Draymond Green breaks down the Minnesota Timberwolves crushing the Denver Nuggets in Game 6 to force a Game 7 in the NBA Playoffs, and what adjustments Anthony Edwards, Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and each team could make. Then, Dray breaks down Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks facing Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 6, why the Boston Celtics’ expectations are championship or bust, and Bronny James’ NBA Draft stock.00:00 - Start
02:30 - Nuggets-Wolves
13:00 - Biggest Adjustments
24:00 - Game 7 Prediction
28:00 - Mavericks vs. Thunder
34:00 - Championship or bust
36:00 - Bronny’s draft stock
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Speaker 1 (01:37):
What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
We haven't had an episode in a while, and that's
on me. As some of you may have seen aiss
away doing inside the NBA, which also led to a
pretty amazing interview.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
In my the inner child in me is still I.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Ecstatic on a whole another level with this interview that
was done. Can't wait for yall to check it out.
It was absolutely incredible fun to do. I wanted to
go at that interview with a little different twist and
most interviews you may have seen with this person or
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what you may have thought the conversation would have been.
But it was a fun, fun interview. I hope you
all enjoyed that when we drop it as much as
I enjoyed it when it was happening. Absolutely incredible, and
as always in great interviews, I learned a ton and
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that was amazing for me. So make sure you subscribe
to our YouTube channel so you don't miss that and
some other things we may have coming down the pipeline
during these playoffs. But let's get into it. Timber was
absolutely annihilated the din Weer Nuggets fifteen to seventy and
(03:02):
forces a Game seven in Denver, and the game was
pretty much dominated by a couple runs that the timber
Woo was went on.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Denver started off great, I think they went.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Up nine to two, eleven or two, something of that nature,
and then from that point on the Denver Nuggets went
on twenty two to zero run in the first quarter
and that kind of took control of the game. And
I thought that was very interesting to see because usually
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when you're going into a game like that, a game six,
close out game on the road, you expect the team
that's facing the close out to punch first. And I
saw where coach Malone said they punched first, second, third,
or fourth, and I actually disagree. The Nuggets actually punched
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first with their first start nine to eleven to two,
whatever it was, because the goal is always you want
to make them take the first time out, and so
the Nuggets did that. They made them take the first
time out, and Minnesota came out poised, calm, and they
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fought back. And not only did they fight back, but
once they cut the lead and they tied the game,
you're like, all right, now, let's see where you go
from here, right like then forgott to punch back, and
then Minnesota punched again, and Minnesota punched again and again
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and again and again and again. And I thought that
was very interesting, and it said a lot about the
Minnesota timber woolves, but not more than kind of already
have learned. Uh, we've learned that at Man. It's taking
this as a leader, as a vocal leader. And I know,
(05:05):
I know Mike Conley is a leader on that team.
Mike Conley is the veteran leader of that team, no doubt,
no questions asked. Mike Conley is the veteran leader. But
Mike Conley is not the leader of that team. The
leader of that team is Anthony Edwards. And it's interesting,
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as I've told you all, we've been in that situation before,
where when we were young guys and we first won
our first championship. I was year three, Clay year four,
Steph year five. By no means were we the veteran
leaders of that team, of the twenty seventeen team, of
the twenty eighteen teams, twenty twenty two, we were, but
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all those years prior, we weren't the veteran leaders of
that team by any stretching imagination, but we were the
leaders of that team of those teams.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And what we're watching is a man is.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
One million percent the leader of that team, and that
team takes on his personality. And you know, that team
doesn't take on Mike Conley's personality. The team takes on
Anthony Edwards personality. Now, I'm sure Anthony Edwards leans on
Mike Conley a lot, because what Anthony Edwards doesn't have
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is the experience Anthony Edwards don't have. I've been down
in a series and had to fight back.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He don't have. I've seen this X amount of times.
Mike Conley has that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So I'm sure Mike is given tit, bitch, and like, yo,
look for this and think about that and that's incredible.
You got to appreciate that because as a young leader
that a man is and has become, you need some
of that.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It's hard to do it without that. You have to
have someone that can give you that. And I've spoke
about it. Man winning the media battle, you know, winning
the battles on the court, I've spoke about all of that.
You saw last night.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
If you watch any other stuff after the game, a man.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Speech to Cat and he tells Kat, Cat, all day,
we've been telling you, just make the right play, make
the right play. Swing the ball, somebody up, swing the
ball quick, make the right play, he said, And I'm
gonna tell you tonight, you made the right play every
single time. Now, if you look on at the look
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on cat face, you could take that one or two ways.
You could take that ass like why he talking to
me like that? He's trying to big bro. Me could
take it as that, or you can take that ass
The young fella is pumping confidence into these guys. And
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for a guy like Cat, who has not won anything
in eight nine years whatever he's been in the league,
has not had a leader like that in eight or
nine years that he's been in the league outside of
the one year with Jimmy Butler that went miserably for him,
appreciating being appreciated when it wasn't one of the best
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games of cat career by what people will say the
standards are of a best game, because what people would
say the standards are is Cat has had forty and twenty,
He's had this, he's done that, he's had fifty, all
of that. But what he did for that team yesterday,
facing close out, facing the elimination, the end of their season,
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what he did was he came out to set a tone.
How did he set the tone? He set a tone
when he first started guarding Joker at the beginning of
the game. You saw right away that Joker was being
guarded this time he was being guarded this game. You
saw right away that it wasn't going to be as
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easy as it was in Game five when he had
Rudy on him, and you know, I was on TNT.
I said then, like, yo, they got to go back
to Cat guarding him, like Cat can guard him now. No,
he's not going to shut him down, no, none of that,
but he's going to make a tough fur on him.
