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Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show. This is an
Speaker 1: exciting podcast. Is This is the first one we've done
Speaker 1: since Clint the second round and moving on to the
Speaker 1: conference finals. Extremely excited to be back in that position
Speaker 1: for long two years. Uh And you know, actually the
Speaker 1: last two playoffs, I've been kind of watching them like
Speaker 1: on vacation, and it's been great. It was cool, but
Speaker 1: I'd much rather be in this position, Like I got
Speaker 1: the rest of my life to watch basketball playoff basketball
Speaker 1: from vacation. So you know, this is this is a
Speaker 1: I think I have a much deeper appreciation for being
Speaker 1: in the Conference finals this time than I did the
Speaker 1: previous times. You know, you kind of in the midst
Speaker 1: of a five year run of every year going to
Speaker 1: the conference finals, every year going to the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: you you kind of just expect to get there and
Speaker 1: like you expect to win it. And you know, after
Speaker 1: two years of not being here and you know, experiencing
Speaker 1: that and then coming back, like it's just a totally
Speaker 1: different appreciation just for competing at this level. Like having
Speaker 1: I saw something from Clayton the other day where he said,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, like, I like the pressure. You know,
Speaker 1: you you you love the opportunity to just compete at
Speaker 1: the highest level. And it's no higher level than the
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs and the Conference finals and the finals. And
Speaker 1: so man, I'm extremely excited to be in this position.
Speaker 1: And then as we know, as we now know, the
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks went into Phoenix and one I actually expected
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks to win this game. I also picked
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks to win on the pod. As you
Speaker 1: all know, forty that's tough. That's tough. I was shocked
Speaker 1: at at the game plan going into to the game
Speaker 1: for the suns and like they were still switching everything,
Speaker 1: and and Luca had been inviting those switches, and he
Speaker 1: was calling, you know, started the game. First play, he
Speaker 1: called DeAndre a up and got him into the switch.
Speaker 1: He got to this little spin step back off the
Speaker 1: left foot dirt and then the next three, next player
Speaker 1: was a three and and you just knew, like, all right,
Speaker 1: you know, when you get to a game seven, you're
Speaker 1: already you already know they know what we're trying to do.
Speaker 1: We know what they're trying to do. Who's gonna play harder,
Speaker 1: who's going to get the boss made the best man win,
Speaker 1: who's gonna shoot best? Whose roles player is gonna come
Speaker 1: up a little more? And Luca dominated the game early
Speaker 1: and then the role players got going. They were actually
Speaker 1: missing shots early on. Jay Len Bronson was missing early on,
Speaker 1: Dorry and Pennie Smith was missing early on. Where the
Speaker 1: where the other guys started actually got going was when
Speaker 1: Mster came into the game, Special came into the game.
Speaker 1: He really got it going, and then everyone else picked
Speaker 1: it up. And that was huge. Um holding Chris Paul,
Speaker 1: Devin Booker, and DeAndre Aidan in the first half to
Speaker 1: one for fifteen shooting. I think that's been one of
Speaker 1: the biggest improvements in the in the Dallas Mavericks team
Speaker 1: is their defense. Um and from the start of the
Speaker 1: season two now they are totally different team defensively. And
Speaker 1: I mean, as you can see, they held the son
Speaker 1: to the Sons to twenty seven points in the first half.
Speaker 1: It's hard to find games in the NBA where a
Speaker 1: team has twenty seven points at the end of the
Speaker 1: first quarter. They had twenty seven at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half. I mean, that was an incredible display
Speaker 1: of dominance by Dallas. Incredible display. You know, you you
Speaker 1: want to point out, like their defense is great and
Speaker 1: twenty seven points, you want to point out their offense
Speaker 1: was great, and guys had it going. It was just
Speaker 1: and display of dominance and Luca got going and the
Speaker 1: rest of the guys followed, and so that I'm sure
Speaker 1: I called a lot of people off guard. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I thought they would win, of course, I just didn't
Speaker 1: predict that they would win by forty. But the series
Speaker 1: outcome did not surprise me. It didn't surprise me. Go
Speaker 1: to State Warriors and the Memphis Grizzlies Game six, man,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something that game. As you see,
Speaker 1: you can see we went up ten, they cut it.
Speaker 1: The two we went up ten, they cut it. The
Speaker 1: one we went up ten, they go up one. As
Speaker 1: I I tweeted this a while back, that Memphis Grizzlies team.
