Warriors-Clippers Reaction: ZERO regret getting Steph Curry ball on final play | Draymond Green Show

All right, talk to me about the game.

Ah. We got it.

I know, I know.

We got it in the first half.

That was, I thought it was going to overtime, personally.

You know what? It's crazy 'cause I had that corner 3, but you know me, I'm seeing the floor as the play is developing. So I already see Steph across court, wide open. So as soon as I catch the ball, my first look, I know he over there wide open. I should've took that corner 3. My mom's like, "You should've took the corner 3." And you know what I told my mom? I said, "Mama, the opportunity will come back. But that's the first time the opportunity has happened this year. You have to get the ball to Steph Curry in that moment. That's his moment." Yes.

Oh yeah.

Like, that is his moment.

For sure.

That is where this is created. It's the best celebration in sports.

Yeah.

And he only can do this with those types of moments.

With those type of games.

Now right there we going, "We going to overtime." But that is Steph Curry moment. So yeah, man, like if I see that he not about to be open, man, I'm gonna take that shot for sure. But if I see he about to be remotely close to open, that's his moment. You get him the ball. You know what I'm saying?

Like, and so— He gonna make something happen.

Exactly. You know, I thought we was still gonna go to overtime. I actually even thought GP shot, it was right on line.

I thought that was money too.

I thought it was money. But it was a good game. It was a fun game, man. I got a lot of respect. For the way that Clippers team is competing. You know, being down Kawhi, losing Paul George, and the way Norman Powell is stepping up. And then, you know, I just always respect Ty Lue coached teams. You know, they gonna have a certain demeanor. They gonna, they gonna, there's certain things that they gonna do to muck the game up. You know, Ty Lue is a mastermind.

Yeah.

And so I always enjoy playing against Ty Lue coached teams because as a player, you're gonna be challenged to do something outside the box. Like Ty Lue in a regular season game, most coaches do this in the playoffs. Ty Lue in the regular season game ain't letting you get to what you want to do.

Yeah, for sure.

Most of these coaches in the league ain't that detailed to where during the regular season you can get away with that. Then all of a sudden guys get to the playoffs and like, whoa, this is different. That's because most coaches ain't going into that detail. Ty Lue, in a regular season game, you know going in, you're going to be challenged to do something outside of what you normally do. I enjoy the challenge of it. You know what I'm saying? Like, one time he'll sit all the way back on me and like make me take the shot. Then he pressure the living shit outta me. And like, anytime I got the ball, you got a guard draped all over me. Like, and he tries to play those mind games.

Yeah.

And like I said, as a thinker, I love that shit, man. 'Cause every time you play against him, you trying to figure it out. And it ain't even necessarily got nothing to do with the players.

It's the game plan. It's chess, man. It's chess. You know, it's a sophistication.

Mm-hmm.

A sophistication to coaching, to be able to make adjustments on the fly, make game-to-game adjustments, player-to-player adjustments, tweak the lineup because, you really wanna be prepping all this for down the stretch when you gotta figure out, you know, I was talking to someone about, oh man, what happens when Melton comes back? The Warriors got so much depth. And I said, when you look at, you know, the good coaches, they find grooves and waves, right? And so this pocket of 5 and 7, they gonna get us like 3 or 5 wins out of these, you know, next 7 games. They gonna give us 5 out of this 7. But then the next groove and pocket, I may have to tweak and play 8, 9 dudes, you know what I mean? To get through these next 4 games. Which means now those dudes can catch a groove on they own. And so you just looking to kind of tweak and not, you know, it's like you're creating one car, but you're creating a car to go at different speeds.

Yeah. Facts.

You know what I mean? And to hold different passengers and to be equipped to like, you know, be compact, right? But also have, you know, the flexibility of being, you know, an 18-passenger. You know what I mean?

Yes.

That can still drive at speed and pace where everybody on the same page. So, you know, sophistication of coaching is definitely like, You see, that's why there's the good, there's the bad, right? And the people ain't gonna be there, but shout out to y'all, man. There's the softballs. Yeah, shout out to y'all for, you know, claiming, you know, getting off to a good start, claiming the top spot and just, you know, balling. Y'all really balling. Y'all got some true ballers. And when the Warriors went to, I don't know if you know this, when they went to 5 straight finals, you guys were the most dominant in the third quarter. And this year y'all doing it again. What is it about the third quarter? And then also Draymond Green is 10 for 14 from the three in the third quarter. So you know what I'm about to tell you? Shoot the ball in the third quarter.

Steve, I'm hot. Feed me, Steve.

No, I'm just playing.

No, but honestly, I think, and it goes back to what we were just speaking about, coaches that can make adjustments. Steve Kerr, one of the areas that I seen Steve Kerr grow in as a coach, 'cause you gotta think, like I always say, I saw Steve coach as a rookie, like a rookie head coach, and I've been with him his entire 10-year career. And you start to like, When you are with someone that long, you see growth. And one of the areas that I feel like Steve grew in was earlier on, Steve couldn't make great in-game adjustments. I felt like, I felt like, but once he went to the film, like for, like, so the next time we play a team, once he went to the film, you could forget about it. Like his adjustment, once he's seen the film, he got it all figured out. But during the game, to me, earlier on, it felt like he couldn't necessarily make the in-game adjustments.

