Wemby gets 8 FT in the second quarter and the Blazers announcers get annoyed
Serious question do nba players practice falling?
You can definitely injure yourself falling and that goes even more so if you are lanky and 7’5. I am sure Wemby practices falling correctly as any big player should.
Knicks fan here no loyalty to wemby. But people forgot this is the guy that fell on his head last year. A guy that height if he didn’t practice falling then he definitely should.
Dude got slightly tripped a kind of gave himself a concussion. There is a bit of a disconnect here with people recognizing that he is much faster and far more coordinated than a normal 7 foot 5 dude, but not realizing that they are still far far less coordinated than a 6 foot 6 guy. You can push anyone over that is already off balance. To speak nothing of doing it to someone that has a center of gravity at your neck and is also off balance.
KAT did this back in Minnesota. But, it was when driving to the basket, or taking hits in the paint, not really what Wemby is doing here. Which is falling at even a slight hint of a breeze.
I recall, before Wemby had even played an NBA game, reading that part of his long term training routine included practicing falling in ways that would help him avoid injury.
Yeah, I read that too. Along with a lot of unorthodox movement and stretches meant to keep his body flexible and avoid injury.
Sounds silly, but if im an nba player im reaching out to WWE or any pro wrestling company to learn how to fall
Skateboarders are the best at falling
Most people don’t realize that skateboarding is 99% failure. The way to get good at skateboarding is by learning to fall in weird ways all day without getting too hurt or exhausted.
This is why Darby Allin bumps go crazy
yea it hurts way more to try to run out a bail and stay up than it is to go to ground and roll, it’s how pros can battle tricks for hours
Judokas too
Oh man you’re so right. I used to skate and was all I did for a good 4 years.
I think players need to get in contact with Dennis Schroeder now that I think of it.
Came here to mention this. Skated for 3 or so decades. We don’t practice falling but you do get good at it. Many guys literally pop up mid-tumble. It’s just a part of the gig.
This topic popped into my head when people were talking about Shai last year… sometimes the safest thing is to just fall instead of trying to catch yourself with a knee, wrist, ankle etc at an awkward angle or position.
Clip to prove this.
I didn’t play basketball after middle school, but football and baseball they taught specific falls. Same with the tucking of your leg and roll
I would love for wemby to learn how to cut a promo
It would be incredible
I need a Wemby math promo or a wemby 3:16
Judo is also really good for that
Judoka here, I have been awakened. Also unironically, Wemby might have done some Judo given how popular it is in France and Europe in general (though flopping would kinda be the opposite, as a good fall essentially signals that you lost the match; they would sell the opposite - that they didn’t fall/get thrown).
I had the same thought earlier today lol. I’m sure it would help.
NBA teams have their own coaches for this - no need to reach out to another sport
Stunt men/women teach actors this all the time
Have you seen old wrestlers? Are we sure they know how to fall?
Bouldering/Climbing teach you how to fall and you get a lot of practice.
Or a grappling martial arts. I took judo and my sensei drilled falling so much that I can fall safely in my sleep.
Tyrese Haliburton and Jalen Brunson. Hell in a Cell.
KAT was an absolute natural when he showed up in WWE
Judo and Jujutsu people practice falling all the time. Volleyball players also practice it to dig spikes, then slide on their chests. Curry’s slide looks exactly like volleyball practice.
Im sure they all do, I just watch WWE more and am ignorant of other sports practices lol
You’re onto something
Pretty sure Wemby would have practiced this more than most, given how much he works on ways to avoid injuries.
He does and has confirmed it. He has to over fall at times
I definitely think this is whats going on and what were seeing a lot of in the NBA. I try to stop myself from judging the players on this stuff. Part of practicing falling is also bc a lot of injuries come from trying to keep yourself upright instead of leaning into the direction youre headed and allowing yourself to drop in a more controlled manner
I blame the refs, however, for not being aware of this and blowing the whistle on a constant basis. Its one thing to fall… its another to flail bc you know it will get the refs attention
If refs stopped calling it, players would stop exaggerating movement… but here we are
These aren’t that bad. At least not bad enough that Doris Burke has to chime in. Because without naming names, we know who she was talking about
Good. Let him flop and injure himself. Floppers always have karma come back around to them.
You cheer for Luka on a daily basis, you probably shouldn’t have that attitude
There’s foul baiting and there’s flopping. Different.
That’s why Luka got injured last year?
that didnt work for Embiid
He ended his teammates (Danny Green) career by falling om him instead
Watch the fucking play. He was triple teamed and tried to skirt around for a baseline layup and fell in the process. This is done all the time by players and wasn’t a flop. The parroting of this play for people that didn’t even watch it is insane.
You’re acting like he’s committing war crimes or something and not playing a game for a living.
7’3.5 without shoes
I even practiced falling in High school…granted it was falling while taking a charge. But practicing how to control a fall is injury prevention 101. You can really fuck yourself up if you dont know how to hit the ground
the fact that this is a question shows how few of the people on here played
I’m asking because wemby keeps falling on his wrists
Looks he’s trying to take most of the impact with his butt and upper body, which is generally the correct way to do it. You basically want to roll with the momentum.
Yeah, looks dicey. He’s gonna injure himself sooner or later if he keeps doing this.
I played through high school. Never taught about falling.
id assume you played at a bad high school then. i was taught how to fall at basketball camps not associated with schools and was also taught in school programs
Absolutely, we were coached about how to fall in youth basketball, like elementary school aged
…. are you surprised that most NBA fans haven’t played organized basketball?
Exhibit 101: Jalen Williams. Exhibit 102: Derrick Rose.
Exhibit 5: Jayden Daniels
Yup Derrick Rose fucked his knees landing on his legs all the time instead of just falling
Yes, all players should practice falls just for their own safety. Especially wemby since he got knocked out from falling incorrectly. If you’re talking about falling for flopping then still yes.
Yeah I remember this being a talking point like 10-12 years ago with Blake Griffin’s falls. People were memeing his penguin slides, but it’s a good way to redirect your momentum horizontally and away from your joints
It’s always mocked but Embiid has worked a lot on it
he has like the least graceful spills i’ve ever seen, swear every time that dude gets fouled there’s a fraction of a second where I’m convinced I just saw the last play of his basketball career
I think it was talked about all the way back in 1977, Red on Roundball with Red Auerbach. I think he said he despised the practice of flopping, but said it must be done if you want to give your team an advantage.
Edit: Here is the video, this man reviled flopping back then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao4gWdsioLs
Curry as well has built a strong habbit to fall sidewards after a 3 if he feels that somebody is too close to his landing zone. He had a lot of ankle injuries early and and he basically reworked his falling mechanics and worked on his flexibility and joint strength
Hasnt had many major injuries since
I mean half of these or more he shouldn’t even fall at all
When I played basketball, I made sure to fall as soon as I was off-balance. I’m not 7’5, but as I am ~6’11 my biggest fear was always twisting or snapping a ligament that I shouldn’t, and the wooden floor was always way better to control my landing on than to force myself upright and injure myself again. I do not miss my basketball injuries and I find it smart that these fast-paced high energy tall ass athletes fall in a controlled manner and not when it’s a flop.
