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What's up, everybody? Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show. Interesting game and Orlando last night. We'll get into that. We are back with another episode on the Fleet Report app, which means it's live, so we'll be answering some mailback questions at the end of the episode, so make sure you drop those in chat. Also, make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel YouTube dot com slash at Draymond Show. Excuse me at Draymond Greenshow YouTube dot com slash at.
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Let's get into this episode. The Dubs win too straight on the Florida Swing Man, the Florida Swing is tough. This year, Orlando has gotten better. They're a playoff team.
Uh.
They got those young guys which we've talked about in Paolo and from who I think you know their futures, which we'll get into in a minute. But coming down and getting those two wins, especially after a tough home stretch, was very important, especially with the standings and with Tarry Easton's Houston Rockets trailing us for a play in spot. It was an important couple of games for us to start the trip off. Going to Minnesota, which was a tough loss. We led the whole way and weren't able
to close that game out in the fourth quarter. They had a big fourth quarter. We just weren't able to close that game out. And to come down to the on the Florida Swing where Miami is Miami.
We all know who Miami is.
Regardless of who they have on the floor, always going to be a tough game. Bams playing great basketball and you know the Miami He just always found those guys. Hey what Heismith was getting off. I'm not sure where he came from, what's his backstory, but he's just another one of those guys that Miami had found, and then coming into Orlando, a team that yet young team who's always motivated to play against us, coming in on the
back to back, which is always tough. It's like it's always Orlando on the back to back, Orlando on the front of him, back to back, like it's always something and I hate that it always gets schedule like that, but that is the nature of it. I think that'll start to change as Orlando keep getting better. You know, you're gonna have these young guys in the playoffs this
year and not sure if you are. No, But the NBA schedule is based on a national TV schedule, so the national TV ESPN, TNT, ABC, they all get to pick the games that they want and then the schedule is filled in around that. Obviously, we've had a million national TV games over the last ten years due to the Steph Curry effect, and Orlando hasn't had a bunch of them.
I think they have won this year. But so.
In theory, like the Orlando game always just get kind of slid onto the schedule around Miami, which is normally a national TV game, So it just kind of always gets slipped in there because you're on the Florida Swing.
And it just always makes it a tough game.
Like I said, I think as these young guys continue to show and become household names in this league, like I think Paulo Ben Carroll will, which I said years ago before he was drafted, always been a big fan of Paulo Ben Carrol thought he was undoubtedly the number one pick in his draft. He's shown that continues to grow.
Had a conversation with Gary Harris, who's my young fellow Michigan State, Go Green, Go White, and Gary was confirming to me more of what I thought, which is, like, n Paulo is a serious guy, he's mature, doesn't quite act like he's twenty one years old.
And he said something to me that I don't doubt one.
Bit and that I thought from the beginning, which was, yeah, Dre, he'll probably be an All Star the rest of his career. Like he's just figuring it out. And as he figures it out, it's like he's more and more motivated. And it's already a motivated kid. Like he's from Seattle. We know the roots that's been laid that, we know his upbringing, we know he's had guys like Jamal Nate, you know, and Brandon like all of those guys around just to
show you how to be a pro. And so with Paulo, he already got a leg up in that aspect, which is huge, especially coming to a team that don't really have many veterans. They got G which I think to have Gary Harris around as big for that team because
G is a stable guy. He's been in the league for ten years now, He's well respected by everybody in the league and he's a pro, and so I think that's great for those guys, you know, having Joe Ingles this year, but you know, and just having a young team like that with not many veterans, that upbringing is huge for Paolo because in a sense, you you've already been shown what it's like to be a pro. And that is the benefit of having guys like Jamal Crawford
from your city. That's giving back to the young guys and showing them the way. And so I think this team will become a household name, you know, as the years go and those guys continue to get better, and hopefully that game won't be slid in to the schedule like it's always been. It's almost like it's not a priority and it makes it tough. And we've had a tough go here and so it's good to get win. Last night, however, I got ejected four minutes into the game.
M just can't do it. Regardless of what was said.
I'm not about to get into what was said because that's irrelevant to STEP's point.
I have to be on the floor and whatever that means, you just have to do that.
