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Speaker 4: Let's get into this episode. The Dubs win too straight
Speaker 4: on the Florida Swing Man, the Florida Swing is tough.
Speaker 4: This year, Orlando has gotten better. They're a playoff team.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: They got those young guys which we've talked about in
Speaker 4: Paolo and from who I think you know their futures,
Speaker 4: which we'll get into in a minute. But coming down
Speaker 4: and getting those two wins, especially after a tough home stretch,
Speaker 4: was very important, especially with the standings and with Tarry
Speaker 4: Easton's Houston Rockets trailing us for a play in spot.
Speaker 4: It was an important couple of games for us to
Speaker 4: start the trip off. Going to Minnesota, which was a
Speaker 4: tough loss. We led the whole way and weren't able
Speaker 4: to close that game out in the fourth quarter. They
Speaker 4: had a big fourth quarter. We just weren't able to
Speaker 4: close that game out. And to come down to the
Speaker 4: on the Florida Swing where Miami is Miami.
Speaker 1: We all know who Miami is.
Speaker 4: Regardless of who they have on the floor, always going
Speaker 4: to be a tough game. Bams playing great basketball and
Speaker 4: you know the Miami He just always found those guys.
Speaker 4: Hey what Heismith was getting off. I'm not sure where
Speaker 4: he came from, what's his backstory, but he's just another
Speaker 4: one of those guys that Miami had found, and then
Speaker 4: coming into Orlando, a team that yet young team who's
Speaker 4: always motivated to play against us, coming in on the
Speaker 4: back to back, which is always tough. It's like it's
Speaker 4: always Orlando on the back to back, Orlando on the
Speaker 4: front of him, back to back, like it's always something
Speaker 4: and I hate that it always gets schedule like that,
Speaker 4: but that is the nature of it. I think that'll
Speaker 4: start to change as Orlando keep getting better. You know,
Speaker 4: you're gonna have these young guys in the playoffs this
Speaker 4: year and not sure if you are. No, But the
Speaker 4: NBA schedule is based on a national TV schedule, so
Speaker 4: the national TV ESPN, TNT, ABC, they all get to
Speaker 4: pick the games that they want and then the schedule
Speaker 4: is filled in around that. Obviously, we've had a million
Speaker 4: national TV games over the last ten years due to
Speaker 4: the Steph Curry effect, and Orlando hasn't had a bunch
Speaker 4: of them.
Speaker 1: I think they have won this year. But so.
Speaker 4: In theory, like the Orlando game always just get kind
Speaker 4: of slid onto the schedule around Miami, which is normally
Speaker 4: a national TV game, So it just kind of always
Speaker 4: gets slipped in there because you're on the Florida Swing.
Speaker 1: And it just always makes it a tough game.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I think as these young guys continue
Speaker 4: to show and become household names in this league, like
Speaker 4: I think Paulo Ben Carroll will, which I said years
Speaker 4: ago before he was drafted, always been a big fan
Speaker 4: of Paulo Ben Carrol thought he was undoubtedly the number
Speaker 4: one pick in his draft. He's shown that continues to grow.
Speaker 4: Had a conversation with Gary Harris, who's my young fellow
Speaker 4: Michigan State, Go Green, Go White, and Gary was confirming
Speaker 4: to me more of what I thought, which is, like,
Speaker 4: n Paulo is a serious guy, he's mature, doesn't quite
Speaker 4: act like he's twenty one years old.
Speaker 1: And he said something to me that I don't doubt one.
Speaker 4: Bit and that I thought from the beginning, which was, yeah, Dre,
Speaker 4: he'll probably be an All Star the rest of his career.
