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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody?
Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. As we said
Speaker 4: to y'all last show a couple shows ago, we will
Speaker 4: be doing some playoff recaps, give me you some thoughts,
Speaker 4: some different things to watch during the games, the games
Speaker 4: within the game. Last night doubleheader Nixon seventy six, there
Speaker 4: was Lakers Nuggets. We will go into those two games.
Speaker 4: We also have to talk about the Celtics losing to
Speaker 4: the Heat, because I'm not someone that's going to overreact
Speaker 4: to one game. I know how this goes. You go
Speaker 4: through a playoff series and stuff happens throughout the playoff series.
Speaker 4: I saw Joe Mizzoula made a comment about that, like
Speaker 4: if you think you're just gonna go through a playoff
Speaker 4: series with no bumps in the roads.
Speaker 1: You're crazy.
Speaker 4: I happened to play on a team that was sixteen
Speaker 4: and won the playoffs, and the game that we lost
Speaker 4: was actually for wins sixteen. Now throughout that, yeah, you
Speaker 4: get some tough games, if I'm not mistaken. We was
Speaker 4: down by like fifteen points in almost every game to
Speaker 4: Portland that series, and a lot like the Denver Nuggets
Speaker 4: is doing to the Lakers. You just kind of sit
Speaker 4: there like all right, cool, like here we go walk
Speaker 4: them down. Happened in the Houston series. You used to
Speaker 4: stay poisoned, walk them down. And so, interestingly enough, we
Speaker 4: will get into that Boston Miami lost series because it
Speaker 4: is a series because, as we spoke about, one of
Speaker 4: the road teams won a game, and that was Miami.
Speaker 4: So we'll get into that. But first let's get into
Speaker 4: the Nuggets versus Lakers. Nuggets are ahead three oh. The
Speaker 4: Nuggets should not be ahead three oh. The Nuggets are
Speaker 4: a head three oh. And when the better team is
Speaker 4: ahead three ozero and they shouldn't be ahead three oh.
Speaker 4: That's a problem because that means that you lost a
Speaker 4: game that you should have or could have won, and
Speaker 4: you're already kind of outmashed anyway. Like I think, I
Speaker 4: don't think any of us do not think that Nuver
Speaker 4: is a better team than the Lakers. However, I think
Speaker 4: all of us thought anytime when you have Lebron James
Speaker 4: on the floor, you know they have an outside chance.
Speaker 4: And they had that chance, and in Game one had
Speaker 4: the lead and it evaporated fast and the game got
Speaker 4: out of hand. In Game two had to lead even longer,
Speaker 4: up twenty points most of the third quarter until the
Speaker 4: lead started to go away as a whole. Most of
Speaker 4: the third quarter was up twenty points. And then you
Speaker 4: lose that game, and that one's the gut punch, like
Speaker 4: you Game one, you're there, you're head first half, going
Speaker 4: to the half with the league because they've done that
Speaker 4: all three games, and you lose that game. All right, cool, fellas,
Speaker 4: you know what, listen, were on the road. We know
Speaker 4: what we came here to do. The goal is to
Speaker 4: come here and win one game. I necessarily win two.
Speaker 4: We'd be nice to win two. Probably not going to
Speaker 4: win two against a team like Denver out on their
Speaker 4: home court, but you know what, we came here to
Speaker 4: win one, we can still do that. So you hold
Speaker 4: on to hope like you hold on to it, and
Speaker 4: you go into game two feeling good. And because Denver
Speaker 4: mopped the Lakers in game one, after all, I think
Speaker 4: they end up winning that game by fifteen plus points
Speaker 4: or something of that nature. You know, you come in like,
Speaker 4: all right, like we're pissed off now because we got
Speaker 4: mopped a little bit game one. We gotta come back
Speaker 4: and redeem ourselves. And so the Lakers are feeling good
Speaker 4: coming into game too, like, you know what if we
Speaker 4: stop that run or this run, we're good because we played,
Speaker 4: and so you got something to hold on to. Then
Speaker 4: you come into game too, and you get up twenty points.
Speaker 4: And when you're up twenty points and you look over
Speaker 4: after the other team and they're just like a like,
Speaker 4: all right, here we go. And they're not phased at all.
Speaker 4: They're not bickering at each other at all, they're not
Speaker 4: doing anything outside. All right, fellas, let's go all right,
Speaker 4: one player out of time, like talking to each other
Speaker 4: like no.
Speaker 1: No problem.
Speaker 4: And you see them being unfazed by that lead, and
Speaker 4: then you see the league start to go and then
Speaker 4: you look up and you lose a game in which
Speaker 4: you were up twenty points one oh one to ninety nine,
Speaker 4: and that my friend, on a Jamal Murray step back
Speaker 4: going right when he struggled most of the game, got
Speaker 4: it going down the stretch, and you lose that game
Speaker 4: on a buzzer beater that is the gut punch. And
Speaker 4: so the Lakers deflated going back home. Gotta be deflated
Speaker 4: because one game, and for sure you should have won
Speaker 4: where you were a ninety six and a half percent favorite.
