Speaker 1: The volume. What's Up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond
Speaker 1: Green Show. This is actually our first episode that we've
Speaker 1: ever done after after a series loss, which I must
Speaker 1: say is a little weird because this is actually the
Speaker 1: earliest series loss pad since twenty fourteen, which is it's funny.
Speaker 1: We were sitting on the plane last night in locker room,
Speaker 1: like talking to Steffy like I don't even know how
Speaker 1: to feel or whether think or like, like what am
Speaker 1: I supposed to do now? Like do you keep watching
Speaker 1: the playoffs? Do you not keep watching the playoffs? Obviously
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep watching the playoffs because if you
Speaker 1: want some great analysis, you can come right here and
Speaker 1: check it out. I'll break this shit down for you
Speaker 1: like nobody else can. So obviously I have to keep
Speaker 1: watching for that. But it's like one of those things
Speaker 1: like all right, do you keep watching playoffs? Do you like,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of sell off for a little bit
Speaker 1: and kind of just reset and get away from it.
Speaker 1: It's like, weird, man, we haven't been through this since
Speaker 1: twenty and fourteen. Versus the Los Angeles Clippers losing in
Speaker 1: Game seven in the first round twenty fifteen through twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Obviously our NBA Finals runs twenty twenty. I mean you
Speaker 1: can say we were done then, but like, ay, we
Speaker 1: all weren't playing, and b like the season stopped in
Speaker 1: March and the world stopped in March, so that's kind
Speaker 1: of like a whole different thing. We were all wondering
Speaker 1: like we would like still be living the next day,
Speaker 1: and like if you get sick. Like remember at that time,
Speaker 1: none of us knew anything about COVID except for it
Speaker 1: was like ramping up. It was shutting the world down.
Speaker 1: So then you had that. Then you had twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: which was Steph was back. I was back. I mean
Speaker 1: not that I missed time like Stephan Clay by the way,
Speaker 1: but they went through like some serious injuries and my
Speaker 1: year twenty twenty was just awful season. I would say
Speaker 1: season was awful. I think I played twenty one games
Speaker 1: or something like that. So there's that. Then you have
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, where like the regular season didn't enuntil
Speaker 1: maybe because Christmas, the season really didn't start till Christmas
Speaker 1: time due to the pandemic. So even though we lost
Speaker 1: in a playing game, I think we still finished in
Speaker 1: like May or something like that. So you can't say that.
Speaker 1: And I even think then it was later than this,
Speaker 1: like if I'm not mistaken, it was like the third
Speaker 1: week of May playing the playing games, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: and then last year obviously winning a championship. So this
Speaker 1: is the first time we've lost in like any round
Speaker 1: earlier than the NBA Finals in nine years, and so
Speaker 1: like how to feel about that? I don't know, Like,
Speaker 1: are you sitting there and you're like, man, it's been
Speaker 1: great nine years to accomplish that, but like we're competitors,
Speaker 1: like we're not sitting there, and we're also not done,
Speaker 1: so we're not sitting there like, oh man, it's been
Speaker 1: a great run and this has been incredible. Like no,
Speaker 1: that's been kind of the talk, but hasn't been quite
Speaker 1: the mindset because I think we all do know what
Speaker 1: we're capable of. Well, we're still capable of and obviously
Speaker 1: didn't finish quite the way we wanted it to finish
Speaker 1: this year, but like we oh, right there, it's still
Speaker 1: it's still right there for us, and we know we're
Speaker 1: capable of some retooling we need to happen. Obviously, UM
Speaker 1: always have to retool your roster after a win or lost,
Speaker 1: and especially after a loss. I saw Steve Kerr, coach
Speaker 1: Kerr has said he said, ultimately this team maxed out.
Speaker 1: And the reality is is, like that's true. Like we
Speaker 1: weren't in the playoffs. We were in the playoffs. We
Speaker 1: were right there from six to ten to twelve for
Speaker 1: the last month or whatever. Every time we thought like,
Speaker 1: oh man, we're game ground, you give like, just give
Speaker 1: a game away. You think about all the games we
Speaker 1: gave away this year, like literally gift wrap here, Orlando, Uh,
Speaker 1: gift rap here, Charlotte, gift rap here, Detroit, Pissones like
Speaker 1: you name it. So many games just like gift wrap
Speaker 1: people this year. And the reality is, if you don't
Speaker 1: give wrapped all of those games, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're a forty seven win season, not forty four, forty
Speaker 1: eight win season, in a totally different position coming into
Speaker 1: the playoffs, not grinding every game out down the stretch
Speaker 1: because you have to win in order to get in.
Speaker 1: Like there was so many things that went into it,
Speaker 1: like this year and then not turn it ultimately turning
Speaker 1: out to be the year that we wanted to have.
