Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, with Draymond Green
Speaker 2: set to return to the team today, we will have
Speaker 2: the final word on this incident to what I call scufflegates,
Speaker 2: and we will have a little news as well from
Speaker 2: around the league. We are also going to break down
Speaker 2: ten players you're probably not talking about. I made sure
Speaker 2: that this was under the radar. I made sure if
Speaker 2: there are players that are above board, maybe there's a couple,
Speaker 2: but these are all under the radar that are set
Speaker 2: to surprise this year. I can't tell you how happy
Speaker 2: I am that basketball is back. I'm betting the preseason
Speaker 2: and I am winning money. Tell you what, let's drop
Speaker 2: that motherfucking beat. Okay, it's happening. Draymond Green was on Walkabouts.
Speaker 3: Was he low key suspended? Was it all his choice?
Speaker 3: Steve Kerr said that it was mutual. Anytime someone says.
Speaker 2: Something's mutual, it's really they decided, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: or the one party really decided. Draymond Green makes his
Speaker 2: debut tonight in the preseason for Golden State after being
Speaker 2: away from the team for seven days receiving a fine
Speaker 2: of an unspecified amount. People in Jordan Poole's camp are
Speaker 2: saying that it could be roughly a fine worth around.
Speaker 3: Checks notes sixty million dollars.
Speaker 2: Cause a guy who's already stressed out about how much
Speaker 2: money he's making and the contract and is worried about
Speaker 2: money probably not.
Speaker 3: A fun scenario.
Speaker 2: So he's back with the team after what probably is
Speaker 2: gotta be his worst week of his NBA career and
Speaker 2: definitely the worst week of the Golden State Warriors tenure
Speaker 2: as a dynasty, probably Steve Kerr's coaching career as well.
Speaker 3: He even hinted at this being just one.
Speaker 2: Of the most tumultuous moments of the entire Warriors dynasty run.
Speaker 2: Very sad presser, very bad week for Dre. From the
Speaker 2: second that the video dropped pretty much changed the narrative
Speaker 2: on everything.
Speaker 3: Drey immediately held.
Speaker 2: A press conference where he said that he was stepping
Speaker 2: away from the team on his own volition, which we
Speaker 2: now know, according to Steve Kerr, not exactly true, not
Speaker 2: exactly accurate. As they say in the presser, Draymond's been
Speaker 2: about eleven minutes talking about why he was stepping away
Speaker 2: from a team, why he punched Jordan Poole kind of
Speaker 2: some context about things that were going on in his
Speaker 2: personal life that he was very sorry. He also made
Speaker 2: it very clear that his reason for coming at Pool
Speaker 2: had nothing to do with the fact and people were
Speaker 2: speculating this that Draymond Green was mad that Jordan Poole
Speaker 2: was about to get paid a lot of money.
Speaker 3: Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 1: On a night where it should be celebration and love
Speaker 1: and it still will be. But there is like this,
Speaker 1: this this dark cloud in the room, and I caused that,
Speaker 1: you know. So I apologize to his family, uh, and
Speaker 1: just what they've had to deal with over the course
Speaker 1: of the last twenty four to forty eight hours. And
Speaker 1: I will do what I have to do to make
Speaker 1: that right to my family, you know, the things that
Speaker 1: they had they've had to deal with. I know, you
Speaker 1: know my wife is you know, she's getting comments like
Speaker 1: he'll beat you at home and stuff like that, you know,
Speaker 1: as if you know that's the case. And so I
Speaker 1: apologize to my family as well for what they had
Speaker 1: to go through. And then most importantly, my brother's on
Speaker 1: his team who I've had apologize, who I've apologized to already.
Speaker 1: But for me, that is the task at hand to
Speaker 1: rebuild trust in our locker room, pull everything back together
Speaker 1: as it needs to be poured together in order to
Speaker 1: compete and defend a championship. And although that is the
Speaker 1: least of my worries right now, it has to stay
Speaker 1: at the forefront.
Speaker 2: He basically said he wasn't going to count the other
Speaker 2: people's money in their pockets.
Speaker 3: But I think that's fair.
Speaker 2: I think Draymond Green deciding to say, hey, I'm going
Speaker 2: through things right now. I'm going through things, and that's
Speaker 2: changing how I react to every circumstance. And from what
Speaker 2: I understand, what Draymond is going through is rough and
Speaker 2: something that as contracts loom over both of Jordan Poole
Speaker 2: and Draymond Green and all the things that are going
Speaker 2: on in his.
Speaker 3: Own personal life.
Speaker 2: Just a bad situation in a bad set of circumstances
Speaker 2: where now you've got to rebuild trust with your team,
Speaker 2: and now you've got to try to get back to
Speaker 2: a place where this team wants to pay you.
Speaker 3: And that's tough because if you're having.
Speaker 2: Any issues personally that make it harder for a team
Speaker 2: to pay you, you got to.
