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Speaker 2: Now let's get into the show. Nuggets versus Lakers.
Speaker 1: Joker got off thirty three, twenty one and fourteen all bid.
Speaker 1: He had pretty much those numbers going into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: I think entering the fourth quarter he had thirty one,
Speaker 1: nineteen rebounds and twelve assists, And so he finished with
Speaker 1: two points, two rebounds, two assists in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: That is very important. And hair's why that's important. The
Speaker 1: only two points he did score, by the way, were
Speaker 1: the two free throws were ten seconds to go or well,
Speaker 1: you have two or ten seconds to go in a
Speaker 1: couple more. But the reason that's important is because.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk some adjustments. We're gonna do all of
Speaker 2: that here.
Speaker 1: But the reason that that's important is because when guarding Joker,
Speaker 1: in order to beat them, you have to pick one
Speaker 1: of the one or the other. You're not going to
Speaker 1: completely shut him down score if you're also trying to
Speaker 1: take away his passing angles. And if you're trying to
Speaker 1: take his passing angles away, then he'll go score.
Speaker 2: So you have to make a decision.
Speaker 1: When we played them last year, we decided that we
Speaker 1: were going to take all the passing away. If you
Speaker 1: keep Joker under six assists per game, like, your win
Speaker 1: percentage goes through the roof, and if he gets above that,
Speaker 1: your win percentage plummets your chances of you winning. But
Speaker 1: also the actual numbers. It's like n Day, It's like
Speaker 1: Warriors versus at home versus Warriors on the road. It's
Speaker 1: like that drastic, and so you have to choose one
Speaker 1: or the other. And I was a little baffled that
Speaker 1: he started off the game I think at halftime like
Speaker 1: seventeen point seven assists eight. No, he had ten rebounds
Speaker 1: in the first quarter, maybe twelve rebounds or something. Thirteen rebounds.
Speaker 1: You can't do that. And so because if he's getting
Speaker 1: assists any scoring, then that means all the other guys
Speaker 1: are getting off. And if all the other guys are
Speaker 1: getting off, how do you stop it. Jamal Murray had thirty,
Speaker 1: KCP had twenty one, Bruce brown got off. I think
Speaker 1: Bruce brown Man had twenty points. Michael Porter Junior had
Speaker 1: a good game. And so like, if you're allowing all
Speaker 1: of those guys to get off, plus Joker doing what
Speaker 1: he's doing, you're going to have a very tough time
Speaker 1: beating them. And so what the Lakers do and what
Speaker 1: I'd expect to see more of, is they took ad
Speaker 1: off of Joker and they put a d on Aaron Gordon,
Speaker 1: who lives in a dunker, which is tough for your space.
Speaker 1: And if you're playing in a crowd, like Joker actually
Speaker 1: plays in a crowd, lives in a dunker and they
Speaker 1: put a D there.
Speaker 2: Well, what did that do?
Speaker 1: That allowed Ad to stand at the rim, which we
Speaker 1: know if you haven't watched either of their two series before,
Speaker 1: first one being against the number two seed Grizzlies and
Speaker 1: the second one being against yours truly the Doves. If
Speaker 1: you leave a D by the rim, that's a problem.
Speaker 1: If you allow him to stand at the rim, that
Speaker 1: is a problem. And so they made the adjustment of
Speaker 1: putting Rui and really Rui on Joker and putting a
Speaker 1: D on Aaron Gordon, and Ad muddied up everything. It
Speaker 1: caused him turnovers, a couple turnovers where Joker was still
Speaker 1: trying to get the ball to Joker was still trying
Speaker 1: to get the ball to Aaron Gordon and the dunker,
Speaker 1: but he didn't really have much space. You'd like to
Speaker 1: see him playing space a little bit more and actually
Speaker 1: just shoot over the top of Rui instead of trying
Speaker 1: to get so deep because of the deeper position you get,
Speaker 1: the closer you are to Ad, the deeper position that
Speaker 1: Joker gets, he's just working his way right into Ad.
Speaker 1: And then you're trying to throw like big, the big
Speaker 1: passes in the paint. AD's length is nearly impossible to
Speaker 1: get big the big passing around AD's length, and then
Speaker 1: obviously he tried to get one over the top that
Speaker 1: caused the turnover. And when Joker was successful offensively, it's
Speaker 1: when he's catching the ball in the mid post. Then
Speaker 1: that allows him to move the defense that allows when
Speaker 1: Ad was guarding him, and it allowed him to make Ad
Speaker 1: move his feet or Ad has to give him a
Speaker 1: step and he can shoot his hierarcher. It was much
Speaker 1: better than him catching deep when he caught deep post touches.
Speaker 1: Like most of the time, when you get two feet
Speaker 1: in the paint, especially Joker with his touch, when you
Speaker 1: catch the ball with two feet in the paint, NBA
Speaker 1: teams are taught swarm because guy's going to score this.
