The Draymond Green Show - Dillon Brooks Suspended, Ja vs. Steph, and a Playoff Breakdown

fan duel sports book makes it easy. What's up, everybody, Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show. We are recording this Thursday morning. I've had a little time to think about everything that happened, as well as the other game two's so let's well before we get into that. I know we've discussed on this podcast before about Hazel saying don't have a hat on and have my haircut. So I want to explain to you my last thirty six or forty eight hours and why I haven't had hard

So yesterday we got back at four thirty in the morning. Um, my daughter needed to go to school, but the rest of my morning was filled with going to see plastic surgeon to get more stitches in the side of my eye, and I could not get a haircut because I also um while seeing a plastic surgeon that I also had to see an ophthalmologist and get the inside of my eyeball check for bleeding and all of these other things.

So you can imagine how my yesterday was so Brownie Blends couldnot come touch up the hair, So that's rough. And the hat helps. My eye looks a little smaller than what it actually is, and so it's like compressing down and it's not giving you the full picture of how bad I look, although I look terrible right here. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying by any stretch of the imagination, I actually look okay here, but it's a little worse without the hat. So bear with me

this episode. I hope you all understand why I have this ad on why everything is kind of looking a little ah, But that's that. That's my appearance. This is You're not really here to see my pretty face, are you. No. I think you're here to talk and let's talk about some games, and let's talk about the world of basketball. So let's get into it. The Warriors lose game to one oh six to one on one. Let's let's dive into that one. John Morant was absolutely incredible. What you'd expect.

You know, I've spoken about joy Um for a couple of years now and the type of player that I think he's become. And so when you're when you speak of going into an opponent's arena ahead one oh um, with the possibility of going up to or handed back home, you expect everything you you you expect desperation, which is what they played with, which explains the Dillon Brooks filed to me, and we'll talk about more, but more importantly

than the dialon Brooks file. What it explains is John morn and the passion and tenacity and the ferociousness and aggressiveness that he played Game two with and he ended up with forty eight and eight. Now, the reason I say that is because, like I said, i've I've even

with the M I P conversation. As you can see, Lebron tweeted the other day like, and this is why John Morenne is way too special to even being an M I P situation, Because guess what John Morant would be in a situation like that last year and possibly give you that give you that same game. And so that was kind of the whole thing about the M I P conversation. But like I said, when when when? What?

What explains John Moran's game to me better than anything, it is the desperation that he played with the desperation to not allow my team to go down. Oh the two headed out on the road. And so what did he do? He did everything. He made threes, he got to the basket, he had fifteen straight points in the fourth quarter. He did everything that they needed him to do to win the game. Now and saying that and with him doing everything us to go to State Warriors,

I'm looking at this like he did do everything. He did, make every play, a couple of bounces here, and there are a couple of files on myself that I have to be better with down the stretch. And there's a one oh two to one oh one game with with still an opportunity to win the game. So I feel very good about that as an opponent, knowing that there are some things that we can clean up, one being turnovers.

We had nearly twenty turnovers, which you turn the ball over that many times against any team, you put yourself in a dangerous situation, you turn that ball over that many times. Against a young Memphis Grizzlies, probably the most athletic team in the playoffs, still playing, you're really with with one of the most athletic point guards to ever play,

You're really going to be in trouble. And so when I look at that, I say, man, in spite of having nearly twenty turnovers, in spite of all the things that transpired in the beginning of the game, in spite of John Moran having forty seven, eight and eight, we still had it under one minute, one possession game, We come up with a rebound, we go down the score and maybe everything we're talking to everything, there's a totally different tune. Now, Uh, this series is in a totally

different place. But in saying that, the series is one of one headed back home. When you go on the road, I've said this before. You want to go win one game, you want to take home court advantage. Did we try to get greedy, Yes, we felt, but we did what we had to do and let's go out and win one game. And so the position we're in is pretty good. You know coming back home, Um, John Moran, some of the finishes that he had in that game, I saw some of the comparisons to Eric Jordan's. I mean it

was absolutely incredible. To one where I came help side and jumped and went vertical and he did whatever he did in the air and went underneath. I mean, that was just one of the incredible finishes it was. It was absolutely insane. I'm going back looking at that, like, man, you gotta do you just gotta take your hat off to him. He made some incredible plays. I think for US, I think we also had a bunch of shot turnovers, which is something we talked about, which are bad shots

