WEBVTT - Draymond Green Show - Dray's Ejection vs. Magic: "I Deserved It" 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:05.880 The volume. All right. 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:10.360 The NBA season is in full swing, coming down the stretch. 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.560 Then we move right into the playoffs in April, May 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:17.239 and June. I can't wait. Spice things up with Draftking 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:20.520 sports Book and official sports betting partner the NBA. Right now, 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:22.800 all you have to do is put down five bucks 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.240 and get one hundred and fifty dollars instantly in bonus bets. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.639 Pretty good trade off. I pay five, I get one 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.400 hundred and fifty dollars. North Carolina listeners, do not forget. 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.400 Welcome to the party. Draft King Sportsbook now live in 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:40.480 your state, North Carolina. Download the Draftking sports Book app 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.479 takes ninety seconds. The code is Colin col N Again 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.520 ninety seconds. Download Draft King sports Book app. 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:48.080 Put in Colin. 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.800 New customers bet five, get one hundred and fifty back 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:56.360 in bonus bets instantly. That is the trade all right. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:58.440 The code is always Colin. 0:00:58.760 --> 0:00:59.400 The crown is. 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.360 Yours gambling problem called one eight hundred gambler or in 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.160 West Virginia, visit one eight hundred gambler dot net. In 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.960 New York call eight seven seven eight open wired text 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.240 hope and y four six seven three six nine in 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.200 Connecticut help is available for problem gambling called eight eight 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.839 eight seven eight nine seven seven seven seven or visit 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.520 CCPG dot org. Please play responsibly on behalf of Boothill 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.639 Casino when resorting Kansas twenty one and over age varies 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.040 by jurisdiction, Voyd and Ontario. Bonus bets expire one hundred 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.160 and sixty eight hours after issuance. See DKNNG dot co 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:33.280 slash bball for eligibility and deposit restrictions, terms and responsible 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:34.320 gaming resources. 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.680 What's up, everybody? Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show. 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:48.560 Interesting game and Orlando last night. We'll get into that. 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.600 We are back with another episode on the Fleet Report app, 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.480 which means it's live, so we'll be answering some mailback 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.520 questions at the end of the episode, so make sure 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.680 you drop those in chat. Also, make sure to subscribe 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.800 to our YouTube channel YouTube dot com slash at Draymond Show. 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:10.600 Excuse me at Draymond Greenshow YouTube dot com slash at. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:11.720 Draymond Green Show. 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.680 That is the little AT symbol, not at the little 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:17.760 AT symbol Draymond Green Show. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:18.480 Check that out. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.480 Let's get into this episode. The Dubs win too straight 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:26.040 on the Florida Swing Man, the Florida Swing is tough. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.120 This year, Orlando has gotten better. They're a playoff team. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:29.560 Uh. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.880 They got those young guys which we've talked about in 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:37.120 Paolo and from who I think you know their futures, 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.960 which we'll get into in a minute. But coming down 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.680 and getting those two wins, especially after a tough home stretch, 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:50.360 was very important, especially with the standings and with Tarry 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:56.320 Easton's Houston Rockets trailing us for a play in spot. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.160 It was an important couple of games for us to 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.280 start the trip off. Going to Minnesota, which was a 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:07.520 tough loss. We led the whole way and weren't able 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:09.480 to close that game out in the fourth quarter. They 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.160 had a big fourth quarter. We just weren't able to 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.520 close that game out. And to come down to the 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.560 on the Florida Swing where Miami is Miami. 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.600 We all know who Miami is. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.480 Regardless of who they have on the floor, always going 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:30.440 to be a tough game. Bams playing great basketball and 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.679 you know the Miami He just always found those guys. 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.760 Hey what Heismith was getting off. I'm not sure where 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:40.560 he came from, what's his backstory, but he's just another 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.840 one of those guys that Miami had found, and then 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.000 coming into Orlando, a team that yet young team who's 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.560 always motivated to play against us, coming in on the 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.200 back to back, which is always tough. It's like it's 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.640 always Orlando on the back to back, Orlando on the 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.320 front of him, back to back, like it's always something 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:00.440 and I hate that it always gets schedule like that, 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.160 but that is the nature of it. I think that'll 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.320 start to change as Orlando keep getting better. You know, 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.160 you're gonna have these young guys in the playoffs this 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:11.400 year and not sure if you are. No, But the 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.920 NBA schedule is based on a national TV schedule, so 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:21.400 the national TV ESPN, TNT, ABC, they all get to 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.040 pick the games that they want and then the schedule 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.360 is filled in around that. Obviously, we've had a million 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.640 national TV games over the last ten years due to 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:37.120 the Steph Curry effect, and Orlando hasn't had a bunch 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:37.400 of them. 