Speaker 1: That is actually to Joker's detriment in this series, because
Speaker 1: the deeper you are in the paint, the more Ad
Speaker 1: can get his hand on either for a deflection or block.
Speaker 1: You saw Joker a couple of times had Ad in
Speaker 1: the paint banged him and actually moved Ad back, and
Speaker 1: Ad just put his arm up because there's not much
Speaker 1: room for Joker to get anything off, and it's not
Speaker 1: much room for any deception like Joker against a d
Speaker 1: with AD's lengthy has to be deceptive. And when you're
Speaker 1: that deep in the post that there's no room for
Speaker 1: any deception. So that's the AD's advantage. The deeper that
Speaker 1: joker catches the pass. Joker whenever he caught the ball,
Speaker 1: if you remember, whenever he caught it, like off the block,
Speaker 1: he had the quick spin baseline on a d A
Speaker 1: couple of times. That actually got a bucket a couple
Speaker 1: of times. A couple of dunks. He got a AD
Speaker 1: to file a couple of times. So it's going to
Speaker 1: be mutt. And then if they switch to Ruie. If
Speaker 1: he catches in the mid post, you the gate ad.
Speaker 1: If he's off the block, because a d can't get
Speaker 1: to the he AD can't get to to block the shot.
Speaker 1: He can't affect a shot at all unless he comes
Speaker 1: all the way over. And by the way, if he
Speaker 1: comes all the way over, now you can get the
Speaker 1: ball to Aaron Gordon and the dunker or they'll drop
Speaker 1: down to help and you can kick it out. The
Speaker 1: shooters they had guys shooting the well. Jamar Murray shot
Speaker 1: it well, KCP shot it well. Bruce Brown shot it well,
Speaker 1: Jeff Green shot it well, Michael Porter Junior shot it well.
Speaker 2: So then you're kicking out to those shooters.
Speaker 1: So they must keep Joker off the deep posts, keep
Speaker 1: him off the block. He has to play in space,
Speaker 1: either from the free throw line or mid post area
Speaker 1: in the words of Mike Brown, the Karl Malone area.
Speaker 1: And if he can play in that area, and it
Speaker 1: allows them better space, and it allows him to work
Speaker 1: more in space and use his advantage, whether it's the
Speaker 1: advantage he has on a D which is his deceptiveness,
Speaker 1: or if it's the advantage he has on RUI, which
Speaker 1: is not the deception, it's disage. So that will be
Speaker 1: very important. Jamal Murray getting off, So it's going to
Speaker 1: be very important that Like, you can't have Joker and
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray getting off. When you do, they are tough.
Speaker 1: I expected to see more Jared Vanderbilt on Jamal Murray.
Speaker 1: I also expected to see Jared Vanderbilt. That's an adjustment
Speaker 1: you can watch for Jared Vanderbilt guard Jamal Murray, put
Speaker 1: who you may on Joker ad on Aaron Gordon. See,
Speaker 1: there are times in the playoffs where you have to
Speaker 1: play guys off the floor. And if Aaron Gordon wants
Speaker 1: to live in a dunker, the Lakers should be able
Speaker 1: to use that to play Aaron Gordon off the floor
Speaker 1: because it's clogging everything up. I thought Mike Malone could
Speaker 1: have made more adjustments in game, adjustments, one being there
Speaker 1: was a point where you kind of needed to get
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon at the game end, should come Jeff Green.
Speaker 1: If in comes Jeff Green. Now, Jeff Green's hitting that
Speaker 1: corner three. He hit one or two of them tonight,
Speaker 1: But Jeff Greens, Jeff Green can shoot the corner three
Speaker 1: well enough to where you're comfortable throwing it to him
Speaker 1: and him taking it and the defense has to react
Speaker 1: to it. Now you can ultimately decide that we're going
Speaker 1: to live with Jeff Green beating us shooting that three.
Speaker 1: But we all know Jeff Green can make that three,
Speaker 1: and he can make that three very consistently. So I
Speaker 1: thought there was a point where Aaron Gordon may have
Speaker 1: needed to come out the game and Jeff Green needed
Speaker 1: to go in, and they didn't make that adjustment, and
Speaker 1: turn I thought that almost cost them the game because
Speaker 1: Ad muddy the entire game up. But getting back to
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray and Jared Vanderbilt. If you put Jared Vanderbilt
Speaker 1: on Jamal Murray and say you have even Brin on Joker,
Speaker 1: and now you switch that pick and roll with ad
Speaker 1: at the rim, now you got action. Now you're keeping
Speaker 1: a d at the rim. You're keeping the body in
Speaker 1: front of Joker. You're keeping the body in front of
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray because they also will kill you in that pocket.
Speaker 2: Joker catches the ball in the pocket.
