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Speaker 2: What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
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Speaker 2: After a tough loss, I am very pissed off, but
Speaker 2: let's get right into it. Lakers took tonight one seventeen
Speaker 2: to one twelve. You're still home for the Beantach. Pretty
Speaker 2: frustrating game for myself. AD had a great great performers
Speaker 2: thirty points, twenty three boards, five assists, Steph twenty seven
Speaker 2: six and three lowin another twenty rebound game with twenty
Speaker 2: three boards. It was great to see JP find himself
Speaker 2: with twenty one points. But let's just get into a
Speaker 2: little bit and we will talk about these things. Number One,
Speaker 2: a D having.
Speaker 1: The game that he had, we have to do a
Speaker 1: better job there.
Speaker 2: I think when you allow a great player like a
Speaker 2: D to kind of get a couple easy looks early
Speaker 2: changes things for him. Uh see the see the ball
Speaker 2: go in early, and he had it going. I think
Speaker 2: he was nine for ten at the half. But just
Speaker 2: those couple of early mid range jumpers, you know, really
Speaker 2: allowed him to find this rhythm. And you know, once
Speaker 2: you've let a great player find their rhythm, it's tough.
Speaker 2: It's tough to break it, and you know we never
Speaker 2: did and you know he had a dominant performance. We
Speaker 2: can do a much better job at the point of attack.
Speaker 2: I think uh our and especially in pick and roll.
Speaker 2: I thought he got a lot of them out of
Speaker 2: the pick and roll. So our pick and roll covers
Speaker 2: can be better. You know, it sometimes takes us a
Speaker 2: little getting used to it, especially you know a series
Speaker 2: of series when you completely change your game plan, you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes it takes some adjustment. So we'll make those adjustments
Speaker 2: and you know, get back accustomed to you know, the
Speaker 2: pick and roll covers that will need to play against
Speaker 2: these guys, and.
Speaker 1: You know, overall, be better and.
Speaker 2: Not give up those easy ones to start the game
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Speaker 1: They also have four blocks.
Speaker 2: I thought, which was I didn't think we challenged him
Speaker 2: a ton at the rim, you know, which you know,
Speaker 2: he still was able to get some good blocks. He
Speaker 2: got the one on steps like under him kind of
Speaker 2: runner slash, floater slash, finger roll slash, whatever you want
Speaker 2: to call the shot.
Speaker 1: But that was that was a very big block. So
Speaker 1: you got to give him credit.
Speaker 2: He dominated on both sides of the floor and that's
Speaker 2: so on, you know myself to try to change that
Speaker 2: and I'll take that one on the chin steph twenty
Speaker 2: seven points. He really got to go in there late
Speaker 2: in that fourth quarter. It'll be good to kind of
Speaker 2: figure out how to get him lose. Jared Vanderbilt did
Speaker 2: a really good job defending. You have to give him
Speaker 2: a lot of credit. Shorder also did a good job defending.
Speaker 2: Have to give him some credit as well. But I
Speaker 2: think there are some things that we can get to
Speaker 2: the free stuff up a little bit more, and especially
Speaker 2: with me when I'm on the floor, got to stay
Speaker 2: out of foul trouble and stay on the floor. But
Speaker 2: when I'm on the floor, I think there are some
Speaker 2: things that I can do to get him the ball.
Speaker 1: So I think we can be better there.
Speaker 2: As I said, Cavon Looney had an incredible game twenty
Speaker 2: three boards.
Speaker 1: Again, Man Lune is a rebounding machine.
Speaker 2: I think he has seven offensive rebounding machine doing an
Speaker 2: incredible job.
Speaker 1: And you know.
Speaker 2: When he having games like that, you know we got
Speaker 2: to make sure we capitalize on that and win. I
Speaker 2: think we had twenty one threes that we made. They
Speaker 2: made six, five or six threes, but the free throw
Speaker 2: discrepancy was huge. I think, you know, they were twenty
Speaker 2: five for twenty nine from the line and we were
Speaker 2: five for six. And you have to do a better
Speaker 2: job of defending without filing.
Speaker 1: I thought, you know something they're going to get filed.
