Speaker 1: The volume. The Draymond Green Show is presented by a
Speaker 1: fan duel sports book. There's no better place to bet
Speaker 1: the action than on FanDuel sports Book during the football season.
Speaker 1: It's easy to use, it's safe and secure. You get
Speaker 1: payouts in as fast as two hours. There's so many
Speaker 1: bet types. My favorite same game parlay bets. There's live betting,
Speaker 1: player props, futures. If you're new, just download the FanDuel
Speaker 1: sports Book app to get started. Now sign up. Please
Speaker 1: use the promode code colum c O l I. An
Speaker 1: fan duel sports book makes it easy. What's up, everybody?
Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show. Like we said
Speaker 1: earlier this week, UM, there will be no guests during
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but we are going to try and do
Speaker 1: two shows a week so I can keep you updated
Speaker 1: on my thoughts about the playoffs on UM, including our
Speaker 1: series as well. We are actually recording this right after
Speaker 1: Game three, which you could probably see. I still can't
Speaker 1: stop sweating it. But let's get into it, man, I
Speaker 1: mean Game three. Takeaways from Game three. Jordan Pool like that, UM,
Speaker 1: Jordan Pool is the most improved player in the NBA.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep saying that until they get sick of
Speaker 1: me saying it and actually changed the way the voting
Speaker 1: is because I it's absolutely ridiculous the voting system. And
Speaker 1: if you don't think it's ridiculous, then looking no further
Speaker 1: than Jordan Pool, who is who was on All NBA
Speaker 1: third excuse me, was on All NBA G League third
Speaker 1: team last year and now he's the leading scorer to
Speaker 1: go to Stay Warriors in the playoffs, um championship contender.
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting on someone to show me who improved
Speaker 1: more than that. So, uh, my fight is is one
Speaker 1: of two things, or maybe even both. Number one is
Speaker 1: change the voting system. Number two, change the name of
Speaker 1: the award or add a criteria to what actually makes
Speaker 1: someone most Improved Player or what makes someone the m
Speaker 1: v P or what makes themone a Defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year. Let's just let's just identify what exactly that
Speaker 1: is because it's ridiculous. So, yeah, I'm talking about Jordan
Speaker 1: Pool again, and if you're watching basketball, you would be
Speaker 1: talking about them too, or if you knew what you
Speaker 1: were watching. Some people out there, not everybody, but you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people out there that think they
Speaker 1: know this game of basketball, and it's just not the case.
Speaker 1: So and again we can see that because Jordan Poole
Speaker 1: is not the most improved player. Jordan Pool is not
Speaker 1: even the most improved player of the player of finalists.
Speaker 1: So when I say people don't know basketball, look no
Speaker 1: further than that. Um, Joker had a big game tonight.
Speaker 1: I I told you all after Game one he was
Speaker 1: trying to go for he was gonna try to go
Speaker 1: for forty or fifteen. He almost did it tonight. I
Speaker 1: mean I didn't get the assists, which is important. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't want all the other guys getting off. And
Speaker 1: you know, tonight they had Aaron Gordon had his best
Speaker 1: game of the series, which which was big for them,
Speaker 1: which was a huge part of the reason. You know,
Speaker 1: the game was that tight down the stretch. But Joker
Speaker 1: was amazing. Man. I thought they did a great job
Speaker 1: of of of playing in space with him, um picking
Speaker 1: and popping. Uh. He did a great job attacking clothes.
Speaker 1: I was my clothes. I was were terrible. Coach Kerk
Speaker 1: got at me, Um when he called that time, I
Speaker 1: was Joker. Pump faked me with like three minutes ago,
Speaker 1: got down the lane and got to lay up. He
Speaker 1: called the time out and got at me like, stopped
Speaker 1: jumping off your feet. I had done in like four
Speaker 1: or five times. And I went back at coach a
Speaker 1: little bit. I'm like, well, I'm getting drug all the
Speaker 1: way down on the floor and I'm it's an impossible
Speaker 1: clothes out. You're like, well, make them hit the shot.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well he already hit two of them two
Speaker 1: for three. When he's going to get a lay up
Speaker 1: if you keep doing that. And so we had a
Speaker 1: little little moment um, nothing like the moments used to be.
Speaker 1: It's just him challenging me, and I asked the question
Speaker 1: and he say this, and I say this, and then
Speaker 1: you know, coach, get the final safe. And that was that.
