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Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show. This episode and
Speaker 1: we are recording this starting a m Wednesday night after
Speaker 1: a big doubs winn closed the series out onto the
Speaker 1: next series. But before we move on, actually, UM, I
Speaker 1: would like to say congratulations to the Denver Nuggets on
Speaker 1: an incredible series, an incredible year. That's a very good
Speaker 1: ball club, missing to of their top three or four players, um,
Speaker 1: depending on how you want to look at it, So
Speaker 1: uh gotta take your hats off to them. All of
Speaker 1: those guys played well, um Nicola Yoki. Let's start there.
Speaker 1: Let's let's just start there. Pay the big man some respect,
Speaker 1: give him the respect he's due. Absolutely incredible player. Um
Speaker 1: I mean five games. First off, I'm I'm happy it
Speaker 1: was only five games. I wish it could have been four.
Speaker 1: Could have saved me a few few bumps and bruises.
Speaker 1: But man, he is absolutely incredible. I mean, he takes
Speaker 1: advantage of every little slight wrong movement you make, and
Speaker 1: it's I mean, it's absolutely a astonishing I mean his
Speaker 1: touch around the rim. If he gets the ball on
Speaker 1: the rim and it doesn't go in, I'm shot because
Speaker 1: he has such incredible touches, just bounces around the rim
Speaker 1: and it goes in. I mean, extremely incredible player. I
Speaker 1: think ultimately um down and we were able to get
Speaker 1: him in ful trouble this game. It's funny because when
Speaker 1: when he took the first file, I was looking like,
Speaker 1: I wonder if we're gonna be able to get him
Speaker 1: in file trouble. And then short enough, a second file came.
Speaker 1: Shortly after that, there was a third and the foreth
Speaker 1: and and he had to come out of the game.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, for us, we were able
Speaker 1: to take advantage of that. Now, it didn't show up
Speaker 1: in the League per se. But we we were able
Speaker 1: to get the game at our pace once he went
Speaker 1: out the game. You gotta give a lot of credit
Speaker 1: to de Marcus Cousins. DeMarcus Cousins played an incredible game,
Speaker 1: actually an incredible series. He was a he was a
Speaker 1: huge problem for us this series. And you know, for
Speaker 1: a guy who's been through so much, UM, for a
Speaker 1: guy who spent significant time this year not even on
Speaker 1: the roster. Uh, teams will be absolutely crazy if he's
Speaker 1: not on the roster going into next year. UM. Because
Speaker 1: if you think the Marcus Cousins can't help your team win,
Speaker 1: he helped him win Game four and almost carried them
Speaker 1: to a Game five win. UM. And so absolutely incredible. UM.
Speaker 1: I have so much respect and love for De Marcus
Speaker 1: and and the journey that he's been on and and
Speaker 1: the fact that he has not given us so UM.
Speaker 1: I hope, my hope for De Marcus is that teams
Speaker 1: can see pass who he used to be, see the
Speaker 1: maturity and who he is, and more importantly, see the
Speaker 1: impact that he's had that he has when he's on
Speaker 1: the court. You know a funny thing, UM, I saw
Speaker 1: the Marcus after Game four and I said, Uh, we
Speaker 1: keep putting you in picking rolls, but I don't understand
Speaker 1: it because you actually guard the pick and roll really well.
Speaker 1: And that was one thing that I actually noticed when
Speaker 1: he came to play with us, was that a lot
Speaker 1: people trying to put him in picking rolls as as
Speaker 1: if he's a liability, and he's actually not at all. Uh,
Speaker 1: he gets up on the screen. He has incredible hands
Speaker 1: to get into the passing lanes if you try and
Speaker 1: throw that pocket pass. Um, I mean really really really
Speaker 1: good in the picking roll, which we end up going
Speaker 1: away from it putting him in it a little bit tonight.
Speaker 1: And then obviously once Steph got going, it don't matter
Speaker 1: who you put in and we're going to Steph and
Speaker 1: so um, kudos to the markets. Hats off to him
Speaker 1: how he played this series was a really really, really
Speaker 1: tough matchup for us, But like I said, we got
Speaker 1: it done. A couple of things I want to talk about.
