Speaker 1: The volume. What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the Draymond
Speaker 1: Green Show. This is the first episode since I was suspended,
Speaker 1: very intentional, by the way, very intentional on that Dub's
Speaker 1: gotta win last night, so that was huge. Let's just
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Speaker 2: Absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: The Doves took down one fourteen to ninety seven the
Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings to make the series two to one. Took
Speaker 1: care home court. I know everyone wants to hear my
Speaker 1: thoughts on the suspension. I never knew you could be
Speaker 1: suspended for a flagrant two that happened seven years ago.
Speaker 1: And I also didn't know you get suspended for interacting
Speaker 1: with a crowd that's flipping you double birds and yelling
Speaker 1: your name and chance that you sucking like you interact
Speaker 1: with them. I didn't know that either. I'm saying that
Speaker 1: my guys played well. My guys played really well, stepped
Speaker 1: up to the challenge, and it was absolutely incredible to see.
Speaker 1: I hope everyone enjoyed the game the way I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't say I really enjoyed the game. Quite frankly,
Speaker 1: there's nothing worse, by the way being suspended from a
Speaker 1: game like at this point in my career, like it
Speaker 1: will never like affect me from an emotional emotional standpoint
Speaker 1: outside of my fellas was in a dogfight or it's
Speaker 1: in a dogfight, and just not being able to participate
Speaker 1: in that dogfight. That's crushing like that, like because you
Speaker 1: just feel like, you know, you're leaving them out there
Speaker 1: by themselves, leaving them astray to just figure it out.
Speaker 1: So to not participate in that dog fight, that's what
Speaker 1: bothers me the most. To get suspended from Game five
Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals. There's never another NBA game that
Speaker 1: you can suspend me from that'll be like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm suspended. But just not being able to participate in
Speaker 1: a dogfight with my brothers, that part is the worst.
Speaker 1: And so I'm very thankful at an effort that guys
Speaker 1: put out there yesterday to save our season.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't want to ever go down three
Speaker 2: to Oho.
Speaker 1: Know the odds are well against you, stacked against you,
Speaker 1: crazy if you go down three to Oho. And Gods
Speaker 1: took care of that. How did that happen? Steph Curry?
Speaker 1: We saw NBA Final Steph Curry, which was absolutely incredible,
Speaker 1: controlled the entire game. It was just like a calmness
Speaker 1: so like, I'm not letting us lose. I'm in this moment.
Speaker 1: It is what it is, and there's nothing anyone can
Speaker 1: do about it.
Speaker 2: Master.
Speaker 1: For like what we watched Steph Curry do last night
Speaker 1: was just a master at work. It was Rick Celebrini,
Speaker 1: who you all heard me talk about. Rick always say Draymond.
Speaker 1: I had a friend and he used to always say
Speaker 1: basketball is jazz. Like basketball is jazz, and if you
Speaker 1: think about jazz music, it's just peace and like it's
Speaker 1: smooth and like you feel the rhythm to it.
Speaker 2: Basketball is jazz.
Speaker 1: And so when I was working back from my hip injury,
Speaker 1: Rick would always say, Draymond is jazz. Like I had
Speaker 1: to relearn how to run again, I had to relearn
Speaker 1: how to jump again, had to do all of those things.
Speaker 2: But he would always say, hey, man, slow down, it's jazz.
Speaker 1: Like move like you gotta move with some rhythm and
Speaker 1: you know, not so erky jerky as you're trying to
Speaker 1: get back and you just want to get there, like
Speaker 1: it's jazz. Steph Curry's game last night was just jazz.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful. It was absolutely beautiful. Was in control
Speaker 1: of everything. There's not many guys definitely in the league
Speaker 1: right now that can control a game like that. You're
Speaker 1: talking Steph Curry, Lebron, James.
Speaker 2: Luca.
Speaker 1: That really like controls the entire pace of a game,
Speaker 1: everything that happens. It's so incredibly hard to do that.
