After Game 4, Cleveland found itself pulling out every stop as it stared at elimination, advocating for a suspension for Green and better treatment for James. Kerr’s pointed comments, two games after Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue earned a fine for criticizing the officials, made it perfectly clear the shoot was on the other foot in this series. “If they’re going to let Cleveland grab and hold these guys constantly on their cuts and then you’re going to call these ticky-tack fouls on the MVP of the league to foul him out, I don’t agree with that.” “I just think that Steph Curry and Klay Thompson, the way we run our offense, we’re running, we’re cutting through the lane, we’re a rhythm offense,” he said. With an eye toward Game 7, Kerr added that he felt his guards were being subjected to overly physical treatment during Golden State’s offensive sets. But those three of the six fouls were incredibly inappropriate calls for anybody, much less the MVP of the league.” They totally outplayed us and Cleveland deserved to win. “Let me be clear, we did not lose because of the officiating. As the MVP of the league, we’re talking about these touch fouls in the NBA Finals.

Jason Phillips falls for that, for a flop. He steals the ball from Kyrie clean at one point. He gets six fouls called on him, three of them were absolutely ridiculous. The usually even-keeled Kerr picked up where Curry left off as soon as he hit the podium, sticking up for his point guard while repeatedly bashing the officiating in comments that will surely earn him a fine.

His gestures and language earned him a technical foul and a trip to the locker room, and the mouthguard toss will almost certainly result in a $25,000 fine from the league office, even though he apologized to the fan that was on the wrong end of his outburst. Realizing his night was over with more than four minutes left in what was a 12-point game, Curry whipped his mouthguard into the stands, where it hit a fan and confronted referee Jason Phillips. Game 6 saw even the most serene Warriors, Curry and Kerr, crack.Īt his wit’s end after a night of quick whistles, Curry picked up his sixth foul by making awkward contact with James while attempting a steal in the backcourt. Their comfortable lead in this series turned on Green’s groin shot to James, a self-inflicted mistake that has snowballed into two straight Cavaliers victories loaded with mental breakdowns for the Warriors. It’s either win the whole thing or bust for us.” “We expected to win the NBA championship coming into the season. “100%,” Thompson said, when asked if Golden State’s season would be a failure without a title. There are no outs here and the Warriors know it.

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