Smart the FLOPPER, WOW....

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Doing some work on the computer and watching the game, WOW he has already flopped at least 5 times in the first half and the commentators have said 3 times that he must be taking Acting lessons in Stillwater - that's not me that's the Broadcast team that the Big-12 hired. He is going to get a reputation and the refs are not going to call anything real soon. If I was the coach of the team getting ready to play them, I would talk to the refs before the game and emphasize this big time
 
I couldn't believe the flop on the three point shot he tried. He fell to his back, long after the shot was released, like he had been hit with a crowbar. The announcers called it for what it was at first, only to back off of what they had said earlier by claiming he was hit in the eye. Well, I call BS on that one! I don't think the defender even touched him.
 
Now that was a flop. Holy heckmobombers batman!
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He spends more time on his back than a hooker.
 
Vinny78 said:
He is going to get a reputation and the refs are not going to call anything real soon.
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You're wrong about this. If NBA refs aren't good enough to notice, college refs aren't. Considering he only has six or so more college games, he'll keep getting away with this bs.
 
treebranch said:
You're wrong about this. If NBA refs aren't good enough to notice, college refs aren't. Considering he only has six or so more college games, he'll keep getting away with this bs.
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Just wait till Serge Ibaka gets a crack at his cojones. He'll wish he was back in college.
 
treebranch said:
You're wrong about this. If NBA refs aren't good enough to notice, college refs aren't. Considering he only has six or so more college games, he'll keep getting away with this bs.
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I agree with you. He won't stop as long as the officials keep giving him the calls. That last call on Niang is a good example. Niang scores on a layup, turns immediately to run to the other end and bumps into Smart, who did not give him enough room to turn, much less run to the other end. In reality that should have been a block on Smart. That call is not the same when the player doesn't have the ball in his hands.
 
Good news bad news for Smart and oSu. Good news is those extra few points a game probably get them about a 5 seed. Bad news is they get an A-10 crew that has probably never heard of Smart in the NCAA's. I'm guessing an early upset, but I'm more worried about OU and our NCAA progress at this point. Feel like we are doing things the right way and making progress as a program at this point.
 
The NBA refs are good enough to know when someone is flopping. For the most part, they are paid not to call fouls on the floppers, despite the silly rule that says otherwise.
 
AdaSooner said:
In reality that should have been a block on Smart.
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Don't officials mostly just leave that kind of dead-ball collision alone, Ada? You see those all the time without a whistle on anyone.
 
The best was in Norman when Amath threw down a ferocious dunk and his momentum swung him around the rim to where Smart was waiting to do the same thing he tried against niang.

Unfortunately for smart, all he got was Amaths size 17s to the side of his head.

Also loved it when the ref tried to help smart up and smart declined like a little spoiled punk.
 
skyvue said:
Don't officials mostly just leave that kind of dead-ball collision alone, Ada? You see those all the time without a whistle on anyone.
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No doubt about it, Sky. That play had no impact on the game whatsoever, except to reward Smart for his flopping act. IMO, the official should not have made that call.

In the case of a block/charge on a offensive player with the ball, all the defender has to do is beat him to a spot and square up in a legal guarding position with both feet on the floor. It's not the same on a play like the one in question. Time and distance have to be considered when a player does not have the ball in his hands. In other words, Smart did not give Niang time to avoid the contact when he turned to run to the other end. Thus, if indeed a call was warranted, it should have been a block.
 
AdaSooner said:
I agree with you. He won't stop as long as the officials keep giving him the calls. That last call on Niang is a good example. Niang scores on a layup, turns immediately to run to the other end and bumps into Smart, who did not give him enough room to turn, much less run to the other end.
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Fraschilla called him out on that at the end of the game a few nights ago. He said that Smart's biggest problem is that he has all of the extra contact go on that isn't necessary. The game was in hand with the opponents dribbling up the court, and then he just go in the way of a guy walking in the middle of the court and got knocked over. The ref calls the charge. Fraschilla just sighed and called it how he saw it.


As Tiny already pointed out, I remember him sitting on his butt glaring at the refs when M'Baye slammed it and ran into him. He even gestured the ref to go away when he offered to help him up.

I do not know if that particular one was on purpose, but if there's three different times that this type of thing has happened, you have to admit that there's a good chance he is just trying to start crap up.
 
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The obsession with Marcus Smart on this board is unbelievable.
 
Great players get more calls. Smart just takes advantage of this.
 
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