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[Demo]

12 minutes ago, jermhoosierfan said:

It's a huge problem.  I was watching Thunder @ Spurs the other night, and they called a foul on the guy guarding SGA.  The dude was literally standing straight up on a jump shot with SGA's foot tapped his leg, and SGA fell to the floor.  They called the foul on the defender with him just with his hands up.  He didn't touch him outside of the foot tapping his leg.  It is getting out of hand kinda like Brunson's dreads go flying when he gets tapped as if he got shot.  It is pretty bad.

Hate it so much and actually really hate it for what that nonsense is doing to their reputation and legacy. They’re really good and a small market team becoming a monster by just being straight up smarter than everyone else ought to make them crazy easy to root for. Instead, they’re impossible to root for. And it’s not just Shai, it’s obviously cultural. That play the other night with McCain coming to a dead stop in front of Castle was such bull$hit. Not sure I can actually watch a Thunder-Knicks final.

[Stuhoo]

17 minutes ago, Demo said:

Hate it so much and actually really hate it for what that nonsense is doing to their reputation and legacy. They’re really good and a small market team becoming a monster by just being straight up smarter than everyone else ought to make them crazy easy to root for. Instead, they’re impossible to root for. And it’s not just Shai, it’s obviously cultural. That play the other night with McCain coming to a dead stop in front of Castle was such bull$hit. Not sure I can actually watch a Thunder-Knicks final.

A Knicks/Thunder final would be such a must watch, especially if the Knicks get a questionable whistle in MSG. NBA refs are as confident as sports refs can possibly be, but I'm betting that even they can be influenced by an MSG finals crowd.

And fwiw, the cutural floppabilityness of the Thunder is real, but I was fine with McLain feeling someone on his back and putting the brakes on to draw a foul. That time the contact was real and it just seemed like a heady play.

[Hovadipo]

56 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

And fwiw, the cutural floppabilityness of the Thunder is real, but I was fine with McLain feeling someone on his back and putting the brakes on to draw a foul. That time the contact was real and it just seemed like a heady play.

It was even headier when he threw a Walter Payton forearm shiver to Harper’s throat before acting like Harper was The Fridge running him over from behind. 

[Stuhoo]

18 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

It was even headier when he threw a Walter Payton forearm shiver to Harper’s throat before acting like Harper was The Fridge running him over from behind. 

That was simply a badly missed call—probably a flagrant. Different thing than the flopalopolous monster 

forgive my mediocre memory; isn’t there currently a “technical foul for flopping” rule in college?

[Hovadipo]

10 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

That was simply a badly missed call—probably a flagrant. Different thing than the flopalopolous monster 

forgive my mediocre memory; isn’t there currently a “technical foul for flopping” rule in college?

There was, at least. And I seem to remember the NBA fining guys after the fact for it too. 

[Home Jersey]

They just called a ridiculous foul on Fox after a challenge from OKC. His foot barely grazed Chet's thigh.

I don't get it. Basketball is a contact sport. OKC are basketball terrorists and the current NBA product mostly sucks IMO.

[Brass Cannon]

29 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

They just called a ridiculous foul on Fox after a challenge from OKC. His foot barely grazed Chet's thigh.

I don't get it. Basketball is a contact sport. OKC are basketball terrorists and the current NBA product mostly sucks IMO.

Hali could have gone for 50 on 22-26 shooting and the refs would have stolen Game 7 from the pacers. They had their orders.  League is garbage. Just like the refs will ensure the thunder win game 7 of thud series 

[Stuhoo]

Wemby is so freaking special. More proof that when one team has one of the three best players on the planet that is 6’4”, it’s better to have one of the three best players on the planet that is 7’3”.

Bad news for Wemby tho; because he now has to deal with the one and only, the greatest NBA Hoosier of the past 40 years, the lover of life and cheesecake, my man OG.

edit: if OG guards Wemby—and that makes a ton of sense, I have absolutely no idea who Towns could guard on San Antonio. Bad matchups for the Knicks.

