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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: We're back with our third episode this week. As I
Speaker 1: promise you all, we will be coming to you a
Speaker 1: little more during the playoffs. Be that I got no job,
Speaker 1: am unemployed and this is well, that would be a lie.
Speaker 2: This is also.
Speaker 1: Job, so I do have a job. However, my normal
Speaker 1: day job. I've currently been laid off and an unemployed,
Speaker 1: so got a little more time to do pods. Listen
Speaker 1: to Knicks fans try to make it out like I
Speaker 1: hate the Knicks. I don't hate the Knicks. A lot
Speaker 1: of other stuff going on around the NBA as well.
Speaker 1: We have two more teams get eliminated, you know, so,
Speaker 1: but let's get into this episode. It is spicy today,
Speaker 1: spicy last night around the NBA Jesus Christ. The Pacers
Speaker 1: beat the Bucks one twenty to ninety eight to advance
Speaker 1: to the second round for the first time in a
Speaker 1: decade since the Paul George era, D West era, Roy
Speaker 1: Hibbert Uh. Pretty much since the era when the when
Speaker 1: the Pacers passed up on me, when they didn't listen
Speaker 1: to Carl Nicks tell them they should draft me, and here.
Speaker 2: We are, so there you go.
Speaker 1: Since then, there's been a lot of said so thanks,
Speaker 1: no thanks, thank you, whatever that should be. I'm appreciative
Speaker 1: it all worked out in the end. But let's get
Speaker 1: back into this game. Holly has seventeen ten and six
Speaker 1: seven for sixteen from the field. And as good as
Speaker 1: that will the stat line, we've seen him put up better,
Speaker 1: better stat lines.
Speaker 2: Although it's a very solid stat line.
Speaker 1: Where he had the pace of the game was absolutely beautiful,
Speaker 1: and essentially it ended up being too much for the Bucks.
Speaker 1: They couldn't keep up with that pace. You know, when
Speaker 1: you don't have Gianni's uh, Jannis Yannis creates all the temple,
Speaker 1: all the pace for the Bucks, and when you don't
Speaker 1: have him and the Pacers are playing at that pace.
Speaker 2: He s they scored one hundred and twenty points.
Speaker 1: The Bucks scored ninety eight points, even with Dame having
Speaker 1: having a good night twenty eight points on sixteen shots,
Speaker 1: Porters having twenty and fifteen eight for seventeen from the field.
Speaker 1: Even with that, it just wasn't enough to keep up
Speaker 1: A can't score enough points but that pace. The Indiana
Speaker 1: Pacers played with the same pace that they played with
Speaker 1: all year. And remember, I don't believe that Indiana Pacers
Speaker 1: is a is a sixteen game team. I personally said
Speaker 1: they are an eighty two game team and I still
Speaker 1: believe that. However, Shout out to them, Shout out to Hollie,
Speaker 1: shout out to Pascal aaron Ne Smith have had a
Speaker 1: very very very solid SERI good series. Shot the ball well.
Speaker 1: Defending Chris Middleton. Chris Middleton has some big games in
Speaker 1: this series. I think average the most points he ever
Speaker 1: averaged in the playoff series. But it was a tough,
Speaker 1: tough road to get there. It was nothing easy. He
Speaker 1: didn't get anything easy. He had to work for everything.
Speaker 1: Chris is a great scorer, so he's going to get points.
Speaker 1: But the goal is to always make guys like that
Speaker 1: work for their points. Man, shout out Denise Smith, but
Speaker 1: the crown the day goes to my guy, TJ McConnell.
Speaker 1: TJ McConnell twenty points, nine assists, four steals off the
Speaker 1: bench in twenty three minutes. Not sure if you could
Speaker 1: be more productive than that. Had this running joke which
Speaker 1: TJ knows about. Had this running joke very early in
Speaker 1: TJ's career with Chris DeMarco, one of our assistant coaches,
Speaker 1: and Chris de Marco would come in raving about TJ.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, man, stop it. Ced like TJ's a
Speaker 1: G League player. He's he's out an NBA player. This
Speaker 1: guy's a G lead player. And CD's like, you're crazy,
Speaker 1: Like this guy makes when he plays he does, I'm like, CD,
Speaker 1: TJ McConnell's trash. Like TJ McConnell's not a good basketball player.
Speaker 1: He doesn't even look like a basketball player.
Speaker 2: Stop it.
Speaker 1: I said that in the game one day we were
Speaker 1: playing against I can't remember TJ Mayn on Philly at
Speaker 1: the time, and I'm like, Yo, this dude don't even
Speaker 1: like a basket. TJ's like, what, Like, how could you
Speaker 1: say that about me and man, it's been so much
Speaker 1: love between me and and TJ.
Speaker 2: Ever since. I got a lot of respect for him.
Speaker 1: Ironically enough, we're sitting here watching the game yesterday and
Speaker 1: Travis sitting here. He's like, TJ McConnell will be He's
Speaker 1: a he's a forever NBA player, meaning TJ McConnell will
Speaker 1: have a job in the NBA as long as TJ
Speaker 1: McConnell wants to have a job in the NBA. Once
Speaker 1: TJ McConnell was done playing in the NBA, TJ McConnell
Speaker 1: would then move to someone coaching staff. He would then
Speaker 1: move to someone's front office. TJ McConnell. That is the reputation,
Speaker 1: that is the respect that TJ McConnell has around this league.
