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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. Training camp is underway.
Speaker 1: I am back home home from Japan, and we played
Speaker 1: two preseason games against the Washington Wizards, UM, two wins,
Speaker 1: and so we are ride in a five game winning
Speaker 1: street as you know, dating back to none other than
Speaker 1: whooping Jackson's Celtics. UM. They're in a bit of a
Speaker 1: bit of turmoil right now. Uh, not sure how the
Speaker 1: return to the finals looks, but you know, UM resiliency
Speaker 1: allows the teams to show their true character, so you know,
Speaker 1: we'll get to see the true character of the Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics led by none other than the young goat young
Speaker 1: next greatest, Jason Tatum UM and I think he will
Speaker 1: do an incredible job adjusting to everything that's going on
Speaker 1: leading his troops. But that's neither here nor there. Let's
Speaker 1: get right into it. The Doves trip to Japan. First off,
Speaker 1: absolutely amazing trip. UM. Japan's incredible, one of my favorite
Speaker 1: places in the world. The food is amazing, UM, the
Speaker 1: people are amazing. It's beautiful. It's like it's like New
Speaker 1: York City with Central Park all around it. What do
Speaker 1: I mean by that? It's very you know, you have
Speaker 1: the big buildings. You have some of the building very
Speaker 1: tight together like Times Square. Um. You know, you have
Speaker 1: the big city field. Fourteen million people in Tokyo if
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, UM, or somewhere near there. Only eight
Speaker 1: million people in New York. So to give you a
Speaker 1: perspective of the size of Tokyo. UM, very vibrant city,
Speaker 1: bunch of things to do, great shopping. The one thing
Speaker 1: that Tokyo has on New York City and probably just
Speaker 1: about any other place in the world is it has
Speaker 1: to be the cleanest place in the world. UM. I've
Speaker 1: heard Singapore it's clean like that. I've never been but Tokyo.
Speaker 1: If I dropped my stick on the ground, I pick
Speaker 1: it up, not dusted off, and eat the entire steak.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you walk you walk around outside in
Speaker 1: Tokyo and you don't see any trash cans and you
Speaker 1: don't see any trash. It's it's like the most incredible thing.
Speaker 1: Like you walk down the sidewalks and you know, like
Speaker 1: you like just go walk down the sidewalk. I guarantee
Speaker 1: you it's some like spotted and you know it's been
Speaker 1: dirty and none of that. Like I mean, it's so
Speaker 1: clean and it's just peaceful and like it's safe and
Speaker 1: you know it feels good like I mean, it was
Speaker 1: an amazing trip. And the Japanese fans, the Japanese people,
Speaker 1: they're so polite. I'm sure you all may have saw
Speaker 1: the video slash meme like video of James Wiseman free
Speaker 1: throw and where the crowd goes completely silent. It's almost
Speaker 1: like um, like a tennis match, you know when when
Speaker 1: when you're watching tennis and and and why the wild
Speaker 1: while the point is going on, everybody's silent and then
Speaker 1: once you know, once you know, once it breaks, everybody clapped,
Speaker 1: they cheer, and then it's silent. That's how the Japanese
Speaker 1: fans were when when you're shooting free throws. It was
Speaker 1: one of the most incredible things that I had seen.
Speaker 1: They're they're just super polite. Um, they're not very loud,
Speaker 1: Like they'll get excited about the play and then it
Speaker 1: goes back down. And that was a very interesting thing
Speaker 1: because the arena that we played in, which by the way,
Speaker 1: was the same arena that I had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: win and go medal in, which was very special. Um.
Speaker 1: The locker room that we had was actually the locker
Speaker 1: room that we pour champagne in and still smell like
Speaker 1: champagne in there. I hope y'all understand understood that reference.
Speaker 1: Uh Cleveland, Yeah, great reference, but absolutely incredible arena and
Speaker 1: it's huge, Like this arena seats six thousand people and
Speaker 1: it was sold out. But it's it's like the Japanese,
Speaker 1: they're just they have a totally different way of taking
Speaker 1: a game. And number one, there is no heckling. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, you go to games in America, people spend
Speaker 1: their hard earned money to hecko like, which I always
Speaker 1: think is a pretty impressive thing because you spend your money, um,
Speaker 1: that you worked so hard for to ultimately feel worse
Speaker 1: about yourself because in heckling, it's just bad energy. And
Speaker 1: no matter how you shake it, I don't care how
Speaker 1: you think it makes you feel. What it's doing in
Speaker 1: your brain and what it's doing in your psyche and
Speaker 1: and your mood, it can't be good because you're just
Speaker 1: sitting there heckling. So shout out to the hecklers. There
Speaker 1: were none of those in Japan, which was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: Should take take a note out of Japan's book, Japanese fans,
Speaker 1: You hecklers, you should really try to learn from them.
