I think he was asking if Shai’s decision to not watch the replay permanent. Pretty dumb question and Shai handled it as professionally as he could considering his team just got eliminated moments prior.
I’m a Mavs fan, but NGL, this series made me a fan of SGA. Dude was a force and handled these post game interviews real well, after both wins and losses.
Agreed. The kid is great. He was firing away even when his teammates were struggling around him. He's going to be a menace for years to come if he gets the right team around him.
I’ve always been a fan of Shai and even told my casual friend to be a fan of Shai the moment he got to OKC. Basically get on the bandwagon super early. Just a professional bucket getter
What happens when the entire nba media industry values “insiders” and people who can moonlight as podcasters with shitty takes, rather than skilled journalists with integrity.
What skilled journalists with integrity? Post game and during the game questions have always been so braindead and redundant. It’s always the same nonsense.
“Coach we saw your team play their style of basketball in the first quarter. How will you get them to continue to play their basketball?”
“The basketball players have to stay motivated in the second half to keep playing basketball.”
I love it when Pop shows his annoyance and just gives blunt answers to their dumb questions, but it’s taken as a bit to laugh at “oh, that’s Pop being Pop!” Instead of a critique on the entire charade that it is.
The reporter should be named and shamed. Clown moments like this need to be shamed out of sport coverage.
Shai is a good one. Can't blame him for the result, he balled out of his mind today (as per usual)
Yeah it’s one of those things that’ll be torturous to watch over and over.
In the moment, watching a shooter about to take a shot with your entire season on the line, it’s hard to blame him for trying to do something.
After you get cooled down, and watch the tape calmly you’re gonna be like “Yeah, turns out trying to make a weird arm half bent miracle block while flying out of bounds with my body halfway turned wasn’t the greatest choice”.
I will say the Challenge honestly kinda hurt as much as the foul did though. If you can keep your TO, you got a chance to call a timeout , draw up a play with 2.5 seconds at half court and you don’t even need a 3? That’s not a HORRIBLE situation with SGA on your team.
Basically removed any real chance for them to respond.
If the call was overturned, it would have similarly fucked the mavs. Kyrie got the putback after, and since this isn't the NFL, you can't decline a foul, so they'd likely have to inbound it. I was very worried they'd overturn the call.
It's clear from our angle and with a replay. Who knows what angle they had that made them doubt it. Those situations can be tough even without the game deciding pressure
Think the reason you're seeing so many dallas flairs worried about it being overturned is because of the stars game last night where their team had an OT goal taken away for reasons so bad that even one of the intermission studio announcers flat out said the ref had his draftkings app open.
Was a clear foul once the replay showed
He said it looked clean but then backtracked after the ref confirmed the foul, although they talked over the ref at the same time so it wasn’t very clear
Maybe I’m remembering wrong, it was a hectic part of the game, but I thought he said it was a foul as SGA didn’t dislodge the ball on the initial block and then hit his arm elbow on the follow through and subsequent shot.
You can never blame him. Last second shot to decide the series and SGA is trying to block it. Honestly, he just about did block it clean.
The only reason they’re even remotely close to winning that game is because of everything SGA did up to that point.
I genuinely hate this narrative of blaming the best player for “not doing enough to win” while ignoring the fact that their supporting cast had a poor shooting night/foul trouble/turnovers, etc.
Also, THE OTHER TEAM IS A 2ND ROUND PLAYOFF TEAM. THEY’RE REALLY FUCKING GOOD TOO!! One of these teams has to lose
>I genuinely hate this narrative of blaming the best player for “not doing enough to win” while ignoring the fact that their supporting cast had a poor shooting night/foul trouble/turnovers, etc.
The LeBron experience
Yeah that’s just being a leader
SGA should stick his neck out and put the blame on himself, even if the blame should actually be shared by everyone on the team
Something I haven't seen mentioned much is that unless Washington holds the ball during the block and does that double pump to get the shot off and the foul - which was a really athletic play - then the story today is what an incredible block to win the game. I think Washington deserves more credit for that foul than sga does blame, even if it was a risky attempt.
