Draymond's advice for Luka & Mavericks to come back in NBA Finals vs. Celtics | Draymond Green Show

Welcome to the brand new Draymond Green Show YouTube channel. Hit subscribe so you don't miss out on any of our content. Tune, I got a question for you. So we had a lot of success against this Boston team when we start sending everybody left.

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And when you watch this series, I actually think you can still do it and be successful. However, I don't think Dallas has been egregious enough in like, no, you gotta go left. I actually think they're favoring that thing more with JT than they are with JB. And I think you can have some success with both of them doing that. Nonetheless, when you're looking at Dallas's game plan, what is it that you think they can do differently? To help them like, I mean, get a win in this series and get rolling?

I feel like it's more the offensive end than the defensive end. I feel like, like they're not, like Boston isn't getting 120-some points. You know, they, they're not shooting the 3 that well and making it tough for Tatum. He's not getting these easy looks. But offensively, I think you gotta get, like Luka came out really aggressive in the first quarter. I feel like he gotta get his, his role guys a little bit more involved in the, in the first half. I know as a role player in that first quarter, if you don't get a layup or a dunk or something to get you going, you, you get a little tense. Now later in the game you ain't gonna be, you ain't gonna shoot the ball as well. Seem like things don't go, go your way if you don't get off to a good start. And for game 1, they didn't get off to a good start as a team. I think today they, you know, Luka came out, made sure that they got off to a better start. He was really aggressive. He had got it going, but I don't know if his, you know, PJ got it going or, Derek didn't have that confidence shooting a 3. Cleveland had that confidence. So I think it's more of the offensive end. They gotta figure out what pace they want to play at to, you know, so Luka can really control the game. I think they haven't really found a rhythm of like what, you know, what's the right pace for them right now. I don't know what you think.

I actually think exactly what you just said. I think the offensive end, Luka started off great and I agree with you. Like, It's like me, if I see that first 3 go in, like it changes my night offensively. Like you see that first one going, because here's like, here's how you have to think about it, right? Like if I see that first 3 go in, that mean I got 2 3s to play with. Like, because if I miss the next 2, I'm at 33%. Cool, ain't nobody expecting me to shoot 45 like Steph Curry. Like, so, I'm at 33% if I miss those next 2. So that give me 2 threes to play with.

Right? Right.

And I think Luka did come out super aggressive and, and to be quite honest, I think as much as Luka needed to come out that aggressive, it actually played right into the hands of Boston because Boston's game plan, as you can see, their game plan is, all right, Luka and Kyrie, y'all beat us. Like, We're gonna take these other guys away. We taking these lobs away. All the lobs you was getting against Minnesota, all the lobs you was getting, I'm drawing a blank on who they was playing before, but all the lobs, we taking all of that stuff away. And now let's see, can you beat us with Luka and Kyrie? And I think Luka played really well. Kyrie is getting to his spots, he's just missing. He missing shots. Right, and as we know, This is a make or miss league. So I agree with you 100%. I think their offense has actually hurt their defense. Like their defense has, I think, like I said, I think they can be more egregious and make and plan on Boston being the directional team that they are. I think they could be more egregious in those coverages. But at the same time, their offense, the offense has been a problem. And it's crazy because when I was, When I was watching the game and I was thinking about the podcast, like you be watching, I'll be taking notes and I'll be thinking. And like one thing I was gonna say is Dallas right now has to make an adjustment. And the adjustment that they have to make is actually extremely tough, but doable, which is they actually need to change their offense right now. Like, I actually, I think they need to have Luka in the post. Like, put Luka in the post. Because here's the thing, and you can speak to this and I want you to speak to it. Luka, the way he plays and, you know, he has the ball, he makes all the plays, is a lot, is very similar. I won't say a lot like, because I think Luka's actually like LeBron James. But I'll say very similar. To the James Harden Rockets. And you can speak to that because I remember, well, I'll get to that question in a second, but like talk to me about that. Like Luka got the ball and they're saying, great, go beat us. Like, good, go. And he had 23, like with 7 minutes to go in the first, second quarter or something like that. But their game plan is to let you do that. So just talk to me about like knowing, understanding, like when you get in these NBA Finals, we know you going with a game plan. Then when you see that game plan work, like talk to me about that. Like understanding the game plan, seeing it work, and then like what's next for the opposite team that's seeing their game plan not work.

Right. Yeah, I agree with putting Luka on the post. From guarding him, uh, in the playoffs and guarding him throughout the year, when he's at the top, he's tough to stop, but you know you got help. Uh, he's farther away from the basket. You can, uh, you know, kind of pick the shots you want him to take, or he gotta take a lot more dribbles to, to get to his spot. But when he gets a, a live, uh, dribble in the post, like you kind of got it double.

