Speaker 1: The volume. What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the Draymond
Speaker 1: Green Show. We are back with our post game podcast,
Speaker 1: and of course everyone's going to say, you lost, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be podcasting like they said all last year during
Speaker 1: the finals, and we want so let's just not start that.
Speaker 1: Let's just be cool. She'll enjoy the episode or not.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to listen, don't listen. But like,
Speaker 1: really don't want to hear that this year because you
Speaker 1: kind of can't stand on that this year because we
Speaker 1: want to finals with me doing it. It's saying that
Speaker 1: very frustrating loss today. I thought we did enough to
Speaker 1: win the game, and yet I think we have a
Speaker 1: whole nother level of things, a level to reach and
Speaker 1: things that we can do, you know, to kind of
Speaker 1: counter their tat, you know, and we'll talk about a
Speaker 1: little bit of that. Let's get right into it. Though
Speaker 1: the Doves lost the game one tree, I from being
Speaker 1: quite honest, you know, to have Steph with a shot
Speaker 1: to tie the game and go to overtime.
Speaker 2: I didn't think we played great.
Speaker 1: I thought we played pretty good, but I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things we can do better.
Speaker 2: And so just with that.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta feel decent about the game and
Speaker 1: about where we can go. Obviously we don't do more
Speaker 1: on victories, so I'm not gonna sit here and say
Speaker 1: we feel good about that.
Speaker 2: Like fuck no, like we lost the game.
Speaker 1: We're down oh one, and you gotta figure out a
Speaker 1: way to go get a game too. Now I'm saying
Speaker 1: that this is the playoffs scene. You gotta win one
Speaker 1: on the roll. Whether that's game one, two, five, or
Speaker 1: seven don't really matter. You'd rather be sooner rather than later.
Speaker 1: But we know that, we understand that, and we're not
Speaker 1: folding to that. Darn Fox finished the game with thirty
Speaker 1: eight and five assists. We definitely have to do better
Speaker 1: on Fox. You know, he he had five threes and
Speaker 1: that wasn't really expected. But he shot the ball well.
Speaker 1: I remember having him on the show and he was
Speaker 1: saying like he needed to take the shot more, and
Speaker 1: you know, he took him tonight. He knocked him down.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta live with that. You gotta give
Speaker 1: up something, and you know he hit the shots tonight.
Speaker 1: You know, next game, you want to make it a
Speaker 1: little tougher on him if you can. But h and
Speaker 1: making a game planning our things that you will live
Speaker 1: with and things that you want. And what you can't
Speaker 1: live with is Daron Foss being a woman fast break.
Speaker 1: You can't live with him getting into the paint every possession.
Speaker 1: Those are tough things to deal with. Malik Monk had
Speaker 1: a game off the bench thirty two points. Daron Fox
Speaker 1: may get thirty eight points, and you know he's obviously capable,
Speaker 1: but more than capable even if he didn't do it
Speaker 1: tonight of getting thirty eight points. And but you can't
Speaker 1: give up thirty two to Malik Monk off the bench. Now,
Speaker 1: Malik's incredible player. You know, he's two for four from
Speaker 1: the three, so it wasn't three point line, but he
Speaker 1: got downhill and put a lot of pressure on our defense.
Speaker 1: He got shot fourteen free throws and he was fourteen
Speaker 1: or fourteen from the line. You might have saw me
Speaker 1: talking to him those last couple of free throws, like man,
Speaker 1: you always won, like you you know you pass your
Speaker 1: percentage now, I think the numbers got to play all
Speaker 1: you one. He knock him down, but he had a
Speaker 1: big game. Trey Lowes also had a big game off
Speaker 1: the bench. Trey Lowes has seventeen points off the bench.
Speaker 1: So there it is right there, Like, you give up
Speaker 1: forty nine points off the bench to two guys, it's
Speaker 1: hard to overcome that.
Speaker 2: Seventeen offensive rebounds.
