Knicks Destroy 76ers, Timberwolves Shock Spurs, Pistons & Thunder Take Game 1: Draymond Green Reacts

What's up everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. On today's show, we'll pretty much get into every game one of the second round. There's not much else going on around the NBA right now. Lottery coming up this weekend, but that's a story for another day. Let's get right into it. This episode of the Draymond Green Show is presented to you by KAYAKS. Stay tuned for the rest of the show where I'll tell you about their brand new ready-to-drink pre-workout beverage. We're gonna get into all the second round series, but first we're gonna start the show today with the rapid fire warmup brought to you by Ky-X and their new creatine EAA booster drink. Finally, creatine that stays creatine and is ready to drink. First up, Masai Ujiri hired as president of the Mavericks. I think this is a great hire for the Dallas franchise. Obviously we know Masai can put together a championship team. We know he can draft talent. Drafting the Scottie Barnes, drafting Pascal Siakam amongst others. So, you know, we know he has an eye for making big trades and trading for Kawhi Leonard, making trades that most people wouldn't make, you know? And so I think this is a great thing for the franchise, especially, you know, you're trying to navigate, you got Kyrie, you got Cooper Flag, you know, where do you turn to next? I think they bring the right guy in and you know, when he goes to these places, He has a lot of control. So I'm looking forward to seeing what Masai does in Dallas, but I think this is a great hire for their franchise. Rajon Rondo and Darvin Ham, potential candidates for the Pelicans job. You know, I like the fit of both of these guys for different reasons. I think Darvin's gonna bring, A, having head coach experience already, coaching a guy like LeBron, coaching a guy like Giannis, You know, I think when you look at like a Zion Williamson, a Derrick Queen, I think, you know, especially Zion, I think he can use some of that experience in coaching guys like that to help out Zion. You know, I think he's gonna give those young guys confidence, you know? And so I like that from that perspective for Darvin Ham. And then for Rajon Rondo, Rajon Rondo is one of the smartest basketball minds around the NBA over, you know, come through the NBA over the last 25 years, you know? And so, know he's a film head. Studies the game. He got an up close and personal look this year with Doc Rivers and, you know, being around and not quite being a coach, but being in the meetings and different things and learning. And I think he can also help unlock those young guys. I also think Rayjon Rondo can really help like a Jordan Poole. Like, I think he can help him from a confidence perspective. I think he can put Jordan Poole in situations to be successful and kind of help him get back to playing to the level that everyone knows he's capable of. So I like both of these guys for different reasons. I don't think you can go wrong with either one of the hires. And lastly, we wanna rank the best home court advantages for the teams left in the playoffs. Number 1 is for sure OKC. It is crazy in there. They get loud. They only support their team. I'd have to say they're number 1. The only reason the Garden isn't number 1, and I have to put the Garden number 2, is because As an opposing player, you get excited about playing in the Garden. So as crazy as the Garden is, you in the Garden. Like, so you get effects of that crowd as the home team does because you in the Garden, man. And you wanna show out and you wanna do that to Spike Lee and all these different things. Like, so the opposing team gets a boost from the Garden as well. That's why I can't put them at number 1 and I put OKC at 1. Garden at 2, San Antonio at 3. San Antonio fans are wild. They've added this student section-like thing. They already had a great crowd and they've added this student section-like thing with Wimby. So I'd have to give them number 3. And then we'll give our top 4. Rounding out the top 4, what up though? I gotta go Detroit. The city is happy about the Detroit Pistons being back in the playoffs. And I know they're rallying around the Pistons. So I gotta go with Detroit. Yeah. As the fourth best home court advantage left in the playoffs. Thanks to our friends at KAYAKS for sponsoring the Rapid Fire Warmup. I'm feeling ready to go, and you'll feel ready for your workouts with their brand new Creatine EAA Booster Drink. 