Warriors vs. Rockets: With referee Scott Foster in the second game, Stephen Curry makes the difference

The Houston Rockets made it clear that they thought they had gotten a brutal deal from the officials – not only when they lost to the Warriors in the opening game on Sunday. Game 7 loss last year's Western Conference finals, and at least one league leader who spoke with CBS Sports believes the plaintiffs deserve some extra whistles to the Rockets in the second match.

Maybe some of these whistles will go against Stephen Curry, who, according to the NBA report on the last two minutes, should have been rung for his sixth foul on two separate occasions in the first game, but slipped by a non-call each time and stayed in the game long enough to hit a three-pointer dagger to give Golden State its final margin of victory four points with 24 seconds to play.

Curry had big problems in all series and was a recurring theme at different times in the five-year Warriors race. And now we learn on Tuesday that Scott Foster is part of the referees team for Tuesday's second game (10:30 pm EST – watch on fuboTV). The Rockets registered their complaints against Foster and went so far as to say that he should not be able to referee their matches because of a bias against them. However, the warriors also had problems with him.

In fact, just about everyone in the NBA has had a problem with Foster at one time or another. In 2016, the Los Angeles Times conducted an anonymous survey of nearly three dozen players and coaches to ask who were the best and the worst referees. Foster was voted the worst by a wide margin. Among other incidents, Foster eliminated Shaun Livingston and Curry from the sixth game of the 2016 final. Curry was fouled before being thrown for throwing his spokesman into the bleachers.

But this is not a problem of Foster. This is a curry problem.

"He's so competitive from a defense standpoint, what you love, but it sometimes plays against him," said a League scout at CBS Sports. "He must keep his hands to himself. [Steve] Kerr talked a lot about it. Obviously, they can not get him to the bench for long windows. "

Steve Kerr of the Warriors about Stephen Curry's persistent problem: "I made eye contact with Sonya and I told him:" Tell him to no longer defile him. " mother can not contact him, I certainly will not do it, maybe I should try dad this time. " pic.twitter.com/YkJ89ijLLo

– Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) April 28, 2019

Kerr makes jokes, but it's not a matter of laughing. Curry is obviously vital to everything the warriors do and must stay on the ground for normal rotations. From the point of view of the scout, Curry definitely tries to fill his gap in size and strength against most of the guys he ends up keeping looking for flights and hitting tapes. The biggest problem is that he has not demonstrated a consistent ability to control his cravings when he has big problems. Curry spends a lot of time one minute from the end of the match and in these situations, he does not really temper his aggression.

The Rockets know it and isolate it with James Harden and Chris Paul. Keeping these guys, it's only a matter of time before you are whistled. Yet, Curry continues to fight. Kerr thinks that is what makes Curry a great offensive player, too, his ability to go without hesitation, but he must clearly find a common ground. He tries. Kerr told reporters that Curry had written a reminder on his shoes: On one, he was writing the word "No" and on the other, "Reach".

Curry totaled 17 fouls in the first four games of the Golden State's first-round series against the Clippers and has never committed less than four. This is not really the problem, it is the need to guard against fouling by sitting for long periods of time. Here's how the crash affected Curry and the Warriors until now in the playoffs:

• In Game 2 against the Clippers in which the Warriors lost 31 points to lose the game, Curry scored his third and fourth foul in less than two minutes and was removed from the match at 8:39. mark in the third quarter. At that time, Golden State led the Clippers by 28. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the advance had been reduced to 14.

• In the third game against the Clippers, Curry made two fouls in the first quarter and Kerr trusted him to stay in the game. He committed his third with 3:45 left in the second and sat the rest of the half. He then spent less than four minutes in the third quarter before scoring his fourth goal at 8:46 am and sitting the rest of the third quarter. Less than two minutes after the start of the fourth inning, he had his fifth. He was replaced at 9:09, but fortunately the Warriors had a big lead and did not destroy it this time. Curry never had to come back.

• In the fourth game against the Clippers, Curry was no longer able to hold his first full shift after committing his second foul with just under six minutes left in the first quarter and was stopped at 4:44. He avoided trouble the rest of the way, but again, it's the pace and the inability to play freely, even on offense to attack the basket. Curry finished the fourth game with a derisory score of 1 to 9.

• In the first game against the Rockets, Curry had five fouls and the league, at his Report of the last two minutes the next day he should have been whistled for two more fouls in the final minutes, which would have made him out of the game. He got his fourth foul at 4:34 of the third and missed the rest of the quarter. He got his fifth foul at the 8:12 mark of the fourth and sat for a minute and a half. This breaks the pace, and in this short time the Warriors' lead has also gone from six to two points.