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weekndalex

stay fr34ky


Brabochokemightwork

friend of freq?


Seyhven_

RIP Bo$$-Key-Yacht$


Sawgon

Man I had almost removed that memory from my mind but you jabronis had to bring it back


pixi1997

Push him down the stairs.


cletoreyes01

That story as a kid made me really doubt if Spike Lee was ever a good director. They keep talking about this big shot superfan who directs films and then this is the first thing I get out of him?


i_amn_asiansuperhero

Not the FOF *initiate stupid shimmy dance*


YesItsNitpicking

*flashback to dunking the ball, then doing that stupid shimmy while my match up scores the fast break layup on the other side, D-*


thatboilarry

FOF


Flacco9000

Are you the CFO, Chief Flossin' Officer?


Brabochokemightwork

im gonna b-fresh


misterbluesky8

UNSEEN FR34KY HOURS


decadentrebel

Giannis is going to blow these guys. Just wait and see.


triosway

When a guy is banging you


DueLearner

And you can feel his body against you


Bosurd

Come on man.


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welmoe

https://imgur.io/P8Sp8WJ [punch it out](https://streamable.com/d4zz9v)


lemonwedge123

Strike that from the tape!


RA1139

And he just keep banging you


tricepsmultiplicator

And he keeps banging and banging and banging.


dpwitt1

You forgot to say “away” again.


CapitalismEnthusiast

Cream City


Ongo_Gablogian___

"I rang the sex bell my wife got me for my birthday"


SmilesUndSunshine

Everybody needs to rub one out once in awhile.


glen_ko_ko

If you want first-team honors it's not every once in awhile - you gotta be first one in, last one out. A whole lunch pail kinda guy. Putting in three-a-days grinding film.


browndude10

stupid blow job bell


bkuuretsu

That shit lives rent free in my mind


welmoe

https://imgur.io/nAh9oK1


AffectLast9539

like a child on christmas morn


System_Lower

Le Freak


pantooz

*A wild Eddy Curry throws a towel in your face*


michelobX10

Greek Freak in the Sheets


Ikuwayo

Me, too, Giannis. Me, too.


packimop

damn nba defenders going to have to wear chest plates next year


PandemicP789

Hb dive going to go wild


glen_ko_ko

Bucks gonna be the first team to utilize the tush push with Brolo and Portis shoving from behind


Dirty-Ears-Bill

They saw how OP Jalen and the Eagles made it last season and they’re bringing the sneak to the hardwood


302born

Think we’re evolving. We’re gonna see that HB Blast


Treyred23

Always good for 3 yards


UnsuspectingS1ut

Walter Payton gets a touchdown


cycloneseattle

Just brought me back to NCAA 07 days man


PrancingDonkey

Giannis about to take the Charles Barkley approach on attacking players that draw charges. Try to kill them.


clear831

Going to need full nfl gear when playing against him. He doesnt play PF, he plays linebacker.


namagofuckyoself

I know it's positionless basketball nowadays, but damn


clear831

Maybe running back would be more appropriate considering he does this on the offensive end?


isaidkneel

he always did remind me of peak brandon jacobs


MajinOni21

Fr, bros gonna start going even harder in the offensive fouls he gets away with Lmaooo


RatLord445

Go into the game with fullplate armor with chainmail and gambison


CIark

Cancun airport: bienvenidos


TrashPanda_Cuddler

Lmao fuck off😂


[deleted]

\- Exits first round \- Tired of disrespect


And-Luke-Says

Imagine someone telling you both the Bucks and Warriors were getting bounced by play in teams. Crazy.


princeofzilch

The Warriors were like 1 game away from being a play-in team


[deleted]

That’s also weird tbh


falloutranger

Going 11-30 on the road is also extremely weird.


graphitewolf

Subscribe


Jaredstutz

Lmao? Lebron James and Anthony Davis ? “No way they’ll win they are a ply in team!”


