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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: The Olympics are about halfway completed for basketball.
Speaker 3: As you can see, I'm filling the spirit. This is
Speaker 3: your twenty.
Speaker 1: Sixteen Olympic gold Medal Rio twenty sixteen, And man, I
Speaker 1: just put this thing on for the first time in
Speaker 1: a long time and it just made me feel really good.
Speaker 1: So I feel like I need to go get my
Speaker 1: other one out storage and put that one on too,
Speaker 1: so I can look like the athletes.
Speaker 3: Like Simone bios and stuff. Although she got a lot
Speaker 3: of gold medals, but you know how they layer.
Speaker 1: Feels good anyway, USA, Team USA.
Speaker 3: Who we all watching basketball in the Olympics for.
Speaker 1: Off to a three and oh start kind of dominating
Speaker 1: just about everyone that they face up against, which was
Speaker 1: to be expected.
Speaker 3: We got a man leading the.
Speaker 1: Team and scoring off the bench with sixteen point six
Speaker 1: a game.
Speaker 3: KD is slightly behind at sixteen the game.
Speaker 1: Those two guys have been shoulder and much of the
Speaker 1: scoring load, which I think it's pretty expected. KD is
Speaker 1: the all time leading scorer and Team USA history and
Speaker 1: a man. If you watch him last year on the
Speaker 1: foeb stage I think it was last year, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was last year the World Championships. If you watch him
Speaker 1: on the Foever stage, like you could tell he would
Speaker 1: be a guy in this setting that like those guys
Speaker 1: are not fast enough, not strong enough, don't jump high enough,
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, just not good enough to stop him.
Speaker 1: And you've kind of seen that in Fever playing. Now
Speaker 1: you're seeing it in the Olympics and man especial and
Speaker 1: he continues to grow, and I think what I love
Speaker 1: most is the way Bron, Steph and KD are embracing
Speaker 1: him to be that next young guy up and kind
Speaker 1: of giving him the keys to the team in a sense. Sure,
Speaker 1: if you're watching these games, he's running the show. Whenever
Speaker 1: he's on the floor, it's his show. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: like ant Man is a very confident, confident player. I
Speaker 1: think that's what we all love about him. He was
Speaker 1: half joking when he said, now they're going to have
Speaker 1: to learn how to fit around me. But I said
Speaker 1: half joking because he was definitely serious and he meant it.
Speaker 1: But he says it and doesn't go about it in
Speaker 1: a way where he's confident as hell and very close
Speaker 1: to Kaki. But if you understand anything about greatness, you
Speaker 1: got to be very close to Kaki in order to
Speaker 1: be great at anything, because that belief, the belief is
Speaker 1: actually one of the things that separate you, because most
Speaker 1: people can't reach that level of belief in themselves, and
Speaker 1: so having that belief, being a little cocky is actually
Speaker 1: what separates him. And obviously you got to have the
Speaker 1: talent to go with it, and he got more than
Speaker 1: enough talent and so it's been interesting to watch uh
Speaker 1: and Man kind of run the show, kind of watching
Speaker 1: Bron play kind of the point forward, like real point
Speaker 1: four role. Bron his whole career, he's really played point guard,
Speaker 1: but he's being a true point forward in this setting,
Speaker 1: and I think it's been beautiful to see.
Speaker 3: I think uh, A.
Speaker 1: D and Bam have been incredible at the big spot.
Speaker 1: Joel had his best game of the series today versus
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico, so it's good to see him have a
Speaker 1: good game. I think the first couple of games he
Speaker 1: had been struggling a bit. Oh well played one that one,
Speaker 1: but he had also been struggling for most of the
Speaker 1: exhibition games, I should the ones in America. He was
Speaker 1: a little better at Abu Dhabi in London, but not
Speaker 1: your typical Joel and trying to figure it out, as
Speaker 1: I said he was. He was better today, probably his
Speaker 1: best game of the tournament so far. And with this
Speaker 1: team being so dominant, with this team pretty much doing
Speaker 1: exactly what we expected them to do on their on
Speaker 1: their way to another gold medal, it's only right that
Speaker 1: you draw the comparisons to what is believed to be
Speaker 1: the greatest team USA ever assembled, which is the Dream Team,
Speaker 1: and this twenty twenty fourteen you got the Dream Team,
Speaker 1: you got the redeemed Team. This twenty twenty fourteen are
Speaker 1: definitely drawing those comparisons to the Dream Team. And quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I'm taking the twenty fourteen seven days a week. I
Speaker 1: think think the twenty twenty fourteen beats to Dream Team
Speaker 1: five out of seven games. How to get the Dream
Speaker 1: Team some respect? They got goats, we get it, they
Speaker 1: got Hall of Famers, we get it. Five out of
Speaker 1: seven games, at least for the twenty twenty fourteen. I
Speaker 1: just think the versatility on that team, the star power,
Speaker 1: the score.
