“He deserved it”. This is what Steve Kerr said at the press conference after a game in which Draymond Green participated for just over three minutes. It was absurd, but in this player we have already seen many things like that: meaningless, against the flow, at any time and just because. There is no other reason than an excessive ego and an infamous pride to behave like this, with your team playing in the play in, after the NBA (finally) imposed an exemplary sanction on you for your bad behavior, which has crossed the limits of trash talking to think that he has the license to protest everything, talk all the time and, ultimately, come to blows against rivals. A concatenation of images that have been seen over the years and that have caused the player to have practically all of public opinion against them, that place where the battles that decide wars are won and lost. . The successes of the past have turned into narcissism. There are four rings and six Finals to build an impunity that no longer exists. And they have proven it.
There were more than 8 minutes left in the first quarter when the referees signaled a foul on Andrew Wiggins on Paolo Banchero, who also scored. And there began the string of Green, who went to protest referee Ray Acosta. A lot. All the time. Non-stop. Stephen Curry came to his side to try to calm things down, as if telling him that he was already there, that it didn’t matter. There was no way either: Draymond shouted something else when he had already arrived to calm down half the Warriors bench and went straight to the locker room tunnel. Acosta’s teammates, Mitchell Ervin and Phenizee Ransom, had arrived to support their teammate, but Green’s last words must have been definitive. Whatever they were. The power forward heard the second technique when he was already leaving. He knew it. It is his fourth expulsion of a season in which he received a 16-game ban. It is, therefore, not the first time he has messed up. And it would be optimistic to think that it will be the last.
Curry’s despair at the expulsion of his teammate, whom he has already forgiven on many (many) occasions, was palpable. The point guard was almost in tears. “All I’m going to say is that we need him. He knows it. “We all know it. Whatever is necessary for him to be on the court and available is what has to happen,” he said after the clash. Curry finished with 17 points and 10 assists in a duel that, without Jonathan Kuminga and Green, the Warriors They had guts to serve. And thanks to the star, who despite struggling in the shot (6 of 18), scored a hook to make it 93-98 and then a triple passed the sentence and got the final score (93-101). Away from home, against a young and physical team, that is having a great season (two losses in a row now) and that is looking to the future. One of the most interesting projects, for sure, that there is currently in the NBA.
Of the rest, 15 points from Klay Thompson (3 of 8 in triples) and 23 from Andrew Wiggins, who remain a mystery in relation to their intermittent level, full of irregularities since winning the 2022 ring. The Warriors, who launched Below 30% in triples, they struggled in defense and dried up Banchero, who was left at 15 points with 5 of 17 in field goals, 1 of 7 in triples and 4 losses. Cole Anthony, with 26 points (5 of 8 from outside), 7 rebounds and 4 assists, was the boss, the leader of the Magic and the best player of the game, but his effort was not enough. And the Warriors, that’s what teams that have been something have, they survived one fateful day, another one, starring the usual one. A dynasty that escaped the Rockets’ tenth consecutive victory (the longest streak in the active NBA) and maintains tenth place. But a dynasty that is lame without Draymond Green. And the first one who has to realize it is him. There is no other option.
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2024-03-28 06:41:05
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