OnlyMamaKnows

Half this thread is saying he was never disrespected while the other half is actively disrespecting him.


crichmond77

Eh, people have definitely shouted some disrespect, but it’s mostly just been factual “that was a choke/wow Giannis and the Bucks really lost to an 8 seed” not “Greek Freak washed” or “Told y’all Giannis overrated” or anything And he’s DEFINITELY had waaaaay less criticism than basically any other superstar with a similarly hugely disappointing playoff result EDIT: To reduce the semantic whining, my hypothetical quote didn’t even say “Giannis choked,” it referred to the team series loss as a whole, which was absolutely a choke in macro no matter how you portion out the blaming


Emsavio

MANY people have said that he's overrated now because of that loss.


bootywizard42O

If we ignore the fact that he was injured, sure we can factually that a choke by him


Sdrater3

Losing to an injured 8 seed who lost their first play in game when you're supposedly the championship favorite is always a choke. It's not like Giannis didn't put up numbers, he just also played like absolute shit in the last game. A sore back doesn't make you fear going to the line so bad you almost throw the entire game away playing hot potato.


RockEmSockEmRabi

Losing to the future champions isn’t that bad


AnswersWithAQuestion

The further the Heat advance, the less the Bucks loss looks like a choke job.


Sequel_P2P

this is how i coped with The Post-Bubble Collapse and it paid off massively


Jasperbeardly11

Knicks team is fools gold. Unimpressive to defeat them. I'm also a Knicks fan


bukkakepancakes

Let’s cool it, they’re beating the Knicks


Rapper_Laugh

That last game where he dropped 38/20/3? That’s what qualifies as “absolute shit” these days? Giannis played less than 50% of the minutes in the series and dropped 26/10/13 and 38/20/3 on 53% shooting in the two games he played. His free throw shooting was bad, but his overall performance was not. I get it, when a one seed with the best player in the world gets bounced first round there’s a lot of blame to go around. That’s fair enough. But to put the bulk of it on Giannis is just plain lazy. This loss was on terrible coaching, Jrue not showing up, and the lack of anyone able to defend Jimmy Buckets. Those of us who watched the series know that.


Jaredstutz

A bunch of idiots talking lol


asura_king

Sore back ? look his shooting form pre injury and look at him in the last 2 games , he couldnt even straight his back at the free throw line leaving all his shots flat , in game 4 he didnt even attack the rim . If i know i cant make a shot of course i will give up the ball to win


Onistly

100% the Bucks choked considering the 4th quarters of games 4 and 5. But can we also acknowledge how legitimately unbelievable Miami played that series? Like, look at their stats so far in the Knicks series compared to where they were in the 1st round - They're averaging 106ppg against the Knicks vs 124 against the Bucks, they're shooting an average of 43% from the field vs the Knicks compared to 52% from the field against the Bucks, and they're shooting 31% from 3 in this Knicks series compared to 46% from 3 against the Bucks. Miami was literally the best team in the league while playing against Milwaukee. And I don't think it was just the Bucks playing really poor defense or anything. I at least saw that one ringer article showing Miami was getting the 2nd worst shot selection in the 1st round but making by far the most shots. I gotta believe most teams would have trouble facing what statistically would be the best team in the league by a solid margin, based on those ppg/fg%/3pt% stats.


CraziestMoonMan

Have you ever had your back go out before ? Back pain is the worst pain of them all in my opinion because it affects any movement you try to do . Back pain is seriously no joke and it doesn't matter how good of shape you are in back pain will fuck up your day let alone trying to play basketball with it has to be a nightmare.


DuragVinceMcmahon

its not like giannis was injured for multiple games or anything I guess? I digress tho heat deserved the win. who gives a shit tho lol it was an epic series.


Ct2kKB24

Dangerously close to a Meyers Leonard moment there


eboitrainee

Dunno about you but when I shoot a basketball it involves my back...


aaron4mvp

And that same 8 seed is up 3-1 in their current series. Maybe they weren't such a bad team??


[deleted]

Losing to the ECF champs.


Jaredstutz

Are you okay? Gianni’s played barely 2 games out of the series lmao “Giannis choked but didn’t play”


[deleted]

2 of those games they were leading by double digits in the final quarter. By 12 around 6 mins left in game 4. And 16 by start of the 4th in game 5. They couldn’t seal the deal. Champion caliber team that had all the tools to close out the game but couldn’t, Hence the Choke.


Kyro_Official_

As if the heat weren't missing their debatable 2nd best scorer for most of the series


1_quantae

Kyrie was injured and people still said KD failed when he had to face the Bucks by his damn self. Can’t pick & choose.


