Draymond Green ejected is ICING ON THE CAKE for Curry’s most frustrating season – Spears | NBA Today

Draymond Green ejected is ICING ON THE CAKE for Curry’s most frustrating season – Spears | NBA Today

What a wild Wednesday we had in the association LeBron James continuing to break records Mayhem in Philadelphia and Steph Curry within alltime night night celebration but out of all of these here is the image of the night right Steph Curry’s face this was after Draymond Green was ejected less than five minutes

Into the Golden State Warriors game against the Orlando Magic it sparked plenty of questions about if the rest the organization feels the way Steph’s face looks in this photo so let’s show you EX exactly what went down here the Golden State Warriors on the second night of a back toback in Orlando Danny

Green Mark Spears here with me as well watch Pao Beno really goes into draymond’s chest there Draymond Danny starts starts his discussion with the refs early not a good start for them I don’t like it he knows this bigger picture he’s got to be smarter and understand

What’s that risk well that advice is good but it wouldn’t take place immediately Draymond continuing his conversations you can see here he was issued technical foul here but the conversation Mark Spears continued after that Draymond keeps talking keeps talking some more this is game 35 he’s

Missed 35 games you might as well call this 36 cuz this is so early in the game to get tossed the Warriors just don’t need that right now they they’ve missed too much Draymond this season while he’s the only player with multiple four quarter first quarter ejections over the

Last 20 Seasons you can see see here Steph Curry shaking his head clearly distraught upset I don’t want to put put words in his mouth but it really appears that he has a lot of emotions here not happy at all with what Draymond did here with Steph Curry on this

Ejection all I say is we need we need him he knows that we all know that um so whatever it takes to keep him on the floor um him be available that’s what’s got to happen well he was n available for the rest of the game but guess who was Steph Curry

In the fourth quarter here the Warriors up by three Steph carving through the defense L it up high off the glass there extends the Golden State Warriors lead and here in the next possession waning second Steph Curry dagger three and then he hits the extended night night

Celebration we to put a timer on it for nearly 6 seconds Steph had 17 points 10 assists the Warriors win 10193 Draymond Green of course he took to his podcast after the came just can’t happen I I said what I said I deserve to get kicked out at that

Point and what I said if I’m all the way honest with y’all I kind of was trying to turn my body and angle and go to the bench and I said what I said like a little too soon before angle in my body to the bench um but yeah it just can’t

Happen and you know like we need to win games so like I said not going to overreact like oh man like stuff is Never As Good As It Seems it’s never as bad as it seems seem like I know where I am I understand what what I what I’m

Doing moving for and in my position just make sure that that’s the exception and not the rule just heard Draymond Zach say that his justification for what happened he also said over and over again he’s not going to overreact but how do you react to this the only words I wanted to hear

There and the only ones I remember were it can’t happen because it can’t he’s Miss too many games this season and he’s too good this is what drives me crazy about this he’s still one of the 10 best defensive players in the NBA he’d make

One of my all defensive teams if he had played 65 games he won’t get there because he’s been suspended from a bunch of games and ejected from a bunch of others and the Warriors margin for error is like this here come the Rockets fighting for every game running teams

Off the floor Draymond is lucky the Warriors won last night in Orlando they’re lucky Andrew wigs played his best game in a long time Draymond is lucky that is and look I didn’t like this at the time one of my least favorite things of the season was

Draymond when he got suspended for the Yousef nage thing saying afterwards well that really helped our team it turned out that was a helpful thing for our team because it it gave Steve Kur Lee way to play Jonathan kingore and look what we found it didn’t help the team

There’s no spinning this they they’d be better with him and if they miss the playoffs and they finished 10th and losing the playing if they finish 11th because this feisty Rockets team catches them a large part of the blame is going to be on all the games that he missed

There’s no way to spin it it can’t happen Mark how willing are the Warriors maybe maybe the $100,000 contract was the answer how willing are the Warriors to continue to deal with these outbursts but the look on Steph Curry’s face I’ve never seen anything like that I think

That was the icing on a very dry piece of cake you know um the could I think this could be the most frustrating season of Steph’s career right you mean they they were a round away from the Conference Finals now and now they can barely make the playoffs