that we take that leads to transition runout US. I think we had quite a few of those, and so when you look at we nearly had twenty actual turnovers, probably twenty shot turnovers. That's absolutely hard to overcome. And like I said, yet we're still sitting there with a chance to win the game. You know, when you when you look at a guy like Zaiah Williamson, you gotta take your hat off to the rookie. He hit was four for eight from three for fifteen points. Now, they

were big threes. They weren't like just just a three here, three there. He hit timely big threes. And again when you're going on the road, Uh, that those are the things that you have to take out. Um now, and saying that we were seven for thirty eight from three a lot of threes that you know, I think we make on a on a normal basis. When you look at some of our shot turnovers that we had, you

have to ask yourself. Number one, when you're getting those open threes, if you don't get into a rhythm, which I don't think we did. If you don't get into a rhythm, then once you do get those open threes, they're not so open because the rhythm isn't there, And so you have to get a Memphis Grizzlies defense credit. I think they did a good job of defending, but I also think some of that falls on us as well,

and some things that we can correct. By the way, UM, I actually don't have my ring light today either because I don't want my face lit up. So I hope you all understand that as well. Uh, But I just had to say that because I see my video and I'm like, I'm a little dark. That's intentional, just so you know, hiding all of this, but and and moving forward. Um, the Dillon Brooks file. When I say, uh that x uh, their desperation, explains the Dillon Brooks File, explained John Moran.

When when I say that, experience the Dillon Brooks file to me, you're starting off game to um. I'm not one to get off into the old is he dirty? Is he not? That's for you to make your own decision. I really don't care whether someone wants to classify him as dirty, whether you think it was dirty, whether you think it's not. The moral that means the reality is it happened, like the play happened. Gary Payton is hurt. That's my only concern I can really care less about it.

Is Dillon Brooks dirty? Did Was it intentional? Was it not? That's small, that's low hanging fruit. That's that's beside the point. Like Gary Payton is hurt. That's my concern. That's where it begins, and that's where it is. I don't get off into the oh, it's a dirty play. Like after the game, I said, yeah, it was a BS play. I think it was a BS player. But to get off into it is Dillon Bruce the dirty player, and that that ain't the lane that I live in. I

let the talking heads in that lane. I let them debate it. I I don't get off into that lane. Um what what the lane that I get off into is how do I make this right? How do how do we what do I have to do in order to overcome the loss of Gary Payton? Uh? The second um, you know, and and and that's kind of as far as it goes. But the desperation, you know, Um, you're starting off a game, you're trying to set a tone. It was evident to me that they were there to set a tone. So you can say, um, was it

a mistake? Was it not like I said, I don't get off into that. You can say, I was the elbow a mistake? Or was it not? Like I said, I don't get off into that. What was evident to me was that they were there to set a tone. So whether you did those things on purpose or not, maybe yes, the elbow wasn't intentional. Maybe oh man, the

file wasn't too in intially hurt him. But what was intentional was they were coming out to set a tone, as you have to do down one oh, on your home court going in the game too, you have to come out and set a tone. If you look at all the press clippings and you know the things that they put out, it was we knew they were coming out to set a tone. They talked about how we had running rebounding battle and they weren't as physical as

they normally were. So you knew that they were coming out to set that tone, just like I knew they were coming out to set the tone. So that's why to me, whether the things were intentional or not really doesn't matter. What was evident was they were coming out to set a tone. And as their opponent, you gotta take that on the chain. You gotta take that here, you gotta you know, you gotta take that how it comes. And so for me, it's like, Okay, they came out

and set the tone that they wanted to set. Give them credit. I will give them credit. Like some fans may be upset, give them credit. They set the tone that they want to set. You knew right away first three or four minutes of that game the type of game that that was gonna be. Whether you were an opponent, whether you're a fan, um, you knew what type of game that was gonna be. And so for me, that's kind of all that really matters. You know, the ida,

the elbow, the caraman bleeding. I don't know if people saw that on TV, but like right after I went out, the cameraman on the baseline then bleeding, and so again that was all a part of it. The gym was cracking, now, the arena was was cracking. It was a fun and arentered playing. Um, I mean it was. It was exciting and in game five is gonna be even more cracking.

