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Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show. Recording this late
Speaker 1: Sunday after we tied this series up one to one. UM,
Speaker 1: we were on it as I said we would, as
Speaker 1: I thought we would. Um, that's what championship teams are
Speaker 1: made up. You have to respond when things don't quite
Speaker 1: go your way, and we did. So let's get right
Speaker 1: into that. The Dubs beat the Celtics one oh seven
Speaker 1: to eight in game too. Steph Curry had another great
Speaker 1: game with twenty nine points in thirty two minutes and
Speaker 1: did not play a single second in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: which was absolutely amazing. Um, like I said, last game,
Speaker 1: Steph gets off to good star. Steph played great. I
Speaker 1: have to hold up my end of the bargain and
Speaker 1: make sure that we win that game. And he came out.
Speaker 1: I thought. What I thought was great is he didn't
Speaker 1: come out guns blazing UM like he did in Game one.
Speaker 1: I think maybe for the first or six or seven
Speaker 1: minutes of the game, I don't think he had a
Speaker 1: point and and if he did, he maybe had two points.
Speaker 1: And and he just allowed the game to come to him.
Speaker 1: He didn't chase after anything. He made the right play
Speaker 1: um all game Loan, but especially in the beginning of
Speaker 1: the game, which was important to set a tone. Uh
Speaker 1: didn't come out just firing up shots like, oh man,
Speaker 1: I was hot last game. I'm gonna come back and
Speaker 1: get it going. And he really let the game come
Speaker 1: to him. And I thought that was absolutely amazing. Now
Speaker 1: and saying that, he still finished the quarter, I think
Speaker 1: the first quarter with ten points and that was totally
Speaker 1: not chasing anything. So I thought that was beautiful. UM.
Speaker 1: And he scored in every which way. He scored a
Speaker 1: couple of layups, he had a couple of floaters, UM
Speaker 1: three pointers, as we know, but it was. It was
Speaker 1: really beautiful to see Um. And that's the maturity and
Speaker 1: stuff Curry. I know everybody just thinks, oh man, he's
Speaker 1: just great player and great shooter, in which he is, um,
Speaker 1: but the maturity that I see, you know, and coming
Speaker 1: out in game too and not forcing anything and just
Speaker 1: letting it all come to him, because in that situation,
Speaker 1: you want it so much, like you're down, oh one, Um,
Speaker 1: you want to come back strong, and so in that
Speaker 1: situation you're really chasing after it. And that was huge
Speaker 1: for him to just let the game come to you,
Speaker 1: just like let the game come to him, just like
Speaker 1: a season vet does. And I know everybody's like, oh man,
Speaker 1: steph Curry's growth, like it's never too late to grow.
Speaker 1: It is never too late to grow, and actually to
Speaker 1: take that a step further in this game, once you
Speaker 1: stop growing, you're done. And so for us, you know,
Speaker 1: with Steph, um, you know, continuing improving everyone to continue
Speaker 1: to prove, you have to continue to improve at this
Speaker 1: level because everyone else is and if you're not improving,
Speaker 1: you just get passed by. So I thought that was
Speaker 1: huge by him. It was absolutely amazing to see Gary
Speaker 1: Payton the second back on the floor with us UM
Speaker 1: after missing what at least a month since since the
Speaker 1: since the Memphis series. UM and where he went down
Speaker 1: with obviously the unfortunate fall that led to him fracturing
Speaker 1: the bone in his elbow, you immediately saw his impact
Speaker 1: on the game defensively, his demeanor, his mindset. Um. He
Speaker 1: got a couple of putbacks, which were great. He got
Speaker 1: a couple of layups, off drop offs, hit the corner three.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that corner three, because that was huge.