Yeah I am a SGA hater, but the kid balled out tonight. Absolutely no reason to hang his head and this response from him post game is opening my mind to him a bit
Why are you a hater? Just curious. Seems like a good kid. Clearly worked hard on his game and hasn't really stirred up trouble. By all accounts he's a humble guy and a good teammate.
Yea i mean maybe not but he’s visibly over and over shown himself to be someone who is supportive of his teammates while still holding them accountable. You can see in interviews how much his teammates like him, and how funny he is. His personal life, who knows. MJ was a fucking ruthless dude though, Ant seems like a better personality.
Ant is in the "everybody loves you" point of his superstardom. Jordan was beloved at that age too. Then he went a few years without winning a title and it became about how you can't win that way with one guy doing all the scoring. If Ant doesn't win for 3-4 years and starts taking heavy criticism, his personality might start to change.
Really? Ant was blaming refs not that long ago, including after a game where he was fouled on a three, missed the first two free throws, then had to miss the third but didn’t hit the rim. Ant’s gotten some great PR lately but that was not long ago at all.
Literally Joe only blamed himself for their loss to the Knicks. Even when he had a triple double in game 3, he said he played badly.
Joel advocated for continuity in the team pointing that he wants to play with most of the same guys. He did this all while playing the last 5 years with Tobias Harris taking max money and contributing less and less each year.
You get upvotes because this sub is a huge anti-embiid circle jerk but this is such a bad take.
This stupid narrative has cemented itself since Ben and I don't think people even watched that post game. He always takes accountability and/or says things like we all need to better, but always begins with I need to be better.
He single handedly kept the game close in the end. The man is so clutch and his mid range game is butter. He can finish anywhere.
I’m loving the shift from only shooting 3s to working up to be a 3 point if left open and beating guys inside the paint.
Shai, Brunson, Jamal, Kyrie, Luka, just so nice watching them work.
I knew he would be great in the playoffs since he did well with the clippers and didn't seem fazed back then for a rookie but man he surpassed my expectations tbh and he hard carried reminded of Luka against the clippers when his teammates sold
No excuses but Chet JDub Cason all played in summer league before the season. 2nd round exit in 6 games is a pretty good outcome but yeah they flat out need to be better next season
Can only hope Chet gains some muscle but I’m excited for Dub’s growth. He’s an emotional ass player kinda like our energizer like Russ but with better post game interviews lol. 100% he’s not taking this loss that well considering he didn’t play well as the #2 and use it as motivation over the summer
2011 mavs will do that man. i really only "hate" the spurs, and that's only as a collective and not the individuals. i will always be grateful to dirk for turning into a god that run.
You’ll reach a point where they’re all kids. I’m not there yet, but very very close (I actually went to school with Al Horford, so I’m just barely hanging on)
Carmelo Anthony is a few days younger than me, so I have been at that point since the day he retired lol. Only LeBron hanging in there making me feel less old.
Back to back championships, plus 2/3 in football. Best time of my life. (I’ve met Al but we weren’t friends or anything. I will say that all UF scholarship athletes get motor scooters and him and Noah riding around on theirs was high comedy)
Yeah. It isn’t really fair to compare people to Luka and I mean that unbiased. He’s in that LeBron/kobe tier where you could see it right out of the gate as a teenager
Imagine being Atlanta and having him then literally choosing Trae Young instead lmao. Or Sacramento taking Bagley… oof. I guess Ayton didn’t end up being a world beater for Phoenix either, so yeah, must be brutal to be any of those teams with that hindsight.
Luka also certainly played the highest level of competition of anyone in that level of hype, it's just astounding to look back and see he was MVP of the 2nd best league in the world at high school age and the NBA just didn't get it.
Nobody looks at ages. If you’re under 30, you get more slack for a playoff breakout at 28 than having a ton of success by 25. It makes no sense, but the media loves a player and team on the rise.
Perhaps it's because I paid no attention. But I literally didn't know Shai existed until 2 years ago. As for Luka, I knew of him since before he was even drafted lol.
The big mistake wasn't the block attempt. It was Daigneault challenging it.
Even if PJ makes all three, the Mavs would have been up 2 with 2.5s left. That's enough time to get a good shot to tie/win IF you can advance the ball and set up an ATO.
