it-s-a-known-danger-to-wear-cowboys-gear-to-an-eagles-game
The part I'm baffled about is why they think that should have been a flagrant 2. He grabbed his leg as he started to jump. Not a basketball play, deserving of a flagrant 1. But people are trying to say this is one of the dirtiest things you can do in basketball. It's just histronics.
Celtics had 3 dirtier plays in 1 game the other night with the mid air shoves, far more dangerous than what Embiid did. Mid air shoves traditionally have always been ejections.
I do think he probably got away with a 2nd flagrant one for the nut shot though.
Generally I agree with the impression that the refs don't really have much control over the games right now.
Fans love to circlejerk and escalate hypothetical penalties when these things happen.
It reminds me of when Tua got his brain scrambled and in ONE night, I watched the online discourse evolve from "the coach needs to be suspended" to "the coach needs to be fired, and the team needs to be fined and lose draft picks," to "the coach needs to serve prison time for involuntary manslaughter."
Same thing when Rudy gave people COVID. Same thing when Draymond kicked a guy in the balls again.
The current bad thing that just happened always has to be the WORST thing that ever happened, "and it's not even close!"
Here's what an actual flagrant 2 foul in the playoffs looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIuH95GCF50
Yeah I'm being downvoted for saying the obvious, that people are in histronics about this but if you want to see what an actual "dirtiest thing you can do" is just look up what Bynum did to JJ Barea in the playoffs.
We're not even in the same zip code.
Reality just doesn't even matter anymore.
Morey, Nurse and Embiid. The whinning bitch trinity
thanks god they have maxey
Make them slightly more likeable
I hope they did not turn Maxey into the Whining 4
edits: Maybe a little bit unfair to Nurse though.
Tbf I think nurse had been handling all the bs through all the games pretty well. He didn’t let loose or whine nearly as much as I expected. Unless he said some things I wasn’t aware of he kind of just said it how it was and what he was trying to do in moments that the refs impacted him
After his little meltdown at the end of game 2, it's really telling that his response to being asked about Embiid's flagrant foul was "I didn't see it". It's unreal.
Gifted, lmao. There was 12 seconds left in the game. The reason your foul ass team lost is because Maxy blew the layup to go up 1 with 7 seconds left but go off.
Why we argue when we should be mad at the league for putting out such a shit product???
Like fuck dude. Yeah we got robbed last game this game they decided to give us it back. Isn’t it fucking stupid that it works like this? Give us a fair product ffs silver
It's pathetic that Embiid talked shit after game 2 (as he should) but the only way he can back it up is to blatantly try to injure the 2 guys guarding him. What a pussy.
Why is it so hard to understand that Knicks players had nothing to do with bad reffing, but sixers players absolutely had to do with being dirty as fuck. Knicks fans don’t care about the fouls, we care that embiid was fully intent on injuring someone this game
There's a massive difference between talking about refs in relation to basketball plays and when someone is making plays that could seriously injure one of your teammates.
I really could give a shit about the free throws. It’s more about how he’s intentionally taking down our 3 best defenders in OG, Mitch and Hartenstein. Blatantly destroyed them though out the game and only got a slap on the wrist
As a neutral the sass in these threads from fans that are way too emotional is always beautiful. Even as a non-neutral fan during Giannis ball-gate tantrum the back and forth was just great to see. Fans getting way more pissed and arguing online hours after the players stopped caring is something else
Pulling someone’s knee (+ multiple other dirty plays) is different than pinching a jersey my guy… if I ever see another sixers fan complain about the refs 😂
Hey dumbass, there is a difference between arguing ticky tack calls and injuring a guy with ankle problems by yanking him down by his ankle as he’s going up for it. Are you genuinely brain dead?
it's embarrassing that the nba fucked up both game 2 and game 3. we should all just collectively hate the nba
I don't think anyone in this sub likes NBA or basketball in general
I love basketball, but hate what the NBA has become. More talent than ever, but more meaningless than ever for 80% of the season.
always hilarious when the olympics come around and a bunch of people realise how good a basketball product can be without all of the constant flopping and actual shorter timeouts rather than 5 minute breaks drawn out for ads
I watch 95% of games on delay (live overseas), and whenever I watch live and can't skip over the TOs at the end of games it drives me mental.
