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I think he's an awesome basketball player. But he doesn't have to do this shit. He doesn't have to do it. It pisses me off watching him play. It pisses me off when they show the replays. I have to watch the foul baiting like three times in a row where I have to see the same non foul three times. You force the opposing coaches to decide like,

do I want to use a challenge right now on this?

Or do I want to wait until later on in the game?

Yeah. Where I have to see the same non-fowl three times You force the opposing coaches decide like do I want to use a challenge right now on this or do I want to wait until later on in the game Yeah, they would have won the game no matter what they were the much better team tonight But it pisses me off our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter And I don't feel like being silent because it pisses me off watching SGA play and Doris Burke is compromised too She was like complimenting the felbating that he was doing. He leans into people at the last minute and then falls down and to his credit, he's very good at hitting these off-bounded shots as he's flopping. He practices those and he's very good at it. So you have to take your hat off and be like, that was a really good shot that you made when your body was completely parallel to the floor as you were falling down because you didn't get touched. That one he made on the baseline in the fourth quarter where he was literally on the floor and he got, he did get, he did get, he did get, no, it's, it's similar to the start of the playoffs when I said the same thing about Jalen Brunson. I, SGA is probably worse than Jalen Brunson, but it's, there's such good basketball players and it's so annoying to have to watch that style of basketball. And I feel like Jalen Brunson actually has kind of like not done it as much and he's been so clutch and in such tight games. But SGA is the number one. He's taken the mantle from James Hardin. He's the number one foul bater. Uh, and he's so good.

And but it's, it's, it's partially rules. Like it's got it. Yeah. The sum's got to change because I, and maybe this will be, if they win the title, which I think they will, because I think they're the best team. Maybe something changed because it is not fun to watch, uh, when he is doing the foul baiting thing. And he is such a good player. He's about to an MVP and deservedly so.

But it's still you can say those two things at the same time. You can say SGA is an incredible incredible basketball player. I don't enjoy watching it. Yeah, and if you're a thunder Finn, you have to defend your guy. I get it. You're going to hate what I have to say about SGA. Like I'm attacking your guy. So yeah, I'll be the bad guy in the situation, but also everybody else thinks that it sucks to watch him.

Everybody else that watches it, it's very tough to get through again, the foul, where you're like, wait, what do they just call? And then two replays from different angles that you watch, and you get progressively angrier as they keep showing these replays. I don't know what they can do. Maybe it's like in hockey where yeah, you have you've got penalties you've got whistles been the playoffs

You lose those whistles a little bit. Yeah, well, you know what the shittiest part is, it's very similar to like the Jalen Brunson, where when it happens in a bad way, it takes away from how incredible Jalen Brunson is, how clutchy is. When SGA does this, it takes away from how great the Thunder R as a team, just because it's aesthetically not a fun watch. And like that second half, the Thunder just suffocated the wolves. The wolves were just terrible. I don't think they had a single transition point, the entire game that, like I said, they Basically, we're like, go ahead shoot these three's and they'll and they'll probably make some three still have a game where they make some three so they'll be at least a little drama in this series but I don't know the thunder's defense there just is no hole and I do not know how you like it's a nightmare series for Ante it's it's gonna I mean Julius Randall got hot for a little bit there in the first half we're like okay maybe you can carry him I carry him. I think if you took away Julius Randall's threes, I was looking at it. I think if you took away his three pointers, the rest of the team went 10 for 45. That's pretty bad. That's pretty bad. And again, it's by design, they don't let you score. 20 points in the paint was the lowest amount of points the pain for the Timberwolves this year. The Timberwolves have to get out in transition, they have to get in the pain,

they have to let Anco downhill.

And... 20 points in the paint was the lowest amount of points in the paint for the timber rolls this year. The timber rolls have to get out and transition. They have to get in the paint. They have to let

Antco downhill and the thunder just do not allow that because their defense is so goddamn good. Yeah, there was absolutely no cutting to the basket. So they didn't even get the opportunity, because the defense was so good, they didn't even get the opportunity to get a lot of those the fouls and the end ones that Oklahoma City was getting.

There were virtually no fast break points

for the temporal of tonight either.

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