Thunder-Pistons Reaction: SGA push-off foul sets SCARY precedent for OKC in playoffs | NBA Reaction
Jason reacts to the controversial push-off, offensive foul called against Shai Gilgeous-Alexander at the end of regulation as the Oklahoma City Thunder faced the Detroit Pistons. He breaks down every part of that game and why these types of calls with SGA matter so much. Then he discusses how the Miami Heat snapped the Philadelphia 76ers’ hot streak with Paul George and Joel Embiid back in the lineup.
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0:00 – Intro
0:45 – Thunder/Pistons reaction
16:43 – 76ers-Heat reaction
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41 Comments
thers no way you defending shai getting calls
SGA is completely unwatchable, have no clue how OKC fans enjoy watching him. It’s just flailing, free throws and complaining/acting shocked when the call doesn’t go his way.
The best thing about the foul called on SGA is that he actually showed emotion. 😧😂
It's about time they start calling people for egregious push offs. Literally the most annoying type of player to go against cause it guarantees space and when the refs dont call it literally nothing you can do. NBA has a problem with offensive players being able to do what ever they want if they're known as a scorer.
When he gets touch calls already no one cares call him for fouls too
Every player should use the stiff arm every play like SGA (especially against OKC) and the league will soon see what bullshit the stiff arm is. The league is really pathetic how much it caters to high scoring and penalizes defense. A team can win by every metric and still lose the game because the league is a three point shooting contest. Before someone can point to the Pistons, it's the exception that proves the rule. Bring back the 80s and 90s.
I love Jason but his take on the shay pushoff was irritating.
Fans are not with you. He gets every tic tak foul but gets away clearly paying off on EVERY single shot. It’s totally bs and at some point, we got to give some rope to the defender.
I’m just tired of this foul baiting especially tha shit where a player jumps into a defender and then shoots and it’s like you can obv tell he’s going for the foul, not even trying to make the shot as a warriors fan it even bugged me when jimmy did that shit
MAILBAG: (Wolves Fan) Jason, love the show and congrats on all the success. Saw a stat saying out of 31 players that have defended 150 direct isolations rudy gobert ranks 1st in lowest points allowed per at 0.785 points. Victor is going to win multiple DPOY. What is your criteria for DPOY? Cause in your MVP criteria, Chet is the best defensive player on the best defense (cade), Wemby is the best defender in the league (shai), and Rudy has the accolades and has made strides this year (jokic). What’s your criteria and congratulations on all the hard work paying off! (long winded apologies)
SGA is the goat. People are maaaaaaaad Canadian dude in Oklahoma is crushing the competition.
Just bring back hand checking. Let defenders be more physical at the point of attack and you’ll see all these whistles decrease.
This might be your worst take. You are praising Shai for “hiding” his pushoffs. You are admitting he gets away with 10 offensive fouls a game. And your justification is that you want less whistles blown? I agree there should be less whistles, but from the defensive end. Not from a push off that results in a wide open jump shot. If the refs called it correctly, Shai would go from an MVP candidate to just an all star.
OKC's entire gimmick is that they seek to disrupt the flow of the game and throw their opponent's head out of it, making the opponent react in a simplistic and aggressive way… this is why everyone hates them apart from OKC fans. They've found a wrinkle in the NBA and are exploiting it, sacrificing cosmetic enjoyment of game viewership in the process. I think the refs and NBA are still trying to work against it, but most refs can't change the way they officiate as easily as others (not everyone can be a Scott Foster).
This is just proof SGA gets more hate than anyone in the league. Every star pushes off watch Jaylen Brown, Luka, Ant, etc it is literally their go to move but no one complains when they do it. The hypocrisy from the comment section is crazy! Y’all hate when SGA does it but are real quiet about the rest of the league doing it guess that is just the cost of being the best
Sga shot more free throws then the entire pistons
Refs won the game again
When it’s a foul, it’s a foul bro. I’m fine if you want to reel it back a little bit with Shai but I feel like 80-90% of the time when they replay the foul it’s a fucking foul. Just like the heurter foul on SGA’s 3, when you re-watch it he gets him on the forearm. I’m fine coming back a little bit on Shai’s whistle but the majority of media isn’t willing to come the other way and say “by the letter of the law it’s a foul”. That’s why okc fans and nba fans will never fine a middle ground. (I agree with the push off game winner by the letter of the law btw)
This is what is wrong with the game now you of all people wanna reward Shai for a push off that’s clear as day. SGA IS OVERRATED
The problem with the way the Thunder are officiated is that it's uneven. They get ticky-tack calls but their defenders are mauling people on the other end and nothing is called. All I want is consistent calls for both teams. If the defenders on one team get to be very physical and handsy, then so should the defenders on the other team.