Speaker 2: They you know, they play a lot at the RIM,
Speaker 2: say they're going to get some files. But I thought
Speaker 2: there was some that we could have been better and
Speaker 2: taken away, especially when they're in the bonus. I think
Speaker 2: we gave them six or eight away from the riom
Speaker 2: free throws or away from the RIM files. That led
Speaker 2: to free throws because we were in a penalty and
Speaker 2: you know, you take those out and it's twenty one
Speaker 2: free throws and as opposed to twenty nine, that changes things,
Speaker 2: changes things a lot. So just got to control what
Speaker 2: you can control and take the ones away that we
Speaker 2: know we can take away, and I think we'll do
Speaker 2: a better job there. It was also good to see
Speaker 2: Jordan get going. Jordan had twenty one his six threes,
Speaker 2: six three, five threes, I'm sorry, five or six. He
Speaker 2: was five for eleven or six or eleven from three,
Speaker 2: but that's neither here north there. His six threes, but
Speaker 2: that's neither here north there. I know everyone's talking about
Speaker 2: the last three that he missed.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, I liked the shot.
Speaker 2: You know, you obviously, you know you tell him to
Speaker 2: eat up the space and take three a little bit
Speaker 2: closer as there was. You know, he could have en
Speaker 2: up the space. But Jordan can shoot the ball, and
Speaker 2: he got a good look at it. Yes, you want
Speaker 2: him to take a couple of steps in and get
Speaker 2: it even closer three, But Jordan taking that three is
Speaker 2: not why we lost that game. And I know everyone's
Speaker 2: going to point at that one plan say he should
Speaker 2: have never shot that three.
Speaker 1: Prior to that three, he was six for ten, So.
Speaker 2: You gotta got six for ten that you know can
Speaker 2: shoot the pits out of the ball, and you get
Speaker 2: open three, you live with it. There were some things
Speaker 2: that I personally could have done to make sure we
Speaker 2: weren't even in that situation. I played like shit, I
Speaker 2: am not. I am disgusted with myself right now. Number one,
Speaker 2: getting a foul trouble. Can't get in foul trouble. I
Speaker 2: gotta stay on the floor, spend a thing lately, and
Speaker 2: I have to be better, you know, take a couple
Speaker 2: here and there. Can't do that. You know, my third
Speaker 2: five was on the gendervial. Jared Vanderbilt put back like,
Speaker 2: if he gets the two points, we go down.
Speaker 1: Life goes on. So I have to be smarter.
Speaker 2: And not put us in that position. That throws off rotations,
Speaker 2: that throws off matchups, that throws off a ton of
Speaker 2: things on top of me not being on the floor.
Speaker 2: So I gotta be better and smarter, and I will
Speaker 2: be to make sure I'm there for my team, which
Speaker 2: will also lead me to having a better game. I
Speaker 2: thought I got off to a good start, and you know,
Speaker 2: with the file trouble, I lost my rhythm and I
Speaker 2: never really found it again. So that'll be better for us.
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson was really good, really aggressive. We're going to
Speaker 2: need him to stay aggressive, aggressive as he was. And
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, man, Lebron is playing a totally different style,
Speaker 2: a totally different game than we've ever seen them play before,
Speaker 2: and it's interesting figuring it out.
Speaker 1: It's very interesting.
Speaker 2: For like, you're not used to seeing Lebron off the
Speaker 2: ball so much, and so I thought that was interesting
Speaker 2: and something that we'll have to adjust to. It's just
Speaker 2: not your typical Lebron running the show, which which is
Speaker 2: a bit weird. But in saying that, some of the
Speaker 2: things that I liked about that game for us, I thought,
Speaker 2: you know, we shot the three pretty decent, and we
Speaker 2: got shots that we wanted to get to and you know,
Speaker 2: with their defensive scheme, they present some challenges.
Speaker 1: But I thought we got.
Speaker 2: Some really really really good looks and some of it
Speaker 2: we made.
Speaker 1: Some of them we didn't, But you live with that.
Speaker 2: Usually you shoot twenty one, you make twenty one threes
Speaker 2: in another team make six dots. I mean that usually
Speaker 2: will win you the game. Let's see, that's fifteen more threes.
Speaker 2: That's forty five points more from three. They made up
Speaker 2: some of that twenty. They made up twenty of those
Speaker 2: points from the free throw line that you know, you know,
Speaker 2: but overall, you have to get them some credit. Give
Speaker 2: them a lot of credit. They came in, they took
Speaker 2: home court advantage. It's going to be on us to
Speaker 2: come out in game two, make sure we take our
Speaker 2: business and game two and then go down to LA
Speaker 2: and get one, preferably two, but get one. Some things
Speaker 2: that I did not like was, like I said myself,
Speaker 2: getting in foul trouble, the amount of files that we.
