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Speaker 1: What's up for everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: We are recording this Sunday night after a tough loss
Speaker 1: man that one versus the Nuggs. We'll talk about this game,
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the MVP race, we'll talk about the
Speaker 1: Western Conference playoff battle slash race. Jackson and I were
Speaker 1: laughing starting this episode because my night nurse is in
Speaker 1: there sleeping as she's snoring, and I wonder if the
Speaker 1: MIC's going to pick it up. So if it does
Speaker 1: pick it up, y'all get a special episode today. But
Speaker 1: by the way, night nurse she's amazing, incredible, and she's
Speaker 1: been great for my wife and I with the baby,
Speaker 1: So shout out to her. But I hope y'all catch that.
Speaker 1: I hope the microphone picks that up. Anyway, make sure
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Speaker 1: that out. And let's talk about a few things. Number One,
Speaker 1: the Dubs, as I said, lost to the Nuggets one
Speaker 1: O three one nineteen, and it was just kind of
Speaker 1: like one of those games that you kind of just
Speaker 1: got a flush. That's a very good team. That's why
Speaker 1: they are her defending champions. And if we were to
Speaker 1: meet that team in the playoffs, I think there are
Speaker 1: some adjustments that we can make that can put us
Speaker 1: right in position to win. But that's a great team.
Speaker 1: And Joker thirty two, sixteen and sixteen gave me complete
Speaker 1: hell tonight. I've had my fair share of good matchups
Speaker 1: against Joker. I've given him a little bit of hell
Speaker 1: on some night, but he gave me total and complete
Speaker 1: hell tonight. And I had absolutely no answers. And I'm
Speaker 1: just going to laugh about it, because either you laugh
Speaker 1: or you cry, and so I'm going to laugh about it.
Speaker 1: I had absolutely no answers tonight. And I mean, he
Speaker 1: was brilliant and he is an incredible shape man. Y'all
Speaker 1: should have saw this man run the floor. I had
Speaker 1: to like turn on my my burners a little bit
Speaker 1: a couple of times to like keep up with him
Speaker 1: for running the floor and he was just going. Man,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like he got tired, like he was just
Speaker 1: going and going, and man, shout out the Joker. It's
Speaker 1: always fun play against him. I wanted to. Uh. I
Speaker 1: got a lot of respect for Joker. I always have.
Speaker 1: I love the way to go about his business. Obviously
Speaker 1: a great basketball player. And Joker caught me with the
Speaker 1: shoulder in the chain and they didn't call off his
Speaker 1: file and I wrapped him up and was coming back
Speaker 1: down the court. Yeah, and he was like, brought that
Speaker 1: that was definitely a file. He was like one hundred
Speaker 1: percent of file. He's like, but I didn't try too
Speaker 1: on purpose, And I'm like, no, I know you didn't
Speaker 1: try too on purpose, which is why I didn't file
Speaker 1: you hard and just kind of wrapped you up because
Speaker 1: I know you didn't try it on purpose. I love
Speaker 1: playing against the guys where there's a mutual respect of
Speaker 1: like the work that you put in, the work that
Speaker 1: I put in. There's a healthy competition and now so
Speaker 1: I always enjoyed the honor of playing against Joker. God
Speaker 1: that I got a tremendous amount of respect for. And
Speaker 1: you gotta love playing against the greats to see how
Speaker 1: you stack up and you learn from it. So, like
Speaker 1: I said, tonight, he got the absolute best of me
Speaker 1: and and they won the game. But I had no answers,
Speaker 1: zero answers tonight, and I'm argue with that. It happens
Speaker 1: to the best of us. I feel like I've been
Speaker 1: doing very well defensively. I had no answers tonight. And
Speaker 1: so the next time we played in which will be
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, like you remember that and you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, I know I did this and that was
Speaker 1: all wrong. So I'm gonna try these things now because
Speaker 1: against great players like they're always improving. And really, the
Speaker 1: last time I really played Joker was last year. I
Speaker 1: don't think I played against them any times this year.
Speaker 1: So guys like that is always improving, and you have
Speaker 1: to figure other things out as a defender, you know.
