Speaker 1: The volume. All right.
Speaker 2: The NBA season is in full swing, coming down the stretch.
Speaker 2: Then we move right into the playoffs in April, May
Speaker 2: and June. I can't wait. Spice things up with Draftking
Speaker 2: sports Book and official sports betting partner the NBA. Right now,
Speaker 2: all you have to do is put down five bucks
Speaker 2: and get one hundred and fifty dollars instantly in bonus bets.
Speaker 2: Pretty good trade off. I pay five, I get one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty dollars. North Carolina listeners, do not forget.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the party. Draft King Sportsbook now live in
Speaker 2: your state, North Carolina. Download the Draftking sports Book app
Speaker 2: takes ninety seconds. The code is Colin col N Again
Speaker 2: ninety seconds. Download Draft King sports Book app.
Speaker 1: Put in Colin.
Speaker 2: New customers bet five, get one hundred and fifty back
Speaker 2: in bonus bets instantly. That is the trade all right.
Speaker 2: The code is always Colin.
Speaker 1: The crown is.
Speaker 3: Yours gambling problem called one eight hundred gambler or in
Speaker 3: West Virginia, visit one eight hundred gambler dot net. In
Speaker 3: New York call eight seven seven eight open wired text
Speaker 3: hope and y four six seven three six nine in
Speaker 3: Connecticut help is available for problem gambling called eight eight
Speaker 3: eight seven eight nine seven seven seven seven or visit
Speaker 3: CCPG dot org. Please play responsibly on behalf of Boothill
Speaker 3: Casino when resorting Kansas twenty one and over age varies
Speaker 3: by jurisdiction, Voyd and Ontario. Bonus bets expire one hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty eight hours after issuance. See DKNNG dot co
Speaker 3: slash bball for eligibility and deposit restrictions, terms and responsible
Speaker 3: gaming resources.
Speaker 4: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 4: Recording this the morning after huge, huge Duves victory over
Speaker 4: the Mavericks.
Speaker 1: It's about toime. We won a home game.
Speaker 4: As we know, that's been a problem roll record, pretty
Speaker 4: stellar home record not so much so.
Speaker 1: That was a good Duve for us at home.
Speaker 4: Also, crazy trip or crazy period in the schedule, I
Speaker 4: would say, not necessarily crazy trip, but coming off a
Speaker 4: nine day, five game trip to Minnesota which started off
Speaker 4: with a loss in a game that I thought we
Speaker 4: clearly should have won and we just let it get away.
Speaker 1: Miami, big time win.
Speaker 4: Never easy to go there and get a dub, but
Speaker 4: that was a big time win for us.
Speaker 1: Orlando huge win.
Speaker 4: Obviously, I got ejected from that game pretty fast, and
Speaker 4: the guys held it down that game, which set us
Speaker 4: up for Charlotte, which is a game we should go
Speaker 4: in and San Antonio, which winby is a problem, but
Speaker 4: also a game that we should win.
Speaker 1: By the way. I know. I said on here a
Speaker 1: few a little while back that.
Speaker 4: Wimby shouldn't be the defensive player of the year and
Speaker 4: a lot Weinby should be the defensive player of the
Speaker 4: year because he is that amazing defensively.
Speaker 1: But they just suck. And I love Coach Pop.
Speaker 4: I think I've shared that with you all before, like,
Speaker 4: absolutely love Coach Pop. And if I'm honest, I'm still
Speaker 4: a little hurt because I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 4: hug Coach Pop in the game, didn't get a chance
Speaker 4: to talk to him before the game, and after the
Speaker 4: game everything was kind of going on. I got to
Speaker 4: sign Winby jersey for DJ, which was absolutely exciting. One
Speaker 4: that he can hang in his bedroom and for the
Speaker 4: next fifteen to twenty years he'll be watching arguably the
Speaker 4: best player in the league with his jersey on the wall,
Speaker 4: and so I was very excited about that and probably
Speaker 4: a little sidetracked to get that for DJ that I
Speaker 4: didn't get a chance to hug Coach Pop embrace him,
Speaker 4: and that's my guy. Absolutely love him. One of the
Speaker 4: golden guys got that goal together and the relationship built
Speaker 4: there will last a lifetime.
Speaker 1: So I'm very thankful for Coach Pop.
Speaker 4: And I'm sorry that I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 4: say hi, but from a distance and it just missed
Speaker 4: me at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: Still salty about that anyway.