Speaker 1: Those young eyes are unfazed. They're unbothered by anything, and
Speaker 1: that's such a great trait to have when you're trying
Speaker 1: to make runs. They were never phased by our runs.
Speaker 1: We get down to the six minute mark. They may
Speaker 1: have been up tour as a tie ball game right
Speaker 1: in there, and that's when we started to make our run.
Speaker 1: We started to pull away. But that team, that team
Speaker 1: has a bright future, has a very bright future. Now
Speaker 1: what that team has to fight against is now they're
Speaker 1: gonna be expected to do more. Right, so you go
Speaker 1: to the second round, tough match up with us, they're
Speaker 1: going to be expected to do more. Accolades come in
Speaker 1: all of those things. Egos get bigger, you know, as
Speaker 1: as guys get older, as they solidify themselves more, and
Speaker 1: so that team has to keep all of that together.
Speaker 1: You know, I know everyone's out there saying, oh the
Speaker 1: money and this. It's the things that go on within
Speaker 1: your team that matters much more than money. It's it's
Speaker 1: the culture, and they have it. They have a good culture.
Speaker 1: Those young guys. They rock with each other, they dance,
Speaker 1: they do all the stuff. But again, as you get
Speaker 1: older and you don't dance as much, you know, and
Speaker 1: you don't celebrate as much, your party together as much,
Speaker 1: or whatever they may do, that's when all of those
Speaker 1: things matter more and more and more than obviously reaching
Speaker 1: new levels of success. But as I said in my
Speaker 1: press conference the other day, with all the chippiness in
Speaker 1: the series and the injuries that I knocked the gritty
Speaker 1: when the shot goes up the he filed him, he
Speaker 1: heard him, um whoop that trick. Like all of the
Speaker 1: stuff that went on this series, as you're going through that,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I can't wait to finish this series
Speaker 1: off and just like shut these dudes up and like
Speaker 1: Gritty on the court, and like, you know, those are
Speaker 1: just the thoughts you're thinking as you're going through it.
Speaker 1: And then I got to the end of it, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, that was so hard. It was so hard.
Speaker 1: I have nothing but respect for those young guys, nothing
Speaker 1: but respect they the way they fought, the way they
Speaker 1: competed from the beginning of the series to the end. Uh,
Speaker 1: they made us a much better team. I don't take
Speaker 1: that for granted at all. Um. I mean you just
Speaker 1: you really have to get those guys their credit. And
Speaker 1: for me, um, you know, I saw even after Dillon
Speaker 1: Brooks like, oh they're getting no like uh I said
Speaker 1: that last year. Um, you know, like alright, cool. I
Speaker 1: thought Steph guilty with him what he said there was
Speaker 1: a dyno. He was a dynasty like stop, you know,
Speaker 1: and and of course stopped. Like I think what that
Speaker 1: team will learn as they continue to grow is how
Speaker 1: to in There were some things that went on in
Speaker 1: that series that just shows me that they're still young,
Speaker 1: and as they get older, they'll learn how to win.
Speaker 1: They'll learn, um just different things about winning games down
Speaker 1: the stretch and how to pull out these tight games
Speaker 1: in those situations. They'll continue to learn that as you
Speaker 1: get more experience. And that's what you always hear a
Speaker 1: team say, like, but that team knows how to win
Speaker 1: and and and so you know, I know there are
Speaker 1: some things that they'll continue to get better out and
Speaker 1: they'll continue to grow game playing, discipline stuff. Um, just
Speaker 1: different things that you learn. I don't want to say
Speaker 1: you learn by losing, but you learn going through the process.
