SGA takes hard foul.
I donât know why they donât have an embellishment penalty rule in the NBA.
If the opposing coach challenges and itâs seen to be a complete flop job then the team gets five free fouls on him the rest of the game. Like get out of jail free cards.
I donât really follow the NBA so I donât know how legit the Thunders flopping image really is, but it is clear that they have lost the PR battle on this. Since they seem sure to be a top team for the next 5 years or so and will want a legacy, the only smart thing to do is to embrace the image. When I was young everyone hated the Pistons, but they really leaned in to the âbad boysâ theme and now everyone remembers them more fondly. Imo OKC needs to do the same thing. Start selling âFlop Cityâ t-shirts, start giving away bobble-legs dolls, have the mascot reenact scenes from the 1993 Michael Douglas film âFalling Downâ at halftime, etc. Will pay off long run.
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SGA has basically added falling down as part of his shooting motion like he is performing a figure skating routine on the court.
NBA should just treat flopping as a foul. Flop for a charge, it gets called as a flopping foul. Flop on a shot, offensive flopping foul.
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Eh, the problem is that it works. It fools the refs. Even if you add a rule that says you can call a flop an offensive foul, theyâre still going to call it a defensive foul wayyyyyyy more often.
I think they need to do something after the fact. And it needs to be severe, or the incentive to flop will continue. Maybe a system where you get suspended every few times, or heavily fined, or allow for baseball style challenges or something. Idk, not an easy problem to fix imo.
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Bad Boy justice. Thatâs the only thing that will fix it.
ask Kawhi if he thinks being in the landing zone should be a foul.
because what the nba really needs is to look more like they subjectively pick the winners and losers behind the scenes.
Flopping is bad, but it also protects your ankles when someone does pull a Zaza. If you try to land normally when thereâs a foot under you then you may roll your ankle, but if you fall then there isnât that pressure/weight and you wonât sprain your ankle.
This is gonna be brutal. Sorry wiper but you did get your celebration away from home wish.
They could start by simply not calling marginal contact for shooters. They want the product to be âphysicalâ because nostalgia bros are demanding it, but itâs still just phantom contact instant whistle whenever someone starts to gather. The result is the softest brand of bitchmade loser ball that has ever existed. Also need to more strongly enforce âunnatural shooting motion.â
this is gross. iâve never been more over a team. gtfoh. i hope they lose by 50.
edit: âthe advanced stats say itâs a close gameâ
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itâs awesome that the knicks are trying to hurt their feelings
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haha, a bunch of celebrity knicks fans (like 10, fat joe, spike, chalamet, tracy morgan, etc.) bought front row seats but the cavs wouldnât let them sit in the front row, citing small print about resales or something.
looked like a couple of them were in the second row, i got a good lol about it. twitter is mad though.
at least dan gilbert still has heart.
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Thunder are gonna smoke this team.
Pretty tough talk about a team that canât decide from one night to the next whether itâs going to play to win.
theyâre playing really well though. like, historically good offense over the last 12 games.
probably. but if they keep shooting 60% who knows, thunder/spurs goes 7, knicks are resting, madison square garden will be fucking litâŚ
Itâs easy to look historically great when every contested fadeaway late clock grenade gets sucked down by an electron magnet.