Unusual and weird situation resulting in ejection

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by just another ref

The rulebook ain't one of them.

+1

If you call a block instead of the correct call, you're making up your own rules. Flopping, by definition, has no or incidental contact. It's faking being fouled. Blocking is a foul using illegal contact as the criteria. Completely different animals with completely different penalties.

In my experience, the people that advocate calling a block on this situation usually do so because they feel they will get less flak from the coach if they make that call. That's the wrong reason to make any call imo.

My motto is "If I'm gonna make a call, I might as well make the right one."