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Draymond Green Show - Warriors Win Streak, Dray vs. Nurkic, All-Star Predictions

Feb 13, 202439 minEp. 108
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Draymond Green goes on his podcast to discuss Klay Thompson's bounce back game, Steph Curry's hot streak, the big game against the Phoenix Suns over the weekend, Jusuf Nurkic talking sh*t to Dray, the dunk contest and three point contest, and more.

0:00 Start
3:00 Klay Thompson bounce back
11:00 Suns matchup
14:00 Dray vs. Nurkic
22:00 All-Star predictions

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Speaker 1

What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. We got some fun stuff to talk about, obviously, including the Doves, Winn Street. We got a lot going on, All Star Weekend predictions.

Speaker 3

There are some fun things going on. Also. We need to talk about the All Star.

Speaker 1

Weekend because I got a couple things to say, and I know, because of what happened last year, everybody will be like, oh, blah blah blah. We'll get to that. However, we are live on the bleacher Report app. So everybody here from through the bleacher Report App, we appreciate you much love and welcome to the Draymond Green Show. We're going to get into some stuff. Throw some questions in the chat. By the way, Jackson will get those over

to me. Later in the show. We'll do a mailbag section, so throw those questions in and then also, everyone please make sure you go subscribe to the Draymond Green Show YouTube page at YouTube dot com slash at Draymondgreen Show. We love our Turner family, our Volume family for the supportppreciate all you for making this happen.

Speaker 3

Let's get into it.

Speaker 1

The Doves five game win streak, big win over the Suns on Saturday, big win yesterday over the Utah Jazz. We beat the Jazz one to one oh seven. Jackson has on our rundown. That was a huge game for the playing standards, and quite frankly, I feel like that's a shot because for those of you on the bleacher Report app that has not been subscribers to the Draymond Green Show, you may not know that Jackson is a Boston Celtics fan. Jackson and I has been working together

for three years now. Which if you can do basic math, it takes you back beyond the NBA Finals when we smacked the Boston Celtics, and Jackson being a Boston Celtics fan, so he throw a little jabs in here all the time, Like huge game for the playing standards, Like bro, it's fifty games into the season, they're still thirty two games left or thirty one games left to be played or something like that. Fifty one games. Relax yourself. But however,

what were some takeaways from this game? Number One, it was good to see Clay having good game, to see Clay get back on track, you know, have the game that he did after you know, the last couple of games, not playing down the stretch and all the noise that's been surrounding him really all year, and free agency and not having a deal done and blah blah blah. As I've always said, Clay is a very, very very resilient person. Number One, you don't come back from an acl injury

and Achilles injury if you're not resilient. You don't win four championships if you're not resilient and be a keikog in winning those championships. If you're not resilient. You don't score sixty points in a quarter in three quarters. If you're not resilient, you don't thirsty score thirty seven in a quarter. If you're not resisting, zilient, and quite frankly,

you are not played Thompson if you're not resilient. And so to see him have the game that he had last night, with all the chatter and stuff, I thought he was good. And then I also thought it was beautiful and just how patient he was. He didn't force anything. He let the game come to him. If they ran him off the line, he stepped in and took some tunes, and I thought, you know, that was really key. He got a couple of layups to start the game, he hit the three, he got a fast break lay up.

Speaker 3

Start the second half, he got another layup, you know.

Speaker 1

So I think it was good for him early on just to see the ball go through the rim, you know.

Speaker 3

And then Steph Curry made a very key call.

Speaker 1

And in the second half that I think really unlocked Clay. And that was We ran this play called Oklahoma where it's a double screen.

Speaker 3

Then Clay goes in, So Clay's the first screener.

Speaker 1

I'm the second screener, Steff comes off both screens and then I pinned in for Clay and Clay came and hit the three and he was like yes, like crazy fist pump.

Speaker 3

It maybe even been like a double R.

Speaker 1

And from there it was just kind of flowing for him, like and I thought that was a huge call by Steph. It's also funny because I'm not even short, JK and Wiggs really even know what that play is.

Speaker 3

It's like an old play that we have from way back in the day.

