The Draymond Green Show - Warriors Eliminated + Looking At Next Season

the playoffs? Do you not keep watching the playoffs? Obviously I'm going to keep watching the playoffs because if you want some great analysis, you can come right here and check it out. I'll break this shit down for you like nobody else can. So obviously I have to keep watching for that. But it's like one of those things like all right, do you keep watching playoffs? Do you like, you know, kind of sell off for a little bit and kind of just reset and get away from it.

It's like, weird, man, we haven't been through this since twenty and fourteen. Versus the Los Angeles Clippers losing in Game seven in the first round twenty fifteen through twenty nineteen. Obviously our NBA Finals runs twenty twenty. I mean you can say we were done then, but like, ay, we all weren't playing, and b like the season stopped in March and the world stopped in March, so that's kind

of like a whole different thing. We were all wondering like we would like still be living the next day, and like if you get sick. Like remember at that time, none of us knew anything about COVID except for it was like ramping up. It was shutting the world down. So then you had that. Then you had twenty twenty one, which was Steph was back. I was back. I mean not that I missed time like Stephan Clay by the way, but they went through like some serious injuries and my

year twenty twenty was just awful season. I would say season was awful. I think I played twenty one games or something like that. So there's that. Then you have twenty twenty one, where like the regular season didn't enuntil maybe because Christmas, the season really didn't start till Christmas time due to the pandemic. So even though we lost in a playing game, I think we still finished in like May or something like that. So you can't say that.

And I even think then it was later than this, like if I'm not mistaken, it was like the third week of May playing the playing games, if I'm not mistaken, and then last year obviously winning a championship. So this is the first time we've lost in like any round earlier than the NBA Finals in nine years, and so

like how to feel about that? I don't know, Like, are you sitting there and you're like, man, it's been great nine years to accomplish that, but like we're competitors, like we're not sitting there, and we're also not done, so we're not sitting there like, oh man, it's been a great run and this has been incredible. Like no, that's been kind of the talk, but hasn't been quite the mindset because I think we all do know what

we're capable of. Well, we're still capable of and obviously didn't finish quite the way we wanted it to finish this year, but like we oh, right there, it's still it's still right there for us, and we know we're capable of some retooling we need to happen. Obviously, UM always have to retool your roster after a win or lost, and especially after a loss. I saw Steve Kerr, coach Kerr has said he said, ultimately this team maxed out. And the reality is is, like that's true. Like we

weren't in the playoffs. We were in the playoffs. We were right there from six to ten to twelve for the last month or whatever. Every time we thought like, oh man, we're game ground, you give like, just give a game away. You think about all the games we gave away this year, like literally gift wrap here, Orlando, Uh, gift rap here, Charlotte, gift rap here, Detroit, Pissones like you name it. So many games just like gift wrap

people this year. And the reality is, if you don't give wrapped all of those games, then all of a sudden, you're a forty seven win season, not forty four, forty eight win season, in a totally different position coming into the playoffs, not grinding every game out down the stretch because you have to win in order to get in. Like there was so many things that went into it, like this year and then not turn it ultimately turning out to be the year that we wanted to have.

And so I do say, you guys didn't absolutely didn't let us win another fucking championship. Kudos, congratulations and saying this year, just this year, but it's a you know, everything happens for a reason, and you know we're not gonna sit here and a number one not give the Los Angeles Lakers credit. You got to get him their

credit starting the top Darvin Ham. Uh, you know some of the adjustments he's made, he made this series look like a coach just been in the playoffs street for years and years and years, and obviously he has a ton of experience in the playoffs as an assistant coach, but when you take over as the head coach, that's a different thing, a totally different thing. Uh. Tasked with coming back from a two and ten record to start the season and start his campaign as a head coach.