Speaker 1: You figure out they're not playing a month. You get
Speaker 1: a fast break where GP will finish that eight times
Speaker 1: out of ten, MRS the layoup and then mrs both
Speaker 1: free throws. His next shot is the corner three, which
Speaker 1: he responds and makes the corner three right in right
Speaker 1: in front of that bench. Now, for those that are
Speaker 1: listening to half played in the NBA, which is not
Speaker 1: very many people, because not many people have played in
Speaker 1: the NBA. When you're in front of an opposing team's
Speaker 1: bench and you're shooting that corner three, the things that
Speaker 1: are coming off out of that bench is the reason
Speaker 1: why you see everyone when they hit a corner three
Speaker 1: and somebody in front of someone's bench they turned and looked.
Speaker 1: They turned and say something because the things that are
Speaker 1: coming from that bench, we will not repeat here. And
Speaker 1: you know we talked some ship on the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: We will not repeat the things that comes away from
Speaker 1: the benches when you're shooting right in front of an
Speaker 1: opposing team's been so to Mr Two free throws, have
Speaker 1: a short term memory and can that corner three and
Speaker 1: a very It was a very timely three, by the way,
Speaker 1: that really showed you and embodies who Gary paid in
Speaker 1: the second is And like I said, he had, he
Speaker 1: had his hands all all all over that win. You
Speaker 1: can feel the impact and it was so great to
Speaker 1: have him out there. I mean, his defense was it's
Speaker 1: g P he defends and his defense and it looked
Speaker 1: like he hadn't missed a month or four or five weeks.
Speaker 1: And it's one thing to miss four or five weeks
Speaker 1: during the regular season. It is a totally different thing
Speaker 1: to miss four or five weeks in the playoffs because
Speaker 1: everybody's in playoff shape. Everybody, you got your tuned up.
Speaker 1: You you know the playoffs, you want to be peeking.
Speaker 1: And so for him to come back and play the
Speaker 1: way he did it just again shows why he's been
Speaker 1: able to put himself in a position that he's in,
Speaker 1: UM while going through the journey that he's had to
Speaker 1: go through, and you know, it's it was absolutely incredible
Speaker 1: to see. We're happy to have him back. I know
Speaker 1: he'll continue to have a big imprint and impact on
Speaker 1: this game and on this series, and so I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to that. UM. It was also good to see
Speaker 1: Jordan's pool start to find a rhythm on offense. I
Speaker 1: think that will continue to get better. I think he
Speaker 1: will continue to get more to a groove, He'll continue
Speaker 1: to find his spots more and more. But I think
Speaker 1: there's also something to say for you know, a young
Speaker 1: guy in his third year planning his plan, planning in
Speaker 1: his first NBA finals, and you were you were able
Speaker 1: to see him shake a little bit of that tonight,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was impressive. The two bombs, the
Speaker 1: one three right before the half and then the bomb
Speaker 1: from nearly half quarter from half court. I mean, that
Speaker 1: was beautiful. It came at not before the half, before
Speaker 1: the end of the third quarter, It came out of
Speaker 1: wonderful time. We were able to push the lead from
Speaker 1: fourteen to twenty three and going into the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: up up three. All it takes is one blow from there,
Speaker 1: you know, you throw one punch and that's kind of it.
Speaker 1: And that's what happened. We threw We threw a punch.
Speaker 1: I think we end up going up twenty nine seven
Speaker 1: or twenty nine or something like that, and then they
Speaker 1: pulled the plug. Um. I was a little shocked to
Speaker 1: see them pour the plugs so early, but I do
Speaker 1: understand it and I respect it, but I I just
Speaker 1: I did not expect to come back out of that
Speaker 1: time out and they have pulled the plug, and not
Speaker 1: totally like they still have Pritchard out there, Payton Pritchard,
Speaker 1: they still had Grant Williams out there. But for the
Speaker 1: most part they had pulled the plug. Now I'm saying
Speaker 1: that that is a championship organization, and those guys didn't
Speaker 1: come in and quit. Uh. They continued to fight in
Speaker 1: battle and and we had to continue to close the
Speaker 1: game out. You don't want to let you know, we
Speaker 1: saw ourselves come back in the world, saw us come
Speaker 1: back from down twenty nine or whatever it was to
Speaker 1: Dallas and make it a game there in the last
Speaker 1: three minutes. So we didn't want to do that. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, when you get into these playoff series, you
Speaker 1: know you got a chance to put a team in,
Speaker 1: you want to do that because you don't want any
Speaker 1: freak injuries. You know. I told the guys on the
Speaker 1: bench right away, I said, the worst thing that can
Speaker 1: happen right now is we have to bring Steph Curry
Speaker 1: back in the game. And we were able to two
Speaker 1: hold off on that and not loud it happened. I
Speaker 1: don't think Wiggas came back in either off. I'm not mistaken. Um.
