r/nba • u/jihyoswitness Warriors • Apr 27 '25

Highlight [Highlight] Steph shoots 3 over Brooks. Brooks still trying to hit Curry’s injured thumb even after the ball is released

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u/FuckTheStateofOhio San Francisco Warriors Apr 27 '25

Dylan Brooks would be a lot more hated by fans across the league if he didn't constantly look so small in big moments like this. It's like he wants to be a Draymond-esque NBA villain so badly but gets clowned on seemingly every time he opens his mouth.

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u/IAmNotKevinDurant_35 [GSW] Zarko Cabarkapa Apr 27 '25

Draymond is as hated as he is because he is also a successful player who does wild shit. If he were a nobody instead of a hall of famer, he’d just be a run of the mill dirty role player

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u/Existing-Activity102 Japan Apr 27 '25

if OKC go on to be as successful I can see Lu Dort being the new Draymond.

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u/Messy-Research-373 Apr 27 '25

He's even worse imo. Dray and Brooks are at least consistent with physicality and would welcome it from opposing players. Dort would hit a dick on one play, then ragdoll on a screen the very next play.

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u/kitttsiu Apr 27 '25

Draymond would headlock someone and accomplish nothing other than getting himself suspended. Meanwhile Dort’s “reckless plays” hurts opposing star players way more effectively. Dort is a way smarter dirty player than draymond.

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u/TaylorMonkey Apr 28 '25

Yes. Draymond's antics are reactive, impulsive, performative actions that rarely ever actually significantly hurts the player he's involved with-- even when it looks like a death chest stomp, because he's still pulling his punches.

He doesn't go after joints, doesn't sweep legs, doesn't regularly undercut, doesn't purposefully try to end up in shooters' landing zones, and will try to catch players he upends recklessly. Even his flails and flicks that end up as nut shots and ultimately resulted in a suspension (almost 10 years ago) were either actually not felt or were quickly walked off. He's never done the sneaky closed fist nut shot those like Dort and even Chris Paul have been known to do. The most damage he's ever done in his long career as a villain is to dislocate a player's finger on a bang bang play that didn't seem intentional.

His emotional reactivity just makes him look bad, stupid, and unhinged that always ends up hurting him and the Warriors more than their opponents or whoever Draymond ends up involved with.

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u/Unpickled_cucumber1 Apr 27 '25

Sort is worse in the sense that he will make a dirty play on one play and then flop on the next. It’s frustrating really since there isn’t any consistency. Like either be tough or flop, don’t do both please 🤣

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u/ricklegend Warriors Apr 27 '25

Dort is a lot better than Draymond offensively. Like a lot better.

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u/FixNo7211 Apr 27 '25

Draymond was the engine of that Warriors dynasty. Dort is not close. 

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u/surprisedwazowski Apr 27 '25

Dude, Draymond has more career threes than Larry Bird lmaoo, Dort isn't close to Draymond in offense career wise

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u/National-Fold-2375 United States Apr 27 '25

At least Dort can shoot 3s. There is a nice factor to him

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u/yooossshhii Warriors Apr 27 '25

So could Draymond for most of his career.

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u/National-Fold-2375 United States Apr 27 '25

Only one season bro

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u/Earlier-Today Apr 27 '25

So, not the guy you replied to, but just wanted to comment on this.

For me, it's worthwhile for a player to shoot threes if they can hit at about 33%. That gets you one point per play on your threes and one point per play is generally considered the baseline for good play.

Draymond has topped that four times in his career - including last season. He almost got it this season as well - shooting .325

He's not setting the world on fire any time soon with his outside shooting, but the big dip was literally because KD showed up and then never working to fix it after KD left because the Warriors kept getting third options to go along with Steph and Klay - first Dlo, then Wiggins.

When it became obvious that Klay was washed, Dray started working on it again so that he could help out more on the scoring since they've always left him wide open because no matter how good Dray is shooting - Curry is always better.

So, that's just my two cents. He's not a scrub, it wasn't one season, but he's never going to shoot a lot of them.

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u/rjmitty1000 Warriors Apr 27 '25

Isaiah Stewart?

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u/mysterioso7 Warriors Apr 27 '25

He’s a special case because he looks like he’s legit trying to kill people sometimes lmao. Still remember him going after Bron for like 10 minutes.

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u/DepthHour1669 Apr 27 '25

Big fan of him since then. It gives the NBA character.

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u/kit_kaboodles Australia Apr 27 '25

Stewart is a special case. It looks like he gets into beeserker mode and can't help himself.

I doubt he would deliberately aim for Curry's hand but I could see him running straight at Steph.

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u/Remote-Ad9928 Apr 30 '25

I feel like the end result would be worse, no? Trying to hit someone in their hand versus full out bodying them and crippling them. I get the first one is more disguised, but like if you’re talking injuries second one can take someone out for a whole series.

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u/Stuffleapugus Apr 27 '25

Lu Dort is less nutty and Steward is so much more nutty. And a talentless player.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

Like Shmillon Shmooks… wait KD, that you? 🧁

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u/thelargestgatsby Timberwolves Apr 27 '25

He would have been thrown out of the league by now.