Job well done, og, job well done. And looking forward to continuing to watch his adjustments as these playoffs go on. One thing I will be talking about on these show is our coaches adjustments and the things that I'm watching these series and the chess match that is the playoffs, and so I will be discussing that as well, and

I know he'll continue to do great things. Did an article the other day, or an interview about an article the other day, just about like Saginaw, like coming from Saginaw and me going like I snuck in the Darbenham camp as a kid, hit like through the side door at the high school, and like full circle to be playing against him with a chance to go on to the conference finals, like we from Saginaw, Michigan, Like that's not a real thing, Like I thought it was so

great for like kids to Saginaw, for kids from Saginaw to not only see me playing in the game, but to look on the other side and like, yo, there's a coach from Saginaw. Like that guy obviously he's an NBA champion as a player, but that guy is from Saginaw. He's coaching. Like the things, the possibilities that can open up in one's mind on what you can be coming from Saginaw, Michigan. So many times athletics sports is our

way out. Like my son DJ, he's always like he loves the coaching side of basketball, Like he likes to talk with the coaches. He be older, like writing stuff on the clipboard, like rebounding for players when he comes to the gym, and all of these things. I know everybody's gonna laugh and be like, oh man, you're lying on DJ, which was crazy, by the way, in that prescottence when that kid said I was lying. We played like four different sports that night at the gym. But

that's my man. No, But honestly, like he always tell me, Daddy, I'm going to be a coach. And that's a realistic thing for him because of my situation. What he's allowed to see, the interactions he's allowed to have. He's not growing up in Saginaw, Michigan, so he's able to interact with Steve Kerr, Mike Brown was one of his favorites.

Coach Q Bruce Fraser, like Gemma, he Jacob Rupin, like he loves the coaching side of it, and like for that to be a realistic thing in his head at six years old, Like to me, that's incredible, and like, ultimately, I want him to know that there's so many other things outside of basketball that you will be able to do too, And that's my job as a parent to

continue to teach him and show him those things. But for him to watch like all of this that's going on and for him to come away with it, like I like basketball, and he'll play it sometimes, but like I want to coach. I think that's so dope because that wasn't a realistic thing for me as a kid

growing up in Saginaw, Michigan. Which goes back to my point of the kid that's growing up in Saginaw, Michigan now and see Darvin Ham coaching leading a team to the NBA Conference Finals, Absolutely incredible and I take my hat off to that. And losing sucks and I hate losing, but that thing makes me feel good. You know, you're always trying to find like the silver line and or the message and things like there's there's messages and wins, there's messages and losses, and like you t how to

find like those things. That's like, man, but that thing though that but this thing, and like that's one of those things. Or like the kid from Saginaw can dream about something more than being Draymond Green and playing right now and Darvin Ham and playing like no, I don't even want to play. I just want to coach. So what's that route, what's that path? I think that's incredible,

So I take my hat off to them. Lebron finished with thirty nine and nine before everybody say, oh, man, Jamichael's post it motivated Lebron James, Like Lebron James is gonna come out and play that way because it's a close out Game six at home and he knows going back to Game seven and chasing it like that, you just don't want to do that, Like, how can you

do that? So the force that he came out playing with Lebron James, I highly doubt it's being moved by someone posting a blue cap on his head on on Instagram story like and I know that's the media. That's the media thing, sports media. Oh, you just don't poke it, like stop. It ain't no poking, no bear at this point in the season, like you try and win, you win or you lose, and you're coming out to do

that regardless. So before everyone run off like, oh Jamichael, you cost this stopping saying that as Bron as the series went on, I know you remember me speaking earlier like, yo, Bron off the ball. As the series went on, you see he got on the ball more, more and more and more and more, and it was more of what we were accustomed to seeing from Bron. I thought it was. It said a lot about him to try taking a different route, a different path, a different doing a different

thing for this team start this series. And then he ultimately went back to I'm going to control everything. I want to get us into the actions that we want to get into. I'm gonna get the game at the place that we wanted that, and he ultimately went back to that, which was more of what like I said, well, we're accustomed to seeing, and I think he did with the game dictated a D seventeen twenty two stills, two blocks. Man.