Speaker 1: Had I thought could have been better controlled.
Speaker 2: And then I think we had a couple laws on
Speaker 2: offense where we.
Speaker 1: Weren't really getting into anything good.
Speaker 2: And if we can take that away, I think that
Speaker 2: was one time where they went up ten, where they
Speaker 2: were up ten for a good amount, but when they
Speaker 2: first initially went up ten, we were in the middle
Speaker 2: of a law and so we can do a better
Speaker 2: job there and we will very quick turnaround. The turnaround
Speaker 2: was definitely not the reason we lost or especially from
Speaker 2: an energy standpoint. But as far as the game plan goes,
Speaker 2: I think we'll continue to get with our get better
Speaker 2: with our game plan as we always do a series
Speaker 2: goes on, but we'll continue to get our game plan together,
Speaker 2: continue to tighten up more things. Now that you've seen
Speaker 2: this team once in game one, you start to figure
Speaker 2: some things out, and that's however series goes. I thought
Speaker 2: we were doing a really good job on DiAngelo Russell,
Speaker 2: then we started letting them get losed quite a bit,
Speaker 2: so be important that we do a better job on
Speaker 2: d Lo. I thought we did a really good job
Speaker 2: on Austin Reeves, which was really big, and we also
Speaker 2: have to do a better job on Shoulder. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure how many points, but he had a really really
Speaker 2: big impact on the game, so we'll have to do
Speaker 2: a better job Guard and Dennis as well. He's been
Speaker 2: an X factor for those guys all year coming off
Speaker 2: the bench and he's going to play a ton of minutes.
Speaker 1: We know that, so.
Speaker 2: We'll have to do a better job there. But overall
Speaker 2: in this series, I like our chances. I like, you know,
Speaker 2: some of the things that we saw tonight. There's a
Speaker 2: few things that we can clean up. I can play
Speaker 2: a lot better. I will play a lot better. As
Speaker 2: I said, I'm disgusted with myself. I was awful, and
Speaker 2: I'll be better. I know I'll be better. I trusted me,
Speaker 2: I trust in our guys, and I know we'll get
Speaker 2: it done. So very frustrating one obviously, coming out you
Speaker 2: want to take game one, but they got it. Tip
Speaker 2: your hat to him, lay them back up, go back
Speaker 2: to well first, go back to the drawing board tonight
Speaker 2: and tomorrow could like I said, continue to doll our
Speaker 2: game planning and you lay them back up and go
Speaker 2: back out there and take game two. That'll be our goal,
Speaker 2: that's our focus. I'm looking forward to doing that whole
Speaker 2: other series. Before we get out of here, I said,
Speaker 2: I gotta I need to go watch this film.
Speaker 1: I know what I'm gonna see. Fucking disgusting.
Speaker 2: But Celtics lose Game one without Joel and B James
Speaker 2: Harden forty five points. I find it very funny and
Speaker 2: ironic that James and last series was just saying, like, man,
Speaker 2: I come out to get twenty and people say I'm
Speaker 2: not the old James hard But when I was getting
Speaker 2: forty and fifty, everybody says you can't win that way,
Speaker 2: and he backed that up and came right out and
Speaker 2: got forty five when he needed the most. With Joel
Speaker 2: out number one, congratulates Before I go into that, Congratulations
Speaker 2: to Joel and B on winning MVP the Drama. He
Speaker 2: is a dre the Draymond Green Show guest. It was
Speaker 2: great to have him on, as if you haven't heard
Speaker 2: that conversation, you should go back and check it out.
Speaker 2: It was extremely fun, extremely insightful, and just kind of
Speaker 2: hearing you know, just his his process and you know
Speaker 2: his background and all of those things. Was extremely fun. So,
Speaker 2: like I said, if you haven't listened to that, go
Speaker 2: back and check it out. But congratulations, long overdue and
Speaker 2: well deserved. I think you know Joel has been putting
Speaker 2: together cases for the last few years. Not that a
Speaker 2: joker wasn't deserving, because he was very deserving, but happy
Speaker 2: to see Joelle get it because he's I think.
Speaker 1: I really have an issue when when people are.
Speaker 2: Aren't necessarily forthcoming in what they want forthcoming in their goals.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I know somebody else say I'm
Speaker 2: talking about Joker, I'm not talking about Joker. Joker has
Speaker 2: number one. He has two MVPs. If he ever never
Speaker 2: wins another one, he's a two time back to back MVP.
