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Speaker 1: West Virginia. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond
Speaker 1: Green Show. It is Tuesday morning. A big win last
Speaker 1: night versus the Phoenix Suns, and that puts us at
Speaker 1: two big wins in a row against two of the
Speaker 1: better teams in the league, Milwaukee Bucks at home and
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns at home. Quite frankly, I think people
Speaker 1: probably have grown to expect us to win those games
Speaker 1: at home in regards to who they're against, because we
Speaker 1: have an incredible record at home. But on the Road
Speaker 1: has been a different story. We will get into that.
Speaker 1: We will talk Warriors Sons game, which was an incredible game,
Speaker 1: fun game for us. We're also going to talk about
Speaker 1: what's been going around lately, which is I know, Stephen,
Speaker 1: they said something about it a couple of days ago
Speaker 1: about Joel and Beat in the MVP race against Joker.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting topic and I think that that has
Speaker 1: heated up a bit or till to the bit. But
Speaker 1: like I said, we'll get into that. And then also
Speaker 1: the news that came out a couple of days ago
Speaker 1: as well, which is the NBA maybe adding or the
Speaker 1: NBA and NBPA maybe reaching agreeance on adding a certain
Speaker 1: amount of games played, or the MVP award or major awards.
Speaker 1: And I have quite the perspective on that one. So
Speaker 1: the NBA stretch run is upon us huge matchups across
Speaker 1: the league as my Dubs and I battle with the
Speaker 1: teams in the West for playoff position. Gonna be a
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Speaker 1: Klay Thompson got off to a huge start, huge start
Speaker 1: in the first half, thirty three points in the first half,
Speaker 1: which was absolutely great. You know, we were able to
Speaker 1: think we closed the first quarter of twenty two points
Speaker 1: or something like that, which was good. And obviously, you
Speaker 1: know when you go up big like that. To start
Speaker 1: a game, team's usually gonna make a run. You like
Speaker 1: to hope that they'll never cut the lead to tour
Speaker 1: and which in this case the Suns did. But they're
Speaker 1: gonna make a run. And this is the NBA you've
Speaker 1: seen this year. No lead is safe. Um. And so
Speaker 1: I was actually very satisfied and impressed with how how
Speaker 1: we responded. Um. You know, once they cut it to two,
Speaker 1: we were able to push the lead back to ten,
Speaker 1: which got it to twelve, but ended up going into
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter up ten, which I thought was really big. Um.
Speaker 1: You know when you when you go on a run
Speaker 1: like that, and sparked by Devin Booker for them. He
Speaker 1: was great in the third quarter. When when you close
Speaker 1: a lead like that, oftentimes you get there and you know,
Speaker 1: when it's such a big league like it was, you
Speaker 1: run out of gas. Um. You know, it takes so
Speaker 1: much for you to climb back into it. And quite frankly,
Speaker 1: there you know, it's one thing if you like get
Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter and you close it to two,
Speaker 1: because you can see the light at the end of
Speaker 1: the tunnel. You close it to two in the third
Speaker 1: quarter and you look up, you've expended so much energy,
Speaker 1: and yet there's another twelve minutes to play, UM, and
Speaker 1: sometimes that that alone, just the thought of that alone
Speaker 1: can knock you out. And quite frankly, I don't think
Speaker 1: it did that to the Suns. I thought guys responded well, um,
Speaker 1: defensively and offensively. Steph got to the free throw line
Speaker 1: a couple of times. Once they cut the leader two
Speaker 1: he got to the free throw line. Two possessions in
Speaker 1: a row. Which you get to the free throw line,
Speaker 1: it slows the game down. It allows you to set
Speaker 1: your defense, you know. And then obviously with a great
Speaker 1: free throw shooter like stuff, you know, you can you
Speaker 1: can build on that, and short enough we did, and
Speaker 1: I thought that was absolutely great. Um. I see a
Speaker 1: lot of people are talking about the play where Steph
Speaker 1: had Chris Paul on the wing slashed corner a little
Speaker 1: below the break for those of you who don't know
Speaker 1: what below the break is. So if you ever look
Speaker 1: at an NBA three point line from the corner, it
Speaker 1: goes up like this and then there it's like this
Speaker 1: ben and it starts to go arc around that. Ben's
Speaker 1: called the break. And so Steff had see people blow
Speaker 1: the break. He hit him with a couple moves and
Speaker 1: got an amazing and one and if you read his lips,
Speaker 1: he got up and he said the same twenty fourteen
Speaker 1: no more. I was on the bench at that point,
Speaker 1: and I start talking to guys on the bench, like,
Speaker 1: do y'all realize what he just said, Like you can't
Speaker 1: listen to rap music and not understand the bars, Like
Speaker 1: if you're gonna listen to rap in order to like
Speaker 1: really enjoy it, you gotta understand the bars. And oftentimes,
Speaker 1: you know, you get people listening to beats and they're
Speaker 1: like rock with the song, but there's bars, like you
Speaker 1: talk to it. Talk to an artist and see how
Speaker 1: much they appreciate you rocking to the bat today song,
Speaker 1: or if they appreciate you saying, wow, that's a bar,
Speaker 1: like you appreciate the bars and I appreciated the bar
Speaker 1: by Steph Kurt. Because you gotta dig into that comment.
