May 10, 2025 • 61 mins
A look-back on The Draymond Green Show with Baron Davis' coverage from the Golden State Warriors' first round series against the Houston Rockets. From previewing the matchup with the young Houston team, to recapping Jimmy Butler's first postseason win as a Warrior in Game 1, to Steph Curry dropping 36 in Game 3 to clinch a 2-1 lead with Jimmy sitting on the sidelines, and finally to Buddy Hield's historic effort in Game 7 to clinch the series, this episode will let you relive the highly competitive opening round to Golden State's 2025 NBA playoffs.
2:00 - Jimmy Butler's first playoff win w/ Warriors in Game 1
29:00 - Steph drops 36 in Game 3 to give Dubs 2-1 series lead
52:30 - Draymond calls out Dillon Brooks after Warriors win Game 7
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
All right, dub Nason, it's time we look at the
Houston Rockets matchup. When I would prepare for a playoff series,
I would basically like create a new playlist I send
in my room, just watch the games right and viol
(00:31):
to my playlist and really kind of hole up right,
start creating my cave. What does your level of preparation
for a playoff series look like?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Man, you know what's crazy? Bed.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So when we start these playoff series, since Steven's been here,
the level of detail we go through to start the playoffs,
to start the series off is so intense and like
like you.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Gotta dial in.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And I always tell people when you win a championship,
it's not the winning the championship moment that you remember,
because if I'm honest, it's a blur like it happened,
and it's like what the hell? Man, like what and
then like it's so crazy, like it's out of body,
you know, ye, But what you remember the most is
(01:27):
the journey. And our journey starts with this crazy locking
on detail and like I played for Time, Izzo and
the way Time is, oh the film, the level of
film we used to watch, Like I feel like I
watched film differently the most even coaches do, because of
the way Tomizo taught me how to watch film. And
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so the level of preparation that goes into a playoff
series takes me back to my foundation. After the Clipper game,
all I could think of I was like, man, we
gotta win this game because I want that first film session,
Like that first film session. We have to start a
playoff series. I want that so bad. I want to
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experience that. And so that's all I can think about.
Was just like getting too this, Like we got to
get in so we get this first, like this film session,
Like I love the start of that.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
And so my level of preparation for a playoff series.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Like I like I dive in and to this team
immediately because I want to know everything, Like I want
to know everything that they do, Like you gotta be
obsessive with.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Everything about them, like just obsessed with it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And so and that's the beauty of the playoffs, Like
you get you get the opportunity to play a team
for seven games straight, Like.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You get it. You get that opportunity to know a team.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
You just consume yourself with this in basketball, and I
love basketball, So this is my favorite time of the year, like,
cause you just get.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
To lock in on what you do.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That's everything because think about during the season, you get
cliff notes because you got another game, so make cliff
notes on the Rockets.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Cliff notes on the Rockets.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
You don't play them four times, you're familiar with them,
you know what they do.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
But when them playoffs come, you.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Get full a full menu, detail, dissertation, white papers, you.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Get all that. Well, yeah, and you get a.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Whole week to see the same people every day. So
there's a level of studying that goes to a whole
nother echelon and it's like you're checking off all these
details and notes and the detailed notes.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
When you watching it on tape, you're like.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Oh, that's how I stop them because during the regular
season you're like, damn, dude, I got Sometimes you're like,
dare hey, I play against this dude?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
He always played play good against you. It's like, why
is this happening right exactly?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, you get to really really lucky in man like
talk about your excitement about I want to just a
matchup and havey ill had your first film session.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
We'll have our first film session today. But I'm excited
about the matchup. I think you know this this young
team is. You know, they've they've gotten a lot better.
And when I say gotten a lot better, like you
look at the team last year to the two seats,
like I think they were like the fourteen seed or
twelve seat or something like that last year. They're hungry
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and they want what we've experienced before. And so be
that you've been in that position before, you know exactly
how they feel, you know, you know, like you can
always rewind back to like, man, when we were in
that position, like what that feels like, and you can
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put yourself in those shoes, which can, in a sense
help you prepare in a different way because you know
what to expect. And so I'm excited as hell about
the matchup. You know, we've played email you Doak in
the playoffs in the NBA finals. You know, we know
what his teams bring, you know, and so I'm excited
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about the matchup. Hey, just being back in the playoffs, man, right, right,
being back in the playoffs, having that opportunity to compete
at the highest level is incredible. But then this is
a young team, you know, a team that we went
three and two with this year three and two against
we played one extra time. Because of the playing game,
it's always a good matchup, like it requires you to
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lock in if you want to beat them. It requires
a level of locking in, a level of toughness that
you have.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
To bring to the game. And you know.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I love those challenges anytime you can have a challenge
like that. We are the underdog, you know, they're there's
we're two seed, they're too sea word seven seas.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
To the underdog. Baby, we have been to play time. Man,
It's like, okay to seven, let's go absolutely, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And obviously we don't view ourselves as an ordinary seven seas,
but it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
We're we got to start off on the road, you know,
and and battle tested. That's always fun when you get
the opportunity to start on the road, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And so man, I'm just excited, man, to play playoff
basketball is back. You're about to see guys eat uh
a sin to an eligue level, and I'm just excited
to be a part of that.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Again.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Man, I used to take for granted just making it
to the playoffs. You know, when you do over and
over again, you like, oh yeah, that's just how it goes. Like.
I don't take that for granted, no more like so
to be in the playoffs with an opportunity to compete
for Larry, That's what I'm most excited about.
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Speaker 2 (07:30):
Feeling good game one, you always want to steal that
firest one. Yeah, played good playoff vetter in basketball, but
y'all did play in spurts. There was a lull right
of dependency where it's like everybody gotta stay aggressive, right,
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everybody gotta stay aggressive.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
But great game man, great defense.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I mean your defense was on full display when you
talk about holding you know, I think it was only
a couple people, uh that had double figures on their team?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Was it Van Fleek and Sagoon? Man?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That was just that was a great playoff basketball game.
I just want to see more more aggression on the
offensive end, especially from you, for sure, you know, especially
from you, because like they throwing you the rod and
then it's like, all right, Jimmy Butler's stuff. And then
in a wind up in podhands, you know what I mean.
(08:31):
So I want to see Moses Moody. He came in
some big clutches.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
He did shout out to young Mo money.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, I gotta remember y'all play Everybody on the on
the floor is a playmaker when it's hot, like that
when they double teaming.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
But overall, great game, man. I appreciated my dogs. By
the way, how are you feeling at the game? One?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I feel great, man. You know, after the playoffs, you're
doing everything recovery. I was doing recovery stuff and watching
film til three thirty in the morning, and so I
feel incredible. I feel absolutely incredible. And then I got
up this morning, got another treatment session in, got you know,
some some core work and stuff in in.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
The weight room. So body feel amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Man.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It's a it's a very physical game, you know what
I'm saying. It's extremely physical. But what I will say
is I thought our defense was on point. We gave
up eighty five points. That's where that's what fourteen turnovers,
I think fourteen turnovers and twenty two offensive rebounds, and
we gave up eighty five points, you know, so you
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gotta feel really great about the defense because this is
a great offensive rebounded team like that is that one
of their specialties? Ins So I think, you know, it
makes me think back to like Steph Clay Katie them
years where like we were the best three point shooting
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team and teams would come into the game and be like, yo,
so we're gonna completely take the three away from them, and.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
We would still end up getting three. That's them with
offensive rebound.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
We're not going to stop them from getting the offensive
rebounds like it's like, but what we do have to
do is there were maybe seven of them, eight of
them that we get our hands on it. You gotta
have you know what I'm saying, those are the ones.
So all of a sudden, twenty two ain't twenty two
and it is fourteen. That's a totally different situation, you
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know what I'm saying. So, yeah, I think we can
clean up, you know that stuff like that, some of
the turnovers we had, we can still clean up. But
holding that team to eighty five points, and I don't
think we had a great offense to night, you know,
so holding that team eighty five points, I think was
a big deal.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I think that's something we can build up on in
this series for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And a team that offensive rebound like that, I think
a bit A big counter to that is you get layups.
So being able to fast break get out, like you said,
if you can track some of those rebounds, long rebounds,
get out on the break, and the way your defense
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has been stad fast, it's going to result. And I
mean that's how you get the league, right, that's how
you get to twenty. And I think when they start
cutting away was offensive rebounds right, offensive rebounds a three
yar tip offense of rebound another three a tip and
you know in the playoffs it's just hard to overcome
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a lot of that. But this is that teams get
to the basket, you know, shoot the ball, get on
the glass, try and get tip ends, kickouts for wide
open shots.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
No, they lead it for sure, So we got to
be better at it. But also understanding that that is
one of their strengths. They're gonna do that well man
taking other stuff away, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
So that the hell hell of a game, No, Bro,
that was the hell of a game.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Was It's gonna be a fun series, all right, dumb nation,
you know what time it is, and you're one hundred
and fifty eight playoff of parents and your.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
One hundred playoff win with Steph. How do you feel
about that finish?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
It's crazy number one, one hundred and fifty eight playoff games.
I just want to give some perspective. At one hundred
and sixty four, that will be officially two more seasons
of NBA basketball that I've played in playoff games.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
So I'm gonna clap it up myself with out. I
gotta give you that longevity is crazy longevity.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I think I've missed, if I'm not mistaken, I think
I've missed one playoff game, and that was Game six,
I mean Game five for the NBA Finals in twenty sixteen.
So I'm proud of that. You talk one hundred wins,
one hundred wins with Steph, like man, that's that just
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said so much. And you know, I'm never gonna leave
this man out. But I think ninety nine of them
is probably with Clay as well, you know, So sinsame
man to win that many, that amount of games together,
had that type of longevity. But the finish to That
game was crazy, man. You know, obviously we had a
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league they you know, they battled back. I think they
cut it all the way to two of them, not mistaken,
and we just made plays down the stretch. Everybody made plays.
I made plays on the defensive end. Jimmy made a
couple of plays defensively. Jimmy made plays offensively. He came
over some big offensive rebounds. Moses hit two big shots
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that fade away to put us up seven, and then
he hit the three in the corner BPS drive picking
up that file. He split the pair on the free throws.
But that allowed us to get our defense set. Obviously
we saw what the what the chef chef got cooking.
So it was a huge game down the stretch. Man,
everybody who was in their main plays GP was when
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he was in their main place.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
We closed that game all crazy. That was. That was
big time, big time closing.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, Outland, the fact that you and Jenemy were in
sync on defense. What is your assessment on your first
real playoff Jimmy basketball game.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You know, it's crazy because it feels like we've been
playing playoff basketball for longer than one game, just because
all these games been so meaningful. But what I will
say is he had been saying, like, yo, I get it,
just way more aggressed in the playoffs, and he does
the shots that he looks to take, that he's looking
to get to. It's just a completely different person, you know,
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the focused level the film, watching the study and the preparation.
