everyone's so concerned about Tony Parker's knee, I haven't seen anyone express any concern about Mills's injury on this play . . . seriously, this could have been a career-ender. Surprised they didn't throw Harden out of the game. Brutal.
Play before: Harden gets popped with an elbow by Aldridge. Obvious foul, but crowd gets upset about it. Because crowd is upset, refs have already decided to call a foul on the next play. Any semblance of contact will be called against Harden. Smart play by Mills. He knew he was getting that call. Reactive officiating.
Rockets fans (meaning Harden fans) complaining about another guy flopping against Harden, LOL I'm a Rockets fan and I'm okay with it since I know we'll get plenty of flops called in our favor too.
Harden flails to accentuate contact. No doubt about that. But there is contact. Mills knew the refs were in the tank that possession and flopped with no contact. Different.
There is a big difference what Harden does and what the Spurs do. Harden creates contact. Harden may accentuate legitimate contact. But what the Spurs will do is flop when there is ABSOLUTELY NO CONTACT.
This is exactly what happened. The crowd was going nuts and Tony Brothers felt really bad about calling the foul on an elbow to the face of Harden. A foul that Reggie Miller, for the first time I can remember, actually thought was going to be a flagrant (and mind you was worse than the play that got Harden a flagrant earlier in the year). Still, Tony Brothers kept it at a common foul and basically committed that he was going to give the Spurs a makeup call on the next possession.
The whole spurs line up flops. Manu is insanely bad. Gasol, Parker, Mills, Green, all of them flop all the damn time. And for the @swyyyguy (girlly) that says Harden flops a lot.. Sure he does sometimes, but most of those calls he actually has the defenders hands all up in his chest area and all over his arms. He is just deceptively strong to follow through with it. So technically, it is a foul.
Correct. And that's not even the only instance. Spurs literally talked Tony Brothers into multiple changed whistles. Kawhi continuation. Manu shooting vs. on the floor. I'm sure there were others, but it was blatant. I thought Scott Foster was surprisingly decent last night, but Tony Brothers, as usual, decided well before the game who he was going to favor.
Harden is strong not just deceptively. Now athleticism is the department that might get hidden beneath a deception cloak.
