Would you flop if you played in the NBA?

[BOTSLAYER]

According to the NBA flopping is less of a cheating action than charging, blocking, reaching in etc. I know this because those actions all have in game penalties, flopping does not. Really you should be bitching about players every time they get a foul, that is cheating, dirty scumbag cheating!!!!

 

[Lakers+USC=#1]

Not surprising with the Lebron fan comments.

 

[Lone Granger]

Heat fans trying to defend their idol...again.

And the answer to the question is...NO.

 

[bksballer89]

split right down the middle

 

[Clayton]

Only in the playoffs. Flopping in the middle of the season is silly and other teams catch on to your flopping tendencies.

 

[True Lakers Fan]

I would try to work on my game skills that would keep me competitive without having to cheat

 

[Flauge]

I hate flopping.. It is a plague brought onto this league. But would I flop? Youre damn right I would. My job as an NBA player is to win. I would most likely be a millionaire and would do damn near anything get that job done includings PEDs, flopping, trying to goat better players into fighting me in the playoffs so we both get suspended. You guys can hide behind your "respect" card or whatever you want... I am to much of a competitor. Anything to help the team. If you aint cheating... you aint trying.

 

[Clayton]

If you aint cheating... you aint trying.

Pretty much rule #1 in basketball and football right now.

 

[Jims_Doors]

Embellishing contact to try to get a call has been in college and pro basketball for a very long time.

 

[bksballer89]

These guys are putting up a front. If you can't help your team win a game (especially in the playoffs) you won't sell a call to put you in better position to win the game? Who can forget that classic Tony Allen flop attempt the Spurs in the WCF?

 

[Lone Granger]

These guys are putting up a front. If you can't help your team win a game (especially in the playoffs) you won't sell a call to put you in better position to win the game? Who can forget that classic Tony Allen flop attempt the Spurs in the WCF?

So are you finally getting to the point now where you admit LeBron is a filthy flopper?

 

[Brahmsian]

I don't even know what flopping is. Is that what that guy Lebron is accused of doing?

It's essentially acting as if you were hit harder than you actually were.

I personally think a lot of people are underestimating how difficult keeping your balance can be when bumped by
someone as heavy as most NBA players, but admit I could be wrong about that.

 

[trojanfan12]

Hell yes I'd flop. Not only that, but I'd train with Vlade in the off-season!!

 

[Shanemansj13]

I wouldn't go into any game or play with the mindset of planning to sell calls.... but in the heat of the moment it 100% WOULD happen.

The overwhelming majority of "flops" are reflexive, not pre-meditated, IMO.

This exactly.

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

Heat fans trying to defend their idol...again.

And the answer to the question is...NO.

Not really.
I can tell you first hand that James often gets treated like Shaq did.
He often gets hammered and doesn't get a call because his size/ strength.

If he can sometimes get calls to go his way by appearing to be hit harder then he was, then so be it.

The ones he gets don't make up for the ones that he doesn't get.

 

[JDM]

That's a fucking joke.

"I don't get every call so cheating is justified."

Be a man and earn your calls.

 

[Black Adam]

That's a fucking joke.

"I don't get every call so cheating is justified."

Be a man and earn your calls.

you beat me to it, but i'm with you...

it's sickening to me how many of these guys justify cheating...

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

That's a fucking joke.

"I don't get every call so cheating is justified."

Be a man and earn your calls.

In a perfect world/league I 100% agree.

However NBA refs often anticipate and react to what they think might have happened.

You have some of the best athletes in the world going at each other at 100 mph.
It's inevitable that wrong calls will be made.
If enough go against you, it's only human to try to create some for you.

 

[BOTSLAYER]

So are you finally getting to the point now where you admit LeBron is a filthy flopper?

Nobody says he doesn't "flop".

 

[trojanfan12]

Nobody says he doesn't "flop".