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Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Draymond Show. If you didn't catch it,
Speaker 1: we recorded an emergency episode yesterday to talk about the
Speaker 1: lager into ejection. I'd recommend going back and listening to
Speaker 1: that because I gave my four thoughts on it, what
Speaker 1: I thought would happen or should happen, And yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought it would. You know, I think it's pretty good
Speaker 1: for you to check out. But now here we are
Speaker 1: one day later, same place, different times, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: we will talk about that again. But more importantly, I
Speaker 1: will go in depth on the Warriors and Grizzlies game. One,
Speaker 1: and we'll also talk about the Game one between Boston
Speaker 1: and Milwaukee, and then I'll give you my thoughts leading
Speaker 1: into the Sun's Mavericks and Heat six or series and
Speaker 1: how and throws series of playout. We got some injuries
Speaker 1: and both of those other series that really can sway
Speaker 1: the series one way or the other. We're dealing with
Speaker 1: injury ourselves, UM, with Andre obviously, James Wiseman has been
Speaker 1: out all year, and then Steven Adams, who has been
Speaker 1: in COVID protocol, who may possibly be back tomorrow. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if he will or not. But you know,
Speaker 1: everybody's been dealing with it, um, and you know that's
Speaker 1: a part of it. But we'll talk about all of that.
Speaker 1: Number one, let's get right into it. NBA does not
Speaker 1: resend the flavor to They don't downgrade it. No surprise there,
Speaker 1: Um I said yesterday. If you're looking for an idiot,
Speaker 1: look no further than Draymond Green. That statement rings true again.
Speaker 1: As I said yesterday, I'm looking forward to them resending
Speaker 1: it um, and they didn't. They didn't have a good explanation. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, they never have a good explanation. Sometimes they
Speaker 1: don't even give it an explanation. So, uh, the explanation
Speaker 1: to me wasn't good. They didn't really want to explain
Speaker 1: it to me. They told Bob to tell me. Um.
Speaker 1: So you know when I look back on my suspension
Speaker 1: and from game five of the NBA Finals. So the
Speaker 1: way this works for those who don't understand, is in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, whether you which is really ridiculous by the way,
Speaker 1: but in the playoffs, whether you are in the first
Speaker 1: round and lose or you go to the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: you get the same amount of text you get the
Speaker 1: same amount of flaging file points, you get the same
Speaker 1: amount of everything. It's one of those old, outdated UM
Speaker 1: rules that doesn't make any sense, and no one takes
Speaker 1: the time to change them because why and the reality
Speaker 1: is is that one I'd love for someone to explain
Speaker 1: to me how someone could lose and game or in
Speaker 1: round one and another team can go on a possible
Speaker 1: three more rounds and they still have the same number
Speaker 1: of texts they're allowed to get her the same number
Speaker 1: of flaging file points. But how it does work is
Speaker 1: you get seven technical files before suspension in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: That's the entire playoffs, that's not per series and you
Speaker 1: get four flag of file points. Now, how the flagror
Speaker 1: file points work for those that don't understand, is if
Speaker 1: you get a flagrant one, that is one point. If
Speaker 1: you get a flagrant two that is two points. If
Speaker 1: you get flooral four points total, you get a one
Speaker 1: game suspension. Which is how I got suspended from game five.
Speaker 1: I have four points total and I was suspended for
Speaker 1: a game. I also received a file after the fact.
Speaker 1: My flagrant file was given to me after the fact,
Speaker 1: and I tried to hit him and missed when when
Speaker 1: when Lebron stepped over me, I received the file. The
Speaker 1: funny thing is, you know, the funny thing about it
Speaker 1: to me is three of my flagrant file points that
Speaker 1: I received two to eventually end up missing Game five.
Speaker 1: The NBA went back and reviewed them. They went back
Speaker 1: to the tape after the game reviewed it an upgraded
Speaker 1: me too. Flagrant files upgraded. They don't quite go back
Speaker 1: and anyone else to flagrant files. Um, that's not really
Speaker 1: a thing. Uh, you know we've seen plays this, playoffs
Speaker 1: that could have possibly been upgraded, upgraded to flaging files.
Speaker 1: You may have seen me say in the Denver series
Speaker 1: when Bones Highland need auto porter I got suspended from
Speaker 1: a game for that. They added a rule after I
Speaker 1: was suspended that year for needs to the growing and
Speaker 1: the flagrant one. As you see, auto Porter did not
Speaker 1: receive a flavor one that rule. It's essentially the Draymond
Speaker 1: Green rules. So they may as well add this one
Speaker 1: too and say no one else gets upgraded, and that
Speaker 1: is the Draymond rule. And that's fine. Again, it's a
Speaker 1: badge of honor. I don't I don't run from it.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. Um, your thoughts are your thoughts.
