No completely different from every other postseason, the referees have allowed a bodily model of basketball this 12 months.
The Celtics, who averaged 116.3 factors within the common season, have been contained to only 101.7 factors via three video games in opposition to the Magic. Whereas the younger Orlando squad deserves credit score for throwing Boston’s free-flowing offense off its rhythm, Jaylen Brown has warned officers {that a} battle would possibly escape if the physicality is not curtailed.
“There may be a battle escape or one thing, as a result of it is beginning to really feel prefer it’s not even basketball, and the refs is just not controlling their setting,” Brown instructed reporters. “It’s what it’s. If we wish to battle it out, we are able to do this. We are able to battle to see who goes to the second spherical.”
