Very bad evening for Jamal Murray. The Nuggets thus lost a second game in a row, at home, to leave Minneapolis at 0-2 in their conference semi-final against the Wolves. And the Canadian finished with only 8 points at 3/18 on the shoot in this Game 2, which turned into a correction for the locals…
In this match, Jamal Murray was especially talked about for an action that could cost him dearly.
Because in the second quarter, when the Wolves were already +17, Karl-Anthony Towns concluded a confusing action while a heating pocket had slipped on the field in the middle of the sequence.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope then sends her back to his bench, while the referees logically stop the game. As no one saw where it came from, no technical foul is distributed, but the images show that it is in fact Jamal Murray who threw the object, undoubtedly towards the referee located at the baseline!
Big fine in sight?
“I didn't see it but when it was explained to me, the referees told me that they hadn't seen it either, and therefore they couldn't call a technical foul, because 'they hadn't seen anything' describes Chris Finch. “We tried to explain to them that there probably weren't many fans with heat packs in the gym, and that it was probably coming from the bench, which they found logical. »
For the Minnesota coach, it's a gesture “inexcusable” And ” dangerous “, “which can no longer reproduce. »
For his part, Mike Malone avoided the subject at a press conference, explaining that he had not seen the gesture, and that he had just learned who was responsible. The leader left without speaking to the press.
As for the referees, they returned to the subject after the match. Marc Davis noted that a technical foul would have been called against Jamal Murray if his gesture had been seen. However, he assured that the leader would not have been excluded, because an object must be sent directly to someone for this to be the case, and not just out of frustration. The NBA should now sanction the gesture. Let's hope for the Nuggets that she settles for a fine…
