In this post‑game monologue, Draymond Green breaks down the Warriors’ 123‑116 Game 5 victory in Sacramento. He highlights Steph Curry’s 31 points, Klay Thompson’s 25 points on five timely threes (and the impact of Thompson’s foul trouble), Andrew Wiggins’ aggressive 20‑point night, and Kevon Looney’s dominant rebounding (22 boards, second‑most of the series). Green reflects on his own 21‑point, 7‑rebound, 4‑steal effort, noting a personal shooting adjustment that helped him convert missed layups. He praises bench contributions from Jordan Poole, Gary Payton II, and Dante, and analyses the team’s turnover reduction (from 7 in Q1 to 14 total) and rebounding battle. The segment also previews Game 6, stressing the need to keep Klay out of foul trouble, the early‑game start time, and De’Aaron Fox’s thumb injury, while expressing excitement and emotional connection to the moment. Green ends with a call to subscribe and a reminder of the upcoming Game 6 broadcast.
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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. The Dubs go get a big game 5 win in Sacramento, 123 to 116. Steph Curry, 31 and 8. Killer Klay Thompson, 25 on 5 threes. I'll tell you what, if Klay Thompson did not get in foul trouble, he was going on the heater and I saw it happening and it started to happen. When Klay Thompson start hitting these things, boy, it get dangerous and it started happening. And then he picked up that foul. The third foul, I thought Malik Monk overran him. I hit him on the back door. Didn't look like a push-off to me. Quite frankly, I haven't seen the replay of it, but just from my angle, it didn't look like it. I don't know. It is. That's neither here nor there. But I'm telling you, I saw the heater happening and then Klay Thompson got in foul trouble and it slowed it down a bit. Andrew Wiggins, 20 points, 2 steals, 2 big blocks. Always good to see Wiggs aggressive. Big shot down the stretch. Big shot. Got the matchup he wanted, got to his spot and raised up. It's also one of them ones that you see and you, if he miss it, you like, Wiggs, why you settling? But he's that good and he made it and you gotta live with it and you live with it anyway. 'Cause it's him getting his spot and raising up. Favorable matchup that you'd like to see. You live with it. Huge, huge, huge shot. Also did a good job on De'Aaron Fox. Fox didn't have as explosive as a game as he's been having all series. Gotta give Wiggs some credit there. Kevon. Elijahwan, Bill Russell, Looney. 22 rebounds, second time this series. 18.7 rebounds over the last 3, 7.9 assists over the last 3. Kevon Looney playing some basketball, man. Kevon Looney is playing some basketball. It's funny, I haven't been in the starting lineup, as you know, And so I'm standing at the scorer's table, dapping guys up, and Loon came by. I said, "Loon, every rebound, Loon." I didn't really think he would get every rebound, but you know, like, "Loon, like, get every rebound." Dude went and got every rebound. Every rebound. Making plays out of the pocket. You love to see it. Love to see a guy who's been through so much doing what he's doing. It's been absolutely amazing. And then yours truly with 21-7, 4 steals, rebounded the ball pretty poorly. Most points since Christmas 2019. That's interesting. That's a fun one. Quite frankly, I told y'all after game 4, I should have had 20 points. I missed 6 layups. I got back to those spots and they went in last night, which was good. I know a lot of people made a lot of the one leg leaner. I actually work on that shot every day. I think it's a time and a place for everything. I'm not gonna always just go into that shot, but I work on it every day. And like I said last night, in game 2, I had the same shot and I missed it and I was pissed. In that moment, I— Felt good, I went back to it and I was able to knock it down. Big shot, give us a 3-point lead. And then Wiggs hit his shot, give us a 5-point lead. And then Steph Curly Neal, Curry did his thing and this way, that way, this way, er, er, er, er, er, and got the and one. And that was the dagger, that was it. Such a big game, man. Fun game. I saw the Draymond is a B-word t-shirts. Boy. Yeah, I saw it. And you know, thank you. It is what it is. I was locked in last night. To be quite honest with you, I maybe heard the boos twice. I was just in the zone, like locked in on the task at hand. I knew what needed to be done. I knew the focus I needed to have. And so I didn't really hear much of it. And when you find that zone, that's a beautiful space to be in in basketball where you just get lost in the arena, like lost in the game. Wow. It's a fun game. I told y'all like, yo, I only wanna play 4 years and like, that's a real thing. But it's games like last night