A common complaint about those who watch the Oklahoma City Thunder play basketball is how much foul-baiting the entire team seems to get away with.

Regular season points leader Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who took home the league’s MVP award, is leading the postseason with 9.8 free-throw attempts per game among players with at least 10 games played. It’s enough for ESPN’s Jay Williams to suggest the Thunder don’t respect the game of basketball for how they play as a team.

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“Every single time they shoot, SGA is landing in somebody’s region, he’s falling down and you’re just like, ‘how do I root for that?’” he said revealing he can root for how the Spurs play basketball.

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“As a fan of the game, I just want to see the game respected. There are times where I watch OKC play, I don’t feel like they respect the process of the game. It’s too much foul baiting. When you fall down 95% of every shot you take in the 4th quarter, and I’m glad the refs are not calling it, I get psychologically exhausted.”