The Knicks cut arena music, videos, and in-game entertainment from the first half of their game against the Golden State Warriors at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Nothing made noise in dead ball situations aside from the sounds of announcers, whistles from referees, and crowd chatter. It was uncomfortable to watch, and the experiment did not sit well with Draymond Green.
Draymond Green said the no-music 1st half at Warriors vs. Knicks was ‘pathetic’
“Computers can do anything for us -- it’s like going back to paper. Why would you do that?”
“That was pathetic,” Green told reporters after his team’s 112-105 win. “It changed the flow of the game. It changed everything. You get used used to playing the game a certain way.”
MSG is going old school and playing no music, video or in-game entertainment for the first half. This is what it sounds and looks like: pic.twitter.com/PxYJp1CpIt
— Ohm Youngmisuk (@NotoriousOHM) March 5, 2017
Athletes are listening to music all the time on their way to the game and in the locker room, and they’re accustomed to having background music while they’re warming up and playing. Green thought the absence of music changed the game, and also felt for those whose jobs were put on hold during the breaks from gameplay.
“To completely change that, to me I think it was disrespectful to everyone from Michael Levine to Rick Welts and all these people who’ve done these things to change the game from an entertainment perspective and give the game a great vibe,” Green said. “That’s complete disrespect because you advance things in the world to make it better. You don’t go back to what was bad.”
Draymond just destroyed the idea of playing no music during the game, calling it "disrespectful" and "trash." pic.twitter.com/Zes1cCwvsK
— Ohm Youngmisuk (@NotoriousOHM) March 6, 2017
Then Green compared the 24 music-less minutes to a step back in technology.
“And so it’s like computers can do anything for us -- it’s like going back to paper. Why would you do that?”
Draymond was clearly NOT okay without his tunes.
“Did you see that first half? It was just bad,” Green said. “Sloppy, all over the place. It was no rhythm too the game. All that stuff makes a difference in the game, believe it or not.”
The Warriors shot 36 percent from the field and 35 percent from three in the first half without music, and 56 percent from the field and 40 percent from deep in the second half with music.
Maybe he has a point.
“[Music] just helps you get into a certain area, takes you to a certain place. And so I don’t think they were doing it to like throw us off, but it definitely threw the entire game off. And they need to trash that because that’s exactly what it was.”
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