Speaker 1: So I didn't get it figured out tonight, and that's okay.
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray also had a very good game, and you know,
Speaker 1: Joker and Jamal Murray in the pick and roll is devastating.
Speaker 1: It's one of the toughest covers, if not the toughest
Speaker 1: cover in the league. Stephan, I are probably in that
Speaker 1: category for totally different reasons. Obviously because of Stephan. I'm
Speaker 1: a great screener, and then I make some players out there,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole thing before y'all like, oh, Dreamond,
Speaker 1: you're not Joker, Like, of course I'm not Joker, and
Speaker 1: I'm not claiming to be Joker, so before you go there,
Speaker 1: it's dead. But anyway, that pick and roll combination, it
Speaker 1: really got them going. Once they were able to start
Speaker 1: connecting on that, Jamal start hitting a couple of shots.
Speaker 1: You got to help a little more. Hit Joker on
Speaker 1: the pop back three, and it was kind of Domino
Speaker 1: and from there went into the half tide of sixty
Speaker 1: one sixty one. But they had to take in total
Speaker 1: control of the game and came out of the half.
Speaker 1: They came out they they went up seventy five, sixty five,
Speaker 1: went up ten points, and then we battled back out
Speaker 1: it the fore. You know, we never really got control
Speaker 1: of the game again. I think we took a lead
Speaker 1: at some point again maybe, but we never really like
Speaker 1: gained ground again. They kind of dominated the game from
Speaker 1: that point. So you gotta give them guys a lot
Speaker 1: of credit. I thought we did some good things defensively,
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon is still playing great basketball. He's Aaron Gordon
Speaker 1: has grown so much since that playoff series two years
Speaker 1: ago when we played against those guys. The player that
Speaker 1: he is today, it's so much different and better and
Speaker 1: more physical than he was then. And you know, you
Speaker 1: get in the playoffs. Sometimes in the playoffs will shock
Speaker 1: you and the physicality will shock you. And I think
Speaker 1: the physicality of the playoffs against Aaron Gordon in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two shocked him. Now think about it. He had
Speaker 1: been in Orlando most his career, never really played a
Speaker 1: bunch of many for basketball, and then you kind of
Speaker 1: get thrown into that and I think it shocked the
Speaker 1: hell out of him. Well, some people get shocked and
Speaker 1: they never recover, but those that do recover get better,
Speaker 1: and Aaron Gordon is a part of that group. Totally
Speaker 1: different player, physical as hell, And in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: you weren't really worried about his physicality. He physical as hell.
Speaker 1: Like he is seeking contact on rebounds, he is seeking
Speaker 1: contact on post ups, way more physical, and I think
Speaker 1: a lot of that stem from the twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: playoffs where he was like, oh no, I'm coming back better.
Speaker 1: I'm coming back different, I'm coming back stronger, coming back
Speaker 1: more physical. And he did that and they won a
Speaker 1: championship in large part due to what he brought to
Speaker 1: that team last year. And he's still bringing that. So,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of respect for Aaron Gordon as
Speaker 1: a champion. That's a different man and you gotta respect that.
Speaker 1: Steph obviously had a tough shoot to Night six for nineteen.
Speaker 1: Those happened, y'all. You know they did a good job
Speaker 1: defending them. I thought Joker did a great job in
Speaker 1: the pick and roll guarding the pick and roll today Pope.
Speaker 1: You screen Pope and he like their screen magnets in
Speaker 1: this league, and Pope's kind of complete opposite. Like you
Speaker 1: screen Pope number one, he's hard to screen number two.
Speaker 1: If you screen him, even if you hold the screen,
Speaker 1: he don't just die and stand there. He's still going
Speaker 1: to go back chasing Steph. And I thought they did
Speaker 1: a good job with their covers. Clay came off the
Speaker 1: bench firing in the first half, and I think I
Speaker 1: saw me. I gotta do a better job of making
Speaker 1: sure he get more touches in the second half. Although
Speaker 1: our minutes don't match up as much as they did before.