I look at this, I'm not overreacting to this because of everything that happened in the beginning of the season. You know, I feel like since I've returned, everything's headed in the right direction. And hit a little bump in the road, get over it and keep going. Extremely grateful that my guys helped me down. It's a very important game for us and for them to go out and get a trace played unbelievable basketball. Andrew Wiggins took over the game in the fourth quarter, and Steph Curry sent
everybody night night as he does. Klay Thompson tough back to back man, you know, playing thirty plus minutes starting for the first time in a long time at Miami, coming out getting twenty eight, then coming back the next night and giving us huge minutes, knocking shots down, spacing the floor.
Clay got off to a really good start.
Which got us going, got us out running, hit some shots got out in transition, and that changed everything. I thought it was huge to see Clay back into the lineup, not that BP did anything wrong. You know, sometimes you just need something different, and we all know what Clay brings to the table. What Clay brings to the table, nobody else brings to the table in the history of basketball. There's facts to back that up. You know, sixty to three quarters thirty seven in a quarter, No one in
history brings that to be a game. So with what Clay brings, it just brings a different thing and we saw it shine through in a major way these last two games. And that's a big call from Steve Kerr. Huge call from Steve Kurr. That's coaching at his finest right there you talking because when certain things like that happen where Clay goes to the bench, right, that's a monumental move. Everybody's talking about it. First time in twelve
years he's come off the bench. Blah blah blah. When you do things like that, not that Steve stuck his foot in his mouth. But in theory, you kind of stick your foot in your mouth because now it's a big story. And so then when you go back to it, it's like, oh, look at that, And so many people would be afraid to go back to it just for that reason. And that's why I always say, like, Steve
is unbothered by anything, like he's unfazed. So most coaches would be like, ah, but we went away from it, and now what are they going to say, ababa or they're going to pick this apart. Steve doesn't get off into Steve is just going to make the best decision for the team at all times. And the beauty of that we were talking, remember we were talking a couple episodes ago around Memphis and how you can follow your coach.
The beauty in that is that is the unfazedness by Steve, the unbotheredness that is that by Steve, where it's just like I'm unbothered by anything. I'm just standing these moments, making these decisions. And that's just because he's never rattled by anything. That's all a product of that. And so I said, man, that's coaching. That's that's coaching. At his finest. That's why Steve Curry is who he is. That's why
he is the highest paid coach in NBA history. That's why he has four championships and what was it was four championships in ten years or something like that, like, that's why he is one of the most winningest people in basketball history. For four championships as a coach, five as a player.
One of the most winningest people in NBA history.
That's why because he's just unfazed and the move like that joke to us, and all of a sudden, we two games on this road trip. Obviously, like I said, the Minnesota one got away, but it sets us up to possibly have a four to one road trip if we go take take advantage. And that's a huge trip coming off the home stand that we had. Uh and at this point in the season, so shout out to Stevie Kerr. A big move getting Klay Thompson back in that game, and uh yeah, back to getting kicked out
the game. It just can't happen. I said what I said, I deserve to get kicked out at that point. And what I said, if I'm all the way honest with seat, I kind of was trying to turn my body and angle and go to the bench. And I said what I said, like a little too soon before angling my body to the bench. But yeah, it just can't happen. And you know, uh that, like we need to win games. So like I said, not going to overreact, like oh man, like stuff is never as good as it seems, is
never as bad as it seems. Like I know where I am, I understand what I'm doing, moving for and in my position.
Just make sure.
That that's the exception and not the rule. And so moving on, And like I said, shout out to my brothers for holding me down and getting that win. Need to go get a couple more wins. The wins were big because of the playoff race. Everyone's been blowing my phone up, so I must speak about this because of the playoff race. Tarry Easton's had comments. Now, as you all know that our fans of this show, Draymond Green show.
I am a big Tarry Easton fan.
Why would he come out and make a video telling the Warriors to come out and play. Everybody in Houston had a heart attack when he did that, because that's just.
That's Houston is a tough place.
To talk to us, you know, like when you look at Memphis and what happened with Memphis a couple of years ago, like that Memphis was already a tough place to talk to us, like when you lose to a team in the playoffs when it matters the most, and like especially at the height of like you know, with them doves with like the height when you lose it, like it's tough to talk to us because that's what matters. And so when you start talking, everybody just look back, like, bro,
you can't talk to him because of that. And so shout out to the young fella, you know, coming out to my Warriors, come out and play.
We need to get him.
