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Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show. As you know,
Speaker 1: we're into the Conference finals and the Doves are up
Speaker 1: one zero and sorry for but the Miami Heat are
Speaker 1: up one to zero. Wasn't quite a happy day for
Speaker 1: Jackson a couple of days ago. But we will discuss
Speaker 1: why the Miami Heat poured the way to win. But
Speaker 1: we'll also discuss the Dubs win and some things about Luca.
Speaker 1: I've seen that there's been a lot of Lebron Luca comparisons,
Speaker 1: and so I want to hit on that a little bit. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I've had the privilege of playing against Lebron and for
Speaker 1: NBA Finals, and so you know, once you get to
Speaker 1: that point, you know, I know what you're doing. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm doing. May the best man win. And
Speaker 1: and then now playing against Luca and kind of just
Speaker 1: seeing the similarities and differences. We'll get into that, but
Speaker 1: first let's actually we'll get right into that. We'll talk
Speaker 1: Dubs first, and then we'll talk about the heat. Dubs
Speaker 1: win one, twelve to eight seven. Um, I know there's
Speaker 1: been this thing about oh man, Luca had his worst
Speaker 1: shooting game in his postseason career. Andrew Wiggins played amazing defense. Uh,
Speaker 1: he picked him up ninety four ft. He got into him,
Speaker 1: He didn't allow him to dictate the terms on his
Speaker 1: home pace. You gotta give Wiggins a lot of credit.
Speaker 1: He was also an attack mode on the on the
Speaker 1: offensive end. I think when I look at the performance
Speaker 1: that Wiggins had on the defensive end, it was relentless.
Speaker 1: It was taken on that challenge. And when you're playing
Speaker 1: against a guy like Luca Dontrige, you need someone to
Speaker 1: take on that challenge. We've seen it for years throughout
Speaker 1: this run of Clay taking on that challenge of of
Speaker 1: great guards on the other end, and and and last night,
Speaker 1: Wiggins took on that challenge, and we need him to
Speaker 1: continue to take on that challenge as it will only
Speaker 1: get tougher. It won't get any easier with a player
Speaker 1: like Luca. He's gonna watch the film, he's going to
Speaker 1: make the necessary adjustments. He's going to continue to be aggressive,
Speaker 1: and you just got to continue to try to make
Speaker 1: it tough on Like I always say, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you'd say he had his worst shooting game of his career,
Speaker 1: um statistically speaking. And you know some people will say, oh,
Speaker 1: he was shut down. You don't shut Luka, dontres down.
Speaker 1: Even in shutting him down, he had twenty points. Like
Speaker 1: you just you don't stop guys like that from scoring.
Speaker 1: They're gonna score. Your job is to make it tough
Speaker 1: on him, and Wiggins did that last night. You just
Speaker 1: want to make it tough on him and you live
Speaker 1: with the result. And that's what we did. And you know,
Speaker 1: when you're guarding a guy like that, it's a total
Speaker 1: team effort. You know, you have to know and trust
Speaker 1: that I can be aggressive into the ball and awesimately
Speaker 1: understanding that if I get beat, someone's gonna be there
Speaker 1: to help me, and you know that's what it was,
Speaker 1: and that I also want to credit Cavan Looney for
Speaker 1: the job that he did on Luca when he was
Speaker 1: switching Um. Cavan never gets the credit for us for
Speaker 1: the for as good of a defender as he is,
Speaker 1: and it dates all the way back to prior Finals
Speaker 1: run where you'd see teams call him up in the
Speaker 1: switches and and and loom just he guards. He's one
Speaker 1: of those guys that he just has a knack for basketball.
Speaker 1: And it's not like he's the fastest moving lad early,
Speaker 1: it's not like he jumps the highest He's just one
Speaker 1: of those guys, one of those guys that he competes.
Speaker 1: He competes at the highest level. He's smart, he understands angles,
Speaker 1: he has great length, and so he uses the things
Speaker 1: that he does have on his side to his advantage
Speaker 1: and it's helping make him an incredible defender. And the
Speaker 1: basketball that he's been playing overall, not just on the
Speaker 1: defensive him, but the basketball that he's been playing overall
Speaker 1: um for us these last few games has been absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: It's been the presence that he's established for us on
Speaker 1: the inside. It's been great and you know where we've
Speaker 1: always been a better team with him on the floor
Speaker 1: and he's continuing the show. Why. Um, you know when
Speaker 1: when you think about a guy like Looney who plays
Speaker 1: eighty two games this year, is coming up huge in
Speaker 1: the playoffs and it's in the contract year, that's incredible.