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And that carried right over into this Philly series. Like they cover everything. They were trying to get the ball back to the pocket to Joel. They couldn't, the guard was jumping in the way, getting steals. They throwing double teams at Joel. You know, it's causing turnovers. They're getting off to the races. And it ultimately really helped their offense, you know, and obviously led to a blowout. But I'm gonna tell you another thing the Knicks have done that I think is very sustainable in this playoff run that takes a lot of pressure off Jalen Brunson and then just allow Jalen Brunson to get to it. Had 35 on 67% shooting last game. I think you can make it tough on Jalen Brunson if you overuse him and just, have him trying to get it the whole time. I think you could put some guys on him that can make it a little tougher. The way you combat that, and I think what Mike Brown is doing a great job of, is you don't have him with the ball all the time. When it's time to get a bucket, when you're going in transition, yes, he's still getting to it, but he ain't just got the ball the whole possession. What they're doing, and what's been great, is they're running the ball, their offense through cat. Cat. A little above the elbow, kind of out of a high split, you know, KAT's flashing up, he's catching, and he's making all of the plays outta the high post. So then when Jalen Brunson get the ball, the whole defense ain't keyed in on him. You got OG coming off curls, like they've been running this kind of spread out offense with KAT getting the ball in the high post, and KAT's been dropping dimes. He's been playing incredibly well. And I think that has unlocked other guys on this team. Also, you're not just— you're not overly relying on KAT being this 30-point-a-night scorer, but he's giving you that type of production, and it's very meaningful production, and it's also helping everyone else get off. And I think that's been the key, uh, to this Knicks group, man. It's been looking beautiful, uh, because you get in the playoffs and they just key in on Jalen Brunson, it gets tougher and tougher. And the way he played the other night, I think is, and been playing is, I think is in large part due to they're running this offense through Cat. The defenses aren't able to just key in on him with the ball. He's not in front of the defense the whole possession. And I think it's really making a difference. You know, so I gotta give these guys a lot of credit. Like they are looking serious. You gotta— Yeah. Tip your hat to the— tip your cap to the Knicks. Now, I will say is, Knicks fans, I saw y'all after game 1. I saw y'all got JR surrounded and all this stuff. And I'm just saying, you cannot celebrate these things like this. I've told this to y'all before. You have a parade after you win a second round. How you gonna win the conference finals? We had the parade already. So I'm just telling y'all Knicks fans, I know that it's been a rough go and I know it's taken a while, but don't blow it because you're making it about yourselves and your tough journey. And I'll tell you a little secret, Knicks fans. Those current players don't give a fuck about your journey before. They don't give a damn that all of those teams before was getting their asses kicked. Yeah. Those current players, it wasn't them. They don't give a damn. So stop celebrating, you know, and doing this for yourselves, Knicks fans. The game ends, go to a bar, go home, go drink, go do whatever you're gonna do, but stop having these melees and these parades outside of the Garden, man. Yeah. Like, how do you keep your team hungry if you having a parade for second round wins. Y'all gotta stop this, man. I don't know how to tell y'all to be winning fans, but act like you're winning fans. Act like you've been there before, Knicks fans. This ain't no shade to y'all. I'm just trying, I'm trying to help. Y'all all say, Draymond hate the Knicks. Why the hell would I hate the Knicks? Never played the Knicks in a playoff series. I don't care. I'm just trying to help. I'm here to help, guys. Stop the celebrating. Game 1, we won by 40. There's a melee outside. Stop it! Enough, Knicks fans! Jesus! Gimme a break! I think this series is gonna get a little spicy after VJ Escomb viral clip where he said that's all he's doing in regards to Jalen Brunson foul baiting. Listen, play clean defense, play physical defense, Guy drives, show your hands, meet him with your chest. They allow that type of physicality in the playoffs. Start getting your hands in there, it's tough. Get the big up to the level of the screen. This is where it gets tough with Joel guarding the ball screen with Jaylen Brunson. Jaylen Brunson come off, Joel don't get all the way up to the level of the screen. Jaylen Brunson come off, he put that guard in jail. Now he take off, the guard go to— he do all of that type of stuff. So— Yeah. The only way to combat that is to get your guys up to the