Speaker 4: I mean, at one point in the game you were
Speaker 4: there was a ninety six point and a half percent
Speaker 4: chance that you would win that game, and you lose that.
Speaker 4: So now you go home too against a team that
Speaker 4: you now lost to ten times in a row, including
Speaker 4: four times in the playoffs, and that's almost impossible to
Speaker 4: come back from. But nonetheless, they do have Lebron James
Speaker 4: who's seen everything and been through everything, Anthony Davis, who's
Speaker 4: a top seventy five player in the NBA history. So
Speaker 4: you know, you like they can rally because they've seen it,
Speaker 4: and they do rally. They come out, they take the lead,
Speaker 4: feeling good, go into halftime again with the league. However,
Speaker 4: you go on to halftime, up four, and everybody on
Speaker 4: the Lakers team, everybody in the Lakers organization is looking
Speaker 4: at each other.
Speaker 1: This is it because it's like a boxing match, a
Speaker 1: lot like.
Speaker 4: One we've seen this past weekend Ryan Garcia Devin Haney,
Speaker 4: where Devin Haney caught Ryan Garcia with a couple of
Speaker 4: shots and in that moment the fight ended. Because Ryan
Speaker 4: Garcia knew at that point, and possibly even before the
Speaker 4: flight fight, when you look at all of the things
Speaker 4: leading up to the fight, that if Devin Handy gave
Speaker 4: me his best shot, it couldn't hurt me.
Speaker 1: Can't hurt me.
Speaker 4: So from that point on, when Ryan was serious and
Speaker 4: locked in, he was just pressing forward. He was on
Speaker 4: the gas. He's moving forward the rest of the fight.
Speaker 4: Why because even if you catch me with your best shot,
Speaker 4: you can't hurt me. Like, if you absolutely catch me
Speaker 4: with your best shot, you can't hurt me. How do
Speaker 4: I know that? Because you already did and I ate it.
Speaker 4: And that's what the Denver Nuggets are and the Los
Speaker 4: Angeles Lakers are going through right now with the Denver Nuggets,
Speaker 4: which is you've given us your best shot and it
Speaker 4: can't hurt us. So when you give us your best shot,
Speaker 4: because you're a team with pride, because you're a team
Speaker 4: with champions on there, because you're a team with all stars, superstars,
Speaker 4: all top seventy five NBA players in history, arguably the
Speaker 4: greatest player in NBA history.
Speaker 1: Because of that.
Speaker 4: And all of those factors, you still hold out some
Speaker 4: level of respect, hold on to some ouncer respect, but
Speaker 4: ultimately knowing we can press forward because their best shot
Speaker 4: can't take us out. They go up twenty, be up
Speaker 4: twenty in the midway through the third quarter, their best
Speaker 4: shot can beat us.
Speaker 1: So from that point on, we see no competition.
Speaker 4: And that's where members at with the Nuggets, And so
Speaker 4: needless to say, this series is over.
Speaker 1: Will it end? And four it should?
Speaker 4: I do not doubt that Denver would end the series
Speaker 4: in four, But if they do not end in in four,
Speaker 4: us for damn sure over in five. Because you got
Speaker 4: Joker last night twenty four, fifteen and nine, and in
Speaker 4: Game two he had twenty nine twenty and eleven assists
Speaker 4: or twelve assists or something of that nature.
Speaker 1: And I must say I.
Speaker 4: Was very disappointed inn AD's statement after the game. When
Speaker 4: Ad came out after Game two and said, sometimes we
Speaker 4: don't know what we're doing on the defensive side of
Speaker 4: the ball or the offensive side of the ball. I
Speaker 4: was disappointed in that. And the reason I was disappointed
Speaker 4: in that got a lot of love and respect for
Speaker 4: ad A lot of love and respect go back to
Speaker 4: being together, both being clutch athletes. I'm always telling like
Speaker 4: it is telling how I see it, and I was
Speaker 4: just a little disappointed in that statement. Number One, Darvinham
Speaker 4: was a player, Uh, Darvin Ham is a black man,
Speaker 4: and to just throw him under the bus like that,
Speaker 4: I didn't like. I didn't appreciate it, I didn't respect it.
Speaker 4: I could be a little biased because Darvin Ham is
Speaker 4: my og uh Saginaw, Michigan, so I could be a
Speaker 4: little biased, but in this case even being a little biased,
Speaker 4: like I got love for both of those guys, So
Speaker 4: it ain't even about being biased towards one side or not,
Speaker 4: because I got nothing but love for both of them,
Speaker 4: both parties involved. But the problem I have with the
Speaker 4: statement is like, did you not know what you were
Speaker 4: doing up twenty.