I always enjoy competing against some of the best. Ad is one of the best in the game, one of the most talented players we got in this league, one of the most gifted guys, special special talent. Obviously, you know we came in together, spend eleven years in this thing. In the battles that we've had. This isn't our first playoff battle. I doubt if it's the last playoff battle, but the battles we've had over the course of these

last eleven years has been amazing. I always enjoy playing against the guys that challenged me to be at my best. And if you're not at your best, it's not good enough. And I wasn't at my best enough this series for it to be good enough. Tip my hat to a d as a competitor. It's a guy who takes a lot of slander, a lot of slander, and you know, he stepped up to the challenge. He's changed their season and and they're headed to the conference finals and he's right at the center of all of that. So I

take my hat off to him. Austin reeves Man, a guy who got off to a slow start in this series, finished with twenty three and I think for the last three three, three four games maybe he played well. He gotta he earned my respect. H definitely earned my respect. He's just competing at the level that he competed a throughout these series. These lights get bright. We've seen guys these playoffs that these lights get bright, too bright, and

they get too bright for a lot of people. Taking my hat to him on how he stood, and like I said, it didn't start off great. And that's a guy who's up for a contract. You start talking about you know, you start struggling the series, you lose that series all of a sudden, like what is the future? Like are you the guy? Are you here? All of those things, and like for the series to not start off great for him and for him to stick with it and had the impact that he had on the

series said a lot to me, said a lot. Like I said, you see so many guys that just shrink in these moments and don't live up to the moment. And if I'm not mistaken, this is his first time playing at this level as far as the playoffs, and you know, making runs and look like he fit right in. So I take my hat off to him. Dennis Schroeder. Dennis Schroeder was a huge key to this series for them. I thought the adjustment to add him to the start

lineup with it came earlier. But you also don't really make adjustments like that when you're not faced with elimination essentially. Now again, remember I said, you see that type of adjustment in game six. That is because they're essentially approaching that like an elimination game, like we gotta go back

for game seven. It's just a coin flip. You just like, you don't don't want that, And so they go to Dennis Schroeder and to start lining up, like I said, which is one that I thought would could have happened earlier, and Dennis had been great for them. The whole series have been great. Defensively, you know, didn't shoot the ball particularly well, but shot it okay well enough, hit timely shots. I wouldn't even necessarily say it was how many the amount of shots he but he hit timely shots. Saw

a series, we'd be on a run. He get to the middle of the pain, hit a little floater, hit a couple of threes like timely. Much respect to him as a competitor. Obviously we had our drawn back and forth in the series, and I enjoy that. Don't take

stuff that happens on the court personal. He changed that series for them, changed the series for them, And it'll be interesting to see what happens with him in free agency this summer, because if he doesn't get a nice contract, it's because people so in all of this stuff, when you're talking social media and media and like his everyday thing,

people like create these perceptions. And so when you like there's a perception that's been created on Dennis due to the contract that he didn't take with the Lakers before, and like that perception lives in people head and so all of a sudden, it's like, oh, well, we can get this guy for cheap. Now, we don't have to pay this guy. And like he's played well above what he's making, well above what he's making, and shown to be an important piece to a possibly championship compendent contending team,

a very important piece, almost their starting point guard. Like you know you got Dlo obviously started at the point, but when Dennis is in the game, Delo plays off the ball most of the time, and Dennis is playing thirty plus minutes in these playoffs, and so he's almost like their starting point guard. Whenever anything's going wrong, he's who who, He's who they're inserting. And so Dennis was a huge key to this series, and I like I

tip my had to him as well. Uh And ultimately, like I said, tip of my hat to all of those guys. They were the better team in this series. And they're moving on with a with a matchup versus the Denver Nuggets. We will get into that before we get out of here. I'll go back to that. Uh, just moving forward thoughts on the future of the Warriors. I know, like I mentioned earlier, Steve said, like this team maxed out and I said, this thing isn't maxed out, but this team was maxed out. Like I can agree