Speaker 1: He tried to change the coverage. I told him, no,
Speaker 1: don't change the coverage. I'll figure it out. And I
Speaker 1: was able to get some stops down the stretch come
Speaker 1: up with with a big still you know, that's still.
Speaker 1: He took the first dribble and once he took the
Speaker 1: first bounce, um he hit me and I still had
Speaker 1: inside position. So once I realized I still had inside position,
Speaker 1: my mind immediately turns to see the ball and so
Speaker 1: on the second bounce, it was like away from his body,
Speaker 1: and so that's advantaged me because I can use my
Speaker 1: quickness and I can use my length. I got pretty
Speaker 1: long arm seven two winks man at six five and
Speaker 1: three quarters. That's pretty solid. So um, I knew that
Speaker 1: that was to my advantage. So I'm like, Okay, now
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, if he takes one more dribble like this,
Speaker 1: I'm a stab at it, and if I get it, great.
Speaker 1: But what I'm thinking is I know I can either
Speaker 1: get it or just take a swipe out of it
Speaker 1: and not filed because he had the ball so far
Speaker 1: away from his body and I just took a stab
Speaker 1: at it. I got a good hit on the ball,
Speaker 1: and you know, you get a good piece of the
Speaker 1: ball when you when you knocked the ball away and
Speaker 1: it like spin to you when it takes that spin.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you knocked the ball away and it just goes
Speaker 1: straight out to guy, run back and get it. But
Speaker 1: I knocked it away and it took that back spin
Speaker 1: on me. I said, oh yeah, I got this one.
Speaker 1: But I mean the reality is he had got the
Speaker 1: better of me all night, and you know he had
Speaker 1: won to match up for to night. I thought I
Speaker 1: wanted to match up in the first two games, but
Speaker 1: he had won to match up tonight. And you know,
Speaker 1: I've always said it's gonna be some nights like that
Speaker 1: where he's getting off and and you know, you just
Speaker 1: try to make it tough and there's there's really just
Speaker 1: nothing you can do. However, I think I definitely ate
Speaker 1: it in him getting off. Now take that the wrong ways.
Speaker 1: An absolutely great player, But I thought I left my
Speaker 1: feet way too much on shot fakes. I thought I
Speaker 1: gave him way too many angles to score, and I
Speaker 1: was I took my body off of him way too much.
Speaker 1: Now you ask yourself why I'm one That Denver altitude
Speaker 1: ain't no joke. Uh, that Denver altitude is serious my
Speaker 1: Oha city for a reason. You go to breathing and
Speaker 1: so um, excuse my my bad breathing. But that's how
Speaker 1: you feel on the basketball accord in Denver, I mean,
Speaker 1: and so uh kudos a joker man. He showed up
Speaker 1: like an m VP would. Uh. What one thing we
Speaker 1: do know about him is he's not soft. He's not
Speaker 1: shying away from no red. Uh. You know, he he
Speaker 1: wants to reck and and he carried his team tonight uh.
Speaker 1: Down the stretch, we made plays that we needed to make.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry is absolutely incredible. The way Steph Curry bounces
Speaker 1: back from injuries is like, like, dude, don't miss a beat.
Speaker 1: Like maybe in the first you know, when he stepped
Speaker 1: out on the court. The first time he's back out there,
Speaker 1: it's like getting the field. But look no further than
Speaker 1: that first stint, because he he does not miss a beat.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying this after this series. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying this just tonight, Like we've seen this over and
Speaker 1: over again, even and in playoff time. I know you'all
Speaker 1: remember that Game three in Portland's Um where he came
Speaker 1: back and we won that thing and a single or
Speaker 1: double overtime and Steph Curry took over the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and overtime. I think he might have had thirty points
Speaker 1: in fourth quarter and overtime. Like we're steps no strangers
Speaker 1: to this, We're no stranger to this with step But
Speaker 1: the way he bounced back from injury, I mean, and
Speaker 1: it's absolutely insane. One of reporters asked me tonight, like, so,
Speaker 1: how do you compare the way Steph Curry comes off
Speaker 1: injury and where you come on for injury. Well, he's
Speaker 1: just only the best shooter to ever live. And that's clockwork,
Speaker 1: you know. Now, I don't know why I can't. I'm
Speaker 1: a rhythm player, I'm a field guy. I need that feel.