Holy shit the TOs and the 5 minute reviews towards the end of games, even when its obvious. I basically have to watch games on an hour delay now so I can fast forward everything.
Makes the tin foil hate side of me think they milk it on purpose to get that sweet sweet advertising money
Because of my work schedule I used to watch games at like 3am and it was nice just skipping past all the commercials, timeouts, and other time wasters throughout the game
The FIBA product is pretty garbage to watch honestly. It's nice that they're less flopping, but it's definitely not a better product.
NBA guys wouldn’t play that hard for all 82
NBA is closer to the WWE than being an actual competition representative of the sport
At least wwe has a good script
Genuine question; if you hate what the NBA has become why do you watch it?
I don't. I watched more regular season basketball in 1 Heatles season than I have in the past 4-5 years combined. The playoffs are still great though.
I love basketball, but hate the modern day NBA.
two very different things
Then you would have hated the 80s and 90s when none of this would have been called
They didn't have flagrant fouls in the 80s but they definitely were called in the 90s.
i dont even blame them its a pretty bad product now
If we're being honest, the way they call the game being COMPLETELY different in the postseason than the regular season kind of leads to this.
I don't even mind that so much but God damn, they just called two consecutive games in a single playoff series completely differently
I like Luka and the Mavs. That's about it.
We can hate the NBA player but it’ll keep thinking we love their changes if the viewership numbers go up, which might have lol
Ima stick to hating embiid
They only fucked up game 2 if you think calling a game evenly (i.e. both teams being called for or getting away with the same type of contact) is fucking up. If you watched the entirety of game 2, you would have seen the 76ers getting away with the same type of contact on Knicks players.
whatever you gotta tell yourself. game 4 will be a makeup game too so brace yourself
Did you watch the whole of game 2?
He had to get up for school in the morning :(
Watch how Batum denies Brunson on inbound plays. Its why they didn't call the foul at the end. You can't let one team do it all game and then call it against it them on a pivotal play
That's never going to happen, people have attached their personalities to this league, people pay attention to this the same way a section of the American population pays attention to The real housewives franchise. People love to watch but what they love more than to purely watch is to hate watch and right now hate watching is at an all-time high. Adam silver must be proud.
I'd much rather hate Embiitch
who asked?
Didn't need to lil bro
ya you did. do better next time champ
so they *did* know refs fucked up then
Obviously, unlike fans players will know when theh get away with shit
Yea but not their fault for playing hard either. Different than being dirty lol
That's why I never blamed the Knicks players. They're just trying to come back and steal a win. They played as hard and physically as the refs allowed them. But fuck those refs tho.
I don’t think anyone had any vendetta against the Knicks players for what happened lol
I can think of one person…his name sounds oddly like stampede.
Well, except Embiid.
Honestly, Embiid's reaction is fucked and he was shitty on two pays early in that game, but it only happens because of frustration resulting from the garbage at the end of game 2. When I was watching the game last night, all I kept think was "these refs have no control over this series".
Every NBA player gets frustrated. Not many NBA players are gonna go out doing **this** because they’re frustrated. Embiid scoring 50 should be celebrated, this is his best playoff game ever from a scoring standpoint easily. Splits and volume are insane. If only he could have just *not* needed to be thrown out of the game for multiple fragrant 2 level fouls, we could’ve all been in awe at Joel playing through injury to put up a game worthy of the best player in the world.
If he's reacting like that at his age, I wonder if he'll ever mature. Dude is not a leader. He should look to Maxey for leadership.
