Following his team’s loss in Game 4 to fall behind 3-1 in the series, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr pulled out a tactic certainly learned from one of his coaching mentors in Phil Jackson by calling out the officiating and noting that the Lakers flopped and embellished calls.
In certainly unrelated events, the Warriors came away with a 121-106 Game 5 victory in which the Lakers shot the second-fewest free throw attempts in a game all season. But in lieu of returning serve postgame, Darvin Ham and the Lakers were biting their tongue.