Speaker 1: Steps just kind of go like he ain't looking for
Speaker 1: no field. He just kind of going and taking what
Speaker 1: the defense giving him and making the defense give him stuff. So, uh,
Speaker 1: Step has been incredible. Uh. We spoke about Jordan Pool
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson. Not only did Clay Thompson shoot the ball well,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you a very deceiving stat And
Speaker 1: if you don't believe it's deceive and go back and
Speaker 1: watch the game and pay attention Clay Thompson battle with
Speaker 1: Joker down the stretch on rebounds after I got switched
Speaker 1: off for different things and and and Clay got his
Speaker 1: hand on every rebound down the stretch. He only had
Speaker 1: one rebound for the game, which was very shocking to
Speaker 1: me because it does not tell the story that he does,
Speaker 1: does not tell the story of him. On the boards,
Speaker 1: Andre Godalla hig Man has come up with some big boards. Garden,
Speaker 1: Joker Garden, DeMarcus cousins Um dunked on Will Bardon turned
Speaker 1: back the hand of time, old man. You know, it's
Speaker 1: all always good to see Drey take off like that.
Speaker 1: But Drey was huge down the stretch. And then Wiggins
Speaker 1: Um was out of the game, comes back in the game,
Speaker 1: hits a big three, gets an offensive rebound, gets a
Speaker 1: stop on joker like. Those are the plays that win championships.
Speaker 1: It's not Um what everyone thinks. Everybody just come down
Speaker 1: and shoot threes. Those are the plays that wins games.
Speaker 1: Wins you championships. And kudos to Wiggins, the guy who's
Speaker 1: been drugged through the mud, who everybody say the guy
Speaker 1: don't show up. He only had nine points. I hope
Speaker 1: everyone can see for a sea pass that and see
Speaker 1: the game. Guys playing big time basketball in the first
Speaker 1: three games of this series. We expect nothing less than
Speaker 1: we expect him to keep it going. So and then
Speaker 1: Gary Payton man GP, came out fire and hit three
Speaker 1: threes in the first quarter, which was great for us.
Speaker 1: You know, when you when you're coming on the road.
Speaker 1: The one thing we expected coming into this game where
Speaker 1: they were going to be super physical. You can see
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon climbing and the guys right from the gate.
Speaker 1: Now you know you do that, and you know, guys
Speaker 1: go buy you and it gets tough. But their mindset
Speaker 1: was exactly what we thought it would be. Uh. They
Speaker 1: took on the personality of their head coach, very hard nosed.
Speaker 1: You know he's gonna come with it. They came with it,
Speaker 1: and you gotta get on credit. But that is the
Speaker 1: ultimate gut punch when you go on the road, um
Speaker 1: up to oh and a team is giving you their
Speaker 1: best shot in game three, and you can take those
Speaker 1: punches and come out with the win and set yourself
Speaker 1: up for a suite, put yourself in position for a sweep.
Speaker 1: That's the ultimate gut punching. There's no better feeling then
Speaker 1: walking off a court and you can hear a pin drop.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get better than that when you go on
Speaker 1: the road in the playoffs. That I mean, that is right,
Speaker 1: That's the ultimate feeling as an athlete. So I enjoyed
Speaker 1: that with man and I hope everyone else enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: You know, game game four going to be tough. Those
Speaker 1: boys just not going away. Ask you a question, Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you had five fouls for the majority of the end
Speaker 1: of that game, and you're obviously a very physical defender.
Speaker 1: And you know you could just trying to get into
Speaker 1: your body. So what's your thought process when you have
Speaker 1: five fouls are guarding a guy like that a for
Speaker 1: the entire last few minutes of the game, but especially
Speaker 1: on that last possession when you're going for that steel,
Speaker 1: Like what is going through your mind? Are you trying
Speaker 1: to defend him differently? What are what are you doing
Speaker 1: differently or or not differently when you have five guarding
Speaker 1: a player like that with that in the fourth quarter especially,
Speaker 1: I had that that that play was actually kind of
Speaker 1: deja vu from me. I had a play like that
Speaker 1: some years back against New Orleans and the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis right on that same side. And if I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, I may have had five fous in that
Speaker 1: game too. I think the way I look at that
Speaker 1: one is on the steel in partio, that is a
Speaker 1: very calculated risk. Like I'm not I see where the
Speaker 1: ball is, I'm reaching out, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm not like trying to get through his body to
Speaker 1: get the ball. I'm just reaching and slapping at the ball.