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And that saw all you can ask for him to
make it tougher on Joker than his ben. So here's
the thing. Joker can't really back Cat down. Cat is
way stronger than Rudy, so Joker is trying to back
him down.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
He can't really.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
So if you pay attention anytime that he get Cat
in a bad way, it's when they get Joker on
the move, and they got him on the move, and
now he gets Cat in a bad way.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
He gets some finishes, some and once. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So if I'm Denver, my mindset has to be with
that matchup. A few things. One, as I said, we
need to get him on the move more. When he
got Cat on him, try to get Cat in some
foul trouble because Cat will file, So let's get him
on the move. How about this, were sitting here breaking
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down Cat having to stop Joker, who's a sinner and
the defensive player of the year is on your team
and he is center. Very interesting how the Cookie crumbles.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Wow, unbelievable. It's like.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
If Marcus one defensive player of the year back then
what she did and then they're like, but Jalen, you
gotta go guard Steph. But Marcus Smart's the point guard,
Marcus Smart. You want defensive player of the Year, you
got guard Steph right, Like, yeah, So that's an interesting
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little I mean, that's just a little interesting. You can't
help as I'm a basketball fan, all right, Like I'm
a basketball fan, and I tell y'all all the time,
I love.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
The game within the game more than anything.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
When I'm watching these games, I'm watching the game within
the game.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
And I can't help but notice.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Like there's a center that one defensive player of the
Year for the fourth time, for the fourth time, Todd
with the likes of the great Hall of Fame Ben Wallace,
the great Hall of Fame, the kem Ba Mutumbo, ahead
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of the likes of the great David Robinson, the great Haquen,
the dream of Lojahwan, the great Dwight Howard, like ahead
of the likes of those guys. And we had a
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center and were acting kat go guard the center, and
we got the rainy four time defensive player of the
Year on our team. Now, for our loyal subscribers and listeners,
were always appreciative of you. I hope if there's one
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thing you've taken away from this podcast, it's to watch
the games within the game. And if you've learned that,
then you're sitting here just like me. You can't start
to believe that the two the Defensive Player of the
Year in the MVP matched up in the second round.
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And we saw years ago guards stop garden guards. Like
we saw that years ago, we spoke about that. We
haven't seen centers stop guarden centers. So we've reached new
territory in the NBA. We should all clap it up
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because we're seeing a change in the NBA. We're now
seeing centers not guard centers anymore. And if there was
some validation of the war the MVP, the Defensive Player
of the Year.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
For all the marbles.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
What we paid to see, like you pay to see
the Defensive Player of the Year versus MVP. Sorry, guys,
you can't get that.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
That to me.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Is interesting in itself, but took me a little off topic.
Let me get back to what I was talking about.
But I can't help but think about that one, all right,
So let's get back to that. So let's get Kat
on the move. And also another thing that I want
to do if I'm Denver is I want to run
some ball screens with Aaron Gordon and.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Joker Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
When you come set the screen, I want you to
set a screen like you're setting a screen for Jamal Murray.
Set it and hold it. Make Kat have to really
try to navigate that screen. What's going to happen is
you're going to get a switch. Okay, now that we
got our switch, now we work. Now we got the
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Rain and Defensive Player of the Year on the Rain
and MVP, and that's the matchup we all pay to see.
And that's the matchup. If you differ, you pay the
seat because that's the matchup that's going to allow you
to take advantage of the Minnesota Timberwolves defense. It ain't
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Nas read on Joker, it ain't Cat on Joker. Can
Joker get off on them, Yes, but it's tougher. Their agile,
they're mobile there, they're active, they're pressed up. It's just
a different thing. Everyone in the NBA has some way
they don't.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Like being guarded.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I don't care how great that player is, they have
something some way that they don't like being guarded. And
so Cat has length, Nas has length, but they're agile.
Jokers struggle more with that than what Rudy Gobert has
just length but not agile, not pressing up because he's
not fast enough.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And so.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I'm doing running loose more screen and role with Aaron
Gordon and Joker now spoke about this also on TNT.
When Aaron Gordon got into foul trouble in game five,
it was the best thing that happened to the Denver
Nuggets because it immediately made Joke Jokers matchup. Go Beart
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go Bear had to take Joker once an ag got
in foul trouble because they came in with a guard
heaven no nerves. Joker then proceeded to go forty and thirteen.
Why because he had to match up that favors him.
So another thing, if I'm the Denver Nuggets what I've
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learned through these playoffs series, then it ain't always your series.
And Aaron Gordon has had some great games this series,
a couple of great games, but he's also had a
couple that he didn't have much impact on the game
at all. And those games, to me, were more due
to the way timber Woolslem matchup up as opposed to
more so what Aaron Gordon was doing. It's the way
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they were matching up that he was able to take
advantage of If you need to pull Aaron Gordon some
to get that matchup, you do that because it sets
a precedent by the way they win this game and
move on.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You right back to Aaron Gordon. You need him.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
But it ain't always your Knight, ain't always your series.
He's brought you some of this series. He's actually won
you a game or two in the series. But I
keep an eye out on that. If I'm Denverer when
I'm running screen and roll, when Aaron Gordon is in
and I'm running screen and roll with Aaron Gordon and
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Joker involving Kat and Rudy Gobert in the screen of
role and how they're gonna navigate and guard that, I'm
making it a single side pick and roll, and I'm
putting Jamal Murray on the back action. So now ant
man who's draped all over him. Anywhere he moves at,
Man's draped all over him, no help, responsibility, draped all
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over Jamal Murray. Now I got Rudy Gobert, Garden Joker
coming downhill at him, which Joker cooked him on the
floaters when he was getting downhill with Aaron Gordon lobbing
a cat trying to navigate how to guard that. But
there's no backside help because ant man is not leaving
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Jamal Murray. If he does, now we got to swing. Now,
got a man playing out of a close out as
opposed to Jamal Murray. Catch him and he draped all over.
Now you get Jamal Murray's space to work. You put
a man in a tough situation. You may a man
have to wonder like or decide, am I helping? Or
am I staying draped all over Jamal Murray. Let's make
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a man think a little bit on the defensive end.
Just giving Jamal Murray the ball. A man is great
at that. He's faster, he's stronger, he's bigger, he's more physical.
It's great at that. So if you just gonna give
him the ball and let him bring the ball, that
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ain't gonna work. So get him off the ball. Run
Jamal Murray off some screens off the ball. Run some
Jamal Murray running that way in the miss direction. Michael
Porter Junior, come back in this way for three. You
gotta loosen their defense up something. Because the defense that
you saw in game six, what's the defense that got
you drug in game one and two, So you gotta
do some things to loosen it up. Raise everybody out
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of the floor. Jamal Murray comes spreading up the floor
like he catch him back cut. You gotta loosen and
man up some cause right now he just all over Jamurray,
Jamal Murray, and there's no way to get him loose
if he's just handling the ball. You set a screen
and through that. So you gotta switch it up a
little bit. You have to don't just let him see
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Jamal Murray with the ball rim over him. Nah, he
gotta see Jamal Murray different spaces. You gotta get Jamal
Murray more of a chance because him just against a
man that's not much of a chance.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
That's tough, very tough. It's a tough matchup.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Said it earlier in the series at man gonna have
to guard Jamal Murray. So no disrespect to Jaden McDaniels.
Tough match up for Jadon McDaniels. A man, different story.
So need to see a little bit more of that.
