"I knew I didn't have a technical foul (from the first quarter)", Green said. "Don't seem to be the sharpest people around".
Of course, in last year's Finals, the Warriors won Game 4 in Cleveland to go up 3-1, but the series changed when Green was suspended for Game 5 due to an accumulation of flagrant fouls that highlighted this emotional tightrope. Perhaps he should just be grateful for the scorer's table shenanigans that allowed to remain on the floor and keep it moving.
Prior to Friday night, the Cavaliers had made 18 three-pointers thrice - against the Miami Heat, the Boston Celtics and the Warriors - and lost all three games. The lack of control was highlighted by barking between Kevin Durant and LeBron James after Durant suffered a knock to the head from Kevin Love, an exchange after Zaza Pachulia appeared to land a groin shot on Iman Shumpert, and both sides' constant displeasure with foul calls.
The public address announcer said the technical was on Green, and it was listed in box scores distributed at the end of the first quarter and at halftime. But Green wasn't ejected.
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CLEVELAND - Draymond Green gets to play in this Game 5. He said he knew all along the first tech wasn't on him. No celebration yet, only Green serving as the foremost authority to wonder the motives of some officiating calls.
And nobody knows that better than Green. It also supposes that Kerr's reaction was, in fact, to the whistle, and not to his player responding so violently to the whistle that a technical foul would seem like a reasonable enough effect to have been assumed by the announcers, the scorekeeper, and virtually everyone else watching the action. Unlike past year, the Warriors will head into Game 5, another potential closeout, with their gritty forward available.
Because Mary Babers Green is more known than Ayesha Curry for unleashing her opinions on Twitter, it's unlikely this one will have the same effect that Curry's did. It also means Kerr was in a situation where he could've been ejected for a second technical without knowing he'd even been assessed a first.
"They messed that one up bad", Green said. "With a coach or trainer, we just verbalize, and at that time, we should listen to the P.A. announcer to who it is on. I take full responsibility for that".
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