Even in the NBA offseason, Draymond Green won’t bite his tongue.
So when he came across Alperen Şengün’s recent comments about the Warriors’ first-round playoff series win over the Houston Rockets, Green had to fire back.
“That’s a tough thing to say after you lose,” Green wrote on Threads. “You have to win to [say] stuff like that.”
Şengün appeared on the “Socrates Dergi” podcast and candidly shared his point of view on how the physical series played out.
“They’re a very experienced team,” Şengün said. “They fouled a lot. In the playoffs, they don’t call it. But they were the ones crying all series about fouls not being called.”
The gritty seven-game series was filled with different fouls, from personal to technical, and even consisted of a number of ejections. But the Rockets never finished a game with more fouls called on them than the Warriors.
In Game 1, Golden State had 18 fouls, Houston had 15. In Game 2, it was 18 to 17. In the third game, the Warriors finished with 21 fouls, while the Rockets finished with 17. It was close in Game 4, but the Warriors had 22 and the Rockets had 21. Golden State had 27 fouls in Game 5, and Houston had 22. The largest discrepancy came in Game 6, when the Warriors had 12 more fouls called on them (30) than the Rockets (18). In the win-or-go-home Game 7, both teams finished with 14 fouls.
Overall, the Warriors were called for 150 fouls, and the Rockets were called for 124.
That didn’t matter for Golden State in the end, though, as Buddy Hield’s historic Game 7 helped lift the team to the Western Conference semifinals and ended Şengün and the Rockets’ season.
“Hold that L,” Green wrote in response to a post of Şengün’s comments.
The Warriors host Şengün and the Rockets on Nov. 26, the day before Thanksgiving, for their first regular-season matchup of the 2025-26 NBA season at Chase Center.
Get your popcorn, turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie ready.
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