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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: We are live on YouTube for the first time. I'm
Speaker 1: excited about this. Thank you everybody for tuning in. We
Speaker 1: don't talk about both of these games, which went down
Speaker 1: to the wire, both of those and well actually the
Speaker 1: Knicks did not go down to the wire.
Speaker 3: That was that one got a bit out of hand.
Speaker 1: But this one a comeback which love to see, lot
Speaker 1: to see guys get tested. And you know that last
Speaker 1: game at Man stepped up like he's been doing all playoffs,
Speaker 1: but Carl Anthony Towns took such a major step. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we're going to get into all of that. Make sure
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Speaker 1: some more live things. We will also be having some
Speaker 1: great interviews coming out over these next few weeks, so
Speaker 1: make sure you tap in and lock in.
Speaker 3: We'll have some fun. But let's get into it.
Speaker 1: Timberwolves beat the Nuggets ninety eight to ninety in Game
Speaker 1: seven after struggling, like struggling, getting down twenty points in
Speaker 1: the first half. I thought the Timberwolves did a great
Speaker 1: job of closing the half.
Speaker 3: They went in down fifteen, but you.
Speaker 1: Can tell they kind of had established themselves and kind
Speaker 1: of had established a little momentum going into the half.
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, Denver had them dead in the
Speaker 1: waters in the first half, and Denver did a great
Speaker 1: job of closing most quarters except that second quarter. The
Speaker 1: very end they let the Timberwives cut it from from
Speaker 1: twenty to five. And that was huge because the Timberwolves
Speaker 1: go in the half, like, listen, we're down fifteen. We
Speaker 1: played awful, shooting thirty percent from the field at that point,
Speaker 1: Man's one for seven with.
Speaker 3: Two or four points at halftime.
Speaker 1: Can't get anything going there, Double team in them, and
Speaker 1: you know it's looking like Denver's about to run away
Speaker 1: with it. And Denver at that moment kind of needed
Speaker 1: to step on their neck, needed to put them away.
Speaker 1: But Kyle Anthony Towns played bigger and at that moment
Speaker 1: like started the game Cat on on Joker giving them
Speaker 1: a tough time, and you could see Denver doing everything
Speaker 1: that they could to get the switch. They're doing everything
Speaker 1: they can to draw the switches, and the switch that
Speaker 1: they're trying to get is get Cat off of Rudy.
Speaker 1: I mean, excuse me, get Cat off of Joker and
Speaker 1: get Rudy on the Joker. As soon as they get
Speaker 1: the switch. It wasn't even like they was going straight
Speaker 1: ice so off the switch. Sometimes they were going ice.
Speaker 1: So Joker was playing bully ball on Gobert, but they
Speaker 1: were also just getting that switching in and then Joker
Speaker 1: going into the action, Joker going into d h O's
Speaker 1: putting Rudy Gobert in action, and now he's trying to
Speaker 1: get back on the roll. You got a Joker hitting
Speaker 1: little floaters, and so they just wanted the matchup like
Speaker 1: it wasn't even about getting them one on one, because
Speaker 1: the reality is they were for a while, and I
Speaker 1: think Denver did a great job of mixing up their coverages.
Speaker 1: Before a while they were just letting Cat go one
Speaker 1: on one when they got Joker, and when Joker got
Speaker 1: go bear on them, they were sending the double team
Speaker 1: right away. But again it's a little bit interesting, h
Speaker 1: when you got the defensive player of the Year versus
Speaker 1: the m v P and you start sending a double
Speaker 1: to help, but not a double on your other guy,
Speaker 1: who historically has.
Speaker 3: Been a bad defender, has.
Speaker 1: Been crushed about being a bad defender and has stepped
Speaker 1: up all series long taking on that challenge, and he
Speaker 1: when it wasn't him on Joker, Joker got anything he wanted.
Speaker 1: And that's interesting because historically you've seen Joker sometimes struggle
Speaker 1: with length, Like if you've ever seen him struggle at all,
Speaker 1: you'd see him struggle with length. Rudy Gobert has a
Speaker 1: lot more length than Joker, but he's not strong enough.
Speaker 1: He's not nimble enough. And Carl Anthony Towns is stronger.