And that's an area that I—

Experience. Yes, exactly. And that's an area that I watched him become masterful at. And so going into halftime, for us, when we come outta halftime, it's like you could forget about it. Like that third quarter, we're so dialed in on what you've done to be successful in that first half because Steve like diced that up. Like that's like that break in the action where he get the process and it starts, you know, about 5 minutes go by, he in there going and he come in and he like, "All right, they doing boom, we pow, pow, pow." And from that point on, we know how to dice up what you doing.

Yeah.

And he, 'cause he, Man, when I tell you some of the adjustments I've watched this man make over the course of NBA Finals runs is crazy. And, but like I said earlier, you know, we went to the Finals Steve's first year. So you will see those adjustments during the Finals. You know what I'm saying? You'll see those adjustments during the playoffs.

Mm-hmm.

And then you started to see the growth and you see those adjustments after a regular season game. We'll go through the film and he like, "Ah, we should've did this. Next time we do it, it work." Then you started to see those adjustments coming in game. Like it was just a, the process of just growth.

Progression.

Absolutely. And when we come out in that third quarter, bro, we so locked in at that point, 'cause our coaching staff on what you doing to dice it up. And we come out strong, you know what I'm saying? Then all of a sudden you hit a couple threes. And for us, us hitting a couple threes is different than another team hitting a couple threes. Because when we hit a couple threes, especially Steph, I saw who said, Derek White said, "When Steph hit a couple threes, teams forget how to play defense." That is a fact. Like Steph hit a couple threes and then all of a sudden I hit a 3 after Steph just hit 2 and you like, yo, what the hell?

Yeah.

And I think it, you know, so in those third quarters you kind of get those flurries and it can break a team's spirit. Especially when it's been like, we've done this so well in the first half, it's demoralizing. And I think that's what's made our third quarter so successful over these years.

It reverses the energy. I was watching that in the game and it was like the Clippers were up, Steph hit two threes, they called timeout and then people were like, oh shit, oh shit. And I was like, dude, the Clippers are still up. But like, look how people feel waiting for the next shot, right? And it is just crazy how, that dynamic, you know what I mean? Like how that energy of just catching fire and the anxiety that it gives not only the team but the fans too. If you on the road, right? You are gonna forget about your assignments 'cause the one thing you don't want him to do is get another shot off, which tilts the scale into your favor. So, you know, one shout out to Steve Kerr 'cause I think he's a great coach. You know, I just think that—

Yeah.

Y'all so dialed in, man. You know what I mean? It's like y'all are, y'all focus on winning.

Mm-hmm, 1000%.

Y'all focus on winning.

Locked in.

And the energy that y'all have, the energy y'all got with each other, the camaraderie, you know what I mean? The way y'all communicate. You know, I'm excited. I'm excited 'cause I got to see it live. And I do like, I like the Clippers a lot 'cause I like the way they play. You know, Norman Powell, UCLA, we have some Bruins on the court. It was just an overall like, Great game. Y'all think y'all let one slip away, but I also think that the Clippers, you know, the Clippers are gonna be a good team. Was that the first time in the Intuit for you?

That was first time in Intuit. You know what's crazy? I walked up the wall all the way to the top, like to the very top at shootaround. And it was a very interesting view because if you're at the top of the wall, you can like, you got a bird's eye view on the court, but it's more so at the, at their, there's the screen on the outside of it is like what you'd be seeing on the inside. And so they can watch the wall at the top, like on that big-ass screen.

Wow.

Which, which I thought on that big screen, use big because I don't wanna say big-ass because, all right, so on that big screen they get to watch and It's interesting, but if you come down like 8 rows, you're now, or maybe not even 8, but you're now underneath that. So you can now see either the inside of the big screen on the other side.

Oh, that's crazy. It go, it's the whole wraparound.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or you see like, or you see, you can see the floor.

Yeah.

And the way the arena is built, even all the way up there, you don't feel, as far from the floor as like a lot of these arenas that's built for like hockey. So if you think about like the arenas that's built for hockey, the bowl, because of the ice have to fit the bowl, is further out. Yeah, it's wider. Which then puts the seats further out.

Yeah.

But because that arena's built for basketball, everything's close. So even if you're in like row 30, you got a good seat.

Yeah, there's no bad— I said that, there's no bad seats in the arena. Like the presentation, like I think the first time I was in the suites, but being on the floor, it's like, it felt like a big coliseum. You feel me?

Mm-hmm. Now Bomber did this big one.

It was a good experience. Yeah.

Bomber did this big one with that because they didn't miss anything. I saw some pictures, like some of our staff had went around the campus and I even saw some pictures of like their outdoor area, their seating area to eat food outside with heaters. Bomber did his big one on that, man.

He did his thing with that ring. Shout out to the Intuit, dawg.