Speaker 2: So I'm not talking about Joker, and I'm not a
Speaker 2: sneak thiss or if I was talking about Joker, I
Speaker 2: will say so before you run with your little headlines
Speaker 2: like oh, Draymond takes a shot at Joker, your fucking line.
Speaker 1: But I love when people.
Speaker 2: Are outwardly speaking about things that they wanted. Joel has
Speaker 2: been speaking about winning the MVP since he came in
Speaker 2: the NBA, and to see him actually put the work
Speaker 2: in and go do that through all the injuries, getting healthy,
Speaker 2: playing enough games like, I applaud that and I respect
Speaker 2: that because it's easy to sit behind it and never
Speaker 2: say nothing but that's what you're really gunning for. It's
Speaker 2: very easy to do that because if you never win,
Speaker 2: no one ever said anything because you never said anything.
Speaker 2: To put that pressure on yourself and actually go deliver.
Speaker 2: I got a bunch of love and respect for that.
Speaker 2: So again, congratulations to Joel and b hell of a player,
Speaker 2: well deserved. It's good to see him finally put that
Speaker 2: up on his mantle because it's.
Speaker 1: Been long overdue.
Speaker 2: But as I was saying and getting back to Philly
Speaker 2: winning that game and James hard and forty five point night,
Speaker 2: I was really surprised with Al Horford's defense on the
Speaker 2: last play, Like James is getting to that step back
Speaker 2: and you know that, and he just kind of let
Speaker 2: him dance dance and dancing to it.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a very interesting, interesting defense.
Speaker 2: But also not a very easy shot, although James Harden
Speaker 2: has made that shot look easy over the years.
Speaker 1: Not very easy shot. PJ.
Speaker 2: Tucker has zero points, zero shot attempts, but his impact
Speaker 2: on the game was.
Speaker 1: Huge, absolutely huge. That series is going to be fun.
Speaker 2: If you're the self, you're the Celtics, you gotta be
Speaker 2: pissed off that you gave one away at home without Joe,
Speaker 2: L and B.
Speaker 1: Now you got groundmate to make up.
Speaker 2: Quite frankly, if I had to guess, I don't think
Speaker 2: Joel will be back for Game three. Either if four
Speaker 2: like that, that's a tough injury. And Joel is not
Speaker 2: your typical big that's doing this back and forth and
Speaker 2: straight lines. Joel is very shifty and he moves great litterly,
Speaker 2: and so when you start talking to LCL, it's tough.
Speaker 2: It's tough. You're talking to four to six week normally
Speaker 2: recovery time. So I think you know they'll get one
Speaker 2: game at least back in Philly without Joel. Not saying
Speaker 2: they'll win it, but they'll get the same opportunity that they.
Speaker 1: Had at home.
Speaker 2: But it definitely relieves some pressure from Joel and having
Speaker 2: a rush. You lose that first one and now you're like,
Speaker 2: I need to get Now you go in there in
Speaker 2: game two and you're like, man, we got nothing to lose.
Speaker 2: Let's go in here fire And that can get really
Speaker 2: ugly if they go and take game two. So but
Speaker 2: I expect the Celtics to respond as they always do.
Speaker 2: But that series will be fun to watch and also
Speaker 2: looking to see James Harden gonna channel that forty fifty
Speaker 2: James Harden, like we all have grown accustomed to him
Speaker 2: being capable of doing.
Speaker 1: The Knicks tie the series up tonight. I won and won.
Speaker 2: No Jimmy Butler, it was out with the ankle injury.
Speaker 2: Julius Randall did come back. Jalen Brunton had a big game.
Speaker 2: And I actually expected Jalen to have a big game
Speaker 2: because it's no Jimmy Butler. He's definitely shot the three well,
Speaker 2: but also you know him getting in the painting, getting fouled.
Speaker 2: He got to the line, he got some of his
Speaker 2: his mid range stuff going.
Speaker 1: And that's a lot easier to.
Speaker 2: Do when you when there's no Jimmy, because then you're
Speaker 2: putting a smaller defender on Jalen, and that gets tough
Speaker 2: when when he has a small he's going to He's
Speaker 2: super smart, super strong, and he's going to take advantage
Speaker 2: and get the shots that he wants when he has
Speaker 2: a smaller defender. So actually expected him to get off.
