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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: The postseason is here, playing is here, and obviously the
Speaker 1: Dubs are in the play in which I hate. We
Speaker 1: will talk about that we got the Kings tomorrow. I
Speaker 1: am here in beautiful Sacramento in my hotel room as
Speaker 1: I prepare, as we prepare to take on the Kings.
Speaker 1: Before we get into the playing games and also the playoffs,
Speaker 1: I just need to discuss.
Speaker 2: Something that happened in basketball.
Speaker 1: It's let's see, it's Monday, so it's last week, the
Speaker 1: end of last week, which I haven't talked to you
Speaker 1: all since. But Ai the answer Alan Iverson, who I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan of. I first got to meet Ai
Speaker 1: at Coacho's Hall of Fame induction, and.
Speaker 2: That for me was like crazy.
Speaker 1: I got a picture of Ai in his orange jacket,
Speaker 1: absolutely insane, huge AI fan growing up.
Speaker 2: I remember when the answers came.
Speaker 1: Out, I wanted a pair and I got in trouble
Speaker 1: school and I didn't get any. Those also happened with
Speaker 1: the Gary Payton and gloves too, by the way, But
Speaker 1: now that I look back on it, I don't really
Speaker 1: think I got him much trouble. I think my mom
Speaker 1: just didn't have the money and she told me I
Speaker 1: got in trouble in school so I couldn't get to shoes.
Speaker 2: But that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 1: I'm a big Alan iris A fan, and I must
Speaker 1: say I was a little dis I was very disappointed
Speaker 1: when I saw the size of the statue because that's Ai, Like,
Speaker 1: it's Ai, Like, what are we talking about? However, and
Speaker 1: most people who watch sports should take a page out
Speaker 1: of my book here.
Speaker 2: I continue to do further research.
Speaker 1: Because I wanted to be knowledgeable on the subject, and
Speaker 1: a lot of times people talk in this industry and
Speaker 1: they're not very knowledgeable on the subject. I've even seen
Speaker 1: some of these things where like some of these so
Speaker 1: called experts are talking. And when I say some of
Speaker 1: these so called experts, like some of them are my colleagues,
Speaker 1: and some of the things that's been said on TV
Speaker 1: this year, it just be so wrong, like not factual
Speaker 1: at all. That's a common thing in sports talk.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 1: As I saw the statue, I was a little very disappointed,
Speaker 1: like come.
Speaker 2: On, man, like this is Ai.
Speaker 1: And after the Kobe statue was just revealed, and the
Speaker 1: many statues that's been revealed, like how are we doing
Speaker 1: this to Ai? Like this is crazy? And like I said,
Speaker 1: I did more research. And if you look at if
Speaker 1: you do your research, you what you will find is
Speaker 1: a that statue is going outside the practice facility, the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy six practice facility. B. There's a row of
Speaker 1: them same size as Ais. There's a row of statues,
Speaker 1: so AIS will go in that row of statues that
Speaker 1: are all of similar size. So AI was not slighted.
Speaker 1: He was not slighted at all. That is the size
Speaker 1: of the statues. What I will say is Alan Iris
Speaker 1: in need life size statue, larger than life size statue
Speaker 1: outside of Wells Fargo Arena.
Speaker 2: If that's still the name of the arena.
Speaker 1: I think that's still the name of the arena, however,
Speaker 1: the basketball arena, because all of these names rites change
Speaker 1: every day because there's worth so much money these days.
Speaker 1: The basketball arena where the Philadelphia seventy six ers play
Speaker 1: in Philly. If there isn't already an Allen Iverson lifestyle statue,
Speaker 1: which I haven't seen, there should be one outside the
Speaker 1: basketball arena. I do understand that he went up in
Speaker 1: a row with the star, you know, with all the
Speaker 1: legends that are already out there. That's great and no
Speaker 1: disrespect to those legends, but Alan Irison should have a
Speaker 1: statue outside of the arena, and it should be life
Speaker 1: size like the ones, because the reality is, like how
Speaker 1: many people are going to see the practice facility. Not
Speaker 1: many people are going to see the Philadelphia seventy sixth
Speaker 1: practice facility, just not doing it.
Speaker 2: Where you are.
Speaker 1: Going is you're going to go to the game, and
Speaker 1: Alan Iverson statue should be in front of that arena.
Speaker 1: So to everybody that was upset about the statue, don't
Speaker 1: be so upset about the size of the statue because
Speaker 1: it is standard practice outside their practice facility when you
Speaker 1: go to that arena.
Speaker 2: That's what everybody should be upset about.