Speaker 1: But um, you know it was it was just a great,
Speaker 1: great opportunity for us to continue to grow the game
Speaker 1: of basketball globally too, for us to showcase our talents
Speaker 1: in another country. Um. Rocket In was an absolute great host.
Speaker 1: Um And you know Rocketing is a partner of the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors and they were absolutely incredible. My friend
Speaker 1: Mickey and everything that he's done to you know, just
Speaker 1: continuing to grow the game of basketball in Japan, it's
Speaker 1: absolutely huge. I had the opportunity to attend a court
Speaker 1: dedication where it refurbished the court, um, which was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: I had the chance to, uh, you know, interact with
Speaker 1: some of the some of the kids over there that's
Speaker 1: taken up the game of basketball. You know you all
Speaker 1: probably saw um where I swatted the shot. My mom
Speaker 1: my mom text me and she said, did you apologize him? Like,
Speaker 1: apologize for what? Mon? She like, apologized to the kid
Speaker 1: shot you blocked. She was like, I saw you like
Speaker 1: kind of like do this. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: when I swatted that shot, that ball went straight at
Speaker 1: the back and hit hit him. It's actually a Warriors
Speaker 1: fan since course side Um it hit him right in
Speaker 1: the back of the head, in the back of the
Speaker 1: neck and um or yeah, in the back of the
Speaker 1: head and the back of his neck. And I mean
Speaker 1: the ball was flying, so I turned my back, but
Speaker 1: I still was able to catch it, and it was
Speaker 1: it was a bit rough, um, And so I apologize
Speaker 1: for that. But that's why I was doing that, not
Speaker 1: necessarily to apologize for the fan the I mean, not
Speaker 1: the fans. Apologize to the kid. Now, I'm not apologizing
Speaker 1: for that at all. That that's what's supposed to happen.
Speaker 1: But that was great. Then we had Um, we had
Speaker 1: fan night that same day. I'm sure you all saw
Speaker 1: Stephan Clay's three point um experience as I would like
Speaker 1: to call it, that everyone had the chance to take in.
Speaker 1: That was absolutely amazing to see. Like, you know, the
Speaker 1: reason that's so incredible to me is because, like, no
Speaker 1: matter how great of a shooter, those guys are, like
Speaker 1: you have off nights And let me explain to you
Speaker 1: that day we had the court dedication, I think Clay
Speaker 1: had another appearance. Um, you know, it was a long
Speaker 1: process to get to the to finally get to the
Speaker 1: moment that you all saw the three point contest. It
Speaker 1: was an entire day thing. So you know, we didn't
Speaker 1: have practice that day, so you know, those guys didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to stretch, they didn't get a chance
Speaker 1: to warm up. It was just like sitting there watching
Speaker 1: all this stuff. Alreatists time to shoot, and I think
Speaker 1: they gave them two minutes and then you saw what
Speaker 1: you saw, which was Steph go absolutely ballistic and then
Speaker 1: Clay pick it up and go absolutely ballistic. And why
Speaker 1: was that incredible to me? I'll tell you why. It's
Speaker 1: incredible to me because, like I said, no matter how
Speaker 1: great those guys shoot. You have to be a you know,
Speaker 1: a showman to to do that. Like when when you
Speaker 1: when you go and you haven't stretched and you haven't
Speaker 1: warmed up and all of these things in the day
Speaker 1: that we had and then you can go do that.
Speaker 1: That's like, no, I just need to give this crowd
Speaker 1: something to cheer about. I just need to give them
Speaker 1: something to be happy about. And in order to do that, like,
Speaker 1: it's more to that then just going to shoot the
Speaker 1: basketball because you're a good shooter. That's like, that's the
Speaker 1: thing that actually wins you championships. That's the thing that
Speaker 1: UM actually make those guys who they are. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's a crowd here, Oh they want to show, no problem,
Speaker 1: I'll do that. Like that's a whole another level of mastery,
Speaker 1: like when you can do that thing. And so shout
Speaker 1: out to Stephan McClay. That was an absolutely incredible thing
Speaker 1: to watch UM. Like Clay said, I absolutely loved watching
Speaker 1: them humble JP, Jordan Pool that is that was fun.
