Ginobili (gi-nob'-blee) verb. 1. To flop in response to minimal (or perhaps fictitious) contact in order to draw a foul. 2. To greatly overreact to little or no physical stimuli for personal gain.
Usage example: The guy I was guarding just toppled over and started writhing around. I barely touched him, but he got the foul call and his team won the game. I totally got Ginobili'd.
Word history: This word, inspired by Reebok's You got Rondo'd viral video campaign, is destined to become the standard term for describing athletes who needlessly dive, flail, flop, tumble, and/or thrash about for a foul call (and extrapolates to refer to any person who overreacts to minimal physical contact for personal gain). Sure, there are plenty of players who behave this way, but Manu is by far our favorite. Manu, you may not have won the title this year, but you'll always be first our heart -- our cynical, sarcastic heart, that is.
And now...prepare to be Ginobili'd (thanks to the great Basketbawful for his acting performance that, in my opinion, rivals even the standard-bearing Manu himself):
Phonetastic extra: Ever wonder how to pronounce Araujo, Garbajosa, Jasikevicius, Tsakalidis, or Vinicius? Then go check out The International NBA Players Pronunciation Guide.
Usage example: The guy I was guarding just toppled over and started writhing around. I barely touched him, but he got the foul call and his team won the game. I totally got Ginobili'd.
Word history: This word, inspired by Reebok's You got Rondo'd viral video campaign, is destined to become the standard term for describing athletes who needlessly dive, flail, flop, tumble, and/or thrash about for a foul call (and extrapolates to refer to any person who overreacts to minimal physical contact for personal gain). Sure, there are plenty of players who behave this way, but Manu is by far our favorite. Manu, you may not have won the title this year, but you'll always be first our heart -- our cynical, sarcastic heart, that is.
And now...prepare to be Ginobili'd (thanks to the great Basketbawful for his acting performance that, in my opinion, rivals even the standard-bearing Manu himself):
Phonetastic extra: Ever wonder how to pronounce Araujo, Garbajosa, Jasikevicius, Tsakalidis, or Vinicius? Then go check out The International NBA Players Pronunciation Guide.
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I guess that's how they roll in Slovenia.
My favorite Vujacic moment of the finals was when he tried to scissor his legs around Ray Allen's and pull him down, clearly caught on replay, then threw an it-wasn't-me tantrum. That was sort of ballsy there.
Do you think it's really a pronunciation guide FOR foreign players to use? Or do you think it's really just a "Hard to Pronounce NBA Player Names Guide"?
When Luke Walton made that boneheaded move by trying to guard Pierce at half-court and slipped, Pierce actually took a backward dive-and-slide over Walton's prone body without injuring either and got the foul called on Walton. Even if you hate flopping, you can't help but admire the grace with which Pierce performed that manoeuvre.
I especially like the music and the self-tipping mug.
Yams et al - Vujacic is a special kind of crazy that may surpass Ginobili's antics before long (I've referred to him as Ginobili-in-training), but he has not remotely taken these skills to the art form level that Manu has. The jump ball where he dropped to the floor and intentionally banged his head was with 38-year-old Sam Cassell. Even I was a little stunned for a second, thinking "No Sam, don't toss the little European around like that!" V almost fooled even me...glad the refs didn't fall for that crap. Still, V may never get to rise to Manu heights, considering the flop fines and whatnot coming into effect next year.
Drake - Probably just a hard-to-pronounce guide. Bawful himself added this notation, probably because my initial attempt at the pronunciation guide for "Ginobili" in a draft of this post was so piss poor.
shiv - yes, Pierce's theatrics on that play were not lost on me.
Wormboy - Thanks. The self-tipping mug was my favorite thing too.
I'm not sure what Derek Fisher's and Bruce Bowen's excuse is though.
Dan Dickau DICK-cow
I think Manu doesn't even flop any more. Or at least not enough to even merit mentioning in today's league. He doesn't even take charges any more! But people just love to hate him, and refuse to give him credit for changing his game.
Aah, the "Duncan face", "Ginobili", the NO series... Basketbawful is such a great site for us Spurs fans lately. I wonder how you plan to spin Tony's "Frenchiness" into a new word of the day, Evil Ted.
Should be hilarious.
For instance:
"Peja Stojakovic - STOY-ak-O-vich"
Isn't it "sto-YAK-o-vich"?
This was the funniest entry:
"Dan Dickau - DICK-cow"
Another point: on the youtube comments, someone had written "I hate Manu. I wish he would die. Or at least retire." I deleted this comment, because it is the same stupidity, just in the other direction.
If you can't enjoy comedy, that's a little sad. And if you can't tolerate viewpoints other than your own, tell me what players you want me to make fun of, and I'll do that next for equal time.
But in searching for footage of the defensive flops, I realized that fan compilations contained a ton of offensive flops, which is entirely behavior of the same ilk. Oh, and if you don't think those are flops, I can only assume you don't play ball, because those dives are about as obviously fake as any that have ever taken place on the hardwood. You can try to argue that the body responds like that to minor physical contact all you want, but it could get a little embarrassing...
...on the other hand, it might reveal you as a prime candidate for NBA referee duty.
I was just being an a-hole who was overly nitpicky.
YEAH! everything that is not happening this very instant is irrelevant and must never be spoken of again!
"i'm pretty open to the jokes but"
Translation: I am, in fact, closed to this joke.
And you're clearly not open to jokes. Relax. Smoke it if you have it.
As for Pierce, I'll find something good to make fun of him about, so you can feel all warm and fuzzy.
love the music
its like calling the Manning brothers chokers when they have won back-to-back Super Bowls. shazam!
Well played, timmy d. Well played.
That is some quintessential wit you have going there. I bow graciously in defeat to your...ah, to hell with it. Think whatever you want, Shazam.