nba playoffs aka the 'offs (which includes the 'ins) 2021

nice move apologizing to cam payne on the court but he just can't get angry in the moment like that

Nice of him to dap up payne yah. had a frustration lapse… it happens , lucky it wasn’t a worse outcome for Payne

jokic looked scary when he was trying to fight booker

― lag∞n, Sunday, June 13, 2021 9:40 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah bro you seen his family? he’s bout that life

I've def let my emotions on the court get the best of me so I empathize with Jok, esp the "God I'm an asshole, lemme go apologize to the guy" bit. But yeah a pro can't ever let that happen to them.

he's gotten so much better about these frustration fouls in the past 2 years but not a good time to relapse

jokic deserves ejection but payne also deserves an award of some sort for the embellishment

i've worked enough very late nights at bad bars to recognize the look in jokic's eyes in the moment, extremely it's 2:15am and my girl left without me and i decided you're cheating at pool and i'm bigger than you shit

yeah bro you seen his family? he’s bout that life

― k3vin k., Sunday, June 13, 2021 9:46 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

his dad is top ten most terrifying people in the world

yah scary shit

If you wiggle-check your nose for the 20th time and only then find it broken, you broke your own nose imo.

There’s no defense for that call. “Wind up” doesn’t apply to hitting the basketball

his dad is top ten most terrifying people in the world

― lag∞n, Sunday, June 13, 2021 9:49 PM (0 seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

no wait im thinking of nurkic

he hit paynes cheekbone before the ball

But the “wind up” was him slapping the basketball

???

he wound up and then hit payne in the head

the nurk's dad story is one of the great pieces of nba apocrypha

You don’t wind up to strip the ball in basketball

Not like that at least

the wind up was i'm gonna hit whatever's in front of me possibly including the ball as well as this point guard who has the skeletal structure of a small bird

yeah suspect the refs came to the conclusion that he was not actually making a basketball play

https://lasueur.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/pere-Jusuf-Nurkic-The-Bosnian-Beast.png

pictured: normal humans, nurk's dad

i did hear that iggy swipes dowm

If you make 3 stooges sounds during wind up, it is ok

You don’t wind up to strip the ball in basketball

the wind up was i'm gonna hit whatever's in front of me possibly including the ball as well as this point guard who has the skeletal structure of a small bird

i agree

I mean if you can’t tell that he was pissed and had literally no care if he broke Cam’s nose then I don’t know what to tell you

Squarely hitting the basketball at the end also helps

You don’t wind up to strip the ball in basketball

Exactly. There's a dude I hoop with who winds up to block a shot EVERY TIME and I've had to descalate shit 20 or more times because yeah guys tend not to appreciate that. He just doesn't know any better but Jokic for goddamn sure does.

i probably would have called it a flagrant 1 but if you commit a flagrant 1 you're opening yourself to the possibility that some important people think you've committed a flagrant 2

pictured: normal humans, nurk's dad

― Clay, Sunday, June 13, 2021 9:53 PM (twenty-one seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

7 foot tall 400 pound bosnian cop, not someone i want to meet!

If lebron did it it was a flagrant 1. Everyone else that’s a flagrant 2

If lebron did it it was a flagrant 1. Everyone else that’s a flagrant 2

They kick ppl out of games for this type of thing all the time. Cutting dudes legs when they’re dunking, getting under guys when they’re shooting. It’s not the result it’s the fact that you could have really badly hurt someone

xp self but it was a bad foul with bad intent committed on a guy's face and there should be consequences for that

a dude jokic's size winding up in that amount of time and space while losing by ten in a sweep game is going to be judged harsher than most dudes and rightfully so

Like seriously Matt your take here is so bad that I wonder if you've ever hooped and now I can't ever take anything you say about bball seriously

Eh he’s just being a homer. Respect

Hoping this ends up with a suns sweep now

that's a Chunky pic.twitter.com/a2uBqiLwKj

— I Think You Should League Pass (@nbaleave) June 14, 2021

"Don't wind up" is the advice you get in 5th grade when you block a shot cleanly and still get called for a foul. It's not a sacred hoops rule about being ejected.

Twitter seems to be very split on the call

looked up jokic's brothers and they're straight up pre-rendered gta 4 characters

xxp i don't know what that means? the guy in the officiating center in seacaucus that they interview cited windup, contact, and follow-through as the reasons for the call.

Yeah none of that makes sense. There was wind up and follow through with a hand that hit the ball

Jokic's dad was an ag engineer and his brothers also tried to play pro basketball. This shit about them being scary feels obviously nagl.

imho it was a borderline call, i wouldve liked to see them leave jokic in cause of the situation, but its def not any sort of out of the question to call that a 2, that was for sure a dangerous non basketball play

how can a non basketball play involve so much basketball?

Yeah none of that makes sense. There was wind up and follow through with a hand that hit the ball

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, June 13, 2021 10:05 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it makes sense to.....the people that oversee officiating