Speaker 2: Now it's tied up one to one, headed back to Miami,
Speaker 2: I expect Jimmy to play in Game three. Jimmy's toughest
Speaker 2: nails man, and honestly, if they didn't win Game one,
Speaker 2: Jimmy probably would have been out their game too. But
Speaker 2: now you're talking, he'll be on four and a half,
Speaker 2: five to five, four and a half days rest.
Speaker 1: Wow, really six days rest.
Speaker 2: Between last game and the next game that he'll play
Speaker 2: as opposed to a day and a half rest and
Speaker 2: trying to get back out there tonight.
Speaker 1: So expect to see Jimmy.
Speaker 2: And I am actually expecting Miami to go home and
Speaker 2: take take Game three. We'll talk about game four when
Speaker 2: we get there, but I'm expecting Miami to go back
Speaker 2: home and take game three. And lastly, before we get
Speaker 2: out of here, the Nuggets are up to oh on
Speaker 2: the Sons Chris Paul. As we know it is out
Speaker 2: for at least a week with a growing injury. What
Speaker 2: does the Sons have to do to turn this thing around?
Speaker 1: Well, it's tough. It is tough.
Speaker 2: And here's why I think it's tough. Jamal Murray played awful.
Speaker 1: He shot off. I wouldn't necessarily say he played offul
Speaker 1: but he shot off.
Speaker 2: Couldn't hit a bucket, hit a couple of big buckets,
Speaker 2: but couldn't get it going and they won by ten.
Speaker 2: Could not get it going and they won by ten.
Speaker 1: That's trouble.
Speaker 2: And so what do the Sons have to do to
Speaker 2: turn it around? KD took twenty seven shots and score
Speaker 2: twenty four points. Number one, For KD to take twenty
Speaker 2: seven shots, it's very uncharacteristic of KD. For KD to
Speaker 2: have less points than shots, it's extremely uncharacteristic of KD.
Speaker 2: So what does they what do they have to do
Speaker 2: to turn this thing around? Well, Number one, they're going
Speaker 2: to need Campaign to play big, and I don't necessarily
Speaker 2: see that happening.
Speaker 1: He's just missed so much time over the last three
Speaker 1: three months of the season.
Speaker 2: He was injured for a long time, came back for
Speaker 2: a short time, back injured for a while, and so
Speaker 2: I just don't know, like if he's going to have
Speaker 2: enough as far as rhythm and all of those things.
Speaker 2: But they'll need big performances from camp uh D book
Speaker 2: got it going in Game two last night from three
Speaker 2: from two got to the line. They will need better
Speaker 2: performance out of KD, obviously, and we all know and
Speaker 2: expect KD to have a better performance. But the one
Speaker 2: thing that Phoenix is struggling with is their depth. And
Speaker 2: you know, that was one issue that we all knew
Speaker 2: they had with the trade, but they've really you know,
Speaker 2: that's shown up in this series in a major way.
Speaker 2: You got Bruce Brown coming off the bench playing incredible
Speaker 2: for the Nuggets. You got Jeff Green coming off the
Speaker 2: bench playing really really good for the Nuggets, and the
Speaker 2: rookie Christian Brown, he's playing his role incredibly well. So
Speaker 2: you got to give those guys cradits. They've obviously had
Speaker 2: the edge there. And Michael Porter Junior also did not
Speaker 2: play well last night, and so you you hold Michael
Speaker 2: Porter Junior to a very quiet night, you hold Jamal
Speaker 2: Murray to a very quiet night and lose by ten.
Speaker 1: That's scary. So I think that's something to watch for.
Speaker 2: It's un fortunate to see Chris Paul get hurt in
Speaker 2: the playoffs again. You know, you always want to see
Speaker 2: guys at healthy and teams at their best and at
Speaker 2: full straight, which you know, but as I said before,
Speaker 2: injuries are part of it and the team that stays
Speaker 2: the healthiest usually have the best chance to win. So
Speaker 2: we'll see what they can do if they're able to
Speaker 2: turn this thing around without Chris Paul. They'll need booking
Speaker 2: KD gonna have to combine for seventy five eighty points
Speaker 2: if they're gonna have a chance at turning this series
Speaker 2: and winning. And guess what, they're more than capable of
Speaker 2: doing it, so we'll see what'll keep an eye on
Speaker 2: that series until next time. That is a wrap from
Speaker 2: this episode of Draymond Green Shaw. I want to thank
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Speaker 1: Peace.
Speaker 2: Kay,