Tyler

@HPbasketball The calls are bad because fans dont like it! They don’t like it especially as they’re getting their teeth kicked by the champs. Boo fucking hoo HP. Speaking of grifter.

Thoughts on officiating: - Fans always feel their team gets screwed, but universally, everyone watching OKC feels like something is off in how they're officiated. That matters. It just does. OKC Fans will claim jealousy or hate because the alternative is untenable for them. But there is a genuine feeling among all fans that the disparity in SGA's whistle to their defensive whistle is incongruous - The next step is the "So you think the league is rigging for a small market team?" and I understand the consequential thinking, but I think it's healthier to just focus on the problem. I think there's no grand conspiracy but there IS an incongruity in officiating. - Last year, we had an awesome first round, in which the players were openly pleading to be less physical because they felt it was dangerous. So now we've gotten a regular-season whistle. And it sucks. As fans, we hate it. I don't know what that balance should be because it's not my body on the line, but it sure feels like there's a way to have a physical contact sport set of officiating perameters that also deters dangerous play - Finch was campaigning to try and politic a win, but he also wasn't wrong when before Game 2 he made the point that the call should be based on what happens at point of contact and not what happens afterward (flop/flail/fall). The contact is what needs to matter and not the sell job after it. - Shai is genuinely difficult to officiate because he IS incredible at driving and controlling where he goes to challenge direct path defense. It's a genuine skill he has. - He also sells because otherwise he doesn't get the call. This is maybe the biggest problem of all: if you legitimately create the contact but don't performatively exagerate it, you will not be rewarded. That's a problem. - We always find something to say is a problem with the NBA, and more so in the playoffs when it's in the spotlight. But this is a genuijne issue for watchability. Fans don't want this. The league needs to listen.

This would benefit OSU as much as anyone. But retroactively giving an extra year is the dumbest thing imaginable. Whenever the rule goes into effect, let it start with that class. Everyone else can go cry in the corner.

Brooks wants the game to be physical like the 90s. Booker wants the game less physical. Same team, 2 different arguments. So what are we complaining about here?

Suns slapped by a combined 48 points. OKC has shot 8 more FT total. SGA 9 more FT than Book on 12 more shots. Foul calls equal. 41-18 turnovers so 23 fewer turnovers for OKC. Points off turnovers is 56-11 in favor of OKC. And here we are listening to @DevinBook and Brooks cry. 😂

@scarswrath @FlobbyDaigsnutz @C2_Cooper Hahahaha

@FlobbyDaigsnutz @C2_Cooper Their defenders are most definitely top notch. But cmon man, u r a fan of theirs I get that but Dort legitimately be tackling dudes and Caruso reaches n fouls often but get the reputation pass

Adam Silver, sits down at a dimly lit table surrounded by shadowy figures dressed in cloaks while rubbing their hands together with glee: “Alright cohorts, how can we rig the league in favor of a small market team from the plain states?”

@visionquestpod Basch doesn’t know who Dan Gable is

No Dan Gable? I'll pass.

@AndrewKSchlecht OKC isn’t losing. It’s nice to know that they are that good that even when they look like crap for 6 straight minutes everyone knows it will still end in a W. At least against teams like the Suns.

Royce O'Neale hits a 3 to bring the Suns within 10. 110-100 with 3:46 left in the 4th

@EMAWCaleb Broke boys are sad 😂

One million four hundred thousand United States dollars

Everyone should go read a post on Facebook that has anything to do with a snake. A lot of Steve Irwin’s out there. And they all argue with each other. Despite whatever the news tells you, problems aren’t as serious as everyone wants to make them. Snakebook proves it.

@KDTrey5 #legacy

This Houston-LA series may be the worst playoff series of all time.

An alien makes the Spurs better guys. I know it’s hard to believe.

@JoeKania3 @visionquestpod @BuFuApp Let er rip

Day 236 of training for Veteran’s Nationals with @BuFuApp: Long road. Tomorrow is the day.

This is awesome.

@BillSimmons But he’s the MVP 😂

Tremendous T-Wolves win. They really grabbed that game, right level of desperation. 2 concerns for Denver have to be: Gordon looks banged up already, and Joker’s 3s looked really bad. They’re gonna give him those if he keeps shooting like that.

Waiting on @WorldWideWob

@McclainBaxley Nash Henry has to be related to CJ and Xavier, no?

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To my Oklahoma family; this piece comes straight from the heart. I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt. Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it. I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives. When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more. I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game. Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker. But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go. He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career. What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it. So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum. I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down. There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller. They belong to children. There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore. As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed. That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present. The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter. Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained. We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection. When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.” Then he said something I will never forget. “Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.” In that moment, basketball felt different. Not smaller, but clearer. Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity. From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me. On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured. oklahoman.com/story/opinion/…

So @CaitlinLowe wants a HR to be overturned because a player touched the hitters helmet as she was stepping on home plate? @ArizonaSoftball got them a good one for sure. Cope harder.