Speaker 1: His touch is crazy, and he's one of the best
Speaker 1: passers in the NBA, so it's lunch met when he
Speaker 1: catched the ball in the pocket. With that defensive coverage,
Speaker 1: it takes that away. It allows you to better contain
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray. Maybe, yes, again, Joker's probably still going to
Speaker 1: get off, but it's okay because you're you're containing Jamal
Speaker 1: Murray and you're not allowing the kickout passes and all
Speaker 1: the other guys to get going. Another thing that really
Speaker 1: hurt the Lakers, especially early in the game was transition offense,
Speaker 1: their transition defense. The Lakers transition defense is not their
Speaker 1: stringth and Denver knows that. And Denver was pushing the
Speaker 1: pace also taking advantage. For those of you who have
Speaker 1: never played in the Maha City. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: that altitude is real. You feel that, I'd expect the
Speaker 1: Lakers to be a little better as far as you saw.
Speaker 1: The game went on, they started to get their lungs
Speaker 1: and catch their win. But they'll be better with that
Speaker 1: come game two. But that altitude get you. It's a
Speaker 1: very real thing. All of a sudden, you get to
Speaker 1: looking for air and it ain't there, Stan.
Speaker 2: And All.
Speaker 1: It's brutal. Trust me, if you've never done it, it's brutal.
Speaker 1: So that's a real thing. That is a competitive advantage
Speaker 1: for the Nuggets. It was tonight. It shouldn't be come
Speaker 1: game two, but it was definitely a competitive advantage for
Speaker 1: them tonight. Lakers should adjust to it now, and being
Speaker 1: in Denver for four days or so, come game two,
Speaker 1: I think you know they'll be. But transition defense has
Speaker 1: still been not been one of their areas of success.
Speaker 1: I'll call them. In Denver, they pushed the pace and
Speaker 1: they convert at a very pushing the pace. I thought
Speaker 1: the Lakers did a better job of taking away to
Speaker 1: transition opportunities in the second half, in particular the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: So that was that offensive rebounding was another issue for
Speaker 1: the Lakers. Offensive rebounding usually becomes an issue when you
Speaker 1: are overhelping. I thought they overhelped on Joker a ton,
Speaker 1: and some of the overhelping was like you get caught
Speaker 1: in no man's land, like you're not taking your guy
Speaker 1: away and you're not really affecting Joker. Like, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna go help, then just go double because if you
Speaker 1: just sit in between, he's picking that a part, Like
Speaker 1: that's what he does.
Speaker 2: So if you're going to go.
Speaker 1: Double, then go and like try to make the passes
Speaker 1: tougher so that he just has to kick it out
Speaker 1: instead of actually making a play. But I thought they
Speaker 1: got caught in no man's land a lot and getting
Speaker 1: caught in no man's land, like I said, joke gonna
Speaker 1: pick that apart. Another action that the Nuggets ran and
Speaker 1: got a lot of is called the Spineulus action. Uh
Speaker 1: Spinulus is a is a Greek national player who played
Speaker 1: for twenty years euro League. Was drafted to the NBA
Speaker 1: after by the Spurs or it's one of the Texas teams.
Speaker 1: He was drafted by, maybe by the Spurs or Dallas
Speaker 1: in a playing year with Houston or something of that nature.
Speaker 1: But he's a Greek legend and he was famous for
Speaker 1: this cut that you can essentially come from under the
Speaker 1: rim and you're cutting up the lane and there's a
Speaker 1: big holding the ball, maybe at the free throw line,
Speaker 1: possibly a little higher, but right in the middle of
Speaker 1: the court, and you're coming from under the rim, so
Speaker 1: up the floor and the big hands it off to
Speaker 1: you well as you would imagine all the defenses down
Speaker 1: the floor. So once you hand off coming out, you're open.
Speaker 1: Jamar Murray got some threes like that. Casep got a
Speaker 1: couple of threes like that. Michael Porters Junior got a
Speaker 1: couple of threes like that. But they it also allowed
Speaker 1: them to get downhill. When they got downhill, now ad
Speaker 1: has to make a decision. I'm gonna help with this
Speaker 1: guy coming downhill. Well when if you help, guess what
Speaker 1: that opens up again? Pocker pocket to Joker. So they
Speaker 1: were really good with the spinulus action. There's different ways
Speaker 1: to get into it. A couple of times they backscreen
Speaker 1: looked like Jamal Murray was seting the backscreen for Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 2: If you don't react to that.
Speaker 1: Jokers obviously dumping the ball over the top for an
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon dunk. And then there's a couple of times
Speaker 1: where that guy is pinning down and he's coming off,
Speaker 1: and so it's a double pin down or you got
Speaker 1: to navigate the backscreening now he's coming off Joker. Like
Speaker 1: I said, they have multiple guys who got shots out
Speaker 1: of this pernulus action. If you make the adjustment where
Speaker 1: there's like a smaller guy Guarden Joker, then you just
Speaker 1: switch that action out.
