"Maybe we gotta start flopping, too. The league is in a place right now where you draw contact, spill away, you get rewarded. Guys who try to play through contact tend not to be rewarded."
"Julius is not a flopper. Ant is not a flopper. They are physical drivers. A lot of times that point of contact, if you were to spill away, you get a foul."
"So it was 12 [free throws], and he got fouled. This wasn't a game where he was walking to the line. He was playing through a lot of physicality."
"Some of them were fouls, but they weren't all fouls. Fouls are rewarded up the floor and not in and around the paint."
Minnesota Timberwolves coach Chris Finch criticized Jamal Murray's 16 free throws in Game 1, suggesting a league trend of players exaggerating contact. Finch compared his players, Julius Randle and Anthony Edwards, who had fewer free throws, emphasizing their physical style of play. Denver Nuggets coach David Adelman defended Murray, clarifying that not all free throws were due to soft calls. Finch acknowledged some fouls but noted a tendency to reward players who draw contact rather than those who play through it, highlighting a disparity in officiating.
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