Speaker 1: And so I do say, you guys didn't absolutely didn't
Speaker 1: let us win another fucking championship. Kudos, congratulations and saying
Speaker 1: this year, just this year, but it's a you know,
Speaker 1: everything happens for a reason, and you know we're not
Speaker 1: gonna sit here and a number one not give the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers credit. You got to get him their
Speaker 1: credit starting the top Darvin Ham. Uh, you know some
Speaker 1: of the adjustments he's made, he made this series look
Speaker 1: like a coach just been in the playoffs street for
Speaker 1: years and years and years, and obviously he has a
Speaker 1: ton of experience in the playoffs as an assistant coach,
Speaker 1: but when you take over as the head coach, that's
Speaker 1: a different thing, a totally different thing. Uh. Tasked with
Speaker 1: coming back from a two and ten record to start
Speaker 1: the season and start his campaign as a head coach.
Speaker 1: Job well done, og, job well done. And looking forward
Speaker 1: to continuing to watch his adjustments as these playoffs go
Speaker 1: on. One thing I will be talking about on these show
Speaker 1: is our coaches adjustments and the things that I'm watching
Speaker 1: these series and the chess match that is the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and so I will be discussing that as well, and
Speaker 1: I know he'll continue to do great things. Did an
Speaker 1: article the other day, or an interview about an article
Speaker 1: the other day, just about like Saginaw, like coming from
Speaker 1: Saginaw and me going like I snuck in the Darbenham
Speaker 1: camp as a kid, hit like through the side door
Speaker 1: at the high school, and like full circle to be
Speaker 1: playing against him with a chance to go on to
Speaker 1: the conference finals, like we from Saginaw, Michigan, Like that's
Speaker 1: not a real thing, Like I thought it was so
Speaker 1: great for like kids to Saginaw, for kids from Saginaw
Speaker 1: to not only see me playing in the game, but
Speaker 1: to look on the other side and like, yo, there's
Speaker 1: a coach from Saginaw. Like that guy obviously he's an
Speaker 1: NBA champion as a player, but that guy is from Saginaw.
Speaker 1: He's coaching. Like the things, the possibilities that can open
Speaker 1: up in one's mind on what you can be coming
Speaker 1: from Saginaw, Michigan. So many times athletics sports is our
Speaker 1: way out. Like my son DJ, he's always like he
Speaker 1: loves the coaching side of basketball, Like he likes to
Speaker 1: talk with the coaches. He be older, like writing stuff
Speaker 1: on the clipboard, like rebounding for players when he comes
Speaker 1: to the gym, and all of these things. I know
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna laugh and be like, oh man, you're lying
Speaker 1: on DJ, which was crazy, by the way, in that
Speaker 1: prescottence when that kid said I was lying. We played
Speaker 1: like four different sports that night at the gym. But
Speaker 1: that's my man. No, But honestly, like he always tell me, Daddy,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be a coach. And that's a realistic
Speaker 1: thing for him because of my situation. What he's allowed
Speaker 1: to see, the interactions he's allowed to have. He's not
Speaker 1: growing up in Saginaw, Michigan, so he's able to interact
Speaker 1: with Steve Kerr, Mike Brown was one of his favorites.
Speaker 1: Coach Q Bruce Fraser, like Gemma, he Jacob Rupin, like
Speaker 1: he loves the coaching side of it, and like for
Speaker 1: that to be a realistic thing in his head at
Speaker 1: six years old, Like to me, that's incredible, and like, ultimately,
Speaker 1: I want him to know that there's so many other
Speaker 1: things outside of basketball that you will be able to
Speaker 1: do too, And that's my job as a parent to
Speaker 1: continue to teach him and show him those things. But
Speaker 1: for him to watch like all of this that's going
Speaker 1: on and for him to come away with it, like
Speaker 1: I like basketball, and he'll play it sometimes, but like
Speaker 1: I want to coach. I think that's so dope because
Speaker 1: that wasn't a realistic thing for me as a kid
Speaker 1: growing up in Saginaw, Michigan. Which goes back to my
Speaker 1: point of the kid that's growing up in Saginaw, Michigan
Speaker 1: now and see Darvin Ham coaching leading a team to
Speaker 1: the NBA Conference Finals, Absolutely incredible and I take my
Speaker 1: hat off to that. And losing sucks and I hate losing,
Speaker 1: but that thing makes me feel good. You know, you're
Speaker 1: always trying to find like the silver line and or
Speaker 1: the message and things like there's there's messages and wins,
Speaker 1: there's messages and losses, and like you t how to
Speaker 1: find like those things. That's like, man, but that thing
Speaker 1: though that but this thing, and like that's one of
Speaker 1: those things. Or like the kid from Saginaw can dream
Speaker 1: about something more than being Draymond Green and playing right
Speaker 1: now and Darvin Ham and playing like no, I don't
Speaker 1: even want to play. I just want to coach. So
Speaker 1: what's that route, what's that path? I think that's incredible,
Speaker 1: So I take my hat off to them. Lebron finished
Speaker 1: with thirty nine and nine before everybody say, oh, man,
Speaker 1: Jamichael's post it motivated Lebron James, Like Lebron James is
Speaker 1: gonna come out and play that way because it's a
Speaker 1: close out Game six at home and he knows going
Speaker 1: back to Game seven and chasing it like that, you
Speaker 1: just don't want to do that, Like, how can you
Speaker 1: do that? So the force that he came out playing
Speaker 1: with Lebron James, I highly doubt it's being moved by
Speaker 1: someone posting a blue cap on his head on on
Speaker 1: Instagram story like and I know that's the media. That's
Speaker 1: the media thing, sports media. Oh, you just don't poke it,
Speaker 1: like stop. It ain't no poking, no bear at this
Speaker 1: point in the season, like you try and win, you
Speaker 1: win or you lose, and you're coming out to do
Speaker 1: that regardless. So before everyone run off like, oh Jamichael,
Speaker 1: you cost this stopping saying that as Bron as the
Speaker 1: series went on, I know you remember me speaking earlier like, yo,
Speaker 1: Bron off the ball. As the series went on, you
Speaker 1: see he got on the ball more, more and more
Speaker 1: and more and more, and it was more of what
Speaker 1: we were accustomed to seeing from Bron. I thought it was.
