Speaker 1: The volume. What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the Draymond
Speaker 1: Green Show. A lot going on in the NBA, A
Speaker 1: lot of things to talk about. A couple of things
Speaker 1: that nobody would have expected to happen. Number one was
Speaker 1: the Heat beating the Bucks. I closed that series out
Speaker 1: four to one. Man best record in the NBA. Heat
Speaker 1: closed out in four to one. Jimmy Butler Game four
Speaker 1: fifty six points, Game five forty two points on the
Speaker 1: road and a W Now I play, now, coach, scratch that,
Speaker 1: but this is what we're doing, and then deliver a
Speaker 1: lot of credits to Jimmy Butler. Most guys would not
Speaker 1: ask for the ball in that situation. Jimmy a different dude.
Speaker 1: The NBA Playoffs are up on US. Twenty teams will
Speaker 1: get in, all with one goal. It's gonna be awesome
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Speaker 1: minute tickets, lowest price guaranteed. And as we were able
Speaker 1: to see Jimmy's football skills coming to play, Jimmy went
Speaker 1: straight wide receiver, got away with a little push off there,
Speaker 1: but the finish was absolutely insane, and I can appreciate
Speaker 1: as a defensive guy, I can appreciate them not calling
Speaker 1: that push off. Like s last second play, both guys
Speaker 1: going for the ball, three guys going for the ball,
Speaker 1: and like, yeah, you get away with a little nudge,
Speaker 1: but it's the playoffs, and like you gotta be a
Speaker 1: little little little stronger, a little tougher. So I agree
Speaker 1: with the referees not calling to push off. Although if
Speaker 1: you know anything about referees and referee angles, Pat is
Speaker 1: on the baseline on the opposite side of on the
Speaker 1: opposite side of Pat Connington and When I say Pat,
Speaker 1: I'm saying I'm gonna butcher past last name. So don't
Speaker 1: hold this again me be Pat Freyer. It's the official.
Speaker 1: He's standing on the baseline behind Pat Connerton. Then there's
Speaker 1: an official back this way like up the sideline. Hard
Speaker 1: for him to have an angle on that too, So
Speaker 1: it's actually the perfect position for a referee not to
Speaker 1: have an angle. But that's also me understanding a little
Speaker 1: bit more about officiate angles and what you can get
Speaker 1: it with, because get away with because there's no referee
Speaker 1: at certain angles. Absolutely amazing. I saw a lot of
Speaker 1: people saying, why is brook Lopez not in the game?
Speaker 1: That play would have never happened if Lopez was in
Speaker 1: the game. Well, let's discuss them if Brook Lopez was
Speaker 1: in the game. And the one thing Milwaukee can't do there,
Speaker 1: and I want everyone to understand this, there's one thing,
Speaker 1: and I spoke about it with myself in Game four,
Speaker 1: there's one thing you can't do there. You just can't
Speaker 1: give up a three. If you give up a layup,
Speaker 1: guess what if you give up a two, guess what
Speaker 1: you go into overtime. So your worst case scenario if
Speaker 1: you are Milwaukee has to be what happened, which is
Speaker 1: we go into overtime, but under no circumstances do you
Speaker 1: give up a three. So hindsight is twenty twenty. We
Speaker 1: can all look back at the play and say, oh, man,
Speaker 1: brook Lopez shouldn't have been in the game and protect
Speaker 1: the rem But if brook Lopez is in the game
Speaker 1: and protect the rim, if somebody pot for three, then
Speaker 1: y'all gonna say, ah, man, you should have took the
Speaker 1: three away. And brook Lopez shouldn't have been in the
Speaker 1: game because we know he's not guarding a three point line.
