The second round of the NBA's 2021-22 playoffs finally kicked off in the spotlight, with the Grizzlies and Warriors winning the first game of the Western Conference semifinals, and the warriors on the road won 117-116 to make the start. However, compared to the game itself, the outside world generally focused on a controversial penalty in the game - 1 minute and 18 seconds before the end of the half, Dream Green faced Clark, reached out and tugged on the opponent's clothes, and was directly sentenced to second-degree evil and expelled.
The impact of this penalty on the warriors' offensive and defensive ends is obvious, as the axis of the passing tactics and the absolute core of the defensive end, the dream of the game has brought the Warriors as a whole to a standstill. So there was a scene where Green went around the field to encourage his teammates a week before leaving, and there was also a scene where Kerr and Curry were anxious to communicate with the referee. Fortunately, the battle-hardened Warriors did not falter, Poole carried the offensive banner, Curry was sent a tough block by Moran's characteristic name, and Although Thompson missed the key two penalties and almost buried the victory, the key three points and the key defense of Morant were also made up. After the game, Green, who changed into casual clothes, also waited for his teammates to return in the players' tunnel and gave them a hug - without their efforts, he would probably become a sinner of the team.
Perhaps because he only played half of the show and could not release his energy, Green returned to the hotel and started a live broadcast, which is his own podcast show "Chasing Dreams Green Show". In the show, Green talked about his foul, saying: "I was really stupid, I actually naively thought that this foul was not even a first-class foul, just an ordinary foul." Then Teacher Green turned on the self-deprecating mode and said, "If you don't know what an idiot is like, you can refer to Drummond Green, there is no more idiot-like existence than him." ”
It can be seen that because he finally won the opening red, the team did not fail because of his own action, and Green's mood is still very good. When another party, Clark, publicly said that Green is such a player and has shown such a side more than once, Teacher Green is also in the mood to reply with 9 laughing and crying expressions as a response. Perhaps in Teacher Green's heart, he also admitted that his actions were inappropriate, but the subconscious protective action at the moment Clark landed on the ground still showed that he was not malicious.
The referee's decision has also attracted the attention of the entire league, and many stars and coaches have stood up in solidarity with Dream Green and expressed their confusion about the referee. For example, Donovan Mitchell, who has just been eliminated, directly posted the dynamic "Is this secondary malice?? Damian Lillard and Trae Young also expressed similar views, believing that referees' decisions were really amateurish, complaining that more professional people were needed to do such things as making rules. The US media "StatMuse" is even more blunt: "The Warriors won a 5-on-8 G1. ”
Of course, it's not that the Grizzlies relied entirely on referees to fight the Warriors to the last minute, in fact, the boys in Memphis were really very good, forcing the former king into a desperate situation - but it is also an indisputable fact that this game has eaten the referee dividend. Maybe the fans just want to see a more pure game, not a referee frantically grabbing the camera. Next, the follow-up of the matter is the result of the alliance's intervention in the investigation.
Green has been expelled, so there is only one focus left now – whether to determine whether it is a first-degree or second-degree evil offender. This is related to whether the accumulated evil offender points on Teacher Green are 1 or 2 points. Once a player accumulates 4 foul points during the playoffs, he will be subject to an automatic one-game suspension.
In 2016, the dream of Green suffered this pain, that year the Warriors led 3-1 but were tragically reversed by the Knights led by James, in large part because Green's suspension changed the trend of the entire series. Teacher Green, who has learned from the past, is naturally more cautious, and if the judgment of the referee on duty is maintained after the results of the investigation, then Teacher Green's two evil points may be a major obstacle for the Warriors to return to the top of the league and will become a foreshadowing in the future.