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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show
Speaker 1: Season two. For those of you who's listening to audio,
Speaker 1: you can't really see the smile on my face. For
Speaker 1: those of you watch him, you can definitely see the
Speaker 1: small on my face. So excited to be back, the
Speaker 1: new media back in the building, bringing you the content
Speaker 1: that you all want, that you all want to hear,
Speaker 1: none of that lousy, distasteful mess that we've been stuck
Speaker 1: listening to. So we're back at it um number one.
Speaker 1: I want to say thank you to our subscribers and
Speaker 1: listeners for tuning back in, and I apologize to our
Speaker 1: subscribers and listening listeners for the long delay. Before I
Speaker 1: get into anything else, let's get straight into the delay.
Speaker 1: Number One, contractual obligations, UM. Those are always very important.
Speaker 1: For those of you who's dealt with contractual obligations, UM,
Speaker 1: you should understand. For those of you that haven't, UH,
Speaker 1: contracts are very important and it's important that you spell
Speaker 1: out what you want in your contracts that you may
Speaker 1: come across in life. And saying that UM. However, that
Speaker 1: also coincided with what we all know the incident to be.
Speaker 1: At the beginning of the season with myself and a
Speaker 1: teammate UM Jordan's and quite frankly, if I'm being honest,
Speaker 1: Jackson and I we recorded an episode UM right after,
Speaker 1: and I know everyone was looking for it. Everyone wanted
Speaker 1: to hear it, and quite frankly, I wanted to allow
Speaker 1: you the chance to hear what I had to say.
Speaker 1: I wanted to allow you the chance to kind of
Speaker 1: take a a trip in my mind and just maybe
Speaker 1: understand more. And when we recorded the episode, I hated
Speaker 1: the way I sounded UM, and so we simply just
Speaker 1: didn't release it. I didn't like my tone, I didn't
Speaker 1: like the things I said, I didn't like the way
Speaker 1: it came out. I didn't like. Um. It almost if
Speaker 1: you're not careful, it almost comes off as unreal, unremorseful
Speaker 1: and distasteful. Distasteful, but also um fast, and what do
Speaker 1: I mean by fast? Quite frankly, I'm not big into
Speaker 1: saying things or doing things and then run into my
Speaker 1: show because it's gonna get more ratings, Like I don't
Speaker 1: really like that game. That's the old media. I I
Speaker 1: don't play that game. I don't I'm not very interested
Speaker 1: in I think there's a time to speak, and you know,
Speaker 1: if the opportunity is there, I'm gonna speak. I'm never
Speaker 1: going to shy away from a topic. But the thing
Speaker 1: that I had to take into consideration with that is
Speaker 1: number One, someone else was affected. And not only one
Speaker 1: person was affective, but multiple people to un of I mean,
Speaker 1: however many you want, whatever word you want to use
Speaker 1: to describe the amount of people. People were affected. And
Speaker 1: so it wasn't something that just affected me. And so
Speaker 1: when you do something that affects someone else, you can't
Speaker 1: just take yourself into consideration. How you may feel, how
Speaker 1: it may benefit you, all of those things, and so
Speaker 1: for me, I'm like, Okay, Jordan has to deal with this,
Speaker 1: other people have to deal with this. The last thing
Speaker 1: I need to be doing is sitting here talking about
Speaker 1: it like it's of Fine and Danny and so for that,
Speaker 1: I'm sure we probably lost some subscribers. For that, I'm
Speaker 1: sure we probably lost some listeners. But quite frankly, if
Speaker 1: that is the case, I'd rather work my butt off
Speaker 1: and get those listeners and subscribers back and plus more
Speaker 1: and do it the right way than distastefully saying whatever
Speaker 1: I can say, tweeting whatever I can tweet um, like
Speaker 1: the old fart does um, and then running to my
Speaker 1: show knowing that everyone's gonna want to hear what I
Speaker 1: have to say, and raiding sky and through the roof
Speaker 1: like that's fate because they don't want to hear you tomorrow,
Speaker 1: because tomorrow you can't talk about the garbage that you
Speaker 1: did today before to create your storyline, to create your headline,
Speaker 1: and then run and talk about it because you know
Speaker 1: everybody's listening. And so I just don't really like to
Speaker 1: a bye by that method. UM. I more so want
Speaker 1: to bring you great content. I want to talk basketball
Speaker 1: with you, I want to teach you basketball. I want
Speaker 1: to take you through my mind and how I see
Speaker 1: the game of basketball. And that's what we've always done
Speaker 1: here and that won't change now. And so quite frankly,
Speaker 1: that was the reason or one of the biggest reasons
Speaker 1: for the hiatus, and here we are. We're back. Um.
