Draymond Green believes he knows what’s ailing the Warriors.
With Golden State’s record sitting below .500 after 27 games and frustration mounting, Green took to his “The Draymond Green Show” podcast and explained his view of the Warriors’ problems — and why he thinks they are still fixable.
“Number one, it’s taking care of the ball,” Green said. “And I raise my hand. I am leading that charge in a drastic way [by] turning the ball over … If you’re turning the ball over, teams are swarming and running and shooting threes. If you’re turning the ball over, you can’t get your defense set. If you’re turning the ball over, you’re not getting a shot at the rim, which is not creating chances to get offensive rebounds.”
Green also noted the Warriors’ lack of sustained scoring runs, for which he partially blamed the team’s defense.
“Defensively, when you’re on a run in the NBA, you have to make it hard for people to break that run,” Green said. “When you’re going on a run, you can’t break your run giving up simple baskets. We’re making it too easy to break up our runs. What should be a 12-0 run turns into an 8-0 run. And those four points make a difference in this league.”
The Warriors began the 2025-26 NBA season 4-1 before a vexing road loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Oct. 30, who were playing without franchise star Giannis Antetokounmpo. Green singled out that game as the beginning of Golden State’s slump, an observation backed by the team’s 9-13 record since.
“It’s just kind of been this trickle-down effect all year,” Green lamented. “It’s just gotten worse and worse. You have these great opportunities—Steph [Curry] going for 39, Steph going for 48—where you need to capitalize on these wins and we’re not doing that.”
Sunday’s 136-131 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers was obviously fresh on Green’s mind. Curry made 12 3-pointers and scored those 48 points, but a porous defense and lack of secondary scoring doomed Golden State.
Still, Green remains confident that his squad can turn things around.
“I think we’re more than capable of cleaning it up,” Green said. “We’re right there. A lot of these games are right there and we’re just losing them at the end. We’ve got two guys [Curry and Jimmy Butler] that are closers. We are more than capable of figuring it out, and we will figure it out.”
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