April 23, 2023 • 29 mins
On his podcast after game 4, Draymond Green discusses the Golden State Warriors 126-125 win over the Sacramento Kings including the decision for him to come off the bench, great performances by Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Jordan Poole, Kevon Looney, De'Aaron Fox, Steph's timeout mistake at the end of the game, and Harrison Barnes's near-game winner. Then he discusses the other playoff series including Devin Booker and the Suns over the Clippers without Kawhi Leonard, the Knicks taking a 3-1 lead over the Cavaliers, Joel Embiid's injury for the 76ers, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume. What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the Draymond
Green Show. We are fucking live on AMP after a
huge Warriors win. Serious side to the two dub nation
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is feeling good. I'm feeling good. For those of you
who are tapped in. We will take some callers at
the end of the show, so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But let's get into this game. Man. Number one is
five o'clock. It's light outside.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That always feel good to finish the game and still
have a day left to spend with your family, your friends,
your loved ones. That's always beautiful. So I'm excited. I
feel great. Let's talk about it. The Warriors beat the
Kings one twenty six to one five after a great
second half, a game we probably should have handled pretty easily.
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Towards the end of the game, we had a couple mishaps.
Steph called the time out technical foul. They make the shot,
Daron Foss hits the three four point swing.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We're up one twenty seven seconds to go.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Before everybody jumps to say, oh man, Steph should have
done this, that's on me. After you outlet the ball,
if someone has to trail to play, you have to
trail to play because if all else feils and the
guy get trapped in that situation, he needs to be
able to look back and just throw a simple outlet
behind the place. So that's on me. I'm always the
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trailer in those situations. And I did he do on
up the floor as if the game was over running
with my back turn and we just can't leave him
in that situation.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Also on me, I am.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Always the guy who's like, yo, we have no time
outs left, and you know I didn't do that, and
so everyone didn't know that we didn't have any timeouse left.
That's on me because I knew right away as soon
as we took the time out and challenge the call,
I knew that was our last time out.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
We lost it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I should be telling everyone in the huddle we don't
have timeouts coming out of the huddle, guys, we don't
have timeouts.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So that's on me.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And then Steph had the ball with you know, twenty
seven seconds left and starting and it's a three second
shot clock in game clock difference, and he shot it early.
Also on me, because you just leave him kind of
under pressure up there, and after you call that time out,
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which I've done before.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
You're a rattle. You're a little rattled, and not rattled in.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The sense of like you're afraid, but you're just thrown
off because it's like a brain farting.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You're like, how in the hell did I do that?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
And so to move on from that play, like I
actually kept telling Steph like, yo, we're good, let's go.
But I know he's a little in his head after that.
So even to come relieve the pressure, get him the
ball with a live dribble, and now he can you know,
handle the pressure and go but and go do what
he does. But in that situation, you I also didn't
want to bring a second guy and he get trapped,
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we possibly turned the ball over, so you just kind
of let him do what he do. And you know,
also had a wide open floated from the free throw
line that he probably makes eighty percent of the time.
So I'm also living with that shot, sou before everybody
jump on all, STEPH did this train? STEPH did that
certain Steph had thirty two, five and four and helped
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us win and led us to a win. So let's
that's the train unrolling on five to eleven from three.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That was huge.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Clay also had a big game twenty six from Clay.
JP had a big game with twenty two. Loom did
what Loune does fourteen boards, six assists, yours truly twelve
ten and seven on three fourteen shooting with seven miss layups.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So I knew coming into this game my spots where
I needed to be, you know what would be open.
I was very aware and it was there, and I
just missed the layups. So looking forward to making those
next time. But in saying that, I felt great. It's
great to be back out there on the floor with
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the guys. There was a critical moment there where JP
took over the game. He got a layup, he got
to the free throw line a few times. I had
an am one and they were trying to make a
run and he just kept breaking their run. He obviously
finished twenty two points, but like forget the twenty two
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points to have those timely buckets and control the pace
of the game. When he was controlling the pace of
the game and not allowing those guys to.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Go on a run, I thought it was huge, huge
step by Jordan.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
He found something he liked in the defense and he
got downhill and it was absolutely beautiful to watch because
it came at a time.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
In the game where we really needed it.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And to control the game like that, that's just steps
in the right direction for Jordan, and to know that
he's doing that and he's taking those steps, that's only
going to continue to help this team grow. Dearon Fox
thirty eight, nine to five, another great game in another
great fourth quarter. You know at this point, obviously you
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keep making adjustments on Fox. I e the one we
made where we put me on Fox there and you know,
started just switch the lineup, switched the look, gave him
a different look. With a guy like that, he's an
incredible player, man, and you just can't give him a
study diet of anything. Eventually, great guys, great players like that,
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when you give them a study diet of anything, they
figure it out. And so I thought the adjustment to
switch it up on him a little bit there was
great by coach, and I thought he played dividends. Obviously
Fox had it on that last play, Me and Steph switched,
I went back to trapping. He kicked at the Harrison Barnes,
who missed the three number one clutch Player of the
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Year we know what Fox does in that situation. So
most importantly, you can't let him beat you there, which
was my mindset. He got the ball, he's looking to
make his move. Try to get the ball out of
his hands, because you don't just win Clutch Player of
the Year being average number one. You've been in those situations.