I'm impressed with the whole thing. But you know, it's
good having him out there on the floor because on
the court, offensively, we obviously are seeing his greatness, but
defensively we're able to play off of each other, you know,
and we're able to switch matchups and different things.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Like he can guard anybody like I never you know,
he's strong as hell, so he can guard to defend.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And now what I will say is, you know, I
always thought Jimmy was smart. You know, I didn't know
he was this smart.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, he's highly intelligent.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Anybody who get that many breakaway steals, right deflections, things
like that, block shots. He does a little bit of
everything else and it goes unrecognized facts.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I didn't realize he was that smart.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, he understands time space and disruption to the city.
And I think that's that's where you and him, you know,
are Yin and Yang for the Warriors defense. Talk about
your favorite defensive play from Game one.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I think my favorite defensive play was it was towards
the end of the game, like we had a I
had a couple of favorite ones me to sing, going
in the middle of the paint where he thought he
was gonna throw the body and like standing him up.
That was a fun play just because it's a battle way.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Hi man like tough man. He's he's mobile the shot
last night. He was a decent athlete like he and
he understands the game, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
So he's a tough, tough opponent. But then saying that,
you know, I thought that one right there just kind
of sent the message at that point in the game.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
That was fun. And then also it's always fun watching
Jimmy cum around the guy that they looking to get
those steals, and that one he got towards the end
where I just outleted it to him for the dunk
to kind of put the ice the cake.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
That was That was a good one because you know,
it just kind of took away any hope that they had,
you know, to make any comeback at that point. So
you know, like I said it was the cherry on top.
So that one that one I enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, Jimmy talked about he loves organized chaos. How do
you how do you all thrive? And organized chaos?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Offensively, we have always had this organized chaos because Steph
creates organized chaos.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Like you know, Steph does a lot of damage off
the ball, and but it's.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Just not like.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Five guys or four guys running around and like all
all of a sudden, he just pops open.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You know what I'm saying, Like it's organized chaos, Like
it's chaotic and it's all over the place. But I
think what Steve did when he first got here was
he put rules in place. You know what I'm saying,
like if this happened, you do this that happened, you
make this read. And so it's organized, but it's chaotic
because it's not like, oh, he just gonna go that
(18:09):
way every time, you know what I'm saying, Like that's
just not how our offense work.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Like you may go this way, you may go that way,
you may go up, you may go down, Like.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That's just the way our offense works. And so when
he speaks of organized chaos, it's like it's chaotic. It's
all over the place for sure, but there is more
organization than the neked I may see, but it's just
not organized.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, and so it's it's yeah, it's it's a reader.
It's read and react, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
It's like it's kind of similar to like if you
remember in football, when the West Coast offense got you know,
was really big with rib it was like, oh, if
the they do this, you run this route.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
If they do that, you run that route. It's kind
of more of that and so.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And then defensively, it's always been organized chaos because take chances,
I'll improvise, you know, I'll do And now you got
two guys that will do that, you know, with myself
and Jimmy. But the thing is is we don't just
take risky chances, you know what I'm saying. We take
like control ritis chances and so opportunities. Yeah, for sure,
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for sure, opportunistic chances.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Absolutely. So that's what kind of what jim is getting
at it. I agree. I love organized chaos as well.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, organized chaos on offense it's so unpredictable. You keep
the defense off balance, and I think that is the
beauty to to Steph Curry, Right, sure, that's the beauty.
To Steph Curry, talk about your favorite three pointer. I
know you've seen them all, but which one game one
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stands out the most. No, just in game one, just
in this, just in this last game one, because the
running thirty footer was sick.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
That was crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
And then the one he hit over Thompson was even crazier.
And he hit Fred with the boom back that was
crazy too.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
But I'll say the one over Jalen Green, the degree
of difficulty, I thought that was Thompson. That was Jalen Green.
The one on the right wing where he was falling
out of bounce was over That was.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Okay. The one where he came in from.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
The back court was over Thompson, but the one where
he was falling out of bounds was over John.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I thought that was Thompson. Guard. No, I don't know
how he got that off. The thing is not problem.
He actually work on those shots.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Like it's not like, oh man, he's just this great
shooter and he get anything to go and like he
work on those shots. So I would say that was
my favorite one. Like falling out of the bounce, that
was crazy. But the one over Thompson was so timely
and it was so deep. Yeah, it was needed, it
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Speaker 1 (23:00):
Man that was a big win, you know, come back
home and maintain home court without Jimmy incredible. That's how
you that's how you hold it down. I love the
way we showed up. Yeah, yeah, showed up. The defense
really showed up. It was a big win, especially without Jimmy.
Steph went crazy. That was probably.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
One of the best Steph Curry packages that I've seen
from not just killing you with the three, but from
a league guard perspective, playmaker perspective, controlling the game tempo.
He put all that together.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I think he did that. He wasn't turning the ball over.
That was me turned right, but he was.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
He wasn't turning the ball over, and he made every
single play when we had nothing going on offensively, he
just wheeled us because the defense, I think the defense
was there. Like at one point, I think it was
maybe six minutes to go in the half, five minutes
to go and a half and they had thirty seven
points and we had twenty four to twenty six or
something like that. But we knew we couldn't hit any shots,
and so Steve said in that time out, He's like, Yo,
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our defense is holding up. Just make sure the defense
keep holding up. We will find the rhythm offensively, and
we couldn't. But Chef got going and he just will
just there to end that second half, that's second quarter,
and we went in the high time of three going in,
I mean down three, going in down three, were like,
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we're good, like because they weren't scoring the.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Ball and we didn't play well and we're down three.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And so he dominated the game like he completely controlled everything,
even with the blitz. You know, the blitz is the
blitz is made to seeze you up, like he was
making control the ball. Yeah, absolutely, he was in total control.
He got he got whatever it was that he wanted.
If he wanted to make the pass and the blitz,
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he made the pass. He wanted to beat the trap,
He beat the trap like he got whatever it was
that he wanted when he wanted to it was.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
It was beautiful to see, like you said, especially with.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Robbins as he calls himself with with with Robin hout Uh,
it was beautiful to see man just complete domination.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Speaking of Robin, Jimmy Butler, I g post thanks Batman
and team excluding Buddy, I would have to agree with that.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You know, I'll be picking on Buddy too. Damn Buddy,
wake up as well.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Buddy showed up in a major way. Buddy hit big
shots five for eleven for three. He sat down on
the defensive end. He did like Buddy. Buddy played great
basketball tonight, and Buddy got into it with Jason Green
at the end. Yeah, what was out about? You know,
we just call him Buddy out his name and stuff.
You know, I don't really don't. I don't really rock
(25:55):
with that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
But it is what it is.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You know, we move on to the next game. The
game was over, we won the game. We move on
to the next game. Man, you know how we rocket?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, I saw Jimmy on the bench being vocal, talking
to Kaminga, talking to Buddy, talk about his presidence out
there even on the bench with those guys in that
playoff environment, and what it means having him still as
a presidence over there on the bench for yourself and
then for the coamingias and the buddies.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
It was huge because Jimmy just see the game differently,
you know.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
And although like, hey, when you're when you're on a
bench with a coach or your coaching staff, the last
thing you want is them coaching you up every play
like you just kind of but when you got a
teammate right there and they're coaching you up. It's a
totally different vibe. And so it was just another It
was just another coach on the bench. Uh that is
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kind of talking every single play. You know what I'm
saying that he was locked into the game. He was,
you know, dropping jewel over there and things that he saw.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Man, it was it was great.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Obviously we want him out there on the floor, but
you know that wasn't possible today. So you take uh
what he was bringing on the bench. You you you
bottle that up however you can.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
He walked in.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Looking like Frank Lucas with the mink coat on and
started the game. So you knew he was coming. He
was he was coming to the bench to bring a
presence and he was definitely that presence of the bench.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Shout out to my guy, Frank. Shut out to Frank Lucas.
He had the Alo pass right there. It was fire.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You went with Frank walk in looking like that, gotta
get it done. He got hot though, was hitting right
and he came out.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Of the boy walk out there with a company on.
They got quick. You got the all. It was like
a no And I look back up that moment was gone,
I said.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
He made.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
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Speaker 2 (28:17):
All right, dumb nation, y'all know what's up? You and
Jalen Green. Yeah, I was getting into it. Uh, and
then Jalen Green said, you know, just talking. He can't
really do much of anything, so talking is his only way.
Jayleen Green on Draymond Green.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Yeah, no, that's cool. I don't do much. That's fine.
I don't do much. I just do what I have
to do. But I don't do much, you know what
I'm saying. So he was balling, no problem. I'm happy
he see it that way. That's incredible. Shout out to him.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
A lot of times those are like blanket statements because
you can start believing that and then I ain't gonna
say nothing.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
That's how you get to ask it. That's how you
get to ask it.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
There's a fine line between respect and disrespect. You gotta
be careful because they can't translate on the court as
oh I don't feel like closing out or I ain't
gonna try and box out or I'm just gonna let
him drive to the hall, so you know, be careful.
That's what I would say to the young FEMA, especially
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in the playoffs, because it's just a different level. It's
a different level talk, and it's a different level of
talking and backing it up when it comes to the playoffs.
And we've seen that countless amount of times with really
talented players going to the media and almost giving that
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energy out to themselves. I mean, you've seen it with PG,
You've seen it with t MAC. You gotta be careful,
especially and battle and go be in the series where
you gotta battle it out.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
So let's talk about this tech. Let's talk about this tech.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Okay, first, I thought we was gonna be uh more aware,
oh my technical file.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I was very aware of that. I was very aware.
I'm like, bro, you wanted that tech.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Then that was the third or fourth time somebody walking
to me while I'm going for a lay up and
it's not called. I had to get that one because
clearly you ain't called it yet. You clearly ain't feeling
my presence. So I'm gonna make sure you feel my
presence now. I definitely wanted that one and then you know,
I move on. It was a game changer, and I
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was like, I felt like that one was needed in
that moment, and I went and I got it, and
then we move on it. It also turned me up,
So it was great and did it was great? It
turned me up, Like I knew I needed that in
that moment, and I did that and it was incredible.
And yeah, that one wasn't unnecessary. That one was very necessary. Yeah,
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you ran ing down on that one. I was like, okay,
joint one, fat teg. But it did spark a fire
in the defense.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Your defense in the fourth quarter, Well, you got some
really big defensive players, a block bunch of stops to
flex in the steal on Van Flick. I mean your
instincts was bubbling, You was covering, right, You was covering. Uh,
you was an architect on that defense. What were you
saying out there?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
You know, I think when you that's not our third
time planner.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
You know, like once you start to get to game three,
D and four in the series, like there's not much
that's going to happen that's going to be a surprise,
you know, like you start to figure out what they
like to get to what they like to go to
when stuff ain't going well, you know, like you just
start to figure different things out.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
And so for me, like after seeing the team the
third time in a row, like, you gotta.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Trust your instincts because more likely than not, your instinct
is going to be right if you watch him, you.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Know, if you study your stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And so I trusted my instincts a lot, but also know,
I like we needed stops and we needed that win.