Speaker 2: And for him to go out and have a night
Speaker 2: like that in a close out game, like.
Speaker 1: I want to try to help you out understand how
Speaker 1: hard a close out game is, which is why you
Speaker 1: see so many people fail and close out game.
Speaker 2: It's not the same game you played in the Road
Speaker 2: to the series, it's not.
Speaker 1: Close Out games are way harder, which is also why
Speaker 1: you normally see teams start off like shit, like all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you see guys taking uncharacteristic shots to
Speaker 1: start out close out games. You see guys breaking and breaking,
Speaker 1: turning the ball over, sloppy close out games are hard
Speaker 1: as hell. And for TJ McConnell to come out and
Speaker 1: deliver that game in a close out game, oh man,
Speaker 1: it was beautiful to watch because what it allowed was
Speaker 1: at no point in the game to Indiana lose their pace. Holly,
Speaker 1: go out the game. TJ McConnell going pushing the tempo again. Man,
Speaker 1: this man had twenty points nine assistant force steels in
Speaker 1: twenty three minutes.
Speaker 2: Like twenty three minutes.
Speaker 1: That almost mean he was making a play pretty much
Speaker 1: every time he had the ball. In twenty to do
Speaker 1: that in twenty three minutes, he was making a good
Speaker 1: play pretty much every time he touched the ball.
Speaker 2: And I'm here to tell.
Speaker 1: You, nobody's really letting TJ McConnell dominate the ball on
Speaker 1: their team. Like, yeah, he gonna go, he gonna set
Speaker 1: the off but he like setting the offense up if
Speaker 1: he got the ball. He ain't like looking to get
Speaker 1: something for himself. So for me, the twenty and nine
Speaker 1: is even more impressive. I mean, he was making it
Speaker 1: happen every time he got the ball, and I thought
Speaker 1: it was absolutely beautiful to watch. It'll get really interesting
Speaker 1: to see what happens with the Bucks this offseason. They
Speaker 1: does Dames still want to be there? We've heard a
Speaker 1: lot of talks about Dame's not happy there. Does Gianni
Speaker 1: still want to be there? Like?
Speaker 2: Do they pivot with their roster?
Speaker 1: They've kind of had some mainstays in their roster with
Speaker 1: Chris and Brook and Bobby. Do they make pivots in
Speaker 1: their roster and continue to try to swing?
Speaker 2: What happens from here be interesting? You know, Pat Content's
Speaker 2: been there.
Speaker 1: For a while.
Speaker 2: What happens from here? Obviously you got Doc.
Speaker 1: Doc's gonna probably want to bring in some more guys
Speaker 1: that he trusts, uh, some guys that fits his system more,
Speaker 1: you know, So it'll get interesting. It'll get interesting in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: But before we move on, let's talk about the stuff
Speaker 1: that happened after the game. We had Halle trolling Dame
Speaker 1: with the ball in the game. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you all have kept up, but if you haven't, you
Speaker 1: should go back and check out the clip of Dame
Speaker 1: talking about Holly being.
Speaker 2: Humbled after Holly's doing the.
Speaker 1: Dame time celebration in the regular season. He like, you,
Speaker 1: how your moment? That's cool, Dame talk. You got your moment,
Speaker 1: but be humble. It's gonna come back around. And it's
Speaker 1: unfortunate that a dame didn't get to play this hire
Speaker 1: series healthy, be that we didn't get to see Gianni's
Speaker 1: in this series.
Speaker 2: But I am here to tell you, no one cares.
Speaker 2: No one cares.
Speaker 1: Nobody's going to at the end of the day be like, ah,
Speaker 1: the Pacers beat the Bucks, but they didn't have Giannis
Speaker 1: and Dane wasn't. No one cares, No one cares. We
Speaker 1: lost an NBA Finals and within forty eight hours, Kevin Durant,
Speaker 1: Torre's Achilles and Klay Thompson towards acl No one cares.
Speaker 1: It's not how this thing works. A part of winning
Speaker 1: in this league is staying healthy. That's actually a part
Speaker 1: of the job to stay healthy because, as they say,
Speaker 1: the best ability is availability. So as you are, no,
Speaker 1: I got nothing beloved today. And but you just can't
Speaker 1: like nobody, nobody. You're not allowed to say, oh, well
Speaker 1: they got this, because no, that's not how this works.
Speaker 1: You play who's on the court and who's lined up against.
Speaker 1: And that is the task at hand, because guess what
Speaker 1: if you lose, nobody's going to be like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we're going to give him a pass because he took
Speaker 1: it lighter. Because that guy was hurt and that guy
Speaker 1: was out.
Speaker 2: No one cares. So shout out to the Pacers.
Speaker 1: Their fans may be somewhere in my comments like the
Speaker 1: Knicks fans talking about, oh, you was wrong about us.
Speaker 2: I'm still not wrong about y'all.
Speaker 1: I still think the Indiana Pacers are.
Speaker 2: An eighty two game team. And by the way, Indiana.
Speaker 1: Pacers may need to make sure going into this next
Speaker 1: round that they get Pascal Siakam off because he's the
Speaker 1: guy that's been there, knows how to do it, and
Speaker 1: he had a great couple of games to start this series,
Speaker 1: not so great as.
Speaker 2: The series went on.
