On Tuesday night at Footprint Center, the Golden State Warriors lost 119-116 to the Phoenix Suns, letting another double-digit lead slip away. After the Dubs’ sixth consecutive road loss, here are three detailed reactions.

I don’t know what else to ask. The flagrant-2 foul and subsequent automatic dismissal that Draymond Green received from Tuesday’s game had zero to do with his deserved reputation or troubled past. The same would have happened to any player who, in reaction to an unremarkable grab, had swung a reckless forearm at Jusuf Nurkic’s face.

In a refreshing change from his usual reaction to ejections, Green returned to the locker room in a flash when the officials pronounced his sentence. Perhaps that indicates advancement?

Obviously, if Green were to show any progress, it would be to stay out of these sticky circumstances altogether. Draymond did not collaborate on this one in the least; that much is certain. Even without animosity, Nurkic committed a common foul on the deаd ball. Although Green’s upward, swinging forearm was aimed at a seven-footer’s face, the play itself was a basketball one.

The league office is considering Green’s history and there has been discussion that he could face another suspension for his Һit on Nurkic. That is precisely what Adam Silver and his team did last month when they banned him for five games for chokeholding Rudy Gobert.

For what reason would their behavior be different this time? Once again, Green was obviously the one who started this. There was no unsportsmanlike behavior that prompted him to defend a teammate or respond in like. There will be a suspension soon, and even if that doesn’t happen, Green will inevitably commit another egregious offense. He is already suspended indefinitely after collecting four egregious foul points this season.

Green will undoubtedly make a vindicationary statement regarding his most recent unacceptable, risky, and entirely preventable transgression. Unfortunately, no amount of yelling will protect him from losing control of his emotions in the here and now.

By the way, once Green left with 8:23 left in the third quarter, the Warriors were outscored by eight points. That disparity would have been substantially wider if the bench hadn’t launched a last-ditch effort to recover.

The benching of Andrew Wiggins has come to an end.

There isn’t a single player on the Warriors’ roster that is to blame for their early season struggles. However, the results of Tuesday’s eye exam did little to change the fact that they’d be better off without Andrew Wiggins. It was already hammered home by Wiggins’ performance.

Wiggins’ performance versus Phoenix was unaffected by effort. Clearly engaged offensively, he did his best to remain tied to Devin Booker and battled hard оn the glass. Unfortunately for the Dubs, he was unable to salvage the offense by converting open threes or implementing lockdown defense, and his ongoing uneasiness with passing the ball and handling traffic was a major factor in their оffensive collapse.

On the opening drive of the game, Wiggins fired a chest pass to Klay Thompson that was widely anticipated. Even though Phoenix almost deflected the ball, Thompson fumbled it on the catch, and he was still given the turnover. That careless handoff is the fault of both Wiggins and Thompson.

As with his perpetually tumultuous start to 2023–24, this one is clearly Wiggins’ fault.