Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 2: We are recording this after Game two, the Doves tied
Speaker 2: the series up one to one. Fun night, Let's get
Speaker 2: right into that. Doves beat the Lakers one twenty seven
Speaker 2: to one hundred. Killer Clay Thompson came out and had
Speaker 2: a big night, thirty points on eleven for eighteen, shooting
Speaker 2: at eight for eleven from three. Always very rarely does
Speaker 2: Clay have a really big game, and we lose Steph
Speaker 2: as well. But those two guys, you know, I've you
Speaker 2: see like guys like breaking like records and scoring records
Speaker 2: and stuff. And I always tell guys very like oftentimes
Speaker 2: Stephan Clay don't really break scoring records because usually when
Speaker 2: they are on the verge of doing something special like that,
Speaker 2: we usually win going away, and so then they end
Speaker 2: up not playing again. And like it's been like that
Speaker 2: for years. I'm not even talking about tonight. I'm just
Speaker 2: saying in years past, for instance, Clay has sixty through
Speaker 2: three quarters, most people would then play that fourth quarter
Speaker 2: and get however many more points, right, Like, that's kind
Speaker 2: of been a thing as long as I've been here
Speaker 2: with those two guys, and tonight, you know, Clay got
Speaker 2: off to a great start, continued it on through the night.
Speaker 2: He was very pissed off after last game, and I
Speaker 2: had no doubt in my mind that he would come
Speaker 2: out and have a big game. Clay, as you all
Speaker 2: may or may not know, Clay is from southern California,
Speaker 2: grew up a Lakers fan. Dad played for the Lakers,
Speaker 2: dad works for the Lakers and tea on TV now.
Speaker 2: His dad is the great Michael Thompson, for those that
Speaker 2: don't know, was the number one picking the draft out
Speaker 2: of Minnesota. One championship or a couple championships with the Lakers.
Speaker 2: And so I said all that to say, this really
Speaker 2: means a lot to Clay. Obviously, it means a lot
Speaker 2: to all of us. We are playing the playoffs versus
Speaker 2: the Lakers, Lebron, that whole thing. But you know, there
Speaker 2: are just some circumstances that makes things. I always tell
Speaker 2: you all, like the whole cliche of oh, every game
Speaker 2: is the same as bullshit, Like that's not true. And
Speaker 2: so there's just certain things that may make a game
Speaker 2: or series mean a little more. And I think this
Speaker 2: is one of those with Clay and on the flip
Speaker 2: side of that. No one ever really talks about the
Speaker 2: other side of that coin, which is you get overly emotional,
Speaker 2: you start pressing. Sometimes you know you want it so bad,
Speaker 2: and sometimes when you want something so bad, it doesn't
Speaker 2: go your way. And I thought one big thing for
Speaker 2: Clay today was he just came in the game. He
Speaker 2: settled right in, I mean settled right in the game,
Speaker 2: was kind of at peace, and things flowed this way
Speaker 2: from the get go. Didn't want it so much, although
Speaker 2: we know he wants it so much, and I thought
Speaker 2: that was a really big deal. He was super patient
Speaker 2: and got the shots that he wanted to get and
Speaker 2: they went down, which was huge for us. Steph finished
Speaker 2: the game with twenty and twelve twelve assists, which was
Speaker 2: his most assist in the playoff game since twoenty and fourteen.
Speaker 1: I blame me for that being his.
Speaker 2: Most assists in the playoff game since twenty fourteen. Nonetheless,
Speaker 2: I thought he was absolutely incredible. Only had twenty points.
Speaker 2: Only had twenty points, but I thought the way he
Speaker 2: controlled the tempo of the game, took care of the basketball,
Speaker 2: got us into everything we wanted to get into was huge.
Speaker 1: That played right before the half.
Speaker 2: When I got the dunk, he almost like invited the trap,
Speaker 2: like he saw them come in to trap them, and
Speaker 2: it's like a second there where it looks like he's
Speaker 2: about to get off the ball and he just holds
Speaker 2: it and like invited it almost and got me a dunk.
Speaker 2: But just I'm more so speaking on that and just
Speaker 2: saying like how poised he was with everything, like super
Speaker 2: under control, knew exactly what he wanted to get to.