Speaker 1: I think it's still my role on this team to
Speaker 1: make sure that he is getting more shots in the
Speaker 1: second half, and you know, missed a couple, but they
Speaker 1: weren't as consistent as I thought they needed to be
Speaker 1: in order for him to stay in the groove that
Speaker 1: he was in. So that falls on me. I got
Speaker 1: absolutely destroyed by Joker. That falls on me. So pretty much,
Speaker 1: just this loss falls on me, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: take this loss. I'm going to flush it down the
Speaker 1: toilet and we're going to move on to Washington and
Speaker 1: we're going to go get back on the winning track
Speaker 1: and we're going to go have a great road trip.
Speaker 1: That is what I am switching my focus too. Jackson
Speaker 1: wants to know what Joker and I were laughing at.
Speaker 1: What we were laughing at is I went up to him,
Speaker 1: I said, hey, can you do my podcast? Can you
Speaker 1: really do the podcast? Can you do the podcast? And
Speaker 1: I don't know if any of y'all saw the clip
Speaker 1: of Joker at All Star with Andre Hudala asking about
Speaker 1: the podcast and Joker's running from him, and so I
Speaker 1: was kind of making light of that, and he said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, brought that I'm a bad person. I'm
Speaker 1: a really bad I'm a bad person. I'm a really
Speaker 1: bad person for that. So I thought that was that's
Speaker 1: what we were laughing at. I thought it was hilarious.
Speaker 1: You've never seen joker on the podcast. I haven't. Maybe
Speaker 1: y'all have. I haven't seen it, And if it did,
Speaker 1: it was probably about horses. It was not about the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets a no basket or no basketball game. But
Speaker 1: that was that. On to the Western Conference playoff race.
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Speaker 1: lose today, Nugget Sons, Kings win. The one through four
Speaker 1: seeds are separated by two games. The five through ten
Speaker 1: seeds are separated by four games. And at this point
Speaker 1: in the season is kind of when you start paying
Speaker 1: attention to the standas because you know, we got twenty
Speaker 1: five games left. You know, like every one of them matters,
Speaker 1: and every day matters, and you get on the run.
Speaker 1: Right now, somebody lose a few things can change in
Speaker 1: a heartbeat, So right now is when you really start
Speaker 1: diving in paying attention what's going on around the league.
Speaker 1: Who lost the night who won, and tonight would have
Speaker 1: been a huge night for us to win. With the
Speaker 1: teams losing that did. Needless to say, we did not
Speaker 1: take advantage of that. It's not the end of the world.
Speaker 1: But now you gotta go on this road trip and
Speaker 1: maybe win one or two d Yeah, technically not supposed
Speaker 1: to win, and that's okay. I think we're more than
Speaker 1: capable of doing that, and guys are going to be
Speaker 1: locked in and focused on that. Hopefully we'll get Chris
Speaker 1: back on Tuesday, I hope. I don't know that to
Speaker 1: be factual. If not Tuesday, hopefully we get them back Thursday.
Speaker 1: If not Thursday, maybe Friday. And if not Friday, hopefully
Speaker 1: by Sunday. No, but honestly, it will be good to
Speaker 1: get CP back in the lineup, and I know, you
Speaker 1: know he's eager to get back out there, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's that time of year where the competitors want
Speaker 1: to play like you want to be out there. You know.
Speaker 1: It's it's after the All Star break. You get that win,
Speaker 1: and you know it's time to gear for the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and this is what we're going for and playing for,
Speaker 1: and so this is a fun time of year. And
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see guys locked in all
Speaker 1: around the league, just knowing like what's ahead. And then
Speaker 1: you also see some teams start shipping their cars off
Speaker 1: to Miami and their summer home in LA and like something.
Speaker 1: You got some of that coming up in the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks too, you know, maybe Little Charlotte, Little
Speaker 1: Charlotte Action, you know, Little Detroit, Little Detroit action. You know,
Speaker 1: you start to see those teams like start shipping their
Speaker 1: cars off. You know, that's just how it goes. Then
Speaker 1: you start to see some teams gearing up, like all right,
Speaker 1: this is what we're going for, the pretenders and the contenders.
