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After a tough loss, I am very pissed off, but let's get right into it. Lakers took tonight one seventeen to one twelve. You're still home for the Beantach. Pretty frustrating game for myself. AD had a great great performers thirty points, twenty three boards, five assists, Steph twenty seven six and three lowin another twenty rebound game with twenty three boards. It was great to see JP find himself with twenty one points. But let's just get into a
little bit and we will talk about these things. Number One, a D having.
The game that he had, we have to do a better job there.
I think when you allow a great player like a D to kind of get a couple easy looks early changes things for him. Uh see the see the ball go in early, and he had it going. I think he was nine for ten at the half. But just those couple of early mid range jumpers, you know, really allowed him to find this rhythm. And you know, once you've let a great player find their rhythm, it's tough. It's tough to break it, and you know we never
did and you know he had a dominant performance. We can do a much better job at the point of attack. I think uh our and especially in pick and roll. I thought he got a lot of them out of the pick and roll. So our pick and roll covers can be better. You know, it sometimes takes us a little getting used to it, especially you know a series of series when you completely change your game plan, you know,
sometimes it takes some adjustment. So we'll make those adjustments and you know, get back accustomed to you know, the pick and roll covers that will need to play against these guys, and.
You know, overall, be better and.
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I thought, which was I didn't think we challenged him a ton at the rim, you know, which you know, he still was able to get some good blocks. He got the one on steps like under him kind of runner slash, floater slash, finger roll slash, whatever you want to call the shot.
But that was that was a very big block. So you got to give him credit.
He dominated on both sides of the floor and that's so on, you know myself to try to change that and I'll take that one on the chin steph twenty seven points. He really got to go in there late in that fourth quarter. It'll be good to kind of figure out how to get him lose. Jared Vanderbilt did a really good job defending. You have to give him a lot of credit. Shorder also did a good job defending.
Have to give him some credit as well. But I think there are some things that we can get to the free stuff up a little bit more, and especially with me when I'm on the floor, got to stay out of foul trouble and stay on the floor. But when I'm on the floor, I think there are some things that I can do to get him the ball.
So I think we can be better there.
As I said, Cavon Looney had an incredible game twenty three boards.
Again, Man Lune is a rebounding machine.
I think he has seven offensive rebounding machine doing an incredible job.
And you know.
When he having games like that, you know we got to make sure we capitalize on that and win. I think we had twenty one threes that we made. They made six, five or six threes, but the free throw discrepancy was huge. I think, you know, they were twenty five for twenty nine from the line and we were five for six. And you have to do a better job of defending without filing.
I thought, you know something they're going to get filed.
They you know, they play a lot at the RIM, say they're going to get some files. But I thought there was some that we could have been better and taken away, especially when they're in the bonus. I think we gave them six or eight away from the riom free throws or away from the RIM files. That led to free throws because we were in a penalty and you know, you take those out and it's twenty one free throws and as opposed to twenty nine, that changes things,
changes things a lot. So just got to control what you can control and take the ones away that we know we can take away, and I think we'll do a better job there. It was also good to see Jordan get going. Jordan had twenty one his six threes, six three, five threes, I'm sorry, five or six. He was five for eleven or six or eleven from three, but that's neither here north there. His six threes, but that's neither here north there. I know everyone's talking about the last three that he missed.
Quite frankly, I liked the shot.
You know, you obviously, you know you tell him to eat up the space and take three a little bit closer as there was. You know, he could have en up the space. But Jordan can shoot the ball, and he got a good look at it. Yes, you want him to take a couple of steps in and get it even closer three, But Jordan taking that three is not why we lost that game. And I know everyone's going to point at that one plan say he should have never shot that three.
Prior to that three, he was six for ten, So.
You gotta got six for ten that you know can shoot the pits out of the ball, and you get open three, you live with it. There were some things that I personally could have done to make sure we weren't even in that situation. I played like shit, I am not. I am disgusted with myself right now. Number one, getting a foul trouble. Can't get in foul trouble. I gotta stay on the floor, spend a thing lately, and I have to be better, you know, take a couple
here and there. Can't do that. You know, my third five was on the gendervial. Jared Vanderbilt put back like, if he gets the two points, we go down.
Life goes on. So I have to be smarter.
And not put us in that position. That throws off rotations, that throws off matchups, that throws off a ton of things on top of me not being on the floor. So I gotta be better and smarter, and I will be to make sure I'm there for my team, which will also lead me to having a better game. I thought I got off to a good start, and you know, with the file trouble, I lost my rhythm and I never really found it again. So that'll be better for us.
Klay Thompson was really good, really aggressive. We're going to need him to stay aggressive, aggressive as he was. And I'm telling you, man, Lebron is playing a totally different style, a totally different game than we've ever seen them play before, and it's interesting figuring it out.
It's very interesting.
