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Speaker 2: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show.
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Speaker 1: A tough loss last night for the Dubs.
Speaker 2: We're going to get into that talk a little bit
Speaker 2: about the other series before we get out of here,
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Speaker 2: one oh four, one oh one, Man Tough One, Very
Speaker 2: Tough One, had a ninety nine to ninety six lead
Speaker 2: after Clay hit a three, and the Lakers ended the
Speaker 2: game on a eight to two run. And quite frankly,
Speaker 2: I thought we did enough to win the game up
Speaker 2: until the last two minutes or so, maybe even mining
Speaker 2: and a half two minutes. Our offensive execution wasn't there
Speaker 2: down the stretch. And that is on all of us.
Speaker 2: That's not on just Clay. That's not on the steph That's.
Speaker 1: On all of us.
Speaker 2: And you know we I know, everyone's talking about the
Speaker 2: step shot or a couple of shots and the Clay
Speaker 2: couple of shots. And quite frankly, I'm rolling with them, guys.
Speaker 2: I'm rolling with them taking any shot that they feel
Speaker 2: is necessary. Could we have gotten a better one, of course,
Speaker 2: but I'm rolling with the same guys I rolled in with,
Speaker 2: as I told you before. And if they make those shots,
Speaker 2: oh my god, can no one can shoot like them?
Speaker 2: They're the greatest shooters ever, which they are. And if
Speaker 2: you miss, some people talk, and that's just the business
Speaker 2: that we're in. And so you know, you can question
Speaker 2: the shots all you want. That's fine, I get it,
Speaker 2: understand it, but just know and understand that no one
Speaker 2: here is waivering at all. Were riding with them no
Speaker 2: matter what. And you know there's other things that we
Speaker 2: could have done in the game better, and you know,
Speaker 2: you gotta go watch the film and figure those things
Speaker 2: out and apply them tomorrow, because guess what, it's the
Speaker 2: first to four, not the first of three. Whether there's
Speaker 2: three to one, whether it's three to zero, no matter,
Speaker 2: it's the reason it's a seven game series. It's the
Speaker 2: first to four. And we understand that. I think every
Speaker 2: game that you win from this point on, like every
Speaker 2: game period, every game one in the series, flips the
Speaker 2: pressure to the other team. The moment you win the game,
Speaker 2: the pressure the pressure flips to the other team. I
Speaker 2: don't care if it's game one, I don't care if
Speaker 2: it's Game six. Only time the pressure doesn't flip to
Speaker 2: the other team is when you win game seven. Once
Speaker 2: game seven is one, pressure doesn't flip to the other team.
Speaker 2: That team goes home, you move on, and that's just that.
Speaker 2: So for us, the goal is to win one game.
Speaker 2: We've been here before. We've been here before, and we
Speaker 2: know what it takes. And like I said, the goal
Speaker 2: is to win one game. You go win one game,
Speaker 2: all the pressure flips. You go back to Crypto. Three
Speaker 2: to two essentially puts them in a must win situation.
Speaker 1: No one wants to go on the road for a
Speaker 1: game seven.
Speaker 2: Must win situations are a little different than any other game.
Speaker 1: So I think for us, the goal.
Speaker 2: Is always going to be and the goal right now
Speaker 2: is just to go win the next game. And like
Speaker 2: I said, I think we did a bunch of things
Speaker 2: to win the game, and we just didn't execute down
Speaker 2: a stretch.
Speaker 1: Figure that out.
Speaker 2: I trust that we'll execute down a stretch as we
Speaker 2: always have, and you keep it pushing. I thought we
Speaker 2: did an incredible job of wearing both Ad and Lebron down.
Speaker 2: They played a tonnement is very high usage. I thought
Speaker 2: we did a great job of wearing them down. In turn,
Speaker 2: they went to Lonnie Walker in the fourth quarter. Most cases,
Speaker 2: that's a win, you know, and it's still a win,
Speaker 2: by the way, like if you can stop them stop
Speaker 2: Lebron from getting what shots he wants, stop ad from
Speaker 2: getting what shots he wants.
Speaker 1: Lonnie Walker beat you. You kind of got to live
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 2: Lonnie Walker had a huge fourth quarter. Fifteen points in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, which was all the points that he
Speaker 2: scored in the game.
Speaker 1: And you gotta tip your hat to him.
Speaker 2: That's a brother who stayed ready regardless of what's happened
Speaker 2: on their roster. I do find it very funny that
Speaker 2: all the questions and stuff about the Lakers rosters and
Speaker 2: the guys that they've been rolling with for the most part,
Speaker 2: with the exception of d Lo Jared Vanderbilt hasn't played.
Speaker 1: A ton in the last few games.