Maybe not but you have no clue what it’s like to be 7’6 lol
Barkley did a rant on it that some players don’t know how to fall without taking damage on their wrists and showed how they taught them to fall in his days. All players should know how to fall without risking an injury.
i LOVE John Wall but his turbo speed layups then falling out of bounds (of course to protect the feet and ankles from hard landings) led to so many 4 v 5’s going the other way. I feel like he was one of the early adopters of the safe / go limp fall to avoid injury now it’s “go limp as soon as you feel you’re pushed off base” and naturally Wemby’s base is at these guys chest level
Maxey also always does this
Dwyane Wade was one of the earliest I remember (but I wasn’t watching basketball before Wade was in the league, so what do I know).
D Rose was the cautionary tale for all the smaller explosive dudes
It’s hard to even watch that dude’s highlights these days. Every hopstep I feel like I’m seeing him destroy his body.
Didn’t help Wade that he had his meniscus removed in a surgery they don’t do as frequently anymore due to advances in orthopedics
Every athlete should learn how to fall properly. You’re more likely to get injured trying to recover while stumbling than if you just fall over.
Tua didn’t know how to fall properly, being a QB and going untouched most of his career, and got several concussions because of it
Tbh, regular people get injured falling all the time. Even just in their own house.
Absolutely. And they have for a long time.
Falling poorly is a key reason in how injuries happen. You want to limit the impact on certain weaker areas of your body, notably joints by landing on more muscular areas like your butt or mid-upper back.
I first recognized this pattern by watching Blake Griffin over a decade ago. He would fall with a curl to him, almost like a dolphin.
Yes. SGA, Wemby and Embiid have all talked about learning how to fall to protect their lower body.
to protect their lower body
Upper body too. Look how experienced players don’t absorb the fall with their wrists.
Additionally, unless a plauer falls and the play continues, if someone falls and there’s a foul call or whistle for timeout and such, a player’s teammates pull them up instead of them getting up themselves
Yet when you say that on Reddit in the wrong thread everyone calls you crazy. It’s like people don’t even want to argue in good faith anymore
I’m actually shocked I wasn’t down voted into the ground lol
Because it’s still flopping? Practicing it only means it’s extremely intentional.
Falling to avoid injury is different than flopping for a call. How is that hard to understand?
SGA teaches that class
If they don’t they should
Mitch Johnson actually recently said Wemby practices falling in response to a question about how he frequently walks off rolling his ankles. Castle also said he practices falling because apparently in college he used to hurt his wrist/hand a lot by falling on it.
Honestly super smart, first thing you practice in roller derby is falling safely
Nahhh this had me rolling lmaooooo
blows whistle
I played high school basketball and we practiced falling to learn to avoid injury. It’s better to take a controlled fall than to land awkwardly on an ankle or knee.
I feel like Steph definitely used to practice falling after the ankle injuries. You can actually see it sometimes
He went through a whole thing relearning to fall down, work his hips, and how to cut to keep the ankles safe.
Good question. The smart ones do. Charles Barkley always brings this up, and emplores players to fall on your back or your butt. DO NOT brace your fall with your arms and wrists as Wemby did here. Can lead to some nasty fractures….
i learned it playing in the lowest league in germany over 20 years ago…
they taught my 5-4 ass how to fall in 8th grade basketball so I’m sure someone mentioned it to wemby at some point lol
all athletes in sports with contact / going to ground learn how to fall. Not just naturally from a young age and as they grow, but also formally.
Steph did to combat his ankle issues that he had early in his career.
Wemby does. He’s talked about how the spurs/ his camp believe many times it’s safer for someone of his size and stature to fall rather than land the way we would. He definitely practices it. I get why people think he flops but this is something he’s said before he even started playing in the nba.
Curry also does. He goes to the ground on every layup to not let the impact go through his ankles.
Curry notoriously has really bad ankle issues so he learned how to fall
OG Anunoby has a sketchy hamstring so he hits the floor on his back with his arms tucked at his sides like seal on every drive. He goes sliding like 15 feet sometimes lol
i knew he looked weird when he dropped this is why. this is cool
I’ve started trying this in pick up. Wish my hips luck!
Same exact thing Shai does but here comes my 100 downvotes
Sure because Shai falls the most by far and it’s not close when you look at the data
Similar and same are miles apart in this scenario
Difference is Shai acts like he was fouled every time he falls…..like literally every time. So hes not really falling to “protect” himself, hes attempting to foul bait
Same thing with Jayden Daniels for the commanders. If he learned how to fall instead of trying to brace himself (which is a very normal human reaction to falling) he probably would’ve avoided a couple injuries.
I think Tua went through falling training a few years ago, too.
Sixers medical staff said this about Embiid like a decade ago and people still think it’s BS
hes never gotten hurt falling over yet people think his knees are dust for falling on his big ole behind. You also dont get bells palsy and 3 orbital fractures by landing on your ass.
Haters gonna hate. Wemby is def flopping on these plays though to walk the floor to get FTs. Something i cant ignore that embiid has done when the other team is in the penalty lol. Hes learning from my goat after all that “ethical basketball” talk. At least own it like Embiid does. He also wasnt doing this until his knees were already dust, Wemby doing this earlier in his career than Jo.
edit: inb4 someone mentions danny green, a play embiid was tripped on but nobody cares. Ive had this conversation enough times, i know where it goes.
Right but this applies if he would be going to the ground anyway. Like if he’s at the airport and someone lightly brushes against him walking by do you suppose he’s gojng to the ground?
Exactly lol
Watch the second clip- he feels a bump and just crumbles to the ground. That is a flop. Idk how spurs fans are defending that
If he uses his muscles to stay upright after contact, he doesn’t have to fall. You know, those muscles you trained all your life for to play this contact sport.
Yeah that would makes sense if he wasn’t 7’6+ and frail for his frame with a higher center of gravity than anybody else in the nba lol
They gotta feel sore after taking that many bumps through a whole NBA season
I don’t think that was the nature of their question. He’s asking if they practice flopping.
This is exactly it. Let alone his legs just can’t catch up in time so you gotta fall.
The second clip is not him “falling safely” my guy come on
The second one is dumb and I am talking about his falling in general. However the others were definitely fouls. OP conveniently omitted the one where he got head butted in the face
The problem is that most of the times the refs look wemby on the floor and make a call when the contact aint enough for one.
Depends. People also don’t account for when he is getting hit it’s almost certainly under his center of gravity.
Superstars are fouled almost every possession, lets start with that, but if in some of those plays he doesnt fall the refs aint calling.
Same as the head snap years ago for example.
It makes sense for him to hit the floor, but the only reason he needs to is because he purposefully throws himself off balance to sell the contact
I think the second clip is him exaggerating contact for sure, but I think we also fail to realize it’s probably pretty easy for the average nba player to push him to the ground with his frame and higher center of gravity.
i dont think practiced falling includes flailing your arms in the air and your head whipping back like you just got hit by the people’s elbow.
First clip is the classic I got fouled so I’m throwing the ball up. Zero flailing in the next two clips I don’t know what you’re going on about.
Practice falling safely. But he’s a floppy rag doll baby
If that makes you feel better about the beat down you got :)
Yes. Especially big men. I don’t think all of them do, but I know Joel Embiid has said his trainers and doctors have told him to fall because keeping yourself up will consistently add load to their joints and muscles increasing a likelihood of injury.
For Wembys sake I think it’s the right move, especially because on Friday night he badly rolled his ankle
They fall so they don’t land on their feet or ankle wrong
Yes. Like dunking, its a skill
Steph did after he missed a lot of games due to ankle injuries. His first few seasons were plagued with them.