Speaker 1: They're going to need a big Pascal, a great Pascal
Speaker 1: to win this next round, and so I think that
Speaker 1: needs to be the focus. Rick Carlile as offensive jeens,
Speaker 1: so I know he'll find ways to get him involved,
Speaker 1: but I think that'll be important.
Speaker 2: However, let's get back to this troller. So Halle.
Speaker 1: Goes at pap Bell on Twitter with the cookee con
Speaker 1: Man fripped from above the rim, which Dame previously tweeted
Speaker 1: about Patrick Beverley. You all also should know about the
Speaker 1: few that Damian Lillard and Patrick Beverley has had over
Speaker 1: the years. If you remember back to the bubble when
Speaker 1: Dame missed the two free throws, Patrick Beverley and a
Speaker 1: couple other guys that can't quite pinpoint who the other
Speaker 1: guys were, but they were falling over the little stanchion
Speaker 1: guardrail type bill board, this thing that was in front
Speaker 1: of the benches in the bubble. They were going crazy
Speaker 1: when Dame missed those two free throws. Then the whole
Speaker 1: thing went down on Twitter. So it it got interesting
Speaker 1: last night. And I must say I respect Halle strolling.
Speaker 1: Like everybody is not good at trolling. Most people actually
Speaker 1: are bad at it. You start to see in boxing
Speaker 1: today like how bad boxers are like talking and promoting
Speaker 1: a fight. It's gotten so bad, like people really aren't
Speaker 1: good trolls anymore. And so to see Halle like number one,
Speaker 1: this just didn't come. Halle's been playing and he's been
Speaker 1: planning this, like he's been like, oh, I'm gonna tweet
Speaker 1: this I'm going at them this way when we beat
Speaker 1: these guys like he been planning this and actually go
Speaker 1: through with it.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: And the reason I love it so much is because
Speaker 1: it didn't just start like they beat them five times
Speaker 1: in the regular season and was talking to him about it.
Speaker 1: So I wasn't like, oh, it's surprised, beef and this
Speaker 1: just started. No, both teams got exactly who they wanted
Speaker 1: to see in the first round, Pacers came out on
Speaker 1: top and still talking.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I told y'all before though, I love it. I love
Speaker 1: the way that those young Pacers compete. I've talked to
Speaker 1: you about how how crazy them are be talking to
Speaker 1: people on the court, and you know, it's really fun
Speaker 1: to watch. And I am always one to watch.
Speaker 2: The game within the game. I'm just not watching the typical.
Speaker 1: Who scored this point, who got this rebound, even typical
Speaker 1: x's and o's. I'm always watching the game within the game.
Speaker 1: And I can't help but watch the Indiana Pacers. And
Speaker 1: one of the most valuable players on the Indiana Pacers
Speaker 1: is a guy who does not even get in the
Speaker 1: basketball game. I'm not sure when's the last time he's
Speaker 1: gotten the game not really why he's there. One of
Speaker 1: the most valuable players on the Indiana Pacers is James Johnson.
Speaker 1: And the reason James Johnson to me is one of
Speaker 1: the most valuable players on the Indiana Pacers is because
Speaker 1: he is the very reason that Hallie is talking like that,
Speaker 1: like and cool with it and y'all ain't gonna do
Speaker 1: nothing to me, and it is what it is, what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do. And he's the exact reason nim Hard
Speaker 1: acts the way he acts. I don't know nim Hard
Speaker 1: from a can of paignt prior to playing against him,
Speaker 1: but I know the confidence that he has on the court,
Speaker 1: the demeanor that he walks around with that's backed by
Speaker 1: something like that's backed by something to know, like there, y'all,
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna touch me. And they got a vet
Speaker 1: Og over there. I always talk about the importance events.
Speaker 1: I always talk about the importance of having OG's on
Speaker 1: your team. And they got a VET that's well respected
Speaker 1: in the NBA. And if a hone is highly feared
Speaker 1: by a lot of people in the NBA, and so
Speaker 1: they walk around.
Speaker 2: Like that with their chest out, like they.
Speaker 1: Walk around like they untouchable, and you ain't gonna do
Speaker 1: nothing to me and guess what nobody asks because they
Speaker 1: know they got that backing. And so again, I'm always
Speaker 1: watching the game within the game, and to see Holly
Speaker 1: trolling the way he's trolling, call that man of con
Speaker 1: Man took Dames quote and ran it back on the teammate.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. That's high level trolling right there. We may
Speaker 1: have to start some troll awards on the Draymond Green
Speaker 1: Show because that is high level trolling. And I'm rolling
Speaker 1: with that. This is not a controversial podcast. I don't
Speaker 1: really love controversy. I'm not really want to get try
Speaker 1: to get into trouble. I thought, I just get people
Speaker 1: in trouble. I've been in enough of my own and
Speaker 1: kind of see how people try to kick you when
Speaker 1: you're down and you have your moments. And I'm really
Speaker 1: not one to agree with. I thought Stephen Ada other
Speaker 1: day talking about I called the league to try to
Speaker 1: get Russell Westbrook suspended was absolutely absurd. Hey, this is
Speaker 1: how we feed our family, and you're taking it up
Speaker 1: on yourself from your media job to call and say
Speaker 1: this brother, like, y'all, I'm not suspend, Like come on, like,
Speaker 1: what are we doing? Like that, enjoy the game like
Speaker 1: that was crazy to me, absolutely crazy. So hey, that's
Speaker 1: how what this is. However, Pat Ball threw a ball
Speaker 1: at a fan last night, launched the ball, bam, hit
Speaker 1: the girl.