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You've been in enough of those situations to show what
you do in those situations. And he got an award
that was well deserved. And so I know in that
situation what he's trying to get to, and I.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Came to help.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Just as sure as I came to help, steph reacted
immediately went and got a contest on Harrison's shot, and
Harrison missed. Harrison was ready to call us every B
word and uh three or four word in the book
if he made that shot.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
As we all know, it was great to see him
miss it.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
But even if he does make that shot, in that situation,
you have to make someone else beat you. And so
we did that and we were successful with that because we,
like I said, you know what the outcome coming into
this game. I came off the bench, I see that
that was made a very big deal. I thought that
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was a very simple thing. We won the game, it
looked great, you do the same thing. I went to
coach Kerr after the game and I went upstairs to
his office and I spoke to him, and he was
excited as hell, and I was excited, and I told
him right then, I'm like, yo, coach, if I need
to come off the bench, like fine, Like, I'll come
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off the bench, no problem. And he's like, oh, I
could almost call him by surprise, Like he's like, oh yeah,
all right, yeah, we'll talk about it all right, like
it caught him by surprise.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
But I think that was important.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Number One, if you see something that you feel like worked,
which obviously Loon worked.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
If you say you want to stay there, obviously I
have the resume that I have.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I've helped win four championships, seniority, all those things. The
one thing that I didn't want to happen was like
I come back and everybody's like, oh, this work. Well,
Loon comes out the star lineup. That's bullshit, Like that's bullshit.
You're an awful fucking teammate if that's what you think
should happen. Like if they're like, oh, well we want
to play for a guard, great, very simple answer. Come
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off the floor. Loony just had twenty rebounds, nine assists,
dominated a game. You don't then go to him and say, hey,
your reward is to come out of the start lineup. That's
as a leader of a team, that's how you lose, guys.
And so I thought it was very important for me
to go to Coach and say, listen, I just watched
this game.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I think one of the reasons Coach was called off
garden and throw them back or take him back, is
because he hadn't watched the film. And so when you
watch the film, like when you're in these games, man,
you're in it, Like there's things that you can miss.
When you go back and watch the film, you have
a totally different perspective.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Well, I watched the film live.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I didn't watch that game cheering because we made a
shot or like you know any fan would do. I
watched that game lock the hell in because I was
trying to text things and be as involved in the
game as I could possibly be. And so once the
game ended, I had already watched the film. Coach hadn't
watched the film yet. I saw what worked, and so
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it's very evident to me that you go to coaching,
you let him know that if you need to come
off the bench, it's okay. That can be a sticky situation.
Guy eleven years in All Star, all of these things
and you that can be a very sticky situation. I
wanted to make sure it was as less sticky as
it possibly can be. Coach, if I need to come
off the bench, great, Now, A lot of was made
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of all men. It was Draymond decision. I don't make decisions.
Coach Kerr and the coaching staff makes decisions. I just
give suggestions. Those suggestions are those suggestions are very well
heard because again the respect, and that's something that I appreciate.
But I just made the suggestion. Coach called me a
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day later and said, all right, this is what we're doing.
But you haven't. You haven't come off the bench in
nine years. How are you in a playoff game? How
are you gonna feel about that? I said, well, coach
number one, who fucking cares? Who cares? How I feel
about that? Doesn't matter. Feelings don't matter. You don't have
time for feelings. In the playoffs. You get caught in
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your feelings. You get caught on the boat to can Kun.
So there's no time for feelings. That's number one, coach,
I don't who cares how I feel? Number two, I
feel great, I'm fine. I'll be ready to go when
it's time for me to go in Now, coach, you know,
something Stephan and I talked about was what the rotations
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are going to be with me coming off the bench.
Rotations are important when you get in these playoffs. It's
a chess match between the coaches what the rotations are
going to be. So yeah, coach, I think we need
to figure out the rotations. But as far as my
feelings and how I feel about it, I don't care.
Who cares if I even do care. And lastly, what's
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the other option? Coach, like Loon shouldn't be the one
coming out of star lineup if that's the case.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
He's like, yeah, you're right, all right, Well I'll let
you know.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And then he called me back and he and oh,
I'm sorry, I'm backtracking a little bit. And then you know,
we had our conversation and he's like all right, and
I can still hear a little skepticism in his voice.
But then that's where you lead. You lead by example, right,
Like they're going to watch your energy when it's announced
to the team.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
They're going to watch how you're reacting.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
When they say first unit and you go to the
sideline while we're walking through stuff and you're not in
the first unit. Those are all things that they are
going to look at. So I wanted to make sure
that my I was upbeat, my demeanor, my r that
I brought positive energy to the gym.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
But I thought that there was extremely important.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
That my that I led by example with my energy
and you know, getting getting involved with the game planner
and if I've seen something while we're walking through, to
step out there and make those things because again, all
of those things matters.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And so that was it.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
We went with it. We won the game. Big question
is do you keep coming off the bench. I don't
know I started the second half, But what I will
tell you is I don't care. Most important thing to
me and to guys that's played here, which is why
we've won championships, is winning and winning championships however you
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get there. However, that's I got benching in the NBA
Finals last year during the game, taking out of the
game bench sub them offense defense. I think I care,
of course not. I don't care like I want to win.
Whatever that is is what it is. And you don't
get so big on yourself that you're now bigger than that.
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The moment you do kiss your team goodbye, that's it.
I don't want that to be me. Uh. I returned
to the game, and, in true Draymond fashion, received a
tech about a minute or two of being in the game,
if that long.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Fox and I were going back back and forth.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
He was standing up for his guy, telling me it
was BSI. Get up off the floor. Bro, Like, that's
what it is. Get up off the floor. And we
went back and forth. We had a little jawn. Quite frankly,
if I'm being honest, in that moment, I'm like, all right,
we got one tech.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Cool, as long as he still talking.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I'm still talking because guess what if we get another
double tech, we're both thrown out of the game. I
think my team can survive my absence better than the
Kings can survive.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Fox Is exit or an absence.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
My goal wasn't to get him ejected, because, quite frankly,
I wasn't trying to get myself ejected. But I'm also
not backing down or ducking no smoke ever, And I'm
also going to be Draymond forever and ain't nothing changing
that now of suspension, not a tech, it don't it
don't change that. So I love you know, when gods
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step up for their guys and stand up for it.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I always respect that. So it is what it is.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I wouldn't say no hard feelings because it's a playoff seiling.
