Draymond Green breaks down the Mavericks-Timberwolves series, arguing Minnesota should stop fouling Gobert on post-ups and instead push to Kyrie Irving for fast breaks. He credits Kyrie's aggressive mindset for lifting Karl-Anthony Towns' confidence in the paint, and predicts a double-digit win for Minnesota in Game 5.
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Welcome to the brand new Draymond Green Show YouTube channel. Hit subscribe so you don't miss out on any of our content. What I think we've all have known and Minnesota has now figured out is going inside is their strength. Not shooting a bunch of threes. Going inside against the— 'Cause you're not gonna, you're not a better shooting team than Dallas. That's for certain. They are not a better 3-point shooting team than Dallas. So you're trying to out-three-point them. The one game that you actually outshot them from the three, you still lost because you're not doing what can make you successful against those guys, which is not shooting a three. Yes, of course it's the NBA. You're gonna take some threes. Gotta take some threes. But again, it can't be leading with that. And so I think the players of the Minnesota Timberwolves finally figured out, man, I need to go inside. Yeah. They even posted Rudy Gobert up a couple times. Now, couple of 'em, Luka has some bad fouls. Like, they've been fouling Rudy on the pocket pass, like floaters. They've been fouling him on the post-ups. And I don't understand it. Like, just make him make the shot. If he make the shot, great. Guess what? We get the ball out fast. We gone, boom. You get the ball in Kyrie's hand after, So after May baskets, if I'm Dallas, I'm like, yo, we want to get the ball to Kyrie. You know why? Because I want to see if Kyrie can give me a one-man fast break because he's more than capable. So let's see if Kyrie pushed his ball up the floor, what we get out of it. Even if it's not a one-man fast break, what it will do is it'll cause some cross matches. Minnesota's being very particular with their matchups. And if Kyrie gets the ball and go, it's gonna cause some cross matches because now say if you got Rudy shooting and he makes it, now Kyrie get the ball. As soon as the ball come off the net, boom, boom, Kyrie gone. Now Rudy gotta sprint back, which means he ain't gonna be able to catch up with Gafford if Gafford take off. Derek Jones take off. We saw it once where Luka threw Derek Jones live, boom. And so I want Kyrie going one man fast break. Luka gonna then make his way down the court. Once Luka get down the court, if nothing there, we can swing the ball. Luka, we can get in our stuff. It's 20 seconds left on the shot clock. Plenty of time. 'Cause Kyrie getting it up fast. And I think that's something that Dallas should do. I think that's one of the adjustments that they can make on any made shot. Kyrie's in the game, you sprint to the ball, get the ball and go. See if we got something. If not, boom. Because I think now that Minnesota's gonna try to take advantage of their size, Dallas needs to put more of an emphasis on taking advantage of their speed, their quickness. And I think that's one way to do it. Ant-Man, as I said, had a much better shooting night. And I think that was all a product of— Draymond Green. Him getting to the cup, him getting to the paint, even some of the shots he missed. He missed a couple bunnies in the lane, which I think he can make. But even if you don't make 'em, it's the mindset, it's the mentality. And that mindset and that mentality is what those other guys follow. When Ant-Man body language was this, when he ain't have it, guess what? Rudy Gobert's body language was this, and he ain't have it. Guess what? KAT's body language was this, and he ain't have it. So it's no surprise to me that KAT played well yesterday because the aggression that Ant-Man came out with made it okay for KAT to say, oh, well, I can play this way too. It's almost like a rite of passage, like, oh, well, he did it, oh, I can do it too. So, That's all Ant-Man to me. That's all Ant-Man. Ant-Man started off going to the hole, Cat started off going to the hole. When Ant-Man was starting shooting off jumpers, Cat was starting off shooting jumpers. So that's no coincidence. As I've said before, these guys follow Ant-Man, and that's a heavy, heavy, heavy, load to carry, but he's more than capable and he did it last night. Now unfortunately, and I guess fortunately, you still got a chance. Gotta do that 3 more times. We shall see. Before we move on and I give you my prediction for game 5, there's a lot of talk about Luka's foul That he got that foul cat out and Luka huntin' fouls. Here's what I'll say about that. Yes, Luka does hunt fouls. There are also a lot of other guys in the NBA that hunt fouls. I don't think Luka's game is built on huntin' fouls 'cause Luka is a tough shot taker and a tough shot maker. However, he's a very smart player and if there's a spot where he can draw a foul You can bet your bottom dollar he's gonna draw the foul. I don't think Luka is someone who seeks fouls because there's a lot of guys in this league that seeks fouls and turns the ball over and seeking those fouls. Luka is not a turnover guy 'cause he's seeking a foul. So does he seek fouls? Yes. To his detriment? No, I do not think that at all. Um, the particular play where he fouled Cat out, everybody like, oh, he jumped forward. Did he lean forward a little bit? Yes. But Cat came forward so much that you make yourself susceptible to the call. Now, can Scott Foster say, oh, we took that out the game? Yes, you can. But like I said, on that one in particular, Cat leaned so far, jumped so far forward that you almost have to call it because he left his feet, got in the air, and when he made the contact with Luka, he's turned sideways. Now, I think he would've been better off if he jumped forward straight ahead and he made that amount of contact, but he was straightforward. I think he would've been better off. The fact that he was turned sideways, Scott Foster almost have to call that. I haven't seen the L2M report, Jackson, I'm not sure if you've seen it. I'm not sure if the NBA said that that should've been a no-call, but if I had to bet, and I'm not allowed to bet, so take it with a grain of salt. If I had to bet, I'd imagine they said it was the correct call. So that's my opinion on Luka hunting fouls. I definitely think Luka seeks to draw fouls for sure, by the way. Most great players do. However, I don't think he's one of the guys that does it to his detriment. I don't think so. My prediction for game 5 is Minnesota.
Minnesota.
Will win game 5 by double digits. And then Dallas will go back home and win game 6. The reason I think that is because Minnesota will come out swinging and if they're able to build a lead, you see a lot of times in those situations that team like, you know what, we ain't got it. We going back home, we'll close it out then. But let me tell you, don't make that mistake. Injuries happen. The longer these series go on, the unknown can take place. So you wanna close it out as soon as you can. And if I'm Dallas, we screwed up a golden opportunity last night. We can't screw up another one tomorrow. We gotta do all that. If I'm Dallas, I'm like, this is a must win. You know why? Because even if we don't win in game 6, guess what, y'all? This is a must win. I'm Dallas. This is what I'm saying. Because we have to reach, we have to reach their intensity level. They're down 3-0, understandable we don't reach their intensity level. Human nature. But we can't not reach their level twice. 'Cause if we can't reach their level 2 times in a row, then they get the confidence. And going back to Game 6, all the pressure's then on Dallas. The reason why I'm comfortable with all the pressure being on Dallas, because Luka and Kyrie, we both know, we all know, both of them will produce when those moments are there. There when they matter, when the moment is the biggest, when everything's on the line, those two guys gonna come through. So I got Minnesota game 5, Dallas game 6.
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