Speaker 1: So I actually agree with Mike Budenholzer there to not
Speaker 1: have brook Lopez in the game. Although yes, all the
Speaker 1: basketball geniuses and experts are going to say, why is
Speaker 1: brook Lopez that is not in the game. That just
Speaker 1: shows why you're not a basketball genius and why you're
Speaker 1: not a basketball expert, because no chance brook Lopez should
Speaker 1: have been in that game, Just no chance. If you
Speaker 1: run something and you run everyone to the three point
Speaker 1: line and brook Lopez is standing in the pay protecting
Speaker 1: the rim and you lose that game in regulation, then
Speaker 1: you really go at Mike Budenholzer for who's in the game,
Speaker 1: but not that Brooke wasn't in the game. So that's
Speaker 1: that Yannis numb when I was very disappointed in Gianni's
Speaker 1: for throwing that ball like that, like ten for twenty
Speaker 1: three from the line. I get it. Whether they file
Speaker 1: you or not, it is what it is. Last night,
Speaker 1: I was four to eight from the line, and if
Speaker 1: I catch a ball in the situation, you have to
Speaker 1: like you cannot just get rid of the ball, like
Speaker 1: hold on to the ball. The ball in that situation
Speaker 1: is the most important thing. And so I was a
Speaker 1: little disappointed in that, especially for someone who who went
Speaker 1: eighteen for nineteen, if I'm not mistaken, h to close
Speaker 1: out an NBA finals like it's there, man, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: you go through struggles and you go through slums, but
Speaker 1: did it at the biggest stage, the biggest stage. You've
Speaker 1: done it, so like you can always look back to
Speaker 1: that and like find some confidence in that. So that
Speaker 1: was a little disappointed. Also for the Milwaukee Bucks not
Speaker 1: to get a shot off. I'm sorry, but the ball
Speaker 1: can't end up in Grayson Allenson like you got Drew Holliday,
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton, Jiannis Antello compo on the floor under no circumstances,
Speaker 1: should the ball end up in Grayson Allen's hand now
Speaker 1: he was Now if I'm kicking the Grayson Aler in
Speaker 1: the corner, that's the last and you do that. But
Speaker 1: like he didn't get a shot off. They were down two.
Speaker 1: To not get a shot off down too is absolutely
Speaker 1: you turn the ball over. That's one thing. Like you
Speaker 1: turn the ball over going, We all have turnovers. You
Speaker 1: turn the ball over and not get a shot off,
Speaker 1: that's one thing. Lose the ball fumbling, But to like
Speaker 1: be making the move and not get a shot off,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. It's crazy, and that's why the ball shouldn't
Speaker 1: have been in grace and our of hands in that situation.
Speaker 1: It just shouldn't have been. I disagree with it, but
Speaker 1: that happens, and that's what you end up with. We
Speaker 1: will see what happens with the Milwaukee Bucks. A lot
Speaker 1: of things coming up. Jannie is due for an extension
Speaker 1: this summer. Chris Middleton hasn't opt out this summer obviously,
Speaker 1: we know you know there's change in the guard with
Speaker 1: the ownership group, and there's also been a little noise
Speaker 1: about Mike Budenhozer not being brought back, not being retained.
Speaker 1: It's a guy who won a championship two years ago,
Speaker 1: had the best record in the league. Firstnally got upset.
Speaker 1: They're saying he may not be back. So it's a
Speaker 1: lot to watch there. Will Yannis signed the extension? Will
Speaker 1: Jannis not signed the extension? If? If not, what does
Speaker 1: that mean for the future of your franchise. You usually
Speaker 1: don't see players like Gianni's get traded. You just ride
Speaker 1: it out to the end and see if you can
Speaker 1: bring your guy back, players of that caliber. That has
Speaker 1: possibly changed with the trading of Kevin Durant this year.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you will see super more superstars get
Speaker 1: traded now. I don't know, but it's just not a
Speaker 1: normal thing. Like you have to try to ride that
Speaker 1: thing most time to the wills fall off in hopes
Speaker 1: that you get him back, stuff get interested in Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: or they could just run it back next year knowing
Speaker 1: that they had the best record in the league. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler went ape shit. Jimmy Butler is going to show
Speaker 1: up for the playoffs again, because he shows up every
Speaker 1: year for the playoffs, and they've kind of had a
Speaker 1: back and forth thing over the last few years. So
Speaker 1: it's been going that way. Jimmy got it done, gave
Speaker 1: Vincent huge shot, huge shot down in stretched for gay
Speaker 1: Vincent and actually almost hit another one, went in and
Speaker 1: out shout out to gay Vincent was stepping up in
Speaker 1: that situation. And I saw Jared hat say the lights
Speaker 1: was too bright, Like the lights were brighter than expected.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, that's the case for a lot of guys
Speaker 1: in the NBA, maybe like eighty five percent of guys.