Speaker 2: And then you still keep everyone in front of Joker.
Speaker 1: You keep the entire offense in front of you, and
Speaker 1: you are able to make those guys score one on one,
Speaker 1: not getting buckets off Jokers greatness, Jokers dominance. So those
Speaker 1: were so many adjustments that I thought could have been
Speaker 1: made or or should could be made and could have
Speaker 1: been made. And like I said, remember you've seen us
Speaker 1: play guys off to Florida playoffs, like you can play
Speaker 1: guys off. And like Aaron Gordon is the key guy,
Speaker 1: he has some officer rebounds, he got size, he's the
Speaker 1: primary defender on Lebron.
Speaker 2: James.
Speaker 1: Is Jeff Gordon as good of a defender on Lebron
Speaker 1: as Aaron Gordon. Bron still had a big game nobody's
Speaker 1: shutting Bron down. That's not gonna happen. But Aaron Gordon
Speaker 1: his stature helps, especially at this point in Bron's career.
Speaker 1: His stature does help, his size helps, and like I said,
Speaker 1: it also helped on the offensive boards. So there you
Speaker 1: have that the Lakers. I think the Lakers number one Bron.
Speaker 1: If you remember back to our series, I spoke about
Speaker 1: Bron not predominantly being on the ball, playing.
Speaker 2: Off the ball more. If the Lakers want to win,
Speaker 2: Bron has to play on the ball.
Speaker 1: They want to win this series, Bron has to have
Speaker 1: the ball all the time, making all the.
Speaker 2: Plays as you saw down the stretch.
Speaker 1: You saw some of it in the first half and
Speaker 1: the game was kind of close, and then they pulled
Speaker 1: away a bit when Bron went out the court. Off
Speaker 1: the court, Bron has to dominate the tempo, he has
Speaker 1: to dominate the pace. He has to get the Lakers
Speaker 1: into everything. Ad had a big game. He had forty points,
Speaker 1: ten rebounds on thirteen for twenty one. I also think
Speaker 1: Ad is going to need to take more threes this series.
Speaker 1: He has not taken many threes in these playoffs. I
Speaker 1: know everyone always talks, oh he shouldn't be taking a three,
Speaker 1: and that is advantage. That is an advantage for the
Speaker 1: other team. And by the way, if you're the other team,
Speaker 1: you have to live with that. But I think for
Speaker 1: AD's sake, also for their team's sake, Ad is a
Speaker 1: good shooter. He's obviously had his struggles, but Ad can
Speaker 1: shoot the basketball. I don't think anyone disagrees that Ad
Speaker 1: can shoot the basketball. And they're going to need a
Speaker 1: d to lose, soften that defense up some and take
Speaker 1: some threes. They're also going to as you saw late
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves got going, They're going to need more threes.
Speaker 1: Why are the Lakers going to need more threes? Because
Speaker 1: Denver has so much length. You saw Michael Porter Junior
Speaker 1: getting a couple of blocks. Michael Porter Jr. Is not
Speaker 1: a great defender, Michael, but because they have great length,
Speaker 1: the paint is so clawed. Now he's able to catch up.
Speaker 1: He got a couple of review challenge blocks. Some of
Speaker 1: the interior passing they was trying. It's tough, KCP. Their
Speaker 1: guard has great lane. Michael Porter Junior sixteen, Aaron Gordon,
Speaker 1: great lane, Joker, great lane, Jeff Green, great lane, Bruce
Speaker 1: Brown six 's four sixteenth, some crazy wingspan, great lane,
Speaker 1: Christian Brown all over the place, plays bigger than what
Speaker 1: he is, also great size, so the interior stuff gets
Speaker 1: tougher and tougher. So I think they're going to have
Speaker 1: the like they're going to need some three point shooting.
Speaker 1: I would not be shocked if darvinham goes to Malik
Speaker 1: Beasley and see if he can get something out of
Speaker 1: Malik Beasley. Malik Beasley hasn't played much during these playoffs.
Speaker 2: Will he will he.
Speaker 1: At some point, probably at home more so than on
Speaker 1: the road, because he's more likely to get going at
Speaker 1: home than on the road. So maybe that's the game
Speaker 1: three things. But they're going to need more three point
Speaker 1: attempts just because of the length of the of the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 2: Now where bron.
Speaker 1: Who can manipulate the game, can manipulate difference defense, sum
Speaker 1: is getting Michael Porter junior as the lowman.
Speaker 2: What's the lowman.
Speaker 1: The low man is the last guy on defense, the
Speaker 1: guy who's rotating over. That's called the lowman weak side lowman.
Speaker 1: So say, for instance, if the ball is on the
Speaker 1: right side of the floor and Michael Porter's junior man
Speaker 1: is in the left corner. Then that would make Michael
Speaker 1: Porter Junior pull over and be the low man. They
Speaker 1: can have some success with Michael Porter Junior as the lowman.
