The Flop & Replay
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This one always makes my blood boil. Of course it’s Higgins calling that BS.
We lost this final 4 game by 1 point. Had a chance to take the lead with less than a minute left. I can’t remember every detail of how things played out, but every time I see this flop I think of it contributing to costing us back-to-back titles.
Same here. I reckon I’m gonna have to go back and rewatch that game. I can’t remember hardly any sequences of that game at all.
All this stuff is just the latest attempts by the NCAA to get officials to actually start calling games correctly. Points of emphasis, replay, actual flop being a call. Trying every way they can but officials refuse to show any restraint. They continue to do whatever they want.
The NCAA sucks. But they're actually making an effort here.
The NCAA sucks. But they're actually making an effort here.
A piss poor effort if you ask me. They can talk all day. It’s time they took action. Talk’s cheap.
In my mind, flopping is cheating and bad for the game,
Right. Carefully watch the time it took him to make that call and Higgin’s body language. What a bitch.
WildcatfaninOhio
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I've always thought that the TV commentators should be flop-shaming players that do it. Instead they tend to praise the kid for "selling" the call. It makes me sick to see college basketball going the way of international soccer.
I agree to an extent. But at the same time one would assume unbiased arbiters would follow and enforce rules made for that purpose. Officials refuse to do so
Hey show some respect...a man lost his life on that play.
U of L retired the #3 and guys are still scoring 3 points in his honor.
U of L retired the #3 and guys are still scoring 3 points in his honor.
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You get caught flopping...it's a technical. That would help a lot!
I just now noticed that’s Cal in the background of that game with UConn. He’s coming up off the bench screaming. ![[laughing]](http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/img/emoticons/classic/laugh.r191677.gif "Laughing [laughing]")
I’d like to start a petition to get you a job as an ncaa ref.I ref some AAU ball from time to time and it is usually kids that are from 3-6th grade. Last year during a 5th grade game, a kid flopped to get a charge call and I didn't call it. He looked at me and said "That's a charge" to which I replied "That's a flop". He didn't complain anymore at least to me anyway.
I may be awful but would still be better than most NCAA refs because I wouldn't call that crap for sure.
You can really tell the difference between posters who have played this game and those who never have. As some have noted, our own Harrison twins were pros at this technique, a skill they developed likely because, in spite of their height, they were not exceptional jumpers, yet did have the size to drive at bigger players.
Throwing the head back on a drive is not necessarily to imitate contact, although it could be. But can be performed as a head fake to make the defenders think the lay-up is occuring a step sooner, to get them off the floor early (or keep them on it). It is basically the same timing as looking and faking to the left before a right handed shooter executes a lay-up (for purpose of keeping defender nailed to floor)
That’s a very different type of head motion. The type that bothers many is the soccer style head jerk back at the same time as little or no contact possibly initiated by the head jerker.
DeAaron Fox was a master at this too and I hated it when he did it. I didn't find it crafty or selling a call.
