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Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show. This is our
Speaker 1: second episode, and first thing we want to do is
Speaker 1: say thank you for your support. For everyone support of
Speaker 1: the Steph Curry episode. It was incredible, UM. I mean
Speaker 1: the just the reception has been amazing, UM. And and
Speaker 1: I can't thank those that reached out personally, personally, UM,
Speaker 1: those that reached out over social media platforms and spoke
Speaker 1: about how much they enjoyed the episode. I can't thank
Speaker 1: you enough. That's from me and and my producer Jackson.
Speaker 1: We can't thank you enough. Steph. If you hear this episode,
Speaker 1: we want to thank you again. I mean, it was incredible.
Speaker 1: I think we made magic. That's every time every time
Speaker 1: we sit down and we record this podcast, the goal
Speaker 1: is to always make magic. And what's making magic. Making
Speaker 1: magic is bringing something to your headphones, to your car stereo,
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Speaker 1: Making magic is something that you walk away from and say, damn,
Speaker 1: that was incredible. I enjoyed that. Um. Reaching out to
Speaker 1: somebody else, I think they need to hear this. That's
Speaker 1: making magic and every and that's what we strive for
Speaker 1: every time we sit down and do this. When I
Speaker 1: you know, I've been very um speaking very openly about
Speaker 1: my goals and media and about my goals with the podcast,
Speaker 1: how much I enjoyed doing the podcast, and you know,
Speaker 1: I've I've spoke about how much this means to me,
Speaker 1: how important this is to me, and how great I
Speaker 1: want to make it and most importantly how great I
Speaker 1: want to be at it, and so uh, just to
Speaker 1: receive that reception like it never goes unnoticed. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's something, it's you know, we all can work work, work, work, work,
Speaker 1: but ultimately, if you don't see results in your work,
Speaker 1: you know at some point you get defeated. And so
Speaker 1: I want everyone to know I don't take this for
Speaker 1: granted at all. Um, I don't think just because I'm
Speaker 1: Draymond granted basketball player that you're gonna want to listen
Speaker 1: to me. I take this very seriously and I can't
Speaker 1: thank you enough such an incredible episode. With that being said,
Speaker 1: moving forward for us until the Warriors win the NBA Championship. UM,
Speaker 1: the which is, which will go through mid June. As
Speaker 1: we all know, we're gonna switch the podcast up also
Speaker 1: through a little teaser out there this week about the
Speaker 1: podcast and my interviews as well. UM, we're switching it
Speaker 1: up a little bit. The format will be different. I
Speaker 1: want to make sure, um that I can always fully
Speaker 1: lock in on the playoffs. You know, I was talking
Speaker 1: to a couple of friends yesterday, and the reality is
Speaker 1: most people don't understand it's during the playoffs, like my
Speaker 1: family kind of takes a back seat. My fiance, she
Speaker 1: takes a back seat, my my children. I almost feel
Speaker 1: bad saying it, but my children kind of take a
Speaker 1: back seat. And the reality is during the playoffs, everything
Speaker 1: you're doing is to make sure that I'm ready for
Speaker 1: this next game. That I have because one game changes
Speaker 1: one one play changes the game, one game changes a
Speaker 1: series reason, one series changes the outcome of your season,
Speaker 1: and so everything that you do has to be so
Speaker 1: locked in on the task at hand that ultimately everything
Speaker 1: ends up taking a back seat to that and what
Speaker 1: I what I can for you know, um, trying to
Speaker 1: coordinate schedules and all of those different things around our
Speaker 1: schedule can be a little tough. I've been super committed
Speaker 1: to that. We've been super committed to making that work. However,
Speaker 1: during the playoffs, I want my focus to be strictly
Speaker 1: on the playoffs and bringing you good content. But the
Speaker 1: guest interviews are gonna have to take a back seat.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to wait until until the Golden State
Speaker 1: Warriors finished the mission and go in a an NBA championship. Now,
Speaker 1: Jackson on on this call is it's smiling as Jackson
Speaker 1: is a big time Boston Celtics fan, and so Jackson
Speaker 1: think they have something to say about that, which I'm
Speaker 1: totally fine with them having something to say about it. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: you have to stop it, but I'm totally fine with
Speaker 1: them having something to say about it. So Jackson is
Speaker 1: definitely looking at me like I'm crazy right now, Hey,
Speaker 1: I mean when the Celtics and the Warriors meet in
Speaker 1: the finals, the schedule is still give me the same
Speaker 1: You're right, we are going to be putting the guest
Speaker 1: interviews on the back burner until mid June. The outcome
Speaker 1: for your season might be a little bit different than
Speaker 1: what you're describing when Robert Williams gets back, but hey,
Speaker 1: the scheduling is going to be the same as what
Speaker 1: you're saying, So you're right. Meanwhile, we're still uh walking
Speaker 1: stuff back into the lineup. But yeah, no big deal, no,
Speaker 1: no big deal. No. But I hope, I hope everyone
Speaker 1: UM has the opportunity to enjoy these segments. Our goal
Speaker 1: is to put out a couple of segments a week, UM,
Speaker 1: so we still want to bring you the content. We
Speaker 1: still want to give you something to listen to. And
Speaker 1: this will be a little more about the playoffs and
Speaker 1: things going on around the league. But uh, you'll get
Speaker 1: to catch some of the analysis, which I always think
Speaker 1: it's fun, UM. But don't worry the guests. We'll be
Speaker 1: at We understand and we know and we appreciate all
Speaker 1: of our guests, and that is a huge part of
Speaker 1: the show. So we're not ignoring that side, but right
Speaker 1: now it just has to take a back seat. I
Speaker 1: want to again thank all of our subscribers are listeners. UM,
Speaker 1: I want to thank you and apologize, but but let
Speaker 1: you know we still hope to bring you heat and
Speaker 1: fire and we hope that you enjoy it and we
Speaker 1: appreciate your loyalty and we will continue to do all
Speaker 1: that we can to provide what you need on your
Speaker 1: ride to work, on your way home from work, to
Speaker 1: make that ride as smooth as possible. We will continue
Speaker 1: to give all that we got. Also with with with
Speaker 1: us with us, UM doing away with with the guests
Speaker 1: interviews for now. Well, we're going to add to the show. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a mail bad type of twists. UM.