Speaker 4: Like he's just figuring it out. And as he figures
Speaker 4: it out, it's like he's more and more motivated. And
Speaker 4: it's already a motivated kid. Like he's from Seattle. We
Speaker 4: know the roots that's been laid that, we know his upbringing,
Speaker 4: we know he's had guys like Jamal Nate, you know,
Speaker 4: and Brandon like all of those guys around just to
Speaker 4: show you how to be a pro. And so with Paulo,
Speaker 4: he already got a leg up in that aspect, which
Speaker 4: is huge, especially coming to a team that don't really
Speaker 4: have many veterans. They got G which I think to
Speaker 4: have Gary Harris around as big for that team because
Speaker 4: G is a stable guy. He's been in the league
Speaker 4: for ten years now, He's well respected by everybody in
Speaker 4: the league and he's a pro, and so I think
Speaker 4: that's great for those guys, you know, having Joe Ingles
Speaker 4: this year, but you know, and just having a young
Speaker 4: team like that with not many veterans, that upbringing is
Speaker 4: huge for Paolo because in a sense, you you've already
Speaker 4: been shown what it's like to be a pro. And
Speaker 4: that is the benefit of having guys like Jamal Crawford
Speaker 4: from your city. That's giving back to the young guys
Speaker 4: and showing them the way. And so I think this
Speaker 4: team will become a household name, you know, as the
Speaker 4: years go and those guys continue to get better, and
Speaker 4: hopefully that game won't be slid in to the schedule
Speaker 4: like it's always been. It's almost like it's not a
Speaker 4: priority and it makes it tough. And we've had a
Speaker 4: tough go here and so it's good to get win.
Speaker 4: Last night, however, I got ejected four minutes into the game.
Speaker 1: M just can't do it. Regardless of what was said.
Speaker 4: I'm not about to get into what was said because
Speaker 4: that's irrelevant to STEP's point.
Speaker 1: I have to be on the floor and whatever that means,
Speaker 1: you just have to do that.
Speaker 4: I look at this, I'm not overreacting to this because
Speaker 4: of everything that happened in the beginning of the season.
Speaker 4: You know, I feel like since I've returned, everything's headed
Speaker 4: in the right direction. And hit a little bump in
Speaker 4: the road, get over it and keep going. Extremely grateful
Speaker 4: that my guys helped me down. It's a very important
Speaker 4: game for us and for them to go out and
Speaker 4: get a trace played unbelievable basketball. Andrew Wiggins took over
Speaker 4: the game in the fourth quarter, and Steph Curry sent
Speaker 4: everybody night night as he does. Klay Thompson tough back
Speaker 4: to back man, you know, playing thirty plus minutes starting
Speaker 4: for the first time in a long time at Miami,
Speaker 4: coming out getting twenty eight, then coming back the next
Speaker 4: night and giving us huge minutes, knocking shots down, spacing
Speaker 4: the floor.
Speaker 1: Clay got off to a really good start.
Speaker 4: Which got us going, got us out running, hit some
Speaker 4: shots got out in transition, and that changed everything. I
Speaker 4: thought it was huge to see Clay back into the lineup,
Speaker 4: not that BP did anything wrong. You know, sometimes you
Speaker 4: just need something different, and we all know what Clay
Speaker 4: brings to the table. What Clay brings to the table,
Speaker 4: nobody else brings to the table in the history of basketball.
Speaker 4: There's facts to back that up. You know, sixty to
Speaker 4: three quarters thirty seven in a quarter, No one in
Speaker 4: history brings that to be a game. So with what
Speaker 4: Clay brings, it just brings a different thing and we
Speaker 4: saw it shine through in a major way these last
Speaker 4: two games. And that's a big call from Steve Kerr.
Speaker 4: Huge call from Steve Kurr. That's coaching at his finest
Speaker 4: right there you talking because when certain things like that
Speaker 4: happen where Clay goes to the bench, right, that's a
Speaker 4: monumental move. Everybody's talking about it. First time in twelve
Speaker 4: years he's come off the bench. Blah blah blah. When
Speaker 4: you do things like that, not that Steve stuck his
Speaker 4: foot in his mouth. But in theory, you kind of
Speaker 4: stick your foot in your mouth because now it's a
Speaker 4: big story. And so then when you go back to it,
Speaker 4: it's like, oh, look at that, And so many people
Speaker 4: would be afraid to go back to it just for
Speaker 4: that reason. And that's why I always say, like, Steve
Speaker 4: is unbothered by anything, like he's unfazed. So most coaches
Speaker 4: would be like, ah, but we went away from it,
Speaker 4: and now what are they going to say, ababa or
Speaker 4: they're going to pick this apart. Steve doesn't get off
Speaker 4: into Steve is just going to make the best decision
Speaker 4: for the team at all times. And the beauty of
Speaker 4: that we were talking, remember we were talking a couple
Speaker 4: episodes ago around Memphis and how you can follow your coach.