Speaker 1

And when Steph call it, he just say it to me and I'll be like, Clay Clay career right here, and so let's threell know were running and we just tell Stephan Wi Stephan, I mean, excuse me, Wiggs and JK. Hey Man just go to the corner, go to the corner, and we run the play. And I think that's just funny because number one, it's just how long we've been playing together that like oftentimes will call plays that's not really in the playbook this year, but that we know

that we've run once up on the time. And it's always funny putting guys in positions that obviously hasn't been there all the years and just kind of telling them, yo, go stand there. But uh, that was a little funny, funny nugget from last night's game. Steph twenty seven threes in his last three games. That is the fifth time in Steph's career that he scored twenty seven threes.

Speaker 3

Over a three game period.

Speaker 1

Now, interestingly enough, we all feel like Steph has been shooting the lights out of it, right, it is actually his worst shooting percentage on threes out of the five times, at fifty six percent. And Steph doesn't cast a few threes a game. He's at fifty six percent, fifty six point one percent. One year he was at I mean, one time he was at fifty eight percent, another time fifty nine percent, another time sixty two percent, and one time at sixty five percent over three games, making twenty

seven threes at sixty five percent clip. So sorry, Steph, you falling off brother father time is catching up to you, and fifty six percent is just not acceptable when you set. It's funny because I was on the bus, Raymond Rider was showing us that stat and it really just threw me for a look loop because it took me to a place when you set the standards so high for yourself.

It's actually insane what Steph Curry is doing. We've actually only seen one other person in NBA history do what Steph Curry's doing, which is playing at this level this late in the career.

Speaker 3

Kobe.

Speaker 1

Kobe was still going, but not quite at the level that Steph is at. Um. You know, MJ obviously one of the NBA Finals is his last year. I'm not cont Washington. Y'all can come Washington all y'all want to. I'm not come Washington. I'm talking about Chicago. MJ obviously won the finals his last year in Chicago. However, if I'm not mistaken, that was your fourteen. Steph is now in year sixteen and still playing at the level that he's playing at. The only other player that's ever done

that in NBA history is Lebron James. So in that category, those two are in a league of their own. And it's funny because someone asked me. They was like, well, why do you think that is? And I was like, well, every now and then, there's a blueprint set and we've seen Lebron do that. And so then you're Steph and you're like, of course I'm doing that, right, like those guys have been going back and forth in NBA finals and stuff over the years throughout their teams, their teams

in the NBA. Of course I'm doing that, and so it's just a totally different thing. And I think, you know, just to watch Steph.

Speaker 3

Night and night out. He couldn't He didn't have it going last night.

Speaker 1

He missed some or some threes early that quite frankly, he easily could make, and then he found it in the fourth quarter and an onslaught and just put the synthem night night, as you all know he likes to do. But I run out of words for Steph. He's absolutely incredible. JK had fourteen points last night. And I'm mentioning that because I said to JK during after the first quarter, like, all right, you had a bad quarter. But the Greats they don't keep it going like the Great State. They

have a bad quarter and they bounce back. And I just thought he wasn't as aggressive as he has been, and for me, that don't work. We need him aggressive at all times. You're allowed to have not a great game. By the way, he didn't have a bad game. So I'm not gonna act like he had a bad game, But guess what we're talking about standards, right, We're talking about the standard that Steph Curry Slept has set for himself, the standard that Jonathan Kaminga has set for himself.

Speaker 3

To me.

Speaker 1

Twenty and above every night, fourteen is good for me, Fourteen ain't good for him. That's the expectation that he's set and I'm going to hold him to that expectation. Why, because he's more than capable. His growth has been absolutely amazing. The pressure that he puts on the rim is absolutely incredible, and he's unlocked his team's potential by unlocking his potential, and it's been absolutely beautiful to see. So I am expecting a huge game from JK against the against the

Clippers tomorrow night. Because he didn't have a great game and yet instilled thirty one games and double figures in a row for a third year guy.

Speaker 3

Just shows you what you're dealing with.

Speaker 1

Because those thirty one games also extends further back to him saying like I don't feel like I'm reaching my potential and I don't feel like getting the opportunity, and that extends back past that too. So just to give you some perspective of how good of a score of this young dude actually is absolutely incredible. Uh, moving on from the Jazz game and rewinding a little bit back before the Super Bowl to the Phoenix Sun game.

