In this solo commentary, Draymond Green analyzes three NBA playoff matchups. He explains how the Boston Celtics use their length and defensive schemes to force Giannis Antetokounmpo into low‑percentage shots, highlighting the impact of role players like Jalen Brown and Jayson Tatum and noting that Boston’s success may hinge on how Milwaukee’s supporting cast performs at home. He briefly touches on the Miami Heat’s 2‑0 lead over Philadelphia, emphasizing that the series outcome depends on Joel Embiid’s health. Finally, he examines the Phoenix Suns vs. Dallas Mavericks series, focusing on Chris Paul’s age‑related limitations, his strategy of constantly switching onto Luka Doncic to wear him down, and the necessity for Dallas role players—especially Jaylen Brunson—to step up for the Mavericks to compete against the Suns’ defense.
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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. Moving on to other Game 2s, the Celtics and Bucks. Jackson's happy. Everybody clap it up for Jackson one time for the one time. Let's go. The Celtics come out 109 to 86. Now, if you remember correctly, I said, Draymond Green, when we were talking after game 1. If you're both of those teams, you leave that game like, we didn't do this well, we didn't do that well, and we would see who got the better. Well, I said specifically, Giannis won't, you know, if you're the Bucks, you think Giannis won't shoot 9 for 25 again. Giannis had a rough shooting night again. And that has a lot to do with the Boston Celtics defense. I don't know, after 2 games, You can see the Celtics, they are really, really, really loading up on Giannis. They're making it tough. And also I think the thing that most people don't understand about the Celtics and what makes their defense so great is they have so much length. And so even when Giannis is driving past one guy or, you know, driving into one guy, you have another two guys coming over. There's so much length. I mean, their starting lineup goes 6'11". 6'10", 6'9", 6'8", or 6'7", whatever you consider Draymond Green. And then they started Derek White, who's 6'5". So they're starting, and Marcus Smart normally starts who's 6'5". So their starting lineup, there's so much length. And it really makes it hard, especially for someone like Giannis, who really lives in the paint, it really, really, really makes it hard for Giannis. And so their defense has done a great job now. And saying that, this series— and before we talk about the series moving forward and back to Milwaukee, Jalen Brown came out with a vengeance. Jalen Brown came out, he said, "I'm gonna dominate my matchup." And Jayson Tatum then picked up from there. Now, The beautiful thing about that is everybody, and I spoke about this before, everybody was talking about Jalen Brown and Jayson Tatum can't work, blah, blah, blah. You be very careful in getting rid of a number 2 who can come out and start like that and get you 30 points. I'm gonna say that again, breaking that up. It's good to see those young guys working, but Jalen Brown, I mean, the way he came out and started that game, 17 points in the first quarter. It was beautiful. He put his stamp on the game and Boston rolled from there. Now with the series moving back to Milwaukee, you have Boston, they've done their job in getting it to 1-1. But now you have Boston going in there feeling good knowing that we can stop Giannis. Can't stop him, but we can make him take tougher shots and throw off the percentages and just, live with the tough ones. The thing about that is going back to Milwaukee, all of those other guys are gonna shoot better. They're gonna shoot better on the road. They're gonna play better. More like game 1, Grayson Allen got it going. Those guys are really gonna shoot better at home, which then makes that defense have to extend out more and it creates more lanes for Jrue and for Giannis to drive. So that's what I'll keep an eye on going into that game is how the other guys shoot the ball, because role players, as I've said before, role players play better at home. So that's something to watch for. I think that'll help unlock Giannis, but that is definitely something to watch for. The Miami Heat goes up 2-0 on Philly. I'm not gonna spend much time here. If Joel comes back, we'll talk about this series. Joel don't come back, that one's over. It's over. The Phoenix Suns versus the Dallas Mavericks. I do wanna talk about this one because the Phoenix Suns, what they showed last night was, and I was watching that game in the first half and I'm like, man, it's only a 4-point game, 2-point game. Dallas was playing pretty good. Phoenix weren't playing good. CP nor Book had got it going yet. And the game was right there. I knew they were in trouble. And so the Phoenix Suns showed why they are the number 1 seed, they should, I mean, Chris Paul, one thing that Dallas has to understand is if you're in a position where you don't have D-Book going, Chris Paul is, he's about to be 37 years old. He's a great player still. But as you get older, you just can't do that all the time, the whole game. And what Dallas has to realize is when they have Chris Paul tamed, when they have Devin Booker under wraps, they have to take advantage of those leads. They have to take advantage of those times and build the lead up. You can't just sit around for, because at some point Devin Booker's gonna make shots as he did. And at some point Chris Paul is going to take over the game. We know that. That's who Chris Paul is. He's always been that way, but even more so now that he has to preserve energy more. Just, that's just how it goes as you get older. It was absolutely beautiful to watch the way he took over that game. He's calling Luka into every switch. Now people may say, oh man, they're calling Luka in every switch. And that's important because they're scoring. No, why that's also important, because it's not allowing Luka to rest on that end. And he carries such a heavy load on the offensive end and a heavy burden that the energy that that requires is through the roof. Well, for Luka now having to defend that as well, I mean, that's, that's a very, very, very tough one and it's taking those legs away. So. Yeah. That's something to watch. As we saw Jason Kidd say, other guys gotta step up. It can't just be Luka getting 30. You can't do that in the playoffs, but they're going home and the other guys will shoot better at home. Luka will get them shots. And so that's what I'll be on the watch out for. Just putting Luka in that action, draining his legs. And as you see by that third quarter, he had 2 points. That's hard to sustain that over the course of 48 minutes. So I actually think Dallas will go home and they'll play better. But the Suns are controlling that series right now. They end up winning by 20 last night. I wouldn't say it was necessarily a 20-point game, but they won by 20. Dallas has to make some adjustments and they have to find a way to get those guys involved early. In particular, Jaylen Brunson. Jaylen Brunson is gonna need to play better. They're gonna need that second guy if they're gonna have a chance to beat a great defense like the Phoenix Suns.