Speaker 1: We got to, you know, their offense when they when
Speaker 1: nobody had nothing going, what kept them in the game
Speaker 1: was the offensive rebounds. And you know, if you in
Speaker 1: a situation like that, when you're on the other side
Speaker 1: of it, you're watching that game or you're in that
Speaker 1: game and you're like, yo, we're not playing well and
Speaker 1: we're right here, but how do you get right there?
Speaker 1: Like I said, for them, it was the offensive rebound.
Speaker 1: So that's something that we have to clean up. We
Speaker 1: know where a team of capable of rebound, and when
Speaker 1: we lock in on that, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: a five man effort. They're crashing the boors from the corner,
Speaker 1: from the top, they're sending everybody to the glass. So
Speaker 1: it's going to be a five man effort cleaning up
Speaker 1: the boors. If they're long rebounds, we have to make
Speaker 1: sure we're coming back in and getting those rebounds. But
Speaker 1: we didn't do a good job of that tonight, and
Speaker 1: ultimately it ended up costing us the game. So those
Speaker 1: are a couple of things that we could have done better.
Speaker 1: Steph finished with thirty. He started to get it going
Speaker 1: there after that first quarter, and you can kind of
Speaker 1: see him, you know, figuring out his spots and reading
Speaker 1: the defense and seeing you know, figuring their coverages out.
Speaker 1: And once he figured them out, he got going.
Speaker 2: Wiggins.
Speaker 1: Wiggins was seventeen points off the bench in twenty eight minutes.
Speaker 1: We're a different team when Wigs is here. We're a
Speaker 1: different team when we got Wigs out there. And you know,
Speaker 1: first game back, he was one for eight from the three,
Speaker 1: with some shots that he normally will hit, and I
Speaker 1: don't doubt that he's going to hit those. You know,
Speaker 1: the first game back, you you don't have your legs
Speaker 1: under you, you know, and to come back in that
Speaker 1: intense aze game, you know, kudos to Wigs.
Speaker 2: We need them.
Speaker 1: We're gonna need him to continue to get better and
Speaker 1: better and at a rapid pace. And I have no
Speaker 1: doubt he will have been looking great in the scrimmagers.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't a shocker to me that he came
Speaker 1: out getting to it says a lot about him, and
Speaker 1: you know, the things that he was at home dealing
Speaker 1: with which is out there now to to keep himself
Speaker 1: in shape and come back for this team ready to
Speaker 1: go for this run. It's huge and you know that's
Speaker 1: something that we can build on. So definitely expecting Wigs
Speaker 1: to stay aggressive. What I loved is that he was
Speaker 1: taking those shots. Regardless if the threes went in or not,
Speaker 1: he kept taking them. Had one in the corner to
Speaker 1: put us up too late in the game living with
Speaker 1: that shot. So great to have Wigs back, and like
Speaker 1: I said, he'll continue to get better defensively as well.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 1: He was all over the court on that end, getting
Speaker 1: some little creating some loose balls and you know, came
Speaker 1: up with some rebounds.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: I like it now. And saying that, I also didn't
Speaker 1: think we played great. I think there were a lot
Speaker 1: of things that we could clean up on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. They did a good job of throwing
Speaker 1: different defenses out there. And when they threw those defenses
Speaker 1: out there, I thought we got good looks.
Speaker 2: We just missed them.
Speaker 1: And you know, with the shooters that we have, I
Speaker 1: trust that those looks are going to go in.
Speaker 2: So we just got to keep doing what we're doing.
Speaker 1: Moving to basketball, you know, and you know, we gave
Speaker 1: up one hundred and twenty six points. Obviously that's the
Speaker 1: team who's played great offensively all year. But again, I think,
Speaker 1: you know a huge part of that where the offensive
Speaker 1: rebounds to allow those guys to get going, and once.
Speaker 2: They get going, it's tough.
