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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Drakemond Green Show. We obviously have
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about tonight. Um big Celtics Bucks
Speaker 1: game from earlier today with the Celtics tieing the series
Speaker 1: up to the two on the road, not going down
Speaker 1: from three one because unless you are to go to
Speaker 1: State Warriors, you hold onto that league. And that's the past.
Speaker 1: By the way, we're up for you one right now.
Speaker 1: That ain't never happening again. But that is the past.
Speaker 1: And you know, you either embrace it or you let
Speaker 1: it hunt you. I embrace it. It It is what it is,
Speaker 1: and so as I was saying the Celtics tied the
Speaker 1: series up, so we will be talking a little bit
Speaker 1: about that game, as I have not had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to see that entire game because obviously we were preparing
Speaker 1: to play for tonight. UM. But before that, uh, what
Speaker 1: I would love to take a moment, maybe a little
Speaker 1: longer than a moment, and talk about a brother of mine, UM,
Speaker 1: my college teammate, my college roommate for two and a
Speaker 1: half years, UM, Adrian Pain. Uh, dear dear friend. UM.
Speaker 1: We we suffered a tragic loss um early this morning,
Speaker 1: and I woke up today to my mom crying, UM
Speaker 1: calling me. My mom never calls me that early, so
Speaker 1: it's a little weird. UM. I never really heard the
Speaker 1: phone when I'm sleep, so it's also a little weird
Speaker 1: that I actually heard the phone vibrating UM, and I
Speaker 1: saw it was my mom. So I picked up and
Speaker 1: I had about an hour left of sleep time before
Speaker 1: my alarm went off and shoot around and I received
Speaker 1: the news that Adrian had been shot and killed. For
Speaker 1: anyone that the new Adrian you know or you knew
Speaker 1: Adrian was harmless. He was an incredible person. He cared
Speaker 1: about people more than he cared about himself. Um I
Speaker 1: mean and when I say harmless, he lost his life
Speaker 1: one to help someone. Uh, Adrian arrived to help a
Speaker 1: friend in a domestic that was dealing with the domestic
Speaker 1: dispute are and when Asian Adrian arrives to help, he
Speaker 1: was tragically shot. And the big brother in me want
Speaker 1: would love to call Adrian right now and curse him
Speaker 1: out and say, hey, man, like you know, I know
Speaker 1: you want to help, but maybe send someone to help.
Speaker 1: Maybe call the cops to help, um as that is
Speaker 1: their duty as they are trained for that. And I
Speaker 1: wish for thinking I would love to call and say
Speaker 1: that to him. Unfortunately, UM, I will never have that opportunity. Adrian.
Speaker 1: Adrian was such a joy to be around, always great energy, um, funny, hilarious.
Speaker 1: We all call him big Players. Every time you see
Speaker 1: some see us or see someone, what's up player? Player,
Speaker 1: what's up? Player? Called everybody these my little players, and
Speaker 1: we all call him big player and Adrian to give
Speaker 1: you a little backstory or Adrian, you know, I talked
Speaker 1: to coach DJ this morning, Coach Dwayne Stephens, and he
Speaker 1: was kind of telling me exactly what happened. And the
Speaker 1: first thing I said to him, is who's gonna play
Speaker 1: his funeral? Adrian lost his mom at thirteen years old.
Speaker 1: She died in his arms. He couldn't find her in
Speaker 1: Helen and at thirteen years old she passed away right
Speaker 1: in his arms. Imagine living with the weight on your heart,
Speaker 1: the burden, the thought, Uh, if only I could have
Speaker 1: found that in Haler, I could have saved her life.
Speaker 1: Is that true? We don't know, We'll never know. But
Speaker 1: what is true is I know Asirian lived with that
Speaker 1: burden for the rest of his life, which was tragically
Speaker 1: cut short eighteen years later at the age of thirty one.
Speaker 1: Adrian was then went on to be raised by his grandmother,
Speaker 1: who passed away going into my senior year college, which
Speaker 1: will be going into Adrian's sophomore year of college. And
Speaker 1: so I asked the question, who's going to plan his funeral?
Speaker 1: Because that is a legit worry, that is a legit concern.
