Hawks teach an advanced class in flopping

[Chris22]

Antic falls down by himself twice and gets the foul call.

Other Hawks flopped as well.

Crowder gets fouled every time he drives to the hoop. Someone needs to teach him to yell when he gets hit like Paul Pierce always does. And our bigs need to fall down on their own like the Hawks did to draw fouls.

[jpotter33]

The Smart foul on Korver was a flop, too.

[Chris22]

The Smart foul on Korver was a flop, too.

Those refs sucked.

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

a huge bad call was the one on Prince, where he snagged the rb and was about 3ft away from the flopping player (Milsap I think)! It wasn't even over the back if that's what they called, Prince went straight up and as I said, was well behind the flopper!

[hpantazo]

Did they hire Professor Reggie Miller?

[Chris22]

Did they hire Professor Reggie Miller?

Nice.

[Rosco917]

The league should institute a higher fine for flopping, and use it more often. Film review, and then a fine. Thank you.
Some of these players have become masters of the flop. It's a purposeful interruption of the flow of the game.

[slamtheking]

The league should institute a higher fine for flopping, and use it more often. Film review, and then a fine. Thank you.
Some of these players have become masters of the flop. It's a purposeful interruption of the flow of the game.

if the league made it a point to review all game film and issue fines after the fact that would be worthwhile IMHO.  not just flopping but other egregious errors in officiating (like falling for the flops, badly blown calls that leave no question about how wrong they were, cheapshots off the ball that go uncalled, etc...).

I think there'd be much less of it going on if players and refs knew that the games would be reviewed after the fact and fines/warnings imposed regardless of what's done during the game.

[saltlover]

They should review flops at the replay center in NY, during the game.  At halftime, assess techs to anyone who flopped, and if one team flopped more than the other, the team with fewer gets to take the difference in techs as free throws to start the half.  Do the same at the start of the 4th quarter, and then at the under 3 timeout in the 4th.  Fines after the game are nice, but in game punishment will have greater impact.  And for fan enjoyment, play all the flops on the scoreboard as the T's are being assessed.

[Finkelskyhook]

They should review flops at the replay center in NY, during the game.  At halftime, assess techs to anyone who flopped, and if one team flopped more than the other, the team with fewer gets to take the difference in techs as free throws to start the half.  Do the same at the start of the 4th quarter, and then at the under 3 timeout in the 4th.  Fines after the game are nice, but in game punishment will have greater impact.  And for fan enjoyment, play all the flops on the scoreboard as the T's are being assessed.

Great idea. 

[Csfan1984]

They should review flops at the replay center in NY, during the game.  At halftime, assess techs to anyone who flopped, and if one team flopped more than the other, the team with fewer gets to take the difference in techs as free throws to start the half.  Do the same at the start of the 4th quarter, and then at the under 3 timeout in the 4th.  Fines after the game are nice, but in game punishment will have greater impact.  And for fan enjoyment, play all the flops on the scoreboard as the T's are being assessed.

Tp mainly for video play lol

[D.o.s.]

They should review flops at the replay center in NY, during the game.  At halftime, assess techs to anyone who flopped, and if one team flopped more than the other, the team with fewer gets to take the difference in techs as free throws to start the half.  Do the same at the start of the 4th quarter, and then at the under 3 timeout in the 4th.  Fines after the game are nice, but in game punishment will have greater impact.  And for fan enjoyment, play all the flops on the scoreboard as the T's are being assessed.

How do you type so well with your tongue so far in your cheek?

[slamtheking]

They should review flops at the replay center in NY, during the game.  At halftime, assess techs to anyone who flopped, and if one team flopped more than the other, the team with fewer gets to take the difference in techs as free throws to start the half.  Do the same at the start of the 4th quarter, and then at the under 3 timeout in the 4th.  Fines after the game are nice, but in game punishment will have greater impact.  And for fan enjoyment, play all the flops on the scoreboard as the T's are being assessed.

public shaming.  if only this could come true

[Csfan1984]

They should review flops at the replay center in NY, during the game.  At halftime, assess techs to anyone who flopped, and if one team flopped more than the other, the team with fewer gets to take the difference in techs as free throws to start the half.  Do the same at the start of the 4th quarter, and then at the under 3 timeout in the 4th.  Fines after the game are nice, but in game punishment will have greater impact.  And for fan enjoyment, play all the flops on the scoreboard as the T's are being assessed.

public shaming.  if only this could come true

Doubt it's shaming. Players would probably laugh at what they got away with at the time.

[Alleyoopster]

What bothered me even more than the flops was Bazemore slipping or tripping over himself.  He got two calls that way.