Speaker 1: So I think we found some things in this game
Speaker 1: that we can build up on, that we will build
Speaker 1: up on. I don't think we'll give up forty nine
Speaker 1: points to two players off the bench, and that'll be
Speaker 1: huge for us, you know, So looking forward to Monday's game,
Speaker 1: you know, coming out and getting to win and going
Speaker 1: back home one to one and with home court advantaged,
Speaker 1: that'll be big for us. We've obviously did a great
Speaker 1: job of taking the care of home court all year,
Speaker 1: so we can go back one to one.
Speaker 2: That'll be huge.
Speaker 1: That'll be huge, And I have no doubt in my
Speaker 1: mind we'll make adjustments and we'll and we'll do that.
Speaker 1: So looking forward to it Monday will be fun. It
Speaker 1: was a very fun day just overall, like you feel
Speaker 1: that energy, Man, that was a great environment, by the way,
Speaker 1: to play in that environment. That's a team and organization,
Speaker 1: a city that has not seen postseason basketball in sixteen years,
Speaker 1: and they were ready and it was loud, and man's
Speaker 1: just fun, like miss that atmosphere, very fun atmosphere to play,
Speaker 1: and they fans brought it. They were good. But I
Speaker 1: thought we handled that well. We stayed right there in
Speaker 1: the game, and ultimately we didn't come out to win.
Speaker 1: So speaking of fun, there were also other games that
Speaker 1: went on today. The Knicks beat the Cavaliers one oh
Speaker 1: one to ninety seven. Jalen Brunson finished with twenty seven
Speaker 1: after only having six points in the first half. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to be I saw early on. I
Speaker 1: didn't get to watch all of the game, but I
Speaker 1: saw early on in that second half that the Knicks
Speaker 1: were guarding Jayleen Brunton with uh, I mean, excuse me,
Speaker 1: the Cavs were guarding Jalen Brunton with Darius Garland, and
Speaker 1: I must say, DG shocked me. I didn't realize DG
Speaker 1: had gotten that strong. Jalen wasn't just bullying when I watched,
Speaker 1: but he hit a couple turnaround jump shots. Now, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: if you're not giving up something straight to the rim,
Speaker 1: you live with the turnaround jump shot.
Speaker 2: You know, Jalen. He's left handed, so he likes to
Speaker 2: turn over the left shoulder with the fade.
Speaker 1: However, that is a Jaylen Brunson shot, Like he lives
Speaker 1: with that shot, he's oftentimes trying to get to that shot.
Speaker 1: So as much as you like you live with it,
Speaker 1: it's tough when that's exactly what he's trying to get to.
Speaker 1: And usually, you know, like we guarded him last year
Speaker 1: when we played him with the mass, I guarded him
Speaker 1: because you know he's trying to get to the mid range.
Speaker 1: And so it'll be interesting to see what they'll do
Speaker 1: to come back that because Jalen Brunson is a problem.
Speaker 1: He's been a problem all year, you know, and he's
Speaker 1: that's not going anywhere, So it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 1: what they'll do with their matchups. So they had a
Speaker 1: tough time with ocorl on the floor, who's one of
Speaker 1: their best wing defenders. Had to go cheddy Osma because
Speaker 1: they just clogged the floor up and he didn't make
Speaker 1: a shot. So we know the Calves strength is in
Speaker 1: their in their length, in their size. Donovan Mitchell had
Speaker 1: a big game thirty eight, eight and five. Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 1: was one of the top five players in scoring scoring
Speaker 1: average in NBA history when it comes to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So you know, to see him have another big game,
Speaker 1: you're not surprised, but you'd also like to see that
Speaker 1: with a win, especially holding him to one hundred and
Speaker 1: one points.
Speaker 2: And so, yeah, that was a good game. I think
Speaker 2: that's gonna be a good series.
Speaker 1: I can see that series going six or seven because
Speaker 1: it's going to be a good series. And I also
Speaker 1: expect the Cavs to come out and get the next game.
Speaker 1: But it's tough, especially when you can't play your best
Speaker 1: winging defender, it gets tough. So we'll, like I said,
Speaker 1: we'll see what their adjustments are going to be as
Speaker 1: far as that matchup goes.
