Steve Kerr goes off on refereeing after NBA Cup elimination

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00:00situation, 80 feet from the basket with the game on the line. I've never seen that.

00:05I think I saw it in college one time, 30 years ago. Never seen it in the NBA.

00:13That is, I mean, unconscionable. I don't even understand what just happened.

00:25Loose ball, diving on the floor, 80 feet from the basket, and you're going to give a guy

00:32two free throws to decide the game when people are scrambling for the ball.

00:36Just give them a timeout. Give them a timeout and let the players decide the game.

00:40That's how you officiate, especially because the game was a complete wrestling match.

00:47They didn't call anything. Steph Curry got hit on the elbow, plain as day on a jump shot.

00:53Just clubbed right on there. No call. So you've established you're just not going to call anything

00:58throughout the game. It's a physical game. We're going to call it a loose ball foul on a jump ball

01:03situation with guys diving on the floor with the game on the line?

01:09This is a billion-dollar industry. You've got people's jobs on the line.

01:17I am stunned. I am stunned. I give the Rockets credit. They battle back.

01:21They play great defense all night. But I feel for our guys. Our guys battled back,

01:26played their asses off, and deserved to win that game or at least have a chance for one stop

01:31at the end to finish the game. And that was taken from us by a call that I don't think

01:38an elementary school referee would have made because that guy would have had feel

01:43and said, you know what, I'm not going to decide a game on a loose ball 80 feet from the basket.