[HoosierHoopster]

Called it, Spurs in 6 or 7 - took them 7 bc of the horrifically obvious “favorable@ Thunder officiating— but the better team won. Wemby is hands down the best player in the League and he’s just getting started. Next up, W over Knicks for the title 

[Demo]

3 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Wemby is so freaking special. More proof that when one team has one of the three best players on the planet that is 6’4”, it’s better to have one of the three best players on the planet that is 7’3”.

Bad news for Wemby tho; because he now has to deal with the one and only, the greatest NBA Hoosier of the past 40 years, the lover of life and cheesecake, my man OG.

There’s no such thing as an actual stopper for the kid, obviously, but OG is about as good a matchup for Wemby as you can have. 
Side note: I’m trying to think of as stark an example of a player getting in another player’s head as badly as Wemby got into Holmgren’s. The last 2 games he wanted no part of that guy. 

[Stuhoo]

12 minutes ago, Demo said:

There’s no such thing as an actual stopper for the kid, obviously, but OG is about as good a matchup for Wemby as you can have. 
Side note: I’m trying to think of as stark an example of a player getting in another player’s head as badly as Wemby got into Holmgren’s. The last 2 games he wanted no part of that guy. 

Holmgren with four points and four rebounds in 33 minutes in game 7.

blacchh.

[HoosierHoopster]

On 5/28/2026 at 9:40 PM, Brass Cannon said:

Hali could have gone for 50 on 22-26 shooting and the refs would have stolen Game 7 from the pacers. They had their orders.  League is garbage. Just like the refs will ensure the thunder win game 7 of thud series 

Nope! :;

Wemby took over, even the refs couldn’t stop him

[Demo]

27 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Holmgren with four points and four rebounds in 33 minutes in game 7.

blacchh.

Have thought that Okc has by far the best chance to trade for Giannis if they wanted to because they could offer Holmgren, maybe Caruso’s contract  and a slew of 1’s and I don’t see who beats that deal without giving up so much that risk Giannis nixing it. But if you’re Milwaukee are you willing to trust that the kid’s not irreparably broken now?

[Demo]

I don’t know if this is true, but if it is that is wild and the kid is amazing. Talking 19th century Latin smack. I promise Holmgren thought it was “You want some more” in French.

[jermhoosierfan]

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/48941923/hall-fame-basketball-coach-rick-adelman-dies-79

RIP

[Home Jersey]

OG hit two big 3s over Wemby. Most animated I've ever seen him on the court. Proud he's a Hoosier

[Home Jersey]

Knicks in 4?

[Stuhoo]

10 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Knicks in 4?

Captain Crunch is it.

And Karl Anthony has reached a level of elite energy to go with the elite skill he always had. Damn he was incredibly good last night. That Knicks staff took an inconsistent, talented player from Minnesota and opened up a great player

[Home Jersey]

1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

Captain Crunch is it.

And Karl Anthony has reached a level of elite energy to go with the elite skill he always had. Damn he was incredibly good last night. That Knicks staff took an inconsistent, talented player from Minnesota and opened up a great player

Absolutely.

Leon Rose and Mike Brown deserve a ton of credit. 17 wins when Rose came to town. Then becoming the Nova Knicks and adding quality depth this offseason, what a transformation. And Brown is so underrated in his career. He was exactly what this roster needed.

Wemby's time will come, but this series, KAT is practically doing to him, what Wemby just did to Chet.

I don't see this very young Spurs team stealing one in MSG. The environment will be nuts. 

[Banksyrules]

3 hours ago, Home Jersey said:

Absolutely.

Leon Rose and Mike Brown deserve a ton of credit. 17 wins when Rose came to town. Then becoming the Nova Knicks and adding quality depth this offseason, what a transformation. And Brown is so underrated in his career. He was exactly what this roster needed.

Wemby's time will come, but this series, KAT is practically doing to him, what Wemby just did to Chet.

I don't see this very young Spurs team stealing one in MSG. The environment will be nuts. 

I’ll be there Monday. Remind me of our IU football team in a sense that they all look locked in.