At the root of this question, I think, is "Explain yourself" challenge to JB.
And while we can argue about the reporter's intent, certainly JB's response clearly showed that he took it as such. The "Did you watch the game" response pretty much tells you what JB thought.
He believed the reason to discontinue the press was so blatently obvious that no one with any kind of basketball IQ that watched the game should have to ask it.
You can believe this as just a reporter wanting to know the answer to a question. But JB and I don't think so.