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What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. There will be no guests this week. We will have We do have a couple of good guests coming up, so make sure you subscribe to the channel YouTube channel and tune in for those. One will be next week. Maybe we'll do both next week. We will see.

But they are a couple guests that I'm very excited about.

One being an incredible entrepreneur, absolutely amazing entrepreneur, NBA team owner, have some exciting news as of late as a team owner. And then two is another NBA champion currently in a nice spot to win another championship. Some would think, you know, I think I think he is too, But uh, if we got to a couple of great guests coming up,

Talk a little March madness.

I've had a little madness in my life when it came to March back in my heyday. Now y'all see the Michigan State, you know, throw back Michigan State on rocking. My guys play pretty soon, so I'm gonna have to lock into that. But before I get to that, let's just get through this podcast. Make sure y'all got something to tune into over the weekend the rest of the week. Lock into that does beat the Grizzlies one thirty five

But Santiyalldama always go at me.

From the very first time I seen him get in the game, missus Grizzy, he starts talking crazy to me. And so when he walked into my chest, like that's already knowing like.

He'd go there every single time, which I respect a.

Young guy in this league who's trying to make his name for himself to go at me every single time like that. I got nothing beloved and respect for that. I'm not gonna just let you walk through my chest, which is why opening my hand out to stop him. But I got nothing beloved for that. And he competes like crazy. He played hard as hell every time. He impact the game in a positive way every time we played at Grizzlies, regardless of who is out there on

Away from GP.

And then Taylor Jenkins took a dove and Taylor Jenkins milked it and I could not believe that he milked it like that. And he's walking, He's laying on the court milking, and their trainer comes up to him.

And one of our players I'm not going to name.

The player because it's pretty irrelevant to name the player and like, but he's walking back to our bench and the trainer asks Taylor Jenkins, like you okay? Like like what He's like, I'm okay, like trying to milk it, And that to me is absolutely insane. Like I told you all, it be players like trying stuff, and I know they be trying to get me kicked out the game, which to me is kind of like, eh, like it says a lot about you. As I said before, so I see that all the time. But like a coach

And you have to be very careful, you know, because he tends.

To get a louile emotional at times. I know, y'all be talking about me, but I played basketball. You got to play with them. But he tends to get a lowile emotional at times. I think sometimes his teams follow that, you know, when you look at them and like the playoffs in different situations, like as a coach, you have to be really careful with your emotions because your team take on your demeanor.

Like you know, you've seen us in games.

Over the course of these years where or in playoff series down and have to come back and it's like, oh, they're never rattled. Well, part of the reason we're never rattle is because Steve Kurz never rattled. Like so Steve Kurrin never loses like his composer, Like we could be down twenty points in the second quarter every game against the last four games of the series against the Huginson Rockets, and he's like, all right, like just keep playing defense

The five boys is what I love.

The most, although I think that still should be around seven or eight boards. A few games ago, Kaminga had like twenty four and he had two rebounds, and I let him live.

I didn't say much to him about it, but.

I wanted to really go out him about it, like, bro, you had two rebounds.

I remember my mom did that to me. When I was playing at Michigan State.

I had maybe thirty three at Gonzaga or something like that, thirty one, thirty four, something like that. I scored a at Gonzaga and we played at the pit, which, if you know, when big teams go to Spokane, Washington to play Gonzaga, they don't play at the pit. They actually play at the downtown Gonzaga Arena. No one really goes well. I played for Tom Mizzo. Shout out to Michigan State, and tom Izzo is going he as John Morn, he said, Tom Mizzo, running up your chimney.

He coming to your gym. He playing you wherever. It don't matter. His thing is any time any plays will play. And so we go to the pit.

And they're yelling over ready, trade mind your old race, my seeing you over rady, you suck Okay, gave them boys thirty something, you could look it up. I had two or three rebounds and I got you know, my mom At the time, my mom was my biggest credit, Like she'd go crazy after every game. It's like, oh, that was terrible, you did this value like biggest critic, and so I'm like, yes, Like I just went off like what she gonna say?

Now?

When I called it right after the game, like hello, mam, what's up? She like, you had two rebounds? What what were you doing out there? And at the time my mom cursed. She didn't. She don't curse anymore. She's totally different person. She used to be like, what the hell were you doing out there? Like you had two rebounds? Hey, were you sleepwalking out there? And I'm just sitting there on the phone, like I just had thirty something points on the big road game at Goazzaga, Like what are

I'll take I'll take the five rebounds over the two.

But we're going to make sure JK get the rebounding more and more because he's more than capable. And if he's rebounding and then pushing the ball on the break. Did y'all see a couple of those breakaways? He ran right by Jake Lareve on one of those plays, he ran right by somebody else on a couple like he JK is shot out of a cannon when he decided to run. So with him getting more rebounds and just starting to break and pushing the break, then you have

Because the stock will be high.