Wemby does literally practice falling to avoid injury. He also does some stretch for his ankles so that they don’t get strained.
It’s his best move - the crumbling Eiffel Tower.
Yes actually. In different ways, often just depending on what the player/trainer wants to hone in on.
Balance training is most common. A part of that is falling correctly to limit risk of injuries. Throw in some theatrics and you can practice flopping motions before you run your afternoon practice scrimmage.
You should learn how to fall to avoid a broken wrist. What you should be asking is if players practice flopping
Embiid did to help him not get hurt as much
Yeah. He does down if there’s any strain on his joints.
Looks like it didn’t work
Didn’t he injure Danny green doing that ? yeah he did lmao dumb fucking way to play downvote away
dude was tripped on the play and Danny Green came back to play with the Sixers and loves Joel. People need to stop with this narrative.
Not a flop
Danny doesnt blame him and came back to the team and fluffs up joel in the media
Only chronically online haters on reddit bring this up because they don’t like Embiid
Calling ppl losers cuzz they know he’s a flopper and dirty player lmao you want the Mitchell Robinson clip ? No shit a teammate isn’t going to come back and say he’s an idiot who needs to stop doing that shit.
And yet he’s known for being injury prone. All that falling for nothing.
It’s not for nothing, he’d probably be retired already if he didn’t learn to minimize damage
These people, and their bosses, have dozens of millions of dollars hinging on not injuring their shit every time they jump in a sport about jumping into traffic. They absolutely know a thousand ways that can go wrong and practice how to prevent it.
Derrick Rose’s knees wouldnt be made out of glass if he figured out how to land properly after jumping
i only say yes, because as a skateboarder, i for sure practice falling. Keep the arms and hands in, take it on your shoulder or the flat of your back, keep the neck stiff, all kinds of reasons to learn to fall.
100%. I started getting back into skateboarding after a 25 year break and one of the first things I watched was how to fall correctly. And I got to put those lessons into practice basically immediately lol.
This is also on the refs. The last one he clearly just falls over backwards on his own. That ref should be investigated by the league for blowing the whistle there. He’s either incompetent or he’s corrupt, either way he can’t work in my casino.
Yeah I don’t even know if you can blame him for that one. He was never going to stay up and get that rebound. Insane call.
research physics and center of gravity, then watch the replay and how he was pushed.
He initiated the contact running in for the rebound then changed his motion to grab the ball. There was no push.
The contact from him running in was because he was pushed. You can literally see his body accelerate unnaturally as he’s pushed.
No way you’re being serious. He didn’t shoot any FTs where he wasn’t fouled in that quarter.
I don’t need research to see him lose his own center of gravity while going for a ball way behind him. I like Wemby, he’s a great player, no need to lie for him.
Yes Wemby has since practicing falling the right way since he was a teen in France I think to protect his legs, that’s why he always tries to slow the fall and spread the impact (like a wrestler does) and slowly gets back to his base and waits for 2 teammates to pick him up
Ukemi! in Judo!
tony parker says he did because it’s better to fall on your butt than land on your feet after doing a layup
We did in soccer
Yes, and NBA flopping is worse than soccer atp
They do, yes.
Then someone tell my man wemby stop bracing his fall with his wrists
Let’s not conflate falling safely with flopping in general. Honestly, I don’t blame players for flopping if the refs are going to reward them with free throws– that’s the issue. Maybe the NBA needs embellishment to be a foul.
Every NBA player is a freak athlete. Yes they all need to practice falling to help protect themselves. It’s small things like tucking your chin when falling backwards to prevent head from snapping back and not reaching out to catch yourself which can cause finger and hand breaks. People just don’t realize how big these guys are, when they fall they fall hard.
Every single fucking ball playing athlete should.
think everyone is answering a different question than what you meant. practicing how to properly fall so you don’t injure yourself, and practicing embellishing contact like the popular joke that went around that OKC would practice flopping for a large session of their practices.
Most athletes learn how to fall safely before they are pro, probably harder to adjust to falling properly if you are constantly gaining hafl a foot every few months as you grow, so i’d hope he learned to fall based on his body size lately.
As for embellishing contact, its probably like anything, you kinda learn from a few real events that falling was the reason you got the call, then you start doing it intentionally when you feel contact. its shitty. Hard not to notice a 7 6 man falling over also so it probably works real well for him. Whats funny is the Avidja’s team’s announcers are complaining about this.
Wemby definitely practices falling. I can’t remember if it was article or the announcers but this is the general premises.
The Spurs staff believe that in order to avoid injury, it’s safer to Wemby to have a controlled fall in many situations. So he practices falling, rolling his ankles, etc. It’s just part of his game. This is why he has pads all over his legs and body.
They’re 7 feet tall, a bad fall from that height can kill you, yes they practice.
That was Embiid’s whole thing a couple years back
I know Steph did after he had his ankle injury early in his career.
pretty much all contact sports practice falling and as someone who notices how people fall in the nba (for some reason) i feel like theyre pretty well taught
one other thing related to that is players rarely get up themselves and often get help from their teammates and thats on purpose too; you can strain yourself when you get up on your own
my grade school team practiced falling
They do now partially because of how bad it used to be with injuries. Saw a Porzingis Knicks tape the other day and all his falls were terrible to the point where you understand how he tore his ACL. Same with D Rose to the point when some Mavs fans were tweeting at Cuban after they noticed Dennis Smith Jr was landing hard all the time instead of falling to disperse the force on his knees, and Cuban replied and said they’d look into getting him on a program to improve his falling.
All NBA players learn how to fall to avoid injury
Embiid taught him how to flop, French Ting
I think he watched enough thunder games to pick up on soccer flopping
Embiid most definitely does not
One of the earliest players I watched who talked about practice falling is Tony Parker.
As a perennial paint scorer, he said he learned how to fall properly because being challenged during his drives is inevitable. He frequently rolls when he lands.
For opposite, look at how D.Rose lands every time he attacks the hoop. He almost always braces and almost never rolls. Westbrook is another example, except that because he’s more muscular and physically strong, he didn’t have as much injury from landing as D.Rose, but you can see how much he’s squatting everytime he lands.
A good example of people practicing how to fall are volleyball players
Yup.
Most athletes do if it’s relevant to their sport. Learning how to fall is really important to keep players safe and healthy. Not know how to fall can result is serious injuries.
Absolutely they do. Apparently they even now have coaches to show them how to flop. It’s disgusting.
Yes, I remember doing falling drills in like 7th grade basketball
I learned how to fall playing soccer when I was like 13. It’s just something you teach in sports.
Yes. As they should. It’s also commonplace among paratroopers. Half of Airborne training is practicing the parachute landing fall.
It’s definitely not a wimpy thing to do; it’s simply smart.
100%
Embiid has been taught to fall in a specific way to keep pressure of his knees. Which is why he often flails his body around risking teammates and opponents.
Not sure if Wemby is doing that, he seems to be on that SGA timing.
Embiid does. Not a joke either.
Don Nelson, who absolutely hated flopping, said they used to pull out floor mats at practice to practice flopping on because it was part of the game
Ask Joel embiid lol
this is a reffing issue. the only way to fix this is to fix how the game is called
It’s also a lame ass hoe problem, too.
Do the refs suck. Yes. Is flopping on the court like a fish some pussy bitch stuff. Also yes
Fuckin word, brother.
