There is truth to what he says. But its diluted by the fact that he says this after every game

Moving screens are my biggest annoyance right now as a fan. You can just walk a defender out of position 

I think Finch is a good coach and has done great things for the Wolves but I can’t help but feel that he enables his teams into allowing themselves to feel helpless far too often. This constant “us vs refs” thing creates a terrible mentality and it flows down to the players. Gobert after game 1 against OKC last year was complaining about foul calls and McDaniels shoved Shai and Jokic this year because he was frustrated by the whistle. I’m not a wolves fan so I’d love to hear their opinions but to me it feels like Finch has run his course in Minnesota.

He’s whiny but he’s not wrong 

Ant screams on every single drive

Percentage of 2PA that draw a shooting foul:

• Randle, 23.0%
• Edwards, 21.7%
• SGA, 21.5%
• Murray, 14.3%

Percentage of drives that draw a foul:

• Edwards, 15.3%
• Randle, 11.2%
• SGA, 10.0%
• Murray, 5.8%

EDIT: the dude trying to call me out below is wrong. After putting up a ridiculously long struggle against the truth, he has now admitted he was wrong.

He’s right. The players who get calls sell the contact.

Easiest way to improve this sub is to ban all discussion of refs, free throws and rigging.

Quite the contrast from David Adelman: “I do think sometimes when you watch film, you just say, ‘Yeah, I think I got fouled.’ Believe me, when we play Shai or somebody who shoots a lot of free throws, and I go back to the clips, I don’t say, ‘I can’t believe you got all those calls.’  I go, ‘Why are we fouling him so much?’”

Loser mentality. Build the excuses before the game is even played.

Bro’s not complaining that Jokic only got 1 😑

Such a little bitch. Dude, your team plays a very selfish style of basketball. They have the talent to be a top seed. Maybe look inward

Murray is a historically ethical player and is the only player in history to score 50 without a FTA.

After 1 game where he got a lot of FTA, Finch complained in the postgame AND the next pregame presser. He also said Jokic does the same in the postgame despite his 1 FTA.

Lmao shut it.

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Saying this when the Timberwolves are already 7th in the league in FTAs per game.

I actually do agree the way they call fouls nowadays is ridiculous, not because of the whole “flopping” thing, but because players nowadays can just straight up run into a defender and get the call everytime (whether it be a blocking foul or just no offensive foul called)

I hope Finch never gets fired

It is frankly embarrassing for the league that they haven’t curbed flopping. It should be embarrassing for the players on a pride level, and it definitely should be for the refs who are being exploited by the players. But, here we are. 

The sad thing is that Finch has complained so many times that it’s starting to become his schtick and people are likely to stop listening, but it isn’t like he’s wrong. Ant should 100% start flopping. 

I hope the Wolves never fire this guy.

Finch felt himself too much after everyone praised him on comments against the Thunder early in the season. Timberwolves are not the worst but Ant literally screams on every drive man

He isn’t wrong unfortunately

I get it but im just starting to get real tire of finchy crying all of the time.

I’ll never forget that playoff series where Wolves were beating the crap of us and we were getting called nothing. 

He’s not wrong.

Some fans will disagree but the league has to do something about the offensive player literally ramming into the defense and flailing onto the ground for a foul. It is considered a charging foul by the letter of the law but it is ABSOLUTELY disgusting to watch.

This is crazy to say when Ant is in your team

Spot on coach

Go back to old ways and only call hard fouls. It’s not complicated.

EDIT: Moving screens and traveling would be nice too.

He is 100% correct. It needs to be fixed.

A subtle change in officiating wracked Trae Youngs career. Finch is 100% right here. Playing the right way is getting punished and theatrics are rewarded. You can’t blame Denver though. They got eliminated by Caruso playing bad boy defense on a man twice his size with no whistle on one side and an awkward rendition of swan lake was getting free throws on the other. It has to stop and it will. OKC may get another chip before it does though.

Tired of this discussion ngl.

#I AGREE. THERE IS AN INCONSISTENT STANDARD APPLIED TO PLAYERS. — —

#ADAM SILVER. WHAT SAY YOU!?!?!?!?!?

