They need to start playing the wamp wamp music for these clowns on the scoreboard. Humiliation will end flopping. O and firing pu$$y refs.
NBA weighs retroactive penalties for floppers - Boston.com
David Stern is determined to stop the floppers, even if it takes until the next morning.
The NBA commissioner believes too many players are deceiving referees into calling fouls by falling down, or flopping. So he and the leagues newly reformed competition committee met Monday for a discussion about how it can be prevented.
One option, Stern said, is a postgame analysis in which a player could be penalized if it was determined he flopped. The league retroactively upgrades or downgrades flagrant fouls after review, and along those lines he said that perhaps a player could receive a message from New York saying: Greetings from the league office. You have been assigned flopper status.
No, Im joking, but something like that, Stern said. That sort of lets people know that its not enough to say `its all part of the game.
The committee is made up of coaches Doc Rivers of Boston, Rick Carlisle of Dallas and Lionel Hollins of Memphis; owners Dan Gilbert of Cleveland and Joe Lacob of Golden State, and general managers Bryan Colangelo of Toronto, Sam Presti of Oklahoma City, Mitch Kupchak of the Lakers and Kevin OConnor of Utah.
During a 6-hour meeting, they also discussed expanding instant replay for flagrant fouls and goaltending, decided the lottery system is the best one currently available, and seemed to favor leaving the away from the ball foul rule as is, so coaches could continue to intentionally foul notoriously bad free throw shooters.
Any rules changes they recommend would have to be approved by the leagues Board of Governors, set for its next meeting in July.
Stern hopes by then to have a policy to address flopping, which bothers him because he feels it tricks the referees. He said theres a broad array of issues to look at that can let players know the practice is to be discouraged.
If you continue to do this, you may you have to suffer some consequences, he said. What those exactly should be and what the progression is is to be decided, because we just want to put a stake in the ground that says this is not something that we want to be part of our game, without coming down with a sledgehammer but just doing it in a minimalist way to begin stamping it out. And I think there are ways we can do that and well have to wait and see exactly what we come up with.
Stern has talked of allowing replay on all flagrants. Referees currently can only look at the more severe flagrant-2 penalties to determine if they indeed warranted ejection or should be downgraded to flagrant-1s. He has said he is intrigued by the international goaltending rules, which allow a defensive player to knock the ball off the rim.
Hes neutral when it comes to the away from the ball fouls, which led to Hack-a-Shaq and which the Thunder used while intentionally fouling San Antonios Tiago Splitter in the Western Conference finals. On one hand, he feels bad for the player who is being embarrassed by his poor free throw shooting; on the other, he understands that maybe coaches should then take the player out.
The committee appears to be leaning toward the status quo.
Its fair to say there was a strong sense that we shouldnt cut down on the toolbox that coaches have available to them, despite what may seem the unseemliness of the way it goes down, Stern said. But thats just one of the things that you do if you want to win and it works.
He said the committee, formerly made up of the leagues general managers, plans to reconvene in September.
NBA weighs retroactive penalties for floppers - Boston.com
David Stern is determined to stop the floppers, even if it takes until the next morning.
The NBA commissioner believes too many players are deceiving referees into calling fouls by falling down, or flopping. So he and the leagues newly reformed competition committee met Monday for a discussion about how it can be prevented.
One option, Stern said, is a postgame analysis in which a player could be penalized if it was determined he flopped. The league retroactively upgrades or downgrades flagrant fouls after review, and along those lines he said that perhaps a player could receive a message from New York saying: Greetings from the league office. You have been assigned flopper status.
No, Im joking, but something like that, Stern said. That sort of lets people know that its not enough to say `its all part of the game.
The committee is made up of coaches Doc Rivers of Boston, Rick Carlisle of Dallas and Lionel Hollins of Memphis; owners Dan Gilbert of Cleveland and Joe Lacob of Golden State, and general managers Bryan Colangelo of Toronto, Sam Presti of Oklahoma City, Mitch Kupchak of the Lakers and Kevin OConnor of Utah.
During a 6-hour meeting, they also discussed expanding instant replay for flagrant fouls and goaltending, decided the lottery system is the best one currently available, and seemed to favor leaving the away from the ball foul rule as is, so coaches could continue to intentionally foul notoriously bad free throw shooters.
Any rules changes they recommend would have to be approved by the leagues Board of Governors, set for its next meeting in July.
Stern hopes by then to have a policy to address flopping, which bothers him because he feels it tricks the referees. He said theres a broad array of issues to look at that can let players know the practice is to be discouraged.
If you continue to do this, you may you have to suffer some consequences, he said. What those exactly should be and what the progression is is to be decided, because we just want to put a stake in the ground that says this is not something that we want to be part of our game, without coming down with a sledgehammer but just doing it in a minimalist way to begin stamping it out. And I think there are ways we can do that and well have to wait and see exactly what we come up with.
Stern has talked of allowing replay on all flagrants. Referees currently can only look at the more severe flagrant-2 penalties to determine if they indeed warranted ejection or should be downgraded to flagrant-1s. He has said he is intrigued by the international goaltending rules, which allow a defensive player to knock the ball off the rim.
Hes neutral when it comes to the away from the ball fouls, which led to Hack-a-Shaq and which the Thunder used while intentionally fouling San Antonios Tiago Splitter in the Western Conference finals. On one hand, he feels bad for the player who is being embarrassed by his poor free throw shooting; on the other, he understands that maybe coaches should then take the player out.
The committee appears to be leaning toward the status quo.
Its fair to say there was a strong sense that we shouldnt cut down on the toolbox that coaches have available to them, despite what may seem the unseemliness of the way it goes down, Stern said. But thats just one of the things that you do if you want to win and it works.
He said the committee, formerly made up of the leagues general managers, plans to reconvene in September.
these players will study film too and find a way to exaggerate contact. Flopping ain't going no where.
