{"id":3897,"date":"2023-05-11T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2023-05-11T10:31:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T14:31:27","slug":"tom-izzo-present-draymond-green-performs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=3897","title":{"rendered":"With Tom Izzo present, Draymond Green dominates Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tom Izzo was in attendance for the Lakers vs. Warriors game on Wednesday night and Draymond Green dominated.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">On Tuesday night, it was Michigan State football coach <a href=\"http:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/mel-tucker-present-mat-ishbia-nikola-jokic-reconciliation\/\">Mel Tucker that was present<\/a> for a huge NBA playoff matchup. On Wednesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/tom-izzo-watching-former-msu-players-face-off-nba-playoffs\/\">it was Hall of Fame basketball coach Tom Izzo\u2019s turn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">With the Golden State Warriors on the brink of elimination versus the Los Angeles Lakers, Izzo was present to support his former Spartans, Max Christie and Draymond Green. Izzo is no stranger to NBA arenas. He shows up regularly to support former players. Earlier this season Izzo was present to watch former Spartans Xavier Tillman and Jaren Jackson Jr. in Memphis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">In a pregame interview, Izzo said of Draymond Green:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cYou know what he\u2019s at the top of the list of? Making winning plays. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s the best player. There\u2019s a lot of good players out there, but he might be the best winner.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Izzo went on to compare Draymond to other Michigan State greats Magic Johnson and Mateen Cleaves in his drive to win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Izzo would add: \u201cWinning is the most important thing. I promise if Draymond could score none, if he wins, he\u2019s happy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tom Izzo talks about Draymond&#39;s ability to make winning plays <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Of9NaBzgwS\">pic.twitter.com\/Of9NaBzgwS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSWarriors\/status\/1656474036740968448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Draymond came out of the gate with a pep in his step scoring a quick eight points for the Warriors. You could see his focus, his desire to win right from the top. Izzo said Draymond would be content winning even if he didn\u2019t score but tonight, the Warriors needed Green\u2019s scoring, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Stuffing the stat sheet with his highest-scoring game of the series, Green would go on to post a 20-10-4 stat line as well as two steals and a block to help extend the Warriors&#8217; season another game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">In typical Draymond fashion, making winning plays went beyond the stats sheet. He drew multiple offensive fouls against the Lakers, pushed the tempo for the Warriors&#8217; offense, made some great passes, and played excellent defense. Green\u2019s urgency and energy were praised multiple times throughout the broadcast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Warriors will continue their series against the Lakers for Game 6 on Friday night at a time to be determined. While it\u2019s unclear whether or not Izzo will be present for that game, Warriors fans will certainly be hoping that Draymond plays like he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe Tom Izzo should go to every Warriors game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[215,59,191,189,211],"class_list":["post-3897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pro-spartans","tag-draymond-green","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}