Yeah Howard TOs would drop a lot if he actually just flopped instead of trying to power through when fouled
Lol apparently you didn't see what everyone else did. Paul does that bull**** all the time. He is a little b****. Almost his entire defensive repertoire consist of some type of flopping. Whether it consists of flat out falling down with touched with the tip of a finger or grabbing onto someone off a screen or pass and just falling down as if he got pushed down. Players don't like that **** and one of these days CP3 is going to get hurt by someone who gets fed up with it.
Honestly, if the NBA is serious about this flopping, especially the egregiously bad ones, they would fine the guys $50,000 for the first offense, then $75,000 plus a 1 game suspension with no pay for the second offense. Probably won't happen, just what I think would stop the flopping.
Season punishments - Ways to combat Flopping... 1. Warning plus Mandatory Flopping video counseling - 1 hour 2. Fine: 1% of year salary 3. Fine: 1% of salary plus game suspension 4. Fine: 3% of year salary plus Mandatory Flopping education course - teaching other youth to stop flopping in colleges and high school (20 hour needing to be completed) 5. Fine: 5% of salary plus game suspension 6. Fine: 10% of salary plus multiple game suspensions Playoffs: 1. Warning 2. Allow replays for in game technical 3. 1 game suspension without pay 4. Multi game suspension without pay 5. Disqualification for rest of playoffs.
This thread is embarrassing. Especially since James Harden flops quite a bit himself. The best player in the game flops, and so do big men in todays game. The NBA is partially at fault for how they made the game easier for offense and perimeter players mostly, and not getting a handle on all of the whistlefests that refs do with so much inconsistency.
You know what, the surest way to stop flopping is to fine the whole TEAM. If a guy is caught flopping, everyone on the team gets heavily fined. It makes flopping a team chemistry killer. It forces the team to police themselves. This tactic has been used by kings and emperors throughout human history. Someone did something bad? The whole village was punished. So the village would police its own people.
I would agree with this but I think the flopping penalties need to be steep of course it would be on an each player basis (meaning if Paul flopped once and then Griffin next game flopped it would still be the 'first time' since its once each player) first time for a player: 10k fine to each player on the team including coaches second time for same player: 50k fine to each player and coaches 1 game suspension for the said player third time: 75k for each player and coaches - 3 game suspension for the player each subsequent time would request in an addition 25k in fines and 2 games suspension. there would be no separate counter for the playoffs - if a guy flops for a third time in the playoffs -- he gets suspended for the next 3 games in the playoffs.
Chris Paul has to be my least favorite player in the league. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_bbt9I_LJtk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Last night, after that beverley flop, did you see him smiling? He knows what he is doing, does it anyways, then goads the opposing player. That is just a @$#^ move. In addition, he cheap shots like no other. There was no reason to run right at Gasol like that. When has Harden done that? <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/hcxXGPDC1Gs?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> There are two types of flops: 1) Flops for an actual benefit. This is where one exaggerates contact on layups, etc. 2) Flops just because you can. Perfect example: Chris Paul on Cousins. Both of them are not in the play at all. Paul is doing that just "because he can". <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/znAA4mLU0II?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Perfect examples of him goading the opposing player, then whining to the officials. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mTkTv3t4-rE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Not only that, he has the audacity to call others out on it. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9F3tptzEWmM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> What the hell Paul? <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/jTXspXqswfA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> This is just too easy. He is a despicable human being.
Not just flopping. Last night, he did a cheap shot on Lin and Beverley on two separate occasion. One I think was a flop and a shot (in one motion) on Beverley. The other one was the whip trick (the "clever veteran move" that the league was supposed to have outlaw) that not only got a foul call but a shot at Lin's face.
Yeah, I noticed that one on Jeremy Lin too. I think Chris Paul may have just invented the "rip through" cheap shot. I don't know how that wasn't an offensive foul. It was definitely a punk move.
I don't deny that Harden flops, but I don't know if I've ever seen him do what Paul did against Cousins. That wasn't selling contact, that was complete fabrication completely away from the play. Also, I know I've never seen Harden take cheap shots on people the way Paul does. Screw Chris Paul.
I thought Cousins stepped on his foot there. Not a complete fabrication, just a lot of selling and looks hilarious since their feet aren't in the clip.
True but flopping will get you wins and CP3 knows it. Just look at Dwayne Wade's performance in 2006 finals.
