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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
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Speaker 3: It's been a while, it's been a long time coming.
Speaker 1: So if you've been here, we thank you, and if
Speaker 1: you're new here, we also thank you. And if you're
Speaker 1: in the future, we thank you as well. Now that
Speaker 1: that business is done, let's get right into it. I myself,
Speaker 1: Draymond returned to the Warriors lineup yesterday and unfortunately it
Speaker 1: came in a losing effort. Would have been very fitting
Speaker 1: and fun to return in Memphis and win a game
Speaker 1: on Martin Luther King Day.
Speaker 3: All the things that didn't.
Speaker 1: Happen, But however, it felt great to be back out
Speaker 1: there on the court play twenty three minutes, coming back
Speaker 1: on a miny restriction, which, if I'm quite honest, I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily feel.
Speaker 3: Like I need much longer.
Speaker 1: But as you all know, you've heard the name Rick
Speaker 1: Celebrini a million times from either myself or other guys
Speaker 1: or people around our organization. He is a legend. He
Speaker 1: is the don and I don't fight with Rick. I
Speaker 1: take his guidance, I listen to it, and I roll
Speaker 1: with it. Every now and then I push back on it,
Speaker 1: but for the most part, initially I'm always going to
Speaker 1: roll with it because I trust him. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of cases more than I trust myself, and he is
Speaker 1: someone that also protects us from ourselves.
Speaker 3: As a competitor.
Speaker 1: You just want to go, go, go, go go, and
Speaker 1: Rick is the sound mine is the expert, and like, ah,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't push it pass here because you're putting yourself
Speaker 1: at risk for injury. And after a month of not
Speaker 1: playing any NBA basketball, I totally get it. So I
Speaker 1: was on a twenty four minute restriction. Got right up
Speaker 1: to that, and I felt incredible. You know, gotta get
Speaker 1: my time and stuff back my reads. A few things
Speaker 1: felt like they were maybe half a count too slow,
Speaker 1: but not too bad. I felt good to hit the
Speaker 1: first three you come back. You never know how that's
Speaker 1: gonna feel when you got defense running at you, so
Speaker 1: that one felt good.
Speaker 3: It also felt good to boot a crowd back because
Speaker 3: they were.
Speaker 1: Booing like always in Memphis, which is quite crazy that
Speaker 1: the Memphis fans hate me so much, be that they
Speaker 1: wanted me a free agency it would have been really
Speaker 1: funny if I ended up in Memphis. It would have
Speaker 1: I just wonder what the reception would have been if
Speaker 1: I actually ended up in Memphis. Uh. But yeah, they
Speaker 1: really hate me there, and to be honest, I love it,
Speaker 1: and I love them. I love that they love to
Speaker 1: hate me. I think it's a very great thing. I
Speaker 1: think their fans are hilarious and it's always a good
Speaker 1: time for me. It's always in good fun, except when
Speaker 1: I flick them the double birds when they cheer when
Speaker 1: I got injured. Uh, that was a fun time in
Speaker 1: my life and a fun moment in my NBA career,
Speaker 1: but I felt like they were well deserving at that point,
Speaker 1: Like you cheer for someone getting injured, that's like the
Speaker 1: lowest class of class. However, Uh, I love the city
Speaker 1: of Memphis. I'm a huge Memphis rap fan. As you
Speaker 1: all know. You're talking Gotti, you're talking Dolph, you're talking
Speaker 1: Key Glock, money bag.
Speaker 3: Like, I love, absolutely love Memphis rap.
Speaker 1: And then my got rich freshness from Memphis, who always
Speaker 1: keep me looking fresh. So I got nothing but love
Speaker 1: from Memphis. Although they hate and they boo, I love
Speaker 1: those boots.
Speaker 3: Keep them coming. It's great.
Speaker 1: Absolutely pissed off that we didn't get a win there
Speaker 1: yesterday because number one, we needed to win. You know,
Speaker 1: sitting here at eighteen and twenty two, we've lost quite
Speaker 1: a few.
Speaker 3: Games this year that we should have won.
Speaker 1: Yesterday was one like on paper we should have won,
Speaker 1: but like if you watch the game, they'll played us,
Speaker 1: and so I don't view that one as like, oh
Speaker 1: we let one get away that we should have won. Yes,
Speaker 1: in theory, but like I'm talking like the O case
Speaker 1: game that we clearly should have won. There are some
Speaker 1: games this year that like we one hundred percent clearly
Speaker 1: should have won and we kind of lets slip away.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think that was the case last night,
Speaker 1: but you gotta get those young guys some credit.
