Flopping

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I've only called this once, after a warning, in a 7th grade YMCA game. After the warning, the kid fell backwards when the dribbler was still 6 feet away from him. Typically, it's difficult to tell the difference between faking being fouled and leaning back to absorb contact.

Reminds me of the song by Danny and the Juniors, "Let's Go Do the Flop". For which I'm sure Mark Padgett will provide an album cover shortly.

I called this only once, and it was this year in a BV game.
As lead, I observed the defender obtain LGP. Driving the lane, the dribbler artfully changed his direction on his last step of his layup and missed the defender by a good two feet. The defender did the "AAAAIIIIGGGGHHHH!!!" and the flop, falling right below the rim where about three guys were landing after attempting a rebound.
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When explained to the coach, he chewed out his player for not at least making the guy's layup a challenge.
Was an obvious dangerous situation, where the flopper ended up. Had an ankle been broken on a similar play later, we'd have had a justifiably angry coach on our cases.
Nobody flopped the remaining three quarters of the game, though we did have several good blocking calls, as well as several player control foul calls.
Just another tool available when truly necessary.