air gordon wrote:management tank. not the coaches and players.
and derrick coleman was always going to be a derrick coleman
how do you curb flopping better? other then the players that have tendencies like ilyasova, who falls when the wind blows by. in real time how do the refs catch the flopping?
even elbows to the facial area appear to be mere grazes real time but on replays those are legit. just saying....
I think certain coaches do help with the tank effort. The direction may come from management to tank (clearly) but the coach is still a willing participant. Hoiberg strikes me as someone who is a "whatever you say" guy, and "its a business" guy, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was more than happy to tank the season away. Rick Carlisle as well.
Stan Van Gundy spoke against it, and I was happy about that. If coaches are willing participants, that means coaches also tank, so coaches are part of the problem.
The coaches for tanking teams are either spineless, greedy, or willing participants. Or, all three.
In regards to flopping, a half-ass effort has been put forth by the league. Remember when they first started the "fining" for it? That lasted maybe a few months, and suddenly we stopped hearing about players getting fines, even with outrageous flops (like that of Pachulia this season). Marcus Smart blatantly flops like a fish all over the floor, he should also be fined. Unfortunately, he gets the benefit of the calls on a lot of them.
It's pretty easy to tell when something is a flop. Also, when they were doing fines for them in that short period, they would review the play after the game and decide at that point whether to fine. In instant replay, you can absolutley tell when a flop occurs, so it's not like they need to decide in real time whether a fine should occur or not.
Either way, it's just another example of the NBA making a fake stance on something, just to make it seem like they are actually doing something about it, similar to the NFL concussion issue. Busting Jodie Meeks for PED use is another example of just something mandatory they have to do in order to make it look like they are enforcing rules/guidlines.
I just saw a quote that I completely agree with. It says, the league doesn't care about teams tanking, they care that people are talking about it. Same with PED use, it's a problem when people talk about it, otherwise it's a look the other way approach.