Speaker 1: I know I saw some people saying, oh man, Draymonds
Speaker 1: not doing it anymore because they're losing, and this that
Speaker 1: I'm an NBA champion still like for the rest of
Speaker 1: this year, by the way, if we don't win another game,
Speaker 1: we are the defending NBA champions until further notice. So
Speaker 1: the whole notion of like, oh man, they're they're not
Speaker 1: playing well, and so like I had the worst game
Speaker 1: of my life in the NBA Finals and I sat
Speaker 1: in front of this computer screen an hour later and
Speaker 1: talk to you all about it. So as we know,
Speaker 1: I'm not one that's afraid to talk during the rough times.
Speaker 1: But like I said, when someone else is affected, that's
Speaker 1: a different thing for me. And I care about people
Speaker 1: too much to just glance by that and ignore it.
Speaker 1: And so because I didn't like the way it sounded,
Speaker 1: we nixed it, and then there were contract contractual things
Speaker 1: and we got those worked out and we're back. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Jackson holding it down. We're here and I
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Speaker 1: And so getting into the episode, as you know, the
Speaker 1: last episode we did was with Dear and Fox now
Speaker 1: dearon Fox. If you go back and listen to that episode.
Speaker 1: I spoke to him about being an All Star. I
Speaker 1: spoke to him about breaking the Sacramento Kings playoff curse
Speaker 1: and how it's on his back to go do that,
Speaker 1: nobody else. It's on Dear a Fox to go do that.
Speaker 1: How the Indiana Pacers traded Yrese Halliburton, who's having an
Speaker 1: All star year by the way, how they traded him
Speaker 1: and showed Fox how committed they were to him and
Speaker 1: what his responsibility was for that quite frankly, And we'll
Speaker 1: get get into this further into the episode, but I
Speaker 1: think he's living up to that and Tyrese Halliburton is
Speaker 1: living up to exactly what the Indiana Pacers thought he
Speaker 1: would live up to. And like I said, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get a little more into that later in the episode
Speaker 1: because I want to go a little deeper into that,
Speaker 1: and saying that a lot has happened with the Warriors,
Speaker 1: a lot has happened with the NBA since that interview,
Speaker 1: A lot has happened with the Michigan with mareenes since
Speaker 1: that interview. As we know, Um, they lost in the
Speaker 1: postseason again. Shout out to Jim garbag Um. Absolutely incredible
Speaker 1: to see Michigan lose. You know, I am not want
Speaker 1: to pray on someone's downfall, just not really who I am. However,
Speaker 1: I love to see Michigan lose. It makes my day,
Speaker 1: makes me extremely happy and quite frankly, I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any scenario that I cheer for Michigan. I just can't. Um,
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel right, it feels bad to the core.
Speaker 1: There was a situation a few years back where, um,
Speaker 1: maybe like six seven years back where Michigan State Indiana
Speaker 1: we're all in a running to win the Big Ten,
Speaker 1: and we needed Michigan to be Indiana in order for
Speaker 1: all three us to tie. Cheered against Michigan. Indiana deserve it.
Speaker 1: They won the games. We don't need a tie. Try
Speaker 1: again next year. I'd rather see Michigan lose. So you
Speaker 1: understand how I feel. So that game the other day,
Speaker 1: shout out to the TCU Horn Frosts. Much love to y'all,
Speaker 1: and good luck all tasks, but good luck by getting
Speaker 1: into the episode. Things that we really want to talk about.
Speaker 1: Number one, um, the Warriors season. Our season is a
Speaker 1: little weird, as you know. Best record in the league
Speaker 1: at home at seventeen and two, it's incredible, worst record
Speaker 1: in the league on the road at three and sixteen,
Speaker 1: which is awful. What do you make of that? Well,
Speaker 1: let's see. I think Number one, it's definitely a mental thing.
Speaker 1: It's definitely a confidence thing because when I look back
Speaker 1: and I play all the games out, all the road games,
Speaker 1: especially in my head and looking back on the season.
Speaker 1: You give a game away at Orlando, give the game
Speaker 1: away at Charlotte, New Orleans, both New Orleans games. Um,
Speaker 1: none of us played, I mean not none of us
Speaker 1: guys played, but starters, most starters didn't play. Loom maybe
Speaker 1: played a few minutes, younger guys played and no knocked
Speaker 1: our younger guys. But it's difficult to win on the
Speaker 1: road as it is, as you can see in our record,
Speaker 1: down four or five of your top nine rotational. It's
Speaker 1: tough and so not. Therefore, but you add those games in,
Speaker 1: you get a back to back in Brooklyn, no one
Speaker 1: really plays in. That's five of the of the sixteen losses.
Speaker 1: Detroit Pistons we gate out in the way although they
Speaker 1: play well. Can't take nothing away from the Pistons in
Speaker 1: Detroit play well, but we kind of gave that with
Speaker 1: a way Indiana crazy game could have possibly want It
Speaker 1: could have went either way. What am I getting that?
