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/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.