Speaker 1: There is no Alan Irison statue there, and if there is,
Speaker 1: then I am just I am just like the rest
Speaker 1: of you that don't make themselves knowledgeable in certain topics. However,
Speaker 1: I don't think so and so no Alan Iverson statue
Speaker 1: outside the arena. Let's get that done. That's what the
Speaker 1: uproar should be. I'm a little more knowledgeable on the
Speaker 1: small statues. Now back to your regular schedule programming. Let's
Speaker 1: talk to these playing games. Number one, the Doves finished
Speaker 1: forty six and thirty six and finished a ten seed.
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 1: My first year when we made the playoffs, we finished
Speaker 1: a sixth seed at forty four and thirty eight. I'll
Speaker 1: never forget that we had a water champagne shower in
Speaker 1: the locker room at the end of the regular season.
Speaker 2: Last game of the regular.
Speaker 1: Season, Coach Jackson was coaching us, and we had a
Speaker 1: water shower because coach Jackson don't do alcohol, not his thing,
Speaker 1: ain't doing it, ain't coming around, keep it over there,
Speaker 1: and so there was no champagne shower. There was a
Speaker 1: water shower and splash water everywhere. You know, the first
Speaker 1: time Doves have made the playoffs, since we believe season
Speaker 1: and second time in twenty three years the Doves have
Speaker 1: made we was everybody was happy, and that was forty
Speaker 1: four and thirty eight. We're forty six and thirty six.
Speaker 1: Sure what most was saying was an awful year for
Speaker 1: the Doves, and I agree it was a bad year
Speaker 1: for US forty six and thirty six. Ten games above
Speaker 1: five hundred, which last year would have been good for
Speaker 1: fourth in the West. However, it's good for tenth in
Speaker 1: the West these days. And it's also the first time
Speaker 1: ever that ten teams has finished above ten games above
Speaker 1: five hundred in one conference.
Speaker 2: Absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1: Needless to say, we are in ten spot in the
Speaker 1: playing game, which means for those of you out there
Speaker 1: that are still confused with the play in situation. And
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people out there confused
Speaker 1: with the play in situation. I'll tell you why because
Speaker 1: my mother in law. I had a conversation with her
Speaker 1: that almost made me lay for practice today for about
Speaker 1: ten seven to ten minutes explaining the play in her
Speaker 1: and my mother in law loves sports. She loves basketball,
Speaker 1: loves football. She watches every game. If she ain't at
Speaker 1: the game, she's into it, and she was so confused
Speaker 1: by the play in situation. So I explained it to
Speaker 1: her forwards and she didn't really get it. So then
Speaker 1: I explained it backwards and she really didn't get it then,
Speaker 1: and I explained it forward again and backwards again, and
Speaker 1: then finally like the fifth time, like yeah, nanha, So
Speaker 1: you know we're ten, they're nine, Sack is nine. We
Speaker 1: gotta go to Sack. She's like, well, what happens if
Speaker 1: you win? If you lose, you're done. And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, the re Pelicans and the Lakers are in
Speaker 1: seven and eight, and she's like, if they lose, they're
Speaker 1: done to them. I'm like, no, no, no, Actually, if
Speaker 1: they lose, whoever lose that game, they're going to play
Speaker 1: against the winner of our game, and then whoever lose
Speaker 1: that game is gone, but the loser of our game
Speaker 1: and nine and ten.
Speaker 2: They're out of here if they lose.
Speaker 1: So like, I could be seeing you tomorrow night now
Speaker 1: and our season is over, or I could be seeing
Speaker 1: you and we're not done, but we're not.
Speaker 2: Still going.
Speaker 1: We still gotta win one more, like we gotta So
Speaker 1: for those of you who don't understand seven to eight plays.
Speaker 1: That is the New Orleans Pelicans at the seventh seed.
Speaker 1: That is the Los Angeles Lakers at the eight seed,
Speaker 1: nine ten plays, that is the Sacramento Kings at the
Speaker 1: nine seed. That is the Golden State Warriors as the Tennessee.
Speaker 1: We are here in Sacramento. If I open my window
Speaker 1: up of the sun will blind you butt the arenas
Speaker 1: right here. We play tomorrow and the Lakers and Pelicans
Speaker 1: play tomorrow before us. Winner of that game becomes the
Speaker 1: seventh seed. That winner takes on Denver. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of talk around do you bomb that game and
Speaker 1: try to stay away from Denver.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, you don't.
Speaker 1: Bomb a game to get in the playoffs and leave
Speaker 1: yourself for one game to get in. So any loser
Speaker 1: who came up with the idea, you're crazy. That makes
Speaker 1: no sense. You don't leave yourself in a game where
Speaker 1: the Pelicans can.
Speaker 2: Shoot the lights out and send you home.
Speaker 1: Although you can do a lot to win that game,
Speaker 1: but they can shoot the lights out, like we've seen
Speaker 1: it happen far too recent We've seen I mean way
Speaker 1: too recent. We've seen that happen. So we know that
Speaker 1: can't happen. So you just don't blow a game to
Speaker 1: blow a game. So winner of that game takes on
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets as a seventh seed. The loser of
Speaker 1: that game plays against the winner of the Kings versus Warriors.
