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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
Disagree. "Faking being fouled" is a technical foul in basketball; it's rarely called because very few players actually flop without any contact. Typically, they exaggerate the contact by falling backwards; but there's contact.
Jeter's move is the equivalent of falling (along with the gutteral scream) without any contact at all.
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Is "faking being fouled" a "T" at the NBA level?
You can't equate high school rules with pro rules. You can't equate amateur philosophies with pro philosophies either. And you sureheck can't equate what is illegal in high school basketball with what is commonly accepted in professional
beisbol. They fake catches on trapped balls all the time. They have phantom tags. Every catcher in the bigs pulls pitches. And hitters taking a couple of steps to first after taking on a 3-1 count trying to draw a walk is about as commonplace as you can get. Do you propose that baseball should make up some kinda rule penalizing players for doing something like that, something players having been doing since the Babe Ruth era?
Apples and watermelons!