This is what it sounds like when Dubs cry

Back to reality for Draymond Green and the Warriors.

Good morning. Let’s basketball.

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The Gold Scab: Eruption in Filthy Lucre; James McNeill Whistler; 1879

The craziest thing about Draymond Green getting thrown out of the Warriors’ visit to Orlando in the first four minutes on Wednesday night and the resulting obvious disappointment from Steph Curry, Steve Kerr and large swaths of the Golden State fandom is that the Warriors still won the game on the road against a good opponent with their defense.

The reactions have been almost funereal. And, with the only evident exception being Bob Fitzgerald (who else?!), almost everyone agrees that Green crossed the line and earned this ejection.

The second tech there comes after Green calls the ref, Ray Acosta, by a name that includes the p-word and the n-word. That second tech comes 44 seconds after the initial foul is called on Andrew Wiggins and Green first turns to Acosta. Green is hectoring the ref for 44 seconds straight to pick up the ejection. This isn’t someone snapping in anger like you’ll see from Kelly Oubre later in this newsletter. This is a protracted tirade when you’ve specifically been called out by the league, by your team and by your team’s best player on the need to chill.

During that time, Curry tries (sort of) to defuse, and Warriors staff (very) slowly coax Green back to the bench. It’s all too little, it’s all too late. And it’s not really Curry or Kerr or the Warriors’ fault. It’s on Green. He said he got help to manage his emotions after getting that big suspension from the league. There is still, apparently, a ways to go as anyone who deals with any sort of emotional health issues could have told Green at any point in the past four months. There are no overnight fixes.

You see Steph getting frustrated as play restarts. He actually went into it after the game.