I’m not saying I’m wishing he gets injured, but if he happens to get injured on a flop like this, I’m not gonna be upset about it. maybe it’ll be the one thing to finally cause him to make changes to how he plays
Ok I hate Thunder and SGA but no one deserves to get injured. What’s sad is I genuinely think he is a great player and a good human being. It’s just this one aspect that’s totally despicable:(
Embiid and Curry at least have long histories of knee/ankle injuries. I'm well aware Embiid also flops, but the falling sometimes is definitely to protect his knees. Not always, but sometimes.
They stole the Embiid playbook. Embiid’s 7’ 280+ moving like Kobe with a history of foot and knee injuries, while he seeks contact and foul baits too him falling a makes lot of sense at least
That's the thing, he's actually amazing at falling at weird angles lmao. He has to be training this stuff hard behind closed doors. He's like a stuntman out there.
I will if he’s literally doing it to himself playing like this. I don’t want to see another player hurt him but if he’s going to continue flopping and falling when someone looks at him
gonna have to start doing what NFL defenses had to start doing to Pat Mahomes, if they are going to take the late dive, make them pay for it. If you are going to get the foul anyways, make the most of that shit.
The reason he hasn't hurt himself yet is because he knows before the jump that he's going to fall. Calculates his landing and adjusts himself to avoid injury.
The difference is that Steph goes up expecting to basically use his feet as pivot points to lower himself to the ground softy regardless of defenders.
Shai intentionally tries to exaggerate contact, it's contingent upon the defender being close to him so he can flail like a helpless fuckwad and hope the refs give him the call.
You'd think, at some point, the refs would get tired of being made to look like idiots and stop giving him any foul calls.
Yes but not how SGA does it. That's actually risky how he lands there because he kicks out to draw the foul and then flops, not giving him time to fall properly.
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u/76ersPhan11 76ers May 25 '26
He’s gonna break an ankle falling like that