Speaker 3: Man Gg Jackson.
Speaker 1: Man, he he got off and he shot the ball
Speaker 1: like he was Klay Thompson. I mean he was catching,
Speaker 1: like no hesitation, raising up. I haven't seen him play
Speaker 1: a ton, so I'm not sure if he's always like that.
Speaker 1: I do know he's always aggressive to score, but he's
Speaker 1: like all the clips and things that I've seen, he's
Speaker 1: like aggressive getting downhill. He was raising up like he
Speaker 1: shoot forty five from the three, and maybe he do,
Speaker 1: like I said, I didn't check to see if he does,
Speaker 1: but the way he was shooting that ball last night, man,
Speaker 1: you gotta give him credit. He just answered the bell,
Speaker 1: he said to Steph. Halftime, he waited for Steph at
Speaker 1: the half court line. He said, Man, I got uninvited
Speaker 1: from your camp, which I thought was interesting.
Speaker 3: Steph ended up telling us, telling us about that last night.
Speaker 1: He's like, he got uninvited from the camp, and Stepf's like, oh,
Speaker 1: like I remember that. Like we were filled on spots
Speaker 1: and so they had to like pull some invice back
Speaker 1: and Steph was like, I kind of froze for a minute,
Speaker 1: like it caught me a bit off guard, like what
Speaker 1: do you say to that? And so after the game,
Speaker 1: I learned that it was very personal for GG. Not
Speaker 1: only was it like, oh, I'm getting a chance to
Speaker 1: play against Steph Curry, but he found this extra added
Speaker 1: motivation of like, they uninvited me from the Steph Curry camp.
Speaker 1: So now I don't have any any real say so
Speaker 1: in this GG, but you're invited to the Steph Curry
Speaker 1: camp next year as a counselor. If you want to
Speaker 1: go back, you're gonna go with under armbrus So whatever
Speaker 1: you're gonna do, because that seemed real personal last night.
Speaker 1: But like I said, you gotta get a young fella
Speaker 1: some credit. He answered the bell and we were standing
Speaker 1: at the free throw line. He said, Man, it's an
Speaker 1: honor to play against you, like I've watched you win championships.
Speaker 1: Like when you get things like that from young guys,
Speaker 1: it is one of the most rewarding feelings. But it
Speaker 1: also shows you who's student of the game, who's the
Speaker 1: students of the game, and who's not When when young
Speaker 1: guys say stuff like that, And by the way, not
Speaker 1: that you if you don't say anything like that, you're
Speaker 1: not a student of the game. But it's very evident
Speaker 1: when you start saying stuff like that, because that means
Speaker 1: you've been watching like that means you've been paying attention,
Speaker 1: you've been appreciating, but you've been watching and learning and
Speaker 1: so not surprised that a kid like that can go
Speaker 1: have a game the way he did because just those things,
Speaker 1: you know, with Steph, with what he said to me,
Speaker 1: it's like, no, this this this kid, he gets it.
Speaker 3: He's a student at a game.
Speaker 1: Vince Williams h who just signed a contract with the
Speaker 1: Memphis Grizzlies about a week ago. He showed up and
Speaker 1: he been playing his tailoffs, which is why he earned
Speaker 1: that contract.
Speaker 3: But he took it to anything, uh another level last night.
Speaker 1: He's a good defender, handles the ball pretty well, shoot
Speaker 1: the ball pretty well, get downhill like he doing something.
Speaker 1: Everything got to get Give him some credit. Man, All
Speaker 1: those guys answered the bell. Uh where does that leave us?
Speaker 1: As I said before, it was great to be back
Speaker 1: on the court. Uh just with my teammates.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It wasn't much of a conversation to be had with
Speaker 1: my teammates and coming back because those conversations had already
Speaker 1: been had, the ones that needed to be had. Uh,
Speaker 1: my conversation with coach Kerr, uh, I know, people were like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's started starting, he's coming off the bench. And my
Speaker 1: conversation with coach Kerr was great. You know, he was
Speaker 1: kind of sharing to me his thoughts and shared with
Speaker 1: him my thoughts, and like a that unit had been
Speaker 1: playing well the last couple of games that started started. Uh,
Speaker 1: that started the game last night. So you got a
Speaker 1: unit playing well, putting it together, you don't mess that up.
