NBA finalizing flopping procedures

[jeremy341a]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Despite the wishy-washy banter of some here in the past, we all know when a player is trying to embellish the contact and make it look like there was more contact than there really was. It really isn't that hard to tell.

All that needs to be done is to determine if a player was knocked backwards (even if he let himself be knocked backwards) vs. throwing himself backwards.

I agree, so it there any purpose in making this a offense which warrents a fine? If they flop then no foul, if they are really knocked over then foul. Seems it doesn't need to go any further than this.