Jeremy Tache

San Francisco Chronicle, quote, all that noise and chaos paid off in a major way.

Everything starts off great, but then, you know, someone has to be the bad guy and it gets to be me.

I'm always the one doing something unbearable all of a sudden.

But being here, they've only got one goal.

Ain't no hidden agendas, end quote.

So I think Draymond here speaks to the idea of perhaps not hidden agendas, but not everyone in Golden State has the same agenda.

This is actually a very intelligent quote about the dynamics of basketball and the NBA in particular.

Basketball is five people trying to do their own thing, but trying to do it within the framework of we do it together as a team.

And this particular person, say what you will about him selfishly, does all of the things no one else wants to do on a basketball court.

So no matter what you think of Draymond Green, is speaking from a position of authority of what it is it takes to be a good teammate when you are someone like him who once scored 32 points in a Game 7 of the Finals?

Yeah, I think Draymond, more than any player that has problems, they always talk about, you know, like, oh, he has a temper issue, whatever.

He always plays the right way.

Like, his basketball decision-making, he doesn't take dumb shots.

He doesn't, like, make wild passes for the most part.

He's pretty...

at keeping his temper separate from his basketball decision-making.

What he's talking about there is absolutely correct.

Everybody in the NBA has an agenda.

No one's out here walking out here like, oh, I just want selflessness.

Everyone's got some sort of goal, but the idea is how do we make it all work within the same framework?