Sacramento Kings leading scorer Buddy Hield was kicking himself after some poor decision-making cost him and his team a season sweep at the hands of the Golden State Warriors.

Hield had been 0-for-6 from deep before canning a contested 32-footer with Kevin Durant plastered over him in a late contest, swishing the jumper and then another from the corner in the last 20 seconds of a narrow 125-123 loss.

Kings head coach Dave Joerger chided his young shooting guard for the poor shot selection on his initial shot, something that later would come back to bite him when he had the chance to pull up from the same exact spot:

“I should have shot it,” Hield said after the game, according to Jason Jones of The Athletic. “…I should have pulled that b****. I should have pulled it. I should have pulled it, no excuse.”

Hield's reasoning is wise beyond his years, and while his answer reflects immense maturity for a third-year player, this is one Joerger has to eat with both hands.

Conceptually, Joerger was right to point out that the shot was ill-advised, especially for a player who had the cold hand for the vast majority of the game. But there are huge caveats to doing what is right.

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Hield is only in his third year in the league and now a large reason why the Kings are fighting for a playoff spot at the moment. While he was scoreless from beyond the arc against the Warriors, he's the sixth-best 3-point shooter in the league this year (44.6 percent), and shots of that magnitude only build confidence, which showed in his next bucket from the corner.

Joerger took away that confidence and replaced it with a seed of doubt, one that ultimately cost the Kings the game and a potential stunner on the road.

Surely, both player and coach will learn from this loss — perhaps sparking a better rapport, communication, and faith in one another that they could use in the last 24 games of the season.