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns is more nimble, and Carl Anthony Towns
Speaker 1: also has great length. I mean he's a seven footer
Speaker 1: as well, but not as much length. That's Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 1: But Kat took on the challenge man, and I thought
Speaker 1: it was very interesting to see because.
Speaker 3: Again, the Cat's only real experience.
Speaker 1: It's kind of when Jimmy was there and he was younger,
Speaker 1: still learning, and when I say real experience, I mean
Speaker 1: playoff experience, and you know, to see him step up
Speaker 1: on this stage I thought was huge because when at
Speaker 1: Man couldn't get it going, it was Kat that when
Speaker 1: when all else was failing, Kat was hitting threes. Cat
Speaker 1: was getting downhill to the bucket like he was making
Speaker 1: plays to keep them in the game.
Speaker 3: And he only finished with.
Speaker 1: Twenty three points, but the twenty three points were so
Speaker 1: timely and they were they were they came at a
Speaker 1: time when they needed the most because Aton just couldn't
Speaker 1: get it going. And I thought it was beautiful to
Speaker 1: see Kat taking on that challenge and that responsibility offensively,
Speaker 1: which we've all known he could do since the time
Speaker 1: he stepped into the NBA, but also taking on that
Speaker 1: challenge on the other end. And you know, when you
Speaker 1: see teams win a championship, there's usually like there, I
Speaker 1: mean areas, there's steps to it, and you see, like
Speaker 1: teams have to get over different.
Speaker 3: Hurdles, Some teams that can take them a year.
Speaker 1: To get over the hurdle right, Like say you have
Speaker 1: a great year and you get knocked you don't quite
Speaker 1: get over some hurdle, and then you come back next
Speaker 1: year Denver for instance. Right, we knock them out, they
Speaker 1: don't get over the hurdle, we win a championship. They
Speaker 1: come back the next year, they take that next step,
Speaker 1: they win a championship.
Speaker 3: Right Like, you see that a lot.
Speaker 1: And it's been interesting to watch Minnesota throughout these playoffs
Speaker 1: because it's like they're getting over these different hurdles as
Speaker 1: they go through these playoffs, and you know, to see
Speaker 1: them knock off the defending champs and losing game five,
Speaker 1: they're losing game six, excuse me, wait Jackson, how did
Speaker 1: that go?
Speaker 3: Minnesota? Yeah? Minnesota lost who.
Speaker 5: Won to two? Down, down three to two, and then.
Speaker 3: One two straight? Okay, thank you so yes, and losing
Speaker 3: game five.
Speaker 1: And then coming back and winning two straight against the
Speaker 1: defending champions, backs against the Ropes, and they absolutely annihilated
Speaker 1: different in game six. And just to see the the
Speaker 1: leaps that they're taking throughout this series, I think it's great.
Speaker 1: Like when you look at their team and the team
Speaker 1: is just built like they're they're really winning these things
Speaker 1: depending on each other again and had an awful night tonight,
Speaker 1: got it going when it mattered, most made timely plays,
Speaker 1: timely stops. Shut Jamal Murray's water off in the second half,
Speaker 1: shut his water off. Jamal Murray had it going in
Speaker 1: the first half and shut his water off in the
Speaker 1: second half. And to do that struggling, then start getting
Speaker 1: some buckets to go offensively. That three hit on the
Speaker 1: wing was huge over Aaron Gordon. That was perfect defense.
Speaker 1: And just to take on that responsibility, end up shooting
Speaker 1: six for twenty four, sixteen points, six for twenty four
Speaker 1: shooting and it's in.
Speaker 3: Game seven. Swear to swear the.
Speaker 1: Stars is built awful night by his standards. But what
Speaker 1: I loved is even if you listen during the game,
Speaker 1: he was he was wired talking to his guys, Yo,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna find it, like stayed upbeat. I stay leader man,
Speaker 1: that's who they've been following. And he stayed true. And
Speaker 1: you gotta get those guys credit man. And like I said,
Speaker 1: what's beautiful about what Minnesota is doing is it's the
Speaker 1: ultimate team thing. Like they lose this game, Rudy Gobart
Speaker 1: is getting torched in the first torched.
Speaker 3: They actually go on their run.