Speaker 1: It said a lot about him to try taking a
Speaker 1: different route, a different path, a different doing a different
Speaker 1: thing for this team start this series. And then he
Speaker 1: ultimately went back to I'm going to control everything. I
Speaker 1: want to get us into the actions that we want
Speaker 1: to get into. I'm gonna get the game at the
Speaker 1: place that we wanted that, and he ultimately went back
Speaker 1: to that, which was more of what like I said, well,
Speaker 1: we're accustomed to seeing, and I think he did with
Speaker 1: the game dictated a D seventeen twenty two stills, two blocks. Man.
Speaker 1: I always enjoy competing against some of the best. Ad
Speaker 1: is one of the best in the game, one of
Speaker 1: the most talented players we got in this league, one
Speaker 1: of the most gifted guys, special special talent. Obviously, you
Speaker 1: know we came in together, spend eleven years in this thing.
Speaker 1: In the battles that we've had. This isn't our first
Speaker 1: playoff battle. I doubt if it's the last playoff battle,
Speaker 1: but the battles we've had over the course of these
Speaker 1: last eleven years has been amazing. I always enjoy playing
Speaker 1: against the guys that challenged me to be at my best.
Speaker 1: And if you're not at your best, it's not good enough.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't at my best enough this series for
Speaker 1: it to be good enough. Tip my hat to a
Speaker 1: d as a competitor. It's a guy who takes a
Speaker 1: lot of slander, a lot of slander, and you know,
Speaker 1: he stepped up to the challenge. He's changed their season
Speaker 1: and and they're headed to the conference finals and he's
Speaker 1: right at the center of all of that. So I
Speaker 1: take my hat off to him. Austin reeves Man, a
Speaker 1: guy who got off to a slow start in this series,
Speaker 1: finished with twenty three and I think for the last
Speaker 1: three three, three four games maybe he played well. He
Speaker 1: gotta he earned my respect. H definitely earned my respect.
Speaker 1: He's just competing at the level that he competed a
Speaker 1: throughout these series. These lights get bright. We've seen guys
Speaker 1: these playoffs that these lights get bright, too bright, and
Speaker 1: they get too bright for a lot of people. Taking
Speaker 1: my hat to him on how he stood, and like
Speaker 1: I said, it didn't start off great. And that's a
Speaker 1: guy who's up for a contract. You start talking about
Speaker 1: you know, you start struggling the series, you lose that
Speaker 1: series all of a sudden, like what is the future?
Speaker 1: Like are you the guy? Are you here? All of
Speaker 1: those things, and like for the series to not start
Speaker 1: off great for him and for him to stick with
Speaker 1: it and had the impact that he had on the
Speaker 1: series said a lot to me, said a lot. Like
Speaker 1: I said, you see so many guys that just shrink
Speaker 1: in these moments and don't live up to the moment.
Speaker 1: And if I'm not mistaken, this is his first time
Speaker 1: playing at this level as far as the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: you know, making runs and look like he fit right in.
Speaker 1: So I take my hat off to him. Dennis Schroeder.
Speaker 1: Dennis Schroeder was a huge key to this series for them.
Speaker 1: I thought the adjustment to add him to the start
Speaker 1: lineup with it came earlier. But you also don't really
Speaker 1: make adjustments like that when you're not faced with elimination essentially.