It's a playoff series. All feelings are hard and that
just see is what it is. But I respect that
and it is what it is. Another question was what
was going through my mind when Steph called the time out.
I just stood there like this, like no timeouts, But
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like I went straight to him, like yo, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
We move on.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Like we're five points at the time, Like we move on,
it's no big deal. What was going through my mind
is trying to make sure he's good mentally because we
still need to.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Close out this game and we can't dwell on that.
It is what it is.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Now where I made a huge mistake is I let
Fox get off of three and I have to force
him to drive and make him play in the crowd.
In that situation, you're up for you have to force
him inside the three and then get a contest, live
with the results as long as you're not giving up
a three. I screwed that up, So now I gave
up a three. I should have stayed behind Steph Curry.
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I also should have let everybody know we didn't have
time outs. So then you know, you saw Bob Myers
come talk to me after the game. What we were
talking about. We were talking about how I can be
better in that situation to make sure that doesn't happen again.
And you know, I take that on the chin and
I'll be better. As one of our floor generals, I
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have to be up on top those things and can't
allow that to happen.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
So I have to be better there. And that's that,
you know.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So now you know, we go to Sack to to
two on Wednesday looking to get a role win.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's very important. We got to win one to two
on the road.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Whether it's game five, you prefer to be game five,
so there's no Game seven, but you get four opportunities
to win one on the road. No one said which
one it had to be. You just have to get one,
So be looking forward to that, and you know, I
think I think it's important that we go out and
play with the same physicality but take it even up
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other levels, as it has to be higher when you
go on the road. I also think we need to
do a better job but keeping keeping Murray out of
the series. He had a huge game last night, I
mean last night, excuse me, a huge game today and
we had done a good job on him. We let
him get loose, so now you have to try to
stop that. He's going to roll in going home super confident.
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We have to do what we can to try to
neutralize him again. But he was great, and I'm sure
that was exciting for them. So some of the keys
for us. And yeah, looking forward to going to get
game five. Before we get out of here, obviously, you
know we'll take some questions. But just a couple updates.
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Knicks take a three to one lead over the Cavaliers.
Cavaliers have been really struggling to score the basketball in
this series. Tom Thibodeau defense, it's always been beautiful thing
to watch and as a defensive guy, I can always appreciate,
Like one thing you're gonna know is Tom Thibodeau coach.
Team is going to defend, and they've been stifling the
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Calves offense and they're sitting there with a three to
one lead.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And whoa.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I hope the NYPD have ten thousand officers ready to
work the streets in New York if the Knicks closed
this series out, because do y'all remember what they did
when they want a playoff game and they shut the
streets down, they win a series, man watch out in
New York City. So NYPD, I hope you already and
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maybe need to call in the National Guard that day
because them Knicks fan's gonna go crazy if they win
that series. The Sons took a three to one lead
over the Clippers without Kawhi Number one. I'm not gonna
say shout out to Russell Westbrook because I'm so fucking
tired of people disrespecting Russ. Like shot out Russ. He
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played good, like Russell Westbrook is an MVP. Russell Westbrook
is a perennial All Star. Russell Westbrook is a legend
and a Hall of Famer. So I'm not about to
do the whole shout out the Russ for going through
and persevering like that's wha, that's whack. Stop disrespecting that man,
like he not him and who he is. But Russ
is having an incredible series. He's giving them chances in
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these games. Even without Kawhi. They're playing Marcus more because
they need another guy that can create his own shot.
That's been looking good for them. But ultimately with all
Kawhi and PG, you just don't have enough. And it's
unfortunate to see Kawhi going through what he's going through. Man,
you just never really wish that on anyone. And you know,
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everyone always questions him and say this, say that he
played forty two minutes and then couldn't play again. So
for everyone who questioned, like, oh, he didn't play back
to back, So like that, shit's real. We're competitors. Man,
you don't get to this level by I'm cool. I'm
gonna just sit out, like you don't become who guys
become with that mindset, Like it's real, and you get
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so much complaining about it. And so I wish Kawhi, Well,
hope he's back out there for Game five. You always
want to see guys have the opportunity to play on
the bigger stage. He was dominating that series. But the
book has been dominating. D Book is doing what and
continuing to grow into the guy. And he's been a
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guy for long time, but there are steps and levels
of being the guy and he continues to grow.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Man, he had I know a game.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Four three to one, Game three, the game where he
had forty five one of the most and like seven
assists or whatever, he had one of the most impressive.
The most impressive thing about that game he has zero turnovers.
You know how much you guy had a ball zero turnovers.
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You were precise with every decision. D Book playing some
great basketball and I hope you all see the growth.
The heat are up to to one no Jannis in
the last two games, and Jimmy's doing what Jimmy does
this time of year. Uh, send my love A lot
of love to Victor Oladipo. Man a guy who continues
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to battle no matter what he's faced with. And quite frankly,
you go through stuff like that, man, you lose the
love for the game. And so you see this teller
injury and I'm like, man, he's probably done. But then
you tap back into and who Victor Oladipo is and
why he became who he's become continues to fight. I
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expect to see him again, but I send my love
to Vic Speedy recovery man. You never want to see that, especially,
like I said, a guy who's battled through so much,
so send my love. It's unfortunate, it's very unfortunate. But
Heat has done what they needed to do. They got
an opportunity to go up three to one in at Home.
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I expect Gianni's probably will play. If he doesn't play,
I mean, if Yanni's doesn't play this game, I expect
he'll probably need a surgery or something because Janna is all.
