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Message: [QUOTE="ConwayGmck, post: 4113548, member: 10442"] Of course, you can. It is the sole reason why flopping is looked upon with disdain. People learning the craft of flopping, without taking contact sufficient enough to result in a player being displaced from their set defensive position. You know, a defensive player does not even have to be knocked down to the floor, for it to be a legitimate charging violation. There are occasionally charge/offensive fouls called for lowering of the shoulder, giving a hip shiv that moves the defensive player out of set position, but that defensive player is still standing upright. That a defensive player even falls to the floor, is very often a form of flopping. To make darned sure the officials see that the player was displaced. You can't be displaced much more than by being sent prone on the floor, unless you go flying off into the heavenly spaces like the image showed the player being above. Falling down may just be an attempt to show a legitimate charge being committed. The issue with "flopping" is when players fall down to imply that they took contact to warrant a charge call, when they actually haven't. An effort to fabricate a foul. And they flop from time to time to try to imply they were elbowed in the side, pushed aside by an opposing player while battling for positioning: regardless of whether the opposing player even has the ball. In that scenario it's an offensive foul, but not technically a charge. But even the flopping player's team could be on offense, and he's trying to post up, and then flops. Then it's a defensive foul, if he can fool the official into giving him the call. All flopping scenarios, but no charging scenarios..... [/QUOTE]

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