Speaker 1: But also like, I'm returning from a suspension, not an injury,
Speaker 1: you know, so you don't just walk back into the
Speaker 1: starting lineup, you know, because you return from injury. And
Speaker 1: so I felt, you know, right along with coach Kurter,
Speaker 1: is its best that I came off the bench, because
Speaker 1: you know, there's we play a team sport like this
Speaker 1: isn't this isn't an individual sport. So how other guys
Speaker 1: feel about certain things matters, because that affects the cohesiveness
Speaker 1: of a team, you know, and if you if you
Speaker 1: negatively affected togetherness of a team, a guy is like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: he come back from injury. And now he just start
Speaker 1: Like it's been enough to deal with. So definitely not
Speaker 1: something that I want really care. Also, am not hell
Speaker 1: bent off coming off the bench of starting. It is
Speaker 1: what it is. Ultimately, you're going to play the minutes
Speaker 1: that you're gonna play, regardless the minutes that you're supposed
Speaker 1: to get, whether you come off the bench or start,
Speaker 1: You're gonna get those minutes, you know you, And.
Speaker 3: So I don't get extremely caught up in that.
Speaker 1: Whatever the best lineup sorry for our team to be successful,
Speaker 1: I'm with that always because my number one goal and
Speaker 1: stepping onto the basketball floor is to win the game
Speaker 1: at all times and whatever that has to look like,
Speaker 1: if that's getting benched and going offensive defense in Game
Speaker 1: four of the NBA Finals, and that's just what it is,
Speaker 1: or Game three of the NBA Finals, that's just what
Speaker 1: it is. And I think it was Game four, yeah,
Speaker 1: because then we came back home Game five and I
Speaker 1: started the game with a dunk and it felt great.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, like whatever it is for my team
Speaker 1: to win, I'm always willing to do. And like I said,
Speaker 1: you just don't get to come back from suspension and
Speaker 1: like things just go your way. You gotta earn those
Speaker 1: things back. Not sure how long I'll come off the
Speaker 1: bench or if that'll be the way it goes the
Speaker 1: rest of the way, don't know, really don't care. I
Speaker 1: do care to get the mental restriction off me because
Speaker 1: I feel like I can play more minutes. But as
Speaker 1: I've told you all before, our step our performance to
Speaker 1: have do a great job of simulating game action, of
Speaker 1: putting us in, making sure we getting the right amount
Speaker 1: of hits of actual game play leading up to coming back.
Speaker 3: And so they do an incredible job.
Speaker 1: And every time, you know, I've come back from an
Speaker 1: injury or you know, suspension in this case, I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm in good shit. Like they do an incredible job.
Speaker 1: They keep you working. Now, who I will have to
Speaker 1: give credit to is Travis Walton. Travis who is my
Speaker 1: personal trainer. When I was away from the team, Travis
Speaker 1: put this whole plan together, had me working out every day,
Speaker 1: had me lifting every day. And when I came back,
Speaker 1: one of the like try to find silver linings through
Speaker 1: the bad times. And one of the I think one
Speaker 1: of the silver linings was or one of the bright
Speaker 1: spots for me returning was you know, they were very
Speaker 1: pleased with my condition and how I kept myself together
Speaker 1: and coming back, and.
Speaker 3: That to me it felt great.
Speaker 1: Number one, like I said, thankful the Travis of putting
Speaker 1: the plan together and making sure I was locked in
Speaker 1: and dialed in and had the right plan so that
Speaker 1: when I did return, I was in a good spot.
Speaker 1: But also you know, as a professional, you know, to
Speaker 1: continue to become a better and better professional, it's always
Speaker 1: a big deal to me. So I was very pleased
Speaker 1: with how they felt about me returning in a way
Speaker 1: that I came back, and just my conditioning all those things,
Speaker 1: and like I said, I feel good. Hopefully the minute
Speaker 1: restriction will come off. That's my goal. I'll talk to
Speaker 1: Rick and see what happens. And moving forward with the Dubs,
Speaker 1: we got some stuff to figure out because we have sucked.
Speaker 1: We're sitting here twenty two, at eighteen and twenty two,
Speaker 1: it's not good.
Speaker 3: And like I said, yeah, we've lost.
