Dillon Brooks calls out SGA for flopping; wants referees to be held 'accountable'

"He's a little frail. That's what the refs are going to call. I got to be smarter about it. This is the playoffs, a man's game. I used to watch this back when Michael Jordan was playing, when LeBron was younger. This is just physical basketball," Brooks said. "I don't get why all the dropping, the falling and the flopping and the flailing and all this stuff is allowed when we get to the playoffs."

Of course, Brooks is resonating with the old heads who believe basketball from the last century is better and a purer form of competition. Just forget the fact that guys like Jordan and LeBron James faced the same ridicule verbatim as Gilgeous-Alexander. The characters change, but history always repeats itself.

"This is about who's the better team and who's the more winning team. We don't want to decide the games on free throws. I gotta look back at it and see if they're really fouls," Brooks said. "All I know is when I be watching and was out for the playoffs, I've been in the playoffs or I be watching before I was in the NBA, it's straight physical. It's straight, low-scoring physical basketball. You gotta score the basketball to win or get stops to win. Not this flailing or get to the line. We gotta stop that."

We'll see if the Suns' politicking works as the Round 1 series shifts to Phoenix. The Thunder took care of business at home. They were a plus-48 through the first two wins. But none of that carries over to Games 3 and 4. The Suns will determine just how interesting this series gets with Game 3 in a now-or-never situation.

If you're Brooks, you hope being back at home will provide you a boost. Both on the court and with the referees' whistle.

"Let's get some interviews with the Chief that's out there," Brooks said. "Accountability needs to be shown out there, to be honest. So we can actually see or hear what they have to say about the game."

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