Draymond Green Show - Warriors / Nuggets Reaction + Breaking Down the MVP Race

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that out. And let's talk about a few things. Number One, the Dubs, as I said, lost to the Nuggets one O three one nineteen, and it was just kind of like one of those games that you kind of just got a flush. That's a very good team. That's why they are her defending champions. And if we were to meet that team in the playoffs, I think there are some adjustments that we can make that can put us right in position to win. But that's a great team.

And Joker thirty two, sixteen and sixteen gave me complete hell tonight. I've had my fair share of good matchups against Joker. I've given him a little bit of hell on some night, but he gave me total and complete hell tonight. And I had absolutely no answers. And I'm just going to laugh about it, because either you laugh or you cry, and so I'm going to laugh about it. I had absolutely no answers tonight. And I mean, he was brilliant and he is an incredible shape man. Y'all

should have saw this man run the floor. I had to like turn on my my burners a little bit a couple of times to like keep up with him for running the floor and he was just going. Man, it wasn't like he got tired, like he was just going and going, and man, shout out the Joker. It's always fun play against him. I wanted to. Uh. I got a lot of respect for Joker. I always have. I love the way to go about his business. Obviously

a great basketball player. And Joker caught me with the shoulder in the chain and they didn't call off his file and I wrapped him up and was coming back down the court. Yeah, and he was like, brought that that was definitely a file. He was like one hundred percent of file. He's like, but I didn't try too on purpose, And I'm like, no, I know you didn't try too on purpose, which is why I didn't file you hard and just kind of wrapped you up because

I know you didn't try it on purpose. I love playing against the guys where there's a mutual respect of like the work that you put in, the work that I put in. There's a healthy competition and now so I always enjoyed the honor of playing against Joker. God that I got a tremendous amount of respect for. And you gotta love playing against the greats to see how you stack up and you learn from it. So, like I said, tonight, he got the absolute best of me

and and they won the game. But I had no answers, zero answers tonight, and I'm argue with that. It happens to the best of us. I feel like I've been doing very well defensively. I had no answers tonight. And so the next time we played in which will be in the playoffs, like you remember that and you're like, all right, I know I did this and that was all wrong. So I'm gonna try these things now because against great players like they're always improving. And really, the

last time I really played Joker was last year. I don't think I played against them any times this year. So guys like that is always improving, and you have to figure other things out as a defender, you know. So I didn't get it figured out tonight, and that's okay. Jamal Murray also had a very good game, and you know, Joker and Jamal Murray in the pick and roll is devastating. It's one of the toughest covers, if not the toughest cover in the league. Stephan, I are probably in that

category for totally different reasons. Obviously because of Stephan. I'm a great screener, and then I make some players out there, you know, the whole thing before y'all like, oh, Dreamond, you're not Joker, Like, of course I'm not Joker, and I'm not claiming to be Joker, so before you go there, it's dead. But anyway, that pick and roll combination, it really got them going. Once they were able to start connecting on that, Jamal start hitting a couple of shots.

You got to help a little more. Hit Joker on the pop back three, and it was kind of Domino and from there went into the half tide of sixty one sixty one. But they had to take in total control of the game and came out of the half. They came out they they went up seventy five, sixty five, went up ten points, and then we battled back out it the fore. You know, we never really got control of the game again. I think we took a lead at some point again maybe, but we never really like

gained ground again. They kind of dominated the game from that point. So you gotta give them guys a lot of credit. I thought we did some good things defensively, Aaron Gordon is still playing great basketball. He's Aaron Gordon has grown so much since that playoff series two years ago when we played against those guys. The player that he is today, it's so much different and better and more physical than he was then. And you know, you get in the playoffs. Sometimes in the playoffs will shock

you and the physicality will shock you. And I think the physicality of the playoffs against Aaron Gordon in twenty twenty two shocked him. Now think about it. He had been in Orlando most his career, never really played a bunch of many for basketball, and then you kind of get thrown into that and I think it shocked the hell out of him. Well, some people get shocked and they never recover, but those that do recover get better,

and Aaron Gordon is a part of that group. Totally different player, physical as hell, And in twenty twenty two you weren't really worried about his physicality. He physical as hell. Like he is seeking contact on rebounds, he is seeking contact on post ups, way more physical, and I think a lot of that stem from the twenty twenty two playoffs where he was like, oh no, I'm coming back better. I'm coming back different, I'm coming back stronger, coming back

more physical. And he did that and they won a championship in large part due to what he brought to that team last year. And he's still bringing that. So, you know, a lot of respect for Aaron Gordon as a champion. That's a different man and you gotta respect that. Steph obviously had a tough shoot to Night six for nineteen. Those happened, y'all. You know they did a good job defending them. I thought Joker did a great job in the pick and roll guarding the pick and roll today Pope.

