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Speaker 4: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. Uh,
Speaker 4: this is a kind of shitty podcast to do. As
Speaker 4: our season came to an end a couple of days ago.
Speaker 4: I know there's a bunch of questions about the future
Speaker 4: of the Warriors, and that is Steph Clay and myself
Speaker 4: and twelve years we've been together and if that was
Speaker 4: the last time we've seen that.
Speaker 1: All of those questions.
Speaker 4: There's also some other stuff around the play in that's
Speaker 4: going on that we're going to get into that I
Speaker 4: think is interesting. But also, you know, as these series
Speaker 4: are starting to shake out, we'll also talk a couple
Speaker 4: of these series that we now know are happening. And
Speaker 4: also for those of y'all out there, make sure you
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Speaker 4: need that. Appreciate you. But let's get into the game.
Speaker 4: We got popped by the Kings one eighteen to ninety
Speaker 4: four on Tuesday, which is our season.
Speaker 1: I told you all, I hate that playing.
Speaker 4: They were way more physical than us, They shocked the
Speaker 4: ball way better than us.
Speaker 1: They dominated the game, but like it comes.
Speaker 4: Down to one game NCAA tournament style and that's just it,
Speaker 4: Like you don't get it back, like you don't get
Speaker 4: another chance, and so I hate the play in Still,
Speaker 4: it's still absolutely incredible. It's great. It's like the worst
Speaker 4: great thing of all times. But it's been exciting, and
Speaker 4: you know, it didn't go well for us. My thoughts
Speaker 4: on the game before we move forward, Steph twenty two
Speaker 4: eight for sixteen shooting. What that says to me is
Speaker 4: like their defense was really good, Like they defended us
Speaker 4: really well because Steph twenty two eight for sixteen shooting,
Speaker 4: I mean we just didn't find him enough shot opportunities
Speaker 4: at two points. That's a very light knight of Steph,
Speaker 4: but a very that's an efficient night, you know. And
Speaker 4: I think he was maybe three for seven from three
Speaker 4: or something like that. And so got to get their
Speaker 4: defensive credit.
Speaker 1: Mike Brown. We know it's a defensive genius.
Speaker 4: You know, Mike got all my respect, especially when it
Speaker 4: comes to that side of the ball. And he had
Speaker 4: them guys ready to go. Their defensive game plan was great. Uh,
Speaker 4: you know, they did a good job on everybody. Uh,
Speaker 4: Clay was oh for ten from the field, oh for
Speaker 4: six from three. By the way, some shots that we
Speaker 4: know Clay is more than capable of making it normally
Speaker 4: does make, just couldn't get one to go uh that night.
Speaker 1: And again it's one of those nice right, Like.
Speaker 4: I think Clay only didn't score a bucket in his
Speaker 4: NBA career one other time that he played in the game,
Speaker 4: and that was because he got ejected two three minutes
Speaker 4: into the game. And and and I also got ejected
Speaker 4: that game. But that you know, that's uh, that's the
Speaker 4: only other time Clay didn't score in the game.
Speaker 1: So in saying.
Speaker 4: That, that's the Ncason Tournament, right, Like, you end up
Speaker 4: in that situation and one night and then the shots
Speaker 4: just don't fall and it's over.
Speaker 1: You know. But like I said, their defensive game plan
Speaker 1: was great.
Speaker 4: Wiggs four to four, eleven from the field, JK six
Speaker 4: for fifteen from the field, and they were eighteen.
Speaker 1: For thirty nine from the three.
Speaker 4: You know, like we had a rough shooting night, and
Speaker 4: like I said, you got to get them some credit.
Speaker 4: They were flying around. I remember one play that stood
Speaker 4: out to me in particular. I caught the ball kind
Speaker 4: of at the elbow and Trace was diving and I
Speaker 4: kind of tried to lead him a bit to the lib,
Speaker 4: and the Bonus had just trapped the ball screen up
Speaker 4: top with Steph and sprinted all the way back to
Speaker 4: the real.
Speaker 1: And broke up the lib. You know.
Speaker 4: And like they were flying around all night. Uh, and
Speaker 4: you know, they just got the better of us that night.
