Triple Flop, Terrible Lakers Defense and More Dominate 'Shaqtin' a Fool'
With another work week in the books, it is time for us to once again commune in a celebration of the most awkward NBA moments from the past seven days.
In this week's "Shaqtin' A Fool," Shaquille O'Neal and the Inside the NBA crew analyzed especially terrible defense as well as one of the most egregious flopping incidents in recent memory.
Kicking things off is Jusuf Nurkic. Denver's Bosnian center found himself fresh out of hardwood after bobbling a rebound toward the baseline. Stranded and falling, he attempted the ol' self-pass, dropping the ball and re-establishing himself inbounds.
"I literally have no idea what is happening here," O'Neal said. "This man is playing hot potato by himself."
You cannot do this.
Second in line is a menage of contrived flailing so beautifully heinous it borders on high art.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a thing of beauty," O'Neal said. "The first ever triple flop!"
DeMarcus Cousins, Rudy Gay and Kenneth Faried came together and blossomed like violets during Monday's Kings-Nuggets game. We may never see a flop of this precision or magnitude ever again.
Kenny Smith could scarcely stomach the segment's third entrant, an indefensible defensive brain fart by the Lakers against the Clippers.
"Oh this is stupid," Smith said. "I saw this. I would fine the whole team."
The Lakers convened for a morale-raising pep talk from Jeremy Lin while the Clippers went about—you know—playing basketball.
The segment's weirdest moment might've been the Blake Griffin bounce. No one knew what to say about that.
Claiming the No. 1 spot was Larry Sanders, who nearly gave Jason Kidd a coronary when he thought about scoring on his own basket.
"I love this one," Ernie Johnson said. "I saw this live…the Jason Kidd reaction was priceless. He came so close!"
And thus went another week of weirdness in the NBA.
Cherish the triple flops and the historically bad Lakers, sports fans. Sometimes awfulness reaches such heights that it becomes beautiful.
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