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haven't seen better acting since the Silence of the Lambs tbh
blatant!
haven't seen better acting since the Silence of the Lambs tbh
For those of you that hate Jeff Van Gundy, you'd better be thanking the basketball gods that he was doing this game. Hubie Brown would never have pointed out that Allen was faking.
FC Barcelona would be proud
Just makes the win even sweeter.
i hope the league gives him a massive fine.
Yeah, I at least liked how the commentators trashed the acting job.
its smart acting
its on the refs not to call the flagrant AFTER review
As sick as it was, a part of me somehow respects that he tried to do whatever it would take to help his team win. It was a cheap, cheap, CHEAP way to do it.... but I get it.
That being said, I'm looking forward to hearing about the flop fine, and will be ultra-pissed if they don't fine him.
Tony Allen is such a ing dirty player tbh
I wonder how big the flopping fine will be.
I love how everyone on ESPN is calling him out on it
really smart play from such an illiterate got like TA tbh.
I just noticed that Allen was talking to the ref, and holding the back of his head! The back of his head didn't get anywhere near the ground. That's like switching which leg you're limping with. What a joke.
the real travesty is the refs reviewed the play and still went with the flagrant
er should get fined tbh.
How the the refs called a flagrant foul is beyond me. Particularly with the way they didn't call fouls on Manu on the other end. I hate to be all 'the officiating! the officiating!' - particularly when their offense was beyond stone cold dead - but ffs. 8 on 5 in the second half, sealed by that ludicrous bull of a call.
He should've been hit with a flagrant for knocking down TD earlier. In any event, scoreboard.
Replay of Tony Allen after being fouled:
Replay of Tony Allen after being fouled:
He should be fined for flopping.
It's not flopping. It's just... wisely embellishing.
Late in Game 2 with the Grizzlies making a frantic comeback, Zach Randolph came up with a critical steal and passed ahead to Tony Allen. With the Spurs holding on to a four-point lead, Manu Ginobili reached in to take a hard foul and prevent an easy two for Allen.
He grabbed Allen's left arm and pulled him down hard and Allen took an awkward fall. He started grabbing at his head, writhed on the ground in pain, even kicking hit foot on the ground. The officials, possibly seeing Allen's reaction to the foul, called a Flagrant 1 on the floor and went to review the play.
Replays showed Allen's head never touched the floor and that he was clearly doing a little acting. The foul itself was indeed dangerous and possibly worthy of a flagrant anyway, so whether or not Allen's ploy worked is possibly irrelevant.
But the officials ruled it a Flagrant 1, Allen hit two free throws and with the Grizzlies retaining possession because of the call, Mike Conley then tied the game on a floater.
Huge call, huge moment and a very smart move from Allen. Even if it was a little cheap. Grit and grind includes pulling every move in the book, apparently.
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/blog/ey...-manu-ginobili
the way he held his head you'd think someone buried an axe in his cranium.
That's some riveting new information you have informed us of in the 14th post of this thread. Thanks for the insight.
It's not even Tony Allen's 'embellishment' (a big wtfever to that). It's the fact that the foul WAS NOT A FLAGRANT - it was a hard foul, but no more dangerous than any foul in the air. It was clearly on his arm, and there was no wind-up or pull or anything other than a clear foul on the arm. Bull . Utter ing bull , and the fact that they REVIEWED that and STILL called it a flagrant only highlighted the egregiousness of the calls that were occurring throughout the second half.
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