Speaker 1: You know, you want to play your best basketball when
Speaker 1: you're in your contract year. That's that's for everybody in
Speaker 1: this league. Don't ever get it twisted on everybody. Don't
Speaker 1: ever let anyone lie to you. I know people try
Speaker 1: to downplay it and be like, oh no, I ain't
Speaker 1: thinking about that. No, you want to play your absolute
Speaker 1: best basketball when you are in the contract year. And
Speaker 1: when you can do that into the postseason, it carries
Speaker 1: even more way. You know, you get some of these
Speaker 1: guys that do it in the regular season and they
Speaker 1: play well, and that's great, Like that's fine, Like you
Speaker 1: gotta play well in the regular season too, But when
Speaker 1: you do it in the postseason, it's a little at
Speaker 1: it on that because everybody's watching. You know. One of
Speaker 1: the things that I truly enjoy about the playoffs is
Speaker 1: and especially as you get deeper and deeper into the layoffs,
Speaker 1: is you know, everyone is watching that basketball like there's
Speaker 1: no better basketball going on in the world. See, sometimes
Speaker 1: during the regular season you get some of those games,
Speaker 1: some of those teams that there is better basketball going
Speaker 1: on elsewhere in the world. But when you can get
Speaker 1: the four best teams or the eight best teams in
Speaker 1: the best league in the world playing against each other,
Speaker 1: everyone's watching that. So then you get to four, everyone's
Speaker 1: locked in, including the four teams that lost before. And
Speaker 1: then you get to two and the two teams that
Speaker 1: lost before, everybody in the world is watching that. And
Speaker 1: so when you can play on that level and continue
Speaker 1: to improve your game and play at a high level,
Speaker 1: there's no better feeling as as an athlete. There's no
Speaker 1: better feeling as an NBA player than being able to
Speaker 1: produce on the high level during the playoffs. It's it's
Speaker 1: a different rush that it gives. And so to see
Speaker 1: Cavan Luni having the postseason that he's having on top
Speaker 1: of uh, you know, the injury questions that he had
Speaker 1: and to play in eighty two games this year. One
Speaker 1: of five or six guys, I can't remember exactly what
Speaker 1: it was, but it's one of five, one of five
Speaker 1: or six guys with the injuries that he had, and
Speaker 1: to continue to work on his body, get his body
Speaker 1: to a place to where he can stay healthy. Man,
Speaker 1: I take my hat off the lounar. We're gonna need
Speaker 1: him to continue to play the same basketball as well. Um.
Speaker 1: When I look at the game last night, yes, it
Speaker 1: was a blowout, it didn't feel like a blowout because
Speaker 1: you know, I think we blew the game open there
Speaker 1: in that period there in the third quarter, So it
Speaker 1: just wasn't like a blowout the entire game, but the
Speaker 1: final score was a blowout. I walked away from that
Speaker 1: game saying, there's a lot of things that we could
Speaker 1: do better. No, granted, there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: they can do better, but I think there are some
Speaker 1: things that we can really do better. And I also
Speaker 1: don't think we shot the ball very well either. And
Speaker 1: when I look at those things that that that really
Speaker 1: boiled well for us, Um, you know, Steph Curry didn't
Speaker 1: have an incredible shooting night. Clay Thompson was one for
Speaker 1: four from three. Like, you know, we we can shoot
Speaker 1: a lot better, and and I also think we can
Speaker 1: play a lot better. Like I think we did some
Speaker 1: things last night that allowed us to take control of
Speaker 1: the game, and that was not turning the ball over.
Speaker 1: That was defending without folling. Those are staple things in
Speaker 1: our defense, though those are non negotiable. Those are things
Speaker 1: that we are supposed to do. And so we did
Speaker 1: the things that we were supposed to do, and I
Speaker 1: think we struggle with some things that were more than
Speaker 1: capable of being pretty like pretty damn good at And
Speaker 1: if we can do those things better, that will help
Speaker 1: us a lot in this series, because as this series
Speaker 1: goes on, this is gonna it tougher and tougher. That's
Speaker 1: a great team, that's a well coached team, and they
Speaker 1: have very good talent, and so I think as this
Speaker 1: series goes on, series goes on, it's gonna get tougher
Speaker 1: and tougher. And so you, for us, you can't walk
Speaker 1: away from a game like that and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's over, like they can't win, Like that's one game.
Speaker 1: That team is not gonna quit. That's the same team
Speaker 1: that lost Game one that same way versus the Phoenix Signs.
Speaker 1: They also lost game to versus the Phoenix Signs. They
Speaker 1: went home and they found their confidence and they were
Speaker 1: a totally different teams so we still have to take
Speaker 1: care of our business tomorrow and make sure we protect
Speaker 1: our home court. You want to go. You never want
Speaker 1: to leave home after those first two games having lost
Speaker 1: home court advantage, So it is very important for us
Speaker 1: to come out and take care of game too. UM,
Speaker 1: clean up some of the mistakes that we did make.
Speaker 1: I thought we gave up some some open shots that
Speaker 1: we can take away, because you guys, they're they're like
Speaker 1: I said, they're going to shoot better, and so I
Speaker 1: thought we gave us some open looks that we can
Speaker 1: take away, and we will take away. UM. In order
Speaker 1: to to to keep our defense at the level that
Speaker 1: it was in Game one, some of those open looks
Speaker 1: that they got, we have to we have to take
Speaker 1: some of those away. I think we can get better
Speaker 1: in our game plan, discipline, UM, and most importantly, which
Speaker 1: we're really determine a little of how this series go
Speaker 1: is we have to make sure we get our guys going.
Speaker 1: Like Steph had a good night, it wasn't great. It
Speaker 1: was a good night. It wasn't great by Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: Standards great by just about everyone else. Standards in this league.
