WEBVTT - NBA First Round Whiparound 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:06.600 You're tuned into Heat Check with Tristal Quick. On this 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:11.520 episode of the Heat Check, Traymond Green gets suspended the 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:15.120 entire NBA world seems to have lost its damn mind 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.439 and will break down the Kings, Warriors and all the 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.200 drama and detail, touch on some of the other series that, 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.800 let's be honest, are a lot less interesting, and then 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.960 look at the annual NBA players poll hosted by you 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.760 got It, The Athletic. A lot of shit is popping. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.120 My man, Nick, do me a favor and drop that 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:45.400 generic ass beat that should be Rihanna. It looks like 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:50.199 I lucked out. Yes, I found this series that is 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.960 the most important of the first round Warriors Kings. Who 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.800 would have thought probably would have been the same if 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.760 the Warriors played the Pelicans, probably would have been this 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:03.279 same aim if the Warriors played the Clippers or the Lakers. 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.760 All the drama, all the pundits everybody would be talking about, 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.319 has nothing to do with the Kings, right, has nothing 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.600 to do with the Kings, all the Warriors. Let's start 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.679 with Draymond Green. We know what a time it is 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.560 with Draymond Green, don't we like? From the punch the 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.480 start of the season to the stomp that is dominating 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.040 the news. Now, Draymond Green moves the needle. He moves 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:31.240 the needle. I personally like Draymond Green. I'm just gonna 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.000 say that. I am a Draymond Green fan. My folks, 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:39.160 my brothers at thirteen twenty ESPN burn me up for this. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.920 The Chatty House burns me up for this. I like Draymond. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.920 I think he's really good. I think he's a player 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:47.920 you want on your team. I think he's a winning player. 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.080 I think he's one of the best centers of our generation. 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:54.440 He has basically put seven foot slow feet guys out 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.360 of business, out of the business, made them retire, made 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:03.760 guys like Dwight Howard ceased to exist in this league. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:08.040 But he's his own worst enemy, is he? He really is. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.520 That passion that he has, the passion that's the core 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.760 the four championships that the Warriors have had, is the 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.560 same passion that gets him in trouble. It's the same 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.360 passion that gets him suspended for Game three of the 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.560 first round of the NBA Playoffs when they're on the 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.600 precipice of losing their entire franchise as we know it. 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.920 Some people believe he's now of control player in these moments. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.760 I do not personally think that he's unhinged. I believe 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.200 he gets carried away. I believe that he is calculated 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.240 and methodical with his tomfoolery, and I just don't think 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.359 he understands the ramifications of those actions at all. What 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:49.959 happens next is not anticipated for Draymond Green, and what 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:54.400 it does is it leaves chaos in his wake. Jordan 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.520 Poole gets kioed. What happens. The team is in disarray 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.800 for the beginning of the season, you got weekly kerfuffles 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.560 with opposing players on opposing teams. You've become the only 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.680 player now in NBA history to be ejected from one, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.160 not one, but two playoff games. And now the league 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.800 has officially suspended Draymond Green for Game three at Chase, 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:20.400 which is now two suspensions in Draymond Green's career in 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:25.679 the playoffs. Imagine that. Imagine that, Dubbs fans, dub Nation, 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.840 you're down two oh and you need your heart and 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.240 soul down too oh for the first time in the 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.680 Steve Kerr era, down two oh in the for the 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:41.400 first time in Steph Curry's career and your guy, the 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:46.720 number one facilitator outside of Steph that you need running 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:50.920 the offense. Running the defense will not be not only 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:55.120 on the court in the actual building itself, the beating 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:59.640 heart of that offense, the hub which the entire Dubs 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:04.440 offense runs through, will be on the couch as the 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:09.200 dynasty fights for its life, its last dying breath, hoping 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.640 and wishing along the way that they could just have 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.920 Draymond Green on the court. We're not going to get 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.160 into the actions. It looked like a stomp to me. 