Speaker 1: Now again, remember I said, you see that type of
Speaker 1: adjustment in game six. That is because they're essentially approaching
Speaker 1: that like an elimination game, like we gotta go back
Speaker 1: for game seven. It's just a coin flip. You just like,
Speaker 1: you don't don't want that, And so they go to
Speaker 1: Dennis Schroeder and to start lining up, like I said,
Speaker 1: which is one that I thought would could have happened earlier,
Speaker 1: and Dennis had been great for them. The whole series
Speaker 1: have been great. Defensively, you know, didn't shoot the ball
Speaker 1: particularly well, but shot it okay well enough, hit timely shots.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even necessarily say it was how many the
Speaker 1: amount of shots he but he hit timely shots. Saw
Speaker 1: a series, we'd be on a run. He get to
Speaker 1: the middle of the pain, hit a little floater, hit
Speaker 1: a couple of threes like timely. Much respect to him
Speaker 1: as a competitor. Obviously we had our drawn back and
Speaker 1: forth in the series, and I enjoy that. Don't take
Speaker 1: stuff that happens on the court personal. He changed that
Speaker 1: series for them, changed the series for them, And it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see what happens with him in free
Speaker 1: agency this summer, because if he doesn't get a nice contract,
Speaker 1: it's because people so in all of this stuff, when
Speaker 1: you're talking social media and media and like his everyday thing,
Speaker 1: people like create these perceptions. And so when you like
Speaker 1: there's a perception that's been created on Dennis due to
Speaker 1: the contract that he didn't take with the Lakers before,
Speaker 1: and like that perception lives in people head and so
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's like, oh, well, we can
Speaker 1: get this guy for cheap. Now, we don't have to
Speaker 1: pay this guy. And like he's played well above what
Speaker 1: he's making, well above what he's making, and shown to
Speaker 1: be an important piece to a possibly championship compendent contending team,
Speaker 1: a very important piece, almost their starting point guard. Like
Speaker 1: you know you got Dlo obviously started at the point,
Speaker 1: but when Dennis is in the game, Delo plays off
Speaker 1: the ball most of the time, and Dennis is playing
Speaker 1: thirty plus minutes in these playoffs, and so he's almost
Speaker 1: like their starting point guard. Whenever anything's going wrong, he's
Speaker 1: who who, He's who they're inserting. And so Dennis was
Speaker 1: a huge key to this series, and I like I
Speaker 1: tip my had to him as well. Uh And ultimately,
Speaker 1: like I said, tip of my hat to all of
Speaker 1: those guys. They were the better team in this series.
Speaker 1: And they're moving on with a with a matchup versus
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets. We will get into that before we
Speaker 1: get out of here. I'll go back to that. Uh,
Speaker 1: just moving forward thoughts on the future of the Warriors.
Speaker 1: I know, like I mentioned earlier, Steve said, like this
Speaker 1: team maxed out and I said, this thing isn't maxed out,
Speaker 1: but this team was maxed out. Like I can agree
Speaker 1: with that, as I said earlier. But when I said
Speaker 1: this thing isn't maxxed out, what I mean? I mean
Speaker 1: like we've been rolling. We've been doing this now. I've
Speaker 1: been here eleven years. We've been rolling for now, and
Speaker 1: that ain't over, you know. Uh, Like I always say,
Speaker 1: I'm bro I'm riding out with the same I rolled
Speaker 1: in with. And what I know about those guys that
Speaker 1: I rolled in with, still a lot left in the tank.
Speaker 1: Is still a lot of winning on the you know
Speaker 1: ahead of us. Was talking to Clay as we were
Speaker 1: sitting at the table last night, Todd Clay stuffing myself,
Speaker 1: just like how important and big of a summer this is?
Speaker 1: Like how how like locking in? Like how locked in?
Speaker 1: We need to be like yeah, this Like no, I
Speaker 1: don't think this is it. I'll say it right here
Speaker 1: for you. No, this isn't it. Uh. We plan on
Speaker 1: doing this thing again, that's the plan. Obviously, this is
Speaker 1: a business and things has to take place. I get that,
Speaker 1: But we plan on doing this again. But it's just
Speaker 1: sitting at the table stressing the importance of like us
Speaker 1: coming in in shape and like being ready to go
Speaker 1: and like getting our bodies to the best space that
Speaker 1: you can get your body, and like how big of
Speaker 1: a year this is for us next year? And the
Speaker 1: first thing he said, he said, hell yeah, like like
Speaker 1: I still want to be and All Star again, I
Speaker 1: still want to win more check, I want to do
Speaker 1: all of these things again. And last summer for me,
Speaker 1: it just wasn't like that's my first summer two and
Speaker 1: a half years, a different summer, But I'm ready to
Speaker 1: attack this summer. And like that was great number one,
Speaker 1: to just be able to sit there and have that conversation,
Speaker 1: like so many people aren't opening that conversation, and to
Speaker 1: know that we can still have those conversations after eleven years.
Speaker 1: You always talk about like bands breaking up and like
Speaker 1: this thing get too big and that thing get too big,
Speaker 1: and like to still have those conversations eleven years later.
Speaker 1: That's why we win, and that's why we will win
Speaker 1: again because it's not just about one guy. It's not
Speaker 1: you can't say this to me or I can't say
Speaker 1: this to you, like nah, it's a brotherhood when we
Speaker 1: it's really that. And so looking forward to this summer,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a great summer for us, and
Speaker 1: it'll be a great year for us next year. And
Speaker 1: so that's what I meant on this thing is a
Speaker 1: maxed out. Although that team was maxed out, like we
Speaker 1: got all we can get out, the team sucks that
Speaker 1: it did not finish the way you ultimately want to finish.