The ones they blame are always determined by who it is flopping. Everyone loves Wemby so it’s a ref issue.
I think Wemby is a sloppy prima donna.
For real. I’m not watching NBA games to see mfers shoot free throws and chuck threes
you literally are though
If wembys ass is on the floor, it better be because Dillon Brooks dumb ass brought a Louisville Slugger out to play.
That’s exactly why I stopped watching NBA games. Boring af
Ant and Steph the last ethical ballers. Though Steph getting the superstar whistle this season despite changing nothing lol.
Why do these comments only appear on posts about jokic and wemby, never on shai or embiid
Embiid would have to play a season.
Give it 3 more seasons, he might just about reach 82
Reaching, but I’ll allow it.
Shai has played plenty seasons and yet the comments are never essays about “hmm well, actually, its the refs fault, not shai” and “tbh it’s smart for him to fall actually to prevent injury”
They do appear. I’ve read them. I’ve said them myself. That said, SGA and Embiid definitely get more hate than Jokic and Wemby for the same thing due to their reputation. But Jokic and Wemby are catching up.
Why isn’t Doncic mentioned? He’s as bad as anyone
I don’t know. Ask the guy above me. I used the name he used.
commenter wants to be a victim so damn bad he ignores that SGA’s nickname is literally FTA
Its not a nick its a slander name. Also this literally means nothing
and Wemby’s nickname is Wimpy
they probably do they just dont get upvoted on those lol
Embiid is BRUTAL to watch.
people were so happy OKC lost last year due to the all flopping and crying when the flop wasn’t rewarded. Shai got it a lot and deserved, it was more of like a team thing to the point people were suggesting the team may actually practice/teach them flopping lol
Except you’re the one who can’t read, he was saying why the “it’s a reffing issue, not a player issue” comments don’t happen with Shai, not why does nobody talk about Shai flopping.
You misunderstood the comment you’re replying to bud
??? The fuck sorry i guess
Apology ACCEPTED
This comment section is wild compared to similar SGA posts over the years.
Look Wemby is already arguably the best defender ever, and has a very real argument for “best in the world” right now… but jeez, these are embarrassing.
These flops are as egregious as SGA/Luka/Embiid. And those guys got an unbelievable amount of hate.
How are people saying wemby is arguably the best defender ever? Are you 12? Hes played like 2 seasons lmfao.
I’m “hedging” – layering praise first before critiquing.
My GOAT defender is still Hakeem, and will be until Wemby stacks up at least 5-7 seasons of his current play.
But purely based on peak, Wemby’s definitely at least top 5 defensive peaks ever. And you could certainly argue him as having the highest defensive impact ever of anyone other than Hakeem.
It’s crazy the shit ppl are saying about Wemby already.
In terms of impact when he’s on the court. That’s something we can look at and compare
I heard a pretty compelling argument about the genuine exhaustion of both teams. The schedule, length of the game and the number of minutes, pushes them to seek any kind of resting.
Both teams were on the second of a back to back on this game, so exhaustion certainly played a part in the number of fouls here.
Falling over & getting back up is very taxing, it would not be beneficial.
Try doing it on skis or a snowboard 50 times your first day ever & you wake up the next day with crazy sore muscles in places you’ve never even felt before.
Simply staying standing on your feet is less taxing.
I do think it is flopping versus playing basketball at a professional level but I hear your point. Certainly not a perfect explanation for flopping
Thought they started calling a tech for flops? Did the early season calls stop already? Lol
The game moves fast, can’t blame the refs if players move as if they actually got hit. They can’t review every call.
They were calling literally everything in this game in the first half. I think both teams had 17 fts or something crazy like that in the first half. These people clipping just Wemby’s calls are just pushing an agenda. The whole game was poorly officiated. These shouldn’t have been called. Same can be said for a dozen other ones they called. Spurs were dominating either way this one wasn’t close
I watch a lot of basketball and the Spurs were playing some of the most aggressive basketball I have seen for a random Saturday regular season game. It felt like playoff level physicality.
I like that kind of play don’t get me wrong. But it’s not surprising they were committing a lot of fouls.
That was my thought watching it. Spurs were playing playoff defense in the regular season. Refs were not down for that. They should be though. The regular season to playoff whistle should not be a thing.
Agreed.And is there a single person who isn’t down for intense “playoff-style” games on a saturday in early november?
ethical hooper
Lmao
No bias detected
This is an NBA problem. It fucking sucks
All of them were fouls. Ppl salty cause he’s to good and dominating to soon.
Bro is flopping like a fish out of water out there. Definitely a reffing issue and stop calling these soft ass fouls and let players play actual defense
This is what Adam silver has done to the game.
lol no flopping like a fish
The second one is a major flop
The third one with deni is technically a foul but he embellished the fuck out of that
I mean the Blazers also flop a fuck ton especially Deni, but yeah those flops are pretty bad from Wemby. Kinda worse when the only way to defend him is to put a strong body on him but they won’t even let you do that
It’s a different kind of foul baiting. Deni gets a lot of hate but he doesn’t fall like this which is why you don’t see the compilations like people post of SGA with him.
Deni is a bad outside shooter but he is strong and fast and impossible to stay in front of so he never pulls up and avoids contact. He drives hard to the rim, generates contact if he can and then tries to score. It’s why he led the league in and 1’s.
It’s rare to see Deni fall with light contact with no attempt or chance to score. It’s still foul baiting but it’s more similar to the way Giannis does it than SGA or Wemby or Luka
people will literally say anything to justify why their preferred foul baiter baits ethically, but the other foul baiters are actually evil
Excuse me my preferred foul baiter didn’t play last night
I have not seen Luka flop anywhere near as bad as what Wemby showed in this clip. Luka is defended with physicality the second he touches the ball and he’s not a fast guy. He’s always taking contact, and doesn’t just fall to the ground here unless he takes an elbow to the rib/face, whatever.
Right, the issue with Luka is the faces, the whining and constant ref conversations. But Wemby is embarrassing, especially given his size. Can you imagine Shaq doing this shit?
Yep lol. If Wemby starts flopping like SGA just imagine the hate
Deni is the same weight as Wemby despite being 8 inches shorter. Of course he doesn’t fall the same way.
Yeah I heavily disagree on that. Deni flops any which way he can to get a call and for some reason he gets rewarded for it
I know the hate boner for Avdija is heavy on here but he’s not a flopper. That’s just blind hate. At most he embellishes the effect of contact but he’s not a flopper or a gamesman.
Avdija is absolutely a flopper
Nah the contact plays arent what makes Deni insufferable to watch, it’s all the constant hunting for rip-through fouls without actually trying to play out the possession properly. It’s basically what Harden used to do a lot (but he exaggerated it way more), rip through and fling the ball wildly so you can claim you were in a shooting motion.
To be fair, he’s not really doing that this year. Almost all of his fouls are coming off the drive with bump contact. Still annoying to watch because you know it’s coming and he still manages to succeed with it.
Deni literally threw the ball up in the air acting like he got hit when no one got within a foot of him. Led to a fast break.
Link the clip please
Don’t have a link. I watched it live.
Deni gets a lot of hate but he doesn’t fall like this
what have ya’ll been watching man, Deni is a top tier flopper in this league.
Deni is what people think SGA is.
