Did Steve Kerr Have a Gripe With Officials?

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00:00We'll get back into some of the Steve Weiss sound a little later in the show, but we got

00:04some people that still want to talk about this Warrior game last night.

00:08The Warriors got beat 91-90 to the Houston Rockets.

00:12They didn't score down the stretch.

00:15They turned the ball over.

00:16They took a bad shot, or at least a shot too quickly.

00:21They didn't get a good shot with the game on the line.

00:24Kuminga got called for a foul that Steve Kerr was livid about.

00:28The one thing I will say is they did send a pool reporter to the officials, the great

00:36Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle, and he asked Billy Kennedy why was a foul

00:41called on Jonathan Kuminga, scrambling for the loose ball with three seconds to go, and

00:47he said because Kuminga made contact with the neck and shoulder.

00:54I got to admit, when I saw it live, I thought it was bogus, but they showed that one angle

01:01from the other baseline, and it kind of looked like Kuminga came in there with a forearm

01:07and it was around his neck and shoulder area.

01:11So GP2 also got that, I believe, same contact from Van Vliet going for the ball, then there

01:16was no call.

01:19I can't deny it.

01:20Green made both free throws, Jalen.

01:22I just knew he was going to leave.

01:24I told Evan, I thought the pressure might get to him, he'll miss both.

01:28He made, to his credit, he made both, gave him a lead.

01:31Let's go out to Ron in Vegas.

01:34What's going on, Ron?

01:35How you doing?

01:36Where the Warriors won't be.

01:38Thank you for taking my call.

01:40Can you guys hear me?

01:42Yes, sir.

01:43Okay, so I think we have a Steve Kerr problem.

01:47I think it's time for him to go.

01:51He's the luckiest man in basketball, he doesn't have a feel for the game, he's obsessed with

01:57his three-guard lineup, and he has favoritism.

02:01He's got our own special project in Kaczynski.

02:05We've never seen Coach JK or Moody like this.

02:09And now he's also obsessed on using GP2 like he's Dennis Rodman on defense and Karl Malone

02:15on offense.

02:17I don't think we should trade any player until we let Steve walk.

02:22Thank you for taking my call.

02:25Thank you for weighing in.

02:27He said his little project.

02:29I mean, Pods is not playing well.

02:33He hit a three to your side still.

02:35That's not playing well.

02:36I didn't say that.

02:37I'm just telling you I'm watching.

02:38One three in a course of a 48-minute game.

02:41And set some other guys up, made some good passes.

02:44I'm just saying, he wasn't his best by any stretch.

02:47But to ignore the fact that he hit it to not play well and think you're going to beat a

02:52team that right now is sitting at, what, three in the West?

02:55But you feel like he's been given the keys.

02:58And I think that's turning a lot of Warrior fans off.

03:00How many minutes did he play last night, Podziemski?

03:03Let's see.

03:05He played 30.

03:09They don't have Wiggins.

03:10And was out there in the end.

03:13888-957-9570 is the number.

03:18Again, Warriors, they got a bad whistle at the end, according to Steve Kerr.

03:23Actually, let's get into some of that right now.

03:26First I want to play, I want to hear the great Tim Roy on the final call.

03:32I haven't seen the replay, but in that type of situation, there's a feel of who got to

03:38the ball first.

03:40If you're telling me it was a clear foul, then I'll shut up, but I don't think that's

03:45the case.

03:46Is it?

03:47Was it?

03:48There's indecision in the group, so that means then let the game play out and let us decide

03:54it.

03:55Not to free those 90 feet from the basket.

03:59All right, so Steph is talking about the last play, and he said, you know, you usually don't

04:05get that.

04:06Surrounded by reporters, and he goes, you know, if it was a clear foul, I'll shut up.

04:10And then he goes, was it a clear foul?

04:12And the reporters were like, well, yeah.

04:15And he goes, well, if that was the case, then they shouldn't have called it 90 feet from

04:18the basket.

04:19But the bottom line, I would tell Steph, hey, look, the two shot clock violations cost you

04:25guys the game.

04:26And I believe they had six on the night.

04:28Yeah.

04:29Come on, man.

04:30Here's Steph Curry, asked if he liked that shot he got and whether or not it was too

04:35early.

04:36I mean, they were talking the whole 94 feet, and when you find a little bit of space, shoot

04:42that shot all the time.

04:43And obviously the way it went down, loose ball, the 50-50 ball into an unreal loose

04:51ball foul that changed the game.

04:53So definitely probably a couple of seconds too early.

04:55I like the shot if we make it.

04:57If I make it, we're on a plane to Vegas.

04:59So I live with it, but tough with it.

05:02Yeah, I think the first part of that answer was the most important part of that answer

05:07when he said they were hawking 94 feet.

05:09I heard it, Steve.

05:10So if that's the way he felt like he was guarded and he felt like he had an opening, even with

05:1611 seconds left on the game clock and eight on the shot clock, he probably felt like this

05:21is the best look I'm going to get.

05:24And he took it at the time, and we've seen him make it before.

