“Of course,” Frye responded when asked if LeBron James purposefully baited Green. “What do you mean? Of course. Everybody was trying to bait him. Are you joking? He shouldn’t have had that many fouls. He shouldn’t have been kicking people in their wee-wee”
“It’s not our fault. We’re supposed to take advantage, hey, if somebody’s shoe is untied, I’m gonna step on their laces. No harm, no foul. It is part of the game. He knew we were baiting him. If you watch that game, everyone was trying to bait him. And they’re mad about it. You know what you should have been mad about? The 25 other technicals. Crazy technicals.”
Were the Cavaliers trying to bait Draymond Green into getting suspended from the 2016 NBA Finals?
"Everyone was trying to bait him, and they're mad about it." — @channingfrye https://t.co/q7acbasBRZ pic.twitter.com/9aKfRe0IFN
— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) July 24, 2023
by cloverjoe
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Obviously. Why would anyone not bait someone who has a bad temper, emotional, violent and one flagrant away from being suspended?
I wonder what Draymond will have to say about this 🤔
Adam Silver bailed out LeMickey
Cavs are the worm Draymond is the fish.
ADAM SILVER is the fisherman.
Lol of course you’re going to try to set off the temperamental violent child on the other team, every sports team does this at every level. Whatever you need to do to get ahead.
It’s no different than targeting someone on defense when they have 5 fouls. Warriors fans want to be mad, be mad at Draymond for putting himself in the situation.
Weirdly despite there being a vast conspiracy against the Warriors Draymond is the only one of their good players that gets techs.
I mean yeah. They clearly baited him and he fell for it. Had he not been attacking dudes throughout those playoffs, he’d never even be in that position.
Was Jordan and his team ever concerned enough to try to resort to tactics like this to remove a teams 3rd best player 🤣
This isn’t news
Much like teams try to switch onto the weaker defender they also try to piss the most emotional guy off.
>You know what you should have been mad about? The 25 other technicals. Crazy technicals.”
Exactly. Warrior fans and LeBron haters that point that single game suspension as the reason they lost in 2016 are wack. They had a fully refreshed draymond for games 6 and 7. Still lost.
Think we need more Draymond threads
Draymond’s response: “I knew they were trying to bait me. When you play the game at the level I do, there are certain things you understand that other players don’t. They would never try and bait me.”
Channing is one of my all time favorite 2k players
That’s just smart basketball. Frankly, they’d be fools not to do so, just like they’d be fools not to be in Curry’s jersey if the refs allow it. Every good team tries to find those little things that will give the a slight edge. What (most) warriors fans are unhappy about is that the league office retroactively upgraded the foul after the game. And of course that draymond put himself in that situation to begin with.
Pretty basic stuff in sports. Actually if their coaching team didn’t even talk about that they would be the ones doing a bad job. Especially when Draymond was the anchor of GSW defense, you have to do what it takes to get him out and with his temper you can actually get it done.
Frye is completely right, they did their job. Draymond should be the one to be mad at himself for getting so many Technicals that led him to that point in the middle of the NBA Finals.
Of course they were baiting him. Why wouldn’t they? That’s part of competition. The annoying part about that whole ordeal was listening to brain dead “fans” cry about how “the NBA suspended Draymond for *that*” when that wasn’t the case at all. Draymond was suspended because he went over the limit, so he got himself suspended by falling for the bait. It was a smart play for the Cavs to try and bait him, and he fell into their trap.
https://twitter.com/complexsports/status/1380172987392012295?s=46
At the time everyone was acting like it was some big conspiracy for Draymond to be suspended and give the Cavs a win…. That dude had been earning it for *months.* It should tell you something about how dirty he was playing that they’d interrupt *the Finals* to punish him.
Whenever stephen a brings up a Stimulus Package nba “gave” to the Cavs i just think well for how long was his extra bullshit supposed to be tolerated? Totally deserved
Of course, it’s psychological too. If you can get that edge you get it.
Yeah I agree, Draymond wouldn’t have gotten suspended if he didn’t have all those technicals, he put himself in that posyand he probably thought he was above the rules with his constant antics. He was playing with fire.
In the end, GS had a 3-1 lead they had 3 chances (2 that included Draymond playing) to close out the series. He let his team down by falling for the bait and getting ejected. Technically he probably should have gotten ejected early for those “shooting motions”. I can’t believe Draymond got away with kicking Steve Adam’s groin…..TWICE.
Did this motherfucker really say “wee wee” on a podcast?
I commented the same thing, on a thread here, Frye just said in the podcast, looked back at my comment and that was 7 fucking years ago. Feels like yesterday.
Idk why but him saying “wee wee” is very funny
Like dude is 7ft tall and 40 years old, I think he can get away with “dick” or some equivalent
Did they bait the NBA to overrule the court referee decision to suspend Draymond Green as well?
Saying your gonna step on their laces is tryna injure people intentionally that’s way more fucked up then fucking with draymond.
Draymond handed that series to LeBron and now he’s suddenly got all these corporate media ties and a free ride to hundreds of millions when he retires. Seems a little suspicious lol.
The 2016 Cavs playbook boiled down to “give LeBron the ball” and “spread your legs for Draymond.”
Gives me so much joy when a grown ass man says wee wee lol