Speaker 1: The light get bright, too bright. But you can't come
Speaker 1: out and say that, Like, you can't come out and
Speaker 1: say the lights was too bright for me now and
Speaker 1: you lost. Like I told y'all when the stuff happened
Speaker 1: in Boston with me, like and they was like fuck
Speaker 1: Draymond and like all of this stuff and like a
Speaker 1: little racial but we don't I don't ever like to
Speaker 1: take it there like it is what it is. But
Speaker 1: I told you I got a little ride up. But
Speaker 1: the lights being too bright, that's next level. That's next level.
Speaker 1: So now, if you're the Calves, what do you do?
Speaker 1: Have a great season, get home court advantage, lose in
Speaker 1: the first round. Scoring was a big issue, Stops was
Speaker 1: a big issue. What do you do with you're the
Speaker 1: Calves now glaringly notice that you need a three and
Speaker 1: D guy. But what do you do? Gets interesting? All
Speaker 1: season gets interesting. But that's that's two series that closed out.
Speaker 1: So we would now see the New York Knicks versus
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat the next round. I'm taking the Heat.
Speaker 1: I'm taking Jimmy Butler. With the injury to Julius Randall,
Speaker 1: not certain if he'll be ready for Game one. The
Speaker 1: Heat has something that the Cleveland Cavaliers doesn't have, and
Speaker 1: that is you can put Jimmy Butler on Jaylen Brunson.
Speaker 1: You try to make it a little tougher with size
Speaker 1: on Jaylen Brunston. Jayleen Brunson, it has been incredible, but
Speaker 1: he's not gonna bully Jimmy Butler in the mid range.
Speaker 1: Get to his spot and just bump Jimmy off. Jimmy.
Speaker 1: You're just not gonna do that to Jimmy. So interested
Speaker 1: see how the Heat decided to match up. But I'd
Speaker 1: expect at some point in this series, and probably earlier
Speaker 1: rather than later, at the rate that this guy is,
Speaker 1: Jaylen Bruston is playing to see Jimmy Butler take on
Speaker 1: that match up. And you know Jimmy never ducking any matchup,
Speaker 1: but I expect that to be a spoke game plan
Speaker 1: thing because Jimmy, I mean, Jalen is getting to his spot.
Speaker 1: And we spoke last week about Darius Garland like being
Speaker 1: much stronger than our thought. But that's what Jaylen Bruston
Speaker 1: is looking for. So be interested series. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the heat in that one playing team that play in
Speaker 1: tournament is looking more and more promising for the NBA.
Speaker 1: And moving on, the Dubs go get a big game.
Speaker 1: Five winn in Sacramento won twenty three to one, sixteen
Speaker 1: Steph Curry thirty one and eight killer Klay Thompson twenty
Speaker 1: five on five threes. I tell you what, Clay Thompson
Speaker 1: did not get in foul trouble. He was going on
Speaker 1: the heater and I saw it happening, and it started
Speaker 1: to happen. When Klay Thompson start hitting these things, boy,
Speaker 1: it get dangerous. And it started happening. And then he
Speaker 1: picked up that file, the third file. I thought Malik
Speaker 1: overran him. I hit him on the back door. It
Speaker 1: didn't look like a push off to me quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the replay of it. But just from
Speaker 1: my angle, it didn't look like it. I don't know
Speaker 1: it is. That's neither here nor there. But I'm telling
Speaker 1: you I saw the heater happening, and then Klay Thompson
Speaker 1: got a fouled trouble and it slowed it down a bit.
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins twenty points, two steals, two big blocks. Always
Speaker 1: good to see Wiggs aggressive, big shot down the stretch,
Speaker 1: big shot, got to match up he wanted, got to
Speaker 1: spot and raised up. Saw so one of the ones
Speaker 1: that you see and you if he missing you like
Speaker 1: Wigs while you settling. But he's that good and he
Speaker 1: made it and you gotta live with it, live with
Speaker 1: it anyway because it's him getting his spot and raising
Speaker 1: up favorable matchup that you'd like to see. You live
Speaker 1: with it. Huge, huge, huge shot. Also did a good
Speaker 1: job on Darren Fox. Fox didn't have as explosive as
Speaker 1: a game as even having all series. Gotta get Wig
Speaker 1: some credit there. Cavon Alajawan, Bill Russell Looney twenty two rebounds,
Speaker 1: second time in this series, eighteen point seven rebounds over
Speaker 1: the last three, seven point nine assists over the last three.