Speaker 4: So that's what you have, you know, when you're in
Speaker 4: this playing situation. Our season overall as a whole, ironically
Speaker 4: forty six and thirty six, two more wins than we
Speaker 4: had last year when we were the sixth seed, end
Speaker 4: up tense different West. And you know, like I said
Speaker 4: that before, we blew some games that we should have
Speaker 4: easily won. I can count maybe six seven games on
Speaker 4: my hand, my two hands, right off the top of
Speaker 4: my head.
Speaker 1: That like, we gave away.
Speaker 4: We gave two okayc games away filing at the end
Speaker 4: of the game on threes.
Speaker 1: Both of them.
Speaker 4: Gave them away or we gave up the three to
Speaker 4: check and then I filed on the three. That's two
Speaker 4: games we absolutely gave away. We gave away game to
Speaker 4: the Clippers, gave away a game of Chicago. Like the
Speaker 4: list goes on on Joker hits an almost Corse shot
Speaker 4: against Differ in the game we were up seventeen.
Speaker 1: That's five.
Speaker 4: I can continue on the point is when you have
Speaker 4: those games, you have to close those games. The great
Speaker 4: teams close those games, and that's what separate good and
Speaker 4: great teams.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 4: When you look at those things, you ultimately get what
Speaker 4: you're deserving in you know, through everything that went on
Speaker 4: this season, when you look at those things, it's.
Speaker 1: Unfortunate, but that's where we have to tighten up.
Speaker 4: When we know what it takes to win a championship,
Speaker 4: we know what the things that go into it.
Speaker 1: It's a process.
Speaker 4: It's an eight month process, it's not a two month process.
Speaker 4: And you have to be in that process the entire time.
Speaker 4: You skip steps in that process, you don't win. And
Speaker 4: we didn't do a great job of that this year.
Speaker 4: So that's now back to back seasons getting eliminated and tough,
Speaker 4: tough close out games, but far earlier than we expect,
Speaker 4: especially this one not being in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: This sucks, but got to go back to the drawing board.
Speaker 4: Retool had great exit interviews yesterday, Steve Mike. You know,
Speaker 4: looking forward to talking about what the future of this
Speaker 4: team looks like. You can't you're not allowed to make
Speaker 4: the playoffs and then think like, oh, everything's just going
Speaker 4: to stay the same, like's that's not a realistic thing,
Speaker 4: especially for an organization that has experienced the success that
Speaker 4: we've now brought to this organization. You can't just think like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's gonna stay the same and they're gonna just looked
Speaker 4: at it.
Speaker 1: I don't expect that.
Speaker 4: When you're in a situation like this, all things are
Speaker 4: on the table, Like you'd be crazy to go into
Speaker 4: it thinking like, oh it's not or I'm good or
Speaker 4: like naha, you're not like until you are. So I
Speaker 4: am looking forward to having these conversations seeing what's next,
Speaker 4: what the thoughts are kind of had few thoughts yesterday,
Speaker 4: but you're kind of just on this tight twenty minute
Speaker 4: schedule where everybody's kind of getting through their exit interview.
Speaker 4: So looking forward to having those conversations. What does that
Speaker 4: mean for the Big Three, the Trio, all the names
Speaker 4: I've seen.
Speaker 1: I wish I had.
Speaker 4: An answer for you, But what I do know is
Speaker 4: there's not one person in this organization that does not
Speaker 4: want Klay Thompson back here. Because I don't think there's
Speaker 4: one person around here that don't think we can't win again.
Speaker 4: Now again, do you have to retool, do you have
Speaker 4: to figure some things out? Do you need young guys
Speaker 4: to take steps? Yes, all of these things has to
Speaker 4: happen in organizations for them to continue to be successful.
Speaker 4: So yes, there are some tweaks that need to be made.
Speaker 4: Me personally, I don't think there's an overhaul that need
Speaker 4: to be made. I think there are tweaks that needs
Speaker 4: to be made. And if you know, if we can
Speaker 4: successfully make those tweaks tweaks, I think we put ourselves
Speaker 4: right back in the conversation. Clay will ultimately have to
Speaker 4: make a decision and he'll go into free agency. He'll see,
Speaker 4: I'm sure I know how this business goes. He'll see
Speaker 4: what's out there. He'll continue to talk to the warriors.