Speaker 1: Midway through the third quarter?
Speaker 4: And then did the did Darvin Ham come into the
Speaker 4: huddle and say, all right, guys, we're up twenty points,
Speaker 4: Let's change the game plan now, right, Like, let's change
Speaker 4: it to away from this thing that's got us up
Speaker 4: twenty points and let's go here do this and which
Speaker 4: was not been proven that it's gonna work, because what
Speaker 4: we were doing was working. It got us up twenty points. Also,
Speaker 4: we had a lead in the first game. They kind
Speaker 4: of switched their defensive game plan between those two games
Speaker 4: games one and two. But if darving Ham didn't come
Speaker 4: in a huddle and say, all right, guys, we're completely
Speaker 4: changing what we're doing on both sides of the ball,
Speaker 4: how all of a sudden do you not know what
Speaker 4: you're doing on both sides of the floor, Because that
Speaker 4: same game plan did get you a twenty point lead.
Speaker 1: And so I was a little upset with ad because as.
Speaker 4: As players who's been in these situations, who's won championships, like, yes,
Speaker 4: at some point throughout the game, while up, Mike Malone
Speaker 4: could make an adjustment, which will require at some point
Speaker 4: the Lakers to make an adjustment.
Speaker 1: However, from being.
Speaker 4: Up twenty points halfway through the third quarter and the
Speaker 4: end of the fourth quarter, the adjustment that they make
Speaker 4: shouldn't cover twenty points, not when you have Anthony Davis
Speaker 4: and Lebron James, because even if Darvin Ham don't make
Speaker 4: an adjustment to their adjustment for those last eighteen minutes,
Speaker 4: what I will say is sometimes coaches do struggle to make.
Speaker 1: Adjustments in during the game in these playoff series.
Speaker 4: They go back to the film, they watch it and
Speaker 4: they're locked in. There's been times throughout the course of
Speaker 4: our playoff run where we're in the game and at
Speaker 4: some point throughout the game it started going wrong, and
Speaker 4: maybe Steve doesn't make the adjustment right in that game
Speaker 4: to like dice up whatever change it is that they did.
Speaker 1: Maybe don't make it in that game.
Speaker 4: One thing's for certain, when we come back to that
Speaker 4: next game, the adjustments that Steve is going to have
Speaker 4: is going to be out of this world. We're going
Speaker 4: to dice up whatever that thing is that they started doing,
Speaker 4: and then it's a game of adjustments, right, And so
Speaker 4: sometimes your coaches don't necessarily make the adjustment right there
Speaker 4: in that particular game.
Speaker 1: But with Anthony Davis and Lebron James on the.
Speaker 4: Court, I don't really care if they make the adjustment
Speaker 4: or not, because those two guys are good enough with
Speaker 4: a twenty point lead.
Speaker 1: To get you home.
Speaker 4: They are, even if that's Lebron, like, you know what,
Speaker 4: we're getting to this every time. So I didn't really
Speaker 4: have a strong appreciation for AD saying that. I think
Speaker 4: Ad is one of the more respected guys in this league,
Speaker 4: from how he carries himself to being at that level
Speaker 4: of play for dis longs and year twelve now.
Speaker 1: Like all of those things.
Speaker 4: And I think we all say some things that that
Speaker 4: we could wish we could take back at times. And
Speaker 4: I don't doubt that A D looking back at that
Speaker 4: wish he could take that back. And I know the
Speaker 4: type of guy that eighty is. I know a D
Speaker 4: stand on business, you know, raised by his father, grown man,
Speaker 4: great man, stand on business.
Speaker 1: I personally believe a D.
Speaker 4: Would want to take that one back. And I know
Speaker 4: everybody jumped on him like, oh this, that and the
Speaker 4: other and a D. I'm gonna give a D the
Speaker 4: benefit of the doubt here. I too didn't didn't love
Speaker 4: the statement it's emotional game. Nobody really ever wants to
Speaker 4: take the emotions into it. Everybody want to act like
Speaker 4: we're robots and we don't have emotions, and we don't
Speaker 4: sometimes get beside ourselves and so fulk Darvin Ham in
Speaker 4: this situation, not not totally holding it over a d
Speaker 4: head like oh man, he's a quitter, Like yeah, he
Speaker 4: blamed somebody and he shouldn't. I'm never me personally, I
Speaker 4: never really want to put the blame on anybody else,
Speaker 4: even if it wasn't my fault.
Speaker 1: I am more along the side of if I go on.
Speaker 4: This press conference, I'll take the fall, I'll take the hit,
Speaker 4: and we'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: So I try to steal along that side.
Speaker 4: Like I said, it gets away from us all at
Speaker 4: times very emotional game lose Game two when you know
Speaker 4: you should have won Game two and now you're going home.
Speaker 1: No, it's an uphill.