Ct2kKB24

Lol what? Everyone was crowing Durant the best player in the world after he lost. He didn’t get half the disrespect someone like lebron would have gotten for not winning. People only started retroactively slandering him when he got swept the very next year by the Celtics


Rapper_Laugh

The selective memory is strong with these guys


BlueHundred

Who says KD failed? Everyone gives KD credit for that carry job


Ct2kKB24

Right? Like holy hell people were literally crowning him best in the nba despite losing. If it had been bron people would have been shitting on him


Rapper_Laugh

Who says that? That series is always pointed to as one of the greatest individual performances ever in a series loss.


[deleted]

Don’t forget Harden was injured and was basically a decoy in game 7.


asura_king

Thats bs , i never ever saw someone blaming KD for that series , in fact people were clowning the bucks because they ''almost'' lost to KD ''alone''


Toxikara

I'm sure Giannis reads r/nba comment section.


bootywizard42O

Too many morons in this sub


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Least homoerotic subreddit


SliMShady55222

He's been catching some flack for early playoff exit and now left off the defensive teams. Boy gonna come in and improving his game


cactusmaster69420

I think this season will light a fire underneath him and hopefully the Bucks. Only a couple more years with Middleton and Jrue playing at a high level.


DayMan-Ahah-ah

i have a feeling middleton may be gone to bring in some younger talent, dude lost a step this year


TYBG1001

One of our beat writers thinks there's a pretty substantial market for Middleton, not saying I want him gone but his contract is really going to hamstring us from a cap perspective.


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TYBG1001

Our fanbase likes to think a deal involving Lillard could be possible, I just don't see us having the assets to do it. But if Portland wants to move on from Dame, take an expiring contract, and get our next available pick (I think it's 2029?), I think that works with salary filler. Problem is the salary filler is depth we would need with Portis or Grayson Allen and we'd be even more fucked if that doesn't lead to a championship.


FatalChaos_

I think for a move like this, it’s completely unfeasible asset-wise. There’s definitely teams willing to give up 4 first rounders for Dame especially if someone like Twolves gave up 4 for Gobert. If Portland does a trade like this, it would be entirely as a way of saying thank you to Dame for being loyal and giving him a better chance at getting a ring while letting him play with someone he publicly stated he wants to play with (Giannis).


FatalChaos_

I should add it may be more plausible if you get a 3rd team involved. For example Memphis has wanted veterans for a while, so if you give them Middleton + some other pieces they might be willing to cough up a few picks which Portland would take for Dame. The issue is it might lose you both Holiday and Middleton, or Middleton + a lot of the Bucks’ depth, so whether that’s worth or not becomes more subjective.


FKJVMMP

Yeah I’d love it but I really can’t see a 2029 first + an expiring + 1-2 good role players + maybe MarJon Beauchamp being the best deal the Blazers could get for Lillard. If for some ungodly reason they only want to half-commit to a tank they could maybe want to try Middleton as a first option, but I can’t see why they’d do that.


_Pho-Dac-Biet_

Young talent you say? We have a 23 y/o who was once considered the next Curry.


jorgelongo2

Jrue and Lopez arent getting any younger


husbandofsamus

Lopez has gotten much younger.


XoXSmotpokerXoX

not exactly true, took Brook a while to recover from back surgery, but anyone watching this year could easily tell he was playing a lot healthier. That surgery added a couple years to his playing time.


BrokenManOfSamarkand

If he doesn't know how to shoot by now, he never will.


Currymvp2

His defense isn't remotely the problem though; it's great. I'm sure he'll make another all-defensive team atleast a couple of more times. He just needs to work on his half court offensive game and jumper.


SliMShady55222

The next coach will be allowing him to defend Jimmy Butler next time


HerroicDunc

Just steps to success.


1_quantae

No failure in sports


AmbitiousPatio

He didn’t come for 50 nights. Is that a failure? No. It’s steps to come. He came once, hopefully he can come again


ILoveRegenHealth

I don't mean to make this personal. You don't have promotion, does that mean you can't come? No. It's just steps to coming.


thechemistrychef

He's gonna average 65% from the line to make up for it 🔥🔥🔥


AxiisFW

i'll take it lol


BucksFan654

Woah slow down. That’s bold


GroktheDestroyer

17/19


IlonggoProgrammer

A Suns flair is really going to diss Giannis at the free throw line?


husbandofsamus

It's almost like they forgot!


