{"id":34126,"date":"2025-02-16T14:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T14:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=34126"},"modified":"2025-02-16T14:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T14:17:38","slug":"breaking-draymond-greens-blunt-jimmy-butler-comment-amid-warriors-growing-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=34126","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Draymond Green\u2019s blunt Jimmy Butler comment amid Warriors\u2019 growing confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p class=\"dek prose mb-2.5 italic text-secondary\">The Warriors have gone 3-1 since the trade.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-row flex-wrap items-center text-primary\">\n<div class=\"author-link mr-2.5 flex items-center text-sm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1280.jpeg?w=1200\" alt=\"Golden State Warriors players Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler with the Warriors arena in the background, trade\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis trade between the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks certainly garnered the most post-trade deadline attention, the Golden State Warriors made a blockbuster trade in acquiring Jimmy Butler from the Miami Heat. The Warriors have gone 3-1 since the Jimmy Butler trade, and Draymond Green spoke about the team\u2019s confidence heading into the final stretch of the regular season, as per Anthony Slater of The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShoutout to Jimmy Butler. Completely changed the belief of this team,\u201d Green said. \u201cWe started off the year great, and everybody believed. And then continued to believe even though it was going rough. But at a certain point if it doesn\u2019t start going right, you start to lose that belief, and we did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJimmy was like life support for us. He just came and injected a bunch of energy, a bunch of belief into this group,\u201d Green continued. \u201cBecause of the leader that he is, because of the talent, the player that he is, because of the guy and dog that he is. We can all fall in line, a great guy to follow. . .that belief that he\u2019s brought back to the team, I\u2019m sure you can see it watching. To me when I\u2019m watching, it looks different. When I\u2019m playing, it feels different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the four games that Jimmy Butler has played for the Warriors, he\u2019s averaged 21.3 points, 7.0 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 1.3 steals with splits of 44.6 percent shooting from the field, 14.3 percent shooting from the three-point line and 85 percent shooting from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>While Butler\u2019s three-point shooting percentage could stand to be better, there\u2019s no question he has, for now, changed the mentality and possible trajectory of this team.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Related Golden State Warriors NewsArticle continues below<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>Warriors post NBA trade deadline<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>With the NBA currently at the All-Star break, the Warriors are 28-27 and in 11th place in the Western Conference standings. As it stands, they\u2019re three and half games back of the sixth-seeded Los Angeles Clippers, and making the playoffs outright without having to go through the play-in.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the Warriors make an incredible surge in the standings or have to make the postseason via the play-in, Draymond Green believes the team will approach post-All-Star Break as if the playoffs have already started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the playoffs for us coming out of the break. . .it\u2019s a 27-game playoffs and then a grind to win 16,\u201d Green said. \u201cThat\u2019s the urgency I expect, that\u2019s the urgency we will have.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Warriors are set to climb the West standings after the Jimmy Butler trade, and here\u2019s what Draymond Green had to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":34127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,146],"class_list":["post-34126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-draymond-green","tag-jimmy-butler"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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