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Daniel Theis Says Celtics Can’t Allow To Let Draymond Green Disrupt Their Game With His Shenanigans Any Longer

Many argue that Draymond Green plays the most important role in the Warriors’s success, because they built a system around him. The team built a system around the three guys which in Green, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson. He might not be the best player on the team, but he’s the most important.

While Draymond Green did not make the All-Defensive First Team this year and slipped to All-Defensive Second Team, where he joined Bam Adebayo and Robert Williams III at the frontcourt position, he once again played a stellar defensive season.

Arguably more important than his defense, especially in the playoffs is Green’s ability to get into the heads of his opponents. Trash-talk, provocations, nifty fouls at the exact right times – Draymond likes to disrupt the flow of the opposing team’s game and was very successful in doing so in the Warriors’ win in Game 2.

During media availability ahead of Game 3, I asked Celtics big man Daniel Theis if Green will be seeking the hostility Boston fans will definitely give him even more, and live off it, and if the Celtics will be able to keep a cool head, unlike in Game 2:

“I think he’ll get his energy from the building and the fans, but we just can’t get involved with that,” Daniel said. “And Game 2; that was his complete goal, just to start something with everyone and everything and just take us out of the game, which he did that in that moment.

We know that he’s trying exactly that and that his goal is to give someone a technical foul, and to take us out of the game and we just can’t go with that and can’t let him allow to do it.”