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re: Just sound, fundamental basketball by those pesky OKC Thunder!

Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:12 am to
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:12 am to
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Funny thing Wemby literally started the game with a flop. I mean the first play on offense, by either team.


Ok. Doesn't change the fact that Shai literally has a highlight reel of flopping from just one game.

If Wemby, Joker, LeBron, any of them flop they deserve to have a finger pointed at them and laughed at.

Shai is just building a career off of it. It's ugly basketball. OKC is a great team and Shai is a great player but he is hard to watch and games like last night make it hard for people to root for him.
Posted by okietiger
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:16 am to
So does Wemby.

But end of the day, I don’t care. No one was making these comments when SGA’s Thunder team was .500 in 2022.

Same way no one hated Mahomes in the beginning.
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:18 am to
T his arse up
Posted by Wishbone85
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:19 am to
The real MVP showed out ast night.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:21 am to
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So does Wemby.


Let's see the highlight reel then. I don't like Wemby and he flops but It's nothing on the level of Shai. You're just being purposefully obtuse because you're an OKC fan and that's your guy and that's fine.

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But end of the day, I don’t care. No one was making these comments when SGA’s Thunder team was .500 in 2022.


Yes they were, it just didn't get as much attention because they weren't as relevant. And he's gotten worse.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:25 am to
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Didn't the NBA start assessing technicals or fines for flopping?


Technically, they've had a rule for giving technical for flopping for a while now. Starting in 23/24 they were supposed to crack down on it but they didn't. For the first month after they were cracking down on it the techs for flopping went up but died back down and you have very few called each year.
Posted by okietiger
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:31 am to
I literally posted a link in this thread. Encompasses all of this.

Plus there are numerous unbelievably funny lowlights of Wemby the entire playoffs.

Haven’t seen this posted here once until now. I challenge you to find a worse flop these playoffs. You won’t:

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Posted by kajunman
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:34 am to
Screw Wemby and the Spurs. I hope OKC goes 4-1 vs them.
Posted by okietiger
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:37 am to
I’m old enough to remember people hating the Spurs:

- All Parker and Ginobli do is flop
- All Pop does is whine
- Bruce Bowen is the dirtiest player in history

All things that were said (often times here), consistently.
Posted by kajunman
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:42 am to
I have no respect for Pop. NONE !!
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:44 am to
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I literally posted a link in this thread. Encompasses all of this.

Plus there are numerous unbelievably funny lowlights of Wemby the entire playoffs.

Haven’t seen this posted here once until now. I challenge you to find a worse flop these playoffs. You won’t:


You won't see me arguing that Wemby doesn't flop or that that won't be the worst flop of the entire playoffs. But it's the constant, non stop flopping from Shai that people hate. OKC fans for some reason don't seem to get that. Yes, Wemby flops, but you can't put an entire flopping highlight reel together off every game like you can with Shai.
Posted by lionward2014
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:44 am to
It's going to be hilarious when he falls awkwardly on his knee or wrist and has to miss some crucial games from flopping.
Posted by okietiger
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:55 am to
Who? Wemby?

Agreed.
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:58 am to
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Castle
He flops with the best of them and has never committed a foul
Posted by MusclesofBrussels
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:59 am to
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okietiger


Posted by Stonehog
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 9:13 am to
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But it's the constant, non stop flopping from Shai


It’s intentional, he’s falling a certain way to avoid injury. He’s very conscious of it.

Look at the play last night when Vickie dove at his legs. He gets his right foot parallel to the floor right before impact so it didn’t get rolled over. It’s another level of attention to detail that most people don’t recognize or understand.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
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Member since Apr 2008
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 9:16 am to
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It’s intentional




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he’s falling a certain way to avoid injury. He’s very conscious of it.

Look at the play last night when Vickie dove at his legs. He gets his right foot parallel to the floor right before impact so it didn’t get rolled over. It’s another level of attention to detail that most people don’t recognize or understand.


Ahh yes his flopping is so smart the average person can't even comprehend I've heard it all now.
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