#focus#mustwin#playoffs#drama? : 2013 NBA playoffs

that's pretty tin-foil hat to me

to me it's just like, wow what an awesome series that was with so many different story lines and great games that hinged on a hundred strategic decisions and the play of some of the best players in the nba. and we're talking bout flopping, man. flopping.

practice flopping

we're talking about it because it's getting worse and worse

I dont think anyone is bagging on the series, it WAS a great series and I wont remember it for the flopping.

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i agree with all of that, it's also not one of the 10 most important things that ever happens in any basketball game

it's not its importance per se, it's that fans all hate it, it's very noticeable, and it's not "basketball".

i mean "let's only discuss or wish a thing could change if it's 1 of the top 10 most important things in" X is just a silly position to hold.

lets complain nearly constantly about a thing thats not that important is a silly position to hold

"important"

this is a message board that had a one month debate about whether a Cee Lo song would be a hit

obv it really takes away from people's enjoyment of games, otherwise they wouldn't be complaining about it

you are not scoring any points by comparing yrself to ilm!

the floppin ass spurs heat thread is thataway folks

league thought it was important enough not to outcome of games but to fan enjoyment to pretend like they're trying to curtail it

how about every time a player flops, the opposing team gets to kick him in the nuts

when you think about it, getting punched in the nuts is not one of the 10 most important things in the world, quit complaining about it

complaining abt flopping is the yelp reviewing of the nba

y'all are frontin', I'm off to the espn comments section where they discuss REAL issues.

after a flop, the flopping player has to give everyone in the arena a dollar

it's more like "I enjoyed THE FUCK out of these playoffs, man I love the NBA...just wish that flopping shit would go away". People love to complain, and this is really the one thing to complain about. That and those damn refs ugh the whole thing is fixed you know that right fuck the NBA.

fun that both teams took turns trolling each other and the league so we have no real gauge of how they will match up this year.

flopper has to give up 1 entourage member per flop

after a flop, the flopping player has to give everyone in the arena a dollar

― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Tuesday, June 4, 2013 5:34 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc thats abt the amount for the third offense

fun that both teams took turns trolling each other and the league so we have no real gauge of how they will match up this year.

― Poster The Sheeple (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, June 4, 2013 5:35 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha yes i love this

has to point out 1 of his gf in the stand so wife can see her

Mo money mo problems iirc. We are rewarding their flopping by takin away their problems it ain't right

after being caught flopping, the player must put on ankle weights and prancercise for the next 60 seconds of the game

flopper has to impregnate nearest gold digger

the thing with flopping is that both sides can do it, it doesnt give either side an inherent advantage unless one team gets all its players from idk the julliard school of acting

yeah that's not what's bad about flopping, it being an unfair advantage

I'm a big proponent of "if you aren't cheating you aren't trying". On the other hand I think that a flop should be a technical foul.

Need a 'shoot the moon' option where if you acquire 1 million USD in flopping fines from one game, you are league champion

both teams can cheat, it's cool

If you shoot the moon and fail, popovich gets to eat a chicken in a biscuit off your naked inner thigh. If you flinch, you are banned from nba for life

flopping seems much more innocuos on the grand scheme of things than egregious reffing

so we can't mention flopping until reffing is perfect, fuck

yup, sorry man :\

I mean you're right, and it is very noticeable and very annoying to watch bad reffing, but bar a few bad apples *cough joey crawford cough* I feel like those men and women are really trying to do the best they can at a nearly impossible task that must be done, total chaos would ensue w/o their efforts. The other thing which shall not be named is the opposite, people are going out of their way to abuse the system, to undermine the rules.

I don't want to hear about flopping again until magicians rob a bank.

total chaos would ensue w/o their efforts.

gah I forgot that this works for the other thing too, since NBA wouldn't exist w/o it

if everybody took the energy they directed toward complaining abt flopping and instead complained about the stupid charge/block rule, the game would be much better

Which rule?

the charge/block rule is fine, refs just started calling too many of them charges for some reason

charge call when ballhandler has already passed is lame. but people love to complain, let's not pretend there's a finite amount of complaining energy out there. flopping as obv struck a nerve amongst many people and either pointing to other more "important" things or saying it doesn't really bother you, yeah ok your position is noted doesn't mean the rest of us have to think same way.

The rule I would like to see changed is where a defender jumps straight up to block a shot, the shooter sees the guy off his feet and jumps into him, and somehow that's a foul on the defender.

they called that pretty evenly in the heat/pacers series. So rare that the person defending ACTUALLY stays vertical, though. They usually always bend the arms down. Takes a lot of self control really.

they actually did change that rule a few years back (or at least added wording to make it explicitly an offensive foul or a non-call), it just isn't called correctly nearly often enough.

I think poly is talking about jump shooters, spottie about drivers?

Well, I'm talking about a shooter faking a jump shot, and then driving into the defender when he's in the air.

i was talking about drivers yes