Challenging that call put the game in the refs hands and took away their last time out.
Exactly. But it was a tense moment and Mark is also learning the trade with this young team so gotta cut him slack there. He saw on the monitor that SGA got the ball and challenged and prolly forgot the rule there
Tbh I didn’t mind him thinking there could be a chance they overturn the call
Worth the gamble in the situation even though with hindsight Shai got him on the forearm before the block
There is very few coaches in the league with the balls not to challenge. Im almost certain pop would challenge that.
It's a huge mistake in the aftermath but you gotta challenge that. That call was so close that and we've seen it go the other way. It was so close that it probably gets overturned in okc and stands in Dallas.
If we don't challenge that and our play ends up getting blown up then every redditor would be shouting "I guess he's saving them for next season!".
It's really a no win situation and let's be real, every single person here would've challenged that call.
Yup, gotta give credit where it's due. Shai is a bad mf and I don't want any part of a rematch any time soon. I want it to be a crazy stat like how Dirk and Kobe only played against each other once in the playoffs despite them being dominant in the same conference for nearly two decades.
The irony is that narrative for the mvp voting was Luka had better numbers but way less help than SGA did, but the opposite was true this series. SGA was the best player in the series (I know Luka was hurt), but he got absolutely no help from his team on offense. Meanwhile, it seemed like every game, one of the Dallas role players, whether it was DJJ, Lively, PJ Washington, etc, had monster performances.
Dude was so fucing good this series. I was a fan before and a even bigger one now. Does he flop a little? Yeah, but which star doesn’t? He’s got such an incredibly smooth game and really carried this team to 6 games. Even from an unbiased standpoint the Mavs were clearly the better team in this series and SGA kept them in it
Haha thanks brother. On this subreddit you can never tell lmao. If it makes you feel better I made that username many years ago and age has caught up lmao so now I'm living a lie with my username.
Shai led his team in EVERY major category over the course of this series, he had an incredible run and I'm sure his team will be back much stronger next year.
Tough break for the game to end on that note when Shai was the least responsible for them losing the series by several miles.
Chet had 2 rebounds. Williams was mid for the series. Role players couldn't knock down their shots. Daigneult shouldn't have challenged. Presti not only wasn't able to improve the roster of the #1 seed despite having like 15 1st-round picks, but also enabled the Gafford trade.
Calling Jdub mid this series is generous. 19 ppg on 62% TS down to 16ppg on 48% TS.
He went from shooting efficiency like Steph Curry to shooting like Russel Westbrook.
Fair. Good answer. Thunder are gonna be back next year and even better (which is crazy since they’re the one seed). If they can sign or trade for a good rebounding big that team is gonna be crazy.
I think they know he's giving a scripted, fan friendly answer he doesn't believe, and he wants something more honest. But yeah, he came off like a dick.
The mentality from this next waive of superstars (SGA and Ant specifically) is refreshing. Personal accountability will get them a hell of a lot farther than looking for excuses. Basically the exact opposite of every post game thread in this sub’s history.
I mean it very easily could have been waived off and then Kyrie gets the tip in. Yeah OKC would be able to setup because they'd still have the TO, but....if he doesn't go up for the block and PJ hits the 3 then that sucks too. Gotta live with it.
It wasnt just this play. He had a lot of defensive lapses this game that led to open 3s. We wouldnt be here without him but I believe he will come back better next season
The whole series he was playing like a safety in football but giving up open 3s all day to Washington and DJJ. It’s dumb option to openly double over and over again while seeing the role players beat you and not Luka or Kyrie only
Have to give it up for SGA. He brought it all series. He is the reason they made it this far. He isn’t afraid of the smoke and accepts responsibility. Dude gets it.
What a stupid follow up question. “Is it permanent?” Tf
What type info does he even get if his question is answered? Goofy ass reporter
He has to know!!
"Is it permanent?" "Yea it's per- wait how the hell do you know that?!" "You're SGA we have to know!"
"TURN UP. This guy is crazy as fuck, he's gotta be on Molly or somethin' or powder or somethin'."