Speaker 1: I really don't care. They asked me today, they said,
Speaker 1: are you going to you know, now that you have
Speaker 1: two file points, are you going to tone down the bike? No? No,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be me because if if I toned down
Speaker 1: who I am A, you probably never would have known
Speaker 1: who I am B. I wouldn't have had the success
Speaker 1: that I've had and see him most importantly, I, even
Speaker 1: if I made it to them B, I wouldn't still
Speaker 1: be sitting here today. So why would I tone that down?
Speaker 1: Why would I stop being me? I can be me
Speaker 1: better than I can be anyone else in this world,
Speaker 1: and I can also be me better than anyone else
Speaker 1: can be so if I do that best, why do
Speaker 1: anything else that does not make sense to me? I
Speaker 1: don't understand when people do a job or do a
Speaker 1: thing and they say, oh, I need to do it
Speaker 1: this way. That's not organic to you. And if it's
Speaker 1: not organic to you, you can only take that so far,
Speaker 1: Like you can only act for so long on you
Speaker 1: can only be someone else for so long, And and
Speaker 1: being somebody else is that even fun? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I I I can't give you an answer to that,
Speaker 1: because I'm only me. I'm only gonna be me, good,
Speaker 1: battering different, like it or not. I'm just gonna be me,
Speaker 1: and that's worked for me way better than me trying
Speaker 1: to be somebody else. I remember coming into the NBA
Speaker 1: my rookie year and I was playing a three position
Speaker 1: and I was kind of just spotting up and shooting. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not a spot up shooter. I can
Speaker 1: make a shot, but I'm not a spot up shooter.
Speaker 1: And at that moment, after my rookie you, I said, listen,
Speaker 1: I just gotta do this my way. And if I
Speaker 1: fell doing it my way, I can go home and
Speaker 1: say I gave it everything that I had and because
Speaker 1: I gave it everything that I had. I can live
Speaker 1: with the result. But if I go out like I
Speaker 1: played this year, my rookie year, trying to still play
Speaker 1: this type of basketball, and I don't make it, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to live with myself because I
Speaker 1: didn't do me. And at that point, I told myself,
Speaker 1: no matter what the situation is, I'm gonna always be true, state,
Speaker 1: true to who I ever be me. You see, like
Speaker 1: guys go into media after playing and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden turned into cowards like and rats supposed to be
Speaker 1: tough guys and turn into rats like. I can't be
Speaker 1: that guys. It just won't work for me. Is I
Speaker 1: don't carry the amount of money you offer. I don't
Speaker 1: care the amount of um appearances you offer. I just
Speaker 1: I can't be that guy. I have to be me,
Speaker 1: which was one of the reasons I end up signing
Speaker 1: the Turner because they allowed me to be me. They
Speaker 1: want me to be me, and that's the only way
Speaker 1: I can do the job is if I'm allowed to
Speaker 1: be Draymond Green. And so in saying that for me
Speaker 1: to oh, I'm gonn tone it back, like tone what back?
Speaker 1: I didn't think that was a flagrant Tusor's not much
Speaker 1: to turn tone back there. So again, if I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to take an even softer file in the middle of
Speaker 1: the playoffs, then I'll probably just end up suspended. And
Speaker 1: do I want to end up suspended from a game. No,
Speaker 1: But I'm also not trying to give up an end
Speaker 1: one because those points matter. One point one point game
Speaker 1: last night. Everybody always look at basketball and say, man,
Speaker 1: did you see John Murant ms to lay up? That's
Speaker 1: when they lost again and lose the game on that
Speaker 1: lay up. One point is one point, whether it scored
Speaker 1: then or the score in the first quarter, that one
Speaker 1: point still matters to the end entirely of the game,
Speaker 1: the ending totally, the final score. That one point matters.
Speaker 1: Everybody gets it all misconstrued and say, oh man, such
Speaker 1: such made display down the stretch and that's why they lost.
Speaker 1: That play may have changed something in that instant, but
Speaker 1: you better believe there was a play in the second
Speaker 1: quarter that that played a role in that team losing.
Speaker 1: And this is not just the Mentalis Crazzi. This is
Speaker 1: basketball or sports as a whole that plays a role
Speaker 1: in it as well. Play in the second quarter may
Speaker 1: have totally changed the momentum, and that once swing could
Speaker 1: have cost you the game. And when you learn to
Speaker 1: watch film like that, when you learn to watch sports
Speaker 1: like that, in particular, I'm speaking of basketball. Now you
Speaker 1: learn how to watch like a coach. Now you learn
Speaker 1: how to watch like someone who can really throw it thoroughly.
