Toucher & Rich asked Ainge about Charles Barkley’s comments about “taking out” a Cavaliers player. Ainge said that type of strategy no longer can exist, and that if you don’t want to allow a historic number of 3-pointers, the only way to do it is to defend the perimeter. But it opened up a larger discussion about the way the game used to be.
“I understand where Charles is coming from, you just can’t do that in this era,” Ainge said, noting that such discussions were commonplace back in his playing days. “We [used to have] those discussions, and we had those discussions often.