Speaker 1: The volume. What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the Draymond
Speaker 1: Green Show. This is not quite an episode, but I
Speaker 1: did promise you all that I was going to get
Speaker 1: you my finals prediction, so I wanted to get that
Speaker 1: to you before the finals get started. So here we go. Now,
Speaker 1: as you all know, I'm a little bit long winning
Speaker 1: and I can never just be like bang bang, So
Speaker 1: here you have it.
Speaker 2: But no, honestly, this is a very interesting thing.
Speaker 1: So with my finals prediction, I kind of had this
Speaker 1: final prediction where I'm like, Yo, the Nuggets are playing
Speaker 1: really well, blah blah blah. Then I went back and
Speaker 1: forth like, but the Miami Heat, like it just seems destined,
Speaker 1: Like they were supposed to lose their game against Chicago
Speaker 1: and then they just made it happen, and then they
Speaker 1: were supposed to lose every other series after that, and
Speaker 1: they just made it happen. And so a part of
Speaker 1: it feels like destiny, but a part of it also
Speaker 1: took me to a place that's very interesting and I
Speaker 1: want you all to think about. So this could get
Speaker 1: a little long, so bear with me. Not the episode,
Speaker 1: just this list, So think about this. The guys responsible
Speaker 1: for all the championships in our life. It's a conversation
Speaker 1: I was having with a friend. Larry Bird, Magic, Kareem,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Slash, Dumars, Joe Dumars, Michael Jordan, Haiquin, Do Dream,
Speaker 1: Kobe Shaq, Lebron, d Wade, Steph Klay, Draymond Less Skips,
Speaker 1: Phil Jackson, Greg Popovich, Role's pat Riley, Dumars again, Joe Dumars,
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr, Steve Kerr nine championships, five as a coach
Speaker 1: for as a player, Steve Kerr. Then you have the
Speaker 1: one offs Boston and eight they beat Kobe and Phil,
Speaker 1: which are part of this list, Dallas and eleven beat
Speaker 1: Lebron and d Way and pat Riley which are part
Speaker 1: of this list, Toronto and nineteen which beat Steph Clay
Speaker 1: and I and Steve which are which are all a
Speaker 1: part of this list. And then you got Bucks in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one which are not a part of this list,
Speaker 1: but it's actually a one off. And in Phoenix they
Speaker 1: beat Phoenix, so that is the that's actually the one
Speaker 1: which is interesting that no one on this list one,
Speaker 1: but they also didn't beat anyone on this list. All
Speaker 1: of the one offs have actually beat teams that are
Speaker 1: on this list. So I thought this was a very
Speaker 1: very very interesting year, I mean, excuse me, a very
Speaker 1: very interesting list, which made me start thinking, like, man,
Speaker 1: Boston may not win, I mean, excuse me, Denver may
Speaker 1: not win because they don't have anyone on this list one, two, three,
Speaker 1: four one offs that' said a lot of years. So
Speaker 1: the odds are actually not with Denver. Saw when I
Speaker 1: was going through this whole thing, I'm like, yo, I
Speaker 1: actually may not may need to move off the Denver
Speaker 1: pit and roll with Miami. Miami's playing well, the destiny
Speaker 1: seems to be there. They got the guys or the
Speaker 1: guy who's gotten it done, who's a part of this list.
Speaker 2: It's hard for me to roll with Denver on this.
Speaker 1: So then I started to do the matchups, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, at point guard, you got Jamal Murray and
Speaker 1: Gabe Vincent, Miami kind of does the point guard by
Speaker 1: committee thing. And then after two you got KCP versus
Speaker 1: Max Strus. After three you got Michael Porter Junior versus
Speaker 1: or you can go Max Shreus there and you can
Speaker 1: go Michael Porter Junior, I mean you go Kayla Martin.
