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The call send Jalen Green to the free throw line with 3.5 seconds left for the win<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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The Warriors\u2019 shot at the NBA Cup got decided at the foul line, not on the court.<\/p>\n

With 3.5 seconds left in a one-point game, Jonathan Kuminga got called for a loose-ball foul 80 feet from his basket. He\u2019d jockeyed with Jalen Green amid a helter-skelter play. As Green secured the ball, his teammates tried to call for a timeout. Kuminga tied him up on the ground.<\/p>\n

Instead of granting Houston a timeout or calling a jump ball, the officials sent Green to the line for what became the game-winning free throws.<\/p>\n

Right after the officiating crew made the call, the TNT broadcast panned to Kerr on the sideline, his mouth agape. He couldn\u2019t believe what had transpired in the moment, and didn\u2019t hide his feelings about it at the postgame podium after the traditional cool-off period.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pissed off,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cWe wanted to go to Las Vegas, we wanted to win this Cup. And we aren\u2019t going because of a loose ball 80 feet from the basket with the game on the line. I\u2019ve never seen anything like it in my life. And that was ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kerr could have challenged the call, but said he decided not to because it wouldn\u2019t have gotten overturned.<\/p>\n

There was certainly contact on the play, but the officials had let a lot of physicality go. The game was tense and low-scoring, with each defense ramping up intensity in a game that had NBA Cup \u2014 and financial \u2014 stakes.<\/p>\n

Kerr couldn\u2019t believe that a game like Wednesday\u2019s was decided by a whistle rather than on the court. He said an elementary school referee would\u2019ve had the feel to know not to call a foul in that situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even understand what just happened,\u201d Kerr said as part of a two-minute rant postgame. \u201cLoose ball, diving on the floor, 80 feet from the basket and you\u2019re going to give a guy two free throws to decide the game when people are scrambling from the ball? Just give them a timeout and let the players decide the game. That\u2019s how you officiate. Especially because the game was a complete wrestling match. They didn\u2019t call anything. Steph Curry got hit on the elbow plain as day on a jump shot \u2014 no call.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early in the game, crew chief Bill Kennedy appeared to tap his chest to admit he missed a call on a Curry jump shot. In the fourth quarter, as Kerr referenced, Curry got hit on the wrist on another shot, but the contact went uncalled.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s no individual call Kerr will remember more than the one on Kuminga with 3.5 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a billion dollar industry,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got people\u2019s jobs on the line. I\u2019m stunned. I give the Rockets credit. They battled back and played great defense all night. But I feel for our guys. Our guys battled back, played their asses off. And they deserved to win that game or at least have a chance for one stop at the end to finish the game. And that was taken from us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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