Speaker 1: If you go on Twitter and you hashtag hashtag the
Speaker 1: drame on Green Show, Jackson and myself, we will find
Speaker 1: some of the questions and we will answer three to
Speaker 1: four questions per episode. Let's go four to five questions
Speaker 1: per episode. UM, your name will be mentioned. I will
Speaker 1: let everyone know it's coming from you, and that's we
Speaker 1: would love your engagement to hear some of the things
Speaker 1: you may want to hear about going what's going on
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, what's going on in the Warrior series?
Speaker 1: Wherever we may be, UM, but your questions, we will
Speaker 1: be looking out for your questions. We will probably pick
Speaker 1: four to five a week, I mean four to five
Speaker 1: an episode, which is more like eight to ten a week,
Speaker 1: and I will be answering your questions. And during the segments, UM,
Speaker 1: like I said, your at name will be mentioned, so
Speaker 1: we know who those questions are coming from. And you know,
Speaker 1: maybe the conversations from my answers to your question continues
Speaker 1: on your Twitter. Maybe I can chime in. I don't know,
Speaker 1: we'll see, but hashtag the Draymond Green Show with your questions,
Speaker 1: and we will be answering questions on every episode, kind
Speaker 1: of like the mail back episode we did a while back.
Speaker 1: It will be a few questions along with what we're
Speaker 1: already doing. So in saying that the Warriors and starting
Speaker 1: are up to the zero on the Nuggets, what does
Speaker 1: that mean? Absolutely nothing. UM. That simply means we had
Speaker 1: to home games, we took care of home court, and
Speaker 1: that's just that. UM. We we don't want to make
Speaker 1: too much out of being up to old because the
Speaker 1: reality is as they always say, and it's so cliche,
Speaker 1: but the series does not start until the team wins
Speaker 1: on the road. And you know, now we have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to go do that. So it's very important that
Speaker 1: we come out in game three with the mindset of
Speaker 1: this is a zero zero series. You know, all we
Speaker 1: did was take care of our home court and what
Speaker 1: we're supposed to do, and so the task is still
Speaker 1: the task. Job's not done. We understand that we have
Speaker 1: quite a you know, enough playoff experience to understand that
Speaker 1: being up to old means absolutely nothing. Hell, we understand
Speaker 1: that being up being up three one meaning absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1: So you always kind of let that sit in the
Speaker 1: back of it head somewhere and and try not to
Speaker 1: lose sight of that, because, um, it's it's hard winning
Speaker 1: winning games in the playoffs series. It's even harder to
Speaker 1: close out a playoffs series, especially on the road. Again,
Speaker 1: we're up to oh, we have the opportunity to do that,
Speaker 1: but it starts with game three. I think when when
Speaker 1: I look back at the first two games, um, you know,
Speaker 1: the one thing that sticks out in the one thing
Speaker 1: that everyone is talking about it is the new version
Speaker 1: of the deaf line. Up with with Jordan Poole and
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins. I must say it's it's been pretty successful
Speaker 1: of these first two games now and saying that, I
Speaker 1: think there are some things that that group can continue
Speaker 1: to get better at. I think there are some things
Speaker 1: that that group will continue to get better at. Um.
Speaker 1: And the reality is those two games, that's our first
Speaker 1: time playing together all year. For it to work the
Speaker 1: way of work, I mean, it's very exciting because in
Speaker 1: your mind you figure you're only going to get better, right,
Speaker 1: Like you're gonna improve and you know, we'll cover up
Speaker 1: some things on the defensive end that we we possibly
Speaker 1: could have covered up, will continue to get better on
Speaker 1: the offensive end, and get more customed playing with each other.
Speaker 1: Like those are all the things that you hope. But
Speaker 1: in saying that a very small sample sizing two games,
Speaker 1: I mean it's been absolutely incredible. Now, what's made it incredible, Well,
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson and two games and shot the ball well, um,
Speaker 1: and to be expected, like you expect Clay Thompson to
Speaker 1: shoot the ball, Well, that's who Klay Thompson is. Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: It's Steph Curry. Um. The first game back, you know
Speaker 1: he was good. He was solid. Uh, he was really
Speaker 1: good and solid, but not quite You know what, what
Speaker 1: you don't expect from Steph Curry is good in solid.