Speaker 1: The loser of the Kings versus Warriors tomorrow night goes home.
Speaker 1: Winner faces either the Lakers in LA or the Pelicans
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Winner of that game on Friday will
Speaker 1: then move on to face ok Se in OKAC on
Speaker 1: Sunday as the AC.
Speaker 2: Play in. That's where we're at. Let's get to the game, same.
Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings team that we played last year and sent
Speaker 1: them home in the first round of the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: was telling the guys earlier today, if I knew we'd
Speaker 1: spent so much time in Sacramento since last year, I
Speaker 1: probably would have bought a home here.
Speaker 2: That's how much we've been here.
Speaker 1: That's how familiar I am with the area, which means
Speaker 1: that's how familiar they are with us and we are
Speaker 1: with them. This is very much soa a game that
Speaker 1: I know you, you know me. Game seven. You know
Speaker 1: everything I do. I know everything you do. Who's going
Speaker 1: to make the necessary plays that it takes to win
Speaker 1: the game. That's what it's gonna come down to. They're
Speaker 1: not going to run any sets. I mean, yeah, Mike
Speaker 1: Brown may drop one two, but they're not going to
Speaker 1: run any sets that we don't know they're gonna run.
Speaker 1: Are you going to follow your game plan, give up
Speaker 1: what you're willing to give up, take away what you
Speaker 1: want to take away to win the game. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna do that over and over and over again. Offensively?
Speaker 1: Are you going to execute your offense and you're gonna
Speaker 1: do that over and over again to win the game.
Speaker 1: Because there ain't one downscreen, one pin in we're gonna
Speaker 1: run for clay, one downscreen or ball screen. We're gonna
Speaker 1: set for stuff that they're not expecting. They're expecting everything
Speaker 1: we do. We're gonna be expecting everything they do. Now,
Speaker 1: a little different of a team. We're facing. No Malik Monk,
Speaker 1: no Kevin Herder. So it's a different team. You got
Speaker 1: different guys. Number one, different personalities they're playing. Kean ellis
Speaker 1: a lot. He's starting two way, winging, shooting the ball
Speaker 1: pretty well forty forty from three, and he picking up
Speaker 1: full He's bringing that energy to the defensive end. So
Speaker 1: that's a different look than what Kevin Herder gives you.
Speaker 1: Kevin Herder is shooting. Kean Ellis will slash a little bit,
Speaker 1: but you're not quite overreacting to him as much defensively
Speaker 1: as you would to Kevin Herder. Be that how they
Speaker 1: use Kevin Herder. But Kean Ellis brings a totally different thing,
Speaker 1: averaging like ten points, and he's been really good for them,
Speaker 1: so we gotta be aware of him. He's bringing a
Speaker 1: different flair to the game. And then obviously not having
Speaker 1: Elik Monk off the bench changes thing. That changes things
Speaker 1: a lot because Malik Monk plays with a lot of force.
Speaker 1: Malik Monk is a primary ball handler when Fox isn't
Speaker 1: in the game, and even when Fox is in the game,
Speaker 1: Malik Monk is one of their primary ball handlers, so
Speaker 1: puts a lot of pressure on your defense, so that
Speaker 1: that changes things a bit. However, I think how they've
Speaker 1: supplemented that is you're just getting a much heavier dose
Speaker 1: of Darren Fox. Daron Fox has the ball in his
Speaker 1: hands a lot more with Monk being out, and then
Speaker 1: obviously they're running their offense through subonents. You know, when
Speaker 1: you look at the game, you kind of go into
Speaker 1: the games with like, oh man, who do you take away?
Speaker 1: Do you take suponents away? Do you try to take
Speaker 1: Fox away? And the reality is, I don't think the
Speaker 1: mindset will be to take either one of them away,
Speaker 1: because they're great players, they're All star players. You're never
Speaker 1: going to take an all star player away. What you're
Speaker 1: trying to do is you're trying to limit in these
Speaker 1: situations what a player loves to do. You know, so
Speaker 1: if you know Fox loves to do this, if you
Speaker 1: know Sabonus loves to do that, you're trying to limit
Speaker 1: those things. You're trying to make them play left handed.
Speaker 1: Bad term because both of those guys are left handed.
Speaker 1: But in theory, if you think about it more, most
Speaker 1: people aren't left handed. Most people are right handed. And
Speaker 1: so there's this term in basketball that you want to
Speaker 1: that text Winner used to say text winner because Steve
Speaker 1: curR always shares this with us. It's like, you want
Speaker 1: to make them play left handed, meaning you want to
Speaker 1: make them uncomfortable. You want to make them do what
Speaker 1: they don't want to do, and that's kind of the
Speaker 1: goal when you're going into these situations. We had great
Speaker 1: film sessions today on them. It's a game I'm extremely
Speaker 1: excited about and a game that you know, I think
Speaker 1: we're more than capable of winning. You know, every time
Speaker 1: we play these guys, it goes down to the wire.