Speaker 4: Wemby is definitely the defensive player of the year the
Speaker 4: way he impacts the game both offense, I mean both
Speaker 4: on the defensive end, whether it's off the ball, on
Speaker 4: the ball. It's a problem when you when you start
Speaker 4: driving to the whole and like guys may have a layup,
Speaker 4: maybe not, and they just turn out and go the
Speaker 4: other way.
Speaker 1: That's a problem.
Speaker 4: And that's a block shot in a sense, you know,
Speaker 4: and no one will accounf fort that. It's like a screen.
Speaker 4: You go set it in a screen. No one's going
Speaker 4: to give you an assist. But the guys wide open
Speaker 4: and knock a shot down Winby. You drive into the
Speaker 4: lane and get a layup and you see Winby and you.
Speaker 1: Just go the other way. That's a block shot.
Speaker 4: And so let's also talk about how many of those
Speaker 4: Winby has this year. We saw one last night with
Speaker 4: Christian Brown and Michael Porter Junior end up hitting the three.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately that Michael Porter Junior hit the three, But that's
Speaker 4: a block shot. Like an on block shots, sometimes you
Speaker 4: get the ball back and guess what, you get it back,
Speaker 4: you kick it out, You hit the three offenser rebound,
Speaker 4: kick it.
Speaker 1: Out, hit the three, right, Like, that's essentially the same thing.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 4: Uh with what women and you know, I'm I say
Speaker 4: that take it with a grain of salt. Obviously, team
Speaker 4: record matters, and everybody who say team record don't matter
Speaker 4: is a lie.
Speaker 1: It definitely matters.
Speaker 4: And they're not quite that good, not quite Wimby's fault,
Speaker 4: but you kind of had to be that bad in
Speaker 4: order to get Wimby. And I think that San Antonio
Speaker 4: team has some pieces, a few pieces, not many, but
Speaker 4: a few pieces around Wimby.
Speaker 1: And that's not kind of.
Speaker 4: Like a Zach Collins, right Like Zach Collins is a
Speaker 4: fat uh he's going to be around like and you
Speaker 4: need good vets like that solid gonna you know what
Speaker 4: you're gonna get every night. But you know, you got
Speaker 4: like kJ Keldon Johnson, you got Devin Vessel, uh.
Speaker 1: Trey Jones.
Speaker 4: You know, I think I think Trey Jones is as
Speaker 4: as a good point guard in this league, not necessarily
Speaker 4: maybe not necessarily a starter, but any good team is
Speaker 4: you know, if you're gonna have a chance to win championships,
Speaker 4: you needed really good backup, and Trey Jones is absolutely that,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: So I think they got a few.
Speaker 4: Pieces around him, but they need to fill out a
Speaker 4: lot of other pieces. And and then also figure out
Speaker 4: how do we want teams to look like?
Speaker 1: What's the best look of a team around Wimby?
Speaker 4: You know, like you look at Lebron James always gonna
Speaker 4: be some shooters on the floor, right like over the
Speaker 4: course of his years, you know, you the Mike Millers,
Speaker 4: the James Jones, the j R.
Speaker 1: Smiths, Kyle Korver, the list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 4: You know, when they want a championship with the Lakers,
Speaker 4: Kyle Kuzma was that shooter, you know, And so what
Speaker 4: are the teams gonna look like around Winby? And I
Speaker 4: think that's that's an important one. But I changed my stance,
Speaker 4: Wimby probably should be defensive playerity.
Speaker 1: Or what he's doing defensively.
Speaker 4: Dude had nine blocks last night, Like that's against the
Speaker 4: Denver Nuggets, best team in NBA.
Speaker 1: Nine blocks, Like, man, that's effecting the game.
Speaker 4: And again, Wimby's not a liability on defense, like you're
Speaker 4: not just he's not just getting blocks, you know, like
Speaker 4: some guys just get blocks. You know, guys come weekside
Speaker 4: get blocks, like but you can pick on them. You
Speaker 4: can't really pick on women. And dude can switch like
Speaker 4: he's seven to four, can move his feet. I don't
Speaker 4: know what lab he was created in, but I need
Speaker 4: to go create me a son in that lab because
Speaker 4: dude is unbelievable and I was his hell after that game.
Speaker 4: Because with Winby, every possession you have to like be
Speaker 4: on because the moment he gets a slight advantage, right
Speaker 4: like say if I relax and he duck in the pain,
Speaker 4: guess what you done? Because he's so he gets to
Speaker 4: he his angles to the rim with his lane, there's
Speaker 4: nothing you can do at that point. So with him,
Speaker 4: whether he's at the three point line, you have to
Speaker 4: be on because guess what if he catches and he
Speaker 4: started raising up. Man, I had a couple of contests
Speaker 4: on Winby threes, and I'm talking about they were monster contests.