Speaker 1: And then Jordan Pool tried to take the passive aggressive
Speaker 1: role like, oh, they're only the best shooters in the world,
Speaker 1: but you weren't talking like that before. JP so that
Speaker 1: was absolutely good to see and that was an incredible night.
Speaker 1: Um from those two preseason games, well, a couple of
Speaker 1: takeaways that I had. Number one Game one, James Wiseman.
Speaker 1: I know everyone's hype about the James Wiseman game that
Speaker 1: he had in Game one, I thought his game was beautiful.
Speaker 1: That he played, I thought he played with patients. Um,
Speaker 1: he ran the floor, sprinted, he defended well, has some
Speaker 1: good verticalities. The thing that I was most impressed by,
Speaker 1: and I know no one will speak about this and
Speaker 1: no one will talk about it, but it's very important
Speaker 1: for James Wiseman because those are the things that get
Speaker 1: you on the floor. It's not oh man, he had
Speaker 1: a monster dunk the first play. Although the way to
Speaker 1: set a tone, big fella way to let everybody know,
Speaker 1: I'm back, I'm here, I'm here, now, I'm healthy. Let's go.
Speaker 1: The beautiful tone that the big fellas set. But what
Speaker 1: I was most impressed with, and you may not have
Speaker 1: been able to see this on the TV, and that's okay,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna tell you James Wiseman, the way he
Speaker 1: communicated on the defensive end, the commands that he was
Speaker 1: calling out with loud as he was talking. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure James Wiseman knew exactly what he was calling or
Speaker 1: knew exactly what he was doing. But what I am
Speaker 1: sure of is that when you hear someone talking like
Speaker 1: that behind you, it doesn't matter if they know what
Speaker 1: they're doing, You're gonna feel like they know what they're
Speaker 1: they know what they're doing because of the confidence that
Speaker 1: they're speaking with. How loud he was, the volume that
Speaker 1: he's speaking with, and so that's what I thought was
Speaker 1: absolutely beautiful. Um. I hope and I know he will
Speaker 1: continue to keep that up. He's been able to learn
Speaker 1: from one of the best attic in Klan Luni, and
Speaker 1: Luna is an absolutely incredible communicator for a guy who
Speaker 1: doesn't talk a ton and didn't used to talk at all.
Speaker 1: Always been an incredible communicator, although with Loon we had
Speaker 1: to kind of pull it out of him, like hey man,
Speaker 1: you're a look quiet, like we know you know what
Speaker 1: you're doing, and we know you know the car, but
Speaker 1: we need you to speak up more. And he's one
Speaker 1: of the best communicators around. And James Wiseman has had
Speaker 1: him to study from, and you can tell he's been
Speaker 1: studying and see You never know when the guy's hurt.
Speaker 1: Like obviously, you want the need to be healthy, You
Speaker 1: want the explosion to be there, the quickness, all of
Speaker 1: those things. You want to see those things, but you
Speaker 1: never really know how they're answer mentally, because that's the
Speaker 1: part that you really can't simulate. But what I do
Speaker 1: know is James Wiseman has been watching a ton of film.
Speaker 1: He's been taking a lot of things in um as
Speaker 1: his time off has gone his rehab process, as he's
Speaker 1: gone through his rehab process, and it showed and like
Speaker 1: I said, it did not show from the dunk, It
Speaker 1: did not show from the twenty and nine. It showed
Speaker 1: from his communication on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: And that's gonna be a very big thing for him
Speaker 1: to continue to get get minutes, for him to continue
Speaker 1: for him to help this team. UH healthy, James Wiseman
Speaker 1: communicative James Wiseman, and James Wiseman who's using those God
Speaker 1: given abilities that he has only helps this team win
Speaker 1: another championship. And it was absolutely beautiful to see. So
Speaker 1: the way to play wise, that was absolutely amazing. P
Speaker 1: B J has been shooting the lights out of the
Speaker 1: ball those first two games. Absolutely incredible to see. Shout
Speaker 1: out to p b J. Keeps shooting the ball. Uh,
Speaker 1: And those were a couple of my takeaways. Obviously, Uh,
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson didn't play. UM looking forward to getting Clay
Speaker 1: back out there on October nine, as he himself said,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that. Uh. You know, uh, you know, Rick,
Speaker 1: who's been incredible, uh and managing all of our processes
Speaker 1: and and just managing our bodies, decided that, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to play Clay right away. And when
Speaker 1: you got a guy like Rick in your corner, you listen.
