Draymond Green refused to discuss his non-suspension before Game 4
Draymond Green spent the hours before the NBA announced whether he'd be suspended trying to explain himself. Now that he knows he won't be suspended, though, Green doesn't have much to say.
Before Game 4 between the Golden State Warriors and Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday, Green was asked if he had any thoughts on the relatively light discipline. And rather than engage the conversation, Green ducked the questions like he was a broken record:
Green: “That is a great question.”
Reporter: "Can you talk about thinking it would probably be rescinded? Obviously that didn’t happen, but it didn’t turn out to be a suspension.
Green: “That is a great question.”
Reporter: “Relieved at all?”
Green: “That is a great statement.”
That's the kind of conversation with the media that would make Marshawn Lynch proud. But once the conversation moved on to the game at hand, Green opened back up:
Reporter: Are you looking forward to tonight’s Game 4?
Green: Oh, yeah. Exciting game. We’re down 2-1, but we’ve been here before. We know what it takes to win a game of this magnitude on the road. Obviously, a different foe; a completely different team, a team that’s playing well. But that doesn’t change what we do. We have to come out and focus on us. I think that when we focus on us, as opposed to worrying what anybody else got going on, that’s when we’re at our best. So tonight, it’s about us.
Green's right. The Warriors have been here before, as they trailed the Memphis Grizzlies 2-1 in last year's Western Conference semifinals. But there's a problem for Golden State: the Thunder are largely beating the Warriors at their own game, something they never had to deal with in last year's playoffs.
It's been an awfully long time since Golden State had a must-win game. They should consider themselves lucky that they have the suddenly shy Green available for Game 4.