Speaker 4: There will be negotiations that needs to be had. One
Speaker 4: thing I will say that I learned last year, and
Speaker 4: I had never been throwing my career. Free agency is
Speaker 4: not a fun place. Free agency kind of sucks. There
Speaker 4: are a couple of people every now and then where
Speaker 4: free agency could be fun. But like the reality is
Speaker 4: is free agency is like uncertainty. Like and if there's
Speaker 4: anything all of us hated life is uncertainty. You're always
Speaker 4: looking for certainty and whatever it is that you do,
Speaker 4: free agency is like an uncertain place. You think your
Speaker 4: market is this, you think your market is that. That
Speaker 4: person over there thinks your market is this. Ultimately, it
Speaker 4: boils down to what is someone willing to offer you.
Speaker 4: I can think my market is whatever I wanted to
Speaker 4: think it is, but until I get to the free
Speaker 4: agency table and the offer star role, and you don't
Speaker 4: know what your market is. So I myself absolutely hated
Speaker 4: free agency. It sucks because you you sit there and
Speaker 4: you go on about your life not knowing really what's next.
Speaker 4: And that's no fun place to be, and you're at
Speaker 4: the mercy of someone else seeing a value of something
Speaker 4: and putting a dollar amount on it, and then you're
Speaker 4: figuring out what you think that dollar amount is and
Speaker 4: trying to somehow make it work, and in the process,
Speaker 4: feelings get hurt, relationships are broken. It's just the nature
Speaker 4: of it. It's really the shitty part of the business.
Speaker 4: So Clay will go in the free agency and he
Speaker 4: will look around the market, I'm sure, because that's how
Speaker 4: you do these things, and any negotiation that is with
Speaker 4: negotiating for toilet paper, and that's when negotiating for food,
Speaker 4: whatever it is. That's just how you go about it.
Speaker 4: So he'll do that, and I ultimately hope that he's
Speaker 4: back here that we all can close this thing out
Speaker 4: together the way we've done it, continue to chase after
Speaker 4: the things that we know are out there for us,
Speaker 4: which is winning championships, continuing to bring more success to
Speaker 4: a franchise than anyone could ever imagine besides Joe. Joe
Speaker 4: definitely imagine, but nobody else imagine.
Speaker 1: That is the goal. You don't have the.
Speaker 4: Opportunity to finish with the guys you started with often
Speaker 4: and we have that opportunity. But like I said, ultimately,
Speaker 4: I know, like when we started this journey, Clay was
Speaker 4: twenty one, Clay is thirty four. Life looks totally different
Speaker 4: at thirty four than it did at twenty one, and
Speaker 4: so I ultimately know he has to make decisions for
Speaker 4: himself for his life. And if there's one thing I
Speaker 4: hate is when guys like decide the free agency they're
Speaker 4: going to go somewhere else, and then guys be mad
Speaker 4: like they left them, like like, oh you left me,
Speaker 4: I'm upset at you, Like we're beefing now for the media,
Speaker 4: Like I ain't never gonna be that because I don't
Speaker 4: understand that, like someone make a personal decision for themselves,
Speaker 4: for their family, for their career, and then people get
Speaker 4: mad and be like, oh I'm mad.
Speaker 1: At like f him and like that's whack to me.
Speaker 4: And so I personally want Clay to come back.
Speaker 1: We all do.
Speaker 4: But if Clay ultimately decides that he wants something else
Speaker 4: for himself for his life, got my utmost love and
Speaker 4: support because what we've done together can never be taken away.
Speaker 4: The brotherhood that we've built will not change at all.
Speaker 4: But we do want to finish. But I don't understand
Speaker 4: that corny stuff when gods like oh man, I'm like
Speaker 4: ah in media beefing and stuff. We don't do that
Speaker 4: over here. Travis told me after we lost. He said, Yo,
Speaker 4: you're going to go through like some crazy emotions, like
Speaker 4: you're going to go through like high low, Like I'm done,
Speaker 4: I get to spend time with my family, Like wait,
Speaker 4: I'm supposed to be playing basketball at this time, like.
Speaker 1: You're going to experience ALLI.
Speaker 4: And when he said it, it was right after the game,
Speaker 4: and I was just like no, Like I didn't say
Speaker 4: it back to him, but I was just thinking to myself,
Speaker 4: like you're talking about all right, And like the emotional
Speaker 4: roller coaster I've been on the last two days, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Like I'm here, I'm there. I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 4: Playing this thing. I get to go to this thing.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't be going to that thing like what I've
Speaker 4: been all over the place. So how I feel about Like,
Speaker 4: I don't know how I feel about being done this early,
Speaker 4: never been done this early.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, like I can't.