05:27And you know what I'm going to do with that soundbite is tip my cap to the Houston Rockets

05:30because, damn, if you got a prolific score and Bonafide Hall of Famer thinking that way

05:36about your defense.

05:38So Steph was in the Matrix.

05:40He's thinking they're hawking.

05:41That's already on his mind.

05:43It's not the ideal situation to shoot the ball, but because the D is so hawkish, he

05:49chucked it.

05:50All right.

05:51Let me see if I can get this right.

05:53This is Tim Roy on the final call for at least the second to last call.

05:58Thanks.

05:59Shot clock down to 13.

06:02Curry at midcourt, drives to the top of the key, step back, three over Brooks, no good.

06:08Rebound loose, and GP2 goes to the floor to get it.

06:12He throws it away, and now the Warriors get it, and we have a foul, a foul.

06:17Bill Kennedy's called a foul on the floor.

06:21With 3.5 to go, and that's going to put the Rockets to the free throw line.

06:27Oh my goodness.

06:30Vintage Tim Roy.

06:32Great call.

06:33Because it was a little unclear what was going on.

06:37It wasn't clear right away that Bill Kennedy was coming in with a foul.

06:40He might have been coming in with a jump ball.

06:42Now what if GP2 would have called timeout?

06:45Then they would have gotten a timeout.

06:47I'm assuming they had one.

06:48I asked Bonte.

06:49He said they did.

06:50And Kirsten said he didn't want to call it because he, you know.

06:54I get it.

06:56I mean, man.

06:58Let's go to Darrell in San Jose.

07:01What's up, Darrell?

07:02How you doing, man?

07:03Darrell.

07:04Hey.

07:05Hey, what's up, Darrell?

07:06Hey, can you hear me?

07:07Yes, sir.

07:08Can you hear me?

07:09Yep.

07:10Okay, great.

07:11A few things real fast.

07:12I'm going to ask you guys just a couple questions real fast.

07:18One note, why didn't Paul go to the basket to get a foul?

07:21I don't understand that.

07:22I didn't understand it.

07:23I felt like they were looking for a three even though they were down one.

07:28I don't think they even looked inside the arc.

07:31So I agree with you there.

07:32Go to the basket.

07:33If they're going to call fouls like that, go to the basket and get a foul.

07:36So I don't understand that.

07:38But in any case, Barkley said something about them reaching their peak.

07:42They can't keep up that pace that they did the first quarter of the season.

07:48What do you guys think about that?

07:50And why didn't Kirk put in more bench players to equal out the age of Curry and Draymond?

07:57I don't get some of that coaching.

07:59Like I said, I called you guys before and I said, we don't have the wing players.

08:06Atlanta got the wing players.

08:09That's the standard.

08:11So we get some guys like that, wing players, I mean, come on, man.

08:16Well, Jonathan Kaminga is a wing player and again, Stani, I'm just telling you what my

08:22ears have been hearing.

08:24I thought this was a wasted opportunity if they were married to the, and I get what you

08:28said and you said it profoundly, profoundly.

08:31But the bottom line is, let's see Jonathan Kaminga fail in that situation.

08:35Well, he did.

08:38He didn't make his free throws that could have won the game.

08:41But I'm talking about the game where the ball had to go through Draymond.

08:44You could have just gave it to Kaminga and then let the chips fall where they may.

08:48Who's the best initiator on the Warriors?

08:50Draymond.

08:51Okay, well, they're trying to get the ball to Kaminga.

08:54You can get the ball to him by inbounding it to him.

08:57Here, take it.

08:58Watch the history of the league.

08:59You don't need to fiddle-faddle to get somebody to ball.

09:02Well, you don't want.

09:03Call the play, identify who the guy is, and we're playing this through you.

09:08You didn't want to play call.

09:09You want to just give the ball to Kaminga at the top of the key.

09:12No, he can't put the ball on the floor.

09:15I would not give the ball to Kaminga against that team in that situation with a dribble.

09:21I have no problem with them.

09:23Then you've got your answer to what this dude's supposed to be if you feel that way.

09:28That's ridiculous.

09:29So you think Kaminga's ball, he could have surveyed, passed, or did whatever, but anything

09:34would have been better than what Draymond did.

09:36My point is, he's not Jerry Rice.

09:39Why are you trying to hit him cutting to the basket?

09:42This dude's a mismatch.

09:43Let him survey.

09:44Trust him.

09:45And, Steiner, he might mess up.

09:46Okay, you live.

09:47You live with that.

09:48But all I've been hearing all week is, Kaminga this, Kaminga that.

09:49And now you're telling me, because they're worried about his handle, he can't, he got

09:50robbed of that opportunity.

09:51I don't get it.

09:52I would have given him the ball, clear out, and let me see what I can do.

09:53And I don't think that would have been a smart move when you've committed 22 turnovers against

09:54the ball-hawking defense when, to me, putting the ball on the floor is not a smart move.

09:55And I don't think that would have been a smart move when you've committed 22 turnovers against

09:56the ball-hawking defense when, to me, putting the ball on the floor is not a smart move.

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