If I'm Denver. Another thing that I need to see
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if I'm Denver's defensively stop all of switching. They're switching
every pick and roll, you got Jamal Murray battling with
Rudy Gobert. You got uh, Jamal Murray getting posted up
by Niles Reed or Karl.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Anthony Townsend, Like that's cool.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I know you ain't necessarily worry about them scoring, but
you got a man hawk and Jamal and then you
got him trying to battle with Biggs. Where's his legs
being snatched? So stop all the switch. And also you're
like defensively with all the switching, now you're trying to
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rebound all that you weak. You need bigs on bigs,
keep bodies in front of bodies. Most guys on the
Timberwoar's team need angles to score, keep bodies on bodies.
So when the shot go up, we're in the position
to box out, get it and go. Now Rudy Gobert
got to keep up. Now we got Cat on the move,
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a joker, but joker in their rebounding switching all the
pick and rolls for what, it's not allowing Denver to
set a tone defensively. So I think Denver need to
go on the coverage, whatever coverage they feel the need
to do. But the switching, I think it's making them
weak and these ain't no games to be weaken for
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all the marbles. So I think defensively they need to
make that adjustment because I don't think they're gonna set
the tone they need to set going into a home
game seven clothes out, switching to pick a roll. It's
not allowing your best guys to guard their best guys.
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It's not allowing you to rebound your best rebounders to
rebound with their best rebounders. So I think Denver gotta
go back to the basics. Play your coverages. Joker is
the king, got the kickball. If they want to throw
pocket passes, play your coverage. The switching, I don't like it.
Now you can mismatch you got Jamie mcdanie's going off
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for twenty one taking advantage of all the switching and
confusion on the defensive man, keep bodies in front of bodies,
make them score on you.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Thinks it gives them a lot better chance to win.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So with that, we're going down to Game seven and Denver,
as we've said, and I think if Denver can make
some of those adjustments, which I think they will, I'm
taking Denver. And one of the main reasons I'm taking
Denver because these adjustments that I spoke of, so you
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always hear the stat and the stat that you always
hear is the pivotal game five. The winner of the
pivotal Game five and a two to two series goes
on to win the series eighty two percent of the time.
No one ever tells you why that's the case. I'm
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gonna tell you why the winner of game five normally
goes on to win the series. The reason is, after
game four, you're tied up to to two. You then
make adjustments going into game five. The adjustments that you make,
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the team that make the best adjustments usually win the game. Obviously,
you gotta have great players and they gotta play.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yes. Team who makes the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
A playoff series is made up of obviously great play
by players and a bunch of adjustments by coaches.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
In a deep playoff series, you sweep somebody.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You're probably better than them or whatever, and then ain
a million adjustments you had to make. But in a
series like this, all these series that go long, it's
a series of game of adjustments. And so the adjustments
that Denver made for Game five haven't Aaron Gordon handled
the ball, blah, blah blah won them the game. Minnesota
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made adjustments to that Game six won them the game.
Well guess what now, the winner of game five get
the make the final adjustment. So a lot of these
coaching staffs.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Don't really.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Aren't really capable of adjusting on the fly in the
game like that in Part two, a lot of players
aren't smart enough to make those adjustments on the fly
like that. They need to see it on film and
practice it and walk through it, and so a lot
of teams don't necessarily have that luxury. Coaches may not
have that luxury. But also coaches need to go watch
the film. They need to figure this out, They need
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to talk to their staff, they need to put these
adjustments together, and then they come back to the next
game like, boom, this what we got.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Well, now Denver get to make their adjustment to the
forty five point blowout.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Minnesota won't have time to make an adjustment.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
So essentially, you're gonna need incredible play from a man,
incredible play from Joker, excuse me, Kat, incredible play from
Mike Conley. I mean that more so what I'm You're
gonna need players to carry you, whereas opposed to Denver
will get players to carry them, but they'll also have
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adjustments that they've gotten that they can hang their hat on,
that they can bank on, and Minnesota won't have a
game to adjust to those. And so normally the winner
of Game five eighty two percent of the time goes
on to win the series because they get the final adjustment.
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So with Denver getting the final adjustment, I actually think
them being able to put Minnesota's defense in some tough
spots with great adjustments. I'm taking Denver in seven, moving
on to face Dallas. When is that Tuesday or Wednesday
in Denver. That's my prediction on that. That is why
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you see the eighty two percent. That is why, and
yet no one ever tells you why that's the case.
There's a little tip bit for you. Tuck that under
your hat, keep that there and moving on Dallas and
Thunder going into game six. So in every series, and
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I've said this y'all before, in every series, you get
to a point where you're like, all right, we figured
them out. We got it, Now we need to do X,
Y and Z. In this series, we got them figured out.
And I thought after Game three you could kind of
see that Dallas had figured Okay, see out and you
going to game four in a game in which Dallas
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should have won, and they gave it away during the end.
At the end, Dallas comes out in game five, everybody like, oh,
even Chuckster on inside, Oh, okay, see about the run
Dallas out the gym after they just came back. Da
da da They running them out the gym. Only thing
is and I said, nah, I got Dallas and they
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not no chance OKAC running them out the gym.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
And the reason being.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Is because when I saw Dallas lose that game in
game four, it wasn't some huge adjustment that OKC made
and you were like, ah, okay, they just made this
huge adjustment. How Dallas gonna No, Shae just hit some
tough shots. They did the same thing they had been doing,
guard guard, screening roll. Shae hit tough shots over guys.
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Dallas couldn't hit nothing. Kyrie struggled, Lucas struggled, they turned
the ball over. They lost. But it wasn't anything special
that OKC had done other than Shae being special. And
so when I saw that, and I know, like, dang,
they already kind of got this team figured out. And
there was nothing that that team done had done to
win that game from an adjustment standpoint other than just
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Shae taking over the game. Dallas still got them figured out,
and sure enough, Dallas showed that in Game five. Said
all that to say, I think Dallas shows the game thing,
same thing in game six. We got them figured out. Okayse,
he's a young, scrappy team. They'll punch, Dallas will take
the blow, Dallas will do their thing. Okay, see, he'll
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have another punch, Dallas will take the blow, and then
they're kind of on their way home from there.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
That's how I see this going.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I thought it was I thought it was amazing to
see everybody talking about Luca complaining and this and that,
and then Luca come out and puts it out publicly
that I'm not complaining. And then Luca doesn't really say
much of a word much of anything to the referees.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
And then we see the Luca.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
That we know, thirty plus point triple double carrying this
team to a win. We're gonna need more of the
same of that Luca on Saturday in order to close
this series out. You know, I'm not one sit here
and be like, oh he should never talk to the
roughs like.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
This is a passionate game.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
When you know for certain someone got something wrong, you're
gonna say something about it. We're human beings and so
I'm not of that club of don't say anything.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Now.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I'm gonna say something.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But all focus must be on the OKC thunder and
Luca has shown that he's capable of doing that and
he will need to do that again. I also need
to see a very very very aggressive Kyrie Irving in
game six.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Come close the game out, kay.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
We know Kai is a master with the basketball, and
I need to see that aggression from the gate.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Get going from the gate.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Don't try to wait till the second half, then get
it going, because last couple of games it ain't went
that way. You know, Kyle's been still doing a great
job of dimond and getting other people involved. But like,
let's get going from the gate. I think that's what
Dallas needs to see from Kai. Also shout out to
Jay and Hardy number getting called to start the game
or not start, but early in the game he gets
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subbed in after not playing much in these playoffs, come in,
get a good bucket, but have some incredible lives. To
Derek Lively, who led them in plus minus, who had
an incredible game, And I'd like to think his guards
feeding him the way they were Luca throwing him libs,
Kyrie throwing them lost. Jaydon Hardy come in throwing him libs.