Speaker 3: Get that sorted out.
Speaker 2: Steve Kerr then followed with his own presser and man
Speaker 2: for a guy who's seemingly very open, very jovial, very honest,
Speaker 2: Steve Kerr wanted none of that. Steve Kerr wanted to
Speaker 2: answer no questions. He wanted to say absolutely nothing. He
Speaker 2: was not interested in the least in discussing what happened,
Speaker 2: what they're going to do. He was extremely cagey about
Speaker 2: giving support to Draymond or even admonishing Draymond. He was
Speaker 2: pretty much trying to close it all down.
Speaker 4: Everything is internal. So my answer to that is we've
Speaker 4: had those discussions with individuals with the team, and those
Speaker 4: discussions will stay private as long as nobody leaks those conversations.
Speaker 3: He's already talking about leaks.
Speaker 5: Draymond indicated that he is not going to be with
Speaker 5: the team for a while.
Speaker 3: Is that his choice or is that a team choice?
Speaker 4: Mutual mutual decision based on everything that's happened and discussions,
Speaker 4: you know behind the scenes.
Speaker 5: You guys have been through with stuff with Raymond.
Speaker 4: Before you get to a point where you is trust
Speaker 4: in any way compromised already, are you nearing that or
Speaker 4: where you get with that?
Speaker 3: No comment, Ah, that's the part for me, the no comment.
Speaker 2: If we had to add up all of of times
Speaker 2: in Steve Kurr's career as a head coach where he
Speaker 2: has said no comment, I think the number the tally
Speaker 2: is uh check.
Speaker 3: I think one. I think that one right there.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's ever said no comment in the
Speaker 2: history of being a head coach, to my memory, very rarely.
Speaker 3: Let's keep going really quick.
Speaker 5: You talked last time about how good the practice was.
Speaker 5: Is that you are you getting the same energy that
Speaker 5: did that continue today? Yeah?
Speaker 4: A good practice today, you know, nothing live got a
Speaker 4: game tomorrow, so we got some some good work and
Speaker 4: skill work and you know, conceptual stuff and ready to
Speaker 4: go for tomorrow.
Speaker 5: I don't know if this is this is an internal
Speaker 5: question or not, but just is the team and all
Speaker 5: and he's sort of like having to get through stuff
Speaker 5: in any phase and he, you know, stayed a shock.
Speaker 5: I'm sure it's different for each player, but are you
Speaker 5: sensing that this is something the team is still going through?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean, this is this is why it's so
Speaker 4: crucial to keep things in house. I've been in this
Speaker 4: league for thirty plus years. I've seen all kinds of
Speaker 4: crazy stuff as soon as things are leaked, you know,
Speaker 4: now all hell breaks loose.
Speaker 3: No shit, Steve, all hell did break loose.
Speaker 2: We all want to know what's gonna happen next. Draymond, though,
Speaker 2: now is back with the team. He's got some bridges
Speaker 2: to build. Kevon Looney said this, but ultimately to me,
Speaker 2: and this is where I fall on it. Steph is
Speaker 2: going to be Draymond's biggest advocate, Stephan Clay. They've got
Speaker 2: big time trust in Draymond Green, and it's very hard
Speaker 2: to imagine, very hard to imagine that this team.
Speaker 3: Is better without him. But I think that this is
Speaker 3: the biggest adversity of the team has ever faced in
Speaker 3: its dynastic run. Very very bad.
Speaker 2: Was the Kevin Durant Draymond thing, because Kevin Durant ultimately left,
Speaker 2: and we can say probably that had a big factor
Speaker 2: to it. But this is even worse. And I hate
Speaker 2: to break it to people who say, just get rid
Speaker 2: of Draymond and this team is better without Draymond.
Speaker 3: They are not. They are not better without Draymond.
Speaker 2: They are not okay without Draymond. They are not a
Speaker 2: championship caliber team without Draymond Green. Steph would face an
Speaker 2: immense amount of double teams. Without Draymond Green, You've got
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson, who would face an immense amount of double teams.
Speaker 2: Without Draymond Green, they would not be able to get
Speaker 2: loose or get busy the same way they do without
Speaker 2: him being able to see the floor, read the defenses,
Speaker 2: and be an elite passer that he is. And also defensively,
Speaker 2: who do you have on this team that can guard
Speaker 2: one through five on the perimeter inside, be a small
Speaker 2: ball five who can play against legit centers who outside
Speaker 2: of last playoffs, Draymond Green has been elite. So stop
Speaker 2: the noise with Draymond Green being washed. Stop the noise
Speaker 2: with Draymond Green not being about piece of this championship team.
Speaker 2: I would say, if you look at the statistics and
Speaker 2: you look at the wins and losses without Clay, without Draymond,
Speaker 2: Draymond is more important to this team than Clay, hands down.