Speaker 1: Another thing Clay said I thought was interesting was like, man,
Speaker 1: I was looking at the Spurs and like what they
Speaker 1: do They never won back to back championships. Like yeah,
Speaker 1: it's true, it's like man, so like we still got
Speaker 1: more to do. Like absolutely, it's hard to win back
Speaker 1: to back championships. Ultimately, your team has to get better
Speaker 1: to win back to back championships. I'm not sure this
Speaker 1: team got better. I'm not sure this is a better team.
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't. This wasn't a better team than
Speaker 1: we had last year. So that's the case in saying
Speaker 1: that as a competitor, you do all that you can
Speaker 1: and try to make it happen and win. And I
Speaker 1: think we did that, Like I said, like Steve said,
Speaker 1: it maxed out. It's okay. Another thing that I thought
Speaker 1: was interested when Steph said there was no change up
Speaker 1: that we had to throw at the Lakers lineup, and
Speaker 1: I think that's that's true. Like when you look at
Speaker 1: rosters having guys like auto Porter, Nomaia bi Elisa, like,
Speaker 1: those were change ups that you can throw at at
Speaker 1: different things, like we threw at the Celtics last year.
Speaker 1: Auto Porter, Like, those were different change ups that you
Speaker 1: can throw when all this stuff is going on and
Speaker 1: it can throw a team off. We didn't, We didn't
Speaker 1: have as many capabilities to do those things as we
Speaker 1: have in years past and championship years past. I can
Speaker 1: agree with Steph on that, and you know, ultimately those
Speaker 1: things matter when when it's in the playoffs, because again,
Speaker 1: it comes down to team that's going to play the hardest, uh,
Speaker 1: the team that's going to play more for us adjustments
Speaker 1: obviously skill and talent. That goes without saying, but you know,
Speaker 1: it comes down to those things, and when your captor
Speaker 1: limited on how much you can do, it makes a difference,
Speaker 1: and ultimately those teams usually lose. Like when I look
Speaker 1: back on this series, I always say there's like, and
Speaker 1: I don't say this because like we lost, like because
Speaker 1: there's always a point in the series that we get
Speaker 1: to and were like, all right, we got them. They done,
Speaker 1: and we never got to that point with this team
Speaker 1: of like, all right, we got them, we got them
Speaker 1: figured out. Yes, we figured some things out, for sure,
Speaker 1: getting a D in space, getting pulling him away from
Speaker 1: the basket, like getting bron in some actions, Like we
Speaker 1: figured some things out, but ultimately it wasn't enough, Like
Speaker 1: we didn't figure them out, like we didn't crack the
Speaker 1: cold like every series Jackson. Jackson tried to get me
Speaker 1: to tell y'all last series when we cracked Sacks code,
Speaker 1: like Draymond as your producer, it's my job to get
Speaker 1: you to say that, because I would tell him we
Speaker 1: get on here him like Jackson, we got this team
Speaker 1: figured out. They can't beat us, like and he got
Speaker 1: accustomed to that last year. When I would tell him
Speaker 1: that last year, he's like, oh okay, but like they
Speaker 1: really be figuring out. And this year I told them
Speaker 1: once we figured Sack out, like yo, we got them
Speaker 1: figured out, they toast and short enough we did, Like
Speaker 1: this series, we never got to a point to where
Speaker 1: we were like, yo, all right, we got it, cracked
Speaker 1: the cold, that's it they done. Obviously we lost, so
Speaker 1: that goes out saying but like you can get to
Speaker 1: that point and still lose by the way, and like
Speaker 1: the ball didn't bounce your way or something like that.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying this wasn't like a ball didn't
Speaker 1: bounce your way thing. Last night. I thought we got
Speaker 1: great looks to start the game and they just didn't
Speaker 1: go in. Like, yes, that is a fact, of course,
Speaker 1: But in saying that, I still don't think we ever
Speaker 1: just cracked the cold, Like, yes, we got to a
Speaker 1: space where we could win games and ultimately got to
Speaker 1: a space to where we could have possibly won the series,
Speaker 1: but it still wasn't a cold crack. This is it,
Speaker 1: and that's you know. Here we are May twelfth, May
Speaker 1: thirteen finished, So it makes sense, and that's kind of
Speaker 1: what the change up talk was. So that's that was
Speaker 1: that my future with the Warriors. Obviously, I have a
Speaker 1: player option. I have not had the opportunity. I have
Speaker 1: the best agent in the game. For those of you
Speaker 1: out there who don't understand the business or know the business,
Speaker 1: my agent is mister Richard Paul rich Paul for short
Speaker 1: for those of you who don't know who Richard is.
