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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: They say we may have a series. Minnesota Timberwolves take
Speaker 1: Game four on the road. They are now headed back
Speaker 1: to Minnesota, which I was just recently informed when I
Speaker 1: was there that it's called like the state of Lakes
Speaker 1: or Minneapolis is like the city of Lakes or a
Speaker 1: state of a thousand lakes or something of that nature.
Speaker 1: And it threw me for a loop because obviously I'm
Speaker 1: from the great State of Michigan and we are the
Speaker 1: great Lake State, and so I just didn't know like
Speaker 1: anyone had anything about their state that was anything about lakes.
Speaker 1: And so I gained a little more love for the
Speaker 1: state of Minnesota because y'all a lot like us. So yeah,
Speaker 1: but they are headed back to Minnesota for Game five,
Speaker 1: and we will get into that. We were also touched
Speaker 1: on the Celtic sweeping the Pacers and what was a
Speaker 1: close series.
Speaker 3: Yet not so close.
Speaker 1: All we will talk tylu and his extension and last
Speaker 1: but not least, the great Bill Walden Rest in peace.
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Speaker 1: Thank you to all our los subscribers. We appreciate you
Speaker 1: as well. T Willves beat the Mavericks one five to
Speaker 1: one hundred in Dallas for Game four. It's funny because
Speaker 1: on air, I remember hearing somebody say yesterday, like one
Speaker 1: hundred points probably won't win you the game, and t
Speaker 1: Wolves get the one oh five. Dallas only gets to
Speaker 1: one hundred and one oh five happens to be enough.
Speaker 1: Ant Man comes back with Avengers twenty nine to nine
Speaker 1: and ten lovin for twenty five, shooting two five from
Speaker 1: the three, six turnovers, which we'll get into that a
Speaker 1: little bit as well, not ant Man's turnovers, but the
Speaker 1: turnovers as a whole for Minnesota. Kat came back with
Speaker 1: Avengers twenty five points, five rebounds in thirty minutes, battle
Speaker 1: and foul trouble most of the half, first half and
Speaker 1: pretty much most of the game. However, finished now for
Speaker 1: thirteen shooting four for five from three.
Speaker 3: Also ended up filing out the game.
Speaker 1: Luca another triple double twenty eight ten and fifteen seven
Speaker 1: to twenty one from field, four to four, eleven from three.
Speaker 1: Kyrie didn't have a Kyrie Irving type night with sixteen points,
Speaker 1: four assists, six for eighteen from the field, one for
Speaker 1: six from three, and so there you have it. In
Speaker 1: the words of the great Shaquille O'Neal, in the words
Speaker 1: of the great Childs Barkley, the stars gotta play well,
Speaker 1: and that's one side of the story doesn't quite tell
Speaker 1: the whole story. However, it does say tell one side. Now,
Speaker 1: if you look at this, they ended up outscoring Luca
Speaker 1: and Kyrie, Cada ended up scored. I was scoring Luca
Speaker 1: and Kyrie fifty four to forty four. And if I
Speaker 1: am the Dallas Mavericks, you can leave that game feeling
Speaker 1: a few different ways.
Speaker 3: You can leave that game feeling like Luca.
Speaker 1: Didn't play well, Kyrie didn't play well, PJ. Washington didn't
Speaker 1: play well, and we still had a chance down the
Speaker 1: stretch to win the game, only lost the game by five.
Speaker 3: You could look at it that way.
Speaker 1: If you're a Minnesota you can look at it and say,
Speaker 1: we've been in this position each game this series could
Speaker 1: easily be flipped the opposite way, and we finally made
Speaker 1: the necessary plays we needed to make down the stretch.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, they scored thirty points off
Speaker 1: our turnovers.
Speaker 3: If we cut those back, we're smooth selling. Now.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of ifs, and if the fifth we'd
Speaker 1: all be drunk right now. However, if I'm leaving that game,
Speaker 1: my thoughts would be Minnesota always have a chance because
Speaker 1: at Man's demeanor and at man played last night the
Speaker 1: way that he that we've grown the customer and man
Speaker 1: plan not in the first three games of this series.
Speaker 1: The first three games of this series, it almost looked
Speaker 1: like and was sick or something like and like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be one of those Instagram doctors or face,
Speaker 1: so like take this with a grain of salt.
Speaker 3: But to me, it just looked like he was sick,
Speaker 3: Like he was gassed.
Speaker 1: Like for the majority part of all three games, he
Speaker 1: was gassed, Like didn't wasn't playing with the same force,
Speaker 1: was selling for a lot of threes, like it wasn't
Speaker 1: getting downhill at all.
Speaker 3: And that's not the ant Man that we've grown to know.
Speaker 1: And I heard him saying his postgame press conference last night,
Speaker 1: he said, you know, I just wasn't running to the
Speaker 1: corner and not getting the ball or shining away from
Speaker 1: the ball. And I heard him say that, and at
Speaker 1: Man strikes me as someone that hey, he's never going
Speaker 1: to make an excuse, So he's never going to come
Speaker 1: out and be like, yo, I was sick. If somebody
Speaker 1: on their staff come out and say sick, our hell
Speaker 1: gonna break lose, because then they got to deal with him.
Speaker 3: And so I just don't.