Speaker 1: Wasn't great by Steph Curry. Standards. Steph Curry is going
Speaker 1: to have a great night. Clay Thompson had a good
Speaker 1: second have He was good defensively, Offensively, he had a
Speaker 1: good second half. Play is gonna play better, I thought
Speaker 1: Jordan has some spurts to where he played well. He's
Speaker 1: gonna play better, and so that's gonna be important for
Speaker 1: us moving forward, because there's gonna be some games where
Speaker 1: you need your guy and Wiggins. Wiggins had it going
Speaker 1: all night, but there's gonna be some games where you
Speaker 1: need one of those guys to go bersert like in
Speaker 1: order to win the game, especially on the road. But
Speaker 1: that team is coming out upset tomorrow. Uh. It's just
Speaker 1: like I was telling our guys, no team gets to
Speaker 1: the conference finals and quit after one game, after two games,
Speaker 1: or after three games. No one gets to the conference
Speaker 1: finals and quit, because the team that would get to
Speaker 1: the conference finals and quit never makes it to the
Speaker 1: conference finals. It's just that simple. You don't make it
Speaker 1: this far if you have quit in you because there
Speaker 1: there would have been something along the way where you
Speaker 1: would have quit before. There's never an easy route to
Speaker 1: the conference finals. So the whole notion of this team
Speaker 1: is gonna quit it ain't happening. It's not happening. They
Speaker 1: got Luka Donte. They followed their horse. He struggled a
Speaker 1: little bit last night. He's gonna come out attacking. That
Speaker 1: team is gonna come out balls to the walls tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and we have to make sure that we're ready to
Speaker 1: meet their level of physicality and meet their intensity level.
Speaker 1: And speaking of Luka Done and Lebron James and the
Speaker 1: comparisons that are being made to those two guys, here's
Speaker 1: where I see similarities, and then I'll give you a
Speaker 1: couple of differences. One of the main glaring similarities that
Speaker 1: stick out at you is how those two guys can
Speaker 1: manipulate the defense. How those two guys can control the
Speaker 1: pace of a game at their size, with their passing ability,
Speaker 1: in the way they can put pressure on the on
Speaker 1: the rim and pressure on the defense, and with the
Speaker 1: vision that they have, there are a lot of like
Speaker 1: they both understand what they're trying to get to on
Speaker 1: the court, and and they will be very methodical in
Speaker 1: getting to whatever it is that they know that they
Speaker 1: want to get to. There's not many people in this
Speaker 1: league that can control a game, or control the temple
Speaker 1: and the pace of a game like that. I think
Speaker 1: one of the things that it requires is an uncanny
Speaker 1: ability for thinking the game of basketball. But I and
Speaker 1: I this may sound a little cliche, but it also
Speaker 1: requires size. And the reason they requires size because if
Speaker 1: you can be sped up, you can't control a game.
Speaker 1: You can't control the pace of a game. If you
Speaker 1: can be sped up, you can't speed Luka up. Lucas
Speaker 1: gonna get to what he wants to get to. You
Speaker 1: can't speak Lebron James up. Lebron James is going to
Speaker 1: get to exactly what he wants to get to Lucas
Speaker 1: twenty three. Obviously, he can't do it at the level
Speaker 1: that Lebron doesn't at yet as consistent as Lebron, because
Speaker 1: Lebron has done it for so long, He's seen every
Speaker 1: defense possible. He's like the experience. You just can't teach experience.
Speaker 1: But Luca has that thing. He has that thing, and
Speaker 1: he does it often and and and so I definitely
Speaker 1: see the similarities there. Where I think they differ is
Speaker 1: Braun will take more transition opportunities where Luca kind of
Speaker 1: doesn't unless it's just a complete run out. And I
Speaker 1: think that's where they differ a little bit. It's like
Speaker 1: some games Lebron is totally looking to play in transition,
Speaker 1: Luca isn't quite looking to play in transition as much
Speaker 1: over the course of his career. Now, I've seen it
Speaker 1: at times where you know, he see a team that
Speaker 1: he can take advantage of in transition. He gets going
Speaker 1: in transition, but that's not his game because it doesn't
Speaker 1: allow him to play at the speed that he plays at,
Speaker 1: and he's better at that speed than any other speed.
Speaker 1: He's mastered playing at the pace that he wants to
Speaker 1: play at and not being sped up, and so I
Speaker 1: think that's where it differs for me, and just the
Speaker 1: pace of play, like Lebron's pace is still much faster
Speaker 1: than Lucas. I also think Luca as as as great
Speaker 1: of a pastor as he is, and he loves to
Speaker 1: pass the basketball. I think Luca looks for his shot
Speaker 1: a little bit more than Lebron. Lebron is super aggressive
Speaker 1: at times, but he's more often than not passed first.