Yanni's played hard and astar games man, so I you
know fingers crossed. All is good, honest, And then, as
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we know, the Sixers close out the series versus the
Nets with no NB. One of my friends asked me yesterday, like, yo,
can MB's hurt now? So can they give still Boston
around for their money? I said, listen, let's not do
the MB's hurt thing, and like already dim the series
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from what it is. Yes, we hope Joel can play.
We hope he's as healthy as he can be. But
let's understand something. No one's one hundred percent healthy. No
one's eighty five. No one's ninety five percent. No one's
ninety percent healthy. That best maybe eighty five at this
point in the year. Injuries are part of it, and
so before we start lessening what someone else is.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Doing, let's not do that.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
We do all hope to see Joel back out there, MVP.
You want to see him get that opportunity, but let's
not start minimizing another team and what they do because
of injuries.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
That's why injuries are a part of it.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Making it through this long ass season and then getting
to the end being helped, that's a part of it.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
We lost it. We lost. We lost an NBA Finals
because we didn't make it to the end. KD got hurt.
Claiy go heart. That is a part of it.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
But guess what nobody want to hear that, oh we
all lost, because now who cares?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
They won?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
So let's not do that before we get ahead of ourselves.
But we are hoping and keeping our fingers crossed. The
joke can go and the last, but not least the
Lakers versus the Grizzlies. I thought the funniest thing in
the world was that everybody thought Lebron was going to
go out there and shoot thirty shots and try to
get fifty points. You clearly don't know who Lebron James
is if you thought that that's number one.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Lakers got up to a very fast start and the
Grizzlies were playing uphill the entire game. And Lakers are
doing what some expected. They're up to to one, got
to close out at home and try to take a
three to one lead, But they're playing as good as
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basketball as they've played and what everyone expected the way
they closed out the year once they made the trade.
Anthony Davis had a huge game. After having a.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Uh, not so good game in game two, he had
a huge Game three.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
He was aggressive as hell, and that's a tough Anthony
tough excuse me, and aggressive Anthony Davis can be very
tough to deal with. So looking forward to seeing that
next game, seeing if the Lakers take a three to
one lead or if the Grizzlies will tie it up
to the two.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
John Moran had a really big game.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
And you applauded, but it's going to be very important
that he also get other guys involved going into that
next game, and unlike his guys, so we'll see what
happens there. But before we get out of here, like
I said, I'm gonna toss it to Jackson so we
can get a couple of questions from the callers.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Jackson, who you got for me?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
We're gonna take a couple of questions, folks in the
in the amp app hop in. I will accept a
few callers. It's gonna be just like last time, limiting
to just a question and then I'm gonna I'm gonna
boot you. But we appreciate anyone who wants to camp in.
All right, we got our first caller at Cheddy Davis
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invite his cent except the invite and don't forget to
unmute your mic Drake.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
My question is how is it.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Going up against so bonus?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
To me, his style is similar to yours, So how
is it going.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Up against him? And like any such an intense series,
I mean it's number one, he's very physical. He looks
for contact, he's seeking contact, and so number one, you
have to you have to brace yourself for his contact. Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
And then you know he's a playmaker.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
They play a very similar out to us with him
as the primary playmaker. And for me, it's just really
meeting that force for force meeting his contact, meeting his pressure,
trying to make those passing angles on them tough. Uh
so he just can't get other guys involved. But overall,
you know, I like a physical series. I like a
physical matchup, so you know I love it perfect.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Next one, we're gonna go at Prince from NY. Maybe
we'll get some knicks talk. Let's see what we got
here at Prince from and why accept the invite? Join
the call, don't forget to unmeet your.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Mic Hey, what's up, Draymond? What's up? Prince? Yes?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Oh, what's up?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
What do you think you guys could have done better
today to make the game, like, to seal the game up?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I thought earlier on, I thought it was different at
different times of the game. I thought early on what
we could have done better was rebound to basketball. They
really rebounded the basketball. Well, they're in the first half,
and we didn't rebound so well offensively or defensively, so
I thought we could have rebounded the ball better. And
then late, you know, I think we were pretty good. Obviously,
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we had the time out thing and all of that.
I personally, you know, even with the time out, I
can't give up a three to Fox you have to
get him inside the three point line or make him
just take a heave because he's so hell bent on
getting the three off. But I kind of backed up
a little bit and tried to use my length. I
can't give that up. I think if I don't give
that three up, we closed the game out pretty well,
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even in spite of the time out.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Woozy Invite said, don't forget to join the call and
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Speaker 2 (27:47):
I was good. Raymond.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Series tied. How do you think things will go down
with the I guess they called the pivotal game five?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You think it goes seven and if Sack wins? Or
do you think you guys will close it out in
game six?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
If you guys win, I mean, I have no intentions
on playing a seven game, so I you know, I
think we definitely need to go take care of home court.
You never want to get to ahead of yourself though,
and say, I mean, excuse me, I take care of
home court.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
We took care of home court, but go get a
role win.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
You never you know, you never want to get too
far ahead of your stuff and start talking about game
six and or seven, So you just take it one
game out of time, and we're going to take this
one and try to go, you know, take game five
on their home floor. You know, that's the most important
thing in the series right now. And then if you
go take game five, you definitely don't want to have
to go win again there, and so you want to
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try to do all you can to close it out
in six, but understanding that if that don't happen, you
still got another game.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
But it's one game out of time for us.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
So the most important game right now is game five,
and I think, you know, we.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Go exceed their level of physicality.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
And you know, do take care of the ball, do
all the things that we know takes to win games
at this level.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I think we'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
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Speaker 2 (29:17):
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Speaker 1 (29:18):
Make sure you'all tap into that and less hope and
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Speaker 2 (29:41):
Until next time, peace,
The volume. What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the Draymond
Green Show. We are fucking live on AMP after a
huge Warriors win. Serious side to the two dub nation
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is feeling good. I'm feeling good. For those of you
who are tapped in. We will take some callers at
the end of the show, so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But let's get into this game. Man. Number one is
five o'clock. It's light outside.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That always feel good to finish the game and still
have a day left to spend with your family, your friends,
your loved ones. That's always beautiful. So I'm excited. I
feel great. Let's talk about it. The Warriors beat the
Kings one twenty six to one five after a great
second half, a game we probably should have handled pretty easily.