Speaker 1: So we're expecting a very physical game, intense game, and
Speaker 1: we just got to come out and get it done.
Speaker 1: I think for us to win very young, fast team,
Speaker 1: one of the most important things for us to win
Speaker 1: this game would be we really need to take care
Speaker 1: of the ball. We take care of the ball, we
Speaker 1: get good shots up, We're then able to play great defense,
Speaker 1: not being transition all game. You play you know, he
Speaker 1: played great, you know, get get your defense set. So
Speaker 1: it'll be really important for us to take care of
Speaker 1: the basketball. That will be the number one key in
Speaker 1: the game for us. Take care of the ball, get
Speaker 1: looks at the rim. Think if we're getting looks at
Speaker 1: the rim, I like the odds that will make. Then
Speaker 1: we have great shooters, we have great scores. I think
Speaker 1: that'll be big for us. And if there's one player
Speaker 1: that I would say is very important for us to
Speaker 1: win this game, Obviously Andrew Wiggins is important on both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball, but I think our X factor
Speaker 1: is extremely important in this game and Jonathan Minga, Jonathan
Speaker 1: Kaminga brings a different flare to our team. He brings
Speaker 1: something that not many people in the NBA bring to
Speaker 1: a team.
Speaker 2: Great getting downhill, great finisher at the rim.
Speaker 1: So I think Kaminga is going to be very important
Speaker 1: to our success tomorrow with his athleticism. This being a
Speaker 1: young athletic group, you know, he makes us more athletic.
Speaker 1: So I think Kaminga cominga plays well, we win, and
Speaker 1: I have no doubt in my mind that Kaminga's gonna
Speaker 1: be ready for the moment and play well.
Speaker 2: He's taking that next step.
Speaker 1: And this is the moments where when you're taking those
Speaker 1: next steps, you gotta go. And I expect nothing less
Speaker 1: from the young fella Kaminga. In other news, you got
Speaker 1: the Dubs, you got the Pelicans, I mean, excuse me, Lakers,
Speaker 1: Pelicans and the winner of that team that game. As
Speaker 1: I said, take on Denver I that game number one.
Speaker 1: Don't look at the last game and be like, that's
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. Like the New Orleans Pelicans came
Speaker 1: off of two very emotional back to back wins VERSUS
Speaker 1: SAT on Thursday at US on Friday, and then fly
Speaker 1: home on Saturday for an early game on Sunday. Lakers
Speaker 1: are coming from Memphis, and actually, you know they get
Speaker 1: to New Orleans, their travel is a lot easier than
Speaker 1: the Pelicans, ironically, and so I definitely think that plays
Speaker 1: into account. Repelicans now being at home a few days,
Speaker 1: they'll be backsettled in going back home for a game.
Speaker 1: It's always tough when you return home for one game
Speaker 1: or the first game returning home on from a trip,
Speaker 1: and that's what the Pelicans are going through. So I
Speaker 1: don't think the Pelicans that you saw in Sunday's game
Speaker 1: is the Pelicans that you're going to see in tomorrow's game.
Speaker 1: I think that'll be a totally different matchup. You know
Speaker 1: that that's two teams that's playing extremely well. Now what
Speaker 1: does it come down to? What does it come down to?
Speaker 1: I think I think I got the Lakers winning that
Speaker 1: game within healthy Ad. Obviously Ad needs to play, hurt,
Speaker 1: he's questionable. I expect Ad to play, But I think
Speaker 1: they win that game. And the reason I say they
Speaker 1: win that game, what New Orleans would have to do
Speaker 1: in order to win that game would be essentially what
Speaker 1: they did versus US, which has hit a bunch of threes.
Speaker 1: New Orleans does a lot around the rim. They like
Speaker 1: to get to the rim. Zion's great at getting to
Speaker 1: the rim, and a d at the rim is just
Speaker 1: a different animal, a totally different animal at the rim
Speaker 1: protecting the rim with Ad there, and so I think
Speaker 1: me personally, I got the Lakers winning that game for
Speaker 1: that reason. I know the Lakers are towards the bottom
Speaker 1: of the league from in a statistical standpoint in defending
Speaker 1: the three. So if New Orleans can hit threes like
Speaker 1: they did versus us, they can win. However, you're going
Speaker 1: to get a heavy Dosa's Zion. Their offense is built
Speaker 1: around Zion and Zion at the rim.
Speaker 2: I think Ad can make a lot tough.
Speaker 1: If Ad can make those shots tough at the rim
Speaker 1: on Zion, I think the Lakers gets out in transition.
