Sean Connors

My 2 cents on foul-baiting/flopping: It’s always been perfectly within the rules to do it. But it’s always just been up to players to have the self-respect and integrity to not over-do it. Like, honestly, a well-timed occasional strategic flop, I can accept. But when it becomes a hallmark of your whole game, when you’re seeking it out every time or every other time you touch the ball… That’s when sportsmanship is killed by gamesmanship. That’s when winning becomes completely divorced from ethics. That’s when the game becomes unwatchable. That’s when the rules have to change. When players can no longer be trusted to reasonably govern themselves, that’s when official governance has to be increased. Same thing happens in all aspects of society, when you think about it. And that’s just unfortunate. Something here has to change.