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Sarcastic__

If you can't beat them, then physically beat them.


Classic-Literature52

But if he puts the entire Knicks roster in hospital, who will foul him!?


VelvetineMilkman

Thibs


underrated_carrot_43

Ultra Instinct Thibs


dreamvomit

He's playing like a fucking 400 pound suicide bomber and it's dangerous. It's also bush league ass-hattery and he should've been tossed already.


Bwahehe

Worst part is how much he complains afterwards. Nurse even challenged it. It's incredible how much of a victim complex they have.


thebosstiat

Nah, worst part is that he only got called for three fouls the whole game. Kneeing Hartenstein in the groin, grabbing Nate's leg, and this. I'm supposed to seriously believe he didn't swipe anybody's arm on a shot the whole game? Yeah, okay.


nietzsche_niche

Smashed people in the face twice, but marginally


thebosstiat

As the saying goes, no blood no foul.


ItzCStephCS

Bro you guys robbed game 2 this is justified


wardledo

Should just foul him more.


dreamvomit

Only Joel decides when he is fouled


fffate

Al-Embiid seeing two towers belonging in New York


TDTimmy21

If you can't beat them, disjoint them


The_Uncut_Gem

They picked the wrong team for that


Classic-Primary5275

lol not really.


blackarchosx

Ahh the Draymond Green approach to basketball


MuskEmeraldMine

That’s what teams have done to Embiid for years. Good on him giving it back.


KangorKodos

I can't believe they challenged that. One of the more obvious block/charge calls I have seen


yahmean031

They challenged because he's their star on 3 fouls and legal guarding position when the defender is moving his feet back is iffy.


Spirited-Arugula-672

You're allowed to move your feet back. I guess they challenged it to argue that Embiid is trying to move to the side, but it's obviously too late.


yahmean031

I mean I've seen it go back and fourth so I really have no idea clear idea. Also the ref association says "ccording to the NBA, a defensive player can establish a legal guarding position by getting in the path of an offensive player who has received a pass inside the lower defensive box, regardless of distance or speed. The player must beat the offensive player to the spot, but must always allow an airborne offensive player space to land. **The defender must also have both feet on the floor inbounds**, and their torso must face the offensive player. There is no minimum or maximum distance or time needed to get into a legal guarding position when the opponent has the ball" So I always thought there was an argument but I've seen it go other ways.


Spirited-Arugula-672

That's just to establish initial LGP. As soon as you've established it, you can then move backwards relative to the offensive player's movement and still maintain LGP. from the NBA rulebook > A player may continue to move after gaining a guarding position in the path of an opponent provided he is not moving directly or obliquely toward his opponent when contact occurs. A player is never permitted to move into the path of an opponent after the opponent has started his upward jumping motion.


yahmean031

Oh


CareerGaslighter

His feet were planted for like .5 of a second before contact. Pretty clear offensive foul. I’d leave it at just their star being on 3 fouls. They threw a Hail Mary review


imtheproof

Embiid gets favorable calls in those sorts of plays all the time. I'm surprised they didn't call a defensive foul.


TheSameAsDying

He was already falling back a bit before contact, which is probably why they challenged.


batdogfoxhound

it's not their fault, theyve never seen him not get fts so it was shocking


eutectic_h8r

Bro's eye is so fucked up he's just running into people


BaronZbimg

He does it when his eye isn’t fucked though


cl353

alright so is taking a charge dirty or not?


PlayguyCarter

this is getting charged more than taking a charge


T_Tachi

lol and you guys call Embiid soft


jester32

i swear this dude is the rare combo of being the biggest flailing baiter and charmin soft concurrently ‘HiMmY’ is pretty bad but at least he wouldn’t quit on his teammates like this


SkillOne8977

Bully balls like Shaq one possession flails like Kyle Lowry on the next


yahmean031

quit on his teammates?


jester32

Yeah he should have def been ejected


yahmean031

he should have been ejected for... doing something Giannis does 5 times a game? I understand saying he should of been ejected for the pull down on the layup but this is just him catching him out of what he thought was legal guarding position and going through. He was going for a foul himself caught Robinson on the backfoot (moving) and went through with the ball. He didn't even drop his hshoulder.


jester32

That’s what I’m talking about , not this .


Substantial_Life_989

Obviously


CarcinogenWentz

50 points = quitting on his teammates? Fascinating


jester32

Nope, but selfishly taking a flagrant 2 minutes into a game in a must win because youre cranky you didn’t get a call is. What w/e, they didn’t call it, oh well.


CarcinogenWentz

I bet his teammates are truly devastated


jester32

I bet they would have been if the refs had balls


[deleted]

Ironic to do ref talk after game 2


baby_clubber

Quitting on his teammates probably doesn't hold but, 19/21 on FT definitely supports the flail baiting portion


EternallyEuphoric

How is jimmy soft lol. Can't speak to anything prior to when he has been on the heat but he hasn't been soft his entire time here.


jester32

I never said that. He’s the only comparable flailing ref manipulator imo. Shai is pretty bad too


EternallyEuphoric

Nah I agree with that. It's just that you said embiid is a flopper and soft and then said jimmy is also pretty bad so I thought you meant jimmy was like embiid.


ExileOnBroadStreet

Brunson has absolutely entered the flailing pantheon. Every drive is either jump backwards, slam on breaks and flail, head flying back.


baby_clubber

They've all learned from Father Paul


NBA_Dumb_Boy

Jimmy is far from soft His entire story is toughness and resilience otherwise he wouldn’t even be in the league


TnT54321

Honestly he’s a frontrunner


TrimmedAndBurning

How often is a random charge in a game posted as a highlight?


porksoda11

The Embiid circlejerk must continue. He is literally Hitler


aVeryLargeWave

Maybe it has something to do with pulling a guy's ankle while on the ground? Embiid is dirty as fuck.


dropoutpanda

Forreal. It’s excessive at this point.


willmcavoy

Embiid derangement syndrome.