Speaker 1: Evaluate again. And so for me, I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: give up an N one. And if I need to
Speaker 1: take a file softer than I did and try to
Speaker 1: hold the guy off from from falling to the floor,
Speaker 1: then I'm sorry, but I don't I don't know what
Speaker 1: to tell you. What I would ask for is you know,
Speaker 1: there's this seems to be a common thing excessive. What's excessive?
Speaker 1: Like Damian Lillard to what actually is excessive? Because we're
Speaker 1: all human beings, and my definition of excessive in your
Speaker 1: definition of excessive, is to make the two totally different things,
Speaker 1: and if they are too totally different things, which most
Speaker 1: likely they are, because we're too totally different people with
Speaker 1: two totally different feelings, two totally different views on things.
Speaker 1: And so if your view, which it probably is, of
Speaker 1: something excessive is different than my view, and it just
Speaker 1: becomes oh well, I think that was excessive, and so
Speaker 1: now it's it's just based on a person's opinion. You know,
Speaker 1: when you look at the replay system. Um, the fans,
Speaker 1: well before I talked about the replay system, and we'll
Speaker 1: roll into that, the fans start chanting, throw him out,
Speaker 1: throw him out. Like I said yesterday, officials are human,
Speaker 1: mean being, so they want they want to feel gratification
Speaker 1: from people as well, because they are human beings. They're
Speaker 1: not robots. They're actual people who like actually go home
Speaker 1: still their family, to their kids, to their significant others.
Speaker 1: Those are real people with real feelings. If I hear
Speaker 1: a crowd going crazy saying throw him out, I don't
Speaker 1: want to be boomed. I don't mind being booed, but
Speaker 1: most people mind being booed. I actually love the boots.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to tomorrow because I know I'm getting
Speaker 1: a bunch of them that's going to fantastic. Um. I
Speaker 1: really feed off the boots. I love the boots, but
Speaker 1: most people don't. Most people hate being booed because most
Speaker 1: people thrive off of gratification, and not self gratification. They
Speaker 1: thrive off of other people pumping them up, other people cheering.
Speaker 1: For the most people thrive off of that, and so
Speaker 1: because of that, you you you review these plays in
Speaker 1: ce Caucus, New Jersey, the NBA replace it. Why doesn't
Speaker 1: the decision come from there, someone who's not in the
Speaker 1: emotion of a game, someone who's watching them play and saying,
Speaker 1: I thought this happened. I am not the ones that
Speaker 1: got to get booed by the crowd if I make
Speaker 1: this call, blah blah blah. Why doesn't the decision come
Speaker 1: from there? Because the decision coming from someone who I
Speaker 1: could have just said something to and piste off about
Speaker 1: a call, and now they need to make a decision
Speaker 1: like that. Again, you can't tell me that the human
Speaker 1: element does not play a role in that. I am
Speaker 1: a human being too. I know how things can sway
Speaker 1: me one way or the other. And so why isn't
Speaker 1: the emotions of the game taken out? Do you think
Speaker 1: an official comes in the game and does not have emotionals?
Speaker 1: Of course, of course they have emotions. The way to
Speaker 1: take the emotions out of the game is that car
Speaker 1: comes from Caucus. Someone who's not in let let alone
Speaker 1: in the building, or or on the court, someone who's
Speaker 1: not even in the same city, let alone, state there's
Speaker 1: no city NBA team in New jerseymore not even in
Speaker 1: the same state. That's one way of guys really appreciating
Speaker 1: the integrity of the game. That's one way, uh totally
Speaker 1: removing the emotion that a rougher remay feel during a
Speaker 1: particular game. And so you know, um, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. They're not going to reduce it. Can I
Speaker 1: say I'm surprised, of course not. This is me you're
Speaker 1: talking about. And like I said, I wear that badge
Speaker 1: of honor. So whatever. Moving on to the actual game,
Speaker 1: which I thought was a very good game. Um. I
Speaker 1: thought in the first quarter and starting the game, we
Speaker 1: did okay with our game play, but not great. We
Speaker 1: didn't take the offensive rebounds away. They got plenty second
Speaker 1: chance opportunities, and that gave them momentum. They really feed
Speaker 1: off that. They get guys going off of that, and
Speaker 1: so to start the game, I thought we needed to
Speaker 1: play a little tougher and we need to rebound better.
Speaker 1: As the game went on, especially as we got into
Speaker 1: that second quarter and got our foot in it and
Speaker 1: you know, started to figure it out, we really started
Speaker 1: to rebound the ball better. And as you can see,
Speaker 1: I think Jordan pool ended with nine rebounds, eight or
Speaker 1: nine rebounds. That's big time. Jonathan Comingo come off the
Speaker 1: bench and in limited minutes six rebounds, that's big time,
Speaker 1: you know, And the list goes on and on. But
Speaker 1: that team are our coaches staff told us they said
Speaker 1: the game starts when we shoot the ball and when
Speaker 1: they shoot the ball, and pretty much what they were saying,
Speaker 1: it's just like when when we shoot the ball, they're
Speaker 1: they're coming. I mean, you got job around was probably
Speaker 1: the fastest guy in the NBA. They're looking for him.