Speaker 1: You what what we expect from Steph Curry is I
Speaker 1: don't even I don't even need to throw um words
Speaker 1: out there, you know what I mean? Like, what we
Speaker 1: expect from Steph Curry is what we expect from Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: Game one wasn't that, nord did I expect Game one
Speaker 1: to be that? But Game two was exactly that. Twenty
Speaker 1: three minutes, twenty two minutes and fifty seven seconds, if
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, and he finishes with thirty four points.
Speaker 1: Plays an absolutely flawless game. I mean, he got off
Speaker 1: the ball, didn't turn I think he had two turnovers,
Speaker 1: didn't turn the ball over much as getting blitz. Then
Speaker 1: that's making plays for the guys. I thought the way
Speaker 1: Steph Curry put pressure on the rim last night was
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible and it opened up the three point shot
Speaker 1: because if you watched the game, I think there you know,
Speaker 1: in their minds it's like we gotta take the three
Speaker 1: out of the game and all that. I mean, their
Speaker 1: entire defense was pressed up like they're pressed up there
Speaker 1: above the three point line. They're essentially trying to force
Speaker 1: you to drive. Well, Steph Curry took those drives and
Speaker 1: then it opened the floor up, and it opened the
Speaker 1: three point shot up. So I thought, I thought, what
Speaker 1: Steph Curry came off the bench and did Uh he
Speaker 1: got us. He came off and got us settled in.
Speaker 1: I think they went up seven. Oh. Jordan Poole had
Speaker 1: his own five old run to kind of get the
Speaker 1: game settled down. But Steph Curry when he came in
Speaker 1: at the six minute market really just settled things down
Speaker 1: and really showed us how we truly wanted to attack
Speaker 1: the Uh. Their their pick and roll coverage. Uh, we
Speaker 1: were able to figure out a lot and you know,
Speaker 1: they're pick and roll coverage was a little different, um
Speaker 1: than it was in Game one. They were you know,
Speaker 1: I think in game one we dissected them in the pocket.
Speaker 1: That's you know what, what's dissecting them in the pocket.
Speaker 1: That's me setting a screen for Steph Curry. That's me
Speaker 1: setting a screen for Jordan Pool. That's Otto Porter setting
Speaker 1: the screen for Jordan Pool. And out once that guy
Speaker 1: rolled and you see the big who's guarding the guy
Speaker 1: who sets the screen UH, as well as Jordan's man
Speaker 1: pursuing once he's screened, then you roll and you open
Speaker 1: up and a guy drops that little past that's called
Speaker 1: a pocket pass. Because you're dropping it into the pocket,
Speaker 1: a pocket opens up, that's called a pocket pass. We
Speaker 1: absolutely took advantage of them in the pocket. And so
Speaker 1: what I noticed immediately, and if you think back to
Speaker 1: the game, there was a lot of kickballs from them
Speaker 1: because what they made a concerted effort to do was
Speaker 1: take the pocket away. And so because of that, it
Speaker 1: kind of changed up their pick and roll coverage a bit,
Speaker 1: and we had to a jest and figure that out.
Speaker 1: I think once we figured it out, we were all good.
Speaker 1: And it's not like we you know, we didn't really
Speaker 1: play out of the pocket much because they took the
Speaker 1: pocket away. But but our guards were great. Steph Curry
Speaker 1: came in and did what what he had to do. UH.
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins was attacking the basket, which is great. You know,
Speaker 1: when you have a guy I think back to to
Speaker 1: Joe Dumarsum who is like a father figure my um
Speaker 1: and we've always talked about NBA basketball and he used
Speaker 1: to tell me Draymond you are on on your team,
Speaker 1: you always have to have a fence bender, like someone
Speaker 1: who's going to bend that fence over and over and
Speaker 1: over again. And I thought that's what Wiggins has been
Speaker 1: these first couple of games, is he's been a fence
Speaker 1: bender where he's just been in the fence back, been
Speaker 1: in the fence back, and once he bends the fence back,
Speaker 1: then everyone else can come in and you can work
Speaker 1: behind the player, and that's when everything else starts to
Speaker 1: open up. And so I think Wiggs, the way Wiggs
Speaker 1: has been attacking the rim has been incredible, but also
Speaker 1: the way Wiggins has been rebounding, and and no one's
Speaker 1: really talking about that, but that's what allows that newer
Speaker 1: version of the death line up to really work. You know,
Speaker 1: if I'm battling with joker Um, which is a tall
Speaker 1: task which we'll talk about, by the way, but if
Speaker 1: I'm battling him and I'm trying to keep him off
Speaker 1: the board, it's very hard for me to then go
Speaker 1: get that rebound. And with Wiggins coming back in and rebounding,
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson coming back in the rebound, think Jordan Poole
Speaker 1: had four or five rebounds last night um, as we
Speaker 1: always say, we all know Steph Curry is a great
Speaker 1: rebounder that is very important into the into the small
Speaker 1: lineup working. And I thought Wiggins has been incredible with
Speaker 1: his attacks on the rim. I thought he's been incredible
Speaker 1: on the defensive and he's been a locked Wiggins has
Speaker 1: been locked in like I've never seen Wiggins locked in
Speaker 1: before and and and and when I say that, I
Speaker 1: just mean like game plan, discipline, um in the fray,
Speaker 1: rebound in the basket. I mean it's been beautiful to see.