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:22.040 Depending on your fandom, you've already decided who is to 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:27.720 blame our Dubs fans, we believe Sabona should have been suspended. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:33.960 We believe suspension should have come down all around. Adam 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.760 Silver being in attendance probably didn't help, right, Like, we 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.040 know that played some sort of role. You can see 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.320 photos of him. He did not look amused. Coaches did 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:48.560 not look amused when Draymond Green crushed Sabonis's sternum and 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.200 then walked to the middle of the court, jumped on 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.880 the bench and said, who likes me? Now? What do 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.680 you think? P's his hand to his ear like he 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:04.159 just ddt somebody. Dog. That's not good. That's not good 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.880 for your reputation and whether you're gonna get suspended as 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.120 soon as you get teed up, as soon as you 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.640 get a flagrant, you need to sit down and pretend 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.200 like you didn't mean it. That pretty much sums it up. Man. 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.080 It wasn't the stomp, It was just the reaction afterwards. 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:23.120 Your chest is stumping, Domas is writhing on the ground 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:27.479 like you just got shot in the chest, and you're like, hell, yeah, 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.960 who likes me? Now that's right, bitch, I'll stomp on 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.040 your center. Hell y'all do it again in front of 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:42.279 the commissioner. What take that? What? And then the funniest 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.479 part was like when he heard Sibonis was having X 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:49.359 rays on his ribs and lungs and all that he 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.200 was diagnosed so bonis with a chest contusion, Draymond was like, actually, 0:05:53.960 --> 0:06:00.160 I'm too having my ankle examined an X rayed. Something 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:04.760 that I believe happened with Domanta Sabonis tugging on my 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:09.279 ankle while I was operating at full speed, full speed. 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:15.200 I was running at top motion in a full sprint 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:20.159 in your center, pulled my ankle down and left me 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:25.600 to die? What else was I supposed to do? Joe Dumars, 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.719 who's the EVP of basketball operations, actually a mentor of 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:34.200 Draymond Greens. Uh, he was the one to make the 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.120 final decision and he said, yeah you got stick go. 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:42.280 I'm sorry. And the aftermath has been immense. The ements. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:47.359 The Draymon Defense Committee is in full force right now. 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.920 They do not believe that Draymond has done anything wrong. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:55.080 In fact, there are people who believe, like I said, 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:59.960 Sabonis is the one who precipitated and was the catalyst 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.160 for all of the tom foolery. We got the local 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:07.160 radio station in the Bay going crazy, going straight loco. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.680 They're defending him to the death, even though alternate camera 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:15.320 angles clearly showed dre winding up for the death stomp, 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.960 and they defend it. When video from a month ago 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.360 shows Draymond getting tangled up and kicking Herb Jones in 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.680 the head, they're like, oh, well that was different. That 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.760 was that was so much different. Though you see also 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:34.800 other videos where Draymond Green's pulling other men's ankles. They 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.960 defend it, even though Domas has it's been come out 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.680 that he's questionable for Game three because he has a 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.880 chess contusion. I don't know, because he got stomped by 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.160 a two hundred and sixty pounds man. It's insane. It 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:54.040 really is insane, and I think I think it's really sad. Actually, 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.400 I think it's uh. Truthfully, between me and you and 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.560 the lamp Post, I think it's pathetic. I think that 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:07.120 the Warriors media and our fan base is going through 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.760 it right now. We know that the end times are near. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.679 We've never been up against a wall like this during 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:18.360 the Steph career era in our lives. Not once. In 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.240 the beginning, it was all cute. Oh, kings are adorable. 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:25.200 Oh there are little brothers ninety miles away. Oh yeah, 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.720 they get to they get to fight Big Bro. They 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.679 get to warm up. Big Bro will take it easy 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.840 on them, and then they knock Big Bro in the mouth. Pow, 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.280 knock Big Bro in them out. They get pow and 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.560 it's like listen here, little pip squeak, you're playing dirty. 