The contentious relationship between Phoenix Suns center DeAndre Ayton and head coach Monty Williams spilled onto the court Tuesday night
After the game, both Ayton and Williams downplayed any animosity and cited collective emotions as the reason for the heated exchange instead. Williams added that Ayton wasn't the only player who let his frustrations known.
"It was the whole team in those moments. It wasn't just Deandre, it was the whole group out there not executing properly," Williams said after the game."It was a bit of frustration, but that happens. That was not an isolated one-person or one-player thing." "We weren't really exchanging words," Ayton said of the incident."We're a family. He know how to talk to his boys and his boys know how to just communicate. Obviously, the whole world see it, but it's really all love and just getting us back to regroup and just take out the confusion.."Damn, we lost our upper hand. It can get a little emotional. Oh I thought you said this, but Coach clarified it up in the huddle where we all were exchanging words.
That all could be true, but what cannot be discounted is the rocky relationship Ayton and Williams had going into the season.since the Suns lost to the Dallas Mavericks in Game 7 of the Western Conference Semifinals. The pair argued in the second half of that game, too, and Williams wound up benching Ayton for the rest of the game after Ayton played only 17 minutes.
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