CharlieDigital: NBA's official flopping defense force.
I shall just keep this on the clipboard:
This argument again?
It's too easy to defeat.
Should we play the game without refs?
No?
Do the refs have the power to call a foul?
Yes?
Then by proxy, do they have the power to not call a "fake" foul or a flop?
Yes?
A flop is an attempt to fool the refs into calling a foul. Last year when they could clearly see that it's a flop, they ignored the flop and let the game continue. The end result was usually a disadvantage to the team whose player flopped, since they were now playing 4 on 5.
So no, the refs don't call it a foul, but they penalize the flopper by ignoring it.
What the league is doing here is to review tapes and punish the floppers, hopefully discourage them. Flops have become so advanced that refs on the floor can't always spot it in real time, even if they were more competent than they are right now. If you don't punish them, you're saying floppers should get rewarded as long as they are good at it and manage to fool the refs in real time.
There's no suspension or even technical awarded right now. This is far from excessive by any reasonable measure.
If anything, YOU are the kosmo of this thread, not Frankman, who plays the role of angry Knicks fan just fine.