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Speaker 5: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 5: It is Wednesday morning, live from Los Angeles and we
Speaker 5: are here with another Bleacher Report Live episode on the
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Speaker 2: We greatly appreciate that. We never take it for granted.
Speaker 5: Doves had a big win last night over the Lakers.
Speaker 5: Killer Clay Thompson had another good game finished with twenty seven.
Speaker 5: Make sure y'all go check that Clay interview out on
Speaker 5: our YouTube pageutube dot com slash at Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 2: To check out the interview with Clay.
Speaker 5: It's a lot of things there to unpack, Clay Thompson's future,
Speaker 5: what that looks like, Clay Thompson's past, how all of
Speaker 5: that came about, the championships, the injury, the feelings, all
Speaker 5: of the above. It's a great time, great chat. And
Speaker 5: as you all know, we have been waiting to get
Speaker 5: Clay on for a while. I'm happy it happened the
Speaker 5: way it did and we had him on last week.
Speaker 2: Or this week. So make sure y'all go check that
Speaker 2: interview out.
Speaker 5: But getting into it, like I said, yeah, we beat
Speaker 5: the Lakers last night one thirty four to hitting twenty
Speaker 5: six threes, first time since twenty fifteen. That Steph, myself
Speaker 5: and Clay all have five plus threes, second time ever,
Speaker 5: first time since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: Man, it felt good. Honestly.
Speaker 5: I went to shoot with Travis yesterday and we went
Speaker 5: to get shot up yesterday morning, and we just worked
Speaker 5: a lot on my arc, like.
Speaker 2: Getting my arc up, getting my form right, getting my
Speaker 2: hand through it.
Speaker 5: And I told him like, yo, my shot feel good,
Speaker 5: like and I gotta just come off fire because I
Speaker 5: know they're going to help off and.
Speaker 2: They always played me like that.
Speaker 5: Uh. They are probably as egregious as any team about
Speaker 5: helping off of me. And you know, I have my
Speaker 5: ways of making teams pay when they do help off, uh,
Speaker 5: which Brin and JJ Henner at in their mind the
Speaker 5: game fourth episode, which we'll talk about.
Speaker 2: But last night I didn't use those ways.
Speaker 5: I used the trade ball and it was very efficient
Speaker 5: five for five to start from three end of up
Speaker 5: five to seven. But honestly, was just taking what the
Speaker 5: defense gives me. And you know, with AD not being
Speaker 5: out there obviously changes their defense up drastically. Ads arguably
Speaker 5: having a defensive Player of the Year type of caliber season,
Speaker 5: and you know, he wasn't out there, which makes a
Speaker 5: big difference on both sides.
Speaker 2: Of the floor.
Speaker 5: We all we all know what Anthony Davis is capable
Speaker 5: of the type of player that he is, so that
Speaker 5: that definitely made a big difference. He was reported out
Speaker 5: a couple hours before the game, and if I'm honest
Speaker 5: with you, my reaction to someone being reported out it
Speaker 5: was probably total opposite of what most would think. I
Speaker 5: hate playing in games like where you're not playing against
Speaker 5: the guys. It's hard to get up for the game
Speaker 5: when you're not playing against the guys that you expected
Speaker 5: playing against when you come in to the arena, it's
Speaker 5: kind of like a letdown, you know, And so I
Speaker 5: was happy to get off to a good start obviously
Speaker 5: knowing what was at stake. You know, it makes it
Speaker 5: a little easier to get up for the game and
Speaker 5: even under the circumstances. And you know, it also came
Speaker 5: down to like the last second of whether Bron was
Speaker 5: going to play or not. So I was really here
Speaker 5: limbo before the game. Once I was told Bron was playing,
Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, cool, Like that's kind of what
Speaker 5: helped me settle in because I mean, any Tom Brown's
Speaker 5: on the floor, he's going to give his team a
Speaker 5: chance to win.
Speaker 2: So for that was, you know, reason I was able
Speaker 2: to lock in.
Speaker 5: But finding out like Ad was out, like that sucks
Speaker 5: because you want to play against like the top competition.
Speaker 5: Like for me, that's what that what that's what makes
Speaker 5: me go, like, you know, I can care less about
Speaker 5: the games against the trash teams that you just gotta
Speaker 5: be out there like those are the worst.
Speaker 2: So that was good.
Speaker 5: Got a little shot out from the Great Reggie Miller
Speaker 5: called me a splash cousin. I talked about it on
Speaker 5: T and T last night. Y'all don't need that. Y'all
Speaker 5: can go find another splash cousin. Don't put me in
Speaker 5: that family because the expectations of that family and the
Speaker 5: way they shoot the ball, I'm not quite sure I
Speaker 5: need nor want those expectations. So y'all can keep those
Speaker 5: guys over there. I'm gonna stay over here. That teams
Speaker 5: keep helping off me, so I can just dial it
Speaker 5: on up.