Speaker 1: When Rudy Gobert finally comes out the game in second half,
Speaker 1: they start to go on their run. When they started
Speaker 1: to go on their run, Kat gets spout trouble, Rudy
Speaker 1: eventually has to come back in.
Speaker 3: And when Rudy came back in, he made plays. He
Speaker 3: got a.
Speaker 1: Couple offensive rebounds, some big offensive rebounds, hit some big
Speaker 1: free throws, and those offensive rebounds was key because they
Speaker 1: were doing two things. Number One, they was second chance
Speaker 1: points obviously, but it was stopping Denver from getting out
Speaker 1: in transition and they were struggling to score against their
Speaker 1: half court defense. And also it allowed them to get
Speaker 1: to the bonus early. So then Denver started picking up
Speaker 1: touch fouls and those were all free throws. And when
Speaker 1: you get in the penalty early in the NBA, early
Speaker 1: in the quarter, it's hard to overcome that.
Speaker 3: And so Rudy.
Speaker 1: Gobert came in and played big basketball. But that was
Speaker 1: after getting bullied and Cat stepping up to that challenge
Speaker 1: is taking it on and Cat stepping up for him
Speaker 1: man and Jaden McDaniels stepping up, nas Reed stepping up
Speaker 1: like it's the ultimate team thing. And I think it's
Speaker 1: absolutely beautiful to see and I feel like they are
Speaker 1: taking those steps that you need to take as it go.
Speaker 1: Now Denver, interestingly enough, well we had said about Denver
Speaker 1: early was there bench maybe a problem, and it came
Speaker 1: back to bite them in the most inopportune time that
Speaker 1: it could find him.
Speaker 3: Because Jamal Murray and.
Speaker 1: Joker had it going again thirty four points, thirty five points.
Speaker 1: Joker shot terrible from the three, but they finished thirteenth
Speaker 1: for twenty eight from the phield thirty four points super
Speaker 1: ten from three. Jamal Murray thirty five points, twenty seven shots,
Speaker 1: thirteen for twenty seven, four for ten from three. Those
Speaker 1: are good numbers. However, everybody else on their team, no
Speaker 1: one else in double figures. It's hard to win that way,
Speaker 1: and so you're not getting anything from your bench, and
Speaker 1: that's been the guys around.
Speaker 3: Where else can you pull from?
Speaker 1: KCP couldn't get it going, Michael Porter Junior couldn't get
Speaker 1: it going. Eric Gordon couldn't get it going. So nobody
Speaker 1: else could get it going. Christian Brown brought great energy,
Speaker 1: but you need somebody sometimes to get some buckets off
Speaker 1: the bench, and they didn't have that.
Speaker 6: They had five total bench points, four bench field goal
Speaker 6: at ten.
Speaker 3: That's insane.
Speaker 1: But that's what walked when Bruce Brown walked like, that's
Speaker 1: what walked when Jeff Green walked like somebody else, some
Speaker 1: other guys that can get it going off the bench.
Speaker 1: That was key for them. And so, man, it's a
Speaker 1: tough one. It's a tough way to go out. If
Speaker 1: you're Denver, it's a tough tough way to go out.
Speaker 1: But you win a championship, you come back. You kind
Speaker 1: of don't show a couple of things up. Now you
Speaker 1: gotta go back to the drawing board and Harris where
Speaker 1: it gets interesting. Now, can you add where you think
Speaker 1: you need to add? Does your young guys take the
Speaker 1: steps that you think they need to take? Like those
Speaker 1: are now the thing, that's the space that you get in.
Speaker 1: We're winning the championships. I'm telling you, man, it's hard
Speaker 1: to win championship after championship and keep doing that.
Speaker 3: Like it ain't that easy. It's a tough, tough, tough
Speaker 3: thing to do.
Speaker 1: Man. And so here we are, like things will get
Speaker 1: interested with Denver. What happens there we don't know, And
Speaker 1: I don't think any big things happened from as far
Speaker 1: as their court group goes no, but like can you
Speaker 1: retool and get back? You start seeing Joker and Man
Speaker 1: get into it. At the end Joker ain't like a
Speaker 1: man wave and then Jay McDaniel's trying to score.
Speaker 3: So now you got that thing brewing. You still got
Speaker 3: a young OKC.