Speaker 2: He's not very.
Speaker 1: Comfortable garden in the paint sometimes missus defensive assignments and
Speaker 1: will fall asleep on the weak side action. More likely
Speaker 1: to fall asleep than if you have a Bruce Brown
Speaker 1: as the lowman or a Christian Brown or KCP Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 1: Michael Porter Junior is more likely to fall asleep as
Speaker 1: the lowman and bringing Michael Porter Junior into actions because
Speaker 1: he's less of a defender. If you do that, their
Speaker 1: whole defense just loads up, and they're so accustomed to
Speaker 1: everyone bringing him into action that they actually know how
Speaker 1: to guard that. So you need to put him in
Speaker 1: more uncomfortable situations and making him be the rotation guy,
Speaker 1: making him be the guy on a single side tag
Speaker 1: and different things like that. Those are the things that's
Speaker 1: how you can exploit him defensively. And if you can't
Speaker 1: explore him defensively and getting him off the court a
Speaker 1: little more, that's less shooting that they have because he
Speaker 1: shoots the light side of the ball. That can help
Speaker 1: your defense. So that is also something that I think
Speaker 1: the Lakers can do. They need Lebron to be dominant
Speaker 1: on the ball. It's not necessarily that he's scoring, but
Speaker 1: they need him making every play. They need to manipulate
Speaker 1: and get Michael Porter Junior and help situations. That's how
Speaker 1: you can exploit his defense. That's how you can take
Speaker 1: advantage of it. That's how you get less minute from him.
Speaker 1: That is how you ought to when when you when
Speaker 1: you start talking about the chess match, right like you talk,
Speaker 1: you always hear people talking about the chess match. That
Speaker 1: is a chess match move. I also think I saw
Speaker 1: a little bit of darv and Ham going back to
Speaker 1: a D whenever jokers in the game, making sure AD's
Speaker 1: on the game. I would not be afraid to take
Speaker 1: advantage of some of those non joker minutes with a
Speaker 1: D on the floor. I think you can create some
Speaker 1: separation in doing that. So I do understand why he
Speaker 1: is on the floor. You know why you want him
Speaker 1: on the floor when jokers there. But in saying that,
Speaker 1: I think you want to take advantage of some of
Speaker 1: those non joker minutes with a D on the floor.
Speaker 1: I also expected to see more offense defense subs, especially
Speaker 1: from Mike Malone down the stretch andicular Coach Malone. They
Speaker 1: were taking advantage of Jamal Murray. They were putting him
Speaker 1: in every screen of row and they were dominating. And
Speaker 1: there were a couple of times where he could have
Speaker 1: taken Jamal Murray out and maybe went Bruce Brown. Maybe
Speaker 1: when Jeff Green, I would go Bruce Brown, and they
Speaker 1: just left Jamal Murray in and turn he ended up
Speaker 1: with five files foul trouble. That'll be something to watch
Speaker 1: for immediately from the gate. They're going to bring Jamal
Speaker 1: Murray into pick and rolls now. Jamal Murray said after
Speaker 1: Game one of Phoenix, are y'all gonna take me serious? Like,
Speaker 1: at what point do I have to stop proving myself?
Speaker 1: And quite frankly never. You always have to prove yourself
Speaker 1: because that's just the game we play, and it's what
Speaker 1: have you done for me lately?
Speaker 2: And then he struggled for most of that series.
Speaker 1: So we gonna have to see Jamal Murray put together
Speaker 1: another game or to two or three in this series.
Speaker 1: Starting with game two. They're gonna need another big game
Speaker 1: from Jamal Murray. But another way to slow that is
Speaker 1: to bring him into actions the way they did late
Speaker 1: in that game. Now, all of a sudden you wear
Speaker 1: on them legs a bit. Now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're making him guard and he's not just playing one
Speaker 1: side of the floor. That is something that I would
Speaker 1: expect from the Lakers, and I'd expect, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: they'll go into a show. Maybe they'll go Jamal Murray
Speaker 1: on Dennis Shrewder and so where you don't have Austin
Speaker 1: Reeves popping and making the shot. They also can go
Speaker 1: if he pops and they going to a full rotation,
Speaker 1: that would be the next man in line rotating over.
Speaker 2: When I said the next man.
Speaker 1: In line, Say if Lebron James runs a pick and roll,
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves sets the screen on Aaron Gordon, Austin Reeve
Speaker 1: pops Aaron Gordon, and Jamal Murray's now in the hour,
Speaker 1: if Bron throws that ball to Austin Reeves, say Dennis
Speaker 1: Schroeder is on the other wing, A full rotation would
Speaker 1: be Dennis Schroeder man taking Austin Reeves. Then say there's
Speaker 1: a guy in the Corey corner, Ruey Hotchamira, Ruy Hotchamira's
Speaker 1: man will now rotate too, who was the guy, Dennis Schroeder.