But like, it was cracking in there, and it it It immediately took on the same vibe that the players had on the court that the game kind of was taken on. It immediately took on that same vibe. And so, like I said, you gotta give them credit. They came out, they set the tone that they wanted to set. Let's not get off into old man. He did that on purpose. He elbowed him on they they said they were coming out of set tone. As a very young team. They set the tone they wanted to set. Now it's on

us to respond. It's on us to reach that level of physicality and exceeded. That's what you have to do. That's a playoff series. Playoffs get physical like that, playoffs get chippy. So I've been in enough of these series to know that's all a part of it. I don't get caught up in it. And moving forward, let's talk about the way I was booed on my way out. You probably seeing my press conference by now, where I said, listen, they booed me. Um. I think it's very distasteful to

boo anyone after after they have an injury. I saw some of that, or we saw some of that when Kevin Durant tours Achilles in Toronto, UM and fans cheered when he went down. I think that's one of the most distasteful things that that takes can take place in sports. Why, as I spoke about before, when you leave the basketball court, any injury that used to staying on the basketball court, that injury does not go away when you walk off

that basketball court. It's not like, hey man, I go on the basketball court and anything that happens to me there. Once I walk off that court, I'm fine. You know, if I get an elbow to the eye and my eyes swallen on the court when I leave that court. It doesn't stay there like you live those things every

single day of your life. And so, um, when when Toronto fans blew Kevin Durant or cheer Kevin Durant, cheer when he injures himself, that's so distasteful that a effects how he feeds his family, be he has to now rehab that for a year, he has to do go on, they're a knife, which is life threatening. Um, you have to do all of these things. You don't just leave

that injury on the court. And so it's so distasteful because, um, contrary to popular belief, we are actually human beings and you actually feel that pain when you leave that basketball court, and when you leave that gym, you actually can't go home and possibly play with your kids, or you know, you can't go on and you know, do the necessary things or or all about your normal life like you

normally do. And so it's such a distasteful thing because you're a fan of a basketball game or basketball team, being a fan of a basketball team, but understand that there are actually human beings that you're watching, and sometimes it's you need to learn how to step outside of Oh man, I'm cheering for this team, and this happened

and that helps my team. No, no, no, Because if somebody come in your job and slap you in the face or kick you in the face, or elbow you in the face or harm you in any way, and other people they are laughed at you, you feel away. Now, when I say feel away, it's not that it's not that my feelings are hurt per se. Because again I did what I wanted to do, and like I said, it felt very good to do as I did. And I mean it may have felt too good. I must be honest with you. I enjoyed every moment of that

every second of that moment, I enjoyed it. So don't feel bad for me. I got off what I wanted to get off, and like I said, it was worth every penny. See what you don't understand is you when you get ejected from games, you get a fine. I didn't get my money's worth on that fine. But I got my money's worth on whatever fine it's coming my way.

You know. Immediately in that moment, I said, all right, I mean they're about to flip them off from not And there's there's been this, there's been this, this um, this clip coming to my Instagram and come into my Twitter of of myself and Maverick Carter. Um. This was in the very early early days. If I'm not mistaken, it was the very first episode of of spring Hill Slash Uninterrupted, hosted by Maverick Carter's show Chasing Dough Kneading Dough.

I'm sorry kneading Dough. And when I did that, Hey, it was probably six or seven years ago. But be twenty tho dollars is still two dollars. What I'm telling you is I justified in my mind that it was worth whatever price that I was gonna pay at that point twenty thousand dollars and still twenty thousand dollars, which is why you also see I said, I'm going to go doing her parents and make that money up because I still want my twenty thirty forty. I don't know

if I'll get fine. I think Kyrie Irving may have gotten fined fifty thou dollars. There were multiple There were multiple instances there. I had one, so I don't know if I'll get fined that. But again, this is me you're talking about, so I probably will. Maybe it will see that, But the moral of that story is I got my money's worth. And so when you're sending me the clip that says all, when it says me saying twenty dollars is still twenty dollars, No, that's a fact.

Twenty dollars is still twenty tho dollars. But in that moment, I was totally fine and I'm still totally fine with whatever dollar mine I have to pay because it brought me great joy to give them, the fans and Memphis exactly what they deserve. That you're going to cheer or boo or something with someone and gets hurts, it's just as tasteful and there's no place in sports for that. There's no place in sports for So they are who they are. Maybe they'll do it again, um and in

that moment, I'll decide what I'm gonna do. But in that very moment that happened, I made that decision. I live with that, I stand on that. We move forward. It is what it is. The booze will be louder in Game five kudos. Let's get it before we go to the next series. We have our first ever mid pod breaking news. What Adrian Wildrin Raski says that Dylan Brooks is going to be suspended for the next game. Your thoughts, Dylan Bruce is going to be suspending next game? Wow,