Speaker 3: I don't think the Dream Team can do anything with that.
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, now if the Dream Team
Speaker 1: has Shack on it and now Christian Lahtner, may be
Speaker 1: a different story because the versatility that Shaq would bring
Speaker 1: to that team, it's just a different thing that you
Speaker 1: have to deal with it. But we know Shaq was
Speaker 1: not on the Dream Team, which I think was a
Speaker 1: big mistake. But nonetheless, it is what it is. And
Speaker 1: I got to twenty twenty fourteen winning easy, pretty simple.
Speaker 1: The game is different, The game is better now and
Speaker 1: against better talent.
Speaker 3: We see what's happening.
Speaker 1: There's nothing that no one can do to even come
Speaker 1: remotely close to beating this team. It's just not happening.
Speaker 1: Too good, too much sharp power. Oh and by the way,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry has not played well. Steph Curry has not
Speaker 1: shot the ball well. Devin Booker has been an X factor,
Speaker 1: but Steph hasn't shot well at all. And we're winning
Speaker 1: about twenty five to thirty points. That's interesting, very interesting,
Speaker 1: And that's why I don't think the Dream Team could
Speaker 1: come close. I wouldn't say come close. The ten point loss,
Speaker 1: double digits by twenty twenty fourteen USA, you can book it.
Speaker 3: You heard it here. It's what it is.
Speaker 1: Winning no problem, just like they're about to win the
Speaker 1: gold medal, no problem.
Speaker 3: As we know.
Speaker 1: As great as Team USA is, the talk of Team
Speaker 1: USA has been one the playing time, the substitutions, with
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum and Tyrese Halliburn not playing a single minute
Speaker 1: in Game one, which was crazy, like, you don't you
Speaker 1: just don't not play Jason Tatum and in Game one
Speaker 1: of the Olympics, because pretty much what that is saying
Speaker 1: is if I get Jason Tatum in for nine to
Speaker 1: eleven minutes because no one's looking at the minutes like, oh,
Speaker 1: this guy played less. Like like I said to JT, No,
Speaker 1: when you win a gold medal, no one cares who
Speaker 1: scored the points, No one cares who played the minute.
Speaker 1: Did you win a gold medal or did you not?
Speaker 1: That's what it boils down to. Did you win the
Speaker 1: gold medal?
Speaker 3: Did you not?
Speaker 1: However, you don't not play Jason Tennor that man just
Speaker 1: won NBA Championship. Cover of NBA two K, cover of
Speaker 1: sports Ilicate. It illustrated saying, cheers, just sign the biggest
Speaker 1: contract in NBA history. Oh and by the way, your
Speaker 1: reward is sit down and don't play in the first
Speaker 1: Olympic game. Now, if you watched the exhibition games, JT
Speaker 1: didn't play well in the exhibition game.
Speaker 3: I don't care, Like it actually doesn't matter. And so.
Speaker 1: I was a little taken back by that, Like there's
Speaker 1: usually always two to the three guys on the Olympic
Speaker 1: team that don't play many minutes, just kind of how
Speaker 1: it shakes out if you're coming into the game one
Speaker 1: of the Olympics against a Serbia team that can't compete
Speaker 1: like Joker's great, and it stops there, like no one
Speaker 1: else can compete at the level except Joker.
Speaker 3: So like.
Speaker 1: Love Serby as a country, but they can't compete with
Speaker 1: Team USA. And we know that, like just watch. I
Speaker 1: mean we've seen it a couple of times now actually,
Speaker 1: but I've been do this. So when you're going into
Speaker 1: that game, my thought process was, if you're not gonna
Speaker 1: play two guys, the two guys, you're probably not gonna
Speaker 1: play as Tyrese and Derek White.
