Houston forward Dillon Brooks was ejected 4:33 into Tuesday night's game for a flagrant foul 2 to the groin of Indiana center Daniel Theis.
in their preseason opener against the visiting Pacers that he didn't mean to strike Theis and chalked the ejection up to his reputation.."I might have tapped him below waist. But he got right back up. I don't know. It's weird that every time it happens to me, I get picked on. I guess it's part of reputation.""The media making me a villain, the fans making me a villain and then that just creates a whole different persona on me," Brooks said in April.
As for Tuesday night's toss, Brooks said:"For a flagrant 2 foul like that, you got to know if a person is doing it on purpose or intention. That's really going at who I am as a person. That ref, Mitch , that just shows that he just doesn't know who I am as a person. He's just going off what's been said."Rockets coach Ime Udoka acknowledged there is a perception around Brooks.
"We love his aggressiveness and physicality," Udoka said, according to the Houston Chronicle."But reputations carry in the NBA and people will look for certain things. You got to monitor that better."
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