Scola: Yes Hayes, Battier, Jeffries: No Martin, Lowry: Exaggerate Contact The whole team, with the exception of Scola, draws legit charges.
depends on what flopping means. when martin pump fakes a guy into the air and then jumps into him, it's a legit foul, even if its kinda cheap. this i don't think is flopping at all-its playing smart by today's rules. i don't think we flop all that much. we also exaggerate the contact sometimes as if we got hammered, but it's not like there was no significant contact.
Taking legit charges is one thing, but exaggerating and trying to get a charge from ticky tacky contact is a flop. The rockets have been doing both...so yes, they can be a flopping team.
I don't consider what Martin does to be flopping, but it is pretty cheap on his part. Lowry does a little of both.
Yeah, but not to a fault. They are stuck in a situation with no shot blockers on this team. In that case flopping is needed. At the same time, how many charges drawn do the Rockets avg. per game. If I had to guess, I would say like 4. Thats not a bad strategy as long as the NBA allows it....
That's been going on as long as I've been watching basketball. Usually, it's a bit more subtle than some of the instances you and I can probably recall recently with the Rockets, but leaning into the defender while shooting to draw the foul? It's basketball. The guys who are very, very good at it include Kobe Bryant, who I can't stand, but is a future Hall of Famer.