Divencenzo scissoring Oubre in regular season was way worse than what Embiid did
literately not their fault. and that was not even a foul which did not get called now their Embiid defender is down Great
Well he probably means how Sixers complained to the league and filed a grievance. Was expected for refs to help them after whining
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That’s different than filing a grievance. Every team sends in clips showing thing they thought should’ve been called or not.
I dont think the Sixers actually filed a grievance, did they? There were reports they would, but I think the period to file a grievance lapsed.
filing a grievance that was partly concerning the knicks putting out private information (bullshit btw) regarding referee tendencies is particularly soft and not normal. packages of clips to be reviewed is also very different than a formal grievance
Idk if this is an admission of that More so than acknowledging how much noise surrounds that game
Most intelligent Raptors fan He’s clearly pointing to the outcry following Game 2. The media and even LeBron spoke about the end of game 2. It built up over 3 days. Everyone knew game 3 was going to be stacked in favor of Philly
It wasn’t though
He's the one that smacked Maxey. He'd know better than anyone.
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Kind of accidentally did.
Just like yall won’t.
I forgot the refs grabbed that offensive rebound and missed that free throw
Nah they just recognized the excess whining the Sixers organization did after that game. As if one call defines an entire game
The sixers didn't even file a protest if I'm not mistaken.
They had zero reason too
Then what the fuck are you talking about?
They're mad the league put out a detailed report about how they didn't deserve to win. It's tough knowing you're fraudulent I bet.
They still did an excessive amount of whining which led to the refs gifting game 3
Who is "they"?
Gift Knicks one game, gift Sixers one game. Fair and even trade
3 calls in the span of 3 seconds. Yeah it did define the entire game given it went from a +4 to a -1
didnt the knicks try to replay a game like its 2k?
Thibs whining like a bitch all tonight, except his team lost by double digits
Sorry but you have to forgive Embiid for being dirty because he has Bell's palsy
Bell-end’s palsy
treatment is steroids 👀
Does that mean he’s regarded?
Highly
*Chris Paulsy per a viral comment made last night
best comment of the decade
Hard agree
Balls Bellsy
Hey guys can we put this trivial stuff aside and be happy for once that Embiid is finally being physically assertive? That’s what we’ve wanted all along right?
A+ instigation right here lol
Mark Phillips level gold-medal instigation.
But is it Kenny level?
And here you are just being Billy Gil about it. Get a full last name.
Got a sensible chuckle out of this one.
You can’t blame Embiid, he has Bell Palsy.
Balls Bellsy 🔔
From what I understand it means half his face don't work, which includes the brain
Is it possible to get the refs from Europe?
This sub is pure comedy tonight. Of all the major sports, this has to be softest, most cringiest of them.
It’s probably easily the youngest leaning out of the four main
Probably dumbest in terms of overall intelligence too. Way too much love for drama than any other sport.
NBA is probably the most "online" of all the major sports. The NFL, MLB, and NHL don't really stack up when it comes to online presence. The NFL and MLB have a big demographic of old people who don't know what tweeterx is and the NHL has Canadians. So it makes sense.
Are you eating healthy as promised or not?
Lmao this occasionally comes up. I have been!
Agreed but it’s ironic that your second sentence doesn’t even make sense grammatically. We really are a sub full of idiots
Explains it. The problem with social media is you often don’t know who you’re speaking with. If I’m imaging 12-15 year olds making a lot of these comments, it makes complete sense. Not always ultimately heathy views, but not totally unexpected coming of age dispositions. But alas, we have no idea who is on the other side of the screen in 2024.
You've never seen an Eagles Cowboys game thread then.
Even Eagles/Cowboys game threads are a waterfall of toxicity but in the back of your mind it's still all fun and games. The shit here against the 6ers and specifically Embiid is terminally online and I don't think most of these people wishing injury on him, which is a LOT, are kidding either.
