GAME THREAD: Oklahoma City Thunder (2-3) @ Dallas Mavericks (3-2) - (May 18, 2024)

Even the NBA post-game highlight package had several egregious uncalled fouls on Maverick jump shooters. Felt like the refs were trying to get Silver his Game 7.

He's definitely a great player..But many are of the perception that Shai is better than Luka because he averaged 30ppg this series which is wrong.. The reason he's averaging more points than Luka is because mavs mostly played him single coverage unlike okc that mostly doubled Luka and Kyrie leaving others open..mavs dared Shai to score 40+ and win and okc dared mavs role players to hit 3s...

hated him coming into this series, genuinely thought he was a talentless foul merchant. although i still do believe he relies on very soft foul calls, hes definitely gained some respect in my book. fuck lu dort though.

Chokelahoma was right there smh

I concur.

Also of all the unbearable stars he's the least unbearable. Whines a lot, o no, whatever, refs don't gift him calls all the time

Pop and the spurs remain irrelevant for how many years now? Ever since kawhi left in 2018????? Bottom feeders can’t talk trash to top seeds. That’s like the min wage worker making fun of the millionaire. I’m not even an okc fan

Youngest team in the league. Congrats on 12 wins this year bud.

Is he a creep, though? I genuinely don't know what came of the allegations.

This is just a really low IQ take. Lively has averaged like 9 points this entire playoffs run for the Mavs and doesn't play defense like Chet. But yes, he's a better rebounder.

Perfectly timed offensive rebounds when the Mavs needed them the most, perfect defense and help defense, helped Luka and Kyrie get steals etc. So many things that stats just don't show

OKC added Chet and went from 10th seed to 1st seed lmao. 

Lively is good, but please…

Good thing the playoffs don't give a fuck about how much you lose by.

Anyways, didn't we win by 12 in game 5?

Cool, have fun watching the next round.

Shai is a baller. He was incredible this entire series

Paul george back home? Shai and pg.

pretty sure they were the team everyone was saying is the dark horse to come out of the west if Denver doesn’t until the TWolves came on like they did and after game two of this series people were saying it’s a wrap send Dallas on to the conference finals. They are a top 3 most respected playoff team this year what more do you want?

Nah

I was talking about it with my friend, I told him if it's nuggets vs thunder, it's a sweep, for the reason you said.

Lakers were destroying them , by transitive property nuggets would too

I hate that big market bias

The only Mav I'll ever love

I'm so fucking glad I never have to hear that shit again 😂

Luka was Luka but Kyrie decided he will score every shot

You hear them the other night when Denver lost by 45? You would have thought the Nuggets won the way they were talking

Have you ever watched ball? Sometimes the ball bounces in your favor, not that crazy.

Enjoy Cancun

OKC was getting bailed out the entirety of the game up to that point 

luck works best when you already have skill

Feels like a no brainer for them to get Hartenstein at this point

Except for when Shai does because he foul baits/s. I said the same thing and got downvoted, when this shits been going on since the late 80s.

Chet needs to beef up or they need to get a legit big man. Slendermen get boxed out too easily

Chet is better at more things, but sometimes rebounding is what you need the most.

Chet needs to fill out more and outmuscle for those tough contested rebounds, or life will be hard and OKC will need to find someone who can get them.

Luka is the best player in the NBA and Jokic is MVP... why wouldn't you want that?

Eating contest

A synth.

“BANG! Another foul call by TONY BROTHERS!”

They had a reasonably good shot at winning the challenge, i think they had to do it

everyone yelling about kidd refusing to spend timeouts earlier... this is why some coaches are so stingy with them

They shouldn’t be salty. They explained why it wasn’t a block.

OKCya

Braums is for everyone!

(In Oklahoma, northern Texas, and southern Kansas)

they tanked for him and that turned out to be a smart move

Unfortunately ate for you guys, but I feel this is happening in all games. All the excitement is gone in the last 2 mins because of fking ads and stupid four calls.

Don't know how to fix it

Djj tipped it in anyway

Yeah no one cares. You had the whistle the whole game and a next level foul baiter (FTA) and flopper (Dort).

That’s what I’m saying. How the fuck do you end the game like that. Shitty.

RJ's commentary is pretty bad in general

That was him like less than 200 lbs? Put on some weight

He grabbed a guys dick & balls lol fuck Dort

Zero respect to Dort the flopper

That was painstaking

Agreed. They have called that a no foul in the past, but you can't put yourself in a position where if the refs don't make the call you are screwed, especiallt.when you have a guy like sga that needs to be within 30 feet to be a threat.

coach of the year lmfao

Especially since SGA is one of the best buzzer beater players in the world and he only needs a 2 no matter what. They could have drawn up an inbound play to him and had a chance

He’s about to cook too in the WCF

Somebody’s falling for the WNBA hype.

Why is everyone hating on dort? Jeeesuuuus!

Agreed

I believe Mavs will be destroyed by either nuggets or wolves

I dunno about that. Doesn't Tony Brothers raise their average age?

lmfaooooooooooo ikr 😂

Clippers fan talking lmao

Nah man, we need the antman

I'm okay if I never see SGA in the playoffs again. Unreal stuff.

Chill Chet’s cool

Second WCF in 3 years but sure!

It's funny cus most of our team is just as young as y'all. Stay classy OKC

hahahaha damn u just made me lol bruh. You big mad killa