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That was great to see. That's the steps you want
to see from the young fella. Now, you jkidd, he
earned minutes. He came in. He showed you. I'm not
afraid of this moment. I'm ready for the moment. I'm
locked in defensively, I'm locked in offensively. Give me more time.
Love to see it, Love to see young fellas taking
that next step and growing. In a pivotal game five
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on the road, he showed up like it's no problem.
It's no problem. So now if you're Jayden Hardy, you
got to come build on that.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Now, I'm coming in and I'm making no defensive mistakes.
I'm not turning the ball over. I know I got
my live threat. I'm getting downhill. They got me in
here because we need enough score. Tim ain't been shooting great,
Dante Xam ain't played great, Josh Green ain't ain't shooting great,
So we need more scoring. All right, we need nothing.
Guy that can get downhill. Go ahead, Jane and Hardy,
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go do that so you know you're getting downhill. They
got you another score. I'm going to the Cup. But
if they helped, I know I got my live threat.
Stay solid, young fella. It's great to see. Great to
see young guys taking that next step. So shout out
to Jaye and Hardy. It's beautiful to see his number
be called when it hadn't been called, and he ready,
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he was ready, answered the bell, helped those boys get
that win in Game five and headed back to close
out in Game six.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
And as you heard.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
From my prediction with different nuggets at the end of it,
I said, we'll see them versus Dallas.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I don't have Dallas going seven. I got Dallas closing
this thing out on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
And moving on and other news. Tim Legler says the
Celtics season will be a failure without a championship. Do
you agree or disagree? I normally disagree with shit like that.
It'd be like hot take issh and like uh, Tim Laylger.
Tim Legler is absolutely correct on this one. Why is
Tim Legler correct on this one? In my opinion, because
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you got Jylen Brown making three hundred plus million dollars,
soon to be Jason Tatum making three hundred plus million dollars,
Drew Holliday making one hundred and fifty million dollars, Christops
presingis one hundred million dollars, Derek White sixty million dollars,
something like that.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Number one.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I'm still trying to figure out. Well, all there's money
in Boston coming from too, but uh, it's a failure.
Like you won sixty plus games, you have built your team.
You go out and get Drew Holliday, you go out
and get Prizingers. You retooled, didn't rebuild in. This season
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went exactly how you thought and wanted it to go
when you made those moves. Because the season went that way.
You extend Drew Holiday because he's proven all that he
needs to prove that. You want to continue forward with him.
So guess what It's time to win? And it's time now, Jackson.
What is it five to five conference finals?
Speaker 3 (34:22):
And how many years?
Speaker 4 (34:23):
I think more than that? Honestly, yeah, something.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Like that exactly. Look at him all happy. We don't know.
I agree with you.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
It's to get over the hump.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, we don't care how many conference finals anymore. I
agree a finals appearance ain't good enough. You gotta go
win it all you're supposed to. You got home court advantage,
you did all. It's time. So I one thousand percent
agree with Tim Legler here the Celtics gotta win because
if not, how long can you doabble into that second
(34:53):
April until it's too much. Just keep swinging and keep swinging.
So it ain't converted yet. I ain't got over the
hump yet. Got to get over the hump. So yes,
Tim Legler, I agree that is a fact, and we
shall see what Boston does.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
But they most definitely got to win it this year.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Before we get out of here, a lot of news
been made about Brownie at the combine measure that six
one and a half very impressive six seven wingspan, forty
inch vertical.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Stock rising play well, listen.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
I think Brownie it has a chance to be a
very very solid guard in the NBA. He shoot the
ball well, he defends well, athletic like going to be
able to pick up if he's a backup guard. Say
he's a backup because everybody all is the starter. The
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likelihood that you're a point guard, and you're coming in
us a starter. There's thirty stars, there's sixty to eighty
backup and.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Third point guards.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
So it's more likely that you're going to be a
backup or a third point guard than you are starter,
just surely off the numbers. So let's go back up
because I'm I know better than like, this guy's a starter.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
And I'm not saying that just for Bronnie.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I'm saying in general, it's hard to be a start
point guard in this league, a real start point guard
in this league. So I think Bronnie does how the
capability is to be a very good backup point guard
in this league. If you can take that to a starter,
that's on the work that you come in and put
in right, that's on the improvements that you make, the
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things that you do to get better.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I can't speak for that.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Because I'm not the one that has to do the work,
But nonetheless, I think he has more than enough attributes
and tools and things about him that'll make him a
good backup point guard.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
At least.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Backup point guards need to pick up full court. He's
gonna be able to do that. With the best of
backup point guards need to be able to knock down shots.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
We know he can knock down the shot.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Backup. Point guards need to be smart, not make mistakes.
People complain that he played basketball too mistake free. So again,
at worst, we know he's probably gonna be capable, and
it ain't gotta be next year. By the way, y'all
draft kids in the top ten that ain't ready to
play next year and then want to talk about Brownie,
who's not in anybody's top ten, and be like, he
(37:35):
ain't ready to play next year? Of forty five of
the sixty guys that you drift at, fifty of the
sixty guys that you drift.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Ain't gonna be ready to play next year.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
So the whole thing of trying to throw out there
like he ain't ready to play, look at him. He
ain't ready now? Who is ready now coming out of college?
A few guys, So let's stop with that nonsense. No,
he's not ready right now. Guess what another other fifty
eight players of fifty nine whatever it is because the
people got their pick snatch, aren't gonna be either. But
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what attributes do they have that we can look forward
to building on? And Brownie has some of those so
it's great to see him go to the combine and
perform well. His stockers rise, and I think he'll go
to some of these workouts and perform even better and
continue to rise. And I think Brownie will have a
very solid career as he continued to progress. But also, no,
(38:31):
it's gonna take time to progress. This is the NBA.