Speaker 1: This is not two thy fourteen anymore. That's pretty much
Speaker 1: saying the last time you were better than me was
Speaker 1: two thous was in the fourteen. That's nine years ago.
Speaker 1: Like this haven't been a debate since twenty fourteen, nine
Speaker 1: years ago, that's almost a decade. That's a bar. So
Speaker 1: I just hope you know, those that enjoyed that part
Speaker 1: of the game, which I do, that you appreciated that bar,
Speaker 1: because that was indeed a bar. Obviously, Kevin Durant lists
Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns team. You know, when they get Katie back,
Speaker 1: that obviously makes any game tougher. But you know, and
Speaker 1: just overall kind of dissecting or examining or whatever word
Speaker 1: you choose to use the Phoenix Suns, you you have
Speaker 1: to wonder if the lack of games played together is
Speaker 1: going to come back and bite you towards the end
Speaker 1: of the season. Katie, who's expected to be out at
Speaker 1: least three weeks by the time he gets back, what
Speaker 1: there's a week left in the season, week and a
Speaker 1: half left in the season, and then you're going into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. You always hope to have that time to
Speaker 1: build the chemistry. I think they've probably played three or
Speaker 1: four games together, and so in saying that, you put
Speaker 1: great players on the floor and oftentimes they figure it out.
Speaker 1: If you remember back to our season last year, we
Speaker 1: didn't play much together at all. Once Clay got back
Speaker 1: from the injury, I went out. Once I got back,
Speaker 1: stuff went out. So we didn't really have a chance
Speaker 1: to play together at all until starting Game one of
Speaker 1: the NBA Playoffs, and obviously we figured it out and
Speaker 1: won the championship. So it's not like it's impossible, but
Speaker 1: it is hard. And then also you're talking guys who've
Speaker 1: played together for eleven years or ten years at that point,
Speaker 1: that chemistry is also different, and so we'll see that.
Speaker 1: That's a tough one to get over. But it's obviously
Speaker 1: nothing you can do about it. But like I said,
Speaker 1: they have great players, and great players figure it out
Speaker 1: and make away, So we'll see what happens. And I
Speaker 1: think that's something where you all to watch for down
Speaker 1: the stretch with the Phoenix Suns. The NBA stretch run
Speaker 1: is upon us huge matchups across the league as my
Speaker 1: Dubs and I battle with the teams in the West
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Speaker 1: this homestand with great wins. Now we got to go
Speaker 1: on the road where we've lost eight in a row.
Speaker 1: And I think this time, you know, we're having a
Speaker 1: discussion like you're prim and then ready for you're primed
Speaker 1: and ready for the road, like you're talking about it.
Speaker 1: You're having a discussion what do we need to do?
Speaker 1: And I think that's important. So looking forward to this
Speaker 1: road trip, I think this will be a good road
Speaker 1: trip for us, and it's important that it is a
Speaker 1: good road trip for us if you're paying any attention
Speaker 1: to the standards. We're right there at thirty six and
Speaker 1: thirty three with the Clippers, So this next game is huge.
