You don't need to be an optometrist to observe what Clippers coach Doc Rivers thought of the officiating in Los Angeles’ 102-93 loss to the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night. With just over 1:30 to go in the fourth quarter, Rivers picked up two technical fouls over what appeared to be a timeout discrepancy stemming from an earlier challenge not being honored. And he promptly gave referee Tony Brothers an earful.
“The refs screwed up,” Rivers said after the game. “Mistakes like that cannot happen on this level. That was awful.”
As the Clippers coach pleaded his case to the game’s officials, his son Austin, a shooting guard for the Rockets, gleefully signaled for the officials to give his father a technical foul.