Speaker 1: After two, like their positions is kind of all over
Speaker 1: the place. It's not quite like a thing. They just
Speaker 1: played basketball. They put basketball players on the court, they
Speaker 1: played basketball, and they win. That's just what it's been. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I start looking at these matchups. You got
Speaker 1: Jimmy Aaron Gordon, you got Bam, you got Nicola, Yo kids, Joker,
Speaker 1: and like when I looked at the matchups, it's overwhelmingly
Speaker 1: favored Denver. But I feel like if you just go
Speaker 1: and if you just start watching that, you're kind of
Speaker 1: ignoring like what's been going on and very disrespectful to
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat, which has been And so if I'm
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat, I'm like, yeah, y'all, actually all can
Speaker 1: stay on that side, like, don't switch.
Speaker 2: Now, that's the way it's been.
Speaker 1: But it's been this way right, Like you're going through
Speaker 1: these matchups and all that, and I feel like you
Speaker 1: just you.
Speaker 2: Gotta be just making a mistake.
Speaker 1: Like you if you don't feel like you're making a
Speaker 1: mistake picking against the Miami Heat, you don't know basketball.
Speaker 2: You don't understand competition if that's what you do.
Speaker 1: If you're just picking against the Miami Heat, you really
Speaker 1: don't understand competition. And you really like think it's luck,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. You actually think it's luck that
Speaker 1: these guys are doing what they're doing, and it's not luck.
Speaker 2: It's not luck.
Speaker 1: So I went through this whole thing, right, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I gotta roll with Denver in six. But that's just disrespectful.
Speaker 1: It's very disrespectful. So then I'm like, I'm gonna roll
Speaker 1: with Denver in five. And the reason I ended up
Speaker 1: on Denver, I'm gonna tell you why I actually ended
Speaker 1: up on Denver, went through the matchups, did the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Don't want to disrespect the guys who are on the list.
Speaker 1: I don't want to disrespect the Miami Heat and how
Speaker 1: they've been playing. Here's why I picked Denver. Obviously have
Speaker 1: been a better team all year. Den has been one
Speaker 1: of the best teams on it from start to finish.
Speaker 1: I think Denver has the best player in the series.
Speaker 1: And with all due respect to Jimmy, Jimmy's incredible and
Speaker 1: playing incredible.
Speaker 2: We all can agree.
Speaker 1: Nicola Yokich is on some all time great type stuff
Speaker 1: right now. All I mean, he's constantly getting better, he
Speaker 1: makes everyone else better. He's playing absolutely incredible. So I
Speaker 1: got the best player in the series. Miami also is
Speaker 1: going to incorporate Tyler Hero and I'm not sure they're
Speaker 1: going to go I'm not sure they're going to listen
Speaker 1: to what I said last podcast, which is if you
Speaker 1: need to boost and the spark, bring them in, but
Speaker 1: don't just and so that's not till game three. They
Speaker 1: said like he won't be back soon. So that's really
Speaker 1: a non factor. But one key thing that Denver has
Speaker 1: done that has made me say, but Denver is ready
Speaker 1: to win a championship, and it's this. They have not
Speaker 1: fucked around in any of their series. They had opportunities
Speaker 1: to close, they closed.
Speaker 2: They're getting it done.
Speaker 1: They might have lost one of the close out games
Speaker 1: to Phoenix maybe, but I'm not even sure they did that.
Speaker 1: I think it went to two, and then they won
Speaker 1: the next two. So they didn't fuck around like they Okay,
Speaker 1: y'all want to at home, cool home, coming back to
Speaker 1: your house over. Then they they swept the Lakers.
Speaker 2: Then they swept.
Speaker 1: Them, swept like brooms. So le Bron James. Prior episodes,
Speaker 1: I was talking about the know how, like having to
Speaker 1: know how, knowing how to do it.
Speaker 2: Lebron James know how to do it.
Speaker 1: They swept him, not messing around. And when teams do that,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, they focused, they're ready, they're ready to
Speaker 1: win a championship. They're ready to win a championship. They're
Speaker 1: not messing around with these other teams. They're ready to
Speaker 1: win a championship. And so I teeter with this whole thing.
Speaker 1: Then were in five, then run six, but they ready
Speaker 1: to win a championship. I got the Nuggets in fives.
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