The Kings led the Warriors for a long time, and they even led by 11 points with nine minutes remaining. And then Stephen “Curry” Zorro came back into play, and Golden State was back on track. Even to the point of passing in front, and everything was decided in the last seconds of the match.
First there is this strange refusal of the Kings to foul when the Warriors were not yet in the penalty. It’s a good ten seconds wasted stupidly. And then there’s that last shot from Kevin Huerter. A very complicated shot at the last second, difficult to put. All the more difficult as Klay Thompson clearly touches him. The referees did not whistle, and Mike Brown is obviously very disappointed : “ I am disgusted for our players. It’s hard to be a Sacramento player, and I think Kevin Huerter was foul“.
For the Kings coach, it’s hard to accept because his players have raised their level of play, and he would like the referees to do the same. Especially since his team had also lost unfairly in Miami after a buzzer beater from Tyler Herro, marred by a walk.
“I want someone at the end of the game to take responsibility and blow the right whistle. A guy was shot in the arm on his 3-point shot, it’s a foul. A guy takes six, four or three steps, that’s a walk. We wanted to give ourselves a chance to win in overtime, but like in Miami, I asked the referee if there was a fault. He told me no, when it was clearly a fault. »
“The NBA knows it’s a foul, and basically they’re going to tell us they missed that foul. But on arrival, we will always have lost”
For his part, Huerter refused to speak on the subject at a press conference. On the other hand, he gave his opinion on social networks: “ The only thing we can do at this point is get fined. No taking responsibility. »
What annoys Brown is that the NBA, like every day after the game, will publish its report on possible refereeing errors in the last two minutes. And as for the Miami game, she will recognize that the referees were wrong. ” The NBA knows it’s a foul, and basically they’re going to tell us they missed that foul. But on arrival, we will always have lost. »