Speaker 1: Some games, and you win a few of those games
Speaker 1: that you shouldn't have lost, and you may feel totally different,
Speaker 1: but the reality is we did it, and so you
Speaker 1: got to make up ground, and right now we've been
Speaker 1: struggling to do that. I can always raise my hand
Speaker 1: and say, corporate a reason number one sit right here
Speaker 1: in front of you. And so I take that up
Speaker 1: on myself to try to beat that sparkan and write
Speaker 1: it and write the ship. Do I still think we can?
Speaker 1: I do think we can. But our defense has to
Speaker 1: be better. You know, we always talk about man like
Speaker 1: gods shooting the lights out the ball when they play
Speaker 1: against us, and that they did last night. In my
Speaker 1: press conference, I was like, man, we gotta guard people
Speaker 1: want like you gotta take on the challenge. And by
Speaker 1: the way, I stand by that. You always have to
Speaker 1: take on the challenge. I want to stop my man.
Speaker 1: Whoever I'm guarded, I want to stop this guy. Defense
Speaker 1: is all about want a wheel. I want to play defense.
Speaker 1: You don't want to play defense. You want to be
Speaker 1: good defensively. You gotta want to play defense. And so
Speaker 1: I still stand by that. However, and looking at the film,
Speaker 1: they were some well contested shots, like very well contested shots,
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Speaker 1: can't just sit back and say, well, we contested the
Speaker 1: shots well and they just made them.
Speaker 3: You have to make people miss. So we still got
Speaker 3: to figure that out.
Speaker 1: Everybody does play better against us, that's just the reality.
Speaker 1: That's what comes with the territory of being a dynasty,
Speaker 1: a great team, a team that's done what we've done
Speaker 1: for years.
Speaker 3: That's what comes with it.
Speaker 1: In a lot of cases, you're people's super Bowl and
Speaker 1: so yeah, they're excited to play, they're gonna knock shots down.
Speaker 1: It's just something else that comes with it. They're playing
Speaker 1: free because they feel like they got nothing to lose.
Speaker 1: We have to adjust to that, like you have to
Speaker 1: adjust to it because it's going to continue to happen,
Speaker 1: like those accolades, that track record, it's not changing, which
Speaker 1: means the way people look at us ain't change.
Speaker 3: So we have to figure that out.
Speaker 1: You can't just sit back and say, oh man, they
Speaker 1: hit shots to night that they want supposed to say.
Speaker 3: We got to figure it out. We have to figure
Speaker 3: it out.
Speaker 1: Defensively, it starts with our defense twenty fifth ranked defense
Speaker 1: in league this season, like and we're eighteen and twenty two,
Speaker 1: makes sense, that's the twenty fifth ranked best defense. Everybody
Speaker 1: always talked about the Warriors and our offense and how
Speaker 1: beautiful that was, and rightfully so. But the reason we
Speaker 1: want championships is because of our defense. Our defense has
Speaker 1: always been top ten. I think maybe one time we
Speaker 1: won a championship we were eleven defense maybe almost positive, Like,
Speaker 1: you have to have a great defense if you're going
Speaker 1: to compete for titles, and right now our defense is atrocious.
Speaker 3: It's atrocious, and so we got to figure that out.
Speaker 1: We have to defend better if we want to win,
Speaker 1: if we want to turn this season around, we have
Speaker 1: to defend better. It is extremely important. That will never change.
Speaker 1: If you do not defend, you can't win. It's very simple.
Speaker 1: I know Steph has talked a lot about the Warriors
Speaker 1: and us and we're just and us just not being
Speaker 1: a good team right now. And that's a fact that
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent in fact that one hundred percent agree.
Speaker 1: We are not a very good team right now. Can
Speaker 1: we be a good team? I still believe we can't
Speaker 1: be a good team. Do we still have championship aspirations?
Speaker 1: I don't think those ever go away. However, it starts
Speaker 1: with game by game. We need to get better game
Speaker 1: by game and try to stack some put some wins
Speaker 1: together and get this thing back on the right track.
Speaker 3: If you look up, we're not far behind everyone else.
Speaker 1: So there's still a chance to put.
Speaker 3: Some games together and make a run. And I do not.
Speaker 3: I am not of the belief that we can't do that.
Speaker 3: So we have to figure that out.
Speaker 1: I also know in regarding the doves, there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of trade rumors. I know my name has came up.
Speaker 1: I know everyone name has come up, except for Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: My name has not come up in trade rumors too often.
Speaker 1: And you know, Jackson said, how are you handling that?