Speaker 1: Adrian has a son that is three or four years
Speaker 1: old named Amori. Adrian recently just had another kid, and
Speaker 1: from my understanding, we actually what I do know for
Speaker 1: certain is that Adrian was an incredible father and sunned
Speaker 1: recently within the last eight or nine months had brain surgery,
Speaker 1: and ap was right by his side the moment he
Speaker 1: could be it's his song, who he loved dearly, who
Speaker 1: looks just like him, now has to grow up without
Speaker 1: a fuck. Preparing myself to play for a game today
Speaker 1: was one of the hardest things I've had to do
Speaker 1: it and that I can think of in my recent memory.
Speaker 1: Ultimately I found it within two Try to bring some
Speaker 1: energy to the game, try to help my team win,
Speaker 1: because unfortunately, in the world that we live in, life
Speaker 1: just continues to go on. And I had a moment
Speaker 1: in my seat, um at my locker this morning and
Speaker 1: Coach Kurr said to me, you can go home. Nobody's
Speaker 1: expecting you to be here, and it's like, no, coach,
Speaker 1: I have, I got a game prepared for And that's
Speaker 1: just the reality. Like life just continues to go on. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: life has to continue to go on without a p M.
Speaker 1: For his children, for his father, for his brothers, for
Speaker 1: his blood brothers, for spartan brothers, for a spartan family.
Speaker 1: It has to continue to go on without him. And
Speaker 1: my hope and my prayer is that his son ultimately
Speaker 1: knows how much she loved him, how much she cared
Speaker 1: for him, how he would have given anything for his children.
Speaker 1: Um absolutely loved children. There was a national story some
Speaker 1: years at when Adrian was still at Mission State about
Speaker 1: a little girl named Lacey that had a terminal disease.
Speaker 1: I remember the first day. I was still on the team.
Speaker 1: The first day we went to the children's hospital and
Speaker 1: AP met Lacey. We were kind of going from room
Speaker 1: to room and AP state in the one room where
Speaker 1: the whole time. And he left at the hospital that
Speaker 1: day with a new friend, with a new sister, with
Speaker 1: someone that he would spend countless enough, whether the hours
Speaker 1: with for the rest of her short life. He had
Speaker 1: her games, he went to birthday parties, He did whatever
Speaker 1: he could to show her that she had a friend
Speaker 1: in him. That's who Adrian Pain was. So when I
Speaker 1: say I would love to call and curse him out,
Speaker 1: the reality is is it makes total sense that he
Speaker 1: lost his life going to help someone else, because that's
Speaker 1: that's exactly how a p would have it. If you
Speaker 1: told AP you're gonna die, here are the ways in
Speaker 1: which you would die, And if that was one of
Speaker 1: the options, that would be the one he would pick,
Speaker 1: because that who Adrian pain Was. I can go on
Speaker 1: and on and on about stories I have, what's him about? Memories?
Speaker 1: I could sit here and talk for hours about him,
Speaker 1: spent a ton of time together. As I announced in
Speaker 1: my press conference tonight, Hazel and myself will donate one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars and and and it's just so fresh
Speaker 1: like I don't know exactly, but this is what it
Speaker 1: looks like. I don't know exactly what it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: But as I said in my press conference or earlier
Speaker 1: after the game, I am calling on my Spartan family
Speaker 1: to step up an AP s honor coaches, Oh that Ishpa,
Speaker 1: Magic JOHNSONID, Gary Harris, Valentine, Xavier Tilman, Jaren Jackson, Third
Speaker 1: bringing Forbes and all of those that I left off. Um,
Speaker 1: and this is not just Spartan basketball family, UM, everyone
Speaker 1: who AP touched in the Spartan family. UM. Maybe it
Speaker 1: will consist of a couple of different things. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: start to go fund me or something too for Adrian's children.
Speaker 1: But what I want to do is where my hundred
Speaker 1: tho dollars will go Mine and Hazel is. I hope
Speaker 1: to start something for those that don't know how to
Speaker 1: reach this side. There will be go fund me for
Speaker 1: you if you want to contribute for adrianus kids. But
Speaker 1: what I wanna do is and those that I called on,
Speaker 1: is I want to put something together and we I
Speaker 1: have the honor of having when you walk in to
Speaker 1: Michigan State's Jim Practice Jim Auxiliary, Jill, I have the
Speaker 1: honor of having a huge weight room around the side
Speaker 1: of the court and Draymond Agreen strength and conditional facility.
