Announcer Speak

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Juulie Downs

The worst was a week ago, I don't remember which game. A1 dribbles down around the arc, then cuts toward the basket. Just outside the key, he starts to plow a stationary B1, but then pulls back at the last minute. Creates some contact, B1 falls backward. IMO it could have been PC, but refs no-call. A1 starts to cut around, then loses the ball, B2 picks it up, action runs the other way.

Announcers called it a flop. Then, "when the dribbler creates contact like that, the refs have got to call that flop. It's gotta be a block. [Any second year ref would know there was no block there it was either PC or nothing]. Look how that flop created an advantage for B. A bobbled that ball and lost it just because of that flop. The refs really handed B that easy layup at the other end. That's just a really bad call, because...." yadda, yadda, yadda.

They replayed it about 19 times from 5 different angles showing how the "flop" clearly created the advantage for B. No mention of what A might have accomplished if he hand't run the guy, er, I mean, almost run the guy down.

May not be the play you recall, but it sounds very similar. I wish that I could remember the exact game, but the announcer was definitely Len Elmore, so I can determine at which site it was played. The post player on the block bumped into the defender who went down, then the offensive player tried to make a move into the lane and lost the ball. The result was a scrum on the floor and a held ball. Len babbled about it being a flop and needing to be penalized. I actually thought that it was a PC foul.