Speaker 1: I said all of that to say, you look at
Speaker 1: those games alone, and you're sitting here. We're sitting here
Speaker 1: at five hundred on the road. No one's upset, and
Speaker 1: quite frankly, if we're a five hundred on the road,
Speaker 1: I think that may put us in first place in
Speaker 1: the West. Again, what are you getting that? Draymond? What
Speaker 1: I'm getting at is this, you lose a few games
Speaker 1: early on on the road, tension starts to build, not
Speaker 1: tension amongst the team, but tension amongst the world. Tensions
Speaker 1: of tension amongst the basketball world. Um, confidence starts to
Speaker 1: linger a little bit, it starts to waiver a little bit,
Speaker 1: and then it becomes a thing. Then it's now it's
Speaker 1: a thing that you're really battling against. And it's more
Speaker 1: of a mental hurdle than it should be. And so
Speaker 1: when I look at our team on the road and
Speaker 1: our team at home, it's two different teams. But it's not.
Speaker 1: And here's why. The margin for error that you have
Speaker 1: on at home, you don't have near that margin of
Speaker 1: error when you're on the road. And I personally don't
Speaker 1: think we've adjusted to that well throughout the season, like
Speaker 1: our margin for you know, the same passes will will
Speaker 1: make at home we make on the road. The same
Speaker 1: shots will take at home we take on the road.
Speaker 1: And you can't do that. It has to be more methodical.
Speaker 1: It has to be um a lot more thoughtful. And
Speaker 1: we've struggled in that area. As a leader, I can
Speaker 1: take that on the chin. I have to be better.
Speaker 1: I have to do what I can to make sure
Speaker 1: that we're better in that area, and I think we will.
Speaker 1: I think this homestand on riding a five game win
Speaker 1: street currently, I think this homestyle will help a lot,
Speaker 1: because confidence is confidence, right, and so to struggle with
Speaker 1: confidence and going on the role because of things that
Speaker 1: went wrong early and then it's like your snake bidding
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden nothing can go right and
Speaker 1: winning at home. Like I said five and O to
Speaker 1: start this road trip by the time you hear this episode,
Speaker 1: that should be six and on. I mean to start
Speaker 1: this homestand excuse me, not road trip. You build up
Speaker 1: the confidence and now you're go on a roll. You're
Speaker 1: going to roll with a different mindset. You go on
Speaker 1: a roll with the mindset that you need to win
Speaker 1: road games. And so I think we're building towards that.
Speaker 1: But most importantly home and row Like, yeah, that's that
Speaker 1: I make You can make something out of that, because
Speaker 1: it is something, it's a big deal, But I make
Speaker 1: more of This team is starting to find its identity,
Speaker 1: and for me, that's more important than what their home
Speaker 1: record says right now and what the role record says
Speaker 1: right now. Over the last five games, I think this
Speaker 1: team is truly starting to build an identity. And every
Speaker 1: great team has an identity. When you walk in the gym,
Speaker 1: you know that team is going to do X Y
Speaker 1: and Z. We haven't had that all year. We have
Speaker 1: not had an identity, and I think it takes time
Speaker 1: to build an identity, something longer than others. I think
Speaker 1: we're starting to build an identity, and that is huge.
Speaker 1: Be that we're missing Steph Curry, we're missing Andrew Wiggins,
Speaker 1: we're missing Andrea Adala, we're missing Jamachael Green, we're missing
Speaker 1: James Wiseman. Now we're missing Jonathan Comingo. Now building an
Speaker 1: identity and when those guys come back in and you've
Speaker 1: built an identity, then that allows you to and we're
Speaker 1: right in a position to do that. I think we're
Speaker 1: four or four and a half games or something out
Speaker 1: of first place, which is crazy in itself that we're
Speaker 1: that close to first place, and quite frankly, we've been
Speaker 1: awful this year. Um, and so that is uh, that
Speaker 1: is that's that's a bit exciting, if you will, um,
Speaker 1: you know, for us, because now that we're starting to
Speaker 1: really right this ship, you still have a chance at
Speaker 1: everything that you could possibly want to do. Now. I
Speaker 1: said a couple of weeks ago in my interview, I said,
Speaker 1: it's we're very fragile right now, and don't get it
Speaker 1: twisted like. It's still super fragile and it's not that,
Speaker 1: oh the team is something going on the team. No,
Speaker 1: this these seasons the NBA, it's very fragile and building
Speaker 1: something great, it's very gradual. Anyone who's ever built anything
Speaker 1: great will tell you all it takes is one wrong
Speaker 1: thing to tear the whole thing down. And so it's
Speaker 1: still very fragile. But we're working through that and I
Speaker 1: think it's it's it's um. It's starting to turn that
Speaker 1: corner for us. And so do I make much out
Speaker 1: of the stroll struggles. No, I'm not overly worried about them.
Speaker 1: But like I said, I will say to you, it's something.
Speaker 1: It's not just nothing. It's not not a big deal. No,
Speaker 1: it is a big deal. But as someone who's won
Speaker 1: several plenty road games in this league, I know what
Speaker 1: it takes. I know we know what it takes, and
Speaker 1: I have all the faith that we will do it.
