SALT LAKE CITY — For the second straight day, and not once, but twice, OKC coach Billy Donovan brought up Steven Adams’ foul trouble in Games 2 and 3 that limited him to an average of 24 minutes per game.
Who knows, perhaps Donovan was hoping to get the officials’ attention prior to Game 4 to lay off his big guy.
“Like I said yesterday, it’s been surprising that he’s had two consecutive games that he’s been in foul trouble,” Donovan said of Adams in the shootaround interview.
Then, in the pregame interview, he brought it up again, reminding everyone that Adams had never been in foul trouble two games in a row this season, saying “We haven’t had in 82 games, a situation where he has been in foul trouble for two consecutive games.