And they’re gonna keep doing it cause they know they can get away with it
The Thompson twins actually don’t like Steph and the Warriors and grew up watching the 2016 Cavs team just maul the shit out of Steph
They play defense on him like it’s the 2016 finals
If they did that to Shai it would’ve been 10 free throws.
“Freedom of movement” The NBA actually has this as a rule. They’ve called it twice I think in the history of the game lol.
Whats interesting is the fact that Steph never gets mad about it or gets all over the ref.
Any other star would get in a refs face about it. Could you imagine if anyone even tried to hold MJ and how he would react? I think it also has to do with Steph’s personality as well
Ridiculous either way that the league does nothing about this “defense”
Reminds me of how his brother plays d
Average Steph defence
His brother taught him well lol
I’d be tempted to break his arm. I mean, if you stick it out like that you’re asking for it, right?
damn wish i could guard him so i can hug my goat like dat 🤩
Once Steph retires, the NBA is dead to me.
Apparently, this is what Detroit calls defense?
SGA would have had 78 free throw attempts being guarded like this.
I also blame the org. They need to make tapes of this every game and send it to league officials, Kerr needs to talk about it every press conference. This isn’t basketball, this shit is Greco Roman wrestling
Why don’t they just chuck the ball in Stephs direction, have Steph intentionally foul the closest player if he can’t get it clean, and then challenge the play for proximity foul? Then bitch at the refs all night about the same thing? I wonder if that’d work or nah
Ya can’t even hold like that in the NFL.
What’s crazy is watching the Raptors-Magic game prior, Sandro Mamukelashvili, who had done the same level of defense to Steph, was putting up the softest defense (up to no defense) to Desmond Bane.
It’s like all these scrubs circle Warriors games on the calendar to step up to face Steph, knowing the refs are taking the night off too.
I think steph knows he can out skill any player use his iq and gravity even against defense like this and contribute it to a win and when he gets his its a like a compliment to himself while being a class act . Refs should reward him for not being a pain in the ass he actually jokes with them sheesh
That’s mostly clean defense, only missed call was the arm grab at 8 seconds
Lol why did Post push Ausar into Steph?
Steph you gotta start flopping , flailing , something dude.
Is Ryan Reaves available to sign on for a two-way contract?
I’m genuinely worried he is going to get seriously hurt soon being “defended” like this and am surprised he hasn’t gotten hurt already. Players are becoming more and more empowered to maul him because they know they’ll get away with it, and I worry it’s only a matter of time until someone like this idiot or a Dillon Brooks-type fully crosses a line.
stephs gettin too old for this shit lol
Being guarded?
They need to deploy holding screens, where Steph’s defender gets held too. Whenever they call it, we challenge and make the refs watch a chain of guys holding onto each other.
WHY IS THIS ALLOWED
CALL IT, I just don’t understand
Offensive foul on SC for slapping defender’s hand
Its not a mystery…all this is off ball.. Steph doesn’t get calls for this… mostly because the refs are blind to all the off ball movement stuff and also don’t care to call fouls on that. Shai get calls on ball. I doubt he gets those flop calls when he is off ball.
Believe it or not, we have eased up on illegal contact a lot over the years. We are now just the Semi-Bad Boy Pistons because we don’t want to foul out.
Every other NBA player gets a whistle. You breathe on SGA and they go look at the monitor for a flagrant. Steph gets MAULED every game and NEVER gets the whistle. It’s a fucking travesty
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And they’re gonna keep doing it cause they know they can get away with it
The Thompson twins actually don’t like Steph and the Warriors and grew up watching the 2016 Cavs team just maul the shit out of Steph
They play defense on him like it’s the 2016 finals
If they did that to Shai it would’ve been 10 free throws.
“Freedom of movement” The NBA actually has this as a rule. They’ve called it twice I think in the history of the game lol.
Whats interesting is the fact that Steph never gets mad about it or gets all over the ref.
Any other star would get in a refs face about it. Could you imagine if anyone even tried to hold MJ and how he would react? I think it also has to do with Steph’s personality as well
Ridiculous either way that the league does nothing about this “defense”
Reminds me of how his brother plays d
Average Steph defence
His brother taught him well lol
I’d be tempted to break his arm. I mean, if you stick it out like that you’re asking for it, right?
damn wish i could guard him so i can hug my goat like dat 🤩
Once Steph retires, the NBA is dead to me.
Apparently, this is what Detroit calls defense?
SGA would have had 78 free throw attempts being guarded like this.
I also blame the org. They need to make tapes of this every game and send it to league officials, Kerr needs to talk about it every press conference. This isn’t basketball, this shit is Greco Roman wrestling
Why don’t they just chuck the ball in Stephs direction, have Steph intentionally foul the closest player if he can’t get it clean, and then challenge the play for proximity foul? Then bitch at the refs all night about the same thing? I wonder if that’d work or nah
Ya can’t even hold like that in the NFL.
What’s crazy is watching the Raptors-Magic game prior, Sandro Mamukelashvili, who had done the same level of defense to Steph, was putting up the softest defense (up to no defense) to Desmond Bane.
It’s like all these scrubs circle Warriors games on the calendar to step up to face Steph, knowing the refs are taking the night off too.
I think steph knows he can out skill any player use his iq and gravity even against defense like this and contribute it to a win and when he gets his its a like a compliment to himself while being a class act . Refs should reward him for not being a pain in the ass he actually jokes with them sheesh
That’s mostly clean defense, only missed call was the arm grab at 8 seconds
Lol why did Post push Ausar into Steph?
Steph you gotta start flopping , flailing , something dude.
Is Ryan Reaves available to sign on for a two-way contract?
I’m genuinely worried he is going to get seriously hurt soon being “defended” like this and am surprised he hasn’t gotten hurt already. Players are becoming more and more empowered to maul him because they know they’ll get away with it, and I worry it’s only a matter of time until someone like this idiot or a Dillon Brooks-type fully crosses a line.
stephs gettin too old for this shit lol
Being guarded?
They need to deploy holding screens, where Steph’s defender gets held too. Whenever they call it, we challenge and make the refs watch a chain of guys holding onto each other.
WHY IS THIS ALLOWED
CALL IT, I just don’t understand
Offensive foul on SC for slapping defender’s hand
Its not a mystery…all this is off ball.. Steph doesn’t get calls for this… mostly because the refs are blind to all the off ball movement stuff and also don’t care to call fouls on that. Shai get calls on ball. I doubt he gets those flop calls when he is off ball.
Believe it or not, we have eased up on illegal contact a lot over the years. We are now just the Semi-Bad Boy Pistons because we don’t want to foul out.
Every other NBA player gets a whistle. You breathe on SGA and they go look at the monitor for a flagrant. Steph gets MAULED every game and NEVER gets the whistle. It’s a fucking travesty
Hanging on to the hot chick in the bar defense.