You screen Pope and he like their screen magnets in this league, and Pope's kind of complete opposite. Like you screen Pope number one, he's hard to screen number two. If you screen him, even if you hold the screen, he don't just die and stand there. He's still going to go back chasing Steph. And I thought they did a good job with their covers. Clay came off the bench firing in the first half, and I think I saw me. I gotta do a better job of making

sure he get more touches in the second half. Although our minutes don't match up as much as they did before. I think it's still my role on this team to make sure that he is getting more shots in the second half, and you know, missed a couple, but they weren't as consistent as I thought they needed to be in order for him to stay in the groove that he was in. So that falls on me. I got absolutely destroyed by Joker. That falls on me. So pretty much, just this loss falls on me, and I'm going to

take this loss. I'm going to flush it down the toilet and we're going to move on to Washington and we're going to go get back on the winning track and we're going to go have a great road trip. That is what I am switching my focus too. Jackson wants to know what Joker and I were laughing at. What we were laughing at is I went up to him, I said, hey, can you do my podcast? Can you

really do the podcast? Can you do the podcast? And I don't know if any of y'all saw the clip of Joker at All Star with Andre Hudala asking about the podcast and Joker's running from him, and so I was kind of making light of that, and he said, oh my god, brought that I'm a bad person. I'm a really bad I'm a bad person. I'm a really bad person for that. So I thought that was that's what we were laughing at. I thought it was hilarious. You've never seen joker on the podcast. I haven't. Maybe

y'all have. I haven't seen it, And if it did, it was probably about horses. It was not about the Denver Nuggets a no basket or no basketball game. But that was that. On to the Western Conference playoff race. We've all had a frustrating experience buying tickets, even me. You all know I love to go to concerts shows and it can be hard to find last minute tickets. You shouldn't have to worry when you buy tickets to

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five games left. You know, like every one of them matters, and every day matters, and you get on the run. Right now, somebody lose a few things can change in a heartbeat, So right now is when you really start diving in paying attention what's going on around the league. Who lost the night who won, and tonight would have been a huge night for us to win. With the teams losing that did. Needless to say, we did not take advantage of that. It's not the end of the world.

But now you gotta go on this road trip and maybe win one or two d Yeah, technically not supposed to win, and that's okay. I think we're more than capable of doing that, and guys are going to be locked in and focused on that. Hopefully we'll get Chris back on Tuesday, I hope. I don't know that to be factual. If not Tuesday, hopefully we get them back Thursday. If not Thursday, maybe Friday. And if not Friday, hopefully

by Sunday. No, but honestly, it will be good to get CP back in the lineup, and I know, you know he's eager to get back out there, you know. And it's that time of year where the competitors want to play like you want to be out there. You know. It's it's after the All Star break. You get that win, and you know it's time to gear for the playoffs, and this is what we're going for and playing for, and so this is a fun time of year. And I think you're going to see guys locked in all

around the league, just knowing like what's ahead. And then you also see some teams start shipping their cars off to Miami and their summer home in LA and like something. You got some of that coming up in the next couple of weeks too, you know, maybe Little Charlotte, Little Charlotte Action, you know, Little Detroit, Little Detroit action. You know, you start to see those teams like start shipping their

cars off. You know, that's just how it goes. Then you start to see some teams gearing up, like all right, this is what we're going for, the pretenders and the contenders. It's that time of year and so you know, pay attention. All of a sudden, you see one guys Instagram story and it's like a moving truck in front of their house already. And Charlotte You're like, oh, man, like what's going on? Like they ready to get on up out of here. Shout out to my young boy, mom. I

love my that's my young dog. A lot of respect for Brandon Miller too. That kid is going to be really good. But back to the Western Conference playoff race. I'm getting off track a little bit, let me lock back in. So we are looking at the standards now, or at least how I am. This is the time year that I do and you really start paying attention. We got some games, I know. We still got the Pelicans coming to town. We still got the Lakers at least one more time. Done with the Kings. I think

we got the Clippers at least one more time. So you know you're gonna uh, We're done with the Suns, finished with the Nuggets. We got the Mavericks maybe three times, and so you know, you can make you can make your hey, you know you can kind of can control what you can control, but you need to win those games. And then some of those games you lose them and it's like losing two games because you're losing to that

specific team. So we got to make sure we're locked in winning all the games we need to win, but also in those games in specific, those are big games and you need to be locked in for them. So the Western Conference playoff race is heating up, and the Eastern Conference race is very interesting, which we'll get into with the MVP race. So the MVP race right now, Joker is the favorite on Draft Kings SGA, Luca, Jannis

and Tatum the next four. And I guess after tonight, even if I didn't want to agree that Joe who was a favorite, which I didn't disagree with that at all before tonight, But if I wanted to disagree, if I wanted to disagree with that, after tonight, you kind of can't say a word. You kind of gotta be like, yeah, like it's him because he got the best of me tonight.

