The optics of fair play is especially important in an unprecedented environment. “Robert Frost, a great poet, once wrote, ‘Good fences make good neighbors,’” McCutchen told the Daily News over the phone Thursday. “Look, our players and coaches and referees here are very professional. If they were to run into each other, no one is going to be talking about the calls last night. Our players are too classy, our coaches are too classy, for that. That being said, in the age of cell phones, if you happen to run into each other, and you both smile as you said, ‘Hello,’ that smile on a cell phone could be interpreted a million different ways in people’s eyes. So we are in a different hotel.”