Deni is more like Giannis where he should probably get called for more offensive fouls, but he doesn’t flop as much he throws himself into defenders
Not even close lol, driving into contact doesn’t make you a flopper
Wait two years for people to start compiling the Deni flop highlights the same way they do for Shai
At least I can respect SGA to a degree. Dudes midrange is automatic and he’s still a good player. Deni is such a crybaby little bitch and if he didn’t get FT calls he’d average maybe 15
I think it was cissoko
The 2nd one in the clip is an embellishment of contact. I thought all NBA players embellish contact.
That’s definitely a flop. Any NBA player can play through getting tapped on the side. Don’t need to flail out of bounds
The defender extends their elbow. He just sold it which is embellishment. A flop is when a player just randomly throws them self around. Which is the first clip. Come on bro you should know these things.
Spurs fans are either some of the most knowledgeable fans in the league or are just blinded by their hard on for Wemby lmao. That’s a flop clear as day. Also, selling contact like that if that’s what you think it is is still a flop
Wemby flop/sold it but camara knows better to put his elbow on a rebounder’s back near the OOB line. He had the rebound, let it go.
The foul disparity was 17-4 against us by this point. Portland was flopping every trip down. We got tired of it and returned the favor until they stopped. Then beat their ass.
Okay? My point still stands that the blazers flop, but also these flops from Wemby are pretty bad. Not sure what your point is tbh
I laid out the point pretty well there by giving context to to what you were seeing in the video. Not sure I can spoon feed you any better. You don’t understand because of ignorance or hate, but that’s not my problem.
Dawg what are you talking about. Those flops in the video are bad, but I’m acknowledging that Deni specifically also flops pretty bad. Flops don’t excuse other flops even if they are makeup calls.
Also give me a break with the ignorance or hate lmao. This is a basketball subreddit not a political debate
You don’t play for the spurs little bro you don’t know their gameplan and if they were “tired of it”. Stop saying we
What are you on about? Fans of a team have been saying “we” forever when talking about the team they support.
It was also pretty damn obvious what was going on in the game if you had eyes. Didn’t take a genius.
Learn the difference between foul baiting and flopping. Deni foul baits. Wemby flops
Lmao what deni does not flop
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When they were saying this, the Spurs had taken 21 fts and the Blazers had taken 20, They were just being little bitches about it.
Some of these are fouls but there’s a few that are extremely exaggerated lol.
They gave out quite a few flopping techs the first few games of the season that were less than this lol.
Not saying Wemby needs to be fined or anything, just shows another case of inconsistency with reffing.
All the flopping techs are for defense. Never offense. It’s even in the NBA points of emphasis video, where flopping on offense is not considered whatsoever.
This is what bugs me, I want to see some offensive flopping calls. Yes, even on my guys. Let players play defense.
I feel like the players association or agents would push back on that sort of enforcement. Bigger numbers = bigger paychecks usually.
I mean…the cap/luxury tax keeps the amount teams have to spend the same
The problem is that for offensive flopping calls you have to then show that no contact worthy of a foul happened, and a lot of contact technically deserving a whistle happens on any given play
And go back to 83-79 games… Nah those are playoffs only.
Yeah. I remember coaches pointing this out as well (Finch and redick both said this)
They were calling em in preseason
Which is crazy cause the complaints have always been more on the offense flop. So cracking down on defense flops is not a crackdown. It’s like complaining to cops about people dealing drugs in the neighborhood by the school so cops crackdown by giving out more parking and speeding tickets in the area.
That’s a shame.
I was gonna say, the first two were fouls but it’s how Wemby exaggerates the fall that makes it silly. The last one is just a guy getting off balance in changing direction quickly for a rebound (at least to me)
Ngl I don’t think it’s silly for a player to exaggerate to make the refs actually call a foul that happened
He should be fined. If they don’t actually punish flopping it will never stop.
None of these are fouls man come on. The fact that anything in this video is remotely considered a foul is just sad and soft.
Game would be a hell of a lot better if all of this was play on or flopping techs on wemby
Embiid stumbled so Wemby could flail.
He’s gonna perfect his flopping this year and yell AYYYYY when someone’s finger nail brushes his jersey
The fucking AYYYY at any contact in the paint is weak sauce
You should be able to get a flopping tech for that. It’s no different than all the embellishment we see.
And ant gets no calls for it anyways
Notoriously started by Anthony Davis.
Most wolves fans think it’s weak too especially because he gets the worst whistle in the NBA anyways.
And Murray flopping himself into the slightest brush from a defender is greatness personified I’m sure.
Lol I didn’t even name a soul but here you are.
Some of these calls are interesting…
Exactly the vibes. He’s gonna get hurt falling
Mavs fans, or anyone else, that watched the recent game knows that Wemby’s whistle is elite right now. He SGA’d the hell out of the Mavs. Credit to him, since he doesn’t blow the whistle, but the least fun thing to watch in the NBA is a player shooting 20+ FT in a game, and he may be one of the funnest player in the NBA to watch.
I mean the Mavs game is clearly an outlier. It’s one of only two games this season he’s had double digit FTA’s. The other was the season opener in which he had 12
Tell me which of the ones in the Mavs game wasn’t a foul. Literally been YouTube analysis already about the fouls in that game. This game Wemby started flopping in response to the Blazers getting everything called for them in the 1st so much so that they were in the bonus before they had a single team foul.
LOL his Blazers game was egregious falling/flailing but the Mavs legit just fucking hacked him all game because he might’ve dropped 65 otherwise. That’s a terrible example to use bc it was almost all legit fouls. He even had his legs grabbed a couple times with no call.
Yes, Embiid lives on the Floor, and im a 76ers fan who has turned off all our games cause hes on the floor 14 times within the first 8 minutes
Its painful to watch, so i cant do it. Our fanboys are jokes defending him
“What are we doing here”
He’s gonna wear out his body diving to the hardwood like this on every possession.
Yikes. Was gonna comment that everyone flops get over it but those second two were egregious
Go look at some from the western semis last year… mfer was jumping out of bounds on purpose…
While throwing dudes by their neck and shoving them by their head with no whistle called. Welcome to the NBA
He elbowed Naz Reid in the throat, it’s weird how that isn’t mentioned more and how he didn’t get fined for it
It’s forgotten about now because it ended up not mattering, but he committed a clear landing zone violation in game 5 of the Finals, and the refs assessed it, looked at this image and determined that somehow it wasn’t a flagrant, which would’ve resulted in him being suspended.
Some calls are judgement calls, or matters of opinion, but this was a factual error plain as day being watched in slow motion repeatedly.
They didn’t “miss the call”, they were told in no uncertain terms that he was not to be given another flagrant.
Because he’s (one of) the face of the league. Gonna positive spin the F out of his every move.
It’s mentioned pretty constantly lmao
He catches the highlights for his monk and football training stuff, not for his Draymond-inspired antics.
“Ethical” hoops
“Ethical hooper” elbowing guys and flopping all over the place. Hmm….
Should have been suspended for the Brunson shove.
Glad they didn’t so we could embarrass his lanky ass anyway.
doing the same shit against us a few games ago
Should have had 2x as many free throws in the playoffs
Probably cause his arms looked like candy canes after the wolves were scratching and pulling on him constantly.
Such a lame ass excuse lol
Bigs have been getting bodied as long as basketball has been a sport
Being a giant and flailing like you got shot after any form of contact is objectively weak af and idk how you can say otherwise
No excuse to flop so egregiously. Teams will play him rough because he is weak. Ant doesnt get any damn calls his entire career and he has never flopped once his entire career. wemby did it 3 times in a 2 minute span.