Speaker 1: We will do what we need to do to get
Speaker 1: it to where it needs to go. And so no,
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about it, but I'm not. I'm also
Speaker 1: not dismissing it and saying it's nothing. It's something, and
Speaker 1: it's a but it's it's simply just a hurdle that
Speaker 1: we have to climb. It's nothing bigger, nothing less. It's
Speaker 1: a hurdle that's that this team is faced that we
Speaker 1: have to work and get over. And I have no
Speaker 1: doubt in my mind that we will do that. And
Speaker 1: saying that, uh, this five game win streak obviously has
Speaker 1: been without Steph Curry. How have we been able to
Speaker 1: do it? Well? I think the ball movement um has
Speaker 1: been really good. Our ball movement is largely predicated on
Speaker 1: Steph's movement because he's always moving and obviously we're always
Speaker 1: trying to find him and you're cutting and you're pinning
Speaker 1: in and it's great for the ball movement. Steve always preaches,
Speaker 1: but how how important ball movement is just to the
Speaker 1: aura of the team, how guys feel, um, you know,
Speaker 1: second by second, minute by minute, because that can change
Speaker 1: quickly in games. And so just preaching to what the
Speaker 1: all movement does for a team. And quite frankly, Um,
Speaker 1: with Steph being out, it's different than it with Steph
Speaker 1: on the floor. How have we been able to win
Speaker 1: five games in a row without Steph? I'll tell you
Speaker 1: how we've been able to do it. The ball has
Speaker 1: been movement. The defensive end has been absolutely amazing. Now
Speaker 1: we have had laws in some of these games where
Speaker 1: the defense goes to complete. But the thing that I
Speaker 1: like that I've been seeing is, no matter how bad
Speaker 1: it goes, you look around and everybody standing their tintoes down.
Speaker 1: Everybody's standing there looking like, all right, here we go like,
Speaker 1: let's lock up, let's get some stocks. We go down
Speaker 1: and get some buckets. And to build confidence like that,
Speaker 1: it's almost an arrogance, but quite frankly, this team hasn't
Speaker 1: done nothing for arrogance. So in turn, it's a belief,
Speaker 1: and it's a belief in himself. It's a belief in
Speaker 1: what we're capable of. It's a belief in our defensive abilities.
Speaker 1: It's a belief in thinking and knowing that we can
Speaker 1: shut someone's water off. And because we've been able to
Speaker 1: do that, not having huge turnover games, you always give
Speaker 1: yourself a chance to win. And so I say, maybe
Speaker 1: to at least at least two, possibly three of these wins.
Speaker 1: We haven't shot extremely well, but we're finding a way
Speaker 1: to win. And that's because I think we really have
Speaker 1: bought into the defensive side of the ball. Guys, several
Speaker 1: guys are making huge improvements and strides on that side.
Speaker 1: I think obviously the one that we all of highlighted
Speaker 1: its unfortunate that he's out now, is Jonathan comingo. Just
Speaker 1: the strikes that he's taking on the defensive end, the
Speaker 1: role that he's taken on, he's coming in, he's picking
Speaker 1: up you know, who's your favorite point guard, Trey Young?
Speaker 1: Obviously Trey play last night, Jonathan didn't play, But he's
Speaker 1: picking your favorite point guard up full court. At six
Speaker 1: two pounds, he's picking your favorite point guard up full
Speaker 1: court and not missing a step. What Comina has done
Speaker 1: on his growth on that side of the basketball is
Speaker 1: absolutely important, and don't get it twisted. It has a
Speaker 1: huge influence on this five game win streak that we're on.
Speaker 1: Like I said, obviously didn't play last night, But you
Speaker 1: have to feel good about the road that he's bought
Speaker 1: into and how he's really embracing it. Like there's no
Speaker 1: one telling him, hey, j K, go pick him up
Speaker 1: full court. No, he's emphrasing that. And I was saying
Speaker 1: this in the media a few days ago or a
Speaker 1: week ago or not. The team is starting to adjut
Speaker 1: around him. You know, it's like, oh, he's into the
Speaker 1: ball right, Like, ah, we want to get into a
Speaker 1: switch comingos into the ball, I may not be able
Speaker 1: to switch with him, so I have to go into
Speaker 1: that coverage a little bit differently because of how how
Speaker 1: physical he isn'to the ball right like. That's a very small,
Speaker 1: dumb example. But the team is starting to adjust to
Speaker 1: his style of defense. But the team only adjusts to
Speaker 1: your style of defense if you're capable of causing havoc.