This is the NBA. It's the best basketball league in
the world. It takes time. So that's a rap from
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Speaker 1 (01:37):
What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
We haven't had an episode in a while, and that's
on me. As some of you may have seen aiss
away doing inside the NBA, which also led to a
pretty amazing interview.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
In my the inner child in me is still I.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Ecstatic on a whole another level with this interview that
was done. Can't wait for yall to check it out.
It was absolutely incredible fun to do. I wanted to
go at that interview with a little different twist and
most interviews you may have seen with this person or
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what you may have thought the conversation would have been.
But it was a fun, fun interview. I hope you
all enjoyed that when we drop it as much as
I enjoyed it when it was happening. Absolutely incredible, and
as always in great interviews, I learned a ton and
(02:40):
that was amazing for me. So make sure you subscribe
to our YouTube channel so you don't miss that and
some other things we may have coming down the pipeline
during these playoffs. But let's get into it. Timber was
absolutely annihilated the din Weer Nuggets fifteen to seventy and
(03:02):
forces a Game seven in Denver, and the game was
pretty much dominated by a couple runs that the timber
Woo was went on.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Denver started off great, I think they went.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Up nine to two, eleven or two, something of that nature,
and then from that point on the Denver Nuggets went
on twenty two to zero run in the first quarter
and that kind of took control of the game. And
I thought that was very interesting to see because usually
(03:37):
when you're going into a game like that, a game six,
close out game on the road, you expect the team
that's facing the close out to punch first. And I
saw where coach Malone said they punched first, second, third,
or fourth, and I actually disagree. The Nuggets actually punched
(03:58):
first with their first start nine to eleven to two,
whatever it was, because the goal is always you want
to make them take the first time out, and so
the Nuggets did that. They made them take the first
time out, and Minnesota came out poised, calm, and they
(04:20):
fought back. And not only did they fight back, but
once they cut the lead and they tied the game,
you're like, all right, now, let's see where you go
from here, right like then forgott to punch back, and
then Minnesota punched again, and Minnesota punched again and again
(04:41):
and again and again and again. And I thought that
was very interesting, and it said a lot about the
Minnesota timber woolves, but not more than kind of already
have learned. Uh, we've learned that at Man. It's taking
this as a leader, as a vocal leader. And I know,
(05:05):
I know Mike Conley is a leader on that team.
Mike Conley is the veteran leader of that team, no doubt,
no questions asked. Mike Conley is the veteran leader. But
Mike Conley is not the leader of that team. The
leader of that team is Anthony Edwards. And it's interesting,
(05:28):
as I've told you all, we've been in that situation before,
where when we were young guys and we first won
our first championship. I was year three, Clay year four,
Steph year five. By no means were we the veteran
leaders of that team, of the twenty seventeen team, of
the twenty eighteen teams, twenty twenty two, we were, but
(05:53):
all those years prior, we weren't the veteran leaders of
that team by any stretching imagination, but we were the
leaders of that team of those teams.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And what we're watching is a man is.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
One million percent the leader of that team, and that
team takes on his personality. And you know, that team
doesn't take on Mike Conley's personality. The team takes on
Anthony Edwards personality. Now, I'm sure Anthony Edwards leans on
Mike Conley a lot, because what Anthony Edwards doesn't have
(06:30):
is the experience Anthony Edwards don't have. I've been down
in a series and had to fight back.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He don't have. I've seen this X amount of times.
Mike Conley has that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So I'm sure Mike is given tit, bitch, and like, yo,
look for this and think about that and that's incredible.
You got to appreciate that because as a young leader
that a man is and has become, you need some
of that.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It's hard to do it without that. You have to
have someone that can give you that. And I've spoke
about it. Man winning the media battle, you know, winning
the battles on the court, I've spoke about all of that.
You saw last night.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
If you watch any other stuff after the game, a man.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Speech to Cat and he tells Kat, Cat, all day,
we've been telling you, just make the right play, make
the right play. Swing the ball, somebody up, swing the
ball quick, make the right play, he said, And I'm
gonna tell you tonight, you made the right play every
single time. Now, if you look on at the look
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on cat face, you could take that one or two ways.
You could take that ass like why he talking to
me like that? He's trying to big bro. Me could
take it as that, or you can take that ass
The young fella is pumping confidence into these guys. And
(08:11):
for a guy like Cat, who has not won anything
in eight nine years whatever he's been in the league,
has not had a leader like that in eight or
nine years that he's been in the league outside of
the one year with Jimmy Butler that went miserably for him,
appreciating being appreciated when it wasn't one of the best
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games of cat career by what people will say the
standards are of a best game, because what people would
say the standards are is Cat has had forty and twenty,
He's had this, he's done that, he's had fifty, all
of that. But what he did for that team yesterday,
facing close out, facing the elimination, the end of their season,
(09:02):
what he did was he came out to set a tone.
How did he set the tone? He set a tone
when he first started guarding Joker at the beginning of
the game. You saw right away that Joker was being
guarded this time he was being guarded this game. You
saw right away that it wasn't going to be as
(09:25):
easy as it was in Game five when he had
Rudy on him, and you know, I was on TNT.
I said then, like, yo, they got to go back
to Cat guarding him, like Cat can guard him now. No,
he's not going to shut him down, no, none of that,
but he's going to make a tough fur on him.
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And that saw all you can ask for him to
make it tougher on Joker than his ben. So here's
the thing. Joker can't really back Cat down. Cat is
way stronger than Rudy, so Joker is trying to back
him down.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
He can't really.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
So if you pay attention anytime that he get Cat
in a bad way, it's when they get Joker on
the move, and they got him on the move, and
now he gets Cat in a bad way.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
He gets some finishes, some and once. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So if I'm Denver, my mindset has to be with
that matchup. A few things. One, as I said, we
need to get him on the move more. When he
got Cat on him, try to get Cat in some
foul trouble because Cat will file, So let's get him
on the move. How about this, were sitting here breaking
(10:37):
down Cat having to stop Joker, who's a sinner and
the defensive player of the year is on your team
and he is center. Very interesting how the Cookie crumbles.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Wow, unbelievable. It's like.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
If Marcus one defensive player of the year back then
what she did and then they're like, but Jalen, you
gotta go guard Steph. But Marcus Smart's the point guard,
Marcus Smart. You want defensive player of the Year, you
got guard Steph right, Like, yeah, So that's an interesting
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little I mean, that's just a little interesting. You can't
help as I'm a basketball fan, all right, Like I'm
a basketball fan, and I tell y'all all the time,
I love.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
The game within the game more than anything.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
When I'm watching these games, I'm watching the game within
the game.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
And I can't help but notice.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Like there's a center that one defensive player of the
Year for the fourth time, for the fourth time, Todd
with the likes of the great Hall of Fame Ben Wallace,
the great Hall of Fame, the kem Ba Mutumbo, ahead
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of the likes of the great David Robinson, the great Haquen,
the dream of Lojahwan, the great Dwight Howard, like ahead
of the likes of those guys. And we had a
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center and were acting kat go guard the center, and
we got the rainy four time defensive player of the
Year on our team. Now, for our loyal subscribers and listeners,
were always appreciative of you. I hope if there's one
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thing you've taken away from this podcast, it's to watch
the games within the game. And if you've learned that,
then you're sitting here just like me. You can't start
to believe that the two the Defensive Player of the
Year in the MVP matched up in the second round.
