Is there any footage of Jordan flopping?

[Living Being]

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[Kobe 4 The Win]

Doubtfull

[Rolando]

Jordan was too focused on playing D to flop. No need to flop anyway when you can shut down the man you are guarding.

[NumberSix]

There's no point of flopping when physical play is legal.

[BurningHammer]

There's no point of flopping when physical play is legal.
Exactly. And those guys back then can solve the case right away on the court with less penalties than today.

[kenny817]

The GOAT don't flop


sucka

[chocolatethunder]

There's no point of flopping when physical play is legal.
True but just to be clear Rodman was flopping all the time back then.

[I<3NBA]

True but just to be clear Rodman was flopping all the time back then.
yeah. but was he getting the calls? :confusedshrug:

[Da_Realist]

yeah. but was he getting the calls? :confusedshrug:

Too many of them

[SpecialQue]

If he played in today's era, he would flop. It's part of the game now.

The Jordan worship on this site is fvcking ridiculous at times.

[ChrisPosh]

he was notorious for getting away with fouls (by being extremely subtle about it), if he played in this era don't expect him to not flop

[SpecialQue]

he was notorious for getting away with fouls (by being extremely subtle about it), if he played in this era don't expect him to not flop

I think it's telling that during a Dream Team photoshoot with Magic, Larry, and Jordan, Magic made the joke, "don't breath on him or it's a foul."

[smush=mvp!]

Kobe never flops.

Jason Terry once said Kobe was a Verbal Flopper :lol

[AlexanderRight]

Kobe never flops.

:rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKuKCst6wms

[Da_Realist]

Flopping is a mentality that MJ never had. :oldlol: @ y'all Kobe kids

[OhNoTimNoSho]

If Michael Jordan flopped, he would be the greatest flopper of all time and people wouldn't get upset that he flops because he would do it so well.

[Harison]

:rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKuKCst6wms

Kobe landed awkwardly and fell down, it wasnt a flop in this case.

If MJ would play today, he probably would exaggerate contact to sell the foul a la Pierce (to lesser degree ofc), but I dont see him straight up flopping with no contact a la Manu/Griffin/CP3, etc.

[OldSchoolBBall]

Flopping is a mentality that MJ never had. :oldlol: @ y'all Kobe kids

Seriously. I have to lol @ these people who think that Jordan would be a flopper today. Dude was a warrior who just wanted to play the game, not some crybaby bitch like Lebron or Wade or Griffin.

[swi7ch]

He is the GREATEST OF ALL TIME! Why would he need to flop? :facepalm

[inclinerator]

yes he flopped before, ive seen it

[glidedrxlr22]

Ask AlphaWolf24 too look through his archived video footage library. I'm sure he's got some prime footage.

[Johnni Gade]

:rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKuKCst6wms
Thats embarrasing

[Mr. Jabbar]

Much like coachbe, jordan was the real deal.

[LBJMVP]

:rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKuKCst6wms


that isn't a flop... you can tell that kobe landed on his ankle weird and if he didn't fall he would have sprained his ankle pretty bad.

nice try though.

[Scholar]

:rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKuKCst6wms

The description for that video lies. That's not the worst flop in NBA history. Worst flop is either Chris Bosh's terrible flop against the Bulls last year when Carlos Boozer posted him up or DWade's phantom foul from the 2006 Finals. Nobody touched him!

[stephanieg]

You don't need to flop much when you get all the calls. On the other hand, if you want to win at all costs you should flop anyway. If you don't flop it's an arbitrary decision to give up a competitive advantage.

[pauk]

Much of those "degrading" stuff doesnt exist of Michael Jordan.... i guess its a way to make him look even more like a GOD, like the perfect player....

He had airballs, freethrow line airballs
He had flops
He had cheapshots
He had massive amount of travels (he got away mostly with alot of ball-palming)

If the internet was back then like it is today... im sure Jordan (or anybody else) would not get away without someone like PHONG spamming videos/GIFs of literally all his failures... :D

[D-Wade316]

The description for that video lies. That's not the worst flop in NBA history. Worst flop is either Chris Bosh's terrible flop against the Bulls last year when Carlos Boozer posted him up or DWade's phantom foul from the 2006 Finals. Nobody touched him!
Are you Bladers' bf?

[Velocirap31]

:rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKuKCst6wms

Looked more like he rolled his right ankle there.

[jb220]

Are you Bladers' bf?
He's actually the guy that ****s your mothers mouth on the daily

[hitmanyr2k]

Jordan despised flopping so I doubt you would find any footage of him doing so. And with all the physical contact back then and with Jordan being the face of the league you would think he would have tried the typical bitch antics of today like flailing his limbs or screaming as loud as he could during a shot to get a cheap whistle but he never did.