Speaker 1: Lucas passed first at time too, but he's looking to
Speaker 1: score or than Lebron and knows like from a possession
Speaker 1: to possession situation Lebron has times where he's like, I'm
Speaker 1: about to score fifteen points in two minutes and good luck,
Speaker 1: nobody's stopping it. But from just over the course of
Speaker 1: forty eight minutes, from a possession to possession basis, I
Speaker 1: think Luca looks to score a little bit more than
Speaker 1: Lebron has. Now, in saying that, it just shows you
Speaker 1: also how great Lebron is, because here I am saying
Speaker 1: Luca looks to score a little bit more than Lebron,
Speaker 1: and Lebron's thirteen hundreds something points away from passing Kareem
Speaker 1: Abdul Jabbar for the all time scoring leader. And there's
Speaker 1: this notion of Lebron James is not a score. Let
Speaker 1: me clear this up right now. I am not saying
Speaker 1: Lebron James is not a score at all, because the
Speaker 1: fact that people are even willing to say that Lebron
Speaker 1: James is not a score of baffles me. It really
Speaker 1: baffles me. I mean, you even get idiot like you
Speaker 1: get idiots that play the game of basketball that's supposed
Speaker 1: to understand basketball that will say Lebron James isn't a score. No,
Speaker 1: he just does everything and he scores. But to say
Speaker 1: he's not a score. That's just stupid and ridiculous. So
Speaker 1: I want to make it very clear that with that statement,
Speaker 1: I am not saying Lebron James is not a score.
Speaker 1: He's absolutely a score. He just passed the ball so
Speaker 1: well and see the floor so well, to manipulate the
Speaker 1: games so well that you're like, oh, he's doing this
Speaker 1: and he's doing that, and then you look up and like, oh,
Speaker 1: and he had thirty points. Yeah, because he can score
Speaker 1: the basketball food. But you know, people have their own
Speaker 1: assumptions of what's going on in the court and I can't. Hey,
Speaker 1: what you see is what you see. But stop confusing
Speaker 1: the fact that Lebron James is a score. He's one
Speaker 1: percent to score. And those that don't think so, you
Speaker 1: gotta question your basketball i Q, what game are you
Speaker 1: watching if you think Lebron James is not a score.
Speaker 1: So that's my comparison between Luca and Lebron. There's definitely
Speaker 1: something there. They definitely have similarities, and then you look
Speaker 1: up and it all makes sense. Lebron. Luca has said
Speaker 1: over and over again Lebron's favorite player growing up, and
Speaker 1: then you you're actually blessed with that size, that Luca
Speaker 1: has it all makes sense of why there are similarities there,
Speaker 1: because they're definitely there, and it feels a lot like
Speaker 1: playing against Lebron, playing against Luca every possession. Let's talk.
Speaker 1: He's Celtics. The Heat won the game one eighteen to
Speaker 1: one oh seven. That was a very interesting game because
Speaker 1: and I actually saw email you Dorcas press conference. By
Speaker 1: the way, I also want to hit on that really quick.
Speaker 1: I had tweeted or put on my Instagram. I can't
Speaker 1: remember which one, but last week. All right, so forgive me.
Speaker 1: I'm in the playoffs. All these days a groundhog day
Speaker 1: and they are running together, so I'm gonna go out
Speaker 1: in the limits say. I think it was last week
Speaker 1: that I did this, but I had put something on
Speaker 1: and said it was baffling to me that I was
Speaker 1: watching the game. I was watching the highlights, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: the highlights from the game the Boston Celtics versus the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks. And if I'm not mistaken, it was after
Speaker 1: game six and they showed this entire like breakdown of
Speaker 1: like Mike Budenholzer and his coaching style and like blah
Speaker 1: blah blah and like all of this stuff. Mike Budenholzer
Speaker 1: is an absolutely incredible coach. Can't take nothing from him.
Speaker 1: He is a champion incredible. Mike Budenholzer had just lost
Speaker 1: the game and there was like this whole feature on
Speaker 1: Mike Budenholzer. Okay, great, no problem, he's earned he's a
Speaker 1: championship coach. No problem. They then proceed to show player interviews.
Speaker 1: And when they showed the player interviews, I was doing
Speaker 1: something in the kitchen, so I had I was like
Speaker 1: putting my play too. I don't know what I was doing,
Speaker 1: but I got up to do something in the kitchen
Speaker 1: and I was going back to my seat the table,
Speaker 1: and I rewinded it because it got to the last
Speaker 1: player interview and then it was like moving on, so
Speaker 1: I rewinded, like maybe I missed email. You don't talking
Speaker 1: because they're talking to all players and they're not going
Speaker 1: to mention this man as if he didn't make any
Speaker 1: adjustments going into game six. But they're going to show
Speaker 1: the losing coach a feature. But they don't even show
Speaker 1: words from the winning coach who had to make adjustments,
Speaker 1: who had off the film and had to motivate it.
Speaker 1: They're not going to show email. You don't at all.