Speaker 4: Like I'm pretty good at contesting jump shots. That's one
Speaker 4: of my specialties on the defensive end. I come up
Speaker 4: with some blocks on threes. Like Man, I had a
Speaker 4: couple monster contests on Winby. I was nowhere near the ball,
Speaker 4: and I thought that that was very interesting. So with
Speaker 4: Winby at all points, at all times, no matter where
Speaker 4: he is on the floor, you have to be on
Speaker 4: and that is tiring as hell. And so I was
Speaker 4: exhausted after that game. Nonetheless, that was a big time
Speaker 4: win for us. Uh and then we go to you know,
Speaker 4: come back Home, which leads us to last night, a
Speaker 4: huge win over the Mavericks one o four to one
Speaker 4: hundred two way. Wigs was in the building in a
Speaker 4: major way, twenty three points on eight for sixteen and
Speaker 4: three for five.
Speaker 1: I'm still pissed that Wigs. Why am I pissed that Wigs?
Speaker 4: Because Wiggs came out aggressive and then there was a
Speaker 4: couple of possessions right after the first couple of shots,
Speaker 4: he missed that he came off screen and he was like,
Speaker 4: who do I.
Speaker 1: Need to pass the ball. No, you go shoot the ball.
Speaker 4: We need Wigs scoring, We need Wigs aggressive, the pressure
Speaker 4: he puts on the rim, the way he's been shooting
Speaker 4: the ball lights out and then picking and while doing that,
Speaker 4: picking up Luca full court the whole game, the entire game,
Speaker 4: picking him up full court, not switching, getting over screens,
Speaker 4: fighting batin and Luca's great.
Speaker 1: You know, we know how great Luca is.
Speaker 4: And Wiggs took on that challenge and had a big
Speaker 4: game for us, yours truly what he left eight six
Speaker 4: and four steals. Hey man, that's ten steals in two games.
Speaker 4: I feel really good about myself.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: It's that time of year where you kind of gotta
Speaker 4: come alive, like it's the most fun time of year.
Speaker 4: And I love it. I love this time. Big block
Speaker 4: down a stretch, tough play there. When you got Kyrie
Speaker 4: Irving coming downhill at you, it's a scary sight. And
Speaker 4: not a scary sight in the sense of like, oh,
Speaker 4: Kyrie's about to take off and dunk on you, but
Speaker 4: a scary sight in the sense of, like Kyrie, as
Speaker 4: I said a couple of weeks ago, Kyrie has every
Speaker 4: shot in basketball. You know, we saw the lefty running
Speaker 4: hook right like he has every shot in basketball, mid range,
Speaker 4: floater to the cup, best finisher, incredible finisher, he has
Speaker 4: every shot. And so when he's coming downhill at you
Speaker 4: with a love threat like Daniel Gotford, what do you do?
Speaker 4: And so for me, obviously you're trying to cut him off.
Speaker 4: You're trying to too, but with Kyrie, you you kind
Speaker 4: of have to commit because if not, he like he
Speaker 4: tricking you, like you trying to trick him. And he
Speaker 4: got the ball, so ultimately you know what he's trying
Speaker 4: to get to. He's good enough to get to it.
Speaker 4: And so if you go back and watch the play,
Speaker 4: I had to step all the way up to stop him.
Speaker 4: But the way my feet are angled, my feet are
Speaker 4: angled as such to where I'm cutting off one side
Speaker 4: of the floor, so the side that he's going to,
Speaker 4: which if you're dribbling the ball and you're Kyrie, it
Speaker 4: is the left side of the floor. If you're me
Speaker 4: and you're defending it, it's the right side of the floor.
Speaker 4: But I cut that whole side of the of the
Speaker 4: court off with my feet so that Kay couldn't continue
Speaker 4: going that way, and to essentially kind of force him
Speaker 4: back towards where Daniel Gafford is on the baseline. Well,
Speaker 4: for me, once I see Kyrie picks up the ball
Speaker 4: and go to pass, there's no added extra movement right
Speaker 4: like because of my foot position, that's just one drop
Speaker 4: step and jump.
Speaker 1: I'm jumping at the same time as Daniel Gaffer.
Speaker 4: Now, if I'm being totally honest with you, in that situation,
Speaker 4: it's Daniel Gaffer.