Speaker 2: I don't need all.
Speaker 5: That pressure what those guys are doing. Quite frankly, it's
Speaker 5: not gonna happen anyway. But Steph had a really really
Speaker 5: good game and fishing game. Only shot nine shots seven
Speaker 5: to nine from the field, six for six from three,
Speaker 5: finished for twenty three, eight assists, seven rebounds, your truly fifteen,
Speaker 5: ten assists, six rebounds.
Speaker 2: I had two blocks.
Speaker 5: They shortened me and only gave me one block, So
Speaker 5: y'all should check that Brown shot that little face the
Speaker 5: way in the first half and like toward the shot clocks,
Speaker 5: Rundown definitely blocked that and then obviously the block on
Speaker 5: rue it. But I get short of my blocks a lot,
Speaker 5: just like I get short as the foul because my tooth.
Speaker 2: Hurt like hell.
Speaker 5: By the way, just so y'all know, I may have
Speaker 5: to go see my dentist make sure my tooth is intact.
Speaker 5: I was trying to buy some food last night and
Speaker 5: that shit hurt. Still, no foul, no worries. Klay Thomps
Speaker 5: for twenty seven points on ten and sixteen shooting. We
Speaker 5: really shot the ball lights out last night, which was
Speaker 5: great for us. Now whereas interesting is we know we're
Speaker 5: capable of shooting the ball lights out. We have a
Speaker 5: great shooting team, has had one since I've been with
Speaker 5: the Warriors, and it's very encouraging because a lot of
Speaker 5: it a came off our defense, our defense leading to
Speaker 5: great offense, and then also we created great looks and
Speaker 5: they just happened to go down. You know.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like we were out there taking tough threes.
Speaker 5: Where they were, you know, all over us, and like
Speaker 5: every shot was just going in, like they were driving
Speaker 5: kick threes, which drive kickswing three, open three, and so
Speaker 5: the ball movement was great, played with great pace and
Speaker 5: we end up getting great looks. So obviously when you
Speaker 5: got Steph Thompson, Steph Curry and Klay Thompson on the floor.
Speaker 5: Shooting the ball grade is never a fluke. Shooting the
Speaker 5: ball grade is actually what's expected. Twenty six threes on
Speaker 5: sixty four percent from the field, which is best ever
Speaker 5: in his NBA history. So it came out a good
Speaker 5: time for us, obviously, a much needy game. That puts
Speaker 5: us a half game behind the Lakers for ninth place.
Speaker 5: From not mistaken, if we went out, that'll put us
Speaker 5: at the nine seed. We can still get up to
Speaker 5: the eight seed depending on what happens with Sack and
Speaker 5: New Orleans and Phoenix, and of those teams got to
Speaker 5: play each other, we still got to play in New Orleans.
Speaker 5: Both of us will be coming off of back to
Speaker 5: back on Friday. We got Portland tomorrow at Portland.
Speaker 2: New Orleans have.
Speaker 5: Sack as Sack, so that's a big game, a really
Speaker 5: big game. And then the next night New Orleans has
Speaker 5: Phoenix at Sack, which will also probably be a big
Speaker 5: game for Phoenix with where they are the standards.
Speaker 2: So a lot of shaking down with just playing tournament.
Speaker 5: And it's exactly with the Boss Adam Silver Order And
Speaker 5: no I'm not talking about those scriptwriters. I'm talking about
Speaker 5: the play in tournament. Since the Playing Tournament came about
Speaker 5: what four years ago, three years ago, it has been
Speaker 5: the game's already highest rated games of the season, and
Speaker 5: the excitement that it adds to the last ten to
Speaker 5: fifteen games of the season has been unparallel.
Speaker 2: So that's been great to see.
Speaker 5: But that's what's going on in the play in So
Speaker 5: if you're not paying attention to that, you just may
Speaker 5: want to pay attention to because it is something.
Speaker 2: To keep an eye on.
Speaker 5: We've beaten the Lakers the last couple of times, obviously
Speaker 5: last night without a D and then the game before
Speaker 5: he left the game early. If I'm not mistaken, the
Speaker 5: Lakers are always a tough matchup. Like I said, having
Speaker 5: a D on the court always makes a difference. You know,
Speaker 5: I am very confident, you know, if we play them
Speaker 5: in the play in situation that we can win, that
Speaker 5: we will win. And saying that, you know, anytime you're
Speaker 5: playing against a D and Bron in a one game situation,
Speaker 5: it's tough because you know they're always more than capable
Speaker 5: of putting a great night together, and it's more likely
Speaker 5: in a one game situation that they're going to put
Speaker 5: a great night together.
Speaker 2: Than the bad night, So it's always tough.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: Nonetheless, that that is where we are, and I have
Speaker 5: total confidence that we can take advantage of some things
Speaker 5: that they do and win the game if that is
Speaker 5: the case. But they're saying that the Kings also lost
Speaker 5: last night, and that puts them one game ahead of
Speaker 5: the Doves, which is interesting because, like I said, they
Speaker 5: have a couple of tough games coming up.