It’s so unfair honestly. Fail baiters already have the benefit of like 6 extra FTA per game, but they also get defended weaker because everyone knows they’re looking for a foul.
Ant is at a huge disadvantage because he refuses to play like a punk. I hope it doesn’t matter and he wins more chips than the foul baiters
This is premier league shit.
Second one is even excusable since you don’t really know how hard a shove in the back is. Third one is… something
Based on my viewing the second one is another thing (like flopping) that the rule enforcement basically encourages.
It seems like if someone gets pushed on the baseline/sideline to force them OoB, the refs will call it a foul but only if the guy with the ball falls over. If Wemby just puts a foot forward to regain balance here they’d probably call it OoB and Blazers ball.
1st one felt like the biggest flop to me with a deliberate fall. I excuse the second because it looked like he’s on his toes trying to stay in bounds and a shove in the back definitely can throw you off balance. The third he just stumbled on his own feet and should’ve been a no call.
First one is clear foul though, he was being held before that. 2nd one I don’t think is a flop, he’s on his toes on 1 foot getting the ball when lightly shoved. 3rd one is a dumb call but it’s not a flop he falls backward trying to reach the rebound.
Don’t really see how people blame Wemby for any of these 3. Personally think the first 2 are correct and the 3rd is a bad call but no fault of Wemby.
It’s kinda crazy someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I feel like he didn’t play like this when he first came into the league. Looks like learned behavior, and knowing that it will benefit him, which is a bigger league wide problem where ever star player definitely big men start playing like this
Every star should play like this, given how the game is currently called
You’re falling behind if you’re not apparently
San Antonio to the finals this year.
They lose it to the sixers this year. Then next year Bron hands the reins over to Wemby with his first title.
Exactly, I thought we were dishing T’s for that?
Third one is not even close to a foul, maybe even a foul on Wemby, but from the top angle, he seems like he might have just fallen over when he was grabbing the ball rather than an intentional flop.
Oof. Those were some soft ass calls, the last one especially was just awful.
The first one bugs me the most tbh, even though it’s a pretty standard NBA call.
This shit just isn’t basketball. No advantage created, no handle, no footwork, no pumpfakes, just bringing the ball up and falling over. Wemby’s the one backing the defender down ffs. Look at all the shit Steph has to do on-ball to get a shot off, and then compare it to this flopping shit. At least guys like Butler or Brunson use footwork and pump fakes to get their defender in the air when they bait a foul.
It’s crazy how pick up basketball with randoms shlubs is a purer version of basketball than this nonsense.
Yeah I like that certain things are called loosely to let guys show off, but they really need to lock down on what is or isn’t a shooting foul.
You can see it creating all these weird moves that feel wrong and downtime that no one wants to watch. Loose travels and carries at least keep the pace high
The last one is a foul on him. He gives a guy a forearm shiver to the back and then falls down
Last one he just fell because of being out of balance. Not sure why that was called a foul. I see fouls in the others. Wemby falls anytime his base is at risk. He has since he was a rookie. Now that he’s in the interior more, more people are going to see it.
The first two were fine calls. The last one was horrible
It feels like the rules are too easy to manipulate. Foul calls should be to stop players from committing fouls, not to give certain players the ability to cheese the game by initiating contact. It’s lame regardless.
There is no way to punish one team and not incentivize the other team
That was real bad after I just seen someone talking about the “Wemby is fragile narrative “.
“None of the greats play like this”
Who’s gonna tell him
step 1: watch only highlights step 2: make reddit account step 3: be a r/NBA nephew
Actually, big men are told to fall. Embiid and Wemby most notably have been told to just let go when unnecessary strain is put on their joints.
Also, not to mention for the end part there, LeBron is kinda infamous for flopping. So is SGA, and many other players this generation that might be considered great. Pau Gasol, Laimbeer, and Divac used to flop like fish.
I don’t agree with that call, but the refs were calling everything, I think there was thirty free throws in the second quarter.
Embiid technique for avoiding injury.
I said that. I wrote that in my comment. Wemby has cited the same reason many times.
Dude has a ridiculous whistle this year
That shit works until the whistle changes in the playoffs. Teams will body him until he elbows someone in the throat.
They gave him a lot of calls once the spurs went down 2-0 in the finals.
Did you watch the playoffs last year? Parade to the free throw line
Did you? Wemby was getting fucking hammered lol.
Two hand shove to the back of brunson’s head with no call comes to mind immediately
There are not that many players that can reach Wenby’s elbows height…
Don’t try to act like that wasn’t in retaliation to the countless attempts on his acl. Every other possession they had multiple people trying to land on his feet and step on the back of his foot while holding his arms so that he couldn’t rebound , and they were blatantly trying to take his legs out. It got to a point so he got angry enough to go for a swing at one of the perps. Not condoning his actions but you can’t assault a guy the whole game and then get made when he finally snaps
Where did you get this fan fiction? Is this what they write over in the Spurs sub?
Not in the spurs sub. That series was horrible to watch , both teams were just trying to fight each other without the refs noticing. How there was only a couple , non serious injuries is beyond me.
He really does. It’s tough enough that it’s impossible to block his shot because of his size. Now if you box him out he just falls and gets the whistle every time.
Meanwhile, Wemby can just reach over guys and not get called for over-the-back.
Reaching over someone’s back isn’t what “over-the-back” fouls are though, it’s the body contact that most players have to do to get that reach. Those Gumby arms of his can more cleanly reach over which is why he doesn’t get them often.
There’s literally no such foul as over the back. He has to push or bump a player, impeding their ability to grab a rebound to get called for a foul.
He and Deni both got the super whistle recently.
Which makes this game hilarious when the teams cry about free throws in this one.
Deni actually work for those fouls. No one touched this guy
His whistle in the Mavs game was absurd. Really compounded by the inconsistency on the other end. Dude is really good, he doesn’t need the help.
Yall were guarding him with PJ Washington and switching onto him with guards lol, the Mavs were whacking him all game because they had no other option
Re watch that game. The only thing Mavs could do was hack at him to try and stop him since they were out of bigs.
go back and see every whistle he got, the mavs couldn’t contain him, they HAD to foul him lmao. the “whistle” he gets is just the opposition doing anything they can to stop him, it’s really not that hard to understand
saying this under a video full of wemby flopping really doesn’t help make your case
Well then you can do yourself a favor and go back and watch videos of each of the fouls on Wemby and come to your own conclusion.
Here’s a video from BBallbreakdown and he touches on all the fouls. He’s not biased whatsoever and is constantly doing breakdowns for any team/player
This doesnt explain why he only got 2 fouls whole game when he was not playing clean either
its already better than Shais ever was but people dont wanna hear it
Upset that he dropped 52 on y’all because you couldn’t guard him LOL.
Mavs used 0 challenges against any of Wemby’s free throws BTW
Pause lol
He gets fouled plenty no doubt, but you should be able to be physical on rebounds boxing him out considering how much pushing he does on the boards
Seriously. That one on Deni is just wild. They both initiated contact while trying to position for the rebound. Then Wemby just flops over to sell a foul call.
While the first two were soft calls with clearl embellishments they at least meet a criteria of a fouls. That last one is just pathetic.
Dam I read this as Wembley got 8 feet in the second quarter. I was like what
I thought they were focused on flopping this year.