Speaker 2: And I thought it was absolutely incredible to watch Steph
Speaker 2: play the floor game that he played tonight.
Speaker 1: It was huge.
Speaker 2: Shout out to my man j Mike Jamichael Green had
Speaker 2: a huge game, fifteen points.
Speaker 1: He got the start. Looon was a little under the
Speaker 1: other today.
Speaker 2: So Loon only played maybe twelve minutes or something, which
Speaker 2: you go in the film, you walk in the gym
Speaker 2: and you see cavon Looney like.
Speaker 1: Whoa.
Speaker 2: Me and Steph looked at each other like, yo, whoa,
Speaker 2: Now we need Loon. And so to find that out
Speaker 2: literally when we're at the gym preparing for the game,
Speaker 2: it throws a ranch into things. And you know, we
Speaker 2: had a conversation with coach. Coach asks me and Steph,
Speaker 2: what do we think as far as who started, we
Speaker 2: both like, Yeah, J Mike for sure. Like J Mike
Speaker 2: gonna bring some toughness. He obviously can space the floor.
Speaker 2: He just he played in last game so he kind
Speaker 2: of got the feel of the series already.
Speaker 1: J Mike for sure.
Speaker 2: And J Mike finished with fifteen points and two assists
Speaker 2: in thirteen minutes. Earlier in the year, uh in February,
Speaker 2: when J Mike was just getting back from injury, we
Speaker 2: spoke about J Mike on the podcast, very similar to tonight,
Speaker 2: I'll let you hear that shout out to Jamichael Green.
Speaker 1: J Mike came out splashing.
Speaker 2: From everywhere, four to four, from three to five to five,
Speaker 2: from the field, fourteen points. I'm looking forward to Jamichael
Speaker 2: continuing to get more and more minutes. I really think
Speaker 2: he'll He's going to be a huge help to us,
Speaker 2: and he's starting to really show why it was so
Speaker 2: important that we wanted to go and get him, because
Speaker 2: he brings a certain physicality to our team that we
Speaker 2: need and a certain dog mindset. So yeah, and listening
Speaker 2: to that, it's along those same lines we needed J Mike.
Speaker 2: He brought the physicality from the gate which we needed
Speaker 2: to meet force with force, and starting this game, he
Speaker 2: brought physicality and he knocked shots down and we all
Speaker 2: know how capable he is of shooting the basketball. He
Speaker 2: was huge tonight and we're gonna continue to need him
Speaker 2: as this series goes on. That's a very big team.
Speaker 2: They have a lot of size, a lot of lane.
Speaker 2: J Mike was huge for us. I'm happy he had
Speaker 2: the game that he had, and most importantly, I'm happy
Speaker 2: he stayed locked in.
Speaker 1: You know, so many times you see guys let.
Speaker 2: Go of the rope when they're not playing, and you know,
Speaker 2: we've been telling him all year, like hey man, we're
Speaker 2: gonna need you and we just need you to stay
Speaker 2: ready because it happens like this every year where you're
Speaker 2: gonna need guys that you may not have leaned on
Speaker 2: as much all year, you're gonna need them in the
Speaker 2: most important moment since tonight was one of those, nice
Speaker 2: especially with Loun going down and JA Mike answered the bell.
Speaker 2: So shout out to J Mike. Let's keep it going,
Speaker 2: my brother. Y'all make sure y'all show that man some love,
Speaker 2: because it's not easy going from a guy who's played,
Speaker 2: you know, throughout his career and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: you're not playing much true professional way to stay locked
Speaker 2: in j Mike, that was huge and then yours truly
Speaker 2: had eleven, eleven and nine. Man, it would have been
Speaker 2: nice to get a triple double. Huh, another playoff triple
Speaker 2: double would have been nice, and saying that we had
Speaker 2: the game under our control and I was not about
Speaker 2: to go out there and try to chase after a
Speaker 2: triple double. Doing things like that usually doesn't end well.
Speaker 2: And if you're supposed to get a triple double, you
Speaker 2: will get a triple double and it'll happen.
Speaker 1: So I'm not worried about that at all.
Speaker 2: My job on defense tonight was to guard a d
Speaker 2: which is never an easy job as always a tall task.