Speaker 1: And I mean the way he's stepping up to the
Speaker 1: challenge doing all of the little things, it's been beautiful
Speaker 1: to see. So that too, is what has helped that
Speaker 1: line up. And then of course we get to the
Speaker 1: young sensation, most improved player, Jordan Pool, and what he's
Speaker 1: doing to defense is absolutely insane. And then you think
Speaker 1: of a defense having to prepare for Steph Curry, which
Speaker 1: is a nightmare, and then having to prepare for him twice,
Speaker 1: that's a totally different nightmare. And right now, that's what
Speaker 1: I see out of Jordan Pool when I'm out there
Speaker 1: playing with Jordan Pool, like the same little life hacks.
Speaker 1: If you will that I use when I'm playing with
Speaker 1: Steph Curry to get him open. I'm starting to realize,
Speaker 1: I have realized are the same little life hacks I
Speaker 1: can use to get Jordan open. And it's in large
Speaker 1: part due to his skill set. And you know Jordan,
Speaker 1: as we all know, he went to the school on
Speaker 1: the highway from Michigan State University. Uh, no need to
Speaker 1: mention the school's name. But I absolutely hated him. I mean,
Speaker 1: he played against Michigan State. I get this kid out
Speaker 1: of here. Like he never backed I've never seen him
Speaker 1: back down in a moment, and that dates back two then.
Speaker 1: Like I've never seen him shy away from a moment.
Speaker 1: He wants all those moments and it showed in these
Speaker 1: two playoff games. I mean, he got fifty nine points
Speaker 1: in two games. What is that? Twenty nine and a
Speaker 1: half point average a game? First two playoff games. That's
Speaker 1: a different thing. Like, that's a totally different beast. And
Speaker 1: not to be confused, he's out there running alongside Stephen
Speaker 1: Curry and Clay Thompson. That right there is intimidating in itself.
Speaker 1: You start talking playoff basketball, um, the accolades that we
Speaker 1: have and then you throw this young kid in there.
Speaker 1: I mean I say that with all due respect. And
Speaker 1: he's just out there running around and playing like like
Speaker 1: he's not playing next to Steph Curry and Clay Thompson,
Speaker 1: which is a very big deal because most people wouldn't
Speaker 1: know what to do in that situation. Most people would
Speaker 1: just be like, oh man, I'm out here with him.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna sit back. I'm gonna you know, get
Speaker 1: out the way. N har That's not what he's doing.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, I want more of that, Like, no,
Speaker 1: bring the ball over here. Oh man, they're scoring, they're
Speaker 1: on a little run, so so let me go get
Speaker 1: a layer. Like his floor game and what he's doing
Speaker 1: right now is that's what's most impressive to me than anything.
Speaker 1: It's not the shot making, like guys, there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of guys in the NBA that can make shots. It's
Speaker 1: not him getting to the whole of it's his floor
Speaker 1: game that's been the difference for me. That's been absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: He's starting to face double teams now and like all
Speaker 1: of that stuff is different from him. The way he's
Speaker 1: handling all of those things absolutely incredible, which leads me
Speaker 1: to another topic, as I spoke about earlier this week,
Speaker 1: the Most Improved Player award. Again, you cannot tell me
Speaker 1: that there's anyone in the NBA that has improved more
Speaker 1: than Jordan Pool. Now, when I look at Degont Murray's numbers,
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible, incredible numbers, incredible jumps that he's made, I
Speaker 1: think I think he may have added six or six
Speaker 1: and a half or seven points per game to his
Speaker 1: points game average. Um, I think he doubled his assists
Speaker 1: output or doubled his rebound output. It's one or the two.
Speaker 1: He doubled. He went from five point four assists per
Speaker 1: game to nine point two exactly. Like I don't I
Speaker 1: don't this agree with dejon Ter Murray being in that
Speaker 1: conversation and possibly being the winner. I don't disagree with
Speaker 1: that one bit. I totally disagree with John Morant being
Speaker 1: a part of the conversation because John Morant, to me,
Speaker 1: is a part of the m VP conversation. Now, whether
Speaker 1: he ended up a finalist or not, that's neither here
Speaker 1: nor there. John morn is a part of the m
Speaker 1: v P conversation. The reason John Moran is a part
Speaker 1: of the the m VP conversation is in large part due
Speaker 1: to the year he had last year to where everybody's
Speaker 1: looking like, oh man, if he continues on this trajectory,
Speaker 1: he's an m VP candidate and that's what he's done.
Speaker 1: So for him to be a part of the Most
Speaker 1: Improved Player conversation, I disagree with that. I like, to me,
Speaker 1: what that she's screaming out is almost a young MVP award, Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: Joker is gonna get the m v P or Joel
Speaker 1: is gonna get the m v P. But on that
Speaker 1: on that list, there are some younger guys who could
Speaker 1: be in that conversation, and John Moran is one of
Speaker 1: those guys. And to me, it's almost like it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a Young MVP award, not Most Improved Player Award. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking anything away from John Moret and improvements
Speaker 1: that he's made. I think it's been incredible. But in
Speaker 1: the same token, John Moran was the number two pick
Speaker 1: in NBA draft. Like, I'm sorry, but when you draft
Speaker 1: someone with the number to pick, doesn't always happen, but
Speaker 1: you expect them to be that good. That's why you
Speaker 1: drafted them with the number to pick. Because if you
Speaker 1: drive someone with the number to pick. That's supposed to
Speaker 1: be a guy that you can now build your franchise around.
