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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to this Draymond Green Show.
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Speaker 1: we should get right into this episode. As you can see,
Speaker 1: I'm not really too excited about this episode, coming off
Speaker 1: the hills of a shitty loss last night where we
Speaker 1: probably should have won that game. Pretty easily, and it
Speaker 1: just didn't happen that way. Obviously, I had a turnover
Speaker 1: late down the stretch that led to a three which
Speaker 1: ultimately end up in a basket to give them the
Speaker 1: lead and eventually win the game. Just got to be
Speaker 1: better with the ball in that situation to understand who
Speaker 1: it is that's closing out to me, Kyle Anderson has
Speaker 1: very very very long arms. He's gray in the past lane,
Speaker 1: and so probably the old fake a pass to make
Speaker 1: a pass gets us there. In saying that, I'm not
Speaker 1: really one to make much of one play and say
Speaker 1: that's why we lost the game, because there are a
Speaker 1: ton of plays throughout the course of a game that
Speaker 1: I feel like even me personally could have done better
Speaker 1: that can change the outcome of a game. But you know,
Speaker 1: in a situation like that, it's very natural to feel like,
Speaker 1: oh man, I cost us the game with that player,
Speaker 1: or oh man, someone else costs the game with a
Speaker 1: play that may happen at the end of a game,
Speaker 1: and the reality is it's not quite the case. But
Speaker 1: as an athlete, you shoulder that burden. And so in
Speaker 1: saying that pretty rough night, also, you know, I think
Speaker 1: I took probably three or four elbows to the face
Speaker 1: last night, two or three elbows to the shoulder areas
Speaker 1: last night. So just a little beat up, which is
Speaker 1: more so why my energy is kind of bad, like
Speaker 1: just hurt, neck tight. But in saying that, have a
Speaker 1: day to get ready for tomorrow, which is a very
Speaker 1: big game. The Pelicans, who's right also writing that log
Speaker 1: jam in the standings coming into Chase Center. They just
Speaker 1: came off the hills. They're on the hills of a
Speaker 1: great win against the Clippers a couple of days ago
Speaker 1: in LA and they won out when pretty handily dominated
Speaker 1: the whole game. Brandon Ingram had his first career trip
Speaker 1: of double CJ had a really good game, Trey Murphy
Speaker 1: career high and threes had ten threes. So it'll be
Speaker 1: a tough game, and you know, Willie Green is going
Speaker 1: to have those guys coming and ready to play. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think for us, you know human nature,
Speaker 1: you're pissed off, You're pissed off about what happened last night,
Speaker 1: and and you kind of want to get back out
Speaker 1: in the court as fast as you can. So that's
Speaker 1: kind of where my mindset is. It's just to get
Speaker 1: back to the drawing board, get back on the floor,
Speaker 1: correct the things that we know we can correct, correct
Speaker 1: the things that I personally know I can correct, and
Speaker 1: go out and get a win. I think we're still
Speaker 1: in pretty good position. Although you know, to get right
Speaker 1: up there at four seed five seeds as a very
Speaker 1: realistic thing, I think, you know, wasted opportunity last night,
Speaker 1: But in saying that, there's more opportunities, and you got
Speaker 1: to go take advantage of those that you're supposed to win,
Speaker 1: as I've said before, and take a couple of those
Speaker 1: that you're maybe not supposed to win. So that is
Speaker 1: the goal. And looking forward, I thought, you know, in
Speaker 1: last night's game timber One's beat US ninety nine to
Speaker 1: ninety six, having GP back number one, just to SEEGP
Speaker 1: back out there on the floor with us was great.
Speaker 1: I think you know with that comes like rotations and
Speaker 1: you know, figuring out the pieces and what rotation is,
Speaker 1: what lineups it's best together. When adding GP back in
Speaker 1: the fold, and you know that'll take a few games
Speaker 1: to figure out, always feels a little better, Always feels
Speaker 1: a little better when you can figure those things out.
Speaker 1: And the win and quite frankly, like I said, we
Speaker 1: should have been doing that, but that's not the case.
Speaker 1: So just get back to the drawing board, continue to
Speaker 1: figure those things out, and you know, they all come together.