level of the screen. Now I said before, you may have to put Joel on a different guy. You may have to have Joel really guarding Josh Hart and live with Josh Hart shooting a 3 because you gotta put somebody else in that pick and roll with KAT. And you gotta put somebody that's gonna be up at the level of the screen. If you're not up at the level of the screen, With also, with you be up at the level of the screen with Draymond Green, you be up at the level of the screen if Bona plays. But on KAT, I told y'all, man, PG may have to take on that responsibility because it's not that he can't stop KAT from scoring. It's that all the other things and actions that they then get into that puts Joel at a disadvantage defensively. So. That is one of the ways that you can help yourself, VJ Escomb and the Sixers, with the foul baiting, if you will. Get up to the level of the screen so he don't have them angles to come off, get you on his back, and do all the trickery. That's how you combat that. Joel Embiid also took offense to Mikal Bridges running to his side where he got the appendectomy. He said postgame, I don't know if it was dirty or not. I don't think it was necessary, but we move on. It's whatever, it's playoff basketball. I guess we gotta be more physical too and do it too. And I would say to Joel, absolutely, you most definitely do. I'm not mad at Mikal Bridges for doing that because if you're not healthy, you shouldn't be on the court. And as a defender, if you know a guy got an injury, you know, everybody got mad at Dylan Brooks last year with Steph. And I'm like, I can't get mad at that. If you know a guy got a bad thumb, you gonna hit that thumb. That's just the way it goes. That's been going on for years and years and years in the NBA. It's gonna go on for years and years longer. That's just the way it goes. You let someone know you have an injury, which is a lot of times, I try not to report all my injuries because you let somebody know you have an injury, they're going to attack that injury. So it's unfortunate. An appendectomy is a pretty serious surgery, but— Yeah. Can't blame Mikal Bridges. You know, to me, listen, he ran directly into him. He didn't try to, he dodged it. He ran dead smack into him. So is it dirty? No, I wouldn't say it's dirty. Is it intentional? I do think it's intentional. So as I said, I think this series is gonna get spicy. You know, when you're talking like that, when you're upset about those things and you're upset, think they're trying to hurt you. Series gonna get a bit spicy. One thing I can assure you though, Knicks is playing great. Won't be a 40-point win in game 2. You know, Philly rolled in, they coming off their high horse, they beat Boston. Now here's another thing too. Philly could just be like, "Man, we got over the hump, that is Boston," and bow out. Now I hope not to see that because I hate to see guys quitting the play, but they could be mentally like, "Man." Yeah. Woo! We finally beat Boston. And they could lay down now. Now, I hope not. I wanna see a good series, but you know, hopefully it ain't another 40-point win. They better get guys up to the level of Draymond Green. And they better figure out this double team on Joel. What they gotta do is, all those catches on the post, delete 'em, get rid of 'em. Too easy to double. He has to operate from the top of the key, from the free throw line area, put shooters on the side to negate those double teams. Then you get, you get 'em turning back, Maxey coming downhill, they doing their thing. But those post touches, recipe for disaster. 'Cause he was struggling to pass outta them doubles. It created some turnovers, which then allowed the Knicks to get out and run. Everybody feeling good and you get steamrolled. So see what type of adjustments they make. But. In another game 1, the Timberwolves shocked the Spurs, won 104 to 102 in game 1. And I see everybody like, "Oh man, it's over for the Spurs now." And listen, I'm not calling it over for nobody after game 1. Victor Wembanyama broke a postseason single game record with 12 blocks. Finished the game with 11 points, 15 rebounds, 12 blocks. You gotta give Rudy Gobert a lot of credit, man. Rudy Gobert been defending his ass off these playoffs. Yeah. Put on a great performance for 6 games versus Joker in the last series. And then he comes out game 1 and he holds Wimby to 11 points on 17 shots. 