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray would then sprint all the way out weak
Speaker 1: side to get to Ruey in the corner.
Speaker 2: That would be a full rotation.
Speaker 1: You can do some of that, but the Austin Reeves
Speaker 1: Lebron pick and roll really hurt them late. Then you
Speaker 1: also may say, we're gonna live with Ausin Reeves hitting
Speaker 1: that shot because three point game and they needed it
Speaker 1: and he missed it, so you can depend on that,
Speaker 1: But dicey, because Austin Reeves threes actually was a big
Speaker 1: factor in them getting back in that game.
Speaker 2: So you can say, all right, we're going to make
Speaker 2: Schroeder hit. It will show with Schroeder.
Speaker 1: But what's not the answer is just switching it because
Speaker 1: he's gonna get in foul trouble much sooner.
Speaker 2: They're gonna work on those.
Speaker 1: Legs, and as they can, he continues to take those bumps,
Speaker 1: those legs go away, so we'll see where they go.
Speaker 1: There another big thing in the game and end up
Speaker 1: being costly. Jokers three at the buzzer Jamal Murray's three
Speaker 1: at the shot clock buzzer. Those were five points at
Speaker 1: a time in the game that were very critical where
Speaker 1: the Lakers were making a push, and those were just like, ah,
Speaker 1: it's like if a guy's making you know, if you're
Speaker 1: in boxing and the guy's making a run, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they get hit with it like a tough
Speaker 1: body shot to slow them down a bit.
Speaker 2: And those were just like tough body shots for the Lakers.
Speaker 1: And ultimately what ended up being a six point game
Speaker 1: that was five points that very unlikely five points. You
Speaker 1: played great defense and they hit tough shots. Guy to
Speaker 1: give them credit on that. Can't overreact to that. But
Speaker 1: I definitely thought the Lakers found some things to be
Speaker 1: able to exploit this team a little this Denverer Nugget
Speaker 1: team a little bit more. We'll see how the adjustments go.
Speaker 1: We'll see what adjustments they decide to make. But one
Speaker 1: I definitely expect is ad on Aaron Gordon. Aaron Gordon,
Speaker 1: you cannot just live in a dunker. Another thing that
Speaker 1: the Nuggets will be able to do with that is
Speaker 1: possibly run Aaron Gordon into some screens, pull a d away,
Speaker 1: got Aaron Gordon rolling. He can finish, but can he
Speaker 1: make the play out of that consistently? I personally, I'm
Speaker 1: the Lakers I'm gonna live with Aaron Gordon making the
Speaker 1: play and not Joker. Like we know Joker can make
Speaker 1: to play. So you got to live with Aaron Gordon
Speaker 1: make to play and can he beat you? And can
Speaker 1: he make the right decision enough if you're the I
Speaker 1: don't know. We shall see. And I think that is
Speaker 1: all of my adjustments or things on the Laker game.
Speaker 1: In other news, we had the draft lottery today. Very
Speaker 1: happy for Coach Pop. As you all know, Coach Pop
Speaker 1: is my guy. We want to go metal together. Got
Speaker 1: nothing beloved for Coach Pop. And then also know that
Speaker 1: Victor when Byama is going to have an incredible coach
Speaker 1: that's going to teach him the NBA game that's going
Speaker 1: to require him. He's going to one of the best
Speaker 1: developmental staff in the league. Although Coach Pop knows this,
Speaker 1: I would think and everybody should. Losing Chip England which
Speaker 1: was a year ago, it's a tough thing. Chip is great,
Speaker 1: but got Chipper, but the best developmental staff over years
Speaker 1: in the NBA. One of I will say, you know,
Speaker 1: he's going to have a seriousness about him. You know
Speaker 1: he's going to be taught how to be a great pro.
Speaker 1: He's going to be taught how to read the game.
Speaker 1: I think it's absolutely incredible. And we also know Coach
Speaker 1: Pop's history with number one picks, big Man, that's number
Speaker 1: one picks to be exact, the last one being Tim Duncan,
Speaker 1: who we arguably top five player, and then be a history.
Speaker 1: So I was happy to see that for Coach Pop.
Speaker 1: Watch out for that. Congratulations Coach Pop. Congrats to the
Speaker 1: Spurs on taking the number one pick. There has been
Speaker 1: a lot of talk on is Wenby the best prospect
Speaker 1: since Lebron. I've saw some people say he's the best
Speaker 1: prospect ever? Is he the best prospect since Lebron? I
Speaker 1: think we'd all agree is he the best prospect ever?
Speaker 1: Of course everyone's going to say that now. But let's
Speaker 1: not forget how big of a prospect Lebron James was.
Speaker 1: Lebron James was a fena from fifteen years old. Lebron
Speaker 1: James was the number one pick as a fifteen year old.
