Smart flopping- National Story

[CoachTalk]

I thought it deserved its own thread... I'm sorry

http://msn.foxsports.com/southwest/...ation-in-the-big-12-and-not-a-good-one-012014

 

[opsooner]

Figures. It took KU to complain about it to give it national attention. The rest of us knew all about it early last season.

 

[Vinny78]

Darn, I didn't get to start this thread lol

 

[DenverSooner]

One of those flow was clearly an offensive foul. Another could have been called an offensive foul because Smart through a fore arm at the guy and the. Flails to the floor.

 

[cvangild]

I, for one, can't stand it. To me it's no different than cheating. It cheapens the game and is disrepectful to the game. Maybe Smart should spend more time practicing 3 pointers than flopping....just a thought.

 

[AdaSooner]

I'm glad Smart is finally getting the attention he deserves, only it's not the kind he was hoping for. This story will spread like wildfire now, and the adverse pub will likely cause him a lot of grief in every arena he plays in from this point forward.

And, don't think for a minute that Big 12 officials won't know about the article. I was already seeing a change in the way they were responding to Smart's antics. With the story going national, the officials will be watching him even closer now. Officials are human, they don't like to be shown up by a player who is making a mockery of the greatest game on the planet.

 

[TheGimper]

The comments on the article features a bunch of Cowpokes arguing that Selden did elbow him, but also ignoring every other listed example of Smart flopping.

 

[big-hOUnd]

I guess he hasn't heard that it's a foul in the NBA to flop. Not a skill he needs to be working on.

 

[MNsooner]

I'm glad Smart is finally getting the attention he deserves, only it's not the kind he was hoping for. This story will spread like wildfire now, and the adverse pub will likely cause him a lot of grief in every arena he plays in from this point forward.

And, don't think for a minute that Big 12 officials won't know about the article. I was already seeing a change in the way they were responding to Smart's antics. With the story going national, the officials will be watching him even closer now. Officials are human, they don't like to be shown up by a player who is making a mockery of the greatest game on the planet.

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Exactly. It is such an abuse of the refs and the game. I hope they take it personally. I know they are just trying to do their best out there. I think most of them will realize that Smart can't get the benefit of the doubt. He's taken advantage of that.

 

[DenverSooner]

I, for one, can't stand it. To me it's no different than cheating. It cheapens the game and is disrepectful to the game. Maybe Smart should spend more time practicing 3 pointers than flopping....just a thought.

It is not remotely cheating.

 

[WTSooner]

I'm torn on this.

On one hand, I don't like the flopping at all. I won't call it cheating, but it seems like a tactic that a top 10 (or whatever osu is suppose to be) team, and a potential top 5 NBA draft pick, shouldn't have to do.

On the other hand, a big part of any game/sport is gamesmanship. It is no different then a baseball player missing the tag, but putting his glove up to show the ump he still has the ball, and acting like he didn't miss the tag. Or no different then a WR arguing that he got interfered with, when he knows he didn't.

I'm to the point now where if Smart wants to spend 1/4 of the game on his back, fine. I hope when he does it against OU, we keep playing 5 on 4 and make him stop doing it.

 

[MsProudSooner]

I'm torn on this.

On one hand, I don't like the flopping at all. I won't call it cheating, but it seems like a tactic that a top 10 (or whatever osu is suppose to be) team, and a potential top 5 NBA draft pick, shouldn't have to do.

On the other hand, a big part of any game/sport is gamesmanship. It is no different then a baseball player missing the tag, but putting his glove up to show the ump he still has the ball, and acting like he didn't miss the tag. Or no different then a WR arguing that he got interfered with, when he knows he didn't.

I'm to the point now where if Smart wants to spend 1/4 of the game on his back, fine. I hope when he does it against OU, we keep playing 5 on 4 and make him stop doing it.

It's gamesmanship when it's done well. When Smart does it, it's just overacting.

 

[opsooner]

I'm torn on this.

On one hand, I don't like the flopping at all. I won't call it cheating, but it seems like a tactic that a top 10 (or whatever osu is suppose to be) team, and a potential top 5 NBA draft pick, shouldn't have to do.

On the other hand, a big part of any game/sport is gamesmanship. It is no different then a baseball player missing the tag, but putting his glove up to show the ump he still has the ball, and acting like he didn't miss the tag. Or no different then a WR arguing that he got interfered with, when he knows he didn't.

I'm to the point now where if Smart wants to spend 1/4 of the game on his back, fine. I hope when he does it against OU, we keep playing 5 on 4 and make him stop doing it.

You can call it gamesmanship but it is not like those comparisons. What he does is more like what Georgetown basketball used to do where they pulled guys on top of them to try to get a charge call. That's a lot different than trying to sell the refs on a normal play after the fact.