I agree, I was saying this all last year. As a Thunder fan I’d rather allow physicality and reduce SGA’s trips to the line than to just call more fouls on both teams. Especially in the playoffs where the physicality hits a new level.
Jason, I fundamentally disagree that calling SGA for pushing off is a slippery slope.
He SHOULD be getting called for MORE of those fouls, both the players shots and the foul grifting.
The problem isn't with Sga it's the consistency with how okc is allowed to guard . Caruso fouled huerter grabbed his arm Jenkins was slapped by Williams , and then ausar got fouled out from shai flopping . Just make it consistent
"WE" do not talk about the Lakers being the best clutch team in the league,
YOU say this because you are some weird Lakers fanboy or you are paid to do so and say things like "Lakers in 5", against the team that anyone watching knows they have zero percent chance to beat.
Which makes anyone who actually watches basketball, wonder if you have a clue what you're talking about.
An NBA push-off foul is any type of push-off to create space. It can be with an extended forearm, extended elbow or arm. An extended arm is not the only definition of an illegal push-off.
If that push off wasn’t that much than wtf was the 3pt foul he drew on huerter
The SGA hate is so corny. He’s better than your favorite player, get over it.
SGA – Shoving Gaurds Again 😂
I think the scary precedent is allowing one man to run the entire game through him by foul baiting and not getting called on obvious fouls himself. Pistons as a team had 23 free throws, SGA alone had 25.
It shouldn't take late game heroics from a team as deep as OKC. The fact that he has had to do that a lot I would think is a troubling sign. They should be blowing out teams a lot more with all the talent they have but they aren't.
When will national media stop hating on the pistons and give them due respect?
But that's the problem, Jason. You need to consistently call those arm fully extended push offs and chicken wing/ arm bar push offs that Shai does which you and other media members acknowledge he is doing nonstop throughout the game. It's the only way to force refs to call the fouls so he and other players will have no choice but to stop doing it or risk fouling out of a game at a crucial time in the game and hurt their team in the process.
Same thing with that Alex Caruso hack across the arms which he uses to dislodge a ball and get a steal. It's not a good defensive play; it's a foul when it happens that needs to be called as such.
A foul is a foul. It shouldn't matter when it happens in the game and be called consistently every time it happens both ways regardless of which team is doing it.
25 free throw attempts is ridiculous. NBA needs to do something about this nonsense
I completely agree with everything you say. Let Shai use his shoulder and arm to create separation, but don't call every touch on him foul. And to me its pretty simple when you should call a foul. If a player with ball in his hand initiate the contact, there is no foul. So every drive when Shai(or any other player) leans into defender, there will be no foul called. You get exact same whistle LeBron was getting in his prime.
The way that game was called last night was an embarrassment to the league. 25 FT's is an abomination. Absolute unwatchable product.
It's a scary precedent to follow the rulebook and call fouls on all players equally?
If it was me and I was in foul trouble when he did that kind of shit I'd grab his arm that he's pushing me with and yank as hard as possible then tell the media afterwards that since his arm was inside my jersey I considered it mine and wanted to see if it would come off.
Shai is officiated rhe same way as Harden when he was in Houston. Harden wasnt even using a push of with arm like Shai, he would get his chest in the body of defender and get a call. And he was amasing in this which provided him huge amount of free throws per game. Until l believe it was his last playoff in Houston. They gave him calls in that regular season but stopped in the playoffs and his numbers dropped significantly. And he was never getting those calls after that. Same will happen to Shai. If oposinf coaches and players emphasise this foul baiting just wait and see, out of nowhere they will start calling offensive fouls to Shai for this move.
Shay Egregious-Alexander 🫸
Shai glazathon
Shay-(Stiff-arm) Alexander!😂😂😂
And had the nerve to clutch his pearls with his hands over his mouth like he was watching the twin Towers fall… maaaan if u don't Getcho….
SGA ‘push-off-boy’ isn’t “clearly the best player in the world”. Just like everyone else said, it’s unwatchable! Sure it’s legal, but without that stupid push-off I don’t think he is better than Ant.