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Draymond Green and Joel Embiid roast each other | Best of The Volume

27 Mar 2022 · 1 min

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In this YouTube clip, NBA veterans Draymond Green and Joel Embiid engage in a light‑hearted roast, trading barbs about each other's defensive reputation and on‑court tendencies. Green boasts about his lockdown defense and claims Embiid forces double‑teams, while Embiid retorts that he never asks for a double‑team and mocks Green’s defensive schemes. The dialogue references classic NBA figures—Shaquille O’Neal and Stephen Curry—to illustrate scenarios like painting presence and pick‑and‑roll coverage. Throughout, both players use informal, competitive language, employing jokes about “blitzing,” “double steps,” and “drop” defense, ultimately showcasing their personalities and mutual respect through playful trash‑talk.

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I'm interested to see, and hopefully we will meet y'all in the finals because as you know, like nobody else in this league, I'm locking that shit up.
So— Ah yeah, ah yeah, whatever. That's why you need a double team every time we play y'all.
That's crazy. I never asked for a double team. That's not even in my makeup.
I always find myself to be double every single— every single time I play against you.
Hey, if you wanna duck in like Shaq, you get 2 feet in the paint, the double team gotta come, big fella. I mean, at that point, you gotta go for what you know.
You know what I'm saying? But, nah, I mean— Well, if you say that you're that good of a defender, I mean, I don't know. I've never asked for a double team in my life, so— Me either, that ain't me. And I think I'm a pretty good defender, especially when I'm on.
I mean, when we put you in every pick and roll and they bring you up to blitz because you can't get it, you know, you just like blitz it 'cause you can't get up the floor. That's kind of like asking for a double team essentially on that game. Double step, double walk. Hey, you gonna double step?
Hold on, so you want me to play drop against Steph Curry? No, you don't gotta be drop, but you ain't gotta blitz it. I wasn't blitzing last time. I was just trying to make sure we got the ball out of the center. Don't, don't. You can make plays 'cause you can't shoot the basketball. Hey, but I make every other play. I hope that. Leave me open down the stretch, I'mma can your ass. But would I rather make Stephen Curry or you beat us? I take you any single day.
Hey man, many has succumbed to that mindset, brother. Many has succumbed. That mindset.