Draymond Green to NBA Coaches, 'I Want to F--k Your S--t Up, It’s No Hard Feelings'

Draymond Green is one of the best defensive players of his generation, and he takes immense pride in using that skill set to thwart opposing game plans.

Even if that means frustrating the coaches who came up with those game plans.

"Every offense in the NBA is built to put (defensive) players in a rotation," Green said in a Thursday piece by Marcus Thompson II of The Athletic. "So if I know that, and I know the rotation … if I see that y'all are doing this or y'all (are) doing this to get to that? Great. I'm going to stand right there and f--k this whole play up.

"I want everything that y'all thought y'all was going to come in this game and do, I want to take all of that s--t off the table. That's why I talk to the coaches so much. … This is my little battle with the coach. I want to f--k your s--t up. It's no hard feelings. I'm always bantering and talking. But I want you to know that your offensive game plan, I wanna f--k it up. … Completely destroy your offensive game plan, and then I want to let you know about it."

Green is better equipped than most to stop offenses from exploiting mismatches because he can do a little bit of everything on the defensive side.

He is athletic enough to stay in front of ball-handlers for stretches, can play against big men who tower over his 6'6" frame and can control the boards as a formidable rebounder. That versatility has been critical throughout the Golden State Warriors' extended run of success and a major reason they have four championships since drafting him in 2012.

The Michigan State product also allows head coach Steve Kerr to play small ball if necessary because of that defensive ability, which then creates mismatches on the other end for the Warriors to exploit when they are attacking.

And it is working even better since Golden State acquired Jimmy Butler via trade in February.

It now has two dominant defenders and veteran leaders in Green and Butler who can guard multiple positions, attack switches and throw off offenses. The result is a 17-4 record in the last 21 games, which has propelled the Warriors into fifth place in the Western Conference standings.

It has also given Green the opportunity to trash-talk plenty of opposing coaches.