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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: We haven't had an episode in a while, and that's
Speaker 1: on me. As some of you may have seen aiss
Speaker 1: away doing inside the NBA, which also led to a
Speaker 1: pretty amazing interview.
Speaker 3: In my the inner child in me is still I.
Speaker 1: Ecstatic on a whole another level with this interview that
Speaker 1: was done. Can't wait for yall to check it out.
Speaker 1: It was absolutely incredible fun to do. I wanted to
Speaker 1: go at that interview with a little different twist and
Speaker 1: most interviews you may have seen with this person or
Speaker 1: what you may have thought the conversation would have been.
Speaker 1: But it was a fun, fun interview. I hope you
Speaker 1: all enjoyed that when we drop it as much as
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it when it was happening. Absolutely incredible, and
Speaker 1: as always in great interviews, I learned a ton and
Speaker 1: that was amazing for me. So make sure you subscribe
Speaker 1: to our YouTube channel so you don't miss that and
Speaker 1: some other things we may have coming down the pipeline
Speaker 1: during these playoffs. But let's get into it. Timber was
Speaker 1: absolutely annihilated the din Weer Nuggets fifteen to seventy and
Speaker 1: forces a Game seven in Denver, and the game was
Speaker 1: pretty much dominated by a couple runs that the timber
Speaker 1: Woo was went on.
Speaker 3: Denver started off great, I think they went.
Speaker 1: Up nine to two, eleven or two, something of that nature,
Speaker 1: and then from that point on the Denver Nuggets went
Speaker 1: on twenty two to zero run in the first quarter
Speaker 1: and that kind of took control of the game. And
Speaker 1: I thought that was very interesting to see because usually
Speaker 1: when you're going into a game like that, a game six,
Speaker 1: close out game on the road, you expect the team
Speaker 1: that's facing the close out to punch first. And I
Speaker 1: saw where coach Malone said they punched first, second, third,
Speaker 1: or fourth, and I actually disagree. The Nuggets actually punched
Speaker 1: first with their first start nine to eleven to two,
Speaker 1: whatever it was, because the goal is always you want
Speaker 1: to make them take the first time out, and so
Speaker 1: the Nuggets did that. They made them take the first
Speaker 1: time out, and Minnesota came out poised, calm, and they
Speaker 1: fought back. And not only did they fight back, but
Speaker 1: once they cut the lead and they tied the game,
Speaker 1: you're like, all right, now, let's see where you go
Speaker 1: from here, right like then forgott to punch back, and
Speaker 1: then Minnesota punched again, and Minnesota punched again and again
Speaker 1: and again and again and again. And I thought that
Speaker 1: was very interesting, and it said a lot about the
Speaker 1: Minnesota timber woolves, but not more than kind of already
Speaker 1: have learned. Uh, we've learned that at Man. It's taking
Speaker 1: this as a leader, as a vocal leader. And I know,
Speaker 1: I know Mike Conley is a leader on that team.
Speaker 1: Mike Conley is the veteran leader of that team, no doubt,
Speaker 1: no questions asked. Mike Conley is the veteran leader. But
Speaker 1: Mike Conley is not the leader of that team. The
Speaker 1: leader of that team is Anthony Edwards. And it's interesting,
Speaker 1: as I've told you all, we've been in that situation before,
Speaker 1: where when we were young guys and we first won
Speaker 1: our first championship. I was year three, Clay year four,
Speaker 1: Steph year five. By no means were we the veteran
Speaker 1: leaders of that team, of the twenty seventeen team, of
Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen teams, twenty twenty two, we were, but
Speaker 1: all those years prior, we weren't the veteran leaders of
Speaker 1: that team by any stretching imagination, but we were the
Speaker 1: leaders of that team of those teams.
Speaker 3: And what we're watching is a man is.
Speaker 1: One million percent the leader of that team, and that
Speaker 1: team takes on his personality. And you know, that team
Speaker 1: doesn't take on Mike Conley's personality. The team takes on
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards personality. Now, I'm sure Anthony Edwards leans on
Speaker 1: Mike Conley a lot, because what Anthony Edwards doesn't have
Speaker 1: is the experience Anthony Edwards don't have. I've been down
Speaker 1: in a series and had to fight back.
Speaker 3: He don't have. I've seen this X amount of times.
Speaker 3: Mike Conley has that.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure Mike is given tit, bitch, and like, yo,
Speaker 1: look for this and think about that and that's incredible.
