Flopping

[MsProudSooner]

The officials in nearly every game I've watched today have really been rewarding flopping.

 

[sooner8]

Flopping/flop-fall,move or hang in a heavy loose and ungainly way
(a performer or show)be completely unsuccessful:fail totally
Just little reading for some of the officials in the NCAA Tournament

 

[mict085]

Yeah, I thought the idea was to rid the game of the BS floppers. This isn’t Europe nor is it soccer.

 

[TINY]

The refs really cost us by rewarding the floppers and getting Trae in foul trouble early when he was shooting 100% from the floor. Shameful.

 

[TINY]

Yeah, I thought the idea was to rid the game of the BS floppers. This isn’t Europe nor is it soccer.

From what I can tell, the officiating in NCAA hoops is the worst of any major sport. Officiating holds the sport of basketball back imo.

 

[DenverSooner]

The refs really cost us by rewarding the floppers and getting Trae in foul trouble early when he was shooting 100% from the floor. Shameful.

I feel like they are overly kind to the small schools in the opening round. It seems to me you see more offensive fouls and no calls in the first round than regular season

 

[Ghost of Gar Heard]

Refs at all levels love to call charges. Probably half of all charges should be blocks but refs love calling charges. OU should do a better job teaching players to draw charges the way other teams do because of the way refs call them.

 

[sperry]

The refs really cost us by rewarding the floppers and getting Trae in foul trouble early when he was shooting 100% from the floor. Shameful.

Those weren't flops, they were fouls. Trae was just getting away with it all year in the Big XII.

 

[skyvue]

Those weren't flops, they were fouls. Trae was just getting away with it all year in the Big XII.

RI was fouling Trae two or three times on virtually every possession, with very few of them being called. It resembled WVU at times. If they'd been called for the hand-checking and other contact, he'd have lit them up for 40 or more points.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Those weren't flops, they were fouls. Trae was just getting away with it all year in the Big XII.

lol ok.
even the announcers commented on the acting jobs.

 

[TINY]

Those weren't flops, they were fouls. Trae was just getting away with it all year in the Big XII.

They were 100% flops. Should have been called technicals. Those types of plays make the casual fan not want to watch the sport. If I wasn’t such a big ou/okc fan, I’d never watch basketball with the way that it is officiated today.

 

[AdaSooner]

RI was fouling Trae two or three times on virtually every possession, with very few of them being called. It resembled WVU at times. If they'd been called for the hand-checking and other contact, he'd have lit them up for 40 or more points.

It didn’t take long for the officials to abandon the emphasis on hand checking and arm bars we heard about and saw early in the season.

Some things never change. It’s like that every year. The rules committee issues a mandate to the officials to stop or control violations to improve the game that are all but forgotten by the post season.

And, the officials wonder why players and coaches get frustrated with the no calls?

 

[152219]

TY’s charge call was beyond laughably bad. His second foul was questionable because he didn’t really extend his arm and the head flop propelled the ref to call it. But, of course he was also being hand/body checked.

 

[Darwin]

Nice to see others though the same. Those were bad charging calls mostly in the 1st half. Really had not seen much bad officiating in the last month till that 1st half.

 

[sperry]

I have been noting all year that Trae fouls all the time on offense with that forearm clearout. The refs chose an inopportune time to start calling it, but he'd been getting away with it all year.

Yes, he was getting handchecked and they should have called more of those. But you can't visibly shove with your forearm like that. It's like the jersey grab for a defensive back in football, it's so easy for the ref to spot and call.

 

[OUGenius]

I agree with the terrible charging calls yesterday. Trae was getting felt up and down the court. I don’t know what’s going on in this tournament but I have never seen so many bad charging calls. Guys are leaving into the air sideways and getting rewarded with a charging call...terrible.

 

[steverockson]

The charge call where the guy jumped 5 feet to the left and collided with Trae and the phantom push-off (Trae did NOT extend his arm) were two of the worst calls I've ever seen and may have cost us the game.

 

[Ghost of Gar Heard]

I have been noting all year that Trae fouls all the time on offense with that forearm clearout. The refs chose an inopportune time to start calling it, but he'd been getting away with it all year.

Yes, he was getting handchecked and they should have called more of those. But you can't visibly shove with your forearm like that. It's like the jersey grab for a defensive back in football, it's so easy for the ref to spot and call.

On the foul call in the 1st half on Trae, he absolutely did not extend that arm. It was a horrible call.

 

[Soonerinkc]

I have been noting all year that Trae fouls all the time on offense with that forearm clearout. The refs chose an inopportune time to start calling it, but he'd been getting away with it all year.

Yes, he was getting handchecked and they should have called more of those. But you can't visibly shove with your forearm like that. It's like the jersey grab for a defensive back in football, it's so easy for the ref to spot and call.

yup...now, I didn't see the calls yesterday, was painting house...but I agree, he's gotten away with his extended forearm all year.

With that said, the rest of the team shooting 1-11 from 3's cost us the game.