Speaker 1: Number one is the lineup change. Uh. You know that
Speaker 1: that lineup has been has been the talk of the
Speaker 1: playoffs for us at least, and we we started with
Speaker 1: it tonight. Like you know, like we've been saying, Steph
Speaker 1: Curry has been great off the bench. But you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't. You know, once the minute restricts, it's gone,
Speaker 1: you don't keep Steph Curry on the bench. You get
Speaker 1: Steph Curry back into the starting lineup and Jordan Jordan
Speaker 1: Pool has been playing incredibly well, and so we thought
Speaker 1: we wanted to start with that lineup, and we actually
Speaker 1: got off to a pretty decent start. I think the
Speaker 1: change came once I picked up the early file because
Speaker 1: now I have to guard Joker and with one early
Speaker 1: file just can't really be as aggressive because I understood
Speaker 1: how important it was for me to stay on the floor.
Speaker 1: But definitely started with that lineup. Thought we got off
Speaker 1: to a pretty good start. Um. But Looney played really
Speaker 1: big minutes tonight, um as he has all year. As
Speaker 1: you know he's he's eighty two game. Loom got a
Speaker 1: shout out. The boy been through what three hip surgeries
Speaker 1: I think, um, all types of issues and has gotten
Speaker 1: his body to the point where it could take eighty
Speaker 1: two games plus some more. Absolutely incredible and Loon was
Speaker 1: huge for us in this series. So shout out the Loom,
Speaker 1: keep going, big dog, love and appreciate your journey. But
Speaker 1: also more importantly, the Great teammate that you are. Uh.
Speaker 1: And one thing I think people don't understand about Luni
Speaker 1: is if you if you paid attention at all to
Speaker 1: the quotes of this series. One of the quotes from
Speaker 1: from the Denmer Nuggets coach Mike Malone was that Draymond
Speaker 1: is not guarding anyone. He's just a free safety out there.
Speaker 1: And I know some people saw that and took it
Speaker 1: as disrespect, like what, like, what do you mean He's
Speaker 1: not guarding anyone. I didn't take it as disrespect, and
Speaker 1: I took it the way I thought. He mentioned minute minute,
Speaker 1: which was a compliment, and what he's saying is kind
Speaker 1: of this guy is just roaming around, mucking up things,
Speaker 1: messing up our offense. And when Luni is on the floor,
Speaker 1: it really opens the door for me to do that.
Speaker 1: It really opens the floor for me to roam uh,
Speaker 1: muck some stuff up, take teams out of out of
Speaker 1: what they're trying to get to. Because Loom he knows
Speaker 1: how to read just the random stuff that I do
Speaker 1: on the defensive end at times and he'll cover for me.
Speaker 1: And so, uh, Luona has been absolutely incredible And one
Speaker 1: is one guy that I love to play next to.
Speaker 1: Because he he'll cover up all the things that I
Speaker 1: may leave open when I go take a risk, and
Speaker 1: I think that's an important part of our defense. Um.
Speaker 1: The Nuggets in this game continue to be super physical
Speaker 1: in their battle. Uh. They completely destroyed us on the boards. Now,
Speaker 1: we cleaned that up there in a second and in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. I'm sorry, but they I don't know
Speaker 1: what the final tally was, but they absolutely annihilated us
Speaker 1: on the boards. And even if we were able to
Speaker 1: pull the tally closer, that's not indicative of what they
Speaker 1: did the entire game on the board. So you gotta
Speaker 1: get them credit there. And that's what teams are gonna
Speaker 1: try to do, right, They're gonna try to be physical.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try to beat us up on the offensive
Speaker 1: glass because they know their best bet is to go
Speaker 1: for the offensive boards because once we get out in transition,
Speaker 1: we have so many weapons and we're pushing the floor
Speaker 1: and that it's pushing the ball and that's what really
Speaker 1: opens up the floor for us. So I understand it.
