Dray reacts to suspension, Warriors Game 3 win, Steph Curry's "masterful" game | Draymond Green Show

What's up everybody? It's Draymond Green. Make sure you subscribe to the Volumes YouTube channel below so you don't miss any more of this great content going forward. What's up everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. This is the first episode since I was suspended. Very intentional, by the way. Very intentional on that. Dubs got a win last night, so that was huge. Let's just, let's just get right into that. Just for all our listeners out there, obviously as you know, our first episode is usually on Amazon AMP. This episode will not be on Amazon AMP. However, we're right back at Amazon AMP next week with the top of show beginning of the week. But let's get into last night's game. The NBA playoffs are upon us. 20 teams will get in all with one goal. It's gonna be awesome to watch on television. On television, but I think I can say firsthand and tell all of you there is no comparison to being at these games live. 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And yelling your name and chants that you suck and like you interact with them. I didn't know that either. And saying that my guys played well, my guys played really well, stepped up to the challenge and it was absolutely incredible to see. I hope everyone enjoyed the game the way I, I mean, I can't say I really enjoyed the game quite frankly. There's nothing worse By the way, being suspended from a game, like at this point in my career, it will never like affect me from an emotional standpoint outside of my fellas was in the dogfight or is in a dogfight and just not being able to participate in that dogfight. That's crushing. Like that, like because you just feel like, You know, you're leaving them out there by themselves, leaving them astray to just figure it out. So to not participate in that dogfight, that's what bothers me the most. To get suspended from Game 5 of the NBA Finals, there's never another NBA game that you can suspend me from that'll be like, "Oh my God, I'm suspended." But just not being able to participate in the dogfight with my brothers. Yeah. That part is the worst. And so I'm very thankful of the effort that guys put out there yesterday to save our season. You know, you don't want to ever go down 3-0. We know the odds are well against you, stacked against you, crazy if you go down 3-0. And guys took care of that. How did that happen? Steph Curry, we saw NBA Finals Steph Curry. Draymond Green, which was absolutely incredible. Controlled the entire game. It was just like a calmness. So like, I'm not letting us lose. I'm in this moment. It is what it is. And there's nothing anyone can do about it. Masterful. Like what we watched Steph Curry do last night was just a master at work. It was. Rick Celebrini, who you all heard me talk about. Rick always say, Draymond, I had a friend and he used to always say, "Basketball is jazz." Like basketball is jazz. And if you think about jazz music, it's just peace and like it's smooth and like you feel the rhythm to it. Basketball is jazz. And so when I was working back from my hip injury, Rick would always say, "Draymond, it's jazz." Like I had to relearn how to run again. I had to relearn how to jump again. I had to do all of those things. But he would always say, "Hey man, slow down. It's jazz." like move, like you gotta move with some rhythm and you know, not so irky jerky as you're trying to get back and you just want to get there. Like it's jazz. Steph Curry's game last night was just jazz. It was beautiful. It was absolutely beautiful. Was in control of everything. There's not many guys Definitely in the league right now that can control a game like that. You're talking Steph Curry, LeBron James, Luka, that really like controls the entire pace of a game. Everything that happens. It's so incredibly hard to do that. To watch Steph Curry do that last night. You held me down again, brother. Held me down again. I can't, I can't thank him enough. Absolutely amazing. Once again, if you didn't hear it the first— A master at work. Not oftentimes in life do you get to see a master at work. So appreciate that because I sure did. When I got to that arena last night, I got to the arena after the game and I just sat there next to him. I said, yo, wow. Wow. Like that was just masterful stuff. And we talked about it. We talked about what he saw, some of the things that we spoke about leading into the game. And then to speak about those things after the game and see like, yo, they, Like those things worked. It was special. The aura was special. Now how do you build on that? We'll get to that. Kevon Looney, 9 offensive rebounds, 20 boards. It's crazy because we were talking about rebounding the basketball and I like threw out these numbers to guys like, yo, you get this amount of rebounds and you gonna get this amount of rebounds. Like this is what we need from you. And I'm talking very important guys like, Steph, Klay, Wiggs, JP, these are the amount of rebounds we need from you. And I told Loon 20. Did Loon get 20 rebounds because I told him to? Of course not. Loon is more than capable of getting 20 rebounds. But the fact that I told him 20 and he actually could go do that. 20 rebounds in a— Playoff game against a team that we struggled to rebound against, 20 rebounds? It's masterful. Incredible. Shout out to Kevon Looney. I'm always mesmerized by Loon's attention to detail, by his professionalism, because those are the things that allow Kevon Looney to get to where he is today. You're talking to a guy who went through 3 hip surgeries really before he stepped on an NBA court. A guy who you go back and watch Kevon Looney's highlights from college and from high school, like totally different player. To figure it out like that, to still add value and having to recreate yourself. You don't see basketball players do that. When you see musicians try to recreate themselves, they go to hell. When you see boxers try to recreate