Minnesota lost, one hundred nineteen to one hundred fourteen, to Golden State on Wednesday. During the game, a heated exchange on the Minnesota bench, between Rudy Gobert, LaMelo Ball and Jonathan Kuminga. I read about it on Thursday, my binder open on the kitchen table.
The next day, Rudy Gobert spoke to reporters. “I’d like to see the images, see what it looks like. In the moment, I didn’t feel like it was anything bad,” he told BasketNews. And to Basket USA: “There was certainly some frustration. I was frustrated, they were frustrated. But you see that all the time, and it’s not a bad thing.”
He asks for the images. I understand. At our place, there are no images. There is me, two metres from the bench, and I don’t look at the bench. I look at the clock. A bench talking loudly is not a line. A line is when the referee whistles and I enter it. The rest, I hear, and I don’t write it down.
Over there, they have cameras on the bench, on the coach, on the water bottle. And the player involved still asks to see. Twenty more screens, and the same question as at the club bar on Saturday: what happened, exactly.
I also note that Jonathan Kuminga finished as Minnesota’s top scorer, twenty points, against his former team. That, I can use. It’s a column. It’s filled.
The next game is Friday, against the Clippers. I have nothing to correct between now and then.
Minnesota bench: frustration declared, animosity not declared. Noted.
It’s true, we checked: BeBasket.