Speaker 2: So we shall see how that play out.
Speaker 5: It is important that over the course of these next
Speaker 5: three games we win all of them. You got to
Speaker 5: control what you can control, and that's what we can control.
Speaker 2: Two games that.
Speaker 5: We should win, and then one game that I also
Speaker 5: feel we should win, but it'll be a lot tougher
Speaker 5: because they're playing for something just like we are, so
Speaker 5: gotta stay locked in. But I'm very pleased with where
Speaker 5: we are, how we're playing. We're coming together, playing at
Speaker 5: the right well at the right time, and I think
Speaker 5: that'll bowl well for us and punching our ticket and
Speaker 5: making a run.
Speaker 2: Very excited about that. The t Wolves and other.
Speaker 5: News say they're getting Cat back either tonight or Friday
Speaker 5: or Sunday or something like that.
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting.
Speaker 5: Because they've played really well without Cat, and they played
Speaker 5: really well with Cat. I'm not making like some assumption
Speaker 5: that they're better without Cat or anything like that. I'm
Speaker 5: just saying right now today, chemistry is everything in the NBA.
Speaker 5: Chemistry is huge, and Cat, if I'm not mistaken, has
Speaker 5: missed what the last ten to fifteen games or something
Speaker 5: like that with the knee injury.
Speaker 2: And to come back at the end of the season.
Speaker 5: Where a guys have been gearing up, you know, from
Speaker 5: a body standpoint, from a mental standpoint, from a rhythm standpoint.
Speaker 5: For the playoffs, team has as well. Niles Reed has
Speaker 5: been playing well. Now you incorporate Cat back, and Cat's
Speaker 5: a big force. Cat carries a lot of weight. Cat
Speaker 5: changing the way you play because you're gonna feature him
Speaker 5: because he's that good. And so that will be an
Speaker 5: adjustment for them adding Cat back into the fold. And
Speaker 5: that's always tough to do in the playoffs. Yet nonetheless
Speaker 5: we've had to do that. We've had to add Kevin
Speaker 5: Duranton to playoff series. We've had to ask Steph Curry
Speaker 5: into playoff series. Two years ago when we won a championship,
Speaker 5: I came back March sixteen, two and a half three
Speaker 5: weeks before the season ended.
Speaker 2: We successfully did.
Speaker 5: That, and then when I came back, Steph got hurt
Speaker 5: and we had to add him back in. Actually when
Speaker 5: the playoffs starting, if you remember one of those series
Speaker 5: he was coming off the bench, might have been Denver.
Speaker 5: And so it's not an impossible thing to do. It
Speaker 5: is a tougher thing to do, especially with a team
Speaker 5: that hasn't been there. Obviously, the timber Wolves hasn't been
Speaker 5: at that stage, hasn't been a one seed or two
Speaker 5: seed or three seeds wherever they'll finish, and so the
Speaker 5: expectations and then trying to work with that can get
Speaker 5: a little tough.
Speaker 2: Nonetheless, if you can get Cat back, you add Cat back.
Speaker 5: Into the fold and you just figure it out with
Speaker 5: whatever it is that you have to figure it out with.
Speaker 5: Always happy to see guys healthy and get back on
Speaker 5: the court. So great for Cat. Happy, happy he's healthy
Speaker 5: and back rade to play for this postseason run. At
Speaker 5: the end of the day, we're all NBA players and
Speaker 5: we do our best to uplift a product, and you
Speaker 5: want the best product on the floor that you can
Speaker 5: have out there for the sake of the league, for ourselves,
Speaker 5: for the future of this league. So happy to see
Speaker 5: Cat back out there. I feel, like I said, ultimately,
Speaker 5: they just got to figure that out, and you much
Speaker 5: rather have that problem than the other side, which is he.
Speaker 2: Can't play and moving forward.
Speaker 5: Shout out to South Carolina Louis Vauton, Dawn Staley, the goat,
Speaker 5: one of the goats, putting it together out there, building
Speaker 5: an incredible, incredible program, has built an incredible program, and
Speaker 5: they just took their third championship in two years.
Speaker 2: Undefeated season took.
Speaker 5: Down Caitlyn Clark and the Iowa Hawk Eyes House. Congratulations
Speaker 5: to Kaitlyn on an incredible career. Absolutely amazing what she's
Speaker 5: done for the game. I love how she pays her
Speaker 5: respects to the people that came before her, ultimately knowing
Speaker 5: and understanding that it's not just her but the people
Speaker 5: that came before her and giving her the platform that
Speaker 5: they gave her. And then she did her job, which
Speaker 5: I always talk to you all about pe Myers, telling me,
Speaker 5: you owe it to the game to leave it in
Speaker 5: a better place than it was when you found it,
Speaker 5: and for those that came before her and where they
Speaker 5: got the game too. She took it and took it
Speaker 5: to another level and that's all you can hope for.