Speaker 1: To watch Steph Curry do that last night. You held
Speaker 1: me down again, brother, help me down again.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't thank him enough. Absolutely amazing. Once again, if
Speaker 1: you did, hear it for a master at work. Not
Speaker 1: oftentimes in life do you get to see a master
Speaker 1: at work. So appreciate that, because I sure did when
Speaker 1: I got to that arena last night. I got to
Speaker 1: the arena after the game and I just sat there
Speaker 1: next to him. I say, yo, wow, wow, Like that
Speaker 1: was just masterful stuff.
Speaker 2: And we talked about it.
Speaker 1: We talked about what he saw, some of the things
Speaker 1: that we spoke about leading into the game, and then
Speaker 1: to speak about those things after the game and see, like, yo,
Speaker 1: they like those things worked. Was special. The aura was special.
Speaker 1: Now how do you build on that? We'll get to that.
Speaker 1: Cavon Looney nine offensive rebounds, twenty boards.
Speaker 2: It's crazy because we were talking.
Speaker 1: About rebounding the basketball and I like threw out these
Speaker 1: numbers to guys like, yo, you you get this amount
Speaker 1: of rebounds, and you're gonna get this amount of rebounds,
Speaker 1: like this is what we need from you. And I'm
Speaker 1: talking very important guys like Steph Clay Wiggs JP. These
Speaker 1: are the these are the amount of rebounds we need
Speaker 1: from you. And I told Lune twenty? Did Lune get
Speaker 1: twenty rebounds because I told him to? Of course not,
Speaker 1: Loun is more than capable of getting twenty rebounds, But the.
Speaker 2: Fact that I told him twenty and he actually could
Speaker 2: go do that.
Speaker 1: Twenty rebounds in a playoff game against a team that
Speaker 1: we struggled to rebounding is twenty rebounds.
Speaker 2: It's masterful. Incredible.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Kevon Looney. I'm always I'm always mesmerized
Speaker 1: by Loan's attention to d tell by his professionalism, because
Speaker 1: those are the things that allow Cavan Looney to get
Speaker 1: to where he is today. You're talking to guy who
Speaker 1: went through three hip surgeries really before he stepped on
Speaker 1: an NBA court, a guy who you go back and
Speaker 1: watch Kavan Loney's highlights from college and from high school,
Speaker 1: like totally different player.
Speaker 2: To figure it out like that, to still.
Speaker 1: Add value and having to recreate yourself. You don't see
Speaker 1: basketball players do that. When you see musicians try to
Speaker 1: recreate themselves.
Speaker 2: They go to hell. When you see.
Speaker 1: Boxers try to recreate themselves, they go to Like you
Speaker 1: go down the list people trying to recreate themselves, it's
Speaker 1: a losing battle. Cavan Looney did that plus more, twenty rebounds,
Speaker 1: none offensive, nine assists, huge making plays, offensive rebound, kickout three.
Speaker 1: Absolutely incredible. Dominated the game with four points. For all
Speaker 1: of you out there that say you have to score
Speaker 1: the basketball to dominate the game, you lie, Yes, of
Speaker 1: course you need a Steph Curry who goes for thirty
Speaker 1: six right like, of course, but you lied, or maybe
Speaker 1: you didn't lie, you just didn't quite understand. Absolutely incredible
Speaker 1: performance by loom Andrew Wiggins was the pace was incredible
Speaker 1: Wigs more so than anybody. He met force with force
Speaker 1: when he caught the ball on the post, he went
Speaker 1: towards the run, he met force with force. He got
Speaker 1: to the shots that he wanted to get to, and
Speaker 1: he continues to elevate his level of play.
Speaker 2: Having Wigs back.
Speaker 1: I told y'all after Game one, although we lost, he's
Speaker 1: trending upward. Which means our team will trend upward. You
Speaker 1: saw playoff wigs last night. You know you saw playoff wigs.
Speaker 1: The wigs that you saw in the playoffs last year.
Speaker 1: You saw that last night. And quite frankly, that's what
Speaker 1: I can appreciate about this team more than anything is
Speaker 1: when your back is against the wall, how do guys
Speaker 1: show up? And guys showed up and it was huge,
Speaker 1: and the list goes on. Moses Moody off the bench,
Speaker 1: thirteen points, sixteen minutes. The points were great. Quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I think his defense was incredible. I think how he
Speaker 1: was muddying things up and getting in the fray for rebounds.
