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* Mike Golic on Mike and Mike in the Morning: “It looks horrible. ... Out on the football field I tried to sell things. So there’s a line in all of it: does it make it embarrassing to the sport, the way some of it looks? I guess that’s the questions David Stern is asking. There’s that line you cross over to say, 'All right this is getting out of hand, this is getting embarrassing' ... are we there yet?"
* Shane Battier says he is all for new rules to prevent flopping.
Whether or not you think the NBA has a pressing problem here depends on whether or not you think flopping is very common. If you don't think it's common, I question how hard you're looking.
Flop of the Night was born, and during every single NBA game NBA fans are tweeting candidate plays to our @HoopIdea Twitter account.
Pacers coach Frank Vogel cemented the idea that flopping is an issue of the moment by accusing the Heat of leading the league in the dubious art. It was pure playoff gamesmanship, to be certain -- he wanted to get in the heads of referees -- but it resonated for a reason. People are worried about flopping now, and the Heat do it as noticeably as any team.
Following up in an interview on 790 the Ticket, as reported by Tom Haberstroh, Vogel made the case that fans are making: "We've got the greatest athletes in the world. There's nothing more exciting for our fans to see an athletic play made above the rim. When a defender's intent is to fall down and hope for a whistle, I don't think that's good for the game."
Whether or not Vogel's tactic will work in the series remains to be seen, but certainly Vogel succeeding in bringing the issue to a new level. At the Pacers' first game against the Soccer Shirts Heat on Sunday, NBA Commissioner David Stern got serious about flopping during the ABC TV broadcast:
Some years ago I told the competition committee that we were going to start fining people for flopping, and then suspending. And I think they almost threw me out of the room (saying), 'No, let it be.'
Not doing anything about it -- and at the moment the league is doing literally nothing whatsoever -- seems to have real potential to harm the game.
Consider the lessons of international soccer. Gary Neville, who was today named a coach of the English national team, is almost synonymous with English soccer. As a longtime regular for Manchester United and the national team, and more recently as a TV analyst, he has a voice that matters. And in a meandering and Euro 2012 Jerseys heartbreaking rant on Sky TV (via @netw3rk), Neville is at his wit's end on the topic of diving. "It i