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.720 And now it's like, oh yeah, By the way, the 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.800 Warriors were minus two seventy five, which, if you're not 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.120 a better that's about as crazy of odds for a 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.560 six seed to beat a three seed i've ever seen. 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.240 Basically what that means is you have to pay two 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.760 hundred and seventy five dollars just to get one hundred 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.520 dollars back on betting the Warriors to beat the Kings. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.960 The Kings were third in the West and the Warriors 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:07.240 six in the West, and yet the Kings are underdogs, 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.600 big underdogs in this series. And now that they're down 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.880 the Warriors two zero, it's like, oh, well, you knew 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:17.040 nothing's nothing's new. You know, the Kings were gonna always 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:22.559 always win at home. They were always gonna hold serve up. 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.720 That was not the script, folks. That was not what 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.320 you told me was gonna happen. You told me it 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.880 was gonna be a sweep. You told me, we want 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.040 the Kings. We want the Kings because we want a 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.360 short series. We want to move on and get some rest. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.040 They were like, Oh, who's gonna stop staph Curry, Who's 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:41.920 gonna stop staff Curry? Who's Malik Monk He's gonna get 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.920 shut down, he's getting locked up. Kaminga's gonna lock him up, 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:52.719 click clack. And for for Kings fans, Kings fans don't 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.480 want Draymond Green to be suspended. Why would they want that? Now, 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.800 Warriors fans are just gonna be like, well, the only 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:04.000 reason you beat us is because Draymond Green was suspended 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.200 in Game three. Nobody wants that shit. Nobody wants that. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.480 And even Dumars came out and said this on ESPN 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.360 a little bit ago. Here's what it came down to. 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:18.520 Excessive and over the top actions. Conduct detrimental. Conduct detrimental, 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:22.679 by the way, means the histrionics out on the court, 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:29.240 the stone cold Steve Austin moves the rock, the Undertaker bomb. 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.040 It was like if I swear to God, you could 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:38.080 hear the like the broken glass Dunna. It was like that. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.679 It was I swear to God in the building. I 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.199 was in the building. It was like that. I thought 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.040 someone was gonna come out and be like, how you 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:46.559 like him? 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:46.920 Now? 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.520 You know it's That's That's what conduct detrimental means, and 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.120 then repeat offender that you already know what time it is. 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:59.360 That's what separates someone who doesn't get suspended and someone 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.480 who does. Someone who does that a lot, and someone 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:07.400 who doesn't. Past actions. People don't want to hear that, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:09.640 right like they do not want to hear that you 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.000 do not want to hear that somebody else who stomped 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.480 on another man's chest would have been just fine for it. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.920 I tweeted that Game three was the most important game 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:22.200 in Golden State in their history, and I was only 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:26.440 like a quarter joking. This is a very important game 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:31.200 if if our Dubs have a chance of winning this series, 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.839 and ninety two percent of teams up to zero in 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.480 the playoffs close out their opponents, so the odds are 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.800 ready or not in our dubs favor, they have to 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:45.000 win Game three or now. I don't think anybody's ever 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:50.080 won when they've gone down three to zero. So if 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.040 our Dubs lose this game, most likely we are going 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.760 home in Round one, only the fifth such defending champion 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.960 in NBA history to flame out in the first round. 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:05.720 In the next season, and then we enter this offseason 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.199 where Clay wants a MAX extension, Draymond says he wants 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.920 to get paid. He's got to finish his contract out. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.880 But you can't extend them both. And right now, as 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.160 it stands, the Warriors are paying five hundred million dollars 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:22.040 in payroll for one of the oldest teams in the 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.680 league that look like they need to be put out 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:30.560 to pasture dynasty over fam rebuild full on. I don't 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.120 even know what you do. I don't even know how 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.040 you build around that team. Is it kaminga? You're building 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.600 around kaminga? Okay, all right? Did you see him get 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.000 cooked like seventeen times in a row in the four 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.360 minutes he was out there in game two? Anyway, we 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.000 move on, kingson Forest say it ain't so all this 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:51.640 because Draymond Green can't keep his hands feet to himself. 