Denver Nuggets interim head coach David Adelman had a serious criticism about how officers dealt with Nikola Jokic on Thursday evening.
The Nuggets fell to the Los Angeles Clippers, 111-105, in Sport 6 of their Western Convention first-round sequence on Thursday at Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. The defeat meant the sequence will go to a decisive Sport 7.
Adelman was sad, nevertheless, after Jokic tried simply two free throws in Thursday’s loss. In his thoughts, that was proof that Jokic acquired an unfavorable whistle, and he basically advised that the Nuggets could be very aggressive with contact in Sport 7 if that was the form of sequence the officers had been going to name.
“Nikola will get fouled quite a bit. I’m unsure what was taking place tonight, however for him to shoot two free throws with the quantity of contact that was occurring on the market was completely loopy,” Adelman mentioned, via Vinny Benedetto of the Denver Gazette. “They put smalls on him. These smalls had been allowed to do no matter they need, so I’m actually excited for Saturday that we’re going to have the ability to do the identical factor with their finest gamers, as a result of if that’s the physicality we’re allowed to play with, we’ll react to it, and we are going to go there in Sport 7.”
The 2 free throws had been the fewest Jokic has tried in any of the sequence’ six video games, although not by that a lot. He solely acquired to the road 4 occasions in Sport 2 and 5 occasions in Sport 5.
Jokic nonetheless scored 25 factors within the Sport 6 defeat on 11-for-22 taking pictures.
Jokic’s critics would counter that he may not get to the road a lot as a result of officers are cautious of his flopping, which has come under increased scrutiny currently. This can in all probability be a storyline to look at in Sport 7.