Speaker 1: And and so it's it's that that one is a
Speaker 1: very calculated risk risk um and saying that five files
Speaker 1: or four minutes ago, if I file out, then guys
Speaker 1: just gotta pick up the slack. But I can't play
Speaker 1: the last four minutes worried about picking up my six
Speaker 1: files because guess what he's gonna do. He's gonna take
Speaker 1: advantage thinking he got five hours. He's not trying to
Speaker 1: file again when that's not me. I'm I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play defense. I'm gonna keep my hands out, try to
Speaker 1: make sure I don't get any tikie tax files. But ultimately,
Speaker 1: if he makes a great move and he makes me
Speaker 1: file him he's a great player. That happens sometimes, And
Speaker 1: so I didn't think much about the five hours at all.
Speaker 1: I thought more about the four files. When I picked
Speaker 1: up that fourth early that I thought more about that one,
Speaker 1: then then the fifth file, the fifth, and four minutes ago,
Speaker 1: You're just gonna have to file me out right there, Chap,
Speaker 1: because of what I can't do is just give up
Speaker 1: buckets trying to stay in the game. If I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just give up buckets, I might as well go sit down.
Speaker 1: So for me, the mindset don't change with five files
Speaker 1: with under four minutes ago. The mindset is still the
Speaker 1: mindset you gotta get stops and we go on the
Speaker 1: other way. Man. As we talked about before, that Celtics
Speaker 1: Net series is absolutely incredible. You got the Nets up
Speaker 1: seventeen points, everything going their way. And let's talk about
Speaker 1: something else that happened last night with that game that
Speaker 1: most people don't know it's really a thing, but it's
Speaker 1: it's a real thing. The emotions of someone receiving a
Speaker 1: big award before the game. It's it takes the emotions
Speaker 1: of a team everywhere. I've been a part of a
Speaker 1: couple of Steph Curry moments that he gets the ward,
Speaker 1: um one for myself, and I would love to know
Speaker 1: what actual winning percentage the team has after a guy
Speaker 1: receives a big award. It is very hard. Like when
Speaker 1: you're a part of these teams, you go through these
Speaker 1: through these seasons and you grow so tight with guys
Speaker 1: and you have to be tight in order to win.
Speaker 1: And when you see one of your brothers get a
Speaker 1: big time award, like you feel like you got that
Speaker 1: award and then booms, first time to play a game.
Speaker 1: The emotions that you still have from that a war.
Speaker 1: It's hard to flip to that game but you know
Speaker 1: who flips right to the game, that team that's watching,
Speaker 1: You get that awar And last night Kevin Durant and
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irvan took full advantage of that. I mean the
Speaker 1: nets obviously, but they took full advantage of that started
Speaker 1: that game, and then Boston found their legs, they found
Speaker 1: their feet, they got going, and then the game was
Speaker 1: back and forth. Celtics took the league, nuts Stocking back
Speaker 1: and then ultimately the Celtics took the league back. But
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to give Boston a lot of
Speaker 1: credit on the way they defended Kyrie and Katie, but
Speaker 1: in particular Katie um K just looked like he couldn't
Speaker 1: find a rhythm. Now, I was very shocked that they
Speaker 1: had him bringing the ball up so much, because guys
Speaker 1: were just getting into him at half court, climbing into
Speaker 1: his triple and it looked to make him a little uncomfortable. Now,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't apply, I wouldn't expect that. If I'm Boston
Speaker 1: going into the next game, you know, you get one,
Speaker 1: but you ain't locking that guy down for an entire series.
Speaker 1: And they've done a very good job these first two games.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got guys flying at him left and
Speaker 1: right every time he shoot the ball as two guys
Speaker 1: contesting his shot, one coming from the review, a guy
Speaker 1: in front. You got guys on the side of him
Speaker 1: contesting his shot. I mean, the the defense Boston is
Speaker 1: playing is absolutely incredible. I expect Brooklyn to put Katie
Speaker 1: in more pin down to where he's catching the ball,
Speaker 1: like at the free throw line, at the elbow area,
Speaker 1: because good luck stopping him with those. So I was
Speaker 1: a little shocked by how much he handed the ball um.
Speaker 1: I thought one good sign for Brooklyn was Bruce Brown,
Speaker 1: Gorn and those guys playing as well as they played
Speaker 1: on the role on the road, because role players typically
Speaker 1: don't play great on the road. Now Drug has just
Speaker 1: been here, you know that's by all, Like we know
Speaker 1: dragging track record. We know he shows up in big games.