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 1: Apparently he didn't hit his target or he had two targets.
Speaker 1: He got the ball back, hey back, like like he
Speaker 1: checking the rock up or something that at the park
Speaker 1: in Saginaw, Michigan at Unity Park they checked the rock.
Speaker 2: He checked the rock and bow through that the other dude.
Speaker 2: And that was interesting.
Speaker 1: Because Pat keep having these instances after they lose, like
Speaker 1: in these playoff games. And that one, uh, that one
Speaker 1: might have been crazier than the CEP push. I don't
Speaker 1: know if y'all remember Pat Ball. See was just walking
Speaker 1: to the bench. They ain't say a word this one.
Speaker 1: I hated CP.
Speaker 2: By the way.
Speaker 1: By the way, y'all text CP yesterday. He ain't text
Speaker 1: me back, so y'all make sure y'all go at CP.
Speaker 1: Tell him don't not respond to me because our season
Speaker 1: ain't going no more. But I'm at CP. But anyway
Speaker 1: to push on CP, this might have been worse because
Speaker 1: it opens up an entirely different can of worms. Like
Speaker 1: I saw the police getting involved. Those people may want
Speaker 1: to press charges, but man Adam going to have a
Speaker 1: problem on his hands with this one because it's about
Speaker 1: as close as you can get to go in in
Speaker 1: the stands and that is forbidden for us.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. Uh.
Speaker 1: Then Pat didn't follow it up very well because he
Speaker 1: followed it up with getting into the getting into it
Speaker 1: with the female reporter about not not subscribing to this podcast.
Speaker 1: I ain't never heard somebody say, if you ain't subscribed
Speaker 1: to my podcast, don't ask me a question. I actually
Speaker 1: try to take the complete opposite approach, because I am
Speaker 1: very appreciative of the NBA supporting podcast the way they
Speaker 1: do that, the way the league has supported players branching
Speaker 1: off and doing these things, and organizations have accepted it,
Speaker 1: like at the end of the day, we still got
Speaker 1: day jobs.
Speaker 2: And I am never one to try to.
Speaker 1: Cross the two, like, no, my podcast is my podcast,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do this interview, and I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: the interview as such to something that I want people
Speaker 1: to see. I'm gonna do the interview as such to
Speaker 1: where people can get good quotes, and then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go do my podcast and I try to always be
Speaker 1: certain to stay along that line because I am appreciative
Speaker 1: of the support that the league gives. Pat BEV like, no,
Speaker 1: you're not subscribed to my podcast, get out of here,
Speaker 1: get your microphone out of here. And quite frankly, I
Speaker 1: didn't think the lady did anything wrong, and I'm not
Speaker 1: really sure of one subscribers like tilting anything anyway, for
Speaker 1: better or for worse. But then Pat Beav doubled down,
Speaker 1: like why are you still here? Like you're still in
Speaker 1: the circle movie your microphone And so the rough night
Speaker 1: for Pat bath Uh, I'm interested to see what happens
Speaker 1: because I know something's gonna happen that ball would understands
Speaker 1: twice and man, rough on for Pat. You can't, Pats,
Speaker 1: you can't keep starting these seasons suspended. I know I
Speaker 1: am not one to say anything about the suspension, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it, Pat, you can't keep having these
Speaker 1: moments man, at the end of these losses. And brother,
Speaker 1: I'm on your side because I know how these things go,
Speaker 1: but they just can't come.
Speaker 2: They can't always come at the end of a loss.
Speaker 1: Like if these things won't happen, let him happen like
Speaker 1: it is what it is, but they just can't keep coming.
Speaker 2: At the end of a loss.
Speaker 1: Bat Bab, you're starting to look like the kid that's
Speaker 1: gonna grab the ball and said I'm going home.
Speaker 2: He said, I can't play. We out here were leaving
Speaker 2: the park. It's my ball, Come on, Pat, But uh,
Speaker 2: it got spicy.
Speaker 1: So I'm about to go subscribe to Pat podcast because
Speaker 1: I want to hear what he's gonna have to say
Speaker 1: about his instances yesterday in other news, and you all know,
Speaker 1: we gotta talk about the Knicks. I know all the
Speaker 1: Knicks fans is waiting to see what I got to
Speaker 1: say about the Knicks. You must wait longer because we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about Kevin Durant now, the Kevin Durant that
Speaker 1: didn't come to the Knicks when everybody thought he was
Speaker 1: coming to the Knicks and went to the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about him now before we talk about
Speaker 1: the next James Jones and not in particular, are we
Speaker 1: gonna even talk about KD although we kind of are.
Speaker 2: James Jones recently.
Speaker 1: Had the interviews in the season Rap interviews and he said,
Speaker 1: end quote, a constant focus for us is to continue
Speaker 1: to figure out and maximize Kevin Durant. No one has
Speaker 1: done it yet, I believe will be the first team
Speaker 1: to do it. And I must say, as long as
Speaker 1: James Johnson believes that they will be the first team
Speaker 1: to try to maximize Kevin durant potential, as long as
Speaker 1: they'll keep struggling, because that.
Speaker 2: Means they're not watching what.