Speaker 1: It came with my donation to the school. And what
Speaker 1: I want to do is with the guys that I've
Speaker 1: caught up on, I want to put something together in
Speaker 1: honor of Adrian. So when his son, who we will
Speaker 1: always have back at Michigan State, because this is a family,
Speaker 1: when his son walking that Jim and walk on that campus,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what it be it that he sees
Speaker 1: something named after Adrian Pain with a big, huge picture
Speaker 1: of Adrian Pain in Michigan State green and white, and
Speaker 1: he can look up and say that's my dad, and
Speaker 1: a's he grow older and as all of his children
Speaker 1: grow older, I keep saying he because that's the one
Speaker 1: I've had the opportunity to meet. The mark as they
Speaker 1: grow older, they can walk in there and they can
Speaker 1: be proud and know that their dad left a legacy
Speaker 1: and he would never be forgotten. It brings me great
Speaker 1: joy when I take my family back and they see
Speaker 1: my picture on the wall, and they see the acculates
Speaker 1: and they see the Draymond Green strength and condition, so
Speaker 1: that it brings me great joy. And I hope, my
Speaker 1: hope and prayer is that forever, when we get this done,
Speaker 1: that his children will walk in and that will bring
Speaker 1: them great joy. So as I said, I can go
Speaker 1: on and on, but that is my hope, that is
Speaker 1: my prayer, that is my call to action, if you will,
Speaker 1: my fellow Spartan family, life. Life is short. Enjoy those
Speaker 1: that you love, Embrace them, get magg and over it.
Speaker 1: Life is too short. I urge those who are in
Speaker 1: domestic violent situations to get help because a lot of
Speaker 1: times they end with someone that's in a dispute life
Speaker 1: being taken. This time it ended with someone that's trying
Speaker 1: to help, life being taken. And unfortunately those situations they
Speaker 1: end like that all too often. And so I urge
Speaker 1: anyone who's in a domestic relationship, um who's dealt with
Speaker 1: it to get help, UM, to call on help. If
Speaker 1: you know your friend is in the domestic relationship and
Speaker 1: they don't have it within themselves to get help because
Speaker 1: they think it's going to get better, I urge you
Speaker 1: to reach out to someone and get them help. If
Speaker 1: your friend is in a domestic relationship, I urge you
Speaker 1: to call the cops, to send them and not take
Speaker 1: it up on ourselves, because the reality is we can
Speaker 1: take it upon ourselves. And Adrian could have ended up
Speaker 1: protecting himself if if he was armed, or and then
Speaker 1: he's in a situation that he shouldn't have been in
Speaker 1: and losing his life a different way. And so I
Speaker 1: urge those that have any knowledge of any domestic situation
Speaker 1: to encourage your friends, family, whoever it may be, to
Speaker 1: get help. And if you see that they're not willing
Speaker 1: to get help, you try to help them, you know,
Speaker 1: because we see far too many lives taken away involving
Speaker 1: a domestic dispute. So that is my call to everyone
Speaker 1: who here's this, UM. I asked for those that do
Speaker 1: here this to share this with those that don't, because
Speaker 1: we see it far too often. Rest in peace, Adrian,
Speaker 1: I love you brother. You were incredible. Beat the odds.
Speaker 1: Beat the odds, my man. You made it out of day,
Speaker 1: know how, when they said you wouldn't make it past
Speaker 1: elementary school, because if you're learning disability, not only did
Speaker 1: you make it past elementary, not only did you make
Speaker 1: it past middle school. Not only did you make it
Speaker 1: past high school. Not only did you make it to college,
Speaker 1: you graduated from college when they said you couldn't, when
Speaker 1: they said you never played basketball at a high level
Speaker 1: because you couldn't run and shoot the ball at the
Speaker 1: same time. You couldn't run and chew gum at the
Speaker 1: same time. When you first started, you beat the hats
Speaker 1: and you made it to the NBA. That's what we
Speaker 1: all dream about when we play this game. You actually
Speaker 1: did it. To my brother, I love you until we
Speaker 1: meet again. You got my word. I will always look
Speaker 1: out after your loved ones, your children, and help in
Speaker 1: any way I can. I love you, my brother. Now
Speaker 1: moving forward to the Warriors Grizzly game, as I had
Speaker 1: to do with my day, I would now move forward
Speaker 1: in the podcasts. For those of you who always know
Speaker 1: my energy on the podcast, I truly apologize that I
Speaker 1: just don't have that today. But I will give you
Speaker 1: what I have and Warriors Grizzlies, no job. Um. That
Speaker 1: is a team that was twenty and five in the
Speaker 1: regular season without Jack. They showed that tonight. We we
Speaker 1: got away with one that we probably shouldn't have won.
