Let's have a conversation about fouling up three. That's a very special conversation for me because in my young adult life as a basketball fan I hated fouling up three to the point where for the very first time when I met the head coach of the nets at the time Lawrence Frank

I screamed at him about fouling up three. That's my first ever interaction with it. Legit, like screamed at him.

Yeah, like that.

I'll show you and you tell me if it's screaming.

Lawrence, I love you, but why do we always have to foul a free?

And there were reasons for it.

He...

Get the hell out of my face, weird, bearded man.

Oh, you want bearded then.

Get out of my face, weird, unbearded man.

No, he's like, get out of my face, weird guy that looks like me

if I was 10 years younger

now Lawrence was such a classy dude that he would debate me and he would explain

to me his thought process and well that's cool I walked away from it feeling I

disagree with you but I understand I have evolved and the reason I have evolved is because basketball's different

When I was yelling at Lawrence Frank in 2007, the three-point revolution that we live in right now was

far different.

And so I've evolved to a place where, yeah, if I'm up by three, there's a certain amount of time left on the clock

especially if a team doesn't have a time out to attack and foul. Now here's

what makes last night so complicated let's get some facts out of the waste we understand.

Tom Thibodeo clearly wanted his team to foul.

And I know that's tough to believe because, A, maybe you didn't see him screaming,

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