In borrowing Steph Curry’s exclamatory gesture, Draymond Green wasn’t putting the Minnesota Timberwolves to bed. No, when he drove around a Curry screen and punctuated the Golden State Warriors’ 114-106 win Sunday with a thunderous dunk, as thunderous as can be for a 34-year-old with the bounce of an assistant coach, Green was putting the Timberwolves to sleep. His version wasn’t the tuck-in of a doting patriarch, but a right hook hunting for a concussion. Figuratively speaking, of course.
Green jogged all the way down court, his clasped hands and forearms made for a gigantic pillow, the smirk on his face taunting the defeated. A little extra salt for the team featuring Rudy Gobert, Green’s favorite player to disdain and the victim of the Warriors’ inverted pick-and-roll. With the arena in a frenzy, and after kicking the Timberwolves out of the building with a thumb over his shoulder, Green did the “Night! Night!” again, this time in the form of a pose, with a wide stance and a hard grimace.
It’s one win, and just their second in eight games. It’s over a team that had beaten them in five straight and who they’ll have to see again in Minnesota this month. But this wasn’t about the Timberwolves. This was survival energy. For the Warriors, it was a monster game. A validation game. A viability game.
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