Speaker 1: He is the best in the business. I said all
Speaker 1: of that to say we have not had the opportunity
Speaker 1: yet to sit down and discuss any future things. If
Speaker 1: I call Rich during the season, I was like, Rich,
Speaker 1: all right, so here's what I'm thinking for free agent.
Speaker 1: He probably hang up in my face when you do
Speaker 1: start to discuss those things, like during the sea Like
Speaker 1: he has a very very funny way of like veering
Speaker 1: the conversation a totally different way and not like I
Speaker 1: Rich was in my wedding, Like that's my brother, Like
Speaker 1: that's my big brother, super close to him. So we
Speaker 1: talk all the time, and it's not in a way
Speaker 1: of like where you notice he changed the conversation, but
Speaker 1: he just smoothly to redirect the conversation somewhere else. And
Speaker 1: in large part that he's like he's not ever jumping
Speaker 1: the gun. He's not about to talk contract during a
Speaker 1: season unless it's like, yo, we need to get an
Speaker 1: extension done before the season is over. That's just not
Speaker 1: how he operates. And so we have not had that
Speaker 1: discussion yet. So as far as future goes, like, I
Speaker 1: don't know what the options will be, I don't know
Speaker 1: what my option will be here. I don't know any
Speaker 1: of those things, so I can't What I can tell
Speaker 1: you is like I said that last night, which is
Speaker 1: I want to be here, you know, I want to
Speaker 1: like this is I've been here eleven years. Like you
Speaker 1: don't just get out of way, you don't just throw
Speaker 1: that away. And quite frankly, I think we still have
Speaker 1: more championships that we can and will win. So and
Speaker 1: understand all of that, I want to be here, but
Speaker 1: also in understanding that this is a business. I know
Speaker 1: the business side of it. I know the penalties that
Speaker 1: lie ahead with the new CBA, I know all of
Speaker 1: those things. I think winning is worth it, and I
Speaker 1: know we still will win. So there you have it.
Speaker 1: That's kind of my outlook on the future. When I
Speaker 1: do have a decision, you will know it here first.
Speaker 1: How about that you will know it here first whenever
Speaker 1: that decision is made, whether I'm opt out, whether I
Speaker 1: don't know. Again, I don't know what it is. We
Speaker 1: haven't discussed it. So there's that you all will know first.
Speaker 1: A lot of people saying the Warriors dynasty are over,
Speaker 1: which are the same people that said it was over
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen when KD left. Four years later, they're
Speaker 1: still saying it's over. Great, They're always wrong. Those same
Speaker 1: people are the same folks that said I never make
Speaker 1: it in the NBA. Those people are the same folks
Speaker 1: that so they're a jump shooting team and they won't win.
Speaker 1: It's those people they're saying the dynasties over. But also
Speaker 1: know and pay attention to who the people that are
Speaker 1: saying the dynasty are over. It's always people that have
Speaker 1: never been a part of a dynasty. You never really
Speaker 1: see Shaquille O'Neil, the Great Shock, my favorite player as
Speaker 1: a kid growing up, say oh man, it's over. You
Speaker 1: know why, because that man understand what it's like. He
Speaker 1: gets it. But there's always people that run and say,
Speaker 1: oh man, it's over. You don't even know how it
Speaker 1: feels to start it so fast it say it's over.
Speaker 1: It's not. But we'll prove that again and we'll shut
Speaker 1: people up again, and that'll be fun to do. That's
Speaker 1: always the best thing to do. That's always the fun part,
Speaker 1: looking forward to doing that, because this thing is not over.
Speaker 1: He closed out the Knicks in Game six. Jaylen Brunson
Speaker 1: had forty one points. Hey, y'all, remember that adjustment I
Speaker 1: told you all about about Jimmy Butler being on Jaylen
Speaker 1: Brounson I didn't get to see most of the game.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure when I did see some of the game.
Speaker 1: Early on, it was not Jimmy Butler, Garden, Jaylen Bronston.
Speaker 1: It was Cody Martin and a couple other people. But
Speaker 1: that last possession when Jaylen Brunson turned it over, did
Speaker 1: you see who was on Jaylen Brunson? It was Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 1: Why Because Jayleen drives left middle trying to get to
Speaker 1: that spot, goes back the other way trying to get
Speaker 1: to the spot. But you can't bump Jimmy off that spot,
Speaker 1: and so boom. There you have it. They didn't make
Speaker 1: the adjustment for the entire game, but when the money
Speaker 1: was on the line, you had to go Jimmy. I
Speaker 1: saw something the other day that said Eric Sposcher has
Speaker 1: never been a Culch of the Year in the NBA.