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:13.160 The media is they are. I am now inside it 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.640 to a point where I haven't had a dog in 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:22.320 the fight really for a long time. And now that 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.720 I I'm like an honorary member of the Beam team, 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.880 I am seeing it from a whole new lens. It's crazy. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:39.000 The world simply cannot comprehend how the Sacramento Kings are 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:45.600 able to beat the Warriors two oh without Shenanigan's being 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:51.640 at play. There are so many legitimate and explainable reasons 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.240 why the Kings are just smothering the Warriors in this series. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:14:00.160 There's smart reasons, there's nerdy reasons. They're explainable reasons in 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.920 the matchups. You're looking at it, you watch film. This 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.880 stuff is not shocking, right, there are people breaking this down. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.319 If you wanted to know why it's happening, why it's 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:14.080 something probably likely to continue, you can find that. But then, 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.640 but then there's this alternate universe, and that's what I 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.960 want to talk about really quick. This alternate universe that 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:30.960 cannot comprehend that Steph Curry could lose, cannot comprehend the 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.720 concept that the Warriors would be beat by a team 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.880 that has not made the playoffs in seventeen years. This 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:42.040 is a dynasty collapsing at the hands of a team 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:46.680 that when you google the name, one of the first 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.040 things that you see, like people also search for, is 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:56.720 do the Sacramento Kinks still reside in Sacramento? And the 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.480 dynasty could come crumbling down to a team that finish 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.080 twenty sixth and Team Defense locking them the fuck up. 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:11.200 Only Shenanigans to those people can explain this. Ignore these people. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.280 They are their brains are mush, they have broken brains. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:18.840 They're clearly they are clearly self destructing live in front 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.960 of us. No shade to JJ Reddick. He is one 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:26.800 of those those people who are literally destructing. Just his 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:33.600 brain is turning into liquid as we speak. Here's what 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.640 is happening that has not been mentioned. It's actually really 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:41.080 interesting because it highlights, highlights just how much the man 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.480 Mike Brown is. Joe Vire. I think Joe Vire, by 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.400 the way, is one of the smartest guys on Twitter 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.840 breaking down basketball. Find him. I think it's golden state 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:51.960 of mind. Pretty sure that's what it is. Find him 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:56.160 on Twitter. He's elite anyway, He's breaking down why Mike 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.360 Brown is able to do this to the Warriors. And 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.720 there is a reason Dante DiVincenzo sat out the fourth 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.680 quarter of Game two. There is a reason that Jonathan 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.720 Kaminga played four minutes and was a negative ten on 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.640 the court and did not see the court for the 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.040 rest of the game. And there is a reason that 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:20.600 Mike Brown turned Jordan Poole into the most expensive cheerleader 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.320 in the NBA, considering that he did not see a 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.320 minute in the fourth quarter either. What are those reasons? 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.400 Mike Brown knows how to exploit those men, He knows 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.160 their weaknesses, and not only does he exploit them, he 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:37.480 did it all night long. All of that is Mike Brown. 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.040 If you don't remember, Mike Brown was in charge of 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.440 the Warriors defense when he was coaching for Golden State 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.720 for like seven years, most importantly running the defense last year, 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:48.800 because there wasn't a lot of changes from last year 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:53.320 to this year. So Vira is breaking down what's actually 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:57.880 happening in this article. Here it is Brown's intimate knowledge 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.760 of the Warriors offense. Where it starts, it's the middleman, 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.240 and where it ends is putting a wrench in Kerr 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:07.960 and his squad. Pause, you fucking think big wrench. Brown 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.760 knows all too well that the Warriors hubs or where 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.040 the offense starts. His offense itself counts on a full 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.879 crumb such as