Speaker 1: So John Moran supposed to be this good. Jon Murray
Speaker 1: was what the twenty nine pick? Again, I can't argue
Speaker 1: him being in that conversation. You look at who else
Speaker 1: is in the conversation. Darius Garland. Darius Garland. Who unless
Speaker 1: you just don't know basketball, you didn't see him on
Speaker 1: this trajectory. But I know basketball, and I knew when
Speaker 1: I went to see Darius Garland play USC in l
Speaker 1: A when he was at Vanderbilt, that this was the
Speaker 1: trajectory Darius Garland was gonna be on. If you didn't,
Speaker 1: you need to question your basketball cap, which a lot
Speaker 1: of these people do. I think. I think the voting
Speaker 1: system is it's it's one of those things that's completely
Speaker 1: ridiculous and like outdated. Right, there's no criterion in place
Speaker 1: for any of these awards. There's no you have to
Speaker 1: play this amount of games or not. There isn't Well,
Speaker 1: what makes someone the most improved player? There's no criteria
Speaker 1: in place in MVP award, there's no criteria in place.
Speaker 1: We've seen God winning seven of his team in seven.
Speaker 1: We've seen guys winning team in first Joker wins it.
Speaker 1: This year's teams in six, Joel wins it. This year
Speaker 1: his team was what four from the four from the East.
Speaker 1: I don't really like. It's actually a shame that there's
Speaker 1: no criteria to this. The voting on it is also
Speaker 1: a shame. I think when you look at voting for
Speaker 1: All NBA, when you look at voting for defensive Player
Speaker 1: to your Most Improved Player m v P. Ultimately these
Speaker 1: things are voted on by the media, which I think
Speaker 1: is absolutely disgusting because these are human beings that could
Speaker 1: have personal issues against guys, because that does happen, because
Speaker 1: let's face it, these are human beings, and they ultimately
Speaker 1: end up deciding on like forty to fifty million dollars
Speaker 1: for guys like Jayson Tatum did not make All NBA
Speaker 1: last year. He lost thirties seven million dollars. I think
Speaker 1: all because someone who's watching the game decided that he
Speaker 1: wasn't an All NBA performer. These are also people that
Speaker 1: don't watch every game. Like It's not like if you're
Speaker 1: a beat writer for let's say you work at ESPN,
Speaker 1: but you're covering the Golden State worries. You're not watching
Speaker 1: all of the Boston Celtics games. So how is it
Speaker 1: possible that you can't even say, oh, that you can
Speaker 1: even say Jayson Tatum isn't all NBA last year. How
Speaker 1: is it possible that you can say Jordan Poole isn't
Speaker 1: the most improved player and you have not watched him
Speaker 1: play all year, nor did you watch him play all
Speaker 1: last year? How is it possible? And so there's a
Speaker 1: huge flaw in the system, and it's ridiculous that it
Speaker 1: hasn't been changed, especially with the amount of money that's
Speaker 1: at stake. You mean to tell me someone who's upset
Speaker 1: at me because I didn't want to do an interview
Speaker 1: with them, Um can ultimately decide if thirty seven million
Speaker 1: dollars goes into my bank account or not. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But it all goes back to the notion of what
Speaker 1: I've been talking about and how players are treated. Um,
Speaker 1: because the guy who works at Goldman Sachs Bonus isn't
Speaker 1: decided by the employee. Uh, not the employee, the clients
Speaker 1: that are accounts they're working on, Like that client don't
Speaker 1: then call the CEO and say, hey, Um, John deserves
Speaker 1: a bonus, or somebody from CNBC doesn't call and say, hey,
Speaker 1: Jamie Diamond, um your employee, he he deserves a thirty
Speaker 1: seven million dollar bonus. That doesn't happen. But however that
Speaker 1: still happens to be the case in basketball, and I
Speaker 1: don't understand it. Like we're we're past the days of
Speaker 1: of guys not understanding business this. We're past the days,
Speaker 1: uh of guys being completely oblivious two what's going on
Speaker 1: in their profession, how they can make money, the things
Speaker 1: they can do with that money. We're past those days.
Speaker 1: The fact that the power of these awards, the power
Speaker 1: of these are NBA teams are still decided by someone
Speaker 1: who could have never possibly played basketball day in their life,
Speaker 1: which means there are things going on in the game
Speaker 1: that you just can't see. You will tell you how
Speaker 1: I know there's things going on in the game that
Speaker 1: you just can't see. I absolutely love football. I watched
Speaker 1: football so much. I enjoyed watching football more than I
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching basketball. I watched football religiously since a child.
Speaker 1: I feel like I know a lot about football. There's
Speaker 1: so many things going on during an NFL game that
Speaker 1: I miss that I don't know that thing is going on.
Speaker 1: You know why, because I don't have experience in doing
Speaker 1: that thing. I don't have experience in doing that. So
Speaker 1: there's little games within the game that I don't even
Speaker 1: realize what's going on because that's not what I do.
Speaker 1: I study football, just like some of these people say
Speaker 1: they study basketball. As someone who's a part of the media, now,
Speaker 1: I think it's absolutely disgusting that at some point I
Speaker 1: may have a vote in deciding who Wednesday Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year. I may absolutely hate Marcus Smart. You
Speaker 1: don't know that. How do you know I could not
Speaker 1: vote for Marcus Smart because I just hate him. I
Speaker 1: don't hate Marcus Smart, but you get my point. I
Speaker 1: could absolutely hate him. Okay, so I'm thirty two years old.
