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After hitting a quartet of 3-pointers against the Jazz on Thursday night, Golden State forward Draymond Green gave an assist to Utah coach Quin Snyder.

Green received a text message from his mother prior to tipoff, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, that Green said included a quote from Snyder "in which the Jazz head coach mentioned that letting Green shoot seemed prudent."

"I'm really not the right guy to talk junk to," the Chronicle quoted Green as saying Saturday. "You kind of wake up somebody else. Maybe he learned. Or maybe he'll try it again. But I'm really not the right person to do that against."

Asked about Green's remarks Saturday evening, Snyder said he couldn't recall saying anything of that nature and called Green one of the players "that I personally respect the most."

Here's Snyder's full comment:

"To me, he's one of the players in the league, one of the very best players in the league, and one of the ones that I personally respect the most. It's for what he does on the floor, the passing, the shooting, the playmaking. But it's also for that competitiveness. The IQ, but also his competitiveness. He's so competitive he's going to make make you pay for — I don't know — what he thinks you're thinking. And, to me, it's a compliment to him if anything that he's able to generate motivation from a situation that I don't … That's not how I want to guard him. He showed what he's capable of doing. He shot us out of the game in the first quarter. Some of those threes in transition, things like that. Again, he's one of those guys, I love to watch him. There isn't anything he can't do on the court, including make plays and shoot."

Green had also poked fun of Snyder for calling a timeout with his team down eight with 9.3 seconds left to play against the Warriors this week.

"Like, bro, you're down 10 with six seconds left," Green told reporters. "It's kind of over, my man. Let's just go to the restaurant, have a good dinner and just chill."

Snyder said he used the timeout to get his players, particularly youngsters Danté Exum and Trey Lyles, some extra practice in a late-game setting.