Speaker 2: Julius Randalls first game back nineteen ten and.
Speaker 1: Four and Josh Hart was off the was great off
Speaker 1: the bench. I end up finishing that game was seventeen
Speaker 1: and ten. And also I did see him hit that
Speaker 1: huge three from the top of the key after the
Speaker 1: Casts took the lead, and that was a big three.
Speaker 1: And again, there are things that you'll live with and
Speaker 1: things that you want. Josh Hart HiT's a big three.
Speaker 1: You gotta live with that. Jalen Bronson or Julius hit
Speaker 1: the three. You're hoping you do something the key on
Speaker 1: those guys and take it away. Josh Hart hiss, hey,
Speaker 1: you gotta live with it. A big shot by Josh Hart,
Speaker 1: big game by Josh Hart, huge pick up, mid season
Speaker 1: acquisition for the next He came through for him today.
Speaker 1: It's great the Celtics. Celtics was up thirty at halftime.
Speaker 1: I did see that Jackson's over here throwing up gang
Speaker 1: signs or something, because as you all know, he's happy
Speaker 1: about the Celtics. All right here, there's some worry Jackson
Speaker 1: about the Celtics. Jalen Brown cut his finger and it reopened.
Speaker 1: He didn't look like he was affected by much with
Speaker 1: the game. He had scoring twenty nine points and twelve rebounds,
Speaker 1: and j T twenty five and eleven. But that's something
Speaker 1: to watch. That's something to watch. You keep cutting that
Speaker 1: fingerback open and starts to worry. I saw he said
Speaker 1: his grip was a worry, so I think we need
Speaker 1: to watch that. But they handled that pretty easily. Trey
Speaker 1: Young didn't didn't shoot well. Dejonte had twenty four, but
Speaker 1: he was old for six or old for eight from
Speaker 1: the three expect both of those guys to play better
Speaker 1: and expect Atlanta to put up another fight, I mean
Speaker 1: a better fight.
Speaker 2: You know. Does that mean they win even a game,
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, but I do expect those two guys to play
Speaker 1: well and last, but not least, seventy six Ers versus
Speaker 1: the Nets, James Harden got off. James Harden hit threes.
Speaker 1: I did watch some of this game. I saw the
Speaker 1: Nets sending a double team at Joe LMB no matter
Speaker 1: where he caught the ball, and the seventy Sixers come
Speaker 1: back at that by hitting twenty one threes. And that's
Speaker 1: what you'd hope when they're sending a double team at
Speaker 1: and beat every play, because that is what they're going
Speaker 1: to do. They're going to double and b they don't
Speaker 1: want him to beat them. They're gonna make other guys
Speaker 1: hit shots. Those guys hit shots today. Will have to
Speaker 1: see if they can do that for the rest of
Speaker 1: the series, if Jock will stick with his game plan
Speaker 1: or he'll change it. Me personally, I think you gotta
Speaker 1: keep making those guys hit shots because one thing, Joel
Speaker 1: gonna score. So you gotta live with something, and you
Speaker 1: know you're not living with Joel doing what Joel does.
Speaker 1: There's not one person on the next team that can
Speaker 1: stop Joel and beat It's not really many people in
Speaker 1: the league, if any, that can stop Joel EMBII. But
Speaker 1: it's definitely not one on the next team. So Chotelle
Speaker 1: keeps sending that double and you gotta fly around and
Speaker 1: try to make those guys miss those threes.
Speaker 2: They hit them.
Speaker 1: Tonight we'll see if they can do it again. But yeah,
Speaker 1: good first day of basketball. I'm looking forward to getting
Speaker 1: back to the drawing board tomorrow making our adjustments. We've
Speaker 1: been great at that over the years. I have no
Speaker 1: out that will continue to be great at that. And
Speaker 1: then also enjoying the off day and some NBA basketball
Speaker 1: and just staying it's just staying in it, man.
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