So when he's playing downhill with that type of force, we're a very tough team to beat. I don't care who we play against, because it just brings a different dimension to our team, and not everybody can provide that dimension. Is not everybody has that freak athleticism, has that skill.

One thing JK no one ever talks about is his handle.

He has a very underrated handle, and it suits him well and it allows him to do more with the basketball, which a lot of guys that jump and leap like that can't handle the ball like that and it limits them. Jk can handle the lights, I mean handle the ball. He can shoot the mid range very well, which again, when you're going to be an elite scorer and you can get to your spot to raise up over people Ala Kawhi Leonard.

And Kawhi is the latest. You know, you go back to Kobe and MJ. Like those guys Mellow they get you to a spot.

They just raising up and his money and I think John Zon Kaminga has the potential to master that shot as well. So it's good to see him have that game last night, especially against a young team like that. You need them young legs, and Kaminga had it going for us and it was great. Wiggs twenty two points, ten rebounds, and Wiggs has been shooting the lights out of the ball. I think he was four for six from three last night, but he's been shooting the ball

For eleven from three Clay.

There's obviously been a thing with Memphis for years, and Clay loves to play against that team.

It just brings a certain competitive nature out of him.

And when it does, you know, you get the Clay we had last night and the point god CP with twelve points and fourteen assists. But make no mistake about it, what's more impressive is the fourteen assists. But what's really more impressive about the fourteen assists zero turnovers, and Chris Paul.

Is more than capable of doing that. He actually does that often.

I cannot confirm this is just randomly off the top of my mind, but I'm pretty sure he's the guy with like a certain amount of assists and zero turnovers with the most of them in league history.

I don't know what number of assists that is.

I don't know how many times you've done it, but I know he've done it quite a bit and yeah, ready.

He has the most games with tennisists and zero turnovers in NBA history fifty nine games. The next closest is Muggsy Bogues with forty six.

Boom there it is Chris Paul absolutely incredible playmaker. We know that he's been at his entire career and when he's playing that aggressive and making plays that way, we're also a tough team to be and people have not seen much of that because I think, you know, he's worked his way into being more aggressive, but if you watch these games as a late he's been a lot

And really took control of the game for us.

They was hitting a lot of threes, They shot a lot of threes, I think they shot thirty threes in the first half. They were twelve for thirty, so they were shooting the ball really well. And then you know, our defense picked up, and I'd like to say our defense picked up after the little thing. That's kind of when when when everything changed, when the little thing with Taylor Jenkins and Zmond bag which was nothing, by the way, but when that little thing happened, our defense went to

Not last night.

We controlled the game pretty much the entire way after that and it was our game for the taken. We have to do that more consistently, and I think that's a big you know, that's a that was a huge step in the right direction for us. That's the level of growth that you know, at this time of year, you want to see. So you know, it's important that

In other news, Lebron.

James on the Mind the Game podcast with JJ Reddick, spoke about a plethora of different things, but one being.

Lakers.

Excuse me, the Warriors beat the Celtics in the finals because of basketball IQ. And of course you all know this is on the rundown of things because Jackson is always going to find a way to insert the Celtics into anything that he can possibly do. Talk about the Celtics because they're weird.

Fans like Jackson get off by listening to how they lost us, So let's talk about this. That to a certain degree is very true.

I think we definitely had a higher IQ at the time, but I think we also as more than just a higher IQ though, Like we had an higher IQ for sure, but it's also IQ in the moment, you know, like in these situations, like you get in these you know people, somebody can have a high IQ and get in those moments and completely lose it, like because the moment gets too big.

You know. We saw Jared Allen a couple maybe that was last year, he said, man, those lives were brighter than we thought.

I was very surprised when he came out and said that publicly, but it was as real as anybody could be. Like you get in these playoffs sometimes and this is the NBA Finals we're talking about, sometimes those lights can get a little bit brighter than you expected, and so and then you know, they were much younger and you.

Know, had never been there. They had been to the Eastern Conference Finals, but had never been there. They were much younger, and so I think our basketball IQ was higher.

I think at that time also our coaching staff basketball highkey was hied. The adjustments that we made throughout that series, it made all the difference in the series. But again we have been there before. Steve had been there, Mike had been there, Mike Brown, you know, they had been there, so they knew the adjustments to make like that. But I definitely think our IQ was better. Like I remember when we switched and start guarding and sending all those guys.

Left like that kind of came.

That came from the players like, yo, they can't go with their left hand, like go you know, like, let's send them left everywhere. Because as a coach, you're you're hesitant to do something like that as a coach because if you're on the right side of the floor and you're sending left that means you're sending left.

I mean that means you're sending it to the middle.

Go watch the NBA and tell me how many times guys intentionally send a pick and roll to the middle.

Your defense ain't really built for that.

And so we're telling guys like, yo, we're going to send them left and like spray out, like don't even stay in help, just spray out to shooters so they can't hit to shooters.