Speaker 1: That is insane, that's nuts. Eric Sposcher is one of
Speaker 1: the best coaches in the NBA and always, like even
Speaker 1: when they had them terrible rosters down there, I'm not
Speaker 1: even sure, Like when you talk about the great Miami
Speaker 1: he teams, I'm not even sure this is one of
Speaker 1: the best rosters now, but they always win like they
Speaker 1: always win, like they always find a way, Like I
Speaker 1: got so much respect for that organization. I also got
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for those guys, Jimmy Bam. How
Speaker 1: they send it U d out like they haven't had
Speaker 1: a great year, finished seventh seed, playing lost that eighth seed,
Speaker 1: and like how they fighting and like to send you
Speaker 1: d out Like, I think that's super dope. A lot
Speaker 1: of respect and love for what they're doing down there. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we know Jimmy in the playoffs and what he's capable of.
Speaker 1: Band has been playing a lot better. Duncan Robinson's been
Speaker 1: playing better. He's been hitting some shots. Definitely missed some
Speaker 1: shots in that Game five, but he's backed that threat
Speaker 1: again and I think that's important. Kyle Lawry's been great
Speaker 1: off the bench. But Heat goes back to the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference Finals for the third time in four years. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure they were projected to go either one of
Speaker 1: those times and either one of those three times, And
Speaker 1: that just says a lot about them, about their problem
Speaker 1: about the guys you have their dogs, you know, like
Speaker 1: says a lot about them. I personally think they don't
Speaker 1: have a chance versus Boston. I do think they could
Speaker 1: be Philly because you can get Philly in spaces where
Speaker 1: like you can stop them from scoring keen on Joel.
Speaker 1: If James doesn't have it going, they have to rely
Speaker 1: on so many other things, and Miami's defense has always
Speaker 1: been great. Boston, I don't think they have a chance
Speaker 1: to stop Like they cannot shoot them from out. They
Speaker 1: can score in so many different ways that I don't
Speaker 1: think they would be Boston, but they would get physical.
Speaker 1: But Boston has started shown to be able to handle physicality.
Speaker 1: So I think for the East sake, it's best in
Speaker 1: Philly wins. However, I think Philly left their opportunity on
Speaker 1: the table, and now they got to go back to
Speaker 1: Boston for Game seven. I had to go back to
Speaker 1: Boston for Game six, not Game seven, not quite game seven,
Speaker 1: but game six. It is not a pleasant place, let
Speaker 1: me tell you. It's just not pleasant. And so I
Speaker 1: think they're in trouble. I think they let the opportunity
Speaker 1: to get away. They had the game well in control.
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum had three points going into the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: at that point. I think he's like one for thirteen.
Speaker 1: And I was sitting there watching the game with my homeboy,
Speaker 1: and I said, yo, if JT can finish five for nineteen,
Speaker 1: he going to be the hero. He goes to the
Speaker 1: savior and the hero. But if he don't finish five
Speaker 1: for nineteen, he is going to get crushed. He didn't
Speaker 1: quite finish five for nineteen. He finished five for twenty one.
Speaker 1: But it was to my point, he hit big shot
Speaker 1: after big shot, and then when he didn't hit the
Speaker 1: big shot, he was taking the big shot and like
Speaker 1: your guys rally around that, and they rallied a rund
Speaker 1: on it. Marcus Smart had a very good game, kept
Speaker 1: them afloat. Malcolm Brogden very good game, kept them afloat
Speaker 1: the substitutional. The adjustment of Robert Williams going into the
Speaker 1: start lineup. I told you all they're going to need
Speaker 1: a game from Robert Williams to win. Putting him on PJ.
Speaker 1: Tucker and allow him the wrong letting Joe l bang
Speaker 1: with Al Horford incredible adjustment because Philly can't afford to.
Speaker 1: You know, they were playing off PJ. Tucker and just
Speaker 1: making them hit the three, and he hit a couple
Speaker 1: of them. But Philly can't afford to take PJ off
Speaker 1: the floor because they need his toughness. They need all
Speaker 1: of those little things that PJ brings to a game,
Speaker 1: and a series of his mind too. They can't take
Speaker 1: PJ off the floor, So then you stick Rob Williams there,
Speaker 1: who's like Roman, and Rob Roman will screw your offense.
Speaker 1: And so down the stretch they had nothing donald stretch.
Speaker 1: They didn't get stops, Joel didn't get shots, they didn't
Speaker 1: get good looks, and they let Boston sneak in there
Speaker 1: and take it after they had Boston beat, had the
Speaker 1: game won, and let it get away. And I don't
Speaker 1: think it's no recovery coming from that one. It actually
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me if they got blasted tomorrow because that's
Speaker 1: just it's just tough to come back from that. Boston
Speaker 1: feeling good, They going back home chasing Tatum won't start
Speaker 1: one for thirteen. Could get ugly. It may get ugly,
Speaker 1: we shall see. The Denver Nuggets closed out the Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 1: The Phoenix Suns was down thirty at halftime for the
Speaker 1: second year in the row. In the close out game
Speaker 1: at home, that was brutal. Denver I think gained a
Speaker 1: lot of respect with that, like showing like, oh no,
Speaker 1: we're ready to close out. We ready for that next step.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great note to go into the
Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals on against a Lakers team who everybody said, oh,
Speaker 1: they want Denver in the first round. They don't care
Speaker 1: about the seventh seed. They want Denver. That's a statement.
