“If I come punch you in your head, I probably did that on objective because I’m going to intentionally use my arm”, Green said Monday. “He said, ‘Draymond, I’m not saying intentional”.
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Either way, the crew that runs Oklahoma City’s in-game entertainment at Chesapeake Energy Arena had fun with Green’s trip of Kanter, repeatedly showing the replay on the Jumbotron during the Game 4 win.
Russell Westbrook kicked me at the end of the half, Green said. “I think our energy goes as my energy goes, and I’ve been bad”. I don’t know how to flop. I dont know how to flop.
He now has three flagrant foul points this postseason, and one more would result in an automatic suspension.
Steve Kerr gave his Golden State players a much-needed mental day off with time to rest their tired bodies, and he got back to work trying to figure out how to save the season against a powerful Thunder team that shows no signs of slowing down.
With long arms and great agility, the Thunder has made Curry and Green look slow and exhausted, a bit frustrated and more than a little shellshocked. Jones was given a one-game suspension. The great thing with Draymond is he always turns it around. He’s one of the great competitors that we have in the league, that we have on our team. The key will be having excellent spacing along with good player and ball movement.
Kerr said he knows Green might have made himself a target for the officials.
Does he have to be careful? “Now people are watching for him or whatever”. We’ve put too much work in to go out like this.
The incident occurred in the second quarter when Green – who had just six points on 1-of-9 shooting in the blowout loss – flailed his arms and legs in the air as he drove to the basket in an attempt to draw a foul.
“Yeah, I think you have to throw him out there, especially on the road because his physicality brings so much to this team”, Carroll said.
“I would definitely apologise and I look forward to apologising to him, if I see him”.
The Warriors shot 41 percent and committed 21 turnovers that led to 18 Thunder points.
On the other hand, shot-blocker turned lethal scorer Ibaka continues fuelling the Thunder offense with 11.6 points. As was the case with the groin kick, it’s nearly impossible to determine Green’s intent to trip. “I guess”, Kerr said. I was just bad. I missed a couple helps, a couple rebound blockouts. I rememberliking the Spurs, Heat, and Cavaliers mainly because they were all good. The Cavs got behind in the second quarter, and that seemed to be the death knell.When they finally clawed their way back in the fourth quarter and were up by three points, someone forgot to tell the Cavs that they were actually supposed to play defense and do some rebounding.
But that unit is all about spreading the floor.to get Curry and Green more open space. Game 1 was a dismal display in terms of grabbing boards for Biyombo, as he was only able to pull down 4 rebounds, which he slightly bettered in the next game with a total of 5.
But Curry hasn’t been himself in this series, the rest of this team hasn’t been almost what it was for most of this season, and Oklahoma City coach Billy Donovan has hit every button while Steve Kerr has dialed up wrong numbers. You can look at trends and all that.
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“I just don’t believe that Game 5 is a continuation from Game 4”.