And like it changed the entire series. That is an IQ thing. And so I think that's definitely crazy.

And you know, and you know, for those of you out there that don't quite understand what I mean by IQ, it's like what level are you processing this game? And how are you processing these pictures? You know, in the course of the game, like pictures develop in every twenty seconds, every fifteen seconds, a different pictures developing. How fast can you process those picture? Take an IQ to another step? Can you process those pictures before the picture become clear?

Of basketball with Ragion Rondo.

I have the utmost respect for Ragion Rondo's basketball IQ. So anytime I mentioned IQ, you always hear me bring up Ragion Rondo, and I always will because to me, when it comes to IQ in the game of basketball, he is one of the goats.

And I say that and I mean it like nobody somemout.

Ray Jon Rondo is one of the ghosts when it comes to basketball IQ.

So there's not a lot of guys that see those pictures before they happen.

And quite frankly, you know, there's always the discussion of is IQ is that an innate thing?

Like? Is it inherited?

Like is that like like do you like, how does that come about? I wouldn't necessarily say inherit it that's crazy, but like, is it an innate thing or is it learned? And the reality is I think it's partly learned. Like my uncle taught me the game of basketball when I was young. When all these coaches was like rolling out of basketball telling guys go play. My uncle didn't roll out no basketball. He's like, all right, first, I'm gonna

Most guys don't learn that to high school. Some guys don't learn that to college. Some of these don't learn until they get to the NBA.

I learned that in first second grade, So imagine the head start that I have with that, right, Like my uncle has always watched the games with me, and like look at this, see you see this.

My uncle still sent me stuff about the game. And he my uncle ain't never coached past the elementary school level. Maybe he was like an assistant coach for my aunt at the high school level where and I don't think he went to games. He just go to practice.

Like my uncle is a basketball teacher, like savantly like level teacher, and the the base that he builds for a not for basketball players. Out of this world. And so the foundation's out of this world.

And so.

Number one, when I first started playing, I was taught the game of basketball. But then I also think, like there is some part of it that's in eight Like that's my gift, you know, Like Steph Curry's gift is his shot. Like I can go shoot the ball a million times and like get a million extra shots up, I would not be as good as shooter as Steph Curry.

It just won't happen.

Like Steph Curry has an innate ability to shoot the basketball. Not saying that you can't become a better shooter, but Steph Curry, like that's a gift, and then he worked his butt off to enhance that gift. And so you see some guys with gifts and they don't work, and like it don't work, you know, but like so Steph Curry has a gift of shooting the basketball and then you work your tail off and enhance it, right, Like so.

That is a part of my gift, Like my basketball.

I Q no matter what level of play that I've always been a savvy player.

And you know that's so back to the original.

Yes, that was part of the reason that we beat the Celtics was because of our basketball IQ. Before we get out of here, let's talk a little bit of March Madness and then we'll have a couple uh giveaway winners for you guys have asked, promised, But my March madness, Man, March Madness is such a fun time of year. It's quite frankly, if I'm honest, it's really the only time I can watch college basketball because I can't really get

It just it doesn't make sense to me.

The basketball be so bad, Like you watch most of these games, the basketball be awful. Like again, I am someone that pride myself on basketball i Q and sometimes I'm watching some of these games just trying to figure out the type of offense they run, and you can't even make it out, Like you can't even make out what style offense they run. So I only watch during marsh Madness and saying that, you know, for me, as someone who went through it, I'm not sure I have like

So he would just talk that to us all the time. So I have such.

A large appreciation for that moment because that's the moment that was kind of embedded in us.

That's the moment that was sold to us.

And obviously I never got a chance to live it, but I always enjoy seeing it because it was something that I strived for and it's one of few goals that I never reached. But if I had to pick, that would be.

One of my favorite moments. Today we got my spartans.

Michigan State versus Mississippi State, and when we win, we will play in North Carolina.

And I am telling y'all, it's all, don't lose.

The second game in the weekend. You give me the first game. This is this is time Mizell talking to you. You get me the first game, I will get you the second game. You give me the first, I'll get you the second game of the weekend. Now often does he fail when he say that? And he say that every time. So I'm rolling with my spartans to be

So don't even worry about it.

It'll be a social media behind the scenes out of the scenes, and.

I'll just give it to y'all that way.

But those Spartans, Tomzzo, mister March, this is his time of year.

I can it's gonna be a farmer. But Jack, So, who is our who is our winners for the giveaway? If we said we would do two giveaways, who are to our winners?

Are these are both from Twitter. Thank you guys for subscribing to the show. The winners are Raider as Techa at Oakland five to ten and Luke Stevens at Luker zero five zero or zero five one seven. So if you guys are still listening to the show, we hope you're still subscribed even after the giveaway, check your Twitter. Dms I will be there and we will get you guys here signed jerseys and we will be doing more giveaways in the future, so make sure to lock in fire.

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