Couldn't find a clip of it anywhere, but I was beside myself when they took time to review Dwight's foul on Dirk and then determined it as a flagrant. From the replays, I figured there was NO WAY they would determine that to be an F1. Sure, he got caught in the air, but clearly came down and only hacked the ball. In the replay it looked as if he had ALL BALL! There was not other real body contact. Flagrant is typically determined by no attempt at the ball, mainly bodily force, grabbing or mauling. (Like Dwight's head almost being taken off which was declared a 'common foul') That review and call proved biased officiating after looking the other way when Stoudemire plainly mugged DH.
Flopping is flopping. It's bad for the NBA. Fines should be given to anyone regardless of who they are.
Regardless, Terry is clearly the best 3 pt shooter when it matters i've ever seen grace a Rox uniform. He needs to be resigned if he can still and has the desire to play next season.
Flopping is truly a means of deception and cheating to alter the game and fool the refs into awarding FT's. The league has a 'live review' facility in NJ. They could easily review potential flops while the game continues on. Then at the next break in action, they could award 2 pts to the opposing team if someone flopped. Or take FT's away if someone was awarded FT's based on a flop. This would likely cure any real flopping and the Spurs would then be a mediocre team (and take away 25% of Harden's scoring. lol)
Dirk was setting moving screens all game and the only way fouls were being called was to flop. The only time the refs finally got a clue is when they gave Chandler a moving screen call right after the Howard flagrant. Almost like they realized that letting all the flopping go on plus hand checking on Harden was enough and the Mavs were about to get back into a game where they had no business competing.
It was a flop. Sure the NBA flopping rule is a capricious joke and an insult to the fans. But it was still a flop.
Not trying to purposefully bump an old thread but I just realized something Green and Barnes were never fine or warned for their flops in game 3 This is why I feel the league flop rule and fine thing is a joke. Terry was fined the next day after game 2 for his flop on dirk which was a flop but not the worst we've seen of this playoffs as a whole. Draymond Green and Harrison Barnes -- nothing was fined or warned to them after what they did Thursday night to Anthony Davis. They play game 4 later today. So you're telling me what they did wasnt nearly as bad as what Terry did? Green went further to sell the flop by acting he was super hurt from taking an elbow to the mouth. Unless I totally missed the announcement - I went to the Officials website and didnt see anything on there and thats where they usually post it. They had the L2M report from the Pels/GSW game. I mean how in the world could you not consider either of those an over the top flop especially since Davis was whistled for fouls on both of those plays. Now consider that on the play Terry flop --- nothing was called at all. It wasnt like Dirk was called for a foul. I try not to complain about officiating and I understand that ball calls happen all the time. Sometimes our team benefits from it and sometimes our team does not. What I do complain about is the consistency when calling things. You can't call things tight on one end and not on the other. You cant fine a player for flopping and then allow even worse flops to go unpunished. The league established a precedent and fails to follow it.
Exactly. The usual excuse is that the NBA is extremely fast and difficult to officiate. That's okay. But it can't be an excuse for reviewed decisions. First the Dwight flagrant was so obvious to everybody except for the league officials. And the flop fines are supposed to be results from careful reviewing. So there is absolutely NO excuse for those decisions at all.
