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What's up, everybody? 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.560 Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show. This episode and 0:00:54.600 --> 0:01:00.600 we are recording this starting a m Wednesday night after 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:04.200 a big doubs winn closed the series out onto the 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:08.360 next series. But before we move on, actually, UM, I 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.560 would like to say congratulations to the Denver Nuggets on 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.880 an incredible series, an incredible year. That's a very good 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.560 ball club, missing to of their top three or four players, um, 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.520 depending on how you want to look at it, So 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.959 uh gotta take your hats off to them. All of 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:28.200 those guys played well, um Nicola Yoki. Let's start there. 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:33.000 Let's let's just start there. Pay the big man some respect, 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:38.080 give him the respect he's due. Absolutely incredible player. Um 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:42.240 I mean five games. First off, I'm I'm happy it 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.839 was only five games. I wish it could have been four. 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:47.800 Could have saved me a few few bumps and bruises. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:52.120 But man, he is absolutely incredible. I mean, he takes 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:57.560 advantage of every little slight wrong movement you make, and 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.280 it's I mean, it's absolutely a astonishing I mean his 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:03.840 touch around the rim. If he gets the ball on 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.520 the rim and it doesn't go in, I'm shot because 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.240 he has such incredible touches, just bounces around the rim 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:13.040 and it goes in. I mean, extremely incredible player. I 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.320 think ultimately um down and we were able to get 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.919 him in ful trouble this game. It's funny because when 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.160 when he took the first file, I was looking like, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:25.560 I wonder if we're gonna be able to get him 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.040 in file trouble. And then short enough, a second file came. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.480 Shortly after that, there was a third and the foreth 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.320 and and he had to come out of the game. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.200 And I think, you know, for us, we were able 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.600 to take advantage of that. Now, it didn't show up 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.880 in the League per se. But we we were able 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.520 to get the game at our pace once he went 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:44.600 out the game. You gotta give a lot of credit 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.800 to de Marcus Cousins. DeMarcus Cousins played an incredible game, 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.519 actually an incredible series. He was a he was a 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.320 huge problem for us this series. And you know, for 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.640 a guy who's been through so much, UM, for a 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.920 guy who spent significant time this year not even on 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.040 the roster. Uh, teams will be absolutely crazy if he's 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.760 not on the roster going into next year. UM. Because 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.399 if you think the Marcus Cousins can't help your team win, 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.359 he helped him win Game four and almost carried them 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:17.440 to a Game five win. UM. And so absolutely incredible. UM. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.440 I have so much respect and love for De Marcus 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:22.760 and and the journey that he's been on and and 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.920 the fact that he has not given us so UM. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:30.000 I hope, my hope for De Marcus is that teams 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.640 can see pass who he used to be, see the 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.080 maturity and who he is, and more importantly, see the 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.080 impact that he's had that he has when he's on 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:43.520 the court. You know a funny thing, UM, I saw 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:48.000 the Marcus after Game four and I said, Uh, we 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.400 keep putting you in picking rolls, but I don't understand 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.720 it because you actually guard the pick and roll really well. 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.320 And that was one thing that I actually noticed when 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.880 he came to play with us, was that a lot 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.119 people trying to put him in picking rolls as as 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:06.360 if he's a liability, and he's actually not at all. Uh, 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.480 he gets up on the screen. He has incredible hands 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.360 to get into the passing lanes if you try and 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:16.120 throw that pocket pass. Um, I mean really really really 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.640 good in the picking roll, which we end up going 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.760 away from it putting him in it a little bit tonight. 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.480 And then obviously once Steph got going, it don't matter 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.080 who you put in and we're going to Steph and 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:30.800 so um, kudos to the markets. Hats off to him 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.040 how he played this series was a really really, really 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.560 tough matchup for us, But like I said, we got 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.920 it done. A couple of things I want to talk about. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.920 Number one is the lineup change. Uh. You know that 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.440 that lineup has been has been the talk of the 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.359 playoffs for us at least, and we we started with 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.679 it tonight. Like you know, like we've been saying, Steph 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.880 Curry has been great off the bench. But you don't. