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Originally posted by Dan_ref
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Originally posted by Back In The Saddle
I may be out in left field on this, but I have a problem with a flop even if the defender is playing legal defense in every other regard. Just an example, a defender has LGP, he's moving backward while guarding (and still legal), but at the point of contact he intentionally flops--whether he goes to the floor or just flies back a step or two--to make the contact appear more severe than it actually was. If I can tell he's flopping, I do not want to give him the call on that.
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This is exactly what I disagree with.
If the contact is worthy of a whistle on the dribbler you cannot take it away because you suspect the defender's "motives". I don't care if he launches himself backwards over your head doing the Dean-scream and lands in the 19th row. Give him the call. 
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In a perfect world, this may be true. But in my world it's a game management nightmare to call the PC foul on the play where the defender "helps himself" to the floor. First, the offensive player and coach will think they can buy that call and people will be "helping themselves to the floor" the whole game. And the other coach will think you got fooled on the play.
No call, block, T, choose one. But when the defender helps himself to the floor or tries to embellish the contact, I'll NEVER call it a PC foul.