Speaker 1: It's not Kyrie Irving, it's not Luka Dante.
Speaker 4: And what I mean by that is Daniel Gaffer's a
Speaker 4: sixty nine percent free throw shooter. He's not ninety like
Speaker 4: Kyrie Irving and Luca maybe seventy some percent, but it's Luca.
Speaker 4: He's not missing free throws in the clutch. And so
Speaker 4: my mindset right there is I'm helping on Kyrie and
Speaker 4: I'm giving this drop up up to Gaffer. Now in
Speaker 4: order for him to get to the rim, he got
Speaker 4: to come back through me.
Speaker 1: So I understand that.
Speaker 4: But a key thing in that position is I am
Speaker 4: in perfect position to file and so when I go
Speaker 4: up in that moment, I'm thinking, all right, I'm jumping,
Speaker 4: I'm not giving up an an one. So if I
Speaker 4: don't feel like I have an advantage to affect a shot,
Speaker 4: block the shot, which I did, but not even necessarily
Speaker 4: blocked shot. Affect the shot to where Daniel Goffer has
Speaker 4: to make the shot, and not a dump. If I
Speaker 4: can't do that, I'm folling. So I'm in perfect position
Speaker 4: to file, which for me is money. Once I jump,
Speaker 4: I then make the decision. I can get it right,
Speaker 4: and I get the block, get the rebound, and we're
Speaker 4: off to the races. And then you know, down the
Speaker 4: stretch the ball was in my hand. How about that?
Speaker 4: And you know made a couple of plays down the
Speaker 4: stretcher to close the game out. But really big time
Speaker 4: win for us, especially with the Rockets coming out to play.
Speaker 4: They have loss a couple in a row, and you know,
Speaker 4: three games behind with seven games left, and you're losing
Speaker 4: the tiebreaker. So four games behind in a sense with
Speaker 4: seven to go, my math serves me correctly, tomorrow will
Speaker 4: be an opportunity to end their season their playoff hopes.
Speaker 4: If my math serves me directly, maybe there would be
Speaker 4: one more game. I haven't looked that up. That's just
Speaker 4: some rough math.
Speaker 1: For you. Math genis is out there.
Speaker 4: That's gonna be like, no, they're not mathematically eliminated, and
Speaker 4: you like, great almost But anyway, so looking forward to
Speaker 4: that game. Obviously, big game in Houston. We're a custom
Speaker 4: the big games in Houston. It'll be fun and we
Speaker 4: got the mini God on our side this time. So
Speaker 4: uh that is Chris Paul for those of you who
Speaker 4: are wondering. So definitely looking forward to that game tomorrow.
Speaker 4: It'll be a fun game. Those young guys are playing well.
Speaker 4: Jalen Green is playing out of his mind, looking like
Speaker 4: the Jayleen Green that everybody thought was coming into the
Speaker 4: NBA when he came in.
Speaker 1: He's taking that next leap and it is looking very prominent.
Speaker 4: So you know, they got the vet freddie V running
Speaker 4: the show, a bunch of young guys getting after it,
Speaker 4: and so BI a big game, fun game, but one
Speaker 4: that I feel totally confident that we should be able
Speaker 4: to go get if we come in and play our
Speaker 4: brand of basketball. But a big time, big time win
Speaker 4: for us, and you know, five game win streak, which
Speaker 4: comes at the right time. So looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: In other news, a guy who I got respect for,
Speaker 4: and so I'm not gonna sit here and like slander
Speaker 4: because I got respect for for the matrix. But Shan Marion,
Speaker 4: my man, my brother, you asked for it, so let's
Speaker 4: talk about it. On Club five twenty. Shout out to
Speaker 4: Club five twenty. I went on Club five twenty Jeff
Speaker 4: T and the guys. I enjoyed being on Club five twenty,
Speaker 4: and quite frankly, our interview wasn't long enough.
Speaker 1: So maybe I'll go back one day if they'll have
Speaker 1: me back.
Speaker 4: But that was a fun as podcast to do, and
Speaker 4: I enjoyed it, so we'll see. However, that's one of
Speaker 4: the great ones out there in the world of podcasts everywhere.
Speaker 1: That is one that is fun. It's funny, it's.
Speaker 4: You learn different things like I saw the other days
Speaker 4: talking about different rough rees, like you're getting an unfiltered
Speaker 4: Jeff TG which nobody.
Speaker 1: In the league knew they or in the world knew
Speaker 1: they needed UH.