Speaker 1: He's getting the ball and he's coming full speed and
Speaker 1: everybody else is running with him and also trailing him
Speaker 1: for three So when you say the game starts when
Speaker 1: they shoot and we shoot, that's how it starts. When
Speaker 1: they shoot, when we shoot. When they shoot, it starts
Speaker 1: because they crashed the office and rebound like not many
Speaker 1: teams that I've seen in the n b A. And
Speaker 1: that's a huge part of the offense generating chance points.
Speaker 1: And so I feel like and going into the game,
Speaker 1: it's hard to tell someone that and get you to
Speaker 1: understand it because you can't really simulate that. And so
Speaker 1: I once you know, it took us about a quarter
Speaker 1: to figure out, and once we figured it out, I
Speaker 1: think we rebounded the ball really well because guys understood
Speaker 1: that it has it's a five guy job. It's not
Speaker 1: a one guy job, it's not two guys job. It's
Speaker 1: a five man job, and everyone has to come back
Speaker 1: in the rebound. I think we did a great job
Speaker 1: of that, which ultimately prepared us and you know, allowed
Speaker 1: us to be in a position to win that game,
Speaker 1: and that was really huge for us. I thought Jordan's Pool,
Speaker 1: the way he came off the bench and played, especially
Speaker 1: with Clay Thompson getting in foul trouble right away, he
Speaker 1: looks just like Jordan Pool from games one, two, and
Speaker 1: three of the first series. He had a little bit
Speaker 1: of a struggle those last two games, which is to
Speaker 1: be expected if I'm not mistaken. The kid had played
Speaker 1: like twenty nine games, twenty nine grade very good games,
Speaker 1: like at some point you have to have a bad one,
Speaker 1: and you know he had. He had a rough one
Speaker 1: in game four, better game in game five. He just
Speaker 1: didn't shoot as well, but he had a much better
Speaker 1: game in Game five. Of it then were serious, and
Speaker 1: then yesterday he broke out again and had an incredible
Speaker 1: Game thirty one, nine and eight. It's funny I was
Speaker 1: standing my press conference earlier today. Jordan has irrational confidence
Speaker 1: Jordan's I don't have that confidence that Jordan has. Most
Speaker 1: people don't have that confidence is that Jordan has. It's
Speaker 1: a little irrational, like why would Jordan Pool think I'm
Speaker 1: on the floor with Steph Curry. I'm on the floor
Speaker 1: with Clay Thompson. I should have the ball, I should
Speaker 1: be taking these shots. It's very irrational, but you need
Speaker 1: guys like that when when you're gonna do great thing,
Speaker 1: you need guys with irrational confidence. That's what makes them great.
Speaker 1: And so you know, for Steph Curry to shoot the
Speaker 1: way Steph Curry shoots, you have to have irrational confidence
Speaker 1: to do that. For Clay Thompson to shoot the way
Speaker 1: it supposed to shoot, you have to be a bit irrational.
Speaker 1: And Jordan Pool has irrational confidences. Show last night, I mean,
Speaker 1: he played like, yeah, I'm supposed to be in this
Speaker 1: moment and I'm supposed to play well, and it's like, actually,
Speaker 1: you're probably not supposed to be in this moment and
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to play that well. But because he
Speaker 1: has irrational confidence. And I say that with envy because
Speaker 1: I wish I had irrational confidence. Um, it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: And he goes right to that stage. He shows up
Speaker 1: like it's his stage, like he belongs there. He delivers
Speaker 1: the game he had and and and we come out
Speaker 1: with the win in spite of me getting injected, in
Speaker 1: spite of Clay, Wiggins and Steph combining for nine for
Speaker 1: seven from the three, in spite of the block charge
Speaker 1: call which could have went either way, in spite of
Speaker 1: the out of bounds called that was ended up being
Speaker 1: a jump ball and we lost and they scored two
Speaker 1: points off of it. In spite of all the things
Speaker 1: that went wrong for us, we still were able to
Speaker 1: come out with that win. And and and that says
Speaker 1: a lot. And Jordan Poole was a key point in that.