Speaker 1: So I asked the question, I said, does email do
Speaker 1: interviews be the You know, some coaches aren't comfortable during
Speaker 1: interviews like so I wanted to be certain that I
Speaker 1: wasn't tripping, So I asked, I said, does he may
Speaker 1: do interviews? And you know, people responded like, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: this interview right there. It's like, send me a clip
Speaker 1: of it. And I'm like, wow, they didn't show that
Speaker 1: on ESPN. They didn't show him saying anything. That's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1: The fact that this man can lead his team to
Speaker 1: a game six win on the road facing elimination, and
Speaker 1: you don't show any comments from email. You don't, are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? It was so disrespectful. It was pathetic
Speaker 1: to watch, absolutely pathetic because they would never do that
Speaker 1: to other coaches, and they was especially not do that
Speaker 1: two white coaches to Caucasian coaches. They would never do that,
Speaker 1: And the fact that they would do that to email
Speaker 1: Udoka is baffling to me. The under the undertone in it,
Speaker 1: I get it. Let's not show this man who had
Speaker 1: to make his adjustment because that may make him look
Speaker 1: a little too good. Like that was ridiculous. So I
Speaker 1: wanted to speak on that. But now in getting to
Speaker 1: the Heat and Celtics, as we were supposed to do,
Speaker 1: very interesting game, and how I got there is actually
Speaker 1: I watched email U Dooca's press conference and he was
Speaker 1: saying it was actually just a stretch in the third
Speaker 1: quarter where we lost the game. Like for the rest
Speaker 1: of the game we were good. It's kind of just
Speaker 1: that third quarter. And it's true they went up, They
Speaker 1: went up at halftime or went into half up eight
Speaker 1: points sixty two fifty four. Now, when I'm watching that game,
Speaker 1: the one thing I was thinking is eight points and
Speaker 1: not enough because they had played so well, Jason had
Speaker 1: played well, they were garding well. Eight points wasn't enough
Speaker 1: and so I felt like that going into it. But
Speaker 1: I did not expect what proceeded that. The Miami Heat
Speaker 1: goes on to outscore the Boston Celtics thirty nine to fourteen.
Speaker 1: In the third quarter, JT had six turnovers, the Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics at eight turnovers. I felt like j T was
Speaker 1: playing in too much of a crowd. Um he you know,
Speaker 1: they were crowding him. They were sending two guys and
Speaker 1: he was trying to make the play and and he
Speaker 1: was trying to draw files against an aggressive team like Miami,
Speaker 1: trying to draw fules. They have the reputation for being aggressive,
Speaker 1: So trying to draw fouls like under pressure, that's never
Speaker 1: getting called in the conference finals, and I think that's
Speaker 1: what led to some of those turnovers that j T had.
Speaker 1: J T will make the necessary adjustments. He'll see what
Speaker 1: they were doing. He's an absolutely great score He'll make
Speaker 1: the adjustments. He'll figure it out. But I always talked
Speaker 1: about the role players and how it's different on the road.
Speaker 1: Grant Williams shoot eighteen threes in game seven. The analytical
Speaker 1: guys are in heaven. Grant Williams turned down some threes
Speaker 1: in game one and he didn't shoot it as well
Speaker 1: as he's been shooting it all year. Because it's just
Speaker 1: a little different going on the road. Not taking anything
Speaker 1: from Grant Williams, because I think Grant Williams hasn't has
Speaker 1: not reached his ceiling. I don't think Grant Williams has
Speaker 1: reached his ceiling in the NBA, and right now he's
Speaker 1: still very much saw a role player. I think he
Speaker 1: can beat that. Like I think he can, He's gonna
Speaker 1: end up being more than that. Because he understands the
Speaker 1: game the things that he brings. Again, he's not going
Speaker 1: to get outside of himself. He is what the modern
Speaker 1: day NBA has become. And you can just tell about
Speaker 1: his three point shot. He cares and works on this
Speaker 1: game because it was never this and so I think
Speaker 1: he still has a ceiling that he has not reached yet.
Speaker 1: But right now he is very much so a role player.
Speaker 1: And it's tougher to even take that many shots on
Speaker 1: the road, let alone to make as many as he made.
Speaker 1: And so I thought some of those missed some looks
Speaker 1: that they were knocking down in the midst of a run.
Speaker 1: So where you have a run where JT is kind
Speaker 1: of struggling and you know he's turned it over a bit,
Speaker 1: when you do get those open looks, you need to
Speaker 1: knock them down because they're hard to come by. Now
Speaker 1: you know they got really hard to come by, and
Speaker 1: who they came to was him, Payton Pritchard. Um, that's
Speaker 1: where you saw Al Horford missed. Because Al makes big shots.