And I knew that I needed to come up big
on the defense and I couldn't quite find my rhythm offensively,
So what are you going to do to impact the game.
And for me, that was like, all right, I'm about
to go down here. I'm gonna try to get every stop.
I'm gonna try to get my hand in every play
in one way or another. And you know I was
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able to cost some have it. You know, that last
play was probably the most fun, with getting the outlet
to GP of off the turnover. You know, but that
was you know, that's just what it boils down to.
I saw that he had soft Jalen Green open, so
I saw it. I was, you know, I was the
last line of defense. You see I just ran away
from the rem because I saw that he saw him
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open and he turned his back, so I knew he
thought he'd still be open. I took off out of there.
I was able to come up with the ball and
getting off the GP, and that put the finishing touches
on the game.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
You know, having Jimmy out other players stepping up on
the guard play in this game was huge. Gary Payton
second had eleven of a sixteen points in the fourth quarter.
Talk about his impact.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Man, I thought GP was huge. He's one of the
best finishers around the rim in the game for real.
You know, he he doesn't play the guard position for us,
and you know, me and Luna always joke with him
like gu a small ball five, you know, like he
got every finish around the rim that every big wish
they at, you know, and like.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
He is extremely impressive.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Then you know, he was getting those those dives to
the rim, couple tough finishes and then all of a
sudden the trade ball going in and we obviously know
what he does on the defensive end, you know, so
when you're getting that type of production from g on
the offensive end, already knowing what he's doing on the
defensive end. Like you said with robbing out, it was
great because you needed that production from somewhere and it
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wasn't gonna be one guy. It gives you the production
that Jimmy gives you. But as a collective, we can
all do that to make up what he brings, you know,
as a collective group.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
And that's how it got to be. When you missing
one of your stars and G was man. G played
some great basketball.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
He showed up, especially you know with the shoulder bothering him,
you know, from the no call when he was tripped
to Houston, showed up in a major way.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Shout out to GP.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yeah, talking about being a superstar in your bro He
embodied that tonight. The physicality in the three ball, finishing inside,
like he said, it steals the defense. It amazes me
someone that small can play, you know, on the defensive end,
can play with.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
One and switched to five and try and block the shot.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I mean, his energy is incredib boy, and it's just
good to see my little dog out there getting busy.
Another one of my dog's buddy. He showed up for
us today seventeen points. I know he has a good
relationship with Jimmy obviously with the tweet what did you
say the Buddy postgame about his performance Game three? Because Buddy,
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Buddy is a funny personality, man, that's my guy.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Buddy's hilarious. Man. I know, I was just talking to
him really throughout the game.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Buddy used to be like, you gonna say somethingbody like
he talked so fast and said, and now he's coming
up to me like a dre. I should have got
you the ball when Steven Adams was able to get
to steal I need to And I'm like, wow, Buddy,
like that is a.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Huge step in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
You're coming to seek me on to talk about this,
So jim what Jimmy's doing must.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Be working, because no, but Buddy, honestly, man, he was huge.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
He hit big shots, timely threes, He hit some very
timely threes, and he was good on the defensive end.
It was good to see Buddy hout that game. Like
I said, need a collective guys stepping up, and Buddy
was right there in the mix for us.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
We're gonna need him continue to play that way.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Also, shout out to Steve because I know people was
calling for Steve like, oh why you're still playing Buddy,
and Steve say, I'm going to continue to play Buddy.
You saw show that's what his shot making ability. We
need that shot making ability out there on the floor.
And a locked in buddy is a very good buddy.
So we gonna need Buddy continue to stay locked in
like that. Shots won't fall every single night, but when
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you're a great shooter like he is, they far most nights.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, he don't get open, He'll get open. And he
was playing on the defensive end, he was playing scrappy.
He will get his shots. As long as he don't
chase him, he gonna get open and have opportunities to
make shots.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
And he was big, he was huge. I also wanted
to speak about Jonathan His defense starting off on Jalen
Green was huge, big time talking.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Him big talk the game and when you don't allow guy,
when you don't allow a guy to get a rhythm
to start the game, that can change the game for
offensive players.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
So also wanted to speak on that.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Johnas and Kaminia's defensive pressure on the ball to start
the game was huge.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Mongers huge, huge, especially Jalen Green coming off that game
to performance where he was just having his way to
establish that at the beginning of the game. It's saying, you, buddy,
are going to get the attention that you deserve. You know,
I've been waiting for that for Kaminia. I've been waiting
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for that all year, and so it was a joy
to see that. So shout out to Jonathan Kaminga for
stepping up in the beginning and establishing himself on the
defensive end because now he's going to have a breakthrough
offensive game. Mark my words, and you got haven't been playing.
It hasn't been a high scoring series.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Facts, I think we still got a breakout game for sure, and.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Just talking about everybody stepping up. Jimmy, Jimmy Butler is
still questionable for Game four. I don't know if he's
going to try and play, but if he does, uh,
you know there's a chance if he plays.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
You know, you're looking to go up three to one
going into game four.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
What do you have to improve on for the rest
of the series, and then especially if Jimmy is out,
what are the things you guys have to do.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
To better your chances to close this series. I have
to improve personally.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I gotta stop turning the god down ball I agree
that is my self improvement us as a team, I
think we cleaned up that in the night, we only
had ten turnovers. As a team, I think we improve
offensive rebound wise, saying that they still have fifteen, let's
get that the eleven. Get that to eleven or twelve,
so I think, and then some of those be like
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two or three offensive rebounds on the same possession. So
sometimes the numbers can look a little more skew than
it actually is. But overall, I thought we did a
great job on the defensive boards. But what I think
the one thing that I would like to see us
improve up on as a team is just continue to
improve our game plan discipline.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
We have a very young team.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
It's there a lot of guys first time in the playoffs,
first time in this situation, and so as you continue
to get more and more experienced under your belt in
the playoffs, you hope to see guys continue to take
those steps. And what I will say through three games,
for if you come to playing, I've seen guys taking
those steps. But we all know we can be better,
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and so I'd just like to see us continue to
improve up on our game plan discipline.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Just as a team overall.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
I truly believe when the shot clock is running down,
when the ball is in the non score we meaning
the three to four on the five scorers on the team,
y'all got active. And what I mean getting active, you start,
you shut down the next pass. So a lot of
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those one on one opportunities wind up in the hands
of a Dylan Brooks right trying to make plays eat
trying to make plays. And I think that was really
really that was really balanced and a focused defense when
you can when you know, like oh, Dylan Brooks got
the bass eight seconds, make him make the play. But
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at the same time, I also think that when you
guys do do that and you see people like Dylan
Brooks or Thompson, you got to be aware and that
they will miss shots and that's how them offense. The
rebounds happen because you start, you start looking at the shot,
looking at the miss, and then that's how they attack.
But it was great defense at the end of the
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game because you start allowing the ball on the defensive
side to go to a weekend offensive score. And that's
why I think you guys were successful tonight.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
No, Yeah, that was huge for sure, and I wouldn't
necessarily say that was game plan. You know, it's just
kind of you filling the game out as you're out there.
I think anytime you can take first couple options away,
make teams do what they don't necessarily want to do
is always going to be good. So yeah, man, shout
out to our defense again, my guy Jerry Stackhouse. He
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has a certain mentality that he brings to the defense
and we just try to follow that.
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Speaker 2 (42:47):
Game seven clutch you catch through. Oh man, that was
the hell of the game. Man on the road Game
seven and Houston. You had sixteen points, five sist, six rebounds. Defensively,
it was a master class. This is your fifth time
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winning versus Houston. Was it a celebration because this was
a tough series? Was it a celebration or was it
was like was it like, oh man, we just we
happy we got out of this.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
I mean, it's the celebration is goes as far as
what you see guys doing on the court, the video
that you may see in the hallway, if there's a video,
the locker room speech, that's about as much as a
celebration as it's gonna get out.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
I think you know, like we ain't turning up or
lit that we want. You gotta move on from it fast.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
But you're you're there's an excitement about as you know,
and just closing out a series, right like, and so yeah,
like we never take that for granted because, as you know,
every series is hard.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Like I don't care how good you are, I don't
care if you team.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
It wasn't easy, Like, it's just it's very hard to do.
And so you share different moments with different people, right,
like the moment that me and Steph share there and
Steve this different moment.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Because we've gone in this place five times. I mean
we've played against this team five times in the playoffs
and beat them all five times. Like we've won now
two game sevens in this arena against two different regimes,
by the way, like two completely different teams.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
Like they were really good and got really really really
really really really really bad. Yeah, and then just got
really good, really good. I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
So like we've gone through all of that and here
we are, and so it's like that appreciation for that,
getting that first playoff win with Jimmy, you know, that
playoff series win with Jimmy, like and sharing in that
with him, like obviously you know.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
He's been there, right, but we haven't done that together,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
So you got that like that small celebration there, you
got like the small celebration amongst the guys that this
is their first time winning the playoff series. You know
what I'm saying, like real small. The ain't no real
celebration there. I would say there's more of an appreciation
than a celebration.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
That one felt good. And you know, Houston was my team,
one of my sleeper teams for the year. I gotta
give a shout out. You know, I picked them out.
I have a great season. I think for you guys,
it felt like like the monkey was off your back.
Right as an underdog, you jump out, you get the lead.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
In the series.
Speaker 7 (45:35):
But you know this team had a lot a lot
of fight, right. And I love a quote.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
I think your quote at the end when you found
the camera saying good night has been real? Like that
was a bar, right because y'all been going back and forth.
You know, damn they're fighting.
Speaker 7 (45:53):
It was a scrappy series. So the good night it's
been real?
Speaker 3 (45:58):
That was a bar. I gotta give you got a
gee I probb, So now that was a bar.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
That was a straight bar. I appreciate that. Man, that
felt good. You know, it's like it has been real
but good night.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
It's a rock. We're moving on to the next one.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
But hard fast series. Man, you know, one of the
toughest series I've played in. If I'm honest, them boys
was tough.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
Young boy, Buddy, He'll went off thirty three points nine
three pointers.
Speaker 5 (46:27):
Bowd time, Buddy, that's my boy. Listen, Buddy was right
on time, boud time, Buddy, Baby, Yes, he was right
on time.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Buddy had like this serious ass demeanor, like Buddy's never serious.
