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.
NBA to fine for flopping
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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.
I dont think this will be something that players will be able to turn off overnight.
Your rant might get more sympathy if Kobe hadn't shot zero FTs in the Spurs game the other night...
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.
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.
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
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Just telling you what the rule is. Most HS (at least around here) will give the kid a look or mention they'd better not see it again. That usually clears it up at that level.
Basketball is easily the most complicated, but also the most fun game for me to officate. (On second thought: I've never tried to officiate rugby, that looks hard too - as only one guy covers the whole field)
A flop should be a technical. I've always thought that rule should be eliminated if no one is going to enforce it, and now they want to take it to fines. It's unsporting, just like swearing or jumping in the stands, which get you technicals. Should be the same thing imho.