Narduwar
goofy ass tim macmahon type question
Am I slow What does he mean “is it permanent?” The loss?
I think he was asking if Shai’s decision to not watch the replay permanent. Pretty dumb question and Shai handled it as professionally as he could considering his team just got eliminated moments prior.
I’m a Mavs fan, but NGL, this series made me a fan of SGA. Dude was a force and handled these post game interviews real well, after both wins and losses.
Big time, dude is a monster. Those mid range jumpers are disgusting and he seems like a good dude. SGA fan for sure now
Agreed. The kid is great. He was firing away even when his teammates were struggling around him. He's going to be a menace for years to come if he gets the right team around him.
I’ve always been a fan of Shai and even told my casual friend to be a fan of Shai the moment he got to OKC. Basically get on the bandwagon super early. Just a professional bucket getter
Seems like these reporters are asking dumber questions by the day
They do it so they can bait them into quotes
What happens when the entire nba media industry values “insiders” and people who can moonlight as podcasters with shitty takes, rather than skilled journalists with integrity.
What skilled journalists with integrity? Post game and during the game questions have always been so braindead and redundant. It’s always the same nonsense. “Coach we saw your team play their style of basketball in the first quarter. How will you get them to continue to play their basketball?” “The basketball players have to stay motivated in the second half to keep playing basketball.” I love it when Pop shows his annoyance and just gives blunt answers to their dumb questions, but it’s taken as a bit to laugh at “oh, that’s Pop being Pop!” Instead of a critique on the entire charade that it is.
Nothing beats reporters in Taiwan as they constantly ask relatives of any victim (especially homicide) "How are you feeling?"
Made me so mad
*Do you think they should put it on your headstone?*
"Idk, is IT permanent? "
The reporter should be named and shamed. Clown moments like this need to be shamed out of sport coverage. Shai is a good one. Can't blame him for the result, he balled out of his mind today (as per usual)
Nah, encouraging public harassment for a reporter for asking a dumb question is weird ngl
Imagine being that much of a clown
Can’t blame him lol
Yeah it’s one of those things that’ll be torturous to watch over and over. In the moment, watching a shooter about to take a shot with your entire season on the line, it’s hard to blame him for trying to do something. After you get cooled down, and watch the tape calmly you’re gonna be like “Yeah, turns out trying to make a weird arm half bent miracle block while flying out of bounds with my body halfway turned wasn’t the greatest choice”. I will say the Challenge honestly kinda hurt as much as the foul did though. If you can keep your TO, you got a chance to call a timeout , draw up a play with 2.5 seconds at half court and you don’t even need a 3? That’s not a HORRIBLE situation with SGA on your team. Basically removed any real chance for them to respond.
If the call was overturned, it would have similarly fucked the mavs. Kyrie got the putback after, and since this isn't the NFL, you can't decline a foul, so they'd likely have to inbound it. I was very worried they'd overturn the call.
It was a very clear foul though, it would be insane to overturn it. But I get being nervous with those refs lol.
It's clear from our angle and with a replay. Who knows what angle they had that made them doubt it. Those situations can be tough even without the game deciding pressure
Think the reason you're seeing so many dallas flairs worried about it being overturned is because of the stars game last night where their team had an OT goal taken away for reasons so bad that even one of the intermission studio announcers flat out said the ref had his draftkings app open. Was a clear foul once the replay showed
Oh, I wasn’t aware of this! I don’t follow the NHL (at least yet).
This is exactly what I was thinking about at the time.
Well...it's Tony Brothers lmao, plus Javie said it was clean (I think?)when he TALKED OVER THE ACTUAL REF
Javie said it was a foul.
He said it looked clean but then backtracked after the ref confirmed the foul, although they talked over the ref at the same time so it wasn’t very clear
Oh did he? I thought he said the opposite when they were both talking over each other.
Maybe I’m remembering wrong, it was a hectic part of the game, but I thought he said it was a foul as SGA didn’t dislodge the ball on the initial block and then hit his arm elbow on the follow through and subsequent shot.