Speaker 3

That was a fun game.

Speaker 1

That was a fun game because a it was a big game. It's you know, it's Saturday night before the Super Bowl, that's prime times, the Phoenix Suns coming in here. Obviously, the whole thing with me getting suspended against the Phoenix Sons and little guy, yeah, the little Guy and all of that stuff, and so you know, there was a build up to this game. It's my first time seeing

them since that happened, and blah blah blah. And then it's also their first time seeing this Doves team today've seen this before, but this is their first time seeing this dubscene. And so I thought, you know, the game lived up to what everyone thought it would do.

Speaker 3

Everyone thought it would be.

Speaker 1

Steph Curry again, his hitroics knocking that shot down. I knew it was money. As soon as he left his hand, you could just tell he got the look he wanted.

Speaker 3

He knew it.

Speaker 1

He kind of started doing this little turn, not turning all the way, but you could tell it was money. Such an incredible shot. However, what was more pleasing than even the shot was that we were actually able to finish it off this time. He's hit that shot, not that particular one, but he's hit big shots all year and we haven't been able to close the deal a.

Speaker 3

Lot of the times, and so it was huge to actually close the deal.

Speaker 1

And we had to do that with not one but two defensive stops. And I thought that was that was fulfilling because it shows the growth of this team. You know, we've been getting in this situation and giving up a bucket Wiggs, who I thought.

Speaker 3

Made a very good play on the game.

Speaker 1

Usually not a call that's called at the end of the game, a free ball in there, knocked.

Speaker 3

The ball down, call a foul.

Speaker 1

However, we had a file to give and then they try to throw it over the top over me to KD And interesting enough, interestingly enough, I knew that they were going to try to go to KD, which is why I switched the matchups and put myself on KD that last that last possession. And you know, I saw a few people saying, oh, that was contact, like marginal contact. My hands are straight up, I'm vertical, I get ball and game over.

Speaker 3

But that was a fun game.

Speaker 1

Following that game, the little guy goes in the media, and the little guy goes in the media and he says, I take my words back. He doesn't deserve another chance. It's only a matter of time before he hits someone else. And quite frankly, I would love to know why is it only a matter of time before I hit someone else? Because I've destroyed him? Because what in that game that happened with me would make you say something like that other than getting embarrassed because you're just not good enough.

You're not good enough offensively. You had Steph Curry on post ups and you got nothing. Quite frankly, outweighs me by eighty pounds and six inches taller than me.

Speaker 3

That's one thing.

Speaker 1

Outweigh Steph Curry by about one hundred and twenty pounds and about nine inches taller than him, and could not score on him on the block. Towers over Clay by about five inches, outweighed Clay by about one hundred pounds, could not score on Klay Thompson on the block. Little guy tries to post up, tries to back me down, only to shoot a hook shot from the dotted not the restricted area, from the dotted line and the paint, which means you made no progress on.

Speaker 3

Getting towards the rim.

Speaker 1

Shoots a nasty hook shots for his sixth point of the game, which is his last points of the game, and desire to decides to do an overtly too small celebration, slapping the floor the whole thing. And quite frankly, you're just not good enough to.

Speaker 3

Do things like that.

Speaker 1

I watched that same little guy play against someone not long before us, and they shot at three and he stood under the rim and wave battam and got the rebound. And quite frankly, you see clowns like that do things like that, and it's actually very disrespectful to the game, is disrespectful to the player that you're.

Speaker 3

Doing it too.

Speaker 1

And so the clown then I catched the ball on the block, and the clown decides to kind of turn his body towards me. All right, we'll bring your chest here, because now your shoulders shouldn't be my chest. You should get put in the rim. And then that's what happened. Oh and by the way, we all can do the

little slap the floor too. Small celebration. The little guy then goes like I say, went into the media complaining like I did something to him, as if he didn't do the too small celebration, and then he starts to question my character. What a coward you go questioning character about a basketball game that you just lost, that you got destroyed, and the only thing you should talk about is how you got punished.

