Speaker 1: We finally got a podcast from Draymond Green. It's been
Speaker 1: months by a lot of months, but it happens to
Speaker 1: not be the podcast that everyone was hoping for, the
Speaker 1: one that we've been waiting with baited breath to listen to.
Speaker 1: What we wanted was Draymond Green right after he punched
Speaker 1: checked Jordan Poole. I want him directly from the practice
Speaker 1: facility to his computer, and I want him to record
Speaker 1: why he did it, what happened, what was the circumstances
Speaker 1: around it, what's going to happen next. He recorded it
Speaker 1: right after the incident, but he decided not to release it.
Speaker 1: So listen to this in terms of.
Speaker 2: Why that also coincided with what we all know the
Speaker 2: incident to be. At the beginning of the season, with
Speaker 2: myself and teammate Jordan and quite frankly, if I'm being
Speaker 2: one hundred percent honest, Jackson and I we recorded an
Speaker 2: episode right after, and I know everyone was looking for it.
Speaker 2: Everyone wanted to hear it, and quite frankly, I wanted
Speaker 2: to allow you the chance to hear what I had
Speaker 2: to say. I wanted to allow you the chance to
Speaker 2: kind of take a trip in my mind and just
Speaker 2: maybe understand more. And when we recorded the episode, I
Speaker 2: hated the way I sounded, and so we simply just
Speaker 2: didn't release it. I didn't like my tone, I didn't
Speaker 2: like the things I said. I didn't like the way
Speaker 2: it came out. I didn't like it. Almost if you're
Speaker 2: not careful, it almost comes off as unremorseful and distasteful
Speaker 2: one hundred percent distasteful, but also fast. And what do
Speaker 2: I mean by fast? Quite frankly, I'm not big into
Speaker 2: saying things or doing things and then run into my
Speaker 2: show because it's going to get more ratings. Like I
Speaker 2: don't really like that game. That's the old media. I
Speaker 2: don't play that game. I don't I'm not very interested.
Speaker 2: And I think there's a time to speak, and you know,
Speaker 2: if the opportunity is there, I'm going to speak. I'm
Speaker 2: never going to shy away from a topic. But the
Speaker 2: thing that I had to take into consideration with that
Speaker 2: is number One, someone else was affected. And not only
Speaker 2: one person was affected, but multiple people, tons of I mean,
Speaker 2: however many you want, whatever word you want to use
Speaker 2: to describe the amount of people. People were affected. And
Speaker 2: so it wasn't something that just affected me. And so
Speaker 2: when you do something that affects someone else, you can't
Speaker 2: just take yourself into consideration, how you may feel, how
Speaker 2: it may benefit you, all of those things.
Speaker 1: So backup. So, Draymond recorded a podcast right after punching
Speaker 1: Jordan Poole. He was about to put it out, did
Speaker 1: not like the tone of it, didn't like what he
Speaker 1: said how it came off, and felt that it was
Speaker 1: one hundred percent distasteful. I'm not gonna lie, y'all. I
Speaker 1: want to hear it even more now. I think this
Speaker 1: is my new white whale of content. I must. One
Speaker 1: time I looked for a record, you know, worked for
Speaker 1: looked for it for months and months and months, finally
Speaker 1: founded Jazz Record And now I need to find the
Speaker 1: lost tapes of Draymond Green. I must. I have to.
Speaker 1: I am one hundred percent sure that at some point
Speaker 1: we will get a bootleg copy from Jackson, most likely
Speaker 1: selling it on eBay, and there'll probably be an NFT
Speaker 1: attached to it, and we'll be passing him back and
Speaker 1: forth at Summer League like the mixtapes back in the day,
Speaker 1: like this is the new lost tapes of Draymond Green,
Speaker 1: like we need we need to know what he said
Speaker 1: I can tell. It's like, listen, I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: place blame on Jordan in any way, because that would
Speaker 1: be horrible. That's not me. I have to take responsibility
Speaker 1: as the grown man that I am. But listen to
Speaker 1: what he said about me, and you tell me whether
Speaker 1: you would punch him, And you're like, wait, hold up,
Speaker 1: you just did that whole preamble to then put us
Speaker 1: or Hey, you know, there's just some things you just
Speaker 1: don't say on a practice court to your teammates. And
Speaker 1: when you step over that line, I just felt in
Speaker 1: that moment I needed to knock him the fuck out.
Speaker 1: And you know what, he got knocked the fuck out,
Speaker 1: And maybe he won't say those things anymore. I gotta
Speaker 1: hear what he said, Like, what did he say? How distasteful?
Speaker 1: Could we get?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Would we get a like I would do it again?
Speaker 1: If he said that to me again, I'd do it again.