Speaker 1: I just mentioned Steph, Clay and Wiggins coming for nine
Speaker 1: seven from three. Uh. That is a testament to a
Speaker 1: battle tested team. That is a testament to a team
Speaker 1: that knows how to win the game, win games. Because
Speaker 1: there was no we should have won the game. I
Speaker 1: just don't believe we should have won the game. But
Speaker 1: we found a way. And that's the playoffs it's not
Speaker 1: always gonna be pretty. It's not always um, it's not
Speaker 1: always gonna be Steph Curry going for having a Curry
Speaker 1: flurry as people call them, and going for forty or
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson scoring thirty seven points, and it won't always
Speaker 1: be that way. Sometimes you have to win them ugly.
Speaker 1: But when you win them ugly, especially in the Game one,
Speaker 1: there's no better way of winning. And so I thought
Speaker 1: that was a great thing. I don't expect those guys
Speaker 1: to shoot the way they did, and the thing is,
Speaker 1: it's like there were quite a few open ones and
Speaker 1: they just didn't go down. So you know, if we
Speaker 1: can get those same shots, I love it. Overall. I
Speaker 1: was very proud of my guys um and stepping up.
Speaker 1: You know. We spoke about it where they left the
Speaker 1: locker room like, hey man, go deliver a gut punch,
Speaker 1: go out there and take the game. And we went
Speaker 1: out there and took it, and it was it was
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing to see. And I think that sets
Speaker 1: us up well for this series because we didn't play great,
Speaker 1: you know, so if we come back in Game two
Speaker 1: and we played great, I think if we played great,
Speaker 1: we win. I always felt that way, if we pay great,
Speaker 1: another team played great, I think we win. It's not
Speaker 1: necessarily the truth, but that's what I feel that I believe. So,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully we're you know, I don't think we've
Speaker 1: played very well since Game three, not even really since
Speaker 1: Game too, and so I think, you know, I think
Speaker 1: one of those games are brewing, and I'm hoping so
Speaker 1: it can come at a great time if it comes
Speaker 1: tomorrow Celtics and Bucks. I actually had to go back
Speaker 1: and watch that game. As you know, I was getting
Speaker 1: raised as the game was starting with my bus time
Speaker 1: and then preparation for our games like it, didn't have
Speaker 1: a chance to watch it, and I had to go
Speaker 1: back and watch that game. And what I took away
Speaker 1: from that game immediately, I mean, I could see it
Speaker 1: in the first four possessions of the game as Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Milwaukee is is actually a team that will give up
Speaker 1: three point shots, Like if you look at their stats
Speaker 1: during the regular season, Milwaukee will give up three point shots.
Speaker 1: Their thing is to protect the thing, and that was
Speaker 1: on full display with seven exclamation marks last night. They
Speaker 1: were protecting the paint. They said, Jaylen Brown and Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum will not beat us. Grant Williams is gonna have
Speaker 1: to beat us. Al Hard is gonna have to beat us.
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart is gonna have to beat us. Robert Williams
Speaker 1: is gonna have to beat us. Their defense on Jayson
Speaker 1: Tatum looked a lot like Boston defense in the previous
Speaker 1: series on Kevin Durant. Multiple bodies, throwing, adam, very physical
Speaker 1: and bumping, and as you can see, I think the
Speaker 1: cell to score ninety eight points and eight nine even worse,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, all lifted around eighty nine points, and I
Speaker 1: mean that's a very very very you know, we we
Speaker 1: all talk about Boston's defense, but that's a very high
Speaker 1: powered office as well. And to score eighty nine points,
Speaker 1: that's some incredible defense. To also score eighty nine points
Speaker 1: while Yanna shoots a terrible percentage while Drew shoots a
Speaker 1: terrible percentage, that means that when you're shooting terrible percentage
Speaker 1: like that, you get the rebound you run. That creates
Speaker 1: transition opportunities. They're trans deefent their their transition defense for stealth.
Speaker 1: I saw a couple of times where it looked like
Speaker 1: Jayson Tatum would easily get a bucket of guys come
Speaker 1: flying around from everywhere and and made it tough. Now, Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: My thing with that series is if I'm Milwaukee, I
Speaker 1: leave that game saying, what's the likely hood that Janice
Speaker 1: is gonna shoot nine for twenty five? What is the
Speaker 1: likelihood that Jason uh that Drew Holiday is going to
Speaker 1: shoot five for twenty eight for twenty eight for twenty
Speaker 1: what's the likelihood of that? Now? If I'm Milwaukee, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking. If I'm Boston, I think I hang on,
Speaker 1: I hang my hat on defense. Drew Holiday will shoot
Speaker 1: a for twenty again, Joannice will shooting nine for twenty
Speaker 1: five again, and Jayson Tatum won't shoot just poorly again,
Speaker 1: and Jack Brown won't shoot two for fifteen again, And
Speaker 1: so if you're both teams, you leave the game. I
Speaker 1: think if I'm Milwaukee, I leave the game feeling a
Speaker 1: little bit better. But if you're Boston, you still leave
Speaker 1: the game feeling semi good. But you also have to
Speaker 1: be realistic that in guarding great players, you're just not
Speaker 1: always going to shut them down. So at some point,
Speaker 1: Yannest you're gonna have a co turnoers. Yanna is gonna
Speaker 1: get dumps that may give them right. And so that series,
Speaker 1: I think it's probably gonna go six or seven. But
Speaker 1: I mean Milwaukee to go still one on the road
Speaker 1: without Chris Middleton. You know, it's already been announced that
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton would be out this series. You go still
Speaker 1: on the road, You got the opportunity he to go
Speaker 1: in and get Greedy tomorrow. But to go home and
Speaker 1: just take Carol home court advantage and win two games
Speaker 1: at home, I mean, that can really put you in
Speaker 1: a great position. So I love the position that Milwaukee
Speaker 1: is in. I think they're doing an incredible job. What
Speaker 1: they did an incredible job last night, and I don't
Speaker 1: expect that defense to change. That is that is a
Speaker 1: championship ball club that know where to takes to win.