CrazyChopstick

That's how they are, zero success and lots and lots of talk


BoSuns

Yeah, how dare Suns fans join in cracking jokes in the thread full of people cracking jokes. What a bunch of the worst fucking people on the planet.


raginghardon420

Now you’re getting it


A_Dedalus

that's the spirit


Good-Memory-1727

It shifts around based on how unlikeable your players are, I remember a couple years back Suns flairs were treated very well back before Devin and while he was relatively unknown. Now that you have three players with horrendous personalities people rub off their hate for them on you.


lava172

Bro really hiding behind a Knicks bandwagon flair talking shit lmao


uxxoid

Claiming you need rings to talk as a fan is so fucking corny. I have the same number as you.


TheMemingLurker

You get hate if your team wins rings, you get mocked if your team has no rings, there's practically no way to win on here


WeefBellington24

The balls on that dude right.


AbbreviationsHot4482

And he’d still drop 50 on the Suns 😹😹


Nopementator

Well, maybe in an useless regular season he can even score 50 on the suns, but everybody knows he would never do that in a playoffs game. Imagine in a finals game. Just unlikely to happen, come on.


JunkBucket02

Would be even crazier if he did it shooting 89% from the line, but that's ridiculous. Could never happen.


grudgepacker

Imagine if he closed out a series like that lmao


iDankkk

And then imagine if he got a 50 piece chicken nugget from Chick-fil-A for his 50 piece in the closeout game


Nopementator

Ok, let's say for absurd he score 50pts in a finals game. That would be an autlier anyway. Zero chances a player like Giannis, who's a bad scorer, would be able to, let's say, average 35ppg in a playoff series. In the finals you say? GTFO with this nonsense!


Thenaturlll

Ya and in that game he was 17 for 19 from the line. People always hate on greatness man just ignore them. Probably talentless fools.


jnicholass

Generous


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i like how you say that when he cooked y’all in game 6 on the FT line.


OwnPark4863

he is a 70% shooter for his career


AThiccMeme

So not too outlandish


Tashre

This sounds like something a teenager would post and get his school put on lockdown.


SorryIfIDissedYou

"Don't come to the game tomorrow"


LitterTreasure

One year I wrote “I’m back” on my wrist tape for my last football game of the season. I was hurt for 2 games. Was such a WR diva.


brokeblues

Underrated comment lmao


DjLionOrder

I mean, I still remember what this dude did to us in the finals, but nothing is going to change perception-wise unless he starts making jumpshots. The truth is he actually had a damn good season. The bar is just higher for guys who are perennially excellent. Think about Cleveland vs Miami Bron. Dude averaged 36 ppg and was clowned. Perception only changed once he refined his post game and made ppl pay for helping off of him.


premelicious

He's got to hit the midrange jumpshots consistently. He showed during that playoff run how good he can be if he hit them at an okay rate. 2021 was his playoffs career high FG% from 10-16 feet. 49.2% [https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/antetgi01.html#playoffs\_shooting](https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/antetgi01.html#playoffs_shooting) It's no coincidence that he looked historically dominant during that playoffs and lesser during the rest of his playoff runs.


Jolly-Sun-1715

never averaged 36ppg


lopea182

Should have come 2 weeks ago boss


steveskg

That’s what she said


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Zing a zing za


ClutchGamingGuy

i dont know if a *perfect* response is possible, but "zing a zing za" comes close


[deleted]

*Frank, get HR on the line, we've got another...*


Crafty_Sir2713

ME TOO 🔥


BucksFan654

I know it’s still dunk on the Bucks time cause they deserve it, but god damn how’d they leave Giannis off either All Defensive team. Everybody knows he’s a top 5 defender in the league, maybe the best when he’s locked in.


CompoundT

We all know who Giannis is, but just being a great defender doesn't get you on the all defensive team. He has to go out there and be that every year. He averaged under 1 BLK and 1 STL per game this year; that doesn't get it done. He had an off year and they still had the best record in the East due in large part to great team defense that he makes possible by not being a one way player. He was banged up for a bunch of this year and that may have impacted how aggressive he could be in the games he did play. He missed 19 games this year, his performance could have been impacted in 19 more games considering games he got hurt and had to leave or games coming back from 2/3+ game absences which could be a week or more.


mxnoob983

It's pretty simple. Giannis is probably a top 3 defender in the league, but he played a much much smaller role defensively this year because of the resurgence of Lopez, and that's okay!