Speaker 1: It's that time of year and so you know, pay attention.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you see one guys Instagram story
Speaker 1: and it's like a moving truck in front of their
Speaker 1: house already. And Charlotte You're like, oh, man, like what's
Speaker 1: going on? Like they ready to get on up out
Speaker 1: of here. Shout out to my young boy, mom. I
Speaker 1: love my that's my young dog. A lot of respect
Speaker 1: for Brandon Miller too. That kid is going to be
Speaker 1: really good. But back to the Western Conference playoff race.
Speaker 1: I'm getting off track a little bit, let me lock
Speaker 1: back in. So we are looking at the standards now,
Speaker 1: or at least how I am. This is the time
Speaker 1: year that I do and you really start paying attention.
Speaker 1: We got some games, I know. We still got the
Speaker 1: Pelicans coming to town. We still got the Lakers at
Speaker 1: least one more time. Done with the Kings. I think
Speaker 1: we got the Clippers at least one more time. So
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna uh, We're done with the Suns,
Speaker 1: finished with the Nuggets. We got the Mavericks maybe three times,
Speaker 1: and so you know, you can make you can make
Speaker 1: your hey, you know you can kind of can control
Speaker 1: what you can control, but you need to win those games.
Speaker 1: And then some of those games you lose them and
Speaker 1: it's like losing two games because you're losing to that
Speaker 1: specific team. So we got to make sure we're locked
Speaker 1: in winning all the games we need to win, but
Speaker 1: also in those games in specific, those are big games
Speaker 1: and you need to be locked in for them. So
Speaker 1: the Western Conference playoff race is heating up, and the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference race is very interesting, which we'll get into
Speaker 1: with the MVP race. So the MVP race right now,
Speaker 1: Joker is the favorite on Draft Kings SGA, Luca, Jannis
Speaker 1: and Tatum the next four. And I guess after tonight,
Speaker 1: even if I didn't want to agree that Joe who
Speaker 1: was a favorite, which I didn't disagree with that at
Speaker 1: all before tonight, But if I wanted to disagree, if
Speaker 1: I wanted to disagree with that, after tonight, you kind
Speaker 1: of can't say a word. You kind of gotta be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like it's him because he got the best of me tonight.
Speaker 1: That's I told y'all. But anyway, I think it's very
Speaker 1: interesting to see where Shaye has jumped Lucas at three,
Speaker 1: Yannis sliped some and Tatum JT Man j T. Just
Speaker 1: the Celtics are seven and a half games ahead of
Speaker 1: the number two seed in the Eastern Conference. Do people
Speaker 1: think the Celtics are that great to where Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: is only in fifth, because it seems as if the
Speaker 1: like the you know, sometimes it's like that team is
Speaker 1: winning and that guy is the best player playing well,
Speaker 1: and like, in this situation, clearly that's not the goal post.
Speaker 1: Clearly the gold post has shifted dramatically because in this
Speaker 1: guy's case, he's fifth and they got a seven and
Speaker 1: a half game league in the conference. That goal post
Speaker 1: is moving on JT. I don't know what JT gotta do.
Speaker 1: I do know what JT gotta do. I told y'all
Speaker 1: last time what j got to do. JT will not
Speaker 1: be taken serious for the MVP until he won a championship.
Speaker 1: And it just hasn't been that way for everybody else.
Speaker 1: I must say, it's not that way for jokers. It's
Speaker 1: not that way for you, honest, it's not that way
Speaker 1: for Joelle. It just ain't really been that way for
Speaker 1: everybody else. So I don't know how it ended up
Speaker 1: that way for JT. Maybe it's because he got to
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals and lost and everybody's like, oh, like
Speaker 1: you had yours. But I mean, God lead, that is brutal,
Speaker 1: That's that's tough. So I'm not sure how JT just
Speaker 1: always laes lacks behind in this voting seven and a
Speaker 1: half games, God lead, That is crazy. And by the way, yes,
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics is a good team, but the Demmer
Speaker 1: Nugis is great, Like they had a realthly good team. Wow,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I really don't know what to say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do know what to say. JT gotta go win
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals in order to get taken serious size
Speaker 1: an MVP. Y'all felt, I don't know how the goalpost
Speaker 1: moved on you like that, but they should acknowledge it
Speaker 1: because those are the facts. They should acknowledge it. JT
Speaker 1: because those are nothing but facts. And the other news.