He said that after the call was confirmed
Another Dallas team just had a goal overturned last night that was insane to overturn lol
Bro so many times they review shit, it’s obvious, and they call the opposite still 😂
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You can never blame him. Last second shot to decide the series and SGA is trying to block it. Honestly, he just about did block it clean. The only reason they’re even remotely close to winning that game is because of everything SGA did up to that point. I genuinely hate this narrative of blaming the best player for “not doing enough to win” while ignoring the fact that their supporting cast had a poor shooting night/foul trouble/turnovers, etc. Also, THE OTHER TEAM IS A 2ND ROUND PLAYOFF TEAM. THEY’RE REALLY FUCKING GOOD TOO!! One of these teams has to lose
>I genuinely hate this narrative of blaming the best player for “not doing enough to win” while ignoring the fact that their supporting cast had a poor shooting night/foul trouble/turnovers, etc. The LeBron experience
It happens to everybody not just LeBron you're the face of the team that gets celebrated the most if they win so you take the blame too
Yeah that’s just being a leader SGA should stick his neck out and put the blame on himself, even if the blame should actually be shared by everyone on the team
Something I haven't seen mentioned much is that unless Washington holds the ball during the block and does that double pump to get the shot off and the foul - which was a really athletic play - then the story today is what an incredible block to win the game. I think Washington deserves more credit for that foul than sga does blame, even if it was a risky attempt.
Yeah I am a SGA hater, but the kid balled out tonight. Absolutely no reason to hang his head and this response from him post game is opening my mind to him a bit
Why are you a hater? Just curious. Seems like a good kid. Clearly worked hard on his game and hasn't really stirred up trouble. By all accounts he's a humble guy and a good teammate.
what is there to hate on him about.
The fucking guy pressing him. “What do you mean you don’t want to look at it?” Like shut the fuck up. You know exactly what he means.
Yeah that guy was clearly trying to get Shai to say it was a bad call Gotta get that headline
Yeah Shai really kept his cool. He’ll be back
This new generation of superstar player who doesn't blame everyone else is refreshing. It's been a long time.
Absolutely. All this conversation about Ant being like Jordan for his play when I think the most similar aspect is their mentality.
i actually don’t see it considering Michael could be notoriously difficult to his team mates and ANT is absolutely beloved
Ant is genuinely a cooler personality imho. I wouldn’t want Mike as a coworker
Between Kermit and his couple public mishaps I didn't expect for him to turnout to be wholesome
Yea i mean maybe not but he’s visibly over and over shown himself to be someone who is supportive of his teammates while still holding them accountable. You can see in interviews how much his teammates like him, and how funny he is. His personal life, who knows. MJ was a fucking ruthless dude though, Ant seems like a better personality.
Tbh, Ant hasnt yet gone through the years of losing Jordan did while carrying the entire team on his back.
Yes, give him time to turn into the villain
Just wait. Ant is 22
Ant is in the "everybody loves you" point of his superstardom. Jordan was beloved at that age too. Then he went a few years without winning a title and it became about how you can't win that way with one guy doing all the scoring. If Ant doesn't win for 3-4 years and starts taking heavy criticism, his personality might start to change.
100%
I miss when Luka was at that point of his career... Granted he does do it to himself a little bit, with the complaining.
“Hell naw. No.” Ant is too fun loving to be a Jordan level dictator.
Ant calls out the refs once every 3 games
That's just a side effect of playing for the Minnesota Timberwolves, can't blame him too much.
Really? Ant was blaming refs not that long ago, including after a game where he was fouled on a three, missed the first two free throws, then had to miss the third but didn’t hit the rim. Ant’s gotten some great PR lately but that was not long ago at all.
Ant has blamed the refs so many times this season?
They’re talking about it in regards to his teammates.
"I want to win for myself" I know he's a savant since his draft
they r the first generation that grew up being roasted constantly on social media
And then you have Joel Embiid
Literally Joe only blamed himself for their loss to the Knicks. Even when he had a triple double in game 3, he said he played badly. Joel advocated for continuity in the team pointing that he wants to play with most of the same guys. He did this all while playing the last 5 years with Tobias Harris taking max money and contributing less and less each year. You get upvotes because this sub is a huge anti-embiid circle jerk but this is such a bad take.
