就连勇士球迷也对德拉蒙德·格林的滑稽动作感到厌倦

　　We must preface the following column with this admission: We love Draymond Green. We’ve loved him since his rookie year, back when he symbolically punked Jeremy Tyler, back when he was a chubby tweener forward with no role artfully dropping in the game-winning layup against LeBron James and the mighty Heat and having absolutely no fear of the moment. Green is part of the Family. He is a Bay Area paisan for life. When grouchy pundits or other fan bases — most of whom would move Heaven and Earth (or perhaps now, in his years of dotage, just Earth and a cache of second-rounders) to acquire him — clown on him, underrate him, demean him, we fire back instinctively. Because we have seen with our own human eyeballs that without Green, there are four fewer championship banners drooping in the rafters. Simple as that.

　　But after another Green suspension — this one for five games after a ridiculously expeditious headlock on Rudy Gobert — we have to ask: My man, with love, is it possible to perhaps … do less? At this point in your career, for just a few months of this year, let’s say until hopefully June, would it be such a Sisyphean ordeal to pull your head out of your ass?

　　The suspension itself is something of a non-starter as a reprimand. As a repeat offender and known hardwood hotspur, a five-game suspension feels simultaneously like both an underwhelming and excessive punishment. For the act of emasculating the much larger Gobert, one to two games would probably suffice. But punishment (at least for on-court antics, let’s not even speak on the NBA’s poor record of domestic and sexual assault) doesn’t exist in a vacuum. You earned the rep, so be prepared when the hammer falls. But what happens when Green comes back and something like this happens again for just as flimsy a reason? At what point does Warriors head coach Steve Kerr have to intervene and have “the talk”

　　Green, for better or worse, has always been a boon or a burden — and sometimes both at the same time. This is an article of faith the Warriors (coaches, players, fans) have long ago accepted. Mostly it’s been fine, sometimes great. But the margins for these types of eminently avoidable shenanigans are tightening as the core inches toward AARP membership. Green, one of the smartest guys on the team, simply can’t play so dumb. He’s not a rookie making a name for himself anymore. He’s a four-time NBA champion that (scolding, tweedy voice) should know better than to still be trying to prove how tough he is. There’s a certain point when looking out for your guys like that isn’t leadership or setting a tone, but is instead a sort of vanity. It’s not as though Green is a psychopath. He knows what he’s doing! He knows his importance to the team, his worth, their mutual reliance on one another. That’s why the “antics” are so deflating. Even if you defend them, you wish you didn’t have to. You wish this basketball savant didn’t insert himself into such avoidable quandaries.

　　Golden State has stagnated after a strong start to the season, with the high point arguably being a rousing, righteous defeat to the champion Denver Nuggets (without Green). This team was always going to be a work in progress, and that’s fine. An unsatisfactory?position in the standings in mid-November isn’t the end of the world. But one does get the feeling that this could snowball into something a little more fraught should they not string together some wins soon. It’s not that the vibes are bad or the roster is intrinsically flawed. They simply haven’t risen to the occasion, and the Tuesday’s incident encapsulates all the worst bits of a team unprepared for the big moment, or even a rather medium-sized moment. Entering a game knowing that Steph Curry was out, Green could have settled the team’s nerves by example and kept them even-keeled as they dug themselves back out of their early graves with some mental fortitude, at least yell at them to be where they’re supposed to be on defense. All of that would have been great. Instead, no. First, Gobert must be humbled.

　　You can view the correlation between Green’s ejections and Curry’s availability as both an example of Gobert trying to spit fire of the psychological warfare brand, but his clumsy trash-talk did manage to strike a nerve with a fan base desperate for some leadership. Leadership is just one of those nebulous things you can’t quite define when it comes to this team. The Warriors generally like to put out the perception of a well-oiled machine in which vocal displays of leadership are sort of unnecessary, but the results have been mixed. Andre Iguodala isn’t here anymore. Klay Thompson can’t be bothered to step into that role, since it seemingly goes against his core being. Kerr is a thoughtful diplomat, but at this point in his tenure, is unable or unwilling to do anything to shake the Steph/Klay/Dray trio out of their long-established habits, both good and bad. And Curry is not the type to step forward and demand more unless absolutely necessary (like before Game 7 against the Kings last playoffs).

　　领导节点-声音版-归结为新获得的克里斯保罗，他的前竞争对手，他自己也是一个出了名的脾气暴躁的人，格林，既吠又咬，思想者的急性子，一种马基雅维利式的流氓。你几乎可以想象他为自己的被驱逐辩护，理由是这赢得了布兰丁·波德济姆斯基的信任，从长远来看，球队将更好地为冠军之路做好准备。这是个玩笑，但也只是玩笑而已。格林是一个篮球天才，有一天他应该在大通中心外立一座100英尺高的金像，但近年来他已经失去了上天的命令——从他完全放弃对2019-20赛季的关注，揍他昔日的队友乔丹·普尔，到在没有库里的情况下，用夏季联赛的所有严肃对待一个机会，把胜率降至50%。

　　他肯定比这更好。他不可能那么容易被引诱而变成自己的漫画。勇士不会赢得任何胜利，除非他们得到最好的格林:头脑清醒，精力充沛，充满动力。这不是我们在对阵明尼苏达时看到的。这与我们在对阵森林狼的比赛中看到的情况相差甚远，这甚至不是事件本身，而是它是多么不令人惊讶，多么不像是一种失常。

　　所以，德拉蒙德·格林，我们所有的球迷、球迷和长期的皈依者:接受这个事实，没有你的领导，你的球队将无处可去。你必须知道。他们会死在水里。注定要失败的。这是真正站出来的时刻，走出火与硫磺的舒适区，向世界展示你的群众。你需要向自己证明，向他们证明，向我们证明，向反对者和辩护者证明，你是这个团队需要的领导者，一直都需要。领导者必须领导，即使领导是烦人的。这是他们的道德要求。不再有毫无意义、违反直觉的滑稽动作。

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