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.920 I think they have won this year. But so. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.360 In theory, like the Orlando game always just get kind 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.960 of slid onto the schedule around Miami, which is normally 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.119 a national TV game, So it just kind of always 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.400 gets slipped in there because you're on the Florida Swing. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.720 And it just always makes it a tough game. 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:58.839 Like I said, I think as these young guys continue 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.520 to show and become household names in this league, like 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:06.120 I think Paulo Ben Carroll will, which I said years 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:10.599 ago before he was drafted, always been a big fan 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.640 of Paulo Ben Carrol thought he was undoubtedly the number 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.480 one pick in his draft. He's shown that continues to grow. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.520 Had a conversation with Gary Harris, who's my young fellow 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:27.400 Michigan State, Go Green, Go White, and Gary was confirming 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.080 to me more of what I thought, which is, like, 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:33.040 n Paulo is a serious guy, he's mature, doesn't quite 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.080 act like he's twenty one years old. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:39.960 And he said something to me that I don't doubt one. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:44.120 Bit and that I thought from the beginning, which was, yeah, Dre, 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.280 he'll probably be an All Star the rest of his career. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:50.440 Like he's just figuring it out. And as he figures 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.760 it out, it's like he's more and more motivated. And 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:56.440 it's already a motivated kid. Like he's from Seattle. We 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:01.640 know the roots that's been laid that, we know his upbringing, 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:06.400 we know he's had guys like Jamal Nate, you know, 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.719 and Brandon like all of those guys around just to 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.800 show you how to be a pro. And so with Paulo, 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.560 he already got a leg up in that aspect, which 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.960 is huge, especially coming to a team that don't really 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.680 have many veterans. They got G which I think to 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.400 have Gary Harris around as big for that team because 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.839 G is a stable guy. He's been in the league 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.520 for ten years now, He's well respected by everybody in 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.400 the league and he's a pro, and so I think 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.839 that's great for those guys, you know, having Joe Ingles 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.560 this year, but you know, and just having a young 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:43.520 team like that with not many veterans, that upbringing is 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:48.279 huge for Paolo because in a sense, you you've already 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.360 been shown what it's like to be a pro. And 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.159 that is the benefit of having guys like Jamal Crawford 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.800 from your city. That's giving back to the young guys 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.359 and showing them the way. And so I think this 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.200 team will become a household name, you know, as the 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.880 years go and those guys continue to get better, and 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.160 hopefully that game won't be slid in to the schedule 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.240 like it's always been. It's almost like it's not a 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:16.320 priority and it makes it tough. And we've had a 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.160 tough go here and so it's good to get win. 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.600 Last night, however, I got ejected four minutes into the game. 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:28.640 M just can't do it. Regardless of what was said. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:30.960 I'm not about to get into what was said because 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.280 that's irrelevant to STEP's point. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.600 I have to be on the floor and whatever that means, 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:38.560 you just have to do that. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.920 I look at this, I'm not overreacting to this because 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.720 of everything that happened in the beginning of the season. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:49.800 You know, I feel like since I've returned, everything's headed 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.600 in the right direction. And hit a little bump in 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.480 the road, get over it and keep going. Extremely grateful 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.680 that my guys helped me down. It's a very important 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.680 game for us and for them to go out and 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.200 get a trace played unbelievable basketball. Andrew Wiggins took over 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.760 the game in the fourth quarter, and Steph Curry sent 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:11.280 everybody night night as he does. Klay Thompson tough back 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.560 to back man, you know, playing thirty plus minutes starting 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.480 for the first time in a long time at Miami, 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.240 coming out getting twenty eight, then coming back the next 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.800 night and giving us huge minutes, knocking shots down, spacing 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:24.160 the floor. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.440 Clay got off to a really good start. 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.360 Which got us going, got us out running, hit some 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.760 shots got out in transition, and that changed everything. I 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.080 thought it was huge to see Clay back into the lineup, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.880 not that BP did anything wrong. You know, sometimes you 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.600 just need something different, and we all know what Clay 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.040 brings to the table. What Clay brings to the table, 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:48.800 nobody else brings to the table in the history of basketball. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.360 There's facts to back that up. You know, sixty to 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.440 three quarters thirty seven in a quarter, No one in 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:02.000 history brings that to be a game. So with what 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.439 Clay brings, it just brings a different thing and we 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:11.240 saw it shine through in a major way these last 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.720 two games. And that's a big call from Steve Kerr. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.800 Huge call from Steve Kurr. That's coaching at his finest 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:21.440 right there you talking because when certain things like that 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.720 happen where Clay goes to the bench, right, that's a 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.600 monumental move. Everybody's talking about it. First time in twelve 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.160 years he's come off the bench. Blah blah blah. When 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.440 you do things like that, not that Steve stuck his 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.960 foot in his mouth. But in theory, you kind of 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.400 stick your foot in your mouth because now it's a 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:46.080 big story. And so then when you go back to it, 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.760 it's like, oh, look at that, And so many people 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.280 would be afraid to go back to it just for 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.600 that reason. And that's why I always say, like, Steve 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.960 is unbothered by anything, like he's unfazed. So most coaches 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.400 would be like, ah, but we went away from it, 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.000 and now what are they going to say, ababa or 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.920 they're going to pick this apart. Steve doesn't get off 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.160 into Steve is just going to make the best decision 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.640 for the team at all times. And the beauty of 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.680 that we were talking, remember we were talking a couple 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.720 episodes ago around Memphis and how you can follow your coach. 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:21.000 The beauty in that is that is the unfazedness by Steve, 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.679 the unbotheredness that is that by Steve, where it's just 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.120 like I'm unbothered by anything. I'm just standing these moments, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.319 making these decisions. And that's just because he's never rattled 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.319 by anything. That's all a product of that. And so 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.560 I said, man, that's coaching. That's that's coaching. At his finest. 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.480 That's why Steve Curry is who he is. That's why 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.880 he is the highest paid coach in NBA history. That's 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:49.520 why he has four championships and what was it was 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.120 four championships in ten years or something like that, like, 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.120 that's why he is one of the most winningest people 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:02.560 in basketball history. For four championships as a coach, five 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:03.200 as a player. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.080 One of the most winningest people in NBA history. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.080 That's why because he's just unfazed and the move like 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.760 that joke to us, and all of a sudden, we 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.800 two games on this road trip. Obviously, like I said, 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.280 the Minnesota one got away, but it sets us up 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.280 to possibly have a four to one road trip if 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.680 we go take take advantage. And that's a huge trip 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:26.440 coming off the home stand that we had. Uh and 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.320 at this point in the season, so shout out to 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.440 Stevie Kerr. A big move getting Klay Thompson back in 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:35.439 that game, and uh yeah, back to getting kicked out 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.080 the game. It just can't happen. I said what I said, 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.320 I deserve to get kicked out at that point. And 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.200 what I said, if I'm all the way honest with seat, 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.240 I kind of was trying to turn my body and 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.400 angle and go to the bench. And I said what 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.920 I said, like a little too soon before angling my 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.920 body to the bench. But yeah, it just can't happen. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:59.440 And you know, uh that, like we need to win games. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:04.320 So like I said, not going to overreact, like oh man, 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.760 like stuff is never as good as it seems, is 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.000 never as bad as it seems. Like I know where 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:16.240 I am, I understand what I'm doing, moving for and 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:17.280 in my position. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:18.960 Just make sure. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:24.040 That that's the exception and not the rule. And so 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.120 moving on, And like I said, shout out to my 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.880 brothers for holding me down and getting that win. Need 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.280 to go get a couple more wins. The wins were 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:36.000 big because of the playoff race. Everyone's been blowing my 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:41.000 phone up, so I must speak about this because of 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:46.440 the playoff race. Tarry Easton's had comments. Now, as you 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.680 all know that our fans of this show, Draymond Green show. 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.200 I am a big Tarry Easton fan. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.480 Why would he come out and make a video telling 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.880 the Warriors to come out and play. Everybody in Houston 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.960 had a heart attack when he did that, because that's just. 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.280 That's Houston is a tough place. 