And you don’t think Memphis is going to be better next year right you don’t think Houston’s going to be better next year San Antonio is going to be better you know there’s no margin for error and I think the problem is it’s not just Draymond what did they do to help Steph

They didn’t do anything he asked for help they didn’t get them they weren’t willing to trade Curry’s contract I mean uh uh cp’s cont contract you know they didn’t trade kaminga they didn’t trade Wiggins they didn’t get them any help and these are the last days of a super

Amazing career and the Warriors are wasting it they’re not helping them draymond’s not helping them and that’s why I see think you see the frustration know Dre has had some issues and he’s been working on them and they say it takes 21 days to build new habits maybe

Longer for Draymond I talked about this with my co-host on my podcast was only reason why I know this um but yeah Draymond at this point in his career he should know and being married with kids at some point in this time in your age it doesn’t matter being right you can’t

Keep arguing with the referees you can’t keep trying to prove your point you got to got to just let things go and see the bigger picture Steph’s reaction I’m not going to say he was crying but it is alarming to see him that emotional and it could be other things that’s going on

Outside the court for him and everything came all at once and he was emotional even when they won you can see he was excited cuz this is a game Orlando’s been really good this year chair Pi the chair that’s not a was the chair’s problem chair didn’t do

Nothing to that no but he’s excited it’s just a big emotional game you see all the emotions coming out of him and because this was a big win Orlando is a good team this year they’re on the brink of a plane Houston’s playing really well they’re catching up uh but seeing step’s

Reaction there lets me to believe that there’s something bigger going on behind the scenes that we don’t know about there had to be a conversation about draymond’s actions if he continued them that something bad is going to happen so the reaction of Steph was not a good one

I don’t I won’t say he was crying but he did look really emotional and it’s it’s a concern to me he looked Fed Up and again I do not want to put words in Steph Curry’s mouth but that is the look of someone who is fed up who has had

Enough who has seen this story before and is tired of seeing it particularly because as you said Mark these are the the the final days years months however you want to put it on Steph Curry’s Prime he is not getting any younger so if he is fed up Zack l what does that

Mean because golden state has already committed a aund million four-year contract to Draymond Green um and they are limited at least in what they can do right now well they’re trying to keep the focus on the court because come hell or high water the core of this team still

Thinks we can catch a rhythm we can do something special and the bottom line is they’re fighting uphill battle just to catch a rhythm and get in the playoffs and maybe draw the Denver Nuggets in the first round which is a nightmare for anybody when you’re in that situation as

An organization it is inevitable that half of your vision a quarter of your division will be on next season and the season after that and this team has to figure out because as long as Steph Curry is in Golden State they are going to try to win and they have to figure

Out can we win at a higher level next season around Steph Curry what does that look like does Draymond Green fit into that Vision because if Draymond Green loses Steph Curry the number of like ride or die allies he’s got there is going to dwindle pretty fast but here

But here’s the problem the rest of the league has watched this I’m not sure how many teams are like sign me up for three years and 75 more million dollar of that as Draymond crosses age 35 he’s still a great player but it’s got to be the

Exact right kind of team in needed the exact right kind of player and that’s a tough needle to threat a tough spot for the Warriors you mentioned the the loss of allies Mark you know Draymond better than than anybody um at least at this table has he lost

That for Steph to respond that way I mean they dapped after the game there was love after the game but I think we’ll see this off season well we’ll see how this season finishes I think this has to be it for Draymond there can’t be anything else the margin of error for

This team is is Razor thin Houston is doing miracle things right now yeah 10 in a row and it you know at some point and I know Draymond really well like talk is cheap right like you it sounds good but they need them on the floor period yeah he’s losing his guys I

Mean I’d have to say they they’re losing a lot of confidence in him I wouldn’t say respect somewhat um he can turn around there’s obviously people can forget when you do successful things and you win and you up win but if this happens again 35 games yeah there only

Not that many games left if this happens again toward the end of the season and something happens where they don’t make the plane or if they’re in the plane and they lose and they go home early there’s going to be some conversations where said Draymond might have to be moved Draymond He

Zach Lowe, Marc J. Spears, and Danny Green join Malika Andrews on NBA Today to discuss the implications and aftermath of Draymond Green being ejected for a fourth time this season. They also explore how the Golden State Warriors may proceed, especially with Steph Curry visibly frustrated by the matter.

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