NBA to fine for flopping

[cmoneyr]

When will they start fining referees for not calling traveling?

Wow, I was coming in here to say the exact same thing.

[mwitt]

Wow, I was coming in here to say the exact same thing.

Did you watch the Spurs/Lakers the other night? Tim Duncan had a fast break dunk where he seriously took 3-4 steps. He did a stutter step and then two after that. It has to be impossible to miss that. I was watching it with a friend and we were laughing out loud.

[trevn]

Ginobli will take a huge paycut.

Who me? That's how we play in Argentina!

[cybsball20]

Did you watch the Spurs/Lakers the other night? Tim Duncan had a fast break dunk where he seriously took 3-4 steps. He did a stutter step and then two after that. It has to be impossible to miss that. I was watching it with a friend and we were laughing out loud.

Or Kobe changing his pivot foot three times at the top circle...

[cloneu]

When will they start fining referees for not calling traveling?

In the game last night a guy for the Pistons got the ball between half court and the 3 pt line, nobody close to him and the ref looking right at him, he pivots a couple of times then picks up his pivot foot and pivots on the other one a couple of times. All without dribbling the dang ball and nothing is called.

Another thing that irritates me is illegal defense. Let them play D however the **** they want to.

Ginobli will take a huge paycut.

For how much I hate him I don't think there needs to be fines for trying to fool the refs.

[IcSyU]

In the game last night a guy for the Pistons got the ball between half court and the 3 pt line, nobody close to him and the ref looking right at him, he pivots a couple of times then picks up his pivot foot and pivots on the other one a couple of times. All without dribbling the dang ball and nothing is called.

Another thing that irritates me is illegal defense. Let them play D however the **** they want to.



For how much I hate him I don't think there needs to be fines for trying to fool the refs.

Travelling and defensive three seconds tick me off when I watch the NBA. That and the fact that LeBron and Kobe get every single foul call they want and other players can't buy squat.

[cloneu]

Who me? That's how we play in Argentina!

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[JonDMiller]

This has been a problem for a long time, and has infiltrated college and HS. And its applauded by coaches and teammates when someone pulls it off.

I dont think this will be something that players will be able to turn off overnight.

[BryceC]

This has been a problem for a long time, and has infiltrated college and HS. And its applauded by coaches and teammates when someone pulls it off.

Any time they get within three feet of you, take a dive... TEAM!

[jbhtexas]

Travelling and defensive three seconds tick me off when I watch the NBA. That and the fact that LeBron and Kobe get every single foul call they want and other players can't buy squat.

Your rant might get more sympathy if Kobe hadn't shot zero FTs in the Spurs game the other night...

[clones_jer]

Give me a break. It's the official's job to determine it, and if it is its a no-call.

While I don't have the NBA rule book handy, the HS & college rule is that a "flop" is an unsporting act which is a technical foul - not a "no-call".

It's never called because you have to be damn sure before you give a tech for flopping and at full speed it can be awfully hard to be sure.

IMHO, it would be better to encourage more charging calls when the defender is still on their feet. It's never seen in the NBA because by that point players are totally focused on falling backward at the slightest contact. If at lower levels you called charges on little gaurds that launch themselves at uncorrdinated bigs that don't know enough to fall, then it would clean itself up naturally.

I call 'em that way at lower levels and get coaches beside themselves in anger because "how is it a charge if the defender is still standing!!!" That's what players are being taught by parent/coaches because that is what is being rewarded. Remove the reward for the behavoir and no punishment will be necessary.

[Wx4Cy]

Now if they can get the Hawks to stop flopping...they are as bad as anyone.

[Cardinal&Gold11]

Good! I absolutely dispise Many Ginobili and the rest of the Spurs. I think Greg Popovich must teach them to play like that because the whole team is a bunch of floppers. I can't stand watching them play. Everytime they get touched it's like someone punched them in the face.

[pulse]

While I don't have the NBA rule book handy, the HS & college rule is that a "flop" is an unsporting act which is a technical foul - not a "no-call".

It's never called because you have to be damn sure before you give a tech for flopping and at full speed it can be awfully hard to be sure.

IMHO, it would be better to encourage more charging calls when the defender is still on their feet. It's never seen in the NBA because by that point players are totally focused on falling backward at the slightest contact. If at lower levels you called charges on little gaurds that launch themselves at uncorrdinated bigs that don't know enough to fall, then it would clean itself up naturally.

I call 'em that way at lower levels and get coaches beside themselves in anger because "how is it a charge if the defender is still standing!!!" That's what players are being taught by parent/coaches because that is what is being rewarded. Remove the reward for the behavoir and no punishment will be necessary.

It may technically be a technical, but a flop in view of a ref is always a no-call not a T.

I have seen a T called on a flop as many times as I've seen an Umpire call a Ball on a pitcher who doesn't pitch in 12 seconds, i.e. never.

[CycloneErik]

Now if they can get the Hawks to stop flopping...they are as bad as anyone.

They don't flop, they're just uncoordinated.