They’ve been very explicit that they’re are exclusively focused on flopping on defense. There hasn’t been any focus on flopping on offense
Defensive only
That doesn’t apply to the nba’s golden boy the 7’5 guard
r/nba champion of ethical basketball
This is Shai’s fault somehow.
Yes, SGA is most famously the first person in basketball history to flop ever.
Im a wemby glazer and a blazers fan– I didn’t even watch this game but these clips make me sick. Literally what is he doing? how is this ok in an NBA game lol
Ethical basketball, bro.
He flops and has continued to flop.
It’s not ok, Wemby should be fined for flopping. This is not ok. These clips make me sick, it’s like reliving last years finals all over again
Agreed
Well a lot of that game made me ill…
The NBA rewards this so strongly that players literally practice faking fouls like they practice shooting free throws
Downvotes? Don’t think these guys all don’t have a go to leaner to draw contact for shots? Be bad business to not be competitive at all the ways to score for your team, of course they think about it. I see high schoolers trying it weekly
Hitting the floor so he can get injured again.
Basketball is literally worse than soccer now. Borderline unwatchable
Those are all fouls, they’re moving into his body while he’s losing his balance. Or in Camara’s case he just shoved him while he was on one foot trying not to go out of bounds. And despite what these clips show, the blazers had actually shot more FT’s in the first half.
lmao sure
Show us a clip where you could toe the baseline on one foot while getting shoved on your upper half.
I’ll wait.
Ok Wemby
Lmao you’ve never played basketball have you
Whatever you say, matt. How’s that bronny glazing crusade going?? 🤣
Just salty the spurs beat y’all in the playoffs.
Yall ain’t beating shit this year with Wemby on the floor half the game dude is gonna fuck himself up.
2 things you should have never admitted out loud…
bc Daddy Silver says so
Simple. You foul him harder.
How is this is the NBA Adam Silver wants? His best players are just flopping around on the ground and begging for calls. It’s unwatchable.
I don’t know how people watch this years NBA and think man this is good ball. Unless you are 12 or you just blindly follow NBA out of habit.
Twolves
You’re watching it
I didn’t say I dont watch lol I said it’s bad. Reading is a skill. NBA fans get so defensive. Product sucks I hope it gets better.
Then don’t watch it?
I hope this comment extends to your team as well
Sorry I think there might be something wrong with your comment, it’s just 😭😭😭😭 over and over again. Did you mean to write that?
Holy fuck dude, you fucking fried me. You win the internet today sir
Weird, this one says “I’m a big baby with a poopie diaper won’t someone please help me with my poopie diaper please please someone help me.” Mods should contact Reddit support to fix this bug.
Obviously it does
Not so obvious coming from a whiny Portland fan haha
Dude all you’re doing is whining on reddit. Sorry that the only way your star player can get a good stat line is by flopping lmfao
The first one looked right. The others…
Players are going to develop the mindset from other professional sports in that if you’re going to foul somebody you’re going to absolutely make it count. If they think he’s going to flop they might as well just charge the hell out of him and send his ass into the court
none were good calls, are you blind?!?!?
why are the refs doing this?
this reminds me of the shai thing for about a third of last season. I doubt that SGA or wemby campaigned for ridiculous whistles. I mean I know that SGA didn’t and I cannot imagine Wemby would.
these refs are making horrible stupid dumbass calls. There are already too many calls that favor the offensive player just in general and the idea of giving a generous whistle to a 7-5 player like you would a 5-5 player is actually insane.
I hope that everyone is able to direct their rage at the ref and foul situation in the NBA in general. These shitty calls for Wemby are a symptom of a real problem in the league and not a sign of cheating by the Spurs or any of their players.
My guess is a directive from Adam Silver to make sure the faces of the league get an “exciting” scoreline. I don’t think they realize how they get their scoreline matters to the average viewer way more.
Either that or a ref needing to hit on his parlays
Curry getting calls like never before this season, you might be onto it
Absolutely direction from silver, ain’t no way he not involved in this buffoonery
Like how no one cares about Bam’s 83 point game.
No one should care about it. That was heinous. That’s not what nba basketball should be. I miss the 90’s.
Have y’all forgotten Lebron in Miami? This isn’t anything new. Even Lebron knows it. He called it out in a game against Brunson earlier this year. Wemby is going to be the golden boy of the next era of basketball once Lebron retires.
I remember a game years ago between the raptors and the Lakers. Shaw and Kobe Lakers vs VC raptors. The refs hosed the raptors so bad. In the post game interview on the court they were trying to ask Shaq a couple questions and he went off about how bad the officiating was amd how they didn’t want to win like that. Cursing on live TV and the interviewer reminded him he was on live TV and he said I dont give a shit or something like that. It was epic lol
Yo I remember that! That’s shit was hilarious
Wemby absolutely has campaigned for more whistles and even admitted he needs to start flopping more
Wemby is also to blame for falling over after any contact lol
Dismissing blame for SGA or Wemby or any other player who flops and foul baits is a hilariously stupid ask
The refs and the players are to blame. It’s all as soft as baby shit
You can dislike a player for doing it but 100% blame should go to the refs. People let them get away by creating hate campaigns for players when they enforce the rule
Insane take, and completely wrong
Refs choose to enforce the rules the way they want it. This is a bit of a mixed issue because Wemby is also known for dirty plays (fuck him for that elbow) but the refs have been like this since before he was in the league. Thinking Basketball has done a ton of videos of how much the refs influence the game. It’s a waste of air space to come at players for it. Like I said that doesn’t mean don’t hate on them for it, but it more important to force the league’s hand
Players are naturally gonna take any advantage or loophole given. It’s the refs problem for giving them the loopholes
I would have to think wemby was trained to fall like that to avoid injury. When we had AD he fell all the time and avoided major injury for a few years.
But he’s not get fouled here…
Street Clothes AD avoided injury huh
He wasn’t even a Laker for a few years on the court. He played like 1.5 seasons maybe total for em
I think it’s a bit soft to play like this, but I can hardly blame the players given Adam Silver is practically begging them to flop more. You could argue any star who isn’t flopping is leaving easy points on the table.
This is a wild comment lol
You should blame the players and the refs. That will only expedite this nonsense being removed from the league. The players are absolutely to blame as well as the refs and the league
The fact that some of you are dismissing the players’ blame in this or even thinking of making the argument that more players should do this until the refs stop calling it because they’re leaving points on the board is absolutely insane
Why?
Their job is to win, and if the game is going to reward this - then I’m not going to blame them for doing what it takes to win. The blame is absolutely on the refs and league for incentivizing it
falling after contact can be a safety thing.
Ok? Thats so obviously not what’s happening here
yes it is. Wemby is a giant alien dude with extra long limbs, it would be super easy for him to roll an ankle. he has talked about practicing falls to go to the ground saftely instead of awkwardly stumbing trying to catch himself.
Y’all are still mad that your gameplan to goad Wemby into a flagrant foul worked perfectly, and the best part is the PR that you guys get as if he Metta World Peace’d a guy out of nowhere is hilarious.
This comment is somehow softer than Wemby’s flopping lmao
Edwards will have to leave Minneapolis to find success just like garnet
It’s getting to point where we have 20 FT’s in a quarter. So if thats every quarter then that is 80 FT’s in a game per team.
Please show me a video of Shai doing this shit or the equivalent of this shit. Majority of Shai’s FTs came 4th quarter when they were up and other teams fouled. Please show me a Shai highlight of him flailing like this in one single game.