Speaker 1: But you know, we're able to pull it back a
Speaker 1: dollar back, do some of the rebounding back uh there
Speaker 1: in that fourth quarter, and we got out and we
Speaker 1: ran and we took advantage of cross matches and we're
Speaker 1: able to get it back to the brand of basketball
Speaker 1: that that you saw through Games one through three and
Speaker 1: some in that second half, uh in Game four as well.
Speaker 1: So we knew we needed to do that in order
Speaker 1: to win the game, and we're able to get back
Speaker 1: to that. Gary Payton was absolutely incredible. Uh Number one.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, and I could be, I'm probably
Speaker 1: wrong on this, but it looked like deja vu. Bin
Speaker 1: Simmons last year passed up a layup and everybody got
Speaker 1: mad at him. However, there was a guy rotating across
Speaker 1: to block the shot, and so very similar possession today.
Speaker 1: Clay dropped the ball down to me and I kicked
Speaker 1: it out to Gary Payton. However, I think it was
Speaker 1: only I think it was flip flop. Maybe the sides
Speaker 1: and what bens was and what what what what ours were?
Speaker 1: But Jeff Green one percent was about to send that
Speaker 1: shot to the third row. I mean I caught it.
Speaker 1: I turned. By the time I turned, he's already loading
Speaker 1: up to block the shot, and I kicked it off
Speaker 1: the g P. More importantly, I trust that GP can
Speaker 1: make that shot. Now was such a terrible pass, so
Speaker 1: he had no chance at even shooting it anywhere. The
Speaker 1: ball was on the nose dive right to the ground
Speaker 1: was actually incredible cash by him. Then Wig he swung
Speaker 1: at the Wiggs Wig drove and Wiggs actually threw him
Speaker 1: another terrible pass that when nose diving into the ground,
Speaker 1: he got it. He kept as pois and he knocked
Speaker 1: it down. Uh. Good friend of mine, the media, Marcus
Speaker 1: Thompson text me. He said, g P might be like you.
Speaker 1: He just make all the big ones and all the
Speaker 1: all the big shots, and I I gotta give him
Speaker 1: his credit. He he hit the shot the three that
Speaker 1: put us up eight eighty four when we took the lead,
Speaker 1: and then he knocked it down and put the dagger
Speaker 1: in and sent those boys back, sent those boys to
Speaker 1: can Koon. Gotta get GP a lot of credit. Also,
Speaker 1: gotta get Jema a lot of credit. Gemmen Um, I
Speaker 1: don't know how to pronounce pronounced Gemmen's last name, but
Speaker 1: you can look it up. Gemmen as a coach on
Speaker 1: our Style, came over from Toronto. Absolutely incredible coach. Um
Speaker 1: runs the player development side of the things and he's
Speaker 1: working with GP on this shot every single day, and
Speaker 1: uh it paid off. I mean two huge threes, but
Speaker 1: not only that, dives, uh finishing at the bucket, and
Speaker 1: then what he did on the defensive end absolutely incredible,
Speaker 1: gets a bunch of deflections, MUCKs things up, rebounds well,
Speaker 1: GP was all over the place for us tonight in
Speaker 1: a huge part. We're sitting here looking forward to who
Speaker 1: we play the next series, and the last thing I
Speaker 1: would say about our game was Steph Curry was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: Took over the second half, got every matchup he wanted
Speaker 1: and you know what, I loved Moses he got the
Speaker 1: three going, but then he said, forget the three. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to the whole every single time and he
Speaker 1: started getting to the cup and that put the game away,
Speaker 1: And I mean, it was absolutely incredible. It's you know,
Speaker 1: I've been seeing the banter of uh, you know, clowns
Speaker 1: talking about stuff Curry doesn't show up in big games
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah blah blah, like shut up, that
Speaker 1: don't even make sense. But nonetheless, number thirty went back
Speaker 1: into the lineup and he carried us home and it
Speaker 1: was absolutely incredible. And one more thing I need to
Speaker 1: point out Clay Thompson nine rebounds. See what you'll need
Speaker 1: to understand is we used to be on Clay times
Speaker 1: and he come out with one rebound to like, Clay,
Speaker 1: you gotta rebound, you gotta rebound. And now for him,
Speaker 1: I was the one with two rebounds and Clay was
Speaker 1: was the guy with nine rebounds. And it was absolutely
Speaker 1: incredible to see, especially with us being small, we need
Speaker 1: guys coming back in and cleaning up those rebounds, and
Speaker 1: Clay was absolutely incredible. And you know that that that
Speaker 1: was one of the keys for us, and that was
Speaker 1: one of the things we hadn't improved throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the game to actually get to a space of
Speaker 1: where we could take over the game and eventually come
Speaker 1: out on top, putting that series away and moving on
Speaker 1: to the next one. Incredible games yesterday. I enjoyed them.