Speaker 2: You know, got him to miss some shots with you know,
Speaker 2: just really wanted to make sure I was getting a
Speaker 2: contest and if he hit shots, you have to live
Speaker 2: with that. Ad is a great player, as we all know.
Speaker 2: Future Hall of Famer, NBA Champion, Perennial All Star, you
Speaker 2: name it, both ends of the floor. Absolutely incredible player,
Speaker 2: and I think my mindset was just to make it
Speaker 2: tough on him. No secret sauce, no like, It's just
Speaker 2: a make him take tough shots. If you can make
Speaker 2: a guy take tough shots, you have to live with
Speaker 2: the results because a guy like that, like you don't
Speaker 2: shut down great players like Anthony Davis. You just tried
Speaker 2: to make them take tough shots, and you live with
Speaker 2: the results. And I think we did a lot better
Speaker 2: job on him to night. He finished with eleven seven
Speaker 2: and four. Last game he had thirty twenty three and five.
Speaker 2: So it was obviously well known that we needed to
Speaker 2: do a much better job on Ad coming into this game.
Speaker 1: And I can't take all the credit for that.
Speaker 2: So when your guarding a guy like that, it's a
Speaker 2: complete team effort, and you know, our guys did the
Speaker 2: job collectively, and we were able to get a d
Speaker 2: to have a tough night. Bron had it going. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure what Bron finished with, but he had it going.
Speaker 2: He had it going from three He hit the three
Speaker 2: off off the backboard with the shot clock running down
Speaker 2: from about thirty thirty five feet out or something. Absolutely
Speaker 2: had it gone. I was was great to see us
Speaker 2: whether that storm. He came out extremely aggressive and we
Speaker 2: weathered the storm and was able to get stops when
Speaker 2: we needed it and open the game up. But you know,
Speaker 2: we're going to continue to expect to see a very
Speaker 2: aggressive Lebron James, especially heading back to LA and Crypto Arena.
Speaker 2: So you know, we'll be prepared to try to meet
Speaker 2: that force with force and go on this road and try.
Speaker 1: To get it done. And that's gonna be a big key.
Speaker 2: As far as the Lakers adjustments go, I thought, you know,
Speaker 2: or we made adjustments as well. I mean, the one
Speaker 2: adjustment that was clearly obvious was you know, me guard
Speaker 2: and a D what will you know? You always when
Speaker 2: you're in these playoff series, you always try to figure
Speaker 2: out like what will the other team's adjustment be? You know,
Speaker 2: because this as I've told y'all this, when you get
Speaker 2: in these series, man, it's it's a game of adjustments.
Speaker 1: It's a chess match to coach.
Speaker 2: You know, coach throws pawd out there, not necessarily throwing
Speaker 2: the queen out there, but we may throw a pound
Speaker 2: out there to get taken, may even throw a rook
Speaker 2: or a bitch ab out there at times to get taken.
Speaker 2: Ultimately trying to set up the board. And that is
Speaker 2: what these playoffs be. You saw in full force last
Speaker 2: series when it was the Kings and Mike Brown, who
Speaker 2: knows us very well, and him and Steve playing chess,
Speaker 2: and and one as a basketball fan, absolutely fun to watch,
Speaker 2: just like the chess pieces and the moves that were
Speaker 2: being made. I absolutely enjoyed it. And and most importantly
Speaker 2: for me, I learned. I learned from it. You watch
Speaker 2: these coaches do this, I learned from it. I've been
Speaker 2: learning so much from Steve this year. It's been a
Speaker 2: real pleasure and playing for Steve and learning not only
Speaker 2: the x's and those things, but Steve has taught me
Speaker 2: more about winning. Like I think I've always been a
Speaker 2: winning my whole life, but Steve Kerr has won at
Speaker 2: a level that not many people in NBA history, like
Speaker 2: Steve Curry is along the lines almost of Bill Russell
Speaker 2: when it comes to winning in the NBA. I think
Speaker 2: Bill Russell finished with what eleven rings in total or
Speaker 2: something like that. Obviously Steve's aren't all as a player
Speaker 2: or but he's got nine rings, like He's literally up
Speaker 2: there with Bill Russell, like and so one of the
Speaker 2: greatest winners we've ever seen. And I have learned so
Speaker 2: much from him about winning, how to win, how do
Speaker 2: you go about it.