Speaker 1: And normally when you have to learn going through the process,
Speaker 1: you do lose, and so it's not necessarily that you
Speaker 1: learn from losing. You just learned by going through that
Speaker 1: actual process. And so I think, you know, the next
Speaker 1: time we face those guys, they'll know more. I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily say that they're gonna beat us, but they'll no more,
Speaker 1: and it'll get tougher, and it'll get tougher, and then
Speaker 1: one day maybe they will because whosever the king of
Speaker 1: the parking lot forever? You know, So maybe one day
Speaker 1: they get it. But we're still going and it's still
Speaker 1: fun and we're still doing what we do. In Game six,
Speaker 1: Clay is still Game six Clay. Game six, Clay last
Speaker 1: time playing in the playoffs before this year was Game
Speaker 1: six and he was cooking Toronto Raptors. Game six Clay
Speaker 1: showed up again. And you know, I think one of
Speaker 1: the beautiful things about Game six Clays like that obviously
Speaker 1: became this narrative and like this thing of people saying
Speaker 1: Clay really believes that now like in his hand he liked,
Speaker 1: of course, his Game six like, of course I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do this, are you crazy? And like he approaches the
Speaker 1: game like that, and it's one of the most incredible
Speaker 1: things to watch this. I mean, it shows you how
Speaker 1: powerful the mind is, Like for those out there that
Speaker 1: just doesn't understand how powerful your thoughts are, how powerful
Speaker 1: your beliefs are. The mind is a very powerful thing.
Speaker 1: And he believes, like Games says, Clay is a real thing.
Speaker 1: And guess what, Killer Clay believe it. I believe it,
Speaker 1: and he continues to show it. And so that was
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. I thought. One of the big things that
Speaker 1: I really took away from that game and how hard
Speaker 1: it really was, is Steph finished the game with nine
Speaker 1: Clay finished the game with thirty. We just finished the
Speaker 1: game with eighteen eleven. I finished the game with fourteen
Speaker 1: fifteen and eight assists. LOONI finished the game with twenty
Speaker 1: two rebounds. We did not pull away from that team
Speaker 1: until the four or five minute mark of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: We needed all of that, We needed everybody to play. Well.
Speaker 1: That's how tough that young team work. They were really tough,
Speaker 1: and you have to, like I said before, you have
Speaker 1: to give them their credit. But we definitely put it
Speaker 1: all together, and it was great to see all of
Speaker 1: us have a good game and need it all play
Speaker 1: well at the same time. In order to move forward,
Speaker 1: I have to once again, I'm not just gonna breeze
Speaker 1: over this, like this isn't a big deal. Cavan Looney
Speaker 1: was absolutely amazing. You know, Steph and I have been
Speaker 1: pushing for him to start, and you know the reason
Speaker 1: we were is just like it may not have looked
Speaker 1: like that or felt like that on the bench as
Speaker 1: a coach, but on the court, it felt like we
Speaker 1: were getting dominated. Like if you're out there, you're like,
Speaker 1: you feel like you're getting dominated. Another reason I really
Speaker 1: wanted Cavan and starters because I wanted to start on
Speaker 1: Jaren Jackson from the beginning of the game and I
Speaker 1: would uh, and going through the series, they started trying
Speaker 1: to take advantage of our lack of size on Jaren Jackson.
Speaker 1: So I would get on him and I would feel
Speaker 1: like he's kind of looking at me like fresh meat
Speaker 1: when I come out there to garden, but he's already
Speaker 1: kind of in his rhythm and feeling, you know, the
Speaker 1: provido from scoring and and so I wanted to start
Speaker 1: on him from the beginning of the game. That was
Speaker 1: a big thing for me starting that game. It's like,
Speaker 1: I need to take him out of the game from
Speaker 1: the start of the game. First play, what do they do?
Speaker 1: Go to Jaren Jackson on the post, come up with
Speaker 1: the stop. That sets a different tone for our team.
Speaker 1: And that tone is set by who I know. I
Speaker 1: got to stop. And most people say, oh, Draymond, you
Speaker 1: set the tone. That tone is set by simply starting.
Speaker 1: Cavan Luney, That's who set the tone. And he rebounded
Speaker 1: the basketball eleven rebounds in the first quarter. I came
Speaker 1: out the game. When I came out the game in
Speaker 1: the first quarter, I looked up, I said, man, lout
Speaker 1: and then he got a rebound. I said, yo, look
Speaker 1: got ten rebounds. They're like yeah, I'm like wow, this
Speaker 1: is impressive for Cavan Luney to play, not play much
Speaker 1: at all in this playoffs, really is guarding Joker when
Speaker 1: I was out, and then you know, for him to
Speaker 1: then play a career high in minutes, not playoff minutes,
Speaker 1: a career high in minutes, have twenty two rebounds, saved
Speaker 1: the day, saved the season. I got to give a
Speaker 1: lot of credit to that young man. Uh guy who
Speaker 1: been through numerous and injuries plays eighty two games this year, Like,
Speaker 1: whatever happens to Lone this summer, and I hope it's here,
Speaker 1: I hope it's here. He get whatever he he whatever
Speaker 1: happens with him, he deserved because that's a guy who
Speaker 1: worked just but all fought through injuries, true professional and
Speaker 1: he come up on the biggest stage. So shout out
Speaker 1: to Kevon Loni and what he did for the Dubs
Speaker 1: and extending our season because we needed it in a
Speaker 1: major way. And moving forward, Dallas and the Dubs meet
Speaker 1: in the conference finals. Um extremely excited about this, as
Speaker 1: I said, Uh, definitely gonna be a tough matchup anytime
Speaker 1: you're playing against a guy like Luka don che Um.