Speaker 2: The guys that they've been rolling with was the guys
Speaker 2: that was already on the roster, And so I just
Speaker 2: actually found that a bit funny. But yeah, I think,
Speaker 2: you know, you tip your hat to Lonnie Walker. Like
Speaker 2: I said, that's a guy who been in and out
Speaker 2: of the lineup, played a lot early on, didn't play much,
Speaker 2: didn't played a little more than didn't play at all,
Speaker 2: and he stayed ready. And you know, you tip your
Speaker 2: hat to true professionals who stay ready when their numbers
Speaker 2: called and he did that on the biggest stage, on
Speaker 2: the biggest stage, he came through where we were right
Speaker 2: there at tying the series up to the two. He
Speaker 2: came through and he beat us. So you got to
Speaker 2: give him some credit. But like I said in saying that,
Speaker 2: you know, when executing a defensive game playing, your goal
Speaker 2: is for Lebron James and for Anthony Davis not to
Speaker 2: beat you. I think for the most part we did
Speaker 2: a pretty good job of that. Bron finished with twenty seven,
Speaker 2: a d finished for twenty three, And like I said,
Speaker 2: they played a ton of minutes and just trying to
Speaker 2: wear them down over the course of time. And I
Speaker 2: thought we did a pretty good job of that. There's
Speaker 2: other things that you can't take care of. I thought
Speaker 2: Austin Reeves got a bunch of dribble penetration on us.
Speaker 2: You know, we had pretty much kept him in the
Speaker 2: bag the entire series. He get off, had a good
Speaker 2: game last night, twenty one points on seven for fifteen shooting.
Speaker 2: We inserted GP into the lineup. I think GP did
Speaker 2: a great job on both sides of the ball. GP
Speaker 2: did a good job finishing, he did a good job playmaking,
Speaker 2: and he did a great job of taking D'Angelo back
Speaker 2: out of the series.
Speaker 1: He finished with four points on one and ten shooting. Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, continuing to keep D'Angelo out of the series
Speaker 2: will be very important going into tomorrow's game and for
Speaker 2: the rest of the series, as we expected to go seven,
Speaker 2: and I'm not waving from that until I no longer
Speaker 2: see that it's possible to going seven. Like I said,
Speaker 2: I trust where we are. I trust who we are,
Speaker 2: and I think that's what's most important in this situation.
Speaker 2: I trust who we are. I trust the dogs that
Speaker 2: I rolled in with. Got to always trust that and
Speaker 2: know that in the in the toughest times, we're gonna deliver.
Speaker 2: And that's what that's what we stand on. That's what
Speaker 2: we that's what we're about. That's what we've been about.
Speaker 2: That's not changing now. I thought early on in the game,
Speaker 2: we did a great job of creating a bunch of
Speaker 2: great looks, a bunch of great looks, and sometimes the
Speaker 2: ball just don't go in. I thought, for the most part,
Speaker 2: we had shot relatively well in this series.
Speaker 1: Shots just didn't go in. As we created good looks.
Speaker 2: We ended up twelve for forty one from three The
Speaker 2: Lakers didn't shoot the three well either, which is why
Speaker 2: it's a pretty low scoring game one on four to
Speaker 2: one on one, which they end up, like I said,
Speaker 2: taking the game away. But you know, we did some
Speaker 2: good things and no moral victories here. But what you
Speaker 2: do is you take those good things and you roll
Speaker 2: those over to the next game and try to correct
Speaker 2: the things that you didn't do so well. That's always
Speaker 2: the focus in the series. I took a hard spill
Speaker 2: last night back of the head, was checked for a concussion,
Speaker 2: checked out, well, got to get checked again today. I
Speaker 2: feel great, so not expecting anything there, but especially as
Speaker 2: a kid that grew up having seizures, you know, those
Speaker 2: are things that I don't take lightly. And so whereas
Speaker 2: you know, in a situation like this, you probably try
Speaker 2: to dodge the concussion test because who wants to sit
Speaker 2: out with a concussion even if I was concussed, No one,
Speaker 2: especially in the situation that we're in. But like I said,
Speaker 2: with my history of epilepsy, I haven't had any issues
Speaker 2: for those listening since I was thirteen fourteen years old.
Speaker 2: I've been off medicine for epilepsy for almost five years now,
Speaker 2: which is absolutely incredible. For a kid that have been
Speaker 2: on medicine for first maybe since I was three or
Speaker 2: four years old until I was twenty eight. So when
Speaker 2: there are things to the head, I don't take them lightly, just.
Speaker 1: Knowing that history.
Speaker 2: My grandma has been on my phone all day, My
Speaker 2: mom has been on my phone all night and through
Speaker 2: this morning, and obviously they're on the East Coast time.
Speaker 2: My mom has been on my phone, and then I
Speaker 2: have to go to the arena and get checked out again.