And you know, he got to come to the bank and getting getting sync better with that because you know, the chat's a little more sync than he was. But like I said, a part of the reason that I liked Tar Easton is that he would come out and do that, Like that's when I saw it. I was surprised at all. I am a little surprised that he hasn't played in the game since January first, and so it's kind of tough to come out yelling, come out
and play and you're not gonna play. It puts a lot of strain on your guys, like you can't get out there and help them.
But I respect it. I respect it. Uh.
I mean, it's a big moment for their franchise. You know, they're they're on there, you know, you know, on the trails of the player, and it's a big moment for the franchise.
So I get it.
It's been a while, but I'm telling you, it's a lot of people in Houston, City of Houston, which I love Houston, by the way, it's great city.
I love the place.
A lot of people that are scratching their head, like I'm on, Tarry, We've seen this movie before, so I thought that was funny, nothing more than nothing less, and that while we were wind and now moving back to where we were headed, which is the minor game.
Like I said, those.
Guys JJ and Bron, they breaking down the game, They breaking down action. They having a high level of basketball conversation that quite frankly, most people probably won't understand, but they're doing a good job of breaking it down to you. And I saw them talking about our split cuts. When Steve introduced this concept of the split cuts, it took a while to build the chemistry on it because it's a field thing, and so it's all read and react.
If I do this and they do that, then you do this and if they do that move and it's like a quarterback reading like you got your first read, you got your second read, you got your third read, you got your fourth freed. The interesting thing about it is like layers and layers and layers, And as time has went on, we've just layered the split cut more and more. It started as just a pinion, God come off,
God died. There's so many other layers to the split cuts now because its like again, it's like a progression of a quarterback, like you've read all right, next guy, next guy up. You see sometimes like a quarterback come to go across the field scanning their progressions, come all
the way back like that's like the split cut. Which is why I enjoy being the passer and the split cut, because it's just fun, like you're watching everything develop from the lowest point of the floor, like your lower than just about everybody. And now at times you got that guy on the week side which Brown was talking about KD where you skipped to the week side shooter, but you always want that guy that lifts on to give you that angle to pass it.
So in theory, you are the lowest guy on the floor.
And if you think about that from a defensive perspective, the lowest guy on the floor is the most important guy on the floor. Why because he's the back line of the defense. He sees everything, and so in the split cut, I'm the lowest guy on the floor. When I'm the passer, I can see everything developed and sometimes you just see the breakdown happening. You're like, Okay, okay, I'm about to get him up book got him there. It goes and you know, that's been a staple in
our offense since Steve Kirk came ten years ago. And like I said, when he first put the split cuts in, it was one of those things.
And it goes back to.
The ball movement that he incorporated in our offense, which was like, yo, Steve, you got us like keep passing the ball. But like Stephan Klay is supposed to get a lot of shots. And I remember very clearly him saying, the guys who's supposed to get the shots are good.
The ball's going to find him and we're all like, man going with that Steve Man, that ain't going to work what you're talking about, And sure enough we started to pick that offense up over the first suple weeks and you like, man, the ball really find Stephan Clay like it was very interesting, and the split Custer kind of the same thing.
Like I said, it's just been layer of building.
And to Bron's point, when KD came, I don't even think it was necessarily about putting a shooter on that week's side, because number one, KD is far more than just a shooter. KD scores at basketball, but that definitely makes a difference. But even if you don't have a shooter on that week's side, we also came up with another couple of things that even if it wasn't a shooter on that week side, you could still skip it to that guy and move on to the next action.
And so that's again, that's the layers of it, and there's plenty of layers to it. But yeah, now Bron caught a lot of hell with them split cuts over the years. You know, Bron liked to play quarterback until his point. He's like, you gotta watch his eyes sometimes you gotta look Bron off a little bit and boom, And it's always fun with that having that chess match with bron because he is, like Ed Reid over their
best free safety. Ever, I can't really I feel like I'm an incredible free safety myself, but bron Is is a great free safety and obviously he reads the game as well as anyone, and.
He's over there.
He's always trying to get to the backside of that split and put himself in the up. But there's ways that there's been ways to manipulate Bron two in the backside because you know he's trying to read it all so it gets interesting. But the split cuts are a staple. They're tough to guard, and like I said, one of the reasons that it's toughest thing the guard is because it's just a read and reacting like so you can't quite script it. Like in the NBA defense, you script
what you want to give up. You know, you like, we're taking this away, this, this, this, and this, But the reality is the NBA, so you can't take away everything. So you have to choose, like, all right, if we're going to lose to them, we're willing to die by this and sometimes seems kill you with that, but more
often than not, you're gonna win. Uh if you execute that planning and with the split cuts, you can you can discuss what the patterns are, but at the end of the day, once it's starts happening, it's still on your players to read the situation and react.