Speaker 1: And one thing that championship ball clubs do is is
Speaker 1: they stick to their game plan. And like I said,
Speaker 1: that their game plan was evident. Grant Williams shoot shot
Speaker 1: forty five percent from three this year. Grant Williams has
Speaker 1: several threes point attempts and no one was near him.
Speaker 1: Al Horford has several three point attempts, no one was
Speaker 1: near him. I think within the four first four possessions
Speaker 1: that Boston had it was to three point attempts by
Speaker 1: Al Horford in a drive middle in a one ft
Speaker 1: fallow way by Al Horford. And if I'm Mike Budenholzer,
Speaker 1: if I'm y honest, if I'm Drew Holiday, I'm saying kudos.
Speaker 1: This is exactly what we want. We want Al Horford
Speaker 1: to beat us on offense. We know Jay's Tatum can
Speaker 1: beat us on we know Jalen Brown can beat us
Speaker 1: on offense. So but the Bucks executed their game well,
Speaker 1: their game playing well. But that series, I can see
Speaker 1: that series going six or seven. Ultimately, I can't. I cannot.
Speaker 1: I think Boston has a legitimate chance of winning the series.
Speaker 1: I think Boston is a very, very, very good ball club.
Speaker 1: But for me personally, I would be a little worried
Speaker 1: leaving that game if I am Boston, just because of
Speaker 1: the way it played out. But we'll see, We'll we'll
Speaker 1: figure that out tomorrow. Predictions on the Sun's mass This
Speaker 1: won't be a cake walk for the Suns. I think.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Mavericks have a very good team. They're
Speaker 1: playing really well, and they have Luca Doncheons and anytime
Speaker 1: you have a player like that on the floor and
Speaker 1: he's on your squad, you always have a chance of
Speaker 1: winning the game. And so you know, uh Deep Book
Speaker 1: is still coming back from a hamstring entry. I don't
Speaker 1: expect him to be He's probably more like six Dorrian
Speaker 1: Phinney Smith is a ball hawk. Now here's the here's
Speaker 1: something to watch. I want to and and doing the
Speaker 1: this show, Draymond Green show one thing or when I'm
Speaker 1: doing other you know, TMTR. I want to teach the
Speaker 1: game of basketball, and I want to teach people how
Speaker 1: to watch the game of basketball. And you have to
Speaker 1: learn how to if you don't already, you have to
Speaker 1: learn the game within the game. And one game within
Speaker 1: the game is Reggie Bullock is an incredible, incredible wing defender.
Speaker 1: He's a very good defender, has great length. It's a
Speaker 1: good athlete. But cps Reggie Bullock's big home. That's a
Speaker 1: game within the game. Because now you talked about your
Speaker 1: matchups if you're if you're Dallas, and which means Luca
Speaker 1: probably will guard Jay Crowder. Okay. So now you have
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson who would probably guard Michael Bridges, okay, which
Speaker 1: means the white power obviously DeAndre Ada, which means you
Speaker 1: have to figure out do you want to go Phinnis
Speaker 1: Smith on book and Reggie on Chris Paul or do
Speaker 1: you want to flip that. The logical answer would be
Speaker 1: to put Phinnie Smith on book because he's stronger. Book
Speaker 1: will take you to the post Book get there, he
Speaker 1: bump you. That would be the logical answer. Reggie got length,
Speaker 1: he can fly around a perimeter with CP. That would
Speaker 1: be the logical answer. But then when you take the game,
Speaker 1: when you take the game within the game into consideration,
Speaker 1: you have to ask yourself. With their personal relationship and
Speaker 1: CP be in this big homie, how does he really
Speaker 1: affect CPN and CP phased by him at all? Because
Speaker 1: that is a real thing. And so I'm interested in
Speaker 1: seeing how that matchup plays out. I think they'll start
Speaker 1: the logical way, but I'm interested in seeing if there
Speaker 1: will need to be a changer now and saying that
Speaker 1: game one, I am taking the Phoenix Suns to win
Speaker 1: the game over the series. It's a tough one because
Speaker 1: this math team, I'm telling you, this maths team is
Speaker 1: not a push over by any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 1: And so I'm gonna admit this is a tough one
Speaker 1: for me to pick. It's a pick up. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's a coin flip. Both teams are really good.
