Playing the flop card

[NBAFan]

Flopping Mad

He doesn't know why Derek Fisher was hot or why fans threw stuff after Utah's Game 4 loss. Here's why, Manu.

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[cheguevara]

thanks for giving Spurs their credit for winning the game.

[Budkin]

This guy can go fuck himself in his Utah Jazz gear.

[Mr. Body]

What a joke.

[Oh, Gee!!]

Ginobili is the Bart Simpson of the NBA

[CubanMustGo]

Golly, every trip to the FT line came from a flop. What a loser.

[BigBeezie]

The Spurs took it to them last night...

[LilMissSPURfect]

This guy can go fuck himself in his Utah Jazz gear.


after he takes the nash jerzzzy off

[703 Spurz]

So none of Manu's free throws were true fouls huh? :dizzy

[Solid D]

Certainly, a different perspective on how things went last night.

http://www.nba.com/media/manu2_300_070528.jpg

On a different note, did anyone see Manu's Mike Krzyzewski impersonation?

[ATRAIN]

hahah yeah yet another writer all up on the jock of someone else I presume.

[spurster]

All the better to be in the Jazz players' heads.

[carina_gino20]

it's just so funny. spurs pulled out a tough win, first ever in front of a hostile Utah crowd and this is all he can come up with?

what a flop.

[Budkin]

Is this the type of "flop" he is talking about?

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070529/capt.ab1cc10b21d341129022cd2bc8299e60.spurs_jazz_b asketball_slcc112.jpg

[DarrinS]

Yeah, what a flopper :rolleyes

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/sp/getty/56/fullj.getty-74165841ab073_spurs_jazz_12_53_34_am.jpg

[sa_butta]

Flopping wins championships, maybe Utah should take some lessons.

[GrandeDavid]

I'm not gonna waste my time reading such a poor body of literary trash. That guys Wojwhatever sucks and has no writing skills.

[The_Worlds_finest]

I read the article what a joke this guy is, fisher was being competative trying the robert horry style of getting an edge on the spurs...to bad fisher is to careless to relize spurs are not as low as suns players

[samikeyp]

Boy am I glad we have this guy to point out every single Spurs travesty.

Yep...he nailed it...Manu is the only guy in the league who flops. Just like Tim is the only guy who complains about calls.


Fuck the world....Go Spurs.

[TMTTRIO]

Is this the type of "flop" he is talking about?

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070529/capt.ab1cc10b21d341129022cd2bc8299e60.spurs_jazz_b asketball_slcc112.jpg

Actually it's a new kind of flop. It is the magnets on Manu that forced Okurs arm down on his head and makes him push Manu down. Damn David Blaine for letting the secret out :lol .

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Flopping wins championships, maybe Utah should take some lessons.too bad it's not paying off for devin harris anytime soon. sorry. i just had to.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Yeah, what a flopper :rolleyes

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/sp/getty/56/fullj.getty-74165841ab073_spurs_jazz_12_53_34_am.jpgthis must be the other angle that someone pointed out was a better indication of the non-flop.

[Mr. Body]

I wasn't sure why that Okur foul wasn't a flagrant.

[George Gervin's Afro]

He is also the guy who called the spurs a dirty team..

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I wasn't sure why that Okur foul wasn't a flagrant.

Meh...Manu led with the knee on that play.

Obvious personal foul on Okur, leave it at that.

[wildbill2u]

Tell me that Boozer didn't get a lot of body on TD down low on that block of his. He damn near put Timmy in the upper seats. No call.

[Kermit]

ginobili wasn't even the floppiest player last night. paul millsap was.

[Solid D]

Tell me that Boozer didn't get a lot of body on TD down low on that block of his. He damn near put Timmy in the upper seats. No call.

He got to the ball first, however, and naturally the bodies are going to collide there. I'd say it was a great block by Boozer on that play, IMO.

[Vito Corleone]

Derek Fisher and Divac are kings of flop, Manu has nothing on them, and the Jazz have nothing to talk about, remember Karl Malone and John Stockton? They were as dirty as they come and could sell a flop better than anyone.

The Spurs take what the refs will give them just like every other champion.

[RobinsontoDuncan]

Tell me that Boozer didn't get a lot of body on TD down low on that block of his. He damn near put Timmy in the upper seats. No call.


I know, and all this time im thinking, jesus am i the only person that didnt notice Boozer fucking body slammed duncan on that block?

[Marcus Bryant]

Welcome to those new to the game known as basketball. Boozer got to the ball first. Clean block.

[Amare_32]

Manu being accused of flopping! No way he will never do that. :lol

[BreezeHillBill]

He got to the ball first, however, and naturally the bodies are going to collide there. I'd say it was a great block by Boozer on that play, IMO.
Hate to say it, but it looked like all ball to me.

[arial]

Tell me that Boozer didn't get a lot of body on TD down low on that block of his. He damn near put Timmy in the upper seats. No call.
That was all ball. Naturally when two heavyweights connect with force like that there will be some body contact afterwards but that was not a foul. It was a nice block though, but sad to see TD get dominated thought :bang

[Amare_32]

Verajao by far is the worst flopper more so then Manu.

[arial]

Every team flops Manu just does it better than most people.

[ChumpDumper]

:lol Did you guys actually read the article?

[celldweller]

All driving fouls committed on Ginobili were called way before he was able to "flop." It's just another excuse from another pretender NBA team. It's getting old! :wakeup

[ManuTastic]

"Flop" is becoming the single worst buzz word of this playoffs, and it's really annoying. People are confusing two actions here:

1-"Selling" a foul: this is when you really do get fouled, but you just add some extra emphasis by falling down or flying out of bounds. I would not call that a flop. It is perfectly fine, in fact every coach will tell a player to do this. Just 'helps' the ref.

2-Pretending a foul has happened when there really wasn't one, either because no contact occurred (rare) or because only incidental contact occurred that really wasn't a foul (very common). This IS a flop, IMO. Most of Manu's so-called flops are category 1, and he just rocks, so everyone else can suck it.

I have even heard some people (morons) confuse picking up crafty fouls away from the action "flopping." Manu is brilliant at this--he had another great one last night against Millsap--and this is one of the reasons I love his game. But so few other players in the league do this that most average fans (morons) are confused by it. Even some commentators (huge morons) rail against it, but the fact is it's a basic part of the game. Sliding over in front of some guy who's not paying attention, even when he doesn't have the ball, so he can flatten you IS a legitimate way to pick up a charge. Deal with it. I think people don't like it when Manu does it become no one on THEIR team is good and tough enough to do it, so they whine. And piss. And bitch. But, screw them. He's a god.

As for last night, Manu was getting hammered going to the hoop, and Derek Bitcher deliberately instigated Manu by going over and bumping Manu as he was going up court. Now, it's true, Manu threw an elbow at his face on the play before that, which is why Bitcher got mad, but hey, the refs didn't see it, so Utah can suck it.

[WalterBenitez]

Verajao by far is the worst flopper more so then Manu.

No one is superior to Manu in the old art of flopping, well the Divac was the Zen Master, but since then Manu has no comparisson

[Testing]

Deron Williams calling Manu a flopper when his backcourt mate is the biggest flopper in recent memory.