Speaker 1: Only had three rebounds, but you will miss it if
Speaker 1: you're not paying attention, boxing out, cracking back on the
Speaker 1: guy so someone else get the rebound, not making game
Speaker 1: plany mistakes. Moses Moody continues to trend upwards, continues when
Speaker 1: his name is called, continues to be ready. Jonathan Kaminga
Speaker 1: grew last night. Had a tough first stint. When he
Speaker 1: got in the game, stuck with it changed the entire game.
Speaker 1: Fly into the basket for dunks, rebounds, put backs, defensively
Speaker 1: changed the game. After a first stint. He grew last night.
Speaker 1: That's important. Jamichael Green gave incredible minutes last night, guy
Speaker 1: who hasn't played much.
Speaker 2: No one's ever happy when they don't play.
Speaker 1: I know everybody's going to say, oh man, Jamichael was
Speaker 1: upset on the bench.
Speaker 2: Number one.
Speaker 1: You in the playoffs, things get very heated, emotions run high.
Speaker 1: You much rather have and know someone to know that
Speaker 1: somebody's in it than not know they're in it at all.
Speaker 2: So I know everybody's gonna say, oh man.
Speaker 1: Him and the coaches they were talking and it was
Speaker 1: a little of course, it was heated down two oh
Speaker 1: or oh two back against the wall. Of course, everybody's
Speaker 1: on edge. That's what you gotta appreciate. How do guys
Speaker 1: respond win on edge? I thought the wager. Michael played
Speaker 1: his coverage, picking and rolls, rebounding the basketball.
Speaker 2: The toughness that he brought to the floor for us
Speaker 2: was huge. It was huge. You'll miss those things.
Speaker 1: Jordan Poole played it, had a great floor game, great
Speaker 1: floor game.
Speaker 2: Patient didn't even hit shots.
Speaker 1: One huge play and not knowing people will miss this,
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson had a shot, he had a step back
Speaker 1: and no one will complain about Clay taking that shot
Speaker 1: at submit range over defender, but of course Clay makes
Speaker 1: that whose cares had the shot kicked at the Moses
Speaker 1: Moody in the corner. Moses Moody goes in and get
Speaker 1: an ad one that unlocks things.
Speaker 2: Huge play.
Speaker 1: At no point did Klay Thompson force anything, and then
Speaker 1: he hit some big shots down the stretch. You know
Speaker 1: why because he didn't force anything. Locked in on the
Speaker 1: defensive end. Absolutely incredible to watch. Anthony Lamb number hasn't
Speaker 1: been called in two and a half weeks.
Speaker 2: Stayed ready.
Speaker 1: Dante Defencenzo was huge, But we've been talking about Dante
Speaker 1: all year, but this is the playoffs.
Speaker 2: He was huge.
Speaker 1: Answered the bell defensively, offensively answered the bell. Thought it
Speaker 1: was an incredible performance by the guys. I thought our
Speaker 1: coaching staff did an incredible job with the game plan
Speaker 1: locked in, starting to come together for us, and that
Speaker 1: was great to see and saying that we did what
Speaker 1: we were supposed to do, took care of home court.
Speaker 1: Now you gotta go win again. Tied this thing up too. Two,
Speaker 1: headed back to Sack. I'm excited as hell to be
Speaker 1: back in the lineup. Whatever that means. That means as
Speaker 1: I'm watching that game last night, all I can think
Speaker 1: of I was on text with Chris Wings. So if
Speaker 1: you saw Chris Wings behind the best texting a lot,
Speaker 1: he's texting me And that was my point of contact
Speaker 1: if I needed to get anything to the coaches, and like,
Speaker 1: I sent them a few things here and there, like
Speaker 1: a little small things. And when I got there last night,
Speaker 1: Gemma said, man, I was asking Wims, like, what is
Speaker 1: Draymond God?
Speaker 2: What does he got for us? He said.
Speaker 1: Williams kept saying, like, man, he not saying much. I said, Gemma,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's just not anything to say, Like you have
Speaker 1: to feel when there's nothing to say. And the way
Speaker 1: that guys was playing, there was nothing to say because
Speaker 1: even when shots weren't falling, we were in control of
Speaker 1: the game. So there's not much to say. It's locked
Speaker 1: in air tight on the game plan. There just wasn't
Speaker 1: much to say. Absolutely incredible, Like I said, shout out
Speaker 1: to the coaching staff, Steve, Jemma, Deckie Q, do Doll.