For like, you're not used to seeing Lebron off the ball so much, and so I thought that was interesting and something that we'll have to adjust to. It's just not your typical Lebron running the show, which which is a bit weird. But in saying that, some of the things that I liked about that game for us, I thought, you know, we shot the three pretty decent, and we got shots that we wanted to get to and you know, with their defensive scheme, they present some challenges.
But I thought we got.
Some really really really good looks and some of it we made.
Some of them we didn't, But you live with that.
Usually you shoot twenty one, you make twenty one threes in another team make six dots. I mean that usually will win you the game. Let's see, that's fifteen more threes. That's forty five points more from three. They made up some of that twenty. They made up twenty of those points from the free throw line that you know, you know, but overall, you have to get them some credit. Give them a lot of credit. They came in, they took
home court advantage. It's going to be on us to come out in game two, make sure we take our business and game two and then go down to LA and get one, preferably two, but get one. Some things that I did not like was, like I said myself, getting in foul trouble, the amount of files that we.
Had I thought could have been better controlled.
And then I think we had a couple laws on offense where we.
Weren't really getting into anything good.
And if we can take that away, I think that was one time where they went up ten, where they were up ten for a good amount, but when they first initially went up ten, we were in the middle of a law and so we can do a better job there and we will very quick turnaround. The turnaround was definitely not the reason we lost or especially from
an energy standpoint. But as far as the game plan goes, I think we'll continue to get with our get better with our game plan as we always do a series goes on, but we'll continue to get our game plan together, continue to tighten up more things. Now that you've seen this team once in game one, you start to figure
some things out, and that's however series goes. I thought we were doing a really good job on DiAngelo Russell, then we started letting them get losed quite a bit, so be important that we do a better job on d Lo. I thought we did a really good job on Austin Reeves, which was really big, and we also have to do a better job on Shoulder. I'm not sure how many points, but he had a really really big impact on the game, so we'll have to do
a better job Guard and Dennis as well. He's been an X factor for those guys all year coming off the bench and he's going to play a ton of minutes.
We know that, so.
We'll have to do a better job there. But overall in this series, I like our chances. I like, you know, some of the things that we saw tonight. There's a few things that we can clean up. I can play a lot better. I will play a lot better. As I said, I'm disgusted with myself. I was awful, and I'll be better. I know I'll be better. I trusted me, I trust in our guys, and I know we'll get it done. So very frustrating one obviously, coming out you
want to take game one, but they got it. Tip your hat to him, lay them back up, go back to well first, go back to the drawing board tonight and tomorrow could like I said, continue to doll our game planning and you lay them back up and go back out there and take game two. That'll be our goal, that's our focus. I'm looking forward to doing that whole other series. Before we get out of here, I said, I gotta I need to go watch this film.
I know what I'm gonna see. Fucking disgusting.
But Celtics lose Game one without Joel and B James Harden forty five points. I find it very funny and ironic that James and last series was just saying, like, man, I come out to get twenty and people say I'm not the old James hard But when I was getting forty and fifty, everybody says you can't win that way, and he backed that up and came right out and got forty five when he needed the most. With Joel out number one, congratulates Before I go into that, Congratulations
to Joel and B on winning MVP the Drama. He is a dre the Draymond Green Show guest. It was great to have him on, as if you haven't heard that conversation, you should go back and check it out. It was extremely fun, extremely insightful, and just kind of hearing you know, just his his process and you know his background and all of those things. Was extremely fun. So, like I said, if you haven't listened to that, go back and check it out. But congratulations, long overdue and
well deserved. I think you know Joel has been putting together cases for the last few years. Not that a joker wasn't deserving, because he was very deserving, but happy to see Joelle get it because he's I think.
I really have an issue when when people are.
Aren't necessarily forthcoming in what they want forthcoming in their goals. And by the way, I know somebody else say I'm talking about Joker, I'm not talking about Joker. Joker has number one. He has two MVPs. If he ever never wins another one, he's a two time back to back MVP. So I'm not talking about Joker, and I'm not a sneak thiss or if I was talking about Joker, I will say so before you run with your little headlines like oh, Draymond takes a shot at Joker, your fucking line.
But I love when people.
Are outwardly speaking about things that they wanted. Joel has been speaking about winning the MVP since he came in the NBA, and to see him actually put the work in and go do that through all the injuries, getting healthy, playing enough games like, I applaud that and I respect that because it's easy to sit behind it and never say nothing but that's what you're really gunning for. It's very easy to do that because if you never win, no one ever said anything because you never said anything.
To put that pressure on yourself and actually go deliver. I got a bunch of love and respect for that. So again, congratulations to Joel and b hell of a player, well deserved. It's good to see him finally put that up on his mantle because it's.
Been long overdue.
But as I was saying and getting back to Philly winning that game and James hard and forty five point night, I was really surprised with Al Horford's defense on the last play, Like James is getting to that step back and you know that, and he just kind of let him dance dance and dancing to it.
