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Draymond Green
What'S up everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green show with Baron Davis. I'm on Solo tonight. BD will be back Wednesday live after game three. Just jumping right in. Obviously it's NBA Finals time. That is the most important thing. Although it's not feeling like the most important thing. There's this whole debacle with the court and like, so I'm going to rewind a little bit. Somewhere along the archives, you could see me talking about, like, the NBA course and how, like, it was so dope when at the center of the court was the logo, but the big Larry o' Brien trophy, like, that was so dope, it was fire. What happened to that? And, like, sure enough, we had went to, like, the size and the finals or a trophy somewhere. And, like, what happened to that? You know? So we come into this year where by all intensive purposes, everybody's kind of been writing off this NBA Finals, you know, in large part because it's like a two new cast of characters OKC in Indiana. But when I also cast a new cast of characters, it's not Bron, it's not Steph, you know, it's not like Jason Tatum or, you know, guys who you've seen in it over and over and over and again. It's not that it's different. It's young. It's young gossip. So I feel like a lot of people been writing this spinals off. And so with that going on, the last thing I would expect is, like, no trophy be on the court. I'm a fan of the trophy. Being at center court, big as hell, and there's no trophy on the court. And I saw everybody going crazy about the flag waving. The flag is waving. And then the trophy appeared on the court. I saw some funny memes on Instagram. One of them said, they gave us the here n word here trophy. I said, oh, my God. Here, get out. Get out of here. There you go. The Internet is undefeated. But, you know, I was really shocked by that. And so, you know, in saying that, getting back to the game, game two, we have a one one NBA finals, OKC evened it out winning the game 123 to 107. Kind of getting back to their dominant ways. Although it's crazy, I don't know what to make of this series. You know, you watch this series and it's. It's crazy because, okay, see, that's two times now where you see them build up that big lead and you think they about to, like. And it just kind of floats around. 20, 19, 17, 11, 22, 17, 20, like, it's kind of floating. You ain't necessarily seeing them put them away, how they've put teams away. And to me, that's interesting because you always know, like, with Indiana, what they've shown is that they're always in striking distance. Like, you get them a puncher's chance, they taking the chance. And so they've shown that. And so this series is just a little weird to me. I think when I watch this series, what I'm taking away after a couple games is like, who are the most important players in this series? Like, who? When you watch the series, who's like, oh, man, this guy has to play well in order for this team to win. Obviously, Holly has to play well. No, Holly had, I think, 12 points in the fourth quarter, end up finishing with 17. But I must tell you, the high, and I said it last time, the Holly that I thought, the Holly that I thought would come out, it wasn't that guy, right? Like, I think he came out like. Like, you gotta understand, see, this is where experience. You always hear people talk about experience in these moments. This is where the experience take over. Because I said after last game, I was like, yo, Halle gonna come out. He gonna come out firing. He don't have two bad games in a row. And to me, it didn't feel like he came out forcing the issue of not having the bad game. Because when you. The guy and you in this situation. And so, for instance, they pulled out game one, surprisingly, shockingly, shouldn't have, couldn't have, wouldn't have, whatever you may feel, they pulled out game one, putting them in the driver's seat. And guess what the reality is, they still in the driver's seat. They won one going back home, but that put them really in the driver's seat. Like, there's no better feeling than the NBA Finals or the any playoff series you pull into town and you win game one and you free rolling for game two. There's no better feeling than having a free roll. Free swing. You got a free swing in game two. There's no better feeling. But when I say the experience comes in. I saw Holly complain for a foul call, like, try to flop early in the game. And I said to my boys, I said, he should understand. They up 1 0. You gotta run through everybody, chest up 10 to get the win. Like, you ain't getting a flop call. You ain't. Like, when you up 10 in that situation, you gotta, like, you gotta do all that you can to take game two. And you gotta show everybody that you mean business. And you have to. And even when you show them that you mean business, you still gotta go take game two. And no call, no whistles going your way. That's just human nature. It's just not happening. And so when I saw that early on, I was like, ha. I literally said to my Boys, he gotta. He better understand what. And so that's where I say the experience takes over. Because when you. The guy in that situation, you gotta come out going for broke because you have to play incredible. You got the guys that's across from you pissed off. These guys even pissed off that they just felt like they gave one away. Their first ever NBA Finals experience. They feel like they gave the game away. Not only are they pissed off if they feel like they gave the game away, but naturally they're down.01. Like, you gotta come out pissed off. You cannot go down.02. And so you're up against that. And I just didn't think he came out with the aggressiveness that it would have required him to win. Like, in order to go take that game, too, he got to come out so aggressive to where his guys on his side, like, hey, that's what we own. It's almost like they see it, like, all right. Like, well, I can't leave him out there, so I gotta do X, y, and Z. And I just didn't think. I saw that. Saying it's the first time all playoffs. I'll say I ain't saw that. We've seen them win game one after game one, after game one and game two. They came out fired, like, so it's the first time I'll say that I can recall them, like, not, like, coming out swinging. And so I'll give them that. But I think that's just something that you have to understand, and experience can't change that, you