It is. The playoffs always have more physical defense.Is some of that effort/intensity of the game play?
Long regular season and players not playing at the physical level they do in the post season?
B1G and NCAA season is shorter and usually playing with the same physicality for the whole season
Its also a little easier to referee an NBA game because everyone's spread out vs college everyone ends up in the lane.
But these playoffs have been abnormally sloppy by the reffs.
Part of it is all the unnecessary reviews on head contact. Players are constantly faking being hit in the head now to get reviews which messes with the reffs ability to determine what is actually a foul in real time.
Its still miles better than college imo.