Speaker 4: The beauty in that is that is the unfazedness by Steve,
Speaker 4: the unbotheredness that is that by Steve, where it's just
Speaker 4: like I'm unbothered by anything. I'm just standing these moments,
Speaker 4: making these decisions. And that's just because he's never rattled
Speaker 4: by anything. That's all a product of that. And so
Speaker 4: I said, man, that's coaching. That's that's coaching. At his finest.
Speaker 4: That's why Steve Curry is who he is. That's why
Speaker 4: he is the highest paid coach in NBA history. That's
Speaker 4: why he has four championships and what was it was
Speaker 4: four championships in ten years or something like that, like,
Speaker 4: that's why he is one of the most winningest people
Speaker 4: in basketball history. For four championships as a coach, five
Speaker 4: as a player.
Speaker 1: One of the most winningest people in NBA history.
Speaker 4: That's why because he's just unfazed and the move like
Speaker 4: that joke to us, and all of a sudden, we
Speaker 4: two games on this road trip. Obviously, like I said,
Speaker 4: the Minnesota one got away, but it sets us up
Speaker 4: to possibly have a four to one road trip if
Speaker 4: we go take take advantage. And that's a huge trip
Speaker 4: coming off the home stand that we had. Uh and
Speaker 4: at this point in the season, so shout out to
Speaker 4: Stevie Kerr. A big move getting Klay Thompson back in
Speaker 4: that game, and uh yeah, back to getting kicked out
Speaker 4: the game. It just can't happen. I said what I said,
Speaker 4: I deserve to get kicked out at that point. And
Speaker 4: what I said, if I'm all the way honest with seat,
Speaker 4: I kind of was trying to turn my body and
Speaker 4: angle and go to the bench. And I said what
Speaker 4: I said, like a little too soon before angling my
Speaker 4: body to the bench. But yeah, it just can't happen.
Speaker 4: And you know, uh that, like we need to win games.
Speaker 4: So like I said, not going to overreact, like oh man,
Speaker 4: like stuff is never as good as it seems, is
Speaker 4: never as bad as it seems. Like I know where
Speaker 4: I am, I understand what I'm doing, moving for and
Speaker 4: in my position.
Speaker 1: Just make sure.
Speaker 4: That that's the exception and not the rule. And so
Speaker 4: moving on, And like I said, shout out to my
Speaker 4: brothers for holding me down and getting that win. Need
Speaker 4: to go get a couple more wins. The wins were
Speaker 4: big because of the playoff race. Everyone's been blowing my
Speaker 4: phone up, so I must speak about this because of
Speaker 4: the playoff race. Tarry Easton's had comments. Now, as you
Speaker 4: all know that our fans of this show, Draymond Green show.
Speaker 1: I am a big Tarry Easton fan.
Speaker 4: Why would he come out and make a video telling
Speaker 4: the Warriors to come out and play. Everybody in Houston
Speaker 4: had a heart attack when he did that, because that's just.
Speaker 1: That's Houston is a tough place.
Speaker 4: To talk to us, you know, like when you look
Speaker 4: at Memphis and what happened with Memphis a couple of
Speaker 4: years ago, like that Memphis was already a tough place
Speaker 4: to talk to us, like when you lose to a
Speaker 4: team in the playoffs when it matters the most, and
Speaker 4: like especially at the height of like you know, with
Speaker 4: them doves with like the height when you lose it,
Speaker 4: like it's tough to talk to us because that's what matters.
