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The issue of free throws (and the umpires’ whistles) returns to the front page after Game 4, the third challenge that saw the Lakers close with a positive differential (this time net: 35-23) on the rounds to the Line: “They protested in the league after Game 3, it will mean that we will too,” says the Denver coach. “I’d like to see some fouls on Murray booed in Game 5.”
the total free throw count of the two teams so far in the series speaks of a perfect equality: Lakers 113, Nuggets 113. But the data also says that the two yellow-purple superstars – LeBron James and Anthony Davis – together they shot 70.62% of the team (against 52 of the Murray-Jokic couple). And then it must have seemed strange to train Michael Malone that then race-3 – when the budget for bevel trips rewarded its (29-22 the total bill) – one of the Lakers arrived immediately complaint about the treatment of LeBron James, author in that third run of a measly 1/2 of the charity line (also the result of a flagrant foul by Murray’s elbow to James himself and not a normal lack of play). “LeBron always attacks the basket aggressively – Coach Vogel noted after the first three games, with James’ total number of free attempts in just double digits (10) – so we will point out to the league, on specially prepared channels, this particular aspect of the game“Serve or not, the figures of race-4 speak eloquently: of Los Angeles’ 35 free attempts, 14 each earned LeBron James and Anthony Davis.
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A fact that this time Coach Michael Malone doesn’t like him on the other side of the fence: “They shot 35 free: It will mean that we too must make ourselves heard in channels specially prepared to deserve some more free passes, “he declared with (not too much) veiled irony, to take up the words of his colleague on the Lakers bench. Unacceptable, for the Nuggets coach, the fact that two opposing superstars they left on the bezel more times (28) than all the players on his team (23 free attempts).
Coach Malone: ”We will send the movies to the league – we hope Game 5 will be different”
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Do public complaints pay? “I don’t know, I have no idea – Malone cut him short – but what I know is that they went to the line 35 times and we 23. In the final Murray attacked the iron aggressively, has been contacts not whistled, we will review the pictures and decide what to do. We’ll send the images to the NBA, we’ll flag them down – the league generally does a great job of listening to these kinds of comments. Our hope is that in Game 5 some of these fouls will be called “. Instead, they called a lot to two heavy alla superstar dei pepitas Nikola Jokic at the start of the fourth quarter, just when Denver was looking for a comeback: it was the fall n ° 4 and 5 for the Serbian center, then forced to manage himself for the rest of the game, another detail that angered coach Malone not a little. However, honestly, admit that The referee’s whistles certainly did not decide the outcome of match 4: “During many possessions we defended well but did not complete the defensive action, giving them an attack rebound: your second chance baskets [25 punti per i Lakers, ndr] are the reason we lost this game. Dwight Howard had a huge impact from the beginning, ”admits Michael Malone.
Murray: “Like with Gobert in race 4 in the first round”
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Jamal Murray also speaks on the subject of arbitration, brought in the first person of his coach. The Nuggets superstar had already made itself heard after race 1, who had seen the Lakers go to the line 24 times in the second quarter alone (“They want to discuss each whistle with the umpires, it is evident how they try to manipulate what happens in the field“): He comes back to the topic even after race 4.“ I have great respect for the referees, they try to do their job as well as possible – he says – but on a couple of occasions I have been fouled and the repetition is clearly visible. It also happened in the first round, with Gobert missing in Game 4, which we ended up losing. As a team, we always show the utmost respect towards referees, but we know we have to earn their respect on the field, because we are the youngest group. We know LeBron will always get his boosThat is why we must look ahead and not let ourselves be stopped by these things ”.