Speaker 1: He doesn't strike me as he's not an excuse maker,
Speaker 1: like he is a leader.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 1: He's a young guy who wants it, and we you know,
Speaker 1: we've talked about that all along, and so he just
Speaker 1: doesn't strike me as someone who'd come out and make
Speaker 1: an excuse. However, if you were watching the same game
Speaker 1: I was watching, he just didn't look the same. And
Speaker 1: when he came out and said last night, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I was shining away from the ball. I was just
Speaker 1: running to the corner, that's just him taking the blame
Speaker 1: on himself. Like, come on, put place all the blame here.
Speaker 1: Don't go blame my guys. Don't go blame cat, don't
Speaker 1: go blame Rudy Gobert. Place all the blame here. So
Speaker 1: I was running to the corner, hiding from the ball.
Speaker 1: And man, ain't never gonna be somebody that run to
Speaker 1: the corner and hide from.
Speaker 3: The ball.
Speaker 1: As they, as the young fellas say, he running up
Speaker 1: the chimney for the smoke. He ain't running to the corner.
Speaker 1: And like hiding from the ball. I've seen guys do
Speaker 1: that in this league. Superstars do that in this league.
Speaker 1: He don't strike me as one of those that's just
Speaker 1: going to run to the corner and sit there because
Speaker 1: of what may go wrong. Don't strike me as that.
Speaker 1: That ain't who he is. So I ain't rolling with that.
Speaker 1: And to me, it just looked like something was off.
Speaker 1: Lown's win was a little off. Didn't have that same
Speaker 1: burst that he had last night. Like you saw it
Speaker 1: right away last night. He got that ball in transittion boom,
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, he here today, right like he here.
Speaker 1: And when he did that, it also jolted their team.
Speaker 1: You could also see them all of a sudden, he
Speaker 1: went from like this to like, oh, we're here, because
Speaker 1: that is.
Speaker 3: Their emotional leader.
Speaker 1: Obviously he's their best player, but he's also their emotional leader.
Speaker 1: He's also their leader wear a lot. He wears a
Speaker 1: lot of hats for that team. And yeah, that's just
Speaker 1: not a guy that's going to do that. So everybody
Speaker 1: poked their chest back out. Kat continues his streak of
Speaker 1: playing awful in the first half, comes out with his
Speaker 1: chest poked out in the second half. A couple of
Speaker 1: drives to the rim, layup, another drive to the rim,
Speaker 1: layup sweet baseline, and one then hit the three right,
Speaker 1: So you work inside out. Coaches have always told me, like,
Speaker 1: you want to play the game inside out. You never
Speaker 1: want to play the game outside and you want to
Speaker 1: play the game inside out. You start in, you work
Speaker 1: your way out. You build a rhythm in, work your
Speaker 1: way out. The rhythm carries over. They've been playing the
Speaker 1: game outside in with a huge size advantage, so not
Speaker 1: taking away that, you're not taking advantage of that size advantage.
Speaker 1: So if you can't take advantage of the size disparity,
Speaker 1: then the size just comes a liability because you're definitely
Speaker 1: not fast enough on.
Speaker 3: The other end to keep up with those guys.
Speaker 1: So if you're not going to punish them on the
Speaker 1: offensive end for being that small, then the size is
Speaker 1: kind of off for nothing.
Speaker 3: And for three and a half games, that's exactly what
Speaker 3: we saw.
Speaker 1: In the first quarter yesterday, Minnesota outscored Dallas in the
Speaker 1: paint fourteen to two. Second quarter, Dallas even that out.
Speaker 1: Now they didn't even the total out the second quarter
Speaker 1: was just even A man ended up in foul trouble
Speaker 1: in the second quarter, Rudy go Bert ended up in
Speaker 1: fil trouble in the second quarter, Kat ended up in
Speaker 1: foul trouble. All of them was in foul trouble in
Speaker 1: the first half, and those numbers even out the second
Speaker 1: half started. They came right back out and you can
Speaker 1: tell that their game plan was, we're not shooting many threes,
Speaker 1: we're getting to the basket. In turn, at Man goes
Speaker 1: two for five from three. He's been taking eleven threes,
Speaker 1: twelve threes. Kat goes four to five from three. He's
Speaker 1: been taking nine threes, eight threes. He goes four to five,
Speaker 1: and the first one doesn't come until he's been going
Speaker 1: to the basket and getting whatever you want it. Now,
Speaker 1: I am not of the group that thinks Cat shouldn't
Speaker 1: shoot threes. Kat's a great shooter if you can do
Speaker 1: something as well as he can shoot the basketball, shoot
Speaker 1: the basketball. However, the slump that he was in, I
Speaker 1: think over the last six games or something before prior
Speaker 1: to last night.
Speaker 3: He was four for thirty two.
Speaker 1: At that point, that you're shooting that bad and you're
Speaker 1: playing against a team that you actually have an advantage
Speaker 1: on if you're going to post. Yeah, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: stop shooting, but you can't lead with the three. And
Speaker 1: Cat made that adjustment and he played his best game
Speaker 1: of the series.
Speaker 3: Now I'll tell you what something that I.
Speaker 1: Do when I am in these playoff series and I
Speaker 1: face elimination, and because sometimes this stuff is just mind games,
Speaker 1: like is mind tricks. Sometimes you got a fool yourself.