Speaker 4: But the world needs Jeff tag and what and what
Speaker 4: those guys is bringing UH to the landscape, to the
Speaker 4: media landscape. It's absolutely incredible to watching fun And Sean
Speaker 4: Marion goes on Club five twenty.
Speaker 5: And he says, Draymond, I think I love his tenacity,
Speaker 5: love his energy, love his heart, but I still think
Speaker 5: I'm also the way better defendent than he was. And
Speaker 5: the reason I say that is because when I had
Speaker 5: to guard point guard point, when when I actually guarded you, I.
Speaker 1: Guard you for the whole game. I didn't.
Speaker 5: It wasn't no, no, no, a few minutes here and
Speaker 5: there or trying to spread some I guarded. I locked
Speaker 5: in with you guys for the whole game. And like
Speaker 5: most guys ain't doing that. So it's easy for and
Speaker 5: it's way simpler for guys to do with every possession
Speaker 5: and switch. Everybody switched now. But I mean I can
Speaker 5: guard somebody for a quarter, It's easy to do that.
Speaker 5: Let me guard that guy for the whole game. Though
Speaker 5: most guys is not doing it. I'm the only person
Speaker 5: ever in NBA history to do.
Speaker 4: That in one playoff series on the way to my
Speaker 4: fourth championship.
Speaker 1: I guard it.
Speaker 4: I don't even remember the first round. Who did we
Speaker 4: play in the first round, Jackson? You remember who we
Speaker 4: played in the first round?
Speaker 6: Denver Nuggets? No, Jamal Murray?
Speaker 4: Okay, So who do we play in the second round.
Speaker 1: Or was that the second round? I think that was
Speaker 1: the second round?
Speaker 6: Then Dallas was the Dallas was the conference Finals Grizzlies.
Speaker 1: Ah that's right. Ah, there it is.
Speaker 4: So in one playoff series, by the way, guys, you
Speaker 4: ever world not winning championship and no one cares. It's
Speaker 4: hard to even remember that. So remember that for those
Speaker 4: of you out there celebrating second places. So in one
Speaker 4: playoff run on the way to my fourth championship, you
Speaker 4: got me Garden. Joker didn't shut Joker down by any
Speaker 4: stretch of imagination. But you can bet your bottom dollar
Speaker 4: makes a huge difference. When you don't have to double,
Speaker 4: you keep bodies on bodies, you neutralize the rest of
Speaker 4: the guys. Game win is still game still and still
Speaker 4: that series by no.
Speaker 1: Means that I locked Joker. I'm not saying that, but.
Speaker 4: I think Joker respected the defense that was played on Okay,
Speaker 4: Jared Jackson, young athletic big who can step out and
Speaker 4: shoot the three, All Star Jaylen Bronson, And don't tell me,
Speaker 4: oh that was Jalen for Dallas, because that same Jayalen
Speaker 4: four months later went and took the Knicks by storm
Speaker 4: Jyalen Bronson, All Star Jaylen Brown in the NBA Finals
Speaker 4: All Star. Those were my matchups for the series. So
Speaker 4: to say I can guard a guy for a game,
Speaker 4: what about a series? And by the way, I don't
Speaker 4: think Sean Marian couldn't guard a guard for a series.
Speaker 4: But the proof is in the pudding and the film
Speaker 4: is right there. Need I say more. I've gone into
Speaker 4: games and guarded guards my entire career when I've needed to,
Speaker 4: so you know, I get what he was getting that
Speaker 4: or trying to get at. But you actually gotta watch
Speaker 4: the clips, watch the film. Don't watch the clips, watch
Speaker 4: the film, and then what I do off the ball
Speaker 4: is totally different thing. I'm not sure many people in
Speaker 4: the NBA can affect the game how I can affect
Speaker 4: the game defensively off the ball. So with all due
Speaker 4: respect to Sean Marion and his defensive capabilities, because I
Speaker 4: again think Sean Marion was a great defender. It ain't
Speaker 4: only you, my man. It is not only you. Maybe
Speaker 4: it was before me, but not since me, and it
Speaker 4: won't be after me. It ain't only you. So for
Speaker 4: you make statements like that, you gotta check the tape.
Speaker 4: You gotta have some facts, because the facts are right there,
Speaker 4: and I don't need to go elsewhere, you know, I
Speaker 4: don't need to go to like at times I had
Speaker 4: to guard CJ McCallum when we were playing Portland and
Speaker 4: times I had to guard Chris Paul when we were playing.