Someone post the Adelman quote

den flair lol

Just a loser mentality, no wonder Minnesota has their bouts of unserious basketball

This man should be a politician

Why would you not tell your players to learn how to flop? The nba hasn’t cared about flopping for 30 years

this is 100% true. this is why I stopped watching nba also. it’s fucking pathetic.

He’s not wrong, refs reward the reaction more than the contact now. If you play through it clean you basically get punished for it.

He gone

Minnesota shot the 7th most FT/game this year https://www.espn.com/nba/stats/team/_/season/2026/seasontype/2/table/offensive/sort/avgFreeThrowsAttempted/dir/desc

I have been saying this for awhile as a wolves fan. We really don’t have any good floppers.

Maybe DDV? Rudy can try… but is always ignored because it’s just obvious when he does it. Mike Conley could actually do it some on screens, but he doesnt play anymore. NAW could a little and we lost him.

This is my serious response to it. Because right now the league does reward flopping. The wolves all have players that are “stronger built” like Ant, Randle and Rudy. We don’t have that flopper. That im aware of on the team right now.

I wish.

Finch complains a lot, but he’s right about officiating and the league and anyone who pretends otherwise is either delusional or just a fan of a team currently benefiting from it.

He’s not wrong.

Has to be rage baiting at this point

Chris Finch is such a whiner and it probably is a detriment to his teams mentality, but this is the best I’ve heard him voice the problem.

This is part of why superstars sell contact. Why play through it, most likely miss, and get nothing except allowing the defense to continue to play illegal defense.

Sell the illegal contact (that is absolutely there), and get your 2 shots, and potentially legal defense the next drive.

There are a group of superstars that can reliably beat most defenses, so the only thing some defenses can do is foul, the smart offensive players are not going to allow the defense to get away with playing illegal defense if they can help it.

Also edit: not a criticism of Jamal. He’s part of the “great player that most defenses can’t reliably stop unless they foul”.

Also people need to stop blaming the players. Refs need to call all fouls, or the nba needs to change the rules. Because the players are getting fouled on the majority of the plays they are flopping. And let’s be real, nobody actually wants to watch 90’s basketball again where teams struggle to put up 80 points an are bricking everything.

Chris Finch is doing gods work

The answer is yes, go for it. If the whole league does it, then They’ll have to change the way the league officiates the game. If it’s only a few people taking advantage of the system, they won’t change a thing.

Why doesn’t everyone flop? Are they stupid?

Steph Curry is not a flopper and gets one of the worst whistles in the league.

If the NBA has been unwilling to change the rules to benefit Curry, there is zero chance they’re going to make any meaningful changes based on SGA getting a favorable whistle. Same as Harden for over a decade prior, this is the way the NBA wants to see the game played.

As exhausting as it is to see this, it’s not as tiring as trying to read comments and seeing the same three dudes hawking the same talking points without much sense of context across the whole thread. Jeebus.

Well the nuggets just had three 4 point play opportunities in a row with absolute soft calls.

Mid coach complains about refs, more at 5. He’ll be out of a job this summer.

“Every superstar scorer is bad but mine and I don’t like losing”

Soccer has the same issue since forever.

Let’s solve it for both.

Just don’t call the foul on the attempts to draw contact, spill away. Problem solved. They’ll stop doing that crap and then actually try to finish.

I’ve watched Julius flop in this game a couple times

I saw it in the play in. Kawhi got called for an offensive foul (review did not change the call). Break away where the defender podz was out of position. (Every player goes up with their off arm out)

At the end of the Phx/GS game. Podz seeks contact and runs into Jalen Green. Called an offensive foul on Podz. After review the call is overturned to a defensive foul and they called a flopping tech on green.

I don’t hate the call but the same player (in different games) gets rewarded for flopping and the next game they punish a player for giving him a piece of his own medicine.

I mean some teams are rewarded with both.
Their players can foul bait and defend like king kong to infinity.

He ain’t wrong and it’s an infuriating part of the sport

How about reinstalling the need to dribble without carrying?

you don’t just get rewarded for it. you win the MVP

The all-star game should be reffed by a high level high school reffing crew calling it like they would call a Tuesday night league game.