Speaker 1: Did anyone ever ask him that, Hey, if he said
Speaker 1: those things to you again, would you think you would
Speaker 1: hit him again? Because I need to know. Does anyone
Speaker 1: have a hookup on this podcast tape? I need it, Like,
Speaker 1: drop me a note, you can find me anywhere on
Speaker 1: social find me I don't know if this is an
Speaker 1: epidemic or if this is a phenomenon. Let's just call
Speaker 1: it what it is. It's a sickness. It's an epidemic,
Speaker 1: and we need to address it. It's infected pretty much
Speaker 1: every team in the NBA, Every star player in the NBA,
Speaker 1: even fringe star players in the NBA have caught this.
Speaker 1: Are you talking about COVID, No, we're talking about scoring.
Speaker 1: We're talking about lots and lots of scoring. An epidemic
Speaker 1: in the league, and it's getting out of hand. It
Speaker 1: is getting to the point where I don't even know
Speaker 1: this league anymore. I don't even know this version of
Speaker 1: the NBA anymore. Donovan Mitchell last to catch it. Seventy
Speaker 1: one points for Donovan. He had eleven at halftime, so
Speaker 1: he was free. It was okay, he seemed fine at halftime.
Speaker 1: Everything seemed to be shaping up for a good twenty
Speaker 1: seven twenty eight point performance, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: one of the highest scoring games of all time, also
Speaker 1: the highest scoring regular season performance in Cavs history, which
Speaker 1: people don't talk about enough, and that came right on
Speaker 1: the heels of Luka Doncic in his insane sixty point game,
Speaker 1: which he followed up with a fifty three point game
Speaker 1: two games later. Jannis last night had fifty five career high.
Speaker 1: No one said a word why why? Because the scoring
Speaker 1: right now is out of hand. The scoring is so silly,
Speaker 1: the defense is so bad that nobody even blinks when
Speaker 1: someone drops fifty anymore. Do you even remember Do you
Speaker 1: even remember Devin Booker scoring fifty eight? Do you remember it? No,
Speaker 1: you probably don't even remember Devin Booker playing for the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns because he's been out with an injury for
Speaker 1: so long this season, since December of this year December, okay,
Speaker 1: not the full season, not the calendar year, December, one month.
Speaker 1: These are the highest scoring games. Donovan Mitchell seventy one,
Speaker 1: Luca sixty, Booker fifty eight, Anthony Davis fifty five, Jannis
Speaker 1: fifty five, Clay fifty four, Embiid fifty three. Scalciakam scored
Speaker 1: fifty two points. Say it ain't so Luca fifty one,
Speaker 1: Luca fifty, Lebron forty seven, Garland Darius Garland scored forty
Speaker 1: six points, Jannis forty five, Paul George forty five. That's
Speaker 1: in the last five weeks. What are we talking about.
Speaker 1: That's like twenty people, that's insane. Twenty guys have scored
Speaker 1: forty or more this year, eighty nine games in total.
Speaker 1: This is scoring at epidemic proportions. We need these guys
Speaker 1: to start wearing masks like the guys are catching it.
Speaker 1: It's not just superstars. My man Dennis Shruder put up
Speaker 1: thirty two last night. I love the NBA, I love scoring,
Speaker 1: I love buckets. Guys are skilled. I'm not trying to say,
Speaker 1: get off my lawn. This isn't as fun, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But if you're in your thirties, which maybe you're in
Speaker 1: your thirties and you don't listen to podcasts, or maybe
Speaker 1: you watch the news, I don't know. But if you're
Speaker 1: like me, you remember when it was hard to drop fifty.
Speaker 1: Doesn't seem hard to drop fifty anymore, just seems inevitable.
Speaker 1: When fifty is inevitable, if you're a superstar, nobody's playing,
Speaker 1: no damn defense. We have nobody out here strapping anymore.
Speaker 1: We expect now forty points nightly from embiide of course,
Speaker 1: but Jordan Clarkson, I'm getting forty out of Jordan Clarkson.
Speaker 1: Do you guys even know where Jordan Clarkson went to school?
Speaker 1: Do you even know who drafted Jordan Clarkson? Do you
Speaker 1: even know what teams he's played for so far in
Speaker 1: the NBA? Did you know he played for Cleveland? Did
Speaker 1: you know that Jordan Clarkson is dropping forty? Okay, Pascal Siakam,
Speaker 1: who no one knew before Kawhi got there, and he's
Speaker 1: a fine player. I like Pascal. He's a fine player.