that just happened right away. Um, breaking news. That is interesting. You get my live reaction. Um. I mean again, what's the debate if he should have been suspended two games with blah blah blah. I think it's legit it. Um. You know, you get thrown out for a flagrant too. And as I've said clearly, intent doesn't matter anymore. I'm whether he was intention or not, it doesn't really matter to me. But the reality is Gary Payton a second is out for an extended period of time. It was

a nasty fall defensive player. I get it. He's suspended for one extra game. Kudos to them. Doesn't change our method of attack. We still got to do the same thing. Um. You know, we'll see how the fans feel about it. Do they think it was enough? Wasn't not enough? I respect the accountability, uh from the NBA. You gotta hold guy's accountable. I've been held accountaball. I always respect the accountability. So we'll see. I mean, you know, he's he's ejective

for the next game. Still a tough game for us. As you can see, he was ejected pretty much the whole game. Last game we lost, so uh low hanging fruit for me. Yesterday, there's a lot of news in sports talk world, in the sports talk world, UM, but in particular J. J. Reddick sending the clown back to the circus um number one. I'm not sure where this dog, this,

this um bad dog guy really came from. Um. I've i've I really noticed him, maybe over the course of the last couple of months, um going up and just screaming to the top of his lungs when he's sitting next to stephen A. Yesterday. Uh, he goes on TV and he says, America is tired of Draymond Green. I'm not sure what gives him the right to speak for America, what he's he's done in his life for her, you know. I mean, he sits in on stephen a show and screams.

So I'm not sure who he's become in sports or in media to say how America feels, um and what gives him that right? Uh, but we're not shocked that he would think that he has the right to speak for America. He then proceeds to say, shut up and play. I'm not wanting to really pull a race car very often, um because I think you know, we all know the role that race played in the world that we live in, and so I'm not really wanting to pull the race

car very often. But that definitely had a very racist connotation. Um. Just I mean, he a very racist undertone and and even even beyond it being having the race his undertone. We don't need to go any further than who are you? Who are you to say, like, what have you done in your life to say America's tired of him? Shut up and play, shut up and play. As I said on my Instagram capturing the other day, those shut up and play shut up in triple days, those are long gone.

We don't we don't, we don't listen to that anymore. We don't want to hear it anymore. It has no place here, nor will it be tolerated. I also proceeded to say it's time for you to go home and sit on your couch and be and thank the Good Lord that I didn't want his job. I meant that from the bottom of my heart. Before I signed with Turner, I was actually offered a spot on first tape. So there's your backstory for I don't I don't play games. I don't play these reindeer games. When I speak, I

speak from the heart. When I speak no, it's real, it's thoughtful, and and more importantly, it's truthful. When I say, sincerely, yours the new media. What I mean by that is the landscape of media is about to change. You will no longer be allowed to sit there and say what you want. You will no longer be allowed to put out these false narratives. You will no longer be able to allow to not know what you're talking about, and we're going to listen to you. Those days are long gone.

You know why, because we have guys like JJ Reddick, who's done it, who speaks it, who knows how to to speak on any different topic, who's not afraid to shut an idiot up. When I say sincerely, yours the new media, you will be held accountable and you will have to know what you're talking about. In order to speak on these sports, you will have to know what you're talking about, and a will in order to to speak on this game of basketball. You know why, because

we're doing it now. We're doing it now and we speak it and we can do it so so bad. Dog, go thank the good Lord that I didn't want your job. You can have that. But just no, you will be held accountable. I will be watching you and embarrassing you. So make sure when you go up there screaming and yelling and talking all of that nonsense out the side of your net. Oh now, buddy, you will be held accountable. You will believe that I'm holding it. I'm holding everything

you said accountable. The days of the media holding players accountable and you no longer being held accountable over We're not living with that no more. Sincerely, yours the new me to you. Moving on to other game twols, the Celtics and Bucks. Jackson's happy. Everybody clap it up for Jackson one time, for the one time. Let's go the

Celtics come out one oh nine to eighties six. Now, if you remember correctly, I said when we were talking after game one, if you're both of those teams, you leave that game like we didn't do this well, we didn't do that well, and we would see who got the better well. I said, specifically, Johannice. Won't you know if you're the Bucks, you think Johannice won't shooting nine for twenty five again. Johannice had a rough shooting night again. Um, and that has a lot to do with the Boston