Speaker 1: Cavan Looney playing some basketball man. Cavan Looney is playing
Speaker 1: some basketball. It's funny. I haven't been to the start lineup,
Speaker 1: as you know, and so I'm standing at the scores
Speaker 1: table dapping guys up, and Loun came by and said, Loon,
Speaker 1: every rebound, Loon. I didn't really think he would get
Speaker 1: every rebound, but you know, like Loon, like get every rebound, dude,
Speaker 1: when it got every rebound, every rebound, making plays out
Speaker 1: of the pocket. Love to see it. Love to see
Speaker 1: a guy who's been through so much doing what he's doing.
Speaker 1: It's been absolutely amazing. And then yours truly with twenty
Speaker 1: one seven four steals, rebounded the ball pretty poorly, most
Speaker 1: points since Christmas twenty nineteen. That's interesting. That's a fun one.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, I told y'all after Game four, I should
Speaker 1: have had twenty points. I missed six layups. I got
Speaker 1: back to those spots and they went in last night,
Speaker 1: which was good. I know a lot of people made
Speaker 1: up made a lot of the one leg leaner. I
Speaker 1: actually work on that shot every day. I think it's
Speaker 1: a time and the place for everything. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to always just go into that shot, but I work
Speaker 1: on it every day. Like I said last night. In
Speaker 1: Game two, I had the same shot and I missed it,
Speaker 1: and I was pissed. In that moment, I felt good.
Speaker 1: I went back to it and I was able to
Speaker 1: knock it down big shot give us a three point lead.
Speaker 1: And then Wigs hit his shot give us a five
Speaker 1: point league. And then Steph Curly Neil Curry did his
Speaker 1: sting and this way, that way, this way and got
Speaker 1: the n one and that was that was the dagger.
Speaker 1: That was it. Such a big game, man, fun game.
Speaker 1: I saw the Draymond is a B word T shirts boy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw it, and uh, you know, thank you, it
Speaker 1: is what it is. I I was locked in last night,
Speaker 1: to be quite honest with you, I maybe heard the
Speaker 1: booze twice. I was just in the zone, like locked
Speaker 1: in on the task at hand. I knew what needed
Speaker 1: to be done, I knew the focus I needed to have,
Speaker 1: and so I didn't really hear much of it. And
Speaker 1: when you find that zone, that's a beautiful space to
Speaker 1: be in in basketball, where you just get lost in
Speaker 1: the arena, like lost in the game. Wow, it's a
Speaker 1: fun game, Like you, I told y'all, Like yo, I
Speaker 1: only want to play four years and like that's a
Speaker 1: real thing. But it's games like last night that make
Speaker 1: you like I feel like Mitch, Like, if I lead
Speaker 1: a game, is the game still gonna love me? Man? Like?
Speaker 1: It's those games last n like last night that gave
Speaker 1: you that feeling. I sure enough got home last night,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, man, I get that up in four years? Like,
Speaker 1: am I really going to get that up in four years?
Speaker 1: Them the games you live for. You go through these
Speaker 1: long seasons ultimately to get to situations like last night,
Speaker 1: and it's such a wonderful, filling and obviously coming out
Speaker 1: with the win always helps, right like it always helps
Speaker 1: winning cure As all as they say, it's a beautiful game,
Speaker 1: I thought everybody who came in contributed. Jordan Poole had
Speaker 1: some very timely buckets. I think he finished with ten
Speaker 1: to twelve points, but they were very timely, very very
Speaker 1: at like crucial points in the game. He made plays,
Speaker 1: he got a couple of dimes, dropped the an one
Speaker 1: off to me. Dante came in and gave us good minutes.
Speaker 1: No it didn't show up in the plus minus, but
Speaker 1: his presence, his ball handling gave us some really good minutes.
