Last night's game between the Golden State Warriors and the lowly Phoenix Suns was quite an interesting spectacle. The savage 129-83 beatdown the Warriors unleashed upon the Suns on Monday night at Oracle Arena had its own interesting storylines on the side. The decision coming from Golden State head coach Steve Kerr to let injured star forward Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala coach Kevin Durant and the star-studded Warriors team during timeouts certainly got social media's attention.
One moment that certainly made waves on Twitter was this hilarious moment captured on NBC Sports Bay Area during the third quarter of Monday night's contest. Green, who had to miss the game due to a sprained left index finger, was trying to coach up his teammates. However, he and Durant got into a friendly exchange over playcalling.
Draymond's response? The Defensive Player of the Year needed only one of the greatest two-word phrases in history to clap back at Durant.
People were immediately critical of Kerr's decision to let the players coach for the night instead of him doing his job.
Article Continues Below“It shows a lack of respect for an opponent, and maybe right now, we don’t deserve respect. When you keep getting beat by 40, teams won’t respect you. But it’s up to us to change that,” Suns veteran forward Jared Dudley, via Chris Haynes of ESPN.
Via an article written by Anthony Slater of The Athletic, Kerr said this was not the case whatsoever.
“It had nothing to do with me being disrespectful. It had to do with me trying to reach my team. I have not reached them for the last month,” Kerr said. “They're tired of my voice. I'm tired of my voice. It's been a long haul these last three years. I wasn't reaching them and we thought it was probably a good night to pull a trick out of the hat and do something different.”
The Warriors, who still have the best record in the Western Conference at 44-13, have won three games in a row following a skid in which they lost three of four contests.