He was frustrated with being called for light fouls which made him timid for the rest of the game, he said he was even afraid to set screens cause they might be too hard. Which I have seen Nurk get called for hard screens just cause the dude fell down.
There will be growing pains but I think a factor that you can’t quantify or put on any stat sheet is when you have someone like KD or Chris Paul that are veteran superstars that can get into the refs ear and say “hey that last call you had on DA you didn’t notice he got elbowed in the ribs” I think we all know when young guys complain to the refs they get squat and the veterans can actually bend the refs a bit.
He was frustrated with being called for light fouls which made him timid for the rest of the game, he said he was even afraid to set screens cause they might be too hard. Which I have seen Nurk get called for hard screens just cause the dude fell down.
There will be growing pains but I think a factor that you can’t quantify or put on any stat sheet is when you have someone like KD or Chris Paul that are veteran superstars that can get into the refs ear and say “hey that last call you had on DA you didn’t notice he got elbowed in the ribs” I think we all know when young guys complain to the refs they get squat and the veterans can actually bend the refs a bit.