(13:11):
And we saw years ago guards stop garden guards. Like
we saw that years ago, we spoke about that. We
haven't seen centers stop guarden centers. So we've reached new
territory in the NBA. We should all clap it up
(13:34):
because we're seeing a change in the NBA. We're now
seeing centers not guard centers anymore. And if there was
some validation of the war the MVP, the Defensive Player
of the Year.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
For all the marbles.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
What we paid to see, like you pay to see
the Defensive Player of the Year versus MVP. Sorry, guys,
you can't get that.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
That to me.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Is interesting in itself, but took me a little off topic.
Let me get back to what I was talking about.
But I can't help but think about that one, all right,
So let's get back to that. So let's get Kat
on the move. And also another thing that I want
to do if I'm Denver is I want to run
some ball screens with Aaron Gordon and.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Joker Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
When you come set the screen, I want you to
set a screen like you're setting a screen for Jamal Murray.
Set it and hold it. Make Kat have to really
try to navigate that screen. What's going to happen is
you're going to get a switch. Okay, now that we
got our switch, now we work. Now we got the
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Rain and Defensive Player of the Year on the Rain
and MVP, and that's the matchup we all pay to see.
And that's the matchup. If you differ, you pay the
seat because that's the matchup that's going to allow you
to take advantage of the Minnesota Timberwolves defense. It ain't
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Nas read on Joker, it ain't Cat on Joker. Can
Joker get off on them, Yes, but it's tougher. Their agile,
they're mobile there, they're active, they're pressed up. It's just
a different thing. Everyone in the NBA has some way
they don't.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Like being guarded.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I don't care how great that player is, they have
something some way that they don't like being guarded. And
so Cat has length, Nas has length, but they're agile.
Jokers struggle more with that than what Rudy Gobert has
just length but not agile, not pressing up because he's
not fast enough.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And so.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I'm doing running loose more screen and role with Aaron
Gordon and Joker now spoke about this also on TNT.
When Aaron Gordon got into foul trouble in game five,
it was the best thing that happened to the Denver
Nuggets because it immediately made Joke Jokers matchup. Go Beart
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go Bear had to take Joker once an ag got
in foul trouble because they came in with a guard
heaven no nerves. Joker then proceeded to go forty and thirteen.
Why because he had to match up that favors him.
So another thing, if I'm the Denver Nuggets what I've
(16:43):
learned through these playoffs series, then it ain't always your series.
And Aaron Gordon has had some great games this series,
a couple of great games, but he's also had a
couple that he didn't have much impact on the game
at all. And those games, to me, were more due
to the way timber Woolslem matchup up as opposed to
more so what Aaron Gordon was doing. It's the way
(17:04):
they were matching up that he was able to take
advantage of If you need to pull Aaron Gordon some
to get that matchup, you do that because it sets
a precedent by the way they win this game and
move on.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You right back to Aaron Gordon. You need him.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
But it ain't always your Knight, ain't always your series.
He's brought you some of this series. He's actually won
you a game or two in the series. But I
keep an eye out on that. If I'm Denverer when
I'm running screen and roll, when Aaron Gordon is in
and I'm running screen and roll with Aaron Gordon and
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Joker involving Kat and Rudy Gobert in the screen of
role and how they're gonna navigate and guard that, I'm
making it a single side pick and roll, and I'm
putting Jamal Murray on the back action. So now ant
man who's draped all over him. Anywhere he moves at,
Man's draped all over him, no help, responsibility, draped all
(18:04):
over Jamal Murray. Now I got Rudy Gobert, Garden Joker
coming downhill at him, which Joker cooked him on the
floaters when he was getting downhill with Aaron Gordon lobbing
a cat trying to navigate how to guard that. But
there's no backside help because ant man is not leaving
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Jamal Murray. If he does, now we got to swing. Now,
got a man playing out of a close out as
opposed to Jamal Murray. Catch him and he draped all over.
Now you get Jamal Murray's space to work. You put
a man in a tough situation. You may a man
have to wonder like or decide, am I helping? Or
am I staying draped all over Jamal Murray. Let's make
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a man think a little bit on the defensive end.
Just giving Jamal Murray the ball. A man is great
at that. He's faster, he's stronger, he's bigger, he's more physical.
It's great at that. So if you just gonna give
him the ball and let him bring the ball, that
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ain't gonna work. So get him off the ball. Run
Jamal Murray off some screens off the ball. Run some
Jamal Murray running that way in the miss direction. Michael
Porter Junior, come back in this way for three. You
gotta loosen their defense up something. Because the defense that
you saw in game six, what's the defense that got
you drug in game one and two, So you gotta
do some things to loosen it up. Raise everybody out
(19:31):
of the floor. Jamal Murray comes spreading up the floor
like he catch him back cut. You gotta loosen and
man up some cause right now he just all over Jamurray,
Jamal Murray, and there's no way to get him loose
if he's just handling the ball. You set a screen
and through that. So you gotta switch it up a
little bit. You have to don't just let him see
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Jamal Murray with the ball rim over him. Nah, he
gotta see Jamal Murray different spaces. You gotta get Jamal
Murray more of a chance because him just against a
man that's not much of a chance.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
That's tough, very tough. It's a tough matchup.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Said it earlier in the series at man gonna have
to guard Jamal Murray. So no disrespect to Jaden McDaniels.
Tough match up for Jadon McDaniels. A man, different story.
So need to see a little bit more of that.
If I'm Denver. Another thing that I need to see
(20:31):
if I'm Denver's defensively stop all of switching. They're switching
every pick and roll, you got Jamal Murray battling with
Rudy Gobert. You got uh, Jamal Murray getting posted up
by Niles Reed or Karl.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Anthony Townsend, Like that's cool.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I know you ain't necessarily worry about them scoring, but
you got a man hawk and Jamal and then you
got him trying to battle with Biggs. Where's his legs
being snatched? So stop all the switch. And also you're
like defensively with all the switching, now you're trying to
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rebound all that you weak. You need bigs on bigs,
keep bodies in front of bodies. Most guys on the
Timberwoar's team need angles to score, keep bodies on bodies.
