Knicks’ Mike Brown on free throw discrepancy in Game 3 loss to Spurs: ‘I never thought I’d see that in an NBA Finals game’

The Knicks were unable to extend their playoff winning streak and take a 3-0 lead in the NBA Finals on Monday night, falling to the San Antonio Spurs in Game 3.

New York trailed after the first quarter, but scored 42 points in the second to take a 64-57 lead into halftime. Although, they were unable to hold onto the lead, coming out slow in the third quarter before their fourth-quarter comeback attempt fell short.

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The Spurs outscored the Knicks, 58-47, in the second half and attempted 24 free throws to New York’s eight. That wide of a discrepancy was on the front of head coach Mike Brown‘s mind after the loss, saying he was shocked to see something like it on the NBA Finals stage.

“First of all, I want to get something clear. Coach Mitch Johnson and the Spurs, they won the game tonight. They came and took the game. But I will say this, I never thought I’d be in the NBA Finals and see a team get 24 free throw attempts in the second half to another team’s eight,” Brown said.

“I don’t think I complain much about officials or the fairness when it comes to the free throw attempts. San Antonio is a great team, they’re a great team. It’s going to lower our odds big time, big time, if we play Game 4 and in the second half they get 24 free throw attempts to our eight. And maybe we were fouling, maybe we were fouling, but they foul too… There were opportunities for fouls to be called. To at least try to even the free throws out.

Brown made it clear the Knicks could have played much better than they did, but it was still “tough to overcome” the difference in free throw attempts in the second half.

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“Now, we didn’t play good. San Antonio played great. We could’ve played better, there were a lot of things that we didn’t do that we did in Game 1 and Game 2. But to go 24 free throw attempts in a second half… compared to eight. All the shots we took, we got fouled four times roughly for eight free throw attempts. Again, I don’t complain much, but I never thought I’d see that in an NBA Finals game, and I saw it tonight. That’s tough to overcome when you’re playing a great team.”

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