Speaker 4: Battle from their emotions running high, want to win. Lost
Speaker 4: to this team ten straight. So I'm giving Ad the
Speaker 4: benefit of the doubt. That was an out of character moment,
Speaker 4: and we all have them. That's not going to determine
Speaker 4: what I think on a d who Anon Davis is
Speaker 4: doesn't changed his legacy, all of that garbage talk.
Speaker 1: We not on that.
Speaker 4: But I will give you something. I haven't checked this
Speaker 4: stat in two years. I am pretty sure it is
Speaker 4: not far off from what it was two years ago
Speaker 4: when we played Denver in the playoffs and we beat them.
Speaker 4: I think it was the first round, possibly second round,
Speaker 4: whatever it was. There was a stat that we kept
Speaker 4: and we looked at that stat every single game, and
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure every time it was true, which was
Speaker 4: if Joker had six assists or less, they lost. Call
Speaker 4: it for they won forty percent of the time. Call
Speaker 4: it something like that. Two years ago. I'm not going
Speaker 4: to have the exact numbers. If Jokers had six assists
Speaker 4: or more, they won like eighty three percent of their games.
Speaker 4: So we're going into that series like, yo, you need
Speaker 4: to do this on defense, You need to do that,
Speaker 4: to not give up this cut, to not give up
Speaker 4: that cut, to not give up the late pass for the.
Speaker 1: Layup, all of these things. It's the game plan.
Speaker 4: And sure enough, you can go right to Jokers assists
Speaker 4: pretty much the whole series and say, up, we lost
Speaker 4: that game or we won it, And yes, it wasn't
Speaker 4: exactly accurate, but the moral of the story is in
Speaker 4: that game that we were just speaking of, in game two,
Speaker 4: Joker had ten assists, eleven assists, twelve assists last night
Speaker 4: he had nine in Game one. Pretty sure he had
Speaker 4: more than six assists. So look no further than Joker
Speaker 4: getting everybody else involved. Don't look at jokers points. For instance,
Speaker 4: last night he had twenty four, pretty much had less
Speaker 4: than twenty most of the game. Um swared a few
Speaker 4: buckets down stretch late, no problem. The other night he
Speaker 4: had twenty nine, no problem. Look no further than the assists, though,
Speaker 4: you go look there, you can see because everybody else
Speaker 4: gets involved.
Speaker 1: And if he's scoring, he on score.
Speaker 4: So if he's getting everybody else involved and scoring and rebounding,
Speaker 4: it's a problem.
Speaker 1: It is a problem.
Speaker 4: Now, what I will say is in this series you
Speaker 4: can definitely see the flaw and the Denver Nuggets as
Speaker 4: opposed to what they had last year. That is their
Speaker 4: bench bench not great. I've always said championships are won
Speaker 4: six through ten, six, three, eleven, they're not one, one
Speaker 4: through five. And Denver, as they show you and as
Speaker 4: we know they're one through five is great, credible. Six
Speaker 4: through ten still need some growth, and so if there
Speaker 4: is something where you can pry on them, it's not
Speaker 4: necessarily that you're going to get It's not necessarily that.
Speaker 1: You're going to get four or.
Speaker 4: Five bench guys in out of time at this point
Speaker 4: in the season, it's not gonna happen. But when they
Speaker 4: start plugging away and taking certain guys out, you gotta
Speaker 4: be ready to go. And if you're the opposing code,
Speaker 4: your lineup, your lineups should be as such. You now
Speaker 4: know the combinations that they are playing. When they play
Speaker 4: this combination, we know we can pounce on that combination
Speaker 4: with this lineup, and we're going to this lineup to
Speaker 4: take total advantage of that group. While Joker not on
Speaker 4: the floor, wat Jamal not on the floor, whoever it is,
Speaker 4: we know we can take advantage of this group in
Speaker 4: this way. And that's what you have to do against
Speaker 4: a team like that is they don't have many weaknesses,
Speaker 4: but the one weakness they have is their benching.
Speaker 1: You need to exploit that. Now. I saw Reggie Jackson
Speaker 1: banged up.
Speaker 4: Not sure where that's going, but that's I mean. I
Speaker 4: don't think Reggie Jackson at this point in his career
Speaker 4: is near as good as Bruce Brown West for them
Speaker 4: last year. So it's already a drop off. And if
Speaker 4: you then lose Reggie, that's an even bigger drop off.
Speaker 4: You have to be ready to pounce on those lineups
Speaker 4: have to love Peyton Watson, love to growth. You gotta
Speaker 4: be able to pounce on the lineup when he's in,
Speaker 4: when Christian Brawn is in, when DJ is in, because
Speaker 4: it's just not as strong as the lineup when they're
Speaker 4: not in. So you gotta find weaknesses. No disrespect to
Speaker 4: those guys, but you gotta find the weakness in these series.
