Steve Kerr on anyone questioning Steph’s leadership because of Draymond’s actions: “(Draymond) he’s a grown man. He’s got to handle his own business. Any any mention of Steph being culpable is just ridiculous. The way Steph has carried our franchise represented our franchise for 15 years.”
by GantaiREAPER
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I’m tired of this Steph slander by the media. Dude has 4 rings just like Lebron playing with ONE franchise.
Yeah. True leaders should definitely get Dray’s mouth shut otherwise would have played GM and ship Dray to the D league. What do you expect Steph to do? Tie him up or knock him down?
He’s right. Why should Steph be responsible for babysitting another grown ass man. Steph is carrying this sorry ass Warriors roster on his back night after night at 35. I hate this “blame the star anytime anything is wrong with a team” attitude the media has.
What is it about our society that we want to assign responsibility to so many people besides the actual person at fault? Draymond is the one who got in the ref’s face. Draymond is the one who said the expletive. Draymond is the one who came unhinged. That is Draymond’s fault. It’s got nothing to do with Steph.
So it’s on the coach and management then for allowing him to continue to be an idiot then
My GOAT MJ would have stomped him into a coma in front of the team, peed on him, paid his medical rehab costs and moved in to raise his kids until he was healed, all while carrying the team to the finals before Dray returned.
It’s pretty easy to see Steph is n all time great and not a clear leader. There’s so much more to being a leader than just being a fucking incredible at playing basketball
Draymond pulls clown shit, Steph gets blamed. So weird.
Media needs to just call out Draymond for what he is, an emotionally stunted mental midget. Stop treating the idiot with kid gloves. No more “future TNT” talk either.
I’d rather question Kerr’s leadership for letting that idiot get away with everything and never holding him accountable for his moronic actions
Unless you’re in the locker room and around the team all the time you have no real idea how good of a leader any player or coach is. Every fan is just guessing off of vibes and whether a team is successful or not.
It’s strange how much hate Steph gets. There’s lots of jealousy, apparently.
Steph shouldn’t get all or even most of the blame but when you spend those 15 years as representative of the franchise justifying and enabling Draymonds bad behavior you can’t then act like a victim of it when it doesn’t stop.
The same thing goes substantially more for Kerr. Yes draymond is a grown man but you’ve spent his whole career telling him this shit is okay.
Why do I get the feeling he’s not really talking about Steph here
I do think Curry has played a role, but we can debate that.
You know who has definitely played a role in reinforcing this behavior?
Steve Kerr
All this tells me is that Draymond is gone in the summer.
I assume they have sat down with him and had a man to man talk about this and he promised to get better and hasn’t.
It’s over.The tone and comments after this last transgression from Curry and Kerr make it so obvious.
Only question is have is what team will risk bringing him in at this point.
If Curry and Kerr can’t get through to him.. nobody can.
It’s not about Curry’s leadership or the NBA punishing him.Its now clearly a guy that is crazy and cannot be reasoned with.
Gonna say the same thing again – Draymond has been with Steph throughout. He built the team alongside Cuurry. The fact is Draymond is a leader too. In most teams this doesn’t happen because either leader is new or the smaller star is new – here Steph can’t just boss Draymond around. That’s why it’s on management – for them the players are just employees. They should step in.
Nah Steph was just standing there making no effort to deescalate Draymond in the face of the ref like every other time. At some point a leader needs to act like one in situations like that. He can go and kick a chair and cry all he wants but he should’ve been the one to step in at any stage during Drays on court bullshit.
Honestly Steph looked like an abused child in the middle of his parents at that moment, I’ve seen that vacant look a thousand times with kids.
Last 3 times he handled his own business
people got slapped, choked, and punched.
That is not what you want, right? Blind Code Keeper Kerr
There are different ways of leading as a player. Steph leads by working tirelessly on the floor and taking responsibility in the big moments.
The real lack of leadership here is by the Warriors and Steve Kerr. Those are the real leaders of the organisation and so far they’ve done absolutely nothing, except encourange and enable.
