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Originally Posted by Silock
It's not a deception if you were actually fouled. If you're deceiving, by definition, you're trying to convince someone else of something that isn't true (like being fouled). If you were actually fouled, it can't be a deception.
Also, players sometimes embellish out of frustration of a no-call. I can't blame a guy for getting frustrated. But he shouldn't benefit because of it. It's just far more tolerable and understandable than, say, getting all up on a guy and then pretending you got hit in the jaw by an elbow when you clearly weren't.
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Ideally, the game of basketball would be one where objective officials were making objective calls. That's what the game aspires to be. But, as we all know from watching years of games at AFH (and reaping the benefits of it), there's a huge element of subjectivity to it at all. And until that goes away (if it ever will), I cannot blame a player for trying to embellish/fake a call to take advantage of that fact. Unfortunate or not, it's just a part of the game (and some players like Smart and the NBA players I named are far better than others at it). I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that.