Draymond Green’s tenacity sparked spirited defense from the Golden State Warriors,...
drew a technical foul after trading words with Boston’s Grant Williams … and nearly earned another technical when he got into a skirmish with Jaylen Brown … and constantly yapped at the officials, because that’s like oxygen to him … and had an animated exchange withPut another way, Green was engaged — extraordinarily engaged, even by his standards — in Game 2 of the NBA Finals.
And that traces to Green arriving with fresh vigor, frustrated by his team’s fourth-quarter collapse three nights earlier. After seeing all this,was asked when he knew the Warriors would get the “extra amped” version of Draymond on Sunday. They bring distinctly different strengths and temperaments, from Curry’s offensive wizardry to Thompson’s two-way brilliance to Green’s defensive ferocity.So the Game 1 pratfall, allowing the Celtics to score 40 points in the fourth quarter, stung Green. That reflects on him, fairly or not, and he absolutely wasn’t going to let it happen again in Game 2.
Green downplayed the significance of a switch in strategy — he spent most of Sunday’s game on Brown, after covering Horford throughout the opener. But that mattered. Green often wandered away from Horford in Game 1, to help his teammates in the lane, and that left Horford free to cause problems on the perimeter .
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