Hart was not a fan of Carlisle's negative comments about the officiating.
Hart thinks all the talk about the officiating is disrespectful to the Knicks after how they have played over the first two games of the series.
"Rick's saying whatever he feels. It has nothing to do with us," Hart said at shootaround on Friday, via Stefan Bondy of the"But at the end of the day, I think it's pretty disrespectful to us. Because at the end of the day, we're out there competing and playing at a high level. It's not about officiating. It's not about anything like that. For him to discredit how we're playing, I feel like that's pretty disrespectful.
"If you look, I hit the ball," Hard said. "Might I have bumped him a little bit? Yeah, I'm running at full speed. He's running full speed and he's in front of me. I'm trying to make a play on the ball."on Friday night, which is a must-win game for the Pacers to avoid falling into a deep 3-0 series deficit.
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