Screw the cheap fine the player will laugh at. I want to know what happens to the official who fell for that? What disciplinary action is taken against him?
Good. I called the fine to my buddy when he flopped. Too bad the fine does virtually nothing to really punish the offending player/team.
Are you kidding? It is a terrible suggestion. You want every foul of every game to be reviewed? How long is a game going to take, then? Every time a player is whistled for a foul, the refs would have to wait for confirmation that it didn't need to be overturned. And if you are talking about penalizing them after the fact, that makes no sense either. How much of the original play are you going to reverse? Say it takes 3 minutes to get to a dead ball. Do they go back, take away the points from free throws, take away the team foul, take away the personal foul, then add the fouls to the flopping team? How big of a cluster**** would that be? Too many fouls are potentially flops for this to be something done in real-time. Watch Harden and Brewer tonight and see how many fouls would have to be reviewed in-game. They have to be penalized after the game. No good way around it. What they can do, though, is increase the severity of the penalty. Add in a Flop 1 and a Flop 2, similar to the flagrant foul rule. Especially egregious flops get automatically escalated up the penalty scale. Reduce the number of flops to get to the game suspension level. Don't bog the game down, but make it a more serious offense.
They can continue the game while Springfield reviews it. Then when the reversal is decided, on the next dead ball, penalty is assessed. They can video review those plays in a couple minutes and then insert the penalties. Do you want the flopping to stop or not? It's gotta affect the teams opportunity to win the game for it to stop. And continuing play while Springfield reviews it won't delay the game.
Do they replay however much time passes by after the penalty is assessed? What if the Clippers scored on that next possession. A possession that was made possible by that flop, when they assess the penalty, do the Clippers lose those points, too? What if free-throws were shot because the foul put the team in the penalty, go back and take those back, then assess the penalty, but leave the lost time off the clock? It is a seriously bad suggestion. It really is.