Speaker 5: So shout out to Kaitlyn, but more importantly, shout out
Speaker 5: to them champions. Shot out to the champions. The South
Speaker 5: Carolina game Cocks much love. There's been a lot of
Speaker 5: talk going around over the last few days about women's
Speaker 5: basketball and college women's basketball pretty much all year, and
Speaker 5: how the numbers were higher than the guys, and how
Speaker 5: the star power was hired than the guys. And that's
Speaker 5: a very interesting and dangerous thing I always talk about
Speaker 5: when you know, WNBA or women's basketball in general start
Speaker 5: comparing themselves to men's sports, and ultimately, I think that's
Speaker 5: a recipe for a disaster because number one, when you
Speaker 5: start talking NBA and WNBA, the NBA is fifty years
Speaker 5: older than the WNBA fifty.
Speaker 2: So that right there alone is.
Speaker 5: Already going to give you a big gap, like because
Speaker 5: it's fifty years older like, so you're automatically going to
Speaker 5: have a gap just by the stages of where that
Speaker 5: the leagues are as far as you know, the length
Speaker 5: of time that the league's been going.
Speaker 2: So that's a natural thing, an interesting thing. Though.
Speaker 5: What's been interesting to me is that all the talk
Speaker 5: and everybody like pinpoint, like see better than the guys,
Speaker 5: better than this, more numbers than the guys, ticket prices, highers,
Speaker 5: Like people are actually like pinning these two things together
Speaker 5: and creating like this competition, and I think it's so wrong,
Speaker 5: Like I think it's actually horrible for the women's game
Speaker 5: because you start comparing where you don't like, competing where
Speaker 5: you don't need to compare it. And to me that
Speaker 5: that's crazy, Like you're you're never going to like pull
Speaker 5: your watchers from the men's game, Like no, they can
Speaker 5: watch both, like they can watch the women's game. They
Speaker 5: can watch the men's game. But when you start comparing
Speaker 5: college star power for for the women's game in college
Speaker 5: star power for the men's game, that's where it gets tricky.
Speaker 5: Because when you watch ESPN and they're highlighting the the game.
Speaker 2: Per se Iowa versus Yukon, when.
Speaker 5: You watch the women's game, they're not really highlighting the coaches,
Speaker 5: although Gino Ariama is such a legend that they always mentioned,
Speaker 5: but they're not highlighting the coaches, you know who they
Speaker 5: were highlighted. They were highlighting Caitlin Clark and Paige Beckers.
Speaker 5: They were highlighting the players, which is great, I think,
Speaker 5: But in college men's basketball, they don't highlight the players.
Speaker 5: They highlight the coaches. So when you watch the Michigan
Speaker 5: State play against the Kentucky, they don't put Tyson Walker
Speaker 5: picture up and Rob Dillingham picture up. They put John
Speaker 5: Caliperry picture on the screen and Tom Izzo picture on
Speaker 5: the screen. So college men's basketball has always been about
Speaker 5: the coaches.
Speaker 2: It's not about the players.
Speaker 5: So what you don't get marketed is like the player
Speaker 5: in college men's basketball, what you get marketed is the coaches.
Speaker 5: Coaches that's been there for all these years, fifteen years
Speaker 5: CALIBERI is leaving Kentucky. Coach has been at the head
Speaker 5: coach at Michigan State since nineteen ninety five, it's almost
Speaker 5: thirty years.
Speaker 2: That's what is marketed, not.
Speaker 5: Xavier Booker, who's looking to take that next step next year.
Speaker 5: And so I think it's a very slippery slope when
Speaker 5: you start comparing those two things, because next year there
Speaker 5: won't be a Kaitler. Now there will still be Paige
Speaker 5: and pages incredible, but my point is you won't have
Speaker 5: that star power every year, and you can't just flip
Speaker 5: it then to the coaches like I never knew Iowa
Speaker 5: was coaching until maybe like this week, and like I
Speaker 5: remember her last name, but don't remember her first name
Speaker 5: because she's not marketed. Caitlin Clark is marketed. So when
Speaker 5: you don't have that star power now and you're still
Speaker 5: being marketed up against these giants because their game will
Speaker 5: be marketed as by the giants that is tom Is
Speaker 5: the giants that is Caliperry, the giants that are you know,
Speaker 5: the list Bill self, the list go Rick Barnes, like,
Speaker 5: the list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 2: You're going to be marketed against those giants every year.