Speaker 1: And so that was great. Um, it was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Celtics a little bit about our
Speaker 1: defense a little bit. I know we've talked a lot
Speaker 1: about the offense and defense. Uh we talked about the
Speaker 1: defense with with with Gary Payton, but overall we've talked
Speaker 1: about a few players. But let's talk about our defense.
Speaker 1: I thought our defense was flying around tonight. And for
Speaker 1: me personally, you obviously saw the first jump ball, then
Speaker 1: the second the very next play was able to knock
Speaker 1: it away from Robert Williams. But for me personally, you know,
Speaker 1: I wanted to come out and establish ourselves on that
Speaker 1: and right away, and although they took a thirteen of
Speaker 1: I lead to start the game. They felt us the
Speaker 1: entire time, and that set the tone for the game,
Speaker 1: and that was very important to come as for myself
Speaker 1: to come out and set the tone on that side
Speaker 1: of the ball. I am not someone that's gonna come
Speaker 1: into media or come on the pod and talk about
Speaker 1: what needs to be done, what I need to do
Speaker 1: and then not back that up. And so I thought
Speaker 1: it was very important for me to come out and
Speaker 1: try to set the tone on that side of the ball,
Speaker 1: in which I was able to accomplish, and we were
Speaker 1: able to accomplish and for the most part, our defense
Speaker 1: was pretty good um throughout the entire game. It was
Speaker 1: very important that we limited uh their role players that
Speaker 1: went off last game, you know Smarty um our, Our
Speaker 1: Horford and Derek White. They combined, like I said before,
Speaker 1: Fife from three and for us to come out and
Speaker 1: they combined for two for seven from three tonight. What
Speaker 1: that says is not only did we get into them
Speaker 1: um and make them make them do other things, but
Speaker 1: we didn't give them open looks. And you know those guys,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna come out mixed mixed, mixed taking three
Speaker 1: so if just if the three just isn't there, they're
Speaker 1: not going to take them. And so that the fact
Speaker 1: that they only combine for two for seven from three
Speaker 1: says a lot about our defense and the emphasis we
Speaker 1: put on making sure we could test the shots. I
Speaker 1: thought they had so many open looks and and in
Speaker 1: that game one and early on they weren't hitting them
Speaker 1: as much. They those guys were hitting, but they weren't
Speaker 1: hitting them as much. But then the floodgates open there
Speaker 1: in that third quarter and on into the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and they didn't miss. And so and like I said before,
Speaker 1: I thought that was a direct impact from al Hord
Speaker 1: for getting to walk in three to start the game,
Speaker 1: from Derek White getting to semi open threes to start
Speaker 1: the game and knock them down. Smart gotta open three,
Speaker 1: And so we just wanted to take that stuff away
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the game and not allow those
Speaker 1: guys to find a rhythm. And I thought that was important.
