Draymond bluntly explains NSFW hot-mic confrontation with Hield

Draymond Bluntly Explains NSFW Hot Mic Confrontation With Hield originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

The Warriors broke a three-game losing streak with a decisive game 109-105 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Saturday, but one predominant story came from an in-game interaction between Draymond Green and teammate Buddy Hield.

With Golden State leading 75-74 with 5:36 left in the third quarter, a hot microphone caught Green yelling at Hield following a Warriors turnover.

“Wake up, fuck. Or go sit down. Shit,” Green was heard telling Hield.

After the game, Green explained that he was simply trying to do his job as a leader while searching for an effective way to get his point across to a teammate he’s still getting familiar with.

“As a leader you have to try different methods. Sometimes you go to a guy, sometimes you don’t,” Green told reporters after Saturday’s win. “I’ve played with Buddy for 30 games. To try to learn what makes him tick, you have to try different methods. I go to Jonathan Kuminga and say, ‘Hey, this is what I need you to do.'” Do it. Look at it this way. He’s going to do it. If I yell at him, I don’t think he’ll do it. He (won’t) listen.

“Steph (Curry), sometimes I go at him, sometimes I yell at him. He reacts to both. As a leader, one thing I learned (from Michigan State coach Tom Izzo) about leadership is that you have to lead people. guys that make up a team, but leading someone is not the same as leading the next one and you have to figure out what motivates that guy, so I’m still figuring that out like I did, we needed it at that time we were flat. , we just turned the ball over. There’s no chance. for Buddy. Dennis (Schröder) was here for two weeks and he was with me the other day is what it is.

“The microphones pick up everything today. I don’t care. I’ll say it right into the microphone. I don’t give a damn.”

Green remained confident that the tactic was necessary and further explained his reasoning for attacking Hield the way he did.

“It was necessary and we need Buddy Hield to play very well,” Green said. “We need Buddy Hield to make shots and we have all the confidence in the world that Buddy will make shots. But we have a post, feed him? You have a 6-foot guy on you? Get the ball there. It’s simple.

“We’re 16-15. We don’t love this. So do we keep doing the same thing and sit on our hands like, ‘Oh, it’s going to change at some point,’ or do you make a change? I know what it’s like to win. I know what What it takes to win. So, as a leader, it’s up to you to figure out what it takes to help this team.

“If that’s mixing with a guy once in a while, if that’s yelling, then do it. But don’t be the guy who can’t be yelled at, and I’ll never be that guy.” A teammate yelled. Me? Brilliant. I can say something. Oh well, guess what? Buddy told me something. We are not dictators. It’s just that what you say doesn’t work and everyone has to listen. I said something in response, he said something in response, I said something in response.

“We move forward and that’s the way it has to be. It won’t always be peaches and cream. Anyone who thinks that is an idiot. We lost three in a row. We have a turnover in a critical part of the game where we need to make a good shot.

Green, a four-time NBA champion who has 157 career playoff appearancescited his own big-game experience as a key factor in trying to offer instruction to Hield in the heat of the moment.

“I’ve played a lot of championship basketball, a lot of meaningful basketball. Buddy hasn’t had the opportunity to play a lot of meaningful basketball in this league,” Green said. Guess what? It’s our job to make sure you understand what that means.

“If people don’t like it, so be it. That’s why they don’t have four championships and I do.”

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