Draymond: 'I have a way to go to being myself'

Draymond Green would've been hard-pressed to play any worse than he did in Games 3 and 4 against the Oklahoma City Thunder, so his performance in the Golden State Warriors' Game 5 win counts as a bounce-back almost by default.

Green looked far more settled, and far more like himself, on Thursday night. He was proud of his effort - after the game he said he approached it "like it's life or death" - but still feels his play has a long way to go.

"I don't feel like I got my mojo back, but I feel like I'm heading in the right direction," he wrote in his diary for The Undefeated. "All I can do is battle. Everything else will take care of itself. I feel better. I feel good. But I feel like I have a way to go to being myself. You can't control how a game goes. But I can control how hard I play."

In the Warriors' two losses in Oklahoma City, Green shot a combined 2-of-16, recorded nearly as many turnovers (10) as points (12), and was a minus-73 in his 70 minutes on the floor. In Game 5, he went for 11 points, 13 rebounds, four assists, and four blocks. What helped him turn things around? Nothing in particular.

"I haven't really been doing no soul-searching," he wrote. "I'm just being myself. Be you. I'd call it keeping it real with myself. I've been doing that for the last couple of days. I told myself that I can be me better than anyone else in this world."