Speaker 1: Always try to enjoy the games on the off days. Uh,
Speaker 1: Minnesota Memphis. Minnesota is up for the one and yet
Speaker 1: they're down three to two. I mean, it's it's absolutely
Speaker 1: incredible how those guys has put themselves in position where
Speaker 1: they should have already won four out of five games,
Speaker 1: and somehow they've managed to only win two of them.
Speaker 1: I mean, it seems to be it seems to go
Speaker 1: wrong every time Cale town say something on the mic,
Speaker 1: or he tell people to shut up or way. I mean,
Speaker 1: at some point you probably just should be yourself because
Speaker 1: it just don't like it hasn't been going eight for
Speaker 1: him when when he does that. And I've never known
Speaker 1: call Towns to be such a big talker, and this year,
Speaker 1: especially as the last few months, it's been a lot
Speaker 1: of that. And and when you talk like that, you
Speaker 1: gotta back that up. And Memphis ain't hearing it. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: he talking. The way it feels to me is they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's talking, all right, he turn it up. That's just
Speaker 1: how it ends up looking on the TV screen. Now.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's not that I was I was watching that game.
Speaker 1: I was very shot down the stretch that they put
Speaker 1: dealing Brooks on him, and he caught the ball outside
Speaker 1: of the free throw line every time, and they was
Speaker 1: running like some high post split to he has dealing
Speaker 1: Brooks on him. He made his name scoring in the post,
Speaker 1: not shooting threes, not up out on the floor. I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe they didn't put him down, especially with the
Speaker 1: game going haywire, Like when the game going haywire, what
Speaker 1: do you do? You want to get to the free
Speaker 1: throw line to calm the game down? Well, how do
Speaker 1: you get that? You put the pound of ball inside?
Speaker 1: Do you go to the whole? And they didn't do either.
Speaker 1: I was extremely shocked by that. And and then at man,
Speaker 1: a man, you you when when when you say stuff,
Speaker 1: you gotta back that up, man, and you come out
Speaker 1: last week and saying the best defender in the NBA,
Speaker 1: and then you can give a guy who hadn't shown
Speaker 1: much confidence in this shot throughout the night, who we
Speaker 1: know gets to the cup and it's finishing with the
Speaker 1: best of them or the best, and you gamble and
Speaker 1: give him a straight line drive with three seconds to go.