He had like this serious ass demeanor the last couple
of days. And when we got off the bus to
walk into the shoot around, I was walking behind Buddy.
He was first, and I'm walking in and I could
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see how he's walking like he's walking with like a
a slide, but it's like a power watch, just like
serious as hell. And he just kept like he was
so vocal and everything was just so matter of fact,
like you think he'd been in this situation a million times,
Like he.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
Was so dialed in. I'm actually not surprised he had
that game. He was so dialed in. Well, when I
saw him walking in, I was dis close, and I
wish I would have done it. I was going to
record him walking in because he was walking so powerful.
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I'm not surprised at all that he had that game,
but it was great to see him have that game.
I know the amount of work he put in, and
I know the amount of slander that he's caught all
year at different times, and so to see him have
that game on the biggest stage in Game seven, like
you see how tight guys can get. Look at Dylan Brooks,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
Like you see Houston was tight, like out there playing
on the floor against him, like you could feel it.
Friend Van Bleet wasn't tight, you know what I'm saying.
But they were tight and and and we could fill out,
we consense it. The arena was tight, like you consisted.
They knew what was coming. They like not these dudes again,
and everybody in the gym knew what was happening. It
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was the worst kept secret. And Buddy was the opposite,
but he was amongst a group that was like whatever,
like it is what you know, We're good. Like Steve
come in like it's cool, We're good, a straight you know,
Steph do the finger roll high up in the layup line,
and when he made it, he'd go jumping around everybody.
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He made it, everybody out there dancing like we was
loose and and I think Buddy was able to feed
off of that as well, whereas opposed to those guys
they went the opposite way.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
It was, yeah, you just taking seven, Game seven, you
get you know, Yeah, Game seven is just tough because
all you're thinking about the night before, if you've never
been in one, is like, man, I finally get to
be in the game seven, What am I gonna do?
And you saw Houston in the beginning, even Sagoon missing
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easy bunnies, Jalen Green missing shots, Stalen Brooks missing easy ones.
Outside of van Fleet and Thompson, those are the only
real force they had and they had to scrap. Y'all
made them scrap for everything. And that's what play off
Game seven, Championship basketball. It is all about one thousand percent,
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you know.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
Going into that game, we made some adjustments on how
to dice their zone up, which was genius by Steve Stots.
We diced that zone up, which then forced them to
have to take Steven Adams out. And that's the lineup
they was doing. That's the lineup that was doing the damage.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
Man.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
We diced that zone up right.
Speaker 1 (49:57):
So and Steve just said it like, yo, we gotta
get fifty to fifty balls and not turn the ball
up like, ain't no major adjustments to be made.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
But we're gonna be loose.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
You catching you open fire, Like we're going out there
loose and they're going to tighten up.
Speaker 3 (50:12):
He the one, so he said, this arena gonna be tight.
They gonna be tight.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Everybody gonna be tight, and we're going out there. We're
gonna be loose. We fired and we're going to get
this win.
Speaker 3 (50:23):
Man, it was fun. I think you know, like you said,
Thompson played with a lot of force.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
Uh. He he got a change, special, tough, He live
in the moment. A lot of respect for young fella.
He is special. The way he defends, the way he
get downhill. Yeah, he's certain of himself. He athletic as hell. Yeah,
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he relentless. A lot of respect for the young fella man.
Uh special, he's special. Singo, got a lot of respect
for him. You know, I've played against played against a
lot of guys and I always tell people, man, in
a playoff, series. One of two things happen. You either
completely lose respect for someone or you gain a lot
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of respect for someone because you see who really real.
And when these playoffs happen, you know what I'm saying,
you see a lot of people fade.
Speaker 3 (51:20):
You get to see who really real. You also get
to see how people are after the game, which we'll
talk about. But Sengoon real man. He ain't back down
at all. What I would say to him if I
was his OG, he can take it right from here.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Flop a little less, embellish, a little less because with
a defender like me, he doing that my feet off that,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
He real He ain't he physical, He ain't backing down.
He got a bag, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (51:51):
He and he twenty three years old, like I don't
think you realize you ain't got a young squn. Absolutely so,
he real a lot of respect for him. The way
Jabbari played in this series. Obviously, Stephen Adams Brevant, we
know that the day the Don's over there, you know,
But Jabbari Smith, he was huge in this series for
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them shots. Uh, he got loose balls, you know. He
tried to put pressure on our defense. Those guys I
just named all those guys. A lot of respect for
those guys, may on how they acted after the game.
You know, you see a lot about you see a
lot come out and tell you a lot about a guy.
Speaker 3 (52:32):
And I didn't see. I didn't see Jalen Green after
the game, but some of the guys told me that
he was out there. So respect. But Dylan Brooks ran
off the court.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
So when I say, you see what guys has made
of he ran off the court like ain't shaking nobody up.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
And you was like you you. You admitted that you
were trying to hurt steph Hand, which again fine by.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
Me, bro, like get it, we all get it when
you hoop. You know what I'm saying. So if you're
gonna be on that type of time on the press
all the time, you gonna be talking, you're gonna be wolf.
Don't lose and then not face the music. Don't be
that guy, because again, you lose a lot of respect
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for guys in that moment. I had a moment with
Dylan Brooks back when he was with Memphis, and I said,
the dynasty start after you. And the reason I said
that is because things like that, because bro, you like so,
then guess what did Tarry Easton do it?
Speaker 3 (53:34):
He lead the court.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
I got love for Tarry east And his mom was talking,
you know what I'm saying. My mom almost had to
get out of though, absolutely, you know. And I ended
up catching him right before he was about to walk
out there ring and he was like, he was walking
this way so he ain't have to come by me.
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But I could in my distance, I could see him
right there. I said to him, I like, wave him now,
and I went and I adopted him up. And that
was kind of a little safe. But don't be that
guy man like you don't like to teach, you lose
a series teach. But that's who Dylan Brooks is, you
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know what I'm saying. And we understand, like you a
sucker man you like. But but Tari said, he not
you know what I'm saying. And like I said, his
mom was talking and saw I love. I don't get
off into that. I got a lot of love for
young fella because the way you go about his business,
the way he play the game, I got a lot
of love for him. Don't be like that because you
lose respect when when guys lose respect for you in
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this league, like it don't matter, and it's gonna catch
you in the end, you know what I'm saying, Like
Dylan Brooks couldn't come through in this series in large
part because nobody on the court respects you. So anything
you do the way's gonna be looked at, the way
it's gonna be received. It ain't beneficial to your team
when you're trying to winchampionships, you know what I'm saying.
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When you're trying to compete at the highest level and
you that type of guy, it ain't beneficial to your
team and they catch you in the end.
Speaker 3 (55:08):
So they front office trying to run off and not
say what's up, you know, like all that.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
Like But like I said, e May ten toes, you
know what I'm saying, Big smile, hug love, you know
what I'm saying. But you know I, like I said,
I gained a lot of respect for a lot of
guys over there. Not that I ever had much respect
for dude, but just show why you don't, you know
what I'm saying, And Tar East and I still got
love and respect for here a young fella like that
(55:36):
follow clowns man, be careful, be the almost. I left
the court one time after losing the series. It was
right after we lost to uh to the Cavs in
twenty sixteen. I left the court, walked to the locker room.
I got to my seat, and for me, it was
just such a whirld and I'm like, man, we just lost.
Speaker 3 (55:58):
Man. I got to my seat, I'm like, what am
I doing? I got out my seat, walks back out.
Speaker 1 (56:04):
There, shook everybody up, congratulated there, and then went back
to the locker room, like, don't be that guy.
Speaker 3 (56:10):
You don't want to be that guy.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
All right, damn Nation, y'all know what's cracking the area.
Steph Curry showed up in the second half. In the
fourth quarter. He scored fourteen of his twenty two points.
He led throughout the game, and he was waiting for
his moment. Talk about his preparation or what you was
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what you saw with him during the game. It felt
like he was pacing himself for that time.
Speaker 1 (56:40):
I don't think he was necessarily pacing himself. I think,
you know, one thing, or being patient or being patient.
He was definitely patient. But you know, everybody been talking
about the meeting. You know, I spoke my piece in
the meeting, and one of the things that Steph said
in the meeting, he said, controller controllables. That's essentially what
Raymon understand. Control the controllables. Control what you can control.
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So I know I can control turn not turn the
ball over. I know I can control what I do
on the defensive end. I know I can control getting
loose balls. I'm going to control those things. And so
in saying that, one of the things that Steve has
said to myself, and I'm sure he said the things
same thing to Steph here when when we sat and
had that conversation that everybody's talking about. One of the
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things he said to me, he said, it's my job
to tell you what it means for you leading tonight,
like what we need from your leadership tonight. Is my
job to emotionally prepare you for that. And he gave
me some gems over there. But they're saying that Steph's
job last night was to not turn the ball over,
and so he played such a patient game because he
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wasn't going to take any risk. He was going to
not turn the ball over because that's what it required
for us to win that game. You know, what Don's
do when it's time to win the game seven. They
do what's required. You know, when we played a Sacramento,
you know what was required to him. It was required
to him to get fifty for us and John when
it got fifty. Dons do what they have to do
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when it needs to be done. And that's what the
game called for from Steph. And he was patient, and
then he took over when it was time to send
them boys home on their way, he took over and
he did what he had to do down to stretch
him and Jimmy buckets, you know.
Speaker 3 (58:26):
So it was, you know, it was. It was beautiful
to see his floor game. I like watching that version
of Steph Curry.
Speaker 2 (58:38):
That is my favorite version of Steph Curry. He lent
the team in rebounds, steals, blocks, but his pace, right,
his pace, even though he playing at the same high frequency,
the way he was thinking about the game, the way
he was involving people, He turned down opportunities for another opportunity,
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knowing that the opportunity was gonna come back. It was
magical to see super duperstars, right, iconic players operate and
paint at a different pace.
Speaker 3 (59:17):
Than everybody else.
Speaker 2 (59:19):
Right, fact fact, it was like, who oh, hold on, okay,
he leaving the team in rebounds. He doing all the
little things. Yeah that like you say, control that cover
you gotta cover yourself. And then Jimmy went on his
own six ho' run in the fourth to put the
game away. We see the dynamic of what's Steph controlling
(59:40):
the game and what Steph can do in the fourth
quarter than that Jimmy dynamic of Hey, you paying so
much attention to Steph Curry that go Jimmy with the
mysols I told you about right, He gets big buckets
because people forget that he's on the floor. For some
strange reason, they forget that he on the floor because
(01:00:02):
he wind up with an iso. They don't double right,
and he gets to a spot and he's man, he's money.
Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Yes, he is now Jimmy's great man offensively and defensively,
a presence his IQ. Jimmy be out there talking everybody
through everything, like yo, we do this, just do this,
this will kill him, just do that thing.
Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Do this.
Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
He diabolical with it. Man, It's so dope to be
on the side. When you play somebody in the playoffs,
you get to see what's real obviously we never got
the opportunity to play Jimmy in the playoffs, and so
to play with him and be in the playoffs, like
just get to see it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
It's really exciting Jimmy again. It's real congratulations on game seven.
Moving right along
Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
The volume
The volume.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
All right, dub Nason, it's time we look at the
Houston Rockets matchup. When I would prepare for a playoff series,
I would basically like create a new playlist I send
in my room, just watch the games right and viol
(00:31):
to my playlist and really kind of hole up right,
start creating my cave. What does your level of preparation
for a playoff series look like?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Man, you know what's crazy? Bed.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So when we start these playoff series, since Steven's been here,
the level of detail we go through to start the playoffs,
to start the series off is so intense and like
like you.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Gotta dial in.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And I always tell people when you win a championship,
it's not the winning the championship moment that you remember,
because if I'm honest, it's a blur like it happened,
and it's like what the hell? Man, like what and
then like it's so crazy, like it's out of body,
you know, ye, But what you remember the most is
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the journey. And our journey starts with this crazy locking
on detail and like I played for Time, Izzo and
the way Time is, oh the film, the level of
film we used to watch, Like I feel like I
watched film differently the most even coaches do, because of
the way Tomizo taught me how to watch film. And
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so the level of preparation that goes into a playoff
series takes me back to my foundation. After the Clipper game,
all I could think of I was like, man, we
gotta win this game because I want that first film session,
Like that first film session. We have to start a
playoff series. I want that so bad. I want to
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experience that. And so that's all I can think about.
Was just like getting too this, Like we got to
get in so we get this first, like this film session,
Like I love the start of that.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
And so my level of preparation for a playoff series.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Like I like I dive in and to this team
immediately because I want to know everything, Like I want
to know everything that they do, Like you gotta be
obsessive with.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Everything about them, like just obsessed with it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And so and that's the beauty of the playoffs, Like
you get you get the opportunity to play a team
for seven games straight, Like.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You get it. You get that opportunity to know a team.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
You just consume yourself with this in basketball, and I
love basketball, So this is my favorite time of the year, like,
cause you just get.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
To lock in on what you do.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That's everything because think about during the season, you get
cliff notes because you got another game, so make cliff
notes on the Rockets.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Cliff notes on the Rockets.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
You don't play them four times, you're familiar with them,
you know what they do.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
But when them playoffs come, you.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Get full a full menu, detail, dissertation, white papers, you.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Get all that. Well, yeah, and you get a.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Whole week to see the same people every day. So
there's a level of studying that goes to a whole
nother echelon and it's like you're checking off all these
details and notes and the detailed notes.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
When you watching it on tape, you're like.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Oh, that's how I stop them because during the regular
season you're like, damn, dude, I got Sometimes you're like,
dare hey, I play against this dude?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
He always played play good against you. It's like, why
is this happening right exactly?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, you get to really really lucky in man like
talk about your excitement about I want to just a
matchup and havey ill had your first film session.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
We'll have our first film session today. But I'm excited
about the matchup. I think you know this this young
team is. You know, they've they've gotten a lot better.
And when I say gotten a lot better, like you
look at the team last year to the two seats,
like I think they were like the fourteen seed or
twelve seat or something like that last year. They're hungry
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and they want what we've experienced before. And so be
that you've been in that position before, you know exactly
how they feel, you know, you know, like you can
always rewind back to like, man, when we were in
that position, like what that feels like, and you can
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put yourself in those shoes, which can, in a sense
help you prepare in a different way because you know
what to expect. And so I'm excited as hell about
the matchup. You know, we've played email you Doak in
the playoffs in the NBA finals. You know, we know
what his teams bring, you know, and so I'm excited
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about the matchup. Hey, just being back in the playoffs, man, right, right,
being back in the playoffs, having that opportunity to compete
at the highest level is incredible. But then this is
a young team, you know, a team that we went
three and two with this year three and two against
we played one extra time. Because of the playing game,
it's always a good matchup, like it requires you to
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lock in if you want to beat them. It requires
a level of locking in, a level of toughness that
you have.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
To bring to the game. And you know.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I love those challenges anytime you can have a challenge
like that. We are the underdog, you know, they're there's
we're two seed, they're too sea word seven seas.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
To the underdog. Baby, we have been to play time. Man,
It's like, okay to seven, let's go absolutely, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And obviously we don't view ourselves as an ordinary seven seas,
but it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
We're we got to start off on the road, you know,
and and battle tested. That's always fun when you get
the opportunity to start on the road, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And so man, I'm just excited, man, to play playoff
basketball is back. You're about to see guys eat uh
a sin to an eligue level, and I'm just excited
to be a part of that.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Again.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Man, I used to take for granted just making it
to the playoffs. You know, when you do over and
over again, you like, oh yeah, that's just how it goes. Like.
I don't take that for granted, no more like so
to be in the playoffs with an opportunity to compete
for Larry, That's what I'm most excited about.
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Speaker 2 (07:30):
Feeling good game one, you always want to steal that
firest one. Yeah, played good playoff vetter in basketball, but
y'all did play in spurts. There was a lull right
of dependency where it's like everybody gotta stay aggressive, right,
(07:51):
everybody gotta stay aggressive.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
But great game man, great defense.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I mean your defense was on full display when you
talk about holding you know, I think it was only
a couple people, uh that had double figures on their team?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Was it Van Fleek and Sagoon? Man?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That was just that was a great playoff basketball game.
I just want to see more more aggression on the
offensive end, especially from you, for sure, you know, especially
from you, because like they throwing you the rod and
then it's like, all right, Jimmy Butler's stuff. And then
in a wind up in podhands, you know what I mean.
(08:31):
So I want to see Moses Moody. He came in
some big clutches.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
He did shout out to young Mo money.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, I gotta remember y'all play Everybody on the on
the floor is a playmaker when it's hot, like that
when they double teaming.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
But overall, great game, man. I appreciated my dogs. By
the way, how are you feeling at the game? One?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I feel great, man. You know, after the playoffs, you're
doing everything recovery. I was doing recovery stuff and watching
film til three thirty in the morning, and so I
feel incredible. I feel absolutely incredible. And then I got
up this morning, got another treatment session in, got you know,
some some core work and stuff in in.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
The weight room. So body feel amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Man.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It's a it's a very physical game, you know what
I'm saying. It's extremely physical. But what I will say
is I thought our defense was on point. We gave
up eighty five points. That's where that's what fourteen turnovers,
I think fourteen turnovers and twenty two offensive rebounds, and
we gave up eighty five points, you know, so you
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gotta feel really great about the defense because this is
a great offensive rebounded team like that is that one
of their specialties? Ins So I think, you know, it
makes me think back to like Steph Clay Katie them
years where like we were the best three point shooting
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team and teams would come into the game and be like, yo,
so we're gonna completely take the three away from them, and.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
We would still end up getting three. That's them with
offensive rebound.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
We're not going to stop them from getting the offensive
rebounds like it's like, but what we do have to
do is there were maybe seven of them, eight of
them that we get our hands on it. You gotta
have you know what I'm saying, those are the ones.
So all of a sudden, twenty two ain't twenty two
and it is fourteen. That's a totally different situation, you
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know what I'm saying. So, yeah, I think we can
clean up, you know that stuff like that, some of
the turnovers we had, we can still clean up. But
holding that team to eighty five points, and I don't
think we had a great offense to night, you know,
so holding that team eighty five points, I think was
a big deal.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I think that's something we can build up on in
this series for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And a team that offensive rebound like that, I think
a bit A big counter to that is you get layups.
So being able to fast break get out, like you said,
if you can track some of those rebounds, long rebounds,
get out on the break, and the way your defense
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has been stad fast, it's going to result. And I
mean that's how you get the league, right, that's how
you get to twenty. And I think when they start
cutting away was offensive rebounds right, offensive rebounds a three
yar tip offense of rebound another three a tip and
you know in the playoffs it's just hard to overcome
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a lot of that. But this is that teams get
to the basket, you know, shoot the ball, get on
the glass, try and get tip ends, kickouts for wide
open shots.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
No, they lead it for sure, So we got to
be better at it. But also understanding that that is
one of their strengths. They're gonna do that well man
taking other stuff away, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
So that the hell hell of a game, No, Bro,
that was the hell of a game.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Was It's gonna be a fun series, all right, dumb nation,
you know what time it is, and you're one hundred
and fifty eight playoff of parents and your.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
One hundred playoff win with Steph. How do you feel
about that finish?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
It's crazy number one, one hundred and fifty eight playoff games.
I just want to give some perspective. At one hundred
and sixty four, that will be officially two more seasons
of NBA basketball that I've played in playoff games.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
So I'm gonna clap it up myself with out. I
gotta give you that longevity is crazy longevity.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I think I've missed, if I'm not mistaken, I think
I've missed one playoff game, and that was Game six,
I mean Game five for the NBA Finals in twenty sixteen.
So I'm proud of that. You talk one hundred wins,
one hundred wins with Steph, like man, that's that just
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said so much. And you know, I'm never gonna leave
this man out. But I think ninety nine of them
is probably with Clay as well, you know, So sinsame
man to win that many, that amount of games together,
had that type of longevity. But the finish to That
game was crazy, man. You know, obviously we had a
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league they you know, they battled back. I think they
cut it all the way to two of them, not mistaken,
and we just made plays down the stretch. Everybody made plays.
I made plays on the defensive end. Jimmy made a
couple of plays defensively. Jimmy made plays offensively. He came
over some big offensive rebounds. Moses hit two big shots
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that fade away to put us up seven, and then
he hit the three in the corner BPS drive picking
up that file. He split the pair on the free throws.
But that allowed us to get our defense set. Obviously
we saw what the what the chef chef got cooking.
So it was a huge game down the stretch. Man,
everybody who was in their main plays GP was when
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he was in their main place.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
We closed that game all crazy. That was. That was
big time, big time closing.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, Outland, the fact that you and Jenemy were in
sync on defense. What is your assessment on your first
real playoff Jimmy basketball game.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You know, it's crazy because it feels like we've been
playing playoff basketball for longer than one game, just because
all these games been so meaningful. But what I will
say is he had been saying, like, yo, I get it,
just way more aggressed in the playoffs, and he does
the shots that he looks to take, that he's looking
to get to. It's just a completely different person, you know,
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the focused level the film, watching the study and the preparation.