Speaker 1: It's funny because Math text me last night right when
Speaker 1: Luca got into it with Kyle Anderson, and Math's like, look,
Speaker 1: Luca's just does like Luca just finds stuff to get
Speaker 1: himself going.
Speaker 3: And I'm like.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and you can clearly see it because yes, it
Speaker 1: was a close out game. Yes, all that dollars don't
Speaker 1: believe that Timberwolds can beat them, and.
Speaker 3: So they were kind of just like going through the motions.
Speaker 1: And I won't like say they weren't playing hard because
Speaker 1: it's the conference finers, like they but it wasn't the
Speaker 1: intensity level that you thought you'd see. And Luca immediately
Speaker 1: like was getting feisty at a few people, and you
Speaker 1: can tell he's just trying to bring himself up. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I kind of have this thing where we go through,
Speaker 1: you know, say we down in the series. I'm wearing
Speaker 1: all black, probably some black forces, and that's that why
Speaker 1: it's number one. I don't need to waste any time
Speaker 1: thinking about an outfit. We got a game to play.
Speaker 1: Number two, I can care less how I walk into
Speaker 1: this arena looking. I need to win some games so
Speaker 1: we don't get eliminated. Number three, I'm in all black sweatsuit,
Speaker 1: not the best looking black sweatsuit, some black forces, some
Speaker 1: black glasses. I'm going to war. Like this ain't about
Speaker 1: how I look in the tunnel. I'm going to war.
Speaker 1: I don't got time for none of that. And so
Speaker 1: I think number one Cat should probably take a page
Speaker 1: out of that book, like Cat be fresh. I ain't
Speaker 1: got to give it to him. He's been putting his
Speaker 1: fist together for the last few years. I gotta give
Speaker 1: it to him. But sometimes it just ain't time to
Speaker 1: think about that. And like that's something that I do,
Speaker 1: like when our back is really against the wall. And
Speaker 1: quite honestly, I can't remember how how it's maybe failed
Speaker 1: me once or twice, but it usually comes through for
Speaker 1: me because it's just winning is a mindset. Winning is
Speaker 1: a mentality. Winning isn't an X or O. Winning is
Speaker 1: a mentality. And I just want to remind myself and
Speaker 1: be sure that the moment I step out of this
Speaker 1: room or out of my house or the moment I
Speaker 1: step out of the car off this bus, I got
Speaker 1: one thing on my mind. That's how I'm going to war.
Speaker 1: I'm going to rob somebody for what they think is
Speaker 1: theirs and I think it's mine. And so that's the
Speaker 1: demeanor that Minnesota got to have, Like, yeah, you got one.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to get swept. But guess what now, Minnesota
Speaker 1: not going to have the same intensity that they had
Speaker 1: in Game four to start Game five. Now, I think
Speaker 1: they'll be happy to get back home. They'll have some energy,
Speaker 1: for sure. There is nothing like facing the sweep. Nobody
Speaker 1: wants to get swept. Think about its Shack said, I
Speaker 1: spent swept five times in my career. People can name
Speaker 1: off the amount of I saw CP on ESPN the
Speaker 1: other night, like I've been swept one time in my career.
Speaker 1: Named it off right like that. People remember being swept,
Speaker 1: and people keep tracking that. So nobody wants to be
Speaker 1: the team that didn't win a game in a series
Speaker 1: like that sucks, man. And so they came out how
Speaker 1: we expected them to come out, feisty, chippy.
Speaker 3: You saw Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 1: I told you I love watching the games within the game, man,
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert, Chuck gott Read a couple of times just
Speaker 1: running down the court boom boom, Luca a couple of
Speaker 1: times boom.
Speaker 3: Gafferd boom.
Speaker 1: I said, Oh, he's setting the tone. I see it.
Speaker 1: I respect it. Nobody will give them credit for that
Speaker 1: because people don't watch the game. Within the game, you
Speaker 1: know what they saw man, Kay had twenty five and
Speaker 1: Man had twenty nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they gotta do that.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, not taking away from them what
Speaker 1: those guys did, but you gotta set a tone, and
Speaker 1: I thought ant Man definitely set the tone offensively. Jaden
Speaker 1: McDaniels and Rudy Gobert set the tone defensively. Kyle Anderson
Speaker 1: came in and took that to another level. Jaden McDaniel's
Speaker 1: was all over Kyrie. Kyrie never was able to get
Speaker 1: it going. That's also a matchup that Kyrie hasn't seen
Speaker 1: much of, so ky is gonna have to make that adjustment.
Speaker 1: Kay is a wizard. I have no doubt that he'll
Speaker 1: be able to make the adjustment. But Jaden McDaniels and
Speaker 1: Rudy go Bear set a tone. Rudy like, Nah, you
Speaker 1: ain't just running down the court getting a free run.
Speaker 3: Boom nah.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Scott Foster and Molloy Billy Kennedy,
Speaker 1: they was letting it go.
Speaker 3: They was letting it go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those guys ended up in foul trouble, but I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, they could have caught way more files
Speaker 1: than the foul trouble than those guys ended up and
Speaker 1: they letting it go. It's an elimination game. You going
Speaker 1: for a sweep. Don't call tiki tax stuff. I saw
Speaker 1: a few people like, oh, Scott Foster, Scott Foster's there.
