Draymond Green’s big statement on the Warriors’ season

Unable to reach the playoffs, the Warriors had to surrender during the Play-In-Tournament. There is no question of keeping only regrets about this season. Draymond Green in particular cracked a strong statement not long ago.

A Stephen Curry on fire was not enough to go further. Ninth in the West at the end of the regular season, the Warriors still had a chance to go postseason via Play-In. The two losses in this one, however, sealed the end of the course for Golden State, and the players of the Bay are therefore on vacation.

The opportunity to reflect on the unfolding of the 2020-21 campaign, and to take stock of it. This is particularly what Draymond Green did. Guest on the podcast of Shaquille O’Neal, the Californian interior has given in detail about his feelings about the past year, and his words could not be clearer:

We haven’t made it to the play-offs, but it’s not very stressful for me. When you start a game and you aren’t expected to win, there is no stress in it. I don’t think when it comes to stress – from a basketball point of view – this season has been stressful at all.

It’s certainly not the greatest stress of my career, because losing is easy. It’s the victory that is difficult, it’s the expectation that I have every day, knowing that everyone thinks you are going to win, knowing that everyone is watching you, the expectations are as high as you can get see. These are the real stressful times, because losing is easy.

Overall, it was extremely stressful with all the COVID tests and all of those factors. With all of that it was tough, but from a basketball point of view you wouldn’t be expected to win. There is no stress in that which is why you can see guys playing great on bad teams and then they go to teams where games are important and all of a sudden you don’t recognize them .

If one wonders which players the Dancing Bear can target in particular with that last sentence, he brings up an important point: Warriors are used to pressure, and know how to sidestep it. The squad may have changed a lot since the end of the GS dynasty, guys like Green, Curry or even coach Steve Kerr have been around all season to coach the new guys. Enough to prepare them for next year.

Draymond Green was cash, as usual. No question of believing that this season was that hard on a sporting level. After all, a three-time NBA champion has seen others!