Flopping
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Yeah, it was pretty sick towards the end of the game. With about 2 or 3 minutes left (sorry, I don't know any of their players names) but their guy literally jumped into ours (sorry, forget who it was) while trying to look like he was shooting a 3 to draw the foul, but got called for traveling instead. My wife was even laughing at how stupid the guy looked while trying to do it. I felt like I was watching a soccer game there for a little bit. The only difference was the floppers weren't being carried off on stretchers only to return a minute later to the game.
That was effing ridiculous. I understand that sometimes in a block/charge the defender feels the need to "sell" the contact but this was completely different. Adams was blatantly and obviously faking being fouled and I've never seen it called in that situation but it was worthy of a tech, IMO.
My personal favorite was when Nurse tried to jump into someone on a three and got called for traveling.
A similar rule is still on the books for high school, although I've never seen it called. I was officiating a game several years ago in which a team had very obviously been coached to flop. Rather than warning the player, I went straight to the coach and said your guys are flopping all over the place and they've obviously been coached to do so. The next person that does it is getting T'd up (this was in a year where the IHSAA had actually made it a point of emphasis so it wasn't as if I was a renegade or anything.) He acted like I was the dumbest official alive (he may be right, but for numerous other reasons) but to his credit he did put a stop to it.
I remember the first game we played against Tech and that kid didnt play untill garbage time at the end. I was shocked to see him starting. How is that possible, do they have an injury to their starting PG? That kid makes Little Lick look like an All American.
That would have been some sweet poetic justice! Go for the monster flop and end up with a season ending knee injury.
I can't remember a game that I saw so many soft calls on charges and flops. Thankfully we out-talented them in the end.
I hate flopping. Iowa's Jess Settles, Jacob Jaacks, and Brunner perfected that lousy ploy to draw a cheap foul.
I enjoyed watching that punk Jaacks on Iowa's full-court press. The ball would be inbounded, and Jaacks would run up to the player with the ball and chest-bump him, and flop wildly backwards to the floor, flailing away.
Most of the officials--like Ed Hightower, blew the whistle for 'charging' .
The punk got away with it all the time
I watched the video. After viewing it. I am convinced the guy shot the ball, Mcgee went and jumped in a semi truck. Drove it out on to the floor and ran the poor little guy over. That is what the shooters reaction is telling me. Their is a Duke player somewhere watching that game that is extremely impressed with his after the shot reaction.
Isn't he still playing for Iowa?
I would like to see the charging call revisited. Instead of being called for what it really should be, an out of control offensive player, it's become a ploy for less talented players to get out of playing Defense. The charging calls have always bothered me to some extent, especially when a player is in control, but the defensive guy was able to squeeze a foot in there. This flopping thing has taken it to a new level and Last nights game was hard to watch at times with Tech trying to grab a charge, what seemed like, every time down the court. I guess the simplest thing to do would be to start calling Ts when it's obvious that a guy is flopping. I mean getting called for traveling while you are trying to flop, because the defender was one step too far away, is ruining the game.
I just want to throw this out there, and I'm sure there will be some hate for it, but whatever. Everyone whines about the amount of diving in soccer, and trust me, I'm a huge fan and I don't like it either. But at least in soccer a ref is REQUIRED to give a yellow card (the rough equivalent of a technical foul) if he judges that the player took a dive in order to deceive the ref into granting a foul.
Start giving guys technical fouls for flopping and it will go a long way to cutting the crap out.
Start giving guys technical fouls for flopping and it will go a long way to cutting the crap out.