I'm impressed with the whole thing. But you know, it's
good having him out there on the floor because on
the court, offensively, we obviously are seeing his greatness, but
defensively we're able to play off of each other, you know,
and we're able to switch matchups and different things.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Like he can guard anybody like I never you know,
he's strong as hell, so he can guard to defend.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And now what I will say is, you know, I
always thought Jimmy was smart. You know, I didn't know
he was this smart.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, he's highly intelligent.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Anybody who get that many breakaway steals, right deflections, things
like that, block shots. He does a little bit of
everything else and it goes unrecognized facts.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I didn't realize he was that smart.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, he understands time space and disruption to the city.
And I think that's that's where you and him, you know,
are Yin and Yang for the Warriors defense. Talk about
your favorite defensive play from Game one.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I think my favorite defensive play was it was towards
the end of the game, like we had a I
had a couple of favorite ones me to sing, going
in the middle of the paint where he thought he
was gonna throw the body and like standing him up.
That was a fun play just because it's a battle way.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Hi man like tough man. He's he's mobile the shot
last night. He was a decent athlete like he and
he understands the game, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
So he's a tough, tough opponent. But then saying that,
you know, I thought that one right there just kind
of sent the message at that point in the game.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
That was fun. And then also it's always fun watching
Jimmy cum around the guy that they looking to get
those steals, and that one he got towards the end
where I just outleted it to him for the dunk
to kind of put the ice the cake.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
That was That was a good one because you know,
it just kind of took away any hope that they had,
you know, to make any comeback at that point. So
you know, like I said it was the cherry on top.
So that one that one I enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, Jimmy talked about he loves organized chaos. How do
you how do you all thrive? And organized chaos?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Offensively, we have always had this organized chaos because Steph
creates organized chaos.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Like you know, Steph does a lot of damage off
the ball, and but it's.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Just not like.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Five guys or four guys running around and like all
all of a sudden, he just pops open.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You know what I'm saying, Like it's organized chaos, Like
it's chaotic and it's all over the place. But I
think what Steve did when he first got here was
he put rules in place. You know what I'm saying,
like if this happened, you do this that happened, you
make this read. And so it's organized, but it's chaotic
because it's not like, oh, he just gonna go that
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way every time, you know what I'm saying, Like that's
just not how our offense work.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Like you may go this way, you may go that way,
you may go up, you may go down, Like.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That's just the way our offense works. And so when
he speaks of organized chaos, it's like it's chaotic. It's
all over the place for sure, but there is more
organization than the neked I may see, but it's just
not organized.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, and so it's it's yeah, it's it's a reader.
It's read and react, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
It's like it's kind of similar to like if you
remember in football, when the West Coast offense got you know,
was really big with rib it was like, oh, if
the they do this, you run this route.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
If they do that, you run that route. It's kind
of more of that and so.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And then defensively, it's always been organized chaos because take chances,
I'll improvise, you know, I'll do And now you got
two guys that will do that, you know, with myself
and Jimmy. But the thing is is we don't just
take risky chances, you know what I'm saying. We take
like control ritis chances and so opportunities. Yeah, for sure,
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for sure, opportunistic chances.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Absolutely. So that's what kind of what jim is getting
at it. I agree. I love organized chaos as well.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, organized chaos on offense it's so unpredictable. You keep
the defense off balance, and I think that is the
beauty to to Steph Curry, Right, sure, that's the beauty.
To Steph Curry, talk about your favorite three pointer. I
know you've seen them all, but which one game one
(19:48):
stands out the most. No, just in game one, just
in this, just in this last game one, because the
running thirty footer was sick.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
That was crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
And then the one he hit over Thompson was even crazier.
And he hit Fred with the boom back that was
crazy too.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
But I'll say the one over Jalen Green, the degree
of difficulty, I thought that was Thompson. That was Jalen Green.
The one on the right wing where he was falling
out of bounce was over That was.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Okay. The one where he came in from.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
The back court was over Thompson, but the one where
he was falling out of bounds was over John.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I thought that was Thompson. Guard. No, I don't know
how he got that off. The thing is not problem.
He actually work on those shots.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Like it's not like, oh man, he's just this great
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Speaker 1 (23:00):
Man that was a big win, you know, come back
home and maintain home court without Jimmy incredible. That's how
you that's how you hold it down. I love the
way we showed up. Yeah, yeah, showed up. The defense
really showed up. It was a big win, especially without Jimmy.
Steph went crazy. That was probably.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
One of the best Steph Curry packages that I've seen
from not just killing you with the three, but from
a league guard perspective, playmaker perspective, controlling the game tempo.
He put all that together.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I think he did that. He wasn't turning the ball over.
That was me turned right, but he was.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
He wasn't turning the ball over, and he made every
single play when we had nothing going on offensively, he
just wheeled us because the defense, I think the defense
was there. Like at one point, I think it was
maybe six minutes to go in the half, five minutes
to go and a half and they had thirty seven
points and we had twenty four to twenty six or
something like that. But we knew we couldn't hit any shots,
and so Steve said in that time out, He's like, Yo,
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our defense is holding up. Just make sure the defense
keep holding up. We will find the rhythm offensively, and
we couldn't. But Chef got going and he just will
just there to end that second half, that's second quarter,
and we went in the high time of three going in,
I mean down three, going in down three, were like,
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we're good, like because they weren't scoring the.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Ball and we didn't play well and we're down three.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And so he dominated the game like he completely controlled everything,
even with the blitz. You know, the blitz is the
blitz is made to seeze you up, like he was
making control the ball. Yeah, absolutely, he was in total control.
He got he got whatever it was that he wanted.
If he wanted to make the pass and the blitz,
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he made the pass. He wanted to beat the trap,
He beat the trap like he got whatever it was
that he wanted when he wanted to it was.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
It was beautiful to see, like you said, especially with.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Robbins as he calls himself with with with Robin hout Uh,
it was beautiful to see man just complete domination.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Speaking of Robin, Jimmy Butler, I g post thanks Batman
and team excluding Buddy, I would have to agree with that.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You know, I'll be picking on Buddy too. Damn Buddy,
wake up as well.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Buddy showed up in a major way. Buddy hit big
shots five for eleven for three. He sat down on
the defensive end. He did like Buddy. Buddy played great
basketball tonight, and Buddy got into it with Jason Green
at the end. Yeah, what was out about? You know,
we just call him Buddy out his name and stuff.
You know, I don't really don't. I don't really rock
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with that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
But it is what it is.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You know, we move on to the next game. The
game was over, we won the game. We move on
to the next game. Man, you know how we rocket?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, I saw Jimmy on the bench being vocal, talking
to Kaminga, talking to Buddy, talk about his presidence out
there even on the bench with those guys in that
playoff environment, and what it means having him still as
a presidence over there on the bench for yourself and
then for the coamingias and the buddies.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
It was huge because Jimmy just see the game differently,
you know.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
And although like, hey, when you're when you're on a
bench with a coach or your coaching staff, the last
thing you want is them coaching you up every play
like you just kind of but when you got a
teammate right there and they're coaching you up. It's a
totally different vibe. And so it was just another It
was just another coach on the bench. Uh that is
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kind of talking every single play. You know what I'm
saying that he was locked into the game. He was,
you know, dropping jewel over there and things that he saw.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Man, it was it was great.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Obviously we want him out there on the floor, but
you know that wasn't possible today. So you take uh
what he was bringing on the bench. You you you
bottle that up however you can.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
He walked in.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Looking like Frank Lucas with the mink coat on and
started the game. So you knew he was coming. He
was he was coming to the bench to bring a
presence and he was definitely that presence of the bench.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Shout out to my guy, Frank. Shut out to Frank Lucas.
He had the Alo pass right there. It was fire.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You went with Frank walk in looking like that, gotta
get it done. He got hot though, was hitting right
and he came out.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Of the boy walk out there with a company on.
They got quick. You got the all. It was like
a no And I look back up that moment was gone,
I said.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
He made.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
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Speaker 2 (28:17):
All right, dumb nation, y'all know what's up? You and
Jalen Green. Yeah, I was getting into it. Uh, and
then Jalen Green said, you know, just talking. He can't
really do much of anything, so talking is his only way.
Jayleen Green on Draymond Green.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Yeah, no, that's cool. I don't do much. That's fine.
I don't do much. I just do what I have
to do. But I don't do much, you know what
I'm saying. So he was balling, no problem. I'm happy
he see it that way. That's incredible. Shout out to him.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
A lot of times those are like blanket statements because
you can start believing that and then I ain't gonna
say nothing.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
That's how you get to ask it. That's how you
get to ask it.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
There's a fine line between respect and disrespect. You gotta
be careful because they can't translate on the court as
oh I don't feel like closing out or I ain't
gonna try and box out or I'm just gonna let
him drive to the hall, so you know, be careful.
That's what I would say to the young FEMA, especially
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in the playoffs, because it's just a different level. It's
a different level talk, and it's a different level of
talking and backing it up when it comes to the playoffs.
And we've seen that countless amount of times with really
talented players going to the media and almost giving that
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energy out to themselves. I mean, you've seen it with PG,
You've seen it with t MAC. You gotta be careful,
especially and battle and go be in the series where
you gotta battle it out.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
So let's talk about this tech. Let's talk about this tech.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Okay, first, I thought we was gonna be uh more aware,
oh my technical file.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I was very aware of that. I was very aware.
I'm like, bro, you wanted that tech.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Then that was the third or fourth time somebody walking
to me while I'm going for a lay up and
it's not called. I had to get that one because
clearly you ain't called it yet. You clearly ain't feeling
my presence. So I'm gonna make sure you feel my
presence now. I definitely wanted that one and then you know,
I move on. It was a game changer, and I
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was like, I felt like that one was needed in
that moment, and I went and I got it, and
then we move on it. It also turned me up,
So it was great and did it was great? It
turned me up, Like I knew I needed that in
that moment, and I did that and it was incredible.
And yeah, that one wasn't unnecessary. That one was very necessary. Yeah,
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you ran ing down on that one. I was like, okay,
joint one, fat teg. But it did spark a fire
in the defense.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Your defense in the fourth quarter, Well, you got some
really big defensive players, a block bunch of stops to
flex in the steal on Van Flick. I mean your
instincts was bubbling, You was covering, right, You was covering. Uh,
you was an architect on that defense. What were you
saying out there?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
You know, I think when you that's not our third
time planner.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
You know, like once you start to get to game three,
D and four in the series, like there's not much
that's going to happen that's going to be a surprise,
you know, like you start to figure out what they
like to get to what they like to go to
when stuff ain't going well, you know, like you just
start to figure different things out.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
And so for me, like after seeing the team the
third time in a row, like, you gotta.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Trust your instincts because more likely than not, your instinct
is going to be right if you watch him, you.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Know, if you study your stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And so I trusted my instincts a lot, but also know,
I like we needed stops and we needed that win.
And I knew that I needed to come up big
on the defense and I couldn't quite find my rhythm offensively,
So what are you going to do to impact the game.
