On Sunday, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr made it clear he didn’t blame the NBA’s officials for his team’s Game 3 loss that gave the Lakers a 2-1 series lead, despite a big free-throw disrepancy.
“We didn’t lose the game because of the officials so there’s no point in whining about anything. There were definitely calls we didn’t like but every game every coach can say that. This is not about anything other than our performance,” Kerr said then.
After Monday’s Game 4 loss that gave Los Angeles a 3-1 lead, however, Kerr was a bit more annoyed with some of the calls, and outlined why in his postgame media availability:
“I thought the fourth was about [Lonnie] Walker, and it was about — I think we had three or four illegal screens called, and that was disappointing.