Nuggets_Talk wrote:Devils Advocate wrote:If a guy actually does get hit is it still a flop or is it overreacting. All the hate is causing people to ignore the fact that in the slow motion video Vasquez clearly hit Evans with his foearm because he didn't like the blind screen he ran into. Evans fell down to make it look more violent than it was...but it was a foul.
fine. it was a foul (barely).
lets go back to the real point - the clippers flop/cheat. dont try and shift the focus to a small ticky tack foul from vazquez.
evans learned this pathetic move from cp3 and griffin. its clear what the clippers talk about in practice. i hope the nba cracks down on it - itll destroy the clippers game.
Chris Paul and Blake Griffin are so expert at flopping that they "taught" Reggie Evans how to flop a whole two years before they ever played with him.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExhMkRa71oU[/youtube]
I don't know if there's anything more impressive than that. These guys are able to have some sort of retrospective impact

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRCrhkEcuH8&feature=fvst[/youtube]
Go to 0:35 and 0:58, Chris Paul used his ability to teach Evans that
BubbaTee wrote:hollabackitsobi wrote:Posters in this thread are being pretty short-sighed. Williams is saying Griffin is the center of the flopping in general, and I can't disagree. I think he and Paul have really cemented the culture of flopping in the locker room. You have Jordan and Evans flopping because they emulate Griffin.
Evans and Jordan are grown men, not little kids imitating mommy and daddy. Hold them responsible for their own flops.
What's next, are we going to blame Bynum's 3s on Kobe's shot selection?
Shh, no, Blake Griffin and Chris Paul taught them