Speaker 1: I think for us, you know, winning two row games
Speaker 1: is huge and then coming home and losing this one
Speaker 1: is a little frustrating. But I don't look at it like,
Speaker 1: oh man, like it's a setback. Like no, we played
Speaker 1: well enough to win some unfortunate players down the stretch,
Speaker 1: including my turnover that you know, just didn't go our way,
Speaker 1: and we weren't able to pull a game off. But
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily look at it as a setback like,
Speaker 1: oh man, we went out there and we didn't we
Speaker 1: didn't do this well, or we didn't do that well,
Speaker 1: or we were got totally away from Westman work. For us,
Speaker 1: I don't think that was the case here. I just think,
Speaker 1: you know, they made some plays down the stretch. We
Speaker 1: didn't make plays down the stretching. That's that's what it
Speaker 1: boils down to in this league. Sometimes it's that you
Speaker 1: just got to make those winning plays down the stretch,
Speaker 1: and I thought for the most part, we did a
Speaker 1: good job. But like I said, it's a couple of
Speaker 1: plays that if you could take back, you would, and
Speaker 1: one big one bing might turnover. So that's where we
Speaker 1: are with the Dubs. You know, it's important that we
Speaker 1: close out this home staying very well. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it'll be really, really really you know, we got two
Speaker 1: more games on this home staying. We got in New
Speaker 1: Orleans and then we got San Antonio on Friday, two
Speaker 1: very winnable games. You win those two games, you're going
Speaker 1: on the road against Denver, who Who's a team that
Speaker 1: we know it's playing not their best basketball of the season,
Speaker 1: although they had a really big win over Milwaukee a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago, But we also know what that
Speaker 1: team is capable of, and I think it'll be a
Speaker 1: good test for us. You know, they're going there and
Speaker 1: try to get a win, and I have no doubt
Speaker 1: in my mind that we can do that. But before
Speaker 1: we get ahead of ourselves, it's important that we take
Speaker 1: care of these two games at home. First. We are
Speaker 1: currently in sixth place in the West, which if the
Speaker 1: season indu to day, allows us to avoid the playing
Speaker 1: game and we would meet Sacramento in the first round
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. Quite frankly, I am not upset that
Speaker 1: if the standard shook out how they did today, and
Speaker 1: we met Sacramento in the first round, not because I
Speaker 1: think Sacramento is a week team, because the travel is
Speaker 1: so much easier. If you think about our road to
Speaker 1: winning the championship last year, it started with Denver, which
Speaker 1: is a two hour flight into the altitude, which makes
Speaker 1: everything tough. I'm not sure for those out there who've
Speaker 1: actually trained in altitude, I worked in altitude or had to,
Speaker 1: you know, playing altitude is totally different beasts, totally different beasts.
Speaker 1: So that was the start of our playoff run. And
Speaker 1: then from there we went to Memphis, which is a
Speaker 1: four and a half almost five hour flight for a
Speaker 1: second round contest. Seems a bit much, quite frankly, which
Speaker 1: is why I think that which is another much larger topic,
Speaker 1: is like realigning these conferences, Like the fact that the
Speaker 1: Memphis Grizzlies is in the Western Conference geographically just makes
Speaker 1: zero sense. Like obviously they came from Vancouver and it
Speaker 1: made a ton more sense in Vancouver, but geographically Memphis
Speaker 1: Grizzlies is an Eastern conferencing like there we had a
Speaker 1: back to back at Memphis in Atlanta, it was a
Speaker 1: forty five minute flight. That is the only place we
Speaker 1: can and fly and get to in forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: In the Western Conference, it's Sacramento, and we don't fly.
Speaker 1: We bust. So the fact that that is a Western
Speaker 1: Conference team is a whole other story. But then back
Speaker 1: to what I was saying. Our second round was a
Speaker 1: four hour, four and a half four hour, forty five
Speaker 1: minute flight to Memphis and back. Then it was a
Speaker 1: four hour flight to Dallas and back in the Conference finals,
Speaker 1: and then a dread for six hour and fifteen minute
Speaker 1: flight to Boston and back and back again, back again.
