The gravity around SGA must actually be different lmao

This being the leagues MVP is kinda embarrassing.

I like the idea of post-game fines. 50k per flop

Adam silver needs to step up, suspend shai for one game

Literally just enforce the rules in the book 🤦🏽‍♂️

Counter-point: Let’s name him MVP instead.

Yup I think there were 2 flop techs called and never again

They need to start calling it more and players will adapt or die

Yeah, KAT is just outta control. Part of his game I do NOT miss.

I was also wondering what peak Curry’s rate would be because he falls intentionally to preserve his ankles. Shai could be doing that too? But idk

KAT’s playstyle is the embodiment of the phrase bull in a china shop

Falling down in a drive to the basket and falling down a jumpshot are two different things.  

While Embiid certainly does flop, He’s also been trained to fall down after jumping because his knees can’t hold up, not trying to absorb the full force of landing after jumping by falling  means his knees don’t have to take all of the force.  SGA does not have that problem, which is pretty obvious because Embiid falls when there’s nobody around him to make it even try to feasibly look like he was filed like he falls down on wide open jump shots with no one around him so it’s pretty clear that he’s just doing that as technique for every tiny jumps and is not necessarily trying to do that to draw a foul he’s definitely taking advantage of it to try to draw Files when you can, but the main reason is actually his knees just suck.  

SGA on the other hand only does it when there’s people nearby that he can try to draw a foul from.  

Probably not because Kat doesn’t really jump for his jump shots

He hustled back really hard in the last quarter yesterday. He also has a reduced BTRR which is helping us stay aggressive late in the game. I’m proud of him and his cumbersome flailing movements

Like he’s some kind of crypid 

Real AURA is having your last name being called as The first before name

It’s a racial hierarchy

You have the animals

Then you have the humans

Then at the top you have the Wembanyamas

THE Wembanyama. Said like The Ohio State

I love the ones where he shoots and then it looks like someone turned ragdoll on.

It’s funny how the masses are only now starting to notice it. The compilation the other day of him falling to the ground after every shot was so ridiculous. He’s going to have serious back or joint issues once his playing days are done if he keeps this up lol

We really need to start referring to him as Papier-mâ-Shai. This shit is EMBARRASSING. Dude is more fragile than uncooked spaghetti.

Would be fascinating to see how different an NBA game played on concrete would look

I would say the guy that really started it as a major strategy and benefitted the most was Rockets Harden, as he would do it all the time along with his patented “dribble past a guy, stop, and shove your ass back into their body while you flail up a shot” move.

Other guys did it before him (CP3 was awful) but Harden really perfected the flop.

Now we got guys winning MVPs and Championships off it and even 300 lb guys like Embiid are flopping constantly.

Shit is out of control and makes the games unwatchable imo, but the NBA doesn’t seem to care.

Not my king Anthony Edwards. He does the HEY instead lol but I’d way rather have that and him genuinely playing through contact than flopping bullshit.

This is the part I don’t understand. A bunch of uncoordinated teenagers at the park can stay on their feet, but world class athletes who spend countless hours training and working out have the constitution of a new born baby deer? Why does a 15 year old have firmer ankles than Shai Gelatinous-Ankles?

Steph made it so AAU kids are shooting from Mars

Now SGA gonna make it so AAU kids are gonna take falling lessons

It’s a method of preservation

I jokingly flopped & cried for a foul the other day & my friends didn’t understand it was a joke. Just thought I was being fucking weird.

We need to collect these numbers for the World Cup.

It might seriously be worse than soccer now.

This sub is gonna absolute eat up anything that confirms how they already feel

All the highlights of the game last night have like 20 upvotes, but this has been posted twice and is already surpassing them.

I literally counted wemby fall 5 times last game. Like wtf is this guy on a bout

60% of statistics are made up

People keep trying to find all sorts of different “numbers” they can use as evidence to find the worst floppers when all you actually have to do is watch

Nah, we can be honest. The fall tracking is just a proxy metric for flopping and Shai is flopping like a motherfucker. But, I have absolutely no problem with it because if you watch the game, he hasn’t been getting the whistle at all for basically the entire playoffs. I’m befuddled why fans are making a big deal out of it considering he’s literally being punished heavily by flopping. Many of these are turning into turnovers or bad shot attempts and transition offense for Spurs. It’s like complaining about a travel/pushoff when the player literally got called for it.

Well just from last game, he fell for no reason on a fast break pull up middy cuz he saw Harper near him and then he fell forward on a near uncontested 3 at the top of the key. Seems like it’s just a habit to try and get a foul call.

Stop it, he is not falling on jumpers to preserve his health, don’t white knight for him to appear more credible…

Yeah some of these are for sure flops or embellishing contact. But some are also just going to the ground to intentionally protect himself, which isn’t anything new.

You actually watch the games lol, the Spurs are crowding Shai, which means there are multiple people in his landing zone on shot attempts every time. Hes just trying to save his legs. You would think with all the injuries across the league, even just in this series, people would understand trying to not get hurt

Curry does the same, but he doesn’t get the calls because it’s very obvious in the way he falls it’s to protect his ankles. The way Shai flails his body in the air or attempts to land “uncontrollably” or make contact on his way down does not look like protection.

Flopping often involves falling to the ground.

Falling to the ground does not mean one is necessarily flopping.

AR is much more of a foul baiter than a flopper, at least on offense. He does definitely flop to draw charges.

This should be pinned at the top of r/NBA

Iverson was 5 foot 11 and was constantly going at big men at a time where they were allowed to be a lot more physical.

Pretty much all MVPs get a lot of FTs

I wonder what this sub would’ve looked like during Wade’s first finals run lol. He was like 2x times as bad as SGA with foul baiting

He wasn’t flopping, you seem to be confused to the problem here.

People don’t like flopping.

Yes I do think Iverson is very overrated lmao.

SGA tries to fall in every opportunity regardless if there is contact or none.

if the knicks get to the finals, itll be all you talk about too

Uhhh I don’t know if you noticed but there’s only two series going on and one of the teams has the league’s MVP, which this stat is about

It’s why I was so mad with Harden for years too. Dude can fucking move but instead he was hooking arms and tossing himself into dudes.

This is my problem with him. He’s an incredibly skilled player but it’s impossible to gauge how good he actually is when acting is such a huge part of his bag. Dude drives with the intent to get the call more than to actually make the bucket, and it’s so obvious it’s ridiculous.

Garbage strategy, garbage product, needs to be shamed.

NBA mods really want to end this discussion and remove this whole thread but can’t find a good reason as it’s just repost of an article. 

Because of the word almost

That’s not it, if you’ve watched him he wants to  be position for an offensive rebound on every shot, and he’s very quick at  jumping again after landing.  Falling down takes him out of position to do all of that.

Embiid’s number is actually 100%.

He’s the best all time baby!

Same. Release the numbers!

Think Embiid should get a pass considering he doesn’t have knees lol

Oh yeah, that’s their new go to excuse for the day