Mitch Johnson

Excuse my language.

But at some stage, he should be protected.

And if not, he's going to have to protect himself.

And unfortunately, stuff like that happens.

In general, I do think it's getting to a point that it's if the people that are in charge of controlling the game and protecting the physicality of the game don't do that, then at some point he's going to have to protect himself.

We've been asking him to do that now for a while.

So, that call on Glenn Nosby was okay and...

The call was warranted, but in terms of the game plan of every single team we face since that young man's been in the league and the physicality that people try to impose on him and the lack of protection is really disappointing.

At some level, it's starting to get actually disgusting just in terms of when he tries to fight through things and be professional and mature and deal with some of that stuff.

I'm glad he took matters into his own hands.

Yeah, not in terms of hitting Nas Reed, but I wouldn't be very clear about that.

I'm glad Nas Reed was okay, and I didn't want him to elbow him, but he's gonna have to protect himself if they're not, and I think it's disgusting.