The Toronto Raptors and Indiana Pacers will open postseason play early Saturday afternoon, and the head coach of the Eastern Conference's No. 7 seed knows his players need to ignore Selena Gomez and keep their hands to themselves.
Speaking to reporters, Pacers head coach Frank Vogel explained that his team needs to watch how it defends since the Raptors have a tendency to draw fouls by initiating contact with defenders, according to NBA.com's Mark Montieth:
We've got to be disciplined with our hands and with our body position and understand they're going to throw their bodies into us and snap their heads back and swing their arms through and hope the whistle blows. Sometimes it blows and sometimes it doesn't. We've got to earn those no-calls by being disciplined with our body position and by being disciplined with our hands.
However, Vogel did praise NBA referees for the way they've approached blowing the whistle this season.
"We know how it's going to be called," Vogel said, per Montieth. "If we reach in and there's contact on the arms, it's a foul. We've got to get our hands out of there. The league d ...
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Frank Vogel Suggests Raptors Players Exaggerate Body Language to Get Calls
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