Speaker 4: He was like, I don't need to go into all
Speaker 4: those things. I'm gonna just go right there. Series wins
Speaker 4: which led to my fourth championship. So shout out to
Speaker 4: the Matrix. Would love to have him on the show
Speaker 4: if he want to come on.
Speaker 1: No Ill will here.
Speaker 4: But the facts are the facts in other news before
Speaker 4: we take some questions live here on the br app
Speaker 4: shout out to the br team. Joe L and B
Speaker 4: returned from a two month absence and he played twenty
Speaker 4: nine minutes, had twenty four six boards, seven assists, three steals,
Speaker 4: and six turnovers. I must say I was very shocked
Speaker 4: for Joe to come back. And the reason I was
Speaker 4: very come back in game seventy six after missing thirty
Speaker 4: games or whatever that number was. And they're now forty
Speaker 4: one and thirty five. And I saw something last night
Speaker 4: that said their record is fourteen and twenty seven without Joel,
Speaker 4: meaning the chances that that team is going to win
Speaker 4: a championship is very slim. And to me, some of
Speaker 4: the moves they made at the deadline was kind of like,
Speaker 4: you know what, we're throwing in a tie. This season
Speaker 4: ain't gonna work out. Let's start focusing on next year.
Speaker 4: And to see Joel come back with that big knee
Speaker 4: break song was pretty surprising to me. Needless to say,
Speaker 4: what I do know is Joel just love playing basketball.
Speaker 4: So any chance that Joelle can play basketball, he going
Speaker 4: to play basketball. But I was pretty shocked to see
Speaker 4: Joe come back off the meniscus injury.
Speaker 1: At this point in the season where they're now in.
Speaker 4: The playing spot, and like, I don't necessarily think they
Speaker 4: have the roster to compete at a high level, you know,
Speaker 4: so it could be just.
Speaker 1: Kind of his way of tuning up for the Olympics.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I was shocked by that.
Speaker 4: Nonetheless, he looked good, uh and obviously you can see
Speaker 4: some of his movements are off and like little ginger
Speaker 4: going this way and stopping and different things like that,
Speaker 4: which all takes time. I did see something Joel said
Speaker 4: in his interview which was interesting to me. He said
Speaker 4: this would be the hardest game I had, And I
Speaker 4: disagree with that, because when you come back from injury,
Speaker 4: you kind of have a couple of games where you
Speaker 4: like this and then you dank for like a couple
Speaker 4: two or three games because it's no longer adrenaline, right
Speaker 4: like now you just playing off of and Joel's great,
Speaker 4: So like maybe Joel won't go through the same thing
Speaker 4: I went through and most people go through. And it's
Speaker 4: not even necessarily that his game will go through that,
Speaker 4: because Joe's a scorer. He's going to score the basketball.
Speaker 4: But he'll feel it. And so even if it doesn't
Speaker 4: show to you necessarily, he'll feel it because you kind
Speaker 4: of like hit the spool and then you for me
Speaker 4: and then you start to level out, and and so
Speaker 4: it'll be interesting to see how he's feeling, you know,
Speaker 4: moving on, you know, the next three games or so,
Speaker 4: how that starts to change and where that goes.
Speaker 1: But I was very.
Speaker 4: Very surprised to see them or see him back out
Speaker 4: on the floor. Nonetheless, always great to have the greats
Speaker 4: on the floor, and so good to.
Speaker 1: Have Joe l back.
Speaker 4: Obviously, he brings something to the league that's different than
Speaker 4: what anyone else brings. And you know, uh, he takes
Speaker 4: that team from a non playoff team to a contender
Speaker 4: in a sense. And so shout out to Joe. It's
Speaker 4: good to see him back surprised.
Speaker 1: But that's that. Before we get to the mail back question,
Speaker 1: I have to say.
Speaker 4: Or just speak on Caitlin Clark uh taking down LSU
Speaker 4: coming back forty one and twelve. UH after being defeated
Speaker 4: by that team last year, opportunity to go back to
Speaker 4: the final four, and Kaitlyn came out and got it done,
Speaker 4: dominated the game, took her team back to the final four.
Speaker 4: And the question out there is is she the best
Speaker 4: offensive player college player ever? I mean, I saw Steph
Speaker 4: Curry play in college and so you know Steph was different.