Speaker 1: You don't try to overstep that. Especially this preseason. There's
Speaker 1: no time for heroes. And so hopefully we'll get a
Speaker 1: chance to see Clay next weekend. Looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: But overall, the first two preseason games, I thought they
Speaker 1: were absolutely fun. It's kind of crazy to think, man,
Speaker 1: we just finished playing at the end of June and
Speaker 1: this September and we're playing the game again. Absolutely and
Speaker 1: saying nonetheless, like I said before, when you're doing that
Speaker 1: and you want a championship, it's totally different than when
Speaker 1: you get to the finals and lose, as I have
Speaker 1: experienced before. So we're back uh to and on a
Speaker 1: preseason means nothing, but means something because who wants to lose.
Speaker 1: No one ever wants to lose. So and shout out
Speaker 1: to the young guys. Uh there's young guys. We were
Speaker 1: losing that game at that second game in Japan and
Speaker 1: our young guys came in and PBJ four ft five
Speaker 1: from three. If I'm not mistaken, um you know, if
Speaker 1: not four ft five from three last game. He was
Speaker 1: definitely four ft five from three the first game. One
Speaker 1: of the games. But the way those young guys came in,
Speaker 1: uh Q Weatherspoon, they came in, they brought energy. Ryan
Speaker 1: Rollins was absolutely incredible. Dante Defencenzo absolutely been loving what
Speaker 1: Dante is doing on the floor. Just another guy that
Speaker 1: can shoot the ball, knows how to play, gets his
Speaker 1: nose dirty on the defensive, and rebounds the basketball. That
Speaker 1: was absolutely great to see. Jamichael Green another guy who
Speaker 1: just gets it, understands it. Didn't quite get a ton
Speaker 1: of shots up, as that will come as people learn
Speaker 1: figure out how to play with guys, but that's gonna
Speaker 1: help us a ton of shooting ability, So looking forward
Speaker 1: to That's overall positive notes for the doves leaving Japan
Speaker 1: and returning home. And you know we said all along,
Speaker 1: our training camp really starts now. We had two days
Speaker 1: of practice before we went over to Japan, and over
Speaker 1: in Japan everything is just kind of haywire. So we
Speaker 1: get to finally lock in on camp. I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to that. UM. Absolutely incredible start to it, the first
Speaker 1: few days that we had and going to Japan. So
Speaker 1: looking forward to really lock him back in tomorrow, UM
Speaker 1: for for our practice. That will be fun. Some other
Speaker 1: notes from the preseason. Ben Simmons back after four hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy days. I saw, Um. It was good to
Speaker 1: see Ben get back out there on the court. First
Speaker 1: first first bucket was a dunk. Was actually absolutely incredible
Speaker 1: to see. Um. I think Ben is gonna have a
Speaker 1: great year. With Ben's passing ability, the shooting that he
Speaker 1: has around him and re irving Kevin Durant, Joe Harris,
Speaker 1: Seth Curry. Uh just I mean that type of shooting
Speaker 1: around Ben Simmons, the way he can play mate, I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have a good year. I challenged Ben
Speaker 1: to not get outside of himself and want to prove
Speaker 1: to everyone else what they want to see. Forget that, bro,
Speaker 1: you are All Star, three time All Star, All NBA performer.
Speaker 1: You're Ben Simmons for a reason. Be Ben Simmons and
Speaker 1: be the absolute best Ben Simmons. You can be funk
Speaker 1: with everybody else talking about I want to see him
Speaker 1: shooting three. I want to see him shoot a jump shot.
Speaker 1: What if he can't And if he can't, oh well,
Speaker 1: guess what he can do. And that's what I want
Speaker 1: to talk about, what he can do. I'm actually not
Speaker 1: about to go into it, but you get the point.
