Rick Carlisle on the loss to the Lakers: “There were certain things that were impossible to overcome…The 27 free throw differential is one and the 17 foul differential is the other. And I’ll leave it at that.”
by MeechOrMandingo
@National Basketball Association
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Every fucking time. Clockwork.
It’s so exhausting.
they intentionally fouled like 5 times at the end so at least take 10 free throws out of that when making the point lol
So thats why he started fouling early. So he could pump those post game numbers up LMAO
10 of those were intentional free throws and they fouled Dinwiddie on three point shots TWICE lmfao
maybe you should’ve not fouled then? seems pretty simple to me. also like 12 of those were from intentional fouling to extend the game and it nearly worked so ig good job by them
you can go look at their games, the pacers very rarely have games where they have more free throws than the other team.
seems like its a discipline thing and they just foul much more than who they play.
Come on bruh Rick should be more concerned with how they’re gonna guard anyone in the playoffs
That fucking Raptors coach bitching about free throws started all of this. Watch the fucking games and you’ll understand the whistle.
They gave up over 30 in every quarter. Take away every FT and they still gave up 112, which is not great. The Pacers play incredibly poor perimeter defense, their help defenders are constantly having to help on drives to the hoop. They give up the most FTs in the league. They also don’t have much of a post presence outside of Siakam, who still got 8 FTs. Rick needs to reflect on that before anything else.
Here we go
Gotta look at your team and it’s flaws as well Rick. I mean Lakers have a friendly whistle more often than not, but you were fouling a lot intentionally.
46 secs left pacers are down by 7 and they intentionally start fouling. yeah no.
Play better defense.
this is shame
Not this shit again
Congratulations, you have exposed yourself as having a smooth brain.
So much for the pacers defense being better since the ASB
Stupid. If you watched the game you’d see that the whistle was pretty even – remember that foul on Turner where AR didn’t even touch him, it’s just that the pacers refused to stop fouling. Spencer Dinwiddie was fouled on 3pt attempts twice lmfao.
I’m sorry but this is such loser shit coming from a coach. I get if a player feels that way, but the coach has to be better than that.
“Nah we played amazing nothing needed to change we almost played perfectly, just shitty refs only reason we lost”
What precedent does that set for the players? Losers always look to make excuses rather than taking accountability.
Is there ever any responsibility taken from teams to just not foul as often or is it always assumed both teams are fouling the identical amount and it’s just a referee discrepancy? Never makes sense to me.
Didn’t watch the game gonna shut my mouth and like the fact that we won
145-150, haven’t seen the game but better defense might have something to do with it.
Bro come on. 1st quarter had like 2 or 3 moving screens on AD for moving like half an inch
This lakers team, in particular AD and LeBron, rarely commit stupid fouls, and it sometimes comes across as them not trying on defence (sometimes that’s correct too) – and then on the other end, they probably don’t even get fouls called enough.
Is that now the excuse for every team that loses to the Lakers?
So he’s just gonna discount the fact that they started intentionally fouling with almost 1 minute left on the clock and that they had a few stupid fouls throughout the game including 2 on Spencer at the 3pt line? Dude, your team just got 150 scored on them…maybe instead of bitching about the refs, start teaching them some defense…
Then stop fouling, lol?
Interesting how this is always the excuse when losing to the Lakers. People who actually watch the game know fouls are called for a reason. Stop fouling then.
Tbf, it could’ve been more. Pacers were playing lousy defense and carelessly
10 of those free throws were from intentional fouls lol
I mean, there’s consolation in the FT differential, on a road trip and only losing by 5. I’d say it wasn’t all that bad.
Lakers fans make it impossible to agree with them even when their points are correct lol
A&M shot 45 free throws against UHs 30 and A&M was intentionally fouling at the end too. UH still won. never say never
Why didn’t he tell his team to stop fouling? Is he stupid?
Its ridiculous how the NBA riggs Games for the Lakers. They aren’t even trying to hide it anymore, its so fucking obvious.
Points in the paint per game: Indiana (1st) at 57.6 ppg. LA Lakers (2nd) at 56.2 ppg
Fast break points per game: LA Lakers (3rd) at 16.7 ppg. Indiana (4th) at 16.6 ppg.
Free throws attempted per game: LA Lakers (3rd) at 24.3 per game. Indiana (22nd) at 21 per game.