Chet Holmgren on the physicality these playoffs: "It feels like how we used to play at the park. There's no playing for a foul out there. You gotta play for a bucket. If you played to get a foul at the park, someone would just take the ball and go home."
“I thought the game was reffed very physically,” Adelman says. “I thought we joined the party late.” DA says when you join the party late, refs see the physicality as reactionary
"This is how we've played all year," Magic guard Anthony Black said about the physicality of the series vs. Boston. "We like to touch people on defense, we're into the ball, we pick up. That's just the style of basketball we play."
Jaylen Brown said a fight might break out because the games have been so physical. He said if the Magic want to do that, they can fight it out for the right to get to the second round.
Luka Doncic: "Going into Minnesota will be a war. ... We can't panic"
"Toughness and physicality is the staple of the city and the staple of the team. It's something that we need to embrace." Scotty Pippen Jr.
"If you look around the playoffs right now, it's super physical," Finch told reporters. "To me, they've gone way too far on the physicality."
The Warriors made it a point not to complain about Houston's physicality postgame...understanding that this series will need to be won in a rugged environment when it restarts in San Francisco. "
TJ McConnell: "he's like, 'You're going to pick everyone up full court, and that's what you're going to hang your hat on.' And it's something that I've created an identity about."
Kevon Looney on physicality: "It's the playoffs, I'm gonna grab and push until they call it'"
I didn't see the flagrant," Mosley said, "Two guys were going for the block and I think it was just the fall [that] was probably what set it off more than anything."
Aaron Gordon was pretty critical of the whistle. Says the Thunder are fouling every possession and refs are often calling the second foul
“They do a lot of fouling, shoving, holding, pushing and tackling Rudy,” Finch said after practice Wednesday. “That’s clear. We sent a bunch of those clips into the league. In fact, I’m not sure I know another player in the league with Rudy’s pedigree that is allowed to be physically beaten on the way he is. And so we’ve got to address that one way or another.”
“I was upset the first 10 minutes of the game. It was just like Houston all over again,” Kerr said of Game 1. “They were bear-hugging Steph (Curry), and they could have called six fouls.”