The only notable flopper on the offensive side of the ball back then was Reggie Miller and I remember Jordan saying playing against Miller was like having a chickenfight with a woman because of all of his flopping :oldlol: He certainly didn't respect that kind of play and I doubt he would respect the things these players do today either, especially since the rules are so much better for them.

[Mr. I'm So Rad]

Flopping is the only part of basketball he didn't invent

[jstern]

It's not the players fault that there's so much flopping in today's game, it's the rules. I mean sure, the players are the ones who do it, but it's just an easy way to get the ball back or get some free shots. If they're going to call any little contact, then naturally player's are going to sell it more.

[Da_Realist]

Jordan despised flopping so I doubt you would find any footage of him doing so. And with all the physical contact back then and with Jordan being the face of the league you would think he would have tried the typical bitch antics of today like flailing his limbs or screaming as loud as he could during a shot to get a cheap whistle but he never did.

The only notable flopper on the offensive side of the ball back then was Reggie Miller and I remember Jordan saying playing against Miller was like having a chickenfight with a woman because of all of his flopping :oldlol: He certainly didn't respect that kind of play and I doubt he would respect the things these players do today either, especially since the rules are so much better for them.

Exactly. I remember that chickenfight comment, too :oldlol:

He and Pippen hated the flopping Rodman used to get away with back then. But at least he sold it. He had feet quick enough to fool you if you weren't paying attention. The way he used to throw his body around and make it look like the guy shot him out of a cannon was almost a work of art even if I despised him for it.

Today's flopping is just a lazy, attention-whoring mess.

[thelucifer69]

This is what happen when MJ got bump

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QK5l3AMJ2E#t=14m28s

[Dizzle-2k7]

Much of those "degrading" stuff doesnt exist of Michael Jordan.... i guess its a way to make him look even more like a GOD, like the perfect player....

He had airballs, freethrow line airballs
He had flops
He had cheapshots
He had massive amount of travels (he got away mostly with alot of ball-palming)

If the internet was back then like it is today... im sure Jordan (or anybody else) would not get away without someone like PHONG spamming videos/GIFs of literally all his failures... :D

:biggums:

that was the worst post in ISH history.. nobody called u out so im gonna do it.

first off, jordan rarely traveled, and if he did, its nowhere near the amount that lebron, wade and kobe do nowadays.

second, jordan never flopped or cheapshotted. he played like an absolute MAN (bird, duncan, magic, etc)

hes the GOAT for a reason. mentally he's a beast as well as physically.. and jordan was way too strong to play like a bltch.

:coleman:

[OldSchoolBBall]

Much of those "degrading" stuff doesnt exist of Michael Jordan.... i guess its a way to make him look even more like a GOD, like the perfect player....

He had airballs, freethrow line airballs
He had flops
He had cheapshots
He had massive amount of travels (he got away mostly with alot of ball-palming)

If the internet was back then like it is today... im sure Jordan (or anybody else) would not get away without someone like PHONG spamming videos/GIFs of literally all his failures... :D

I can agree with most of that stuff except FT airballs (which I have never seen in the 500+ Bulls games I've seen) and the flopping. I have never seen Jordan flop, and in fact he was a player who relished physical contact and wasn't bothered by it on either end. I defy you to find me a single flop by Jordan of the sort you see today regularly. It never happened. Dude was a warrior who wanted to kill you, not someone who wanted to flop and act to gain some sort of advantage.

[bwink23]

JORDAN FLOP???

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

What kind of player you think Jordan was??

[Nero Tulip]

This is what happen when MJ got bump

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QK5l3AMJ2E#t=14m28s

Yeah that's the first play that came to mind when I saw the thread.

But in this situation he actually has to flop. If he falls to the ground the refs are almost always going to call this, and he wins the game. If Jordan is the winner he seems to be he probably regretted not flopping on this play.

[bwink23]

Yeah that's the first play that came to mind when I saw the thread.

But in this situation he actually has to flop. If he falls to the ground the refs are almost always going to call this, and he wins the game. If Jordan is the winner he seems to be he probably regretted not flopping on this play.


Why would he regret it?? He's played like that his entire life...that was just basketball being played back then. Notice he never complained about it.


Check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd2Wqt21_Yo

At 1:58 in this video, Jordan is being completely held....no call, no complaints, no flops. This was a critical FINALS game.

The game was different back then.

[Phong]

He had airballs, freethrow line airballs
He had flops
He had cheapshots
He had massive amount of travels (he got away mostly with alot of ball-palming)This fits LeBron to a T... not Jordan.

[ClipperRevival]

Nope.

GOAT's don't flop.

[aj1987]

Pauk has been working on a compilation for the past 3 years. Still waiting for it, pauk.

[Sportal]

One of the classic games were on the other night. It was uh...Game 7 vs Portland. And the players were accusing him of flopping.

[tpols]

Pauk has been blue balling the board for years now ... rumor has it he's 27 games through though.. and will complete the compilation by 2053.