Speaker 1: You got to appreciate that because as a young leader
Speaker 1: that a man is and has become, you need some
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 1: It's hard to do it without that. You have to
Speaker 1: have someone that can give you that. And I've spoke
Speaker 1: about it. Man winning the media battle, you know, winning
Speaker 1: the battles on the court, I've spoke about all of that.
Speaker 1: You saw last night.
Speaker 3: If you watch any other stuff after the game, a man.
Speaker 1: Speech to Cat and he tells Kat, Cat, all day,
Speaker 1: we've been telling you, just make the right play, make
Speaker 1: the right play. Swing the ball, somebody up, swing the
Speaker 1: ball quick, make the right play, he said, And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you tonight, you made the right play every
Speaker 1: single time. Now, if you look on at the look
Speaker 1: on cat face, you could take that one or two ways.
Speaker 1: You could take that ass like why he talking to
Speaker 1: me like that? He's trying to big bro. Me could
Speaker 1: take it as that, or you can take that ass
Speaker 1: The young fella is pumping confidence into these guys. And
Speaker 1: for a guy like Cat, who has not won anything
Speaker 1: in eight nine years whatever he's been in the league,
Speaker 1: has not had a leader like that in eight or
Speaker 1: nine years that he's been in the league outside of
Speaker 1: the one year with Jimmy Butler that went miserably for him,
Speaker 1: appreciating being appreciated when it wasn't one of the best
Speaker 1: games of cat career by what people will say the
Speaker 1: standards are of a best game, because what people would
Speaker 1: say the standards are is Cat has had forty and twenty,
Speaker 1: He's had this, he's done that, he's had fifty, all
Speaker 1: of that. But what he did for that team yesterday,
Speaker 1: facing close out, facing the elimination, the end of their season,
Speaker 1: what he did was he came out to set a tone.
Speaker 1: How did he set the tone? He set a tone
Speaker 1: when he first started guarding Joker at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the game. You saw right away that Joker was being
Speaker 1: guarded this time he was being guarded this game. You
Speaker 1: saw right away that it wasn't going to be as
Speaker 1: easy as it was in Game five when he had
Speaker 1: Rudy on him, and you know, I was on TNT.
Speaker 1: I said then, like, yo, they got to go back
Speaker 1: to Cat guarding him, like Cat can guard him now. No,
Speaker 1: he's not going to shut him down, no, none of that,
Speaker 1: but he's going to make a tough fur on him.
Speaker 1: And that saw all you can ask for him to
Speaker 1: make it tougher on Joker than his ben. So here's
Speaker 1: the thing. Joker can't really back Cat down. Cat is
Speaker 1: way stronger than Rudy, so Joker is trying to back
Speaker 1: him down.
Speaker 3: He can't really.
Speaker 1: So if you pay attention anytime that he get Cat
Speaker 1: in a bad way, it's when they get Joker on
Speaker 1: the move, and they got him on the move, and
Speaker 1: now he gets Cat in a bad way.
Speaker 3: He gets some finishes, some and once. Now.
Speaker 1: So if I'm Denver, my mindset has to be with
Speaker 1: that matchup. A few things. One, as I said, we
Speaker 1: need to get him on the move more. When he
Speaker 1: got Cat on him, try to get Cat in some
Speaker 1: foul trouble because Cat will file, So let's get him
Speaker 1: on the move. How about this, were sitting here breaking
Speaker 1: down Cat having to stop Joker, who's a sinner and
Speaker 1: the defensive player of the year is on your team
Speaker 1: and he is center. Very interesting how the Cookie crumbles.
Speaker 3: Wow, unbelievable. It's like.
Speaker 1: If Marcus one defensive player of the year back then
Speaker 1: what she did and then they're like, but Jalen, you
Speaker 1: gotta go guard Steph. But Marcus Smart's the point guard,
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart. You want defensive player of the Year, you
Speaker 1: got guard Steph right, Like, yeah, So that's an interesting
Speaker 1: little I mean, that's just a little interesting. You can't
Speaker 1: help as I'm a basketball fan, all right, Like I'm
Speaker 1: a basketball fan, and I tell y'all all the time,
Speaker 1: I love.
Speaker 3: The game within the game more than anything.
Speaker 1: When I'm watching these games, I'm watching the game within
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 3: And I can't help but notice.