Mm-hmm.

And now, now he can really pick him apart. He can get other guys involved cuz, uh, he can shoot his turnaround. He shoots the same shots he doing from the top. He can do it off the, off the post. And now you gotta like, kind of gotta help everybody. He gets already getting in the paint. Now guys don't know where to rotate from. It's, it just difficult. Even when we playing him this year, it was kind of hard when he's on the post. It's kind of hard to really, you know, dictate where he's gonna, you know, make the pass and stuff like that. So I agree with putting him on the post, moving around, cuz to sit him at the top, he's gonna score. But I think it's easier to take the other guys away. You can just switch everything and play boxers and elbows and then close out. And Boston's super athletic, so they can really you know, get out to the shooters. And so I think, yeah, putting him on the post would probably be best. You know, he could score anybody down there. That's on Holiday, Tatum. So they gonna have to send somebody at some point. And then when they do, he's able to pick them apart and get other guys involved. So I definitely agree with that.

I watched you make a career actually out of, all right, let me explain this because people be like, "Oh, like how could you be disrespectful like that?" But the reality is, We all make our careers off of something. Like you do something and then you're able to build on that. And I watched you make a career out of actually being switched onto James Harden and a guy who has actually become our brother, which I always say is nuts. But CP. What? I watched them, like you come in the game, them wave me out of the pick and roll. Like, no, don't bring him up. Bring him up and call you into the pick and roll. Like, all right, now we got to switch. I'm going at him. And then you sit down on C, you sit down on James and like make them take tough shots. Are we expecting you to lock them down? Of course not. Like, by the way, not expecting me to lock 'em down. Not expecting Klay to lock. You wanna make them take tough. And I watched you switch onto them and make them take tough shots over and over and over again. And then start to build. Your career. When you look at this, this, this Boston team, they're switching everything and they like, y'all gotta beat us. And what Boston keep doing is they keep calling Al Horford into the pick and roll. Al Horford is switching. Now by the way, that's actually Boston's worst nightmare because I actually think Al Horford is way worse in pick and roll coverage than he is switching. And so it's working to their favor. But like I said, I, I watched you make a career outta that. When you watch them continue to call Al Horford into the pick and roll. What is that like being the big that's on the other side of that? And then also, do you think it's possible for Dallas to win if they keep just calling him into the pick and roll and then getting the switch?

Well, as a big and called into the pick and roll every time, it sucks. That's one thing. Playing with you, nobody wants to attack you, so I had to always be the guy, all right, let's bring the other big into it. I got, I got a lot of reps and, uh, Horford's not a, a bad defender. It'd be different if, if he's somebody has a cone out there, he's, he's, you know, they blowing right past him. But no, Horford is a, he's a good positional defender. He gonna make somebody get to their second move. And when you that far from the basket, uh, that's all you want. You know, be there 3 seconds, make him work, make a change direction once. Even if you're a guard, that's all you really want to do. So, uh, I think it's gonna, I, I don't think it's a good idea to keep Uh, you know, bringing them into pick and rolls and switching. Uh, I think like, you gotta kind of move him around. And, uh, that's what we kind of did with Steph when it wasn't just straight, oh, iso one-on-one. Like, we kind of moved him around. You know, we talked about sprinting into the screen, flipping the screen, changing the angle. So now he gotta be on the move. Well, if he's able to just to, to line you up and have his hands out, he's gonna be able to get a stop or he gonna make it tough for you. But when you, as a big on the move and you gotta guard changing direction, that's when it gets really tough. And I think that they kind of gotta move the bigs around. It's so easy just to play one-on-one from the top. You know, I can, it's easy to bait somebody to a 3 and it's tough beating somebody taking all step-back 3s and tough 2s, so.

Yeah, no, I agree 100%. It's crazy because when you sprint into those screens, it then builds confusion of the switch. Like, oh, now you sprint into it, that guy gotta sprint. Now he moving, he gotta stop. The guard coming off, he can split, he can attack you. You getting that switch, it's not just like you loading up. The defense isn't set in the other spots. You sprint into it, you sprint into it, you can flip it. You sprint into it, you can slip it. Like, it opens up so many options. Right.

The one block they did get was from Jones flipping the screen. There was a lot of confusion. He got the block. So I think they gotta definitely, you know, try to change this, change the screen, change the angle. And oh, don't always put the big in. Cause we kind of, we game plan for that. We know, all right, if Horford's in the iso on the island, this is what we gonna do. When you change the pieces and the players, sometimes guards don't know how to switch all the time, or they might not be used to different type of switches. So, or if it's Brown and Tatum, are we switching? Are we not? Like, so different things like that, you gotta, kind of try to change the pieces on the court.

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