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I've never seen a loose ball foul on a jump ball situation 80 feet from the basket with the game on the line.
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I've never seen that, I think I saw it in college one time 30 years ago.
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Never seen it in the NBA.
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That is, I mean, unconscionable.
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I don't even understand what just happened.
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Loose ball, diving on the floor, 80 feet from the basket, and you're going to give a guy two free throws to decide the game when people are scrambling for the ball.
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Just give them a timeout.
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Give them a timeout and let the players decide the game.
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That's how you officiate.
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Especially because the game was a complete wrestling match.
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They didn't call anything.
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Steph Curry got hit on the elbow, plain as day on a jump shot.
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Just clubbed right on there, no call.
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So you've established you're just not going to call anything throughout the game.
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It's a physical game.
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We're going to call it a loose ball foul on a jump ball situation with guys diving on the floor with the game on the line?
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This is a billion-dollar industry.
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You've got people's jobs on the line.
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I am stunned.
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I am stunned.
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I give the Rockets credit.
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They battled back.
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They played great defense all night.
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But I feel for our guys.
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Our guys battled back, played their asses off, and deserved to win that game or at least have a chance for one stop at the end to finish the game.
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And that was taken from us by a call that I don't think an elementary school referee would have made, because that guy would have had feel and said, you know what, I'm not going to decide a game on a loose ball 80 feet from the basket.
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I know you had a challenge, you only had one time out left, did you think about challenging?
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No.
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No.
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It wouldn't have been reversed.
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And I needed to save it for the ensuing play.
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You obviously blew a 6-point lead in the final 70 seconds.
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That was obviously the punctuation.
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It's our fault.
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We didn't score.
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We had a turnover on the pass from Draymond to J.K.
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We had done a great job taking care of the ball after that first quarter and a half that was a disaster.
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And Dray's got to make a good decision there, and he took a chance throwing it to J.K.
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He's got to just get the ball back to Steph on that, and he knows he feels terrible in there.
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And I could have done a better job getting us into something different, try to free up Steph or J.K.
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So we all take it.
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We all took part in this one.
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I think you guys had six jump-up violations tonight.
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How much of that obviously brought to the really, really good defense, but how much was it defense versus you guys finding it?
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It was defense.
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Their defense was great.
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Pressured us all game.
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And I think four of them were in the first half, and we couldn't get free.
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And then we got control of the game in the second half, did a really good job of taking care of it and bouncing back and doing some nice things.
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But we didn't close, bottom line.
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What was the difference in the third quarter?
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Did you get a buddy going there?
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Just took care of the ball and got organized.
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Any benefits of not playing until Sunday?
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I mean, three days off has been a pretty frenetic experience.
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I'm not ready to answer that question.
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I'm pissed off.
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I wanted to go to Las Vegas.
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We wanted to win this cup.
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And, you know, we aren't going because of a loose ball foul 80 feet from the basket with the game on the line.
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I've never seen anything like it in my life, and that was ridiculous.
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Thank you.