Speaker 5: And so in the year that you don't have a
Speaker 5: Kaitlin or even a page for that matter, are you
Speaker 5: still going to market against those giants? And if you
Speaker 5: do and you don't have that star power, then all
Speaker 5: traction that you've built now fall off because where does
Speaker 5: your marketing and go and does it stand the test
Speaker 5: of the giants versus the giants? I think not, which
Speaker 5: is why I think is a very dangerous slope to
Speaker 5: go down in comparing the two and making it we're
Speaker 5: better than this, Look at this, we did that. That's
Speaker 5: a slippery slope, and I think it's actually a very
Speaker 5: unnecessary slope. So now when talking about growing the women's game,
Speaker 5: now you have these players Caitlin angel Rees, cam Bring,
Speaker 5: Camilla Cardozo, you have these players go on to the WNBA.
Speaker 2: Now where that gets trick he.
Speaker 5: Is you're better marketed in college than you are to WNBA.
Speaker 5: WNBA is starting to take that next step. But the
Speaker 5: problem that you run into in the WNBA is now
Speaker 5: you're going to have the Kaitlin Clarkson the league and
Speaker 5: all this thing, and like you got grey traction.
Speaker 2: But now you got to find the game somewhere.
Speaker 5: Because there's more college women's games on TV than our
Speaker 5: WNBA games on TV. So now you got to be
Speaker 5: able to find the games. So that problem has to
Speaker 5: be addressed as well. And so I said all of
Speaker 5: that to say women's basketball is in an incredible place
Speaker 5: and I think it's great. I just said all of
Speaker 5: that to say, don't, like, let's not go back down
Speaker 5: the road of comparing the two, because it just doesn't
Speaker 5: make sense. It's an unnecessary battle for no reason. And
Speaker 5: if you lose the battle, the unnecessary battle, then what
Speaker 5: there was never a point to create the battle, and
Speaker 5: not saying the women are creating the battle, although you
Speaker 5: sometimes do see some of the women like yeah, look
Speaker 5: at that. But I'm not saying the women that are
Speaker 5: creating a battle. I'm just saying in general, probably should
Speaker 5: tread a little lightly with that because it's unnecessary.
Speaker 2: Shout out to the Yukon Huskies.
Speaker 5: Rudy Gay went to training camp with us earlier this year,
Speaker 5: like we're a blue blood. I'm like, Rudy, y'all not
Speaker 5: a blue blood. And we talked about if they wanted again,
Speaker 5: would they be a blue blood? They're probably blue bloods.
Speaker 5: With what yu Kon has done, to Dan Hurley's point
Speaker 5: over the last twenty five to thirty years, you kind
Speaker 5: of got to put them in the blue blood category.
Speaker 5: Going back to back, there was never a doubt that
Speaker 5: they win that championship. I had tweeted something about Zach
Speaker 5: Edie and you could go back and watch. Jackson'll probably
Speaker 5: go find a clip if we're allowed to put the
Speaker 5: clips up here, which we're on Bleacher Report. T and
Speaker 5: T had the game. Turner Family had the games, so
Speaker 5: maybe the clip can't go up. But there was a
Speaker 5: specific play maybe around like the eighteen nineteen minute mark,
Speaker 5: where it was kind of Haywire on Purdue and they
Speaker 5: ended up getting a turnover. And I saw Zach Edy
Speaker 5: walking back down the court and he was like walking
Speaker 5: like shrinking down, like head down. And I told my boys,
Speaker 5: I was watching the game where and my wife was sitting.
Speaker 5: I say, he's done. That's it, he's done. I have
Speaker 5: not seen his body language like that all tournament. A
Speaker 5: long he's toase it's not going great for him right now,
Speaker 5: and his body language drop. But the start of the
Speaker 5: game he blocking little dude shot and like looking at
Speaker 5: him like he was crazy for coming in there. And
Speaker 5: now that body language he no longer believes. And the
Speaker 5: next place after that, he ended up like giving up
Speaker 5: a couple offensive rebounds, which I hadn't seen him do
Speaker 5: all tournament. A couple of guys drove to the land
Speaker 5: and just got easy layups. He didn't even come over
Speaker 5: for the block. He caught the ball in the post
Speaker 5: and travel And I'm like, I told y'all, like I
Speaker 5: could see that in his body language. And then you know,
Speaker 5: when I tweet, I tweet because I just want to tweet.
Speaker 5: I never really read y'all replies, and so I'm sure, though,
Speaker 5: like I know how this thing works. And most of
Speaker 5: these people out here don't really know the game of basketball.
Speaker 5: I'm sure if I did read my replies, they probably
Speaker 5: said something like, you don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5: He had thirty seven points, how dare you say he quit?
Speaker 5: Blah blah blah. He did his job, and the reality
Speaker 5: is he finished with thirty seven points. But it wasn't
Speaker 5: no zach Eedy thirty seven. It wasn't a dominant thirty seven.
Speaker 5: What was dominant was like twenty twenty two. And then
Speaker 5: they bottled it up and they was just like, you're
Speaker 5: gonna just shoot these jump hooks. We're gonna take all
Speaker 5: these other guys away. You're gonna fight, fight, fight against
Speaker 5: this one oh one for these jump hooks from almost
Speaker 5: a free throw line, and we gonna see if you
Speaker 5: can make him. He was not moving the guys. He
Speaker 5: was backing down, so he was taking far jump hooks.