Speaker 1: You obviously got the Dubs coming back like so, and
Speaker 1: then obviously these guys that are still playing that's still
Speaker 1: competing for it all like it gets interesting and it
Speaker 1: gets interesting fast, like things change like that in this league.
Speaker 1: A bad quarter can change a lot. A bad quarter
Speaker 1: changes everything for this Timberwolves scene because if the Timberwolves
Speaker 1: don't win this game Rudy Gobert had a series that
Speaker 1: he had, then you have those questions. I thought it
Speaker 1: was very interesting that early year. In the year, even
Speaker 1: as the Timberwolves were having success prior to the trade deadline,
Speaker 1: you would hear like cat names still coming up in
Speaker 1: trade talks, and man, the way Cat stepped up, Like
Speaker 1: when you drive a kid with the number one pick
Speaker 1: like they did.
Speaker 3: That's con That's that's what you hope to see.
Speaker 1: Like over these years, like everybody won fast results we
Speaker 1: all do. But over these years he's continued to Bill
Speaker 1: continued to build, and in the most important time, he
Speaker 1: stepped up like nobody believed he could with heart defense.
Speaker 1: Like aside from just scoring, we know he could score,
Speaker 1: but he made timely winning plays. When when Cat chased
Speaker 1: down the block, Reggie Jackson had to lay up Cat,
Speaker 1: go and get that. Cat wasn't doing that. Cat wasn't
Speaker 1: doing that. I'm sorry. I've watched Cat play for years,
Speaker 1: played against for years. He wasn't doing that chase down
Speaker 1: block like that. Growth is incredible. I applaud that. I
Speaker 1: applaud that. You gotta love it, and you also gotta
Speaker 1: get some credit to the guys that's around him. Somebody
Speaker 1: pulling something out of him that he didn't know was there.
Speaker 1: At man pulling something out of him that they didn't
Speaker 1: know they had signs of a great leader. Got to
Speaker 1: tip your hat to the young fella. It's beautiful what
Speaker 1: he's doing. Carrying these guys. I thought they was toast.
Speaker 1: Thought they was toast and should have been kept going,
Speaker 1: kept fighting. Gotta love it, so man, I tipped my
Speaker 1: hat to them. It's gonna be interesting to see them
Speaker 1: versus Denver, I mean, excuse me them versus Dallas.
Speaker 3: Next series.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a hell of a matchup. You got
Speaker 1: a couple of young stars and a man and Luca.
Speaker 1: You got Kyrie tried true and test it or I
Speaker 1: messed out up, but you get the point. And you
Speaker 1: got Minnesota side. How does gafferd stack up to that?
Speaker 1: You got a young Lively playing good basketball with Minnesota's bigs.
Speaker 1: How do they match up? You got PJ. Washington at
Speaker 1: the four shooting the lights out the ball in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: If Luke is putting.
Speaker 1: Rudy in the pick and roll every time, how does
Speaker 1: Rudy handle that Kyrie in the pick and roll? That's
Speaker 1: a different rook look for Rudy. It's a different look.
Speaker 1: How do you handle that floor spacing? It's gonna space
Speaker 1: you out differently than than it was spaced out in Denver.
Speaker 1: Because you got Aaron Gordon always in the dunker. They
Speaker 1: if he had the three you helping of if you're
Speaker 1: not worried about it, they got guys shooting that thing
Speaker 1: so that stretches, that stretches the defense differently.
Speaker 3: That's what we're up against, right You got ant Man downhill.
Speaker 1: Dereck Jones Junior would probably be the guy that you
Speaker 1: think are at Man because you kind of need PJ
Speaker 1: for size this round against Cat. But I think at
Speaker 1: Man could possibly be a little too big for Dereck
Speaker 1: Jones Jr. So if he is and you need PJ
Speaker 1: for a saze, then who's guarden Cat?
Speaker 3: Do you didn't send Derrek Jones Junior to Cat?
Speaker 1: This where the chess pieces sometimes having the chess playing
Speaker 1: the chess moves happened. Is it more of a Josh
Speaker 1: Josh Green series? How can Josh Green play this series?
Speaker 1: Can do he come play big? So if he played big,
Speaker 1: can he guard? And so?
Speaker 3: To allow PJ to guard the cat more? Right?