[Dray n Klay]

If there was, ESPN confiscated it decades ago..





Alas we're now a generation who swears that "Jordan never flopped.."





:oldlol: :facepalm

[DoctorP]

NBA Superstars were too cool to flop in those days. Jordan never flopped, neither did Shaq in the early days. If they did it was a rarity. Later in Shaqs career, after the rules changes, flopping became more popular.

[G-train]

Jordan wasn't a flopper.
But he certainly pushed the boundaries of the rules.
eg. driving and slapping his own arm in the air.

[Smoke117]

Is there any footage of him taking a charge? He always put the tough stuff off on Scottie...like taking a charge from that tank Karl Malone while you have a bad back.

[bobopenguin]

still waiting for pauk's mj flopping compilation video.

[kamil]

If there was, ESPN confiscated it decades ago..

Alas we're now a generation who swears that "Jordan never flopped.."

:oldlol: :facepalm

Here's a clip ESPN didn't confiscate:

http://g88.imgup.net/LeBronFlop2be8.gif

[Nikola_]

pauk still MIA although his boy went CLE long ago

[jstern]

ESPN is in control of all Jordan footage. They are that powerful. All Jordan footage that you see on YouTube had to be 1st approved by ESPN. All torrents have to pass the ESPN filters.

[LostCause]

The only notable flopper on the offensive side of the ball back then was Reggie Miller and I remember Jordan saying playing against Miller was like having a chickenfight with a woman because of all of his flopping :oldlol: He certainly didn't respect that kind of play and I doubt he would respect the things these players do today either, especially since the rules are so much better for them.

I actually wanted to see if this was true and the original comment is :roll:

http://image.prntscr.com/image/e18822a0cf9848ee9d5a857778fbcd44.png


Can you imagine if someone said that today :roll:

[kamil]

I actually wanted to see if this was true and the original comment is :roll:

http://image.prntscr.com/image/e18822a0cf9848ee9d5a857778fbcd44.png


Can you imagine if someone said that today :roll:

LeBron* would cry to Silver... wouldn't be the first time either.

[Annyong!]

I actually wanted to see if this was true and the original comment is :roll:

http://image.prntscr.com/image/e18822a0cf9848ee9d5a857778fbcd44.png


Can you imagine if someone said that today :roll:
:lol

[jayfan]

There's no point of flopping when physical play is legal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtKyto07Kz4



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[SamuraiSWISH]

Jordan didn't flop. He occasionally slapped his own wrist to make it sound like a foul, that's about it. Had to do all that heavy lifting scoring to make up for others, so had to craft his way to the foul line at times. Especially when he's attacking the basket and taking heavy contact with little calls.

[Da_Realist]

Here's a clip ESPN didn't confiscate:

http://g88.imgup.net/LeBronFlop2be8.gif

:facepalm Perfect superstar for today's game

[ILLsmak]

Saw this... I dunno a month ago when I was watching old games? I forgot about it until now. I'll throw ya a bone.

https://youtu.be/FXoPwJcsLjU?t=38m51s

Flop is a bit after, that's the whole play.

-Smak

[Smoke117]

Saw this... I dunno a month ago when I was watching old games? I forgot about it until now. I'll throw ya a bone.

https://youtu.be/FXoPwJcsLjU?t=38m51s

Flop is a bit after, that's the whole play.

-Smak

...except that's not a flop...he clearly tripped on Hardaway's foot.

[ILLsmak]

...except that's not a flop...he clearly tripped on Hardaway's foot.

watch it in super slow and you'll see he went into him and pushed off/fell before his foot even touched his foot.

I mean, I'll let ISH decide what they want to see.

-Smak

[OldSchoolBBall]

Saw this... I dunno a month ago when I was watching old games? I forgot about it until now. I'll throw ya a bone.

https://youtu.be/FXoPwJcsLjU?t=38m58s

Flop is a bit after, that's the whole play.

-Smak

As noted, he clearly tripped/slipped on Penny's foot as he was starting his forward drive.

[Dragonyeuw]

:facepalm Perfect superstar for today's game

Imagine an elbow from Karl Malone or Bill Cartwright, may knock him to the parking lot.

[Da_Realist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtKyto07Kz4



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Pistons hanging on any way they could. They knew it was over.

[Lebronxrings]

pauk posted a couple but it got locked by a Jordan stan mod.

[LostCause]

watch it in super slow and you'll see he went into him and pushed off/fell before his foot even touched his foot.

I mean, I'll let ISH decide what they want to see.

-Smak

He pushed off to go in a different direction. Doesn't change the fact he definitely did trip on his feet though. So not a flop

I'm not sure what the big deal is with this thread anyway. Flopping wasn't as prevalent back then as it is now because the game was played differently. If the rules were the same back then as it is now, you probably would've saw much more flopping going on