MILWAUKEE– In the immediate after-effects of his teams 120-100 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 3 of the NBA Finals, Phoenix Suns coach Monty Williams stated he wasnt going to utilize his postgame news conference to gripe about the officiating. And then he did simply that.” Im not going to get into the complaining publicly about fouls,” Williams said. “Just not going to do that. But you can look– we had 16 totally free throws tonight. One person had 17.” That one individual was Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo, who logged his second straight 40-point video game of the series thanks in big part to his 13-for-17 night from the foul line at Fiserv Forum.The Bucks went 20-for-26 as a team, compared to the Suns 11-for-16 output from the line.Officiating was currently a topic of discussion coming into Sunday, considering the history in between the team chief designated to the game, Scott Foster, and Suns point player Chris Paul.5 hTim Bontemps6hKevin Arnovitz1 RelatedCounting Game 3, Paul has actually now lost 12 consecutive playoff games he has played in with Foster refereeing.Theres nothing new about an NBA coach attempting to plant a seed for a favorable whistle as a series goes on. Its as much a part of the league as signature tennis shoes and backdoor alley-oops. However beyond the fouls enabling Antetokounmpo to get into a rhythm, the disparity hurt the Suns the most due to the fact that Deandre Ayton was called for many of them.Ayton, who scored 16 points on 7-for-9 shooting in 20 minutes in the first half, finished with just 18 points in 24 minutes after getting saddled with 5 fouls and going to bench.” We got to gain from that,” Williams stated of Aytons night. “We got to beat men to the spot. Hell grow from this, I promise you he will.” Paul felt sorry for the scenario the 22-year-old center is in.” Sometimes youre going to get an excellent whistle, in some cases youre going to get a bad whistle,” Paul said. “Its tough, guy, Giannis coming at you full speed like a running back, you know what I imply?” While Williams pointed out the officiating, numerous of his gamers concentrated on the self-inflicted injuries that did Phoenix in.” It returns to the 50/50 balls that we lost,” said Jae Crowder, who had his best video game of the series with 18 points on 6-for-7 shooting. “I feel like on the road, we got to win that fight. Its not about shot-making. Its almost mano-a-mano, ensuring your guy doesnt get it and creating the ball. Someway, in some way, you have to discover a way. And I seemed like when it got that close, those guys ditched a little more difficult tonight than we did.” Indeed, the Bucks had 13 offending rebounds to the Suns six and outscored them 20-2 in second-chance points.Then there was Devin Booker, who scored simply 10 points on 3-for-14 shooting– his lowest scoring total of the playoffs– after scoring 58 points integrated between Games 1 and 2.” I believe I can improve [shot efforts],” he stated. “Well make that happen. The point of the game is to win it, and I think there were other things that went on throughout the video game. You can say its a make/miss game, but at the end of the day you have to make the other group miss and get easy opportunities for your team. We didnt do that tonight.” And Paul, who had 19 points and 9 helps, went back to something he has been hammering home all postseason long: the significance of closing out quarters strong.Phoenix was outscored 40-9 over the last five minutes of the second quarter and third quarter combined in Game 3.” That was huge for us,” Paul said of Milwaukee rounding off the third on a 24-6 spurt after the Suns had actually cut the Bucks lead to 4. “Even the 2nd quarter, the 2nd quarter we didnt close that quarter out well. Thats something we have actually been discussing all playoffs. So especially on the road, you got to manage the game. You got to manage those end of quarters.” As different as the series may appear at 2-1 versus 2-0, with Antetokounmpo controling and the Bucks awaiting house court again in Wednesdays Game 4, the Suns remained confident in their capability to keep and limit the two-time mvp control of the Finals.” We have sufficient bodies to get that task done,” Crowder stated of the difficulty of safeguarding Antetokounmpo. “We just got to do it collectively and just be better separately. We got adequate bodies to get it done. We just didnt get it done tonight.” Added Paul: “We got to try to develop a wall in some way, some way.”

Beyond the fouls permitting Antetokounmpo to get into a rhythm, the disparity hurt the Suns the most because Deandre Ayton was called for so numerous of them.Ayton, who scored 16 points on 7-for-9 shooting in 20 minutes in the first half, finished with simply 18 points in 24 minutes after getting saddled with 5 fouls and going to bench.” Sometimes youre going to get a good whistle, in some cases youre going to get a bad whistle,” Paul said. You can say its a make/miss game, but at the end of the day you have to make the other group miss and get easy opportunities for your team. Especially on the roadway, you got to handle the video game. We got sufficient bodies to get it done.