Speaker 4: And right now, the only weakness that Denver has, it
Speaker 4: looks like, is their bench. So how do you take
Speaker 4: advantage of that? And I think that's what the Lakers
Speaker 4: got to figure out. We talked about d Low before
Speaker 4: I thought I thought it would be very important how
Speaker 4: KCP came out and started this game. I thought in
Speaker 4: game two they were picking on KCP, which was shocking
Speaker 4: to me. You know, they hit a couple of shots
Speaker 4: on them, and then all of a sudden, it's like
Speaker 4: it looked like everybody was like trying to get to
Speaker 4: switch on KCP. KCP is a great defender, and KCP
Speaker 4: screwed up the beginning of Game two. He gambled for
Speaker 4: a pass and D'Angelo Russell caught it, nobody in front
Speaker 4: of him walked into a three, which then led to
Speaker 4: D'Angelo having a night. Nuggets had to overcome that night.
Speaker 4: Guess what they should have won that game. I told
Speaker 4: you Dlo played well.
Speaker 1: They can win. DLO don't play well, no chance.
Speaker 4: Zero points last night over seven from the field, zero
Speaker 4: for six from three little disappointing in DLO not being
Speaker 4: a part of the huddle.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 4: I'm on this theme of as athletes, man, we can
Speaker 4: always look to blame somebody. Never look no further than yourself,
Speaker 4: Never look no further than yourself. Darthingham ain't gold for six.
Speaker 4: Lebron James ain't gold for seven. So from the field,
Speaker 4: so look no further than yourself. Man, you got to
Speaker 4: You gotta look in the mirror in these situations. Champions
Speaker 4: look in the mirror. Non champions look elsewhere. D Low
Speaker 4: gotta play better. It's just that simple to me. After
Speaker 4: seeing that last night, I personally think probably checked out
Speaker 4: at this point. It's unfortunate to see after the season,
Speaker 4: the second half of the season that d Loo had.
Speaker 4: It's unfortunate to see this, not that he's playing bad,
Speaker 4: but because you know, you see the body language now,
Speaker 4: you see the comments now, and it's like you kind
Speaker 4: of got over that hurdle through the trade deadline stuff.
Speaker 4: You know. So when you come into these playoff series, yeah,
Speaker 4: you may not have a Game one or a great.
Speaker 1: Game three, but it's a seven game series.
Speaker 4: So if you stay locked in, you get more opportunities
Speaker 4: to have those games that you want to have. When
Speaker 4: you let go of the rope, it's a tough one
Speaker 4: and right now it looked like the rope has been
Speaker 4: let go. I don't think it's impossible to grab the
Speaker 4: rope again. I do think it's impossible for them to
Speaker 4: win this series, but I don't think it's impossible to
Speaker 4: grab the rope. But right now to me, kind of
Speaker 4: looks like the rope has been let go. Unfortunate, sucks,
Speaker 4: absolutely sucks. But as I told you before, DLO must
Speaker 4: play well in order for that team to win, and
Speaker 4: right now they're not getting that. I also want to
Speaker 4: mention before we get off this game and move on
Speaker 4: to the next one.
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon's play.
Speaker 4: Told you all before, the respect that I have gained
Speaker 4: for Aaron Gordon and watching him in the series against
Speaker 4: US in twenty twenty two in the player he has
Speaker 4: grown into since then, my respect level was shot through
Speaker 4: the roof because that's a guy that took failure in
Speaker 4: a series and grew and said that'll never happen to
Speaker 4: me again. And it has not. Twenty nine points fifteen
Speaker 4: rebounds on the road. Role Players don't play great on
Speaker 4: the road. Let me tell you that role players don't
Speaker 4: play great on the role You can book it.
Speaker 1: Not this time.
Speaker 4: Aaron Gordon stepped up twenty nine and fifteen on the
Speaker 4: row in the game where you were down twenty. I'm
Speaker 4: sorry they weren't down twenty in game three. But in
Speaker 4: the game where you were down, everything going against y'all
Speaker 4: and you come out with twenty nine and fifteen. Man
Speaker 4: must respect to Aaron Gordon. Aaron Gordon has found his
Speaker 4: niche has found his role. He don't overdo it. He's
Speaker 4: playing next to Joker and Jamal Murray and he getting
Speaker 4: the scraps. And guess what, you're gonna win the championship,
Speaker 4: you better hire somebody that's getting the scraps.
Speaker 1: And Aaron Gordon is doing that.
Speaker 4: And Aaron Gordon the four spacing that Aaron Gordon creates
Speaker 4: being in the dunker. I told y'all it's no different
Speaker 4: than the spacing that you get with Klay Thompson on
Speaker 4: the wing because if you step up, that lob is
Speaker 4: there and they're going to complete that ninety percent of
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 1: So you can't step up and leave his body. Guess
Speaker 1: what you got, joker floater.
Speaker 4: You got somebody trying to pinch in because you can't
Speaker 4: step up, Joker kicking out.
Speaker 1: It's tough.