Speaker 3: We know what time it is? Yeah, we do know
Speaker 3: what time it is.
Speaker 1: Scott Foster there, He ain't calling all that ticky tech stuff.
Speaker 1: That's what time it is. Ain't no TICKI tach gonna
Speaker 1: be called. I was Scott.
Speaker 3: And by the way, you ain't gonna get a much complaining.
Speaker 1: Because you know what you're gonna get with Scott. Told
Speaker 1: y'all Scott one of my favorites. Because I know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get. I don't have to guess. You know,
Speaker 1: some referees coming to the game, they act like they
Speaker 1: cool with you. You think y'all cool. You say something
Speaker 1: on boom like yo, I just had a full conversation
Speaker 1: with you, bro, how that happened? Like how we end
Speaker 1: up there? I just have full conversation with you through
Speaker 1: the game, end of the game. We have full conversations.
Speaker 1: And then you just hit me with a tech that fast,
Speaker 1: Like why you fake like that? You ain't getting that
Speaker 1: from Scott. You say hello to Scott's Hey, Draymond, how
Speaker 1: you doing. I'm great, Scott? How about you? I'm great,
Speaker 1: Draymond is good to see you. Good to see you
Speaker 1: to Scott. Family doing well. Family's great, Scott. How about
Speaker 1: you great? All right, Scott, have a go and you
Speaker 1: have a go on too, Dremond. And then I know
Speaker 1: exactly what I'm getting from there.
Speaker 3: Every single time.
Speaker 1: Don't come up to me on no bullshit, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tex you. You continue, I'm gonna throw you out.
Speaker 3: It's just that simple.
Speaker 1: You got something you want to talk about, great, come
Speaker 1: on over here, let's talk about it.
Speaker 3: Tell me what you think. I'll tell you what I saw.
Speaker 3: That's that. We ain't gotta go back and forth about it.
Speaker 3: You could say something back like, oh, Scott, I'll just
Speaker 3: checked it all right? Cool? I got you.
Speaker 1: But if you go the wrong way he gonna tex you,
Speaker 1: so you know what you're getting with Scott. So I
Speaker 1: love to see Scott coming. Actually I am not of
Speaker 1: the bunch that's like, oh man, Scott here. Oh like No,
Speaker 1: I actually like.
Speaker 3: Because you're gonna get the real and you know what
Speaker 3: you're getting.
Speaker 1: So anyway, they let a lot go and Rudy Gobert
Speaker 1: setting the tone like he sat with the physicality Jaden
Speaker 1: McDaniels with the physicality Hawking Ki. Then their defense what's set.
Speaker 1: At Man set the pace on the offense, had a
Speaker 1: great first quarter. If I'm not mistaken, I think he
Speaker 1: had seventeen in.
Speaker 3: The first quarter.
Speaker 1: And then at Man ended up in foul trouble, but
Speaker 1: they stayed afloat Na's Reed made a couple of plays.
Speaker 1: Nikile Alexander Walker made a couple of big shots, Mike
Speaker 1: Conley got inside the lane, and I think most importantly
Speaker 1: at Man got to the free throw line. So with
Speaker 1: them setting the tone that they were setting. At Man
Speaker 1: getting to the free throw line, now you're playing against
Speaker 1: the set defense every time, and they already set the tone. Dallas, however,
Speaker 1: so you getting to the free throw line, but you're
Speaker 1: turning the ball over they kind of cancel each other
Speaker 1: out right, Like Dallas got some runouts off the turnovers,
Speaker 1: but they didn't get a runnouse off me shots because
Speaker 1: a man was getting to the free throw line shot
Speaker 1: eight free throws in the first quarter. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: that a man, because we haven't seen a man attacking
Speaker 1: like that, and so it was just a totally different,
Speaker 1: totally different ball club. I think that the absence of
Speaker 1: Derek Lively was huge, definitely makes a difference. He brings
Speaker 1: a certain energy to the group, certain bounciness, blocks some shots,
Speaker 1: obviously live threat graded in the short roll. Uh man,
Speaker 1: he makes the reads in the short role. He's even
Speaker 1: starting to finish in the short out of short row.
Speaker 1: And so they missed Lively for sure. Uh. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what happened to DWIGHTE. Powell Man Dwhite Powers. Dwhite
Speaker 1: Power was good for many years, and he just he
Speaker 1: not giving them much at all, so much so that
Speaker 1: they almost they They brought Maxie Klaber back, who pretty
Speaker 1: much said before the game, like, yeah, my shoulder not right,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna play. And I thought that was very
Speaker 1: interesting because they'll need Claybor I think against Boston they're
Speaker 1: able to get through this series, which I think they will,
Speaker 1: and they'll need Claybor against Boston because Clayber will spend
Speaker 1: some time on JT for sure. They like to put
Speaker 1: Claybor on long wings that they got. And so you got, yes,
Speaker 1: you know, we know PJ, we know d Jones gonna
Speaker 1: start on Jalen, and we know they'll start on Jalen
Speaker 1: and Jason. But you go to your bench who those
Speaker 1: guys are gonna be. I think Josh Green will probably
Speaker 1: be too small for those guys, and so you'll need
Speaker 1: the size.
Speaker 3: However, they had.