Speaker 1: Going to La tied up in the then this is
Speaker 1: a big game for us. So I got to make
Speaker 1: sure we lock in and you want to start the
Speaker 1: road trip off right, and that'll be big for us.
Speaker 1: And saying that, let's get into Joel and beat slish
Speaker 1: nicolea Jokic MVP race. I said the last time I
Speaker 1: spoke about the MVP race that guys still had work
Speaker 1: to do, that it has not been decided, and that
Speaker 1: if it has been decided, a little biased or a
Speaker 1: little early in it. When I say a little biased,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying biased to no race, because I know
Speaker 1: that's been a big discussion. I am not discussing that
Speaker 1: at all. What I are implying that at all. What
Speaker 1: I'm talking about is I just don't think there's been
Speaker 1: enough separation between anyone at that point to say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's this guy or that guy. You know. I'm saying
Speaker 1: that since we've last discussed that, Joel and beat has
Speaker 1: been on a tear and the Nuggets have been sliding.
Speaker 1: And so you look at the Nuggets sliding. Just last
Speaker 1: night they lost to Brooklyn, or two nights ago they
Speaker 1: lost to Brooklyn at home, and they've been kind of
Speaker 1: losing a little bit as of late. Philly's been winning
Speaker 1: a little bit as of late. Joel has been playing
Speaker 1: great all year, but also as of late thirty nine here,
Speaker 1: thirty nine, there, thirty seven, and he's willing his team
Speaker 1: to wins. I think that has to account for something.
Speaker 1: So in my MVP race, with thirteen games to go,
Speaker 1: however many games these teams got, I think Joe ellis
Speaker 1: started to create a little separation now and saying that
Speaker 1: it's still super close, so that can still change. But
Speaker 1: I think right now, when the next MVP Ladder comes out,
Speaker 1: if it comes out within the next week or so,
Speaker 1: and Joel continues this, Joel got to take that number
Speaker 1: one spot because I think he's been playing that way,
Speaker 1: his team's been winning. And then also, like I said,
Speaker 1: if you look at the Nuggets, they've had a little slippers,
Speaker 1: They've lost a few games, and that matters. That matters
Speaker 1: in this type MVP race because you have to take
Speaker 1: the whole body of work. I just can't be a
Speaker 1: numbers thing. You have to take the whole body of
Speaker 1: work and how they're contributing it and impacting their team.
Speaker 1: So I think that is one that we have to
Speaker 1: continue to watch. But if you ask me, Joel has
Speaker 1: definitely created a tad bit of separation if the season
Speaker 1: ended today, I think he's created a tad bit of separation.
Speaker 1: But in saying that, you have to change the mind
Speaker 1: of voters and voters the last two years have favored
Speaker 1: YI and he's won it twice, and so you have
Speaker 1: to change that mindset of voters, and that's a tough
Speaker 1: thing to do and change in any one mind about anything.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how that plays out down the stretch.
Speaker 1: But again I got Joel as a front runner right
Speaker 1: now by a small margin. Before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: there was news that came out about the CBA negotiations
Speaker 1: where the NBA and the NBA players or the National
Speaker 1: Basketball Players Association NBPA have discussing a minimum amount of
Speaker 1: games to win major awards. Now I have a perspective
Speaker 1: on this because I am someone who lost a defensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year award to Kauahi, who played forty
Speaker 1: eight games that year, and I was pissed. Number one.
Speaker 1: I thought I hands down won it. And Kawhi's incredible defender,
Speaker 1: especially at that point in his career. So I'm taking
Speaker 1: nothing from Kawai as a defender, but I was incredible
Speaker 1: that year and to and I won the first place votes,
Speaker 1: like it was crazy. I had the most first place
Speaker 1: votes and then I had some some some reporters not
Speaker 1: even vote for me top three, which was crazy in itself,
Speaker 1: Like that does not make sense. You lead in first
Speaker 1: place votes, but some voters don't even have you in
Speaker 1: their ballot. And that's why I always say, like there
Speaker 1: needs to be a better system put in place for
Speaker 1: these awards in general, not just adding a certain amount
Speaker 1: of games, but like these awards mean too much to
Speaker 1: people legacies, to people careers, and most importantly to people's
Speaker 1: contracts that to have someone that can vote and don't
Speaker 1: quite frankly, I think a lot of people don't understand
Speaker 1: the game of basketball, even to some of those that
Speaker 1: write stories to you and that speak to you, I
Speaker 1: just don't think they really know the game. And I
Speaker 1: stand on that. And so you have some people that
Speaker 1: don't know the game voting. You have some people that
Speaker 1: may have a personal ovendebta towards you that votes like
Speaker 1: I think it's just like to have people that carry biases,
Speaker 1: like you can read stuff that carry biasing, is voting
Speaker 1: on these awards by certain biases. I think it's just
Speaker 1: I think it's crazy. You know, you can decide whether
Speaker 1: someone makes thirty extra million dollars and I think that's insane.