themselves, they go to, like, you go down the list, people trying to recreate themselves. It's a losing battle. Kevon Looney did that plus more. 20 rebounds, 9 offensive, 9 assists. It's huge. Making plays. Offensive rebound, kick out 3. Absolutely incredible. Dominated the game with 4 points. For all of you out there that say you have to score the basketball to dominate a game, you lie. Yes, of course you need a Steph Curry who goes for 36, right? Like, of course. But you lie. Or maybe you didn't lie, you just didn't quite understand. Absolutely incredible performance by Loon. Andrew Wiggins was, the pace was incredible. Wiggs more so than anybody, he met force with force. When he caught the ball on the post, he went towards the rim. He met force with force. He got to the shots that he wanted to get to. And he continues to elevate his level of play. Having Wiggs back, I told y'all, after game 1, although we lost. He's trending upward, which means our team will trend upward. You saw, you saw playoff Wigs last night. You know, you saw playoff Wigs, the Wigs that you saw in the playoffs last year. You saw that last night. And quite frankly, that's what I can appreciate about this team more than anything is when your back is against the wall, how do guys show up? And guys showed up and it was huge. And the list goes on. Moses Moody off the bench, 13 points, 16 minutes. The points were great. Quite frankly, I think his defense was incredible. I think how he was muddying things up and getting in the fray for rebounds, only had 3 rebounds, but you'll miss it if you're not paying attention. Boxing out. Cracking back on the guy so someone else get the rebound. Not making game plan mistakes. Moses Moody continues to trend upwards, continues when his name is called, continues to be ready. Jonathan Kuminga grew last night. Had a tough first stint when he got in the game, stuck with it, changed the entire game, flying to the basket for dunks. Draymond Green. Rebounds, putbacks, defensively changed the game after a first stint. He grew last night. That's important. Draymond Green gave incredible minutes last night. Guy who hasn't played much. No one's ever happy when they don't play. I know everybody's gonna say, oh man, Draymond Green was upset on the bench. Number one, You in the playoffs, things get very heated, emotions run high. You'd much rather have and know someone that's, know that somebody's in it than not know they're in it at all. So I know everybody's gonna say, oh man, him and the coaches, they were talking and it was a little heated. Of course it was heated. Down 2-0 or 0-2. Back against the wall. Of course everybody's on edge. That's what you gotta appreciate. How do guys respond when on edge? I thought the way Ja'Michael played, his coverage, picking rolls, rebounding the basketball, the toughness that he brought to the floor for us was huge. Was huge. You'll miss those things. Jordan Poole played, had a great floor game. Great floor game. Patient. Didn't even hit shots. One huge play, and I know people will miss this. Klay Thompson had a shot. He had a step back. And no one will complain about Klay taking that shot. It's a mid-range over defender, but of course Klay makes that. Who cares? Draymond Green had the shot, kicked it to Moses Moody in the corner. Moses Moody goes in to get an and-one. That unlocks things. Huge play. At no point did Klay Thompson force anything. And then he hit some big shots down the stretch. You know why? Because he didn't force anything. Locked in on the defensive end. Absolutely incredible to watch. Anthony Lamb, number hasn't been called in 2 and a half weeks. Stay ready. Dante DiVincenzo was huge. But we've been talking about Dante all year. But this is the playoffs. He was huge. Answered the bell. Defensively, offensively. Answered the bell. Thought it was an incredible performance by the guys. I thought our coaching staff did an incredible job with the game plan. Locked in, starting to come together for us. And that was great to see. In saying that, we did what we were supposed to do. Took care of home court. Now you gotta go win again. Tie this thing up 2-2, headed back to Sac. I'm excited as hell to be back in the lineup. Whatever that means, that means. What does that mean? As I'm watching that game last night, all I can think of, I was on text with Chris Weems. So if you saw Chris Weems behind the bench texting a lot, he's texting me. And that was my point of contact if I needed to get anything to the coaches. And like I sent him a few things here and there, like little small things. And when I got there last night, Jama said, man, I was asking Weems like, what does Draymond got? What does he got for us? He said, "Williams kept saying like, man, he not saying much." I said, "Jama, sometimes it's just not anything to say." Like you have to feel when there's nothing to say. And the way the guys was playing, there was nothing to say. Because even when shots weren't falling, we were in control of the game. So there's not much to say. It was locked in airtight on the game plan. There just wasn't much to say. Absolutely incredible. Like I said, shout out to the coaching staff, Steve, Jama, Decky, Q-Dawg, the list goes on and on. Chris DeMarco, Jacob Rubin, Chris Weems. Absolutely incredible. It was incredible to see those guys locked in. We know what our coaching staff is capable of, of the situations and the game plans that they're capable of putting, And that was one of them nights like we've seen in the past last night. And it was beautiful to see. I also know everyone wants my opinion on Joel Embiid. I also know everyone wants my opinion on James Harden. If I can give you my honest opinion, I don't care. I will never be a— One thing you're never gonna do is say, you're not gonna see me say, "Man, this guy did that and he didn't get this." That ain't me. I don't roll like that. Number one, I'm never in favor of seeing a player get suspended. I'm never in favor of seeing a player get kicked out of a game. So buck stops there. What you won't get from me is the victim. Not a victim. I told you all last year, I'm treated differently. It's a badge of honor. Not the same as all these dudes. I'm different. But different equals championships. So you take the good with the bad. Gotta live with it. But what I won't do is get on here like, man, Joel should have been suspended. That's whack. James should have been kicked. That's whack. Just play off basketball. Nick Claxton should have been kicked. That's whack. It's playoff basketball. That's Nick Claxton going up against Joel Embiid, MVP of the NBA. You dunk on him, you should flex in his face. 