Speaker 1: But we are battle tested. We are we do have
Speaker 1: championship pedigree, and we not we understand that. Hey we
Speaker 1: started the game, oh for sixteen over fifteen from three
Speaker 1: and couldn't buy a basket. I mean the score was
Speaker 1: forty one to thirty eight at halftime. Allah. The two
Speaker 1: thousand four Detroit Pistons beat him to Los Angeles Lakers
Speaker 1: and finals very very very low scoring game, which none
Speaker 1: of us are used to in today's NBA. But no
Speaker 1: Jaw inserts Steven Adams into the lineup. I was a
Speaker 1: little shock that they decided to go to Steven Adams,
Speaker 1: in large part due to he hadn't played. I think
Speaker 1: he played the first game and maybe the first few
Speaker 1: minutes of the second game in their first round series
Speaker 1: which went six games, and hadn't really played since until
Speaker 1: the garbage time minutes and in our last game, which
Speaker 1: was a blowout, And so I was really shocked that
Speaker 1: they inserted him into the star lineup and true Steven
Speaker 1: Adams fashion professional as he is and has always been.
Speaker 1: He comes out and he has a very good game,
Speaker 1: rebounded the ball really well, scored the ball when he
Speaker 1: had opportunities, bought a physical presence for them, Uh that
Speaker 1: we hadn't really seen because Stephen just brings a different
Speaker 1: type of dominance to a basketball game. And so I
Speaker 1: thought that was uh, that was a inserted Steven Adams.
Speaker 1: It turned out to be a positive for them. I
Speaker 1: thought there were ways that we could have taken advantage
Speaker 1: of Steven Adams being in the lineup with just our
Speaker 1: style of playing the lineups that we were playing, but
Speaker 1: we just didn't have it going offensively. We didn't have
Speaker 1: a rhythm, a lot of turnovers in the first half, again,
Speaker 1: which has kind of been a story in this series. Um.
Speaker 1: The last game, we scored a hundred and forty two points.
Speaker 1: I think we had sixteen and seventeen turnovers, but fourteen
Speaker 1: of those came in the first half. We were leading
Speaker 1: by seven after Game three. Uh, at halftime Game three,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, and we came out that third quarter and
Speaker 1: we have one of those warriors the third quarters that
Speaker 1: a lot of people that watched Warriors basketball over the
Speaker 1: last seven years or so has gotten a custom to
Speaker 1: and we were able to blow the game open and
Speaker 1: hold on to that lead, not only hold onto it,
Speaker 1: but push it up. And you know, one of the
Speaker 1: one thing that I thought was beautiful in that game
Speaker 1: three was we were up twenty points John Morett. I
Speaker 1: know what the conversation was when they held it up.
Speaker 1: We've been here before, we know what it takes. Let's
Speaker 1: go out here and let's get back in this game
Speaker 1: and win the game. And John Morett came out playing
Speaker 1: like that. They were up twenty points. John started to
Speaker 1: go on his rampage and scoring every place, and I
Speaker 1: think he looked up like, wow, I'm starting to go crazy.
Speaker 1: He had a couple of those Job layups that only
Speaker 1: Job makes, and he looked up and they were down
Speaker 1: twenty five. And that was big for us because that
Speaker 1: was to show them this isn't the Minnesota Timber You're
Speaker 1: not You're no longer playing that team. This is the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. This is championship level basketball, this is
Speaker 1: how we do it. And it was it was beautiful
Speaker 1: to seat. We went on to score one hundred forty
Speaker 1: two points and win the game, far cry from the
Speaker 1: one hundred and one point that we scored tonight. But
Speaker 1: it's funny because I told Geordan Pool. Jordan Pool asked
Speaker 1: me right after that game. He said, no, they're gonna
Speaker 1: quit naha. I said, no, no, it's zero to zero
Speaker 1: in game four start on Monday. He said, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I got you, And sure enough, that's exactly what happened. Um,
Speaker 1: I want to send my well wishes the John Marette. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, you never want to see a guy get hurt.