Speaker 1: If you come up and you guard him with three
Speaker 1: seconds ago, he get one move and then he got
Speaker 1: to look for a shot and to gamble for the
Speaker 1: Still I I didn't understand that. I was very shocked
Speaker 1: by But that's been indicative of the things that they've
Speaker 1: done all series long in Minnesota and the reason they're
Speaker 1: down three to two, and they probably should have a
Speaker 1: are you taking a series four the one? But nonetheless
Speaker 1: I will be locked into that game on Friday, seeing
Speaker 1: if we will be headed to Memphis on Saturday or
Speaker 1: will we be chilling on Saturday and getting up to
Speaker 1: it they play at home and stay home on Monday
Speaker 1: and get ready for a Tuesday's game, or if we're
Speaker 1: head at the Memphis on Saturday. So I'm extremely excited
Speaker 1: as a basketball fan to watch that game, but even
Speaker 1: more importantly as a as a Golden State Warrior and
Speaker 1: finding out who we have next up. Um, So we'll
Speaker 1: see and then the Suns and Pelicans. Incredible game. UM
Speaker 1: I thought with with that game, CP takes over a
Speaker 1: game and now you're you know your game plan is
Speaker 1: to take CP out. You can't at Michael Bridges go
Speaker 1: for thirty one points and you're and you're trying to
Speaker 1: win on the road. That's it's absolute. That's nearly impossible
Speaker 1: for a team to win on the road. And Michael
Speaker 1: Bridges an incredible player. I love Michael Bridges. I think
Speaker 1: he's absolutely amazing on both He's amazing on the defense
Speaker 1: side of the ball and he's very good on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. And so he he did
Speaker 1: what what he's supposed to do. But if you're New
Speaker 1: Orleans and you're going in there and you're saying, we
Speaker 1: gotta beat these guys. Number one, you gotta take Chris
Speaker 1: Paul out the game. We all know that. But number two,
Speaker 1: you can't let other guys go for thirty and so
Speaker 1: um looking forward to that game as well. I've I've
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching the young Pelicans team, a brand new team. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're putting it together. Willie Green is doing an incredible job.
Speaker 1: So this game six for them will be interesting. We'll
Speaker 1: see how it turns out. I think I think Chris
Speaker 1: Paul goes into Chris Paul mode and goes to New
Speaker 1: York and close those guys out. But Brandon Ingland might
Speaker 1: have something to say. And Brandon Inglis has been playing
Speaker 1: incredible And if c J gets off like c J
Speaker 1: can get off that game, maybe headed back to Phoenix
Speaker 1: for a game seven, and no one wants to go
Speaker 1: for a game seven. I don't care who you're playing.
Speaker 1: It's a coin flip. Talking about as a fan, have
Speaker 1: you ever seen I'm not trying to be exaggerated, have
Speaker 1: you ever seen a playoff dunk as good as Johnny
Speaker 1: RAN's dunk. That dunk that's one of the best dunks
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, never minded like in the playoffs at
Speaker 1: a big moment like that, that that dunk was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: I I can't recall um, and I'm sure there's something
Speaker 1: out there that I'm just not thinking of, but that,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was absolutely amazing dunk. I don't like
Speaker 1: to get into the it was the best dunk of
Speaker 1: all time, was the best playoff dunk of all time.
Speaker 1: It was an incredible dunk. He punched on him. And
Speaker 1: you know what what we do know is is that
Speaker 1: wasn't the first time dropped Triden. It won't be the
Speaker 1: last time that he tried, but he finished him. And
Speaker 1: plays like that changes games, you know, it truly changes
Speaker 1: the momentum tone of games. And I think Jobs did
Speaker 1: last night. Um I thought, you know, he just that
Speaker 1: aggression and you know, you put a guy, you put
Speaker 1: a guy down like that and in the room, I
Speaker 1: mean that that's a momentum booster. And like I said,
Speaker 1: we all know Jobs gonna try that. But I don't
Speaker 1: get off into like, oh, it's the best one ever,
Speaker 1: Like there's incredible duncer on the playoffs, But that was amazing.
Speaker 1: So if you follow me on Instagram, you may have
Speaker 1: noticed that last night I reposted something from Clutch Points
Speaker 1: and and I had a little something to say, and
Speaker 1: it was Bill Simmons saying, f Jalen Green. I'm not
Speaker 1: putting him on all right. For him to utter the
Speaker 1: words F someone out of his mouth lets you know
Speaker 1: that there's a little bit of hostility there somewhere. The
Speaker 1: fact that that guy has a vote, and that guy
Speaker 1: who just said F Jalen Green will ultimately having to
Speaker 1: say if Jalen Green can sign a super Max deal
Speaker 1: from the Houston Rockets are not like At some point,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna say this again, at some point, we
Speaker 1: have to start viewing athletes NBA players in particular, as businessmen,
Speaker 1: as as guys who understand the business they're in, and
Speaker 1: stop allowing guys like that to decide the money we made.