Speaker 1: I can't quite say Victor when Beyama was number one
Speaker 1: pick as a fifteen year old.
Speaker 2: So although we like to move on fast to the.
Speaker 1: Next thing, I'm just not going off no going off
Speaker 1: the rail and saying he's a better prospect than Lebron. However,
Speaker 1: he is probably definitely the best prospect since Lebron, and
Speaker 1: probably the second best prospect ever because Lebron's probably number one. Also,
Speaker 1: we tend to forget what type of prospect Lebron was
Speaker 1: because he did the unthinkable what we thought of him
Speaker 1: as a as a prospect. He actually outlived and out
Speaker 1: did what we thought of him as a prospect. So
Speaker 1: it's very easy now in today's day and age, just say, oh,
Speaker 1: he's a better prospect than Lebron because you forget how
Speaker 1: big of a prospect Lebron was because of how much
Speaker 1: he's done. But Lebron was a huge, crazy prospect. So
Speaker 1: that's that. Jackson asked me how many players would would
Speaker 1: not be traded or would yeah, would not be traded
Speaker 1: for Wemby in the NBA. I'm not sure how many,
Speaker 1: but there's definitely a few. Lebron wouldn't be, Steph wouldn't be.
Speaker 1: Can't say, I don't think Luca would be, Joker wouldn't be,
Speaker 1: and I think there's a few more names out there,
Speaker 1: but maybe four one hundred and eighty how many players
Speaker 1: in the NBA now?
Speaker 2: He used to be four to fifty.
Speaker 1: Now you got two way spots, so let's just say,
Speaker 1: for the sake of standard roster spots, four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty spots, four thirty five for forty would be, which
Speaker 1: is saying a lot, saying.
Speaker 2: A whole lot.
Speaker 1: Wishing him the best. Congratulations, kid, You've been drafted to
Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs. Absolutely incredible, going to a great franchise.
Speaker 2: Good luck.
Speaker 1: In other news, uh, Coach Kerr and you probably just
Speaker 1: saw me speak about this on steven A's World, So
Speaker 1: I'll be pretty brief here, but Coach Kerr said in
Speaker 1: his interview, if Draymond's not back, we are in the
Speaker 1: championship team. He's that important to winning and who we are.
Speaker 1: I definitely agree with that statement. And then he also
Speaker 1: spoke on the Jordan Pooh thing, and I also agree
Speaker 1: with that statement. I was happy that he spoke on that.
Speaker 1: If you want my answer, you can go check it out.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm not gonna do the same thing here,
Speaker 1: you can go check it out.
Speaker 2: It was very in depth answer of my thoughts.
Speaker 1: Quick synopsis was that, yes, I do agree, we'd still
Speaker 1: be playing if that thing didn't happen. I gave reasoning
Speaker 1: for why I agree with that, and I was very
Speaker 1: appreciative of coach Kirk speaking on that because I'm just
Speaker 1: not one to hire from anything. But in saying that,
Speaker 1: if coach kurtr never speaks on that, it's also hard
Speaker 1: for that to ever come out because I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be like, I don't want to be the guy
Speaker 1: who's like, what this, this, this, and this on a
Speaker 1: situation that's wrong.
Speaker 2: I don't feel that that's right. And so it allowed
Speaker 2: me to speak on it.
Speaker 1: It allowed me to now move on from it, like
Speaker 1: really move on from it, Like you put it behind
Speaker 1: you during the season and you try to build things
Speaker 1: and move on. But now it allows to really like
Speaker 1: move on and like there's still work to be done, right,
Speaker 1: like George's still my teammate, Like I still have some
Speaker 1: repairing to do, like and attempts to repair ultimately, you know,
Speaker 1: being up to him and what he's hoping to But
Speaker 1: it saw me as a leader and saw me as
Speaker 1: teammate to continue to try to make that right and
Speaker 1: his feelings, his feelings. I saw his comment where he said, listen,
Speaker 1: is basketball. I agree, it was business. It was basketball,
Speaker 1: and it's always going to be that because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, we are teammates. Like, as long
Speaker 1: as we're teammates, it has to be that. But it
Speaker 1: is my job to try to better that. And like,
Speaker 1: let's face it, like if the video never comes out,
Speaker 1: is here, I don't think so, right, Like so, I
Speaker 1: think that was a huge, huge thing, one that made
Speaker 1: it really hard for him to move on from. Will
Speaker 1: he ever be able to move on from it, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but it is on me to try to
Speaker 1: make that happen. But I'm happy to be putting that
Speaker 1: behind as far as this goes, like and like moving
Speaker 1: forward and working to do the things that we need
Speaker 1: to do to win a championship again next year.
Speaker 2: That is my focus.
Speaker 1: That is my goal. Happy to be done with that
Speaker 1: before we get out of here. John Moran. I saw
Speaker 1: Adam Silver speaking. Adam Silver look crushed. He sounded crushed.
