Did they do away with the "flopping" technical foul this season?

[knight82]

Seems like Tominaga gets away with it a lot. Not just tonight but other games I've seen on TV. Then I stopped and realized I don't think I've seen it called at all this season. Last year it was called at least two or three times a game. I remember Paul getting called for it quite a few times.

 

[Degaz-RU]

Seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur and the “cylinder” foul…

 

[rubjk]

It was called mostly on offensive charge type plays and that rule changed so it’s very hard to get that call so not worth the embellishment.

 

[RUinOhio]

Seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur and the “cylinder” foul…

We got that call tonight when Cliff got double teamed away from the basket in the first half

 

[RC80]

Think everyone - including the refs - just stopped for a second - looked at him and thought -- did you really just do that. I was thinking about a flop T when he did that.

 

[BillyC80]

Think everyone - including the refs - just stopped for a second - looked at him and thought -- did you really just do that. I was thinking about a flop T when he did that.

Yeah, that first one was laughable.

 

[fatsam98]

The first one was ridiculous. I was hoping they would keep replaying it on the jumbotron to get the crowd going.

 

[goru7]

Seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur and the “cylinder” foul…

I also thought the cylinder foul was going but then leave it to Eric Curry , the white hair ref , who for some reason has reffed a number of Big 10 games as he used to be on the west coast. The last 2-3 games I watched he called the cylinder foul 5 times. Stunning , amazing and unnecessary penalizing great in your face defense. He is terrible by the way.

 

[BillyC80]

I also thought the cylinder foul was going but then leave it to Eric Curry , the white hair ref , who for some reason has reffed a number of Big 10 games as he used to be on the west coast. The last 2-3 games I watched he called the cylinder foul 5 times. Stunning , amazing and unnecessary penalizing great in your face defense. He is terrible by the way.

Never liked that call, from the first time I saw Caleb get slapped with it. I had never heard of it before then.

 

[RUChoppin]

Never liked that call, from the first time I saw Caleb get slapped with it. I had never heard of it before then.

I think the first time I remember it being called was when Mulcahy took an elbow to the jaw that laid him out. It was reviewed for a possible above-the-shoulder flagrant, and it turned out that Mulcahy just fouled the guy's elbow with his face.

 

[BillyC80]

I think the first time I remember it being called was when Mulcahy took an elbow to the jaw that laid him out. It was reviewed for a possible above-the-shoulder flagrant, and it turned out that Mulcahy just fouled the guy's elbow with his face.

I remember that one too. I was like, wtf?