INDIANAPOLIS — Let the officiating gamesmanship start.
Forward of Tuesday night time’s Recreation 4, Tom Thibodeau was crucial of the calls which have been touchdown Jalen Brunson in foul bother.
“Some of the plays, they’re 50/50. They can go either way. I’m looking, he’s taking charges and he’s getting called for blocks,” the Knicks coach mentioned. “I don’t care what the officiating is saying, I’ve studied this league a long time, I know what a charge looks like.”
Brunson discovered himself in deep foul bother within the Knicks’ Recreation 3 victory, selecting up 4 fouls within the first half.
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He additionally had 5 fouls in Recreation 1 of the Jap Convention finals and fouled out in Recreation 5 in opposition to the Celtics within the earlier spherical.
Thibodeau was upset a few blocking name on Brunson in Recreation 3 that he challenged.
The decision wasn’t modified.
“You challenge it and they still say … I’ll leave it at that,” he mentioned.
