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Drawing fouls is an art for Collins
By Lya Wodraska
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 01/12/2007 01:07:36 AM MST
Coward basketball. That's what Dallas' Jerry Stackhouse called Utah's
style of play after he was ejected from Tuesday's loss for flagrant fouls
against Matt Harpring and Jarron Collins.
Collins, Utah's 6-foot-11 backup center, prefers other descriptions,
such as "smart" or maybe even "artistic."
There are times when it might benefit an athlete to disguise how a hard
hit feels, as in the way a receiver quickly bounces to his feet after he is
driven into the ground by a hard-hitting safety.
But such a benefit for NBA players doesn't really exist. When someone
elbows them or puts a body into them, they're better off playing up the
contact in hopes of drawing a foul.
That is where one of Collins' talents come in. When it comes to making
the contact seem a little more dramatic, he's good. Very good.
"He's one of the best in the league," Utah's Mehmet Okur said. "He likes
to play solid defense, but on offense if a guy comes at him really hard with
a left or right shoulder, he realizes it and he makes a move."
Usually that move is down to the floor, just as he did Tuesday when
Stackhouse hit him across the arms. The reaction is often referred to as
"flopping," but Collins said it isn't as easy as falling to the floor.
"You have to be willing to stand in there and absorb some contact from
the other player who wants to lay into you," he said. "You're always trying
to draw fouls from your opponent, so you can get that extra possession."
"It was a heated game and he brought it on himself by getting into it
with Coach [Jerry] Sloan," he said. "The only thing that matters to me is
the outcome of the game."
Playing up contact doesn't always work in Collins' favor, or his
teammates' for that matter. In a 106-83 loss to San Antonio, the Jazz drew
the ire of Sloan for protesting contact too much, rather than focusing on
their play.
"If we'd have been an airplane, we'd have taken off and flown, probably,"
he said then.
"We played into it too much a time or two in that game," Sloan said.
"Jarron's not afraid to get his body in there and take some hits. He helps
us out that way."
Collins said the key is his timing - fold too soon and you'll draw more
shrugged shoulders than whistles from the refs. Getting that timing down is
something Okur said he hasn't quite mastered.
"I try it and it doesn't work for me in a game, then I just forget about
it," he said.
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