And for me, that was like, all right, I'm about
to go down here. I'm gonna try to get every stop.
I'm gonna try to get my hand in every play
in one way or another. And you know I was
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able to cost some have it. You know, that last
play was probably the most fun, with getting the outlet
to GP of off the turnover. You know, but that
was you know, that's just what it boils down to.
I saw that he had soft Jalen Green open, so
I saw it. I was, you know, I was the
last line of defense. You see I just ran away
from the rem because I saw that he saw him
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open and he turned his back, so I knew he
thought he'd still be open. I took off out of there.
I was able to come up with the ball and
getting off the GP, and that put the finishing touches
on the game.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
You know, having Jimmy out other players stepping up on
the guard play in this game was huge. Gary Payton
second had eleven of a sixteen points in the fourth quarter.
Talk about his impact.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Man, I thought GP was huge. He's one of the
best finishers around the rim in the game for real.
You know, he he doesn't play the guard position for us,
and you know, me and Luna always joke with him
like gu a small ball five, you know, like he
got every finish around the rim that every big wish
they at, you know, and like.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
He is extremely impressive.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Then you know, he was getting those those dives to
the rim, couple tough finishes and then all of a
sudden the trade ball going in and we obviously know
what he does on the defensive end, you know, so
when you're getting that type of production from g on
the offensive end, already knowing what he's doing on the
defensive end. Like you said with robbing out, it was
great because you needed that production from somewhere and it
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wasn't gonna be one guy. It gives you the production
that Jimmy gives you. But as a collective, we can
all do that to make up what he brings, you know,
as a collective group.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
And that's how it got to be. When you missing
one of your stars and G was man. G played
some great basketball.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
He showed up, especially you know with the shoulder bothering him,
you know, from the no call when he was tripped
to Houston, showed up in a major way.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Shout out to GP.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yeah, talking about being a superstar in your bro He
embodied that tonight. The physicality in the three ball, finishing inside,
like he said, it steals the defense. It amazes me
someone that small can play, you know, on the defensive end,
can play with.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
One and switched to five and try and block the shot.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I mean, his energy is incredib boy, and it's just
good to see my little dog out there getting busy.
Another one of my dog's buddy. He showed up for
us today seventeen points. I know he has a good
relationship with Jimmy obviously with the tweet what did you
say the Buddy postgame about his performance Game three? Because Buddy,
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Buddy is a funny personality, man, that's my guy.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Buddy's hilarious. Man. I know, I was just talking to
him really throughout the game.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Buddy used to be like, you gonna say somethingbody like
he talked so fast and said, and now he's coming
up to me like a dre. I should have got
you the ball when Steven Adams was able to get
to steal I need to And I'm like, wow, Buddy,
like that is a.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Huge step in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
You're coming to seek me on to talk about this,
So jim what Jimmy's doing must.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Be working, because no, but Buddy, honestly, man, he was huge.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
He hit big shots, timely threes, He hit some very
timely threes, and he was good on the defensive end.
It was good to see Buddy hout that game. Like
I said, need a collective guys stepping up, and Buddy
was right there in the mix for us.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
We're gonna need him continue to play that way.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Also, shout out to Steve because I know people was
calling for Steve like, oh why you're still playing Buddy,
and Steve say, I'm going to continue to play Buddy.
You saw show that's what his shot making ability. We
need that shot making ability out there on the floor.
And a locked in buddy is a very good buddy.
So we gonna need Buddy continue to stay locked in
like that. Shots won't fall every single night, but when
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you're a great shooter like he is, they far most nights.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, he don't get open, He'll get open. And he
was playing on the defensive end, he was playing scrappy.
He will get his shots. As long as he don't
chase him, he gonna get open and have opportunities to
make shots.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
And he was big, he was huge. I also wanted
to speak about Jonathan His defense starting off on Jalen
Green was huge, big time talking.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Him big talk the game and when you don't allow guy,
when you don't allow a guy to get a rhythm
to start the game, that can change the game for
offensive players.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
So also wanted to speak on that.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Johnas and Kaminia's defensive pressure on the ball to start
the game was huge.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Mongers huge, huge, especially Jalen Green coming off that game
to performance where he was just having his way to
establish that at the beginning of the game. It's saying, you, buddy,
are going to get the attention that you deserve. You know,
I've been waiting for that for Kaminia. I've been waiting
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for that all year, and so it was a joy
to see that. So shout out to Jonathan Kaminga for
stepping up in the beginning and establishing himself on the
defensive end because now he's going to have a breakthrough
offensive game. Mark my words, and you got haven't been playing.
It hasn't been a high scoring series.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Facts, I think we still got a breakout game for sure, and.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Just talking about everybody stepping up. Jimmy, Jimmy Butler is
still questionable for Game four. I don't know if he's
going to try and play, but if he does, uh,
you know there's a chance if he plays.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
You know, you're looking to go up three to one
going into game four.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
What do you have to improve on for the rest
of the series, and then especially if Jimmy is out,
what are the things you guys have to do.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
To better your chances to close this series. I have
to improve personally.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I gotta stop turning the god down ball I agree
that is my self improvement us as a team, I
think we cleaned up that in the night, we only
had ten turnovers. As a team, I think we improve
offensive rebound wise, saying that they still have fifteen, let's
get that the eleven. Get that to eleven or twelve,
so I think, and then some of those be like
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two or three offensive rebounds on the same possession. So
sometimes the numbers can look a little more skew than
it actually is. But overall, I thought we did a
great job on the defensive boards. But what I think
the one thing that I would like to see us
improve up on as a team is just continue to
improve our game plan discipline.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
We have a very young team.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
It's there a lot of guys first time in the playoffs,
first time in this situation, and so as you continue
to get more and more experienced under your belt in
the playoffs, you hope to see guys continue to take
those steps. And what I will say through three games,
for if you come to playing, I've seen guys taking
those steps. But we all know we can be better,
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and so I'd just like to see us continue to
improve up on our game plan discipline.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Just as a team overall.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
I truly believe when the shot clock is running down,
when the ball is in the non score we meaning
the three to four on the five scorers on the team,
y'all got active. And what I mean getting active, you start,
you shut down the next pass. So a lot of
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those one on one opportunities wind up in the hands
of a Dylan Brooks right trying to make plays eat
trying to make plays. And I think that was really
really that was really balanced and a focused defense when
you can when you know, like oh, Dylan Brooks got
the bass eight seconds, make him make the play. But
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at the same time, I also think that when you
guys do do that and you see people like Dylan
Brooks or Thompson, you got to be aware and that
they will miss shots and that's how them offense. The
rebounds happen because you start, you start looking at the shot,
looking at the miss, and then that's how they attack.
But it was great defense at the end of the
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game because you start allowing the ball on the defensive
side to go to a weekend offensive score. And that's
why I think you guys were successful tonight.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
No, Yeah, that was huge for sure, and I wouldn't
necessarily say that was game plan. You know, it's just
kind of you filling the game out as you're out there.
I think anytime you can take first couple options away,
make teams do what they don't necessarily want to do
is always going to be good. So yeah, man, shout
out to our defense again, my guy Jerry Stackhouse. He
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has a certain mentality that he brings to the defense
and we just try to follow that.
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Speaker 2 (42:47):
Game seven clutch you catch through. Oh man, that was
the hell of the game. Man on the road Game
seven and Houston. You had sixteen points, five sist, six rebounds. Defensively,
it was a master class. This is your fifth time
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winning versus Houston. Was it a celebration because this was
a tough series? Was it a celebration or was it
was like was it like, oh man, we just we
happy we got out of this.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
I mean, it's the celebration is goes as far as
what you see guys doing on the court, the video
that you may see in the hallway, if there's a video,
the locker room speech, that's about as much as a
celebration as it's gonna get out.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
I think you know, like we ain't turning up or
lit that we want. You gotta move on from it fast.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
But you're you're there's an excitement about as you know,
and just closing out a series, right like, and so yeah,
like we never take that for granted because, as you know,
every series is hard.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Like I don't care how good you are, I don't
care if you team.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
It wasn't easy, Like, it's just it's very hard to do.
And so you share different moments with different people, right,
like the moment that me and Steph share there and
Steve this different moment.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Because we've gone in this place five times. I mean
we've played against this team five times in the playoffs
and beat them all five times. Like we've won now
two game sevens in this arena against two different regimes,
by the way, like two completely different teams.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
Like they were really good and got really really really
really really really really bad. Yeah, and then just got
really good, really good. I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
So like we've gone through all of that and here
we are, and so it's like that appreciation for that,
getting that first playoff win with Jimmy, you know, that
playoff series win with Jimmy, like and sharing in that
with him, like obviously you know.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
He's been there, right, but we haven't done that together,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
So you got that like that small celebration there, you
got like the small celebration amongst the guys that this
is their first time winning the playoff series. You know
what I'm saying, like real small. The ain't no real
celebration there. I would say there's more of an appreciation
than a celebration.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
That one felt good. And you know, Houston was my team,
one of my sleeper teams for the year. I gotta
give a shout out. You know, I picked them out.
I have a great season. I think for you guys,
it felt like like the monkey was off your back.
Right as an underdog, you jump out, you get the lead.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
In the series.
Speaker 7 (45:35):
But you know this team had a lot a lot
of fight, right. And I love a quote.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
I think your quote at the end when you found
the camera saying good night has been real? Like that
was a bar, right because y'all been going back and forth.
You know, damn they're fighting.
Speaker 7 (45:53):
It was a scrappy series. So the good night it's
been real?
Speaker 3 (45:58):
That was a bar. I gotta give you got a
gee I probb, So now that was a bar.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
That was a straight bar. I appreciate that. Man, that
felt good. You know, it's like it has been real
but good night.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
It's a rock. We're moving on to the next one.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
But hard fast series. Man, you know, one of the
toughest series I've played in. If I'm honest, them boys
was tough.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
Young boy, Buddy, He'll went off thirty three points nine
three pointers.
Speaker 5 (46:27):
Bowd time, Buddy, that's my boy. Listen, Buddy was right
on time, boud time, Buddy, Baby, Yes, he was right
on time.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Buddy had like this serious ass demeanor, like Buddy's never serious.
He had like this serious ass demeanor the last couple
of days. And when we got off the bus to
walk into the shoot around, I was walking behind Buddy.
He was first, and I'm walking in and I could
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see how he's walking like he's walking with like a
a slide, but it's like a power watch, just like
serious as hell. And he just kept like he was
so vocal and everything was just so matter of fact,
like you think he'd been in this situation a million times,
Like he.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
Was so dialed in. I'm actually not surprised he had
that game. He was so dialed in. Well, when I
saw him walking in, I was dis close, and I
wish I would have done it. I was going to
record him walking in because he was walking so powerful.