Speaker 1: Wherever the hell he is be in Boston, he could
Speaker 1: be in blued on. Al makes big shots, um, and
Speaker 1: he's been shooting it extremely well this postseason. Marcus Smart
Speaker 1: makes big shots. No matter what your thought is on
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart, whether you love him where you hate him,
Speaker 1: he makes big shots. And they're both more accustomed to
Speaker 1: plan on the road. So that's where you saw the
Speaker 1: loss of those two guys. Yes, defensively, they're not as
Speaker 1: good without Marcus Smart al yes, blah blah blah. But
Speaker 1: more importantly their battle tested. They've been in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: their experience, and they can go on the road. Their
Speaker 1: game travel with him, and I thought that was that
Speaker 1: was one of the biggest keys. Obviously Jts turned the
Speaker 1: ball over in that stretch, and obviously Boston struggled. But
Speaker 1: in the grand scheme of things, when it's very tough
Speaker 1: like that on your your main guys and you do
Speaker 1: get those open ones, it's it's more important that you
Speaker 1: knock them down, but there's also more pressure on those shots,
Speaker 1: and I didn't think they handled that as well. I
Speaker 1: also thought Tyler Hero had a better game than I
Speaker 1: expected in Game one, I thought Boston's length would bother
Speaker 1: him more. Um, I thought he got to where he
Speaker 1: wanted to on the floor, and he's a great score,
Speaker 1: but I thought Boston's length would would definitely be more
Speaker 1: effective than it was versus him. Again, you take Horford
Speaker 1: off the floor, that length goes down. You take Marcus
Speaker 1: Smart off the floor at six five at the point
Speaker 1: and you were plays on with a six ft one
Speaker 1: Payton Pritcher, that length goes down, and so um, injuries
Speaker 1: are part of it. I'm not making an excuse for
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics is a part of it. We all
Speaker 1: go through it. Um, no matter who they have on
Speaker 1: the floor of these games count. So at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, nobody's gonna be like, oh, well, Marcus
Speaker 1: Smart was out and Al Horford was out. If you lose,
Speaker 1: you lose. And so by by no means am I
Speaker 1: saying that's the only reason they lost because those two
Speaker 1: guys were out. But I am more so just throwing
Speaker 1: you some of the things that took place that you
Speaker 1: can spot and you can see and you can say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I see where that could be different, or I see
Speaker 1: where this could be different if those guys are on
Speaker 1: the floor. I think Marcus Smart is expected back tonight,
Speaker 1: our Horford not so much, but they will get out
Speaker 1: back at some point in this series. I'm interested to
Speaker 1: see the impact that Marcus Smart can have tonight. Um,
Speaker 1: I'd be remissed if I didn't talk about Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: for he won points on nineteen shots, got to the
Speaker 1: free throw line at will, got to his spot, made
Speaker 1: some shots, got to the cup, and you want you
Speaker 1: see Jimmy got a couple of layups early in that game,
Speaker 1: and he saw the ball going and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you see him hitting fade aways over JT.
Speaker 1: That's impossible shot. But when you get those easy ones
Speaker 1: that he was getting initially, and which I was shocked
Speaker 1: by because you have Robert Williams at the rim, but
Speaker 1: when you're getting those easy ones, and and by the way,
Speaker 1: Daniel Tyson has been a much better rim protector than
Speaker 1: I ever thought, and he has been incredible changing and
Speaker 1: altar and shots at the rim. So I gotta give
Speaker 1: credit to Daniel Tyson. But it was like Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: felt none of that, none of their inside presence. He
Speaker 1: got those easy ones, got a couple in transition, and
Speaker 1: then the rim open up. You get to the file line,
Speaker 1: you see the ball constantly going through the net, and
Speaker 1: then his jump shot got working. And so they need
Speaker 1: to take the easy ones away from Jimmy early. Uh
Speaker 1: now and saying that Jimmy's absolutely incredible. He's one of
Speaker 1: those guys. You know. I talk a lot about guys
Speaker 1: not being playoff guys. Jimmy's a playoff guy. Jimmy is
Speaker 1: one percent of playoff guys. Jimmy takes his game to
Speaker 1: another level during the playoffs. They gotta get to Jimmy earlier.
Speaker 1: If they can get to Jimmy earlier, make Jimmy take
Speaker 1: jump shots early and not lay ups. You give up
Speaker 1: the jump shots first and making game confidence there. He
Speaker 1: can still make him. I'm not saying he can't, but
Speaker 1: you got a much better chance as opposed to him
Speaker 1: getting layups and free throws to start the game. The
Speaker 1: rim looks wider, it looks bigger, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, he gets the j ball going. He's tough
Speaker 1: to stop. So I gotta give a lot of credits
Speaker 1: to Jimmy. Uh. Coach Bow had the guys ready to go.
Speaker 1: I am expecting coming out in game to Bam to
Speaker 1: be a little more aggressive on the offensive end. I
Speaker 1: think ultimately they're going to need that against the Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics defense. Jimmy had it going they didn't need a
Speaker 1: much in Game one, Tyler had it gone. But if
Speaker 1: it gets tougher on Miami's guards, gave Vincent had it going. Uh,
Speaker 1: if it gets tougher on those guards, they're gonna need
Speaker 1: BAM's inside present. So I expect Bam to come out
Speaker 1: a lot more aggressive in Game two than he did
Speaker 1: in Game one. And for Game two, I am taking.
Speaker 1: I'm taking Miami. I think Miami goes up oh two,
Speaker 1: and I think Boston takes it back to Boston tied
Speaker 1: up to the two, and then we have an all
Speaker 1: important Game five, So I'm taking Miami. Sorry Jackson, I'm
Speaker 1: taking Miami in Game two, but I do have Boston
Speaker 1: tying the series at two to two going home. It
Speaker 1: is very important that Miami takes an old two league
Speaker 1: going into Boston because Kyle Laurie's out, which means you
Speaker 1: have gave Vince, you have Max Struss starting and going
Speaker 1: on the road, and that's just they're a little different
Speaker 1: when they go on the road and you're depending on
Speaker 1: those shots, which is good though those guys can shoot
Speaker 1: the lights out of the ball. They shoot it, but
Speaker 1: it's different when you go on the road. So it
Speaker 1: is very very very important that Miami does go up
Speaker 1: O the two, and I think this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a long series. So I'm taking Miami O the two,
Speaker 1: which is gonna make it almost guaranteed that this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a long series. Jack, you got some mailback
Speaker 1: questions for us before we get out of here. I
Speaker 1: do have some mail back questions, and before we get
Speaker 1: to that, I think we should make a little pot announcement.