Speaker 1: I know he is crushed because Adam, like Adam is
Speaker 1: a player's commissioner, like have been since day one, and
Speaker 1: so a part of him, like I'm sure it's just crushed,
Speaker 1: like because he's like, come on, man, like, like he said,
Speaker 1: they had a long conversation and it's just I thought
Speaker 1: we were like past this and we spoke about it then,
Speaker 1: and so now it puts Adam in tough for such
Speaker 1: and Joe Dumars puts them in such a tough spot,
Speaker 1: like what's the punishment going to be?
Speaker 2: Now? And like you have time, like.
Speaker 1: J'all don't have a game coming up, you have time
Speaker 1: to make that decision. But it is going to be
Speaker 1: a substantial one. It is going it's going to be
Speaker 1: one that affects the Memphis Grizzlies season. It is like,
Speaker 1: I'm not again, I've had my mistakes, Like obviously not that,
Speaker 1: but I've had my mistakes. I'm not one to come
Speaker 1: on here and condemn and you shouldn't be doing this.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be doing that. I don't condone what Joah
Speaker 1: has done, but what I will say is I saw
Speaker 1: a couple of people screaming, like lock him up, lock
Speaker 1: him up, Like it's actually not illegal to have a
Speaker 1: gun a lot of places in America, So to just
Speaker 1: start screaming lock him up, like you all actually don't
Speaker 1: know if he broke a law, like you actually like
Speaker 1: you don't know if he had a license. You don't
Speaker 1: know if the gun was licensed to him. You don't
Speaker 1: know most people probably don't know whether it's an open
Speaker 1: carry state or not in and.
Speaker 2: Tennessee. You don't know where he was and if.
Speaker 1: It's an if he was in Florida and it's an
Speaker 1: open carry statum, like you don't know none of those things.
Speaker 1: So the whole like lock him up, he's a thug. Stuff,
Speaker 1: like let's stop, let's stop it now.
Speaker 2: Was he wrong? Absolutely? You can't, like stay off.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand, like like why they're on Instagram
Speaker 1: Live so much, like like I just.
Speaker 2: Don't get it.
Speaker 1: Like, by the way, once you were in trouble the
Speaker 1: first time on Instagram Live, you guys probably should stay
Speaker 1: away from Instagram Live. Like it hasn't proven to be
Speaker 1: beneficial at all, And so everyone's saying it's irresponsible. Of
Speaker 1: course it's irresponsible. Like you have a following and you're
Speaker 1: trying to build a business, like a substantial sneaker business.
Speaker 1: Kids drive sneaker sales, kids' parents buy shoes, and those
Speaker 1: children parents aren't impressed with what they're seeing. So it's
Speaker 1: like stop it or don't build a business. It's unfortunate
Speaker 1: that this keeps happening. It's unfortunate because it's giving off
Speaker 1: like this gangster.
Speaker 2: Type vibe, like.
Speaker 1: It's given that And like I said the last time,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to come up here and say, Joe,
Speaker 1: you're not gangster or you're not this because I don't
Speaker 1: know him well enough to know what he is. I
Speaker 1: don't know what he does in his spare time after
Speaker 1: do you. I don't know what he is. I'm and
Speaker 1: also I'm not a gangster, so it's also like I'm
Speaker 1: not a gainster. I'm a basketball player, so I can't
Speaker 1: speak on like who's a gagster who isn't because I'm not,
Speaker 1: So how can I speak on that? Which oftentimes I
Speaker 1: tell you people you don't know basketball like we know basketball,
Speaker 1: so you probably shouldn't speak on that. It's not my
Speaker 1: space to speak on whether jaz A gains or not.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't know what like would qualify him or not
Speaker 1: because I'm not. I don't make those rules. I don't
Speaker 1: live by him. That's not my space, so it's not
Speaker 1: my place to speak on that. But at some point, though,
Speaker 1: you just can't keep doing that. And a lot of
Speaker 1: gangsters I do know aren't flashing guns on instrument make
Speaker 1: of it what you may. It's unfortunate. I hope he
Speaker 1: figures it out. I don't think he's going to stop
Speaker 1: carrying guns, so I hope, I hope. I Like, if
Speaker 1: that's his thing, that's his thing, Like again, it's not
Speaker 1: my place to whatever. If that's his thing, that's his thing,
Speaker 1: he probably won't stop, but stop showing them, Like, at
Speaker 1: some point, you gotta stop showing them like that. It's
Speaker 1: actually getting you in trouble. It's actually get into a
Speaker 1: space to where if it continues, could possibly cost you
Speaker 1: in a career. And like way too talented, way too
Speaker 1: special for that. So like some point, you gotta stop
Speaker 1: showing them. I don't know, we'll see I wish him well.
Speaker 1: That's a wrap from this episode of The Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: I'll let you out later.
Speaker 2: Peace,