The game had just ended and Austin Reaves made a straight beeline for referee John Goble.

A crowd formed around him, including his Lakers teammates, staffers and another referee, while Reaves gave Goble a piece of his mind after being “disrespected” during Los Angeles’ 125-107 Game 2 loss to the Thunder to fall in a 2-0 series hole in the Western Conference semifinals.

It made for an unusual scene since referees usually do not receive talking-downs after games and marked the second time Reaves sternly addressed Goble.

“At the end of day, we’re grown men and I didn’t feel like he needed to yell in my face like that. I told him that, I wasn’t disrespectful,” Reaves said. “I told him if I did that to him first I would have gotten a tech, I felt like the only reason I didn’t get a tech was because he knew he was in the wrong.…