Speaker 3: Reason being, Drew is great in this.
Speaker 1: He moves the ball, he attacks the paint, breaks the
Speaker 1: break the defense down. Then he drives and kicks. He
Speaker 1: make all the hustle plays. He's defending the best guard.
Speaker 1: That's what Drew does. So Drew gonna play obviously, Steph
Speaker 1: playing obviously, and Man playing de Book has been the
Speaker 1: X factor. So when you start looking at the guards,
Speaker 1: Steph is Steph and Man is more special than everybody.
Speaker 1: Drew has already won a gold medal, so he know
Speaker 1: what it takes, he knows what has to be done.
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum has won a gold medal. He knows what
Speaker 1: it takes, he knows what has to be done. And
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one when we won the twenty twenty Olympics,
Speaker 1: but it was in twenty twenty one for those that
Speaker 1: forgot pandemic pushed it back of the year.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty Olympics.
Speaker 1: Our team, our offense was built around Jason Tatum and
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, and it was almost kind of set up
Speaker 1: as though like KD was passing the torch to JT
Speaker 1: to now take it, because at the time, I don't
Speaker 1: think Kevin's mind was set on Paris. I don't think
Speaker 1: really anyone was looking at to Paris. You're coming out
Speaker 1: of a pandemic. No one's really even thinking about it.
Speaker 1: But I think there was kind of this like foregone
Speaker 1: conclusion or thought that like yeah, like he's passing the
Speaker 1: towards to JT and then JT come out and not play.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe that. But in not playing them.
Speaker 1: It was wrong. We all know it was wrong. He
Speaker 1: should play. He did it, but he should have played,
Speaker 1: so it was wrong and we know that. What I
Speaker 1: don't like about it is now to me it feels
Speaker 1: like like a cover in my tracks, like proving a
Speaker 1: point type thing to where like, oh, now Joel's out
Speaker 1: of the lineup, and then today Drew didn't play, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's part we could rest the ankle a
Speaker 1: little bit, but it's part we gotta not play someone.
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, I don't like it. Like come up
Speaker 1: with a rotation and stick with it. These teams aren't
Speaker 1: good enough to where we're trying to match their lineup.
Speaker 1: We gotta match our lineup. Hey, we're not matching they lineup,
Speaker 1: by the way, because we got the best players in
Speaker 1: the world. We're gonna match they lineup anyway with whoever
Speaker 1: we got on the court.
Speaker 3: We'll be fine.
Speaker 1: So the whole like match their lineup or you know,
Speaker 1: this guy out of the lineup, and.
Speaker 3: Not disagree with it. We're already we're already a.
Speaker 1: Team of individuals that essentially come together for six weeks,
Speaker 1: seven weeks and then we go back to our lives.
Speaker 1: And these teams been together for five ten Spain's case,
Speaker 1: Rudy's played in six Olympics, Rudy for the six. I
Speaker 1: think Batombs maybe in his fourth Olympics. I think Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert is in his third Olympics. These guys have been
Speaker 1: playing together forever, so they already have the con familiarity
Speaker 1: amongst each other, amongst their teams.
Speaker 3: They already have that.
Speaker 1: We don't have that, but we're so much better than
Speaker 1: everybody that it kind of doesn't matter. But once you
Speaker 1: find the rotations, the rotations are what they are. Let's
Speaker 1: not combat the mistake that Jason Tatum was out with.
Speaker 1: Oh now this guy isn't playing. Now that guy isn't
Speaker 1: like what we're doing. And so I actually totally disagree
Speaker 1: with that. I think we know, like if Joel's going
Speaker 1: to be out of lineup, then Joel's out of the lineup.
Speaker 1: But then you start the next day like what what
Speaker 1: what are we really doing? I don't get it, Like
Speaker 1: it's one of those things to me that feels like, man,
Speaker 1: we got to keep everybody happy, and in turn, everybody
Speaker 1: ends up unhappy. That's what it feels like to me.
Speaker 1: You know, then Kd's coming off the bench, which I'm
Speaker 1: fine with KD. KD is KD, and if KD want
Speaker 1: to start, KD should start. But like Cake came out
Speaker 1: of saying, k K is in his fourth Olympics twelve sixteen, yeah,
Speaker 1: k is in his fourth Olympics. So with him being
Speaker 1: in his fourth Olympics. He's seen it all. He ain't
Speaker 1: tripping like I've seen it all. I've started, I'm the
Speaker 1: leading scorer. If I'm coming off the bench, who cares?