Speaker 1: Like there's a center that one defensive player of the
Speaker 1: Year for the fourth time, for the fourth time, Todd
Speaker 1: with the likes of the great Hall of Fame Ben Wallace,
Speaker 1: the great Hall of Fame, the kem Ba Mutumbo, ahead
Speaker 1: of the likes of the great David Robinson, the great Haquen,
Speaker 1: the dream of Lojahwan, the great Dwight Howard, like ahead
Speaker 1: of the likes of those guys. And we had a
Speaker 1: center and were acting kat go guard the center, and
Speaker 1: we got the rainy four time defensive player of the
Speaker 1: Year on our team. Now, for our loyal subscribers and listeners,
Speaker 1: were always appreciative of you. I hope if there's one
Speaker 1: thing you've taken away from this podcast, it's to watch
Speaker 1: the games within the game. And if you've learned that,
Speaker 1: then you're sitting here just like me. You can't start
Speaker 1: to believe that the two the Defensive Player of the
Speaker 1: Year in the MVP matched up in the second round.
Speaker 1: And we saw years ago guards stop garden guards. Like
Speaker 1: we saw that years ago, we spoke about that. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen centers stop guarden centers. So we've reached new
Speaker 1: territory in the NBA. We should all clap it up
Speaker 1: because we're seeing a change in the NBA. We're now
Speaker 1: seeing centers not guard centers anymore. And if there was
Speaker 1: some validation of the war the MVP, the Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year.
Speaker 3: For all the marbles.
Speaker 1: What we paid to see, like you pay to see
Speaker 1: the Defensive Player of the Year versus MVP. Sorry, guys,
Speaker 1: you can't get that.
Speaker 3: That to me.
Speaker 1: Is interesting in itself, but took me a little off topic.
Speaker 1: Let me get back to what I was talking about.
Speaker 1: But I can't help but think about that one, all right,
Speaker 1: So let's get back to that. So let's get Kat
Speaker 1: on the move. And also another thing that I want
Speaker 1: to do if I'm Denver is I want to run
Speaker 1: some ball screens with Aaron Gordon and.
Speaker 3: Joker Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 1: When you come set the screen, I want you to
Speaker 1: set a screen like you're setting a screen for Jamal Murray.
Speaker 1: Set it and hold it. Make Kat have to really
Speaker 1: try to navigate that screen. What's going to happen is
Speaker 1: you're going to get a switch. Okay, now that we
Speaker 1: got our switch, now we work. Now we got the
Speaker 1: Rain and Defensive Player of the Year on the Rain
Speaker 1: and MVP, and that's the matchup we all pay to see.
Speaker 1: And that's the matchup. If you differ, you pay the
Speaker 1: seat because that's the matchup that's going to allow you
Speaker 1: to take advantage of the Minnesota Timberwolves defense. It ain't
Speaker 1: Nas read on Joker, it ain't Cat on Joker. Can
Speaker 1: Joker get off on them, Yes, but it's tougher. Their agile,
Speaker 1: they're mobile there, they're active, they're pressed up. It's just
Speaker 1: a different thing. Everyone in the NBA has some way
Speaker 1: they don't.
Speaker 3: Like being guarded.
Speaker 1: I don't care how great that player is, they have
Speaker 1: something some way that they don't like being guarded. And
Speaker 1: so Cat has length, Nas has length, but they're agile.
Speaker 1: Jokers struggle more with that than what Rudy Gobert has
Speaker 1: just length but not agile, not pressing up because he's
Speaker 1: not fast enough.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 1: I'm doing running loose more screen and role with Aaron
Speaker 1: Gordon and Joker now spoke about this also on TNT.
Speaker 1: When Aaron Gordon got into foul trouble in game five,
Speaker 1: it was the best thing that happened to the Denver
Speaker 1: Nuggets because it immediately made Joke Jokers matchup. Go Beart
Speaker 1: go Bear had to take Joker once an ag got
Speaker 1: in foul trouble because they came in with a guard
Speaker 1: heaven no nerves. Joker then proceeded to go forty and thirteen.
Speaker 1: Why because he had to match up that favors him.
Speaker 1: So another thing, if I'm the Denver Nuggets what I've
Speaker 1: learned through these playoffs series, then it ain't always your series.
Speaker 1: And Aaron Gordon has had some great games this series,
Speaker 1: a couple of great games, but he's also had a
Speaker 1: couple that he didn't have much impact on the game
Speaker 1: at all. And those games, to me, were more due
Speaker 1: to the way timber Woolslem matchup up as opposed to
Speaker 1: more so what Aaron Gordon was doing. It's the way
Speaker 1: they were matching up that he was able to take
Speaker 1: advantage of If you need to pull Aaron Gordon some
Speaker 1: to get that matchup, you do that because it sets
Speaker 1: a precedent by the way they win this game and
Speaker 1: move on.