That's I told y'all. But anyway, I think it's very interesting to see where Shaye has jumped Lucas at three, Yannis sliped some and Tatum JT Man j T. Just the Celtics are seven and a half games ahead of

the number two seed in the Eastern Conference. Do people think the Celtics are that great to where Jason Tatum is only in fifth, because it seems as if the like the you know, sometimes it's like that team is winning and that guy is the best player playing well, and like, in this situation, clearly that's not the goal post. Clearly the gold post has shifted dramatically because in this guy's case, he's fifth and they got a seven and a half game league in the conference. That goal post

is moving on JT. I don't know what JT gotta do. I do know what JT gotta do. I told y'all last time what j got to do. JT will not be taken serious for the MVP until he won a championship. And it just hasn't been that way for everybody else. I must say, it's not that way for jokers. It's not that way for you, honest, it's not that way for Joelle. It just ain't really been that way for everybody else. So I don't know how it ended up

that way for JT. Maybe it's because he got to the NBA Finals and lost and everybody's like, oh, like you had yours. But I mean, God lead, that is brutal, That's that's tough. So I'm not sure how JT just always laes lacks behind in this voting seven and a half games, God lead, That is crazy. And by the way, yes, the Boston Celtics is a good team, but the Demmer Nugis is great, Like they had a realthly good team. Wow, I don't know. I really don't know what to say. Yeah,

I do know what to say. JT gotta go win the NBA Finals in order to get taken serious size an MVP. Y'all felt, I don't know how the goalpost moved on you like that, but they should acknowledge it because those are the facts. They should acknowledge it. JT because those are nothing but facts. And the other news. Before we get out of here, there was another fight around the NBA. I mean, what is going on with these people? Y'all said, I need help. These people are fighting.

Jose Alvarado and Thomas Bryant, the smallest guy and the biggest guy, got to throwing hands. They both got suspended for three games. I mean, guys, the All Star break is over, like you're supposed to be refreshed, and these guys are getting into it. Hey man, y'all see it ain't Draymond, not me. These guys are getting into it. Jimmy Butler and Najie Marshall got suspended for one game apiece, and then the young fella Jovic left the bench. Come on,

young fella, even I know better than that. I've been suspended more games than you to play in your career. Come on, young fellow, you can't lead a bench. And who is over there on that bench telling him, hey, man, no stay over here, don't. That's the that's the most like even my suspensions, young fella. They sometimes have to make a decision like all right, we got like that's an obvious one. They ain't even got to make a decision. Or you just getting ding like that, bro, Somebody somebody

over there on that Miami bench. Y'all make sure y'all designate somebody to keep the players off the bench, because y'all could have avoided that one with the young fella. Young fella, learned your lesson, though, Don't let them get you with the easiest one, even mine. They gotta make a decision. Don't let them get you like that. And one more thing about these fights in the NBA, Another night in the NBA, Another unridden rule broken. Dennis Schroder

number one. I like Dennis Schroder, cool dude. Then as you can't hit Mike Conley. Mike Conley has zero technical files in his NBA career. Zero. You can't hit Mike Colly. Mike Colly is the nicest person in the NBA for sure. Can't hit Mike Colly number one. That's an unwritten rule. Can't hit Mike Colly number two. It's twenty five seconds left in the game, and they got three seconds left in the shot clock. Why should someone take the TURNO. I just can't, for the life of me understand this.

I just don't get it. And so because I don't get it, I'm gonna propose something in the spirit of suspending people. We got to get some suspension going for this unwritten rule being broken and people then like losing their minds. If the unwritten rule is broken and someone reacts to the unwritten rule in a way like guys are reacting to this unwritten rule being broken, it should be an automatic one game suspension, like leaving the bitch

or something like that. And you all know I'm not an advocate for people get suspend it because why would I be an advocate for anyone getting suspended? Doesn't quite make sense, But like this has to stop, Like it's embarrassing to the guy who gets mad and say like, oh, you were up and you shot again. Like this is basketball. There's no mercy rule. This is the NBA. Okay, you don't want to lose win the game, but the unwritten rule has to stop, and it has to stop now.

So I'm calling on him, our commissioner, our great Commissioner, Adam Silver Joe d somebody competition committee, this unwritten rule. It has to be some writing about it because it's pretty played out and I don't get it. That's a wrap from this episode of the Draymond Green Shaw. I appreciate y'all watching and checking this out. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Don't want to miss any episodes. We have another interview with a with a goat, Bye bye.

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