Speaker 1: What work has Bill Simmons done in his life to
Speaker 1: decide the amount of money that Draymond Green can make,
Speaker 1: the amount of money or have say and how much
Speaker 1: I can make, or saying how much Jason Tatum makes
Speaker 1: a guy who didn't make all NBA and lost forty
Speaker 1: million dollars us say and how much Jalen Green will
Speaker 1: make the guy that he just said for you. At
Speaker 1: some point, the NBA has to has to stop this.
Speaker 1: You have to change it, like it's one of those old,
Speaker 1: outdated things that's like, all right, it's it's something you
Speaker 1: used to do. Stop being lazy. Change that. There's absolutely
Speaker 1: Lebron James has four m VP Awards because someone likes
Speaker 1: that vote for it, and he gets tired of seeing
Speaker 1: Lebron dominate. You can't tell me Lebron James should only
Speaker 1: have four m v P Awards. That's another one. These
Speaker 1: guys are literally deciding what what happens with with a
Speaker 1: guy resume, what happens with a guy pocketbook. They are
Speaker 1: human beings. I don't like Bill Simmons. I'm sure Bill
Speaker 1: Simmons probably don't like me, and that's okay. He don't
Speaker 1: have to like me. I don't have to like him.
Speaker 1: You go on your platform and you talk all you want,
Speaker 1: but for him to have a saying how much money
Speaker 1: me or how much money myself or other guys that
Speaker 1: play in this league can make that's utterly ridiculous. And
Speaker 1: at some point now this summer, the NBA needs to
Speaker 1: change it. Stop being lazy. Like I said before, put
Speaker 1: a committee together that can vote on these awards. Maybe
Speaker 1: players have said, you changed the All Star voting one
Speaker 1: size opportunia almost made All Star. You change the way
Speaker 1: that works. Stop being lazy. There's no that's absolutely no
Speaker 1: reason why a guy who can fix his lips to
Speaker 1: say f him should have say and how much money
Speaker 1: he makes? Why? Why is that? What we do know
Speaker 1: is guys in this league make a lot of money,
Speaker 1: bunch of money. Not doubting that. Do you think that
Speaker 1: may not bother there's some of these guys who may
Speaker 1: put in more time and and think like what they're
Speaker 1: making this now you think like again, these are human
Speaker 1: beings we're talking about that have actual feelings. This this,
Speaker 1: this isn't a robot. Like this robot watch at two
Speaker 1: games and he ultimately decided that who he thought who
Speaker 1: he saw looking the best, um, that's who he went with.
Speaker 1: These are robots. These are human beings that have real
Speaker 1: feelings that may not like a guy and he gets
Speaker 1: to decide how much money somebody make and please. At
Speaker 1: some point, the NBA has to stop looking at us
Speaker 1: like we're idiots, value what we do, and stop allowing
Speaker 1: people that just you know, uh, maybe start writing columns
Speaker 1: and work their way up to decide ultimately how much
Speaker 1: money we make with all that we put our bodies through.
Speaker 1: That's how you're gonna decide. Oh man, this guy can
Speaker 1: make a hundred and ninety million dollars as opposed to
Speaker 1: one for it. That's how we're gonna decide. Come on, now,
Speaker 1: it's utterly ridiculous that at some point like now, it
Speaker 1: needs to be changed. It has to be changed. Can't
Speaker 1: keep going for the old okay dope. That's an old
Speaker 1: system and it's time for it to go. And before
Speaker 1: we get out of here, ask promise we're gonna do
Speaker 1: a few fewmale bad questions. Jackson is going to read
Speaker 1: off the questions and who they're from. I will be
Speaker 1: answering these questions and trying to give you a little
Speaker 1: insight on what you want to know. Jackson talked to
Speaker 1: me from Ali Castillo at I am Ali kas from
Speaker 1: your POV as an elite defender, what do you think
Speaker 1: is the most effective pick and roll coverage? I think
Speaker 1: for me and from my point of view, I it's
Speaker 1: it's all based on the personalities within the coverage. Now
Speaker 1: not that. So I'll use an example form from this
Speaker 1: series games, not that if Monte Morris is in the
Speaker 1: coverage and Joker as opposed to Bones Highland and Joker,
Speaker 1: you you're going to make the coverage to stop the problem.
