FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright reacts to NBA approves in-game flopping penalty

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1. Brou is delusional if he really believes that "these are the best refs in the world". Maybe the most corrupt but certainly not the best.

2. It shoulda been a thing 2008.. mad late

3. If the refs are the "best in the world," they wouldn't be fooled so much. Need the new rule

4. About time… The Lakers are out of ammo now… The masters of flopping… Vlade Divac started that crap… CP3, and the Joker game's are taken away too…

5. Sportsmanlike tech 😂😂😂😂

6. If y'all simple mfs doesn't like the flopping rule then too damn bad. Everybody needs to play ball professionally not like my 5 year old. This is the bs brainwashing we're talking about with Klutch client nick.

7. 00:05:31 WAY TO LET THE AIR OUT OF THE ROOM BALLOON CAUSE RIGHT NOW THE ROOM IS FILLED WITH HOT AIR LIKE A 🎈🎈BALLOON ROOM🎈🎈🎈

8. finally Mother floppers

9. Nick defending it cause his idol LeMickey loves to flop

10. Nicks clearly upset because his BF LeBron is gonna get a lot of techs this coming year.

11. If you want to stop flopping then don't call it. K.I.S.S Keep It Simple Stupid

12. U can tell nick never was good at any sport.. maybe bowling.. but no physical sport

13. Say it NIck !!! Lebron do it almost all the time "faking it"

14. This is just gonna make things worse, the root of the issue is that there’s too many discretionary calls as is in the game and being bigger and stronger means you’re far less likely to get those discretionary calls so players flop to try to tip the scales back their way. As much as lebron flops, refs will still miss far more calls than smaller players get for the same contact, and even setting him specifically aside there’s been a ton of instances all season of coach challenges failing because even though there was a flop and the player exaggerated, there actually was a foul that the refs may or may not have noticed if they didn’t flip. I think a big part of the reason for that is nba refs are needing to pay attention to far too many different things and make spur of the moment judgement calls on their discretion about when contact is too much or not enough.

    Instead of taking away some of that discretion so refs had fewer things to make a mistake on, you’ve just added one more discretionary thing that they need to pay attention too.

15. If its a flop dont call it

16. James Harden ranked as soon as they stopped “non basketball plays”

17. The problem is we got James Harden shooting 20 free throws

18. I think a face shot is hard to judge. That’s it. Lotta nerves in the face

19. The flop rule was needed 10 years ago. You got people the size of Lebron flying across the cort when someone like Stef barley came by them.

20. The fact that refs are given the opportunity to review the flop before issuing the tech invalidates Nick's concerns. If it's legit contact, the refs will be able to see that and not issue the tech. Refs do a good job at making calls and yes, they miss some, but if it's so minor that they miss it then it doesn't need to be called at all. I don't want to watch a bunch of free throws so guys need to just fight through that minor contact. I'm not going to defend someone getting hit in the face but if that's legit, and they "sell it" then no problem. It's the ones where next to nothing happened that there's a problem. It won't be perfect day one but you've gotta start somewhere.

21. Old people have selective memory. Rodman flopped vlade Divac flopped

22. LeBron PPG gonna drop by 12

23. Broussard doesn’t get it.. this helps protect against flopping but also can be unfair because you can get hit and be off balance and fall unnaturally or in a way that seems like you shouldn’t have fell that hard and if you can get fined and called for flopping when you didn’t flop that’s where it’s gonna piss people off you can’t always tell how hard someone was bumped some people are highly highly skilled at fouling and it secret where no one can tell you’d need a special angle to see some players have mastered this and they can do things on the low that no one caught and boom the opponent gets called for flopping it just won’t be fair

24. I’m so tired of Brou acting like that jordan era was tough bruh to look at the foul calls jordan use to get please go look

25. They are waiting for bron to retire to really enforce this shit

26. European players brought the flop to the nba. Vlade vs Shaq specifically. Manu Ginobili took it to the next level

27. Every Lebron fan is going to try to say this new rule sucks

28. maybe look back at tape after game, and if its determined someone flopped, its a decently large fine. But in playoffs stop and review tape

29. They need to add technical FT when a player purposely kicks the ball to prevent a layup

30. Nick and LeFlop in shambles

31. Nick just don’t want to admit the game is soft and this flopping is ridiculous

32. So Nick's goat can stop FLOPPING?

33. Nick doesn’t like it because it won’t help his favorite players. All of his favorite flop and they flop terribly.

34. why does nick ride scoots dick so much? bro aint gonna be like that fr

35. once again Nick nailed this

36. LeFlop will not be happy

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