Speaker 4: And so when you start talking, everybody just look back, like, bro,
Speaker 4: you can't talk to him because of that. And so
Speaker 4: shout out to the young fella, you know, coming out
Speaker 4: to my Warriors, come out and play.
Speaker 1: We need to get him.
Speaker 4: And you know, he got to come to the bank
Speaker 4: and getting getting sync better with that because you know,
Speaker 4: the chat's a little more sync than he was. But
Speaker 4: like I said, a part of the reason that I
Speaker 4: liked Tar Easton is that he would come out and
Speaker 4: do that, Like that's when I saw it. I was
Speaker 4: surprised at all. I am a little surprised that he
Speaker 4: hasn't played in the game since January first, and so
Speaker 4: it's kind of tough to come out yelling, come out
Speaker 4: and play and you're not gonna play. It puts a
Speaker 4: lot of strain on your guys, like you can't get
Speaker 4: out there and help them.
Speaker 1: But I respect it. I respect it. Uh.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a big moment for their franchise. You know,
Speaker 4: they're they're on there, you know, you know, on the
Speaker 4: trails of the player, and it's a big moment for
Speaker 4: the franchise.
Speaker 1: So I get it.
Speaker 4: It's been a while, but I'm telling you, it's a
Speaker 4: lot of people in Houston, City of Houston, which I
Speaker 4: love Houston, by the way, it's great city.
Speaker 1: I love the place.
Speaker 4: A lot of people that are scratching their head, like
Speaker 4: I'm on, Tarry, We've seen this movie before, so I
Speaker 4: thought that was funny, nothing more than nothing less, and
Speaker 4: that while we were wind and now moving back to
Speaker 4: where we were headed, which is the minor game.
Speaker 1: Like I said, those.
Speaker 4: Guys JJ and Bron, they breaking down the game, They
Speaker 4: breaking down action. They having a high level of basketball
Speaker 4: conversation that quite frankly, most people probably won't understand, but
Speaker 4: they're doing a good job of breaking it down to you.
Speaker 4: And I saw them talking about our split cuts. When
Speaker 4: Steve introduced this concept of the split cuts, it took
Speaker 4: a while to build the chemistry on it because it's
Speaker 4: a field thing, and so it's all read and react.
Speaker 4: If I do this and they do that, then you
Speaker 4: do this and if they do that move and it's
Speaker 4: like a quarterback reading like you got your first read,
Speaker 4: you got your second read, you got your third read,
Speaker 4: you got your fourth freed. The interesting thing about it
Speaker 4: is like layers and layers and layers, And as time
Speaker 4: has went on, we've just layered the split cut more
Speaker 4: and more. It started as just a pinion, God come off,
Speaker 4: God died. There's so many other layers to the split
Speaker 4: cuts now because its like again, it's like a progression
Speaker 4: of a quarterback, like you've read all right, next guy,
Speaker 4: next guy up. You see sometimes like a quarterback come
Speaker 4: to go across the field scanning their progressions, come all
Speaker 4: the way back like that's like the split cut. Which
Speaker 4: is why I enjoy being the passer and the split cut,
Speaker 4: because it's just fun, like you're watching everything develop from
Speaker 4: the lowest point of the floor, like your lower than
Speaker 4: just about everybody. And now at times you got that
Speaker 4: guy on the week side which Brown was talking about
Speaker 4: KD where you skipped to the week side shooter, but
Speaker 4: you always want that guy that lifts on to give
Speaker 4: you that angle to pass it.
Speaker 1: So in theory, you are the lowest guy on the floor.
Speaker 4: And if you think about that from a defensive perspective,
Speaker 4: the lowest guy on the floor is the most important
Speaker 4: guy on the floor. Why because he's the back line
Speaker 4: of the defense. He sees everything, and so in the
Speaker 4: split cut, I'm the lowest guy on the floor. When
Speaker 4: I'm the passer, I can see everything developed and sometimes
Speaker 4: you just see the breakdown happening. You're like, Okay, okay,
Speaker 4: I'm about to get him up book got him there.