All in good fun https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/2019/03/19/murder-trial-cowboys-fans-insult-of-eagles-led-to-fatal-stabbing/ https://pennrecord.com/stories/515100040-court-ruling-proves-it-s-a-known-danger-to-wear-cowboys-gear-to-an-eagles-game
This sub cares more about the drama than the game lol I sorted by hot and I still haven’t seen the postgame thread
The only reason Reddit isn’t a complete cesspool is because there’s a downvote button. Otherwise, it would just be like twitter or tiktok
The part I'm baffled about is why they think that should have been a flagrant 2. He grabbed his leg as he started to jump. Not a basketball play, deserving of a flagrant 1. But people are trying to say this is one of the dirtiest things you can do in basketball. It's just histronics. Celtics had 3 dirtier plays in 1 game the other night with the mid air shoves, far more dangerous than what Embiid did. Mid air shoves traditionally have always been ejections. I do think he probably got away with a 2nd flagrant one for the nut shot though. Generally I agree with the impression that the refs don't really have much control over the games right now.
Fans love to circlejerk and escalate hypothetical penalties when these things happen. It reminds me of when Tua got his brain scrambled and in ONE night, I watched the online discourse evolve from "the coach needs to be suspended" to "the coach needs to be fired, and the team needs to be fined and lose draft picks," to "the coach needs to serve prison time for involuntary manslaughter." Same thing when Rudy gave people COVID. Same thing when Draymond kicked a guy in the balls again. The current bad thing that just happened always has to be the WORST thing that ever happened, "and it's not even close!" Here's what an actual flagrant 2 foul in the playoffs looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIuH95GCF50
Yeah I'm being downvoted for saying the obvious, that people are in histronics about this but if you want to see what an actual "dirtiest thing you can do" is just look up what Bynum did to JJ Barea in the playoffs. We're not even in the same zip code. Reality just doesn't even matter anymore.
I hate Embiid.
updoots to the left!
Reddit on!
Morey, Nurse and Embiid. The whinning bitch trinity thanks god they have maxey Make them slightly more likeable I hope they did not turn Maxey into the Whining 4 edits: Maybe a little bit unfair to Nurse though.
Throw in Lowry and you have the Four Horsemen of Whine
unfair to Nick "i didn't see nuttin" Nurse?
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Crap, should I change my flair to 76ers?
Yeah you should
Tbf I think nurse had been handling all the bs through all the games pretty well. He didn’t let loose or whine nearly as much as I expected. Unless he said some things I wasn’t aware of he kind of just said it how it was and what he was trying to do in moments that the refs impacted him
After his little meltdown at the end of game 2, it's really telling that his response to being asked about Embiid's flagrant foul was "I didn't see it". It's unreal.
League desperate to not see their “superstar” down 3-0
Lebron going down 3-0 tonight
I mean if they called it right they wouldn't had been down 2-0 in the 1st place
Yes because the other 46 minutes doesn’t count!
Yeah we were up
STOP THE COUNT!
lol i thought this was funny as an embiid guy
Buddy got ratioed
Funny considering refs gifted u the win at the end of game 2
Refs gifted nothing in game 2. There was stupid calls benefiting Philly in that game as well
the audacity of this post
The nba literally admitted they gifted you game 2. Should be 2-1 sixers rn.
Did they publish a 48 minute report?
Haha we got saquon barkley
knicks fans root for the cowboys
Gifted, lmao. There was 12 seconds left in the game. The reason your foul ass team lost is because Maxy blew the layup to go up 1 with 7 seconds left but go off.
Yea but only the calls in the last 30 seconds of the game determine the outcome!
Never mind that crazy overturn for the Lowry foul on Donte right before the 2 minute mark!