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.240 You don't. You know, once the minute restricts, it's gone, 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.440 you don't keep Steph Curry on the bench. You get 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.520 Steph Curry back into the starting lineup and Jordan Jordan 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.880 Pool has been playing incredibly well, and so we thought 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:07.599 we wanted to start with that lineup, and we actually 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.680 got off to a pretty decent start. I think the 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.160 change came once I picked up the early file because 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.799 now I have to guard Joker and with one early 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.720 file just can't really be as aggressive because I understood 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:22.880 how important it was for me to stay on the floor. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.000 But definitely started with that lineup. Thought we got off 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:31.040 to a pretty good start. Um. But Looney played really 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.680 big minutes tonight, um as he has all year. As 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.360 you know he's he's eighty two game. Loom got a 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.600 shout out. The boy been through what three hip surgeries 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:47.440 I think, um, all types of issues and has gotten 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.679 his body to the point where it could take eighty 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.400 two games plus some more. Absolutely incredible and Loon was 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.159 huge for us in this series. So shout out the Loom, 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.440 keep going, big dog, love and appreciate your journey. But 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:04.279 also more importantly, the Great teammate that you are. Uh. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:08.400 And one thing I think people don't understand about Luni 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.960 is if you if you paid attention at all to 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.360 the quotes of this series. One of the quotes from 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.919 from the Denmer Nuggets coach Mike Malone was that Draymond 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.320 is not guarding anyone. He's just a free safety out there. 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.960 And I know some people saw that and took it 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.520 as disrespect, like what, like, what do you mean He's 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.440 not guarding anyone. I didn't take it as disrespect, and 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.919 I took it the way I thought. He mentioned minute minute, 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.920 which was a compliment, and what he's saying is kind 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.320 of this guy is just roaming around, mucking up things, 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.239 messing up our offense. And when Luni is on the floor, 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.240 it really opens the door for me to do that. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.080 It really opens the floor for me to roam uh, 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.000 muck some stuff up, take teams out of out of 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.160 what they're trying to get to. Because Loom he knows 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.600 how to read just the random stuff that I do 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.599 on the defensive end at times and he'll cover for me. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.400 And so, uh, Luona has been absolutely incredible And one 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.440 is one guy that I love to play next to. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.520 Because he he'll cover up all the things that I 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.560 may leave open when I go take a risk, and 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.560 I think that's an important part of our defense. Um. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.680 The Nuggets in this game continue to be super physical 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.640 in their battle. Uh. They completely destroyed us on the boards. Now, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.920 we cleaned that up there in a second and in 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.320 the fourth quarter. I'm sorry, but they I don't know 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:26.240 what the final tally was, but they absolutely annihilated us 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.280 on the boards. And even if we were able to 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.640 pull the tally closer, that's not indicative of what they 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.480 did the entire game on the board. So you gotta 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.760 get them credit there. And that's what teams are gonna 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.720 try to do, right, They're gonna try to be physical. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.760 They're gonna try to beat us up on the offensive 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.240 glass because they know their best bet is to go 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.000 for the offensive boards because once we get out in transition, 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.840 we have so many weapons and we're pushing the floor 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:53.960 and that it's pushing the ball and that's what really 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.800 opens up the floor for us. So I understand it. 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.360 But you know, we're able to pull it back a 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.080 dollar back, do some of the rebounding back uh there 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.760 in that fourth quarter, and we got out and we 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.680 ran and we took advantage of cross matches and we're 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.320 able to get it back to the brand of basketball 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.679 that that you saw through Games one through three and 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:19.200 some in that second half, uh in Game four as well. 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.320 So we knew we needed to do that in order 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.280 to win the game, and we're able to get back 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:28.080 to that. Gary Payton was absolutely incredible. Uh Number one. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:35.400 If I'm not mistaken, and I could be, I'm probably 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.800 wrong on this, but it looked like deja vu. Bin 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:43.440 Simmons last year passed up a layup and everybody got 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.640 mad at him. However, there was a guy rotating across 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:52.839 to block the shot, and so very similar possession today. 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:54.880 Clay dropped the ball down to me and I kicked 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.120 it out to Gary Payton. However, I think it was 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.880 only I think it was flip flop. Maybe the sides 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.760 and what bens was and what what what what ours were? 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.120 But Jeff Green one percent was about to send that 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.440 shot to the third row. I mean I caught it. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.000 I turned. By the time I turned, he's already loading 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.040 up to block the shot, and I kicked it off 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:17.240 the g P. More importantly, I trust that GP can 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.679 make that shot. Now was such a terrible pass, so 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.040 he had no chance at even shooting it anywhere. The 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.600 ball was on the nose dive right to the ground 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.280 was actually incredible cash by him. Then Wig he swung 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.959 at the Wiggs Wig drove and Wiggs actually threw him 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.080 another terrible pass that when nose diving into the ground, 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.400 he got it. He kept as pois and he knocked 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.560 it down. Uh. Good friend of mine, the media, Marcus 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.680 Thompson text me. He said, g P might be like you. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.720 He just make all the big ones and all the 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.840 all the big shots, and I I gotta give him 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.000 his credit. He he hit the shot the three that 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.520 put us up eight eighty four when we took the lead, 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.320 and then he knocked it down and put the dagger 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.160 in and sent those boys back, sent those boys to 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.360 can Koon. Gotta get GP a lot of credit. Also, 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.800 gotta get Jema a lot of credit. Gemmen Um, I 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:11.280 don't know how to pronounce pronounced Gemmen's last name, but 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:12.960 you can look it up. Gemmen as a coach on 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:17.800 our Style, came over from Toronto. Absolutely incredible coach. Um 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.480 runs the player development side of the things and he's 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.000 working with GP on this shot every single day, and 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:28.120 uh it paid off. I mean two huge threes, but 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.720 not only that, dives, uh finishing at the bucket, and 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.880 then what he did on the defensive end absolutely incredible, 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.080 gets a bunch of deflections, MUCKs things up, rebounds well, 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.840 GP was all over the place for us tonight in 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.960 a huge part. We're sitting here looking forward to who 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.719 we play the next series, and the last thing I 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:53.440 would say about our game was Steph Curry was absolutely incredible. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.440 Took over the second half, got every matchup he wanted 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.640 and you know what, I loved Moses he got the 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:00.960 three going, but then he said, forget the three. I'm 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.440 gonna go to the whole every single time and he 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.160 started getting to the cup and that put the game away, 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.840 And I mean, it was absolutely incredible. It's you know, 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:14.640 I've been seeing the banter of uh, you know, clowns 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.120 talking about stuff Curry doesn't show up in big games 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.160 and blah blah blah blah blah, like shut up, that 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:24.080 don't even make sense. But nonetheless, number thirty went back 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.120 into the lineup and he carried us home and it 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.679 was absolutely incredible. And one more thing I need to 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.440 point out Clay Thompson nine rebounds. See what you'll need 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.280 to understand is we used to be on Clay times 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.120 and he come out with one rebound to like, Clay, 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.439 you gotta rebound, you gotta rebound. And now for him, 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.679 I was the one with two rebounds and Clay was 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.839 was the guy with nine rebounds. And it was absolutely 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.480 incredible to see, especially with us being small, we need 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.880 guys coming back in and cleaning up those rebounds, and 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:54.120 Clay was absolutely incredible. And you know that that that 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.400 was one of the keys for us, and that was 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.319 one of the things we hadn't improved throughout the course 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.000 of the game to actually get to a space of 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.560 where we could take over the game and eventually come 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.480 out on top, putting that series away and moving on 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:17.319 to the next one. Incredible games yesterday. I enjoyed them. 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.920 Always try to enjoy the games on the off days. Uh, 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:26.200 Minnesota Memphis. Minnesota is up for the one and yet 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.400 they're down three to two. I mean, it's it's absolutely 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:34.840 incredible how those guys has put themselves in position where 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.720 they should have already won four out of five games, 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.600 and somehow they've managed to only win two of them. 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:45.560 I mean, it seems to be it seems to go 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.360 wrong every time Cale town say something on the mic, 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:52.000 or he tell people to shut up or way. I mean, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.360 at some point you probably just should be yourself because 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.440 it just don't like it hasn't been going eight for 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.600 him when when he does that. And I've never known 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:08.679 call Towns to be such a big talker, and this year, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.560 especially as the last few months, it's been a lot 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.000 of that. And and when you talk like that, you 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:20.280 gotta back that up. And Memphis ain't hearing it. They're like, oh, 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.400 he talking. The way it feels to me is they're like, oh, 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.680 he's talking, all right, he turn it up. That's just 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.959 how it ends up looking on the TV screen. Now. 