Speaker 1: Who like which guy in that situation is more of
Speaker 1: a threat. Obviously it's Joker. Monte Morris played incredible, but
Speaker 1: it's Joker, like you want to take Joker out and
Speaker 1: so based up on his tennessees and what he likes
Speaker 1: and where he gets off at, then that's your coverage
Speaker 1: and that's the one in that situation that ultimately you're
Speaker 1: going to go with. Now and saying that, I personally
Speaker 1: think the best pick and roll coverage, regardless of what
Speaker 1: the actual coverage is, is that big man has to
Speaker 1: be up to the level of the of the screen.
Speaker 1: You get guys sitting back. We see it a lot
Speaker 1: with Rudy Gobert and teams take advantage of it. You
Speaker 1: get guys sitting back in the lane and not up
Speaker 1: at the over the screen, and guys are just guards
Speaker 1: in this league are just way too good to come
Speaker 1: off with that much vision in that much space and
Speaker 1: shoot the ball too well and to be down the floor.
Speaker 1: So regardless of what pick and roll covers you're in.
Speaker 1: I think it's very important for the big man to
Speaker 1: beat up at the level of the screen. And that
Speaker 1: simply just means, um, if my man is setting the
Speaker 1: ball screen on clay, I need to be up at
Speaker 1: the same level that my man is set in that
Speaker 1: ball screen in order to stop that guy from turning
Speaker 1: the corner and take care of the initial problem right
Speaker 1: at the point of attack. From I don't know how
Speaker 1: to pronounce this from maxing out underscore JP at Justin
Speaker 1: Powell five ten. Who did you watch growing up or
Speaker 1: even now to build your basketball i Q, I watched
Speaker 1: a bunch of basketball, not just NBA basketball either. I
Speaker 1: watched college basketball. A watch w NBA basketball, women's college basketball,
Speaker 1: watch high school basketball. I watched little kids play. I
Speaker 1: just watched a bunch of basketball. Um My, i Q
Speaker 1: is is a gift from God that I enhanced over
Speaker 1: the course of my life, and it started with my
Speaker 1: uncle Benny. My uncle Benny was is a mastermind when
Speaker 1: it comes to the game basketball. Dude still tell me
Speaker 1: different stuff today to help me out, and he's never
Speaker 1: coached past the elementary school level, but that is his passion.
Speaker 1: He actually loved to teach kids the game of basketball.
Speaker 1: So for me, my ir Q started way back then
Speaker 1: because he never just rolled the ball out to us
Speaker 1: and said, all right, let's go play basketball like we
Speaker 1: would go two weeks first two weeks of price and
Speaker 1: not touch of basketball, doing help side defense drills and
Speaker 1: different stuff like that. And so I learned defense at
Speaker 1: a very young age. I learned help side at a
Speaker 1: very young age. And then it was about having great
Speaker 1: coaches and enhancing that as my career went on. But um,
Speaker 1: to build an i Q, you have to be a
Speaker 1: fan of the game. You have to watch a bunch
Speaker 1: of basketball. You have to play a bunch of basketball
Speaker 1: to get those live reads. And then, like I said,
Speaker 1: most importantly it you know, I think that's one of
Speaker 1: my gifts. I promise I did not write this next
Speaker 1: question from Jackson's sequist At jackson Sequist, do you think
Speaker 1: Tatum has surpassed or is close to Luca in terms
Speaker 1: of overall impact due to his leap on the defensive end?
Speaker 1: Jackson changed his last name, y'all, he wanted to give
Speaker 1: a question off he didn't want and this is a
Speaker 1: Boston question. Come on now, Like we all know, it's you, Jackson.
Speaker 1: Come on, but Jackson, I will answer your question a right.
Speaker 1: Let's do I think Tatum has surpassed Luca in terms
Speaker 1: of overall impact because of his leap on the defensive end.