Speaker 1: I totally disagree with the whole notion of Jordan hurt
Speaker 1: his knee, as I saw several different players even on
Speaker 1: the field him grabbing at his knee long before that play.
Speaker 1: I also saw on that play him in Jordan's bump knees.
Speaker 1: But in saying that, like I said in my press
Speaker 1: conference that day, I'm not gonna go tiffort tad on
Speaker 1: what happened and whatnot. I wish him well. I wish
Speaker 1: him a speedy recovery. Uh. You never want to see
Speaker 1: anyone get hurt, especially a young superstar talent like that,
Speaker 1: and so most importantly, I just want to wish John
Speaker 1: speedy recovery. Let's talk a little bit about Game four,
Speaker 1: and I probably again I apologize for my lack of energy.
Speaker 1: It's been a very emotionally taxing day with me. Jaren
Speaker 1: Jackson was having an absolutely incredible game. We couldn't get
Speaker 1: a stop. Otto couldn't get a stop. Play couldn't get
Speaker 1: a stop. I couldn't get a stop. None of us
Speaker 1: could get a stop on Jaren Jackson in the second half.
Speaker 1: Down the stretch, they went to him. He drove left
Speaker 1: across the middle of the pain. He misses, Steph Curry
Speaker 1: gets rebound back. Two three throws down, we go up,
Speaker 1: We get another stop. They go back to Jared for
Speaker 1: the three. I get a block. And for the lip
Speaker 1: readers out there, I simply said, don't don't do that
Speaker 1: for game. Don't he's having a great game, but don't
Speaker 1: go at me for game. I don't like that. It's disrespectful,
Speaker 1: you know. And the reality is somebody go at you
Speaker 1: a game sometimes when they go the opposite way and
Speaker 1: take it all the way back to Andre Miller game
Speaker 1: and me in the playoffs our rookie year. But I
Speaker 1: don't like that. Don't go at me for game. And
Speaker 1: they did and I understand Jared had it gone no job,
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks was having a pretty rough night. They go
Speaker 1: to their guy. I totally get it. Incredible, incredible performance
Speaker 1: by jan He's been incredible our series. Actually, Um, but
Speaker 1: I I had to do what I'm paid to do,
Speaker 1: and that's come up with big time stops and big
Speaker 1: time moments and shout out to our guard, Steph play
Speaker 1: wigs Um Jordan's Damian Lee. Everybody who stepped on the
Speaker 1: floor has been rebounding the basketball and that's been critical,
Speaker 1: especially with the lineups that we played. Auto doing incredible
Speaker 1: job rebounding. Looney comes in doing incredible job rebound and
Speaker 1: that's a huge key to us being ahead three one
Speaker 1: in this series, because, as I said at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the series, the game starts for them on a
Speaker 1: miss shot by them or US offensive rebounds. They led
Speaker 1: the league in offensive rebounding, They play big, they crashed
Speaker 1: the glass. So rebounding has been huge for us in
Speaker 1: this series, and it's a large part due and it's
Speaker 1: a large part of the reason we're up three to one.
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly certain, but I think we've outrebounded them
Speaker 1: in all four games, and that is huge because that's
Speaker 1: supposed to be our weakness, that's supposed to be how
Speaker 1: they're supposed to take advantage of our small lineups. And
Speaker 1: for us to rebound that way, you have to give
Speaker 1: a lot of credit to all the guys on the
Speaker 1: floor taking on that challenge boxing out. A huge part
Speaker 1: of that is keeping your man in front of you
Speaker 1: so you are in rebound the position. And so that's
Speaker 1: been a huge key in this series and it's been
Speaker 1: absolutely great Steph Curry. With all the slander, all of this,
Speaker 1: all of that, Steph Curry showed you, once again for
Speaker 1: those that I love to talk and blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: fore headlines why he's Steph Curry. Where he took over
Speaker 1: that fourth quarter, in particular, the last six minutes of
Speaker 1: that fourth quarter showed you why he's Steph Curry. Showed
Speaker 1: you why he's the only unanimous m VP in m
Speaker 1: v in NBA history. He showed you why he's a
Speaker 1: three time champion. He showed you why the baby face
Speaker 1: Assassin became Steph Curry as you know him today. Huge, huge,
Speaker 1: huge effort by Steph on the offensive end, especially on
Speaker 1: a pretty horrendous offensive night for US but you put
Speaker 1: the ball in your guy hands that's gonna make the
Speaker 1: place for you, and you trust him to make the plays.