Speaker 2: They're running, they're hitting threes, they're dunking the ball.
Speaker 1: I think they move on to face the Denver Nuggets,
Speaker 1: and we're facing New Orleans and New Orleans on Friday.
Speaker 1: That's just my take, that's what I got. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you beat a judge, you let me know what you think.
Speaker 1: But that's what I got. We'll see what happens in
Speaker 1: other playing games. You got the heat at the seventy
Speaker 1: six ers with a healthy Joe ellenb back, Tyrese Maxi.
Speaker 1: Who do you got? Jimmy Butler said, y'all took Tobias
Speaker 1: Harris over me. Y'all kept Tobias Harris over me, and
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler is going to go into that game feeling
Speaker 1: that way, y'all took Tobias Harris over me.
Speaker 2: One thing you should understand about Jimmy is Jimmy is.
Speaker 1: Going to hold on to whatever chip on the shoulder
Speaker 1: that he can when he needs it, and he will
Speaker 1: very much so be holding on to that one again.
Speaker 2: If they win the game.
Speaker 1: He'll probably walk off the court again and say, y'all
Speaker 1: took Tobias Harris over me, because that is how Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler is. And so that's the matchup. That's what we got.
Speaker 1: You got Ben versus Joel, you got Jimmy versus Tobias.
Speaker 1: You got Maxie versus Terry Rosier. To win one game,
Speaker 1: it's hard to pick against Joel and b very tough
Speaker 1: to pick against Joel and Bid. Both of those teams
Speaker 1: want to avoid Boston in the first round. So if
Speaker 1: you win that game, you get in the Knicks, which
Speaker 1: I think both of those things teams think they can
Speaker 1: beat the Knicks. So with both of those teams believe
Speaker 1: in that, it's going to be a blood buy. This
Speaker 1: is two teams battling not to face the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 2: I am going to go with Miami.
Speaker 1: The reason I'm going with Miami is because you learn.
Speaker 1: If you haven't learned over the last few years, you
Speaker 1: just don't bet.
Speaker 2: Against Miami at this time of the year. Don't do it.
Speaker 2: You're usually wrong.
Speaker 1: Jimmy's gonna try to get every shot that they want
Speaker 1: if he got to walk the ball up the court
Speaker 1: the whole game. Although I think their advantage is playing
Speaker 1: in transition and trying to make Joelle run because if
Speaker 1: Joe has been back for six games, second games, if
Speaker 1: you can make him run and tire him out, you
Speaker 1: got a better chance. And so I think that has
Speaker 1: to be their game plan. Although Jimmy likes to get
Speaker 1: to his spots when he won, I think the pace
Speaker 1: needs to be go, go going. I expect Miami Heat
Speaker 1: to do that, and so I'm taking Miami in that game.
Speaker 1: And then I got Boston facing the seventy six ers
Speaker 1: in the first round of their series, and I actually
Speaker 1: think that's gonna be a tough match. Like, if you're Boston,
Speaker 1: you're not really happy about either one or those these
Speaker 1: teams you're facing the first round match up. We know
Speaker 1: the history that they've had with the Miami Heat and
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, and we know Joel and them are always
Speaker 1: in the battle.
Speaker 2: Now they've been taking the wins and they've won each time.
Speaker 1: But it's a battle, and so you're not really happy
Speaker 1: about facing either one of those teams in the first round.
Speaker 1: But I hate the play in just so you all.
Speaker 1: I absolutely hate it. It's the best thing ever created.
Speaker 1: When you look at the play in and what is
Speaker 1: done for basketball, it's the best thing ever created. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know who came up with it. I know
Speaker 1: Bron said they need to be fired. If they were
Speaker 1: fired when Bron said that, they need to get their
Speaker 1: job back because the play in is insane. Like since
Speaker 1: the NBA has added the play in, it's taken the
Speaker 1: last month and a half of the season to a
Speaker 1: totally different level, like totally different. And so I hate
Speaker 1: the play in. I especially hate being a Tennessee. But
Speaker 1: as much as I hated as a basketball player, as
Speaker 1: a basketball fan, this playing is nuts and you gotta
Speaker 1: love it. But that's my take on that. That's what
Speaker 1: I got. Moving on to these playoffs, you got the
Speaker 1: West Oksee Young Oksee becomes them youngest team ever to
Speaker 1: solidify number one seed, the Denmer Nugget after losing the
Speaker 1: play in last year, Denmer Nuggets number two, Timberwolves number three,
Speaker 1: Clippers at four, Maveris at five, Phoenix at six. Speaking
Speaker 1: of the player, like Phoenix come down to the last
Speaker 1: day they needed to get to get six, it doesn't
Speaker 1: really shape out like that. That fight don't happen if
Speaker 1: you're not trying to avoid the play in. Everybody start
Speaker 1: picking like, oh, we want to be seven. We're gonna
Speaker 1: lose this game. We want to be eight with the
Speaker 1: playing on the line, you couldn't do that, right. So
Speaker 1: those are your Western Conference team. Are the matchups that
Speaker 1: we know are set already? Are the Timberwolves at three
Speaker 1: and Phoenix at six, the Clippers at four and the
Speaker 1: Mavericks at five. Those are the matchups that we know
Speaker 1: are set. And as those matchups go, the Timberwolves and
Speaker 1: Phoenix will be a very interesting matchup Phoenix. You know,
Speaker 1: Phoenix is playing four out one end. They got Nurkic
Speaker 1: at the five, KD at the four. The Timberwolves play
Speaker 1: two bigs and Rudy Gobert Carl Anthony Towns just back
Speaker 1: from injury.