Speaker 1: Who said Luca was in front of Tatum to begin
Speaker 1: with Jackson's sequest did? Apparently? I would have agreed before
Speaker 1: before Tatum has has locked up Kitty like this, and
Speaker 1: before Tatum averaged seven and a half sist assist per
Speaker 1: game this last series. Luca, Luca is the man. Luca
Speaker 1: is absolutely incredible. I just was actually in the question
Speaker 1: like who who said that? But uh no, lucas absolutely
Speaker 1: incredible and his impact on any game he's in his
Speaker 1: JT has he passed him? I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: really get into the whole comparing guys. They're two totally
Speaker 1: different players. They played two totally different roles on their
Speaker 1: team outside of just being the main scoring threat. Um.
Speaker 1: I thought j T took a huge leap in this
Speaker 1: series for sure, with the way he defended and with
Speaker 1: the way he passed the ball. Uh, he didn't settle
Speaker 1: for many bad shots. I thought. I thought he definitely
Speaker 1: took a leap in terms of his growth. But that's
Speaker 1: also the same leap that I saw coming and playing
Speaker 1: USA Basketball with him. So I'm not surprised by that
Speaker 1: leap at all. Um, he's been absolutely incredible and he's
Speaker 1: been you know, he's he's continuing to get older. Like
Speaker 1: I said before, we've been watching these young guys since
Speaker 1: they were nineteen coming into the NBA making into the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference finals, and then expect then that every year,
Speaker 1: and the reality is they're just going through their progression
Speaker 1: and getting better as as day age. And now I
Speaker 1: think j T four years old, he's starting to put
Speaker 1: it all together. And so I'm not surprised by that
Speaker 1: leap at all because one thing I knew is if
Speaker 1: he commits his mind on the defensive end, with the
Speaker 1: way he can move and with his lane, he's going
Speaker 1: to be an incredible defender. And he's starting to show
Speaker 1: that now and it's making a huge difference in their team.
Speaker 1: Last one and again, as I'm gonna say every episode,
Speaker 1: submit these questions on Twitter hashtag v Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm gonna pull the questions from every episode.
Speaker 1: Last one for today from Caleb Bennett at Bennett Brawler,
Speaker 1: excluding the finals. What was your favorite playoff series that
Speaker 1: you've been a part of, and why, Caleb, I have
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, there's nothing that compared to
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. But um, my favorite, my absolute favorite
Speaker 1: playoffs series was when we beat the Houston It's um
Speaker 1: and the year before Katie went out of the lineup
Speaker 1: and they were like, oh, I mean the year before
Speaker 1: Chris Paul went out of the lineup, and they're like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we we we missed Chris Paul, that's why we lost
Speaker 1: running back. We're built to beat the Warriors, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And then next year Katie gets hurt and they still lose.
Speaker 1: And that, for me was one of my absolute playoffs
Speaker 1: series because for them to be so outspoken about we
Speaker 1: built this team all year. We built this team literally
Speaker 1: just to beat the Warriors. They get the opportunity, we
Speaker 1: lose one of our top players and they still go
Speaker 1: on to lose the series. Y'all told us last year
Speaker 1: when Chris Paul went out, that's why y'all lost, So
Speaker 1: we're not making that same excuse. And then they blew
Speaker 1: it up. You know, to see a team built the
Speaker 1: beat you and then it get blown up clearly didn't work.
Speaker 1: So that was my favorite series by far, just because
Speaker 1: they were so outs ookin about it couldn't actually do it.
Speaker 1: And then all right, let's get Clint Capella out of here.
Speaker 1: And that was the first Domindo to fall, and every
Speaker 1: other one fell after that. And now the Houston Rockets
Speaker 1: are nineteen and sixty two, so whatever they are, Um,
Speaker 1: that all started with that series. So yeah, that's my
Speaker 1: favorite one. K look that that will be the end
Speaker 1: of the episode of the Draymond Green Show. We'll see
Speaker 1: what happens and how this weekend plays out. But you
Speaker 1: bank sure you pay attention because I'll be locked down
Speaker 1: until next week. That's a rap from the Draymond Green
Speaker 1: Show piece.