Tom Crean Instructs Team to Start Flopping?

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@RandBall: Heard. From a reader that the cameras caught Crean telling his players to flop before the phantom head shot. Anyone have the game saved?


@RandBall: No audio in huddle. Crean does make elbow motion. tough to say. RT @elliotmann: @RandBall Here you go: http://t.co/ea3C8eCjYJ”
 

I remember the announcers theorizing about it, but don't recall seeing anything specific from Crean or his bench.
 


Yes i saw it clear! He said to double them and get your face close so when the protect the ball try and take a elbow in the face. I think its great coaching actually. Do i like it no but he is paid to win games. And with the rule the way it is i can't blame him for trying.
 

scher215 said:
@RandBall: Heard. From a reader that the cameras caught Crean telling his players to flop before the phantom head shot. Anyone have the game saved?


@RandBall: No audio in huddle. Crean does make elbow motion. tough to say. RT @elliotmann: @RandBall Here you go: http://t.co/ea3C8eCjYJ”
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IMO the attempt to fabricate an elbow to the head was bush league and blatant. The acting job by Sheey was obvious. The B1G should look into this sort of thing.
 


gopherhoopsguy said:
Yes i saw it clear! He said to double them and get your face close so when the protect the ball try and take a elbow in the face. I think its great coaching actually. Do i like it no but he is paid to win games. And with the rule the way it is i can't blame him for trying.
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Ok. So i missed that...but the result was obvious: If you watch the replay you will see quite clearly that the Indiana player basically just lays his head on the body there. Blatant and hence, excellent non-call.
 

Hey Crean...

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I could see him motioning it during his huddle and I knew what they were gonna try to do right away, I'm just glad the refs didn't take the bait.
 

gopherMD said:
IMO the attempt to fabricate an elbow to the head was bush league and blatant. The acting job by Sheey was obvious. The B1G should look into this sort of thing.
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Total flop. Nice job by refs to go with no call. If they would have called that and changed the game, the barn would have blown up.
 




Yes, that's exactly what it looked looked like he was telling them. If true, he should be suspended for a game.
 

This is happening more often these days...time to call a technical for a flop and see if coaches keep teaching it.

My favorite part of the flop was the way he grabbed the wrong side of his face at first and then moved his hand over as he was laying on the court...total bush league and I hope they do something about it.
 




If they have to stop the action to review an "elbow" like that and it is determined to be an obvious flop, then it should be a technical if you ask me. Flops are always bad enough but when the game is delayed because of one, there needs to be some kind of penalty.
 


GophersInIowa said:
If they have to stop the action to review an "elbow" like that and it is determined to be an obvious flop, then it should be a technical if you ask me. Flops are always bad enough but when the game is delayed because of one, there needs to be some kind of penalty.
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After two T's for flopping, Cody Zeller would sit second half of every game.
 

The announcers were saying that Indiana had used it in an earlier game and it worked. Dakich said "You can look at the tape!"
 

I remember Crean motioned holding his arm and motioning with his elbow during the T.O.....I didn't think anything of it until I saw the flop! I was yelling at my wife who just looked at me with a blank stare. haha.

Glad the officials got it right!
 

scher215 said:
@RandBall: Heard. From a reader that the cameras caught Crean telling his players to flop before the phantom head shot. Anyone have the game saved?


@RandBall: No audio in huddle. Crean does make elbow motion. tough to say. RT @elliotmann: @RandBall Here you go: http://t.co/ea3C8eCjYJ”
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Sounds like Crean has been watching the original "Mighty Ducks" movie in which Coach Gordon Bombay instructs his players to absorb the phantom head shot and go down clutching their face/head.:cool02:
 


I noticed the elbow swinging in the huddle, and hoped for the sake of Tom Crean and any respect I had for him as a coach, that I misunderstood what he was conveying to the players. But when I saw Sheehy flop and grab his face, all respect I had for Tom Crean as a coach of young men, a teacher, and a role model immediately evaporated. I have never had any reason to dislike him (not at all like Bo Cryin') but to sink to the depths of telling your guys to flop, to draw a phantom flagrant foul to try and win the game is inexcusable. I don't even think Bo would sink that low...

If Tubby would have told our guys to flop and fake a flagrant foul at any point in the season, I would lose all respect for him and want him gone. But even if Tubby isn't the greatest offensive mind, or sometimes says things that we as a fan base don't like, you really can't question the guy's integrity. I would be shocked if this were something that would even cross his mind.

Nice win!! Go Gophers!!
 

XMan said:
Total flop. Nice job by refs to go with no call. If they would have called that and changed the game, the barn would have blown up.
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Just what I said to my seat mates. It was so obvious a flop, and the way he stayed down on the floor and rolled around in pain - bad timing because there's no way the Academy remembers that scene come next year's awards. Like you said, had the officials called something flagrant there, with the students already poised to storm the court, it could have gotten ugly.
 


What was the time of the Sheehy fake foul? I'm trying to find it in the video on ESPN.
 




Sheehey is an absolute disgrace and should be disciplined. Hard to believe that type of behavior isn't condoned by the coach either. Indiana took a huge drop in my eyes tonight, integrity-wise. Have some respect for yourselves.
 



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