So much of what Draymond Green does on a basketball court that isn’t basketball is often praised/excused as “Draymond being Draymond.” But Boston isn’t buying it.
Even after a 107-88 loss to the Golden State Warriors in Game 2, the Celtics aren’t adding to the narrative that Green wants to write for himself. For Boston, much of what transpired in Sunday’s 48 minutes at Chase Center was self-inflicted: the often stagnant offense, the eighteen turnovers, and the 33 points off those eighteen turnovers.
But as Jaylen Brown would call it — the physicality, the pulling, the grabbing, and the mucking up of the game — well, that’s Draymond being Draymond.