Speaker 2: Now that could get interesting.
Speaker 1: Because you'd say, like, oh, well, their size could kind
Speaker 1: of make Phoenix pay. But no one really plays that
Speaker 1: style of basketball anymore, Like you're not you're not gonna
Speaker 1: post Rudy Gobert and you're not gonna post call Anthony
Speaker 1: Towns a ton with Rudy Gobert in the game because
Speaker 1: the painting just get too tight. No one plays that
Speaker 1: style of basketball. Meanwhile, Finish is pushing the ball back
Speaker 1: the other way with Grayson Allen shooting a career high
Speaker 1: from three and just getting paid. Kevin Durant, we know
Speaker 1: how k shoot the ball. Book, we know how Books
Speaker 1: shoot the ball. Brad, we know how Brad.
Speaker 2: Shoot the ball.
Speaker 1: So if they want to slow it down and like
Speaker 1: throw it in the post when you miss, they're running
Speaker 1: back and their shooting threes.
Speaker 2: They're hitting threes.
Speaker 1: No one plays to throw the ball in the post,
Speaker 1: and so you don't necessarily get to take advantage of
Speaker 1: the size much. From that standpoint, also got the best
Speaker 1: big off the bench in the league in my opinion,
Speaker 1: nas Reed, how much does the size affect Phoenix, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure the game is going to allow it to
Speaker 1: affect them that much more than it will affect the
Speaker 1: Timberwills having to guard them. And so obviously you got
Speaker 1: young Edwards looking forward to the opportunity. I'm also looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing on this stage me personally, myself going
Speaker 1: up against these these all start this all star.
Speaker 2: Trio that Phoenix got.
Speaker 1: Uh. One thing that I think is going to be
Speaker 1: important is who is going to guard Anthony Edwards. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming Brad Bill will, but I'm gonna tell you at
Speaker 1: some point in this series, and I got Phoenix winning,
Speaker 1: I think Phoenix will win the series. I think they
Speaker 1: got too much firepower offensively, and that's what it'll come
Speaker 1: down to for me. But Harris, what will have to
Speaker 1: happen for Phoenix to win the series. At some point
Speaker 1: throughout this series, Kevin Durant is going to go have
Speaker 1: to guard Anthony Edwards if Phoenix is going to have
Speaker 1: a chance at winning this series. At some point may
Speaker 1: not be Game one, may not be Game two or three,
Speaker 1: but at some point in this series, Kevin Durant is
Speaker 1: going to have to say, all right, I'm going and
Speaker 1: Brad build is a good defender, Brad competes not saying,
Speaker 1: but at some point Kevin is going to have to
Speaker 1: take his lane, his defensive tenacity when he wants to
Speaker 1: turn that up, and he's gonna have to go guard
Speaker 1: and Edwards if they're going to move forward in this series.
Speaker 2: That's my take. That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: However, I do have Phoenix winning, but that's gonna need
Speaker 1: to happen, and then you got a heavyweight battle with
Speaker 1: the Clippers and the Mavericks. Mavericks has played the best
Speaker 1: basketball that we've seen them play since.
Speaker 2: Luca Duncheons has been a Dallas Maverick.
Speaker 1: Him and Kyrie what they're doing offensively, with the additions
Speaker 1: of gafferd PJ. Washington, then boys playing some beautiful basketball,
Speaker 1: I think those are great additions to them. I think
Speaker 1: those editions at the trade deadline, Nico Harrison don't get
Speaker 1: enough credit for Daniel Gaffer edition was a steal. We've
Speaker 1: all been watching Daniel Gafford in Washington ridden away for
Speaker 1: the last three four years or so. Like, man, if
Speaker 1: that guy can get on a good team, if you
Speaker 1: had him on a good team, it takes your team
Speaker 1: to another level.
Speaker 2: Dallas did it. It's done that. PJ. Washington's playing really
Speaker 2: good basketball. And so with.
Speaker 1: That, the Clippers have not been playing good basketball. They've
Speaker 1: been struggling a bit. I am taking Dallas in that series.