Speaker 1: Or how or even going back to look at film
Speaker 1: and when Kevin Durant was most successful. And I must
Speaker 1: say I was baffled when I watched James Jones make
Speaker 1: this comment because and I get, like, you gotta see
Speaker 1: the whole interview, like some of the stuff he was
Speaker 1: like you got it, and you understand, and like you
Speaker 1: could tell he was really being a true leader with
Speaker 1: James Jones' is veril real respective for even before the
Speaker 1: general manager job, James Jones.
Speaker 2: Were well respected leader in the NBA.
Speaker 1: What he was doing was being a leader, like, let
Speaker 1: me try to take some of this pressure off Kevin,
Speaker 1: let me try to help Kevin, and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Get it.
Speaker 1: But sometimes when we go down those rabbit holes, we
Speaker 1: go a little too far and we exaggerate things just
Speaker 1: a little too.
Speaker 2: Much because.
Speaker 1: James Jones was on the team in twenty seventeen that
Speaker 1: lost in the NBA Finals to Kevin Durant, when Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant was with the Golden State Warriors, and Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: averaged thirty five eight rebounds of five assists on fifty
Speaker 1: five percent from the field forty seven from three ninety
Speaker 1: three percent shooting, and when you got your ass.
Speaker 2: Busts like the cows got their ass buss.
Speaker 1: I have a hard time believing that James Jones can
Speaker 1: then after sitting there on the bench, getting in the
Speaker 1: game every now and then to see if he can
Speaker 1: hit a three, could then come out and say, no
Speaker 1: one has been able to maximize Kevin Durant. When your
Speaker 1: team does not have plays to get Kevin Durant coming
Speaker 1: off a pin down, get Kevin Durant catching the ball
Speaker 1: at the elbow with a live dribble, getting Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: to the spots that Kevin Durant want to get to
Speaker 1: and like to score from.
Speaker 2: When your team is set up that way, I'm.
Speaker 1: Sorry, but you didn't maximize Kevin Durant. But don't say
Speaker 1: nobody has maximized Kevin Urrant because you've been on the
Speaker 1: wrong side of Kevin Durant being maximized.
Speaker 2: You've been on the wrongs.
Speaker 1: And when I say maximized, I'm not just talking about
Speaker 1: a couple plays in the game.
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant was maximized at to go to State Warriors.
Speaker 1: You know why Kevin Durant was maximized at to go
Speaker 1: to State Warriors because Kevin duran was allowed to do
Speaker 1: what Kevin Durant only wants to do. You know what
Speaker 1: that is just play basketball. Kevin Durant didn't have to
Speaker 1: worry about leading the team. He didn't have to worry
Speaker 1: about And by the way, Kay's a great player and
Speaker 1: he works his ass off more of a lead by
Speaker 1: example type guy.
Speaker 2: The way he worked.
Speaker 1: With us, I'm not gonna sit here and be one
Speaker 1: of those people and act like, oh, he didn't bring
Speaker 1: any type of leadership.
Speaker 2: Like the way he worked on a daily basis is leadership.
Speaker 1: Like yes, he's not vocal, yes he's not gonna say hey,
Speaker 1: come on, let's go and do this. But the way
Speaker 1: he worked every single day is leadership. Because that is
Speaker 1: a lead by example. You got young guys, you got
Speaker 1: guys who look at Kevin Durant and think he's a
Speaker 1: great player and want to Okay, this is what he's doing.
Speaker 2: I need to do that. That is a sign of leadership.
Speaker 1: So I am not one of the people that's gonna
Speaker 1: say he never let it all like that's garbage. But
Speaker 1: he didn't have the burden of I need to lead
Speaker 1: this team every single day from all aspects. Ever in
Speaker 1: Golden State, when he was with us, that was not
Speaker 1: a thing. He did not how to roller, I need
Speaker 1: to get these other guys involved, No, none of that.
Speaker 2: You know what he did? Score?
Speaker 1: Oh shoot, they switching this screen and roll with me
Speaker 1: and stuff here, Kate, go get a bucket score. That
Speaker 1: is maximizing Kevin Durant. You know why, because Kevin Durant scores. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, let's go look at his defense when
Speaker 1: he was with the Warriors. That is maximizing Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: Go look at his defense when he's with us. Go
Speaker 1: look at his defense this year. Sometimes it was good,
Speaker 1: not as consistently as it was to the Warriors. When
Speaker 1: Kate was with the Warriors, he was one of the
Speaker 1: best rim protectors in the league. Yep, you heard it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it again. He was one of the
Speaker 1: best rim protectors in the league. Our small lineup worked
Speaker 1: in part because teams will try to go small and
Speaker 1: have no rim protection and think we just out there,
Speaker 1: No me and Kate out there protecting that rim.
Speaker 2: Andre, come across strip, you protecting that rim. Kate's protecting
Speaker 2: the rim. Which is why I came on this.
Speaker 1: Podcast and saying, if the Phoenix Sons want to beat
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timberwoolls, Kay, who I know can be a
Speaker 1: great defender, gotta go guard Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 2: That never happened for a large part of the series.
Speaker 1: Guess what, I'm looking at the Beasts right now and
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Sons.
Speaker 2: Are too somewhere in the world.
Speaker 1: And that was one of the reasons why so to
Speaker 1: say didn't maximize Kevin Durant. No, the Phoenix Sons didn't
Speaker 1: maximize Kevin Durant, and in large part you didn't have
Speaker 1: a point guard.