Speaker 1: To be honest, I have not thought about it one bit.
Speaker 1: I don't make much of it at all. Rumors are
Speaker 1: just that there are rumors. I know we've been linked
Speaker 1: to a Pascal Siakam. I hear all the same things
Speaker 1: that all.
Speaker 3: You guys here.
Speaker 1: That is the the gift and the curse of social media,
Speaker 1: That is the gift and the curse of cell phones.
Speaker 1: That is the gift and the curse of the accessibility
Speaker 1: that all of these things provide to us. That that's
Speaker 1: just what comes with the territory these days. As far
Speaker 1: as if I'm traded or if someone like that's the
Speaker 1: business like The business is you can be traded, the
Speaker 1: businesses you could be waived, the businesses you can be benched,
Speaker 1: the businesses you can start, The businesses you can play well,
Speaker 1: the businesses you can play bad. That's the business that
Speaker 1: comes with the territory. I'm not gonna sit and dwell
Speaker 1: on the rumors or oh like beat myself up, like
Speaker 1: rumors are just that.
Speaker 3: They're rumors until they're true.
Speaker 1: And so if that ever came to fruition, then you
Speaker 1: deal with that when you cross that bridge, when you
Speaker 1: get there. And so it's not really something that I
Speaker 1: worry about. I know, you know, everybody's saying, oh, the
Speaker 1: Warriors got to make a trade, They're going to make
Speaker 1: a trade. I mean, if you're eighteen and twenty two,
Speaker 1: how can you question anything someone does? You know, we've
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to get out there and play and
Speaker 1: prove ourselves as a team because the reality is we've
Speaker 1: never really been a very active team at the trade deadline.
Speaker 1: I think I can count right off the top of
Speaker 1: my head guys we've traded for at the trade deadline.
Speaker 1: Steve Blake, going way back when I was young, young
Speaker 1: Steve Blake, Jordan Crawford and Marshawn Brooks Wiggs GP coming back.
Speaker 1: I know we've traded a couple of people away at
Speaker 1: the deadline. I remember Brad Wanta Maker, Glenn Robinson, Alec Burks,
Speaker 1: d Low and the Wig Straight. Maybe I'm missing one
Speaker 1: or two, but like over the course of twelve years,
Speaker 1: that's what eight or nine guys, It's not a lot.
Speaker 1: So we've never really been an active team at the
Speaker 1: trade deadline. However, we also do have a new gym
Speaker 1: and Mike has been incredible by the way, But you know,
Speaker 1: he could work differently than Bob. He could be more
Speaker 1: aggressive at the trade deadline than Bob were.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't really have a feel for it. Would I
Speaker 1: be shocked if something was to change or some trades happened, No,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked. Again, We're eighteen and twenty two
Speaker 1: with if I'm not mistaken, the highest payroll in the
Speaker 1: league or top two three, So.
Speaker 3: How can you sit and complain. Joe has a business
Speaker 3: to run.
Speaker 1: As an owner, Mike has a business to run as
Speaker 1: a general manager.
Speaker 3: I get it. I get it, and so do I
Speaker 3: think I'll be traded?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Do I hope not.
Speaker 1: But if you know, any of those things happen, that's
Speaker 1: a part of the business that we chose to be
Speaker 1: a part of. And you got to take the good
Speaker 1: with the bad. And I've always been one to unders
Speaker 1: standing out and take to go with the bad. So no,
Speaker 1: I don't really think about it, but you one of
Speaker 1: my thoughts on it.
Speaker 3: There you go, man.
Speaker 1: You look at the Western Conference, which I think is
Speaker 1: very interesting. You got the t Wolves, the Thunder, the Nuggets,
Speaker 1: and the Clippers sitting at the top of the Western Conference.
Speaker 1: T Wolves fairly young team, although Rudy Gobert has been
Speaker 1: around for a while, Cat's been around for a while,
Speaker 1: but they're very young in experience, especially playoff experience.
Speaker 3: Kyle Anderson has been around for a while.
Speaker 1: But they're young, and they're being led by a very,
Speaker 1: very very young guy. And Anthony Edwards their star player,
Speaker 1: who's playing well, who's talked so much about one that
Speaker 1: spot and won that responsibility, and he's handling it.
Speaker 3: As good as you can handle it. He's poised, he's
Speaker 3: carrying the team.