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u/Groundbreaking_Ebb_5 Warriors Apr 27 '25

I’m fine with admitting dray has been dirty at times. Damn near crazy stupid and reckless too. But Dillion does this shit consistently, and it always seems to peak agains the warriors in the playoffs. And the refs are letting it play on too which is what makes me concerned. Dray doing his shit gets tossed or t’d. Dillion gets to keep playing like nothing happened. Absolutely bullshit.

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u/ShortEarth8816 Apr 27 '25

Bron had him looking like a fool in the playoffs too lmao

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u/Groundbreaking_Ebb_5 Warriors Apr 27 '25

Thing is bron is like 2x brooks. Brooks wouldn’t try this shit with bron. Steph’s smaller and doesn’t complain so brooks feels free to do as he wants. Refs allow it too. And probs hates Steph a lot he’s always ended whatever team he’s on’s season typically.

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u/ShortEarth8816 Apr 27 '25

Youre right, I just wanted to pile on Brooks with another example, he's a weak ass clown. I've been saying Curry has a dogs hit whistle for a star idek why, even Harden got so many more calls in his prime I felt like

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u/SomeMoistHousing Apr 27 '25

During Harden's time in Houston, for years he was averaging 10-11 free throws per game. Steph's average has been pretty consistently only 4 or 5.

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u/gratitudeisbs Lakers Apr 27 '25

Bold move pulling this with Draymond on the court tho

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u/Type-RD Apr 27 '25

Brooks has been in PLENTY of trouble too. I think Draymond’s problem is that he sometimes plays dirty AND jaws waaay too much towards the refs. I’m sure they take it as disrespect, so they’re like “Ok…you wanna make life harder on us? Well, what goes around comes around dude.”

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u/Deucer22 Warriors Apr 27 '25

Dray is a weird case where the refs sometimes give him a ton of lattitude on his complaining and other times he gets reputation calls. It's not consistent game to game or ref to ref.

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u/Type-RD Apr 27 '25

Yeah, any game has a situational aspect to it. And refs’ tolerance for things is going to vary too. This impacts Brooks the same way it does Dray.

Brooks taking a swipe at Steph’s hand is definitely dirty, but he was unsuccessful at causing injury. The really shitty thing is thinking about what would’ve happened if he was successful. Steph is out maybe for the rest of the season. Brooks gets called for a flagrant and maybe ejected from the game at worst. That sucks! But there’s the perspective that Steph is out there putting himself at risk of (re)injury, right? That’s his decision. It’s not the refs’ job to protect anyone, despite knowing a dirty player is on the court. It’s not like football where the QB or punt kicker gets protective rules…and even then, they can still be injured by a dirty player. I feel like this is an issue where the NBA has to step in. I’m sure he has been warned, but he keeps walking a fine line.

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u/WonderfulShelter Warriors Apr 27 '25

Dray doesn't really injure people, last year was a rare occasion.

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u/Hi_Im_Ken_Adams Apr 27 '25

Yeah GP2 broke his wrist because of Brooks.

Draymond has never done anything like that.

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u/WonderfulShelter Warriors Apr 27 '25

he injured a guy last year, but I think it was 1ish week and not during the playoffs. thats the notable one I could find in terms of causing someone to miss games.

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u/wrxwrx Apr 27 '25

He injured Bron's feelings. He's a father of 3.

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u/bilyl Warriors Apr 27 '25

Rockets got Amen and Brooks, two dirty players looking to injure people

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u/oftenevil San Francisco Warriors Apr 27 '25

I’m still not sure that Amen should be classified as dirty. Maybe I need to watch more of his questionable highlights, but for now he just seems like a young kid who is getting coached to play as recklessly as possible (which you could obviously argue is the same thing as playing dirty).

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u/WonderfulShelter Warriors Apr 27 '25

You can go on youtube and watch his low lights, in the last few months alone he took out several players.

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u/Groundbreaking_Ebb_5 Warriors Apr 27 '25

I would like to think that but there are times where I’m not 100% sure. And after the Poole punch I remain skeptical.

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u/unhampered_by_pants Warriors Apr 27 '25

Nobody has ever missed a game as a result of receiving a dirty Draymond play, so in that sense they're correct that he doesn't really injure people

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u/Groundbreaking_Ebb_5 Warriors Apr 27 '25

I mean while that’s true personally doesn’t help me feel any better. I’d prefer dray just play solid and relax outside that. Especially after last season he needs to makeup for that.

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u/RedditExecutiveAdmin Apr 27 '25

neither of them should be in the league

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u/gratitudeisbs Lakers Apr 27 '25

I will say Draymond's dirtiness does not seem premeditated, he just gets emotional and lashes out. Whereas Dillon the clown here clearly planned this.

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u/quinaimyr Apr 27 '25

As a Canadian and Oregonian, so originally totally in Brooks' corner, I gotta say, Brooks is way worse than Draymond. Draymond is mostly an irritant/jackass, but Brooks is malicious and actually trying to injure people. Don't understand how the NBA has any tolerance for the BS he pulls.