Speaker 2: But like I said, I feel great. I don't expect
Speaker 2: anything of it. All the tests were incredible. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what. One of the tests is, like walking straight,
Speaker 2: like you know, parallel or one foot behind another backwards
Speaker 2: and forward, And I just don't understand, Like that's tough
Speaker 2: for me, like anyway, Like that's a test that they
Speaker 2: do when people are intoxicated, and I just don't understand
Speaker 2: how that's the test because I am a professional athlete
Speaker 2: and I struggle with that test. Like that's more of
Speaker 2: a balanced test, just testing your balance, and quite frankly,
Speaker 2: balancing is tough, especially when you've had the amount of
Speaker 2: ankle injuries and all the things that basketball players have had.
Speaker 1: It is tough.
Speaker 2: So when people are doing that, I was doing that
Speaker 2: test last and I'm like, man, this like this is
Speaker 2: just a tough test, like trying to I don't know,
Speaker 2: But like I said, I passed all of the concussion
Speaker 2: tests that I was great, and I feel great, and
Speaker 2: we got nothing to lose. Down three to one, you
Speaker 2: come out swinging, go down swinging if you do go down,
Speaker 2: but we're not going down.
Speaker 1: But you leave that court with no regrets. And like
Speaker 1: I said, you win one game.
Speaker 2: Series flips, pressure flips, everything flips. So that's our goal.
Speaker 2: Play will play better. I have no doubt in my mind.
Speaker 2: I'll play better. Steph had an incredible game. Expect more
Speaker 2: of the same or even more from him. And everybody
Speaker 2: else will played great. Moses Moode has been giving us
Speaker 2: great minutes. Dante gave us some good minutes last night.
Speaker 2: GP gave great minutes and loons in there He's given
Speaker 2: great minutes. Was aggressive height listen. I'm living with it,
Speaker 2: and we just didn't make the plays we needed to
Speaker 2: make Donald stretch to win the game. We'll make those plays.
Speaker 2: I have no doubt in my mind. So I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to tomorrow taking this thing three to two. And
Speaker 2: heading back to La be a fun time, really fun time.
Speaker 2: You got a lot of these moments. You cannot only
Speaker 2: be good when it's good. So I've told you before,
Speaker 2: we call those front runners the front runners.
Speaker 1: We are not.
Speaker 2: So you take it on the chain, you get them
Speaker 2: their credit, and you bounce back. And that's what we
Speaker 2: will do, and it'll be fun doing it. The Heat
Speaker 2: took a three to one lead. Jimmy Butler twenty seven,
Speaker 2: ten and six Jimmy Butler. I think one of the
Speaker 2: most underrated things in the playoffs that Jimmy Butler does
Speaker 2: is Jimmy Butler is going to make sure they get
Speaker 2: at least a decent look every possession. If he has
Speaker 2: to hold the ball for twenty two seconds and get
Speaker 2: it to someone with two seconds left on the shot clock,
Speaker 2: He's going to make sure that they get a d
Speaker 2: and looking. I think that's one of Jimmy's superpowers when
Speaker 2: it comes. You know, everybody's always talking about playoff Jimmy
Speaker 2: and this and that. That is a huge part of it.
Speaker 2: It's just his pace and his strength, Like you're not
Speaker 2: stopping Jimmy from getting to a spot that Jimmy wants
Speaker 2: to get to. Because he got speed, he has deceptive this,
Speaker 2: he has strength, he gets to a spot that he
Speaker 2: wants to get to, and he has incredible elevation on
Speaker 2: his jump shot, great footwork, pivots and all the things
Speaker 2: Jimmy is going. And then he's a very good passer,
Speaker 2: and so Jimmy's going to make sure they get good shots.
Speaker 2: And they are dominating the Knicks right now. They are
Speaker 2: really dominating now. It's crazy to think they gave the
Speaker 2: game away without Jimmy. They still should have won that game.
Speaker 2: If you're the Cleveland Cavaliers, you have to be watching
Speaker 2: this and questioning yourself, like, wait, we thought Miami was
Speaker 2: this blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: They're now doing this to the Knicks, and the Knicks
Speaker 1: did this to us. You have to be.
Speaker 2: Questioning yourself a little bit or just like you know, what,
Speaker 2: what's the move or where where.
Speaker 1: Does it go?
Speaker 2: I think that's an interesting one, But like I said,
Speaker 2: not surprised at all by Jimmy.
Speaker 1: Bama has been playing better.
Speaker 2: Max Strew's gag kay k Love playing better or playing well.
Speaker 2: They picked him up at the on the by Our Market.
Speaker 2: He's playing well. K Low has been playing great off
Speaker 2: the bench put it together. Man, you gotta tip your
Speaker 2: hat to the Heat. I actually think they'll go to
Speaker 2: New York and get it done in five. Julius Randalls
Speaker 2: just hasn't been able to find it. And as I
Speaker 2: told you all last game, that's just a that's a
Speaker 2: tough defense for Julius to go.