Speaker 1: The list goes on on, Chris DeMarco, Jacob Rubin, Chris Wims.
Speaker 1: Absolutely incredible. It's incredible to see those guys locked in.
Speaker 1: We know what our coaching staff is capable of the
Speaker 1: situations and the game plans that they're capable of put us.
Speaker 1: And that was one of them nights like we've seen
Speaker 1: in the past last night, and it was beautiful to see.
Speaker 1: I also know everyone wants my opinion on Joel Andbi.
Speaker 1: I also know everyone wants my opinion on James Harden.
Speaker 1: If I can give you my honest opinion, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I will never be. One thing you're never gonna do
Speaker 1: is say you're not gonna see me say, man, this
Speaker 1: guy did that and he didn't get this.
Speaker 2: That ain't me. I don't roll like that.
Speaker 1: Number One, I'm never in favor of seeing a player
Speaker 1: get suspended. I'm never in favor of seeing a player
Speaker 1: get kicked out of the game. So buck stops there. What
Speaker 1: you won't get from me is the victim, not a victim.
Speaker 1: I told you all last year. I'm treated differently. It's
Speaker 1: a badge of honor, not the same as all these dudes.
Speaker 1: I'm different, but different equals championships. So you take the
Speaker 1: good with the bad, Gotta live with it. But what
Speaker 1: I won't do is get on here like man Joel
Speaker 1: should have been suspended. That's why James should have been kicked.
Speaker 1: That's why just play off basketball. Nick Claxton should have
Speaker 1: been kicked. That's Whack's playoff basketball. That's Nick Claxton going
Speaker 1: up against Joe LMB, MVP of the NBA. You dunk
Speaker 1: on him, You should flex in his face because he
Speaker 1: gonna give you forty in flexing yours. So when I
Speaker 1: get my moment, you should flex in his face. And
Speaker 1: I bet you there was not one fan who paid
Speaker 1: to watch that game that said, man, why is he
Speaker 1: flexing in his face? No, because you appreciate that. I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of the game of basketball. I'm an NBA fan,
Speaker 1: so as a fan, I was very disappointed to see
Speaker 1: Nick Claxon get thrown out like them boys battling.
Speaker 2: That's the same dude that just got kicked. He dunked
Speaker 2: on that guy that.
Speaker 1: Kicked him, and he get thrown out for standing up
Speaker 1: till that come on.
Speaker 2: That's whack.
Speaker 1: So I'm never gonna be someone that's in favor of
Speaker 1: anybody getting suspended, anybody getting kicked out of the game.
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for that, you won't get that here.
Speaker 1: That's just not how I wrote stuff.
Speaker 2: Get heated. You live in that moment. It's the playoffs.
Speaker 2: You playing for something.
Speaker 1: But quite frankly, most people don't understand winning, so you
Speaker 1: will never understand the emotions of it. If you're playing
Speaker 1: for something, it's the playoffs. So to see those guys
Speaker 1: get kicked out of that game, I'm not here for.
Speaker 1: That's not what I pay cable to see. A huge
Speaker 1: part of the reason I have cable. Obviously have kids,
Speaker 1: but I like to watch a bunch of basketball, and
Speaker 1: that's not really what I paid to see. I paid
Speaker 1: to see Nick Claxton get his get back after having
Speaker 1: zero points and then have a big, a big first
Speaker 1: half dunk on Joe l and b and stand up
Speaker 1: to him and beats the big bad bully. Not because
Speaker 1: Joel and Beat is the big bad bully, literally because
Speaker 1: he's that good. So in that situation, he's the big
Speaker 1: bad bully. Nick Claxton has to stand up to him.
Speaker 2: He has to.
Speaker 1: He already don't have a chance, he doesn't stand a chance.
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid is that good. That's no knocking Nick Claxton.