Speaker 1: All right, fine, so he ain't tripping. Cool, So that's
Speaker 1: one less guy in the Star lineup that you have
Speaker 1: to you don't have to worry about because he is
Speaker 1: in the start.
Speaker 3: He's cool with not being in.
Speaker 1: The Star lineup because if he wasn't cool, he's being
Speaker 1: in the Star lineup.
Speaker 3: It's Kevin Durant. So like, just lock the lineups here,
Speaker 3: the whole.
Speaker 1: Switching this guy out. Now, this guy ain't gonna play
Speaker 1: this game. That guy like what we doing. So I
Speaker 1: totally disagree with that. And as I said, just from
Speaker 1: the outside looking in, it just comes off as like
Speaker 1: we made a mistake as a coaching staff as opposed
Speaker 1: to just the mistake that we made. This is what
Speaker 1: it is and moving on. You know, I'm combat with
Speaker 1: all right, now, this guy ain't playing. JT goes from
Speaker 1: out of the Star line out of the rotation at all,
Speaker 1: zero mince to the Star lineup. That don't make him
Speaker 1: feel good because then it's like, oh this is the story.
Speaker 1: Now I'm all of a sudden, the star lineup. I'm
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum, right, It's almost like, oh, I'm giving you this,
Speaker 1: so you don't feel better?
Speaker 3: Like that.
Speaker 1: Don't make him feel good it. Actually, I'm sure it
Speaker 1: probably made him feel worse about it, like, oh, now
Speaker 1: I'm starting. And so I just disagree with what's going
Speaker 1: on with the lineup stuff like get the lineups, lock
Speaker 1: the lineups in, lock the rotations in. We know who star,
Speaker 1: we know who, go and go with it. But somebody
Speaker 1: else in the lineup today nuke got them again.
Speaker 3: We're good enough to get away with it because we're
Speaker 3: just more superior than everyone.
Speaker 1: Team USA Basketball, best in the world, barna, no question.
Speaker 1: So we get away with it. But just because we
Speaker 1: get away with it don't make it right. And I
Speaker 1: think it's wrong. I totally disagree with it. But we
Speaker 1: three and oh. But guess what if our rotations were
Speaker 1: locked in? You know what, our record would be three
Speaker 1: and oh because Rich is better. And as I said, so,
Speaker 1: if I'm coming into game one, the two players that
Speaker 1: naturally aren't playing are d White and Tyrese Holliburn. It's
Speaker 1: no knock to either one of those guys. But just
Speaker 1: look at everything else in front of you. Then as
Speaker 1: you go through the tournament, if you're like, ah, I
Speaker 1: think we specifically need to get Derek White in for X,
Speaker 1: like we need to get him into the rotation because
Speaker 1: he provides X, then you do that. But to start,
Speaker 1: probably those two guys that don't play Olympic rookies. Steph's
Speaker 1: an Olympic but STEP's is Steph Olympic rookies, right, That
Speaker 1: to me is a given. So when all things considered,
Speaker 1: my starting lineup for Team USA would be Drew Holliday
Speaker 1: at the one, Steph at the two, KD at the three,
Speaker 1: Bron at the four, and a D at the five.
Speaker 1: My closing lineup, that's the one that I'm not hell
Speaker 1: bent throwing on who's closing because whoever we are so good,
Speaker 1: whoever's rolling is rolling. You find a group that rolls
Speaker 1: and you want to close with that group, no problem,
Speaker 1: you can't go wrong. It's twelve of the best players
Speaker 1: in the world, so you really can't get it wrong.
Speaker 1: Who's rolling for closing? Put our start lineup, like set
Speaker 1: the start lineup. And by the way, if Kad wanted
Speaker 1: to start, then book will be out of the Star lineup,
Speaker 1: and that's fine because it's Kevin Durant, so I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's a little crazy. Nonetheless, I'm loving watching it. Three
Speaker 1: and no baby. Shout out the Team USA. As I said,
Speaker 1: we're about halfway through the Olympic tournament, which means the
Speaker 1: Metal Round is now about to begin and the pool
Speaker 1: play is over.