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, It's it's the range of emotions
Speaker 4: right now is crazy, and I am not enjoying this
Speaker 4: at all. Playoff basketball is the most fun time of year,
Speaker 4: is what I look forward to the most, and to
Speaker 4: not have that experience already has me thinking personally for
Speaker 4: myself next year. Like you coming in way better as
Speaker 4: a player, You're coming in the best shape of your life.
Speaker 4: You're doing Like it's crazy. I don't know what to feel,
Speaker 4: how to feel about this, Like when you win and
Speaker 4: you experience those pinnacles to then try to come back
Speaker 4: from that, Like I mean, you like end up doing
Speaker 4: this after knowing those feelings and what that feel like
Speaker 4: and how that competition goes. And like, man, it's the playoffs,
Speaker 4: that's when everybody watching it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Thing crazy. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I can't figure the emotions of it out. Man, the
Speaker 4: things that we accomplished together for NBA titles, I could
Speaker 4: never imagine winning the NBA title coming into the NBA.
Speaker 4: It's a crazy story. And man, love this dude to death,
Speaker 4: brother of mine. But it's a moment, Like you have
Speaker 4: moments in your life that you'll never forget, and this
Speaker 4: was a moment in my life that I'll never forget.
Speaker 4: I've never been a loser in my life. I've won
Speaker 4: at every level of basketball. So to think that that
Speaker 4: I'm coming to an organization that like lose, lose loses.
Speaker 4: Like to me, I'm like, oh, no, we're gonna win.
Speaker 4: Like I was that dumb to believe, Like, no, we're
Speaker 4: gonna I'm gonna come in, We're gonna win like one
Speaker 4: twenty three games a year before, but we're gonna win,
Speaker 4: Like I was that naive, like I had never lost
Speaker 4: in my life. I got drafted to the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 4: And Lamar Woodley, who is one of my OG's big
Speaker 4: brother mine from Saginaw, Michigan, Pittsburgh, still a legend super
Speaker 4: Bowl champion. He always had a camp every year back
Speaker 4: in Saginaw in the summer, and Marshawn Lynch always came
Speaker 4: to the camp. Marshawn loved Saganaw. I'm sure it reminds
Speaker 4: him of Oakland, but like I got nothing beloved for Marshawn,
Speaker 4: big brother of man. But I'll never forget this moment.
Speaker 4: And Lamar was like we were standing in the parking
Speaker 4: lot to start US lanes in Saginaw.
Speaker 1: Lamar was like, yo, he got he just got drafted
Speaker 1: to the Warriors.
Speaker 4: He gonna be an Oakland and Marshawan was like, ha
Speaker 4: ha ha, y'all suck, like the Warriors don't never win,
Speaker 4: Like y'all suck. And I was like, yeah, that's gonna
Speaker 4: change like that, like we sucked, like me sucking, Like nah,
Speaker 4: that's changing, Like I don't ever suck. That's gonna change.
Speaker 4: And to like, like I'll never forget that and that
Speaker 4: that story is less about Marshawan but just more about
Speaker 4: what the Warriors were. And so to come out of
Speaker 4: college and like get drafted to that organization and to
Speaker 4: think twelve years later, won four titles with the same guys,
Speaker 4: six finals appearances with the same guys, won seventy three
Speaker 4: games with the same guys, hardly ever lost. We lost
Speaker 4: three playoff series fully healthy in eleven years.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, like.
Speaker 4: To accomplished that, Like the common thought of this organization
Speaker 4: was what Marshawn said, the lifing stock of the NBA
Speaker 4: for sure, for Shore life in stock of the NBA.
Speaker 4: And to think that we've done all of this together,
Speaker 4: changed the way basketball is played together, changed the way
Speaker 4: championships are viewed these days. You got guys, you got
Speaker 4: guys in the NBA talking about getting winning championships like
Speaker 4: that was never the thing. Like I've seen guys like
Speaker 4: have career nights, and like after the career night, like, yeah,
Speaker 4: but we need to win a championship, Like, Bro, that's
Speaker 4: a career night in the regular season, Like that was
Speaker 4: never the conversation. But because of what we've accomplished and
Speaker 4: made it look like it's supposed to be done that
Speaker 4: way and made it look so easy, everybody think like, oh,
Speaker 4: now you're just gonna win the championship. And then players
Speaker 4: get like devalue because they don't win a championship because
Speaker 4: that's the standard.
