<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>More flopping news: NBA fined Rockets C Omer Asik $5,000 for his second flopping violation. Video: <a href="http://t.co/9u0b65ZS8N" title="http://on.nba.com/YH36J4">on.nba.com/YH36J4</a></p>— Jeff Zillgitt (@JeffZillgitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffZillgitt/status/317385340430217218">March 28, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
OMG. I totally agree. Great example of a well executed flop. Specially in a close game where a single call can make a huge difference. I'm sure Asik will happily pay knowing his flop earned his team a very valuable possession.
exaggerated for sure but it is still a foul. duncan did push him but not that hard. i remember one play asik got whislted by touching duncan's back under the rim when duncan did a layup.
Asik gets hacked every time he touches the ball or grabs a rebound. He gets pushed all over the court and they don't call it. On the other side he puts his hand on someone's back and that person stumbles forward = foul. If Harden, Brooks or Lin does this it's not a fine because it was a foul. Because Asik is big and it looks funny when you see him embellish a call he gets fined. If he doesn't exaggerate calls they don't call anything for him.
I totally disagree. He was pushed with both hands and had he not shown it to the refs, they probably don't call it. It should be a players perogative to expressively show when they are fouled. A flop should be when there is no foul or contact on the play, as in when Chris Paul tried to draw that foul on Cousins. This type of so-called "flop" can be called in EVERY single game in the NBA.
Not that I've read about it, but I don't understand the flopping rule. In my mind, flopping is exaggeration to get a call that otherwise doesn't exist. In other words, you flop to try and entice the ref to make a call where there isn't one. I don't see how this satisfies that. This was an offensive foul by Duncan. Asik exaggerated the play, but to the extent that either got the ref to blow the whistle, or confirmed his call, who cares. If Asik just runs into Duncan, who is maybe holding an elbow out coincidentally, and Asik flops, and draws a call he shouldn't have, that's flopping. Is the NBA saying the play in question wasn't an offensive foul? EDIT: See post above mine. I agree entirely.
