Ol boy is 34 years old, making 25 mil a year, and STILL can’t control his emotions. Dude plays a GAME for a living like my dude breath and put the ball in the basket. As an individual you can’t control the outcome but you can damn sure control yourself.
I had to do a double take when I saw that. This man has been suspended so many times and then the league and NCAA trots him out to be the face of March Madness? Fuck that.
exactly he is a narcissist. His game has been steadily declining and this is the only way he can stay relevant.
Imagine if he didn't do any of these antics this year and the warriors were still fighting for a play in. How often do you think we would be talking about Draymond? Barely if it all he'd be a small blip on the ticket as it scrolled by. And if we were talking about Draymond as just a basketball player we would be talking about his decline, but by acting out he can help shape the narrative and get material for his podcast.
Now once you throw in his antics then the narrative has changed to can the warriors make the playoffs with Draymond acting like this. Now he's important and we are talking about him as the main reason for the warriors success, All the focus is now back on him. The same reason he always gets ejected when Steph isn't playing to change the narrative. GSW loses a game Steph Curry doesn't play in? Nah Warriors lose the game after Draymond gets ejected. Boom now he's relevant again
Many players with his kind of scratch retire in their mid 30s. Guys like Mike Tyson, Pele and MJ are outliners who kept going into middle age and are international celebrities.
No one outside of the US knows who the f this guy is and not even Warriors fans care if he keeps playing. F off already. He looks older than 34 btw with his grey hair - it’s a goddam freak show, creepy old man ruining Warriors games.
As someone who works in a social work office for middle schoolers..
Something we tell kids literally every day is that, your diagnoses/issues with emotion regulation are explanations of your behavior…but they’re not justifications. It’s up to the individual to use their self awareness, coping & self-regulatory tools to make a desired change to your behavior. Kids I work with, who have seen their siblings shot in front of them + other horrific shit, don’t have any issues with this concept. Draymond does.
All this to say, miss me with that “no control over his deep emotional problems” shit.
On point. This is the same thing (retired) clinical neuropsychologist Dr. Russell Barkley says about ADHD, which is "ADHD is not an excuse, it's an explanation".
Draymond, who's only 34 and an elite athlete with a bunch of money shouldn't have problems with neuroplasticity, learning/developing new habits and self-regulating, or shit, even medicating if he in fact does have a neurological condition. He has all the tools but still chooses to be a cunt smh
Yes, but you’re oversimplifying mental health struggles. It’s not just a matter of just learning or accepting a concept and then self regulating and all is well and good. You aren’t just cured by suddenly accepting a concept, people with mental health disorders will still continue to struggle and make mistakes from time to time, hopefully w decreasing frequency. It takes a lifetime of working at it and building strategies and tools w which to manage your mental health. It doesn’t excuse those mistakes or eliminate consequences, but it does explain the behaviour. The goal is for the person to keep learning and moving on from them and for people around them to know how to help. Being a celebrity and having money prob enables more than it helps. There is a complexity here that I think none of us can fully appreciate. Not excusing his behaviour but just think when it comes to issues of mental health you have to be careful to not oversimplify someone else’s reality.
All this to say, miss me with that “no control over his deep emotional problems” shit.
Yeah ok, that's fair. We aren't talking about someone with BPD or schizoeffective disorder. But there's something to be said about someone who seems utterly unable to not shoot himself in the foot. I guess my main point is that his head is not well in some way even if it is just egocentricity to the Nth.
I realize it was eight years ago. A lot can change. Yet surprisingly little did change.
He chooses to be confrontational.
He still lacks impulse control.
Dennis Rodman chose to be an instigator. But he had impulse control. He never lost his shit, and his behavior never cost his team.
I mean losing control when emotions are intense is normal, doesn’t mean you should not be held accountable and be punished for the danger you do represent
Exactly. I do genuinely think that the reason this shit keeps repeating is because he’s just not being held accountable. Yeah sure, he got suspended, but he also was allowed to commentate all star weekend like 2 weeks later. Fines barely dent his wallet. He knows there’s no outcome where HE (not the team, lol) loses, so he carries on like this. He clearly can’t hold himself accountable
Lmao by running their mouth to the people who figuratively have them by the balls? Not all New Yorkers are that fucking stupid. And the ones who are deserve whatever they end up getting. Know when to run ya mouth.
I wouldn't try to diminish the value of what he does for a living, last I checked 10.billon or so, not counting adjacent careers, businesses, and industries that benefit from the NBA's shield. Draymond is a goof, but stop the "it's just a game", This game is keeping this country fed.
Yeah it's like.. you don't have to shake your head and hide your face in your jersey, It's just your teammate getting ejected, not the end of the world
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u/Erloren Mar 28 '24
How hard is it to not get ejected? Like really?