t's unfortunate that Steve Kerr and the Warriors management continue to indulge his selfish antics. He's playing to an image that he can parlay into future opportunities for himself versus actually helping his team. He knows the Warriors aren't good enough to win another title so he's now turned his attention to his own personal brand. Does anyone think for a second that these sorts of things won't help land him a juicy podcast deal or ESPN assignment?
Q-is-here wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 8:16 am
t's unfortunate that Steve Kerr and the Warriors management continue to indulge his selfish antics. He's playing to an image that he can parlay into future opportunities for himself versus actually helping his team. He knows the Warriors aren't good enough to win another title so he's now turned his attention to his own personal brand. Does anyone think for a second that these sorts of things won't help land him a juicy podcast deal or ESPN assignment?
Yep.
Of course a lot of coaches would chime in to defend their players... but Kerr's defense of Green was comically misplaced. The guy has been ejected from 9% of the games he's played in without Curry over the past 5 years.
That's ridiculous — a trend that not even Dennis Rodman nor Ron Artest could pull off. And both of those men are famous for their very troubling and/or public mental health issues.
Yet, here the Warriors are nearly a decade into Green's antics... and STILL covering for him out of loyalty, desperation, or sheer hypocrisy. The moment officials truly step up to Green and start treating his tirades like the rest of the league (especially other players with his skillset), he's going to be that much more irrelevant.
He's already skating by on reputation in so many ways...
I just watched the video of all this stuff. Klay instigated the whole thing from the beginning and was whining asking what he did. WTF. 5 games and an ejection isn’t enough for what Draymond did especially if they are considering his past. He should be suspended for idk like at least 10 games. What he did to Gobert was fucking dangerous.
Although I don't share the anti-Kerr sentiment that is the prevailing view here, I found his immediate description of the melee bizarrely slanted and wrong. And I agreed that his continuing enabling of Draymond's behaviors was ill-advised. But I think Kerr redeemed himself yesterday with his comment that Green's behavior was "inexcusable" and that he needed to change. Good for him, and it's about time.
FNG wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 8:20 am
Although I don't share the anti-Kerr sentiment that is the prevailing view here, I found his immediate description of the melee bizarrely slanted and wrong. And I agreed that his continuing enabling of Draymond's behaviors was ill-advised. But I think Kerr redeemed himself yesterday with his comment that Green's behavior was "inexcusable" and that he needed to change. Good for him, and it's about time.
I'm not an anti-Kerr guy... but meh.
Waiting a day to chastise Green is too late. It's going to get only a fraction of the coverage as him leaning in on day 1 trying to justify it and helping incite a legion of online zapruder film sleuths to try to change the narrative did.
There was nothing else Kerr could do publicly in that situation. It was PR spin... and it was too late.
FNG wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 8:20 am
Although I don't share the anti-Kerr sentiment that is the prevailing view here, I found his immediate description of the melee bizarrely slanted and wrong. And I agreed that his continuing enabling of Draymond's behaviors was ill-advised. But I think Kerr redeemed himself yesterday with his comment that Green's behavior was "inexcusable" and that he needed to change. Good for him, and it's about time.
I'm not an anti-Kerr guy... but meh.
Waiting a day to chastise Green is too late. It's going to get only a fraction of the coverage as him leaning in on day 1 trying to justify it and helping incite a legion of online zapruder film sleuths to try to change the narrative did.
There was nothing else Kerr could do publicly in that situation. It was PR spin... and it was too late.
I don't disagree, Abe, but it is off-brand for Kerr...so there's that. Through decades of bad behavior by his teammate Rodman and his player Green, I never heard him once call them out. So this may be a day late, but it's progress.
