In the midst of three consecutive ejections over the last three games of a six-game road trip, head coach Steve Kerr isn't happy with the way his Golden State Warriors have honed into the officials this season.
The man at the helm noted his team is getting carried away with complaining to the referees, taking away their focus from the game at hand. Kerr noted this distraction is one he's personally guilty of as well.
“We’re not composed out there. We’re a championship team,” Kerr said, according to Mark Medina of the San Jose Mercury News. “We have to be poised and we have to execute out there. We’re getting way too emotional, myself included. I have to do a better job of that, too. But you got to show some poise when things aren’t going our way.”
“Stop worrying about everything else and worry about the game.”
Steve Kerr found it “absolutely too much” to have three ejections in the last three games, having seen the controversial first-career ejection of Shaun Livingston, butting heads with referee Courtney Kirkland, with the former serving his suspension as part of a planned rest in the tail end of a back-to-back, but one that will cost him a hefty $53,000.
To top that, there's also two ejections from star forward Kevin Durant (who now leads the league in that category), one against the Orlando Magic when up 23 in the fourth quarter, and another after receiving his second technical of the game, mouthing off to the always bellicose DeMarcus Cousins in the winding minutes of the game against the New Orleans Pelicans last night.
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