'Cause he gonna give you 40 and flex in yours. So when I get my moment, you should flex in his face. And I bet you there was not one fan who paid to watch that game that said, man, Why is he flexing in his face? No, 'cause you appreciate that. I'm a fan of the game of basketball. I'm an NBA fan. So as a fan, I was very disappointed to see Nick Claxton get thrown out. Like them boys battling. That's the same dude that just got kicked. He dunked on that guy that kicked him. And he get thrown out for standing up to, like, come on, that's whack. So I'm never gonna be someone that's in favor of anybody getting suspended, anybody getting kicked out of a game. So if you're looking for that, you won't get that here. That's just not how I roll. Stuff get heated. You live in that moment. It's the playoffs. You playing for something. But quite frankly, most people don't understand winning. So you'll never understand the emotions of it. Yeah. But you playing for something, it's the playoffs. So to see those guys get kicked outta that game, I'm not here for it. That's not what I pay cable to see. A huge part of the reason I have cable, obviously I have kids, but I like to watch a bunch of basketball. And that's not really what I paid to see. I paid to see Nick Claxton get his get back after having zero points. Yeah. And then have a big first half, dunk on Joel Embiid, and stand up to him. Joel Embiid's the big bad bully, not because Joel Embiid is the big bad bully literally, because he's that good. So in that situation, he's the big bad bully. Nick Claxton has to stand up to him. Yeah. He has to. He already don't have a chance. He doesn't stand a chance. Joel Embiid is that good. That's no knock to Nick Claxton. Joel is that good. So you have to stand up to him. He don't stand a chance anyway. So when he had those moments to throw him out the game for— like, that's not— that's not playoffs. That's not what we paying to see. It's not what these fans are paying— those fans are paying to see that thing. That's what brings this game alive, not him going to the shower early. That's— man, come on, stop it. Really? And you know he got one tech. Come on, we can't do that. We can't do that. So that's my thoughts on that. Before we get outta here, I think one other series that I've really been paying attention to is the Clippers and Phoenix. I've been paying attention to all the series, I'm lying. But one I wanna speak on is the Clippers and Phoenix. And what do I wanna say about that? Been a great series. Love the way Russell's competing. For everybody who's shitting on Russ, take that. That's Russ being Russ and it's beautiful to see. Book looked like a man on a mission, locked in. KD doing what KD do. What this series look like is ultimately boiling down to is this, the Lakers screwed the Clippers. How? What are you talking about, Draymond? Because the Lakers getting in, LeBron James is in. LeBron James is always going to be marquee game. Steph Curry's always gonna be a marquee game. So in turn, the Clippers, you end up playing every other day and you got Kawhi Leonard playing 40 minutes. I saw a statement where Kawhi played 42 minutes and Ty Lue said, this is what we've been preparing for. For him to be able to play 42 minutes right now and then he's out for game 3 sucks because he's dominating. He's having an incredible series and then have to miss game 3. Sucks. But if there's 2 days in between, so you say game, call it yesterday is Thursday and then game Sunday, it's totally different. But what you have to understand is all of that stuff is based on a TV schedule. TV slots matter. So LeBron gets the TV slot, Steph Curry gets the TV slot. The Clippers were on NBA TV last night. But they've been playing every other day. They play yesterday, they play tomorrow. It's been tough. Changes everything, changes the series. So that's actually a game within a game. That's understanding the business, that's understanding the TV stuff, that's understanding a lot of stuff that I know people don't really pay a part of, but that's actually affecting that series. Yeah. We get a game 3 without Kawhi Leonard. Norman Powell has 42 points. Russ has 30, 11, and 8 or some 33, 11, and 8, something like that. But no Kawhi. You want to see the stars in the playoffs. So that's an unfortunate one that quite frankly, it's pretty tough to correct. You think about it from a perspective of— Yeah. You got the Lakers and the Clippers who share the same building. The LA Kings is also in the playoffs. They also share that building. There's so many things that goes into this that, that is actually affecting that series. So I'm interested to see how it plays out. I think we got Kawhi coming back for game 4. However, you lost home court advantage back. So now you got to go back to Phoenix and win another game, even if you win game 4. It's a tough situation. Hope I helped everybody understand the business a little bit more today. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Looking forward to getting back Sunday. Be great in Chase Center, 12:30 start, early game. Looking forward to getting back in that dogfight with my guys. That's a wrap on this episode of the Draymond Green Show. Till next time, peace. What's up everybody, it's Draymond Green. Make sure you subscribe to the Volumes YouTube channel below. 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