Speaker 1: To throw them a harm's way because Dwight Powell haven't
Speaker 1: given them anything, which has been shocking. Like DWIGHTE. Poule
Speaker 1: was good man for many years. Him and Luca had
Speaker 1: that connection and it's just been bad. It's been bad.
Speaker 1: Not sure what it is, but they need Lively back.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was.
Speaker 3: That. I thought that was a big loss.
Speaker 1: But I think we've all known in Minnesota has now
Speaker 1: figured out going inside is their strength, not shooting a
Speaker 1: bunch of threes.
Speaker 3: Going inside against it.
Speaker 1: Because you're not gonna You're not a better shooting team
Speaker 1: than Dallas. That's for certain, they are not a better
Speaker 1: three point shooting team than Dallas. So you're trying to
Speaker 1: out three point them. The one game that you actually
Speaker 1: outshot them from the three, you still lost because you're
Speaker 1: not doing what can make you successful against those guys,
Speaker 1: which is not shooting a three. Yes, of course it's
Speaker 1: the NBA. You're gonna take some threes. Gotta take some threes.
Speaker 1: But again, it can't be leading with that. And so
Speaker 1: I think the players of the Minnesota Timber was finally
Speaker 1: figured out, Man, I need to go inside. They even
Speaker 1: posted Rudy Goberrop a couple of times now, a couple
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 3: Luca has some bad files, Like.
Speaker 1: They've been following Rudy on the pocket pass like floaters,
Speaker 1: they've been following them on the post ups. And I
Speaker 1: don't understand it, Like, just make him make the shot.
Speaker 1: If he make the shot, great, guess what. We get
Speaker 1: the ball out fast, We're gone, boom. You get the
Speaker 1: ball to Kyrie handwin after so after made baskets. If
Speaker 1: I'm Dallas, I'm like, yo, we want to get the
Speaker 1: ball to Kyrie. You know why because I want to
Speaker 1: see if Kyrie can give me a one man fast
Speaker 1: break because he's more than capable. So let's see if
Speaker 1: Kyrie pushed his ball up the floor, what we get
Speaker 1: out of it. Even if it's not a one man
Speaker 1: fast break, what it will do is it'll cost some
Speaker 1: cross matches. Minnesota's being very particular with their matchups. And
Speaker 1: if Kyrie gets the ball and go, it's going to
Speaker 1: cost some cross matches because now saying, you got Rudy
Speaker 1: shooting and he makes it. Now Kyrie get the ball.
Speaker 1: As soon as the ball come out the net, boom, boom.
Speaker 3: Kyrie gone.
Speaker 1: Now Rudy got to sprint back, which means he ain't
Speaker 1: gonna be able to catch up with gafferd That Gafford
Speaker 1: take off, Derrick Jones take off. We saw once where
Speaker 1: Luca through Derrick Jones live boom, and so I want
Speaker 1: Kyrie going one man fast break. Luca gonna then make
Speaker 1: his way down the court. Wants Luca get down the court.
Speaker 1: If nothing there, we can swing the ball, Luca, we
Speaker 1: can get in our stuff. It's twenty seconds left on
Speaker 1: the shot clock, plenty of time because Kyrie getting it
Speaker 1: up fast, and I think that's something that Dallas should do.
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the adjustments that they can
Speaker 1: make on any made shot.
Speaker 3: Kyrie's in the game.
Speaker 1: You sprint to the ball, get the ball, and go
Speaker 1: see if we got something.
Speaker 3: If not, boom, Because.
Speaker 1: I think now that Minnesota's gonna try to take advantage
Speaker 1: of their size, Dallas needs to put more of an
Speaker 1: emphasis on taking advantage of their speed, their quickness, and
Speaker 1: I think that's one way to do it. Uh at Man,
Speaker 1: as I said, had a much better shooting night, and
Speaker 1: I think that was all the product of him getting
Speaker 1: to the cup, him getting to the paint, even some
Speaker 1: of the shots he missed. He missed a couple bunnies
Speaker 1: in the lane, which I think he can make. But
Speaker 1: even if you don't make a miss, the mindset, it's
Speaker 1: the mentality and that mindset, and that mentality is what
Speaker 1: those other guys follow. When ant man body language was this,
Speaker 1: he ain't have it. Guess what Rudy Gobar's body language
Speaker 1: was this and he ain't have it. Guess what cast
Speaker 1: body language was this and he ain't have it. So
Speaker 1: it's no surprise to me that Cat played well yesterday
Speaker 1: because the aggression that ant Man came out with made
Speaker 1: it okay for Cat to say, oh, well, I can
Speaker 1: play this way too.
Speaker 3: It's almost like a writer of pass, like, oh but
Speaker 3: he did it. Oh, I can do the too, So.
Speaker 1: That's all and man to me, that's all a man
Speaker 1: and man started off going to the whole, cat started
Speaker 1: off going to the whole. When that man was started
Speaker 1: shooting off jumpers, cat was started starting off shooting jumpers.
Speaker 3: So that's no coincidence.
Speaker 1: As I've said before, these guys follow that man and
Speaker 1: that's a heavy, heavy, heavy.
Speaker 3: Load to carry.
Speaker 1: But he's more than capable. And he did it last night. Now, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: and I guess fortunately, you still got a chance. Gotta
Speaker 1: do that three more times. We shall see before we
Speaker 1: move on, and I'll give you my prediction for game five.