Speaker 3: You right back to Aaron Gordon. You need him.
Speaker 1: But it ain't always your Knight, ain't always your series.
Speaker 1: He's brought you some of this series. He's actually won
Speaker 1: you a game or two in the series. But I
Speaker 1: keep an eye out on that. If I'm Denverer when
Speaker 1: I'm running screen and roll, when Aaron Gordon is in
Speaker 1: and I'm running screen and roll with Aaron Gordon and
Speaker 1: Joker involving Kat and Rudy Gobert in the screen of
Speaker 1: role and how they're gonna navigate and guard that, I'm
Speaker 1: making it a single side pick and roll, and I'm
Speaker 1: putting Jamal Murray on the back action. So now ant
Speaker 1: man who's draped all over him. Anywhere he moves at,
Speaker 1: Man's draped all over him, no help, responsibility, draped all
Speaker 1: over Jamal Murray. Now I got Rudy Gobert, Garden Joker
Speaker 1: coming downhill at him, which Joker cooked him on the
Speaker 1: floaters when he was getting downhill with Aaron Gordon lobbing
Speaker 1: a cat trying to navigate how to guard that. But
Speaker 1: there's no backside help because ant man is not leaving
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray. If he does, now we got to swing. Now,
Speaker 1: got a man playing out of a close out as
Speaker 1: opposed to Jamal Murray. Catch him and he draped all over.
Speaker 1: Now you get Jamal Murray's space to work. You put
Speaker 1: a man in a tough situation. You may a man
Speaker 1: have to wonder like or decide, am I helping? Or
Speaker 1: am I staying draped all over Jamal Murray. Let's make
Speaker 1: a man think a little bit on the defensive end.
Speaker 1: Just giving Jamal Murray the ball. A man is great
Speaker 1: at that. He's faster, he's stronger, he's bigger, he's more physical.
Speaker 1: It's great at that. So if you just gonna give
Speaker 1: him the ball and let him bring the ball, that
Speaker 1: ain't gonna work. So get him off the ball. Run
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray off some screens off the ball. Run some
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray running that way in the miss direction. Michael
Speaker 1: Porter Junior, come back in this way for three. You
Speaker 1: gotta loosen their defense up something. Because the defense that
Speaker 1: you saw in game six, what's the defense that got
Speaker 1: you drug in game one and two, So you gotta
Speaker 1: do some things to loosen it up. Raise everybody out
Speaker 1: of the floor. Jamal Murray comes spreading up the floor
Speaker 1: like he catch him back cut. You gotta loosen and
Speaker 1: man up some cause right now he just all over Jamurray,
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray, and there's no way to get him loose
Speaker 1: if he's just handling the ball. You set a screen
Speaker 1: and through that. So you gotta switch it up a
Speaker 1: little bit. You have to don't just let him see
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray with the ball rim over him. Nah, he
Speaker 1: gotta see Jamal Murray different spaces. You gotta get Jamal
Speaker 1: Murray more of a chance because him just against a
Speaker 1: man that's not much of a chance.
Speaker 3: That's tough, very tough. It's a tough matchup.
Speaker 1: Said it earlier in the series at man gonna have
Speaker 1: to guard Jamal Murray. So no disrespect to Jaden McDaniels.
Speaker 1: Tough match up for Jadon McDaniels. A man, different story.
Speaker 1: So need to see a little bit more of that.
Speaker 1: If I'm Denver. Another thing that I need to see
Speaker 1: if I'm Denver's defensively stop all of switching. They're switching
Speaker 1: every pick and roll, you got Jamal Murray battling with
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert. You got uh, Jamal Murray getting posted up
Speaker 1: by Niles Reed or Karl.
Speaker 3: Anthony Townsend, Like that's cool.
Speaker 1: I know you ain't necessarily worry about them scoring, but
Speaker 1: you got a man hawk and Jamal and then you
Speaker 1: got him trying to battle with Biggs. Where's his legs
Speaker 1: being snatched? So stop all the switch. And also you're
Speaker 1: like defensively with all the switching, now you're trying to
Speaker 1: rebound all that you weak. You need bigs on bigs,
Speaker 1: keep bodies in front of bodies. Most guys on the
Speaker 1: Timberwoar's team need angles to score, keep bodies on bodies.