that make you like, feel like Mitch. Like if I leave the game, is the game still gonna love me, man? Like it's those games last, like last night that give you that feeling. I sure enough got home last night and I'm like, Man, am I gonna get that up in 4 years? Like, am I really gonna get that up in 4 years? Them the games you live for. Like, you go through these long seasons, like, ultimately to get to situations like last night. And it's such a wonderful feeling. And obviously coming out with the win always helps, right? Like, it always helps. Winning cures all, as they say. It's a beautiful game. I thought everybody who came in contributed. Jordan Poole has some very timely buckets. I think he finished with 10 to 12 points, but they were very timely. Very, very, at like crucial points in the game, he made plays. Got a couple dimes, dropped the and-1 off to me. Dante came in and gave us good minutes. No, it didn't show up in the plus-minus, but his presence, his ball handling, Gave us some really good minutes. Everybody who came in was ready to go. GP, GP found it last night. You know, that's GP. I was telling someone the other night, like GP haven't played much basketball all year. And so still getting your feet wet, still kind of trying to get your rhythm. He found something last night. Now obviously you gotta keep building on it and we expect him to and we know he's capable and will. But GP found some last night and it was good. We needed his energy, had some timely offensive rebounds, kick out, timely little put back with the left hand, drop off. He was rolling, hit him for the roll, good finish. Also guarding Malik Monk, I mean Monk, but also Fox as well. GP was huge last night. Yeah. How did we get it done on the road? You know, road has been a struggle for us all year, but we know in those situations what we need to do. I thought we did a pretty good job of taking care of the ball after the first quarter. I think we had 7 turnovers in the first quarter. We finished the game with 14, so 7 turnovers the next 3 quarters combined. Thought we did a really good job there. And they were severely out-rebounding us in that first quarter. And I thought we did a good job of evening it up. I think they ended up out-rebounding us by 1. And so those were a couple key points that helped us end up taking that game on the road. And then obviously guys made plays. Like I said, Klay made some timely threes. He hit 5 threes, but they were timely. And like I said, he doesn't get into foul trouble. We could be speaking a whole different tune. Obviously still get a win, but Klay Thompson not only having 25, 'cause he was going on that heater and you can see it coming. So it'd be big for us to keep him out of foul trouble 'cause game 6, it is game 6. And we need game 6 Klay. Close this thing out 'cause these boys ain't going away. They got nothing to lose. They're gonna come out swinging, we know that, so. Yeah. It's gonna be important that we get a game 6 clay and everybody come ready to go locked in. It's a 5 o'clock game or 5 or 5:30, which is early and rare. But something happened with the Lakers and the Hawks or something. They're double booked and they can't play the early game. So we have the early game and they play later or something like that of that nature. So early game, make sure you locked in, tune into that. Lastly, before we get outta here, I know everybody was like, man, what about Fox's thumb finger injury? How is that gonna affect him? I'm telling you that, man, came out guns blazing like nothing was going on. I never saw him grab at it, nor did I ever expect him to. Very tough kid. He's not a kid, he's a grown man, but very super tough. And at no point did we expect him not to play. He's been waiting for this moment his whole career. We talked about it right here on the Draymond Green Show. He's been waiting for this moment. He's done everything he's had to do to put them in this situation. There was no way he was missing any game with a finger. Never believed it. Never once believed it. And sure enough, he came out guns blazing, hit his first 3 threes, I think, and then missed the next 7. So, you know, some of that he's gonna miss some shots and some of that, you know, some good contests. And gotta give a guy's credit who guarded him. Malik Monk really got going there in that second half. He was downhill, he did a really good job. So obviously we need to try to do a better job with Monk and not let him take the game over like he was taking the game over. Game 6 coming up and I am excited about it. And until after Game 6 Saturday morning, that's a wrap from this episode of the Draymond Green Show. Till next time. Peace. What's up everybody? It's Draymond Green. 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