with that, as I said earlier. But when I said this thing isn't maxxed out, what I mean? I mean like we've been rolling. We've been doing this now. I've been here eleven years. We've been rolling for now, and that ain't over, you know. Uh, Like I always say, I'm bro I'm riding out with the same I rolled in with. And what I know about those guys that I rolled in with, still a lot left in the tank. Is still a lot of winning on the you know

ahead of us. Was talking to Clay as we were sitting at the table last night, Todd Clay stuffing myself, just like how important and big of a summer this is? Like how how like locking in? Like how locked in? We need to be like yeah, this Like no, I don't think this is it. I'll say it right here for you. No, this isn't it. Uh. We plan on doing this thing again, that's the plan. Obviously, this is a business and things has to take place. I get that,

But we plan on doing this again. But it's just sitting at the table stressing the importance of like us coming in in shape and like being ready to go and like getting our bodies to the best space that you can get your body, and like how big of a year this is for us next year? And the first thing he said, he said, hell yeah, like like I still want to be and All Star again, I still want to win more check, I want to do

all of these things again. And last summer for me, it just wasn't like that's my first summer two and a half years, a different summer, But I'm ready to attack this summer. And like that was great number one, to just be able to sit there and have that conversation, like so many people aren't opening that conversation, and to know that we can still have those conversations after eleven years.

You always talk about like bands breaking up and like this thing get too big and that thing get too big, and like to still have those conversations eleven years later. That's why we win, and that's why we will win again because it's not just about one guy. It's not you can't say this to me or I can't say this to you, like nah, it's a brotherhood when we it's really that. And so looking forward to this summer, it's going to be a great summer for us, and

it'll be a great year for us next year. And so that's what I meant on this thing is a maxed out. Although that team was maxed out, like we got all we can get out, the team sucks that it did not finish the way you ultimately want to finish. Another thing Clay said I thought was interesting was like, man, I was looking at the Spurs and like what they do They never won back to back championships. Like yeah, it's true, it's like man, so like we still got

more to do. Like absolutely, it's hard to win back to back championships. Ultimately, your team has to get better to win back to back championships. I'm not sure this team got better. I'm not sure this is a better team. I know it wasn't. This wasn't a better team than we had last year. So that's the case in saying that as a competitor, you do all that you can and try to make it happen and win. And I think we did that, Like I said, like Steve said,

it maxed out. It's okay. Another thing that I thought was interested when Steph said there was no change up that we had to throw at the Lakers lineup, and I think that's that's true. Like when you look at rosters having guys like auto Porter, Nomaia bi Elisa, like, those were change ups that you can throw at at different things, like we threw at the Celtics last year. Auto Porter, Like, those were different change ups that you can throw when all this stuff is going on and

it can throw a team off. We didn't, We didn't have as many capabilities to do those things as we have in years past and championship years past. I can agree with Steph on that, and you know, ultimately those things matter when when it's in the playoffs, because again, it comes down to team that's going to play the hardest, uh, the team that's going to play more for us adjustments

obviously skill and talent. That goes without saying, but you know, it comes down to those things, and when your captor limited on how much you can do, it makes a difference, and ultimately those teams usually lose. Like when I look back on this series, I always say there's like, and I don't say this because like we lost, like because there's always a point in the series that we get

to and were like, all right, we got them. They done, and we never got to that point with this team of like, all right, we got them, we got them figured out. Yes, we figured some things out, for sure, getting a D in space, getting pulling him away from the basket, like getting bron in some actions, Like we figured some things out, but ultimately it wasn't enough, Like we didn't figure them out, like we didn't crack the

cold like every series Jackson. Jackson tried to get me to tell y'all last series when we cracked Sacks code, like Draymond as your producer, it's my job to get you to say that, because I would tell him we get on here him like Jackson, we got this team figured out. They can't beat us, like and he got accustomed to that last year. When I would tell him that last year, he's like, oh okay, but like they