Speaker 3: Eight teams have gone home, eight teams aren't moving on,
Speaker 3: and so USA will start off versus Brazil.
Speaker 1: First game in the Metal Round, I think we mopped
Speaker 1: them by forty no problem.
Speaker 3: It's great to see the Brazilians get there.
Speaker 1: A lot of Brazilians shout out to Gie Santos, young fella,
Speaker 1: praying for Brazil, representing this country.
Speaker 3: I love to see it. They standing no chance.
Speaker 1: They'll lose about thirty five or forty point and Team
Speaker 1: US will move on.
Speaker 3: To the to the.
Speaker 1: Semi finals because quite frankly, Brazil just don't have enough
Speaker 1: a little older. So a couple of guys a little
Speaker 1: older on the team. Uh no more, Barbosa.
Speaker 3: No more and d V.
Speaker 1: It's kind of you know, they gotta build a young
Speaker 1: talent backup, so they stand no chance.
Speaker 3: We understand that.
Speaker 1: I think the matchup we're almost excited about to start
Speaker 1: off the metal rounds is Canada France, although I quite
Speaker 1: frankly don't think France is good enough. I think Francis
Speaker 1: guard play isn't good enough for Canada. Canada has Lou
Speaker 1: Dort who's a great defender to guard, the best player
Speaker 1: for Canada for France, the best wing guards for Frank
Speaker 1: Shay Gilges, Alexander is on another level. And Canada's doing
Speaker 1: what they're doing. Jamal murrh he's playing pretty bad right now.
Speaker 1: I think Jamal Murray's averaging like five points during the
Speaker 1: Olympics and Canada's doing what they're doing. However, where France
Speaker 1: could take advantage of Canada and what's ultimately going to
Speaker 1: be the reason Canada cannot even compete with Team USA
Speaker 1: is Canada on how the Biggs, Dwight Powe and Kelly Oline.
Speaker 1: Respect for both of those guys as basketball players, but
Speaker 1: they're not near good enough to compete with bam Outa Bayu,
Speaker 1: Joe LMB.
Speaker 3: And Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: So when they play Team USA, if they were to
Speaker 1: get the Team USA, that right there alone can't compete.
Speaker 3: Just don't have a big play.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 3: France has the Biggs.
Speaker 1: But where you could take advantage of the size is
Speaker 1: with physicality, and they're not very physical, and so you
Speaker 1: got the lane, which is great, But I actually think
Speaker 1: Kelly Olynicck and Dwight Powell could push them around a bit.
Speaker 3: They should be able to push them around a bit.
Speaker 1: And so because they're not the most physical team, I think.
Speaker 3: That can help Canada out.
Speaker 1: And I think because of that, I got Canada moving
Speaker 1: on to the semi finals and beating France in Paris,
Speaker 1: which I really wanted to see Team USA be France
Speaker 1: in Paris because it just would be amazing to see
Speaker 1: Team USA.
Speaker 3: Like a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: So I played in these last two Olympics, and like,
Speaker 1: what you end up realizing is like the teams.
Speaker 3: That a think they coming.
Speaker 1: I think a few years back, France had won the
Speaker 1: World Championship or something, and they start acting as if
Speaker 1: they were kind of better than Team USA or they
Speaker 1: beat US in the World Championship, but something of that nature,
Speaker 1: and they kind of started acting as if they're on
Speaker 1: the same level of US, and that's just not a
Speaker 1: realistic thing when it comes to playing basketball. And so
Speaker 1: when you're going through these Olympics, in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: we lost the first game to France. Devin Booker, Drew
Speaker 1: Holliday and Chris Middleton, who all ended up being three
Speaker 1: very important pieces in our on Our team landed the
Speaker 1: day of the game because again it was coming off
Speaker 1: the COVID year, and then the season started at Christmas
Speaker 1: and so the finals went all the way to July
Speaker 1: Suns Bucks. They then flew right after the finals ended,
Speaker 1: landed on the day of the first game, no practice, nothing,
Speaker 1: and played. That's not why we lost. We lost because
Speaker 1: we lost. Don't really matter. We want to go medal.
Speaker 1: But when they won that first game, I'll never forget
Speaker 1: Evan forty, like, yeah, they're a good team. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're great players, but they're not a team. And then
Speaker 1: to go on and lose to us the gold medal game,
Speaker 1: we saw some tears and it was fun to watch.
