There are no ifs or buts about it. The Golden State Warriors choked away Game 1 on their own home floor. They built up a 15-point lead over the Boston Celtics towards the end of the third quarter and looked firmly in control of the contest with just the final frame left to play.

After the game, Draymond Green was asked about Golden State potentially falling out of rhythm in Game 1. He responded by stating that he isn't worried because for the majority of the game, the Warriors “dominated” the opposition.

“They stayed within striking distance and they made shots late,” said Draymond. “We'll be fine. We'll figure out the ways we can stop them from getting those threes and take them away but I don't think it was a rhythm thing. We pretty much dominated the game for the first 41, 42 minutes so we'll be fine.

“They hit 21 threes and Marcus Smart, Al Horford and Derrick White combined for 15 of them… 15-23 from those guys so, we'll be fine,” the Warriors star continued.

Whether he meant it or not, Draymond Green sounded awfully dismissive of what the Celtics showed in Game 1. Were the final minutes and end result truly an anomaly that masked how the Warriors were clearly the better team? In that vein, barring any diversion from the norm the Warriors should win handily in Game 2.

But the loss was more than just the result of some hot shooting at the right time for Boston. Here are two (2) reasons why Draymond Green is wrong to dismiss the Celtics' Game 1 upset in the NBA Finals.

Draymond Green can't make the Celtics pay on offense

One key reason the Warriors weren't able to build an even bigger lead over the Celtics was due to the lack of offense from Draymond Green.

The Warriors' defensive ace was the weak scoring link in their starting lineup, shooting a miserable 2-for-12 from the field and missing all his four attempts from beyond the arc. Take Draymond out of the equation and the rest of the five starters were a solid 46.6% from the field and  42.9% from three-point land.

Daring Draymond to shoot was the Celtics' plan by design, leaving him butt-naked open on several possessions in an attempt to get him to fire away. It worked out given that his 12 attempts from the field were his second most in the playoffs thus far. He also had not attempted more than three triples in the previous 16 Warriors playoff games.

There's reason to believe that this could be the story of the series for Draymond. He was in a brutal scoring slump against the Memphis Grizzlies in the second round, averaging just 6.3 points in six games. Green seemed to have broken out of it against the Dallas Mavericks, scoring in double-figures in four of the five contests.

The Mavs had no such rim-protector and often played small. But against the Grizzlies, Draymond had struggled to score with the league's best shot-blocker in Jaren Jackson Jr. roaming the paint. The man ranking just a tenth of a block behind JJJ is the Celtics' Robert Williams, who had four blocks in Game 1. Al Horford isn't too far behind either at 12th in the league.

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With at least one of those two on the floor at all times in the NBA Finals, Draymond Green will need to start hitting his outside shots else risk being a huge liability for the Warriors' spacing. I wouldn't bet on it, though.

Jayson Tatum is likely to go OFF in Game 2

Could Draymond Green flip the script and actually find his shot against the NBA's top-ranked defense and rim-protectors? That remains to be seen. But the smart money would be for Jayson Tatum to break out of his own slump after a brutal showing in his first ever NBA Finals game.

His three field goals were the fewest he's made in 19 playoff games this season and tied for his lowest total since his rookie year. After scoring 27.0 points per game throughout the first three rounds, he finished with just 12 points on a gruesome 4-for-17 shooting clip.

There are only two instances in which he's scored less in these playoffs, both in Game 3s against the Milwaukee Bucks and Miami Heat. JT followed up both of those games with 30-point performances leading to a Celtics win. The difference between this game and those other ones was the fact that Boston actually lost both of those poor shooting nights from JT while they still persevered to get the win this time around.

Draymond Green is right to predict that Al Horford, Marcus Smart, and Derrick White aren't going to be shooting with their hair on fire every game. But neither is Jayson Tatum going to stay this cold for the Celtics.