Speaker 4: So what Aaron Gordon does for their space and forget
Speaker 4: to twenty nine and fifteen, I know everybody's gonna see that.
Speaker 4: And then if he has eight next game and be like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, I told.
Speaker 1: You he couldn't do it again. No, no, no, no, forget that.
Speaker 4: What he does for the spacing of the Denver Nuggets,
Speaker 4: it's like what a shooter does on the wing when
Speaker 4: he's in that.
Speaker 1: Dunker can't help.
Speaker 4: So brings us to the question of will Lebron James
Speaker 4: ever win a championship again. I've been seeing people like, oh, Lebron,
Speaker 4: Steph and KD. They'll never win a championship again. It's
Speaker 4: ten rings and that's it. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Number one. Ten rings is a lot. Let's stop talking
Speaker 1: like that. A't lot. It's crazy. Even amongst three guys,
Speaker 1: that's a lot.
Speaker 4: If you took the average of that gives you three
Speaker 4: point three three rings per guy.
Speaker 1: That is still three point three three rings.
Speaker 4: More than eighty seven percent of the people that played
Speaker 4: in the NBA in the history. So stop it. Will
Speaker 4: Lebron James ever win a championship with this current Lakers team,
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I think it's going to be
Speaker 4: tough ken Lebron James winning a championship at the level
Speaker 4: that he's playing. That absolutely, but I think some things
Speaker 4: have to be retooled and figured out.
Speaker 1: And not with this current team.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's possible, But I don't think it's
Speaker 4: impossible for Lebron to win another championship. And moving on,
Speaker 4: we are going to move on to the seventy six
Speaker 4: Ers versus the Knicks, because that is an interesting series
Speaker 4: that I thought. I mean that, I told you all
Speaker 4: I think Philly should win this series and the reasons why.
Speaker 4: And they too gave up a game too on the road.
Speaker 4: Gift wrap, take you wrapping paper, put your bowl on top,
Speaker 4: pass it on to the New York Knicks. That's what
Speaker 4: they did to be up five points with forty six
Speaker 4: seconds to go and lose that game.
Speaker 1: It's unheard of. Did Maxi get filed. Absolutely. However, once
Speaker 1: Maxi got filed, they all stopped.
Speaker 4: Playing and the Knicks kept playing and Dante got two
Speaker 4: for a dollar and he knocked the second one down.
Speaker 4: If you are the seventy six ers, you can't lose
Speaker 4: that game because again, the goal is to go on
Speaker 4: the road and get won. You got the one, you
Speaker 4: got it, and to let that game slip away to
Speaker 4: uphill battle from there.
Speaker 1: But I still think Philly can win.
Speaker 4: And I love Joel saying after the game, it's cool,
Speaker 4: we're the better team.
Speaker 1: We're gonna win. Like Joel to.
Speaker 4: Pick his head up when he's saying that, look at
Speaker 4: the camera, don't show no weakness.
Speaker 1: I would like him to do that.
Speaker 4: Nonetheless, I believe him. The reason I believe him is because,
Speaker 4: as I told you all before that series, that's where
Speaker 4: you miss Julius Random, that's where you miss having that
Speaker 4: other All Stars. Against a team like the seventy six ers,
Speaker 4: you just get to the playoffs and you missed that
Speaker 4: second All Star and which allows them to focus more
Speaker 4: on Jalen Brunson and Jaylen Brunson had not had a
Speaker 4: game in the series.
Speaker 1: First two games.
Speaker 4: He had a game last night, although I personally think
Speaker 4: him having a game like last night is actually more
Speaker 4: detrimental to the team than helpful.
Speaker 1: Because he was so bald dominant.
Speaker 4: Yes he finished with thirty nine points, Yes he finished
Speaker 4: with twelve or thirteen assists, but he was bald dominant
Speaker 4: and to dominate the ball in that and in these series,
Speaker 4: you better be James Harden, you better be Luka Doncic,
Speaker 4: and even then it get hard. And so I just
Speaker 4: didn't think with him dominating the ball the way he did,
Speaker 4: they actually really got into a huge flow offensively outside
Speaker 4: of them getting stuff off him. And as I told you,
Speaker 4: are with the Bucks series, it's the reason they start
Speaker 4: putting wings and guys with length on these guards that
Speaker 4: can score. They too tricky, man, They too good with
Speaker 4: the ball, they getting to their spots, they're raising up.
Speaker 1: And the defense you're not allowed.
Speaker 4: To just hit out of those playoffs than you are
Speaker 4: able to bump and get a little more physical. You
Speaker 4: can't hand check in all those things. So now you
Speaker 4: got these quick guards that's great at creating shots. What
Speaker 4: you need is someone with length to affect those shots
Speaker 4: late or be able to affect those shots without hand checks,
Speaker 4: so allow you to stay in front of them because
Speaker 4: you can use a lathe. But they got somebody with
Speaker 4: length guarding Jaylen Brunston at all times. Kelly Oubray, Nick Batoon.