Speaker 1: So when the shot go up, we're in the position
Speaker 1: to box out, get it and go. Now Rudy Gobert
Speaker 1: got to keep up. Now we got Cat on the move,
Speaker 1: a joker, but joker in their rebounding switching all the
Speaker 1: pick and rolls for what, it's not allowing Denver to
Speaker 1: set a tone defensively. So I think Denver need to
Speaker 1: go on the coverage, whatever coverage they feel the need
Speaker 1: to do. But the switching, I think it's making them
Speaker 1: weak and these ain't no games to be weaken for
Speaker 1: all the marbles. So I think defensively they need to
Speaker 1: make that adjustment because I don't think they're gonna set
Speaker 1: the tone they need to set going into a home
Speaker 1: game seven clothes out, switching to pick a roll. It's
Speaker 1: not allowing your best guys to guard their best guys.
Speaker 1: It's not allowing you to rebound your best rebounders to
Speaker 1: rebound with their best rebounders. So I think Denver gotta
Speaker 1: go back to the basics. Play your coverages. Joker is
Speaker 1: the king, got the kickball. If they want to throw
Speaker 1: pocket passes, play your coverage. The switching, I don't like it.
Speaker 1: Now you can mismatch you got Jamie mcdanie's going off
Speaker 1: for twenty one taking advantage of all the switching and
Speaker 1: confusion on the defensive man, keep bodies in front of bodies,
Speaker 1: make them score on you.
Speaker 3: Thinks it gives them a lot better chance to win.
Speaker 1: So with that, we're going down to Game seven and Denver,
Speaker 1: as we've said, and I think if Denver can make
Speaker 1: some of those adjustments, which I think they will, I'm
Speaker 1: taking Denver. And one of the main reasons I'm taking
Speaker 1: Denver because these adjustments that I spoke of, so you
Speaker 1: always hear the stat and the stat that you always
Speaker 1: hear is the pivotal game five. The winner of the
Speaker 1: pivotal Game five and a two to two series goes
Speaker 1: on to win the series eighty two percent of the time.
Speaker 1: No one ever tells you why that's the case. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you why the winner of game five normally
Speaker 1: goes on to win the series. The reason is, after
Speaker 1: game four, you're tied up to to two. You then
Speaker 1: make adjustments going into game five. The adjustments that you make,
Speaker 1: the team that make the best adjustments usually win the game. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you gotta have great players and they gotta play.
Speaker 3: Yes. Team who makes the playoffs.
Speaker 1: A playoff series is made up of obviously great play
Speaker 1: by players and a bunch of adjustments by coaches.
Speaker 3: In a deep playoff series, you sweep somebody.
Speaker 1: You're probably better than them or whatever, and then ain
Speaker 1: a million adjustments you had to make. But in a
Speaker 1: series like this, all these series that go long, it's
Speaker 1: a series of game of adjustments. And so the adjustments
Speaker 1: that Denver made for Game five haven't Aaron Gordon handled
Speaker 1: the ball, blah, blah blah won them the game. Minnesota
Speaker 1: made adjustments to that Game six won them the game.
Speaker 1: Well guess what now, the winner of game five get
Speaker 1: the make the final adjustment. So a lot of these
Speaker 1: coaching staffs.
Speaker 3: Don't really.
Speaker 1: Aren't really capable of adjusting on the fly in the
Speaker 1: game like that in Part two, a lot of players
Speaker 1: aren't smart enough to make those adjustments on the fly
Speaker 1: like that. They need to see it on film and
Speaker 1: practice it and walk through it, and so a lot
Speaker 1: of teams don't necessarily have that luxury. Coaches may not
Speaker 1: have that luxury. But also coaches need to go watch
Speaker 1: the film. They need to figure this out, They need
Speaker 1: to talk to their staff, they need to put these
Speaker 1: adjustments together, and then they come back to the next
Speaker 1: game like, boom, this what we got.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Well, now Denver get to make their adjustment to the
Speaker 1: forty five point blowout.
Speaker 3: Minnesota won't have time to make an adjustment.
Speaker 1: So essentially, you're gonna need incredible play from a man,
Speaker 1: incredible play from Joker, excuse me, Kat, incredible play from
Speaker 1: Mike Conley. I mean that more so what I'm You're
Speaker 1: gonna need players to carry you, whereas opposed to Denver
Speaker 1: will get players to carry them, but they'll also have
Speaker 1: adjustments that they've gotten that they can hang their hat on,
Speaker 1: that they can bank on, and Minnesota won't have a
Speaker 1: game to adjust to those. And so normally the winner
Speaker 1: of Game five eighty two percent of the time goes
Speaker 1: on to win the series because they get the final adjustment.