Speaker 1: It's no coincidence. It is not a coincidence.
Speaker 2: And I'm thankful for Steve and his brilliance and most important,
Speaker 2: his winning mentality and winning ways, because just like losers
Speaker 2: rub off on people, winners rub off on people.
Speaker 1: And We've had.
Speaker 2: The luxury of having one of the best winners in
Speaker 2: NBA history rolling with us. And I'm trying to learn
Speaker 2: as much as I can for it as long as
Speaker 2: I can, because it doesn't only help you in basketball.
Speaker 1: Winning is winning in anything, and it'll help you in life.
Speaker 2: It helps me in life, and so I'm very thankful
Speaker 2: for Steve and just being able to watch him do
Speaker 2: this thing. It's absolutely incredible. And Suarez Game three goals. Obviously,
Speaker 2: we're headed the Crypto Arena. I expect it to be
Speaker 2: a crazy environment. Number One, you know the star is
Speaker 2: going to be out Steph Curry versus Lebron James at
Speaker 2: Crypto Arena on a Saturday. Stars will be out and
Speaker 2: you gotta love it. You gotta embrace it. That's the
Speaker 2: big stage. Got to embrace it. Know they're going to
Speaker 2: come out just lost bout twenty seven points. They're going
Speaker 2: to come out bouncing off the wall. They're going to
Speaker 2: come out throwing blows, and you have to stand in
Speaker 2: there and take that first blow, and you may have
Speaker 2: to stand in there and take another one, but you
Speaker 2: more importantly, you gotta.
Speaker 1: Make sure you're responding and not getting out a character.
Speaker 2: And I think that'll be big for us, as we
Speaker 2: had to crypto in Los Angeles and try to take
Speaker 2: care of business. The goal is always you have to
Speaker 2: go get one, be that we lost home court advantage,
Speaker 2: but I'll not get greedy and try to get two.
Speaker 1: But let's start with one first.
Speaker 2: Let's start with one on Saturday, looking forward to that game,
Speaker 2: expecting an extremely physical Lakers team ready to go back
Speaker 2: in front of their home fans. So looking forward to that. Everybody,
Speaker 2: make sure y'all locked into that game. And now, as
Speaker 2: we said last time, congratulations Joel Embiid on winning the MVP.
Speaker 1: Joe Well, mb I was so wrong on last podcast.
Speaker 2: I said Joel probably won't come back to Game three because.
Speaker 1: They stole one, and like.
Speaker 2: I was so wrong, I was right though, which is
Speaker 2: I still don't think he should have come back. He
Speaker 2: played twenty seven minutes and he was not as assertive
Speaker 2: on the offensive end as Joel normally is that's due
Speaker 2: to a couple of things. Number One, he could possibly
Speaker 2: not a well we know he's not one hundred percent healthy.
Speaker 2: But also you come back your team just won, and
Speaker 2: you kind of feel like you don't want to get
Speaker 2: in the way of that.
Speaker 1: Another thing, the emotions of winning the MVP. It's tough.
Speaker 2: And another reason why I would have kept Joel out
Speaker 2: of the lineup if I was the Philadelphia seventy six
Speaker 2: ers is because now Joel's going to go home and
Speaker 2: he's going to be handed the MVP trophy right before
Speaker 2: the game, and that changes the emotions of the game.
Speaker 2: Like I've been a part of those games where a
Speaker 2: guy get an MVP trophy on Steph Curry, and it
Speaker 2: just changes your emotions like not him, like everybody, Like
Speaker 2: it's just like whoa, Like you have the super big moment,
Speaker 2: like winning the MVP is insane, and you have like
Speaker 2: this super big moment and then you're.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, we're gonna go play a basketball game. Now.
Speaker 2: It's not easy. It's very hard. It's very, very very hard,
Speaker 2: and so now they'll be faced with that. But another
Speaker 2: reason I didn't think they would would have or should
Speaker 2: have brought Joel back in game two.
Speaker 1: It's just because like you did your job, you won one.