Speaker 4: I think they're gonna keep making it tough on Jaylen Brunston.
Speaker 4: Now again, you can go a heavy dose at Jalen
Speaker 4: Brunson and he dominates the ball like he did last game.
Speaker 4: But I don't think that's ultimately what's going to be
Speaker 4: successful for their team. I think what's going to be
Speaker 4: successful is getting a Dante twenty points, Josh Hart coming
Speaker 4: up with twenty points, you know, Buck Donald is coming
Speaker 4: up with thirteen fourteen points. I think they're gonna need
Speaker 4: to get other guys points in order for them to win.
Speaker 4: And with Jaylen Brunston with thirty nine and thirteen, that's
Speaker 4: just too much, too high of a usage rate, I
Speaker 4: think for them to be able to win this series
Speaker 4: playing that way. So it'll be interesting to see what
Speaker 4: it comes down to. Joel had to go for fifty.
Speaker 4: You know, if I'm the New York Knicks, I'm probably
Speaker 4: going to my locker room like, look, he had to
Speaker 4: go for fifty for them to beat us? Is he
Speaker 4: going to go for fifty three more times to beat us?
Speaker 4: The New York Knates also go in feeling that way.
Speaker 4: But I'm just telling you that could be a little
Speaker 4: fools goal. He could not go for fifty and go
Speaker 4: for thirty nine and Max he go for like that
Speaker 4: could be a little foods goal. If you take that approach,
Speaker 4: I think you have to be willing to get other
Speaker 4: guys off, and it can't just be about Jalen all
Speaker 4: of a sudden having a better game. If you're winning,
Speaker 4: that's all that matters. It may not always be your series,
Speaker 4: but I do think Philly takes Game two and then
Speaker 4: that puts us in a situation in Game five pivotal
Speaker 4: Game five a winner and that usually wins eighty three
Speaker 4: eighty four percent of the time. So we'll see. But
Speaker 4: I do got Philly taking this next one. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: I was watching the gamesttan My mom said, what happened
Speaker 4: to Joel Knows? You're sitting there and I was like,
Speaker 4: I don't know, and she's like, maybe you know he.
Speaker 4: I was like, you know, he was wearing a mask
Speaker 4: at some point earlier in the season, I think, And
Speaker 4: she was like, well, maybe that mask and sat on
Speaker 4: his nose because it's pushed down a little bit. And
Speaker 4: then sure enough, after the game, they reported that Joel
Speaker 4: was suffering from Bell's palsy. For those of you that
Speaker 4: don't know what Bell's palsy is and Layman's term for
Speaker 4: a non doctor, it's essentially facial paralysis. One side of
Speaker 4: the face usually drops and you know, muscles get weak
Speaker 4: in the face drop and it's nothing you can really do. Yes,
Speaker 4: you can treat it, but to my knowledge, it kind
Speaker 4: of just comes and goes on his own. Can take
Speaker 4: up to six months. And so I'm just sending my
Speaker 4: love and support. You never want to see anybody dealing
Speaker 4: with anything from a health standpoint, So I send my
Speaker 4: love and support to Joel. I don't know if that
Speaker 4: gives you pain or not. I don't know any of
Speaker 4: those things. So I'm not gonna see her and act
Speaker 4: like I'm a doctor, but I do send my love
Speaker 4: and prayers. You just never want to see anyone dealing
Speaker 4: with anything from a health perspective, and so uh wishing
Speaker 4: him well and then also respect respect for seeing him
Speaker 4: go out there, and you know, I respect him saying
Speaker 4: like he didn't want to announce it because he didn't
Speaker 4: want to be more of a distraction. But I'm assuming
Speaker 4: they announced it because someone probably saw the same thing
Speaker 4: my mom saw and started asking questions, but definitely sending
Speaker 4: my love and respect there. Orlando Magic went home and
Speaker 4: took care of the Cleveland Cavaliers by thirty.
Speaker 1: I think that can possibly be a game that.
Speaker 4: All the home games is won, a series where all
Speaker 4: the home games would be one. Uh, Pacers went into
Speaker 4: the Bucks, took care of business. Now one one going
Speaker 4: back home, Hallie talking this, talking this ish we we had,
Speaker 4: we we had home games louder than what we just faced.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to the crowd. That would be
Speaker 1: fun to see Pacers bounce back.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Pascal Siakam is being the champion that he is, showing
Speaker 4: those young guys the way.
Speaker 1: He's been great in both games.
Speaker 4: You know, headed back home, They're gonna need continue to
Speaker 4: need a great effort from Pascal and that series. Me personally,
Speaker 4: I still got I still got the Bucks. I know
Speaker 4: I had said something about them being a sixteen game
Speaker 4: team and an eighty two game team, and I said
Speaker 4: the Pacers are an eighty two game team. I still
Speaker 4: believe that. However, Pascal Siakam is the one guy that
Speaker 4: we know in sixteen games can get it done, and
Speaker 4: he's doing that and he's carrying that team right now.
