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The playoff standings just sitting here, Jackson, and the playoffs standings are like every day someone's moving. Last night you had us get a row win finally after eleven game losing Street. We're sitting on a plane playing cars last night and Steph goes, yeah, man, number eight, and it was actually just hard to believe, like eight row wins. It's absolutely ridiculous. But I'm not stating anything that you don't know. However, I'll take it. We got one. Now
we need to get another one. We need to get another one here tomorrow. Here in Dallas. It's a very big game. As you know, we're right there in the standards. Actually who we flipped back and forth with the other night, well last night and so Dallas was on the road at Memphis with a big fourth quarter league and they
lost it. Memphis came back, they took the game. Dallas drops a little bit in the standings, but in saying that, we are one game or maybe even a half a game a part in the standards from Dallas, and so tomorrow is a huge game. They've had Kyrie back for a couple of games. Now Luca has still been out, but for some reason, I expect Luca to play tomorrow, which quite frankly, you always want guys in teams to
play there best players. Not that Lucas playing, not playing for a good reason, he's dealing with an injury, but for me, like playing against teams with their best players and like obviously Lucas one of the best players in the NBA, Like that gets you up. The NBA stretched run is upon us huge matchups across the league as my Dubs and I battle with the teams in the West for playoff position. Gonna be a lot of fun
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it's impossible to get up for every NBA game. Now I'm saying that nine games left in the season with where we are understanding as every game matters, So it's not that, but you want to play like like that's where signature moments is created in the NBA, like when you're playing Marquee guys, when you're playing in Marquee games. And so definitely looking forward to Luca getting back healthy. Obviously if that's not tomorrow, you know hopefully pretty soon.
It's great for the NBA, it's great for everybody. We have nine games left in the season, that is five at home and four on the road. I think that bowls well for us because quite frankly, we win more at home, and we're pretty good at home. We're really good at home, not so much on the road. And saying that, I, you know, look at our remaining four games that we do have on the road, and I think they're very winnable games. Hasn't been quite that way
for us. But wouldn't it be amazing, Like, wouldn't it just rack everybody's brain if, like, the Warriors win the next four games on the road headed into the playoffs and everybody's been talking like all that garbage all year, and then you want to go and you know, you want to go on your screens and stuff and say, oh man, they can't win on the road. And then that's followed by but they close out the season strong on the road and just kind of put fear in
everyone's hearts going into the playoffs. I think that'll be interesting on my run of show My Rundown, you know, where I give my topics and stuff Jackson has on there. Can the Warriors win in the playoffs without Wiggins or Gary and to answer that it'd be tough, like two of your best wing defenders, Dante's incredible wing defender as well, but it'd be tough. You know, you're talking two guys, super athletic, two of the more athletic guys on your team.
Let's not understate that, because that's huge, especially when you get in the playoffs, you started playing against different schemes and sometimes you just need that super athletic guy to like break the wall, you know, Like Joe Dumars said to me, as you all may know, Joe Dumars is like a father to me so many things that I know in life and like just taught me in life, the possibilities in life. Taught me so much. And I remember back in the day Joe d telling me, like, Draymond,
you need fence benders. I'm like, what the hell is that, Joe D. He's like, you know, sometimes you just need the guy to bend that fence back so they've been the fence and then your defense can't attack, your offense can't attack. I didn't understand that when I was in college of high school because I didn't understand the NBA game.