Speaker 1: And it's worth adjusting to that. And Comeda is showing that,
Speaker 1: and it's absolutely incredible to see. So shout out to
Speaker 1: j K for his growth and improvement. Um, James Wiseman
Speaker 1: is so much more improved on the defensive end than
Speaker 1: he was on the offensive end before he went down
Speaker 1: to Santa Cruz. It's actually a joy to watch, and
Speaker 1: it's a joy to watch him in games. It's a
Speaker 1: joy when I go back and watch film just to
Speaker 1: see the things that he's doing differently. It's still got
Speaker 1: some things to learn, as we all do. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're eleven, I still got things to learn. But he's
Speaker 1: also playing a lot better and and it's good to
Speaker 1: see that growth. Moses Moody another young guy who's out
Speaker 1: of the rotation working his way back into the rotation
Speaker 1: and taking advantage of that. It's great to see Moses
Speaker 1: Um and all of those guys just really taking advantage
Speaker 1: of the opportunity, but not only taking advantage to actually
Speaker 1: you know, be able to have the opportunity to watch
Speaker 1: them and see the growth. It's a really special thing.
Speaker 1: So shout out to the shout out to those guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think also Um And the last thing I'll
Speaker 1: say about the doves, obviously I I went and I've
Speaker 1: played the second unit more with the second unit guys,
Speaker 1: and I really enjoy that role. Why do I enjoy
Speaker 1: that role so much? Because when you're playing in the
Speaker 1: second unit, these are guys that could care their careers
Speaker 1: can go either left or right, and it's all really
Speaker 1: predicated on how the minutes going, how they play in
Speaker 1: that time. And so for me to how the opportunity
Speaker 1: to join that group te to do all that I
Speaker 1: can to make sure that that group has positive outcomes.
Speaker 1: That to me as a as an honor, that to
Speaker 1: me is brings me joy because quite frankly, you're helping
Speaker 1: someone else, like for us to play well, and Tie
Speaker 1: Jerome has been playing in that group that can help
Speaker 1: Tie Jerome's career. And so for me that's a very
Speaker 1: big deal and I've really embraced that role. Um. I'm
Speaker 1: enjoying it and quite frankly, I think it's helped our team, uh,
Speaker 1: and and just finding the pieces of that puzzle to
Speaker 1: make our rotations work. Rotations are a huge deal, especially
Speaker 1: in the NBA, and you want to have your rotations right,
Speaker 1: and so I think that's been a good one for
Speaker 1: us and it's really helped us along in our season.
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, I think it's also helped bring us
Speaker 1: all of us closer together, which is very big because
Speaker 1: you can't win if everybody is splintering. And so I think, uh,
Speaker 1: that's helped bring everyone closer together and that's important. So
Speaker 1: that's um, I mean, that's that's kind of the state
Speaker 1: of the Doves. That's where we are. We're currently um
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Speaker 1: let's get into the NBA. Luca dodgets um last week
Speaker 1: at sixty points, rebounds, twenty one rebounds and eleven assists
Speaker 1: tennisis tender, eleven assis whatever. It was absolutely insane, incredible
Speaker 1: numbers um. I think he accounted for eight eight of
Speaker 1: like they're one hundred and points or something. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Luca is special, and it's it's it's it's interesting to
Speaker 1: see Luca having the year he's having. Why is it interesting, Draymond?
Speaker 1: It's interesting because the one gripe on Luca that everyone
Speaker 1: has had it is all he's never he's not in
Speaker 1: shape and blah blah blah. Is and here's what I
Speaker 1: want to say, and where I saw growth from Luca
Speaker 1: last year two years ago. Where the Olympics. You come
Speaker 1: off the Olympics, been playing in the season, go straight
Speaker 1: into the Olympics. You're tired, probably take a little break.
Speaker 1: And so last year Luca didn't come into the season
Speaker 1: in the best shape that he could come in. This year,
Speaker 1: Luca played in Euro euro Basket and came in and
Speaker 1: tip top shape, and it's having the m v P
Speaker 1: year that all expect to see. I think the thing
Speaker 1: that people don't realize. You know, in most cases, in
Speaker 1: order to have an MPP year, you have to come
Speaker 1: into the season and tip top shape. It's hard to
Speaker 1: work your way into shape and then still being m
Speaker 1: VP because those you start ringing up in people's head.
Speaker 1: You remember, these are human beings making these decisions, not computers,
Speaker 1: and so you start to gain space in people's minds
Speaker 1: the start of the season. And Luca came into this
Speaker 1: season in tip top shape and it is showing. It's
Speaker 1: showing in a major way, and he is one thousand
Speaker 1: percent playing at an m VP level as his others
Speaker 1: in which will get into but I think to see
Speaker 1: them lose Jalen Brunson, and they kind of were struggling
Speaker 1: early on and they didn't make any moves. I think
Speaker 1: Luca just picked it up more, you know, And the
Speaker 1: growth I think of Luca has been extremely, extremely pleasing
Speaker 1: to the Mavericks, the NBA basketball fans across the world.