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.880 Obviously it's not that I was I was watching that game. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.400 I was very shot down the stretch that they put 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.280 dealing Brooks on him, and he caught the ball outside 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.040 of the free throw line every time, and they was 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:47.079 running like some high post split to he has dealing 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.880 Brooks on him. He made his name scoring in the post, 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:53.040 not shooting threes, not up out on the floor. I 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.520 couldn't believe they didn't put him down, especially with the 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.160 game going haywire, Like when the game going haywire, what 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:00.400 do you do? You want to get to the free 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.600 throw line to calm the game down? Well, how do 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.679 you get that? You put the pound of ball inside? 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.760 Do you go to the whole? And they didn't do either. 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:13.720 I was extremely shocked by that. And and then at man, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.920 a man, you you when when when you say stuff, 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.800 you gotta back that up, man, and you come out 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.880 last week and saying the best defender in the NBA, 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.720 and then you can give a guy who hadn't shown 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.800 much confidence in this shot throughout the night, who we 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.080 know gets to the cup and it's finishing with the 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:35.400 best of them or the best, and you gamble and 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.400 give him a straight line drive with three seconds to go. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.800 If you come up and you guard him with three 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.760 seconds ago, he get one move and then he got 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.480 to look for a shot and to gamble for the 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.520 Still I I didn't understand that. I was very shocked 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:54.840 by But that's been indicative of the things that they've 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:58.240 done all series long in Minnesota and the reason they're 0:14:58.280 --> 0:14:59.880 down three to two, and they probably should have a 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.240 are you taking a series four the one? But nonetheless 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.880 I will be locked into that game on Friday, seeing 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.200 if we will be headed to Memphis on Saturday or 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.320 will we be chilling on Saturday and getting up to 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:18.480 it they play at home and stay home on Monday 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:22.080 and get ready for a Tuesday's game, or if we're 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.920 head at the Memphis on Saturday. So I'm extremely excited 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.200 as a basketball fan to watch that game, but even 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:33.160 more importantly as a as a Golden State Warrior and 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:37.800 finding out who we have next up. Um, So we'll 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:47.240 see and then the Suns and Pelicans. Incredible game. UM 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:55.760 I thought with with that game, CP takes over a 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:57.920 game and now you're you know your game plan is 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.320 to take CP out. You can't at Michael Bridges go 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:06.600 for thirty one points and you're and you're trying to 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:11.520 win on the road. That's it's absolute. That's nearly impossible 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.040 for a team to win on the road. And Michael 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.000 Bridges an incredible player. I love Michael Bridges. I think 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.840 he's absolutely amazing on both He's amazing on the defense 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.720 side of the ball and he's very good on the 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.520 offensive side of the ball. And so he he did 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.320 what what he's supposed to do. But if you're New 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.080 Orleans and you're going in there and you're saying, we 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.360 gotta beat these guys. Number one, you gotta take Chris 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.120 Paul out the game. We all know that. But number two, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.400 you can't let other guys go for thirty and so 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.720 um looking forward to that game as well. I've I've 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.760 enjoyed watching the young Pelicans team, a brand new team. Uh, 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.520 they're putting it together. Willie Green is doing an incredible job. 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.040 So this game six for them will be interesting. We'll 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:57.240 see how it turns out. I think I think Chris 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.800 Paul goes into Chris Paul mode and goes to New 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:03.360 York and close those guys out. But Brandon Ingland might 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.920 have something to say. And Brandon Inglis has been playing 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.680 incredible And if c J gets off like c J 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.200 can get off that game, maybe headed back to Phoenix 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.399 for a game seven, and no one wants to go 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.119 for a game seven. I don't care who you're playing. 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.919 It's a coin flip. Talking about as a fan, have 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.919 you ever seen I'm not trying to be exaggerated, have 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.320 you ever seen a playoff dunk as good as Johnny 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.960 RAN's dunk. That dunk that's one of the best dunks 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.040 I've ever seen, never minded like in the playoffs at 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:35.000 a big moment like that, that that dunk was absolutely incredible. 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:40.440 I I can't recall um, and I'm sure there's something 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.080 out there that I'm just not thinking of, but that, 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.600 I mean, it was absolutely amazing dunk. I don't like 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.040 to get into the it was the best dunk of 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.320 all time, was the best playoff dunk of all time. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.000 It was an incredible dunk. He punched on him. And 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.920 you know what what we do know is is that 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.359 wasn't the first time dropped Triden. It won't be the 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:03.160 last time that he tried, but he finished him. And 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:07.680 plays like that changes games, you know, it truly changes 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:11.040 the momentum tone of games. And I think Jobs did 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:15.480 last night. Um I thought, you know, he just that 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.560 aggression and you know, you put a guy, you put 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.000 a guy down like that and in the room, I 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:25.280 mean that that's a momentum booster. And like I said, 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.840 we all know Jobs gonna try that. But I don't 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:29.919 get off into like, oh, it's the best one ever, 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.400 Like there's incredible duncer on the playoffs, But that was amazing. 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.200 So if you follow me on Instagram, you may have 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:46.360 noticed that last night I reposted something from Clutch Points 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.240 and and I had a little something to say, and 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:57.159 it was Bill Simmons saying, f Jalen Green. I'm not 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.359 putting him on all right. For him to utter the 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.959 words F someone out of his mouth lets you know 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:07.840 that there's a little bit of hostility there somewhere. The 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:11.280 fact that that guy has a vote, and that guy 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:15.520 who just said F Jalen Green will ultimately having to 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:19.840 say if Jalen Green can sign a super Max deal 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:24.320 from the Houston Rockets are not like At some point, 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.760 and I'm gonna say this again, at some point, we 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:32.040 have to start viewing athletes NBA players in particular, as businessmen, 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:36.240 as as guys who understand the business they're in, and 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:40.920 stop allowing guys like that to decide the money we made. 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.199 What work has Bill Simmons done in his life to 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:47.320 decide the amount of money that Draymond Green can make, 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:51.840 the amount of money or have say and how much 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.560 I can make, or saying how much Jason Tatum makes 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.679 a guy who didn't make all NBA and lost forty 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:05.560 million dollars us say and how much Jalen Green will 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:07.880 make the guy that he just said for you. At 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:15.399 some point, the NBA has to has to stop this. 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:18.399 You have to change it, like it's one of those old, 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.159 outdated things that's like, all right, it's it's something you 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:25.679 used to do. Stop being lazy. Change that. There's absolutely 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:30.320 Lebron James has four m VP Awards because someone likes 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:32.880 that vote for it, and he gets tired of seeing 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:37.040 Lebron dominate. You can't tell me Lebron James should only 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:42.120 have four m v P Awards. That's another one. These 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:48.240 guys are literally deciding what what happens with with a 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:51.439 guy resume, what happens with a guy pocketbook. They are 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:55.640 human beings. I don't like Bill Simmons. I'm sure Bill 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:59.040 Simmons probably don't like me, and that's okay. He don't 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:00.600 have to like me. I don't have to like him. 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.200 You go on your platform and you talk all you want, 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:06.240 but for him to have a saying how much money 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.960 me or how much money myself or other guys that 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:15.520 play in this league can make that's utterly ridiculous. And 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:19.399 at some point now this summer, the NBA needs to 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:23.359 change it. Stop being lazy. Like I said before, put 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:26.560 a committee together that can vote on these awards. Maybe 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.080 players have said, you changed the All Star voting one 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:32.160 size opportunia almost made All Star. You change the way 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:37.080 that works. Stop being lazy. There's no that's absolutely no 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:39.960 reason why a guy who can fix his lips to 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:46.280 say f him should have say and how much money 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:52.080 he makes? Why? Why is that? What we do know 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:55.600 is guys in this league make a lot of money, 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:59.239 bunch of money. Not doubting that. Do you think that 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:02.280 may not bother there's some of these guys who may 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.200 put in more time and and think like what they're 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:09.000 making this now you think like again, these are human 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:13.440 beings we're talking about that have actual feelings. This this, 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.720 this isn't a robot. Like this robot watch at two 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:20.960 games and he ultimately decided that who he thought who 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:23.879 he saw looking the best, um, that's who he went with. 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:27.200 These are robots. These are human beings that have real 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:29.280 feelings that may not like a guy and he gets 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.520 to decide how much money somebody make and please. At 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:35.239 some point, the NBA has to stop looking at us 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:39.879 like we're idiots, value what we do, and stop allowing 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:45.680 people that just you know, uh, maybe start writing columns 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:48.760 and work their way up to decide ultimately how much 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:51.160