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2679095, Okay, let's start at the 4th quarter
Posted by mrhood75, Thu Nov-15-18 03:19 PM
(I'll try to keep this brief as possible, but I probably won't succeed)

With a little over 5 minutes to go, the Warriors are down 11. KD has a triple double, but isn't shooting that well and has been in foul trouble most of the game. Neither is Klay. But both are scoring. Draymond is doing a lot of the ball-handling, rebounding, and defense.

So the Warriors tear off a 11-0 run to tie the game with a little under a minute to go, built on Klay's shooting and Draymond's defense. This takes us to the play in question.

Draymond starts to bring up the ball (like he'd been doing for most of the game) and KD immediately starts clapping and signaling for Draymond to pass to him, showing Draymond up. Draymond ignores him and makes the dumb play. Yeah, he should passed the ball to KD earlier, or at least found a way to get it to Klay, who had the hotter hand at that point. Soon time expires and we get the mess on the bench.

But it's still tied in OT. Warriors go up with an Iggy 3, and then KD fouls out. It was a ticky-tacky foul that the ref shouldn't have called during an OT, but it was still a foul and a dumb move by KD. That's the turning final turning point of the game. No KD for the rest of the OT and they lose.

So, given all that, I can understand why Draymond would flash on KD in the locker-room after KD won't let go about not passing him the ball to him at the end of regulation. Yeah, Draymond should have passed, but he was a big reason that they were in position to win, and now KD is trying to play him like he's Mario Chalmers both on and off the court (at least that game). Especially after KD fouls out and literally is not on the court for the majority of the OT.

Now you factor in the last couple of months of the constant questions and speculation of whether KD is going to leave, compounded with KD himself not helping matters by purposely leaving things up in the air, and he says what says, while calling KD a bitch. And again, nothing he said wasn't true, but he shouldn't have called KD a bitch while he was doing it.

So that's the context. Draymond didn't randomly call KD out his name after a game just because he was defensive about not passing him the rock.