really be figuring out. And this year I told them once we figured Sack out, like yo, we got them figured out, they toast and short enough we did, Like this series, we never got to a point to where we were like, yo, all right, we got it, cracked the cold, that's it they done. Obviously we lost, so that goes out saying but like you can get to that point and still lose by the way, and like the ball didn't bounce your way or something like that. But what I'm saying this wasn't like a ball didn't

bounce your way thing. Last night. I thought we got great looks to start the game and they just didn't go in. Like, yes, that is a fact, of course, But in saying that, I still don't think we ever just cracked the cold, Like, yes, we got to a space where we could win games and ultimately got to a space to where we could have possibly won the series, but it still wasn't a cold crack. This is it,

and that's you know. Here we are May twelfth, May thirteen finished, So it makes sense, and that's kind of what the change up talk was. So that's that was that my future with the Warriors. Obviously, I have a player option. I have not had the opportunity. I have the best agent in the game. For those of you out there who don't understand the business or know the business, my agent is mister Richard Paul rich Paul for short for those of you who don't know who Richard is.

He is the best in the business. I said all of that to say we have not had the opportunity yet to sit down and discuss any future things. If I call Rich during the season, I was like, Rich, all right, so here's what I'm thinking for free agent. He probably hang up in my face when you do start to discuss those things, like during the sea Like he has a very very funny way of like veering the conversation a totally different way and not like I Rich was in my wedding, Like that's my brother, Like

that's my big brother, super close to him. So we talk all the time, and it's not in a way of like where you notice he changed the conversation, but he just smoothly to redirect the conversation somewhere else. And in large part that he's like he's not ever jumping the gun. He's not about to talk contract during a season unless it's like, yo, we need to get an extension done before the season is over. That's just not how he operates. And so we have not had that

discussion yet. So as far as future goes, like, I don't know what the options will be, I don't know what my option will be here. I don't know any of those things, so I can't What I can tell you is like I said that last night, which is I want to be here, you know, I want to like this is I've been here eleven years. Like you don't just get out of way, you don't just throw that away. And quite frankly, I think we still have

more championships that we can and will win. So and understand all of that, I want to be here, but also in understanding that this is a business. I know the business side of it. I know the penalties that lie ahead with the new CBA, I know all of those things. I think winning is worth it, and I know we still will win. So there you have it. That's kind of my outlook on the future. When I do have a decision, you will know it here first.

How about that you will know it here first whenever that decision is made, whether I'm opt out, whether I don't know. Again, I don't know what it is. We haven't discussed it. So there's that you all will know first. A lot of people saying the Warriors dynasty are over, which are the same people that said it was over in twenty nineteen when KD left. Four years later, they're still saying it's over. Great, They're always wrong. Those same people are the same folks that said I never make

it in the NBA. Those people are the same folks that so they're a jump shooting team and they won't win. It's those people they're saying the dynasties over. But also know and pay attention to who the people that are saying the dynasty are over. It's always people that have never been a part of a dynasty. You never really see Shaquille O'Neil, the Great Shock, my favorite player as a kid growing up, say oh man, it's over. You know why, because that man understand what it's like. He

gets it. But there's always people that run and say, oh man, it's over. You don't even know how it feels to start it so fast it say it's over. It's not. But we'll prove that again and we'll shut people up again, and that'll be fun to do. That's always the best thing to do. That's always the fun part, looking forward to doing that, because this thing is not over. He closed out the Knicks in Game six. Jaylen Brunson

had forty one points. Hey, y'all, remember that adjustment I told you all about about Jimmy Butler being on Jaylen Brounson I didn't get to see most of the game. I'm not sure when I did see some of the game. Early on, it was not Jimmy Butler, Garden, Jaylen Bronston. It was Cody Martin and a couple other people. But that last possession when Jaylen Brunson turned it over, did you see who was on Jaylen Brunson? It was Jimmy Butler.

