Jeff Van Gundy on "Flopping"

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

No...they have to do something that wasn't caused by the contact that is intended to make others believe it was caused by the contact.

I'm amazed at all the cleverness people go through in trying to ambiguate a very simple word to as a way to justify not calling this T. I'm OK with not calling the T but at least be honest with yourself about why we're not calling it. To say you don't know what the word "fake" means is a lazy cop out.

Next thing you know, we'll be debating the meaning of "is".

I gave that up when I switched parties, but I'll leave it at that.

I'm not saying we don't ignore the rule at times, I just don't think it applies to as many plays as you do. I probably address this more than most here, though, in that if it's obvious to me that the player fakes a foul, I'll tell him to knock it off. I've never had to address it after that in a school sanctioned game.

I have called it in a YMCA game (the fall and grunt happened with 6 feet of space between them).