Speaker 1: But for Bruce Brown to go have the games that
Speaker 1: he had was absolutely incredible. And now he's going home.
Speaker 1: I don't know if people aren't expecting it, but you
Speaker 1: should be expecting him to have a huge game going
Speaker 1: back home. And so you know, if he can continue
Speaker 1: to play that way, you get some of the other
Speaker 1: guys going Seth Curry, Uh, you know, he's playing through
Speaker 1: injury and and going through all of those things. Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons is expected to return in Game four. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how I feel about that. UM to miss the
Speaker 1: entire season of basketball and then go into Game four,
Speaker 1: which could possibly be a closeout game, could be a
Speaker 1: possible tie uh game to tie it up, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how I feel about that. UM And I know
Speaker 1: he's getting pressure from that way, that way, that way,
Speaker 1: in that way, but the reality is to not play
Speaker 1: in the game. And the Nuggets have been talking about
Speaker 1: this with Jamal Murray, and I'm just like to not
Speaker 1: play in the game all year and then go right
Speaker 1: into a playoff game. I worry about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: just keep up with that intensity, like I worry about that. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see what happens. Maybe they'll pull it back.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they will pull it back. But I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't quite love that one. And you know, you
Speaker 1: you bring a guy back after missing the entire season
Speaker 1: because he is, are you expecting him to be the savior?
Speaker 1: Like I don't honestly think Brooklyn needs saves. I mean,
Speaker 1: they had Game one one and was up seventeen in
Speaker 1: game too. Now you gotta close the games out of stuff.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm a little worried about Ben Simmons coming back.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, we'll see what happens, but I worry
Speaker 1: about that one. But with all the pressure that's coming
Speaker 1: from every angle, I don't I doubt that they'll pull
Speaker 1: back on it. But that's something to watch. And and
Speaker 1: you know, um, these guys have never played with him.
Speaker 1: It's not even like he's returning to the same team
Speaker 1: that kind of note. I don't know, man, we'll see,
Speaker 1: but I was. I was a little shocked by that one. Um,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. But I would definitely be tuned into
Speaker 1: that game three because that series is amazing. You've got
Speaker 1: great scores on both sides. Boston Celtics defense is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: Uh email Eudokers doing a great job, Marcus Smartest being
Speaker 1: a true point guard. I mean, Jalen Brown is taking
Speaker 1: better and better shots. J T. J T took a
Speaker 1: couple of questionable shots in that third quarter. I was
Speaker 1: actually about the text j T and say, man, you
Speaker 1: you you you're playing a little soft right now, JT.
Speaker 1: But just like any great player does, he had a
Speaker 1: little moment where you know he had a couple of turnovers.
Speaker 1: Then he had that side step um on the left
Speaker 1: wing like tough one after he just bobbled the ball
Speaker 1: when they threw the pass over the top of bobbled
Speaker 1: and missed like he was having a rough stretch. And
Speaker 1: I was about to text man, I said, I'm hold off,
Speaker 1: and then he did what JT does down the stretch
Speaker 1: put them away. Draggings was ready to contest that dribble. Uhuh,
Speaker 1: I'm bigger than you. I'm just bigger than you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna raise up and raised up Candom boys sent them
Speaker 1: back to Brooklyn. But now they got to go into Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: and I think that's gonna be tough. So I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to how Katie and Kyrie gonna respond. I've played
Speaker 1: years with Kevin, played against Kyrie a bunch of years.
Speaker 1: You don't keep guys like that down, So I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing how they responded, how Brooklyn respond But
Speaker 1: that Sai reason is far from over. So Game three
Speaker 1: is going to be very excited. And then Memphis and
Speaker 1: Minnesota that I don't even know what to say about
Speaker 1: that game. Minnesota built up two separate twenty two plus
Speaker 1: point leads, two separate leads. Now, like the lead didn't
Speaker 1: get cut to sixteen and they took it back. The
Speaker 1: league got cut to five, and then they took it
Speaker 1: back to then they lost the league. But how many
Speaker 1: times have you seen the team get up twenty two
Speaker 1: points and twenty five points at separate times and not
Speaker 1: scored one hundred points. That's interesting, That's very interesting. And
Speaker 1: there are some things to take away from that one.