Speaker 1: There is a lot of talk about Lucas foul, that
Speaker 1: he got that foul cut out and Luca hunt files.
Speaker 1: Here's what I said about that. Yes, Luca does hunt files.
Speaker 1: There are also a lot of other guys in the
Speaker 1: NBA that hunt files. I don't think Lucas game is
Speaker 1: built on hunt files because Luca is a tough shot
Speaker 1: taker and a tough shot maker. However, he's a very
Speaker 1: smart player and if there's a spot where he can
Speaker 1: draw a file, you can bet your bottom dollar he's
Speaker 1: going to draw a file.
Speaker 3: I don't think Luca is someone who seeks.
Speaker 1: Files, because there's a lot of guys in this league
Speaker 1: that seeks files and turns the ball over and seeking
Speaker 1: those files.
Speaker 3: Luca is not a turnover guy because he's seeking a file.
Speaker 1: So does he seek files? Yes, to his detriment, No,
Speaker 1: I do not think that at all. The particular play
Speaker 1: where he filed Kat out, everybody like, oh he jumped forward.
Speaker 3: Did he lean forward a little bit?
Speaker 1: Yes, but Cat came forward so much that you make
Speaker 1: yourself the susceptible to the call.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Can Scott Foster say, oh, we take that out the game?
Speaker 1: Yes you can. But like I said, on that one
Speaker 1: in particular, Kat leans so far, jumped so far forward
Speaker 1: that you almost have to call it because he left
Speaker 1: his feet got in the air, and when he made
Speaker 1: the contact with Luca, he's turned sideways.
Speaker 3: Now, I think he would have been better.
Speaker 1: Off if he jumped for straight ahead and he made
Speaker 1: that amount of contact, but he was straight forward.
Speaker 3: I think he would have been better off.
Speaker 1: The fact that he was turned sideways, Scott Foster almost have.
Speaker 3: To call that.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the l two him report Jackson. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if you've seen it. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: the NBA said that that should have been a no call.
Speaker 1: But if I had to bet, and I'm not allowed
Speaker 1: to bet, so take it with a grained salt. If
Speaker 1: I had to bet, I'd imagine they said it was.
Speaker 3: The correct call. So that's my opinion on Luca hunt Files.
Speaker 1: I definitely think Luca seeks to draw files for sure,
Speaker 1: by the way most great players do. However, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's one of the guys that does it to
Speaker 1: his detriment.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: My prediction for Game five is Minnesota will win Game
Speaker 1: five by double digits, and then.
Speaker 3: Dallas will go back home and win Game six.
Speaker 1: The reason I think that is because Minnesota will come
Speaker 1: out swinging and if they're able to build a lead.
Speaker 1: You see a lot of times in those situations that
Speaker 1: team like, you know what, we ain't got it. We
Speaker 1: going back home. We'll close it out then. But let
Speaker 1: me tell you, don't make that mistake. Injuries happen. The
Speaker 1: longer these series go on, the unknown can take place,
Speaker 1: So you want to close it out as soon as
Speaker 1: you can. And if I'm Dallas. We screwed up a
Speaker 1: golden opportunity last night. We can't screw up another one tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We gotta do all it. If I'm Dallas, I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is a must win. You know why, because even
Speaker 1: if we don't win in game six, guess what, y'all,
Speaker 1: this is a must win.
Speaker 3: I'm Dallas.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying, because we have to reach
Speaker 1: we have to reach their intensity level. They're down three
Speaker 1: to zero. Understandable, we don't reach the intensity level human nature.
Speaker 1: But we can't not reach their level twice. Because if
Speaker 1: we can't reach their level two times in a row,
Speaker 1: then they get the confidence and going back to game six,
Speaker 1: all the pressures then on Dallas. The reason why I'm
Speaker 1: comfortable with all the pressure being on Dallas because Luca
Speaker 1: and Kyrie we both know, we all know both of
Speaker 1: them will produce when those moments are there, when they matter,
Speaker 1: when the moment is the biggest, when everything's on the line,
Speaker 1: those two guys gonna come through. So I got Minnesota
Speaker 1: Game five, Dallas Game six, and other news. The Celtics
Speaker 1: sweep the Pacers another comeback win. Three out of the
Speaker 1: four wins were comeback wins. What do I make of this.
Speaker 1: I don't make much of it outside of like Boston
Speaker 1: knew they could beat them. They toy a round toy,
Speaker 1: round toy, run, get to the end, all right, here
Speaker 1: we go. They knew they could beat that team, especially
Speaker 1: once Holly Burdon went out. Now Game one, Jaylen Brown
Speaker 1: hit the shot, Indiana should have won that one. But
Speaker 1: all the other games, Boston knew, like, we're fine, just
Speaker 1: hang around, close it out at the end, and they
Speaker 1: did exactly that. Congratulations of Jaylen Brown winning the Larry
Speaker 1: Bird Eastern Conference MVP Trophy, well deserved. Thought he played great.
Speaker 1: I thought it also could have went to JT. However,
Speaker 1: not upset at all about seeing Jalen get that award.
