Flopping? Blame it on Mike Riordan.
You might have heard that next year the NBA is looking into fining players for flopping. There's still lots of questions about how effective the fines will be in curbing the flopping epidemic, but everyone appears to be in favor of the league trying to do something, especially Sheed.
What's been lost in all of the cheering of the new rule and the simulatneous taunting of Manu Ginobili is the real root of the problem. To do that, we need to take the time machine back, way back to the 1970's. Red Auerbach had hung it up as a coach and was strictly focusing on managing the Celtics and teaching young kids how to play basketball on TV, the Bullets were getting closer and closer to that elusive title, and gas was only 50 cents a gallon.
Then Mike Riordan came in and messed it all up!
Then again, if players flopped like Mike Riordan did in that clip, refs would have no problem figuring out what's a flop and what isn't.
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Great Clip.....
And here I was thinking that it was the Euros and their soccer style who were responsible…..
by Truth About It on May 30, 2008 10:27 AM EDT 0 recs
This was a favorite...
...among every one of the sports blogs that I read. FanHouse, BDL, Deadspin, With Leather, and even The Postmen.
If people only knew how great BF really was. I am really looking forward to the Player Evaluations of all the players!
by se7en on May 30, 2008 6:08 PM EDT 0 recs
It was everywhere
USA Today even picked up on it.
Kudos to Jake
You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.
by Pradamaster on
May 30, 2008 6:33 PM EDT
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Love it.
The last foul on Unseld is what is being called a charge in today’s game. You wouldn’t need to crack down on handchecking or have that stupid half circle under the basket if you actually called that type of foul a block instead of a charge. Once a player is in the air, the defender should not be able to move underneath him.
I am going to link to this clip over at the Blazers Edge. We have had quite few discussions over there about flopping.
PTB Liberation Day - 2/10/04
by tssbro on May 31, 2008 12:56 AM EDT 0 recs
Nice clip
Here is an article about Eva Longoria admitting that Tony Parker (I like to call him Frenchy) is a flopper. It is kind of an old article from Jan 2008. http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/01/28/eva-longoria-admits-tony-parker-flops/
by yeegore on May 31, 2008 1:03 AM EDT 0 recs








