As most fans would agree, the 2011-12 NBA season has seen an increase in the amount of players taking a ‘flop’.
Is this testing your patience and are you growing increasingly tired of seeing this getting looked past within the game?
Well, it seems like David Stern & the NBA are finally ready to take action against what they see as players deceiving match referees. The League Commissioner Stern met on Monday with his League committee and discussed at length the many options the league should look at taking against these floppers.
David Stern said one option could be to have “postgame analysis” and could potentially penalise players and went on to say that the league wants to find a way to “put a stake in the ground that says this is not something that we want to be part of our game.”
Stern did also comment on how it was discussed that the league may look at expanding instant replays for flagrant fouls and goaltending.
Us as NBA fans have over the years been fairly critical of some of Sterns actions and the Commissioner most definitely has moments of letting himself and the league down but this time it seems he is on to a good thing.
Flopping isn’t a good look for the league. All sports have elements of players attempting to deceive game officials, and it needs to be eradicated as early as possible. Whatever it is the league finally decide to add to the game to stamp this out can only be a good for the league and for us as fans of the game.
Ah we were just talkin about this on that basketball show. We think post game review is a must and if a player is found floppin slap a fine on his arse. But after a certain amount of fines a One game suspension has to be handed down, wether it be after 5 or 10 fines is up for debate.
Glad sterny is doing something about this.
Keep up the good work nba nation oz!
Thanks for the kind words Brent.
I’d been thinking about this subject most of the year and it was getting more & more obvious by Playoff time that players were taking a dive. You know to some extent, players will try to get away with what they can, it’s just that most players that were trying it on didn’t seem to be very good at it. It was becoming so obvious. LeBron in the NY series was shocking, he’d flail his arms around and then have a moan at the official, it was really starting to grate me. I’m glad Stern and the League have finally recognised this and are prepared to do something about it. Now what they have to also sort out is how soft some of the referees calls have been especially Playoff time. Thoughts??
Yeah mate lebron is the worst at flopping. For a hulk of a guy i dont know how he thinks he can flop like he does and get away with it. Wade is a shocker for not even gettin back on D cos his bitchin to refs. Some real real bad calls these playoffs and finals have been just as bad. Its not fair on the players that are playing basketball and not trying to get an oscar.
This whole issue gets everyones blood boiling