Speaker 5: And on top of him not being able to back
Speaker 5: the guys down and move those guys and taking those
Speaker 5: far jump hooks like it was killing their demeanor and
Speaker 5: it was killing their spirit.
Speaker 2: And so as the game went on, YU kind of
Speaker 2: opens the leader up.
Speaker 5: They're now taking the three away the last four or
Speaker 5: five minutes of the game, pretty much inviting him to
Speaker 5: throw the drive to the hole or throw the ball
Speaker 5: in the zak Edy and they drive, they're missing layups,
Speaker 5: he's getting a little put backs. That's how he ended
Speaker 5: up with a double double. That's how he ended up
Speaker 5: with thirty seven points. Like the last fifteen points were
Speaker 5: kind of like garbage time, Like we're not giving up
Speaker 5: a three.
Speaker 2: You can have these layups, and.
Speaker 5: So don't come to me with the Oh he had
Speaker 5: thirty seven, I see through that was not a dominant
Speaker 5: thirty seven shout out the number thirty five and clinging
Speaker 5: from Yukon. He started it off, and number thirty five
Speaker 5: came in like I don't care how if I file
Speaker 5: out or not. I'm using all these files. I'm just
Speaker 5: trying to get under his skin. I'm just putting up
Speaker 5: a fight. And number thirty five did that. And it
Speaker 5: was him that I saw that got to zak Aty,
Speaker 5: like it was him that really got under the sand
Speaker 5: started with clinging. But number thirty five, if I really
Speaker 5: got under skin, and they did their job, and so
Speaker 5: I want to get those guys credit for the job
Speaker 5: that they did on Zach Edy, because when you always
Speaker 5: get the.
Speaker 2: Ball, you're going to score points.
Speaker 5: So you're never going to shut down a guy like
Speaker 5: that completely because you're going to get the ball so
Speaker 5: many times you're going to score some points.
Speaker 2: But I'm not buying that thirty seven.
Speaker 5: That thirty seven was not the thirty seven that you
Speaker 5: all who don't know basketball try to tell me on my.
Speaker 2: Twitter he had thirty seven. Stop it. That was not
Speaker 2: a dominant thirty seven.
Speaker 5: And now I just showed you how to read somebody
Speaker 5: byty language. So if you want to go back and
Speaker 5: check out that clip and see at that moment where
Speaker 5: he was walking back and I said to my boys,
Speaker 5: he's done, and then you want to go watch him
Speaker 5: after that, go watch.
Speaker 2: And you've learned your.
Speaker 5: Lesson today on real points and garbage sound points and
Speaker 5: real dominance and your number said thirty seven and how
Speaker 5: to spot blood in the world. Water just gave you
Speaker 5: a real tutorio on that. So I hope you all
Speaker 5: appreciate it. But more importantly, I hope you go check
Speaker 5: it out so you can see it, you can identify
Speaker 5: it as a different layer to the game and how
Speaker 5: you may see it moving forward in the future.
Speaker 2: There you have it. Before we get out.
Speaker 5: Of here, we'll take a couple of malbad questions, but
Speaker 5: before we get there, I'm always fun talking about the
Speaker 5: mind of game episode Brian was recently talking about one
Speaker 5: of my superpowers is my IQ.
Speaker 1: But it's your IQ that creates the space. Draymond's biggest
Speaker 1: asset offensively is being able to know that guys are
Speaker 1: going to stack off them because they daring them to shoot,
Speaker 1: and Draymond's smart enough to say, idiots, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to shoot the ball. Y'all playing so far off me.
Speaker 1: So when I catch it in space, I'm going to
Speaker 1: find one of my deadly two guys, Clayer Steph, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to d h O to those guys and
Speaker 1: get a clean hit. And because you're so far off me,
Speaker 1: you're not going to be able to contest.
Speaker 5: That allows me to play in space and make defenders
Speaker 5: pay for things that they do in regardless of being
Speaker 5: a knockdown e last shooter, which you know, obviously Steve
Speaker 5: Carr helped me out a lot with that and just
Speaker 5: giving me different reads and things that I can take
Speaker 5: advantage of. But I think that's an important thing, and
Speaker 5: obviously you know, playing with Stephen Clay allows you.
Speaker 2: To do some things to take advantage of that as well.
Speaker 5: They get shot off so quick, so if somebody go overhelp,
Speaker 5: all you need is to split second to kind of
Speaker 5: get a piece of their man and get them a
Speaker 5: good look.
Speaker 2: And so that all plays plays into it.
Speaker 5: But nonetheless it was a very interesting thing to me
Speaker 5: how have learned because I got told you all before,
Speaker 5: I had been a score of my whole life.
Speaker 2: Like I was never a defensive guy.