Speaker 1: Fifty two is he that guy? Is Pascal that guy
Speaker 1: to score fifty two on someone's head when they're draping
Speaker 1: the defense around him. No, because they're not draping the
Speaker 1: defense around him. At least Donovan Mitchell seventy one. He
Speaker 1: was the only man out there. Everyone knew he was
Speaker 1: gonna get the ball. Everyone was exhausted, and he was
Speaker 1: just better than every guy on that floor. They were
Speaker 1: double and triple teaming him. That's the kind of seventy
Speaker 1: one I want to see. I don't want to see
Speaker 1: guys just in a layup line. Just lay up, layup, dunk, layup,
Speaker 1: easy mid range layup. What is that? That's literally just
Speaker 1: me watching practice. Pascal Siakam is not Yannis, He's not embiid.
Speaker 1: He should not be putting up half of one hundred
Speaker 1: points against any team, especially the Knicks. Where was Isaiah Hartenstein?
Speaker 1: Where was Mitchell Robinson? Where was RJ? Barrett? Where was anyone?
Speaker 1: He scored a career high? And they still lost? The
Speaker 1: Toronto Raptors still lost. By the way, they're in free fall.
Speaker 1: We'll get to it at some point. Someone make it
Speaker 1: make sense. The defensive schemes have had to change so
Speaker 1: that teams are willing to let guys like Yannis or Luca.
Speaker 1: They're just basically saying, let the number one guy go
Speaker 1: off for fifty and we'll see. We'll see. Let like,
Speaker 1: just give him everything he wants, and then if he
Speaker 1: gets fifty, who cares, We'll get one hundred and ten.
Speaker 1: Luca has lost twice so far this year, scoring fifty
Speaker 1: points in a game that strategy apparently is working. There's
Speaker 1: a combination of things that explains this high degree, this
Speaker 1: epidemic of scoring. Guys obviously are more skilled. They can
Speaker 1: score buckets in a bunch of different ways, three three
Speaker 1: different styles like and then you have defenses designed not
Speaker 1: to worry about one guy right concentrating on stopping the
Speaker 1: other players? Is this fun? Do you find this fun?
Speaker 1: I was talking to a friend the other day while
Speaker 1: having a nice little chi te latte out in LA
Speaker 1: and I think he agrees. Is this fun? No, it's
Speaker 1: not that fun. Does it feel meaningful? No, it does
Speaker 1: not feel that meaningful. Is it hard to bet? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you fucking believe it is. I can't tell who's gonna
Speaker 1: score on a night to night basis. I love watching
Speaker 1: Devin Booker go off for fifty eight, but I'm not
Speaker 1: sure when that happens whether it's even good basketball. And
Speaker 1: in that game, the Sun's won one eighteen one fourteen
Speaker 1: over the Pelicans. We all celebrated his game, but he
Speaker 1: went down four minutes into the next game and he
Speaker 1: hasn't played since. So is that good for his health?
Speaker 1: Is that good for his longevity? That's the issue. Luca's
Speaker 1: gone insane because if MAV's aren't gonna win unless he
Speaker 1: scores fifty, how can anyone do that on a night tonight? Basis,
Speaker 1: they can't, That's the simple answer, and at least they
Speaker 1: probably can't. Maybe Luca can. But all of this makes it,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day impossible to decide who's
Speaker 1: the MVP. We don't know if everyone's scoring seventy fifty points,
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? Like, how do we know?
Speaker 1: How do we choose four players Luca, Jannis and b
Speaker 1: Braun all averaging thirty six points per game? What if
Speaker 1: you look back at the league in like two thousand
Speaker 1: and you look at like the scoring leaders, like thirty
Speaker 1: was a lot, thirty was a lot. There's like twenty
Speaker 1: five guys in the NBA scoring thirty on average. Right now.
Speaker 1: I had a joke all ready to go about how
Speaker 1: Adam silver Is juiced the ball in some way to
Speaker 1: make it go in the hoop. There's a magnetic force
Speaker 1: inside this ball. He just turns it on with the remote.
Speaker 1: He's just like that one's going in. He can just push,
Speaker 1: he can just push buttons to decide tonight tonight, Devin
Speaker 1: Booker's going off, See that will go tonight? Giannis is
Speaker 1: going off because I think he was jealous of the
Speaker 1: World Cup. Really, he wants to do anything that he
Speaker 1: can to make sure that the eyeballs didn't change over
Speaker 1: the World Cup and the EPL. Now for the first
Speaker 1: part of the season. I know this isn't like baseball,
Speaker 1: but I really need to explore more whether Adam Silver
Speaker 1: is good for basketball. Everybody thinks he is upon first glance.
Speaker 1: I don't know, though, We'll have to look into it
Speaker 1: and dig into it more. One thing's for sure. For
Speaker 1: every fifty Burger a star and maybe non stars like
Speaker 1: Anfrety Simons drops. I think Adam Silver smiles and the
Speaker 1: ratings due too e