Speaker 3

Fifteen nine and seven fifteen seven and nine m.

Speaker 1

And you finished with a measly sixty six and four four assist is a bright spot for him, So I'll give him that, but six and six and then you go to a media and.

Speaker 3

Cry like that. By the way, they call a follow on me in the first quarter my first file.

Speaker 1

He then turns to me and start talking as if I did anything wrong to him other than try to prevent him from posting me up. No, the guy that weighs me, it's never in good shape. It's tempered him his entire career. Guy out weighs me by one hundred pounds, and he's upset like that, Am I not supposed to hold my grind? And he starts talking, Okay, we both can talk, say a couple of words back, and then he's in his feelings the rest of the game. He

then starts throwing cheap shots. Ever, when I'm rebounding the ball anything, he throws little cheap shots. I don't react. He followed me on the fake handoff. I fall over, he stand over me. I don't react. I just get up because we're not paying attention to the little guys.

Speaker 3

And yeah, that's what happened.

Speaker 1

Very I must say, not very surprised that he went to the media and said what he said, because that's the same guy that laid out on the floor when I made kind of bro, you three hundred pounds, get up off the floor. Bro, if he actually didn't lay out on the floor like that, I actually don't get the suspension that I got, probably, but dude laid out like he was dead. That same guy didn't go and say he doesn't deserve another chance. How bro, What an embarrassment.

And they expect to win with that guy, really, and so.

Speaker 3

I don't know.

Speaker 1

I thought it was really whacked to go questioning my character because I destroyed you on the basketball court. But quite frankly, I'm a four time All Star, four time champion, I should destroy you on a basketball court. You are infamously known for getting traded to get you out the way of Joker, so Joker can become who we all known him to become. It's no surprise there. I remember the days that the Denver Nuggas was trying to start

him in Joker. All right, let's get the bomb out of here because he's in the way of this guy. He's in the way of the MVP of the NBA. Let's get him out of here. And so, yeah, I should do that to you. It's no surprise there, like and yeah, so just to go questioning my character I thought was whack, But like, guys, guys are making a habit out of that. Him and Kevin questioned my character before, you know, as if you go question somebody character about a basketball game, as if it's not real life, as

if that don't affect people pockets. Like, I think all of it was really cowardly. If you want my honest opinion, Yeah, I did what I did. I take my stuff on the chain. We've spoke about that. I still stand on that. I meant every word I said about it. But if you aren't know the truth about that, I think all of us cowardly. I think, you know, you start going to question somebody character in front of the whole world.

Speaker 3

That's why. So I think they all wha both of them, if you want my honest opion.

Speaker 1

But that's that everybody was questioning what I said to KD at the end of the game.

Speaker 3

This is me. It's me, and.

Speaker 1

I'm not gonna share the other word that I said, because you know, that's the spur of the moment type of thing.

Speaker 3

You in the game, and.

Speaker 1

You know words come out, But this is me. I do this, been doing this, gon keep doing this, which is the same thing I said in that Clippers game years ago. Been winning championships, been doing this, Gonna keep doing this when you leave here.

Speaker 3

Didn't lie. I found a whole game check which was like one hundred and sixty thousand.

Speaker 1

Dollars for saying that fast forward. Wasn't to lie, you know, But that's what I said, you know, And all of that was a little brewed up, little built up tension because again, you go question somebody character.

Speaker 3

You got my phone number?

Speaker 1

If you thought I hope I get the help that I need, you got my phone number, hit me and say that. So, like I said, I thought it was all cowardly, and that's where those emotions came from. I'm a four time NBA champion. No regular season game really gets me that like height to win a regular season game, but it's a little added tension there because guys want

to go question character. And then, like I said, the top of it all off, the little guy goes and question character just because you got destroyed.

Speaker 3

So I'm done with it.

Speaker 1

We're moving on that stat. Two more games before it all start break. We have the Clippers tomorrow at home, and then we got a back to back makeup game RP Decky makeup game in Utah on Thursday before we going to the break.

Speaker 3

How important are these games? Games are very important.