To what's happening.
And as they're reading, there's a lot of moving pieces coming around and they're trying to make those reads and it gets tough. And so yeah, it was cool to see Bron and JJ discuss the splits, knowing the hell that has caused Bron over the years. Although I'm like Tarry Easton or they beat us in the playoffs last year, so maybe I shouldn't talk nah nah that goal. That battle go too far back, that that ain't stopping with one playoff loss. But yeah, so shout out to them
with that, you know. And me looking at the NBA, I think when I think of the toughest actions to guard in the NBA, what would they be? Anytime you put somebody on in a single side tax situation that's always tough. That would be like if say, if I'm
Stephan I'm on the left side of the floor. You got Draymond rolling in the set of screen and he's diving steps coming off to his right hand, and you got Clay on the same side of the floor that the screen is now going away from, which means that puts Clay's.
Man in a single side tag position.
Single side meaning there's one guy over there, so you don't have another guy to X out in what we call so if it's two guys on that side, if one guy go help, the one guy has to drop a bit and take the first pass out and play two. If you put a guy on a single side, there's no X so you have to make that guy go tag the roller. So it would be me rolling or
Trace rolling or jk rowling or somebody rolling. You have that guy has put in a situation where he has to go tag the roller mean and go in and bump the roller.
So ideally you want him to start in.
Because you start in, it's a one way close out mean and I start there, I get my bump, I start to exit as I get my bump. That makes your clothes out shorter. The reality is you put a guy like Klay Thompson on the week's side and you're not starting in because you scared as hell to leave his body, and so that's single side tag. To me, that's always one of the toughest actions to guard because you just put that guy in in the blender and he gotta figure I can get this tag and get
back to the shooter. And if it's lay Thompson who only need that much space to get a shot off, it makes it tough on that single side tag. And then you just you kind of play with Clay. You move them up and down, you know, higher up in the slot, you know, on the wing, to the corner, like you move that guy based on where you want to tag to be or not to be, to make
that tag tougher and the longer close out. So to me, I think that's always going to be one of the toughest actions to guard, just because it's no helping you put guys in a two on one situation. In the NBA, the two on one should should win out more often than not. And so I think for me, that's one that I would look at and I would say, are one of the toughest actions to guard.
But yeah, that was from Mind the Game episode two.
Uh buttassas Jackson for a mailbacks segment before we get out of here and I head on make our way to Charlotte.
All right, let's start with from at Jake Steak. Kaylyn Clark was offered five million dollars from ice Cube to join the Big Three over the summer.
Do you think she should take that?
I mean, it depends on what the goals are, right, Like, Kayln Clark is gonna make plenty of money, so there's no need to money grab. What's the downside of that? The downside of that is Kayln Clark go to play in the Big Big Three, and those guys in the Big Three, like, it's not like sorry basketball players in the Big Three.
It's guys that's playing in the NBA.
It's guys that are still actively playing overseas, like these guys getting to it in the Big Three. If Kayln Clark doesn't perform well due to that, then what's the conversation?
And so I think it does more harm than good for Kaitlyn Clark.
I think it'd be groundbreaking for ice Cube to get her in the Big Three. I think there's a zero percent chance that it happens because Kaitlyn Clark would need percentage of the lead, because that's the only way it can make Like, it only makes sense if if like the amount of money that she can make grows, and like you can't put a cap to it. But for her just to take five million dollars to do what comes with that, it just doesn't make sense. That also falls during the NBA c WNBA season, so how is
she going to play? So logistically it just doesn't make sense. So does she opt out of the WNBA and gonna play in the Big Three? Maybe one day the Big Three reaches that point, I don't think it quite makes sense right now unless you make that a financial thing where she can make a bunch of money. But five million dollars, unfortunately, is just not enough. It doesn't make sense. And I'm sure whoever is behind Kaitlyn Clark is thinking
about building a brand, not grab some money. You're looking to grab some money and you're Kaitlyn Clark, Kaitlyn Clark should fire you today if you're representation Clark and you're like, hey, Kaitlyn, by the way, I got this. If Kaitlyn Clark probably should fire you for bringing that idea to her, because you shouldn't even put that idea in front of Kaitlyn Clark's face. The amount of money that Kaylyn Clark has made and is going to make makes no sense for her to risk that. And I'm a big ice Q
fan and wanted to see the league do well. But just giving you the truth, as you know you're going to get on the Draymond Green show, that may just not enough money for Clayland Kaitlyn Clark.