Speaker 1: But the reality is like.
Speaker 4: We did it on the level as good as anybody
Speaker 4: that's ever done it. And by the way, to STEP's point,
Speaker 4: which I love these moments because they never seem to
Speaker 4: not come true. Right after the game in the King's
Speaker 4: locker room, I said, I love you, Bro, it's gotta
Speaker 4: love you two ween done.
Speaker 1: You're right? Got it? Know that cool? We ain't. You're right.
Speaker 4: So to think that like we've done these things, I
Speaker 4: love it, and we're not done.
Speaker 1: So that's that. That's the end of the dumb season.
Speaker 1: That's a rap.
Speaker 4: I am extremely grateful to finish your twelve of my career.
Speaker 1: You're twelve healthy. I got so much gratitude.
Speaker 4: Like I told you, the emotions are all over the place,
Speaker 4: but I can look at that and be like man
Speaker 4: second round pick from Saginaw, Michigan, Michigan State University getting
Speaker 4: drives to the Golden State Warriors and being labeled a tweeter,
Speaker 4: which was a death sentence when I was coming out
Speaker 4: in the draft, second round pick. Although I was National
Speaker 4: Player of the Year, I just finished year twelve in
Speaker 4: the NBA.
Speaker 1: I got gray hairs now I was just looking in
Speaker 1: the mirror.
Speaker 4: I got more gray hairs coming in up top, about
Speaker 4: to be full of salt and pepper. But I'm still
Speaker 4: in the NBA and I just finished your twelve. So
Speaker 4: I got such gratitude for that.
Speaker 1: So that's that. Let's talk about these playing games.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: We know the Kings now got the Pelicans.
Speaker 4: Without a Zion Williamson who had forty and eleven when
Speaker 4: he got hurt first the Lakers having one of the
Speaker 4: best games of his young career and in the game
Speaker 4: that mattered. And I know everybody remember the chatter around
Speaker 4: him when they played in the play in you had
Speaker 4: he's too fat, out of shape, waste the talent, Like
Speaker 4: you know, he got destroyed in that play in versus
Speaker 4: the Lakers, like embarrassed.
Speaker 1: And since then, there's been a different Ion.
Speaker 4: And he showed that that night, and he had his
Speaker 4: team right there in it uh one or two possession
Speaker 4: game and he had to lead the game. And it's unfortunate.
Speaker 4: And because he's you can see the growth. And now
Speaker 4: you got the Kings that go take on the New
Speaker 4: Orleans Pelicans when out Zion, I think the Key Kings
Speaker 4: should win that pretty easily. No game at that magnitude
Speaker 4: is ever easy. Like the Kings beat us pretty easily.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they didn't feel like it was that easy,
Speaker 4: Like it's max efforts. So take what I said with
Speaker 4: a grain of salt. But I think the Kings go in.
Speaker 4: They have the experience. You know, they came on the
Speaker 4: roll here last year during the playoffs and won a game.
Speaker 4: Like they have the experience. I think they go and
Speaker 4: win that game. Their defense is flying around the way
Speaker 4: they were flying around against US.
Speaker 1: No Zion.
Speaker 4: That's that's Zion's twenty four points or whatever average on
Speaker 4: the floor, but that's like fifty to fifty five points
Speaker 4: with his impact and people shrinking and them getting threes
Speaker 4: and pressure he puts on the rim and the defense collapse.
Speaker 1: You get a swing swing night.
Speaker 4: That's a huge loss, huge loss, and they're not gonna
Speaker 4: be able to overcome that, in my opinion. So that's
Speaker 4: what we're looking forward to in the West playing and
Speaker 4: on the other side in the play. And we know
Speaker 4: the Sixers beat the Heat last night. We do know
Speaker 4: Jimmy Butler ended up hurt at the game. I think
Speaker 4: he hurt his knee earlier in the game, kind of
Speaker 4: played through it and then couldn't go anymore. We now
Speaker 4: know that Jimmy Butler has an MCL sprain and will
Speaker 4: be out several weeks, marking it probably the end of
Speaker 4: the Miami Heat season. Now, I say that not saying
Speaker 4: that they can't necessarily win their next playing game, but
Speaker 4: more so, even if they do, they face the Boston Celtics,
Speaker 4: and we'll get into that because I got something to
Speaker 4: say about that that y'all probably gonna get mad at.
