We should make Francis pay for all of Scola's flopping fines. If you're going to be under our payroll to do absolutely nothing we might as well make better use of your salary. Right?
I don't see this happening without humongous controversy. Flopping to some extent is subjective and in many cases it will be hard to tell whether it was a "clear" flop or not. The term "clear" is another level of subjectivity, and many teams will undoubtedly complain in certain cases of a "clear" flop when really it was borderline (in which case the league will not fine the player, presumably), yet they will demand that the player be fined. I don't think it's impossible for a true fall to be misinterpretted as a flop either, in which case the player would be wrongly fined. The players would always be worrying about being wrongly accused, and safe to say this would affect their gameplay. I just don't see this rule working under the current terms, and honestly, I don't know how they could clarify the terms as to eliminate any possible issues.
Serious 90% of NBA referees cant even call the game according to the rules book, i.e. an obvious foul is not called, traveling etc how do you expect them to differentiate is it a legit flop or not? All can i imagine is next season we will the same thing when yao made a power move to the basket, his defenders flop and an offensive foul will be called on yao!
First thing I thought of: Scola. Haha.. it's better he learn to play the right way though. Good rule!
If they review this years playoffs, they might as well suspend the starting 5 of the Jazz for half the year.
lol its going to be funny seeing how weak guys who get bumped around by big guys fall over and get accused of flopping...
Hopefully it will be a fine heavy enough to make them think twice about flopping. If it's too small a fine players like Ginobli and AK will still do it.
At least we won't see this anymore, as humorous as it is. <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MTdERYOtqsg&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MTdERYOtqsg&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
ROTFL!! Man I feel sorry for Jazzholes now , they wont play with their starting unit again in a game .
I´d suspect this rule has nothing to do with usual flops and is implemented mostly to prevent things like that Davis/Okur video.
I guess Baron was really reallly pissed by those Jazzholes flopping all over the place, ROFL!!! kinda sarcastic
Baron gave them a taste of their own medicine... pretty clever eh? Barons actions spoke louder than any screaming accusations of flopping...
i honestly don't know how much of an effect this will have. we have yet to see the actual cost of the fines for each flop. it'll probably just be just a drop in a bucket to the convicted floppers. so i really don't think that this new rule would be very effective. now if they assigned technicals to flops which of course may lead to eventual suspensions, then that's a different story. but then again league referees have a very difficult time discerning a flop from a foul. jvg's right; league officials should be mandated to watch game tape of the floppers of the league to study what they do to properly punish them. how hard is it to tell a flop from a foul? kids in the playground don't go flailing around or fall to the ground even from an actual foul. you think world class 200 lb athletes are able to go flying 3 rows into the stands without some sort of embellishment? sometimes there are things in this world that no one will ever understand.
World class athletes are so much faster and stronger that the likelihood of ending 3 rows into the stands is a lot bigger than in normal playground games. Just think of low speed vs. high speed car crashes for example.
i don't see it changing anything. especially in an important game like the game two kerilinko flop. since the fine is after the fact. a lot of teams (players) may take the fine if it means changing the outcome of the game.
