The other evening, to stand up to Dillon Brooks, who had not spared him in the press, but also on the pitch, Draymond Green replied defiantly that he did not allow himself to be lured so easily, that he chose his times to pick up a technical foul…
Apparently, last night was one of those select moments as Green received his 16th technical foul of the season, which meant an automatic suspension for the Warriors’ next game. She arrived early in the match, at the end of the first half.
After a field goal from Ivica Zubac, Green collected the ball and threw it in the face of passing Russell Westbrook. Visibly scalded from being pushed around in the fight for rebounds, Green (once again) lost control of his nerves, before barking for a good while at the referee after the decision…
“I never had to tell Draymond about it, and he never crossed the line,” said Steve Kerr recently. “He always goes to the limit before stopping. He knows how important he is to us, I don’t have to tell him. He knows he can’t take a new technique, we need him. »
In the continuity of the action, Green and Marcus Morris Sr. had trouble starting, again in the position for the rebound. The interior of the Clippers swung his opponent to the ground after having landed him a nasty elbow in the face, which earned him a flagrant foul of level 2, and therefore an immediate expulsion!
The disciplinary authorities of the NBA now have 24 hours to decide the fate of Green, and perhaps cancel this technique. A scenario in which the player believed in the post-match conference:
“I think something will change,” said Green, rubbing his hands together. “I already took a technique earlier in the season that wasn’t really a technique. I think that decision will change because one of his technical fouls didn’t really count…”
| Draymond Green | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2012-13 | GOS | 79 | 13 | 32.7 | 20.9 | 81.8 | 0.7 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 2.9 |
| 2013-14 | GOS | 82 | 22 | 40.7 | 33.3 | 66.7 | 1.1 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 6.2 |
| 2014-15 | GOS | 79 | 32 | 44.3 | 33.7 | 66.0 | 1.4 | 6.8 | 8.2 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 11.7 |
| 2015-16 | GOS | 81 | 35 | 49.0 | 38.8 | 69.6 | 1.7 | 7.8 | 9.5 | 7.4 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 3.2 | 1.4 | 14.0 |
| 2016-17 | GOS | 76 | 33 | 41.8 | 30.8 | 70.9 | 1.3 | 6.6 | 7.9 | 7.0 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 10.2 |
| 2017-18 | GOS | 70 | 33 | 45.4 | 30.1 | 77.5 | 1.1 | 6.6 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 11.0 |
| 2018-19 | GOS | 66 | 31 | 44.5 | 28.5 | 69.2 | 0.9 | 6.4 | 7.3 | 6.9 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 7.4 |
| 2019-20 | GOS | 43 | 28 | 38.9 | 27.9 | 75.9 | 0.5 | 5.7 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 8.0 |
| 2020-21 | GOS | 63 | 32 | 44.7 | 27.0 | 79.5 | 0.9 | 6.3 | 7.1 | 8.9 | 3.1 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 7.1 |
| 2021-22 | GOS | 46 | 29 | 52.5 | 29.6 | 65.9 | 1.0 | 6.3 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 7.5 |
| 2022-23 | GOS | 61 | 31 | 52.5 | 32.4 | 70.5 | 0.9 | 6.5 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 8.3 |
| Total | 746 | 29 | 44.7 | 31.6 | 71.1 | 1.1 | 5.9 | 7.0 | 5.6 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 8.7 | |
