Timberwolves coach says his team should 'start flopping' after free-throw disparity vs. Nuggets
“Maybe we ought to start flopping, too,” Finch said before Game 2 on Monday night. More specifically, he was agitated about Jamal Murray going 16 for 16 from the free-throw line. Finch called Murray's 16 attempts a “head scratcher” after Minnesota's 116-105 loss Saturday, when the Wolves shot 19 free throws.
DENVER (AP) — Timberwolves coach Chris Finch hasn't gotten over the free-throw disparity in his team's series-opening loss to the Denver Nuggets. “Maybe we ought to start flopping, too,” Finch said before Game 2 on Monday night. More specifically, he was agitated about Jamal Murray going 16 for 16 from the free-throw line.
Finch called Murray's 16 attempts a “head scratcher” after Minnesota's 116-105 loss Saturday, when the Wolves shot 19 free throws. Murray said after the game he didn't know what the fuss was all about because he was repeatedly fouled by the physical Timberwolves. “What do you want me to say?
They weren't all fouls. Some of them were fouls,” Finch said Monday. “The league's in a place right now where you draw the contact, and you spill away, and you get rewarded.
Guys who try to play through contact, that first level of contact, and stay with the drive and all that, they tend not to be rewarded. ” His standout players Julius Randle and Anthony Edwards fit into that category, suggested Finch. “Julius is not a flopper.