Speaker 2: Guess what.
Speaker 1: Maximizing Kevin Durant requires you to get Kevin Durant to
Speaker 1: the spot that Kevin Durant likes to score from. And
Speaker 1: y'all didn't do that because they thought that they could
Speaker 1: get it done without having a point guard.
Speaker 2: Didn't work.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was wild, because, yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: no one has maximized Kevin Durant like to go to
Speaker 1: State Warriors.
Speaker 2: Did.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give James Jones a little word of advice.
Speaker 1: You want to maximize Kevin Durant, go get a point guard.
Speaker 1: You want to maximize Kevin Durant, put him in positions
Speaker 1: to score. You want to maximize Kevin Durant, take some
Speaker 1: of the other weight off his shoulders. But until you
Speaker 1: do that, you will be singing this same tune that
Speaker 1: nobody maximized Kevin Durant because y'all did it. And that's
Speaker 1: just the case, and that is a lie, and no,
Speaker 1: that is not how we rolling because nah so. And
Speaker 1: moving on to the part we all been waiting for
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks. Jalen Brunson led New York Knicks
Speaker 1: number one. Congratulations to the Knicks. Job well done, Tips
Speaker 1: coach Darren Erman, Earn ah Man, good win by those
Speaker 1: Uncle Wes, good Win by the Knicks. I got a
Speaker 1: lot of friends that are Knicks fans. They're all going crazy.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Jay Cal. Jay Cal been talking about
Speaker 1: the Knicks getting to the second round since I met
Speaker 1: him about twelve years ago.
Speaker 2: So shout out to Ja Caw.
Speaker 1: His knicks are on their way to the second round,
Speaker 1: led by Jaylen Brunson. Oh but let me tell you
Speaker 1: it was not as bad dominant as it has been.
Speaker 1: Dante Difencizo, who I told you are needed to play well,
Speaker 1: needed to get touches in order to get off to
Speaker 1: help the team win.
Speaker 2: Finish with twenty three points, five and nine from the three.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it wasn't your typical ball dominant Jalen
Speaker 1: that he had been in the three games before that.
Speaker 1: Guess what though, he still ended up with forty forty
Speaker 1: one points or something like that. He still ended up
Speaker 1: with the numbers. Is it just forty one points and
Speaker 1: twelve assists? Still ended up with the numbers thirteen for
Speaker 1: twenty seven from the field, he can take thirty two shots,
Speaker 1: thirty six shots, thirteen are very effishing, thirteen to twenty
Speaker 1: seven from the field, a very fishing three for eight
Speaker 1: from three. So I'm just saying, the ball dominant, I
Speaker 1: need to get to it or I don't like it.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's great.
Speaker 1: Jaylen Brunton when he shared and getting off the ball,
Speaker 1: getting to his spots. You see the trap, come and
Speaker 1: get off it, catch it go, not messing around out.
Speaker 1: I'm gone, like get downhill the Josh Hart, that Josh
Speaker 1: Hart three dagger, that's Jaylen brust Oh, I'm going. I
Speaker 1: see the trap coming, let me go, let me beat
Speaker 1: the hill. Now go, not just waiting waiting and trying
Speaker 1: to figure it out. That's it Jaylen Brunce. And I
Speaker 1: like to see. And by the way, a lot of
Speaker 1: Knicks fans are trying to make it out to be
Speaker 1: like Draymond don't like us, Draymond hate the Knicks.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I know y'all probably need something to rally around, like
Speaker 1: everybody need.
Speaker 2: A rally cry, and I get it.
Speaker 1: I'm not really that because I quite frankly don't hate
Speaker 1: the Knicks.
Speaker 2: I'm not in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: I've never I don't really hate teams unless they're losers,
Speaker 1: which the Knicks aren't. They're very well coached, they play
Speaker 1: hard every single night. I don't hate teams kind of that.
Speaker 1: I haven't really played in the playoff series because that's
Speaker 1: kind of where hate is built. Like regular season, eh,
Speaker 1: you get into something maybe, but like hate is usually
Speaker 1: built during the playoffs, and quite frankly, I've never played
Speaker 1: against the Knicks in the playoff series for reasons that
Speaker 1: we know, like reasons that we can easily pinpoint on
Speaker 1: why I haven't played the Knicks in a series. Now,
Speaker 1: how many nbas have NBA Finals?
Speaker 2: Have I played in? Two?
Speaker 1: I mean six? Let me see, I won four? What
Speaker 1: is it six NBA finals? All right, so six NBA
Speaker 1: finals in twelve years, I've never played the Knicks. So
Speaker 1: it's good reason why I never played the Knicks. However,
Speaker 1: I'm not a Knicks hater. I'm just honest. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of the Knicks fans are delusional and a
Speaker 1: lot of the Knicks fans are like Knicks fans are nuts.
Speaker 2: We know Knicks fans are nuts. Like, I don't need
Speaker 2: to go into that. I don't hate it.
Speaker 1: I know they need something to rally around, and that's cool,
Speaker 1: like rally around and Draymond Green Show. By the way,
Speaker 1: all you Knicks fans, make sure you subscribe.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't hate the Knicks.