Speaker 1: You know he he can control the tempo of games.
Speaker 1: He gets whatever shot he wants, he gets other guys involved.
Speaker 1: Um just an incredible, incredible, incredible, absolutely the incredible talent
Speaker 1: Um he you know, he and he's been that way
Speaker 1: since since he walked into the NBA. I remember when
Speaker 1: he first came into the NBA and he said, it's
Speaker 1: easier to score in the NBA than it is overseas.
Speaker 1: And everybody I know, guys are like, Wow, he's out
Speaker 1: of his mind? Is he crazy? This the NBA? And
Speaker 1: when he said it, I understood what he was saying, like,
Speaker 1: and what he was saying is like, there's so much
Speaker 1: more space on an NBA floor, and overseas they packed
Speaker 1: the paint, they played from the outside in, whereas the
Speaker 1: NBA everybody's trying to take the three away. And so
Speaker 1: Lucas like, it's way easier to score here. And I knew.
Speaker 1: I knew and understood exactly what he was talking about.
Speaker 1: I keep up with overseas basketball. One of my closest friends,
Speaker 1: Raymond Morgan, players overseas, was having a great career over there,
Speaker 1: and I just pay attention to the game, and it's
Speaker 1: just so much bigger, Like you get away with playing
Speaker 1: two huge bigs like Logs overseas and it's just not
Speaker 1: that way in the NBA. And so I knew what
Speaker 1: he was talking about. And he's proven what he said
Speaker 1: was true because the way he scores the basketball is
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. Jalon Bronson has been playing absolutely amazing. Uh,
Speaker 1: He's earned himself a nice payday coming up this summer,
Speaker 1: but he's he's taking that next step. You know, he
Speaker 1: was kind of coming off the bench and role player
Speaker 1: and he's taking that next step to the starter and
Speaker 1: legit number two options for those guys, and so um
Speaker 1: gotta guard Jalen Bronson. He's huge. He you know, he
Speaker 1: takes advantage of smaller guys. Um. You know, he kind
Speaker 1: of plays an old school game, doesn't make many mistakes.
Speaker 1: So Jalen Brunson will be big for them. And then
Speaker 1: they have those guys shooting the ball during Phinney Smith,
Speaker 1: who's an incredible defender. Uh. I've raved about his improvement
Speaker 1: and even when he got his contract here, Um I
Speaker 1: spoke about that and just how much how deserving he was,
Speaker 1: and he's continued to show that. Uh to pick up
Speaker 1: they had with Reggie, with Reggie Bullock and how he's
Speaker 1: defending and shooting the three. What Nico Harrison has done
Speaker 1: and coming into his first year and put in building
Speaker 1: this team, building that coaching staff with Jason Kidd and
Speaker 1: the gym that no one talks about Jared Dudley. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean Nico has done an incredible job. And you
Speaker 1: know they pulling the trade with Spencer did with him.
Speaker 1: You know, no one would have gotten rid of Porzingis
Speaker 1: you just people don't do that in the NBA. Nico.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I know Nico. I've I've when when up
Speaker 1: up against Nico and negotiations when Nico was an executive
Speaker 1: at Nike, and Nico will make tough calls, like Nico
Speaker 1: is not a guy that won't make tough calls. And
Speaker 1: when I when I look at that, Spencer then with
Speaker 1: the trade with Chris stops porzingis no one would have
Speaker 1: done that. And I am certain that that was a
Speaker 1: Nico Harrison call because I I just I know the
Speaker 1: type of negotiator he is. I know he's not He's
Speaker 1: not the type of guy that won't swing for defenses
Speaker 1: and stand on what he believes in. And I I
Speaker 1: just don't think that's a move someone else would have made.