Speaker 1: Like this is where you start plugging and playing. This
Speaker 1: is where it gets good. But the matchup's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 1: You got Luca and Jade McDaniels. You go at Man,
Speaker 1: O Kyrie, Kyrie and at Man. That's that's one for
Speaker 1: the ages right there, Young Fella versus Kyrie season But
Speaker 1: ky do it? KAYI trickster bag full of tricks. It's
Speaker 1: interesting you go Mike Conley, Derrick Jones Jr. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so these these matches like this, this series, it's the
Speaker 1: tell of two tapes, I think and Man which one
Speaker 1: ultimately wins. I want to say Dallas. I want to
Speaker 1: say Dallas, but Minnesota showed me somethinge they when they
Speaker 1: were really willing to Poor Rudy Gobert sometimes Utah couldn't
Speaker 1: get over the hump because they wouldn't be willing to
Speaker 1: pull them. You got you, you never know could they
Speaker 1: got over the hump sometimes if he was willing to
Speaker 1: pull him. At times they weren't. Minnesota pulled them at
Speaker 1: the right time. He got back in though you gotta
Speaker 1: give him credit, got back in and played. Gotta give
Speaker 1: him credit. It ain't bow out. But what I was
Speaker 1: shown tonight was that cat can hold the fourth down.
Speaker 1: Cash willing to hold the four down and if you
Speaker 1: need to play that card. They showed that they will.
Speaker 1: They showed that they're capable. So with that man, I
Speaker 1: like Dallas. I think Dallas is tough.
Speaker 3: Man. I think Dallas is tough MAXI Klaver.
Speaker 1: Being out this round gonna be big. Do they get
Speaker 1: Klaver back? I think that changes the series. But I
Speaker 1: think he's out indefinitely. Isn't he out for quite a while?
Speaker 3: Jackson?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think he's out for quite a bit. I
Speaker 6: will I will try to check, but I think he's out.
Speaker 6: I think he's out for quite a while. Yeah like that,
Speaker 6: maybe for the finals if they get there, but I
Speaker 6: don't think this round.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: See, that's the tough that's where that loss come in
Speaker 1: to play, right, and you start talking about health and
Speaker 1: like where it comes important becomes important because Maxie Claver
Speaker 1: would be because he can guard, cats, can stretch the floor. Still,
Speaker 1: if you remember Maxie Claybor was shooting the lights out
Speaker 1: versus Clippers. So I want to say Dallas, I feel
Speaker 1: like Dallas' is more than capable of winning this series.
Speaker 1: But it's hard to bet against Minnesota right now and
Speaker 1: man doing what he's doing, cat stepping up like that,
Speaker 1: and I think this is going to be a big, big,
Speaker 1: big Kyle Anderson series. Like when you start talking to
Speaker 1: floor Space and if they got to pull that plug
Speaker 1: on Rudy Kyle Anderson. Kyle Anderson hasn't been real big
Speaker 1: in these playoffs, so I wonder is he still in
Speaker 1: them mentally? Always been a true professional? Is he still
Speaker 1: there mentally though? Because this could be a big Kyle
Speaker 1: Anderson series. That's where the series can change. Can you
Speaker 1: get a guy like Kyle Anderson to come up big.
Speaker 1: He's more than capable. I've seen him do it, so
Speaker 1: it's interesting. But yeah, we shall see. In other news,
Speaker 1: we got the Knicks in the Pacers now. Number one,
Speaker 1: wishing Jalen Bruston to speed recovery. Never want to see
Speaker 1: guys get hurt. You know, guys lived that every day
Speaker 1: talking to broken hand as is dominant hand. Be If
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, I think he got a kid, like
Speaker 1: you gotta lift that every day, Like won't be able
Speaker 1: to pick up his kid again. That' said if he
Speaker 1: got a kid, which I think he does. Don't quote
Speaker 1: me on it, but like my point is, you got
Speaker 1: to lift that every day, and you never want to
Speaker 1: see that. So Number one, sending love and respect to
Speaker 1: Jaylen Bruston.
Speaker 3: What he did this postseason was beautiful to watch.
Speaker 1: Did everything, answer every car, answer every bell that he
Speaker 1: had to answer. It was beautiful to see. So shout
Speaker 1: out to him and wishing him a speedy recovery. Number one.
