It’s hard to say what Jordan Poole did wrong here on this play.
On Tuesday, the Golden State Warriors were visiting the Oklahoma City Thunder, with the team coming off a recent five-game win streak. Unfortunately for the Warriors, they lost yet another road game — this time 137-128 — but fans were quite perplexed after Poole picked up a bizarre technical foul earlier in the game.
During the early stages of the fourth quarter, Poole was hit with a technical for bounce passing the ball to a referee after the play was called dead. Given Poole’s reaction to the foul, even he couldn’t believe he was being tagged for something as innocuous as that.
JP was given a technical foul for this … pic.twitter.com/zN7uacG0Ju
— Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) March 8, 2023
That definitely feels weak compared to other plays referees have let go in the past. No wonder Poole — and the Warriors announcers — reacted the way they did after that one.