Speaker 1: I think Dallas ultimately gets it done. However, if the
Speaker 1: Clippers are going to win that series, at what point
Speaker 1: do you take Kawhi Leonard and you say, all right, now, Kawhi,
Speaker 1: you go Gard Luka doncis HER's the key, though, Harri's
Speaker 1: where it gets interested when you do that. The X
Speaker 1: factor in that series is going to be Russ Westbrook
Speaker 1: because Russell's gonna have.
Speaker 2: To guard Kyrie v And.
Speaker 1: When you got Luke on the floor, Kyrie don't get
Speaker 1: much attention from the defense. You tend to forget. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you, Kyrie Irving is a monster. And so
Speaker 1: if you decide to forget Kyrie, gonna go off. Tyl
Speaker 1: Loue know that they won a championship together. But Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook is the X factor in that series. Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: is the X factor for that team. No surprise, they've
Speaker 1: struggled as much as they've struggled over the last month
Speaker 1: and a half because Russell missed most of the time,
Speaker 1: and so russ On, Kyrie Kawhi gonna have to go
Speaker 1: guard Luca at some point throughout this series. I also
Speaker 1: think at some point throughout this series, Tyler gonna have
Speaker 1: to scrap Russell Westbrook off the bench and move Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook into the starting lineup in order to win this series. Again,
Speaker 1: that's just my take. Your take is your take. That's
Speaker 1: my take. That's what we got in the West and
Speaker 1: moving to the East before we get out of here.
Speaker 1: The matchups that we do know. We got the Bucks
Speaker 1: at three, we got the Pacers at six. Uncertain on
Speaker 1: the status of Yiannis. We do know Yiannis likes to
Speaker 1: come back like he man in these situations. We watched
Speaker 1: Janni's hyper extend his knee a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: and the NBA Finals and came back and won the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: We all thought that he was done.
Speaker 1: We know he come back like he man, so I
Speaker 1: do expect him at some point in this series to
Speaker 1: come back calves can be tricky, especially when you you know,
Speaker 1: when you thought you know he was playing around with
Speaker 1: an injury around the achilles, The calves can be a
Speaker 1: little tricky. And so how much how much emphasis? If
Speaker 1: you're the Milwaukee Bucks front office, ownership group, coaching staff,
Speaker 1: how much are you fighting Giannis and saying we need
Speaker 1: to be one hundred and fifty percent short that you're
Speaker 1: ready to go? Because although it's not certain that Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant tore his achilles because of the calf injury had before,
Speaker 1: but so also not exactly certain or uncertain that was
Speaker 1: the case, could have been, could have affected it, or
Speaker 1: could not have. But if I'm looking at it through
Speaker 1: a lens and I'm the Milwaukee Bucks, the lens I'm
Speaker 1: looking through is that it did affect it. And so
Speaker 1: now that we have this, how much are we pressing
Speaker 1: Giannis to not play unless we're one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: percent sure, because let's face it, they've struggled, they've struggled
Speaker 1: bad all year. They've won games because when you got
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard, when you got Chris Middleton, when you got
Speaker 1: Giannis onto the compo, you're gonna win.
Speaker 2: Some games in the East, it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: But that team has not been very good all year
Speaker 1: to the standard and level that everyone thought they would be.
Speaker 1: And so are you forcing Yanni's back to try to
Speaker 1: revive that and go how far? Or are you making
Speaker 1: sure he's one hundred and fifty percent ready to play
Speaker 1: and then saying okay, now, okay, you're at a place
Speaker 1: where you can go play.
Speaker 2: No, you're one hundred and fifty percent ready to play. Now.
Speaker 1: They've struggled with the Pacers this year. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: the Pacers beat them five times because of the play
Speaker 1: in Final four and so this is a different game though.
Speaker 1: This is a different game because this is playoff time
Speaker 1: and the Pacers has not played much defense all year.
Speaker 1: Not just gonna outscore a team in the playoffs, Gotta defend,
Speaker 1: got to defend in the playoffs, and the Pacers has
Speaker 1: made a living this year off outscoring teams. The game
Speaker 1: slows down a bit in the playoffs. It's not just run, run, run, run, run.
Speaker 1: It slows down. You gotta play in the half court.
Speaker 1: You gotta defend in the half court. Got to get
Speaker 1: back in transition so that you can defend the half court.
Speaker 1: But it's not just to track meet once you get
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, and all year it's been a track
Speaker 1: meet for Indiana, It's gonna be a little different than
Speaker 1: these playoffs. Gianna's being out definitely affects the series. However, well,
Speaker 1: Yanna's out or not. I got the Milwaukee Bucks. However,
Speaker 1: I've given you the X factor for everybody, the X
Speaker 1: factor for Indiana, and the one person they got that's
Speaker 1: gonna slow you down in the half court and just
Speaker 1: grind you out and get a bucket.
