Raja Bell
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Like, I love that.
But then when you put a team in the bonus in the first like three minutes of a quarter coming out, like that's not what we were just doing.
And that's hard to make that adjustment like on the fly like that.
Look, Jalen Brunson has a lot of gamesmanship with his flopping and his Manu Ginobili-esque kind of head.
He's great at it.
But they're beating the living shit out of him bringing the ball up the court.
I mean, that's kind of the point, right?
Yeah, they're beating him up.
And so, again, I'm good with it.
But then we can't be putting people in the bonus on just ticky-tack stuff with three minutes into a crazy quarter that could have decided the NBA season.
I just don't think that's right.
I mean, look, the theme of this series for me is it's just physicality.
Like this has been a really, really physical series.
And I think both teams at times have thrived in the physicality.
Howard, you made a good point tonight about San Antonio kind of cutting down on the mistakes.
I thought with that, they also came out in the second half and just raised their level defensively.
I thought they had some possessions late in that fourth quarter game