Speaker 1: I definitely think at a Nico Harrison moved and Spencer
Speaker 1: dinwidd he has shown how big of a move that was,
Speaker 1: not only in these playoffs but the remainder of that
Speaker 1: regular season. And so you know, when he played well,
Speaker 1: they tend to win. MAXI Claiber who's shooting the ball well,
Speaker 1: uh Dwight Pole who starts the game for them, and
Speaker 1: Claiber has been playing a lot more in this series,
Speaker 1: but all of those guys matter, and so you know,
Speaker 1: they found uh Frank Tilakina. Nilikina has found himself at
Speaker 1: home and he's defended for those guys, and so you know,
Speaker 1: that's a really good team. It's gonna be a tough
Speaker 1: matchup for us. I think one thing we know we
Speaker 1: have to do is get our turnovers down. Those guys
Speaker 1: will feed off and turnovers, and you know that's something
Speaker 1: that you know, moving forward, we need to correct. And
Speaker 1: so that will be a big deal for us because
Speaker 1: that allows us not only to get good, good looks
Speaker 1: and more looks at the rim, but it allows us
Speaker 1: to set our defense. And you know, anytime you're playing
Speaker 1: against the set defense is just much harder than when
Speaker 1: you're plan in transition. And that's what you know, that's
Speaker 1: what we've allowed the Memphis Grizzlies to do, even something
Speaker 1: with the uh Denver Nuggets. They're just getting out and
Speaker 1: transition against us for turning the ball over. So we
Speaker 1: definitely have to take better care of the ball um
Speaker 1: and and that will be uh probably key number one
Speaker 1: on the offensive end for us is taking care of
Speaker 1: the ball. So if we can correct that issue, Um,
Speaker 1: which I have no doubt in my mind that we can.
Speaker 1: I am the main one. I need to correct it myself.
Speaker 1: I've been I think I may have had four more
Speaker 1: turnovers in each game uh in the Memphis series. So
Speaker 1: I have to correct that issue as the rest of
Speaker 1: us do as well. But it starts with me, and
Speaker 1: I will be better in that area and I think
Speaker 1: that will allow for us to be better as a team.
Speaker 1: But I am expecting a tough series. You've got two
Speaker 1: great coaches coach kurrent and and and j k going
Speaker 1: up against each other. I'm looking forward to the chess matches,
Speaker 1: the chess matches on the court against their guys like
Speaker 1: that's all fun. And so looking forward to that. Doves
Speaker 1: Dallas in the East in the out in conference finals,
Speaker 1: and who's my prediction My prediction for that for that
Speaker 1: match up, It's the Dubs of course, of course, Celtics
Speaker 1: Bucks Jason Tatum. The way Jayson Tatum took over Game
Speaker 1: six absolutely amazing. And I'm just saying, I have people
Speaker 1: said telling me, Draymond, you need to get off the podcast.
Speaker 1: Um stopped doing the podcast during the during the playoffs,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and what they weren't paying to paying
Speaker 1: attention to was me saying, hey, that's not market smart.
Speaker 1: Fought they lost that game. That's j T thought they
Speaker 1: lost that game. And I'm putting that on the young fella.
Speaker 1: And what did young fella do? He wouldn't have made
Speaker 1: it right? He went to Milwaukee and got forty six
Speaker 1: and nine. Make it right, j T. Make it right then,
Speaker 1: and shout out to the to the people that say, oh, Draymond,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be doing a podcast. You should focus I
Speaker 1: I look forward to the day when they when they
Speaker 1: reach out, when they tell Elon must and I'm sure
Speaker 1: they do when they tell Elon Musk Tesla stock is
Speaker 1: doing bad, you better not focus on SpaceX at all.
Speaker 1: You know, no no one does that. You know, no
Speaker 1: one was You know, no one thinks Jack Dorsey was
Speaker 1: wearing Twitter and Square to to multibillion dollar companies. No
Speaker 1: one says Jack Dorsey can't run too because the other
Speaker 1: ones uh having a bad day on the stock market.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they want me to not talk about Jayson
Speaker 1: Tatum and do this podcast and and play basketball. Stop it.