Speaker 2: It's Pascal Siakam.
Speaker 1: The addition of Pascal, Pascal has been in these situations.
Speaker 1: Pascal is an NBA champion. He knows what it takes
Speaker 1: in these situations. Pascal is an NBA champion. As the
Speaker 1: number two option, Pascal is the number two options on Indiana. However,
Speaker 1: in order for them to win this series, he will
Speaker 1: have to be the number one option. He will have
Speaker 1: to be the number one option because Milwaukee's going to
Speaker 1: put Patrick Beverley on Tyre's Halliburton. He's going to do
Speaker 1: all he can and rough them up to get under
Speaker 1: his skin. And although I think Holle is ready for that,
Speaker 1: I think Halle plays a good brand of basketball. It's
Speaker 1: gonna get a little tough playoffs. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: different physicality and he'll play well, but I just don't
Speaker 1: think he'll score it at the level to be the
Speaker 1: number one option in this series for Indiana. And that's
Speaker 1: why I think Pascal needs to be the number one
Speaker 1: option in order for them to have a chance to win.
Speaker 1: And the other series, we got the Cavs at the
Speaker 1: four Magic at the five Young Magic team making their
Speaker 1: first playoff appearance. It's exciting to see with them young boys,
Speaker 1: Paolo Franz Wagner, Jalen Suggs, young fellas, my young spartan
Speaker 1: dog who the old head on that team?
Speaker 2: Gee, Gary Harris.
Speaker 1: Excited to see Jamal Tinsley has taken that team to
Speaker 1: the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Excited to see that matchup. The Calves has.
Speaker 1: Been there, Donovan Mitchell has been there, Darius Garland has
Speaker 1: been there. Jared Allen's been there. Although he said, man,
Speaker 1: we did not expect them lives.
Speaker 2: To be that bright.
Speaker 1: When we didn't expect it, they've been there. A lot
Speaker 1: of what Orlando does is at the realm. Don't shoot
Speaker 1: a ton of threes. That's not their strong suit. A
Speaker 1: lot of what they do is at the rim, Paulo
Speaker 1: getting downhill, Franz getting down here. How much are you
Speaker 1: getting down here with Jared Allen and Evan Mobley at
Speaker 1: the realm. It's my question for that series and for
Speaker 1: that alone. Obviously, Donovan's going to score the ball. The
Speaker 1: PG gonna do what he do. I got the cast
Speaker 1: taking this now. What's been interesting is Donovan has played
Speaker 1: well when Darius haven't played. Darius has played extremely well
Speaker 1: when Donovan haven't played.
Speaker 2: You got both of them.
Speaker 1: Now, in order to win at a high level, you
Speaker 1: need both of them to play well, but that the
Speaker 1: team has played better when one or the other has
Speaker 1: been out, which I think has been interesting because it
Speaker 1: probably leads Cleveland with a decision to make in the
Speaker 1: summer possibly possibly. Nonetheless, they need to figure the chemistry
Speaker 1: of that team out when everybody's on the floor together.
Speaker 1: In spite of that, because Orlando needs to get to
Speaker 1: the rim. I got the Cleveland Cavaliers taking that series
Speaker 1: moving on to the second round. So those are the
Speaker 1: series that we know. Those are my takes. The playoff
Speaker 1: series that I am most excited about. Obviously we're not
Speaker 1: in the playoffs yet, so I can't be too excited
Speaker 1: about our playoff series that's to come. With the playoff series,
Speaker 1: I'm most excited about his Dallas and the Clippers. That series,
Speaker 1: to me, I have no I would be surprised if
Speaker 1: it didn't go seven.
Speaker 2: I do think it's going to go seven.
Speaker 1: I do think you know, it's gonna come down to
Speaker 1: those big time guys that both of those teams got
Speaker 1: making big time plays in order to take it. But
Speaker 1: that's my series that I'm looking forward to as a
Speaker 1: basketball fan of watching the most.
Speaker 2: I think that series has legs.
Speaker 1: Four or five matchups are always great and they're right
Speaker 1: there in that spot two teams that got history. Now
Speaker 1: these teams have met in the playoffs before, you know,
Speaker 1: so those are always fun when you got teams with
Speaker 1: histories meeting against meeting each other because though you start
Speaker 1: to see it ball over and that's playoff basketball, man,
Speaker 1: that's fun.
Speaker 2: So that's the series.
Speaker 1: That I'm most excited it about looking forward to these playoffs.
Speaker 1: We will tap back in as they get going and
Speaker 1: also as the Dubs do what we gotta do to
Speaker 1: move for in this play in that I hate, but
Speaker 1: we got to do it. It's our route, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. Looking forward to the challenge until next time.
Speaker 1: That's a wrap from this episode of The Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 2: Your playoff preview, Peace