Speaker 1: He's taking a franchise that hasn't won ever anything, and
Speaker 1: he's carrying them and propelling them and showing that all
Speaker 1: the things that he's been saying he means, and you
Speaker 1: got to give him some credit there. And then you
Speaker 1: have the Thunder, Young Thunder who I've always told we
Speaker 1: all knew was coming, Like we knew that those young
Speaker 1: guys were growing, and it was only a matter of
Speaker 1: time before they had to be wreckon with the time
Speaker 1: is now they have to be wreckon with Shay Gilgrims.
Speaker 1: Alexander is first team on NBA performer, a problem. Not
Speaker 1: sure why he's not higher up in the MVP conversation.
Speaker 3: Incredible.
Speaker 1: Jalen Williams, the guard from Santa Clara Special, Special, dude
Speaker 1: can shoot, he can pass, he can handle, he can finish,
Speaker 1: he can defend. He has great size so he can
Speaker 1: guard multiple positions. He's athletic, he's great in the pick
Speaker 1: and roll. Like Jalen Williams is special and over under
Speaker 1: two years before he's an All Star himself.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take the under.
Speaker 1: He is a problem, and it's gonna get interesting because, Okay, see,
Speaker 1: got a lot of young guys right now, but those
Speaker 1: guys are starting to grow, and it's gonna be time
Speaker 1: to pay those guys and they're gonna end up coming
Speaker 1: down to some decisions that they're gonna have to make
Speaker 1: in the near future. Over the next couple of years,
Speaker 1: especially being a small market team, They're gonna have to
Speaker 1: make some decisions on those guys. Jayalen Williams is one problem,
Speaker 1: really really good.
Speaker 3: Check Holmgren a.
Speaker 1: Problem, really good like and Chet has the demeanor like
Speaker 1: he talks like he feels like nobody can check him.
Speaker 1: They got lou Dort being who Lou Dort is. All
Speaker 1: those young guys have gotten better. Aaron Wiggins has gotten better,
Speaker 1: Giddy has gotten better, like Isaiah Joe has gotten better.
Speaker 3: Like those guys.
Speaker 1: That's a good, good team man, and they're showing it
Speaker 1: at night in and night out. Yeah, they're still young.
Speaker 1: I won a championship in my third year, so it's
Speaker 1: not impossible. But and they got a guy Shay And
Speaker 1: when Shae's and foul trouble, they got another guy who
Speaker 1: takes over Jaylen Williams like and check.
Speaker 3: You know, So that team is a problem and they.
Speaker 1: Gotta be wreckon with. Then you have the defending champs,
Speaker 1: the Dinver Nuggets. We all know who they are. Not
Speaker 1: much that I need to say there. They lost some
Speaker 1: key pieces, and they look like they're picking up right
Speaker 1: where they left off. Uh, they got some young guys
Speaker 1: stepping up. Peyton Watson is playing more, much larger role
Speaker 1: in more minutes. I saw Peyton Watson workout as pre
Speaker 1: draft workout with the Warriors, and I like, man, I
Speaker 1: really like that kid. Like that kid got a chance
Speaker 1: to be really good and he's improving. He's showing it.
Speaker 1: And some of the questions that people had about him
Speaker 1: on why he fell in the drift, h professionalism and
Speaker 1: all those things.
Speaker 3: Young fella doing it.
Speaker 1: And he's in a great organization with a great head coach,
Speaker 1: one that's going to hold you accountable, and he doing it.
Speaker 1: So you got to get those guys credit. And then
Speaker 1: you got the Clippers. The Clippers who were the first
Speaker 1: seven games of their experiment we all thought were dead
Speaker 1: and had no chance, and they.
Speaker 3: Are playing great basketball.
Speaker 1: James Harden running the point being who James Harden has
Speaker 1: been James Harden. I think, by the way, James Harden
Speaker 1: should be an All Star this year. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: people are viewing that, but he only missed like the
Speaker 1: first four games for the Clippers. For first four or
Speaker 1: five games, like and then he got traded there and
Speaker 1: he's playing at an All Star level when the way
Speaker 1: their team is playing. I think James Harden is an
Speaker 1: All Star this year. Should be will people look at
Speaker 1: it from what? Will people judge him on what's happened
Speaker 1: the past few years, that's the question. But James Harden
Speaker 1: should be an All Star this year. James Harden is
Speaker 1: playing at an All Star level. Kawhi Leonard, congrats on
Speaker 1: his extension. Kawhi Leonard signed a three year, one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty million dollar extension. Maybe one one God, one
Speaker 1: fifty two Jesus Christ, but we all know Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: is that level of player when he's healthy, and he's
Speaker 1: been extremely healthy this year, and their team's success is
Speaker 1: because of it. Pg's been pretty healthy this year and
Speaker 1: their team's successes is showing that Tylu great coach, willing
Speaker 1: to take on James Harden when nobody else wanted to,
Speaker 1: and it's paying dividends. And so then you got the Clippers,
Speaker 1: and then you start talking about contenders, like I think
Speaker 1: it's still early to say, oh, this team is a contender.
