10-17-2022, 03:13 PM
Jordan Poole was the calm, cool guy he's always been when he met with the media on Sunday. He said the 14 days after they returned from Japan were stressful, but he pointed to his contract negotiation and the Oct. 17 deadline for extension to avoid restricted free agency as the stressor.
I think if you asked Steve Kerr what was more crisis, the punch or the leak, he would say "by far the leak." Remember, not only was there a leak of the video footage, there was also a leak that Draymond Green punched Jordan Poole in practice before the video was released. Had the leaker not leaked, nobody would have known anything about it. That means had it not leaked, there would have been no real crisis.
It's amusing watching the media members try to couch their veiled questions about the punch in a way that suggests the players are so fragile that it will be impossible to ever be the same again. It's pretty clear from how the players respond that they don't think it is nearly as big of a deal as the media and fans do. I doubt Steve Kerr does either.
I think if you asked Steve Kerr what was more crisis, the punch or the leak, he would say "by far the leak." Remember, not only was there a leak of the video footage, there was also a leak that Draymond Green punched Jordan Poole in practice before the video was released. Had the leaker not leaked, nobody would have known anything about it. That means had it not leaked, there would have been no real crisis.
It's amusing watching the media members try to couch their veiled questions about the punch in a way that suggests the players are so fragile that it will be impossible to ever be the same again. It's pretty clear from how the players respond that they don't think it is nearly as big of a deal as the media and fans do. I doubt Steve Kerr does either.