Speaker 1: However, I am honest and I'm not delusional and a
Speaker 1: ball dominant jaylen Brun said, ain't gonna get you to
Speaker 1: the Promised Land. I said, I didn't say you weren't
Speaker 1: gonna ruin first round series. I didn't even say you
Speaker 1: weren't gonna ruin the second round series, because if I'm honest,
Speaker 1: I think you guys should.
Speaker 2: Easily win the second round series. So I didn't say that.
Speaker 1: I said you can't get to the Promised Land, and
Speaker 1: quite frankly, if I'm honest, I still don't think you can.
Speaker 2: However, Jaylen Bronson, as I told you, I already had.
Speaker 1: Respect from me. He's earning more and more. Earn him
Speaker 1: more and more respect. Guys getting done every single night,
Speaker 1: had a couple of bad games.
Speaker 2: Bounce back.
Speaker 1: That's what I want to see when you're an up
Speaker 1: and coming guy and you're taking that next step in
Speaker 1: your career and you get into these playoffs, I want
Speaker 1: to see how you bounce back from a bad game.
Speaker 1: You know why, because a lot of young, up and
Speaker 1: coming guys have a bad game in the playoffs and
Speaker 1: guess what the next game look like worse, And guess
Speaker 1: what the next game look like worse, And then they
Speaker 1: go into the tank and then y'all going to the
Speaker 1: summer talking about the regular season that they had when
Speaker 1: they fucking sucked during the playoffs, and I go into
Speaker 1: summer like he just stunk it up during the playoffs,
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to hear this guy's this, this
Speaker 1: guy's that because he had a good regular season. I
Speaker 1: just watched him when it mattered the most, stink it up,
Speaker 1: stunk it up, and jaylen Brunson had two very forgettable games.
Speaker 1: Somehow they won both, and that's where Philly lost the series.
Speaker 1: When jaylen bruns had those two forgettable games, they did
Speaker 1: not capitalize had one of them one actually blew it.
Speaker 2: That's where the series was lost.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the way jaylen Brunson bounced back from those
Speaker 1: two games says a lot to me, Like those are
Speaker 1: the things that when I'm looking, when I'm evaluating these guys,
Speaker 1: when y'all talking about who's next to this, who's the
Speaker 1: next a those are the things that I want to see,
Speaker 1: Like how you bouncing back in the playoffs from these
Speaker 1: bad games, like we saw Julius Randall a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago have a bad game and keep having bad games.
Speaker 1: How you bounce back when you have a bad game
Speaker 1: in these playoffs matters And jaylen Brunson did that at
Speaker 1: a level that not many people has done before. He
Speaker 1: came out of those bad games with forty forty forty
Speaker 1: eleven assist twelve assists. Although a bit ball dominant, he
Speaker 1: bounced back and you gotta give it to him. He's
Speaker 1: stepping up to the challenge each and every night. So
Speaker 1: definitely got some respect for me, earn more respect for me.
Speaker 2: Love watching it.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, I think you know when when well, before
Speaker 1: we go into what I think about the next series,
Speaker 1: let's just close this series out be that we just
Speaker 1: saw this year kind of the growth of a new
Speaker 1: duo Tyres MAXI taking that next step.
Speaker 2: Joe l Embiid.
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, I think it's going to get interesting
Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia seventy six ers. I think they've done
Speaker 1: a good job with their caps situation of standing under
Speaker 1: the caps, they're not really hampered by that. But you've
Speaker 1: kind of been going at this now for like five
Speaker 1: or six years, thinking that you got chance to get
Speaker 1: over the hump, and quite frankly, haven't made it anywhere.
Speaker 2: So what is next?
Speaker 1: You know, Max, he's in line for a well deserved
Speaker 1: Max contract, well deserved you look at the guys they
Speaker 1: got Max contracts, MAXI don't can't not deserve one. You
Speaker 1: got Joel who's making a boatload of money.
Speaker 2: What do you do?
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris a free agent, but he heal the free agent.
Speaker 1: So they got flexibility to go get better. They haven't quite, frankly,
Speaker 1: nailed that though. They've had that same flexibility for the
Speaker 1: most part, and they haven't quite nailed to getting better.
Speaker 1: Over the last four or five years, it's kind of
Speaker 1: been the same. How long do you stay right here?
Speaker 1: You come in talking about contending every year, but you
Speaker 1: stay right here. I think it's going to get very
Speaker 1: interesting for what happens in Philly. You kind of gotta
Speaker 1: look at everything because you're just staying right here unless
Speaker 1: the goal to be right there, which if Philly was here,
Speaker 1: there's no way Knicks fans take over Wells Fargo. You
Speaker 1: know why, because Philly fans are crazy too. I don't
Speaker 1: know if y'all ever had like dealers with Philly fans.
Speaker 1: They are nuts. So there's that don't happen. This ain't
Speaker 1: This wasn't like Brooklyn. You know what I'm saying. New
Speaker 1: York Knicks could go to brook Of course you're gonna
Speaker 1: take you a lot of fan base. Philly got a
Speaker 1: fan base, a crazy fan base, so for them to
Speaker 1: take over their arena like that, clearly those fans don't
Speaker 1: believe you got a team that can compete. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna get interesting for Philly. See where they go from here.
Speaker 1: I got some ideas, but I don't really care to
Speaker 1: see them get better because I'm trying to win the
Speaker 1: championship next year, so they better figure it out. But
Speaker 1: moving on, we got the Knicks and Pacers in round two.