Speaker 1: Thought it was great from him and j T cobon
Speaker 1: for fifty five points yesterday, and I thought they had
Speaker 1: a good showing. I do think if you know, you know,
Speaker 1: congratting them on getting back to the NBA Finals. I
Speaker 1: do think if they match up with Dallas or Minnesota,
Speaker 1: but I don't think Minnesota's going on, I think that
Speaker 1: will cause some problems and we'll get into that later
Speaker 1: more when it matters. We got to give Andrew Nimhar
Speaker 1: a lot of credit. And I spoke about nim Hart
Speaker 1: on the Pop before. Nim Har Man, dude is a
Speaker 1: soldier like small got that chip on his shoulder, like
Speaker 1: walk around with this like he got a little man syndrome.
Speaker 1: But his demeanor he carries picks up ninety four feet
Speaker 1: like you gotta love it, especially at that size. I
Speaker 1: always tell guards that size you come into this league,
Speaker 1: if you want to stay in this league, and you
Speaker 1: that size, you better go pick up ninety four feet.
Speaker 1: Do that mean you taking the ball from a guy?
Speaker 3: No, brother, this is the NBA.
Speaker 1: The likelihood of you taking the ball from an NBA
Speaker 1: point guard is very low. But you just got to
Speaker 1: work them, turn them a couple times, take a little
Speaker 1: bit of time off the shot clock. That's what small
Speaker 1: guards have to do in this league. And Andrew Nimhar
Speaker 1: does that. He plays with that chip on his shoulder.
Speaker 1: Like I said, what he's shown me is his ability
Speaker 1: to score a buck basketball. You know, I knew he
Speaker 1: could shoot the three decent. I knew he could get
Speaker 1: to the hole at you know, straight line. I didn't
Speaker 1: know he can get in this bag and pull up
Speaker 1: me and he gets stop and get to the Cup.
Speaker 3: I ain't know he had all that, but he continues
Speaker 3: to show more and more. And it'll be.
Speaker 1: Interesting, you know, as his contract continues to play out
Speaker 1: over these next couple of years, how teams will view him.
Speaker 1: What would his progress be over the summer? How does
Speaker 1: he come back next year? Because I think he can
Speaker 1: possibly one day put himself in a position to get
Speaker 1: a shot at being a league guard in this league.
Speaker 1: You know, we saw Montay Morris get that shot recently
Speaker 1: in Washington. We saw Tys Jones get that shot recently
Speaker 1: in Washington. Now you know, some would say like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know if Roshton was the right place for
Speaker 1: them to take that opportunity. When you get an opportunity
Speaker 1: at to start rolling the NBA, I don't care. Where
Speaker 1: is that, brother, you take it? And so I think
Speaker 1: Nimhr will get an opportunity at some point or another,
Speaker 1: especially if he continues to play the way he's playing.
Speaker 1: I told you I liked them hard. I like his demeanor,
Speaker 1: I like his game. His game continues to grow on
Speaker 1: me because he continues to show more and more. And
Speaker 1: when a guy continues to show more and more like that,
Speaker 1: when a guy go out. I haven't even more respect
Speaker 1: for him because that means, you know, like, oh, I
Speaker 1: got to play this role, and I'm take a back seat.
Speaker 3: And play my role.
Speaker 1: And I respect that because so many guys come in
Speaker 1: this league and can't figure out how to play a
Speaker 1: role and it cost them. They think they're supposed to
Speaker 1: be superstars, and it cost him. I think that was
Speaker 1: actually one of the things that was hurting cam Thomas
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn when Kyrie and Kaden was there. He gets
Speaker 1: some games where you're like, oh, man, he went off,
Speaker 1: and then he wouldn't play a bunch right, And I
Speaker 1: think that was in large part do that because he
Speaker 1: would never really find a role outside of just scoring
Speaker 1: the basketball. And if you don't in this league, it's hard, man,
Speaker 1: because very seldomly is a team just gonna let you
Speaker 1: go out there and score. Now he's in Brooklyn, they
Speaker 1: got Riddle all their guys, and so he gets a
Speaker 1: chance to do that now. But say, if you get traded,
Speaker 1: the likelihood of a team just like, oh, we're gonna
Speaker 1: give you the ball and you go score slim and
Speaker 1: so you have to do other things. And I think
Speaker 1: nim Hart is mastering that and like I said, to
Speaker 1: watch him these last couple of games, take on an
Speaker 1: even bigger role and show what he's capable of against
Speaker 1: a great boss. In Celtics defense, to all NBA defenders,
Speaker 1: you gotta give you, gotta give nim Hard his credit.
Speaker 3: I like his game, and he continues to grow.
Speaker 1: Celtics makes it to the finals with only two losses,
Speaker 1: and everyone is saying that road isn't tough enough.
Speaker 3: Now, if I'm.
Speaker 1: Honest, I don't ever think the East is that tough.
Speaker 1: But I've also made it to an NBA finals and
Speaker 1: lost one game along the way, zero games along the way,
Speaker 1: maybe lost one in the finals. Let's see, the year
Speaker 1: was two thousand and seventeen.
Speaker 3: You want to guess, you want me to tell you, And.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, we lost one game in the finals,
Speaker 1: three straight sweeps and then up three out. Yep, I
Speaker 1: remember that, and no one would say, oh man, they
Speaker 1: role wasn't tough enough. So don't give me the Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics road isn't tough enough. They haven't been battle tested
Speaker 1: all of that. Whether they get to this NBA Finals
Speaker 1: and win or lose will not be because they haven't
Speaker 1: been battle testing let me tell you that. Okay, you
Speaker 1: don't get to the NBA Finals and at some point
Speaker 1: throughout the year you ain't been battle tested, don't happen.