Speaker 1: The podcast is not going anywhere. So for those out
Speaker 1: there that saying, oh, Draymond should stop doing the podcast
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Draymond Green Show. It's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: Jayson Tatum was absolutely incredible. He got in foul trouble
Speaker 1: in this game, in this Game seven, but the way
Speaker 1: his imprint on the game from the very beginning on
Speaker 1: both ends of the floor that once he went down
Speaker 1: with foul trouble, he had those guys rolling, He had
Speaker 1: them locked in, confident and they kept rolling. And Milwaukee
Speaker 1: was not able to take advantage of Jayson Tatum picking
Speaker 1: up his fourth file. And that's really where the Celtics
Speaker 1: won the game, because if you're Milwaukee, you really have
Speaker 1: to capitalize on Jayson Tatum picking up that file, and
Speaker 1: they did not, because not only did it take Um
Speaker 1: their best offensive player off the floor, but it took
Speaker 1: one of their better defensive defenders off the floor as well,
Speaker 1: and they were just weren't able to capitalize on it.
Speaker 1: And that's this series, I mean, really all series long,
Speaker 1: but especially as a series progressed, you realize how much
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks was missing Chris Middleton. Uh and that's
Speaker 1: you know that Chris Middleton. Janic's averages the most points, obviously,
Speaker 1: but Chris Middleton is their number one option when it
Speaker 1: comes to scoring, when it comes to the sets, when
Speaker 1: it comes to all those things, when it comes to
Speaker 1: time to get a bucket, Chris Middleton is their number
Speaker 1: one option on offensive end, and so for them to
Speaker 1: be missing him against such a great defense like Boston,
Speaker 1: kudos and congratulations to the Milwaukee Bucks for even taking
Speaker 1: that series seven. But the absence of Chris was just
Speaker 1: too too big to overcome, and they they felt that.
Speaker 1: And obviously we're watching the Celtics move on. Not saying
Speaker 1: that the Celtics couldn't have moved on if Chris Middleton
Speaker 1: wasn't was there, but the Bucks definitely felt that. And
Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty impressive for both teams to
Speaker 1: go on the road to win two games. That's just
Speaker 1: tough to do in any playoffs, and for both of
Speaker 1: those teams to do that, I thought that was impressive.
Speaker 1: Um Marcus Smart continues to play well. Al Harford continues
Speaker 1: to play well. But Grant Williams, I know that analytic
Speaker 1: guys were, I mean, I know they were in heaven
Speaker 1: watching Grant Williams played day. At one point, Grant Williams
Speaker 1: was seven for fifteen from three um, he was no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. At one point he was six for fifteen
Speaker 1: from three. I think he had twenty one points. And
Speaker 1: for an analytical guy, that is heaven. That's heaven. That's like,
Speaker 1: we got this guy to take fifteen threes, he has
Speaker 1: twenty one points. Those analytics off the chart. Now, Grant
Speaker 1: Williams continued to shoot that thing, and he continued to
Speaker 1: shoot that thing well, and he finished with a playoff
Speaker 1: career high twenty seven points. That is the difference between
Speaker 1: home in a way, that's the difference your role players
Speaker 1: at home as opposed on the road. Grant Williams didn't
Speaker 1: played very well in Milwaukee, but on at home, come
Speaker 1: out firing, lose nothing to lose, crowd on your side,
Speaker 1: and Grant Williams got it going. Grant Williams made himself
Speaker 1: a lot of money in that game right there. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously he has another year and you know the business
Speaker 1: of basketball. But Grant way, the way he shot the
Speaker 1: basketball and the way he defends, uh, the size that
Speaker 1: he has, like he shot the ball all season long
Speaker 1: very well. So I'm not taking anything away from that.
Speaker 1: But when you go on that stage in game seven,
Speaker 1: to get to the Eastern Conference Finals, and you do that,
Speaker 1: that means a little more. And Grant Williams showed up
Speaker 1: in a major, major way for the Celtics. Jalen Brown,
Speaker 1: the way Jalen Brown was attacking from the very beginning
Speaker 1: of the game, putting those guys on his hills. Also
Speaker 1: another reason. Another way you see that they missed Chris
Speaker 1: Middleton because as opposed to that being Grace and Allen
Speaker 1: who had no chance, that's Chris Middleton who does have
Speaker 1: a chance, who's a good defender. And so again you
Speaker 1: see the loss of Chris Middleton and how that was
Speaker 1: just it was too much for the Bucks to overcome.