Speaker 1: So let's say that for a little bit.
Speaker 4: But Joe L ANDB last night made every play down
Speaker 4: the stretch defensively and offensively, offensive, rebound, put back, and
Speaker 4: one dropped the Kelly oubre and one two big threes
Speaker 4: down the stretch, walking into him taking the league.
Speaker 1: Joelle, who had not had.
Speaker 4: A great game, actually have had a pretty tough game,
Speaker 4: so much so that on the broadcast they kept just
Speaker 4: talking about how hurt he was. Like number one, let's
Speaker 4: stop doing that. He's out there, he's playing like we
Speaker 4: get it. Coming back from injury, it is definitely tough.
Speaker 4: You need that ramp up.
Speaker 1: But like Joel is great, and he showed that down
Speaker 1: the stretch.
Speaker 4: Regardless of how I may feel, regardless of what the
Speaker 4: circumstances are, I'm gonna make every play down the stretch
Speaker 4: that my team need. Because, as Paul Reed said, we
Speaker 4: ain't dunck at nobody, but we wanted the New York Knicks.
Speaker 4: We think that's the easier We think that that's an
Speaker 4: easier team to beat. Paul Reid said that I ain't said,
Speaker 4: but the reality is, we know the reality. The New
Speaker 4: York Knicks are way easier to beat than the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 4: In fact, I got the Philadelphia seventy six ers beating
Speaker 4: the New York Knicks because who's gonna stop Joel? And
Speaker 4: like Joel took over every play down the stretch versus
Speaker 4: the Miami Heat. The Miami Heat in which we know
Speaker 4: probably would beat the Knicks too, but that's neither here
Speaker 4: nor there. Philadelphia seventy six ers and the will now
Speaker 4: take on the New York Knicks, and I got Philly
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 1: Nobody's stopping Joe l.
Speaker 4: Maxi and Jalen Brownson gonna cancel each other out like
Speaker 4: they're both gonna have great seasons, I mean, great series,
Speaker 4: but they're gonna cancel each other out.
Speaker 1: And New York is not.
Speaker 4: Not only do they not have Joe l Embi, but
Speaker 4: they're also missing Julius Randall. And you know you can
Speaker 4: win regular season games missing Julian Julius Randall.
Speaker 1: That's all find and dandy when you plan every other night.
Speaker 4: Scouting reports aren't that great, guys getting off getting to
Speaker 4: they strong hands because scotting reports ain't that great, and
Speaker 4: you're kind of just going game the game. This is
Speaker 4: a playoff series now, and you are missing an all star,
Speaker 4: and that will now show because guys that may have
Speaker 4: been getting off, it's gonna be a lot harder for
Speaker 4: them to get off when the scouting report is I'm
Speaker 4: playing you for seven games and we taking these things away.
Speaker 4: And so for me personally, that's why I got the
Speaker 4: Philadelphia seventy six ers winning easily.
Speaker 1: I mean not easily.
Speaker 4: But I thought it was very interesting that Paul Reed
Speaker 4: came out and say that, because it's exactly what everybody thought.
Speaker 4: They did not want to see Boston in the first round.
Speaker 4: They don't want to see Boston in the second round.
Speaker 4: They want to meet with Boston in the conference finals
Speaker 4: and then swing for the fences if that's possible.
Speaker 1: So they avoided that.
Speaker 4: And now you got the Bulls and you got the
Speaker 4: Miami Heat without Jimmy Butler. If there's any team that
Speaker 4: can go beat somebody without their star player, it is
Speaker 4: the Miami Heat, that is for sure. They always got
Speaker 4: guys that's just gonna get off, play hard, well coached,
Speaker 4: scolet and report, gonna be great and do all of
Speaker 4: those things. So the Miami Heat can't compete. You know,
Speaker 4: we know they sometimes take this for motivation. So I'm
Speaker 4: gonna say it here and say it here. First, I
Speaker 4: got to Chicago Bulls because Damar DeRozan is going to
Speaker 4: make every play that he needs to make to win
Speaker 4: the game. Damar will walk the ball up the court
Speaker 4: and get every shot they want, every shot that he
Speaker 4: wants them to get in this game. Remember it's one game,
Speaker 4: it's not a series. He gonna walk the ball up,
Speaker 4: get every shot. Kobe White, Man, Kobe White was incredible
Speaker 4: last night. Forty two points, six seven assists, something like that,
Speaker 4: five six rebounds. Kobe White was incredible. I don't see
Speaker 4: that changing. Yes, the defense will be tougher. I do
Speaker 4: think that the defense will definitely be tougher Rusus the
Speaker 4: Miami He for Kobe White than it was, and the
Speaker 4: rim protection will be much different than it was for
Speaker 4: Kobe White yesterday. The rim protection, like Bam out of Bayu,
Speaker 4: is elite rim protection. So I don't see Kobe getting
Speaker 4: to the cup like he did last night as often
Speaker 4: as frequently. But Kobe also didn't shoot the three well
Speaker 4: last night, and we know he's capable of doing that,
Speaker 4: so that could be activated as well.
