ATLANTA — The ABC broadcast shared a cool moment between Steve Kerr and Stephen Curry on Sunday afternoon.

Kerr was mic’d up for the game and, during a first half timeout, told Curry, who was struggling at the time, to forget about his shooting numbers and look at the plus/minus: He was having a huge impact on the game.

A wired Kerr trying to encourage Curry in the huddle, showing him his plus/minus (via @imbeccable) pic.twitter.com/Jl1qBi5B3v — Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) March 5, 2017

On social media, Kerr was widely lauded for the simple, sympathetic example of coaching, blasted out to the masses. But when asked about it on Monday he didn’t sound super thrilled that the moment was captured for all to see.

“Those moments are always interesting,” Kerr said. “I forget that my mic is on, but it seems like we’re mic’d up almost every game. We’re on national TV probably every other game. Sometimes you have these intimate moments, passionate moments, angry moments and it’s all caught on camera. It’s a very strange phenomenon. I need to remember to sometimes turn the mic off.”

Kerr said he actually has a button that allows him to turn off the mic, but he rarely does. “My first year I did (it more),” Kerr said. The NBA has an assigned worker in the production truck monitoring the coaching mics and ensuring that no strategy gets on air. Anything that is shown has to be OK’d first.

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“I understand and it and know it’s cool for fans to see,” Kerr said. “I would prefer that conversations with the team remain private, but I understand it’s part of the appeal of watching a game on TV. So I understand the league’s appeal to have the coaches and players mic’d up. They do a good job of discerning what’s appropriate and what’s not. That moment was fine. It’s just private. But it’s not, which is the weird part. Steph gets it. I get it. Stuff that we do and say is always going to be out there. The league just has to do its best to differentiate between the good stuff and the bad stuff.”