While LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and the Cavs played out of their minds in Game 4 on Friday night, the officiating crew of Bill Callahan, John Goble and Marc Davis didn't have their best night.
They called 18 personal fouls in the first quarter alone, seven technicals were called during the entire game and had to break up several kerfuffles.
Warriors forward Draymond Green was at the center of the strangest moment of a weird night when he was called for what looked like his second technical foul early in the third quarter. But he wasn't ejected because of an official scoring error in the first half that incorrectly assigned a technical foul to Green that was supposed to be assessed to head coach Steve Kerr.
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After the game, Green praised the Cavs for playing well, but all took aim at the refs.
“When we’re tied up, what can we do? When we’ve got guys – like Steph [Curry], Klay [Thompson], me, [Kevin Durant] – picking up two, three fouls in a hurry, it’s tough to bring the physicality. How can we play physical with some of the stuff going on out there tonight? Give credit to Kyrie [Irving] and [LeBron James], they played like the stars that they are. Those guys wanted it. There was more going on out there. If we wanted to play more physical, how could we?” Green told The Vertical late Friday night.