Speaker 4: It goes and you know, that's been a staple in
Speaker 4: our offense since Steve Kirk came ten years ago. And
Speaker 4: like I said, when he first put the split cuts in,
Speaker 4: it was one of those things.
Speaker 1: And it goes back to.
Speaker 4: The ball movement that he incorporated in our offense, which
Speaker 4: was like, yo, Steve, you got us like keep passing
Speaker 4: the ball. But like Stephan Klay is supposed to get
Speaker 4: a lot of shots. And I remember very clearly him saying,
Speaker 4: the guys who's supposed to get the shots are good.
Speaker 4: The ball's going to find him and we're all like,
Speaker 4: man going with that Steve Man, that ain't going to
Speaker 4: work what you're talking about, And sure enough we started
Speaker 4: to pick that offense up over the first suple weeks
Speaker 4: and you like, man, the ball really find Stephan Clay
Speaker 4: like it was very interesting, and the split Custer kind
Speaker 4: of the same thing.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's just been layer of building.
Speaker 4: And to Bron's point, when KD came, I don't even
Speaker 4: think it was necessarily about putting a shooter on that
Speaker 4: week's side, because number one, KD is far more than
Speaker 4: just a shooter. KD scores at basketball, but that definitely
Speaker 4: makes a difference. But even if you don't have a
Speaker 4: shooter on that week's side, we also came up with
Speaker 4: another couple of things that even if it wasn't a
Speaker 4: shooter on that week side, you could still skip it
Speaker 4: to that guy and move on to the next action.
Speaker 4: And so that's again, that's the layers of it, and
Speaker 4: there's plenty of layers to it. But yeah, now Bron
Speaker 4: caught a lot of hell with them split cuts over
Speaker 4: the years. You know, Bron liked to play quarterback until
Speaker 4: his point. He's like, you gotta watch his eyes sometimes
Speaker 4: you gotta look Bron off a little bit and boom,
Speaker 4: And it's always fun with that having that chess match
Speaker 4: with bron because he is, like Ed Reid over their
Speaker 4: best free safety. Ever, I can't really I feel like
Speaker 4: I'm an incredible free safety myself, but bron Is is
Speaker 4: a great free safety and obviously he reads the game
Speaker 4: as well as anyone, and.
Speaker 1: He's over there.
Speaker 4: He's always trying to get to the backside of that
Speaker 4: split and put himself in the up. But there's ways
Speaker 4: that there's been ways to manipulate Bron two in the
Speaker 4: backside because you know he's trying to read it all
Speaker 4: so it gets interesting. But the split cuts are a staple.
Speaker 4: They're tough to guard, and like I said, one of
Speaker 4: the reasons that it's toughest thing the guard is because
Speaker 4: it's just a read and reacting like so you can't
Speaker 4: quite script it. Like in the NBA defense, you script
Speaker 4: what you want to give up. You know, you like,
Speaker 4: we're taking this away, this, this, this, and this, But
Speaker 4: the reality is the NBA, so you can't take away everything.
Speaker 4: So you have to choose, like, all right, if we're
Speaker 4: going to lose to them, we're willing to die by
Speaker 4: this and sometimes seems kill you with that, but more
Speaker 4: often than not, you're gonna win. Uh if you execute
Speaker 4: that planning and with the split cuts, you can you
Speaker 4: can discuss what the patterns are, but at the end
Speaker 4: of the day, once it's starts happening, it's still on
Speaker 4: your players to read the situation and react.
Speaker 1: To what's happening.