Shai may not campaign for it but he’s certainly fishing for it the way he flops
SGA loves those whistles dude. They made him an MVP and a champ.
How are you downvoted? Go watch his flailing all over the court, I don’t see how people couldn’t agree.
I think the league wants to keep Wemby uninjured. Since he is an awkwardly large human they blow the whistle whenever things look like they might be going that way. Most normally tall players don’t get that advantage.
You know that isn’t happening. Do you think that anyone here knows the Blazers were in the bonus with 0 team fouls 4 minutes into the game?
Meanwhile when wembys in sa he gets zero calls
If you watch spurs games youd know wemby gets deserved free throws. This is propanda because both the lakers and knicks fanbases have narratives to push
“Hes just smart with how he falls” holy shit lmao
I don’t care who was doing it first in this game or what the score was, it’s frustrating how much you are not allowed to play basketball with the guy who is supposed to be the future of the NBA. Box him out, he’s on the ground. Play offense against him he’s on the ground. Play defense; ground. Not entertaining basketball.
The only answer is to foul him because he is vastly taller than them. Maybe they shouldn’t shove him and reach as much as they do because most of these guys aren’t used to playing against someone with that much of a height difference they resort to fouling. He also isn’t heavy for his frame so it does push him more than someone like jokic but he still gets fouled a ton and doesnt get the whistle because it doesnt move him. I get more annoyed that bigs dont get as many calls as they should, not mad that they call the ones on wemby.
People act like it takes a lot to put a guy on the ground when he’s 7’4 and only 235 pounds.
His low BMI should not be the other teams problem…
Sure. And yet, the laws of physics continue to apply.
It doesn’t take much when the guy is trying to get on the ground.
Need the same energy yall have for SGA
Well, he has to flop to even the playing field. It’s not like he has an egregious advantage in every other sense.
Yes it was the Spurs who were in the Bonus 4 minutes into the game, oh wait.
That camara one was a flat out joke!
Camara is a sneaky elite flopper. He drew so many fouls in the playoffs against us now Wemby is getting him back.
These dudes don’t watch basketball don’t bother.
I thought the league was doing anti flop penalties? More lip service from the league
They are, just not for their favourites
Only defensive
Ethical flops
The foul count was 17-4 against the Spurs at this point. Portland was shipping around like a bunch of fish and the Spurs said “fine, if y’all don’t want to play basketball”. At one point Dani just threw the ball up 20ft in the air expecting to be fouled and no one got within a foot of him.
Wemby does this every game stop this nonsense
I was at the game. Spurs are a wack, whiny team only matched by their fans.
and what was it against us? got an excuse for that too?
Make the video for the Mavs game, I’ll wait
I don’t even blame the players at this point. I blame the league. Players goal is to win and if flopping as much as possible leads to a win, then they should be doing it. But it’s the job of the league to prevent garbage like this from leading to a win.
Tell the Blazers that. Or I’m guessing you didn’t watch the game and came with your agenda…
I know I’m biased, but god damn I was frustrated too. This game sucked to watch.
Your team started it, you got what you asked for
Tf you talking about? Flopping has been an issue well before this game.
i think what he meant to say, without sounding like an elementary school comeback, is that the blazers were also getting the same amount of calls the first half of the game, i’m not sure if you remember at one point the fts attempted were 5 for the spurs and 19 for the blazers, and a lot of those free throws were pretty similar to the ones you’re upset about in this video
Yeah, the game sucked to watch. I don’t care if it’s my team of the opposing team, I hate foul bating and flopping.
It’s not just the plays in this video, the entire game was ass.
That’s a lot of flopping
He’s the NBA’s media darling right now - those aren’t flops, he’s protecting his body.
I’m laughing at people writing paragraphs saying this will help him prevent injury.
In no world is throwing yourself on the ground easier on your body
It’s exaggerating contact to get a call. Just accept it and move on. Jumping through hoops to act like that isn’t simply what he was doing lol
Those same people went back and deleted all of their Embiid slander related to this because he does the same thing. Now instead they’ll just shit on him for being injury prone rather than flopping because otherwise it’ll expose their hypocrisy.
no one ever deletes their embiid slander my brother
its their full time job to hate on this dude who can barely walk or jump anymore. They hate on him for both and treat injuries as a moral failing. Like hes a shell of himself and not competing for MVPs anymore. Youd think it would die down a little but naww dude is still a lightning rod anytime he does or says anything. The fact hes moving well on defense when we thought he was absolutely cooked should be getting positive attention but only Embiid = Bad sells and generates rage bait.
In sports, you train your body to become fast, strong and agile to avoid falling because if you fall you give your opponent an advantage. Players don’t have to fall if they use their muscles to stay upright. Refs need to learn how to read a player’s body language. It’s silly and unwatchable for me.
Its actually true a lot of the time but these werent those situations + i got downvoted to hell when i said this on threads about shai and embiid
More time on the floor than anyone they’ve ever seen? Obviously did not watch Embiid in his prime
or your mother
Was she paralyzed? Why was she on the floor?
The joke is the related to sex.
Yes I know. I was being obtuse.
At least Embiid would get tangled up harden style and it was somewhat a debatable. Wemby fell over without even being touched right before halftime yesterday.
LOL 76ers fan here
Embiid LIVES on the ground
Nobody does it like him, dude is addicted to the floor for 10 years
Obviously a nuggets fan
Nuggets flairs spend more time being annoying shits towards 76ers Thunder and Wolves than actually caring about their own team.
Edit: y’all downvote me but you don’t call me a liar lol
It’s funny because Jokic flops and flails like the rest of them but because his RAPTORCUM/90 rivals Bill Russell or something, he’s the fat white nerds favorite
Fr lol Embiid barely even has knees and mfs STILL wondering why he falls instead of landing 270 lbs repeatedly onto his joints lmao
76ers fan, Embiid is biggest Flopper ever and lives on the floor, shut up
LeFlop has entered the chat
Came here looking for this
SGA last season
You mean Luka last season?
Bruh how are you a lakers fan saying that😭
Luka flops on contact but doesn’t fall often.
To be fair I’m pretty sure the blazers new owner fired the regular announcers and this is just 2 random fans he offered (1) beer to do this.
Why they aren’t afraid to speak the truth about what the are watching.
Woah, you’re really funny and original!
Funny how, how am I funny?
You’re a twat. That’s what you are.
Or SGA in the ‘26 playoffs. Bro fell on nearly 17% of every shot he attempted in the playoffs (including shooting fouls).
You meant to say Harden right? The guy they invented the flopping penalty for.
And then promptly forgot they invented it.
Harden’s trick was hooking arms on drives and getting defenders on his back, not falling over.
Embiid didn’t even end up on the floor 25% of the time of this dude. Embiid foul baits but he doesn’t flop like this
The finger-point to the ref after the third one is what really gets me. He is treating them like teammates and congratulating them on making a play and having chemistry with him. Gross.
Yeah it’s a shame, he’s so young and already sees the game that way. Hate to say it but I wonder if it’s a Euro thing partly? Idk. Like Shai foul baits but never goes to the ref directly. Then you see Wemby and Luka doing this. Savvy, I guess?
lol don’t know why but I read this as “wenby gets 8 foot”.
I thought it was some new term the kids say. Like maybe a way to say he was playing even bigger than his size. Or maybe a play on the whole “ate/8” trend from a few months back
Took me way too long to figure it out.