Speaker 1: Joel is that good, So you have to stand up
Speaker 1: to him. He don't stand in chance anyway. So when
Speaker 1: he had those moments to throw him out the game
Speaker 1: for like, that's that's not that's not playoffs, that's not
Speaker 1: what we're paying to see. It's not what these fans
Speaker 1: are paying now, those fans are paying to see.
Speaker 2: That thing.
Speaker 1: That's what brings this game alive, not him going to
Speaker 1: the shower early that come on, stop it, really and
Speaker 1: you know he got one tech. Come on, we can't
Speaker 1: do that. We can't do that. So that's my thoughts
Speaker 1: on that before we get out of here. I think
Speaker 1: one other series that I've really been paying attention to
Speaker 1: is The Clippers in Phoenix. I've been paying attention to
Speaker 1: all the series, I'm lying, but one I want to
Speaker 1: speak on is the Clippers in Phoenix. And what do
Speaker 1: I want to say about that? Been a great series.
Speaker 1: Love the way Russell's competing. For everybody who's shitting on
Speaker 1: Russ take that, that's Russ being Russ.
Speaker 2: And it's beautiful to see.
Speaker 1: Book look like a man on a mission, locked in
Speaker 1: KD doing what KD do. What this series looked like
Speaker 1: is ultimately boiling down to is this.
Speaker 2: The Lakers screwed the Clippers?
Speaker 1: How what are you talking about Dremond Because the Lakers
Speaker 1: he's getting in Lebron James is in Lebron James is
Speaker 1: always going to be Marky Gang, Steph Curry is always
Speaker 1: going to be a marquee game. So in turn, the Clippers,
Speaker 1: you end up playing every other day, and you got
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard playing forty minutes. I saw Steven where Tyler
Speaker 1: is where Kawhi played forty two minutes, and TYLERU said,
Speaker 1: this is this is what we've been this is what
Speaker 1: we've been preparing for for.
Speaker 2: Him to be.
Speaker 1: I to play forty two minutes right now and then
Speaker 1: he's out for Game three sucks because he's dominating, he's
Speaker 1: having an incredible series and then have to miss Game
Speaker 1: three sucks. But if there's two days in between, so
Speaker 1: you say a game call it yesterday's Thursday, and then
Speaker 1: game Sunday, it's totally different. But what you have to
Speaker 1: understand is all of that stuff is based on a
Speaker 1: TV schedule. TV slots matter, So Lebron gets the TV slot,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry gets the TV slot. The Clippers were on
Speaker 1: NBA TV last night, but they've been playing every other day.
Speaker 1: They play Yesterday, they play tomorrow. It's been tough. Changes,
Speaker 1: everything changes the series. So that's actually a game within
Speaker 1: a game. That's understanding the business, that's understanding the TV stuff,
Speaker 1: that's understanding a lot of stuff that I know people
Speaker 1: don't really pay a part of, but that's actually affecting
Speaker 1: that series.
Speaker 2: We get a Game.
Speaker 1: Three without Kawhi, leond and Norman Powell has forty two points,
Speaker 1: Russ has thirty eleven and eight or some thirty three
Speaker 1: eleven and eight something like.
Speaker 2: That, but no Kawhi. You want to see the stars
Speaker 2: in the playoff.
Speaker 1: So that's an unfortunate one that quite frankly, it's pretty
Speaker 1: tough to correct. You think about it from a perspective.
Speaker 1: You got the Lakers and the Clippers who share the
Speaker 1: same building. The La Kings is also in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They also share that building. There's so many things that
Speaker 1: goes into this that that is actually affecting that series.
Speaker 1: So I'm interested to see how it plays out. I
Speaker 1: think we got Kawhi coming back for Game four. However,
Speaker 1: you lost home court advantage back, so now you got
Speaker 1: to go back to Phoenix.
Speaker 2: And win another game even if you win Game four.
Speaker 1: Tough situation, hope, I helped everybody understand the business a
Speaker 1: little bit more today.
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed this episode.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to getting back Sunday, be great and Chase
Speaker 1: Center twelve thirty start early game. Looking forward to getting
Speaker 1: back in that dog fight with my guys. That's a
Speaker 1: rap in this episode of The Dre Mind Green Show.
Speaker 1: Til next time, Peace,