Why Because Jayleen drives left middle trying to get to that spot, goes back the other way trying to get to the spot. But you can't bump Jimmy off that spot, and so boom. There you have it. They didn't make the adjustment for the entire game, but when the money was on the line, you had to go Jimmy. I saw something the other day that said Eric Sposcher has never been a Culch of the Year in the NBA.

That is insane, that's nuts. Eric Sposcher is one of the best coaches in the NBA and always, like even when they had them terrible rosters down there, I'm not even sure, Like when you talk about the great Miami he teams, I'm not even sure this is one of the best rosters now, but they always win like they always win, like they always find a way, Like I got so much respect for that organization. I also got

a lot of respect for those guys, Jimmy Bam. How they send it U d out like they haven't had a great year, finished seventh seed, playing lost that eighth seed, and like how they fighting and like to send you d out Like, I think that's super dope. A lot of respect and love for what they're doing down there. Obviously, we know Jimmy in the playoffs and what he's capable of. Band has been playing a lot better. Duncan Robinson's been

playing better. He's been hitting some shots. Definitely missed some shots in that Game five, but he's backed that threat again and I think that's important. Kyle Lawry's been great off the bench. But Heat goes back to the Eastern Conference Finals for the third time in four years. I'm not sure they were projected to go either one of those times and either one of those three times, And that just says a lot about them, about their problem about the guys you have their dogs, you know, like

says a lot about them. I personally think they don't have a chance versus Boston. I do think they could be Philly because you can get Philly in spaces where like you can stop them from scoring keen on Joel. If James doesn't have it going, they have to rely on so many other things, and Miami's defense has always been great. Boston, I don't think they have a chance

to stop Like they cannot shoot them from out. They can score in so many different ways that I don't think they would be Boston, but they would get physical. But Boston has started shown to be able to handle physicality. So I think for the East sake, it's best in Philly wins. However, I think Philly left their opportunity on the table, and now they got to go back to Boston for Game seven. I had to go back to Boston for Game six, not Game seven, not quite game seven,

but game six. It is not a pleasant place, let me tell you. It's just not pleasant. And so I think they're in trouble. I think they let the opportunity to get away. They had the game well in control. Jason Tatum had three points going into the fourth quarter at that point. I think he's like one for thirteen. And I was sitting there watching the game with my homeboy, and I said, yo, if JT can finish five for nineteen, he going to be the hero. He goes to the

savior and the hero. But if he don't finish five for nineteen, he is going to get crushed. He didn't quite finish five for nineteen. He finished five for twenty one. But it was to my point, he hit big shot after big shot, and then when he didn't hit the big shot, he was taking the big shot and like your guys rally around that, and they rallied a rund on it. Marcus Smart had a very good game, kept them afloat. Malcolm Brogden very good game, kept them afloat

the substitutional. The adjustment of Robert Williams going into the start lineup. I told you all they're going to need a game from Robert Williams to win. Putting him on PJ. Tucker and allow him the wrong letting Joe l bang with Al Horford incredible adjustment because Philly can't afford to. You know, they were playing off PJ. Tucker and just making them hit the three, and he hit a couple of them. But Philly can't afford to take PJ off

the floor because they need his toughness. They need all of those little things that PJ brings to a game, and a series of his mind too. They can't take PJ off the floor, So then you stick Rob Williams there, who's like Roman, and Rob Roman will screw your offense. And so down the stretch they had nothing donald stretch. They didn't get stops, Joel didn't get shots, they didn't get good looks, and they let Boston sneak in there and take it after they had Boston beat, had the

game won, and let it get away. And I don't think it's no recovery coming from that one. It actually wouldn't surprise me if they got blasted tomorrow because that's just it's just tough to come back from that. Boston feeling good, They going back home chasing Tatum won't start one for thirteen. Could get ugly. It may get ugly, we shall see. The Denver Nuggets closed out the Phoenix Suns. The Phoenix Suns was down thirty at halftime for the second year in the row. In the close out game