Speaker 1: That team is a contender. You know, you like to
Speaker 1: think all of those guys will be contenders. But playoffs
Speaker 1: are different for a lot of people than regular season basketball,
Speaker 1: and so I don't know, we'll see, but those teams
Speaker 1: are playing extremely well, and you got to give them
Speaker 1: your credit before we get.
Speaker 3: Out of here.
Speaker 1: I saw my old teammate Nick Young on Gills Gilbert
Speaker 1: Arena's podcast talking about me and gil are the same
Speaker 1: type of leader.
Speaker 3: What was Draymond like as a teammate. Well, he got
Speaker 3: a little bit of Gill, and he got a little
Speaker 3: bit of Gill. Like when I played with Gill.
Speaker 4: If I didn't do something right here, the mo ain't ready,
Speaker 4: you don't put him in. Say that, shout loud to
Speaker 4: the coaches. So Draymond did some similar shit. I shot
Speaker 4: the ball. You're like, Nick, we don't do that ship here.
Speaker 4: He don't shoot that type of shot here, I said,
Speaker 4: Curry just shot the same shot I shot. You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying that to him?
Speaker 3: He said different. He wanted a championship. He ain't win ship. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, all right, man, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know much about Gill's leadership, never heard much
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 3: I know about his game.
Speaker 1: I watched that and he was a problem shoot the
Speaker 1: lights out of the ball, score the ball with the
Speaker 1: best of them. But to hear what Nick Young said,
Speaker 1: like I respect Gil, like if you coming in and
Speaker 1: you ain't ready to play, you gotta go sit back down.
Speaker 3: You have to go sit back down.
Speaker 1: I remember talking to Nick about the shot he was
Speaker 1: talking about as well, and yeah, I meant that, like,
Speaker 1: you know, like Nick, some some guys like Steph Curry
Speaker 1: is going to take those shots and you gonna live
Speaker 1: with it, and I'm gonna live with it too, because
Speaker 1: he's gonna make him more often than not. But like,
Speaker 1: we just can't be casting all type of shots, nigga,
Speaker 1: Like come on now, hey, you know he took the
Speaker 1: advice and guess what, we got a ring. So I
Speaker 1: can't say to Nick no more, you can't shoot those
Speaker 1: shots because you ain't won a ring yet.
Speaker 3: Notice he said yet. By the way, I knew he
Speaker 3: win and we did.
Speaker 1: And Nick Young came up huge in that Houston series,
Speaker 1: didn't play a ton and then came in big games,
Speaker 1: hit big shots, check.
Speaker 3: James Harden.
Speaker 1: Played a big role, big role for us in those
Speaker 1: playoffs when we won that championship. So shout out to
Speaker 1: Nick Young. I know he talks a lot of nonsense.
Speaker 1: Was still one of my favorite teammates. Was very fun
Speaker 1: to play with. And it's good, you know that he's
Speaker 1: you know, to see him, you know, kind of re
Speaker 1: emerging in the media space. Extremely funny dude. I think
Speaker 1: he's great in the media space. He know, he knows
Speaker 1: the game, but it's very lighthearted. You know, he talk
Speaker 1: about this what he called him what he called him corner?
Speaker 1: What corner corner?
Speaker 3: Something?
Speaker 1: He hilarious and like I said, you know the game.
Speaker 1: He's an NBA champion. So it's good to see Swag
Speaker 1: reservicing in a major way in the media space giving
Speaker 1: his opinion. I love it, although I don't always agree
Speaker 1: with it, and sometimes I think he don't know what
Speaker 1: the hell he be talking about, and sometimes he's talking
Speaker 1: to be funny. None the less, I do know what
Speaker 1: he's talking about. Appreciate Nick. That's my dog.
Speaker 3: Gil.
Speaker 1: Shout out to you and your leadership. Baby, it gets
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