0 for 8 from the 3, 5 for 17 from the field. That's incredible work, man. That's incredible work. I was a little worried about that matchup, but like I told y'all last pod, that's his young fella. He know his game. Yeah. That means something. Can Wimby— I told y'all a story. Can Wimby say, "Fuck you. I'm done with you." No, I'm not, not I'm done with you, but it has to be fuck you right now. It can't be no friends. I don't want to talk to you. Don't talk fresh to me. Don't do none of that. We enemies right now. It has to be that. If not, you're going to get big bro'd. That's just the way it goes. Got a beating. And you know, there was a lot of chatter about Wimby's blocks. Listen, I've been said, you know, some of those blocks, even when we played them, like some of them blocks be gold 10, man. And they never call 'em. Some of those are a little egregious. They get on the backboard, come off, pow. Like some of them was a little egregious. I heard people like, oh, either his blocks were a block, were a gold 10 or a foul. Listen, I'm not gonna go that far. There were a couple, there were a few good blocks, but. Yeah. Some of them were some fouls. Some of them were some goaltends. What I will say is, you win unanimous Defensive Player of the Year, you should get a little more respect now. He been getting his respect before he won unanimous Defensive Player of the Year. But listen, they gotta figure out a way to referee that better because what's gonna happen is, guys gonna keep seeing that and then you're gonna get a guy going crazy and then they gonna tech the player for being pissed off because they know it's a goaltend. And that's not right either. So they do have to, they do, there is an onus on the referees to figure out a better way of officiating this. And I know Coach Chris Finch agree. He said, you know, Wimby had a lot of blocks. He said he had a couple uncalled goaltending. Those are valuable points. We'd like to have those back. And I understand it, Coach. You gonna need those points. So they need to get a better, They need to get a better grip at officiating whether he's goaltending or blocking. But nonetheless, impressive. I love the way they moved Wemby around. They did not leave him just in one spot so he could wreck the defense. Sometimes he was on the wing, having to be in the shell. Sometimes he was on the block. Like they were moving, they brought him into actions and screen, like they— And another thing that I thought was brilliant, most people, say, "Yo, let's space out to get Wemby away from the rim." And so we need to space out to the 3. The Minnesota Timberwolves did something completely opposite, which I thought was incredible. They kept a guy in the dunker the whole time. And anytime they were in the dunker, they were engaging Wemby's body. They were ducking in, even if they weren't getting the ball, they were ducking in. So now a drive happens and they got him sealed off. They were just getting layups. I thought that was brilliant by the Minnesota Timberwolves. Would love to see how the San Antonio Spurs gonna combat that. But the Minnesota Timberwolves have found something with putting him in that dunker and ducking him in every play because he couldn't get off. And although he was blocking shots in the first half, remember he had what, 9 in the first half or something like that? Second half they was ducking him in. He couldn't get to it and he was exhausted. Wemby seemed a bit tired last night, man. He didn't have that same defensive activity in the second half than he did the first half. A key to that though could be wasn't scoring, wasn't feeling good, sulking a little bit. And not that he was sulking or putting his head down, but I'm saying you feel sorry for yourself. And so that could be a key to that as well. But like I said, you still gotta give Rudy Gobert his credit there. Ant-Man returned for the first game of the series. He had 18 on 62% shooting in 25 minutes, 11 points in the fourth quarter. Mr. Clutch himself. Didn't win the Clutch Award, but has been very clutch. Listen, when Ant-Man is on the floor or available, it just does something else for the confidence. And I gotta take my hat off to him. He played an incredible game. I think the thing that y'all tend to forget is Ant-Man really ain't played much in the last 2 months. You know, he missed most of the last 20 games of the season or 15 games or whatever it was. Played in a couple games last series. He hasn't played much basketball over the last 2 months. To see him have that type of rhythm, I thought was impressive. To see him cut through, you saw him grabbing at the knee a few times, I thought was impressive. But shout out to Jaden McDaniels. Jaden McDaniels has taken his game to another level on the offensive end since Ant-Man has been hampered. And he's continuing to show that confidence. And I think that's making all the difference. And also give that young fella, Terrence Shannon Jr., credit. Young fella shot out of a cannon and he going to the rack every single time. Probably had a couple layups that should have been called goaltending. But I love what he