Speaker 5: I've always been a really good passor, but I used
Speaker 5: to score the basketball, and so adjusting to that over
Speaker 5: the course of my career was an interesting thing, but
Speaker 5: one that I appreciate because I think it separated me
Speaker 5: from a lot of other people. Bron also talked about
Speaker 5: a guarden Steph and why the Warriors always will have
Speaker 5: a chance because with that movement, with the force that
Speaker 5: he creates, people are always going to overreact.
Speaker 2: And you can never really rely on your normal.
Speaker 5: Defense that you work on all year loan, that you
Speaker 5: play against, that you get so comfortable with that you
Speaker 5: play against most teams, there's always an adjustment when Steph
Speaker 5: is on the floor, when Clay is on the floor,
Speaker 5: So that opens up different things for a lot of people.
Speaker 5: So that's something that we definitely take advantage of. And
Speaker 5: then I saw bron broke down the block. Man man,
Speaker 5: y'all take that. I probably want to talk about that block,
Speaker 5: but no, needless needless to say, bron in the chase
Speaker 5: down block.
Speaker 2: Obviously that's a staple of his career.
Speaker 5: But what's I think what's even more important is that
Speaker 5: his teammates can trust that he's going to because he
Speaker 5: goes every time for and that consistency allows your teammates
Speaker 5: to not file. And so obviously that was one of
Speaker 5: the biggest players in history that I don't want to
Speaker 5: talk about. Y'all can save it and talk about that
Speaker 5: somewhere else. We're going to talk about some mailback questions, Jackson,
Speaker 5: you got a feed for him.
Speaker 2: Before we go.
Speaker 6: Yes, let's start with from at tj X five. In
Speaker 6: the spirit of talking about lebron James. Can Bronnie be
Speaker 6: a successful player in the NBA? He asked about him
Speaker 6: being a star, But let's start with being successful in
Speaker 6: the NBA.
Speaker 5: Bronnie one hundred percent will be a successful player in
Speaker 5: the NBA. Number one, he knows how to work and
Speaker 5: If you don't think he knows how to work, go
Speaker 5: look at Bronnie from his freshman year, sophomore, sophomore, junior,
Speaker 5: junior to see there you will see a kid that
Speaker 5: knows how to work because you can see the improvement
Speaker 5: in his game, you can see the improvement in his body,
Speaker 5: you can see the improvement in his athleticism. At worst,
Speaker 5: Brownie is an NBA level defender that can knock a
Speaker 5: shot down. So at worst he's a three and D guy. Great,
Speaker 5: we got those all over the NBA, can pressure the ball,
Speaker 5: can come in at worst, be a backup point guard
Speaker 5: that can pick up full a court, that can put
Speaker 5: pressure on another team's league guard, whether that's their backup,
Speaker 5: whether that's their start and guard. He can come in
Speaker 5: and change the tempo on the defensive end. So at
Speaker 5: worst he's a three and D guy.
Speaker 2: Three and D guys are highly valued in this league.
Speaker 5: Three guys are higher the value that can't play no defense,
Speaker 5: so three defense guys are definitely valued. And BROWNI got
Speaker 5: a really good shot, so didn't shoot the ball all
Speaker 5: that great this year, but his mechanics are great. He's
Speaker 5: always shot the ball great. Bunch of different factors into
Speaker 5: why he didn't shoot the ball.
Speaker 2: Well this year.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to overreact to that because I know
Speaker 5: he can shoot the ball and he can defense. So yes,
Speaker 5: I think Broanni will be a successful player in this
Speaker 5: NBA draft.
Speaker 2: Also think it's a smart I mean in the NBA.
Speaker 5: Also think it's a smart move for him to go
Speaker 5: in this NBA draft because this NBA draft is basuda.
Speaker 2: This NBA draft will go.
Speaker 5: Down probably as one of the worst in history from
Speaker 5: a top talent standpoint. Now, I think when you get
Speaker 5: in this draft, you will find some guys from the
Speaker 5: twenties and forties, Like I think that's actually where the
Speaker 5: strength of the draft is. When you start getting in
Speaker 5: like the top ten, top fifteen. It's not your typical
Speaker 5: top ten and top fifteen. There's not even a consensus
Speaker 5: number one pick. Last time there wasn't a consistence number
Speaker 5: one pick. We ended up with Anthony Bennett that didn't
Speaker 5: go so well. So don't think this is a great draft,
Speaker 5: which I'm Bronnie. I'm also taking that into account, like
Speaker 5: this is not a great draft. I can even move
Speaker 5: up in even higher because of the lack of talent.
Speaker 5: And then my name who I am what I bring,
Speaker 5: what I can grow into. So I think it's a
Speaker 5: great decision and I definitely think Briannie will be a
Speaker 5: successful NBA player.
Speaker 6: Next one from at K Sizzle, Who is your favorite
Speaker 6: young player in the league right now?
