Draymond Green, Klay Thompson and Jaden McDaniels were all ejected following a brawl just 100 seconds in
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00:00 No way Clay should have been ejected.
00:01 That was ridiculous.
00:02 - Kind of as shocked as anybody when I saw it.
00:04 - Draymond is protecting his teammate.
00:05 So it was a little bit of a shock.
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00:10 - There's no way Clay Thompson
00:23 should have been thrown out of the game.
00:25 I mean, he's running up the floor
00:26 and the guy grabs his jersey and he's pulling on him
00:29 and so Clay pulls back.
00:31 So I was upset about that.
00:32 And then the Draymond piece of it,
00:35 if you watch the replay,
00:36 Rudy had his hands on Clay's neck
00:39 and that's why Draymond went after Rudy.
00:42 But it was, yeah, a bizarre way to start the game
00:45 a minute and a half in.
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00:56 - The ejections rather were the right ones.
00:59 Thought they were warranted.
01:01 And I thought they did a good job
01:03 of getting control of the game from that point of view.
01:05 I mean, it became very physical,
01:06 but it wasn't like a dangerous and out of control game
01:10 from their point of view.
01:13 - Coach had told Clay before the game,
01:15 like get them off of you.
01:17 You know what I mean?
01:18 Probably not to that extent,
01:19 but it was good to see that energy and that fire.
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01:27 - Just kind of put the game on edge from the jump.
01:36 And I think, you know, teams played like that
01:37 for the most of the rest of the game, really.
01:40 It felt like, like I said, super kind of chippy
01:44 and just physical and kind of not a very pretty game,
01:48 but none of them, yeah, it was good to win it.
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01:56 - And I was surprised Colbert didn't walk away
02:02 with nothing after he grabbed Clay first
02:04 and Draymond was protecting his teammate.
02:06 So it was a little bit of a shock,
02:08 but you know, it is what it is.
02:09 And, you know, ref got to make the tough calls
02:13 and, you know, sucks not having those two guys
02:16 for the rest of the game, but we had to do what we had to do.
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