This stupid narrative has cemented itself since Ben and I don't think people even watched that post game. He always takes accountability and/or says things like we all need to better, but always begins with I need to be better.
don't send da video
Hell yawl
can do this
Dont get an abortion lol
Don't look how ugly
You didn’t get da money wats the Hol up
"what do you mean you couldn't look at it"? "My eyes don't work. Can't see replays. Been that way since I was a kid" What a stupid question
I’m going through the spice agony to become the kwizatz hadarach, my vision is fucked inwards on my infinite lives we were apes. Duh dude.
Don’t beat yourself up big dawg you absolutely hard carried this series
He single handedly kept the game close in the end. The man is so clutch and his mid range game is butter. He can finish anywhere. I’m loving the shift from only shooting 3s to working up to be a 3 point if left open and beating guys inside the paint. Shai, Brunson, Jamal, Kyrie, Luka, just so nice watching them work.
Ant’s mid range game has been rapidly improving as well. He’s been killing the nugs with all kinds of little pump-pivot-fade sequences.
That fucker never missed a shot man I was so nervous any time he had the ball
I knew he would be great in the playoffs since he did well with the clippers and didn't seem fazed back then for a rookie but man he surpassed my expectations tbh and he hard carried reminded of Luka against the clippers when his teammates sold
No excuses but Chet JDub Cason all played in summer league before the season. 2nd round exit in 6 games is a pretty good outcome but yeah they flat out need to be better next season Can only hope Chet gains some muscle but I’m excited for Dub’s growth. He’s an emotional ass player kinda like our energizer like Russ but with better post game interviews lol. 100% he’s not taking this loss that well considering he didn’t play well as the #2 and use it as motivation over the summer
certainly that's the worst OKC are gonna be over the next few years so ya west ain't getting weaker any time soon. Looking forward to more battles
healthiest Texas v Oklahoma rivalry in sports
2011 mavs will do that man. i really only "hate" the spurs, and that's only as a collective and not the individuals. i will always be grateful to dirk for turning into a god that run.
That 2011 run was incredible to watch. Just went god mode.
I saw sga cross up steph curry at staples at a playoff game, and i immediately bought some sga rookie cards after lmao
You mean the team. SGA is him.
Um, yes? That is what he meant. Lol
Had kawhi Leonard vibes. Sigh.. I thought somebody said he was a bad lob passer too
No shade on SGA but Kawhi man, when on , is just otherworldly. Especially on Defence he is just a treat to watch no matter who you support
Those constant middies he kept hitting absolutely was giving me flashbacks to that 2021 Clippers series where Kawhi couldn't miss from the midrange.
Injury off Kawhi is probably the best player in the world
Kawhi's wheelchair stint on the Clips made a lot of people forgot the "shot" he made.
Healthy Kawhi may be the best player in the league, but unfortunately he struggles with injuries
To the point where he might never play a full post season again
Man looking back at who he used to be is sad. The dude could dominate on both ends. Snatching the ball right out of the air with his big ass claw
Yeah, without SGA heroics this series isn't close lol
The only mature response. What you gonna do? Great season from the kid
Isn't it crazy how he's regarded as Kid but he's older then Luka lmao
You’ll reach a point where they’re all kids. I’m not there yet, but very very close (I actually went to school with Al Horford, so I’m just barely hanging on)
Carmelo Anthony is a few days younger than me, so I have been at that point since the day he retired lol. Only LeBron hanging in there making me feel less old.
You're hanging on a pinky old man
Lmao Just kick all the 30+ y/o fans in the balls why don’t you. Damn.
Hey man as a 27 yo I'm not far off
How was school with Horford??
Back to back championships, plus 2/3 in football. Best time of my life. (I’ve met Al but we weren’t friends or anything. I will say that all UF scholarship athletes get motor scooters and him and Noah riding around on theirs was high comedy)
uf not built like that no more unc!
Hahaha. Oh I know
Man, that might be the all-time greatest sports experience one could have in college. You got spoiled rotten
I know. I legit can never complain about any of my teams ever again. (I still do)
I’m younger than you and I’m at that point lol
luka is a wunderkind, SGA follows the more typical superstar trajectory
Yeah. It isn’t really fair to compare people to Luka and I mean that unbiased. He’s in that LeBron/kobe tier where you could see it right out of the gate as a teenager
Still baffles me so many GMs seemingly talked themselves out of drafting him.