Speaker 1: You got the heat Celtics coming up in the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference Finals. That's gonna be a tough match up. I'm
Speaker 1: taking the Celtics the and I'm taking the Celtics is
Speaker 1: because Jason Tatum is gonna be Jason Tatum. Jaalis Brown
Speaker 1: is gonna be Jayden Brown, and their defense is going
Speaker 1: to be their defense. And I think Milwaukee, I mean
Speaker 1: I think Miami, who depends on Tyler Hero to score
Speaker 1: a lot, I think Tyler Hero will have some trouble
Speaker 1: against all of Boston's length, Jimmy Butler would do what
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler does. But I think the way they depend
Speaker 1: on Tyler Hero scoring and how much length I think
Speaker 1: Tyler Hero. Tyler Hero definitely has some good games in
Speaker 1: this series. I'm not saying they're gonna completely take him
Speaker 1: out of the series. He's a good player, but I
Speaker 1: think over the course of a seven game series, that
Speaker 1: length is going to bother him. And they really depend
Speaker 1: on that scoring. Uh, p J. Tucker in this series
Speaker 1: in Miami. Having p J. Tucker this year does help
Speaker 1: and and and and could possibly change that series. Also
Speaker 1: another thing that changes that series, it's will Kyle Laurie
Speaker 1: be available or not. I think that's a really big
Speaker 1: deal when you're facing a good team him a good
Speaker 1: defense because Kyle Lark can help manipulate the defense. Um and,
Speaker 1: so that's gonna be a big deal as well. But
Speaker 1: ultimately I got the Bucks winning that one, um and
Speaker 1: and ultimately moving on to the NBA Finals to play Dubs.
Speaker 1: Jackson Before we get out of here giving my picks
Speaker 1: my thoughts, I know you're happy your Boston Celtics going
Speaker 1: to the Eastern Conference finals. That is a big part
Speaker 1: of this podcast that we have not discussed in the energy.
Speaker 1: It's Jackson been sitting here smiling on the screen his
Speaker 1: entire press conference because the Celtics won. But Jackson, I
Speaker 1: don't know, you've got something to say about the Celtics. Man. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just happy we won. I'm just happy one
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that uh and whatever it is ten days,
Speaker 1: twelve days, something like that, that we're staring down the
Speaker 1: barrel of the Celtics Warriors finals. That sounds great, man,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that. Hey, hey, my JT. Remember
Speaker 1: I told y'all how how Jackson was just talking about
Speaker 1: show on the last spot. How set the fans getting
Speaker 1: now he can't stop smiling. Yeah, looking at the find
Speaker 1: as you see. How to fands be man? Uh, Jackson,
Speaker 1: you got a couple of mail back question for before
Speaker 1: we get out of here. I do. This was not
Speaker 1: an officially submitted mail bag question to the Draymond to
Speaker 1: The Draymond Green Show, and by the way, a reminder
Speaker 1: to submit your questions on Twitter hashtag d Draymond Green Show. Um,
Speaker 1: this was a good question that I thought, in the
Speaker 1: spirit of the Celtics winning from Jeff Goodman at Jeff Goodman,
Speaker 1: the college basketball reporter, He said, where does Tatum rank
Speaker 1: in terms of the most quote complete players in the NBA?
Speaker 1: Because he said Janice doesn't have a consisting three point
Speaker 1: jump shot, Luca doesn't defend with consistency. He did not
Speaker 1: mention Kevin Durant, but that is a fair question. Where
Speaker 1: does Tatum rank in terms of the most complete players
Speaker 1: in the NBA? Jeff, what's something? Man? I think Jeff
Speaker 1: may owe me dinner for a bet about h some
Speaker 1: of with college basketball. I don't know. Maybe I'll owe
Speaker 1: Jeff dinner. I think it's possible. Mayo Jeff dinner. Jeff,
Speaker 1: what's up? Jeff? Next time? Hashtag to Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: But because you are Jeff Goodman and because you are
Speaker 1: my guy, we still found a question. Shoutout to jackson Um.