Speaker 1: Number two man, Yeah, I definitely didn't think the Knicks
Speaker 1: were like that grade of a team, which I said,
Speaker 1: and everybody's like, oh, you hated on the Knicks, Like no,
Speaker 1: I'm actually not actually like did just four times.
Speaker 3: I kind of know what it takes and I know
Speaker 3: what it looks like, and I.
Speaker 1: Know everybody's going to be like, oh man, like they
Speaker 1: got hurt and this guy got hurt, and like that's
Speaker 1: a part of it, right, Like when kd got hurt
Speaker 1: and Clay got hurt, like nobody's like, oh man, them
Speaker 1: guys got hurt. So we feel bad for the Warriors,
Speaker 1: like because those guys got hurt and they would have won. Like, nah,
Speaker 1: nobody say that, Just like when we wanted twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: nobody'd be like, oh man, Kyrie was hurting and got
Speaker 1: hurt during the series and Kevin like, you gotta play
Speaker 1: who on the court. So let's not even like go there,
Speaker 1: let's just talk about the game. Because even before Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunston got hurt, Indiana came out scorching them boys.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 1: When we do these podcasts, Jackson, like, you know, we
Speaker 1: put these rundowns together, like different stats, you know, and
Speaker 1: no topics we want to hit, and then I just
Speaker 1: kind of go for y'all.
Speaker 3: So like, don't take away from the artistry. It's a
Speaker 3: real thing.
Speaker 1: But like you know, and so Jackson has this question
Speaker 1: out here, like do you all the Pacers and apology
Speaker 1: for calling them an eighty two game team, And the
Speaker 1: answer is no, number one of them not apologizing. Now,
Speaker 1: if they go win a championship, then I'm still not apologizing.
Speaker 1: I'll just welcome you to the club, like welcome, congratulations,
Speaker 1: like that happened to Aaron Gordon. I told y'all like
Speaker 1: like was destroying Aaron Gordon and then like that next
Speaker 1: year he came back and he got that respect back
Speaker 1: and he won a championship. No problem, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to apologize to you, but welcome to the club. You
Speaker 1: get a different So you know, Shaq always talk about
Speaker 1: G fourteen classification, right like, so I mean, like if
Speaker 1: you get welcome to the club, cool, like, but that
Speaker 1: don't erase what happened before. Like so if they get
Speaker 1: like welcome to the club, then great, then that's kind
Speaker 1: of an a an apology, but not like, hey, my bad,
Speaker 1: I was wrong, like no welcome, like come on, you're
Speaker 1: here now, different respect. So no, the answer is no, Jackson,
Speaker 1: there's no apology. However, I told you I didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't know like what to make of the Knicks. And
Speaker 1: by the way, shout out to Dante. Man, Dante played
Speaker 1: incredible basketball, incredible years. See him going to New York,
Speaker 1: right near Delaware where Dante's from, you know, back near
Speaker 1: the crib with his dogs that he did it with
Speaker 1: before in college, and to see him continue to step
Speaker 1: up thirty nine points, it was beautiful to see. So
Speaker 1: shout out to Dante. Hey man, I'm very happy for Dante.
Speaker 1: Got nothing beloved for Dante still was was was hurt
Speaker 1: that he left, but not hurt like because I was
Speaker 1: happy for him, but like it hurt us for sure,
Speaker 1: and I was hurt. I like Dante as my dog.
Speaker 1: So shout out to Dante.
Speaker 3: But I told you, like I just didn't really know.
Speaker 1: It's like the Knicks is is real like that, like like,
Speaker 1: oh you hating on the Knicks, Like no, I just
Speaker 1: really be calling and how I see it, And you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes some things work, but you know, like it's that
Speaker 1: gonna beat you four times, And there was some things
Speaker 1: about the Knicks that I just didn't think it would
Speaker 1: win four times and it didn't.
Speaker 3: And I know everybody will be like, oh they hurt again, Jayleen.
Speaker 1: They were getting cooked before Jalen got hurt, like getting
Speaker 1: cooked and yeap Og got hurt for sure, like and
Speaker 1: taking nothing away.
Speaker 3: You know that that's that, those are all facts.
