NEW YORK -- Knicks coach Mike Brown credited the San Antonio Spurs for winning Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden to climb back into the best-of-seven series. He did not extend the same pleasantries to the officials.
Brown pointed his finger at the stat sheet, which showed the Spurs taking three times as many free throws as the Knicks in the second half as San Antonio escaped with a 115-111 win Monday night to cut New York's series lead to 2-1.
The Knicks were in the penalty for the final 9:18 of the fourth quarter, and the Spurs held a 24-8 advantage in free throw attempts.
"I talked to [the officials]. They outshot us 14-3 in the third quarter from the free throw line. I talked to them, and they said, well, this is a foul, this is a foul," Brown said. "That's the question I had with them is, you're right. Maybe we did foul. But they fouled, too."