Speaker 1: So as you know, I have a whole problem with
Speaker 1: the whole voting thing anyway now and saying that, like
Speaker 1: I said, I am someone who was impacted by this,
Speaker 1: should have or should an amount of games be added
Speaker 1: for these awards? I think that's twofold. I think, like
Speaker 1: I said, as someone who's been impacted by that, I
Speaker 1: understand it. But should should a certain penalty be added
Speaker 1: to these teams who are tanking for draft picks? Added
Speaker 1: to these teams when they start sitting there, guys towards
Speaker 1: the end of the season to lose games? Should certain
Speaker 1: penalties be added then? And don't tell me, oh, the
Speaker 1: lottery was changed to go you know, to negate that
Speaker 1: and you don't get as many odds. Listen, fifteen percent
Speaker 1: odds is still beats three any day, so that hasn't
Speaker 1: been a fixed. Teams are still tanking. These teams been
Speaker 1: in the win BA Yama Sweet Stakes all all season.
Speaker 1: They're still taking. So you got you can't you can't
Speaker 1: have it both ways. It gotta be twofold now, like
Speaker 1: you got you say, oh, these guys are sitting out
Speaker 1: this game or that game, and you got teams that
Speaker 1: do that for draft positioning. So my hope is that
Speaker 1: the NBA player, the National Basketball Players Associates NBPA, it's
Speaker 1: raising that, like, it can't just be versus the players, Like, no,
Speaker 1: it has to be both ways. Can't have it one way.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of my take on that. Do I
Speaker 1: think it should be added if you're asking for my opinion,
Speaker 1: I think it matters, like can't play fifty games and
Speaker 1: win MVP because you were so strong in those fifty
Speaker 1: Like a huge part of the season is um or
Speaker 1: a huge part of the NBA is the season, the
Speaker 1: grind of the season and pushing through that. So I
Speaker 1: get it, Like I said, as someone who's affected by it,
Speaker 1: I understand, but my only thing would be is if
Speaker 1: we're adding that for the players. The same thing has
Speaker 1: to be added for these teams that are taking That's it.
Speaker 1: That's a rap on this episode of The Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to well obviously no, we have a guest
Speaker 1: interview later this week, All Star Utah Jazz, All Star
Speaker 1: Lowry Marketing. I hope all of you check that episode out.
Speaker 1: It was actually a very incredible episode. Something I just
Speaker 1: hit on or mentioned, which is everyone's talking about the
Speaker 1: MVP racing. I had mentioned something a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago about Europeans not being held to the same standards
Speaker 1: as American players after Steven AI's list that he had
Speaker 1: put out, and we discussed that, and I gave you
Speaker 1: my opinion on that. Well, I discussed that with Lowery,
Speaker 1: and he had an opinion. He had some gyms, and
Speaker 1: he gave me a perspective that I didn't have. And
Speaker 1: it was great to have a European guy on here
Speaker 1: who kind of sees it through the lens of a
Speaker 1: European player. I thought that was absolutely incredible, and like
Speaker 1: I said, he gave some gyms. So make sure y'all
Speaker 1: check that out. It's an absolutely incredible episode. Also talked
Speaker 1: about some different things, just his emergence as an all
Speaker 1: star in Utah and you know his road there is
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible interview. I enjoyed it. I hope you all enjoyed.
Speaker 1: Check it out later this week. But that's a route
Speaker 1: from this episode of The Draymond Green Show until next
Speaker 1: time piece.