Speaker 1: So that's so was Benedict Matherin though Benedict Matherne was
Speaker 1: hurting and he could have been big for them in
Speaker 1: this series. So everybody has injuries, so we're not gonna
Speaker 1: do that. You gotta get those guys. Credit. Tyrese Hollerberg
Speaker 1: came out the gate at the guard talking to the
Speaker 1: fans like, you gotta get them.
Speaker 3: Credit. Pascal Siakam changed the series though.
Speaker 1: What Pascal was doing, taking advantage of his size advantage,
Speaker 1: putting guys on the block, wearing those guys down, it
Speaker 1: played the role all of a sudden, Josh Hart pull
Speaker 1: a pull a stomach muscle like all of that banging
Speaker 1: plays a role. That's a different thing. And so you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta take your hat off to the
Speaker 1: to the Indiana Pacers. I still personally think they're an
Speaker 1: eighty two game team, like uh season, like an eighty
Speaker 1: two game team for sure. I still think that. Like,
Speaker 1: but I didn't think the Knicks was real, so like
Speaker 1: somebody had to get there, like, but now we get real,
Speaker 1: Like now you Boston, you know, and like if you
Speaker 1: just get to the conference finals and then that's just it,
Speaker 1: Like you don't really get those stars for that, Like no,
Speaker 1: that was the type of things that like say people
Speaker 1: jobs and like get people paid, but like you don't
Speaker 1: get like like yo, you get a go star for
Speaker 1: making it to the conference finals and and now you
Speaker 1: meet the buzz saw that is Boston and Boston. This
Speaker 1: series is going to get interesting because the matchups I
Speaker 1: think will be important. Like I don't think this is
Speaker 1: a Drew Holliday Tyrese Holliburton unless you're getting them because Drew,
Speaker 1: like Drew play is tight spaces and Drew Drew.
Speaker 3: Gonna kill your screen and blow your screen up.
Speaker 1: Like I think this is more of a excuse me,
Speaker 1: Derek White, Tyre's Halliburton. I actually can see Drew Holliday
Speaker 1: Garden Pascal. That's that's the matchup, Like Drew Holliday and
Speaker 1: Pascal is the because you know, you could go Jalen
Speaker 1: on on Pascal, but Jalen ain't Gardener post like that
Speaker 1: strong enough. But it's a technique and Drew got the
Speaker 1: technique actually, and so I see you going Pascal and
Speaker 1: Drew now you got Jason, you put Jason on uh
Speaker 1: maybe Nie Smith. Yeah, you go Jason on Nie Smith,
Speaker 1: and then you go Jalen on them hard and those
Speaker 1: are That's what I see the match ups being in
Speaker 1: Game one. Now Tyrese Halliburton and Al Horford in that
Speaker 1: pick and roll is going to get interested because our
Speaker 1: al can struggle guarding that pick and roll, so that
Speaker 1: can get interested.
Speaker 3: That can be a good match up for them.
Speaker 1: But hairs were a lot of how Boston played all
Speaker 1: year is I can see them switching everything, like switching
Speaker 1: everything boxes and elbows, making Indiana try to play one
Speaker 1: on one. Boston got like gray side, so when they switch,
Speaker 1: you ain't just dumping the ball in the post to
Speaker 1: Miles like they switch. They boxing elbows and so we've
Speaker 1: seen that times Boston struggle to take care of the ball.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the key to the series for them.
Speaker 1: If they can take care of the ball. Indiana defense
Speaker 1: can struggle at times now they've been playing great defense.
Speaker 3: He's playoffs.
Speaker 1: But Boston will find a way to get Holly Burton involved.
Speaker 3: They got a couple.
Speaker 1: Guys that have drew like all those guys can get
Speaker 1: Holly Burton involved, and you can't hire Holly Burton on
Speaker 1: this team either.
Speaker 3: So Holly gonna have to step up and play some defense.
Speaker 1: And he's gonna have to take on that challenge if
Speaker 1: he want to give his team a chance events to
Speaker 1: the next round, He's gonna have to take on the
Speaker 1: challenge defensively. And that's not this moo, but he definitely
Speaker 1: gonna have to do that if he want to get.
Speaker 3: His team a chance.
Speaker 1: Now, Indiana, they played well defensively versus New York, but
Speaker 1: it's a different animal.
Speaker 3: It's a totally different animal. Now.
