The New York Knicks suffered their first loss of the NBA Finals to the San Antonio Spurs by a final score of 115-111 on their home court and while it was evident throughout the game that the Knicks made several mistakes that the Spurs were able to capitalize on, Knicks head coach Mike Brown has an issue with another aspect of the game. 

Brown opened his postgame press conference with a lengthy rant lambasting the officiating of the game, where he felt that it was called unfairly against the Knicks and gave San Antonio ample opportunities at the free throw line to make back some easy points and keep themselves in contention in the tight affair. 

"I never thought I'd be in the NBA Finals and see a team [Spurs] get 24 free throw attempts in the second half to another team's [Knicks] eight," Brown said (via SNY). "I don't think I complain much about officials... It's gonna lower our odds big time if we -lay Game 4 and in the second half they get 24 free throw attempts to our eight."

Brown made it clear that he wasn't putting all of the blame on the officials and even admitted that "maybe" the Knicks were fouling in those situations in the second half, but he also brought up that if that was the case, San Antonio was fouling too, but the disparity in the second half free throw attempts doesn't reflect that.

He qualified his statements by giving credit to the Spurs and their head coach Mitch Johnson for beating them and even identified several of the mistakes that the Knicks made throughout the game, such as failing to contain Stephon Castle, who finished with 23 points.

But, Brown was clearly upset that he felt like the Knicks weren't given shot by officials and looking at the numbers, there is a disparity in total fouls and free throw attempts by both teams. The Knicks finished the game with 23 fouls to the Spurs' 21, but San Antonio attempted 32 free throws to just 22 by New York.

The Spurs have been playing a physical brand of defense throughout the series, but their approach in Game 3 took it up a notch. Not only were the Knicks not receiving any foul calls that translated into free throws in the second half, but there were several moments in the first half that could have been fouls, but were not called.

Notably, Victor Wembanyama shoved Jalen Brunson into the ground in the first half, an act that could have warranted a flagrant, but was not called for a foul and just a few minutes later Luke Kornet collided with Josh Hart after a play and sent him flying, but was also not called for a foul. 

Brown was right to admit that the Knicks were flat-out outplayed by the Spurs throughout the game and there are plenty of things that New York needs to improve, but Brown's complaints about officiating may have some merit as well.