Speaker 1: Mike Brown did that, he didn't go away from that,
Speaker 1: and eventually Steph did what step does. He took over
Speaker 1: the game down the stretch. He got us every big
Speaker 1: bucket that we needed and we were able to pull
Speaker 1: out that game. Also, a huge, huge thing that step
Speaker 1: has been doing this series is taking des McBain out.
Speaker 1: Desmond Bain is a huge key to their offense, and
Speaker 1: Steph has done an incredible job of taking him out
Speaker 1: of the series. We have one more win to get.
Speaker 1: It's not over. But Steph's focus on the defensive end
Speaker 1: for a nondefender, I mean he has been so locked in,
Speaker 1: Like even when he leaves the floor, he he go,
Speaker 1: he points to, he calls whoever on our team. He
Speaker 1: then wants to carry bank play. You go there, And
Speaker 1: that's his trusting Clay, you know it's it's we've been
Speaker 1: together now, those two for eleven years. Myself Ton that's
Speaker 1: his trusting Clay, Like, no, I'm not trusting anyone else.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna trust Clay. You go, you go guard. And
Speaker 1: that's been huge and it's been beautiful to see for
Speaker 1: me on how he's taken on that challenge and and
Speaker 1: and made it tough for Bang to get loose. Uh,
Speaker 1: which is another huge reason we're sitting here up three
Speaker 1: to one, headed back to Memphis tomorrow to try to
Speaker 1: close out this series on Wednesday. That's been absolutely incredibly
Speaker 1: important and I hope that he will get the credit
Speaker 1: for that. I hope that people can look past you know,
Speaker 1: of course, what everyone's gonna talk about old Steph gotta
Speaker 1: go on offensively, but no one's going to talk about
Speaker 1: his defensive effort and taking Desmond Bang out of the series.
Speaker 1: And that's been huge. So shout out to staff. We
Speaker 1: needed for one more night, my brother, we needed for
Speaker 1: one more night close this thing out, get back to
Speaker 1: the conference finals. Has been a long, long year, an
Speaker 1: event for one. Um. Congratulations to Mike Brown on getting
Speaker 1: the head coach of of the Sacramento Kings. I think
Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings is on the seventeen year playoff dropped,
Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen year playoff dropped. I have no doubt in
Speaker 1: my mind that Mike is going to take his ch
Speaker 1: championship pedigree, his incredible especially defensive minded, incredible basketball mind
Speaker 1: with an incredible staff to Sacramento with him, and I
Speaker 1: think it won't be long before that Threek is broken
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to Mike. Mike is what now
Speaker 1: thirteen and old in the playoffs as the Doves head
Speaker 1: coach record stays unblemished. Also send um love well wishes
Speaker 1: and the speedy recovery to coach Kerr, to Rixellbrini to
Speaker 1: Carl Bergstrom and recovering from COVID. Uh just another one
Speaker 1: of the things that we're hit with. So on top
Speaker 1: of me dealing with what I've been dealing with, an
Speaker 1: emotion that I've been dealing with today in the Los vengean,
Speaker 1: we then walk into the arena to only find out
Speaker 1: that our head coach just as the positive for COVID
Speaker 1: right before the game. And so it's been a very
Speaker 1: eventful emotional day nonetheless, but the Doves sported out. The
Speaker 1: Doves are up three to one, headed back to Memphis,
Speaker 1: and you don't squander opportunity, you take advantage of opportunity.
Speaker 1: So we are going to give all that we have
Speaker 1: to close this thing out in five and I believe
Speaker 1: in my heart if we go in locked in play
Speaker 1: Warriors basketball from the beginning. That will do that. That's
Speaker 1: the plan onto the Celtics Buck series, which is tied
Speaker 1: to the two. Uh. The Celtics took that when in
Speaker 1: Milwaukee today won sixteen and one oh eight. Y'all see Jackson.
