If the playoffs started today, the Kings, 3rd, would host the Wolves, 6th, in the first round. But if the Californians seem on track to keep their place on the podium in the West until the end, the name of the last team to qualify without going through the “play-in” is still very uncertain.
Warriors, Clippers, Pelicans and Wolves therefore stand in a game and a half. In his podcast, Draymond Green says he is very favorable to this potential first round against the Sacramento players.
Not that he views Sacramento as “ a weak team “, and inexperienced because of a period of 16 years without playoffs. ” But because the journey is so much easier », secures the interiorbefore detailing: If you think back to our journey to the title last year, it started with Denver being two hours away and high up. And from there, we went to Memphis, which is about a five-hour flight. »
Memphis, too far east for Draymond Green
A Grizzlies team, already faced in the conference semi-finals for the first title of the Stephen Curry era in 2015, located at the other end of the country, some 3,300 kilometers from California. ” The thing is, Memphis is in the Western Conference… Obviously, they’re from Vancouver and it made complete sense there. But geographically, the Memphis Grizzlies are an Eastern team. “says the best” friend “of Dillon Brooks.
Draymond Green then takes as an example the recent “road trip” of his team, in mid-March, where the defending champions played in Atlanta one evening, then in Memphis the next day.
Duration of the link between the two? ” It was a 45 minute flight. The only place you can play in the West 45 minutes away is Sacramento “, calculates the Warriors player, while recalling that his team had ended its journey in the West, last year, by traveling to Dallas in the conference final.
” And then there was that dreadful six hour and fifteen minute flight to Boston. “, ends the interior, according to whom these displacements weighed a lot on the organizations. But still allowed the Golden State team to win a new title.
The former top defenseman of the year reiterates that Sacramento is a great team, which has only beaten the Warriors once in three meetings this season, and ends up concluding: “ In the end, I don’t really care who we’re going to face in the playoffs because I believe we can win. “But if possible not too far from home, so…
| Draymond Green | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2012-13 | GOS | 79 | 13 | 32.7 | 20.9 | 81.8 | 0.7 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 2.9 |
| 2013-14 | GOS | 82 | 22 | 40.7 | 33.3 | 66.7 | 1.1 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 6.2 |
| 2014-15 | GOS | 79 | 32 | 44.3 | 33.7 | 66.0 | 1.4 | 6.8 | 8.2 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 11.7 |
| 2015-16 | GOS | 81 | 35 | 49.0 | 38.8 | 69.6 | 1.7 | 7.8 | 9.5 | 7.4 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 3.2 | 1.4 | 14.0 |
| 2016-17 | GOS | 76 | 33 | 41.8 | 30.8 | 70.9 | 1.3 | 6.6 | 7.9 | 7.0 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 10.2 |
| 2017-18 | GOS | 70 | 33 | 45.4 | 30.1 | 77.5 | 1.1 | 6.6 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 11.0 |
| 2018-19 | GOS | 66 | 31 | 44.5 | 28.5 | 69.2 | 0.9 | 6.4 | 7.3 | 6.9 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 7.4 |
| 2019-20 | GOS | 43 | 28 | 38.9 | 27.9 | 75.9 | 0.5 | 5.7 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 8.0 |
| 2020-21 | GOS | 63 | 32 | 44.7 | 27.0 | 79.5 | 0.9 | 6.3 | 7.1 | 8.9 | 3.1 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 7.1 |
| 2021-22 | GOS | 46 | 29 | 52.5 | 29.6 | 65.9 | 1.0 | 6.3 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 7.5 |
| 2022-23 | GOS | 67 | 32 | 52.9 | 31.1 | 70.3 | 0.9 | 6.4 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 8.5 |
| Total | 752 | 29 | 44.8 | 31.5 | 71.1 | 1.1 | 5.9 | 7.0 | 5.6 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 8.7 | |