Demna Sabonis to initiate action and fuel 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.960 the offense to its highest gear. The Warriors do the 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.320 same with someone like Draymond Green, who typically has all 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.560 the vision he needs to whip passes to shooters and 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.359 cutters off the ball because of his nature as a 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:34.520 non shooting threat on point. That is why Draymond Green's 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.680 absence is very huge for Game three because now you've 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:41.119 got to make the fulk crum Kevon Looney, and let's 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.200 be honest, Kevon Looney does not have the same basketball 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.959 IQ as Draymond Green, Kevon Looney not the same passer 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:51.000 as Draymond Green, not the same quick decision maker as 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:55.440 Draymond Green, and Mike Brown understands this vra continues. What 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.800 Brown knows, however, is that the best way to defend 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.399 Green or Kevon Looney or any hubs stay in the 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.119 low post, high post or at the top of the 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.960 arc is to crowd their space. Putting ball pressure on 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.880 the passing hub not only limits their vision, it bleeds 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.800 the clock, forces a hub to become a shot creator, 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:18.160 and increases the chance chances of forcing a mistake. This 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.480 is exactly what the Kings did in the second half, 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:26.280 especially in Game two, constant ball pressure, swarming Curry with 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.280 multiple guards that were fast enough or strong enough to 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:33.160 fight through screens collapsing on him. Daveon just muscles through 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.840 screens and Fox darts around him as if like and 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.439 Curry can't really get enough separation. And what's the end 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.880 result of that. Curry either has to take a really 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.119 bad shot or he has to get it to the 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.600 folk crum. Curry was zero for five in from three 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:52.120 in the fourth quarter and really couldn't get open at all, 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.800 and the miracle wasn't that Steph was three for thirteen 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.120 for three in game two. The miracle is that he's 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.600 made any shots at all. He is that good. He 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.679 was nine for twenty seven in this series, and a 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:08.320 lot of those makes were circus shots. And Mike Brown 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.600 knows exactly how to contain Steph Curry because he practiced 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:15.520 this when he was running the defense only with Gary Payton. 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:20.560 The second hounding Curry. The article and a few others 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:22.520 by people who actually know what's going on, and it's 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:26.760 not speculation, right, there's ample video evidence. There's threads is 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.000 a drop in the bucket, though, compared to this raucous 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:35.600 noise of people trying to grapple with the fact that, 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:39.960 let's be honest, our does might be cooked like they might. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.439 It's local ninety five to seven in the game this morning, 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.680 for example, Morning Roast. They're just losing their minds. They're 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.240 losing their minds. After Game two, they're screaming at each 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.040 other so much crosstalk you can't even hear who's who, 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:56.080 You can't even understand a goddamn word. Badass radio, horrible radio. 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.080 One side saying pulls the problem, another shouting that it's 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.440 Clay blaming the refs, one person being like, why can't 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.119 you blame Steph Curry? No one giving any credit to 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.679 the Kings or Mike Brown, no one daring to say, 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:13.080 maybe we're just not as athletic or deep as them. 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:17.399 The desperation is also national. It is also spread like 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:22.320 wildfire to ESPN. On ESPN, JJ Reddick went on a 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:27.399 rant which I must play because it is outrageous and 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:31.400 immediately makes me question pretty much every word that's coming 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.560 out of his mouth from now on. Let's play it. 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.399 They have allowed too much. I have no problem with 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.720 physical play in the playoffs, but if Steph Curry is 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.440 not allowed to move off the ball, if you're preventing 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:44.560 players from running down the court and you're allowing that 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:50.200 to happen. There's a play late in Game two where 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.639 Kevon Looney is right underneath the rim ready for a rebound. 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:54.880 Sibonus crashes in pushes him in the back. 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:55.919 They don't call the foul. 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:59.760 That's a foul. The referees have dictated too much in 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:02.040 the King's favor in this series. I really believe that. 