{"id":119439,"date":"2026-04-30T13:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/draymond-green-blames-steve-kerr-for-limited-offense-talkbasket-net\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:50:31","slug":"draymond-green-blames-steve-kerr-for-limited-offense-talkbasket-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/draymond-green-blames-steve-kerr-for-limited-offense-talkbasket-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Draymond Green blames Steve Kerr for limited offense &#8211; TalkBasket.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Peter Baba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors suggested that his role may have been limited during his prime years, pointing to coaching decisions by Steve Kerr and questioning why he wasn\u2019t featured more offensively during the time Kevin Durant was with the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as he\u2019s done for me in basketball, a part of me think he\u2019s hindered me in my career and what I could have become.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what he\u2019s also helped me become. Like you got to take the good with the bad, man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, when I think of who I was offensively as a player and who I became, I think a part of that is due to him. I don\u2019t hold that against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m forever grateful that he still put me in a position to be successful and that I could become Draymond Green despite my offensive role on our team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t sit and be like, \u2018Oh man, like I f\u2013king hate Steve because of that.\u2019 No, it\u2019s one of my gripes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if you\u2019re going to take one gripe and not be able to move past it for all the other things, then you\u2019re shallow as a person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, when [Kevin Durant] came from 2016 on, I have not had a play in our playbook. Not a single play that we run for me in our playbook since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think that would hinder someone as an offensive player? Of course. So at times, I go home and I think about my career and I\u2019m happy as hell of what I\u2019ve been able to build.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at times, sometimes I sit there and think, \u2018What could I really have been if I stayed true to my game and what I really was?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Draymond Green believes Steve Kerr hindered his career and wonders why Kerr didn\u2019t run any offensive plays for him during the Kevin Durant era \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as he&#8217;s done for me in basketball, a part of me think he&#8217;s hindered me in my career and what I could have become. But what\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s3nxtyBCkU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/s3nxtyBCkU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDunkCentral\/status\/2049845721570877938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/217440-draymond-green-blames-steve-kerr-for-limited-offense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Peter Baba Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors suggested that his role may have been limited during his prime years, pointing to coaching decisions by Steve Kerr and questioning why he wasn\u2019t featured more offensively during the time Kevin Durant was with the team. \u201cAs much as he\u2019s done for me in basketball, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}