What? Jerry Sloan invented the flop and the Jazz are the best at it (not that that is anything to be proud of). They just bring in one after the other and teach them how to do it - Malone, Stockton, Hornacek, Ostertag, etc. the list goes on....
Let's fire Ewing and hire Malone to teach Yao the art of flopping. And he'll learn the elbowing and the kick-out shooting form as bonus.
The only problem I see with that is that it will force the referee's to call a foul. When they run into Yao, sometimes the ref don't call a foul as the offensive player jumped into Yao with position. If Yao starts flopping, there almost has to be a call called with so many bodies hitting the ground. I think that'd put Yao in even more foul trouble than he already gets
If you are going to take a legitimate charge, the safest way to avoid injury is to give ground. As big as Yao is, if he's going to stand straight up, and someone rams straight into him with a head of steam, he's going to have to move. Taking a legitimate charge is not a flop. Flopping is creating a charge that isn't one, and I see it as a weakness, basically telling the opponent that you can't defend fairly and win.
I think its just a semantic problem I had here. I don't want Yao to flop out of nowhere ala the Jazz. I just want him to show the refs that he gets hit while taking those legitimate charges which he does take. The thing is, Yao is so big, little guys just bounce off him without him budging much. Well, maybe to a ref that looks like Yao just fouled the crap out of someone when he didn't. I think if Yao just bounces back a little himself to show he got hit, he'd get some charge calls on opposing players.
Sorry rm, but respectfully, I disagree. Hakeem didn't do it, Duncan didn't do it, Jordan, Magic, Bird nor Kareem. the only players that flopped and did a great job at it were the Jazz and we all know how many Championships they had...ZERO. Now I am in favor of swinging the elbows and if Yao hits someone, well that's just too bad, but flopping is cheating/acting in my book and that is one of the reasons I hate the Jazz and hope they never win anything.
