Draymond Green Recaps EPIC Warriors’ Win over Suns | Feb. 10, 2024

Draymond Green Recaps EPIC Warriors’ Win over Suns | Feb. 10, 2024

How uh how important is it for you guys to get one like this you know I mean you you played well lately but you had so many this season that you’ve lost uh it’s very important um you know Steph has hit several shots like that down the stretch this year and

We we haven’t been able to close it out on the defensive end so it’s very important for us to get those stops down the stretch and make sure we close the game out and also coming back off the road I think we built some momentum on

The road so you want to make sure you come back and and um take care of the ones at home that you can how fearful were you though with that foul situation late I wasn’t fearful at all I knew I didn’t made contact uh I mean even the the

Wiggins oh I mean well that’s uh I knew we had a foul to give there so I was I wasn’t worried about the foul at all um when they called that on wigs you know I knew we only had two team fouls so I thought it was actually the smartest play you can

Make the last time you guys played the Suns is when you had the incident with with Yousef and tonight you guys are going back and forth to small celebrations all that stuff I mean is that just kind of the the fire that you like and when you’re in the midst of it

Does it ever kind of come into your mind of okay Draymond take it up to here and then we leave it at that line no because I didn’t take it anywhere um you know they call the follow on the post up and he start talking never back and down

From that I like that type of action but you think of a too small celebration that that you seem to get him back you can’t get bullied to a couple plays later if you going to do that you can’t be nothing Defender if you going to do that so you know you

You’re going to do all of that you man we probably outweigh Me by 70 pounds and you get put in the rim got to be more careful uh defensively guys have been sort of trending up since you came back but what kind of energy does Gary bring

That changes things ah a lot of energy uh gz has some of the quickest hands in the league uh gets a ton of deflection the ball pressure that he brings um is absolutely amazing you know you can put G on the other team’s best player and

He’s going to make it tough on them and as a Defender that’s all you hope for uh to make guys take tough shots and you live with the results and so um you know but it’s also good to have G offensively as well you know G does a lot of things

Offensively that no one necessarily gives him credit for and um you know he he’s just knows how to find the right spot and so uh G was real big for us tonight Dre I do Wonder were you in a different head space at all because it

Was nerk and just that connection to the the game prior and when he’s testing you like that pretty obviously just trying to get under your skin you got the moment when you know you get the offensive foul and you’re point at your head saying you’re going to think this

Thing through and then late seems like he checks you and then hits you oh no I was uh I was saying he was a dummy uh when I was pointing to my head I wasn’t necessarily saying appreciate the clarification yeah I wasn’t necessarily saying uh I was keeping my head I was

Saying uh you can’t start talking and charging to me that’s not smart right so and then late it did seem like he hit you you don’t retaliate you got two layups at The Rim you I think f kaminga for the oop you know in terms of composure you just know right then like

You can do whatever you want I’m gonna try to win this game he was hitting me a lot today uh you should go back and watch the film just like key in on them and look at them it was a lot of little cheap shots but uh you know I knew his

Goal was to get me out the game no one wants to see me in the game that makes the game a lot tougher and so um but I’m not it take a pretty good is talker or to to get me to do that I mean that’s just too

Obvious you know so it’s okay it was a fun game real quick father team wide this is six out of seven uh defense coming in tonight I think since the start of the month was was fourth in the league and and another good night tonight are you starting to see the

Direction and what it could be absolutely uh you know I think we’re doing a really good job of uh playing great team defense and flying around and then we’re also I think uh doing a pretty good job of uh rebounding the basketball uh and I think you know that’s

That’s that’s the key for us you know you can get all the stops you want uh force all the misses you want uh but if you’re not able to get the rebound you know it makes it a lot tougher and for us we also understand that if we are

Able to rebound then we get Off to the Races and it’s hard for teams to keep up with the speed that we have out there on the floor so um you know it’s it’s a concerted effort uh for from every guy that steps on the floor uh to make sure

That we’re defending uh and making it tougher on the other team to score and and then also making sure that they F us hey Draymond over here um sorry to keep bringing up nerkish but he said after the game that he felt that your antics tonight proves that you didn’t learn

Anything I’m just wondering if you had any response to that I mean I thought I was pretty great tonight honestly um you know so I thought you know he tried to get in my head and it didn’t work if he want me to watch walk around

Quiet like him I’m never going to do that quiet guys don’t win um so yeah I thought I was pretty great tonight uh so yeah he can keep riding the same horse he came rode in on he can ride his ass on out here on the same horse it

Ain’t working just a quick followup uh what have you learned sorry Adam I didn’t mean to curse that just slipped out God sorry what have you learned since your suspension that when I’m in the game we are a very good basketball team incredible um and I think people are

Starting to see that so that’s what I’ve learned Draymond back here what do you like about what you’re seeing on this sheet um I rebounding a team that’s supposed to have a bunch more sides than us 52 uh to 41 um you know you you hold

That team to 45 from the field and 31 from three that’s a team with three of the best scorers in the NBA uh and you know to do that defensively I thought was absolutely incredible um you know the points off turnovers were pretty much a wash uh you

Know if we can control that that’s that’s always a key for us uh Second Chance points 21- 13 thought that was a big thing you know it just shows that the energy that we brought to the game was there and um you know it a fun game

To play in I think everybody who came in stepped up to the challenge and uh you know that was um key to why we were able to pull out the win and yet you know I don’t think we I thought we missed a lot of shots that we could still make you

Know some open looks that you know some bunnies that we missed and so uh you know was good effort by us tonight hey Draymond you had that u a three-pointer early right here sorry three-pointer early couple finishes through nerk that fake D at the end when he went between

Your legs obviously that was nice that was that was moo right there boy uh you did what you do as a playmaker just how comfortable are you feeling offensively individually right now I’m confident you know and uh I think you know it’s important you know my teammates has the

Utmost confidence right now in me on the offensive end my coaching style you know Kenny’s like Draymond keep shooting threes keep shooting threes I’m like all right I got you but you know I’m never going to just Chuck a bunch of Threes And just now who I am but

Um I feel like I’m in a good Groove you know finding my uh Rhythm and you know I think our team is finding a good Rhythm so I think it’s coming together for us at the right time you know we got what three more games before the allstar break I think it’s important

That we make sure we we roll into the allstar break so we can roll out of the allstar break you know you don’t want to stumble in come out trying the game momentum I think we have some good momentum right now we need to make sure we keep that going to

Draymond Green met with the media following the Golden State Warriors thrilling 113-112 win over the Phoenix Suns.