Speaker 1: So with Denver getting the final adjustment, I actually think
Speaker 1: them being able to put Minnesota's defense in some tough
Speaker 1: spots with great adjustments. I'm taking Denver in seven, moving
Speaker 1: on to face Dallas. When is that Tuesday or Wednesday
Speaker 1: in Denver. That's my prediction on that. That is why
Speaker 1: you see the eighty two percent. That is why, and
Speaker 1: yet no one ever tells you why that's the case.
Speaker 1: There's a little tip bit for you. Tuck that under
Speaker 1: your hat, keep that there and moving on Dallas and
Speaker 1: Thunder going into game six. So in every series, and
Speaker 1: I've said this y'all before, in every series, you get
Speaker 1: to a point where you're like, all right, we figured
Speaker 1: them out. We got it, Now we need to do X,
Speaker 1: Y and Z. In this series, we got them figured out.
Speaker 1: And I thought after Game three you could kind of
Speaker 1: see that Dallas had figured Okay, see out and you
Speaker 1: going to game four in a game in which Dallas
Speaker 1: should have won, and they gave it away during the end.
Speaker 1: At the end, Dallas comes out in game five, everybody like, oh,
Speaker 1: even Chuckster on inside, Oh, okay, see about the run
Speaker 1: Dallas out the gym after they just came back. Da
Speaker 1: da da They running them out the gym. Only thing
Speaker 1: is and I said, nah, I got Dallas and they
Speaker 1: not no chance OKAC running them out the gym.
Speaker 3: And the reason being.
Speaker 1: Is because when I saw Dallas lose that game in
Speaker 1: game four, it wasn't some huge adjustment that OKC made
Speaker 1: and you were like, ah, okay, they just made this
Speaker 1: huge adjustment. How Dallas gonna No, Shae just hit some
Speaker 1: tough shots. They did the same thing they had been doing,
Speaker 1: guard guard, screening roll. Shae hit tough shots over guys.
Speaker 1: Dallas couldn't hit nothing. Kyrie struggled, Lucas struggled, they turned
Speaker 1: the ball over. They lost. But it wasn't anything special
Speaker 1: that OKC had done other than Shae being special. And
Speaker 1: so when I saw that, and I know, like, dang,
Speaker 1: they already kind of got this team figured out. And
Speaker 1: there was nothing that that team done had done to
Speaker 1: win that game from an adjustment standpoint other than just
Speaker 1: Shae taking over the game. Dallas still got them figured out,
Speaker 1: and sure enough, Dallas showed that in Game five. Said
Speaker 1: all that to say, I think Dallas shows the game thing,
Speaker 1: same thing in game six. We got them figured out. Okayse,
Speaker 1: he's a young, scrappy team. They'll punch, Dallas will take
Speaker 1: the blow, Dallas will do their thing. Okay, see, he'll
Speaker 1: have another punch, Dallas will take the blow, and then
Speaker 1: they're kind of on their way home from there.
Speaker 3: That's how I see this going.
Speaker 1: I thought it was I thought it was amazing to
Speaker 1: see everybody talking about Luca complaining and this and that,
Speaker 1: and then Luca come out and puts it out publicly
Speaker 1: that I'm not complaining. And then Luca doesn't really say
Speaker 1: much of a word much of anything to the referees.
Speaker 3: And then we see the Luca.
Speaker 1: That we know, thirty plus point triple double carrying this
Speaker 1: team to a win. We're gonna need more of the
Speaker 1: same of that Luca on Saturday in order to close
Speaker 1: this series out. You know, I'm not one sit here
Speaker 1: and be like, oh he should never talk to the
Speaker 1: roughs like.
Speaker 3: This is a passionate game.
Speaker 1: When you know for certain someone got something wrong, you're
Speaker 1: gonna say something about it. We're human beings and so
Speaker 1: I'm not of that club of don't say anything.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say something.
Speaker 1: But all focus must be on the OKC thunder and
Speaker 1: Luca has shown that he's capable of doing that and
Speaker 1: he will need to do that again. I also need
Speaker 1: to see a very very very aggressive Kyrie Irving in
Speaker 1: game six.
Speaker 3: Come close the game out, kay.
Speaker 1: We know Kai is a master with the basketball, and
Speaker 1: I need to see that aggression from the gate.
Speaker 3: Get going from the gate.
