Throughout the NBA Bubble experience, former Spartan Draymond Green has found a nice niche for himself on the NBA on TNT crew as an analyst. And, I have to be honest, he’s been crushing it while making headlines left and right. It’s a big reason why he was also able to sign a deal as a CNN contributor last week.
Michigan State basketball fans will know that Draymond is one of the smartest basketball players to ever come through East Lansing (Magic Johnson and Cassius Winston are probably the closest in terms of on-court IQ), and he’s always been a lightning rod for controversy and entertainment, so this it should come as no surprise that he’s so good at this.
The first segment that stuck out to me was his blistering critique of the Denver Nuggets star big man Nikola Jokic. Green called Jokic’s defense lazy and actually broke down film to back this up:
Draymond Green is really, really good as an analyst.
Here he critiques Jokic's 1st half defense: pic.twitter.com/Y4Uh4wilyl
— Eric Shapiro (@eric_shap) September 4, 2020
Here, Green breaks down some film from the Raptors-Celtics game:
Draymond Green has just taken Kenny Smith job lmao pic.twitter.com/kuhqqAMVUZ
— John (@iam_johnw) September 4, 2020
At the end of the Miami Heat vs Milwaukee Bucks game, there were two major and controversial fouls to end regulation, resulting in a Heat win. Draymond took to Twitter to give his thoughts on that as well.
Draymond also gave some context to the struggles of the Bucks in this series. Milwaukee had come in as a favorite to win the title but are now down 2-0 to Miami:
Draymond Green says Miami doesn’t respect the shooters Milwaukee surrounded Giannis with
(🎥 TNT) pic.twitter.com/aTsf5A0FJF
— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) September 4, 2020
Finally, here is Green giving some insight into the Jazz-Nuggets series:
Utah doubling too early in the shot clock. Let them run their offense and double him late. That’s an NBA team they’re playing against, other guys can make plays that early in the shot clock.
— Draymond Green (@Money23Green) September 2, 2020
Yeah, he’s got a future in this.