Speaker 1: I one of the most special players we have in
Speaker 1: our league, and the performance that he had last week,
Speaker 1: it's just another step. I mean, the things that he's
Speaker 1: able to do and just capable of it is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell last night, seventy one seventy one tennis is
Speaker 1: eight rebounds. Now. It's funny because someone asked me today,
Speaker 1: they said, what do you what do you make of
Speaker 1: these numbers that guys are putting up? And quite frankly, special,
Speaker 1: special talents like the guys in this league are extremely talented.
Speaker 1: The game continues to row and you have to pay
Speaker 1: homage to guys that are scoring the basketball like that.
Speaker 1: I don't care what it is. That's hard to do,
Speaker 1: and to watch those guys doing it, it's absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson with fifty four last night. It was great
Speaker 1: to see Clay really just locked into the moment um.
Speaker 1: Taking the challenge head on with no step, no wigs,
Speaker 1: and the list goes on. But also to see Klay
Speaker 1: Thompson looked like the Clay Thompson we we we've all
Speaker 1: had the pleasure and honor of watching compete at this level. Um,
Speaker 1: it was absolutely beautiful. I also think for his confidence,
Speaker 1: for him to continue to prove to himself. See, everyone
Speaker 1: always makes it about oh man, he needs to prove
Speaker 1: this or he need to prove that, as if you're
Speaker 1: proving that to them. No, no, sometimes you just need
Speaker 1: to prove something to yourself. And so for him to
Speaker 1: have a performance like that, to continue to prove to
Speaker 1: himself that I can get back to who I once
Speaker 1: was or better and and have a have something that
Speaker 1: you can look to and say, see, because I did this,
Speaker 1: that's absolutely incredible. And I mean shout out to Clay
Speaker 1: for the game that he had. Now. In saying all
Speaker 1: of that, I think, uh, you know, when in speaking
Speaker 1: in terms of the NBA and in terms of the number,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, I think the offense do have the advantage.
Speaker 1: You know, when you speak of freedom of movement, when
Speaker 1: you you know you see some of the um the
Speaker 1: nuances that guys used to get to the file line.
Speaker 1: Like I think the offense definitely has an advantage, but
Speaker 1: in saying that, you still have to go score those points.
Speaker 1: And so I don't want to take anything away from
Speaker 1: these guys who are scoring at these levels, because it's
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. But as a defender myself, I do wish
Speaker 1: that there were more freedom for defending as there is
Speaker 1: for offensive players. Quite frankly, I'm not sure that will
Speaker 1: ever happened, nor is it something I'm really lobbying for.
Speaker 1: It just kind of is what it is, and so no,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't take anything away from this. These
Speaker 1: numbers that guys are getting, not one bit. They're very
Speaker 1: hard numbers to get in If they weren't, we'd see
Speaker 1: someone doing it every day. We don't see it every day. However,
Speaker 1: we see it a little more often because the NBA
Speaker 1: is just way more talented and skilled than it's ever been.
Speaker 1: That's no knock. I know everyone wants to find controversy,
Speaker 1: and that's no knock to players that came before. But
Speaker 1: and I always say this, but I bet you someone
Speaker 1: who worked at Google twenty years ago and someone that
Speaker 1: goes and working at Google today we'll probably walk in
Speaker 1: and say, Ah, their skill set, it's just a little
Speaker 1: bit different than mine was when I was here twenty
Speaker 1: years ago. And so in saying that, I think the
Speaker 1: NBA is a lot more skilled, um, and there's just
Speaker 1: a lot more talent UH in the league, and so
Speaker 1: you're just starting to see these things happen more often.
Speaker 1: But I still wish there was a little more freedom
Speaker 1: for guys like myself, the defenders. The defenders that's neither
Speaker 1: here nor there are other guys that we have playing
Speaker 1: at an m v P level. UH, Joker who's average
Speaker 1: in eleven rebounds and nine and a half of six
Speaker 1: sitting at the one seed, possibly on his way to
Speaker 1: a third straight m v P. Pretty impressive, obviously one
Speaker 1: of the toughest guards in the NBA. Had a battle
Speaker 1: with him in the playoffs last year. And I mean,
Speaker 1: Joker is a very very very special talent and he
Speaker 1: continues to show that year in the year out. Joannice
Speaker 1: is playing at an m VP level. UM. Joannice is
Speaker 1: driving thirty two, twelve and five. I think his team
Speaker 1: is sitting at the number one and number to see
Speaker 1: all incredible things. J T, who we had on this
Speaker 1: show last year, last season, and I said, if you
Speaker 1: don't win m VP next year. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: I may have said something along the lines of, you
Speaker 1: weak is boot. He's playing at that level, he has
Speaker 1: his team playing at that level, and it's an absolute,
Speaker 1: an absolutely beautiful thing to see Katie who Brooklyn Nets
Speaker 1: are sitting at the two seed. Katie's averaging thirty seven
Speaker 1: and five. Not quite sure anybody expected Katie to be
Speaker 1: at an then back at an m v P level,
Speaker 1: and not because Kevin Durant doesn't always play at an
Speaker 1: m v P level, because quite frankly, we've seen this
Speaker 1: for years, especially we've seen this a lot with Lebron James.
