Disgraceful. Harden needs to cut out his flopping. I called KMart out for his flopping and will call James too
On another note, CP3 just received fair-play award? This league is pure business, and they don't even pretend.
I hate flopping so I even like it when our own guys get a warning. But the league isn`t going far enough with that. If at least 2 refs identify a clear flop that should be a technical foul in the game. And after a third flopping warning you should be suspended for a game. And don`t just give out those warning so sparingly, in every game there seems to be at least 3 obvious flops, give every single one a warning. Do a real effort to get rid of this bull****, even if it means suspending a star player.
Meanwhile, flopping warning is garbage, because it's pointing at player personally afterwards, rather than action itself on the spot. In soccer, Refs can issue yellow card on a player when they feel the said player is flopping/acting. NBA can call a foul or even a technical, when they are sure someone is flopping on the spot. Don't refs take over every single game anyways? NBA officials are the most influential and most famous/infamous refs in all professional sports combined. They are bigger than the game itself.
"Stop Flopping" Chris Paul, President of Players Union, calls for no flopping. Here is some of his work.
<a href="http://nba.si.com/2013/11/04/nba-flop-warnings-kevin-love-corey-brewer-patty-mills-zaza-pachulia/"> Instituted before the 2012-13 season, the NBA’s anti-flopping system provides one free warning to players before they are subjected to a scaling set of monetary fines. Violation 1: Warning Violation 2: $5,000 fine Violation 3: $10,000 fine Violation 4: $15,000 fine Violation 5: $30,000 fine Violation 6: Subject to discipline reasonable under the circumstances, including an increased fine and/or suspension The NBA assigned 24 flopping violations to 19 different players on 13 different teams during the 2012-13 regular season. Five players received two infractions each, earning fines totaling $25,000, with zero players getting dinged three or more times.</a>
Anyone have that CSN angle replay where he legit gets slapped in the face after landing? I thought that's what they called the foul on. Obviously he didn't need to fall down, but I distinctly remember contact.
Chris Paul should be bankrupt with all the flop fines he SHOULD be receiving. However, that was a pretty bad flop by Harden.
CP3 is by far the worst offender when it comes to flopping. Even if he doesn't do it the most frequently (he does), he does the most egregious acting job at the slightest touch. There are plenty of well-documented cases where he goes out of his way to initiate "contact" with players of a certain reputation just to get T-fouls called on them, even when the play clock isn't even running. That's completely unsportsmanlike behavior, and it makes my appreciation of CP3's game go down the tubes, literally. He would probably be my favorite player in the NBA right now were it not for the constant BS show he puts on the floor. Until I see some serious action on CP3, I honestly don't care what the league says on flopping. Regulatory work like this requires two things: consistency of application and high-profile examples. No one is going to believe in or follow the rules as long as they believe the playing field is skewed.
Yeah I thought he got hit in the face after the shot. Not good for Harden, with all the foul calls he's gotten. CP3 no warning yet?
Should be no warning. They already have a warning when these rules came into being. That was your warning. Should be a 5 game suspension without pay from jump street, then maybe these players would quit all this stuff and start playing ball again.