Speaker 1: What can Ben Simmons do? That's what Ben Simmons need
Speaker 1: to do. Forget what y'all talking about it, what you
Speaker 1: want to see, you don't matter. What matters is what
Speaker 1: he'd go out there and produced. Man average in eighteen
Speaker 1: seven and seven. Y'all talk about here bump stop it.
Speaker 1: Ironically Russell's book Average eighteen seven seven last year and
Speaker 1: y'all said he's a bump. So quite frankly, guys, you
Speaker 1: you're incredible because eighteen seven and seven and you're a bump.
Speaker 1: I think that's a kudos to you. So great to
Speaker 1: see Ben Simmons back out there on the floor. Also,
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray back out there on the floor after five
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy days. I think it was Uh to
Speaker 1: see him back out there on the floor is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: I feel like Denver right now is kind of in
Speaker 1: that sweet spotty where Joker's humming. You got Jamal Murray
Speaker 1: coming back there, trying to put the pieces around those
Speaker 1: guys M PJ coming back where you know right now
Speaker 1: is that time for them to start making that push,
Speaker 1: to make that next jump. And Jamal Murray, as we know,
Speaker 1: having your point guard, um, one of your French Hose
Speaker 1: players back in the fold, that really makes that realistic.
Speaker 1: So happy to see him back out there. Wishing Jamal
Speaker 1: Murray hell the season, an incredible season, welcome back to
Speaker 1: the floor. And everyone wants to hear about these Laker rumors, Um,
Speaker 1: what are they? Russell Westbrook almost got traded before camp?
Speaker 1: Who cares he didn't? Russell Russell Westbrook might get traded.
Speaker 1: Who cares he hasn't? Um. I think for for me, uh,
Speaker 1: the Lakers, what will be interesting, it's just to see
Speaker 1: how everything meshes together. Um, you know who's gonna play?
Speaker 1: What position? Does a D play the five? Does a
Speaker 1: D stay at the four? Does Lebron moved to the four?
Speaker 1: Does he stay at the three? Uh? Does Patrick Beverley start?
Speaker 1: Does he not? Um? Does Kendrick Nuhs? Like? What? What's what?
Speaker 1: I think? You know, you just have to let the
Speaker 1: preseason play out with those guys, uh and kind of
Speaker 1: see how it goes. But as I've always said before,
Speaker 1: you got a team with Lebron James and Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: and Russell Rustbrook, never count them out. Gotta take them serious,
Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens from there. Got d Ham
Speaker 1: in their culture. You d Ham's bringing a different toughness,
Speaker 1: bringing a different flavor, um, a different confidence. You know,
Speaker 1: especially being a former player, a champion, you can speak
Speaker 1: from a different place to those guys. And so I
Speaker 1: hope the ham do well. Obviously they got my brother
Speaker 1: Juant over there, always sharing for for want as well.
Speaker 1: So you know, we'll see what happens with the Lakers.
Speaker 1: But stop all of Russell Westbrook talk that man is
Speaker 1: a Laker. They're trying to make it work, and it
Speaker 1: can work when you are as great for players as
Speaker 1: those guys have, it can work. And then I and
Speaker 1: patch your Breverly to the fall. You're just going to
Speaker 1: win more games. That's been proven. All you gotta do
Speaker 1: is watch the team's patch. The brevity is play it on.
Speaker 1: That is a proven fact. So that is it on
Speaker 1: the Lakers. That is it on this episode of The
Speaker 1: Draymond Green Show. Stay tuned this week as we have
Speaker 1: a guest interview coming this week Thursday. It will be
Speaker 1: an exciting one. Should I drop the name? Should I
Speaker 1: drop the name? Maybe? Not looking forward to having Patrick
Speaker 1: Bradley on the show. First team, Oh defense, This will
Speaker 1: be a defensive conversation, but what it would also be
Speaker 1: and most importantly, it's a basketball conversation because in order
Speaker 1: to play defense like that like this, you gotta know
Speaker 1: what's going on and you gotta know it in a
Speaker 1: major way. So I'm looking forward to that conversation. I've
Speaker 1: heard a ton about um Patrick Beverley and how smart
Speaker 1: he is and looking forward to picking his brain and
Speaker 1: just talking about his journey. Y'all make sure you're tuned
Speaker 1: in later this week. That's a rap from this episode
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