Speaker 1: Dre we have a new Instagram account. Yes, we do
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Speaker 1: going live from that account at times, which you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not a big live god. I think I've gonna
Speaker 1: live from my account maybe once or twice, um maybe
Speaker 1: three times, and however we live. I've been around five
Speaker 1: years now, so I'm not a big live guy. But
Speaker 1: I will be going live from at Draymond Green Show page.
Speaker 1: We'll be doing giveaways from time to time, so make
Speaker 1: sure you follow the page, check it out, keep you
Speaker 1: updated on the pot. As you know, season is winding down.
Speaker 1: We are about man but three and a half weeks
Speaker 1: away of before the NBA season ends. But we're not
Speaker 1: stopping there. I will take a break at some point,
Speaker 1: um maybe a couple of weeks break or something like that.
Speaker 1: But you can find all that news on at Draymond
Speaker 1: Show on Instagram. Make sure you follow, stay up to date.
Speaker 1: And now we have some mail back questions for you
Speaker 1: before I get out of here and go get my
Speaker 1: prep ready for Game two? All right, from Brodie Gray
Speaker 1: at Brody Gray Undo. What did you think of Pat
Speaker 1: Bev's recent comments on ESPN? Well, what did I think
Speaker 1: of Patrick Beverly's recent comments on ESPN? I think, um,
Speaker 1: number one, if you sit back and look at some
Speaker 1: of the things Patrick Beverly said, I think he's he's
Speaker 1: making some very legit points of someone that really understands
Speaker 1: the game of basketball. If you've watched Patrick Beverly and
Speaker 1: the things that he said consistently. Now, I think that's
Speaker 1: marred a bit by his comments on Chris Paul because
Speaker 1: once he made the comments on Chris Paul that became
Speaker 1: the headline that became the news and at that point
Speaker 1: everyone just kind of start discredit and everything that he said.
Speaker 1: From that point on, I've seen more than just the
Speaker 1: Chris Paul stuff, and I actually think he said some
Speaker 1: good things. I think he's been very um there's been
Speaker 1: there's been times on there where he was very uh
Speaker 1: particular and breaking things down. He went in depth on things,
Speaker 1: So I think people can really learn some things from
Speaker 1: literally listening to Patrick Beverley. However, I think his comments
Speaker 1: made on Chris Paul um took it took some of
Speaker 1: the attention away from some great points that he was making,
Speaker 1: and rightfully so, um I saw that when you know,
Speaker 1: when you go out a guy like Chris Paul, who's
Speaker 1: a legend in our game, that's going that's that's that's
Speaker 1: going to take the cake. That's that that's not something
Speaker 1: you say for a day and it goes away like
Speaker 1: that's gonna take the cake and people gonna remember that,
Speaker 1: and then he doubled down on it, and then he
Speaker 1: tripled down on it. I I respect a guy for
Speaker 1: standing on what they stand on, Like as you know,
Speaker 1: I stand on what I say. We don't post and delete,
Speaker 1: we stand on our word if you post something that's
Speaker 1: how you was feeling in that moment, you stand on that.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day. Instagram is a moment
Speaker 1: in time and you post things that you feel when
Speaker 1: at that moment that you post him, we don't delete.
Speaker 1: And so I respect him standing on what he said.
Speaker 1: I just think it did him a huge disservice and
Speaker 1: showing what he's capable of from the TV side, because
Speaker 1: that immediately became what it was about. It became more
Speaker 1: about uh, Patrick Beverley talking about Chris Paul, Dan about man.
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley is actually breaking the game down and telling
Speaker 1: us things that most people can't just see and make
Speaker 1: out like. And so as someone who's and on the
Speaker 1: TV side of things, I think that should be a
Speaker 1: huge learning experience for him. I'm not saying, go apologize
Speaker 1: for the Chris Paul stuff and what you said. I
Speaker 1: don't apologize, you stand on what you said. But I
Speaker 1: think that can be a learning thing for him to
Speaker 1: understand that I can be good and this, I can
Speaker 1: be good in this business, and I can break the
Speaker 1: game down different than most people can break the game down,
Speaker 1: and I don't have to be like these clowns that
Speaker 1: gets a microphone and go on TV. I don't have
Speaker 1: to be these clowns. I can go on here and
Speaker 1: really talk basketball and be good at this. I don't
Speaker 1: have to be like these clowns. And I think if
Speaker 1: he do that and he learned from that, I thought
Speaker 1: he was saying some good stuff on TV, uh and
Speaker 1: breaking the games down the way he was breaking the
Speaker 1: game down, and I think people can learn from that.
Speaker 1: But I think he also needs to learn from his
Speaker 1: mistake and what he did. And maybe he doesn't think
Speaker 1: it was a mistake. And if he doesn't, by all means,
Speaker 1: hey man, you were your old man, more power to you.
Speaker 1: But just from my experience and TV, I think there
Speaker 1: was a different way he could have went about it.
Speaker 1: I think he should learn from it because I think
Speaker 1: and watching him he could be pretty good at it.