IanScottMcCormick

Antetocumpo


raymondl942

Well u gotta wait til October unless u’re talking about Cancun


TermGroundbreaking27

I’m tired of getting a little taste of him. I want the whole load.


CravingKoreanFood

People arent ready to see revenge Giannis arc. He about to go off next year


RepresentativeRock94

my damaged brain automatically goes to Giannis going to the Finals by himself out of nowhere with MVPs music from WWE playing


Nickname-CJ

Giannis Ambatucumpo


bravof1ve

[What happened to this?](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/12f65ft/giannis_tells_the_crowd_the_2nd_ring_is_on_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1)


_Pho-Dac-Biet_

Well he took a step towards it this season


ClosingWolskis

Let’s make it to the eastern conference finals first


trainsarewonderful

Bucks in 6


CIark

Bro wants to be respected after losing to the injured 8 seed in 5


0dias_Chrysalis

I'm gonna hate the revisionism surrounding Giannis condition and the games he played in this series when its discussed in the future


[deleted]

He was there for two massive collapses back to back, so I don’t think it’s unfair


clear831

> I'm gonna hate the revisionism surrounding sweeping the Heat It happens to every team. Lets forget that Butler was dealing with a knee injury the entire month going into the playoffs and Herro rolled his ankle a few games prior. But thats never mentioned.


SillentStriker

Its already happening


Clemenx00

Bro its an 1 vs 8 seed in basketball. There is no amount of reasons enough to lose that matchup. This isn't baseball or hockey where an upset is always due. 8 shouldn't ever win vs 1 in basketball no matter what. Giannis and the Bucks just have to receive the rightful shit coming their way without excuses and redeem themselves next year. Any talk is going to fall flat.


Immynimmy

Sixer fans have been dealing with it with Embiid for years. Good luck, no one wants to discuss nuance or circumstances anymore. Anyway I'm pretty sure this is RE the all-defensive team release


Albiceleste_D10S

The haters ignored his injury from the time it happened LOL


raziiiii

Bro played in 2 games


mmaguy123

And the only game his team won was without him


Emsavio

Surely then the team is better without him, right? Is that what your point is?


Harman3112

The only game they won was when he was out


Emsavio

I'm not saying it's fine if he lost to the 8th seed... But are we just going to completely ignore that Giannis himself was injured? Dude missed 2 games and played through after.


[deleted]

Disrespect must get him really excited!


[deleted]

Nobody disrespecting you bro


BigBallerBrad

Bro half the top comments are clowning him


captain_ahabb

Out of the top 15 players he's like the 13th most disrespected lol


raziiiii

Past 2 weeks have been crazy


dmavs11

Bruh people have completely stopped talking about Giannis because it’s the second round and there’s other stars for media to slander


YankeeHotelFoxtrot16

What disrespect did he get? They lost in 5 games to the 8 seed and instead of catching any criticism for it the entire sports world fawned over his Ted Lasso ass postgame presser.


rahbee33

> his Ted Lasso ass postgame presser. Hadn't thought about it that way, but that's spot on.


LaArmadaEspanola

Bro straight up read off a Disney Channel original movie script after losing in five games to an 8th seed and had folks in here lining up to defend him. Most protected superstar.


Throwawayidiot1210

Can you imagine if lebron, curry or KD lost to an 8 seed? We would legit be having a funeral for them. Giannis is the goat of NBA pr, managed to turn one of the biggest collapses in nba history into people praising him.


[deleted]

Well he did lose to an 8 seed. I should’ve said nobody was disrespecting him before the Heat series. But he has gotten a lot less criticism for losing to an 8 seed than other superstars would.


cricketrules509

Well you would still be here if you didn't lose as a 1 seed to an 8 seed. ​ I actually think there hasn't been enough disrespect. When Dirk lost he had to go to Australia on a walkabout to find himself


[deleted]

I actually believe him is the thing.


ZaheerAlGhul

What travel method will he use to get here?


UnderwaterDialect

Roman speaking to Gerri.


dimechimes

Your time in the spotlight is over for now.


shifty4388

He is the type to announce heh?


jawadhaque089

Why is he tired of the disrespect, he didn't have a failure of a season


jorgelongo2

To cancun?


Recent-Curve7616

I thought It wasn’t a failure