Speaker 1: I had a close out on Derek White there in
Speaker 1: the third quarter, deep corner in front of our bench,
Speaker 1: and I just smothered him. And the reason I smothered
Speaker 1: him the way I did was because I was just
Speaker 1: having a flashback of a couple of threes that he
Speaker 1: hit when guys were draped all over him in in
Speaker 1: in game one and I'm like, no, I need to
Speaker 1: like be all over so he can barely get the
Speaker 1: shot off and obviously a hit behind the rim. It
Speaker 1: was great. But those are the type of things that
Speaker 1: you have to do, especially being down one hole. You
Speaker 1: gotta come in, you gotta get the get the game
Speaker 1: at your pace, your tempo, and then you want to
Speaker 1: come in with the proper level of physicality. And I
Speaker 1: thought we did a great job of that tonight and
Speaker 1: it showed, Uh, fifteen stills we had tonight. That was huge. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we created a lot of turnovers, were able
Speaker 1: to points off throw turnovers, and you know, so to
Speaker 1: come up with fifteen stills, that's that's very, very very
Speaker 1: impressive stat But it goes to show our activity level
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball and how important that was. UM.
Speaker 1: And so that was great. I thought Jason Tatum got
Speaker 1: off to an absolutely incredible start in the first half.
Speaker 1: I think he had twenty one points or twenty four
Speaker 1: points out the half, and you know, we we all
Speaker 1: watched TV. We all saw how he responded in games
Speaker 1: after he had struggled, and he did the same thing tonight.
Speaker 1: He came out guns blazing, got off to a really
Speaker 1: good start, had his team in a good position, and um,
Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown got off to a good start as well.
Speaker 1: He hit won three, didn't he. You know, he hit
Speaker 1: the three over me, then hit another three, and you know,
Speaker 1: he got off to a really good start. But ultimately,
Speaker 1: over the course of forty eight minutes, we were able
Speaker 1: to get him contained as well, and so that was
Speaker 1: that was a really big deal. You know, those their
Speaker 1: offense starts and stop with those two guys obviously, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, they are the playmakers. They are the score
Speaker 1: the scoring threats. Not that everyone else is in the
Speaker 1: scoring threat because everyone day put on the floor, it's
Speaker 1: a scoring threat. But those two guys are the ones
Speaker 1: that really make the team go and Marcus smart um.
Speaker 1: But to get those two guys contained allowed us to
Speaker 1: get it, like I said, get the game at our
Speaker 1: pace and our tempo and play our brand of basketball,
Speaker 1: which was huge and us taking this win before we
Speaker 1: get into the mail bad questions. One more thing to discuss,
Speaker 1: which is what I've just found out post game is
Speaker 1: like you know, you you end up seeing all the
Speaker 1: stuff on Instagram. The small technical file controversy. I saw
Speaker 1: where Javy said, you know, you're making a decision like
Speaker 1: if someone has a tech or not. And the reality
Speaker 1: is that makes sense, Like you know, people want to
Speaker 1: try to make it out to be a controversy. That
Speaker 1: makes sense, like nobody's paying to watch this stuff to
Speaker 1: see guys get thrown out of the game and you
Speaker 1: not see the game you want to watch, like and
Speaker 1: so I understand and agree, like, yes, if there are
Speaker 1: something egregious and you know, and then I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: thrown out. As we know, nobody's sparing me, nor do
Speaker 1: I expect to get spared, nor do I want to
Speaker 1: be spared. But if it's something that's not egregious, probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't get thrown out of the game. So, uh, I
Speaker 1: had no close people even thought like I was that
Speaker 1: close to being thrown up. I mean, I had no
Speaker 1: clue that people thought I was even that close to
Speaker 1: being thrown out because I don't play. I don't ain't
Speaker 1: the game worried about getting thrown out or not. I
Speaker 1: played the game ultimately chasing the level of physicality that
Speaker 1: I want the game to be at and however, you
Speaker 1: gotta get that done. You get that done, so I
Speaker 1: never goes into it or after my first tech, like,
Speaker 1: oh man, I gotta tread carefully a walk lightly, um,
Speaker 1: just to stay in the game, like because if I'm
Speaker 1: a tread carefully and walk lightly, then I may as
Speaker 1: well get thrown out anyway, because that's not gonna help
Speaker 1: my team win. So I have to be me for
Speaker 1: my team. And I thought that was very important. I'm
Speaker 1: always gonna be me, And so to hear that that
Speaker 1: was like some type of little controversy or whatever, it
Speaker 1: was news to me. But now that I know the
Speaker 1: news and we're discussing it, you have my my thoughts
Speaker 1: in my opinion and how I feel about text or
Speaker 1: my text, and that's just what it's gonna be. Ten
Speaker 1: years in, I ain't changed up until this point. Why
Speaker 1: change now? Three championships later, four All Stars later, seven
Speaker 1: defensive All Defensive teams later? Why change now? Being who
Speaker 1: you want me to be or who you think I
Speaker 1: should be don't work for me. But being who I
Speaker 1: am and who I know I am and staying true
Speaker 1: to that that works for me. So I'm always gonna
Speaker 1: stay true to that and you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about that. That's it, and that's that. But before we
Speaker 1: get out of here, as I do have to pack
Speaker 1: um to head out to Boston at nine am, Jackson,
Speaker 1: you got a couple of mail back questions for you. Also,
Speaker 1: by the way, as you all must know, Jackson is
Speaker 1: piste off. He is a Boston Celtics fan, as our
Speaker 1: loyal listeners and subscribers know at this point, who we
Speaker 1: greatly appreciate you tuning in and checking the pot out.