said after the game. He said, "He gonna have to keep blocking it 'cause I'm gonna keep going." And if you got a coach that got confidence in you and telling you to keep going and keep going at his chest, you keep doing that. So the young fella been a good X factor for them. And I love watching his growth. A lot of fans and media questioned Mitch Johnson's decision not to call a timeout during the final possession. Listen, that's always a delicate subject. And fans and everybody's always gonna say, "Oh man, you didn't call a timeout." If you miss the shot, if you make the shot, they say, "Oh, look at him. He had faith in his team. Didn't call a timeout. And look what happened. He make that shot." So that's just the way the game goes. What I will say about that though, I love the way all those guys answered it. Everybody answered it the same way. They said, our best 3-point shooter got a wide open fly-by. They all used the term fly-by. Had a fly-by, wide open 3. He just missed it. We taking that shot. Dylan Harper said, I'm taking that shot 10 out of 10 times. De'Aaron Fox broke it down and said, that's our— I'm taking that shot. You know, everybody said the same thing. Mitch Johnson, same thing. Love how them guys is lockstep on that. Give your guys confidence. Don't be surprised if Julian Champagnie come out lighting everybody up. The confidence they just gave him through those media interviews. So I respect it. I love that they didn't call a timeout. They got a great look. You call a timeout, they get their best defenders out there. It becomes much harder to get a shot off. Maybe you go for 2, but again, nothing's guaranteed. You will take a fly-by wide open 3 from Julien Champagny for the game. If you don't, then why is he out there on the floor? So kudos to those young fellas for staying together like that. I love that. 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And the best part is there are no long-term contracts, so you're not locked into anything. You can watch on your terms however you want. Learn more at Sling.com. Pistons beat the Cavs 111 to 101 in game 1. The Cavs has had the most turnovers through 8 playoff games since 1996 with 141 turnovers. The Cavs starting 5 all played terrible. You know, James couldn't really get it going. He got it going there in that 4th quarter and brought them back and gave 'em a chance. Jalen, excuse me, Jared Allen had an awful game. He was in foul trouble from the beginning. Didn't like the intensity that he played with from the beginning. A couple ticky-tack fouls. Evan Mobley wasn't good. Wasn't good either. I think they're gonna have to play one of the two bigs, but it didn't look great out there today. But what I did tell y'all, Dennis Schroder setting the tone, and the Cavs had nothing going, and Dennis Schroder came out and he was chill the first half. You know, he was doing his thing, pushing the tempo a little bit, not getting into it. Nobody get a bucket, run back. Softening those guys up. And then what do you do the second half? Trying to fight, stand up, push Duncan Robinson down, walk over him, start talking junk to guys. I'm telling y'all, man, I told y'all Dennis Schroder, X factor in this series, and he gave them a good chance today. They're probably gonna have to find some more minutes for Dennis Schroder because this is just his type of series. It's a physical series. The Detroit Pistons is a physical team. It can get nasty. And you want Schroeder in that. So man, may need to get Schroeder some more, but I told you all, I knew exactly how this would go with Dennis. Another thing I think the Cavs are gonna have to adjust is Cade Cunningham is gonna have his way with Dean Wade. I'm not sure how much you're gonna be able to play Sam Merrill. Dennis Schroeder probably should get all of those minutes. But I, you may have to switch D-Wade outta that starting lineup and go Tyson because D-Wade don't stand a chance against Kade. He gonna have a rough go. And Kade got to his spots. Kade, 23 and 7, nothing crazy, but he was just so in a rhythm and like everything was just so easy. You know, he got those dimes in the fourth quarter. To stop the run and get Jalen Duren going just because like there was no, he was unfazed by Dean. Like there's no pressure. He getting downhill, up, up, you know, drop off. Oh boom. Like lefty, like, you know, I just think he was so unbothered by Dean Wade. I don't know that that's gonna be the answer. So they're gonna have to take a look at that matchup. I don't love that matchup. In an ideal world, you would think like, yo, they're probably gonna need to play through their bigs more because the, The strength of the Pistons defense, Asar Thompson, you know, Cade Cunningham is a good defender. Like, the strength