So when the shot go up, we're in the position
to box out, get it and go. Now Rudy Gobert
got to keep up. Now we got Cat on the move,
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a joker, but joker in their rebounding switching all the
pick and rolls for what, it's not allowing Denver to
set a tone defensively. So I think Denver need to
go on the coverage, whatever coverage they feel the need
to do. But the switching, I think it's making them
weak and these ain't no games to be weaken for
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all the marbles. So I think defensively they need to
make that adjustment because I don't think they're gonna set
the tone they need to set going into a home
game seven clothes out, switching to pick a roll. It's
not allowing your best guys to guard their best guys.
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It's not allowing you to rebound your best rebounders to
rebound with their best rebounders. So I think Denver gotta
go back to the basics. Play your coverages. Joker is
the king, got the kickball. If they want to throw
pocket passes, play your coverage. The switching, I don't like it.
Now you can mismatch you got Jamie mcdanie's going off
(22:42):
for twenty one taking advantage of all the switching and
confusion on the defensive man, keep bodies in front of bodies,
make them score on you.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Thinks it gives them a lot better chance to win.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So with that, we're going down to Game seven and Denver,
as we've said, and I think if Denver can make
some of those adjustments, which I think they will, I'm
taking Denver. And one of the main reasons I'm taking
Denver because these adjustments that I spoke of, so you
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always hear the stat and the stat that you always
hear is the pivotal game five. The winner of the
pivotal Game five and a two to two series goes
on to win the series eighty two percent of the time.
No one ever tells you why that's the case. I'm
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gonna tell you why the winner of game five normally
goes on to win the series. The reason is, after
game four, you're tied up to to two. You then
make adjustments going into game five. The adjustments that you make,
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the team that make the best adjustments usually win the game. Obviously,
you gotta have great players and they gotta play.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yes. Team who makes the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
A playoff series is made up of obviously great play
by players and a bunch of adjustments by coaches.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
In a deep playoff series, you sweep somebody.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You're probably better than them or whatever, and then ain
a million adjustments you had to make. But in a
series like this, all these series that go long, it's
a series of game of adjustments. And so the adjustments
that Denver made for Game five haven't Aaron Gordon handled
the ball, blah, blah blah won them the game. Minnesota
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made adjustments to that Game six won them the game.
Well guess what now, the winner of game five get
the make the final adjustment. So a lot of these
coaching staffs.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Don't really.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Aren't really capable of adjusting on the fly in the
game like that in Part two, a lot of players
aren't smart enough to make those adjustments on the fly
like that. They need to see it on film and
practice it and walk through it, and so a lot
of teams don't necessarily have that luxury. Coaches may not
have that luxury. But also coaches need to go watch
the film. They need to figure this out, They need
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to talk to their staff, they need to put these
adjustments together, and then they come back to the next
game like, boom, this what we got.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Well, now Denver get to make their adjustment to the
forty five point blowout.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Minnesota won't have time to make an adjustment.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
So essentially, you're gonna need incredible play from a man,
incredible play from Joker, excuse me, Kat, incredible play from
Mike Conley. I mean that more so what I'm You're
gonna need players to carry you, whereas opposed to Denver
will get players to carry them, but they'll also have
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adjustments that they've gotten that they can hang their hat on,
that they can bank on, and Minnesota won't have a
game to adjust to those. And so normally the winner
of Game five eighty two percent of the time goes
on to win the series because they get the final adjustment.
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So with Denver getting the final adjustment, I actually think
them being able to put Minnesota's defense in some tough
spots with great adjustments. I'm taking Denver in seven, moving
on to face Dallas. When is that Tuesday or Wednesday
in Denver. That's my prediction on that. That is why
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you see the eighty two percent. That is why, and
yet no one ever tells you why that's the case.
There's a little tip bit for you. Tuck that under
your hat, keep that there and moving on Dallas and
Thunder going into game six. So in every series, and
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I've said this y'all before, in every series, you get
to a point where you're like, all right, we figured
them out. We got it, Now we need to do X,
Y and Z. In this series, we got them figured out.
And I thought after Game three you could kind of
see that Dallas had figured Okay, see out and you
going to game four in a game in which Dallas
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should have won, and they gave it away during the end.
At the end, Dallas comes out in game five, everybody like, oh,
even Chuckster on inside, Oh, okay, see about the run
Dallas out the gym after they just came back. Da
da da They running them out the gym. Only thing
is and I said, nah, I got Dallas and they
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not no chance OKAC running them out the gym.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
And the reason being.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Is because when I saw Dallas lose that game in
game four, it wasn't some huge adjustment that OKC made
and you were like, ah, okay, they just made this
huge adjustment. How Dallas gonna No, Shae just hit some
tough shots. They did the same thing they had been doing,
guard guard, screening roll. Shae hit tough shots over guys.
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Dallas couldn't hit nothing. Kyrie struggled, Lucas struggled, they turned
the ball over. They lost. But it wasn't anything special
that OKC had done other than Shae being special. And
so when I saw that, and I know, like, dang,
they already kind of got this team figured out. And
there was nothing that that team done had done to
win that game from an adjustment standpoint other than just
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Shae taking over the game. Dallas still got them figured out,
and sure enough, Dallas showed that in Game five. Said
all that to say, I think Dallas shows the game thing,
same thing in game six. We got them figured out. Okayse,
he's a young, scrappy team. They'll punch, Dallas will take
the blow, Dallas will do their thing. Okay, see, he'll
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have another punch, Dallas will take the blow, and then
they're kind of on their way home from there.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
That's how I see this going.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I thought it was I thought it was amazing to
see everybody talking about Luca complaining and this and that,
and then Luca come out and puts it out publicly
that I'm not complaining. And then Luca doesn't really say
much of a word much of anything to the referees.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
And then we see the Luca.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
That we know, thirty plus point triple double carrying this
team to a win. We're gonna need more of the
same of that Luca on Saturday in order to close
this series out. You know, I'm not one sit here
and be like, oh he should never talk to the
roughs like.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
This is a passionate game.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
When you know for certain someone got something wrong, you're
gonna say something about it. We're human beings and so
I'm not of that club of don't say anything.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Now.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I'm gonna say something.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But all focus must be on the OKC thunder and
Luca has shown that he's capable of doing that and
he will need to do that again. I also need
to see a very very very aggressive Kyrie Irving in
game six.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Come close the game out, kay.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
We know Kai is a master with the basketball, and
I need to see that aggression from the gate.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Get going from the gate.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Don't try to wait till the second half, then get
it going, because last couple of games it ain't went
that way. You know, Kyle's been still doing a great
job of dimond and getting other people involved. But like,
let's get going from the gate. I think that's what
Dallas needs to see from Kai. Also shout out to
Jay and Hardy number getting called to start the game
or not start, but early in the game he gets
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subbed in after not playing much in these playoffs, come in,
get a good bucket, but have some incredible lives. To
Derek Lively, who led them in plus minus, who had
an incredible game, And I'd like to think his guards
feeding him the way they were Luca throwing him libs,
Kyrie throwing them lost. Jaydon Hardy come in throwing him libs.