(47:40):
I'm not surprised at all that he had that game,
but it was great to see him have that game.
I know the amount of work he put in, and
I know the amount of slander that he's caught all
year at different times, and so to see him have
that game on the biggest stage in Game seven, like
you see how tight guys can get. Look at Dylan Brooks,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
Like you see Houston was tight, like out there playing
on the floor against him, like you could feel it.
Friend Van Bleet wasn't tight, you know what I'm saying.
But they were tight and and and we could fill out,
we consense it. The arena was tight, like you consisted.
They knew what was coming. They like not these dudes again,
and everybody in the gym knew what was happening. It
(48:19):
was the worst kept secret. And Buddy was the opposite,
but he was amongst a group that was like whatever,
like it is what you know, We're good. Like Steve
come in like it's cool, We're good, a straight you know,
Steph do the finger roll high up in the layup line,
and when he made it, he'd go jumping around everybody.
(48:41):
He made it, everybody out there dancing like we was
loose and and I think Buddy was able to feed
off of that as well, whereas opposed to those guys
they went the opposite way.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
It was, yeah, you just taking seven, Game seven, you
get you know, Yeah, Game seven is just tough because
all you're thinking about the night before, if you've never
been in one, is like, man, I finally get to
be in the game seven, What am I gonna do?
And you saw Houston in the beginning, even Sagoon missing
(49:14):
easy bunnies, Jalen Green missing shots, Stalen Brooks missing easy ones.
Outside of van Fleet and Thompson, those are the only
real force they had and they had to scrap. Y'all
made them scrap for everything. And that's what play off
Game seven, Championship basketball. It is all about one thousand percent,
(49:36):
you know.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
Going into that game, we made some adjustments on how
to dice their zone up, which was genius by Steve Stots.
We diced that zone up, which then forced them to
have to take Steven Adams out. And that's the lineup
they was doing. That's the lineup that was doing the damage.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
Man.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
We diced that zone up right.
Speaker 1 (49:57):
So and Steve just said it like, yo, we gotta
get fifty to fifty balls and not turn the ball
up like, ain't no major adjustments to be made.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
But we're gonna be loose.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
You catching you open fire, Like we're going out there
loose and they're going to tighten up.
Speaker 3 (50:12):
He the one, so he said, this arena gonna be tight.
They gonna be tight.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Everybody gonna be tight, and we're going out there. We're
gonna be loose. We fired and we're going to get
this win.
Speaker 3 (50:23):
Man, it was fun. I think you know, like you said,
Thompson played with a lot of force.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
Uh. He he got a change, special, tough, He live
in the moment. A lot of respect for young fella.
He is special. The way he defends, the way he
get downhill. Yeah, he's certain of himself. He athletic as hell. Yeah,
(50:49):
he relentless. A lot of respect for the young fella man.
Uh special, he's special. Singo, got a lot of respect
for him. You know, I've played against played against a
lot of guys and I always tell people, man, in
a playoff, series. One of two things happen. You either
completely lose respect for someone or you gain a lot
(51:12):
of respect for someone because you see who really real.
And when these playoffs happen, you know what I'm saying,
you see a lot of people fade.
Speaker 3 (51:20):
You get to see who really real. You also get
to see how people are after the game, which we'll
talk about. But Sengoon real man. He ain't back down
at all. What I would say to him if I
was his OG, he can take it right from here.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Flop a little less, embellish, a little less because with
a defender like me, he doing that my feet off that,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
He real He ain't he physical, He ain't backing down.
He got a bag, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (51:51):
He and he twenty three years old, like I don't
think you realize you ain't got a young squn. Absolutely so,
he real a lot of respect for him. The way
Jabbari played in this series. Obviously, Stephen Adams Brevant, we
know that the day the Don's over there, you know,
But Jabbari Smith, he was huge in this series for
(52:11):
them shots. Uh, he got loose balls, you know. He
tried to put pressure on our defense. Those guys I
just named all those guys. A lot of respect for
those guys, may on how they acted after the game.
You know, you see a lot about you see a
lot come out and tell you a lot about a guy.
Speaker 3 (52:32):
And I didn't see. I didn't see Jalen Green after
the game, but some of the guys told me that
he was out there. So respect. But Dylan Brooks ran
off the court.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
So when I say, you see what guys has made
of he ran off the court like ain't shaking nobody up.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
And you was like you you. You admitted that you
were trying to hurt steph Hand, which again fine by.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
Me, bro, like get it, we all get it when
you hoop. You know what I'm saying. So if you're
gonna be on that type of time on the press
all the time, you gonna be talking, you're gonna be wolf.
Don't lose and then not face the music. Don't be
that guy, because again, you lose a lot of respect
(53:19):
for guys in that moment. I had a moment with
Dylan Brooks back when he was with Memphis, and I said,
the dynasty start after you. And the reason I said
that is because things like that, because bro, you like so,
then guess what did Tarry Easton do it?
Speaker 3 (53:34):
He lead the court.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
I got love for Tarry east And his mom was talking,
you know what I'm saying. My mom almost had to
get out of though, absolutely, you know. And I ended
up catching him right before he was about to walk
out there ring and he was like, he was walking
this way so he ain't have to come by me.
(53:55):
But I could in my distance, I could see him
right there. I said to him, I like, wave him now,
and I went and I adopted him up. And that
was kind of a little safe. But don't be that
guy man like you don't like to teach, you lose
a series teach. But that's who Dylan Brooks is, you
(54:18):
know what I'm saying. And we understand, like you a
sucker man you like. But but Tari said, he not
you know what I'm saying. And like I said, his
mom was talking and saw I love. I don't get
off into that. I got a lot of love for
young fella because the way you go about his business,
the way he play the game, I got a lot
of love for him. Don't be like that because you
lose respect when when guys lose respect for you in
(54:40):
this league, like it don't matter, and it's gonna catch
you in the end, you know what I'm saying, Like
Dylan Brooks couldn't come through in this series in large
part because nobody on the court respects you. So anything
you do the way's gonna be looked at, the way
it's gonna be received. It ain't beneficial to your team
when you're trying to winchampionships, you know what I'm saying.
(55:01):
When you're trying to compete at the highest level and
you that type of guy, it ain't beneficial to your
team and they catch you in the end.
Speaker 3 (55:08):
So they front office trying to run off and not
say what's up, you know, like all that.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
Like But like I said, e May ten toes, you
know what I'm saying, Big smile, hug love, you know
what I'm saying. But you know I, like I said,
I gained a lot of respect for a lot of
guys over there. Not that I ever had much respect
for dude, but just show why you don't, you know
what I'm saying, And Tar East and I still got
love and respect for here a young fella like that
(55:36):
follow clowns man, be careful, be the almost. I left
the court one time after losing the series. It was
right after we lost to uh to the Cavs in
twenty sixteen. I left the court, walked to the locker room.
I got to my seat, and for me, it was
just such a whirld and I'm like, man, we just lost.
Speaker 3 (55:58):
Man. I got to my seat, I'm like, what am
I doing? I got out my seat, walks back out.
Speaker 1 (56:04):
There, shook everybody up, congratulated there, and then went back
to the locker room, like, don't be that guy.
Speaker 3 (56:10):
You don't want to be that guy.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
All right, damn Nation, y'all know what's cracking the area.
Steph Curry showed up in the second half. In the
fourth quarter. He scored fourteen of his twenty two points.
He led throughout the game, and he was waiting for
his moment. Talk about his preparation or what you was
(56:33):
what you saw with him during the game. It felt
like he was pacing himself for that time.
Speaker 1 (56:40):
I don't think he was necessarily pacing himself. I think,
you know, one thing, or being patient or being patient.
He was definitely patient. But you know, everybody been talking
about the meeting. You know, I spoke my piece in
the meeting, and one of the things that Steph said
in the meeting, he said, controller controllables. That's essentially what
Raymon understand. Control the controllables. Control what you can control.
(57:03):
So I know I can control turn not turn the
ball over. I know I can control what I do
on the defensive end. I know I can control getting
loose balls. I'm going to control those things. And so
in saying that, one of the things that Steve has
said to myself, and I'm sure he said the things
same thing to Steph here when when we sat and
had that conversation that everybody's talking about. One of the
(57:26):
things he said to me, he said, it's my job
to tell you what it means for you leading tonight,
like what we need from your leadership tonight. Is my
job to emotionally prepare you for that. And he gave
me some gems over there. But they're saying that Steph's
job last night was to not turn the ball over,
and so he played such a patient game because he
(57:48):
wasn't going to take any risk. He was going to
not turn the ball over because that's what it required
for us to win that game. You know, what Don's
do when it's time to win the game seven. They
do what's required. You know, when we played a Sacramento,
you know what was required to him. It was required
to him to get fifty for us and John when
it got fifty. Dons do what they have to do
(58:12):
when it needs to be done. And that's what the
game called for from Steph. And he was patient, and
then he took over when it was time to send
them boys home on their way, he took over and
he did what he had to do down to stretch
him and Jimmy buckets, you know.
Speaker 3 (58:26):
So it was, you know, it was. It was beautiful
to see his floor game. I like watching that version
of Steph Curry.
Speaker 2 (58:38):
That is my favorite version of Steph Curry. He lent
the team in rebounds, steals, blocks, but his pace, right,
his pace, even though he playing at the same high frequency,
the way he was thinking about the game, the way
he was involving people, He turned down opportunities for another opportunity,
(59:03):
knowing that the opportunity was gonna come back. It was
magical to see super duperstars, right, iconic players operate and
paint at a different pace.
Speaker 3 (59:17):
Than everybody else.
Speaker 2 (59:19):
Right, fact fact, it was like, who oh, hold on, okay,
he leaving the team in rebounds. He doing all the
little things. Yeah that like you say, control that cover
you gotta cover yourself. And then Jimmy went on his
own six ho' run in the fourth to put the
game away. We see the dynamic of what's Steph controlling
(59:40):
the game and what Steph can do in the fourth
quarter than that Jimmy dynamic of Hey, you paying so
much attention to Steph Curry that go Jimmy with the
mysols I told you about right, He gets big buckets
because people forget that he's on the floor. For some
strange reason, they forget that he on the floor because
(01:00:02):
he wind up with an iso. They don't double right,
and he gets to a spot and he's man, he's money.
Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Yes, he is now Jimmy's great man offensively and defensively,
a presence his IQ. Jimmy be out there talking everybody
through everything, like yo, we do this, just do this,
this will kill him, just do that thing.
Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Do this.
Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
He diabolical with it. Man, It's so dope to be
on the side. When you play somebody in the playoffs,
you get to see what's real obviously we never got
the opportunity to play Jimmy in the playoffs, and so
to play with him and be in the playoffs, like
just get to see it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
It's really exciting Jimmy again. It's real congratulations on game seven.
Moving right along
Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
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