of their defense is on the guard-guard stuff. So, you know, I would wanna say, gotta play through Mobley, but he was, you know, he gotta be more physical too. Like, you gotta want more of that smoke, you know? And so, man, the Pistons should've, won this game by a much larger margin. But if you're JB Bickerstaff, you're very happy about that. One tough thing is to blow somebody out in game 1. The New York Knicks is gonna have— then you have this issue, face this issue. Can they overcome it? We'll see. But you blow a team out in game 1, they come back game 2, they pissed off, they on your ass. You know, so if you're JB Bickerstaff, you like, man, I'm happy we won 111 to 101. I'm happy the game got close. And we closed it out. 'Cause now we know we need to approach the game with the same way we started. We need to maintain that focus, right? And so, JB Bickerstaff, you're happy with that. Dennis Schroeder will need more minutes and they're gonna have to figure something out with D'Angelo Russell because he is not bothering Cade at all. Our last game of the night, the Thunder beat the Lakers 108 to 90. And Chet has his second straight double-double with 24 and 12. Listen, I think, like I told you all before, I think LeBron's gonna have to guard Chet. I just think with his physicality, his smarts, he'll be the only person on their roster that will be able to bother Chet at all. I love how they was sending a double team at Shea. They never really let Shea get into a crazy rhythm, but those guys got a great team, man, and they capitalized on that. I did speak about, you know, I thought this Lakers team would be better suited playing around LeBron because he gonna just slow it down. He ain't gonna try to get in no pissing contest with the OKC Thunder, you know? And because of that, you know, it keeps turnovers low. You know, it allows them to keep it a half-court game as opposed to trying to get in this running game with the young OKC Thunder. And it was working. And then they had that stretch where they start turning the ball over. And once they start turning the ball over, those are gonna be layups or threes. And so gotta keep the turnovers down. Felt like those happened at times where Bron was in the corner and off the ball. But any chance, man, if they want any chance, Bron has to man the game, the whole game. If he doesn't, they won't have much chance. Now you lose by 18 points and Shay have 18 points. That's a tough one. You know, so. Yeah. I think their depth is far too much for the Lakers to handle. But you know, LeBron looks comfortable. They're not gonna do nothing to speed him up. He'll be fine. He can get those guys into the things that he want to get into. But you cannot have those stretches of turnovers because those are points. And you know, when you make mistakes against OKC, they make you capitalize. It reminds me of the old Spurs team. So— Yeah. You know, they gotta play, as I said before, they gotta play a perfect game to win. And I don't see a perfect game in the near future. Now it's time for the Slingshot of the Night, brought to you by Sling TV, the most flexible TV streaming service. Watch the NBA playoffs on ESPN with a Sling 1, 3, or 7-day pass starting at $4.99. Learn more at sling.com. Top scorer, 5 minutes left, Kade with 30. 3 beautiful passes for dunks for Jaylen Dern on 3 straight trips down the court. Take the lead and go back up 6 after the Cavs had went on an 11-0 run. I thought that was absolutely incredible. Not only did it stop the run, not only were they getting downhill and getting foreshort 2s, but I feel like it might've, you hope it unlocked Jaylen Dern a bit. He came out more aggressive, which you can appreciate. He rebounded the ball extremely well. But the way K got him them dunks down the stretch, I think can really get him going, can really open things up for him. So shout out to K for getting this guy going. It was good to see Jalen Duren get those dunks down the stretch and separate it. You know, that was the separation needed in the game. And you know, he provided that getting those dunks. So, you know, K dropped him off, spoonfed him some baby food and he— Yeah. Finish his breakfast. So that was the Sling Shot of the Night, brought to you by Sling TV. Sling puts the consumers in control with their flexible subscription options. Wanna watch one game or even a full series on ESPN? Grab a 1, 3, or 7-day pass starting at $4.99. If you wanna watch as many games as possible, get a monthly subscription with their combo package. Either way, Sling lets you watch the playoffs your way with no long-term contracts. Learn more at sling.com. I wanna thank you all again for tuning into the Draymond Green Show. 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