The problem is, there's almost no cold-blooded sporting offenses where you plan it out beforehand, think it through and look for your opportunity. Nobody plans to get a roughing-the-passer penalty or a helmet-to-helmet hit in the NFL, it happens because of either bad coaching or a lack of hesitation by the offending player. Like, that's what ALL of these violations are, no matter how damaging or injurious. In baseball maybe there's some times where a pitcher has an intentional HBP to send a message, or where a hockey team plans to rough somebody up to teach them a lesson and it's planned more than mere moments in advance... but those are very rare, and frankly usually less violent.
It doesn't matter that Draymond didn't plan to kick somebody in the nuts or suplex them 2 seconds after the whistle while wrestling for a ball or do a spinning backfist. It's not an excuse! You have to avoid it anyway! And nobody else seems to have a problem avoiding violent conduct in the game.
Just about
every foul that's called in a game (other than take fouls) is one the offender didn't intend to commit. But we have varying levels of penalty, because we want to insert some level of hesitation before you go hog wild. More to the point, we want players to take special care when it comes to actions that might actually injure an opponent. A little slap of a hand or arm in a shooting motion is a foul within the context of playing the game - it affects the fairness dynamic surrounding "Trying to put the ball in the basket". It's called because we want players to be free to shoot the ball and see if they make it, but there's no purpose or concern beyond that. Whereas, actions that could actually hurt someone - we're talking about enormous humans moving full-speed and needing / using strength for most plays - are an entirely different category. Frustration fouls where you follow through and hit someone's head. Clipping someone who's in the air, causing them to crash-land awkwardly. Or stuff that hurts a player while having no connection to trying to make a play. That's the stuff we have extra rules about, extra concern for, additional discipline for, because it doesn't matter if it's "intentional". The player has to have some hesitation about such things, has to play in a way that shows regard for opponents' safety, or else we're just having a
highly stylized brawl out there. Draymond specializes in just about every class of behavior that shows a total lack of regard for anyone's safety. So it really pisses me off when someone says "oh he didn't mean to do that" in a manner that suggests excusing the behavior. THAT'S BESIDES THE POINT, HE SHOULDN'T DO IT, NOBODY SHOULD DO IT.
If he's not suspended for this, I expect we'll see some eye gouging next. I mean, at that point, why not, right? Why not swing elbows on every rebound? I'm not
trying to hit him, he just had the misfortune of being in my way! Good christ, that shit doesn't fly for my 7-year-old, nevermind a grown man. If I want to see a fight, I watch one where both people are going into it expecting a fight.