Speaker 1

We always talk about you want to roll into the All Star break and not stumble into the All Star break, and you want to go into the All Star break feeling good about yourself. One thing we always talk about in NBA is the most beautiful thing about the NBA.

You have a bad game, it's another game tomorrow and with the All Star break, you really want to win going into the All Star break because you got to feel You're going to feel that like your break, You're gonna be thinking about that and so a win always feels better. And I also think for us, obviously with where we are, understand is we don't have games to give away. So it's very important that we close these two games strong and hopes hopefully we come out with

two wins. That is ideal. That's what we're looking forward to doing. Obviously, the Clippers is a very very tough game, and then you're going back into Utah on short rest altitude, the whole thing is going to be a tough game as well. However, I think we're capable of winning both of those games, but you know it's going to require us to put a great forty eight minutes of basketball together.

The Clippers just lost it to last night to the Timberwheels, so you know they're going to come in pissed off.

Speaker 3

They'll take it out on us.

Speaker 1

We got to make sure that we're ready to meet that force with force against a very good Los Angeles Clippers team, and then, like I said, head on out to Utah and make sure we close it out the right way to head into our All Star break, and then we'll come out of the All Star Break on the back to back with the Lakers at home, and then Charlotte at home. So it's a good you know, tough,

tough time dog days obviously get there. You kind of see the All Star break right there and you're kind of reaching out for it and it's not quite there yet, you know. So a good time in the schedule for us, though. I think we're putting it together. Like I said before, the growth has been there and we need to lock lock in on these last two games. Let's get in then All Star weekend. Before we get into the mailbag part of this episode, uh, my predictions for the big

two events. Number one, the Slam Dunk Contest. First off, let's talk about the Slam Dunk Contest. Matt mclong, a former teammate of mine, went to camp with us, defending champ Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics, how Mad Hotcast of the Miami Heat, and Jacob Topping Jacob Topping, Obie Topping's younger brother who plays in the G League.

Speaker 3

Now.

Speaker 1

Matt mcclong won the Dunk Contest last year, and I thought it was great that Mac mcloon was in it. I think he brought a different excitement back to the Dunk Contest and I thought it was great. Now Jacob Topping is in there, there's a there's a Topping in the NBA.

Speaker 3

Y'all could have had.

Speaker 1

That Topping in there, by the way, I just want

throw that out there. But what brings me what I'm getting at here is like, can you kind of call it the same NBA dunk contest that Doctor j and Michael Jordan and Jason richardson Saginaw his own sparty Dominique Wilkins Human highlight reel, Like can we actually call this the same dunk contest that those guys were in, because it'd essentially be the equivalent of like having those guys and like players who were playing the CBA in the same dunk contest, Like is it actually the same thing?

And are there no other dunkers in the NBA that could be out there that you have to people in G League? Because we played against the Indiana Pacers last week and Obi Topping actually said to me like, man, I'm trying to get in there, like if Jalen drop out, I want that spot, And so I just kind of wondered about that, like that's interesting to me, And I know, you know, the G League is way different than what

it used to be. Even the Rising Star Game, you got like players from the G League night, which I also think is interesting there. But I don't know, I just kind of wanted to throw that out there. I don't really know where I'm going with it. I just think it's interesting and if you have to keep going G League route, is it time to do away with the Dunk Contest as a whole? Is it time to

get more creative? Rick Wilts, who's the president of the Warriors my entire career until maybe the last two years, who was a key coog and creating what All Star Weekend is as we know it today, is it time to get back creative, go back to the drawing board and figure out the things out. If you kind of have to go to the G League to get dunkers for the Dunk Contest, I don't know. Do you have to raise the money so that guys it's like it's worth my time to go do it?

Speaker 3

I don't know. Me personally, I.