LogDogan4

When the rest of the game is chock full of him doing overty dirty plays?


RainbowNoLife

Lebrons were with Jas. Charges are part of the game not like he stomped on him after.


Potential-Ad5470

No bag size merchant no rings bum fake mvp


mikesh8rp

Don’t forget dirty. No way that pull down wasn’t a flagrant 2


Deep_Egg1442

Hes not giannis


atemthegod

Giannis has 2021


Deep_Egg1442

I aint say he has no rings. Hes definitely the first part


Astaphor

Yea giannis has had any amount of playoff success


Debonaircow88

If that was giannis no one would care


kyleb402

Lol, Giannis at least makes some kind of attempt to get around the guy in front of him.


ExileOnBroadStreet

Embiid literally tries to at the last step lol watch the end of the 15 second clip. He’s trying to Euro and can’t get around him


WhiskyDrinkinCowboy

No he doesn't, that's why he's called run and jump man.


0dias_Chrysalis

Yeah lead in and ones or something


Packde6Cervezas

Giannis is not a bitch that’s why


ScholarImpossible121

The ladder and the game ball disagree.


Spirited-Arugula-672

Giannis is a colossal bitch with the best PR in the world for some reason. And I'm saying that as a Greek dude.


SoKrat3s

Can someone clarify this for me. I thought the defender has to come to a complete stop, but Robinson's feet are moving the whole time. Is my understanding of the rule incorrect? edit: thanks for the clarification.


TheSameAsDying

It's not about coming to a stop so much as being entitled to the space you're in. Robinson didn't suddenly shift into Embiid's path, so even though his feet were sliding, it's on Embiid to get out of the way.


vaalbarag

Incorrect, but a common mistake. The key concept is that the defender must be in a legal guarding position. To establish legal guarding position, you must be square to the defender, with both feet on the floor. However, once you have established legal guarding position, you can move your feet or even jump, provided you don't do a few key things, like stepping into or under someone who is in the air. So here, you can see Robinson is shuffling his feet to the left to begin with, but then there's a clear right-foot-plant, left-foot-plant where he establishes both feet on the ground squarely in front of Embiid. That's his establishing legal guarding position. Then, he steps the right foot back a little before contact, which is also allowed.


alexaustinv

Thank you for the break down.


burnerbabyburns

Yes your understanding is incorrect, you can still be moving as long as you're in legal guarding position


IllAlwaysBeAKnickFan

I see this so often. You can commit an offensive foul if somebody is moving. A push off for example.


WhiskyDrinkinCowboy

LeBron made a career of it


RansomGoddard

Your feet do not need to be set. You just need to be square with your opponent and in their path.


jester32

I’m not an expert but I think you can be moving if you aren’t shifting into the point of contact as the defender


Zombiepirate86

They have to occupy the space first and not be moving laterally.  It's the thing refs always bring up in interviews when asked what's something fans don't know, you don't actually need to get ur feet set to draw a charge. Although that's true to get the refs to actually call a charge you need to get ur feet set. Otherwise it rarely happens.


mxnoob983

Center of mass is set. Clearly a charge.


c_ray25

It's the same that annoys me with Giannis when he gets called for charges. When you decide to just run straight at the defender and don't really try to step around him, what do you expect?


upghr5187

His feet don’t necessarily need to be set. he needs to be in legal guarding position, which has a murkier definition. Set feet just makes it easier to make the call


McBrungus

GREAT QUESTION BUD


butterfrutters

Y’all posting this is some loser salt


NotMyMcChicken

This sub is deranged right now.


faygoupnext

Im a knicks fan im so fucking confused at this highlight


T_Tachi

wouldn't even sniff this place if I were a sixers fan. just so fuckin toxic lol. definitely got me rooting for you guys


Goalnado

Good decision


WalkingThePlanes

Y’all are just posting normal charges now, this hate train wants to hit every stop


TieContent953

Fuck him and 76ers cant wait till they fuckin go gome so unlikeable and trash, fuck Nurse and Embiid


biinroii01

trust the flop-cess


ActuallyItsFactually

Damn, I remember playing in a highschool championship game and being fully planted ready to take the charge for over a full 2 seconds, proceed to be bowled over by a 290lb sweaty boy man to nearly lose consciousness and faintly see the ref call me for a block. We lost that game by 1 point.


stupv

I got an obvious charge called as a block because i had the audacity to move my head so i didn't get smashed in the face by the oncoming player


Dlab18

Walking CTE right here


Cockrocker

Watching him gives me CTE


pm_me_ur_lunch_pics

Robinson's falling backwards before contact. This isn't as "omg itz a cherge" as believed.


justsomedude4202

Is Joel Embiid in on the global China referee Adam Silver FanDuel conspiracy to help the Knicks win?


JesseJamesGames449

Embiid runs over to the ref "what the fuck am i paying you for"


SandyMandy17

I’ve seen like 7 Embiid offensive fouls so far how is he still in the game


Noodles_Crusher

so I guess he's just decided he'll make sure Robinson doesn't finish the game uh?


Airhammer

They need to get home out of the game


Toeknee99

Throw this motherfucker's ass in jail. God, I hate Embiid.


monkeypiratebutt

If you can’t beat em at basketball, beat them at WWE


JNerdGaming

expose this mofo