Speaker 1: We don't take that for granted. Jackson's piste off. Just
Speaker 1: so y'all know his Celtics loss. Let's see what Jackson,
Speaker 1: you got something to say for yourself before you getting
Speaker 1: these money bad questions? N No, I'm sorry. Money bad
Speaker 1: money bad mail bag. Money bag works too, dough baby.
Speaker 1: It was a fun competitive first half, it was, and
Speaker 1: then the third quarter just kind of got away. That happens.
Speaker 1: Fourth quarter got away from game one, third quarter got
Speaker 1: away from the Celtics in game too. It happens. Tell
Speaker 1: me about it. I know that feeling. All yeah, it's
Speaker 1: all right, it's all right. I mean the Celtics. Look,
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta lead inces in both camps now,
Speaker 1: so it's okay. But the Celtics got to split on
Speaker 1: the road that they were trying to get and now
Speaker 1: they're going back to Boss. I'm gonna protect home court.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Not for the mail bag before I
Speaker 1: get a two over my head and talking about this
Speaker 1: from Andrew Pimntell at Andrew pim Mantel. What type of
Speaker 1: basketball player do you think every team needs, whether it's
Speaker 1: in the league, high school, etcetera. What type of basketball
Speaker 1: I think every team needs a leader? Um, you know,
Speaker 1: you can get to all into all the nuances of
Speaker 1: old like every team needs a shooter, every team needs
Speaker 1: uh point guard, or every team needs this or that
Speaker 1: or big man. Every team needs a leader. If you
Speaker 1: don't have a leader on your team, you can have
Speaker 1: as much talent as you wanted to never work um
Speaker 1: or little talent as you ever want you can do.
Speaker 1: You can do more with a great leader on your
Speaker 1: team and less talent then you can do with a
Speaker 1: team that is filled with talent and has no leadership,
Speaker 1: because it's all going to come crashing down because when
Speaker 1: you have a team full of talent, you also have
Speaker 1: a team full egos. You have a team full of
Speaker 1: guys that know they are extremely talented, and so one
Speaker 1: thing that every team needs is you have to and
Speaker 1: I repeat it, you must have leadership from Emily Kate
Speaker 1: at m Sports Takes. If you weren't with the Warriors,
Speaker 1: where else would you want to play? If I was
Speaker 1: not with the Warriors, where else where I want to play? Him?
Speaker 1: And I am going to make sure, yeah, be careful,
Speaker 1: I do not get fined for tempering here Emily. To
Speaker 1: be one hundred person honest with you, if I was
Speaker 1: not with the Warriors, I used to think about that
Speaker 1: all the time, like where where am I going? Where
Speaker 1: would I like to play if I'm not with the
Speaker 1: Warriors of blah blah blah, And quite frankly, at this
Speaker 1: point in my career, I don't see anything else from me.
