{"id":423855,"date":"2026-01-19T19:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/423855\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T19:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:34:13","slug":"andrews-demands-clarity-on-physicality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/423855\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrews demands clarity on physicality"},"content":{"rendered":"

All season long, Andrew Andrews has been frustrated by the lack of foul calls he receives.<\/p>\n

Cairns Taipans coach Adam Forde has previously pointed to Andrews\u2019 reputation for flopping as the reason. <\/p>\n

That frustration finally boiled over at HoopsFest in Perth. Despite trying to contain his emotions throughout the season, Saturday proved a breaking point.<\/p>\n

Andrews was attacking the basket when he took a heavy hit to the head from New Zealand Breakers forward Max Darling. The contact went uncalled.<\/p>\n

It was the last straw. Andrews\u2019 frustration immediately spilled over after the hit.<\/p>\n

Forde stepped in midway through the second quarter, prepared to wear a technical foul to back his point guard. He did not expect what came next.<\/p>\n

The Cairns coach was hit with a second technical moments later and ejected in his home town.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey ask me what do you want me to do and I’m just saying, let me get a tech and now I’m getting tossed out and now I don’t do that anymore, so this is where we’ll just have to sit here and let the entertainment continue to roll through,\u201d Forde said.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday was a message sent and I get the first one and I walk, and then I get (the second) straight away and then I got my money’s worth after it, because now I’ve got two I wanted to get my money’s worth on the way out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Andrews had already arrived in Perth for Saturday\u2019s game, with Monday\u2019s frustrations still fresh.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, Brisbane\u2019s Hunter Maldonado attempted 18 free throws, while Cairns as a team went to the line just 12 times.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pretty calm and I think throughout the season I\u2019ve been talking to the refs a lot and part of that\u2019s because I\u2019m new, but I\u2019ve played around and basically in every league in the world you know what I\u2019m saying,\u201d Andrews said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing I ask for as a player is consistency on both ends and that\u2019s what I haven\u2019t figured out how to kinda gather here.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard this was a physical league when I got here and it seems to be physical you know what I\u2019m saying, so my frustrations just come from some of the fouls I pick up versus some of the things that kinda happen to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to distinguish where the line gets drawn even like against Melbourne I get hit in the groin and they reviewed it, and no call and then today my first foul on PJC was a pretty soft touch foul.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still trying to gather how the game is being called and there doesn\u2019t seem to be any consistency on how the game is being called.\u201d<\/p>\n

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