Grant Williams' flops

kat57

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He flopped again as he got on the bus. Tried to draw a foul on PJ[/QUO

For once the refs weren't buying his flops. The announcers kept talking about how physical the game was because so many players were falling on the floor. I was like they were flopping. Sometimes they fell with no contact.
 
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hotelblue

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take away the bs foul shots he got and the score would have really been out of hand. we were every bit of 17 pets better than them today.
 

Mikey Likes It

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He flops all the time but he's also very good. I'd argue he doesn't need it but he certainly gets the officials attention. Darn near knocked himself out several times tonight so I admire the commitment.

He's pretty crafty all around. Had a play near the end of the game where he tried to push PJ Washington out of bounds after PJ grabbed a rebound. Didn't work but that's both some optimistic thinking and some hustle
 

bgood4UK

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It's honestly quite pathetic. But the reason he does it is because it works. The refs reward the antics and now it is a practiced "skill."

If there was ever an area of the game that I wish officials would make a point to clean up, it's the incessant flopping that has taken over college basketball. But instead we're too busy looking at phantom hook and hold calls.
 

kgargus

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It's unbelievable. Coach K probably shows his team Grant Williams' flop film as instruction.

The most egregious was when he took a three, then ran under nick Richards. Got three shots
That was a foul on Richards but I don't understand how that was on the shot . He jumped, shot and landed . Then once on the ground Richards ran into him. His shot was complete to me. Seems like a foul but after the shot
 
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That was a foul on Richards but I don't understand how that was on the shot . He jumped, shot and landed . Then once on the ground Richards ran into him. His shot was complete to me. Seems like a foul but after the shot

Not only that, but after he landed he took about two steps forward to make sure nick landed on him.
 
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I get so tired of all the flops, but unfortunately it's getting worse, instead of better. Basketball will be worse than soccer if it isn't cracked down on soon.
 

musrat59

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Barnes could stop his flopping if he wanted to. I don't think Cal would let his big guys pull that crap.
 

ConRay9

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He knew early in the game that Travis was too strong for him to play his normal game so he resorted to flopping. Pathetic.
 
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Comebakatz3

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I get so tired of all the flops, but unfortunately it's getting worse, instead of better. Basketball will be worse than soccer if it isn't cracked down on soon.

To be fair, in soccer, they sometimes flop and roll around just simply to get a break. That isn't the case all of the time, but is something the players use in order to somewhat catch their breath and to kind of get a brief time out, since there are no timeouts.
 

FiveStarCat

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Bilas kept making the comment that he’s never seen a high profile player on his back so much in one game. He was stating it under the context that the game was physical... I kept waiting for him to make the connection that maybe Williams was embellishing/flopping but of course that didn’t happen.

One of these games, he’s going to hurt himself on one of those flops where he lands straight on his back. Almost did it a couple of times last night. Hard to respect a player that pulls that garbage.
 

RipThru

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PJ and Reid made him a perimeter player early. He didn’t want anything to do with those two guys.
 

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Bilas kept making the comment that he’s never seen a high profile player on his back so much in one game. He was stating it under the context that the game was physical... I kept waiting for him to make the connection that maybe Williams was embellishing/flopping but of course that didn’t happen.

One of these games, he’s going to hurt himself on one of those flops where he lands straight on his back. Almost did it a couple of times last night. Hard to respect a player that pulls that garbage.

That's what I keep saying. It's really dumb of him to put himself at risk like that. If nothing else, it's wear and tear on his body.
 
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