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[ESPN] Page 2 Highlights the Best Flopping Performances of This Year's Playoffs

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  1. shastarocket

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    #1 shastarocket, Apr 28, 2008
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    Deron Williams, Game 2, Utah vs. Houston, 1:52 left in the third quarter. Williams is the most physically imposing point guard in the league. He's big, strong, tough and aggressive. He's 6-foot-3, 208 pounds and plays basketball like a cowboy-quarterback. He also plays with Andrei Kirilenko. That can be the only reason why, when hit with a cornball shoulder from 6-0, 160-pound Aaron Brooks, Williams flew back 10 feet like he got punched by Wesley Snipes in "Blade" and nearly backflipped. Surprisingly, the refs didn't call anything. Williams, however, had to come out of the game and had to take a trip to the locker room, having aggravated a bruised tailbone. Those drama-queen antics could have cost Utah its best player. Why not just take the contact, keep playing and save the performances for MLS and stunt-doubles? (Thespian scale: Nicolas Cage in "The Wicker Man")

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    Utah's flopper extraordinaire, Andrei Kirilenko, is logging lots of playoff minutes on the hardwood.
    Andrei Kirilenko, Game 2, Utah vs. Houston, 45 seconds left in the fourth quarter. It's as if they want us to forget that basketball is a contact sport, ya know? So there's Kirilenko, chasing down Tracy McGrady, who quickly zips the ball to Bobby Jackson, who drains the trey and ties the game at 85, right? Houston, without its starting center and point guard, might make it to Utah with one win under its belt. The only problem is that Luis Scola reaches out and puts his hand on Kirilenko's chest. But check this: The ref really didn't see that minimal contact, because he's looking at Mac's feet to make sure he's in bounds. Kirilenko knew that he was gonna have to make a scene to get a call, lest Mac rise up and drain this triple, so he flails both arms and jolts backward into the cameramen like the Ghostbusters just yapped him with their proton packs. You might call that gamesmanship, but I call it the most despicable flop of the season. (Thespian scale: Kiefer Sutherland in Season 6 of "24")

    Andrei Kirilenko and Carl Landry, Game 3, Utah vs. Houston, 1:42 left in the fourth quarter. In the NBA, as soon as two players get tangled up, it has become the norm for them to behave like dancers in music videos. By that I mean that they do all they can to draw attention. They battle each other in an attempt to yell louder, grimace harder, convulse more violently and fall to the court before their opponent. That's what made the Kirilenko-Landry tussle so pathetically entertaining. Kirilenko was called for the foul, but it was difficult to determine who was purposely creating the most contact and reacting the most dramatically. Had it gone the other way, Houston could have been looking at an 0-3 series deficit. (Thespian scale: hoodrats in old 2 Live Crew videos)
     
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    Man, if they can make a team replay the last 45 seconds of a game in the regular season for a f-k up, why the hell don't they do it when it matters more. :rolleyes:
     
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    Watched the Kirilenko flop vs GS last year - and it looks like the ref who hoses GS is the same one who torched us in Game 4 - Mawer or something like that?

    It's not only the players who have repeat performances.

    also one to enjoy " Matt Harpring gets kicked in the junk" by who else? AK47.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_mrM--Uvlo&feature=related
     
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  5. Nice Rollin

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    it's gotten to be such a huge problem. the government should step in
     
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    These only prove one thing....... HOW BAD and BIASED NBA REFEREES ARE! :mad:
     
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    Good ole' AK47.

    I want to see him try to flop against KB aka "Mr. Untouchable". Kobe touch AK in an attempt to draw some free throw while AK tries to fly 10 ft backward while doing a backflip.
     
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    I really liked this article until they called Landry a flopper. :mad:
     
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    Game 2 was the biggest flop of the year for Kirlenko. That flop was so disgusting, so effed up, I want to step in and kill that guy. I agree the espn writer 100%, that flop was the flop of the year. The best flop in NBA so far, he made a good game winner.

    The league has to look into it in the off-seasons. How could anyone allow that to happen, in a playoff game. Every win counts, but that flop by kirlenko......

    I hate Utah Jazz so much right now. Words cannot describe how cheap they are. AK47 is the worse sportsman ever to enter NBA.
     
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    No Okur? I thought the move where the Rockets were inbounding, Scola put his hand back to "feel" the defense, and Okur went back five feet with his arms in the air to be a bigger acting job than Kiri's on Scola. Of course the latter cost more so that could be the reason but Okur does that about twice a game and almost always gets the call.
     
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    I don't know if anyone remembers this but with about 2:00 min left in the fourth quarter, Hayes set a screen for McGrady. Harpring, chasing on the play, was beat as Hayes set a solid screen. Harpring reached his hands inside Chuck's arms, which were down by his side, and kept running. He then made a flailing like motion right as Tmac went up for the jump shot. Tmac swished the jump shot that would have put us within 2 points but they called an offensive foul on Hayes. When you look at the replay its a horrible flop on Harpring's behalf as he not only initiates the contact but twists and turns Hayes around and then falls down. Did anyone else catch that b.s.? Teams like the Jazz have ruined basketball.
     
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    It's unfortunate that flopping is now the so called "Art" of the NBA!!! But, it allows less talented players to play and succeed.

    Is that a good thing or not?

    Right now the stage is about to be set with the Lakers and Utah. If Utah makes it, then it's going to make the Lakers look like the good guys (fan favorites).

    It's so easy to hate the floppers! Beat L.A. chants won't play a part in that series.


    That is unless McGrady can become the true super star that he can be and score 40 points per game in the next 3 games against this series against the Jazz.

    FLOPPING really makes me mad!!! :mad:
     
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    If Utah happens to pull out another win, I hope in the last few seconds someone beats the **** out of AK47.
     
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    What is more despicable about the call was that the "foul" had nothing to do with the real action on the floor. It did not affect who got the ball. It did not affect where the pass went. It did not affect the result of the shot. With less than a minute to go in a tight playoff game, no refs would call that even IF (BIG IF) that was some real contact. :mad:
     
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  15. clutch citizen

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    He could have fit more on that page.

    He should have just typed:

    "Jazz, Games 1-4, Utah vs. Houston, The whole game left to play"

    The Utah Jazz have acted their way into the playoffs. Jerry Sloan has taught his players to be monsters and ballerinas at the same time, which has allowed him to keeps his job for 19 years.
     
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  16. Tfor3

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    good read, thanks.

    I hate utah
     
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