Expedited Monty Williams. While a journalist is asking the first question of the press conference the Suns coach interrupts him to develop the only aspect that seems to matter to him at the end of the meeting: the disparity in free throws from which his team suffered on the Lakers floor.
His troupe got 20 (15/20 including 10/12 for Devin Booker alone), where the Californians shot… 46 (36/46), their record this season.
” Where have you seen a game with 46 free throws for a team? It is not fair. I don’t care how you present it. It happens to us too often. The other teams go into contact and we don’t receive the same whistles “, annoys the coach, who therefore does not stop on this single meeting.
His sentiment is confirmed in the numbers as Phoenix averages 21 free throws this season. Only the Spurs and the Warriors get less in the league, where the Lakers are No. 1 in this category with nearly 27 attempts per game. Phoenix is also the team that concedes the most free throws to its opponent, behind Wolves, with 26 units on average.
“I’m tired of talking about it. Our players have to do their job, we know that, but it’s a huge disparity. I repeat: 46 to 20. That’s all I have to say”
A trend that Monty Williams says to himself “ fatigue. It is tiresome. 46 free throws to 20, with Devin Booker on our team. He shot 12. Our bench had no shots. I have enough. I’ve been talking about the same thing for a while. The opponent doesn’t matter. The last game, Shai (Gilgeous Alexander) had 19 free throws. I’m tired of talking about it. Our players have to do their job, we know that, but it’s a huge disparity. I repeat: 46 to 20. That’s all I have to say “says the coach before leaving the press conference.
For his part, Chris Paul is more measured by describing a final statistics sheet “ a little weird “. “ I watch a lot of basketball and we have a guy (booker) who go (at the circle) night after night and you don’t necessarily see the same whistles. It’s crazy. It’s also crazy to see that we can’t even talk or approach the referees… », develops « CP3 », according to which the communication with the officials is « horrible “.
In the first period, his team shot 10 shots, the Lakers 27…” Once the game is under control in the first half and there are 20 to 30 shots away, it’s easier for them to give us some afterwards. Like Chris said, I watch these games every night, so I realize what’s going on. I understand each other’s intentions, and I try to get all that out of my head to play and be competitive », Formulates Devin Booker with a few tweezers to avoid the fine.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Devin Booker | 44 | 34.5 | 49.6 | 36.8 | 84.1 | 0.9 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 3.0 | 28.0 |
| Kevin Durant | 3 | 32.7 | 69.0 | 53.8 | 88.2 | 0.3 | 7.0 | 7.3 | 3.7 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 26.7 |
| Deandre Ayton | 61 | 30.4 | 58.9 | 29.2 | 75.1 | 2.6 | 7.5 | 10.1 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 2.8 | 18.3 |
| Mikal Bridges | 56 | 36.4 | 46.3 | 38.7 | 89.7 | 1.0 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 2.1 | 17.2 |
| Cameron Johnson | 17 | 25.3 | 47.4 | 45.5 | 81.8 | 0.8 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 13.9 |
| Chris Paul | 50 | 32.1 | 43.2 | 36.2 | 81.9 | 0.4 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 9.2 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 13.5 |
| Cameron Payne | 39 | 21.4 | 41.6 | 37.0 | 75.4 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 4.7 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 11.0 |
| Terrence Ross | 10 | 18.3 | 45.5 | 38.8 | 77.8 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 9.6 |
| Landry Shamet | 31 | 21.4 | 38.6 | 38.6 | 89.4 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 9.5 |
| Damion Lee | 70 | 20.7 | 44.4 | 44.6 | 90.2 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 8.3 |
| Duane Washington, Jr. | 31 | 12.7 | 36.7 | 36.0 | 66.7 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 7.9 |
| Torrey Craig | 68 | 25.4 | 44.2 | 39.0 | 72.1 | 1.9 | 3.7 | 5.6 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 7.4 |
| Josh Okogie | 61 | 17.6 | 40.2 | 33.1 | 73.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 7.2 |
| Jock Landale | 62 | 13.9 | 51.9 | 24.7 | 77.0 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 4.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 6.4 |
| Dario Saric | 37 | 14.4 | 42.7 | 39.1 | 81.8 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 5.8 |
| Saben Lee | 20 | 14.6 | 40.5 | 36.8 | 76.6 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 5.6 |
| Ish Wainright | 53 | 15.3 | 37.3 | 33.6 | 85.2 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 4.2 |
| Bismack Biyombo | 51 | 13.5 | 56.3 | 0.0 | 31.5 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 3.7 |
| Darius Bazley | 3 | 8.0 | 37.5 | 25.0 | 50.0 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 2.7 |
| Tj Warren | 8 | 6.4 | 28.6 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 1.1 |
