Last year I wrote the following words in a Draymond Green description (coincidentally also for a 21-point performance, how’s that for a Halloween spook session?):
“What I want is for Draymond Green to get paid a max contract by the Pistons in the offseason. That’s what I want. Why do I want that? Because we will get to see how Draymond fits into a system where Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson AKA “The Splash Bros” get replaced by Brandon Jennings and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope AKA “The Chuck Bros”.”
I elaborated that I was looking forward to see Draymond fail in an expanded offensive role. Reading between the lines, a reader would ascertain that I like to watch NBA players fail because I am a failure myself, and that when somebody fails on a bigger stage than my own, it makes my own failings seem much less failurey.
None of it matters anyway because the Warriors rejected Mark Cuban’s advice and kept together their entire championship core. Draymond gets to keep playing his hustle/defend/score opportunistically role, and I have to sit here and try to figure out another player who I think will suck really bad so that I can mock them.
It has to be a player that everybody agrees is good, so that when I’m right, everybody else is simultaneously wrong. That disqualifies David Lee, whom nobody likes. C.J. McCollum is a good candidate except that I actually legitimately think he’s going to be a beast. Maybe Wes Matthews, but if he’s terrible it will be because of his injury.
Hating is hard. I wish my heart allowed me to love.