Speaker 4: Needless to say, Caitlyn is a problem. Uh she I
Speaker 4: know there's like this talk of big three in w
Speaker 4: n B A and how she gonna She's gonna be
Speaker 4: really good at a w NBA right away because the
Speaker 4: way she shoots the ball, the way she passes the ball,
Speaker 4: and get everybody involved. She's gonna she's gonna come in
Speaker 4: with a Leah Boston who's also gonna uh take on
Speaker 4: double teams. And if you help off the wrong person
Speaker 4: and then and usually there's someone you can help off
Speaker 4: of on the teams, but once you start helping off
Speaker 4: that person, if I am the Indiana Fever coach, I'm
Speaker 4: going to watch film of the go To State Warriors.
Speaker 4: What do they do when teams double team off non shooters.
Speaker 4: I need to know all of these things going into
Speaker 4: the season because I need to take full advantage of
Speaker 4: Kaitlyn Clark and her abilities and how defense is going
Speaker 4: to react to her.
Speaker 1: And so that was great to watch Yu Khan and
Speaker 1: Yu Khan.
Speaker 4: We had this conversation earlier this year Hilton Armstrong's on
Speaker 4: our staff, Rudy Gay. Rudy Gay was in camp with
Speaker 4: us and we were talking about blue blood's, like who's
Speaker 4: the blue bloods in America? And He's like, Yu kind
Speaker 4: of blue blood? We like, hell no, Rudy, Yukon a
Speaker 4: you know, blue blood. The reality is, if you look
Speaker 4: at Yu Khan's resume, they are definitely in that blue
Speaker 4: blood territory and if you ask me, they're still not
Speaker 4: a blue blood.
Speaker 1: But if they win this championship, y'all are blue blood.
Speaker 4: But both teams Yukon women, Yukon men in the final four,
Speaker 4: as is North Carolina State men and North Carolina State Women.
Speaker 1: I think Yukon is winning it all.
Speaker 4: The way that they're playing on the men's side, I
Speaker 4: think they're winning on I don't see anybody beating them.
Speaker 4: Everybody talking about they will beat the Detroit Pistons, they'll
Speaker 4: they'll probably beat the depleted Detroit Pistons. That's playing like
Speaker 4: seven two way guys, I mean seven G League call
Speaker 4: ups in ten days. But the real Detroit Pistons that
Speaker 4: was at the beginning of the season. You kN not
Speaker 4: beating that team. Sooping still the NBA and that ain't happening.
Speaker 4: But this current version with Isaiah Stewart out and this
Speaker 4: guy out and walk down of his trader and Alec
Speaker 4: BUR's going and you name it, Yeah, they'll probably beat
Speaker 4: those guys.
Speaker 1: Maybe not, but they got a chance.
Speaker 4: But yes, I'm picking Yukon And then shout out to
Speaker 4: young Juju. Juju went out there this season, got it done,
Speaker 4: twenty having the game, took her team to the lead
Speaker 4: eight freshman. I'm looking forward to watching the face of
Speaker 4: women's who as this thing continue on. So shout out
Speaker 4: to jew keep putting the work in, Juw. I love
Speaker 4: the emotion after the game. It should hurt. It should
Speaker 4: hurt because next year when you up there hoisting that trophy,
Speaker 4: you look back on that moment and you felt that pain,
Speaker 4: you went through that pain, and because you went through
Speaker 4: the pain and not around the pain, you get rewarded
Speaker 4: for that. So obviously still got to put the work in.
Speaker 4: I have zero doubt in my mind that Jew gonna
Speaker 4: put the work in. But Juju is a problem. So
Speaker 4: shout out to Jew. Great season. Also great to see
Speaker 4: Page back out there doing what Page does, making big shots,
Speaker 4: big moments. Absolutely lovely to see. Love to see whether
Speaker 4: women's game is going, But shout out to them. I
Speaker 4: was super dope before we get out of here, Jackson,
Speaker 4: you got a few questions.
Speaker 6: For us, Yes, sir, I do. Let's start it out
Speaker 6: with from at Lord Flock. Hey, Draymond, I'm not sure
Speaker 6: if you saw, but Stefan Diggs was just traded from
Speaker 6: the Bills to the Texans for a second round pick.
Speaker 3: What is your take?
Speaker 1: That just happened right now, like it happened when.
Speaker 6: We started recording, basically right when we started recording.
Speaker 4: It's fire. Stefan Diggs is a Hall of Fame wide
Speaker 4: receiver and to get him paired up right now with
Speaker 4: a young CJ. Stroud who just took his team to
Speaker 4: the playoffs. With that defense that the Texans got with
Speaker 4: that head coach. I love it. I love it. Not
Speaker 4: sure how much Stefan Diggs has left in the tank.