I totally get that now, like and pretty much. What he was just saying is you need a guy who can get in the paint driving kick or get to the paint and break the defense down to get the first domino to fall. So the way Steve Kerr say is to get the Once you get the first domino to fall, then everything else starts to fall from there and then you swing. Now they're planning, you know, you're attacking clothes out. I said, all that say that is Wiggins,
like that is Wiggins for this team. So as important as he is defensively, that's who he is for this team as well, and so you definitely miss that. And then Gary obviously get us. Getting Gary back, it's huge. Gary is a six two live threat. Me and Louone always laugh about what we call GP to six two five man. However, he's one of the best live threats I've played with, which is absolutely insane. But his hands
on the defensive end like that will help everything. So to answer your question, yes, we do need both of them like and hope to get them back. But speaking of which, I want to let you all know how absolutely ridiculous most of you people are at life, like the fact that a rumor about Andrew Wiggins. I don't know if it's true. I'm not here to confirm whether
it's true or not. I really don't care, Like it ain't got nothing to do with me, Like I you know, you hear stuff like that and you care for like him and her, like in their children, you know, Like so I care from that perspective, But like whether what y'all saying is true not really like has no bearing on my life, nor does it have any bearing on
y'all life. The fact that basketball, and I always say this on this podcast, like the fact that basketball, that people are so bad at evaluating basketball that you start to run with someone's personal life to try to decide like why they're not playing basketball. Like imagine if somebody if you were missing time at your job and somebody started the whole rumor about like your kids not being
yours and like yeah, yeah, like that's ridiculous. Man. Now again, I'm not here to say whether it's true or false. I don't know, not my business. But point being, it's not yours either. Like y'all are so thirsty to know what's going on in someone's life that that becomes the thing. People better have some cold, hard evidence if you're gonna make that a thing. And quite frankly, I've just seen people talking like I've seen no evidence of anything. You
just see people talking. That's insane, that's nuts. Like the fact that people are so nosy and so consumed on what someone else do in their life, not basketball in their life, that that is the story, that's the thing, with no confirmation of nothing. Sometimes people disgust me, like we live in a disgusting world. It's disgusting. That is ridiculous, And like I said, whether it's true or false, I
don't know if the world will ever know. Quite frankly, I don't think it matters for the world to ever know if it is or is it. The fact that it's a thing with nothing to show it's absurd. But y'all have to remember, man, as people, kids gotta live with that. So to just start saying that, man, I don't know, that's ridiculous, it's cringeworthy. It's cringeworthy. It actually it actually makes me lose more and more hopeful. Humanity
is disgusting. So in saying that, yes, we do need wigs back, yes we do need gp back, But as you know, you gotta roll what you got. Hopefully we'll get GP back here sooner and wigs will see. But like, if you're not gonna talk facts, stop gossiping. Like and when I say talk facts, I have the proof of blah blah blah. Stop gossip is stop Like you don't know what someone is dealing with and then you make them deal with that. What if that's not what the
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dot one eight hundred Gambler dot net West Virginia. In switching topics, my spartans are back in the sweet sixteen. The goat mister marsh himself time Izzo is in his fifteen sweet sixteen in twenty five years as the head coach of Michigan State. I thought that was an incredible stat. We don't come sweet sixteens at Michigan State. We don't hang banners for sweet sixteens at Michigan State. We don't even talk about though at Michigan State. So it's incredible.
Is one of the goats that's not to be debated. I don't do Iszo slander from anymore. We don't do that. We're gonna keep a real culture. The defensive clinic that was put on display against Marquette, we saw number eleven Big East Player of the Year. That brother didn't look like he wanted to be on the floor. I put out a tweet. I thought it was this. This actually
is a lot in the same lines as Wigan. I thought it was crazy that I'm watching that game and they're like, we can you find war though, Like his dad doesn't want to be on screen. He just asked for privacy. He doesn't want to be on TV, and then they like do everything they care to find the guy and actually find him. He actually asked, I don't want to be on TV, and I tweeted, I see why he didn't want to be on TV. His newest He knew his son was showing up. He didn't want
to show faith. No, But honestly, what aj Tyson, the guys that was guarded, what they did to him was beautiful. Totally took him out the game. Michigan State shot offul from three awful. I think we may here two or three threes. Great shooting team. Shot offer from three dominated the game, dominated the game. Tom Iszole has this saying he always tell us, you get me the first game
of the weekend, I'll get you the second one. And man, by the time you see him we play Friday, that first game, by the time you see him Sunday morning, bags under his eyes, he hasn't slapped like love coach looks ridiculous, But you see these other coaches. They will arrested, hair slick back, looking good. They have they lose to Iszol. You will never see a team go into a game against Tom Iszole. Coach team more prepared. Will not happen?
Played four years there never happened, won't. It's not a thing. Our guards showed up, Man Tyson, Tyson Walker showed up. Aj Hogar showed up, Big Shot Joey Buckets showed up. And the way Mattie Sisoko was guarding the big fella. I tipped my heart to the young fellas. Now we got to Sweet sixteen, We got Kansas State. I got a lot of best going on this, Jacob Pula looking for Mike Beasley, some of y'all. Somebody tell Bees to hit me or I'll hit Bees. Need to beat Mitch Richmond,
run TMC, the Warriors, Legend Hall of Famer. I'm looking for you. Spartan dogs were here. We come in and take our path to the final four is a beautiful war It's a beautiful one. And I'm looking at this Elite eight like, oh, we're gonna match up with Tennessee. That's deja vu, my second, my second final four. You know who I beat to go to the Final four, Tennessee.
Deja vu? But I feel it. As soon as I looked at our bracket, I said, oh, man, that's a beautiful path to the final four because when you're when when when you're a disciple, is the first thing you do when you get it, when you get a As you look at your path to the final four, again, we don't count sweet sixteens. For those of you that do. That's incredible, it's great. It's not a thing at Michigan State.