Speaker 1: By forty I could have a vote. Guess what that means.
Speaker 1: A player that's in his first year being his ninth year,
Speaker 1: and if I don't like him now, I can then
Speaker 1: decide that I don't want to vote for him. It
Speaker 1: cost him forty million dollars. You think that don't happen now,
Speaker 1: You can't possibly think that doesn't happen. A couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, I had the most floods first place votes.
Speaker 1: Not a couple of years ago when I lost to Kauai.
Speaker 1: I remember what year that was, but I had the
Speaker 1: most first place votes. Some guy left me off his
Speaker 1: entire ballot. Do you think that was a mistake or
Speaker 1: was it something else behind it that ultimately changes the
Speaker 1: complexion of my career. That's one defensive player of the
Speaker 1: Year I have. That could be the difference in Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame or not. That's someone deciding that based off
Speaker 1: what merrite? Like what what? What is that based off?
Speaker 1: I don't get it, and it's shamefulness. I it's ridiculous
Speaker 1: that no one talks about this. That is just like, okay,
Speaker 1: you know why it's okay because of how we're viewed
Speaker 1: as athletes. That's the only reason it's okay. Because again
Speaker 1: msn BC, they don't decide what Jamie Diamonds bonuses. So
Speaker 1: it baffles me that us as athletes are still decided
Speaker 1: by somebody from Bleacher Report, somebody from ESPN, somebody from
Speaker 1: blue dot com. I mean, like people create their own
Speaker 1: websites and become like these media personalities because they did
Speaker 1: a good job creating a website, then they ultimately decide
Speaker 1: someone makes forty million dollars. Not absolutely ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous,
Speaker 1: And it's a shane that Jordan Pool. Not only will
Speaker 1: he not win Most Improved Player, he's actually not even
Speaker 1: in the top three, and he's actually the most improved
Speaker 1: player in the NBA. Kids out there looking like Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: Twelve months ago, he was on his way out of the
Speaker 1: the NBA. He's now in the playoffs, out there looking
Speaker 1: like Stephen Ordeal Ordelle, Stephen Curry the second. That's who
Speaker 1: he out there looking like right now. And y'all mean
Speaker 1: to tell me a kid that was on his way
Speaker 1: out of the NBA twelve months ago is now out
Speaker 1: there mimicking and looking like Stephen Curry. With all due
Speaker 1: respect to stuff, we all know step changed the game
Speaker 1: in basketball. Jordan Poole, if you look at his twin
Speaker 1: two years old, we want our first NBA championship two
Speaker 1: thousand and fifteen, fifteen years old, you can't possibly think
Speaker 1: that kid is not going to the gym like, oh man,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry shooting the shots. I'm gonna shoot the shot.
Speaker 1: So he's out there mimicking stuff. He's doing an incredible
Speaker 1: job of doing it. Twelve months ago, the kid was
Speaker 1: already almost out of the NBA. And he's not the
Speaker 1: most improved player. You're out of your mind. You are
Speaker 1: out of your mind. If he's not the most improved player,
Speaker 1: which he isn't by these ter ruble standards that we
Speaker 1: have to live by. He isn't. But you're out of
Speaker 1: your mind. And y'all wonder why I say basketball heads
Speaker 1: don't know basketball. You clearly don't know basketball. You clearly
Speaker 1: don't know basketball. That's why I said I want to
Speaker 1: come help, say the media, because you're losing our credibility.
Speaker 1: People say stuff with no no, no repercussions, and just
Speaker 1: be talking, just to talk. Learn the game. Learn the game.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna do this job, learn the game because
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful game. It's been ruined, bodies, narratives, it's
Speaker 1: being ruined. Learn the game if you're gonna do that.
Speaker 1: So I think I think it's absolutely ridiculous, and hope
Speaker 1: fully the NBA will realize, Hey, this is such an
Speaker 1: outdated thing. This needs to be changed. Whether some mix
Speaker 1: of players, whether it's coaches, whether there's some committee um
Speaker 1: that the NBA puts together. There's a bunch of things,
Speaker 1: and at this point it's just lazy. It needs to
Speaker 1: be changed unless we're gonna start allowing CNBC to decide
Speaker 1: who's getting a bonus at JP Morgan Chase. It needs
Speaker 1: to be changed. Stop looking at us like we're idiots.
Speaker 1: We're businessmen too. It's probably trying to wrap our head
Speaker 1: around that. Okay, all of us are done. That's just
Speaker 1: the reality. So let's looking at that. The Celtics and
Speaker 1: Nets series one one game Man is by far the
Speaker 1: most exciting series of the year. Again, we'll see where
Speaker 1: it goes from here. But between Kyrie letting them fans
Speaker 1: that know exactly how he feels, which hurt Jackson Hart
Speaker 1: because Jackson would have been in the crowd getting all
Speaker 1: of that from Kyrie. With Kyrie letting them fans know
Speaker 1: exactly how he feels while going out and scoring thirty
Speaker 1: nine points while doing that, that series absolutely incredible. Who
Speaker 1: on that game I forgot, you know, down down, down
Speaker 1: seventeen points, come storming back because you have two of
Speaker 1: the greatest offensive players to not only come storming back
Speaker 1: but actually take the lead, and then Boston have to
Speaker 1: fight back to eventually get to win. But let's talk
Speaker 1: about this final play for a second, Jalen Brown caught
Speaker 1: that ball, and we all know Jalen Brown shooting that
Speaker 1: ball out of control. Whatever, no problem, Jalen didn't get
Speaker 1: to the baseline, realized I don't have anything. Spence Back
Speaker 1: settles down into the post. Beautiful surveys the floor. See
Speaker 1: Marcus on the left wing, wide open, skip pass swing it.
