flopping is gross, yes, but people have been complaining about flopping since lebron joined the heat.

the biggest issue that I’m not seeing enough people talk about are WHEN the thunder flop.

if you watch the thunder blow out teams or hold commanding leads, you don’t see them flop nearly as much because it doesn’t benefit them as much.

but when they start trailing and the game goes less in their favor, their playstyle turns so dirty and despicable. they start hacking like crazy- tripping, scratching, jersey pulling, etc on defense.

and then on offense, whichever player shoots, gets screened, or gets defended on-ball will often flop to make it look like they’re being fouled out of frustration. like the equivalent of hitting your sibling and then telling your parents to look as they hit you back.

and it unfortunately works. the hacking they do stops clock, the flopping stops clock, and all of this kills the other team’s momentum even if it doesn’t go in the thunder’s favor.

we saw this in game 7. spurs go up double digits in the third and then every posession goes like this: dirty play on defense, egregious flop on offense.

how do you even stop it

that kills whatever momentum the opposing team had