Speaker 1: That means Memphis went on some huge scoring droughts, as
Speaker 1: did Minnesota, um, but some huge scoring droughts. And two,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you get up that much
Speaker 1: and not even break a hundred twice? You got up
Speaker 1: that much. That's mind boggling to me. And I was
Speaker 1: watching this game in the locker room before our game,
Speaker 1: so I am I know exactly what was happening, and
Speaker 1: I was watching it. Carl Towns three for four from
Speaker 1: the field. I'm sorry, foul trouble, No foul trouble. Carl
Speaker 1: Towns can't go three for four from the field, and
Speaker 1: you actually still should have won the game. Carl Towns
Speaker 1: has to take more than four shots. And I think
Speaker 1: this is I mean, this is maybe the second time
Speaker 1: in the last four games that he's taking seven shots
Speaker 1: or less, that's your best player. That should all star.
Speaker 1: Carl Towns has to shoot the ball. If Minnesota is
Speaker 1: gonna have a chance to even this series upheaded back
Speaker 1: to Memphis, Carl Towns has to shoot fifteen plus shots.
Speaker 1: Carl Towns has to take advantage, full advantage of his game,
Speaker 1: three block whatever. Carl Towns has to shoot the ball more.
Speaker 1: If I'm if I'm Minnesota, If I'm Memphis and Patrick
Speaker 1: Beverley wants the ISO every play, you have to live
Speaker 1: with that. Whether Patrick see Patrick Beverley got it going
Speaker 1: early and he finished with fourteen points, and he was
Speaker 1: in attack the whole game, but he finished five for thirteen.
Speaker 1: If you're Memphis, that's exactly what you want. Because if
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley is attacking GI everyplay, that means D'Angelo is
Speaker 1: not shooting. That mean Anthony Edwards is not shooting. That
Speaker 1: mean Carl Towns, who was three for four from the field,
Speaker 1: it's not shooting the basketball. So if I'm Minnesota, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure exactly what I want is what Patrick Beverley did.
Speaker 1: Now we all know Pat Bevan and you know he
Speaker 1: a dog. He he gonna get with it and and
Speaker 1: he's gonna try to show guys up. That's what he do.
Speaker 1: But if I'm the Minnesota timber Wolves, as as much
Speaker 1: as you love what Pat was bringing to the game,
Speaker 1: you got to get the ball to the guys that
Speaker 1: scored the points. And and that didn't happen. So you
Speaker 1: know when when when Patrick Beverley, now you're or Memphis,
Speaker 1: you don't want job getting in foul trouble. So that's tough.
Speaker 1: But if Patrick Beverley just wants the iso, John Moren,
Speaker 1: If I'm the opposing team, I'm living with that. You
Speaker 1: have to live with that because again, that's taking the
Speaker 1: ball out of your best scorers hands. So we'll see
Speaker 1: what that adjustment will be. Will Patrick be Beverly be
Speaker 1: as aggressive as he was? I think the aggression is great,
Speaker 1: but I thought it got a little carried away. Um
Speaker 1: because again Carl Towns was three for four, so um,
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards didn't shoot it as well as he's been
Speaker 1: shooting it. Uh, this this game is so if you're Minnesota,
Speaker 1: what are your takeaways from that game? We know we
Speaker 1: can build a lead, we know these guys aren't going away.
Speaker 1: What do we have to do in order to actually
Speaker 1: win these games. See down the fretch. I know Carl
Speaker 1: Towns went in the rhythm, but the gravity that he pulls,
Speaker 1: I gotta get him the ball on the post. They're
Speaker 1: not playing Steven Adams anymore, so now you should be
Speaker 1: going to the post. The advantage in early in the
Speaker 1: series was on the wing. Now the advantages in the post.
Speaker 1: They're not playing their biggest guy. So guess what, you
Speaker 1: go to the post. You take advantage of those guys
Speaker 1: in the post. What are they gonna do. They're gonna say,
Speaker 1: he kills us in the prosch where we bring Steven
Speaker 1: Adams back? All right, then you mosey on back to
Speaker 1: the perimeter. You gotta play the game within the game.
Speaker 1: So I was very shocked that Carl Towns is still
Speaker 1: catching the ball at the top of the key man.
Speaker 1: He should be getting post touches, especially with them going
Speaker 1: with the smaller lineups. So I think that will be
Speaker 1: one of Minnesota's adjustment and look for look for Carl
Speaker 1: Towns to come out extremely aggressive to start that Game four.