Speaker 1: Me personally, I got the New York Knicks winning that series.
Speaker 1: Way more physical, they can keep up. The Knicks can
Speaker 1: definitely play that pace, get up and down, but they're
Speaker 1: going to defend more. Transition defense will be something TIBs
Speaker 1: nail over the next few days to make sure those
Speaker 1: guys getting back in transition, as that is the most
Speaker 1: important number one key versus out the Indiana Pacers getting
Speaker 1: back in transition, getting your half court defense set, making
Speaker 1: those guys set, making those guys score against a half
Speaker 1: court defense. On the flip side, your offense will be
Speaker 1: very important because you don't want shot turnovers. You don't
Speaker 1: want to turn the ball over, and the New York
Speaker 1: Knicks has a very good half court defense, and if
Speaker 1: they can get Indiana and the half court, now they
Speaker 1: can be physical. Knicks is a very physical team, Indiana
Speaker 1: not so much. So now they can be physical, you know. So,
Speaker 1: I personally think the New York Knicks have a slight
Speaker 1: advantage in this series. I think they got the young
Speaker 1: guys that can keep up with with Holley pushing the ball.
Speaker 1: I think they got guards that different guys that they
Speaker 1: can throw at them. You can throw size with og
Speaker 1: Andinobi at Holle. You can throw Dante DiVincenzo a pests
Speaker 1: at Halle. You can throw Miles McBride a pest and
Speaker 1: you can kind of wear him down. And when you
Speaker 1: get into these playoffs series, for me personally, I think
Speaker 1: that that is one of the biggest things when you're
Speaker 1: talking about winning the series and winning the championship is
Speaker 1: having multiple guys you can throw out a team's best
Speaker 1: player because you just want to wear them down. We
Speaker 1: already know Holly's been struggling with the hamstring stuff and
Speaker 1: all the different things, so you just want to wear
Speaker 1: them down. And the Knicks they gonna grind you out.
Speaker 1: Like that series. Man, that series was anxiety and as
Speaker 1: hell to watch. They just gonna grind you out. They're
Speaker 1: gonna keep going and keep going and keep going.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 1: With them having multiple guys they can throw at Halle,
Speaker 1: I think I think that bowls well for.
Speaker 2: The New York Knicks.
Speaker 1: Not quite sure who Indiana throws that Jalen though, maybe
Speaker 1: Nie Smith. Probably Aaron Neith Smith, although he's not big enough,
Speaker 1: like I don't think he has enough size for Jalen.
Speaker 1: Jalen want to get in the mid range. He want
Speaker 1: to use shoulders, he want to use floaters. I think
Speaker 1: you need lane. So I don't think Aaron Niemith have
Speaker 1: enough length. I don't think nim Hart is big enough.
Speaker 1: You're not speeding Jalen Brunston up. He just gonna get
Speaker 1: you on his hip and so I don't think nim
Speaker 1: Hard is big enough, which kind of leads you with Pascal.
Speaker 1: Pascal can take the bump, Pascal can move his feet.
Speaker 1: Does he want to take on that challenge?
Speaker 2: Y'all?
Speaker 1: Series, I think at some point Pascal Siaka will have
Speaker 1: to take on the challenge of guarding Jalen Brunson if
Speaker 1: they want to have a chance of winning this series.
Speaker 2: He has the length to affect his shots.
Speaker 1: Even if he get behind on the screen, if he's
Speaker 1: in front of him, he can take the bump.
Speaker 2: He's a four.
Speaker 1: He can take the bump still get good contests and
Speaker 1: not have to jump, not have to give. Also, he's
Speaker 1: a four, he know how to not give guys angles.
Speaker 1: In the post, Jalen is looking the step Step got
Speaker 1: crazy footwork, So I think that's gonna be something that
Speaker 1: they have to look into, which brings me to my
Speaker 1: next point, which is the X factor for the series.
Speaker 2: I think the X factor for the series.
Speaker 1: I think Indiana has two possible X factors, one being
Speaker 1: Obi Topping playing against his old team, playing against New
Speaker 1: York Knicks from New York City. What you're gonna do, Obie?
Speaker 1: He was a couple of these games against the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Obi Topping was what helped push them over the top
Speaker 1: at twenty some last night, So.
Speaker 2: Obi Topping is one.
Speaker 1: I also think Miles Turner, Miles Turner has to dominate
Speaker 1: his matchup. Miles Turner has to be the same dominant
Speaker 1: Miles Turner that we just saw in this last series.
Speaker 1: He gotta dominate Hartenstein, he gotta dominate Mitchell Robinson.
Speaker 2: He's athletically can compete with both.
Speaker 1: Its physical enough to compete with both, although Hardenstein is
Speaker 1: a little more physical. But I personally think that Miles
Speaker 1: Turner and Miles Turner is an X factor. Obie top
Speaker 1: is an X factor. Pascal can be an X factor.
Speaker 1: If Pascal don't play well as simple, they don't win
Speaker 1: both sides of the court. They're gonna need Pascal in
Speaker 1: this series, and if he don't play well, they have no.
Speaker 2: Chance a win it. I mean absolutely no chance.
Speaker 1: So those are my X factors. That's kind of how
Speaker 1: I see this series. Oh by the way, I got
Speaker 1: the Knicks winning this series in five six, Matt, that's
Speaker 1: my take on that series. That's how I see it
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Speaker 2: Peace