Speaker 4: And as they're reading, there's a lot of moving pieces
Speaker 4: coming around and they're trying to make those reads and
Speaker 4: it gets tough. And so yeah, it was cool to
Speaker 4: see Bron and JJ discuss the splits, knowing the hell
Speaker 4: that has caused Bron over the years. Although I'm like
Speaker 4: Tarry Easton or they beat us in the playoffs last year,
Speaker 4: so maybe I shouldn't talk nah nah that goal. That
Speaker 4: battle go too far back, that that ain't stopping with
Speaker 4: one playoff loss. But yeah, so shout out to them
Speaker 4: with that, you know. And me looking at the NBA,
Speaker 4: I think when I think of the toughest actions to
Speaker 4: guard in the NBA, what would they be? Anytime you
Speaker 4: put somebody on in a single side tax situation that's
Speaker 4: always tough. That would be like if say, if I'm
Speaker 4: Stephan I'm on the left side of the floor. You
Speaker 4: got Draymond rolling in the set of screen and he's
Speaker 4: diving steps coming off to his right hand, and you
Speaker 4: got Clay on the same side of the floor that
Speaker 4: the screen is now going away from, which means that
Speaker 4: puts Clay's.
Speaker 1: Man in a single side tag position.
Speaker 4: Single side meaning there's one guy over there, so you
Speaker 4: don't have another guy to X out in what we
Speaker 4: call so if it's two guys on that side, if
Speaker 4: one guy go help, the one guy has to drop
Speaker 4: a bit and take the first pass out and play two.
Speaker 4: If you put a guy on a single side, there's
Speaker 4: no X so you have to make that guy go
Speaker 4: tag the roller. So it would be me rolling or
Speaker 4: Trace rolling or jk rowling or somebody rolling. You have
Speaker 4: that guy has put in a situation where he has
Speaker 4: to go tag the roller mean and go in and
Speaker 4: bump the roller.
Speaker 1: So ideally you want him to start in.
Speaker 4: Because you start in, it's a one way close out
Speaker 4: mean and I start there, I get my bump, I
Speaker 4: start to exit as I get my bump. That makes
Speaker 4: your clothes out shorter. The reality is you put a
Speaker 4: guy like Klay Thompson on the week's side and you're
Speaker 4: not starting in because you scared as hell to leave
Speaker 4: his body, and so that's single side tag. To me,
Speaker 4: that's always one of the toughest actions to guard because
Speaker 4: you just put that guy in in the blender and
Speaker 4: he gotta figure I can get this tag and get
Speaker 4: back to the shooter. And if it's lay Thompson who
Speaker 4: only need that much space to get a shot off,
Speaker 4: it makes it tough on that single side tag. And
Speaker 4: then you just you kind of play with Clay. You
Speaker 4: move them up and down, you know, higher up in
Speaker 4: the slot, you know, on the wing, to the corner,
Speaker 4: like you move that guy based on where you want
Speaker 4: to tag to be or not to be, to make
Speaker 4: that tag tougher and the longer close out. So to me,
Speaker 4: I think that's always going to be one of the
Speaker 4: toughest actions to guard, just because it's no helping you
Speaker 4: put guys in a two on one situation. In the NBA,
Speaker 4: the two on one should should win out more often
Speaker 4: than not. And so I think for me, that's one
Speaker 4: that I would look at and I would say, are
Speaker 4: one of the toughest actions to guard.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that was from Mind the Game episode two.
Speaker 4: Uh buttassas Jackson for a mailbacks segment before we get
Speaker 4: out of here and I head on make our way
Speaker 4: to Charlotte.
Speaker 5: All right, let's start with from at Jake Steak. Kaylyn
Speaker 5: Clark was offered five million dollars from ice Cube to
Speaker 5: join the Big Three over the summer.
Speaker 1: Do you think she should take that?
Speaker 4: I mean, it depends on what the goals are, right, Like,
Speaker 4: Kayln Clark is gonna make plenty of money, so there's
Speaker 4: no need to money grab. What's the downside of that?
Speaker 4: The downside of that is Kayln Clark go to play
Speaker 4: in the Big Big Three, and those guys in the
Speaker 4: Big Three, like, it's not like sorry basketball players in
Speaker 4: the Big Three.
Speaker 1: It's guys that's playing in the NBA.
