{"id":17082,"date":"2025-05-07T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/17082\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:31:09","slug":"timberwolves-chris-finch-warriors-steve-kerr-complain-about-game-1-fouls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/17082\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves&#8217; Chris Finch, Warriors&#8217; Steve Kerr complain about Game 1 fouls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 It took all of one game for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/05\/07\/with-curry-expected-to-miss-time-draymond-green-sets-new-standard-for-warriors-defense\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warriors and Timberwolves<\/a> to raise concerns over the officiating of their second-round playoff series.<\/p>\n<p>Wolves coach Chris Finch took exception to the way the Warriors handled center Rudy Gobert under the boards in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/05\/07\/jimmy-butler-warriors-wolves-steph-curry-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State\u2019s 99-88 victory<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The veteran center grabbed 11 rebounds while dealing with what Finch deemed was excessive contact. The coach expressed his frustrations with the officiating at Wednesday\u2019s media availability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn defensive rebounds, they do a lot of fouling, holding, shoving, pushing and tackling Rudy,\u201d Finch told reporters. \u201cThat\u2019s clear. We\u2019ll send a bunch of those clips into the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warriors coach Steve Kerr fired back, noting that Steph Curry \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/05\/07\/how-long-will-warriors-star-steph-curry-be-out-with-hamstring-strain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">now out with a hamstring injury<\/a> \u2013 was held at least six times in the first few minutes of the game on uncalled fouls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was upset with the first 10 minutes of the game,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cIt was just like Houston all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kerr said that both teams will \u201chave to adjust\u201d to the bruising nature of the series, adding that referees have a difficult job, and that they cannot call every foul.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you call every single one of them? No,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cBut can you set the tone early and try to clean it up? Yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors had 18 fouls called on them in Game 1, while the Timberwolves were whistled for 21 infractions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He believed neither team was gaining an advantage when it came to fouls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m getting ready to send my own clips into the league \u2026. But it has been consistent. They\u2019re consistently allowing teams to foul,\u201d Kerr said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warriors guard Brandin Podziemski, one player singled out by Finch for grabbing Gobert, declared that the team had learned a trick or two from the handsy Rockets, who used grabbing and holding to slow down the Warriors\u2019 scorers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it\u2019s the playoffs,\u201d Podziemski said. \u201cYou\u2019re trying to do anything you can to win. I mean, Rudy is probably a whole foot taller than me, so what do you want me to do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 will be played on Thursday at Target Center. <\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: May 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 It took all of one game for the Warriors and Timberwolves to raise concerns over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,159,160,479,164,4025,4024,155,165,6,66,255,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-17082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-golden-state","12":"tag-golden-state-warriors","13":"tag-goldenstate","14":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","15":"tag-inside-sports","16":"tag-latest-headlines","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-warriors","20":"tag-warriors-hq"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114468925276555673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}