at home, that was brutal. Denver I think gained a lot of respect with that, like showing like, oh no, we're ready to close out. We ready for that next step. I think that's a great note to go into the Western Conference Finals on against a Lakers team who everybody said, oh, they want Denver in the first round. They don't care about the seventh seed. They want Denver. That's a statement. That's a statement sin Now Denver gotta go do it. My quick analysis on that series, the Ad Joker matchup

will be key. I think Joker being able to pull a d from away from the rim is going to be a real thing. Joker operates in that mid in that mid post area, even in the pick and roll, he's catching in the pocket, He's making plays in that area to be important for the Lakers to shrink the floor, forced to skip passes out and take that away, that that pocket away from the Nuggets because they live on that, they feast on that. I think the great thing about Joker, though,

is you can move him all over the court. You can move him to the high post, you can move him to the block, you can move him to the elbow, you can move them to the middle of the paint free throw line area. You can move him around, and that I think will create some issues for the Lakers. Defense, especially with how they want to play with a D but just pulling AD out from the rim. A Joker has not been reluctant to shoot the three this year. When we played them in the playoffs last year, he

wouldn't take many threes. This year, he's letting them go and that changes things, and so that's going to pull a D away from the basket. However, I also don't think Denver has a bunch of guys that can just drive in the paint and get to the cup like they got Jamal Murray. Bruce Brown has shown to be a guy that can get to the cup. But are you losing with Bruce Brown getting to the cup? Although Bruce Brown has changed that team, KCP has changed that team.

They've made them ready to take that next step, But ultimately, I don't know if they have the guys to put the pressure on the rim. Like Aaron Gordon would be matched up with Bron, I'm not sure he's not just powering through Bron. Aaron Gordon is one of your fence benders. We've talked about the fence bender before. Michael Porter Junior is more perimeter based. He's more perimeter based, so he's not putting pressure on the rim, So that'll be an

interesting thing. They'll be able to pull a d away from the rim, but they don't necessarily have the ball handler slash playmakers to get to the rim like like you'd hope outside of Jamal Murray. So does that advantage and playing out the way it could or should As far as pulling Ad away from the rim, I don't know that that advantage works. However, I will expect a bunch of inverted screens Joker handling, allowing Joker to get downhill and put pressure on the rim, and again Ad

is going to be lifted out. He won't be able to sit back. So now you get inverted screens, how do they guard those? Do they just read them? Keep everything in front? And then if you read it and Joker hit somebody and he gets the ball back, now you're gonna have to overhelp. You have to overhelp. Finish with thirty two, twelve assists and ten rebounds last game average the triple double, and it's going to be on the Lakers to you either got to stop Joker from

passing or stop Hi from scoring. The easier one to do it stop him from getting assists. Can't allow him to get both. If he gets both, you lose. It's very simple. So do you switch that and play on one on one, make him scoring, keep everybody else at bay, don't start giving up backcuss, don't start giving up open three, and keep the others at bay. That could be one way of doing it. But it'll be interesting to see. But I do expect to see a lot of inverted

pick and rolls. I'm looking forward to seeing how they're going to guard thoughs. That'll be their way of getting breaking the paint, trying to get to the whole break their break the Lakers defense down. Be a good series. Ultimately, Denver ready, man, I think Denver is ready, like Denver taking that next step. They doing it, were watching it. But I think we're going to have a rerun of twenty twenty. I think the Lakers are at the bubble and I think the Lakers will take it. I got

the Lakers. I got the Lakers in six, closing out at home in six. That is my prediction. That's what I'm rolling with and I'm sticking to it. That would be some very in depth analysis after these games. Check it out. It'll be fun. Maybe give you a different insight on what you see til next time. The Draymond Green Show. That's a rap on this season for the Dust, but that is not a rap on the pot Peace