Speaker 1: It's just you're so good that when you when you're
Speaker 1: when you're that good, people just they don't They start
Speaker 1: to not appreciate it. And so to think that Katie
Speaker 1: can play again at the level to where people would
Speaker 1: appreciate it enough to even mention him in the m
Speaker 1: v P conversation as opposed to just being like, oh man,
Speaker 1: that's just Kevin and that's what he does, shows you
Speaker 1: how special of a season he has. Um they're having
Speaker 1: him much, but they completely changed their season making the
Speaker 1: change to Jacque Von jack Von has been incredible. Uh,
Speaker 1: but more so than him being incredible, Like, I'm not
Speaker 1: in their huddles, I'm not in the arena, I'm not
Speaker 1: in their facility. Just watching the respect that he's commanded
Speaker 1: from that team. I think it's huge, and I think
Speaker 1: it's a big part of the reason that they've won
Speaker 1: twelve in a row. They're sitting at the two seeds
Speaker 1: when no signs are slowing down. Um, I think it's
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful thing to see. Katie kept talking about,
Speaker 1: Oh man, I just want to play basketball. They've been
Speaker 1: playing basketball with no distractions and it's looking good for them,
Speaker 1: and so, um, that's right as well. Now you got
Speaker 1: Joel Embi who's playing incredible basketball. Um, I think Joel
Speaker 1: embat is averaging more points than Luca Dante by a
Speaker 1: tad Now that could have changed over the course of
Speaker 1: the last couple of days, but a few days ago
Speaker 1: he was averaging more points, definitely averaging more rebounds, and
Speaker 1: his team has a better record. So now you have
Speaker 1: to take all of those things into account when speaking
Speaker 1: at the m v P voting as well. Quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I'm interested and the Obviously Steph was playing at an
Speaker 1: m v P level before he got hurt. Our team
Speaker 1: record wasn't what it needed to be for people to
Speaker 1: talk about him in the m VP conversation. Yet our
Speaker 1: team record will end where it needs to be for
Speaker 1: him to be an m VP conversation. Quite frankly, I
Speaker 1: don't think he'll be out too much longer, at least
Speaker 1: that's my hope, and he'll still have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: compete for that award, and as we continue to move
Speaker 1: our season in the right direction, I think he'll enter
Speaker 1: those talks as well. But I must say this must
Speaker 1: be one of the most log jam m v P
Speaker 1: race conversations. Obviously, we're only almost halfway through the season
Speaker 1: in a very long time, and not that you know,
Speaker 1: there's hasn't been one or two guys that need an
Speaker 1: m VP, but you're talking five or six guys that
Speaker 1: you can legitimately right now make a case for m
Speaker 1: v P and that's insane. But obviously we know there
Speaker 1: will be one. And I mean, if I had to
Speaker 1: make my pick right now only because stuff's hurt, that's
Speaker 1: an interesting one. That's a very interesting one, because you
Speaker 1: know you start to say a name, and it's like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, that guy. You start to say, wait
Speaker 1: a minute about that guy, It's gonna be interesting. If
Speaker 1: I'm being honest, I'm not. I'm not one to last,
Speaker 1: I said before say something for ratings. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think we still have a lot of basketball left
Speaker 1: to be played, a lot of basketball to watch and
Speaker 1: figure it out. But if I must say there's no
Speaker 1: m v P today, there are four or five guys
Speaker 1: in the running, and we'll see some will phase, some
Speaker 1: will come, some will but I don't have an m
Speaker 1: v P today. I think it's way too close to call.
Speaker 1: And saying that we still got what forty for give
Speaker 1: it take forty to forty three games left, I think
Speaker 1: it's too close to call. So I don't really have
Speaker 1: an m VPS for you today. My apologies. As this
Speaker 1: thing plays out a little more we get some more
Speaker 1: games under our belt, I would let our listeners and
Speaker 1: subscribers know who I think the m v P is,
Speaker 1: But right now I think it's way too close to call.
Speaker 1: I'd be remissed if I did not speak on Lebron's
Speaker 1: birthday performance the other day. Um, I mean in Atlanta
Speaker 1: thirty eight birthday to go out and have the performance
Speaker 1: he had forty seven points in a triple double on
Speaker 1: your thirty eighth birthday, and your body is supposed to
Speaker 1: be like killing you at thirty eight, not forty seven
Speaker 1: and a triple double with it and a win on
Speaker 1: the road. I still say, and I stand by this
Speaker 1: with twenty years in to still be competing at the
Speaker 1: same level. Obviously it's not the exact same when he
Speaker 1: was twenty two or or thirty whatever, But to be
Speaker 1: competing at such a high level in your twenty that
Speaker 1: has to count for something, has to count for something.