Speaker 1

Say raise the money because I'm all for guys getting that paper, But I just don't know quite how I feel about guys from the G League being in the NBA Dunk Contest, Because if I'm not mistaken. Well I'm not mistaken because Dark Tucker from Sagona I wanted before there used to be a G League dunk contest and so I'm not sure if they still have a g leagd dunk contest or not, But i don't know. I just think that's a weird thing, Like you can't go just being an All Star game, so why can't you

just go be in a dunk contest. It's All Star weekend, so that's something that's a little little funny to me. And saying that my winner is Mac mclough. He's going to have the fans. The fans going to be behind him. He's the shortest guy out all these guys, so his dunk is going to look sicker because that's just how

it goes. And so I'm and Mac McClung and the Dunk Contest three point contest contestants Damian Lillard, the defending champ, Malik Beasley, his teammate, Jalen Bronson, Tyrese Halliburn, the first time All Stars, Laurie Markenn, Donovan Mitchell, Carl Anthony Towns, and Trey Young. That All Star and that three point Contest is cool, and that's good. But the one everybody is looking for comes after that, which is Steph versus Sabrina in the normal dunk contest, I mean sorry, three

point contests. I am going to roll with a final of Damian Lillard versus Carl Anthony Towns. My dark horse in that group though, it's Tyrese Halliburton. And why am going Tyrese Halliburton and krl Anthony Towns because they don't jump on this shot. They are quick released, they stay on the ground and picking that ball up off the rack and not jumping. It's a different when you got to pick the ball at the rat and jump like that's so many different motions when you just picking up

with the rack and fire. Carl Boom hally Burn his shot and then Dalla's obviously dollar.

Speaker 3

So Tyre's Halliburn is a dark horse.

Speaker 1

But I got in my final Damien o'lila versus Karl Anthony Towns with Damien Oltler being dame and repeating as.

Speaker 3

The champion, and then we go down to Steph and Sabrina.

Speaker 1

Interestingly enough, the world is all kind of like what Clay picked Sabrina over Steph. Of course Clay picked Sabrina over Stephs Clay needles stuff every chance he gets. If you're ever around, if you ever could see all of us in the rack of Rose, it's constantly Clay just poking that stuff like it's almost like your little brother just trying to poke at you, like every chance that he gets. And so I am not at all surprised that Clay picked Sabrina. Sabrina did break the record last year.

I think she missed one three. However, at stage gets a lot brighter, a lot bigger when you are up against the goat, Steph Curry, and that's just a little bit different. Sabrina will be shooting from the WNBA line with the WNBA ball, Stephan will be shooting with an

NB from the NBA line with an NBA ball. I quite frankly myself think Sabrina should also be shooting from the NBA line because those three feet do make a difference, and you're essentially saying I'm as good as shooter or better as Steph Curry in these contests, and so I personally think Sabrina should be at the NBA line. Nonetheless, I'm looking forward to it. I got Steph, of course, No need for me to needle plays done it enough? I got Steph, I got the goat. That's who I'm

rolling with. Before we get out of here, Jackson, I know we have some mailback questions.

Speaker 3

Do you want to throw some of those out at me my friend? Yes, sir, yes, sir.

Speaker 4

First let's go with from at Ian Anderson. I'm from Michigan and a big State fan. How has tom Izzo? How is Tom is those coaching affected your career?

Speaker 1

Tom Izzo's coaching is a key reason of who I am today. Tom Iszo taught me how to work hard, what it meant to work hard, what it meant to be a pro, what it meant to uh compete at the highest level, and taught me how to do it. Uh.

Speaker 3

You know.

Speaker 1

So oftentimes we grow up, we think we're working hard, and you really have no clue what hard work is. And tom Iszoe challenged me on that. Tom Iszo challenged me on toughness. You cannot be a player for tom Izzo and not have toughness, and so to have to live up to that every single day, bring a certain toughness.

Speaker 3

It becomes a part of you.

Speaker 1

It becomes a part of who you are and you embody that. And quite frankly, I think my toughness is a skill and that skill was obviously there. There's some of that that comes from growing up in Saginaw, Michigan, the way I grew up playing at the high school that I play that, but then tom Izzo enhanced that, and so tom Iso.

Speaker 3

Is huge in my career.

Speaker 1

Also, every time that I've had trouble, tom is O is right there for me. So a great friend, father, figure, coach.

Speaker 3

The whole nine.

Speaker 1

And then also just the exces and hose that he taught me, the love that he gave coaches. Coaches in most NCAA coaches aren't capable of doing that, So very important to say the least.

