Draymond Green reflects on Ryan Rollins' career-high 32 points against the Warriors, describing how Rollins stayed composed through Green's physical defense. Green says he respected the young player enough to dial it back, and the two exchanged words at the free-throw line about the game.
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Ryan Rollins, young fella who obviously was drafted by the Golden State Warriors, come out and score career-high 32 points. And Ryan's game, it was beautiful. Like the pace that he played with, he never got sped up. He never got rattled. Steph was about to fake like he was going down the floor and then about to come off a screen and Ryan just kind of leveled him. And so I saw it and I was like, hmm, okay. Hmm. So the next play down, Ryan drives in lane and I come all the way off the corner and just like shoulder him. They call a foul, they take it on the side. The next play down the court, he's picking up full, I come with a screen and I whack him. And funny, I told Ryan, I said, we were standing at the free throw line talking. I said, I told you I was gonna get you. He was like, yeah, but you know how I'm cut. So I ain't backing down from none of that. I said, "I know, I didn't expect you to back down." I said, "What you should also know is that if I ain't love you, I would've laid you out there, but I just needed to get a good screen on you so you felt it. But I should, I could have and probably should have laid you out there, but I wouldn't dare do that to my young fella." And his commentary back was so good. Like, and I told him after the game, I said, "Man, you look great." Thank you. I said, I also was trying to, I was trying to rattle you and you just stayed poised. You stayed the course. Thank you.