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Towards the end of the game, we had a couple mishaps.
Steph called the time out technical foul. They make the shot,
Daron Foss hits the three four point swing.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We're up one twenty seven seconds to go.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Before everybody jumps to say, oh man, Steph should have
done this, that's on me. After you outlet the ball,
if someone has to trail to play, you have to
trail to play because if all else feils and the
guy get trapped in that situation, he needs to be
able to look back and just throw a simple outlet
behind the place. So that's on me. I'm always the
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trailer in those situations. And I did he do on
up the floor as if the game was over running
with my back turn and we just can't leave him
in that situation.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Also on me, I am.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Always the guy who's like, yo, we have no time
outs left, and you know I didn't do that, and
so everyone didn't know that we didn't have any timeouse left.
That's on me because I knew right away as soon
as we took the time out and challenge the call,
I knew that was our last time out.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
We lost it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I should be telling everyone in the huddle we don't
have timeouts coming out of the huddle, guys, we don't
have timeouts.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So that's on me.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And then Steph had the ball with you know, twenty
seven seconds left and starting and it's a three second
shot clock in game clock difference, and he shot it early.
Also on me, because you just leave him kind of
under pressure up there, and after you call that time out,
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which I've done before.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
You're a rattle. You're a little rattled, and not rattled in.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The sense of like you're afraid, but you're just thrown
off because it's like a brain farting.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You're like, how in the hell did I do that?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
And so to move on from that play, like I
actually kept telling Steph like, yo, we're good, let's go.
But I know he's a little in his head after that.
So even to come relieve the pressure, get him the
ball with a live dribble, and now he can you know,
handle the pressure and go but and go do what
he does. But in that situation, you I also didn't
want to bring a second guy and he get trapped,
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we possibly turned the ball over, so you just kind
of let him do what he do. And you know,
also had a wide open floated from the free throw
line that he probably makes eighty percent of the time.
So I'm also living with that shot, sou before everybody
jump on all, STEPH did this train? STEPH did that
certain Steph had thirty two, five and four and helped
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us win and led us to a win. So let's
that's the train unrolling on five to eleven from three.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That was huge.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Clay also had a big game twenty six from Clay.
JP had a big game with twenty two. Loom did
what Loune does fourteen boards, six assists, yours truly twelve
ten and seven on three fourteen shooting with seven miss layups.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So I knew coming into this game my spots where
I needed to be, you know what would be open.
I was very aware and it was there, and I
just missed the layups. So looking forward to making those
next time. But in saying that, I felt great. It's
great to be back out there on the floor with
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the guys. There was a critical moment there where JP
took over the game. He got a layup, he got
to the free throw line a few times. I had
an am one and they were trying to make a
run and he just kept breaking their run. He obviously
finished twenty two points, but like forget the twenty two
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points to have those timely buckets and control the pace
of the game. When he was controlling the pace of
the game and not allowing those guys to.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Go on a run, I thought it was huge, huge
step by Jordan.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
He found something he liked in the defense and he
got downhill and it was absolutely beautiful to watch because
it came at a time.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
In the game where we really needed it.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And to control the game like that, that's just steps
in the right direction for Jordan, and to know that
he's doing that and he's taking those steps, that's only
going to continue to help this team grow. Dearon Fox
thirty eight, nine to five, another great game in another
great fourth quarter. You know at this point, obviously you
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keep making adjustments on Fox. I e the one we
made where we put me on Fox there and you know,
started just switch the lineup, switched the look, gave him
a different look. With a guy like that, he's an
incredible player, man, and you just can't give him a
study diet of anything. Eventually, great guys, great players like that,
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when you give them a study diet of anything, they
figure it out. And so I thought the adjustment to
switch it up on him a little bit there was
great by coach, and I thought he played dividends. Obviously
Fox had it on that last play, Me and Steph switched,
I went back to trapping. He kicked at the Harrison Barnes,
who missed the three number one clutch Player of the
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Year we know what Fox does in that situation. So
most importantly, you can't let him beat you there, which
was my mindset. He got the ball, he's looking to
make his move. Try to get the ball out of
his hands, because you don't just win Clutch Player of
the Year being average number one. You've been in those situations.
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You've been in enough of those situations to show what
you do in those situations. And he got an award
that was well deserved. And so I know in that
situation what he's trying to get to, and I.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Came to help.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Just as sure as I came to help, steph reacted
immediately went and got a contest on Harrison's shot, and
Harrison missed. Harrison was ready to call us every B
word and uh three or four word in the book
if he made that shot.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
As we all know, it was great to see him
miss it.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
But even if he does make that shot, in that situation,
you have to make someone else beat you. And so
we did that and we were successful with that because we,
like I said, you know what the outcome coming into
this game. I came off the bench, I see that
that was made a very big deal. I thought that
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was a very simple thing. We won the game, it
looked great, you do the same thing. I went to
coach Kerr after the game and I went upstairs to
his office and I spoke to him, and he was
excited as hell, and I was excited, and I told
him right then, I'm like, yo, coach, if I need
to come off the bench, like fine, Like, I'll come
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off the bench, no problem. And he's like, oh, I
could almost call him by surprise, Like he's like, oh yeah,
all right, yeah, we'll talk about it all right, like
it caught him by surprise.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
But I think that was important.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Number One, if you see something that you feel like worked,
which obviously Loon worked.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
If you say you want to stay there, obviously I
have the resume that I have.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I've helped win four championships, seniority, all those things. The
one thing that I didn't want to happen was like
I come back and everybody's like, oh, this work. Well,
Loon comes out the star lineup. That's bullshit, Like that's bullshit.
