The NBA playoffs don't start until Saturday, but the intensity is already high for Pacers head coach Frank Vogel and Raptors head coach Dwane Casey.
Vogel took a shot at Toronto's style of play, specifically their embellishment of contact to get foul calls, when speaking to The Toronto Star's Chris O'Leary:
“We’ve got to be disciplined with our hands and with our body position, and understand that they’re going to throw their bodies into us, snap their heads back and swing their arms through legal defenders and hope the whistle blows.”
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Casey refused to acknowledge any scheming play, instead speaking to the Pacers' play style:
“The way Indiana plays with their physicality – grabbing, holding, bumping, and grinding – we’ve got to play through that and I’d much rather be doing that at home than on the road.”
The Raptors had a high mark of 141 free-throw attempts in their four regular season games against the Pacers, and ranked third in most free-throw attempts per game in there gulag season.
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