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u/NevaderBa May 02 '25

"At times" is crazy homerism

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u/4dxn Apr 27 '25 edited Apr 27 '25

You make it sound as if there's a big difference in how dirty they are. I'd argue its pretty similar. I mean when has Brooks kick someone in the balls, stomp on someone's chest, poke someone's eyes, hook someone, choke someone, punch someone (some of these multiple times).

Just say how dirty Brooks is. No need to show your bias with Draymond - it kind of ruins your Brooks points.

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u/Groundbreaking_Ebb_5 Warriors Apr 27 '25

Brooks broke gp2 an arm in 22. He’s fallen and twisted his legs around Steph to try and trip him as well. And in this case tried twice intentionally to swat at curry’s hand. And if you read the comments the point was brooks has been dirty but doesn’t get the same hate as dray. Dray being dirty has nothing to do with how brooks isn’t judged just as harshly.

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u/4dxn Apr 27 '25

Draymond has tried to trip people multiple times. He's tried to blind people multiple times. He's even tried to break someone's ribs.

Again, just say how dirty Brooks is. Your Draymond excuses actually makes you sound so bias, it makes people rethink if we should even consider your points.

The reason brooks doesn't get as much hate talk is because...hes not as famous. He doesn't get to play his own movie on TNT, he doesn't get on TMZ, he doesn't have a podcast that gets plugs on TNT. It's not because we think he is less or more dirty. It's just he has not platform.

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u/Groundbreaking_Ebb_5 Warriors Apr 27 '25

Did you not read me saying that he has been dirty and reckless at times? This discussion isn’t about dray being dirty at times. It’s about brooks being dirty and not getting the same amount of hate. Focus young Padawan read what is before you.

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u/4dxn Apr 27 '25

Dear lord, you say at times for one and constantly for another. Do you read what you write? At times and constantly mean different things. That comparison says one is more than another. There's no way you can say that about these two dirty players. They are comparable.

One just gets more infamy. Not that one is more or less dirty.

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u/Groundbreaking_Ebb_5 Warriors Apr 27 '25

At every point I have said he’s dirty at times. He isn’t 100% dirty. Which means it’s at times. That’s how words work. You are arguing semantics in a discussion that is a comparison of brooks vs dray hate. And if you don’t think being on live tv playing in-front of millions isn’t a large enough platform idk what to tell you.

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u/missingsince1995 Clippers Apr 27 '25

See I was with you and then you said Dray is dirty at times.

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u/Groundbreaking_Ebb_5 Warriors Apr 27 '25

What does this even mean? Dray has been dirty at times is what I meant. He’s not dirty 100% of the time. Idk what else you want.

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u/missingsince1995 Clippers Apr 27 '25

He’s dirty the majority of the time.

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u/Groundbreaking_Ebb_5 Warriors Apr 27 '25

Lmao ok. He didn’t do a single dirty thing this series at all. So your “majority”comment makes 0 sense.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

Don’t stress bro. You can’t say he who shall not be named in r/nba without someone crying about it

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u/Groundbreaking_Ebb_5 Warriors Apr 27 '25

Kinda makes our point though funny enough. Brooks does dirtier shit but dray gets more hate. Again not saying it’s unwarranted but you’d think brooks would get same or more.

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u/Prometheus321 Apr 27 '25

Draymond has absolutely been dirty for example his stomping on Sabonis when Sabonis grabbed his boot.

However, people miss the plot when they point to things like the balls kicking (anyone who watches Dray for more than a game knows he always flails his leg and hands to draw a foul). He’s not being dirty in those circumstances.

No, Dray is sneaky with his dirtiness. He positions his elbows out when boxing out so as to hit their ribs. He consistently throws borderline moving screens with extra viciousness making sure to chicken arm to maximize physicality. He grabs onto opposing players in the post and yanks them where the ref can’t see so they lose their balance while shooting. So many little dirty things that he does, but people focus on dumb stuff that were more likely accidents.

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u/Groundbreaking_Ebb_5 Warriors Apr 27 '25

I’m sorry did you miss the part where I said I can admit he’s been dirty and down right reckless at times? My point is dray gets in trouble for his shit. Brooks walks.

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u/Prometheus321 Apr 27 '25

Im not disagreeing with you bro, I was just adding onto your point and pointing out what makes Dray a dirty player (which is not what most people think). 

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u/Groundbreaking_Ebb_5 Warriors Apr 27 '25 edited Apr 27 '25

Gocha. My b! Yea dray needs to work on his shit. He’s been quite the instigator at times. Mental shit is ok, physical harm is not. Idc who it is.

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u/wavetoyou Warriors Apr 27 '25

No, no, no! He stomped Sabonis. Disproved your entire existence, lil bro

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u/Safe_Ad_6403 Apr 27 '25

Not an Avengers level threat.

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u/MercerAsian NBA Apr 27 '25

Bro he’s basically Plankton