Speaker 1: Before we get out of here, there was another fight
Speaker 1: around the NBA. I mean, what is going on with
Speaker 1: these people? Y'all said, I need help. These people are fighting.
Speaker 1: Jose Alvarado and Thomas Bryant, the smallest guy and the
Speaker 1: biggest guy, got to throwing hands. They both got suspended
Speaker 1: for three games. I mean, guys, the All Star break
Speaker 1: is over, like you're supposed to be refreshed, and these
Speaker 1: guys are getting into it. Hey man, y'all see it
Speaker 1: ain't Draymond, not me. These guys are getting into it.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler and Najie Marshall got suspended for one game apiece,
Speaker 1: and then the young fella Jovic left the bench. Come on,
Speaker 1: young fella, even I know better than that. I've been
Speaker 1: suspended more games than you to play in your career.
Speaker 1: Come on, young fellow, you can't lead a bench. And
Speaker 1: who is over there on that bench telling him, hey, man,
Speaker 1: no stay over here, don't. That's the that's the most
Speaker 1: like even my suspensions, young fella. They sometimes have to
Speaker 1: make a decision like all right, we got like that's
Speaker 1: an obvious one. They ain't even got to make a decision.
Speaker 1: Or you just getting ding like that, bro, Somebody somebody
Speaker 1: over there on that Miami bench. Y'all make sure y'all
Speaker 1: designate somebody to keep the players off the bench, because
Speaker 1: y'all could have avoided that one with the young fella.
Speaker 1: Young fella, learned your lesson, though, Don't let them get
Speaker 1: you with the easiest one, even mine. They gotta make
Speaker 1: a decision. Don't let them get you like that. And
Speaker 1: one more thing about these fights in the NBA, Another
Speaker 1: night in the NBA, Another unridden rule broken. Dennis Schroder
Speaker 1: number one. I like Dennis Schroder, cool dude. Then as
Speaker 1: you can't hit Mike Conley. Mike Conley has zero technical
Speaker 1: files in his NBA career. Zero. You can't hit Mike Colly.
Speaker 1: Mike Colly is the nicest person in the NBA for sure.
Speaker 1: Can't hit Mike Colly number one. That's an unwritten rule.
Speaker 1: Can't hit Mike Colly number two. It's twenty five seconds
Speaker 1: left in the game, and they got three seconds left
Speaker 1: in the shot clock. Why should someone take the TURNO.
Speaker 1: I just can't, for the life of me understand this.
Speaker 1: I just don't get it. And so because I don't
Speaker 1: get it, I'm gonna propose something in the spirit of
Speaker 1: suspending people. We got to get some suspension going for
Speaker 1: this unwritten rule being broken and people then like losing
Speaker 1: their minds. If the unwritten rule is broken and someone
Speaker 1: reacts to the unwritten rule in a way like guys
Speaker 1: are reacting to this unwritten rule being broken, it should
Speaker 1: be an automatic one game suspension, like leaving the bitch
Speaker 1: or something like that. And you all know I'm not
Speaker 1: an advocate for people get suspend it because why would
Speaker 1: I be an advocate for anyone getting suspended? Doesn't quite
Speaker 1: make sense, But like this has to stop, Like it's
Speaker 1: embarrassing to the guy who gets mad and say like, oh,
Speaker 1: you were up and you shot again. Like this is basketball.
Speaker 1: There's no mercy rule. This is the NBA. Okay, you
Speaker 1: don't want to lose win the game, but the unwritten
Speaker 1: rule has to stop, and it has to stop now.
Speaker 1: So I'm calling on him, our commissioner, our great Commissioner,
Speaker 1: Adam Silver Joe d somebody competition committee, this unwritten rule.
Speaker 1: It has to be some writing about it because it's
Speaker 1: pretty played out and I don't get it. That's a
Speaker 1: wrap from this episode of the Draymond Green Shaw. I
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