I thought that was a very interesting, interesting defense.
But also not a very easy shot, although James Harden has made that shot look easy over the years.
Not very easy shot. PJ.
Tucker has zero points, zero shot attempts, but his impact on the game was.
Huge, absolutely huge. That series is going to be fun.
If you're the self, you're the Celtics, you gotta be pissed off that you gave one away at home without Joe, L and B.
Now you got groundmate to make up.
Quite frankly, if I had to guess, I don't think Joel will be back for Game three. Either if four like that, that's a tough injury. And Joel is not your typical big that's doing this back and forth and straight lines. Joel is very shifty and he moves great litterly, and so when you start talking to LCL, it's tough. It's tough. You're talking to four to six week normally recovery time. So I think you know they'll get one
game at least back in Philly without Joel. Not saying they'll win it, but they'll get the same opportunity that they.
Had at home.
But it definitely relieves some pressure from Joel and having a rush. You lose that first one and now you're like, I need to get Now you go in there in game two and you're like, man, we got nothing to lose. Let's go in here fire And that can get really ugly if they go and take game two. So but I expect the Celtics to respond as they always do.
But that series will be fun to watch and also looking to see James Harden gonna channel that forty fifty James Harden, like we all have grown accustomed to him being capable of doing.
The Knicks tie the series up tonight. I won and won.
No Jimmy Butler, it was out with the ankle injury. Julius Randall did come back. Jalen Brunton had a big game. And I actually expected Jalen to have a big game because it's no Jimmy Butler. He's definitely shot the three well, but also you know him getting in the painting, getting fouled. He got to the line, he got some of his his mid range stuff going.
And that's a lot easier to.
Do when you when there's no Jimmy, because then you're putting a smaller defender on Jalen, and that gets tough when when he has a small he's going to He's super smart, super strong, and he's going to take advantage and get the shots that he wants when he has a smaller defender. So actually expected him to get off. Now it's tied up one to one, headed back to Miami, I expect Jimmy to play in Game three. Jimmy's toughest nails man, and honestly, if they didn't win Game one,
Jimmy probably would have been out their game too. But now you're talking, he'll be on four and a half, five to five, four and a half days rest.
Wow, really six days rest.
Between last game and the next game that he'll play as opposed to a day and a half rest and trying to get back out there tonight.
So expect to see Jimmy.
And I am actually expecting Miami to go home and take take Game three. We'll talk about game four when we get there, but I'm expecting Miami to go back home and take game three. And lastly, before we get out of here, the Nuggets are up to oh on the Sons Chris Paul. As we know it is out for at least a week with a growing injury. What does the Sons have to do to turn this thing around?
Well, it's tough. It is tough.
And here's why I think it's tough. Jamal Murray played awful.
He shot off. I wouldn't necessarily say he played offul but he shot off.
Couldn't hit a bucket, hit a couple of big buckets, but couldn't get it going and they won by ten. Could not get it going and they won by ten.
That's trouble.
And so what do the Sons have to do to turn it around? KD took twenty seven shots and score twenty four points. Number one, For KD to take twenty seven shots, it's very uncharacteristic of KD. For KD to have less points than shots, it's extremely uncharacteristic of KD. So what does they what do they have to do to turn this thing around? Well, Number one, they're going to need Campaign to play big, and I don't necessarily see that happening.
He's just missed so much time over the last three three months of the season.
He was injured for a long time, came back for a short time, back injured for a while, and so I just don't know, like if he's going to have enough as far as rhythm and all of those things. But they'll need big performances from camp uh D book got it going in Game two last night from three from two got to the line. They will need better performance out of KD, obviously, and we all know and expect KD to have a better performance. But the one
thing that Phoenix is struggling with is their depth. And you know, that was one issue that we all knew they had with the trade, but they've really you know, that's shown up in this series in a major way. You got Bruce Brown coming off the bench playing incredible for the Nuggets. You got Jeff Green coming off the bench playing really really good for the Nuggets, and the rookie Christian Brown, he's playing his role incredibly well. So you got to give those guys cradits. They've obviously had
the edge there. And Michael Porter Junior also did not play well last night, and so you you hold Michael Porter Junior to a very quiet night, you hold Jamal Murray to a very quiet night and lose by ten.
That's scary. So I think that's something to watch for.
It's un fortunate to see Chris Paul get hurt in the playoffs again. You know, you always want to see guys at healthy and teams at their best and at full straight, which you know, but as I said before, injuries are part of it and the team that stays the healthiest usually have the best chance to win. So we'll see what they can do if they're able to
turn this thing around without Chris Paul. They'll need booking KD gonna have to combine for seventy five eighty points if they're gonna have a chance at turning this series and winning. And guess what, they're more than capable of doing it, so we'll see what'll keep an eye on that series until next time. That is a wrap from this episode of Draymond Green Shaw. I want to thank you all for listening on app. Don't forget to subscribe
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