They do call flopping by calling a blocking foul. Then the crowd boos and the players start ****ing with the refs head and another flop a minute later is now a charge. Flopping will stop when the refs become robots. I think by 2057 the technology should be possible by then. I can't wait!
I swore back in my old intense days of rivalry with Spurs & Jazz fans that I'd never support a flopping team. I have a big decision to make.
The Rox are a huge flopping team and it does bother me. Predicting where the offensive player will go and beating him to that spot and taking a charge is legit defense. Falling down on contact like you have just been shot is flopping. More often than not, the Rox (Scola, Battier and Lowry) are flopping. Just think, the Rox flop a ton and are still a bad defensive team. Just imagine if they stayed upright the entire game. Teams would score 120 on them on a regular basis!
I have less of a problem with it because Scola, Battier, Jeffries, and Lowry always have proper position. The contact is always initiated by the offensive player. If you are smart enough to make both of those 2 things happen.. I can deal with a little exaggeration Martin...is not always in position. He just goes flying with his arms flailing. I love him as an offensive player, but he pisses me off with his flopping that looks like a flop even when it's not
That surprising me. I would think that if they're your favorite team, I root for anything they do if it's helping them win. I'm a fan, I have a slighted view, I boo when they called for a charge and cheer when they get a block, regardless of the accuracy of the call. I may wry grin on my face at the time, knowing that fact, but deep down I'm going "yes!" Don't you guys? I guess that makes me more of a Rockets fan than a basketball fan.
In my opinion, we're not a flopping team as described, because we lack of what the most teams have inside the painted area and the way we protect the paint goes down to the charges we draw on our opponents, credits for them doing so. I think we look more like a team with phenomenal interior defense. With that being said, I'm still not sure what standard had been raised for a flopping team, our players did flop alot, Battier, Chuckwagon, Brooks, even Martin tried a few times since his acquisition from the Kings. I don't know, but good things happen when you draw a charge on your opponent right? so I'll live with that on our side.
Nope. It annoys me when my home crowd boos a call that was obviously the right one. It just makes it seem like my team's fans don't understand the game. I boo calls that are bad or questionable if they're against my team. I stay quiet for calls that are against my team if they're accurate. (oftentimes chastising the player under my breath for doing something stupid, if that is the case... i.e. Kevin Martin traveling at the top of the key while in the triple threat position)
Yes. Shane mostly gets legitimate charges, but from a non-Rockets perspective most people would call him a flopper. It goes without saying Lowry and Scola are floppers.
I especially hate when Scola flops because that often gives the offensive player an easy opening to the basket.
They flop every so often but more often than not they draw legitimate charges. A defensive player is entitled to his position. Just because an offensive player is running full tilt towards the basket doesnt mean he is now allowed to run/jump over the defender. Bullard pisses me off when he starts talking about how defenders shouldnt be able to draw charges in the painted area. The man is r****ded sometimes.
Yes they draw legit charges. Houston has some of the smartest players in the league there's no question that they draw legit fouls Flopping is reacting on contact to exaggerate it for the refs... including minimal contact. We definitely do that. With the exception of Yao who can have 2 guys hanging on him and still refuses to act for the refs. Our guys flop but they are also tough. Battier shrugging off his bleeding head in the playoffs etc. They're also not b****es or cheap shot artists like Kobe. So that makes the flopping a bit more palatable, especially since Sterns seems to run the league with the intent that refs do reward the flop and you cant win without it
Scola and Lowry both consistently attempt to draw contact when going to the basket, but they don't flop nearly as much as the average Utah Jazz player or cry out like a pampered superstar when on the defensive. Battier and Hayes already know where to be to get charges, they get called for fouls, it is because they were a second too late, but rare do you see them actually flop, lose balance because the other guy beat them, yeah but flopping isn't something that can be said we do consistently.
I point to the 2007 playoffs against the Jazz. They flopped so badly, that im sure it made Scola practice acting like hes 125 pounds any time he gets hit or takes a hit. I'd much rather be considered a "flopping" team than not do anything and get zero calls. Kudos to the Astros.
Yes. O hell yes! We have a bunch of floppers on this team and it is hard for me to watch them in action. The general mindset seems to be. "Well we are not good enough to block any shots so we might as well throw our bodies around whether we get hit or not." Disgusting.
