Awesome video from Bullets Forever today of Red Auerbach using Bullets players to demonstrate how coaches are teaching kids how to fall.....

“Now remember, coaches today, in high school, college and pro are teaching the players how to fall. This is unreal! … This segment is not aimed at referees, believe me. It’s aimed at coaches, it’s aimed at players. What are we going to do about it? Let’s clean this thing up. Let’s not hurt the game.”

Amazing....especially with how rough the NBA got in the 80s. Red would be rolling over in his grave if he saw some of the highlights from this years Playoffs. Just ask Sheed.

Flopping? Blame it on Mike Riordan (Bullets Forever)
Red: ‘They’re Teaching Them How To Fall! Unreal!’ (Sports by Brooks)

Who says the Spurs are the kings of flop? I submit to you one Sasha Vujacic of the Los Angeles Lakers. Late in the third quarter the Lakers were trying to stave off the Spurs comeback but turned the ball over starting a San Antonio fast break. Watch closely as Vujacic's amazing flop throws a wrench in the Spurs' break....

Okay maybe the dunk (and the cherry picking) weren't THAT spectacular but that flop sure was. Brent Barry was so stunned that he couldn't knock down an open three and then Kobe threw it down on the other end. Amazing. Everything is going the Lakers way tonight, and that was a flop that even the Master, Greg Paulus would have loved!

Just another move to add to his fabulous training tapes.

I hate to pile on Duke fans but I can't believe no one brought this up over the weekend. Gerald Henderson took a pretty measured cheap shot on a WVU rebounder with the game out of reach and what happened next just blew my mind....

Haha. The slow motion instant replay is the best. I can understand you're frustrated, but hitting a dude in the back for no reason and then flopping just makes you look like a poor sport. And they wonder why everyone hates them.

This Would Not Qualify As a Duke Flop (Mister Irrelevant)

You're going to have to bear with me as I change my Sports team hatred over real quick....OSU Football-Out, Duke Basketball- In (I kid I kid), but seriously was anyone else aware that Duke is getting nine more fouls (5 tonight) called for them a game? Were you also aware that Greg Paulus learned his acting skills from a combination Manu Ginobili and Marlon Brando?

I spliced these together so they'd fit on the clip, but they happened on back-to-back possessions.....

Neither the refs or the announcers could get the call(s) right at all and Duke ended up running away with a game that should have gone to the wire. My favorite part of the whole clip is when Mike Patrick says that Paulus gets hit in the back of the head and the kid grabs his nose (this isn't the first time that Patrick has fallen for Paulus either).

Seriously, Paulus needs his SAG card after that set of performances.