Speaker 1: And as we stood up there on that podium getting
Speaker 1: them gold medals, all of a sudden, those individuals had
Speaker 1: come together as a team. And so I don't forget
Speaker 1: these things. So like when you play Olympic basketball for
Speaker 1: Team USA, like just like in the NBA, where you
Speaker 1: get rivals and you build up animosity towards the team.
Speaker 3: I feel that.
Speaker 1: So when I'm watching these games, I'm in it because
Speaker 1: I feel that, and I know the Beafs. Amongst certain
Speaker 1: teams that we got with people, I know them, and
Speaker 1: France is one of them, and so they'll lose to
Speaker 1: Canada and unfortunately Team USA won't be able to beat
Speaker 1: them in France. Greece Germany is another one of our
Speaker 1: quarterfinal matchups, and I think it's great that Greece made
Speaker 1: it to the metal rounds. Quite frankly, I don't think
Speaker 1: they have enough of Germany. Germany has looked to me
Speaker 1: the clear cut favorite for the number two for the
Speaker 1: silver medal, second best team in the Olympics. To me,
Speaker 1: they're clear cut number two, and so I think schroeders
Speaker 1: great in Olympic basketball. Franz Wagner has taken the next
Speaker 1: step dominating, and I just don't think Greece has enough
Speaker 1: to compete with that. Jannis is great, but I think
Speaker 1: I think Germany wins that one by double digits. Germany's
Speaker 1: playing incredibly well and I don't see that change until
Speaker 1: they play Team USA. And then we got Australia Serbia,
Speaker 1: and I think I'm going with Serbia in this one.
Speaker 1: I think Australia is possibly on the wrong side of
Speaker 1: the hill.
Speaker 3: They are getting a bit older. I think this is
Speaker 3: pay Patty.
Speaker 1: Mills for the field Olympics and Patty Mills, by the way,
Speaker 1: Patty Mills is one of the greatest Olympians from a
Speaker 1: basketball perspective of all times. What he does in fever basketball,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say Olympians, just in foeb fever basketball players.
Speaker 1: Patty Mills is incredible and he's still playing well. But
Speaker 1: I just think they're on the wrong side as far
Speaker 1: as their older guys are going, and I don't think
Speaker 1: the younger guys are quite there, like talented enough to
Speaker 1: then carry those older guys. So I got Australia losing
Speaker 1: in the quarterfinal Serbia. I think Joker's going to have
Speaker 1: a big night. Jock Londelle plays great for Australia, but
Speaker 1: Joker going to give him hell. And I just don't
Speaker 1: think Australia will have enough to peaked with Serbia. So
Speaker 1: I think your semi finals will look something like USA
Speaker 1: versus Serbia, Canada versus Germany, and then I think your
Speaker 1: final is Germany versus Team USA or USA walking with
Speaker 1: what would be our fifth straight gold medal twenty eight
Speaker 1: twelve sixteen twenty our fifth straight gold medal. You can
Speaker 1: book it. It's happening. You heard it here, first, second,
Speaker 1: and third, it's happening. Shout out the team USA again.
Speaker 3: And you know what.
Speaker 1: Also, shout out to our women's soccer team on the
Speaker 1: way to the quarterfinals. Excuse me, on the way to
Speaker 1: the semi finals taking down Japan today, Trinity Robin incredible
Speaker 1: took matters into our own hands after just missing a
Speaker 1: shot with the left foot. No, I'm confident in that.
Speaker 1: I'm coming right back to it. Go love to see it.
Speaker 1: So shout out to the ladies swimming Katie Ladecki still
Speaker 1: doing a shout out to her Shakari Richardson on her
Speaker 1: first metal, uh silver, silver, metal, incredible, Shakari. Happy to
Speaker 1: see that. So shout out to her. Goat bous the
Speaker 1: goat gotta love it. Shout out to Goat bows Sony,
Speaker 1: We see y'all. Shout out to the ladies women's gymnastic.
Speaker 1: Beautiful to see uh, Simone Simone, she just lives up
Speaker 1: to the height. And you know what, Shout out to
Speaker 1: Jonathan Owens uh, Simone's husband. And I say that in
Speaker 1: the least disrespectful way because jay Z is Beyonce's husband,
Speaker 1: I'm Hazel's husband, Stephans Ayisha's husband, b In Savannah's husband.
