Frustration manifests itself in all sorts of ways. Sometimes you get quiet and turn inward. Sometimes you pummel an innocent, unsuspecting pillow. And sometimes you just need to get into a good, old-fashioned shouting match.In the third quarter of the Miami Heat‘s 118-104 loss to the incredibly short-handed Golden State Warriors at home on Wednesday night, Heat veterans Jimmy Butler and Udonis Haslem got into an altercation on the sideline, eventually forcing teammates to separate them as they screamed presumably not-so-nice things in each other’s direction.
Head coach Erik Spoelstra also seemed to be upset with Butler as Heat players got between them. Take a look:
Though we’ve yet to get an explanation about the specifics of the kerfuffle, it’s easy to see why the Heat might be frustrated. After being tied at 50 at halftime, the Warriors — playing without Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and other key personnel — opened the third quarter with a 19-0 run to take a 69-50 lead.
“It’s pretty clear. We have a very competitive, gnarly group, and we were getting our asses kicked,” Spoelstra said after the game. “I would say virtually every single person in that huddle was pretty animated about our disappointment in how we were playing.”
