{"id":296929,"date":"2025-11-20T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296929\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:36:09","slug":"adam-forde-claims-players-are-being-unfairly-targeted-as-floppers-video-press-conference-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296929\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Forde claims players are being unfairly targeted as floppers, video, press conference, interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cairns Taipans head coach Adam Forde has taken aim at the NBL following his team\u2019s overtime loss in Round Nine, arguing that Andrew Andrews is being denied legitimate foul calls because of an unfair reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Watch live coverage of NBL and WNBL 2025-26 seasons with ESPN on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkbasketball-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-basketball-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrews has been a bright spot for the Taipans this season, averaging 13.6 points, 6.3 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 3.4 free-throw attempts across 13 games. But Forde made it clear the team has grown frustrated with the lack of calls, to the point it\u2019s now altering their offensive approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo now when he does get fouled, he doesn\u2019t get the call because you\u2019ve got the NBL and the referee saying that he has a reputation as a flopper,\u201d Forde told reporters post-game.<\/p>\n<p>He expanded on the idea of reputational officiating, saying it\u2019s an issue across the league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReputational calls happen everywhere, right?\u201d Forde continued. <\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763321169_134_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome are positive and benefit. Some are this guy\u2019s a flopper. So every time he falls down, he will get a flop warning, whatever it may be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so you send through stuff to the NBL, and you say, \u2018OK, well, is this a foul? Is that a foul? Is this a foul? Is that a foul?\u2019 And they\u2019re like, \u2018yep, no, yep, no, no, cool, cool. Let\u2019s address this. Let\u2019s look at this\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to adjust and be like, \u2018We\u2019ll just shoot it. Just shoot the three and shoot the mid-range\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d rather come down and just come off an on-ball and try and get clear enough to shoot it and give yourself a crack at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taipans still last as Phoenix run riot | 00:59<\/p>\n<p>Forde also referenced the league\u2019s own officiating audits, using injured Taipans forward Sam Waardenburg as an example of ongoing discrepancies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo here\u2019s a stat for you and this won\u2019t get me in trouble because it\u2019s the NBL stats,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the NBL does their review process. They\u2019ll send through the stats of every player with missed and made calls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast season, Sam Waardenburg had the biggest discrepancy for for and against in terms of correct calls and missed calls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Refereeing has remained one of the dominant storylines this season, with growing frustration from coaches, players, media and fans over inconsistent whistles, technicals, and an overall tightening of the game\u2019s natural competitiveness and emotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cairns Taipans head coach Adam Forde has taken aim at the NBL following his team\u2019s overtime loss in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-296929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}