Speaker 1: Everybody who came in, was ready to go. GP. GP
Speaker 1: found it last night. You know that's GP. I was
Speaker 1: telling someone the other night, like, GP, we haven't played
Speaker 1: much basketball all year, and so still getting your feet west,
Speaker 1: still kind of trying to get your rhythm. He found
Speaker 1: some last night, and obviously you got to keep building
Speaker 1: on it, and we expect him to and we know
Speaker 1: he's capable and will. But GP found some last night,
Speaker 1: and it was good. We needed his energy at some
Speaker 1: Timely offensive rebounds, kickout, timely little put back with the
Speaker 1: left hand drop off, he was rolling. Hit him for
Speaker 1: the road, good finish, also guarded Malik Monk, I mean Monk,
Speaker 1: but also Fox as well. GP was huge last night.
Speaker 1: How did we get it done on the road. The
Speaker 1: road has been a struggle for us all year, but
Speaker 1: we know in those situations what we need to do.
Speaker 1: Thought we did a pretty good job of taking care
Speaker 1: of the ball after the first quarter. I think we
Speaker 1: had seven turns overs in the first quarter. We finished
Speaker 1: the game with fourteen, so seven turnovers the next three
Speaker 1: quarters combined. We thought we did a really good job
Speaker 1: there and they were severely out rebounding us in the
Speaker 1: first quarter, and I thought we did a good job
Speaker 1: of eating it up. I think they end up out
Speaker 1: rebounding us about one and so those were a couple
Speaker 1: of key points that helped us end up taking that
Speaker 1: game on the road. And then obviously guys made plays.
Speaker 1: Like I said, Clay made some timely threes. E hit
Speaker 1: five threes, but they were timely and like I said,
Speaker 1: doesn't get in the foul trouble and we could be
Speaker 1: speaking a whole different tune. Obviously, still get a win,
Speaker 1: but Klay Thompson not only having twenty five because he
Speaker 1: was going on that heater and you can see it coming.
Speaker 1: So it'd be big for us to keep him out
Speaker 1: of foul trouble because game six, it is game six,
Speaker 1: and we need game six play, closing this thing out
Speaker 1: because these boys ain't going away. They got nothing to lose.
Speaker 1: They're going to come out swing and we know that.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be important that we get a game six.
Speaker 1: Clay and everybody come ready to go. Locked in. It's
Speaker 1: a five o'clock game, a five or five thirty, which
Speaker 1: is early and rare. But something happened with the Lakers
Speaker 1: and the Hawks of something. They're double booked and they
Speaker 1: can't play the early game. So we have the early
Speaker 1: game and they play later or something like that of
Speaker 1: that nature. So early game, make sure you locked in
Speaker 1: tune into that. Lastly, before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: I know everybody was like, man, what about Fox is dumb?
Speaker 1: Finger injury? How is that going to affect him? I'm
Speaker 1: telling you that man came out guns blazing like nothing
Speaker 1: was going on. I never saw him grab at it,
Speaker 1: nor did I ever expect him to. Very tough kid.
Speaker 1: He's not a kid, he's a grown man, but very
Speaker 1: super tough and at no point that we expect him
Speaker 1: not to play. He's been waiting for this moment his
Speaker 1: whole career. We talked about it right here on the
Speaker 1: Draymond Green Show. He's been waiting for this moment. He's
Speaker 1: done everything he's had to do to put them in
Speaker 1: this situ situation. There was no way he was missing
Speaker 1: any game with a finger. Never believed it, never once
Speaker 1: believed it. And sure enough he came out guns blazing
Speaker 1: his first three threes I think, and then missed the
Speaker 1: next seven. So you know, some of us, he's going
Speaker 1: to miss some shots and some of that, you know,
Speaker 1: some good contests and gotta get a guy's credit who
Speaker 1: guarded him. Malik Monk really got going there in that
Speaker 1: second half. He was downhill. He did a really good job.
Speaker 1: So obviously we need to try to do a better
Speaker 1: job with Monk and not let him take the game
Speaker 1: over like he was taking the game over. Game six
Speaker 1: coming up and I am excited about it and until
Speaker 1: after Game six Saturday morning. That's a rap from this
Speaker 1: episode of The Draymond Green Show. Until next time.