You're an awful fucking teammate if that's what you think
should happen. Like if they're like, oh, well we want
to play for a guard, great, very simple answer. Come
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off the floor. Loony just had twenty rebounds, nine assists,
dominated a game. You don't then go to him and say, hey,
your reward is to come out of the start lineup. That's
as a leader of a team, that's how you lose, guys.
And so I thought it was very important for me
to go to Coach and say, listen, I just watched
this game.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I think one of the reasons Coach was called off
garden and throw them back or take him back, is
because he hadn't watched the film. And so when you
watch the film, like when you're in these games, man,
you're in it, Like there's things that you can miss.
When you go back and watch the film, you have
a totally different perspective.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Well, I watched the film live.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I didn't watch that game cheering because we made a
shot or like you know any fan would do. I
watched that game lock the hell in because I was
trying to text things and be as involved in the
game as I could possibly be. And so once the
game ended, I had already watched the film. Coach hadn't
watched the film yet. I saw what worked, and so
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it's very evident to me that you go to coaching,
you let him know that if you need to come
off the bench, it's okay. That can be a sticky situation.
Guy eleven years in All Star, all of these things
and you that can be a very sticky situation. I
wanted to make sure it was as less sticky as
it possibly can be. Coach, if I need to come
off the bench, great, Now, A lot of was made
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of all men. It was Draymond decision. I don't make decisions.
Coach Kerr and the coaching staff makes decisions. I just
give suggestions. Those suggestions are those suggestions are very well
heard because again the respect, and that's something that I appreciate.
But I just made the suggestion. Coach called me a
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day later and said, all right, this is what we're doing.
But you haven't. You haven't come off the bench in
nine years. How are you in a playoff game? How
are you gonna feel about that? I said, well, coach
number one, who fucking cares? Who cares? How I feel
about that? Doesn't matter. Feelings don't matter. You don't have
time for feelings. In the playoffs. You get caught in
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your feelings. You get caught on the boat to can Kun.
So there's no time for feelings. That's number one, coach,
I don't who cares how I feel? Number two, I
feel great, I'm fine. I'll be ready to go when
it's time for me to go in Now, coach, you know,
something Stephan and I talked about was what the rotations
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are going to be with me coming off the bench.
Rotations are important when you get in these playoffs. It's
a chess match between the coaches what the rotations are
going to be. So yeah, coach, I think we need
to figure out the rotations. But as far as my
feelings and how I feel about it, I don't care.
Who cares if I even do care. And lastly, what's
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the other option? Coach, like Loon shouldn't be the one
coming out of star lineup if that's the case.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
He's like, yeah, you're right, all right, Well I'll let
you know.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And then he called me back and he and oh,
I'm sorry, I'm backtracking a little bit. And then you know,
we had our conversation and he's like all right, and
I can still hear a little skepticism in his voice.
But then that's where you lead. You lead by example, right,
Like they're going to watch your energy when it's announced
to the team.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
They're going to watch how you're reacting.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
When they say first unit and you go to the
sideline while we're walking through stuff and you're not in
the first unit. Those are all things that they are
going to look at. So I wanted to make sure
that my I was upbeat, my demeanor, my r that
I brought positive energy to the gym.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
But I thought that there was extremely important.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
That my that I led by example with my energy
and you know, getting getting involved with the game planner
and if I've seen something while we're walking through, to
step out there and make those things because again, all
of those things matters.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And so that was it.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
We went with it. We won the game. Big question
is do you keep coming off the bench. I don't
know I started the second half, But what I will
tell you is I don't care. Most important thing to
me and to guys that's played here, which is why
we've won championships, is winning and winning championships however you
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get there. However, that's I got benching in the NBA
Finals last year during the game, taking out of the
game bench sub them offense defense. I think I care,
of course not. I don't care like I want to win.
Whatever that is is what it is. And you don't
get so big on yourself that you're now bigger than that.
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The moment you do kiss your team goodbye, that's it.
I don't want that to be me. Uh. I returned
to the game, and, in true Draymond fashion, received a
tech about a minute or two of being in the game,
if that long.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Fox and I were going back back and forth.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
He was standing up for his guy, telling me it
was BSI. Get up off the floor. Bro, Like, that's
what it is. Get up off the floor. And we
went back and forth. We had a little jawn. Quite frankly,
if I'm being honest, in that moment, I'm like, all right,
we got one tech.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Cool, as long as he still talking.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I'm still talking because guess what if we get another
double tech, we're both thrown out of the game. I
think my team can survive my absence better than the
Kings can survive.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Fox Is exit or an absence.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
My goal wasn't to get him ejected, because, quite frankly,
I wasn't trying to get myself ejected. But I'm also
not backing down or ducking no smoke ever, And I'm
also going to be Draymond forever and ain't nothing changing
that now of suspension, not a tech, it don't it
don't change that. So I love you know, when gods
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step up for their guys and stand up for it.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I always respect that. So it is what it is.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I wouldn't say no hard feelings because it's a playoff seiling.
It's a playoff series. All feelings are hard and that
just see is what it is. But I respect that
and it is what it is. Another question was what
was going through my mind when Steph called the time out.