Speaker 4: I think Stefan Diggs has a bunch left in the tank.
Speaker 4: But I have seen those questions on uh NFL talk
Speaker 4: shows like what does he have left in the tank
Speaker 4: and blah blah blah Stefan Diggs, I think you know,
Speaker 4: number one, he's he can play in the slot. So
Speaker 4: if you're playing in the slot, he can still go
Speaker 4: be dangerous there. And you know, we know he can
Speaker 4: take the top off. So I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: I think that's fire. But what that also says is
Speaker 4: the Buffalo bills are done every now and then you
Speaker 4: have a window and when that window opens, if you
Speaker 4: don't step through it, it shuts. And that's what just
Speaker 4: happened to Buffalo. They got rid of a bunch of
Speaker 4: key players. They're getting rid of huge weapons, and I
Speaker 4: mean big time weapons. Like so it's over for Buffalo.
Speaker 4: They will return back to NFL purgatory and not be
Speaker 4: that good, and they'll win some games, because they'll win
Speaker 4: some games. But what as great as that is for
Speaker 4: the Texans, they just pluck the guy off an AFC
Speaker 4: team and that AFC team is done. So that's my
Speaker 4: thoughts on that. Not a football expert, don't claim to
Speaker 4: be know a little bit about football. I love football
Speaker 4: a bunch of football, so I think I know a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 1: But that's my take.
Speaker 6: Next one from at Long Long Live Yellow five. If
Speaker 6: Wiggs keeps playing like this, are we back to being
Speaker 6: a title threat?
Speaker 4: I mean, we got to get in the playoffs first,
Speaker 4: so I don't want to get too far ahead of
Speaker 4: ourselves because we got a lot of.
Speaker 1: Work to do just to get into playoffs.
Speaker 4: But once we get into playoffs, I always think we're
Speaker 4: a title threat. With the pieces that we have in
Speaker 4: Florida experience, I don't ever doubt that we're a title threat.
Speaker 4: And we explained that basketball. Wiggs have to play that
Speaker 4: basketball in order for us to be that. So yes,
Speaker 4: for sure, But first things first, let's just get in
Speaker 4: the playoffs first.
Speaker 6: All right, we'll do one more question, but before that,
Speaker 6: just a reminder to everyone to subscribe to the YouTube
Speaker 6: channel YouTube dot com slash at Draymond Green Show. We
Speaker 6: have an amazing interview dropping next week.
Speaker 1: You do not want to miss fire.
Speaker 6: I promise you do not want to miss last question
Speaker 6: from at Asia B. Can Wemby become a top five
Speaker 6: player of all time?
Speaker 1: Can Wemby become a top five player all time?
Speaker 4: That's such a subjective thing because you start getting into
Speaker 4: like Whoop Chamberlain or you know, like people start going
Speaker 4: way back on Bill Russell, like and so I'm not
Speaker 4: going to sit here and talk about the top five
Speaker 4: player all time? Like again with with with with Wemby's
Speaker 4: tools and his love for the game, the sky is
Speaker 4: the limit?
Speaker 1: Uh special special special? Can he be? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean he has the tools. Uh, but that's such
Speaker 4: a far far fetched thing, like top five all time?
Speaker 4: But Winby is a problem and as you all know,
Speaker 4: I don't really.
Speaker 1: I'm not a hater.
Speaker 4: I give credit where credit is due, but it ain't
Speaker 4: easy to get credit for me. But Wimby Wemby is
Speaker 4: a special breed, and so can he be top five?
Speaker 4: I guess technically yes? But what is top five?
Speaker 1: Right? Like?
Speaker 4: My top five is this? Your top five? Is that
Speaker 4: Jackson's top five is here?
Speaker 1: In phase? Top five is over there? Like? Who what
Speaker 1: is the top five? Like? Wimby can be absolutely.
Speaker 4: Special and he can be mentioned when it's all said
Speaker 4: and done, if he does it the right way, which
Speaker 4: I have no doubt he will, he will be mentioned
Speaker 4: with the greats for sure. Top five What is the
Speaker 4: top five that is a rap? On this episode of
Speaker 4: The Draymond Green Show. Always appreciate your questions when we
Speaker 4: are on here on the bur Live app, and definitely
Speaker 4: appreciate you all tuning in if you tuned in live,
Speaker 4: thank you if you're tuning in later because you're getting
Speaker 4: your podcast where you get your podcasts, So thank you,
Speaker 4: We love you, we appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Until next time, it's a rap. Peace,