Speaker 4: So they do have a guy that's an eighty two,
Speaker 4: that's a sixteen guy. Overall, I think the team is
Speaker 4: still an eighty two game team, and.
Speaker 1: That's just that.
Speaker 4: Before we get out of here, let's talk about the Celtics.
Speaker 4: As I said before, everybody in the last thing they
Speaker 4: wanted to see after the season they had was Jimmy
Speaker 4: Butler in Round one with the Miami Heat.
Speaker 1: Nobody wanted to see it.
Speaker 4: And so Game one, Boston hits a bunch of shots,
Speaker 4: hit a bunch of threes, winning pretty easily.
Speaker 1: Game two, Miami hit a bunch of threes.
Speaker 4: They take it. They take Game two number one. I
Speaker 4: don't think Miami will continue to shoot.
Speaker 1: The ball like that.
Speaker 4: However, when you are playing and there's no pressure because
Speaker 4: you don't have Jimmy Butler, so you're supposed to lose it.
Speaker 4: Even if you have Jimmy, you're supposed to lose. But
Speaker 4: now there is no Jimmy, so you're really supposed to lose. Hey,
Speaker 4: Will high Smith out there like, huh, I'm on the wing.
Speaker 4: Oh you a little step off, I'm raising up on
Speaker 4: you like Klay Thompson.
Speaker 1: Bang right a right.
Speaker 4: And so what we're seeing right now is those guys
Speaker 4: playing with no pressure, still playing Miami Heat basketball, and
Speaker 4: they go out there and get game two, one one series.
Speaker 4: I'm the Boston Celtics, not that worried. They hit a
Speaker 4: bunch of threes. Great, unfortunately they did it on my
Speaker 4: home floor. But we know we can go to Miami
Speaker 4: and win two games. However you cannot, so mentally, you
Speaker 4: face Jimmy Butler, and you know the history.
Speaker 1: Coming into game one.
Speaker 4: However, you don't have to face Jimmy Butler, who we
Speaker 4: could breathe a little bit. Then you lose to that
Speaker 4: team without Jimmy Butler, and although you still think you
Speaker 4: can beat that team, a little inkling of doubt creeping
Speaker 4: in the back of your head because we know this
Speaker 4: team and we know whoever they got on the floor,
Speaker 4: theyre going to compete. And that's where it gets tough
Speaker 4: because now a little doubts start to creep in, and
Speaker 4: you don't want much doubt to creep in because you
Speaker 4: never know what can happen in the series, right, Like
Speaker 4: somebody can sprain an ankle, important person can sprain an
Speaker 4: ankle and you start dropping games. So it's nothing to
Speaker 4: worry about now. But all of a sudden, a couple
Speaker 4: of things don't go your way and they can get tough.
Speaker 4: And we know the history here and so Boston, we've
Speaker 4: seen Boston in some of these situations. Let go of
Speaker 4: the road, so you know they it's possible, you know
Speaker 4: it's possible. And if there's one group team that believes
Speaker 4: is possible, it's the Miami Heat. So no, it's not
Speaker 4: some extreme dangers on. No, I'm not about to act
Speaker 4: like the world's collapsing. All I'm saying is keep a
Speaker 4: little eye over there. Just keep a little eye over there,
Speaker 4: because Miami going back home one one, they feel the
Speaker 4: good and they gonna come out fire and guess what
Speaker 4: they should And if they hit twenty three threes again,
Speaker 4: then you go down to one, you could start to
Speaker 4: panic a little bit. Panic plays a part in this,
Speaker 4: a big part. Teams panic all the time. So no,
Speaker 4: I don't think the Miami Heat is about to be
Speaker 4: the Boston Celtic. I'm just saying keep a little eye
Speaker 4: over there. That's it. Everybody in Boston went to sleep
Speaker 4: with a little clamp on their on their.
Speaker 1: Lungs last night or two nights ago.
Speaker 4: Uh, they went to sleep with a little clamp on
Speaker 4: their lungs because it's like, can I really breathe? Well,
Speaker 4: knowing that it's one and one now against those guys.
Speaker 4: Quite frankly, I love to see Boston fans sweat. I
Speaker 4: love to see Boston fans sad and shout out to
Speaker 4: my brother j T. I always want to see him win,
Speaker 4: but I love to see Boston fans lose. Uh, that's
Speaker 4: just me shout out to Jackson. It's always great when
Speaker 4: they lose. Although, like I said, I'm a little conflicted.
Speaker 4: I always want best, what's best with JT. So I'm
Speaker 4: a little conflicted. But forget them Boston fans. That's a
Speaker 4: rap from this episode of The Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: Until next time, Peace, climate, climate living,