Celtics defense. I don't know. After two games, you can see, uh, the Celtics they are really really really loading up on y'all. Honest, They're making it tough. And also, I think the thing that most people don't understand about the Celtics and what makes their defense so great is they have so much length. And so even when Joannice is driving past one guy or you know, driving into one guy, you have another

two guys coming over. There's so much length. I mean, they're starting lineup goes six eleven, six ten, six nine, six eight or six seven whatever you consider. Jalen Brown, and then they started Derek White who's six five, so they're starting and Marcus Smart normally starts with six five. So they're starting line up. There's so much length, and it really makes it hard, especially especially for someone um

like Janice who really lives in the paint. It really really really makes it hard for Jannice and so U their defense has done a great job. Now and saying that this sire, and before we talk out the series moving forward and back to Milwaukee, Jalen Brown came out with avengeance. Jalen Brown came out, he said, I'm gonna

dominate my matchup, and Jayson Tatum then picked up from there. Now, the beautiful thing about that is everybody and now I spoke about this before everybody was talking about Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum can't work, blah blah blah. You be very careful in getting rid of a number two who can come out and start like that and get you thirty points. I'm gonna say that again, breaking that up.

It's good to see those young guys working. But Jalen Brown, I mean the way he came out and started that game seventeen points in the first quarter, it was beautiful. He put his stamp on the game, and Boston rode from there. Now, with the series moving back to Milwaukee, you have Boston, they've done their job and and getting

into one one. But now you have Boston going and they're feeling good knowing that we can stop your honest can't stop him, but we can make him take tougher shots and throw off the percentages and and just live with the tough Ones. The thing about that is, going back to Milwaukee, all of those other guys are gonna shoot better. They're gonna shoot better on the road. They're gonna play better more like Game one, Grace and Allen

got it going. Those guys are really gonna shoot better at home, which then makes that defense have to extend out more and it creates more lanes for Drew and for your honest to drive. So that's what I'll keep an eye on um going into that game, is how the how the other guys shoot the ball, because role players, as I've said before, role players play better at home. So that's something to watch for. I think that will help unlock your honest, But that is definitely something to

wash for. The Miami heat goes up too. Oh on Philly, I'm not gonna spend much time here. If Joel comes back, we'll talk about this series. Joel, don't come back. That one's over the Phoenix Suns versus the Dallas Mavericks. I do want to talk about this one because the Phoenix Suns, what they showed last night was and I was watching that game in the first half and I'm like, man, it's only a four point game, two point game. Dallas

was playing pretty good. Phoenix weren't playing good. CP nor book had got it going yet, and the game was right there. I knew they were in trouble, and so the Phoenix Suns showed why they are the number one see they I mean Chris Paul. One thing that Dallas has to understand is if you're in a position where you don't have deep book going, Chris Paul is He's about to be thirty seven years old. He's a great player still, but as you get older, you just can't

do that all the time the whole game. And what what Dallas has to realize is when they have Chris Paul teams, when they have Devin Booker under wraps, they have to take advantage of those leads. They have to take advantage of those times and build the lead up. You can't just sit around four but because at some point Devin Booker is gonna make shots as he did, and at some point Chris Paul is going to take over the game. We know that that's who Chris Paul is.

He's always been that way, but even more so now that he has to preserve energy more just that's just how it goes as you get older. It was absolutely beautiful to wash the way he took over that game. He's calling Luca into every switch. Now people may say, oh man, they're calling Luca and every switch, and that's

important because they're scoring. You know why. That's also important because it's not allowing Luca to rest on that end, and he carries such a heavy load on the offensive end and a heavy burden that the energy that that requires is through the roof. Well for Luca now having to defend that as well. I mean, that's that's a very very, very tough one and it's taking those legs away. So that's something to watch. As we saw Jason Kidd say, other guys gotta step up. It can't just be Luca

a Gettin thirty. You can't do that in the playoffs. But they're going home and the other guys will shoot better at home. Luca will get them shots. And so that's what I'll be on the watch out four, just putting Luke in the action, draining his legs. And as you see, by the third quarter he had two points. That's hard to sustain that over the course of forty eight minutes. So um, I actually think Dallas will go home and they'll play better, But the Suns are controlling

that series right now. They will end up winning by twenty. Last night, I wouldn't say it was necessarily a twenty point game, but they won by twenty. You Dallas has to make some adjustments and they have to find a way to get those guys involved early, in particular Jalen Brusson. Jalen Brusson is gonna need to play better. They're gonna need that second guy if they're gonna have a chance to be the great defense like the Phoenix Suns. That's gonna be a rat for this episode of The Draymond

Green Show. We would be back next week. We have some interesting news, a few things that may go your way, but you will need to tune into the pot next week. And we have some exciting news for you coming here from me Lie from The Draymond Green Show this week. That's a rap piece.