Speaker 1: I said all of that to say the reason why
Speaker 1: I said Sack is simply just because of the travel,
Speaker 1: like that that's a lot on your body, and if
Speaker 1: we could bust ride an hour and ten minutes up
Speaker 1: the way, like, I just think that's much better for us.
Speaker 1: Now Sack is playing well and very good team, but
Speaker 1: just from the travel. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I don't really care who we play in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I think we can win and I think we've proven that,
Speaker 1: so I don't necessarily look at it like, oh, this
Speaker 1: matchup is better. I'll get onto all that. I'm strictly
Speaker 1: talking about the location, the travel and what and how
Speaker 1: that plays out and how that affects you as you
Speaker 1: go on as well, Like fatigue plays a part of
Speaker 1: this as well. You think about win an NBA Championship,
Speaker 1: you play an extra two months, you can cut down
Speaker 1: on some of that travel. Who knows where it may
Speaker 1: pay off in the end. So that's why I like that. Also,
Speaker 1: not mad at a at an four or five. If
Speaker 1: we were able to get there and the Clippers are there,
Speaker 1: short flight, fifty five minute flight to LA, that's not
Speaker 1: all bad either. Phoenix hour and twenty five thirty minute flight,
Speaker 1: that's not all bad either. So when I look at
Speaker 1: the standings, you know, if we're somewhere in there, great,
Speaker 1: But like I said, we definitely want to avoid to
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Speaker 1: gambler dot net, West Virginia. Lebron turn returned to the Lakers,
Speaker 1: and he said he went to see the Lebron James
Speaker 1: of feet. I think that is absolutely hilarious. Patch yourself
Speaker 1: on the black while, don't you, Bron. He's pretty much
Speaker 1: saying I went to see the best guy in the
Speaker 1: world for feet. I think that's great that Lebron is
Speaker 1: back ahead of schedule. Obviously, the league is always better
Speaker 1: with its stars. The league is always a better place
Speaker 1: with Lebron. James active in his first return, came off
Speaker 1: the bench. I also thought was hilarious that he still
Speaker 1: did the powder toss. Those are flexus, like the Lebron
Speaker 1: James of feet. The powder toss them coming off the bench,
Speaker 1: like them, like the ultimate like flexes. And I can
Speaker 1: respect a good flex So saying that, like I said,
Speaker 1: the Lakers lost their first game back. What does that
Speaker 1: do to their chances in the West. They're still right there.
Speaker 1: They're still right there in the playing game. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of teams don't want to see the Lakers
Speaker 1: in the playing game, but they're still right there. They
Speaker 1: can still They have the easiest schedule headed into the
Speaker 1: playoffs remaining of any team. They lost to the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bulls last night at home, and they their next game
Speaker 1: will be in Chicago versus the Chicago Bulls. Now, let's
Speaker 1: talk about this a little bit. Um. Patrick Beverley, when
Speaker 1: he was traded, said right away that his only goal
Speaker 1: was to make sure that the Lakers did not make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They went into LA yesterday and smacked the Lakers.
Speaker 1: What I stopped the Lakers from ultimately getting the playoffs?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Um, it will help a lot in
Speaker 1: his if they can win the game in Chicago coming up.
Speaker 1: But I thought that was hilarious. Um. I didn't get
Speaker 1: a chance to watch the full game because I was
Speaker 1: preparing for our game nap and didn't get preparing to
Speaker 1: leave a head in as we had a five thirty game.
