The game had just ended and Austin Reaves made a straight beeline for referee John Goble.
A crowd formed around him, including his Lakers teammates, staffers and another referee, while Reaves gave Goble a piece of his mind after being “disrespected”It made for an unusual scene since referees usually do not receive talking-downs after games and marked the second time Reaves sternly addressed Goble.
“At the end of day, we’re grown men and I didn’t feel like he needed to yell in my face like that. I told him that, I wasn’t disrespectful,” Reaves said.
“I told him if I did that to him first I would have gotten a tech, I felt like the only reason I didn’t get a tech was because he knew he was in the wrong. I felt disrespected. ” Not that long after Reaves’ postgame outburst, Lakers coach JJ Redick took it even further by calling out the stripes while stating LeBron James has the “worst whistle” of any star player.
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“I mean, they have a few guys that foul on every possession. All the good defenses do. … They’re hard enough to play, you’ve got to be able to just call if if they foul, and they do foul.
” Plenty of teams have made it known that they believe the referees are one-sided when it comes to Thunder games and frustrations boiled over for the Lakers on Thursday now that they’ve lost both games in these series by 18 points and stand two losses away from elimination. Reaves said Goble particularly upset him late in the game when the guard alleged the referee “yelled in my face” while he positioned himself during a jump ball.
I want to call this the game within the game, but these teams versus this crew has been explosive for the entire game. Lakers were furious about the way that jump ball was officiated. Thunder snagged it, went down the floor and got a Cason Wallace 3 and Redick timeout.
“I thought it was disrespectful,” Reaves said. “The whole time that was going on over there, I don’t think he said much to them. ” The Lakers called timeout right after that score and Reaves tore into Goble, with lip readers speculating he said: “That’s some bulls–t for you to talk to me like that.
” It appeared he called the referee a crass term for a female body part after Goble turned his back to him and walked over to the scorer’s table. Reaves later said he felt he was respectful to the referees all night and has said there’s “a million” times where he’s said “way worse stuff.
” Redick said he had no problem with his team’s emotions, while not mentioning Reaves specifically, and the series shifts to Los Angeles on Saturday with the Lakers essentially in a must-win spot.
“Our guys were so good tonight just staying together, poised,” Redick said. “The emotion is part of basketball. I think some of the reason officiated the way they are is because they don’t show emotion, and that’s a credit to them. They’ve really been taking the emotion out of the game.
They’re super tight-knit. They don’t complain to the officials and maybe they’re the beneficiaries of that, I don’t know. ” Towering OF star claims NFLer broke her leg after she 'humiliated' him during football lesson as sordid details revealed in courtFemale World Cup soccer hopeful accused of raping 14-year-old boy with braces multiple timesMadeline KenneyStream It Or Skip It: 'Citadel' Season 2 On Prime Video, Where The Citadel Leftovers Team With CIA Operatives To Bring Down Manticore
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