Speaker 4: It's guys that are still actively playing overseas, like these
Speaker 4: guys getting to it in the Big Three. If Kayln
Speaker 4: Clark doesn't perform well due to that, then what's the conversation?
Speaker 1: And so I think it does more harm than good
Speaker 1: for Kaitlyn Clark.
Speaker 4: I think it'd be groundbreaking for ice Cube to get
Speaker 4: her in the Big Three. I think there's a zero
Speaker 4: percent chance that it happens because Kaitlyn Clark would need
Speaker 4: percentage of the lead, because that's the only way it
Speaker 4: can make Like, it only makes sense if if like
Speaker 4: the amount of money that she can make grows, and
Speaker 4: like you can't put a cap to it. But for
Speaker 4: her just to take five million dollars to do what
Speaker 4: comes with that, it just doesn't make sense. That also
Speaker 4: falls during the NBA c WNBA season, so how is
Speaker 4: she going to play? So logistically it just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 4: So does she opt out of the WNBA and gonna
Speaker 4: play in the Big Three? Maybe one day the Big
Speaker 4: Three reaches that point, I don't think it quite makes
Speaker 4: sense right now unless you make that a financial thing
Speaker 4: where she can make a bunch of money. But five
Speaker 4: million dollars, unfortunately, is just not enough. It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 4: And I'm sure whoever is behind Kaitlyn Clark is thinking
Speaker 4: about building a brand, not grab some money. You're looking
Speaker 4: to grab some money and you're Kaitlyn Clark, Kaitlyn Clark
Speaker 4: should fire you today if you're representation Clark and you're like, hey, Kaitlyn,
Speaker 4: by the way, I got this. If Kaitlyn Clark probably
Speaker 4: should fire you for bringing that idea to her, because
Speaker 4: you shouldn't even put that idea in front of Kaitlyn
Speaker 4: Clark's face. The amount of money that Kaylyn Clark has
Speaker 4: made and is going to make makes no sense for
Speaker 4: her to risk that. And I'm a big ice Q
Speaker 4: fan and wanted to see the league do well. But
Speaker 4: just giving you the truth, as you know you're going
Speaker 4: to get on the Draymond Green show, that may just
Speaker 4: not enough money for Clayland Kaitlyn Clark.
Speaker 1: The risk isn't worth the reward. And Kaylyn Clark is growing.
Speaker 4: To WNBA in the women's game, and the only way
Speaker 4: Kaitlyn Clark can continue to grow the women's game is
Speaker 4: to go play in the WNBA now playing a Big three.
Speaker 1: So that's my spill on that, all.
Speaker 5: Right, Next question from at Samel the league needs more
Speaker 5: Draymond Green type of players. All this friendly stuff isn't
Speaker 5: good for the game. It takes away the competitiveness. What
Speaker 5: are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 4: Ah, I mean, I'm never going to argue what you
Speaker 4: say in the league need more me, but in saying that,
Speaker 4: I think the game is very competitive. I think regardless
Speaker 4: of guys or friends or not, you're going to compete.
Speaker 4: Like I always go back to bron me and Brian
Speaker 4: are great friends. I want to take his head off
Speaker 4: every time we play. Like that's just the reality. He
Speaker 4: want to take my head off. It's not literal like
Speaker 4: meaning I want to do whatever I got to do
Speaker 4: to win. He wants to do whatever you gotta do.
Speaker 4: The win doesn't affect our friendship. Michael Jordan and Charles
Speaker 4: Barkley was friends in the nineties. Like guys were friends.
Speaker 4: They golf together before games. There's just this logic of
Speaker 4: friendships just starting the NBA stop, like you just see
Speaker 4: them on social media more. Those guys didn't have social media,
Speaker 4: You didn't know their lives. You get to see more
Speaker 4: of our lives, so you think, and then the older
Speaker 4: guys fall into the tripol like, oh they friends, Like
Speaker 4: y'all been friends too, man, Like, you don't just play
Speaker 4: in this league and not pick up friends on the
Speaker 4: way height.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, guy's been friends in the NBA and they've
Speaker 4: been competing forever. And guess what, God's going to continue
Speaker 4: to be friends in the NBA and you're going to
Speaker 4: continue to compete and that ain't changing anything. So I
Speaker 4: don't think it's the friends friendships that are stopping physical
Speaker 4: playing the NBA.