I just stood there like this, like no timeouts, But
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like I went straight to him, like yo, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
We move on.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Like we're five points at the time, Like we move on,
it's no big deal. What was going through my mind
is trying to make sure he's good mentally because we
still need to.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Close out this game and we can't dwell on that.
It is what it is.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Now where I made a huge mistake is I let
Fox get off of three and I have to force
him to drive and make him play in the crowd.
In that situation, you're up for you have to force
him inside the three and then get a contest, live
with the results as long as you're not giving up
a three. I screwed that up, So now I gave
up a three. I should have stayed behind Steph Curry.
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I also should have let everybody know we didn't have
time outs. So then you know, you saw Bob Myers
come talk to me after the game. What we were
talking about. We were talking about how I can be
better in that situation to make sure that doesn't happen again.
And you know, I take that on the chin and
I'll be better. As one of our floor generals, I
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have to be up on top those things and can't
allow that to happen.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
So I have to be better there. And that's that,
you know.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So now you know, we go to Sack to to
two on Wednesday looking to get a role win.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's very important. We got to win one to two
on the road.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Whether it's game five, you prefer to be game five,
so there's no Game seven, but you get four opportunities
to win one on the road. No one said which
one it had to be. You just have to get one,
So be looking forward to that, and you know, I
think I think it's important that we go out and
play with the same physicality but take it even up
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other levels, as it has to be higher when you
go on the road. I also think we need to
do a better job but keeping keeping Murray out of
the series. He had a huge game last night, I
mean last night, excuse me, a huge game today and
we had done a good job on him. We let
him get loose, so now you have to try to
stop that. He's going to roll in going home super confident.
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We have to do what we can to try to
neutralize him again. But he was great, and I'm sure
that was exciting for them. So some of the keys
for us. And yeah, looking forward to going to get
game five. Before we get out of here, obviously, you
know we'll take some questions. But just a couple updates.
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Knicks take a three to one lead over the Cavaliers.
Cavaliers have been really struggling to score the basketball in
this series. Tom Thibodeau defense, it's always been beautiful thing
to watch and as a defensive guy, I can always appreciate,
Like one thing you're gonna know is Tom Thibodeau coach.
Team is going to defend, and they've been stifling the
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Calves offense and they're sitting there with a three to
one lead.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And whoa.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I hope the NYPD have ten thousand officers ready to
work the streets in New York if the Knicks closed
this series out, because do y'all remember what they did
when they want a playoff game and they shut the
streets down, they win a series, man watch out in
New York City. So NYPD, I hope you already and
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maybe need to call in the National Guard that day
because them Knicks fan's gonna go crazy if they win
that series. The Sons took a three to one lead
over the Clippers without Kawhi Number one. I'm not gonna
say shout out to Russell Westbrook because I'm so fucking
tired of people disrespecting Russ. Like shot out Russ. He
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played good, like Russell Westbrook is an MVP. Russell Westbrook
is a perennial All Star. Russell Westbrook is a legend
and a Hall of Famer. So I'm not about to
do the whole shout out the Russ for going through
and persevering like that's wha, that's whack. Stop disrespecting that man,
like he not him and who he is. But Russ
is having an incredible series. He's giving them chances in
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these games. Even without Kawhi. They're playing Marcus more because
they need another guy that can create his own shot.
That's been looking good for them. But ultimately with all
Kawhi and PG, you just don't have enough. And it's
unfortunate to see Kawhi going through what he's going through. Man,
you just never really wish that on anyone. And you know,
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everyone always questions him and say this, say that he
played forty two minutes and then couldn't play again. So
for everyone who questioned, like, oh, he didn't play back
to back, So like that, shit's real. We're competitors. Man,
you don't get to this level by I'm cool. I'm
gonna just sit out, like you don't become who guys
become with that mindset, Like it's real, and you get
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so much complaining about it. And so I wish Kawhi, Well,
hope he's back out there for Game five. You always
want to see guys have the opportunity to play on
the bigger stage. He was dominating that series. But the
book has been dominating. D Book is doing what and
continuing to grow into the guy. And he's been a
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guy for long time, but there are steps and levels
of being the guy and he continues to grow.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Man, he had I know a game.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Four three to one, Game three, the game where he
had forty five one of the most and like seven
assists or whatever, he had one of the most impressive.
The most impressive thing about that game he has zero turnovers.
You know how much you guy had a ball zero turnovers.
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You were precise with every decision. D Book playing some
great basketball and I hope you all see the growth.
The heat are up to to one no Jannis in
the last two games, and Jimmy's doing what Jimmy does
this time of year. Uh, send my love A lot
of love to Victor Oladipo. Man a guy who continues
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to battle no matter what he's faced with. And quite frankly,
you go through stuff like that, man, you lose the
love for the game. And so you see this teller
injury and I'm like, man, he's probably done. But then
you tap back into and who Victor Oladipo is and
why he became who he's become continues to fight. I
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expect to see him again, but I send my love
to Vic Speedy recovery man. You never want to see that, especially,
like I said, a guy who's battled through so much,
so send my love. It's unfortunate, it's very unfortunate. But
Heat has done what they needed to do. They got
an opportunity to go up three to one in at Home.
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I expect Gianni's probably will play. If he doesn't play,
I mean, if Yanni's doesn't play this game, I expect
he'll probably need a surgery or something because Janna is all.
Yanni's played hard and astar games man, so I you
know fingers crossed. All is good, honest, And then, as
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we know, the Sixers close out the series versus the
Nets with no NB. One of my friends asked me yesterday, like, yo,
can MB's hurt now? So can they give still Boston
around for their money? I said, listen, let's not do
the MB's hurt thing, and like already dim the series
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from what it is. Yes, we hope Joel can play.