Speaker 1: I was talking to Buy Myers today and due to
Speaker 1: Lebron's dominance, Steph Curry's dominance, and the Warriors dominance, the
Speaker 1: era of basketball that we've had the opportunity to play
Speaker 1: in will go down as one of the all time
Speaker 1: greatest eras of basketball. And I am honored to have
Speaker 1: played and be playing in this era. I know we
Speaker 1: always talked about the errors and everybody, oh, this early
Speaker 1: is soft and blah blah blah. To be playing basketball
Speaker 1: in this error is absolutely insane. And again I take
Speaker 1: my hat off to Lebron for what he's done for
Speaker 1: what he's doing on and off the court. There's never
Speaker 1: been a better face of the NBA, and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure there ever will be a better face of the NBA.
Speaker 1: Absolutely amazing. Salute my brother. Lastly, before we get out
Speaker 1: of here, I know everybody wanted to hear what I
Speaker 1: had to say about jobs take. I haven't really spoke
Speaker 1: about him much. Um, I think you all know how
Speaker 1: I feel about that. I got a lot of love
Speaker 1: and respect for job. Um. Young leader that makes his
Speaker 1: guys believe whatever he believes, and that's a very powerful
Speaker 1: thing as a leader. He got that has had it
Speaker 1: since day one, and you can see it only noticeable
Speaker 1: since the time he stepped foot in Memphis. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure he can quite make his guys believe that one
Speaker 1: which is where fine? I'm fine in the West, you
Speaker 1: are fine, John, you are. But the Warriors in the
Speaker 1: West now champ so yes, you are fine John. The Grizzlies,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, that's the topic for another day.
Speaker 1: Sorry in list, but not least before we get out
Speaker 1: of here. Um. Obviously we all saw the situation yesterday
Speaker 1: with themar Hamlin. Uh. Just want to really send my
Speaker 1: well wishes to him um and then also send some
Speaker 1: prayers up for him and his family. We all go
Speaker 1: out here every day and play these sports, play these
Speaker 1: games that we love to play, that we've all been
Speaker 1: playing our entire lives, and you know, never once in
Speaker 1: your mind, never once does it cross of mind that
Speaker 1: like it can be so catastrophic and as quite frankly,
Speaker 1: as an athlete, you never go out like thinking you're
Speaker 1: gonna get hurt or thinking something like that will happen.
Speaker 1: You never do. You know, it's like you just never
Speaker 1: take the court thinking that, You never take the field
Speaker 1: thinking that. And to see that happen yesterday on live television,
Speaker 1: that was a part of our pre game like that
Speaker 1: was a part of pre game speech and Steve saying,
Speaker 1: oh man, I know everyone's watched it and seeing that,
Speaker 1: like now we have to try to put that aside
Speaker 1: and mhm, find the energy and go play this game,
Speaker 1: because you you just you feel for him, You feel
Speaker 1: for the guys that were on that field, you feel
Speaker 1: for his family, you feel for the Buffalo community. And
Speaker 1: then you you take a step back and you you
Speaker 1: ask yourself the question, how are the guys impacted that
Speaker 1: were there? How has t Higgins impacted who he just tackled. Um,
Speaker 1: you start to think all of these things, and the
Speaker 1: last thought on your mind is what they need to
Speaker 1: get back to play playing for what? This is a game,
Speaker 1: it's a business, it's a game, and so that's the
Speaker 1: last thought on your mind. It baffles me that any
Speaker 1: other thought could be on someone's mind. And to see
Speaker 1: some talking hands yesterday totally just not value his life
Speaker 1: for the sake of a game to go on. Who
Speaker 1: cares about the game? I thought it was one of
Speaker 1: the most distasteful things that one could do. And then
Speaker 1: I asked you the question, are you surprised, I'm not
Speaker 1: not at all. I feel bad for him. I feel
Speaker 1: bad for his family. I apologize to his family because
Speaker 1: it's number one for what they have to continue to
Speaker 1: go through, but number two, for someone to care that
Speaker 1: little about the mar's life. His family didn't deserve that,
Speaker 1: He don't deserve that. No one really deserved it. So
Speaker 1: I sent my love to them, I send my well
Speaker 1: wishes and I will continue to pray for a speedy
Speaker 1: recovery for him, not to return to football. Football is
Speaker 1: a game, but to return back to the life that
Speaker 1: he had before he stepped out on that football field
Speaker 1: last last night. That is my hope and prayer for him.
Speaker 1: I have no doubt in my mind that he can
Speaker 1: get there. But y'all gotta do something with these two heads.
Speaker 1: It's been sickening. It's disgraceful at this point. You got
Speaker 1: people on who work with Fox Sports, Foxes is a partner,
Speaker 1: just discredit, just no filling that off for a life.
Speaker 1: It's distasteful. So I wish him well. We won't end
Speaker 1: this on that note. We're gonna end this on well wishes,
Speaker 1: on positivity, on moving forward, on speedy recoveries, on great health.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, two thousand, twenty three, May it be
Speaker 1: your best year yet. Much love, Thank you for tuning
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