Speaker 1: Like, Julius plays.
Speaker 2: Almost a muddied up game, like it's physical, it's in
Speaker 2: the crowd, and Miami thrives on that. So now you
Speaker 2: got Julius taking step back threes and like, you know,
Speaker 2: you a couple of those when you got it going,
Speaker 2: but when you just taking those to try to get
Speaker 2: it going, it's tough, tough. So we'll see what happens there.
Speaker 2: But I got the Heat closing it out in five
Speaker 2: in the garden. It's gonna be loud in the guard,
Speaker 2: but I got them doing it. And man, I watched
Speaker 2: the game the other day, Nuggets versus the Sons, I mean,
Speaker 2: what a what an incredible display of talent.
Speaker 1: Joker had fifty three and eleven assists.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what d books number end up being,
Speaker 2: but I like thirty six maybe or something like that.
Speaker 2: Who cares felt like he had fifty made every big
Speaker 2: bucket shot an incredible percentage from the field. Again, think
Speaker 2: he shot seventy nine percent from the field or something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: KD dial what KD does.
Speaker 2: But Deep Book Man, I tip my hat to D
Speaker 2: Book And I always knew D Book was a stone
Speaker 2: cold kill. I always have been, always have had that mindset,
Speaker 2: has that seriousness that you need, and he carrying them. Guys,
Speaker 2: got Landry Shaman hitting shots. Shout out to Landry Man.
Speaker 2: Landry stepped up big because Landry got to make those threes,
Speaker 2: and you give Landry Shaman corner threes, Like, I thought
Speaker 2: that was awful on the Nuggets part. Landry Shaman hit
Speaker 2: three threes in a row from the corner and then
Speaker 2: caught one of brother break and he missed it long,
Speaker 2: Like it's a totally different three point shot. And we're
Speaker 2: just giving Landry Sherman wide open corner threes. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure that's the right thing to do. But the Nuggets
Speaker 2: are going to need Jamal Murray to be more assertive.
Speaker 2: The Nuggets are going to need Jamal Murray if he's
Speaker 2: more assertive, like Joker got to it last game, but
Speaker 2: not a ton out of pick and roll and when
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray's more assertive, it opens that up more, which
Speaker 2: makes them tougher to guard because then it opens up
Speaker 2: the guys up as opposed to Jokers just getting fifty three.
Speaker 2: Obviously he had eleven assists, but again that's Joker creating everything.
Speaker 2: And so I think they'll need a more assertive Jamal
Speaker 2: Murray in order to take Game five two to two.
Speaker 2: Going back home right where you need to be, No harm,
Speaker 2: no foul. You didn't get one on the road, No harm,
Speaker 2: no foul. We'll see what happens there. But book Man
Speaker 2: Book is playing absolutely sensational basketball, and it's been over
Speaker 2: a stretch of like twelve games now like book really
Speaker 2: doing it. So I'm looking forward to checking that game
Speaker 2: out later. And lastly, we had the seventy six ers
Speaker 2: versus the Celtics and overtime James Harden showed back up
Speaker 2: forty two, nine and eight. Joel showed up. PJ Tucker
Speaker 2: showed up. PJ did all of the little things that
Speaker 2: no one wants to respect. Showed up. They tied the
Speaker 2: series up to the two heading back to Boston. To me,
Speaker 2: I think all the pressure flips to Boston. Remember, each
Speaker 2: game won pressure flip, but it flips to Boston in
Speaker 2: the major way, a game you very much so should
Speaker 2: have and could have won to take a three to
Speaker 2: one lead. Now you're tied up to the two going
Speaker 2: back home, obviously everyone plays better at home.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: Al Horford has been shooting the lights out of the ball.
Speaker 2: I got Boston taking this one. I got Boston going
Speaker 2: back home and taking care of business. But in saying that,
Speaker 2: to recover from that letdown, they should have won that game,
Speaker 2: I felt like, so the recover from that is tough,
Speaker 2: just like for us, like we should have won the
Speaker 2: game last night, Like recovering from that is tough. But
Speaker 2: guess what is the playoffs. It's what you have to do.
Speaker 2: It's what you have to do. I have no doubt
Speaker 2: in my mind that will do it. I have no
Speaker 2: mind in my mind, no doubt in my mind that
Speaker 2: Boston do it. That's a team building and desperately trying
Speaker 2: to get to a championship. So I know they'll come
Speaker 2: out locked in looking forward to checking these games out.
Speaker 1: I know you all are as well.
Speaker 2: Chop it up with y'all tomorrow night after we take
Speaker 2: game five until next time.
Speaker 1: That's a Raffland, Draymond Green, show Peace,