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart shoots that shot ten times out of ten
Speaker 1: leading up to this year, He's shooting that shot twelve
Speaker 1: times out of ten leading up to this year. Marcus
Speaker 1: Smart shot things and drives. Jason Tatum, who goes on
Speaker 1: records saying I was just going to the rim to
Speaker 1: try to get a rebound, receives a pass from Marcus Smart,
Speaker 1: running full speed, has the body control and wherewithal to
Speaker 1: spin You know exactly where he is on the floor,
Speaker 1: have a terrible angle for the layup, actually make the layup.
Speaker 1: It catches the front room and goes in basketball. Guys
Speaker 1: are alive and well. And what were they rewarded for.
Speaker 1: They were rewarded for Jaylen Brown not forcing up a
Speaker 1: terrible shot. That is growth for Jaylen Brown. That is
Speaker 1: the growth that has the Celtics in the position that
Speaker 1: they're in. That is the growth that had people saying
Speaker 1: you need to split those two up because they have
Speaker 1: not They hadn't seen it. No one has seen that growth.
Speaker 1: Kudos to Jaylen Brown. That was beautiful. Everybody thought you
Speaker 1: were shooting that ball. That was absolutely beautiful. Kudos to
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart, who I've been praising his floor game. I
Speaker 1: mean Marcus Smart and what he's done for that team
Speaker 1: and being the point guard. See, no one says for
Speaker 1: all these years he could have possibly been playing out
Speaker 1: of position because guess what, when we all loved Marcus
Speaker 1: Smarten him coming to the NBA, what position to Marcus
Speaker 1: Smart play? Marcus Smart was a point guard. Marcus Smart
Speaker 1: was a true point guard, which is what we all
Speaker 1: loved about Marcus Smart. He was a true point guard
Speaker 1: that could go score. Marcus Smart became a guy who
Speaker 1: wanted to go score and didn't really care about being
Speaker 1: a true point guard. Insert Email Udoka, insert Damon Damon Stodomer,
Speaker 1: insert Aaron Miles the point guard whisperer. Marcus Smart goes
Speaker 1: back to who Marcus Smart was playing point guard beautifully.
Speaker 1: Whole team changes, whole season changes, and then look at
Speaker 1: the results in game one. That's all a byproduct of
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart. Are becoming the point guard that we all
Speaker 1: believe Marcus Smart was when he was coming into the NBA.
Speaker 1: And it's beautiful to see, absolutely beautiful to see those
Speaker 1: young guys figuring it out with the help of o
Speaker 1: g Ohad al Horford is beautiful to see. I gotta
Speaker 1: give a lot of kudos to them. Now, Kyrie and Katie,
Speaker 1: who are by far two of the most skilled guys
Speaker 1: in this league, by far, two of the best scores
Speaker 1: we've seen. Right, They're incredible. My worry for the Brooklynness
Speaker 1: is those two guys have to play so well for
Speaker 1: them to win. That's hard, Like in a playoff series,
Speaker 1: everybody's focused on these guys. That's a very hard task
Speaker 1: to play that well all the time. But when you
Speaker 1: got those two guys, you always have a chance. And
Speaker 1: that's what we've been seeing as a late They needed
Speaker 1: to win games down the stretch, they leaned on those
Speaker 1: two guys. They needed to win a playing game, they
Speaker 1: leaned on those two guys. They needed to get back
Speaker 1: in Game one, they leaned on those two guys. I
Speaker 1: think this series number one, this should not be a
Speaker 1: first round series. It is totally unfair to the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 1: It's totally unfair to the Brooklyn Nets that they are
Speaker 1: playing each other in the first round series. But as
Speaker 1: a fan of the game of basketball, I love it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't get much better than this in
Speaker 1: the first round. Um, congratulations to market Smart winning the
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year award, first guard since Gary Payton. Um.
Speaker 1: Absolutely amazing. And again, when you win, everybody wins. If
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics were still having a terrible year that
Speaker 1: they started off having when they were twenty two and
Speaker 1: twenty two, twenty are in twenty three, whatever it was,
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart would not be a Defense Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: So just goes to show you how important winning is.
Speaker 1: And for all those kids out there that may come
Speaker 1: across this podcast, you want to you're looking for a
Speaker 1: skill to master. You want to go master three point shot? Great,
Speaker 1: by all means, go ahead. You want to go master
Speaker 1: ball handling, by all means, be my guest. But the
Speaker 1: best skill anyone can master is winning, Because when you win,
Speaker 1: everybody wins. Awards start piling in, rings and championship trophy
Speaker 1: start piling in. When you win, money starts piling in.
