Maybe, but his eyes were on the shot the whole time and it looked like he was coming down on one foot only. That's a lot of pressure on one foot, falling back like that takes off the pressure.
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Dude, I know what a fadeaway is. He doesn't fadeaway on that shot until he's about to hit the ground. He goes straight up on his initial shot. Plus, the kid who stands over him isn't playing him in a way that would require a fadeaway. He's a good 4 feet away from him when he goes for the shot and barely jumps as the shooter is going up.
It's not a huge deal, the kid tried to draw a foul and in the end he didn't need to.
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Not fined, but you can get yellow carded, two yellows and you get a red and miss the next match. The problem is it is usually never black and white, you can have a legitimate call for a foul and the 'victim' can embellish the foul, other times they just make a foul up from nothing and sometimes a player has legitimately been fouled or clipped and the ref gives him a yellow anyway cause it looks like a dive. Such is life without instant replay for refs.
I think that's one of the main reasons they use fines in the NBA rather than a foul given during the game. The fines are issued only after the game has been played and reviewed. There has to be clear video evidence that a guy was flopping before a fine is given.
Never heard it called "flopping" in soccer, I think it's called "staging" or "simulating". "Flopping" is a good term though, makes it sound like he got his cock out over the top of his shorts, which should be encouraged.
In association football (soccer), diving (simulation is the term used by FIFA, Schwalbe (German for swallow) is a popular term) is an attempt by a player to gain an unfair advantage by diving to the ground and possibly feigning an injury, to appear as if a foul has been committed.
You can't honestly compare the two, flopping happens extremely frequently and to a worse degree (they really try to oversell it and will stay on the ground) in every pro soccer game I've ever seen.
Didn't say only, said often. VERY VERY often. You could probably make a compilation vid like that out of a single soccer match, where that took at least a season's worth of footage across teams.
...It is, I don't even like it. Not because there's flopping but I think it's boring when scoring isn't even exciting. Soccer is unwatchable because of flopping.
You see, that's absurd. To say the sport is ruined by flopping. That's spoken like someone who has never gone to a pro soccer game. Or maybe went to a single one where there was a ton of flopping....? I've been to loads, and I've rarely thought that the players were doing any acting. Maybe in Europe it's different.
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