Phoenix Suns center DeAndre Ayton said the referees were the ones to blame for the blowout loss over the Milwaukee Bucks (129-108).
“I just don’t like how these refs called the game tonight…I’m putting it on them.
That’s the best team (in the NBA). We flew all the way over here to compete, not to get in foul trouble. They gotta ease up a little bit on the whistle.
We’re talking fouls after the ball was already through the hoop. It just messed up the whole game.
You don’t get the best out your players, that aggression and that physicality. Because in the back of our head, ‘Oh, we got one or two fouls that the ref might call if I even turn it up a notch,” Ayton told reporters, per Gina Mizell of The Athletic.
Ayton posted 20 points (10/27 shooting) and 14 rebounds in the loss to the Bucks, with Phoenix dropping to 20-29, four games behind the Memphis Grizzlies for the final playoff spot in the West.