Speaker 1: And if I'm if I'm if I'm if I'm Memphis,
Speaker 1: I'm probably throwing double teams out carled Towns to start
Speaker 1: that game for because he's gonna come out aggressive and
Speaker 1: you get him going, then he's starting tis out to
Speaker 1: the kick out to those other guys. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's not Um Patrick Beverley, Ice On and Gize Patrick
Speaker 1: Beverley getting open corner threes because there's so much help
Speaker 1: has to come. So uh we'll see man and then
Speaker 1: lastly before we get out of here, the injury. But
Speaker 1: we have been hit with the injury bug all years,
Speaker 1: so we know how it goes. But you got Chris
Speaker 1: Middleton who will be reevaluated in two weeks. That's a
Speaker 1: huge blow from Milwaukee going into Chicago. Tie that one
Speaker 1: and one missing. See Chris Middleton is is Milwaukee's closer.
Speaker 1: Like they don't go to Yanage down the stretch to
Speaker 1: get a bucket. They put Janice and Chris Middleton and
Speaker 1: picking rolls and then Chris Middleton makes a play. So
Speaker 1: that's a huge loss. I expect uh Drew to be
Speaker 1: way more aggressive how to ball a lot more. But
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see what happens with Chicago if they
Speaker 1: can keep taking advantage of you know, the way they
Speaker 1: did the other night. Vosovic was incredible. De Mar de
Speaker 1: Rosen DeMar got it going. Damar said, I'm not I
Speaker 1: won't shoot five for twenty six again. He did not
Speaker 1: shoot five for again. Uh, forty had a forty ball.
Speaker 1: I was with one of three players in Chicago where
Speaker 1: the last three players for certain in Chicago to score
Speaker 1: forty ball in the playoffs was your your airness Michael Jordan,
Speaker 1: the man himself m V P. D. Rose and to
Speaker 1: margin Rosen, I mean absolutely incredible game by DeMar said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna just get to my spot
Speaker 1: him and raise up. And he did that all night
Speaker 1: and then to to to lose the lead up three,
Speaker 1: go straight out. Janni's take the contact with the finish.
Speaker 1: Gotta get that man all the credit. He told y'all
Speaker 1: what he was gonna do, and he went out there
Speaker 1: and did it. The book goes out with an injury,
Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury, and I think the thing to
Speaker 1: watch with the books hamstring injuries. This isn't books first
Speaker 1: hamstring injury, you know, like this is maybe books fifth
Speaker 1: for six hamstring injury, and so you have that's not
Speaker 1: like I sprained my ankle um, which I did tonight.
Speaker 1: By the way, that's not like I sprayed my ankle.
Speaker 1: Let's take this up and let's give it a go hamstring.
Speaker 1: You got no explosion and you can't move, And so
Speaker 1: that's a big loss for Phoenix. That loss gives New
Speaker 1: Orleans the two best players on the court, which is
Speaker 1: hard to overcome. Now, no disrespect to CP CPS thirty seven.
Speaker 1: I don't personally think CPS gonna give you all of
Speaker 1: that for forty eight straight minutes. At this age. He
Speaker 1: can give it to you and stretches, but to carry
Speaker 1: the load for forty eight straight minutes game after game
Speaker 1: after game, that is a very tough thing to do. So, um,
Speaker 1: we know CPS capable, but that's very, very, very hard
Speaker 1: to do. And you got a guard, guys on the
Speaker 1: other end. It's not like CP can just go sit
Speaker 1: on somebody and take a break. He got a guard
Speaker 1: on the other end. And so New Orleans is in
Speaker 1: a great position heading home up one of the the one.
Speaker 1: I know nobody expected this, but that is the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Things happens, Injuries happen. Uh, that is all a part
Speaker 1: of the game. That is all a part of winning
Speaker 1: championships or not. And it's unfortunately. You hate to see
Speaker 1: guys out, but you know that's the hand that uh
Speaker 1: Phoenix was dealt. Now they have great depth, they've used
Speaker 1: that depth all year. Again, you're removing the best player
Speaker 1: in the series, so that's tough. But we'll see if
Speaker 1: they can rely on that depth. We got Lucas still
Speaker 1: out miss game three, but Dallas Jalen Brunson is playing incredible.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, he's playing incredible. Um and all the other
Speaker 1: guys are playing well. Uh. They seem to be taking
Speaker 1: advantage of Rudy go bear space on the floor and
Speaker 1: you know he collapses in That's a very normal thing
Speaker 1: for a big man. You put him out in his space.