Speaker 1: Like in my opinion, we've built this thing. We know
Speaker 1: not in my opinion, we've built this thing from the ground.
Speaker 1: Like when I got here as a rookie, this team
Speaker 1: had won twenty three games the year before we built
Speaker 1: this thing from the ground. We were laughing stock. Nobody
Speaker 1: was checking for the Warriors, nobody was worried about the Warriors,
Speaker 1: And so to build this thing from the ground up.
Speaker 1: It's like this is our baby, and and so I
Speaker 1: don't see any thing else for me because this is
Speaker 1: so precious, Like not not often do you see some
Speaker 1: guys build something from the ground up and be able
Speaker 1: to sustain and and sustain it. By the way, y'all
Speaker 1: see the microphone capt Nobody told me Jackson. Jackson would
Speaker 1: have told me had the Celtics not lost tonight. But
Speaker 1: you know, to build from the ground up, it's just
Speaker 1: such a special thing. So I don't see anything else
Speaker 1: with me. I can't believe Jackson's crazy. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: you a new one. I want that it's a little better.
Speaker 1: Because enough for these complaints about the mic, the pop filter,
Speaker 1: y'all know, if if the Celtics had one, he was like, Dre,
Speaker 1: your mike's messed up, because you want to hear more
Speaker 1: of what I gotta say. I don't think Jackson want
Speaker 1: to hear it tonight. It just happened five minutes ago.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the whole time five minutes ago. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: By the way, there's someone who's going to only watch
Speaker 1: that segment the podcast, like I only want to see
Speaker 1: those that the last five minutes of the podcast and
Speaker 1: see me out here like this. But it's cool. I
Speaker 1: think we got one more map mail back question. We
Speaker 1: usually do three jacks. You got one more for me
Speaker 1: from my boy Charlie at Playoff Draymond about writing a
Speaker 1: book about your career. If so, what would the title be? Um?
Speaker 1: I do want want to write a book one day,
Speaker 1: but not today. I don't want to do it while
Speaker 1: I'm playing because I just don't have the bandwidth to
Speaker 1: focus on it, like there's so many things going on.
Speaker 1: But when I do write my book, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what the title would be. I think I got some
Speaker 1: good some good titles like the misunderstood it Man or
Speaker 1: the guy that does not care that he's misunderstood or
Speaker 1: something in that nature. Charlie. UM, I don't know, Charlie.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to get back to you on that
Speaker 1: was because I haven't thought so deep into into the
Speaker 1: book because I just I know I'm not writing that
Speaker 1: book no time soon. But I'll tell you what, when
Speaker 1: I do, it's gonna be a great one and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a movie and maybe even a TV series.
Speaker 1: So watch out because I'm coming with the whole shebang.
Speaker 1: When I do write the book, I'm gonna go a
Speaker 1: people like Uncle Oaks just went at people in his book.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Uncle oak book man Charles Oakley wrote
Speaker 1: a book and for those of you that have not
Speaker 1: read his book, you should definitely go check it out
Speaker 1: because it is some stories in there that you cannot
Speaker 1: get anywhere else. So my book maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: like that. Not quite Uncle Oakish Uncle in deep, but
Speaker 1: you gotta hear some of this stories. You're gonna get
Speaker 1: some of these. And a reminder to also as you
Speaker 1: check out Uncle oaks book, check out our podcast with
Speaker 1: Uncle Luck on The Draymond Green Show as well as
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Speaker 1: Is always a fun time incorporating you, our subscribers that
Speaker 1: we love. Anytime we can do that, it's always great.
Speaker 1: Until next time, I will be coming to you from Boston, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go pat, kiss my kids, kiss my wife,
Speaker 1: and get ready to take this show on the road.
Speaker 1: That's it from this episode of The Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: I will talk to y'all Wednesday after game three, that
Speaker 1: should be a win. Let's hope it's a win. Let's
Speaker 1: do all we can to make it a win. Until then,
Speaker 1: that's a right peace. Li