Speaker 1: And it's crazy that people try to, Oh, that's just
Speaker 1: Simone's husband.
Speaker 3: Number one.
Speaker 1: This man played in the NFL. It's a very hard
Speaker 1: thing to do, plays in the NFL. The disrespect that
Speaker 1: people try to speel, it's crazy to me, I don't
Speaker 1: understand it actually, like oh, he looked at him, like, uh,
Speaker 1: damn right, you're putting on your your wife's gold medal.
Speaker 1: Number one. He can't win a gold medal. They actually
Speaker 1: don't have football. He can't American football. He can't win
Speaker 1: a gold medal, and people try to make it look
Speaker 1: at him with her of course, like people are so dumb, man,
Speaker 1: and it'd be like people that aren't capable of accomplishing nothing. Well,
Speaker 1: then try to take someone who's accomplished his living his
Speaker 1: dream of playing in the NFL on a fifty three
Speaker 1: man roster year in a year out, living his dream, contributing,
Speaker 1: and people are gonna try to take it and make
Speaker 1: it like he's less than because his wife is more famous.
Speaker 1: What So shout out to Jonathan Owens. Love to see
Speaker 1: him with the gold medal and I love her tweet all.
Speaker 1: By the way, my wife is to go to some
Speaker 1: sweet something of that nature, he said.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: Bro to keep supporting your wife the way you do,
Speaker 1: y'all keep doing it. That man found the love of
Speaker 1: his life and support her, and y'all try to talk
Speaker 1: down on him. I don't understand it. I don't get it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, shout out to them. Go bobs man.
Speaker 3: She is incredible, I mean absolutely incredible. Had to win.
Speaker 1: And she did that. So it's been a treat watching
Speaker 1: watching the Olympians and last but not least, Kadi and
Speaker 1: bron what they are doing. From a statistical standpoint, they
Speaker 1: win this gold medal, you have to ask yourself to question,
Speaker 1: are they the greatest Olympians from a basketball perspective in
Speaker 1: the history of Team USA? And the answer to that
Speaker 1: question is yes, they are, along with Carmelo Anthony Melo.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, people tend to forget fast
Speaker 1: what Melo did on Team USA bronze medal in Athens,
Speaker 1: and I know everybody try, Oh that's a bronze medal
Speaker 1: because we team USA, but every other sport.
Speaker 3: Get right raids for bronze medal.
Speaker 1: Bronze medal, go go go. So Mellow is one thousand
Speaker 1: percent in that category along with KD, along with bron
Speaker 1: as soon as they close out by the way, they
Speaker 1: don't have to close out the gold medal. And they're
Speaker 1: still the greatest Olympian basketball players, those three that we've
Speaker 1: had in our program. But by the way, they're winning
Speaker 1: the gold medal, and those guys you can stamp it,
Speaker 1: book it. There's always these conversations about what can an
Speaker 1: Olympics do for a player heading into the season. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, man, when you come off the Olympics,
Speaker 1: like is it draining? Is it energizing? How do you
Speaker 1: fill out? And I'm gonna tell you this, when you
Speaker 1: come off the Olympics. For US, I can only speak
Speaker 1: for Team USA. I can't speak for Serbia or France
Speaker 1: because the reality is their teams just aren't as good
Speaker 1: as ours, so they have to do way more. When
Speaker 1: we come off the Olympics, what you come off of
Speaker 1: is you come off in great shape. You've been playing
Speaker 1: real game basketball through the summer and now you got
Speaker 1: five weeks to stay in shape and head into training camp.
Speaker 1: And when I tell you, you come into training camp rolling rolling,
Speaker 1: like I'm pretty certain both Olympics have played, and coming
Speaker 1: off that year, I was an all star because you
Speaker 1: come in in great shape, and when you come in
Speaker 1: in great shape, you hit the ground running man. And
Speaker 1: so I love Olympic years because you just being in
Speaker 1: that shape.
Speaker 3: When you come into the season already in game shape.
Speaker 1: Man, you start the season off, you got a head
Speaker 1: start on guys, and so for us, it isn't draining
Speaker 1: at all. For us, it's fun, it's energizing and you
Speaker 1: coming ready to go.
Speaker 3: Like I said, i can't speak for all the other teams, but.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, watch how these guys come into the season.