Speaker 1: Their natural instinct is gonna be the retreat to the rim.
Speaker 1: That's what you've been taught your whole life, and they're
Speaker 1: taking full advantage of that therapy. Two to one without
Speaker 1: their star. UM. I don't think Luca comes back game four.
Speaker 1: Why would you even bring him back game for you
Speaker 1: gotta spree swing. Uh. At worst, you bring you know,
Speaker 1: you bring him back game five if it's two to two,
Speaker 1: if it's three to one, you still bring him back
Speaker 1: in game five because you want to give yourself the
Speaker 1: best chance to close the series. That's if he's healthy.
Speaker 1: If there's any shot of a doubt, you you just
Speaker 1: keep pushing them back. But you gotta get those guys
Speaker 1: credit the way that they're stepping up. Jay Kidd is
Speaker 1: doing a great job. And Jared Dudley. This game plan
Speaker 1: that Dallas has going on has Jared Dudley's name ridden
Speaker 1: all over it. Does come up with some crazy schemes
Speaker 1: and I think that I think that game plan has
Speaker 1: his name written all over it. But get those guys credit.
Speaker 1: And then last, uh, team hit with the injury. But
Speaker 1: young fellow Scotty Barnes, the Toronto Raptors, Scottie Barnes his
Speaker 1: day to day with a foot injury. It's a big dude. Uh,
Speaker 1: He's a lot bigger than most people think. So foot
Speaker 1: injuries can be tricky. Uh down three. Oh do you
Speaker 1: rush him back on a foot injury? Probably gonna get swept.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'll rushed back my young fellow to
Speaker 1: get swept anyway. So we'll see what happens with that man.
Speaker 1: But I'm wishing all those guys good health. Uh. You
Speaker 1: never want to see anyone get hurt, and you know,
Speaker 1: this is this is what we do. And I always say,
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't lead a court and and not
Speaker 1: live that injury. You lived that every second other day.
Speaker 1: So I wish those guys well and getting back healthy.
Speaker 1: And you know, we'll see, We'll see what happens and
Speaker 1: how this affects these series because injuries is a part
Speaker 1: of it, but it definitely affects outcomes. Before we get
Speaker 1: out of here. Do you see the the Warrior's stat
Speaker 1: that's going around at least by Warriors pr I have
Speaker 1: not seen the Warriors said what does. The Warriors have
Speaker 1: won at least one road game each of the last
Speaker 1: twenty four Playoffs series, an NBA record streak that began
Speaker 1: with the road victory in Denver first round of player. Hey, now,
Speaker 1: deja vu. You know what Raymond Ritter told me right
Speaker 1: at the game. He said, man, can't you want a
Speaker 1: road game? And on that and everything? Every reason you
Speaker 1: guys right here? So I mean, I always say, you know,
Speaker 1: even if you got home court advantage, you don't want
Speaker 1: to be that team that's just trying to win home games.
Speaker 1: That's so much pressure if you can go take one
Speaker 1: in the world you're gonna take one. Now we did that,
Speaker 1: I'd like to get greedy and get two on the road.
Speaker 1: So that's the goal from here. Um, you know, guys,
Speaker 1: gotta stick with it. We got I think we gotta
Speaker 1: do a better job executing the game plan. We didn't.
Speaker 1: We didn't do that today and that starts with me.
Speaker 1: I was terrible executing game plan. So we gotta do better. Uh.
Speaker 1: Road wins are hard to come by. But it was ugly,
Speaker 1: but we pulled it out. You gotta come back Sunday
Speaker 1: looking to pull the brooms out. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 1: You gotta get greedy. That's what we spoke to our
Speaker 1: guys about. Get greedy, don't get don't settle for one.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought I was watching that man. And
Speaker 1: so the Memphis series, last game before tonight, in game two,
Speaker 1: I thought Minnesota looked like, God, we're going back home.
Speaker 1: We did our job, and then you lose one at home.
Speaker 1: You gotta take advantage of those opportunity. So that's what
Speaker 1: we're trying to do. We're trying to come out in
Speaker 1: game four in this series, not give them any life,
Speaker 1: not give them any hope. But that's a rap from
Speaker 1: this episode of The Draymond Green Show. I will talk
Speaker 1: to y'all hopefully after we close this series out on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Pop back next week. Until then, Draymond Green Show, It's
Speaker 1: a rap piece.