Speaker 1: Do I have to pick one? If I have to
Speaker 1: pick one, you have to pick one. I'm gonna pick
Speaker 1: their underdog. I'm gonna go with the Maths. No underdog
Speaker 1: has won a series yet. At some point, an underdog
Speaker 1: I has to win the series, right, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the MAVs. But god, that's gonna be a tough series.
Speaker 1: I'm really only going on the Masks because they're dog
Speaker 1: by the way, because that series, I mean, God, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a really good series. I gotta go with
Speaker 1: the Maths. I got I just I gotta rolled underdog
Speaker 1: and got rolled underdog. Someone go with the Mass And
Speaker 1: the reality is that there's pressure on the Suns. There's
Speaker 1: no pressure on the map. They have zero pressure. If
Speaker 1: they lose, they're supposed to lose. The Sun's supposed to win.
Speaker 1: They've been the best team all year, and so you
Speaker 1: have to take that pressure into account as well. CPS
Speaker 1: not faced by pressure. Newither's deep books. So I don't
Speaker 1: expect the pressure to break the Suns, but it is pressure.
Speaker 1: Pressure is pressure, and you gotta deal with it. I
Speaker 1: guess I'm gonna go with the Masks, and then you
Speaker 1: have Heat sixers, Joel mb list sixers if Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: is out. See, here's the thing people aren't talking about. Though.
Speaker 1: Kyle Laurie is also out and Jimmy Butler is nursing
Speaker 1: the knee injury these sorts. He is listed as an
Speaker 1: act as available to play tonight. Jimmy, Jimmy has Jimmy.
Speaker 1: I guess I was watching um I was watching on
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat I think Instagram account. Yesterday Jimmy was
Speaker 1: shooting corner three is here twelve out of thirteen, but
Speaker 1: he was gingerally pushing off and landing on that knee,
Speaker 1: and so that was something. And I'm like, ah that
Speaker 1: you know, that changes things? Caled not having Kyle Lari
Speaker 1: that changes things because what that does is it it
Speaker 1: puts you back with Jimmy as the player that he
Speaker 1: was last year, which is more of a facilitator with Carl.
Speaker 1: Carl Laurie can get everyone else involved, but Jimmy. But
Speaker 1: but Jimmy. I think Jimmy is much better are playing
Speaker 1: the way he plays right now, which is I'm going
Speaker 1: to get it I can facilitate, so I'm still gonna
Speaker 1: make the right play, but I'm going to get it.
Speaker 1: And with Kyle out, that moves Jimmy back to that position,
Speaker 1: and that's something to watch with the Sixers do have
Speaker 1: Joel out, and we have DeAndre and Paul read and
Speaker 1: possibly George's Niang and I mean possibly to Bias, I
Speaker 1: don't know. They'll have those guys battling with Bama to
Speaker 1: buy you, and that is tough, especially see if it's
Speaker 1: Joel having to guard Bam on one end. At least
Speaker 1: Joel is beating him up on the other and he's
Speaker 1: having a guard Joel and lose something. You know, you're
Speaker 1: batting with him, you know it tires out of wears
Speaker 1: the guy down. None of those guys Bam have to
Speaker 1: even worry about except boxing out and so that right
Speaker 1: there is going to help Man even more. Bam already
Speaker 1: a great player and now he doesn't have to deal
Speaker 1: with you all to beat. I got the heat in five.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the heat in five. That's my analysis on
Speaker 1: our game. On the rest of the games going on
Speaker 1: in the NBA playoffs before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: we would love to do some mail bad questions. As
Speaker 1: you know hashtag the Draymond Green Show on Twitter. Jackson
Speaker 1: will find great questions. He will bring them here and
Speaker 1: we will talk to you and ask your question and
Speaker 1: give you our thoughts. Jackson, you got some questions for
Speaker 1: me I do. Let's start with from Bradley Williams at
Speaker 1: b Understore rad fifty. Do you like having a short
Speaker 1: rest period between playoffs series or a longer rest period?