Speaker 1: They gonna come into the season guns blazing. And that's
Speaker 1: just that's what it does for us. And so actually
Speaker 1: I'll take it a step further. The last two times
Speaker 1: I played an Olympics, we also won a championship the
Speaker 1: following year twenty twenty two. Playing Olympics in twenty one,
Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty two season, yours truly twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: seventeen season. That's Kadie's first year championship. So I love
Speaker 1: the Olympics, baby, because you know, gold medal, two gold
Speaker 1: medals followed by a championship each time. You can't tell
Speaker 1: me nothing. And that's what Steph Curry about to do.
Speaker 1: He about to win a gold medal, follow it up
Speaker 1: with a championship and.
Speaker 3: Lies, but not least in the spirit of gold medals.
Speaker 3: As you can see underneath this gold medal rocking President Obama.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, Oakland Natives lifelong Warrior fan, has been nominated
Speaker 1: by the Democratic Party to run in the presidential election
Speaker 1: that's coming November. And there are so many stories coming
Speaker 1: out this thing, that thing. You won't get it from here.
Speaker 1: We're not tearing down here, We're uplifting here. And I
Speaker 1: want to send my love my support to Kamala and
Speaker 1: her team whoever she decides that she wants her VP
Speaker 1: to be goluck to them. But I just send my
Speaker 1: love and my support. Growing up in America as a
Speaker 1: young black man, it ain't easy. It is not easy
Speaker 1: growing up in America as a young black man. And
Speaker 1: I remember sitting in I grew up, I grew up
Speaker 1: having seizures and I used to have these like monthly
Speaker 1: checkups or every couple months. I would have to go
Speaker 1: to my neurologists. They would take blood, check my tegrata
Speaker 1: levels out. That was the medicine I was on for.
Speaker 1: I was actually on that medicine. I was twenty seven
Speaker 1: years old, and I remember sitting in the office with
Speaker 1: my dad and I was looking in the magazine and
Speaker 1: I asked my dad, I said, do you ever think
Speaker 1: we'll have a woman president?
Speaker 3: And he said not in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: I boohoo, crying because in that office, because that was
Speaker 1: the first time I had process like damn, my dad
Speaker 1: gonna die at some point, like when he said that,
Speaker 1: it crushed me, like what, like you just made me
Speaker 1: think about you no longer being here. I was crushed.
Speaker 1: But I remember that moment like it was yesterday. To
Speaker 1: not only have a woman in the running. We've seen
Speaker 1: it once with Hillary, but a black woman. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: And know, we not going to do the whole thing.
Speaker 1: She ain't this, She's not African American. She's stop it
Speaker 1: because you used black against her and she had the
Speaker 1: rise above that to become who she became.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna now use black against her.
Speaker 1: When it's convenient to try to tear her down.
Speaker 3: Wint Row like that. So you damned if you do,
Speaker 3: you damned if you don't.
Speaker 1: Not here, not anymore. So let's go at her black
Speaker 1: card by those that aren't black. That's an interesting one.
Speaker 1: How about that we're gonna go at someone and tell
Speaker 1: them that they're not really black.
Speaker 3: But I'm not black. That's an interesting one. So won't
Speaker 3: happen here.
Speaker 1: Sending all my love and support to our VP Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: Good luck in your race. It's the race of a lifetime.
Speaker 1: You achieved it. Now go be great. Be great on
Speaker 1: the campaign trail, be great in the debates, be great
Speaker 1: in your race to history your path.
Speaker 3: For a young black girl to see, wow, I can
Speaker 3: run for president, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: I got three daughters for them to just have the
Speaker 1: idea of wow, I could run for president one day.
Speaker 3: That's what she doing. That's incredible.
Speaker 1: To give that hope to young black brown girls around
Speaker 1: the world that you could possibly run for president one
Speaker 1: day too. Man, different, that's different. And Wen, they're gonna
Speaker 1: try and say you're not black. I don't think every
Speaker 1: young black girl who's watching her think that. I think
Speaker 1: they see her like, wow, that's me and how amazing
Speaker 1: is that? So I love it again, Sending our well
Speaker 1: my well wishes, my love, my support, Kamala Harris, you
Speaker 1: go girl, We love you. That's a rap from this
Speaker 1: episode of The Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 3: Peace Volume