arsenal, a rule to be interpreted however he chooses? Or is it something that desperately needs to be regulated. I don’t know.

how does one determine a fake flop from a real flop?

If the ref can’t make the right call when someone is faking and when people aren’t, why would anyone think additional penalties will do anything? Refw will just keep getting it wrong.

They don’t have the logistics sorted out, but that’s my first impression.

It’s possible they may have tape review post games, but really… it’s subjective and that’s a serious problem.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/printedition/la-sp-nbarefs29-2008may29,0,5391348.story

It’s good to see him expressing himself instead of saying “Both teams played hard.”

A better deterrent would be to assess floppers technical fouls; that’s what it probably should be. (Either during the game, or after the fact).

In soccer, “diving” will generally earn you a yellow card, the sport’s equivalent of a technical foul.

(Maybe the NBA should treat technicals AS yellow cards, and suspend anyone who earns two. They currently do this with Flagrant 1 fouls). Flagrant 2 fouls, and technicals for fighting, are currently treated like red cards—automatic ejection, with a followup suspension highly likely.

Ah, what the heck. The card system is something soccer does right. Just bring it into the NBA.

After all, MLS attempted to borrow an NBA-esque rule a few years back, when they introduced the “blue card” for excessive fouls that didn’t merit a more serious booking (a yellow or red card); however that idea was soon scrapped. (IIRC, the penalty was for the player to be sent off but replaced; but that could be used to gain a free substitution in football—a problem which isn’t relevant in the NBA).

Is paddle the heck out of their butt, because it would make flopping painful. If a player flops, they get 5 licks with a wooden paddle. It worked in my high school. We had paddling.

The theatrics really hurt the flow of everything. Some of the no-call flops have benefitted us however. I can recall a few times where a player flopped on B. Roy and that gave him a wide open jumper, or lay up. I wonder if a technical fowl will be issued for “flagrant flopping”?

Are guys who drive to the basket then beg or complain for a foul. Watch Kobe, he complains he was fouled when he’s the only guy on a fast break after a turn over. I hate that.

• flopping (fraud)
• loitering (3-seconds)
• assault (flagrant foul)
• jay-walking (traveling)
• vagrancy (no visible means of support, i.e., hanging from the rim)
• inciting a riot (what it says)
• public indecency or lewd behavior (your own favorite example here)

just to name a few. A player could draw a regular foul, or might be written up and fined or even arrested.