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.319 To talk to us, you know, like when you look 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.800 at Memphis and what happened with Memphis a couple of 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:13.640 years ago, like that Memphis was already a tough place 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.480 to talk to us, like when you lose to a 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.840 team in the playoffs when it matters the most, and 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.240 like especially at the height of like you know, with 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.520 them doves with like the height when you lose it, 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:28.120 like it's tough to talk to us because that's what matters. 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:32.079 And so when you start talking, everybody just look back, like, bro, 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.240 you can't talk to him because of that. And so 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.800 shout out to the young fella, you know, coming out 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:39.320 to my Warriors, come out and play. 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:40.720 We need to get him. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:42.880 And you know, he got to come to the bank 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.560 and getting getting sync better with that because you know, 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:50.880 the chat's a little more sync than he was. But 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.160 like I said, a part of the reason that I 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.280 liked Tar Easton is that he would come out and 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.840 do that, Like that's when I saw it. I was 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.600 surprised at all. I am a little surprised that he 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.880 hasn't played in the game since January first, and so 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.520 it's kind of tough to come out yelling, come out 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:15.640 and play and you're not gonna play. It puts a 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.839 lot of strain on your guys, like you can't get 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.440 out there and help them. 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.560 But I respect it. I respect it. Uh. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.560 I mean, it's a big moment for their franchise. You know, 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.800 they're they're on there, you know, you know, on the 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.560 trails of the player, and it's a big moment for 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:36.280 the franchise. 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:37.000 So I get it. 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.200 It's been a while, but I'm telling you, it's a 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:45.000 lot of people in Houston, City of Houston, which I 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:46.960 love Houston, by the way, it's great city. 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:49.840 I love the place. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.360 A lot of people that are scratching their head, like 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:56.520 I'm on, Tarry, We've seen this movie before, so I 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.680 thought that was funny, nothing more than nothing less, and 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.120 that while we were wind and now moving back to 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.280 where we were headed, which is the minor game. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:05.840 Like I said, those. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.080 Guys JJ and Bron, they breaking down the game, They 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.359 breaking down action. They having a high level of basketball 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:15.160 conversation that quite frankly, most people probably won't understand, but 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.120 they're doing a good job of breaking it down to you. 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:22.480 And I saw them talking about our split cuts. When 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:27.560 Steve introduced this concept of the split cuts, it took 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.960 a while to build the chemistry on it because it's 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.280 a field thing, and so it's all read and react. 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.160 If I do this and they do that, then you 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:39.680 do this and if they do that move and it's 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.880 like a quarterback reading like you got your first read, 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.960 you got your second read, you got your third read, 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:49.320 you got your fourth freed. The interesting thing about it 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:53.360 is like layers and layers and layers, And as time 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.200 has went on, we've just layered the split cut more 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.600 and more. It started as just a pinion, God come off, 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.160 God died. There's so many other layers to the split 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.359 cuts now because its like again, it's like a progression 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.280 of a quarterback, like you've read all right, next guy, 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.440 next guy up. You see sometimes like a quarterback come 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.920 to go across the field scanning their progressions, come all 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.280 the way back like that's like the split cut. Which 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.880 is why I enjoy being the passer and the split cut, 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.360 because it's just fun, like you're watching everything develop from 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.760 the lowest point of the floor, like your lower than 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.880 just about everybody. And now at times you got that 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.000 guy on the week side which Brown was talking about 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.400 KD where you skipped to the week side shooter, but 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.040 you always want that guy that lifts on to give 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:38.320 you that angle to pass it. 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.240 So in theory, you are the lowest guy on the floor. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.600 And if you think about that from a defensive perspective, 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.400 the lowest guy on the floor is the most important 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.120 guy on the floor. Why because he's the back line 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.680 of the defense. He sees everything, and so in the 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:52.520 split cut, I'm the lowest guy on the floor. When 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:56.480 I'm the passer, I can see everything developed and sometimes 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.920 you just see the breakdown happening. You're like, Okay, okay, 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.120 I'm about to get him up book got him there. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:05.439 It goes and you know, that's been a staple in 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.719 our offense since Steve Kirk came ten years ago. And 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:11.760 like I said, when he first put the split cuts in, 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:13.720 it was one of those things. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:14.679 And it goes back to. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.760 The ball movement that he incorporated in our offense, which 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.959 was like, yo, Steve, you got us like keep passing 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:22.800 the ball. But like Stephan Klay is supposed to get 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:27.600 a lot of shots. And I remember very clearly him saying, 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.640 the guys who's supposed to get the shots are good. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.439 The ball's going to find him and we're all like, 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.639 man going with that Steve Man, that ain't going to 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:40.480 work what you're talking about, And sure enough we started 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.360 to pick that offense up over the first suple weeks 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.600 and you like, man, the ball really find Stephan Clay 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.520 like it was very interesting, and the split Custer kind 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:49.000 of the same thing. 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:50.800 Like I said, it's just been layer of building. 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:56.000 And to Bron's point, when KD came, I don't even 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.240 think it was necessarily about putting a shooter on that 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:02.680 week's side, because number one, KD is far more than 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:08.560 just a shooter. KD scores at basketball, but that definitely 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.520 makes a difference. But even if you don't have a 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:13.800 shooter on that week's side, we also came up with 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:15.960 another couple of things that even if it wasn't a 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.480 shooter on that week side, you could still skip it 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.440 to that guy and move on to the next action. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:24.040 And so that's again, that's the layers of it, and 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.560 there's plenty of layers to it. But yeah, now Bron 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.240 caught a lot of hell with them split cuts over 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.760 the years. You know, Bron liked to play quarterback until 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:34.679 his point. He's like, you gotta watch his eyes sometimes 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:36.680 you gotta look Bron off a little bit and boom, 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:40.600 And it's always fun with that having that chess match 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.600 with bron because he is, like Ed Reid over their 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.240 best free safety. Ever, I can't really I feel like 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:51.960 I'm an incredible free safety myself, but bron Is is 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.359 a great free safety and obviously he reads the game 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.000 as well as anyone, and. 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:56.560 He's over there. 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:58.679 He's always trying to get to the backside of that 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:03.359 split and put himself in the up. But there's ways 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.680 that there's been ways to manipulate Bron two in the 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.000 backside because you know he's trying to read it all 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.800 so it gets interesting. But the split cuts are a staple. 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.800 They're tough to guard, and like I said, one of 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:16.879 the reasons that it's toughest thing the guard is because 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.919 it's just a read and reacting like so you can't 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:24.320 quite script it. Like in the NBA defense, you script 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:25.879 what you want to give up. You know, you like, 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:27.800 we're taking this away, this, this, this, and this, But 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.320 the reality is the NBA, so you can't take away everything. 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:32.920 So you have to choose, like, all right, if we're 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.200 going to lose to them, we're willing to die by 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:39.040 this and sometimes seems kill you with that, but more 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.320 often than not, you're gonna win. Uh if you execute 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:46.240 that planning and with the split cuts, you can you 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.399 can discuss what the patterns are, but at the end 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.920 of the day, once it's starts happening, it's still on 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:54.520 your players to read the situation and react. 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:54.840 To what's happening. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.120 And as they're reading, there's a lot of moving pieces 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.239 coming around and they're trying to make those reads and 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.680 it gets tough. And so yeah, it was cool to 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.720 see Bron and JJ discuss the splits, knowing the hell 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.520 that has caused Bron over the years. Although I'm like 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.840 Tarry Easton or they beat us in the playoffs last year, 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.359 so maybe I shouldn't talk nah nah that goal. That 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.600 battle go too far back, that that ain't stopping with 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:23.800 one playoff loss. But yeah, so shout out to them 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:29.119 with that, you know. And me looking at the NBA, 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:32.639 I think when I think of the toughest actions to 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:36.119 guard in the NBA, what would they be? Anytime you 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.240 put somebody on in a single side tax situation that's 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.080 always tough. That would be like if say, if I'm 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.480 Stephan I'm on the left side of the floor. You 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.680 got Draymond rolling in the set of screen and he's 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:49.800 diving steps coming off to his right hand, and you 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:54.240 got Clay on the same side of the floor that 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:57.720 the screen is now going away from, which means that 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:58.919 puts Clay's. 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:01.200 Man in a single side tag position. 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.119 Single side meaning there's one guy over there, so you 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.960