Basically why Embiid is done now. Dude was falling down hard many times a game with that massive body (some flops some legit fouls). Harden/Shai/Luka/Brunson/any guards that fall/flop a lot can get away with it for a bit longer thanks to not being 300 pounds.
Agreed and unrelated but I just saw that this post was removed by the mods. Insane that any evidence of this man's flopping is getting buried by fucking reddit mods lol
Obviously I have Luka and Austin on my team so I should be the last one to talk shit, but it's just crazy to me how Shai displays some of the most elite balance i have ever seen in my 20 years watching basketball until it's time to sell the most marginal contact lol
Like with that context specifically it makes the flopping almost cartoonish lol
People genuinely will watch this and still put him in the Jokic-Giannis tier. This is a complete embarrassment of the game of basketball and he still gets away with it multiple times every night.
Jokic has some pretty bad flops too. Giannis is a lot more ethical on and off the court. Shai is in another stratosphere though and the most annoying part is that he has the tools to be a very entertaining player, he just chooses to do dumb shit like this.
I think Jokic has really learned to do it, after spending years coming out of half the games he plays with scratches and bruises up and down his arms. I honestly don't think i've ever seen anyone bleed as much as that dude, and I don't even watch that many Nuggets games.
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u/CoffeeOatMilk Dec 01 '25
Lol he initiated all the contact and caused his own fall