Speaker 1: But I got the I got the bulls taking this.
Speaker 4: You need your stars, you need your top dogs to
Speaker 4: play well in these moments.
Speaker 1: And I think it's gonna be tough without Jimmy.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: They really need Jimmy out there.
Speaker 4: Uh. The X factor. Watch out for ham Hotkass. Every
Speaker 4: time Jimmy Butler did not play. This year, ho May
Speaker 4: went off, so watch out for him. It's a different
Speaker 4: stage right now, win or go home. He's used to
Speaker 4: that NCAA tournament field though. That's my X factor for
Speaker 4: the game. If i May can get off, he can
Speaker 4: get him a chance. But I got the Bulls and
Speaker 4: then I'll holler out my dog Tomrio come on over
Speaker 4: here with me in about a week.
Speaker 1: Uh when when? When?
Speaker 4: When he gets a hold of them Celtics. But what
Speaker 4: I was gonna say that, I know nobody wants to
Speaker 4: hear the Celtics just dodge a bullet with Jimmy getting hurt.
Speaker 4: Because if Jimmy don't get hurt, they beat the Chicago
Speaker 4: Bulls no problem. And the Boston Celtics. The Miami heat
Speaker 4: has been a problem for the Boston Celtics. So Jackson
Speaker 4: got this huge smile on his face right now because
Speaker 4: he know, yeah, the Celtics are good. Yeah, they got
Speaker 4: a really good team and arguably the best team, best
Speaker 4: chance to win the championship. I agree with all of that,
Speaker 4: But all I'm saying is with the with Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 4: the Celtics has had a tough time, and no one
Speaker 4: wants to see anybody get hurt. That's never.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know about Boston fans. They different.
Speaker 4: But you can shake your head, Jackson, but you ain't
Speaker 4: grow up in Boston, Massachusetts. Them Boston fans in Boston,
Speaker 4: they are different, and I don't know what they think.
Speaker 4: I'm not just gonna throw something out there on them.
Speaker 4: Maybe I will, because who cares. But Jimmy Butler getting hurt.
Speaker 4: That was sent from heaven. Y'all make sure y'all take
Speaker 4: that received the blessing, because that was a guy saying
Speaker 4: for the Boston Celtics. The last thing in Boston wanted
Speaker 4: to do was win sixty plus games and meet Jimmy
Speaker 4: Butler in the Miami Heat in the first round of
Speaker 4: the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Number one, the.
Speaker 4: Heart attack they would have had just by that happening,
Speaker 4: Like that'll tiss you up a little bit like.
Speaker 1: That, ah, like we got them again.
Speaker 4: That's too much like right, So Boston, y'all take that
Speaker 4: gift that was sent from heaven to ba y'all make
Speaker 4: sure y'all take advantage of that, because man, I would
Speaker 4: have loved to see that series. It's unfortunate, But however,
Speaker 4: I am wishing Jimmy well. You know, MCLs could be tough. Hope,
Speaker 4: it's just that he can get back sooner rather than later.
Speaker 1: Regardless of this season. You live that every day.
Speaker 4: So wishing Jimmy well, that's a rap from this episode
Speaker 4: of The Draymond Green Show. We got some playoff stuff
Speaker 4: coming all way. I got nothing else to do, so
Speaker 4: why not break these games down for y'all. Let y'all help,
Speaker 4: help y'all gain a better understanding of what to wash for,
Speaker 4: what adjustments could possibly be made should be made?
Speaker 1: This that another from a champ yours truly until next time.
Speaker 1: That's a rap. Peace,