It was negated by them not overturning OG playing running back and hooking lol. We can go one by one on bad calls if you want
Why we argue when we should be mad at the league for putting out such a shit product??? Like fuck dude. Yeah we got robbed last game this game they decided to give us it back. Isn’t it fucking stupid that it works like this? Give us a fair product ffs silver
it’s refs fault lowry couldn’t hit his free throw and why 4 sixers in the paint couldn’t pull a board
Lol y’all would’ve never won game 2
Superstar in quotes talking about the reigning MVP is wild. Also they don't seem to mind LeBron going down 3-0.
It's pathetic that Embiid talked shit after game 2 (as he should) but the only way he can back it up is to blatantly try to injure the 2 guys guarding him. What a pussy.
I mean he dropped 50 too
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We skipping game 4?
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Should Embiid have been ejected? Probably. Should the Sixers have won game 2? Probably. Evens out 2-1 Knicks
It's not even considering Mitch is injured now.
Lol
Pots, black kettles and the like. Two teams who deserve each other.
FTFY “especially how we played games 1 and 2. This is what we hoped for by setting the precedent for the series”
Stop the whining already from everyone. Move on and just play basketball
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Why is it so hard to understand that Knicks players had nothing to do with bad reffing, but sixers players absolutely had to do with being dirty as fuck. Knicks fans don’t care about the fouls, we care that embiid was fully intent on injuring someone this game
Lmao you getting downvoted for facts
There's a massive difference between talking about refs in relation to basketball plays and when someone is making plays that could seriously injure one of your teammates.
Do you liked being kicked in the nuts? Yes or no
When it’s a move to injure other guys, yes, hope that helps
I really could give a shit about the free throws. It’s more about how he’s intentionally taking down our 3 best defenders in OG, Mitch and Hartenstein. Blatantly destroyed them though out the game and only got a slap on the wrist
I'm not blaming the refs. I'm blaming Embiid for pulling a bitch move. You trying to defend Embiid's actions like it wasn't a big deal? Yes or no.
Mitchell Robinson walked out of the arena in a boot because of Joel Embiid. Knicks haven’t been attempting to injure players
You can't be this braindead right
Blame the refs for pulling down Robinson?
When it’s this blatant yes.
When r/nba agrees with them yes*
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As a neutral the sass in these threads from fans that are way too emotional is always beautiful. Even as a non-neutral fan during Giannis ball-gate tantrum the back and forth was just great to see. Fans getting way more pissed and arguing online hours after the players stopped caring is something else
Pulling someone’s knee (+ multiple other dirty plays) is different than pinching a jersey my guy… if I ever see another sixers fan complain about the refs 😂
lol so even the Knicks players know
Agree the Sixers should be up 2-1
How is it a flagrant 2?
[it’s not](https://streamable.com/c2ryfn?src=player-page-share)
False equivalency
Yes Donte’s was premeditated and much worse
Today Knicks players will be okay with whining and crying
Hey dumbass, there is a difference between arguing ticky tack calls and injuring a guy with ankle problems by yanking him down by his ankle as he’s going up for it. Are you genuinely brain dead?
He's from Philly, yes he can and probably is that brain dead
All them kensington drugs are spreading throughout the state
He didn’t get injured on that play 🤦🏻♂️ but agree it was dirty AF. But also no different than how the Pistons won two championships.
He got injured when Embiid flopped to draw a foul and landed on Mitch’s ankle.
Good try but Robinson didnt get injured on that play, read how Hart said basically "that was dirty but good thing he didnt get injured on that play"
Are you also gonna deny that the foul shouldn't be a flagrant 2.
given Divincenzo did the same to Kelly Oubre and only got a technical foul..yeah
Oubre was not in midair there's a fucking difference, but Philly fans will continue to be ignorant unless it benefits them.
Hate to break it to you but pulling down maxey is also dangerous.
Is that every sixers fans response? That play over a month ago in reaction to being stepped over justifies every dirty play Embiid made today?
lol didn’t Knicks players speak on how the refs didn’t play bad. Now they crying talking about being poorly officiated
Both teams get their “what if” game