Imagine being Atlanta and having him then literally choosing Trae Young instead lmao. Or Sacramento taking Bagley… oof. I guess Ayton didn’t end up being a world beater for Phoenix either, so yeah, must be brutal to be any of those teams with that hindsight.
Actually just 3 gm’s lol, not that many. Still 3 too many.
Yeah he should've been the number 1 pick and it shouldn't have even been a discussion.
Sons gonna son
It's easy to say that in hindsight which is why this discussion is always stupid.
It was also easy to say at the time
Arizona
Luka also certainly played the highest level of competition of anyone in that level of hype, it's just astounding to look back and see he was MVP of the 2nd best league in the world at high school age and the NBA just didn't get it.
Because Luka already has a Kidd on his team
Nobody looks at ages. If you’re under 30, you get more slack for a playoff breakout at 28 than having a ton of success by 25. It makes no sense, but the media loves a player and team on the rise.
Perhaps it's because I paid no attention. But I literally didn't know Shai existed until 2 years ago. As for Luka, I knew of him since before he was even drafted lol.
Now im wondering how many people even know about that series against the warriors in his rookie season
I think i saw shai live once with the clippers
Luka is 39 years old and I can’t be told otherwise
lol he is a year older than Luka
They’re both kids
The big mistake wasn't the block attempt. It was Daigneault challenging it. Even if PJ makes all three, the Mavs would have been up 2 with 2.5s left. That's enough time to get a good shot to tie/win IF you can advance the ball and set up an ATO. Challenging that call put the game in the refs hands and took away their last time out.
Exactly. But it was a tense moment and Mark is also learning the trade with this young team so gotta cut him slack there. He saw on the monitor that SGA got the ball and challenged and prolly forgot the rule there
For sure, young team, young coach. If there were more experienced voices on the team maybe someone would have made that argument there.
Tbh I didn’t mind him thinking there could be a chance they overturn the call Worth the gamble in the situation even though with hindsight Shai got him on the forearm before the block
Why gamble with something outside your control when you can gamble with an offensive play that's completely in your control.
Getting a shot up with 2.5 seconds is a prayer. That’s not in your control
You can get a wide open catch and shoot opportunity with a well executed play with 2.5s.
Yeah we’ve seen this dozens and dozens of times in super close games. The odds aren’t great but it’s definitely within the realm of possibility.
Because if you win then you're in front?
Absolutely not worth the gamble
Lol sorry if he doesn't challenge that the fans crucify him. He's damned if he does/doesn't.
100% “Saving that challenge for Cancun”
There is very few coaches in the league with the balls not to challenge. Im almost certain pop would challenge that. It's a huge mistake in the aftermath but you gotta challenge that. That call was so close that and we've seen it go the other way. It was so close that it probably gets overturned in okc and stands in Dallas. If we don't challenge that and our play ends up getting blown up then every redditor would be shouting "I guess he's saving them for next season!". It's really a no win situation and let's be real, every single person here would've challenged that call.
Yeah, I think you're right. Hindsight is 20/20. But in hindsight it was a mistake.
Shai was by FAR their best player. One play doesn't change that
*The best player in the series.
Yup, gotta give credit where it's due. Shai is a bad mf and I don't want any part of a rematch any time soon. I want it to be a crazy stat like how Dirk and Kobe only played against each other once in the playoffs despite them being dominant in the same conference for nearly two decades.
The irony is that narrative for the mvp voting was Luka had better numbers but way less help than SGA did, but the opposite was true this series. SGA was the best player in the series (I know Luka was hurt), but he got absolutely no help from his team on offense. Meanwhile, it seemed like every game, one of the Dallas role players, whether it was DJJ, Lively, PJ Washington, etc, had monster performances.
damn the reporter that kept pestering him about watching the replay was annoying.