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That was great to see. That's the steps you want
to see from the young fella. Now, you jkidd, he
earned minutes. He came in. He showed you. I'm not
afraid of this moment. I'm ready for the moment. I'm
locked in defensively, I'm locked in offensively. Give me more time.
Love to see it, Love to see young fellas taking
that next step and growing. In a pivotal game five
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on the road, he showed up like it's no problem.
It's no problem. So now if you're Jayden Hardy, you
got to come build on that.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Now, I'm coming in and I'm making no defensive mistakes.
I'm not turning the ball over. I know I got
my live threat. I'm getting downhill. They got me in
here because we need enough score. Tim ain't been shooting great,
Dante Xam ain't played great, Josh Green ain't ain't shooting great,
So we need more scoring. All right, we need nothing.
Guy that can get downhill. Go ahead, Jane and Hardy,
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go do that so you know you're getting downhill. They
got you another score. I'm going to the Cup. But
if they helped, I know I got my live threat.
Stay solid, young fella. It's great to see. Great to
see young guys taking that next step. So shout out
to Jaye and Hardy. It's beautiful to see his number
be called when it hadn't been called, and he ready,
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he was ready, answered the bell, helped those boys get
that win in Game five and headed back to close
out in Game six.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
And as you heard.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
From my prediction with different nuggets at the end of it,
I said, we'll see them versus Dallas.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I don't have Dallas going seven. I got Dallas closing
this thing out on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
And moving on and other news. Tim Legler says the
Celtics season will be a failure without a championship. Do
you agree or disagree? I normally disagree with shit like that.
It'd be like hot take issh and like uh, Tim Laylger.
Tim Legler is absolutely correct on this one. Why is
Tim Legler correct on this one? In my opinion, because
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you got Jylen Brown making three hundred plus million dollars,
soon to be Jason Tatum making three hundred plus million dollars,
Drew Holliday making one hundred and fifty million dollars, Christops
presingis one hundred million dollars, Derek White sixty million dollars,
something like that.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Number one.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I'm still trying to figure out. Well, all there's money
in Boston coming from too, but uh, it's a failure.
Like you won sixty plus games, you have built your team.
You go out and get Drew Holliday, you go out
and get Prizingers. You retooled, didn't rebuild in. This season
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went exactly how you thought and wanted it to go
when you made those moves. Because the season went that way.
You extend Drew Holiday because he's proven all that he
needs to prove that. You want to continue forward with him.
So guess what It's time to win? And it's time now, Jackson.
What is it five to five conference finals?
Speaker 3 (34:22):
And how many years?
Speaker 4 (34:23):
I think more than that? Honestly, yeah, something.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Like that exactly. Look at him all happy. We don't know.
I agree with you.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
It's to get over the hump.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, we don't care how many conference finals anymore. I
agree a finals appearance ain't good enough. You gotta go
win it all you're supposed to. You got home court advantage,
you did all. It's time. So I one thousand percent
agree with Tim Legler here the Celtics gotta win because
if not, how long can you doabble into that second
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April until it's too much. Just keep swinging and keep swinging.
So it ain't converted yet. I ain't got over the
hump yet. Got to get over the hump. So yes,
Tim Legler, I agree that is a fact, and we
shall see what Boston does.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
But they most definitely got to win it this year.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Before we get out of here, a lot of news
been made about Brownie at the combine measure that six
one and a half very impressive six seven wingspan, forty
inch vertical.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Stock rising play well, listen.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
I think Brownie it has a chance to be a
very very solid guard in the NBA. He shoot the
ball well, he defends well, athletic like going to be
able to pick up if he's a backup guard. Say
he's a backup because everybody all is the starter. The
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likelihood that you're a point guard, and you're coming in
us a starter. There's thirty stars, there's sixty to eighty
backup and.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Third point guards.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
So it's more likely that you're going to be a
backup or a third point guard than you are starter,
just surely off the numbers. So let's go back up
because I'm I know better than like, this guy's a starter.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
And I'm not saying that just for Bronnie.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I'm saying in general, it's hard to be a start
point guard in this league, a real start point guard
in this league. So I think Bronnie does how the
capability is to be a very good backup point guard
in this league. If you can take that to a starter,
that's on the work that you come in and put
in right, that's on the improvements that you make, the
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things that you do to get better.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I can't speak for that.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Because I'm not the one that has to do the work,
But nonetheless, I think he has more than enough attributes
and tools and things about him that'll make him a
good backup point guard.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
At least.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Backup point guards need to pick up full court. He's
gonna be able to do that. With the best of
backup point guards need to be able to knock down shots.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
We know he can knock down the shot.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Backup. Point guards need to be smart, not make mistakes.
People complain that he played basketball too mistake free. So again,
at worst, we know he's probably gonna be capable, and
it ain't gotta be next year. By the way, y'all
draft kids in the top ten that ain't ready to
play next year and then want to talk about Brownie,
who's not in anybody's top ten, and be like, he
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ain't ready to play next year? Of forty five of
the sixty guys that you drift at, fifty of the
sixty guys that you drift.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Ain't gonna be ready to play next year.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
So the whole thing of trying to throw out there
like he ain't ready to play, look at him. He
ain't ready now? Who is ready now coming out of college?
A few guys, So let's stop with that nonsense. No,
he's not ready right now. Guess what another other fifty
eight players of fifty nine whatever it is because the
people got their pick snatch, aren't gonna be either. But
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what attributes do they have that we can look forward
to building on? And Brownie has some of those so
it's great to see him go to the combine and
perform well. His stockers rise, and I think he'll go
to some of these workouts and perform even better and
continue to rise. And I think Brownie will have a
very solid career as he continued to progress. But also, no,
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it's gonna take time to progress. This is the NBA.
This is the NBA. It's the best basketball league in
the world. It takes time. So that's a rap from
this episode of The Draymond Green Show. Tap in with
y'all maybe this weekend, maybe next week. I'll let y'all know,
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but until then, that's a rap piece. Plimtlev Levy Climate
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