Speaker 1: Won't happen. It ain't happening this time. Congratulate them on
Speaker 1: their run. Whoever you've placed in front of them, they
Speaker 1: beat down. They let a couple games get away that
Speaker 1: I actually don't think they should have let it away. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: they're in the NBA Finals with two losses, and as
Speaker 1: I said, we'll get into that later. So moving on,
Speaker 1: ty Lou signs a five year, seventy million dollar extension
Speaker 1: with the Clippers. Get the bag, Tlu, get the bag
Speaker 1: well deserved, my brother. Congratulations to t Lou, one of
Speaker 1: the best coaches in the R League, one of the
Speaker 1: more respected guys in the R League. Continue to climb
Speaker 1: his way up and gets the extension that he deserves,
Speaker 1: deserves to be paid right up there with the top
Speaker 1: coaches in the league because he is one of those guys.
Speaker 1: So shout out to t Lou, Shout out to Rich
Speaker 1: Paul Clippers going into that new building.
Speaker 3: They're going into that new building with at.
Speaker 1: Least Kawhi Leonard and with at least ty Lou, and
Speaker 1: I think that's a great way to roll into a
Speaker 1: new building. So congrats to them. Congrats to t Lou,
Speaker 1: like I said, well deserved my brother. Much love to
Speaker 1: t Lou. And before we get out of here, rest
Speaker 1: in peace to the great Bill Walton. I mean, I
Speaker 1: have many memories of Bill being around, especially during Luke's
Speaker 1: time here, but you know he'd even come around a
Speaker 1: couple of times here and there once Luke left here,
Speaker 1: and just always great, amazing outlook on life, incredible candor,
Speaker 1: incredible spirit, free spirit, super big smile, always grin is
Speaker 1: from here to here.
Speaker 3: Just always brought great energy. Man.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm not old enough to act like
Speaker 1: I know how great of a player Bill one was.
Speaker 3: I've seen highlights. I've seen a couple of games.
Speaker 1: But I'm I don't, you know, outside of what I've
Speaker 1: read and heard. You know, I can't speak much to
Speaker 1: his playing career, but I can speak to the man
Speaker 1: that I've met, had the opportunity to spend some time around.
Speaker 3: And I can also speak to the color commentator.
Speaker 1: Because anytime I can turn on, like sometimes you be
Speaker 1: just scrolling through the channel and it'll be like Hawaii
Speaker 1: versus somebody, and like Bill Wats is doing the game,
Speaker 1: and I'll stop and watch the game, and I'm not
Speaker 1: really watching the game. I'm listening to Bill watting talk
Speaker 1: because it's fun. The things he say are hilarious, and
Speaker 1: like Reggie was saying yesterday, he'll be talking about basketball
Speaker 1: in a roundabout way, but you probably don't understand it
Speaker 1: because he's going about it in a roundabout way and
Speaker 1: mixing in some life and some one liners and he'll
Speaker 1: hit you with an open ended at lead.
Speaker 3: You're like.
Speaker 1: And absolutely incredible watching games with Bill Walton doing the game.
Speaker 1: I mean so amazing, funny, lighthearted, I mean just incredible.
Speaker 1: Like he's not attacking any watch although Shock said he
Speaker 1: attacked him.
Speaker 3: I never saw that from Bill.
Speaker 1: Just an incredible man, raised, an incredible man who I
Speaker 1: know really well. Luke Walton, as I said on the podium,
Speaker 1: Luke Walden or at the desk, Luke Walden was the
Speaker 1: coach when I made my first All Star game. Luke
Speaker 1: started that you're coaching because Steve wasn't doing well, and
Speaker 1: we started off forty two and four.
Speaker 3: It's actually the year we won seventy nine.
Speaker 1: I mean, excuse me seventy three, and Luke's incredible man.
Speaker 3: Luke is.
Speaker 1: Incredible basketball mon but an even better human being. And
Speaker 1: he's every bit of Bill like. Not as outspoken, although
Speaker 1: if you're around, look super outspoken, but looks just like
Speaker 1: his father, carries himself just like his father, walks just
Speaker 1: like his father, the same stature as his father. Worship
Speaker 1: the ground his dad walk on. And to see Luke
Speaker 1: go through this, it hurts my heart. I send my
Speaker 1: love to Luke, breathe, their children, Bill's wife, Laurie, Luke's siblings.
Speaker 1: I send my love to all of them. Because the
Speaker 1: world lost an incredible man. The NBA family lost an
Speaker 1: incredible family member. And as Charles Barkley said, the world
Speaker 1: was a much better place two days ago when Bill
Speaker 1: was still in it.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna miss Bill.
Speaker 1: The spirit that he brought to the NBA will live on,
Speaker 1: and I know the NBA would do right by.
Speaker 3: Memorials for him, keeping.
Speaker 1: His name alive because he was great to the NBA,
Speaker 1: a great steward of the game. We love Bill Walden.
Speaker 1: Rest in peace, big man. We're gonna miss you. That's
Speaker 1: a rap from this episode of The Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 3: Peacea