Speaker 1: Don't try to wait till the second half, then get
Speaker 1: it going, because last couple of games it ain't went
Speaker 1: that way. You know, Kyle's been still doing a great
Speaker 1: job of dimond and getting other people involved. But like,
Speaker 1: let's get going from the gate. I think that's what
Speaker 1: Dallas needs to see from Kai. Also shout out to
Speaker 1: Jay and Hardy number getting called to start the game
Speaker 1: or not start, but early in the game he gets
Speaker 1: subbed in after not playing much in these playoffs, come in,
Speaker 1: get a good bucket, but have some incredible lives. To
Speaker 1: Derek Lively, who led them in plus minus, who had
Speaker 1: an incredible game, And I'd like to think his guards
Speaker 1: feeding him the way they were Luca throwing him libs,
Speaker 1: Kyrie throwing them lost. Jaydon Hardy come in throwing him libs.
Speaker 1: That was great to see. That's the steps you want
Speaker 1: to see from the young fella. Now, you jkidd, he
Speaker 1: earned minutes. He came in. He showed you. I'm not
Speaker 1: afraid of this moment. I'm ready for the moment. I'm
Speaker 1: locked in defensively, I'm locked in offensively. Give me more time.
Speaker 1: Love to see it, Love to see young fellas taking
Speaker 1: that next step and growing. In a pivotal game five
Speaker 1: on the road, he showed up like it's no problem.
Speaker 1: It's no problem. So now if you're Jayden Hardy, you
Speaker 1: got to come build on that.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm coming in and I'm making no defensive mistakes.
Speaker 1: I'm not turning the ball over. I know I got
Speaker 1: my live threat. I'm getting downhill. They got me in
Speaker 1: here because we need enough score. Tim ain't been shooting great,
Speaker 1: Dante Xam ain't played great, Josh Green ain't ain't shooting great,
Speaker 1: So we need more scoring. All right, we need nothing.
Speaker 1: Guy that can get downhill. Go ahead, Jane and Hardy,
Speaker 1: go do that so you know you're getting downhill. They
Speaker 1: got you another score. I'm going to the Cup. But
Speaker 1: if they helped, I know I got my live threat.
Speaker 1: Stay solid, young fella. It's great to see. Great to
Speaker 1: see young guys taking that next step. So shout out
Speaker 1: to Jaye and Hardy. It's beautiful to see his number
Speaker 1: be called when it hadn't been called, and he ready,
Speaker 1: he was ready, answered the bell, helped those boys get
Speaker 1: that win in Game five and headed back to close
Speaker 1: out in Game six.
Speaker 3: And as you heard.
Speaker 1: From my prediction with different nuggets at the end of it,
Speaker 1: I said, we'll see them versus Dallas.
Speaker 3: I don't have Dallas going seven. I got Dallas closing
Speaker 3: this thing out on Saturday.
Speaker 1: And moving on and other news. Tim Legler says the
Speaker 1: Celtics season will be a failure without a championship. Do
Speaker 1: you agree or disagree? I normally disagree with shit like that.
Speaker 1: It'd be like hot take issh and like uh, Tim Laylger.
Speaker 1: Tim Legler is absolutely correct on this one. Why is
Speaker 1: Tim Legler correct on this one? In my opinion, because
Speaker 1: you got Jylen Brown making three hundred plus million dollars,
Speaker 1: soon to be Jason Tatum making three hundred plus million dollars,
Speaker 1: Drew Holliday making one hundred and fifty million dollars, Christops
Speaker 1: presingis one hundred million dollars, Derek White sixty million dollars,
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 3: Number one.
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure out. Well, all there's money
Speaker 1: in Boston coming from too, but uh, it's a failure.
Speaker 1: Like you won sixty plus games, you have built your team.
Speaker 1: You go out and get Drew Holliday, you go out
Speaker 1: and get Prizingers. You retooled, didn't rebuild in. This season
Speaker 1: went exactly how you thought and wanted it to go
Speaker 1: when you made those moves. Because the season went that way.
Speaker 1: You extend Drew Holiday because he's proven all that he
Speaker 1: needs to prove that. You want to continue forward with him.
Speaker 1: So guess what It's time to win? And it's time now, Jackson.
Speaker 1: What is it five to five conference finals?
Speaker 3: And how many years?
Speaker 4: I think more than that? Honestly, yeah, something.
Speaker 3: Like that exactly. Look at him all happy. We don't know.
Speaker 3: I agree with you.
