Warriors' Draymond Green Hypes Jimmy Butler to Stephen Curry injury: “We will not panic”

The Golden State Warriors played game 1 against the Minnesota Timberwolves in their playoff series in the second round Without Stephen Curry For a large part of the game. That meant that someone else had to climb, and in this case Jimmy Butler and Buddy Hield, who combined 44 points against the wolves in the 99-88 victory.

Both Butler and Hield did most of their damage in the second half, and Held scored 22 of his 24 points after half -time, while Butler had 14 of his 20 points in the last 24 minutes. Butler also ended with 11 rebounds, eight templates and two steals to round off a complete performance.

“Robin was in Batman, – as you will call Buddy [Hield]? Alfred became in Robin and they just filled out and it was nice to see: “Draymond Green said about his teammates' performances.

Curry left the game in the second quarter with what the Warriors announced as a damage base. The warriors are waiting for the MRI results of Curry's knee tendons to see how difficult it is. After his defense, Curry grabbed his left armpit, but managed to stay in the game before he asked to be pulled out of the game. He was then excluded for the rest of the night.

“I didn't see what happened, I just saw how he grabbed his knee tendon and limp a bit, so I went to him when he went to the changing room and I said:” You are good? “And he was like” I'll be back “and he just pushed on,” said Green. “We didn't really know what was going on for a while … then they finally told us that it was a knee tendon that has little defllinging, but he did a great job to build a comfortable lead.”

With Curry Out and a 10-point lead, the Warriors had to look at an offensive production in which Hield and Butler came into play. Golden State managed to ward off the timber wolves that made a move in the fourth quarter, but now had to plan the potential of playing without a curry in game 2 and possibly beyond.

With Curry's status in the air, the Warriors are still seen as the outsider of the series (+135 at Caesars Sportsbook), but Green was happy to Hype butler after game 1 and reminded people of the past of his new teammate. Butler led the heat to the NBA final in 2020 and 2023 and did so five years ago as No. 5 and two years ago as No. 8.

“We know what Jimmy is capable of, Jimmy is able to wear a team, he was wearing a team for the final twice,” said Green. “So we won't panic, we will find out what [playing without Curry] Means we have the best coaching teams in the NBA, we know that they bring us to a good place and let us know what our offenses look like without Steph if we have to continue without it. But we have full confidence in the boys who are in this team that we can play games, we can take pictures and we know that we get a man who can drop this first domino in Jimmy. “

Everyone looks at Butler to increase and the warriors will do it Probably need more When the 20 points he scored in game 1 when the series progresses. He has proven to be capable, and that's why the Warriors acted against Playoff Jimmy.