Draymond Green - just go away

[Bundbuster]

I can no longer pull for my formerly favorite NBA team as long as Warriors management refuses to do what should have happened long ago - dismiss Green, the most flagrantly dirty player in my 68 years of following the NBA. To make matters worse, the team signed the second-dirtiest player - over the hill, never in shape, flopping, whining cheapshot Chris Paul.

https://deadspin.com/chris-paul-nba-warriors-green-gobert-ric-flair-1851028410

The whole oganization is headed from the penthouse to the outhouse.

[walkingman]

1. I used to like Draymond because of his "enforcer" role in the paint similar to

Dennis Rodman. But it has gotten out of hand the last few years and I agree with you. He need to clean up his game. As far as Paul - he is very talented but hard to find a "team" role for him. It takes a team effort to be successful in the NBA. One hotshot will not do it. LOL, he does flop a lot.

[usonian]

2. Dray has not improved in years of rage.

Teammates love him despite the negatives. He is a field general when not going off the rails, has an impossible contract to move and you know all the rest.

Warriors are in a pickle. I think they need to make drastic moves, but that is damn near impossible to pull off. Klay and Wiggins are sub-par.

I leave it to management to do what they can. Dray can play, but since the Poole incident, I really can't admire anyone but the great Steph Curry, and that's 4 players short of a lineup.

Like the Giants, about 4 players short of a starting lineup.

CP has an expiring contract. Bought to be dealt. Others, not so much. I guess the big question is whether the bench has the mojo to be first rate starters soon. If not, well ....

As for Dray, I have no attachment to the problems he has and has not been able to resolve, other than wishing that all people get a grip and live rage-free. ( except at GOTV time! )

Rage for justice!

If and when he returns, he'll get provoked even more unless the league makes moves to calm people down, but there are too many fouls called already, IMO.



No answers. About $100 million above my pay grade.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. While I Generally Agree...

...about his dirty style of play, I don't think he's close to the dirtiest player I've seen.
Lambeer & Mahorn from the Pistons, for instance, were far more abusive outside the rules. Remember, they played in a much more physical NBA era, and were known as dirty even back then.
Isaiah was pretty dirty to.
Stockton, with the rib pokes, knee bumps, & hip checks was awfully dirty.
Maurice Lucas.
And, going WAY back, Bailey Howell.
Plus my Bulls heroes Van Lier & Sloan were far from choir boys.

[True Dough]

4. I came to this thread to make that same point!

I've heard various analysts say that Draymond would not be out of place at all in a Pistons/Bulls series from that era.