They let him punch Poole, strangle Gobert, punch Nurkic and argue endlessly and all we heard from them was about how important/misunderstood Draymond was. How much they loved him as a player and this was his role. And of course Steve Kerr was possibly the only person in the world who complained about calls more than Draymond. Even when they were so clearly right it was beyond dispute.
Why have we never seen Steve Kerr hook Draymond off the floor and tell him to stop talking to the refs? Why didn’t the Warriors suspend Draymond for anything, even when it was obvious the league would? Suspend him for 5 games before the NBA can even react. If they come in with a stronger punishment then so be it. But at least you’ve made that statement that as an organisation you’re not going to stand for it. But the silence publicly and the blase attitude when asked about it tells everyone, but most importantly Draymond Green, that he doesn’t really need to change.
And the worst part of all this is he’s 1 year into a 4 year deal. Who the heck is taking Draymond at $25m a year now? A rubbish team developing some kids? Who wants that guy there leading some kids and ruining what you’re building. A good team looking to contend? They’re seriously going to give up a good starter or multiple role players for a guy who might end up derailing everything?
Start of the year I was advocating OKC picking up Draymond. Now I would tell every organisation to run if you see the Warriors GM walking towards you.
Bro I have been watching Steph for 15 years!? Holy shit man I’m old. I still remember those first games against OKC and NY.
You can’t praise Steph’s leadership and not question how Draymond is still on the team. Of course Steph has no influence on how Draymond acts in the moment. But on a macro level, there is no way they aren’t mentioning personnel moves to Steph. They don’t trade Poole and extend Draymond without consulting Steph. They don’t sign Chris Paul without consulting Steph. Steph might not be the final word, but it would be bad business to just ignore the most influential player in your franchise’s history.
Unfortunately for Steph, who has absolutely represented the Warriors wonderfully for the past decade, it will always be slightly tarnished because of Draymond’s actions. You’ll never be able to talk about this Warriors run without talking about Draymond getting suspended in the finals and potentially costing them that title, or Draymond butting heads with KD potential pushing him away, or Draymond constantly hitting and kicking other players, it’s a part of the identity of this Warriors run just like Steph and his three point shooting.
I’m not question steph, I question Kerr.
So whats the head coaches job in this scenario, since its not controlling the team?
Yet you and Steph have refused to do anything about it for years which shows poor leadership. Any other great player from the past like Jordan, Kobe, and such wouldn’t have let this slide. They would have either punched Draymond in his face at practice for constantly getting ejected and losing them games or would have demanded that the coaching staff trade him and get someone who is an adult.
The same with the old school coaches. Draymond would have been sent packing years ago if Phil Jackson was the coach.
As a Nuggets fan, give me Curry on this team and Denver wins another 3-4 rings. Give me Kerr instead of Malone and this team doesn’t win again.
It’s pretty obvious who isn’t doing their job here and it’s not Steph.
It’s not on Steph. There’s a lot of reasons Draymond became and continues to act the way he does. Blaming another player when the ultimate responsibility falls on Dray, the coach, org, and league is stupid af.
Kerr the sanctimonious coward
Steph should man up and call him out publicly though. It is part of being a team leader when everything else doesn’t work.
Fuck you steve kerr
This narrative is so ridiculous. Steph is the pinnacle of professionalism and leadership in the nba. Draymond is an insecure man baby who can’t handle his emotions. Can’t wait until he’s out of the league so we don’t have to look at his donkey mug anymore.
We’re gonna question Curry’s leadership and not the head coach that enabled Greens behavior?
The NBA, Silver, refs, Warriors, Kerr and Steph can all share the blame. Getting Green to behave wouldn’t be easy, but the alternative is years of this shit show where he makes everyone else involved look weak and/or dishonest. I guess they are okay with that.
“He’s a grown man” is a cop out. They always do the absolute minimum punishments and quickly go back to allowing the same old behavior.
I’m questioning Kerr and the warriors FO at this point. Fuck draymond green, he ain’t winning yall games or chips, what’s the appeal at this point? Send his mental ass packing.