Speaker 5: My favorite young player in the league right now? I mean,
Speaker 5: don't we all love the thought of what Womy can
Speaker 5: possibly become? And the thing I love most about Wimby
Speaker 5: is he does it on both ends. Affects the game
Speaker 5: and an elite way on both sides of ball. Somebody
Speaker 5: said something last week like, how scary is it that
Speaker 5: this is the worst season in Wimby's career?
Speaker 2: Very scary for everybody.
Speaker 5: And like I said before, if Wimby never grows offensively,
Speaker 5: he's already an All star back NBA player. If he
Speaker 5: never grows offensively because of how elite he is defensively,
Speaker 5: he's already all star NBA player just off that alone.
Speaker 5: So I gotta be Winby. And then for me, what
Speaker 5: is young right?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: Maybe under twenty five? Is Lucas still earned twenty five?
Speaker 5: I don't know. Man, gods are starting to get old, however,
Speaker 5: And man, love what he embodies, love his game, Love
Speaker 5: like you see them down and then he end up
Speaker 5: with fifty, you know, like he takes on those challenges crazy,
Speaker 5: and he has the skill level and the athleticism and
Speaker 5: the star power and the mindset he believes it.
Speaker 2: So it's a man for sure for me.
Speaker 6: Last one from at Watshi, what do you think about
Speaker 6: coach cal leaving Kentucky?
Speaker 5: So Coach Cayle leaving Kentucky is an interesting one for me.
Speaker 5: And the reason it's interesting because I know exactly why
Speaker 5: coach Cayle left Kentucky. And the reason I know why
Speaker 5: Coach Cayle left Kentucky is because I was once admitted
Speaker 5: to Kentucky when Tubby Smith was the head coach. And
Speaker 5: I'll never forget the day I was standing in Sagging
Speaker 5: on a high school gym and my high school coach,
Speaker 5: Lou Dawkins put me on the phone with Tubby Smith,
Speaker 5: who was his head coach in college and Tulsa many
Speaker 5: moons ago, and Tubby was at Kansas and he put
Speaker 5: me on the phone and Tubby told me, Draymond, I
Speaker 5: wanted to talk to you. I wanted you to hear
Speaker 5: this from me first. But I'm going to lead the
Speaker 5: University of Kentucky they're not going to fire me. But
Speaker 5: every year it's more and more scrutiny.
Speaker 2: It's hard.
Speaker 5: It's getting harder and harder for me and my family.
Speaker 5: And I've just had enough. I need to get out
Speaker 5: of here. I need something fresh. I'm going to go
Speaker 5: to the University of Minnesota. Would love for you to
Speaker 5: go with me, but I understand if you want to
Speaker 5: reopen your recruitment. Yeah, coach, I'm gonna reopen my recruitment
Speaker 5: if I'm gonna go to Michigan State. And if I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go to Minnesota, I can stay in Michigan. And
Speaker 5: so never really truly considered Minnesota, like I never even
Speaker 5: took a visit there or anything of that nature. But
Speaker 5: that's where cal is at. Like the pressure, the expectations
Speaker 5: at Kentucky.
Speaker 2: If you don't win, it's just never enough.
Speaker 5: And you know, I've heard about him having a relationship
Speaker 5: with Tyson Food Group, the owner of that, who's an
Speaker 5: Arkansas guy. You got to cleanse down there. Who's Arkansas people?
Speaker 5: You got the Walton's down there, who's Arkansas people? And
Speaker 5: so Kyle going to be able to do what Kyle
Speaker 5: does at Arkansas because he's going to have money behind him,
Speaker 5: and so he's going to be able to recruit at
Speaker 5: an e lee level, and Arkansas will appreciate more of
Speaker 5: him recruiting at an ear le level and not winning
Speaker 5: than Kentucky does. Kentucky don't give a damn if you're
Speaker 5: not winning.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 5: I think it's a great move by Cale. Job well
Speaker 5: done at Kentucky. You can't take nothing away from him.
Speaker 5: There out amount of guys that he has put in
Speaker 5: the NBA to change their lives and their family's lives
Speaker 5: is unparalleled.
Speaker 2: So I think it's a smart move by Cal. I
Speaker 2: think it's a great move.
Speaker 5: You're gonna get that bad, but even more so than
Speaker 5: getting the bad, the access that he'll get off the
Speaker 5: court through relationships is huge. And kudos to Cal. Job
Speaker 5: well done at Kentucky. My man, they can't take nothing
Speaker 5: away from me. It's been very fun to watch year
Speaker 5: after year how great Cal is a recruiter. But you know,
Speaker 5: it'll be also interesting to see who's Kentucky's next head coach.
Speaker 5: That'll be an interesting one, so we shall see. But
Speaker 5: Michigan State, we still got the great time. Mizzo baby
Speaker 5: until next time. That's a rap on this episode of
Speaker 5: The Draymond Green Show.
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