[mookieParticipant]

 Jeff van gundy is absolutely right about players should be fined if they flop and suspended if they flop too much!  It KILLS the momentum of teams and can turn the outcome of a game.  Seeing as how david stern looooves taking money from players, I don’t see why he doens’t start this!  It would help the game!  Oh i forgot he dont care about the game, he cares about $$$

[CEPParticipant]

http://roundballdirect.com/2012/04/29/flopping-a-national-epidemic/#more-1029

[Anton123Participant]

 What’s worse – people who do some awful acting after being hit or people who try to beat the sh-it out of the guy that hit them – the old school way?

[GrandmamaParticipant]

Two things I hate most about the NBA, flopping and players crying about fouls on every foul called….

[NbanflguyParticipant]

players crying about fouls on every foul called….

I think it is a proven fact that no player in the history of the NBA has ever thought they have commited a foul.

[river09Participant]

 I’ve always thought that basketball was a physical game. Therefore, if a player falls down, there is really no reason to stop playing but rather power on unless something was blatantly aggressive and intentional. Good "Defense" does not mean adeptly stopping in front of a offensive player so that when lightly brushed you fly 20 feet down the court and into the stands. Defense is moving your feet and staying in front of the offensive player, holding your ground, getting in the face of your opponent and contesting every shot. Charges should only be called when a player is blatantly out of control. The amount of people covering their groin and sliding in front of a player who is driving to the rim is starting to be downright pathetic… Just because a player falls down doesn’t mean there was a foul. People fall down sometimes. It happens. They should rub it in dirt and stop acting like they break their back every time they happen to lose your balance.. The players in the NBA have been spoiled in how much crying they get away with… (Yes I copied and pasted this from my post on the Knicks Miami thread)…  

I don’t think that fines are the answer at all though, I don’t see why anything that radical is necessary, it’s for the routine statements like this Van Gundy makes that just makes me loathe him as a announcer. How about just not calling a foul every time a player falls down? These guys are being payed millions to play basketball. Let them play, don’t discourage them from playing hard by penalizing them whenever they give a concerted effort. And then you’d be fining them for what exactly? Losing their balance for not keeping their center of gravity low…? 

[CynthiaParticipant]

Flopping is embarassing, to the player, his team, the whole NBA. Some of these guys do it so blatantly…do they have no self-respect?

[M-EazyParticipant]

Flopping got the Heat that big lead on the Knicks…it made me lose respect for LeBron.

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