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Old Fri Jul 27, 2007, 02:02pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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It has been taught that at the camps I have attended recently is to make a call on someone. Now if a defender clearly flops, I am more inclined to call a block. When I say flop I am talking about when a player is trying to embellish the contact by yelling and exaggerating the level of contact. That does not mean I will never call a PC fouls. This just means that if a player has to act like they got ran over, then I am likely not to think the contact was legit.

Here is a little tip someone told me a long time ago. When a defender truly gets run over, their feet are not very likely to stay in the same place. Usually a defender that gets ran into by a ball handler is likely to go flying even if they try to absorb the blow. A player that is clearly flopping usually their feet are in just about the same place.

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