Speaker 1: Everything happens when you win. So if there's one lesson
Speaker 1: I can give to my young listeners out there, master
Speaker 1: the art of winning. That's more important than anything. And
Speaker 1: as you can see, Marcus Smart there's a testament to that.
Speaker 1: No one has talked about Marcus Smart in years. As
Speaker 1: far as defense Prayer of the Year a goos, they're
Speaker 1: winning boom first guard since Gary Payton. Absolutely incredible. I
Speaker 1: thought it was a shame that Bam out of Bayu
Speaker 1: wasn't top three. I'm not sure what Bam has to
Speaker 1: do to get in the top three. Um, but it
Speaker 1: was a crying I mean, Shane that he didn't make
Speaker 1: the top three. I can go on and on about that,
Speaker 1: but I think we all know how ridiculous it is
Speaker 1: that Bam out of He's sitting first place in the
Speaker 1: East did not make the top three. Absolutely terrible. But Bam,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what you gotta do, my brother. I
Speaker 1: think you, you and Joel need to sit and have
Speaker 1: a conversation and both figure out what y'all need to do, because, um,
Speaker 1: it just don't be adding up to me. Man, it
Speaker 1: don't be adding up to me. I see Bam out
Speaker 1: of Bayou. I see him switch on the five. I
Speaker 1: see him be the catalyst of that defense, be the
Speaker 1: anchor to it. I see all of that. I see it, Bawn.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your defense, my brother. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you gotta do to get some recognition for it. Um,
Speaker 1: And you know, before we get out of here, UM,
Speaker 1: I just want to talk about a few guys that's
Speaker 1: caught my eyes throughout this playoff, these first few days
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. Jordan Pool number one, as I've spoke about,
Speaker 1: Jordan Pool, has been absolutely incredible. Um, Tyrese Maxie has
Speaker 1: been absolutely incredible as well. I think he's the way
Speaker 1: he's playing off of James and the way he's playing
Speaker 1: off of Joel's great. I mean, what he's added to
Speaker 1: that team. It's making them a real contenders, a huge
Speaker 1: part of the reason they're they've been destroying Toronto these
Speaker 1: first two games. UM, gotta give that kid a lot
Speaker 1: of credit, a lot of credit. The way he's really
Speaker 1: come along over these first couple of years of his career.
Speaker 1: Got to give him a lot of credit. The way
Speaker 1: he's showing up in his playoffs. I go back to MAXI,
Speaker 1: Maxie I've never seen a moment too big for MAXI
Speaker 1: I remember watching Maxie as a freshman go up against
Speaker 1: my beloved Michigan State Spartans, and I think, if I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, that that game was that masson Square Garden,
Speaker 1: this kid single handedly beat us. I mean he's hitting
Speaker 1: threes from like four, four or five steps behind the
Speaker 1: three point Like, who is this kid? He's single handedly
Speaker 1: be my Spartans. I've never seen him shrink in a moment.
Speaker 1: Another one of those guys that irrational confidence loved the moment.
Speaker 1: Gotta get Tyrese Maxie a bunch of credit. I think
Speaker 1: he's been absolutely sensational. I mean, and to do that
Speaker 1: again alongside Joel embiid Um, alongside James Harden, alongside Tobias Areas,
Speaker 1: you have to have some type of irrational confidence going
Speaker 1: on to just be like, yeah, I'm gonna just go
Speaker 1: do this, like yeah, no, I'm gonna go take this
Speaker 1: shot like I'm not looking for them, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. So much props to Tyrese Maxie. Him and
Speaker 1: Jordan pool Are. If I'm just going to name two,
Speaker 1: those are the two guys that jump out at me
Speaker 1: and their performances and what they've done, and then Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving as well. I mean it was in a losing
Speaker 1: effort in a very tough game, but Kyrie was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: Kyrie the little big man with all the handles in
Speaker 1: the ratchet. I mean he's just putting guys on Kyrie
Speaker 1: putting guys on on his hip, on his shoulder, big
Speaker 1: by him and throwing left hand jump books like those
Speaker 1: three guys. For me so far has been insane. Uh,
Speaker 1: it'll be fun to watch, and I'd be remissed if
Speaker 1: I didn't mention Jalen Brunson with his forty one point
Speaker 1: performance to beat the youth tall Jazz, says Luca Dante.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the next level of Jalen. That's
Speaker 1: next level. I gotta get your problems. By the way,
Speaker 1: they put Maxi Claiber on the wing and allowed Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert to keep funneling into the pain and just kicking
Speaker 1: the three and he goes a for eleven from three.
Speaker 1: Kudos to Maxie. You deal what they put you out
Speaker 1: there to. Dude, brother, y'all gotta win. Hey, I'm not
Speaker 1: mad at one one. Yes, they were at home but
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at one and one. When Luca possibly
Speaker 1: returning the Game three, Game four, that's a totally different
Speaker 1: beast for you tah to have to deal with, So
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at that at all. I think Dallas
Speaker 1: should be thrilled with the position that they're sitting in
Speaker 1: right now. Um, and you gotta give a lot of
Speaker 1: credit to Claibor and Jalen Brunson was absolutely sensational. So
Speaker 1: those are the guys that's caught my eyes h thus
Speaker 1: far throughout the playoffs. As I said, you know, these
Speaker 1: next a couple of months, there won't be guess interviews.
Speaker 1: I hope you all enjoyed today. I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: later this week. But until then, Draymond Green, show peace.