Speaker 1: But I would have loved to watch that game because
Speaker 1: I know Pat Bell was in full character, like picking
Speaker 1: with people I saw him doing the one clip where
Speaker 1: he's saying they stink. I actually I watched him. I
Speaker 1: watched live him driving to the paint looking for a
Speaker 1: passing ko didn't have one spin back and shoot the
Speaker 1: baby jump hook slash floater over Brian and didn't say
Speaker 1: he's too small. Hilarious. Hilarious Number one. I'm not really
Speaker 1: sure that was the move he was going to and
Speaker 1: just to say somebody too small and it's not really
Speaker 1: the movie you're going to. I just think it's funny
Speaker 1: in itself. And saying that he backed it all up
Speaker 1: like they went in, they won the game, and they're
Speaker 1: right there. They're on the verge of doing what Patrick
Speaker 1: Beverley said he wants to do now and saying that,
Speaker 1: like I said, they don't have total control over that,
Speaker 1: but they could put a huge damper in it with
Speaker 1: a win in Chicago, I think, and looking at I
Speaker 1: think I was hurt. I was told that Chicago Bulls
Speaker 1: are ten and five since Patrick Beverley has been playing,
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, I think that's the perfect situation for
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley to be in, as he's proven over and
Speaker 1: over again, where you have a team kind of on
Speaker 1: the CUSP and he come in, plays with high energy,
Speaker 1: get guys going, and get that team into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Very fitting situation in Chicago. Back at home, the antics
Speaker 1: yesterday I thought were absolutely hilarious. And I think it
Speaker 1: makes for good basketball. I think it makes for good TV.
Speaker 1: I think it makes for good commentary. So I'm here
Speaker 1: for I'm here for it, and you know, we'll see
Speaker 1: how this next game plays out. It's important games for
Speaker 1: the Bulls as they can move up in their playing standings.
Speaker 1: And obviously it's an important important game for the Lakers,
Speaker 1: as you don't want to lose two back to back
Speaker 1: at this point in the season, especially with where they
Speaker 1: are in the standing. So we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 1: And moving on to the least important basketball going on
Speaker 1: in the world right now, that is the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure who's excited about watching this tournament anymore.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, I have not watched an NCAA Tournament game
Speaker 1: since last weekend in Michigan State Laws because why, like,
Speaker 1: who wants to see these teams played? Quite frankly, I don't.
Speaker 1: It'll like, I'm just not excited about it. Like all
Speaker 1: the teams that we thought we were going to be watching,
Speaker 1: we're not and it sucks. And the Cinderella stuff and
Speaker 1: all of that is great, but like you want to
Speaker 1: see the guys player, you want to see playing, You
Speaker 1: want to see the coaches go against each other that
Speaker 1: you want to see and like all of that stuff,
Speaker 1: and we're just not getting that. Also very frustrated because
Speaker 1: it seems as if Michigan State could have walked to
Speaker 1: a final foreig impossible a championship, and we blew it,
Speaker 1: and so I am pretty pissed off. I am not.
Speaker 1: I haven't looked at my bracket in two weeks because
Speaker 1: who cares. It's awful. I'm over it. It's ridiculous. And
Speaker 1: saying that, congratulations to Miami, San Diego State, Yukon and
Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic University on making a final for US. Someone
Speaker 1: who's played in the coach final for US, I know
Speaker 1: how incredible that feeling is. And it's great. If I
Speaker 1: had to cheer for one of these teams, I'm cheering
Speaker 1: for the you. Why am I cheering for the you?
Speaker 1: Shout out to coach larger Coach Larniga is absolutely amazing
Speaker 1: when guys are in Miami, which you know is a
Speaker 1: very frequented, frequented visit visited place for anyone, but especially
Speaker 1: athletes in the summertime. He opens his their gym up
Speaker 1: to us, allows us to work out, and I can't
Speaker 1: thank Coach Lara Nigga enough. So I am one hundred
Speaker 1: percent rooting for the U Miami Hurricanes. Hope those fellas
Speaker 1: go out there and get it done. I would love
Speaker 1: to see coach Larniga all the years that he's put
Speaker 1: into this business to get this first championship. I think
Speaker 1: it's very overdue. I think it's very fitting, and I
Speaker 1: think they arguably have the best team left now. Yukon
Speaker 1: is really good UM and they're getting to it. But
Speaker 1: though in my opinion, those are the two best teams
Speaker 1: left in the field. And I would love to walk
Speaker 1: in to the U this summer whenever I'm in Miami,
Speaker 1: going down there for a workout and see a big
Speaker 1: national championship signs. So Coach Laar Nigga, good luck to
Speaker 1: you and your guys. Jack McClinton, the legend, see you've
Speaker 1: been rooting for his king, So I definitely want to
Speaker 1: see them get that done. Until next time, that's a
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