Speaker 1: I think this question is interesting in terms of between
Speaker 1: games too, Like you only have one game off pin
Speaker 1: games one and two, don't have Wednesday Thursday Friday off
Speaker 1: between two and three. So do you like a longer
Speaker 1: rest period to let the body asked? Or a shorter
Speaker 1: carry just try to keep it, keep it rolling, honestly,
Speaker 1: as a guy who played in the playoffs since my
Speaker 1: rookie year, obviously missed the last two. But now you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta keep my rhythm, I gotta keep my conditioning.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. Now I'm in the tenth
Speaker 1: year of my career, and you know how to keep
Speaker 1: your rhythm, you know how to keep your conditioning, and
Speaker 1: so just from a mental aspect, I always tell people
Speaker 1: a basketball game doesn't start when we walk on the
Speaker 1: court or even when we lead a hotel basketball game
Speaker 1: starts the moment you wake up on the day of
Speaker 1: the game, and really the night before, the day before,
Speaker 1: you're like prepping and you're getting things you need to
Speaker 1: feel good tomorrow. And so just the stress alone of
Speaker 1: the game days, it's brutal. It's brutal. I always tell
Speaker 1: people they say I can play in the NBA, the
Speaker 1: first thing I will say to them is absolutely nothing
Speaker 1: about their skill, how they match up against guy. I'll
Speaker 1: tell a guy in a heartbeat, you couldn't handle the
Speaker 1: stress of a game day, like, let alone actually going
Speaker 1: out there and playing in the game. The stress of
Speaker 1: a game there. And so I think for us at
Speaker 1: this point, I mean your team clays in your eleven steps,
Speaker 1: in your thirteen andres and your seventeen. I think for
Speaker 1: us at this point, you appreciate the rest now. Once
Speaker 1: you get in the game, it does. It is a
Speaker 1: little adjustment period, but it's small, and so you appreciate
Speaker 1: the rest now, and saying that too much rest could
Speaker 1: be an issue, Like I was worried that if we
Speaker 1: swept Denver, we'd be off for nine days that's a
Speaker 1: long time with no games, and you come and play
Speaker 1: a team that had a game two nights before. That's
Speaker 1: a long time. But you know you're talking five for
Speaker 1: the sixth day break. We'll accept that with opening arms.
Speaker 1: Anytime we could get it next one. You sort of
Speaker 1: talked about this a little bit earlier, but I'm curious
Speaker 1: for a more in depth answer from Nick, Charlton Parrin
Speaker 1: at Lebond James w O seven. What did you say
Speaker 1: to the team at halftime. I told the guys I
Speaker 1: have time. I said, go out and take this game.
Speaker 1: That will be a gut punch. You know, this is
Speaker 1: a game we're not supposed to win. Um, we're not
Speaker 1: playing our best basketball. We're not shooting well. Clay Thompson
Speaker 1: with three files, Getty Paid with three files, Steph Curry
Speaker 1: with three files. I'm rejected. Go out and take the game,
Speaker 1: Go take their punch, throw punches back, and just go
Speaker 1: still the game. Win the game. However we need to
Speaker 1: win the game. It's not gonna be pretty. Just go
Speaker 1: win the game. And guys, they did it, and it
Speaker 1: was beautiful to see, and there was so many things
Speaker 1: and people that contributed to that win. And I like
Speaker 1: said earlier, I think that puts us in a great
Speaker 1: position for this series. Alright, last one, a little bit
Speaker 1: of a lighter note from DJ Hella Yella at dj
Speaker 1: Hella Yella. How do y'all decide who gets to control
Speaker 1: the music in team settings? Uh? James Wiseman actually is
Speaker 1: a very good like James Wiseman. He's all over the place,
Speaker 1: which is great, Like James Wiseman. To give you some
Speaker 1: little baby and gunna James Wiseman, and give you some
Speaker 1: in w a James James. Why the kid loves music,
Speaker 1: which is why he you know, he records his own music.
Speaker 1: You make beats. The kid loves music. And I mean
Speaker 1: he's all over the place. And I don't like I said,
Speaker 1: I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean
Speaker 1: he can check so many boxes. Like James will walk
Speaker 1: up to a guy like, hey, Dre, what's you feeling
Speaker 1: to day? I wanna go here? You want to go there?
Speaker 1: He done and he will take you there. So James
Speaker 1: Wiseman does a really good job. Ultimately, it's going to
Speaker 1: be controlled by the vets. Like whoever the vets say,
Speaker 1: we don't want to hear that. We want to hear this,
Speaker 1: or we don't want you on OX. We want him
Speaker 1: on the OS and that's what's gonna happen. So ultimately
Speaker 1: the best decide, but James Wiseman does an incredible job.
Speaker 1: That's a rap for this episode of The Draymond Grat Show.
Speaker 1: Bradley d J Hella Yella Lebon, James Double O seven.
Speaker 1: That would be Nick Charlton Perrin. We appreciate the questions.
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