Perhaps Draymond Green and Durant are unlikely to share Thanksgiving dinner next week, but the Warriors will still be on track to achieve their third consecutive championship at the end of this season and their fourth championship in five years.
Overwhelming talent usually overcomes the occasional chaos that comes with professional sports teams, and no team in the league has more talented players than the Warriors.
Regarding all the confusion, these things do happen.
They happen more often than you might think, but nonetheless, this dissonance doesn't take away from their dominance.
So you can ignore the quarrel between the two warriors all-stars . The incident occurred in Los Angeles on the night of November 12. At that time, the Warriors and Clippers were tied. Durant was open, but Green did not pass the ball to him, and then a dribbling error occurred. The two had an argument on the court, and as the Warriors eventually lost to the Clippers 116-121, the confrontation escalated in the locker room, with most teammates siding with Durant. The next day, Warriors general manager Bob Myers announced a one-game suspension for Green. As a result, he missed the Warriors' home game against the Hawks and lost $120,480 in salary.
But that doesn't hurt.
Although the Warriors lost two starters in Green and Curry when they faced the Hawks in back-to-back games, they still easily defeated their opponents 110 to 103, improving their record to 12 wins and 3 losses. Because Klay Thompson, another superstar in the team, and Durant took over the game, Jonas Jerebko contributed 14 points and a game-high 13 rebounds, Quinn Cook He also scored 18 points and sent out a team-high 6 assists.
Jerebko and Cook both squeezed into the starting lineup, and they were originally on the bench.
The talent of the Warriors is enough to eclipse the Raptors, Trail Blazers , Bucks and other NBA teams. Even so, Green is still like a time bomb. He not only has conflicts with Durant, but also with other players. There are also undercurrents. David West and Shaun Livingston told the outside world this summer that the Warriors have many problems off the court.
After last season, West has announced his retirement from the Warriors, and Livingston still has to watch head coach Steve Kerr deal with various troubles in order to win the championship again.
About 40 years ago, Spacy Anderson first mentioned how to deal with all this.
"If you are responsible for managing a great team, you must know how to perform psychological self-massage and try to keep players who have conflicts with each other as little contact as possible." said the famous Baseball Hall of Fame coach Anderson, who coached the great Cincinnati Reds in the 1970s. Team. He made people realize that there was disharmony within the team.
This team features Baseball Hall of Fame members Johnny, Bench, Joe Morgan and Tony Perez, the most popular star in history Pete Rose, as well as Dave Concepcion, George Foss Special, Ken Griffey and Cesar Geronimo and many other All-Stars. The Redskins won more games than any other team during that decade, and in fact were the last team to win back-to-back world championships (1975 and 1976).
People originally thought this team would be very united. But that's not the case, Anderson said with a laugh: "I spent a lot of time dealing with their conflicts."
Think back to the glory days of the 1920s and 1930s when the New York Yankees won all the championships, The spiritual distance between Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig is almost as far as the distance from the Empire State Building to the Golden Gate Bridge. In the NBA, Bob Cousy was the leader of the Celtics dynasty in the 1950s and 1960s, but he and Bill Russell had a love-hate relationship over the years. You may be more aware of the history of discord between Kobe and O'Neal, but this still does not prevent them from joining forces to win three consecutive championships.
If you want a recent example, head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady teamed up to win five Super Bowls for the New England Patriots but their relationship Not good.
So, under these circumstances, can the Warriors win the championship? What do you think?