Speaker 1: What stops more physical playing the NBA.
Speaker 4: Or the rules, rules or rules, that's what stops physicality
Speaker 4: in the NBA. It's not that, oh man, Jason Tatum
Speaker 4: my friend, it's my little bro.
Speaker 1: Of course.
Speaker 4: Guess what when we play in the NBA finals, I
Speaker 4: didn't say hi to him the whole time. He didn't
Speaker 4: say hi to me the whole finals, and then after
Speaker 4: we hugged, what's up, bro, I miss you? Dang, it
Speaker 4: was bothering me not talking to you like it's my brother.
Speaker 1: Yes, great, guess what did that change anything?
Speaker 4: Well? How I went at him, how he went at me,
Speaker 4: how Boston France treated me because me and j No,
Speaker 4: it didn't change anything. So the whole theory just doesn't
Speaker 4: make sense. If anything, I want to beat you more.
Speaker 4: Just guess what JT is going to be at my
Speaker 4: wed in that summer. And I'd rather be the champion
Speaker 4: walking into my wedding the JT being the champion. Wak
Speaker 4: Like you got all of these things that go on
Speaker 4: in our minds. That's not stopping no competition. So people
Speaker 4: got to stop with that. That changes nothing. What changes
Speaker 4: physicality and NBA are simply the rules.
Speaker 1: That's a great answer.
Speaker 5: Before we get to the last question, reminder to everyone
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Speaker 5: very very cool interviews coming up, but to close out,
Speaker 5: let's go from at JJ six ix Draymond. Do you
Speaker 5: think that you are misunderstood?
Speaker 4: Do I think I'm misunderstood? Of course, but so is
Speaker 4: everyone else that the world judges and don't know. You know,
Speaker 4: so I don't look at myself like, oh, y'all misunderstood
Speaker 4: this of me, and like, look at me, I'm misunderstood,
Speaker 4: Like Steph Curr's misunderstood simply because you don't know him.
Speaker 4: Lebron James is it's understood simply because you don't know him.
Speaker 4: So the reality is, with the jobs that we do,
Speaker 4: we're in front of a camera all the time. There's
Speaker 4: always something going on, there's always talk around us, there's
Speaker 4: all of these things, and so it's in your face.
Speaker 4: When something is always in your face, it's only a
Speaker 4: natural thing to feel like you know it, you know them,
Speaker 4: you know and the reality is you don't. You see
Speaker 4: what you see, and that's it. There's entirely different and
Speaker 4: other layers to that person than what you get. The
Speaker 4: opportunity to see. So am I misunderstood? Absolutely, But so
Speaker 4: it's just about every other guy in the NBA. I
Speaker 4: don't take that ass man, they're picking on me and
Speaker 4: I'm misunderstood or anything like that. We're all misunderstood simply
Speaker 4: because our lives are on display in a very small way,
Speaker 4: but in people's face.
Speaker 1: You see it all the time.
Speaker 4: So in your mind, it's just like, that's our life
Speaker 4: and that's what's on display to you. With the reality
Speaker 4: of it is it's not and it's in basketball. It's
Speaker 4: not the only thing in any of our lives. So
Speaker 4: the reality is we're all misunderstood. That is going to
Speaker 4: be a rap from this episode of The Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 4: Appreciate the questions. The next time we go live, there
Speaker 4: will continue to be mailbag segments. Got in another couple,
Speaker 4: another episode dropping next week.
Speaker 1: That'll be a fun one. It'll be a great one.
Speaker 4: Owner of an NBA team coming through The Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 4: Make sure y'all check that out. Until next time. That's
Speaker 4: a rap piece.