Speaker 1: Y'all probably don't see Jackson, but Jackson's doing his little
Speaker 1: dance as you know for our listeners who we love,
Speaker 1: we appreciate. You know, Jackson is a big time Celtics fan,
Speaker 1: and so he's excited behind thirty points from both Al
Speaker 1: Horford and Jayson Tatum. J T, I love you my
Speaker 1: brother as my little brother. As y'all know, we've built
Speaker 1: a relationship. But I don't want to talk about you
Speaker 1: and j T. You're supposed to get third. Ah. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's a Boston thing. If like Al
Speaker 1: just bleeds green, Al may bleed green, because what y'all
Speaker 1: don't know is Alice from Grand Ledge, which is right
Speaker 1: next to East Lasting. Al probably should have been a
Speaker 1: Michigan State Spartan as opposed to a Florida Gator. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to go out on the limit and say
Speaker 1: Al does bleed greed, and that is why he thrived
Speaker 1: in the Celtics Green. Al Horford is playing incredible basketball.
Speaker 1: He's knocking down the shot, He's doing a great job
Speaker 1: on Jannice. He is a their veteran leader. As you
Speaker 1: can see how everyone responds to anything that he says.
Speaker 1: His presence, I mean, Al has been absolutely incredible. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what Alice contract situation is, but Al looking
Speaker 1: like he got another four or five years a bump
Speaker 1: left in those legs, and it's it's been incredible to watch. Um.
Speaker 1: What Al has done for that series is what what
Speaker 1: you can see and watching this game and jt ended
Speaker 1: up with thirty tonight, but what you can see is
Speaker 1: Milwaukee is saying Jaylen Brown won't beat us and Jayson
Speaker 1: Tatum won't beat us, and Al Horford said, Okay, well
Speaker 1: I will. And it's been absolutely beautiful to watch two.
Speaker 1: For Al Horford to be sent to Oklahoma City a
Speaker 1: lot like Chris paul Um, a lot like Chris paul
Speaker 1: to essentially die on his lay on his deathbed, and
Speaker 1: that's no disrespect to Oklahoma City Thunder as an organization,
Speaker 1: but where they are and they're rebuild, you take on
Speaker 1: a contract that's considered a bad contract. That guy is
Speaker 1: pretty much being sent there to be left for dead.
Speaker 1: Chris Paul then go shoot Oklahoma the city. Not only
Speaker 1: does he show that he has a lot left in
Speaker 1: the tank and eventually it moved to Phinish, but he
Speaker 1: carried that team that was looking to tank to the
Speaker 1: playoffs and Al Horford, who didn't play a ton and
Speaker 1: okay see worked with the team, said he's you know, professionals,
Speaker 1: Al Horford is stayed in shape. And it's when, as
Speaker 1: I've said before, when the Boston Celtics made that trade,
Speaker 1: I actually talked to j T. I'm like, yeah, what
Speaker 1: are y'all doing? Like I feel like y'all need a
Speaker 1: point guard? Like why are y'all bringing Al Horford back?
Speaker 1: Clearly Brad knew something we didn't know. And Al is
Speaker 1: playing absolutely incredible basketball. He has been the key to
Speaker 1: this series and really throughout the playoffs for them. I mean,
Speaker 1: at the basketball that he's playing, I think we're starting
Speaker 1: to see some of the Milwaukee Bucks missing Chris Middleton.
Speaker 1: Wesley Matthews has been incredible. He's playing great defense, he's
Speaker 1: knocking shots down. But you can't replace Chris Middleton and
Speaker 1: his and what he brings to that offense, his big
Speaker 1: shot making in the fourth quarter, um the Boston Celtics
Speaker 1: defense also having an account for him. You can't replace that,
Speaker 1: and I think we're starting to see some of that impact.
Speaker 1: And although although Drew has been more aggressive and Johannice
Speaker 1: is doing what Johannice does, you're just starting to see
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton and the gap that he leaves by not
Speaker 1: being there. And now Boston is headed back home to
Speaker 1: the two. They took home court advantage back. I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see this game five, this pivotal game, Game five.
Speaker 1: You know, there's some stat that says whoever wins game
Speaker 1: five and or two two series goes on to win
Speaker 1: the series eighties something percent of the time. So this
Speaker 1: is a huge game. Boston can't let this one get away,
Speaker 1: and then I have to win two in the rowing
Speaker 1: and starting that with going back to Milwaukee. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see what's gonna happen with this game, this
Speaker 1: game five for them, obviously excited for what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: with our Game five, but I think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: an incredibly good game and we'll see, man the best
Speaker 1: team win. I am taking the uh Sultans Game five,
Speaker 1: holding down the garden, taking the seeds. I say he
Speaker 1: might have a problem de picked Otherwise, Jackson's gonna cut
Speaker 1: the podcast off about it to no disrestract to Milwaukee fans.