Speaker 1: He could be good at it. Next one from Alexis
Speaker 1: at Alexis Goldfish. What's one piece of advice you've stuck
Speaker 1: by it throughout your entire career? One piece of advice
Speaker 1: I've stuck about throughout my entire careers A couple of things. No,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna outwork me. You're not gonna outwork me. On
Speaker 1: a basketball for that's essentially like you're coming in my
Speaker 1: house and taking food off my kids plate, and I'm
Speaker 1: just not willing for you to let anybody come into
Speaker 1: my house and take food off my It's played, um,
Speaker 1: so that I live by that, and then I am
Speaker 1: a firm believer in whatever whatever you come into the
Speaker 1: NBA doing, you can never stop doing that. So how
Speaker 1: did I get on the floor. I got on the
Speaker 1: floor defending. I can never stop playing defense because you
Speaker 1: would never be good enough at any other thing than
Speaker 1: what got you on the floor. So you can become
Speaker 1: a better shooter, Like Steph Curry can never stop shooting
Speaker 1: a basketball. That's what he came in doing, That's who
Speaker 1: he made himself. He can never just stop shooting. So
Speaker 1: say say Steph Curry became Kauai Leonard on defensive end
Speaker 1: as like a perimeter defender. He can't just stop shooting
Speaker 1: and be that because he would You would never be
Speaker 1: good enough at that to cover for what you were
Speaker 1: and what you did do. And I think so many times,
Speaker 1: especially younger guys, get lost in like oh I can
Speaker 1: shoot it now, or I can do it better. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do that and not do what you on your
Speaker 1: way out the league if you stop doing what got
Speaker 1: you so where you are so For me, I got
Speaker 1: on the court with Mark Jackson by playing defense. I
Speaker 1: can never stop being relentless on the defensive in and
Speaker 1: I lived by that last one. And remember to submit
Speaker 1: your questions on Twitter at hashtag the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: Or maybe we'll do some calls for questions on the
Speaker 1: brand new Instagram account. Hey no, maybe live, maybe live
Speaker 1: but from Raleigh Firebirds at Raleigh Firebirds one. What was
Speaker 1: the toughest moment you've had on a basketball court before
Speaker 1: you made it to the NBA and how did you respond?
Speaker 1: What were the lessons slash takeaways from that. The toughest
Speaker 1: lessons that I had on the basketball court prior to
Speaker 1: the NBA was I think my sophomore year at at
Speaker 1: Michigan State when I got filed by my sophomore or
Speaker 1: year at Michigan State when I got filed in the
Speaker 1: Final four versus Butler and we lost that game. I
Speaker 1: think that was the toughest moment for me. Or right
Speaker 1: off the top of the head um, that was a
Speaker 1: very tough moment for me. What it taught me was
Speaker 1: do what you have to do to never lead the
Speaker 1: games in the hands of the rougherees because they are
Speaker 1: human and they missed calls, and what was an evidence,
Speaker 1: like clearly a file they missed. Was there something else
Speaker 1: that I could have done a long way like make
Speaker 1: my free throws? I struggled from the free throw line
Speaker 1: that game. Was there something else I could have done
Speaker 1: along the way to where that call wasn't left in
Speaker 1: the rough free hand and decide what my fate would
Speaker 1: be and moving forward and trying to win an n
Speaker 1: c A championship. That was one of my takeaways from it,
Speaker 1: and that was a very tough, tough moment for me.
Speaker 1: I never went back to the final four. That was
Speaker 1: my last time ever playing in the college final four,
Speaker 1: and so that was a big moment in my career.
Speaker 1: And to not move forward on what would have been
Speaker 1: found out again I struggle from the free thrown and
Speaker 1: I still would have had to go make the free throws.
Speaker 1: But I just learned when you have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: put a team away, when you have an opportunitist in
Speaker 1: the league, you have to do what it is that
Speaker 1: you need to do in those moments because you just
Speaker 1: never want to leave the game in the hands of
Speaker 1: the officials because they are human beings. It's it's very
Speaker 1: hard keeping up with the top athletes in the world
Speaker 1: and seeing things real time. Like I mean, I think
Speaker 1: if you think of things that you need to see
Speaker 1: in real time in life, you miss a ton of things.
Speaker 1: So like you imagine, they're going to miss things. That's
Speaker 1: just the way it's gonna be as human error Like,
Speaker 1: as humans, we're going to make errors. That's just what
Speaker 1: it is. And so whatever it is that you can
Speaker 1: do to not be put in that position, that's what
Speaker 1: I've learned to just capitalize and be methodical and the
Speaker 1: things that I need to do so I'm not in
Speaker 1: that position. Appreciate the questions. As always on these episodes,
Speaker 1: we will be doing mail back questions, so make sure
Speaker 1: you submit your questions on Twitter hashtag the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: We will also let you know how you can submit
Speaker 1: those on the Instagram account as we figure it out,
Speaker 1: but for now, just continue to submit them on Twitter.
Speaker 1: You may see yourself on the show until next time.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Looking forward to game to everybody, make
Speaker 1: sure you check it out. See y'all on the next episode.
Speaker 1: I said, from this from the Draymond Green Show, it's
Speaker 1: a wrap piece.