2015 NBA Finals: Where is Draymond Green and Klay Thompson?

Draymond Green and Klay Thompson must emerge if the Warriors are going to have any shot to win the NBA Finals against an emotionally driven LeBron James

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The Golden State Warriors faithful have put out an APB on Draymond Green and Klay Thompson after Tuesday nights loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 3.

I get the point that this is their first NBA Finals appearance but if I’m not mistaken nothing has changed between the regular season and their first three rounds in the playoffs. The rims are still the same height, the length of the court is still the same and there has been no reports of any “Deflategate” suspicions with the ball.

So what has happened?

Thompson is one-half of the Splash Brothers and Green has labeled himself the best defender in the league, but yet they both have stunk up the NBA Finals in nearly every chance they have gotten to do so. Can the Warriors still win? Yes, they can but Steve Kerr must put on his detective gear and find his players heart.

Thompson has always had a suspect game to me. He gets praise due to his affiliation with Stephen Curry in the backcourt, but to be honest his game is one-dimensional at best. If his shot is off it’s like the Warriors are playing 4-on-5. He offers little defense, no rebounding and his assist skills are Mutumbo-like at best.

He has done this before in the series against the Houston Rockets where he put added pressure on Curry to carry the team. With Curry having an un-Curry-like series, Thompson has to raise his Robin-like sidekick game to another level or he will be seen as this year’s NBA Finals version of James Harden.

Thompson has scored 68 points this series, but has done so on 58 shots including 9-28 on three pointers.

Green is another story as he has totally vanished since June 4th. There is no private investigator that has been able to find him. They have checked all known aliases, passports, credit cards and have even called in the the Criminal Minds BAU team, and still nothing.

Green is the Richard Sherman of the NFL or at least he thinks he is (nowadays he is all talk and no action).

Green was mad that he didn’t with the DPOY award and maybe the voters saw into the future of the NBA Finals and knew he didn’t deserve it. To say he is getting destroyed on a regular basis would be an understatement, it doesn’t matter who he is guarding — Tristan Thompson, LeBron James, David Blatt or the hot dog vendor.

Offensively, his game is reminiscent of how Rose just let Jack sink to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in Titanic. One minute everything was going smoothly then came an Iceberg (Cavs) and all hell broke loose.

Green has he ability to do many things on the offensive end. He is like a mini LeBron but he seems scared to play the way he has been playing all season up to the NBA Finals. He has shot 8-30 including 1-8 from three-point range, he has rebounded pretty well collecting 23 boards but he must stop with the silly fouls as he leads both teams with 14 personals in this series.

Both players can get hot any second and provide Curry with the help he needs to put the Warriors back in the driver’s seat of this series, but they must show a willingness to kick into another gear. Thompson is a streak shooter just like every other good shooter in the NBA. Green is an emotional player that is currently going through a Space Jam crisis and needs to devise a plan to get his powers back.

The series is not over by any stretch of the imagination, but if Curry has to continue to do the heavy lifting by himself, then those 67 wins and NBA MVP award mean nothing.

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