Speaker 4: It's to get over the hump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't care how many conference finals anymore. I
Speaker 1: agree a finals appearance ain't good enough. You gotta go
Speaker 1: win it all you're supposed to. You got home court advantage,
Speaker 1: you did all. It's time. So I one thousand percent
Speaker 1: agree with Tim Legler here the Celtics gotta win because
Speaker 1: if not, how long can you doabble into that second
Speaker 1: April until it's too much. Just keep swinging and keep swinging.
Speaker 1: So it ain't converted yet. I ain't got over the
Speaker 1: hump yet. Got to get over the hump. So yes,
Speaker 1: Tim Legler, I agree that is a fact, and we
Speaker 1: shall see what Boston does.
Speaker 3: But they most definitely got to win it this year.
Speaker 1: Before we get out of here, a lot of news
Speaker 1: been made about Brownie at the combine measure that six
Speaker 1: one and a half very impressive six seven wingspan, forty
Speaker 1: inch vertical.
Speaker 3: Stock rising play well, listen.
Speaker 1: I think Brownie it has a chance to be a
Speaker 1: very very solid guard in the NBA. He shoot the
Speaker 1: ball well, he defends well, athletic like going to be
Speaker 1: able to pick up if he's a backup guard. Say
Speaker 1: he's a backup because everybody all is the starter. The
Speaker 1: likelihood that you're a point guard, and you're coming in
Speaker 1: us a starter. There's thirty stars, there's sixty to eighty
Speaker 1: backup and.
Speaker 3: Third point guards.
Speaker 1: So it's more likely that you're going to be a
Speaker 1: backup or a third point guard than you are starter,
Speaker 1: just surely off the numbers. So let's go back up
Speaker 1: because I'm I know better than like, this guy's a starter.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that just for Bronnie.
Speaker 1: I'm saying in general, it's hard to be a start
Speaker 1: point guard in this league, a real start point guard
Speaker 1: in this league. So I think Bronnie does how the
Speaker 1: capability is to be a very good backup point guard
Speaker 1: in this league. If you can take that to a starter,
Speaker 1: that's on the work that you come in and put
Speaker 1: in right, that's on the improvements that you make, the
Speaker 1: things that you do to get better.
Speaker 3: I can't speak for that.
Speaker 1: Because I'm not the one that has to do the work,
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, I think he has more than enough attributes
Speaker 1: and tools and things about him that'll make him a
Speaker 1: good backup point guard.
Speaker 3: At least.
Speaker 1: Backup point guards need to pick up full court. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do that. With the best of
Speaker 1: backup point guards need to be able to knock down shots.
Speaker 3: We know he can knock down the shot.
Speaker 1: Backup. Point guards need to be smart, not make mistakes.
Speaker 1: People complain that he played basketball too mistake free. So again,
Speaker 1: at worst, we know he's probably gonna be capable, and
Speaker 1: it ain't gotta be next year. By the way, y'all
Speaker 1: draft kids in the top ten that ain't ready to
Speaker 1: play next year and then want to talk about Brownie,
Speaker 1: who's not in anybody's top ten, and be like, he
Speaker 1: ain't ready to play next year? Of forty five of
Speaker 1: the sixty guys that you drift at, fifty of the
Speaker 1: sixty guys that you drift.
Speaker 3: Ain't gonna be ready to play next year.
Speaker 1: So the whole thing of trying to throw out there
Speaker 1: like he ain't ready to play, look at him. He
Speaker 1: ain't ready now? Who is ready now coming out of college?
Speaker 1: A few guys, So let's stop with that nonsense. No,
Speaker 1: he's not ready right now. Guess what another other fifty
Speaker 1: eight players of fifty nine whatever it is because the
Speaker 1: people got their pick snatch, aren't gonna be either. But
Speaker 1: what attributes do they have that we can look forward
Speaker 1: to building on? And Brownie has some of those so
Speaker 1: it's great to see him go to the combine and
Speaker 1: perform well. His stockers rise, and I think he'll go
Speaker 1: to some of these workouts and perform even better and
Speaker 1: continue to rise. And I think Brownie will have a
Speaker 1: very solid career as he continued to progress. But also, no,
Speaker 1: it's gonna take time to progress. This is the NBA.
Speaker 1: This is the NBA. It's the best basketball league in
Speaker 1: the world. It takes time. So that's a rap from
Speaker 1: this episode of The Draymond Green Show. Tap in with
Speaker 1: y'all maybe this weekend, maybe next week. I'll let y'all know,
Speaker 1: but until then, that's a rap piece. Plimtlev Levy Climate
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