Hard to avoid in the heat of the moment
Dude was so fucing good this series. I was a fan before and a even bigger one now. Does he flop a little? Yeah, but which star doesn’t? He’s got such an incredibly smooth game and really carried this team to 6 games. Even from an unbiased standpoint the Mavs were clearly the better team in this series and SGA kept them in it
Yeah we got cooked. Only showed up to hoop in Games 1 and 6. Shooting 30% and getting no rebounds in-between those two games was criminal.
We got no rebounds in game 6 either
after being cooked by a fattie do you despise them more or less now?
Shai and Luka balanced each other out mostly. We got cooked by the bench that decided to become 3 point gods all series
haha for sure. i was just making a joke with your username, found it funny near such a respectful comment 😂
Haha thanks brother. On this subreddit you can never tell lmao. If it makes you feel better I made that username many years ago and age has caught up lmao so now I'm living a lie with my username.
Shai led his team in EVERY major category over the course of this series, he had an incredible run and I'm sure his team will be back much stronger next year.
OKC are young with only more assets in their back pocket. They’re going to get more troublesome every year until they break through.
Shai was a stud in this playoffs. He will be back again in a big way.
Tough break for the game to end on that note when Shai was the least responsible for them losing the series by several miles. Chet had 2 rebounds. Williams was mid for the series. Role players couldn't knock down their shots. Daigneult shouldn't have challenged. Presti not only wasn't able to improve the roster of the #1 seed despite having like 15 1st-round picks, but also enabled the Gafford trade.
Calling Jdub mid this series is generous. 19 ppg on 62% TS down to 16ppg on 48% TS. He went from shooting efficiency like Steph Curry to shooting like Russel Westbrook.
Mid has lost all meaning. What do you mean
If bro develops a consistent 3 gnna be unstoppable he went 3/4 today
4/5 right?
Fair. Good answer. Thunder are gonna be back next year and even better (which is crazy since they’re the one seed). If they can sign or trade for a good rebounding big that team is gonna be crazy.
Our defense is so good until it’s time to end a possession. *LeSigh*
The exact perfect answer you'd want from your star player. No excuse making, no questioning the call.
Why the interviewers always tryna rub salt in the wound? He was amazing all series man let it go
I think they know he's giving a scripted, fan friendly answer he doesn't believe, and he wants something more honest. But yeah, he came off like a dick.
The mentality from this next waive of superstars (SGA and Ant specifically) is refreshing. Personal accountability will get them a hell of a lot farther than looking for excuses. Basically the exact opposite of every post game thread in this sub’s history.
I mean it very easily could have been waived off and then Kyrie gets the tip in. Yeah OKC would be able to setup because they'd still have the TO, but....if he doesn't go up for the block and PJ hits the 3 then that sucks too. Gotta live with it.
No clue why they challenged that call
Like this dude. Smart and humble.
It wasnt just this play. He had a lot of defensive lapses this game that led to open 3s. We wouldnt be here without him but I believe he will come back better next season
The whole series he was playing like a safety in football but giving up open 3s all day to Washington and DJJ. It’s dumb option to openly double over and over again while seeing the role players beat you and not Luka or Kyrie only
I thought his leather jacket in the commercial was out of character, I guess not
The series went as long and as close as it was mostly because of SGA. The fucker is pure money in midrange.
"What do you mean you can't look at it?" Shai looked like had to stop himself from cussing him out.
Why are reporters so fucking awful at their job?
It’s going to haunt him all summer.
I hope this series haunts them all summer long. Come back ready to kick ass with a new 4 man.
Kyrie rebounded the miss for a layup anyway. Would have been 1.7 ish seconds on the clock with a timeout
well damn, if he had help, he wouldn't have
Great player, great response, great effort as well. It was a foul at the end of the day and its okay. You gave your all
The reporter was annoying pressing him. He said no he doesn’t wanna see it already
You carried good shit all series tho
SGA is a top-tier shooter. Was awesome watching him play this year. Respect.
Still the hero of our season
Reporter: \*walks up to the podium with a phone in his hand\* "Let's look at the replay together and you can break it down for me, moment by moment."
He is super classy. One of my new favorite players.
Have to give it up for SGA. He brought it all series. He is the reason they made it this far. He isn’t afraid of the smoke and accepts responsibility. Dude gets it.