So I thought overall our guys played extremely hard. It's rare where you lose a game and you shoot 56 percent, and we lost that game. "Why we lost the game is because the rebounding, the offensive rebounding they destroyed us. As long as I'm respectful, I can say whatever I want. "Blake got a tech for saying, 'Over my back.' One ref told me I couldn't talk. "Sam got a tech for saying, 'Three seconds,'" Rivers said. "Ĭlippers assistant coach Sam Cassell got another technical foul a few minutes later, before Rivers and Woodson were kicked out of the game right before its conclusion. But there's a reason why there's so much disparity and so much back and forth and so much tension right now. "That put us in a hole and kind of started the whole onslaught, for lack of a better word, of technicals we got throughout the last four or five minutes, whatever it was. "Whether it was or wasn't, I can't be the one to get a tech there in the fourth quarter," Griffin said. It shifted some momentum back toward the Timberwolves and upset Rivers and his staff. And a lot of their fouls came down the stretch, when the game was over it wasn't even as close as that."Ĭlippers big man Blake Griffin was whistled for a technical foul with 4:50 left in regulation, with his team hanging onto a two-point lead.
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It's rare when you're the home team and the free throws are 39-22.
"I thought we were driving and just as physical as them. "Mainly, up until the very end of the game, Teague had more free throws than our entire team," Rivers said. The Timberwolves shot 39 free throws, including 16-of-17 in a career-high performance from point guard Jeff Teague, while the Clippers went to the line just 22 times. What drew the Clippers' ire was the discrepancy in free throws. And the point I make all the time, if I earn a tech, I'm fine with it, but just like players can lose their composure, officials can lose their composure, as well." I literally got thrown out of the game for saying, 'You guys gave us some tough calls tonight.' That was it. "My tech, by that time, the game was over. "Listen, we don't want to get fourth-quarter techs," Rivers said.
LOS ANGELES - Clipperscoach Doc Rivers became the latest in a long line of players and coaches to voice his displeasure with the referees this season after a 126-118 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night.Īfter watching his team rack up four technical fouls in the fourth quarter, which included the ejections of Rivers and assistant coach Mike Woodson, the head coach sounded off in frustration.
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