Speaker 1: That's a statement sin Now Denver gotta go do it.
Speaker 1: My quick analysis on that series, the Ad Joker matchup
Speaker 1: will be key. I think Joker being able to pull
Speaker 1: a d from away from the rim is going to
Speaker 1: be a real thing. Joker operates in that mid in
Speaker 1: that mid post area, even in the pick and roll,
Speaker 1: he's catching in the pocket, He's making plays in that
Speaker 1: area to be important for the Lakers to shrink the floor,
Speaker 1: forced to skip passes out and take that away, that
Speaker 1: that pocket away from the Nuggets because they live on that,
Speaker 1: they feast on that. I think the great thing about Joker, though,
Speaker 1: is you can move him all over the court. You
Speaker 1: can move him to the high post, you can move
Speaker 1: him to the block, you can move him to the elbow,
Speaker 1: you can move them to the middle of the paint
Speaker 1: free throw line area. You can move him around, and
Speaker 1: that I think will create some issues for the Lakers. Defense,
Speaker 1: especially with how they want to play with a D
Speaker 1: but just pulling AD out from the rim. A Joker
Speaker 1: has not been reluctant to shoot the three this year.
Speaker 1: When we played them in the playoffs last year, he
Speaker 1: wouldn't take many threes. This year, he's letting them go
Speaker 1: and that changes things, and so that's going to pull
Speaker 1: a D away from the basket. However, I also don't
Speaker 1: think Denver has a bunch of guys that can just
Speaker 1: drive in the paint and get to the cup like
Speaker 1: they got Jamal Murray. Bruce Brown has shown to be
Speaker 1: a guy that can get to the cup. But are
Speaker 1: you losing with Bruce Brown getting to the cup? Although
Speaker 1: Bruce Brown has changed that team, KCP has changed that team.
Speaker 1: They've made them ready to take that next step, But ultimately,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have the guys to put
Speaker 1: the pressure on the rim. Like Aaron Gordon would be
Speaker 1: matched up with Bron, I'm not sure he's not just
Speaker 1: powering through Bron. Aaron Gordon is one of your fence benders.
Speaker 1: We've talked about the fence bender before. Michael Porter Junior
Speaker 1: is more perimeter based. He's more perimeter based, so he's
Speaker 1: not putting pressure on the rim, So that'll be an
Speaker 1: interesting thing. They'll be able to pull a d away
Speaker 1: from the rim, but they don't necessarily have the ball
Speaker 1: handler slash playmakers to get to the rim like like
Speaker 1: you'd hope outside of Jamal Murray. So does that advantage
Speaker 1: and playing out the way it could or should As
Speaker 1: far as pulling Ad away from the rim, I don't
Speaker 1: know that that advantage works. However, I will expect a
Speaker 1: bunch of inverted screens Joker handling, allowing Joker to get
Speaker 1: downhill and put pressure on the rim, and again Ad
Speaker 1: is going to be lifted out. He won't be able
Speaker 1: to sit back. So now you get inverted screens, how
Speaker 1: do they guard those? Do they just read them? Keep
Speaker 1: everything in front? And then if you read it and
Speaker 1: Joker hit somebody and he gets the ball back, now
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to overhelp. You have to overhelp. Finish
Speaker 1: with thirty two, twelve assists and ten rebounds last game
Speaker 1: average the triple double, and it's going to be on
Speaker 1: the Lakers to you either got to stop Joker from
Speaker 1: passing or stop Hi from scoring. The easier one to
Speaker 1: do it stop him from getting assists. Can't allow him
Speaker 1: to get both. If he gets both, you lose. It's
Speaker 1: very simple. So do you switch that and play on
Speaker 1: one on one, make him scoring, keep everybody else at bay,
Speaker 1: don't start giving up backcuss, don't start giving up open three,
Speaker 1: and keep the others at bay. That could be one
Speaker 1: way of doing it. But it'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 1: But I do expect to see a lot of inverted
Speaker 1: pick and rolls. I'm looking forward to seeing how they're
Speaker 1: going to guard thoughs. That'll be their way of getting
Speaker 1: breaking the paint, trying to get to the whole break
Speaker 1: their break the Lakers defense down. Be a good series. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: Denver ready, man, I think Denver is ready, like Denver
Speaker 1: taking that next step. They doing it, were watching it.
Speaker 1: But I think we're going to have a rerun of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I think the Lakers are at the bubble
Speaker 1: and I think the Lakers will take it. I got
Speaker 1: the Lakers. I got the Lakers in six, closing out
Speaker 1: at home in six. That is my prediction. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm rolling with and I'm sticking to it. That would
Speaker 1: be some very in depth analysis after these games. Check
Speaker 1: it out. It'll be fun. Maybe give you a different
Speaker 1: insight on what you see til next time. The Draymond
Speaker 1: Green Show. That's a rap on this season for the Dust,
Speaker 1: but that is not a rap on the pot Peace