Speaker 1: Even t J McConnell, By the way, TJ McConnell was
Speaker 1: incredible this series, incredible, absolutely incredible, And I got TJ
Speaker 1: McConnell going to have a nod on Peyton Pritchard, TJ.
Speaker 1: I will take TJ me personally. However, I got Boston,
Speaker 1: no problem. Should be a gentleman, sweet, Boston, do their thing,
Speaker 1: do what they're supposed to do. Should be a gentleman sweet.
Speaker 1: So no, there's no apologies, Jackson. They got to the
Speaker 1: conference finals. Somebody have to get theirs to eat. We
Speaker 1: get it, got it, somebody gotta go. And you know,
Speaker 1: but congrats to them, that's dope.
Speaker 3: But they.
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be the end of the
Speaker 1: role for them. So that's kind of my prediction. That's
Speaker 1: what I think the matchup is gonna be, and we
Speaker 1: will talk about it later.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be a rap.
Speaker 1: Actually it's not, because if you all were in a chat,
Speaker 1: do we got some people in the chat, Jackson, before
Speaker 1: we get out of here.
Speaker 5: We we have a lot of people in the chat.
Speaker 6: We had a few people in the chat who donated
Speaker 6: some money, which we love. Shout out to everyone who
Speaker 6: kicked in some dollars. And so if those people were
Speaker 6: gonna answer their questions from at Senpai, can you talk
Speaker 6: about how good of a defender Nasried is, especially at
Speaker 6: six '.
Speaker 1: Nine, nas Reed has continued to grow as a defender,
Speaker 1: and the way he guarded Joker all series long when
Speaker 1: he got the opportunity, I thought it was beautiful. Nasri
Speaker 1: has great speed, he has great length, he's quick on
Speaker 1: his feet, and he's not soft at all. He take
Speaker 1: on the challengeing backing down from no bump. So I
Speaker 1: think he's a very underrated defender. And nas Reed came
Speaker 1: into this league a little heavy and he got his
Speaker 1: body in shape and that was the key to his
Speaker 1: defensive presence. So I think, you know, he's a really
Speaker 1: good defender and it allows Minnesota to win. They want
Speaker 1: to get Rudy Gobert and go small, they can still
Speaker 1: be big because you come in with nas Reed who
Speaker 1: can defend.
Speaker 3: And he was also able to give.
Speaker 1: Kat a break and when Kat went out to the bench,
Speaker 1: nas Reed ended up taking Joker and they kept Joker
Speaker 1: in the straight jackets, so that was down the stretch,
Speaker 1: so that was that's good to see.
Speaker 3: But yeah, nas Reed I think has grown.
Speaker 1: As a defender and now it doesn't get talked about much,
Speaker 1: which would make him kind of an underrated defender.
Speaker 6: And then Carlos Hernandez asked do you think the Mavericks
Speaker 6: have a chance, which obviously you do, but I'm going
Speaker 6: to use this as a jumping off point to ask
Speaker 6: you to give a Firmer prediction on Dallas Minnesota.
Speaker 3: A Firmer prediction on Doubt an eisode.
Speaker 5: You got how many games, let's see, let's.
Speaker 3: Hear it, You're I got Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance to really analyze this how
Speaker 1: I want to analyze it yet, but I think I
Speaker 1: need to look at like some different matchup stuff like
Speaker 1: what did they what?
Speaker 3: What was there?
Speaker 1: I need to watch their games from the season and
Speaker 1: like see different things. So I may tweet to y'all
Speaker 1: and change my prediction before game one, just so you
Speaker 1: know I'm gonna go, just to give you guys a
Speaker 1: firm prediction. I haven't studied like I want to study yet.
Speaker 3: I'll go.
Speaker 1: Minnesota for now, but I may change that before game one,
Speaker 1: so be on the lookout. I mean, if I'll even
Speaker 1: post something like, I'll post a video if I changed
Speaker 1: it or so.
Speaker 3: But as of right now, I think I got Minnesota.
Speaker 5: All right. I like it. I think that's all we
Speaker 5: got for fors tonight.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I appreciate the questions. I appreciate y'all
Speaker 1: tuning in. That's a rap from this episode of The
Speaker 1: Draymond Green Show. Until next time, Peace,