Speaker 2: That's three or four more days of rest that he
Speaker 2: could have and then coming back home. Yes, you do
Speaker 2: have the crazy emotions with winning MVP, but now you know,
Speaker 2: with a guy that's coming off an injury, he may
Speaker 2: need that extra boost of emotions, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: Like and so you know, to kind of get them
Speaker 2: over the hump and saying all of that, I expect
Speaker 2: Joel and Be to have a super dominant Game three.
Speaker 2: But give credit to the Celtics. Man they responded. I
Speaker 2: knew they would respond that way. They're they're you know,
Speaker 2: they're a team that's shooting, gunning to get a championship,
Speaker 2: and they were locked in. Jason Tatum has seven points
Speaker 2: and they won by thirty. Jaylen Brown came out getting
Speaker 2: it done. Malcolm Brogden has been getting it done. Got
Speaker 2: to give a lot of credit to Malcolm Brogden. Whateverbody
Speaker 2: stepped up, and like I said, Marcus Smart, everybody stepped up,
Speaker 2: and that was to be expected. They also did a
Speaker 2: great job of containing James Harden. James Harden had a
Speaker 2: very tough night and in turn, their team had a
Speaker 2: tough night, So looking forward to seeing how that one
Speaker 2: goes on the next go around.
Speaker 1: Next game, Jackson, when is that next game?
Speaker 2: I know?
Speaker 1: You know, Uh game is Friday, and.
Speaker 2: He gonna give up as if he don't, as if
Speaker 2: it's not locked into his calendar. Come on, now, we know,
Speaker 2: we all know Jackson is a big town Celtics fan.
Speaker 2: And this guy just gave us because I called him
Speaker 2: out on knowing when the game is, He's going to
Speaker 2: act like he did not know when the game Friday.
Speaker 1: Which is tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Wow, these days are flying by. Wow, Friday tomorrow. All right, Well,
Speaker 2: when you all hear this the here's tonight, Jackson, they'll
Speaker 2: hear it.
Speaker 1: I mean they'll hear Friday. Oh, well you'll hear this Friday,
Speaker 1: so today today.
Speaker 2: But I'm looking forward to Philly going home and seeing
Speaker 2: how they respond to losing Game two the way they did.
Speaker 2: Teams usually come back ready to go after losing a
Speaker 2: playoff game like that.
Speaker 1: Like I said, as.
Speaker 2: I'm expecting the Los Angeles Lakers as well, but that
Speaker 2: serious is shaping out to be a going and of
Speaker 2: course we expected that, so looking forward to that. Also
Speaker 2: seeing looking forward to see how Joel bounce back and
Speaker 2: can he get over that hump. And then you have
Speaker 2: the Knicks in Miami headed to Miami, expecting to see
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler back out there a little differently than these
Speaker 2: other two. Miami may have given Game two away and
Speaker 2: not like punted like gave it away like probably should
Speaker 2: have won. Yet Jaylen Brunson showed up and they had
Speaker 2: a big game and they won Game two. And you
Speaker 2: gotta get those guys a lot of credit. They're going now,
Speaker 2: they got it. Now they gotta go get one on
Speaker 2: the road. Big weekend in Miami. Also F one be
Speaker 2: interesting to see if guys get caught up and is
Speaker 2: moving into Miami streets. It's already a lot in Miami.
Speaker 2: Got F one weekend. It's a lot going on. Carbone
Speaker 2: major food group. They've gone and taken over Miami. But
Speaker 2: they New York guys. Are they gonna have the New
Speaker 2: York Knicks out in that car Bone beaching? Ah, we
Speaker 2: shall see if guys can stay locked in. But that
Speaker 2: series is tied up at one to one. Jackson had
Speaker 2: this stat for me. He said, the Warriors made his
Speaker 2: sixteen straight teams that dropped game one at home and
Speaker 2: then won game two, and he said, why do I
Speaker 2: think that is? And I'm here to tell you I
Speaker 2: have no idea, I have no clue why that is,
Speaker 2: no idea, But what I will tell you is let's
Speaker 2: go win game one on their court. And that's the
Speaker 2: most important thing until next show. Until next time. That's
Speaker 2: a raph from the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: Peace