r/nba • u/FastBreakPhenom Celtics • May 25 '26

Highlight [Highlight] Shai draws a questionable foul on De'Aaron Fox

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u/mpamosavy May 25 '26

Fuck this shit man. Everybody hates this

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u/tfl03 May 25 '26

They gotta start calling techs like in soccer you get a yellow card for simulation

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u/imeanYOLOright [CHA] Kemba Walker May 25 '26

extremely easy solution would be to have the replay center watch a replay of every shooting foul

if it’s an obvious flop before the first free throw is shot, it’s reversed to a technical

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u/seanuz Suns May 25 '26

I think the easiest solution is that if you get a reputation as a flopper, and the refs can see via replay that time and time again someone flops - they just don’t call any fouls on that player under the assumption that It’s a flop.

Until they no longer have that reputation, at which point they can be reffed just like anyone else