Speaker 1: But I like doing the podcast. I enjoy it, so
Speaker 1: I hope you understand. And the Mavericks and seventies sixers
Speaker 1: both tie up their series to the two. We'll hit
Speaker 1: those real quick and we'll get out of here. I
Speaker 1: want to go lay my head on Hazel shoulder. Maybe
Speaker 1: dropped a few tiers, a few more. Uh, we just
Speaker 1: try to move forward. But before we get out of here.
Speaker 1: The Dallas Mavericks, Dorry and Phinney Smith had a huge game.
Speaker 1: There was one play in particular that I want to highlight.
Speaker 1: Luca caught the ball on the left wing, had an
Speaker 1: open shot, the guy rotated off Phinney Smith. Luca kicked
Speaker 1: it to the corner of Phinney Smith. One point game
Speaker 1: at the time. If I'm not mistaken, Phinney Smith drained
Speaker 1: the three. Dor and Phinney Smith I've spoke about his
Speaker 1: extension on this podcast. The player that he has become
Speaker 1: is absolutely amazing. It's no shocker to me that he
Speaker 1: had the three point shooting game tonight because he has
Speaker 1: worked and worked and worked, and he's become a shooter.
Speaker 1: And it's absolutely and are able to see. Um Maxi
Speaker 1: Kleiber is shooting twenty four from nine three forty nine
Speaker 1: point something percent, Dorrian Phinney Smith is shooting forty percent
Speaker 1: from three, and Reggie Bullock can shooting forty one percent
Speaker 1: from three. And there's your reason of why that series
Speaker 1: is tied up to the two. The other guys are
Speaker 1: doing what they're supposed to do. Now something to watch for.
Speaker 1: Can those guys hit those same shots? In Finnis role
Speaker 1: players always play better at home. That is what you
Speaker 1: if you haven't noticed, pay attention. That's what happens historically
Speaker 1: in the NBA. But those shots are very, very very vital.
Speaker 1: And what what the Mavericks cannot afford is to have
Speaker 1: another thirty nine point Luca Knight ten seven four you leven.
Speaker 1: They need other guys to have a great games. So
Speaker 1: that's something to watch for. And in the seventies sixers,
Speaker 1: this series looked totally different since the Big Fellow came back.
Speaker 1: What you'd expect, but they have done I mean, they
Speaker 1: pretty much dominated the last two games, Like, at no
Speaker 1: point in those last two games that I think like, oh,
Speaker 1: Miami's about to win this game. Joel has changed everything
Speaker 1: from Miami's defense and trying to stop him and Miami
Speaker 1: uh and Miami's offense and trying to score with him there.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been incredible on both sides of the floor.
Speaker 1: James Harden, we we saw some of the James Harden
Speaker 1: that we're you, We're we've been accustomed, growing accustomed to
Speaker 1: see him over the years. In that fourth quarter, I
Speaker 1: think you have four threes and he has some daggers
Speaker 1: and it looked like old James Hard. That's something to
Speaker 1: watch as this series moved forward, because with the way
Speaker 1: Miami's garden Joel, they're pretty much saying James is going
Speaker 1: to have to beat us, and so that's something to watch.
Speaker 1: Can can what we conceive continue to see the same
Speaker 1: James Harden that we've seen for years, or will Miami
Speaker 1: be able to get James Hard back at Bay in
Speaker 1: the seventeen point average that he had prior to last
Speaker 1: night's game in the series. That is something to watch.
Speaker 1: I also think Jimmy Butler has had incredible game especially
Speaker 1: the last two games. Bam out of Bay. You had
Speaker 1: a really good game last game, and Tyler Hero played
Speaker 1: better game for with all of those guys playing better,
Speaker 1: and to still walk off losing by eight or whatever
Speaker 1: they lost by, that's a worry. That's the big worry.
Speaker 1: So looking forward to get game five. Game five in Miami,
Speaker 1: I am going to take Do Do Do Do Do
Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Do Doo. I'm taking Miami. Game
Speaker 1: five in Miami. I got the Miami heat winning that game.
Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes. Pilloto Game five. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's a rap from the Draymond Green Show. Again. I
Speaker 1: apologize for my lack of energy. Um but I'm brutal day.
Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Adrian plain again. I love you, my brother,
Speaker 1: until next time. That's a wrap in peace.