We hope he's as healthy as he can be. But
let's understand something. No one's one hundred percent healthy. No
one's eighty five. No one's ninety five percent. No one's
ninety percent healthy. That best maybe eighty five at this
point in the year. Injuries are part of it, and
so before we start lessening what someone else is.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Doing, let's not do that.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
We do all hope to see Joel back out there, MVP.
You want to see him get that opportunity, but let's
not start minimizing another team and what they do because
of injuries.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
That's why injuries are a part of it.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Making it through this long ass season and then getting
to the end being helped, that's a part of it.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
We lost it. We lost. We lost an NBA Finals
because we didn't make it to the end. KD got hurt.
Claiy go heart. That is a part of it.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
But guess what nobody want to hear that, oh we
all lost, because now who cares?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
They won?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
So let's not do that before we get ahead of ourselves.
But we are hoping and keeping our fingers crossed. The
joke can go and the last, but not least the
Lakers versus the Grizzlies. I thought the funniest thing in
the world was that everybody thought Lebron was going to
go out there and shoot thirty shots and try to
get fifty points. You clearly don't know who Lebron James
is if you thought that that's number one.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Lakers got up to a very fast start and the
Grizzlies were playing uphill the entire game. And Lakers are
doing what some expected. They're up to to one, got
to close out at home and try to take a
three to one lead, But they're playing as good as
(24:09):
basketball as they've played and what everyone expected the way
they closed out the year once they made the trade.
Anthony Davis had a huge game. After having a.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Uh, not so good game in game two, he had
a huge Game three.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
He was aggressive as hell, and that's a tough Anthony
tough excuse me, and aggressive Anthony Davis can be very
tough to deal with. So looking forward to seeing that
next game, seeing if the Lakers take a three to
one lead or if the Grizzlies will tie it up
to the two.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
John Moran had a really big game.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
And you applauded, but it's going to be very important
that he also get other guys involved going into that
next game, and unlike his guys, so we'll see what
happens there. But before we get out of here, like
I said, I'm gonna toss it to Jackson so we
can get a couple of questions from the callers.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Jackson, who you got for me?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
We're gonna take a couple of questions, folks in the
in the amp app hop in. I will accept a
few callers. It's gonna be just like last time, limiting
to just a question and then I'm gonna I'm gonna
boot you. But we appreciate anyone who wants to camp in.
All right, we got our first caller at Cheddy Davis
(25:27):
invite his cent except the invite and don't forget to
unmute your mic Drake.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
My question is how is it.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Going up against so bonus?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
To me, his style is similar to yours, So how
is it going.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Up against him? And like any such an intense series,
I mean it's number one, he's very physical. He looks
for contact, he's seeking contact, and so number one, you
have to you have to brace yourself for his contact. Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
And then you know he's a playmaker.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
They play a very similar out to us with him
as the primary playmaker. And for me, it's just really
meeting that force for force meeting his contact, meeting his pressure,
trying to make those passing angles on them tough. Uh
so he just can't get other guys involved. But overall,
you know, I like a physical series. I like a
physical matchup, so you know I love it perfect.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Next one, we're gonna go at Prince from NY. Maybe
we'll get some knicks talk. Let's see what we got
here at Prince from and why accept the invite? Join
the call, don't forget to unmeet your.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Mic Hey, what's up, Draymond? What's up? Prince? Yes?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Oh, what's up?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
What do you think you guys could have done better
today to make the game, like, to seal the game up?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I thought earlier on, I thought it was different at
different times of the game. I thought early on what
we could have done better was rebound to basketball. They
really rebounded the basketball. Well, they're in the first half,
and we didn't rebound so well offensively or defensively, so
I thought we could have rebounded the ball better. And
then late, you know, I think we were pretty good. Obviously,
(27:15):
we had the time out thing and all of that.
I personally, you know, even with the time out, I
can't give up a three to Fox you have to
get him inside the three point line or make him
just take a heave because he's so hell bent on
getting the three off. But I kind of backed up
a little bit and tried to use my length. I
can't give that up. I think if I don't give
that three up, we closed the game out pretty well,
(27:37):
even in spite of the time out.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Woozy Invite said, don't forget to join the call and
unmute your Micozy.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I was good. Raymond.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Series tied. How do you think things will go down
with the I guess they called the pivotal game five?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You think it goes seven and if Sack wins? Or
do you think you guys will close it out in
game six?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
If you guys win, I mean, I have no intentions
on playing a seven game, so I you know, I
think we definitely need to go take care of home court.
You never want to get to ahead of yourself though,
and say, I mean, excuse me, I take care of
home court.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
We took care of home court, but go get a
role win.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
You never you know, you never want to get too
far ahead of your stuff and start talking about game
six and or seven, So you just take it one
game out of time, and we're going to take this
one and try to go, you know, take game five
on their home floor. You know, that's the most important
thing in the series right now. And then if you
go take game five, you definitely don't want to have
to go win again there, and so you want to
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try to do all you can to close it out
in six, but understanding that if that don't happen, you
still got another game.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
But it's one game out of time for us.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
So the most important game right now is game five,
and I think, you know, we.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Go exceed their level of physicality.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
And you know, do take care of the ball, do
all the things that we know takes to win games
at this level.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I think we'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Thanks everyone for calling in, Thanks everyone for hopping the chat.
We will be back on the Amazon app at some
point later either this week or in the next week.
As always subscribed to the show everywhere else. We'll be
back Thursday morning.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Definitely back Thursday morning.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Make sure you'all tap into that and less hope and
make sure we do all that we can to make
sure when we back is three to two, it will
be three two three two, and does favor that's a
wrap from this episode of The Draymond Green Show. For
all our listeners out there, if you want to hear
this again or you just tapping in, this will be
up on all the platforms pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Until next time, peace,
Host
Draymond Green
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