It's just not a thing. It's levels to this. I saw something that said as Michigan State the blue blood. Well we quite quite frankly we agreen. But I get your point. For sure, you get it. Shout out to my sparks can way for them to get it done on Thursday lies, but not least before we get out of here. The MVP race. By the way, Jackson wants me to talk about Kyrie not taking Dillon Brooks Jersey Wow, Wow Wow, Joe l m b in Jannis onto the Koompo, It's who. I felt like the MVP race has come
down to Joker incredible year. As of late, he slipped and those guys has continued to ascend. As of late, the Denver Nuggets has slipped and those two teams has continued to ascend. Both players are absolutely amazing. Um honest. The other day had a perfect triple double, which was great triple double numbers, one hundred percent from the field, one hundred percent from the three, incredible game. Joel continues
to do what Joel has been doing. They took a tough loss last night at home versus the Bulls, but Joel has been doing it. I think it's important how they close out the season. They've been winning. That's like I said, that's a tough loss last night. It's important to see how they close out the season. We know how the Bucks closing out the season. The Bucks ain't really losing many games. So right now in the MVP race, I think it's Joel. I think it's Joel's award to lose.
I think the way he loses that award is his team starts losing because Joel gonna put up Joel numbers. Joel gonna do what Joe have been doing. It's Joel's award to lose. It's interesting how much things are changing. You look at the standings, they're changing at these MVP. Stuff is changed. Joel should get his first MVP this year. I don't expect Philly to hit some crazy losing street and be that they won't do that it should be
Joel salute. But like, let's let's discuss something how much individual games shots, like like MB's game winner a couple of weeks ago, Like how much does that matter in the conversation. The reality is this when you think about like a Heisman moment, right like you have those moments and like people will go back to it, like there's
the Heisman moment right there. The reality is is like, at this point in the season, you should have some of those moments because those plays like put you on the forefront and they boost you, and so at this point in the season, I think that's a thing. But it's hard to say that all year unless it's like some crazy marquee game, because it's just so many games, like eighty two games. It's hard to say like one
one buzzer beater or something. It takes the case, like I said, in Joel's case, I think it does because it's just so fresh, everything so close, and so every big moment that you can have right now matters. But in most cases, I don't think it really matters. In the NBA, just like I said, it's just so many games, Like when you're playing eleven games in the college season,
that Heisman moment. Yeah, yeah, it matters in those eleven games, but eighty two it's tough to say those things matter and saying that Janni's perfect triple double matters in that in those standards because it's so new, it's so fresh. It's right now. See eleven games left is ten games left, nine games or some team. So it matters right now. But over the grand scheme of things over the course
of the season, like the entire season. Unless you hit like shots like Steph at OKC back in twenty sixteen, I think it will like unless it's shots like that, it's tough to say those are like MVP breaking movements and saying that. I think Joel's helped give him more of a boost game winner. They're on the street bam for Tracy. I think Janni's perfect triple double helps because
it's right now, not so much. Do you think individual like matchups matter like Joel When they play the Bucks, for example, the sixties or two and one against the Bucks this year on April second, they play at Milwaukee with the week left in the regular season, I feel like people are gonna be sort of keying in on that individual matchup, But do you think that matter? They're not always guarding each other, Like does performance against each other matter? In the MVP race? It's not mono or
two amano or mano amano. Right, it's not Joel's garden, Jannis and Yannis played well, or it's who dominates the game, who leads their team to a win. You know, like that could matter because everyone's watching that game, you know, like you got voters, these are people, These are human beings. They're watching that game, and so you don't know the
slightest thing that could tilt someone. You know, like all you need is like one little edge, because that person's gonna take that pin, they're gonna take that paper, they're gonna check that like and you don't know what's on their mind that day. It could be like, man, I just watched Joel get off on Yannis and Milwaukee, right, Like I could just watch Yannis carry Milwaukee to a win, and like, so you never know what that one thing is to like till someone. And because it's human beings,
it's not a computer. You emotions is a part of it, Like your emotion towards it is a part of it. If one of these guys lead you on a high note, your emotions may take over, and so I think at this point, like just like the shot, it matters at this point. But again, it won't be a duel or like oh man Jan has had thirty seven Joel had thirty three. Like it's gonna be who dominated in a fashion to help their team win the game. And not that if you lose this game, you don't win MVP.
But I think that's what it boils down to, just because of the the point of season we're in. That's gonna be a rot from this episode of The Draymond Green Show. Make sure y'all check it out. Got interview coming up later this week. Check that out. Stay locked in on the NBA's get real good. Let's go Dubs. We need more row wins until next time piece,