The risk isn't worth the reward. And Kaylyn Clark is growing.
To WNBA in the women's game, and the only way Kaitlyn Clark can continue to grow the women's game is to go play in the WNBA now playing a Big three.
So that's my spill on that, all.
Right, Next question from at Samel the league needs more Draymond Green type of players. All this friendly stuff isn't good for the game. It takes away the competitiveness. What are your thoughts on that?
Ah, I mean, I'm never going to argue what you say in the league need more me, but in saying that, I think the game is very competitive. I think regardless of guys or friends or not, you're going to compete. Like I always go back to bron me and Brian are great friends. I want to take his head off every time we play. Like that's just the reality. He want to take my head off. It's not literal like meaning I want to do whatever I got to do to win. He wants to do whatever you gotta do.
The win doesn't affect our friendship. Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley was friends in the nineties. Like guys were friends. They golf together before games. There's just this logic of friendships just starting the NBA stop, like you just see them on social media more. Those guys didn't have social media,
You didn't know their lives. You get to see more of our lives, so you think, and then the older guys fall into the tripol like, oh they friends, Like y'all been friends too, man, Like, you don't just play in this league and not pick up friends on the way height.
It doesn't make sense.
So, yeah, guy's been friends in the NBA and they've been competing forever. And guess what, God's going to continue to be friends in the NBA and you're going to continue to compete and that ain't changing anything. So I don't think it's the friends friendships that are stopping physical playing the NBA.
What stops more physical playing the NBA.
Or the rules, rules or rules, that's what stops physicality in the NBA. It's not that, oh man, Jason Tatum my friend, it's my little bro.
Of course.
Guess what when we play in the NBA finals, I didn't say hi to him the whole time. He didn't say hi to me the whole finals, and then after we hugged, what's up, bro, I miss you? Dang, it was bothering me not talking to you like it's my brother.
Yes, great, guess what did that change anything?
Well? How I went at him, how he went at me, how Boston France treated me because me and j No, it didn't change anything. So the whole theory just doesn't make sense. If anything, I want to beat you more. Just guess what JT is going to be at my wed in that summer. And I'd rather be the champion walking into my wedding the JT being the champion. Wak Like you got all of these things that go on in our minds. That's not stopping no competition. So people
got to stop with that. That changes nothing. What changes physicality and NBA are simply the rules.
That's a great answer.
Before we get to the last question, reminder to everyone to subscribe to our YouTube channel. We got a couple very very cool interviews coming up, but to close out, let's go from at JJ six ix Draymond. Do you think that you are misunderstood?
Do I think I'm misunderstood? Of course, but so is everyone else that the world judges and don't know. You know, so I don't look at myself like, oh, y'all misunderstood this of me, and like, look at me, I'm misunderstood, Like Steph Curr's misunderstood simply because you don't know him. Lebron James is it's understood simply because you don't know him. So the reality is, with the jobs that we do,
we're in front of a camera all the time. There's always something going on, there's always talk around us, there's all of these things, and so it's in your face. When something is always in your face, it's only a natural thing to feel like you know it, you know them, you know and the reality is you don't. You see what you see, and that's it. There's entirely different and other layers to that person than what you get. The opportunity to see. So am I misunderstood? Absolutely, But so
it's just about every other guy in the NBA. I don't take that ass man, they're picking on me and I'm misunderstood or anything like that. We're all misunderstood simply because our lives are on display in a very small way, but in people's face.
You see it all the time.
So in your mind, it's just like, that's our life and that's what's on display to you. With the reality of it is it's not and it's in basketball. It's not the only thing in any of our lives. So the reality is we're all misunderstood. That is going to be a rap from this episode of The Draymond Green Show. Appreciate the questions. The next time we go live, there will continue to be mailbag segments. Got in another couple, another episode dropping next week.
That'll be a fun one. It'll be a great one.
Owner of an NBA team coming through The Draymond Green Show. Make sure y'all check that out. Until next time. That's a rap piece.