00:00Welcome, Suns fans, let's break down the thrilling final moments
00:05of Tuesday's 106-102 win against the Brooklyn Nets, the game was chippy throughout.
00:10And things really escalated late in the fourth quarter, a loose ball situation in the backcourt,
00:15involving Grayson Allen and Royce O'Neal poking it free from Terrence Mann, turned into a
00:20scrum, players like Brooklyn's Trendon Watford and others dove for it, as Dylan Brooks
00:25reached down, the Nets' Igor Doman came over and pushed Brooks down from the top of the pile.
00:30That led to a lot of jawing back and forth, after official review, the result was three
00:35technical fouls assessed to Brooklyn, on Igor Doman, Terrence Mann, and Trendon.
00:40Watford, who was seen shoving Phoenix assistant coach DeMar Carroll. Phoenix received two
00:45technicals on Royce O'Neal and Grayson Allen, Royce O'Neal summed up the mindset post-game to
00:50Arizona sports' Kellen Olsen saying, it was a physical game the whole time. We got
00:55each other's backs every time I'm going to defend my teammates because the-
01:00Nets had more technicals from that sequence, the Suns were awarded one free throw, Grayson Allen
01:05missed it, keeping the Suns lead at two points with less than a minute to go, the entire-
01:10replay process to sort everything out took more than eight minutes, and this all happened with less
01:14than 90-
01:15seconds left in the game. Dylan Brooks spoke about the incident afterwards, stating,
01:20I got pushed in the back, they made the right call when they looked at the review for a very long-
01:25time. It didn't deserve my energy. He also gave major respect to Royce O'Neal.
01:30Calling him an OG for how he stepped up for his teammates, even though Allen missed that-
01:35technical free throw, he hit the crucial dagger layup to put the Suns up by four with just 11-
01:400.8 seconds left on a spinning drive, Brooklyn couldn't score on their final possession.
01:45Sealing the win, this was a gritty survival win against a Nets team that had lost five straight
01:49com-
01:50coming in, and the Suns did it while playing without Devin Booker, Jalen Green and Colin Gillespie.
01:55A major subplot was Dylan Brooks, being on the brink of a suspension, he picked up his fifth-
02:00technical foul late in the first half, putting him one away from an automatic one-game suspension.
02:05Unless it's rescinded by the league, Brooks was confident post-game that it would be rescinded.
02:10He explained his view, saying,
02:12I just feel like that play wouldn't have happened if they blew-
02:15their whistle with the foul called, because it ended up being a foul call and then they had to give-
02:20me a tea after cause I'm trying to get the guy off me. He also expressed frustration with officiating-
02:25timing, noting, they're late on calls when they're not being able to make the call right away.
02:30It leads into other stuff. It's been like four games in a row, crew chief Curtis Blair-
02:35whom Brooks mentioned, explained in the NBA's pool report, that the technical was for Brooks pushing
02:40Doman to the ground after a loose ball foul was called and that he did not see Doman's actions as instigating-
02:45this technical came after Brooks was assessed a flagrant one foul in the first quarter for following-
02:50through on Nick Claxton while going for a loose ball. On the stat sheet, Brooks finished with 20-
02:55six points and three assists in the win, while Mark Williams led all Suns scorers with an official
03:0027 points on 13-of-16 shooting. So, Suns fans, with-
03:05the playoffs approaching, how concerned are you about the team's composure in these heated physical
03:10games?
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