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:04.879 And I don't know if it's the home crowd or whatever. 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.560 I rarely complain about the referees. In fact, I don't 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:09.760 even know if I've ever complained about the referees. I 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:12.720 think they're great. But if they're gonna come back in 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:15.080 this series, they've got to call the game the way 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:17.480 the game is supposed to be called. I really believe. 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:24.119 And then, oh my, oh my bullshit. Hold up, let 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:28.320 me repeat. If they're gonna come back in this series, 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:31.520 the Warriors, they need to call the game the way 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:36.280 the game is supposed to be called. I thought the 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:40.119 playoffs were more physical. I thought the reason that the 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:44.360 Kings were gonna get absolutely obliterated was because the Warriors 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:48.359 were gonna outphysical the little baby Kings. They don't know 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.000 how to handle all the pressure. How the half court 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:55.639 changes everything, how much more intense it is, how the 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:59.440 refs let the boys play. And now we're saying it's 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:06.359 too physical. Cool w w hell no, miss me with 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:09.919 that shit, miss me with that? Why are you rooting 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:12.520 for the Warriors to come back? That's what it sounds 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:16.439 like if they're gonna come back in this series? Is 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:19.840 it because everyone in your building forecasted the Warriors to 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:23.720 win in five except for the lone exception of Kendrick Perkins, 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:29.200 and you've just been straight playing captain for the Warriors 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:32.320 so long you can't even fathom. But they're being outworked, 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:35.480 outplayed out coached because they are, let me say it again, outworked, 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:39.800 outplayed out coached. This really is some bullshit. Here we go. 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:44.320 I had to see this tweet from Fox Sports legend 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:49.159 Colin Coward, and I still don't really know. It's so 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.919 bad that I don't really know if he's controlling and 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:55.600 it's like an hour dub sort of situation, but I 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:57.840 think he's being serious, and if he is, we got 0:22:57.840 --> 0:23:01.040 a pause. Here's what he said. The league has always 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:06.680 given the Kings the whistle, frustrating for those of us 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:11.200 who just want a fair game. Hashtag weak tea. It's 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:16.760 something I would write for our dubs. It's honestly something 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:19.399 that I would write when I was going into the 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:25.120 mindset of a whiny, entitled, delusional Warriors fan. What are 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:28.720 we doing here? What is happening here? I've never gotten 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:30.800 to the This is kind of like the Caitlin Clark 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:33.720 Angel Rey situation, where you're like, this whole thing is 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:38.159 fucking crazy, but also kind of dope that national media 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:42.879 is talking about the Kings for three straight segments. Folks 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:45.919 on NBA Twitter and national media really saying that the 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:50.479 Kings are so good that the NBA is conspiring with 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:55.280 the refs to help them beat and dismantle the defending champs. 0:23:56.040 --> 0:23:59.400 Think about that for a second, and why would they 0:23:59.560 --> 0:24:03.240 do that? Like, the Kings are just this historic franchise 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:07.800 that everyone wants to see go to the finals. The Kings, 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:11.919 the Sacramento Kings that almost were moved for no reason 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:16.720 to Seattle and to Anaheim. They're the ones getting preferential treatment. 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:20.760 This is bonkers. This is the same franchise the league 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:23.200 spent like fifteen years trying to fold up like a 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:27.600 lawn chair. The Sacramento Monarchs closed up, packed up like 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:31.360 a suitcase. The NBA did everything possible the strip Sacramento 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:36.720 of the Kings. And now no, they're the golden child 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:39.880 once we built Golden one. They're the golden child. They're 0:24:39.920 --> 0:24:43.160 the ones getting the preferential treatment. Get all the way 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:46.480 fucking out of here. At least we have evidence, concrete 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:48.520 facts that we can look at. It's called the two 0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:51.760 minute report, last two minute report. And looking at the 0:24:51.800 --> 0:24:54.719 last two minute report, let's just check the notes. It 0:24:54.800 --> 0:25:00.720 appears that the Kings were hurt the second mode out 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:03.680 of any team this year by bad calls. The only 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:07.439 team above them, not shockingly, is the Denver Nuggets, the 0:25:07.520 --> 0:25:10.960 team that the NBA cares the least about. How do 0:25:11.040 --> 0:25:15.280 you know, because it doesn't matter if they're playing the Timberwolves, 0:25:15.320 --> 0:25:17.840 the Lakers, they always put them in the worst time 0:25:17.840 --> 0:25:22.000