Speaker 4

All right, Next one, I know the answer to this question, but I don't know if you've talked about it on the pod before. Connected to coach Izzoe from at Alumuto, Yo, Draymond, I see you being a coach after you retire. Can you speak to that?

Speaker 3

You do not? I have no interest in coaching.

Speaker 1

The reason I have no interest in coaching is because I've been on a basketball schedule my entire life. I actually look forward to, you know when I am done playing of not being on a basketball schedule anymore. The schedule is tough, it's brutal, and I've been on it

my entire life. Like in turn, you miss certain things, and like I don't want to sound like crazy privilege, but like I love to travel, Like I want to go see Australia one day, and like experience Australia when we're allowed to travel.

Speaker 3

It's cold in Australia.

Speaker 1

I don't I spend enough time in the cold traveling to these East Coast cities during our season. The last thing I want to do is go to Australia for their winter. And so it's things like that, you know, it's friends birthdays, it's kids' birthdays, it's time with your family, it's events at your kids' school, all of the things that you miss family, like family time, like my extended family, you know, not just my family that lives with me in my.

Speaker 3

Home, like you, all the things that you miss.

Speaker 1

And so I'm just not sure I want to be on a basketball schedule when I'm done playing. I actually I am sure I don't want to be on a basketball schedule when I'm done playing. And so now, and speaking of being on a basketball schedule. My entire life. Coaching schedule is even worse. They got to watch a bunch of film, They got a bunch of meetings. They can get their way earlier. They got all these things,

putting game plans together, blah blah blah. Watch a film after the game, like because the film need to be ready for the next morning.

Speaker 3

Like.

Speaker 1

Their schedule is worse. So on summer league, I go on vacation, they stick around. They're doing someer I mean during the summer. I go on vacation, They're sticking around. They're doing summer league with guys. They're doing summer work out with young guys. I'm sorry, but I don't want that schedule.

Speaker 3

Now.

Speaker 1

Who knows where life takes you, but as it stands right now, I have zero interest in coaching when I'm downe playing.

Speaker 3

I'm sorry. It's just not quite what I see in the cars for me.

Speaker 1

But I appreciate the compliment because you're essentially calling me smart.

Speaker 3

Thank you.

Speaker 4

We'll do one more question. Thank you to everyone for the questions. We will be taking questions every time we go lopping the br app so this will not be the last time to get your questions in last one for today from at G Mooney. Who in the NBA now do you think has a similar game to you? You can take that whatever type of way you want.

Speaker 1

Who in the NBA now do I think have a similar game to me?

Speaker 3

BP?

Speaker 1

Young draymn You like a young Draymon out there? Who in the NBA has a similar game to me? I don't know if I'll quite say similar, because I think there's different things that I do that kind of embodies a couple of different people. You know, like this guy may do this but not quite that you know, or like he may excel in this area that I excel

in but not quite over there. But what I will tell you is this as opposed to and I'm sorry to not fully answer your exact question, but someone who I watch and I haven't gotten a chance to watch him much this year, but especially last year, who I think could be like a version of me in a totally different way is Tarry Easton. Got great size, great lane, physical, can dribble the ball, can shoot the ball, can make a play, smart, doesn't back down from anybody.

Speaker 3

Now.

Speaker 1

Can Tarry east And go guard to five or play the five? I'm not sure he can do that.

Speaker 3

But like I think Tarr Eason.

Speaker 1

If I looked at someone, I'm like, he could, he could potentially grow into and do a lot of things that I do. I would say, if I have to point to one person, I'm like, I think it can be that. I think tar Re's I think I'm a big, big fan of his And like I said, haven't gotten a chance to watch him much this year, but last year.

That's the point person, I'll say. But that's a wrap from the mailbag questions for the episode, which brings us to the end of our first live show on the br app As Jackson just said, this is not our last one, and every time we do this there will be mailback.

Speaker 3

Questions and we took three this time, so next time I'll take four. Thank you for watching.

Speaker 1

Make sure you subscribe to the Draymond Green Show YouTube channel. We have a really fun interview coming later this week. I think thank you all to enjoy. Check that out until next time. That's a rap from The Draymond Green Show.

Speaker 3

Peace

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