Speaker 2: If you want to pay one, and this is outside
Speaker 2: of this nonsense, outside of the scuffle, if you were
Speaker 2: going to pay one, Clay coming up on his new contract,
Speaker 2: where he's at offensively, defensively, and what you have in
Speaker 2: Jordan Poole and Draymond Green you pay Draymond Green over
Speaker 2: Clay Clay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: You already got your bag.
Speaker 2: You sat out two years and never played a game,
Speaker 2: and so now you make the vet minimum and.
Speaker 3: I think he would say yes to that. So ultimately, I.
Speaker 2: Think Draymond is more important than Clay Thompson. And that
Speaker 2: is probably seen as a very hot take. And I
Speaker 2: mean where Clay is right now, not the Clay that
Speaker 2: we had prior to those injuries. That's a totally different story.
Speaker 2: Nobody knows where he's supposed to be at on the
Speaker 2: court more than Draymond. He's elite at spacing. He drags
Speaker 2: the other team's bigs out. He screws up their spacing
Speaker 2: big time. His passing, like I said earlier, is on
Speaker 2: another level. People gush over Ben Simmons in his ability
Speaker 2: to pass, but Draymond Green I think he's better in
Speaker 2: terms of IQ passing the ball knowing where defenses are
Speaker 2: supposed to be over a ten game stretch, I look
Speaker 2: this up. Draymond Green had over one hundred assists and
Speaker 2: twenty two turnovers over one hundred assists in ten games.
Speaker 2: That is ridiculous for a big man. That this is
Speaker 2: not a point guard, he has more. He has more
Speaker 2: assists than Steph Curry. Night tonight, people joke about Draymond
Speaker 2: being a triple single. That, my friends, is what makes
Speaker 2: him a Hall of Famer, nine to nine to nine.
Speaker 2: I don't care how many points he scores. Steph Curry
Speaker 2: goes insane, Clay Thomson can go insane. Points wise, Troydon
Speaker 2: Poole can go insane.
Speaker 3: Hell, You've got other people who can pick it up
Speaker 3: on a night to night basis.
Speaker 2: I don't need Draymond Green to score. What I need
Speaker 2: is his rebounds, his assists, and his ability to defend.
Speaker 2: And he changed the NBA because of him, the way
Speaker 2: that we play the forward position, the way that we
Speaker 2: see small ball five. There is a reason that guys
Speaker 2: like Zion and Ben Simmons think that they can be.
Speaker 3: A point forward.
Speaker 2: Right, And then on top of that two points to
Speaker 2: make about all of it one, the Warriors need.
Speaker 3: Draymond because the offense doesn't function without him.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: They were twenty one and seventeen fifty five fifty two
Speaker 2: winning percentage without Draymond Green last year and with him
Speaker 2: thirty two to twelve, that's a seven seventy three percent
Speaker 2: winning percentage with him fifty five percent winning percentage without him.
Speaker 2: I'd say that's pretty damn impactful. And on top of that,
Speaker 2: when Draymond was off the court with their injuries, Klay
Speaker 2: Thompson was playing. When Draymond was on the court prior
Speaker 2: to his injury, Klay Thompson was knocked. So that'll tell
Speaker 2: you who's more impactful to winning on this team right now.
Speaker 4: Two.
Speaker 3: Yes, the punch was awful.
Speaker 2: I think it was totally incomprehensible that we can't defend
Speaker 2: it in any way. But we can say is this
Speaker 2: We have to keep in mind where Draymond Green comes from,
Speaker 2: Sagan On, Michigan, very tough neighborhood, very tough upbringing. Someone
Speaker 2: puts their hands on you, which Jordan Poole did. If
Speaker 2: you're in a bad spot and you're going through something
Speaker 2: and your patience is shortened, no.
Speaker 3: Excuse, but you push me. I hit you in the face. Sorry,
Speaker 3: that's the way it goes. And in extreme stress.
Speaker 2: You revert back to where you came from. You revert
Speaker 2: back to the tendencies that you've worked so hard through
Speaker 2: fit therapy or you know, just personal development to work
Speaker 2: out at you. So the Warriors are internal right now.
Speaker 2: Do I think they're gonna be fine? I do, but
Speaker 2: they need to figure out how to put this all
Speaker 2: behind them.
Speaker 3: No matter what.
Speaker 2: There are gonna be questions moving forward. There's gonna be
Speaker 2: a lot of media buzz about Draymond Green. Every photo,
Speaker 2: every video of Draymond next to Jordan Poole is going
Speaker 2: to be scrutinized. That is going to be a thing.
Speaker 2: Are they gonna yell at each other on the bench?
Speaker 2: How is that going to be perceived?
Speaker 3: And I don't see the.
Speaker 2: Draymond Green and the Warriors as the biggest story of
Speaker 2: moving forward in the NBA season.
Speaker 3: I did not see that.
Speaker 1: But here are we are.