Speaker 1: Where does Tatum rank amongst complete players? I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a shortage of complete players in
Speaker 1: the NBA. So as far as like sitting, like ranking them,
Speaker 1: I have That's something that I've never truly thought about
Speaker 1: because I don't think there's a shortage. I think we
Speaker 1: have several complete players. What I will say is I
Speaker 1: think Jason has continued to grow and and and credit
Speaker 1: to uh email Udoka for getting him to take that
Speaker 1: next step on the defensive end, because I think this
Speaker 1: year is the most I've ever seen j T lock
Speaker 1: in on the defensive end, and he takes it personal
Speaker 1: now and you can see that in a way he's defending,
Speaker 1: in the way they're defending as he takes it personal now.
Speaker 1: And so I can't just say all these years before
Speaker 1: that j T was the most complete player, but I
Speaker 1: think he has grown into that and he is that now.
Speaker 1: And I do think some of that credit goes to
Speaker 1: Emay and their coaching staff on requiring him to play
Speaker 1: defense on you know that that being a non negotiable,
Speaker 1: like no, JT. I know you can score, but if
Speaker 1: we're gonna win, you have to play some defense. And
Speaker 1: he's taking that next step. J B is taking that
Speaker 1: next step, and they're really truly defending. And so I
Speaker 1: don't really want to get to who's the best, who's
Speaker 1: you know, whereas he ranked, but what I will say
Speaker 1: is he is now on that list of complete players,
Speaker 1: whereas he wasn't prior to this year, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: because he didn't always bring it on the defensive end
Speaker 1: like he does this year and he does all the time, alright.
Speaker 1: Next one from at White Don Draper, what were you
Speaker 1: saying to Katie and that famous gift where you're like
Speaker 1: tapping him and hyping him out? By now you sort
Speaker 1: of talked about this, you're just hyping him up generally,
Speaker 1: But what specifically were you saying to Kevin during I
Speaker 1: can't remember exactly what I was saying, but I was.
Speaker 1: I think guy was saying something about like they want
Speaker 1: to guard something like that, I got you, and if
Speaker 1: I got you, I'm gonna roll with you every time,
Speaker 1: like against against against that what they're down there doing,
Speaker 1: and I got you. Mean to tell me I got you,
Speaker 1: I get you the ball, I'm rolling with that every
Speaker 1: single time. They can't stop you. Nobody down that's somebody
Speaker 1: in this league can stop you. So if that's what
Speaker 1: they're gonna give us, I'm rolling with that every single time.
Speaker 1: And so it was something along those lines. I can't
Speaker 1: remember verbatim, but it was something along those lines, all right.
Speaker 1: Last one from Fern at Cloud Division. How are playoff
Speaker 1: games different in Chase Center versus Oracle? I thought this
Speaker 1: was interesting to revisit because we talked about this earlier
Speaker 1: in the season and you basically said that because he
Speaker 1: hadn't had any had any playoff games or relay much
Speaker 1: of a playoff experience in the Chase Center, you had
Speaker 1: to build up that playoff culture. Now you've won two
Speaker 1: series in the in the Chase Center, so so far
Speaker 1: at least, how would you say it compares. I think
Speaker 1: I think, you know, Chase is starting to make a
Speaker 1: name for herself, Chase is starting to become a good
Speaker 1: home court advantage. But I still can't compare it to
Speaker 1: Oracle because there's just so much success in Oracle and
Speaker 1: we have to continue to create success in this building. Um,
Speaker 1: what I will say is, I think an Oracle, like
Speaker 1: you walk in the warm most Oracles, you can't hear
Speaker 1: like they would cut off the music, just be too loud.
Speaker 1: Like I think that was one of the differences, like
Speaker 1: when the crowd gets going, Like once our crowd get going,
Speaker 1: now it's going, But Oracle will be going from the
Speaker 1: very beginning of us stepping onto the court, not the buzzers.
Speaker 1: Are us stepping onto the court, And so just a
Speaker 1: different type of energy and Oracle, nonetheless, it's becoming a
Speaker 1: great home core for us. We're protecting our home court
Speaker 1: has been super loud. When we just played that Game six,
Speaker 1: that sounded and felt like oracle and it was insane.
Speaker 1: But again, we're building to that point and and and
Speaker 1: and a part of that responsibility is on us as players.
Speaker 1: It's not on the fans. And so we're bringing what
Speaker 1: we gotta bring. They're bringing what they need to bring,
Speaker 1: and we're making it work and we're putting it together.
Speaker 1: That's a wrap on this episode of The Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: Your Eastern Conference Finals are set, your Western Conference Finals
Speaker 1: are set, and we will be set to lock back
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