know? So you got OKC with five players, with 15 plus, first time in the NBA Finals since we won't talk about the NBA Finals. Who the fuck cares about that NBA Finals? You want to know when that NBA Finals was? You can go look it up yourself. We want to talk about that NBA Finals and moving on. You know, I told y' all, I get these rundowns, like, just to help you stay on topic, you know, on there. So I know what topics I want to hit. Boom, boom, boom. And then I roll. And we got Charles over here. But it's the first time since the finals versus, you know, whatever. Just throw my whole aura off, man. Anyway, just stole my whole. You know What? Moving on. SGA had 34 points, eight assists, four steals in game two while, you know, they have five players. I'm so thrown off right now. Like, y' all don't understand this guy want. This is, like, the fourth time he's done it where he, like, throw a little jab, like. And by the way y' all should know, this wasn't on my rundown when I first looked through my rundown, it wasn't on there. Then you look back in their parentheses. It's their first time since 2019 NBA Finals by the Raptors. Like that's a very soft spot for me. If anyone could guess why. And I'm not over it. You never get over these things. But Anyway, Shay passed AI for the most points in A in the first two career finals game. AI has 71. Shay has 72. The significance of that shout out to AI. Happy birthday to the OG. Happy 50th birthday AI turning 50 is crazy. Like AI is our childhood and he turning 50. Shout out to the OG Bubba Chuck man, we love you AI. Nothing can change that. You are a guy forever. We appreciate you much. Love to AI. Happy birthday to the goat, to the legend. Nothing but love for AI. I forgot where I was going with my whole thing because that thing threw me all the way off. But we're going to move on.
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So don't miss the Big Three season opener Saturday, June 14 at 6:03pm Eastern only on Vice TV. Find your channel now@vice tv.com so going back to OKC, having five players with over 15 points, it makes it interesting for me because when you look at okc, who are the most important players on that team? And for me I feel like I struggle with that. Like, I don't think there's any question that J Dub is the second most important player, the second best player. However you want to script it, it's J D. I don't think any of us have any doubt on that. But I think where it gets interesting for me is when I watch these things, I try to think about these things in terms of like, if I was playing against them, like, what are you prioritizing, right? Because when you go in these series, it's an NBA team, it's the best NBA teams. And a lot of times in these series you have to pick. Like I'm willing to let that thing beat me because in the NBA, like it's hard to stop everything. Like you got so much talent, you got so many IQs and basketball smarts amongst these coaches tasks that that's just how I think about it. Like what would I be willing to look at and say, all right, that's the thing, that's going to be me? Well, in turn, that requires you to put into context, like who's the most important people, you know, like who's the. And when I look at it, when I take a step back and look at this, I always feel like it's hard. Like who's the most important person, right? Like in theory you want to say it's Chet. Like in theory it looks like it's supposed to be chatted. But like when I take A step back, I look at this team. A Chet was out this year, a large bulk of this year, and they were just fine. Even Hardenstein was out for quite a bit. And that team rolled. Like, I think they had like J dub at the 5 or Lou at the 5, and they still continued to roll. Then they played Kerrick Williams at some 5. They just figured it out and continued to roll. And so it brings you to the point of who's like the third most important player on the team? And also who's the third most important player on the team may not be the third most important player in a series. And that's where it gets tricky when you start talking about third most important players, third option. Because like one and two is usually always one and two. That's what it is. And then the regular season, third is usually third. Like it's. But when you get to the playoffs, third can be taken out of a series and five or six can become more important than three. And I feel like when I look at this OKC team, I actually think the third most important player is Alex Caruso. And I find it very interesting because, hey, he come off the bench. I think that's always interesting in itself. Like, he's coming off the bench, he's the third most important player. Sometimes you run into that in a regular season, Lou will, for instance, right? Like, you got a coach that's agreeing, like, yo, we want you to get this six man award. Like, but when they get to the playoffs, he usually go out the window. And I think Caruso is so important to what they do. And I feel like you never game plan for him. And so because you don't game plan for him, he coming to these finals and he go crazy. But the reality is he's a champion, so he actually knows what to expect. If I'm a betting man, and not even a betting man, but if I am, if I'm a coach, if I'm an opposing coach, I'm saying, man, I know this guy. But see, and that's where I think playing makes a difference is like, because you understand a little more. And I'd be like, Caruso's been in this moment, he's shown us over and over again he can deliver in this moment. I think I'm going to make the guy, I'm going to make him so important to our game plan, I'm going to make less of importance in our game plan to the guy who hasn't done it. Can't do that to Shay. Yeah, he hasn't been there. But come on. What you J Dub, you try to if you want to. We once tried to let Jaylen Brown shoot threes in the game. We lost by 60. It's fine. It was just a. Throw something out there, cast it out there, see if it worked. It didn't work. So don't go for number two, but for number three. I actually think Caruso is more important, especially for this series. And so place that bet on the guy that hasn't done it and Chet hasn't done it. I know Caruso can beat me. He's shown me he can beat me on several different points back then when he won a championship. He showed you he can beat you. And so I'm just not sure that that'd be the bet that I'd be making. And I think that's where it gets interesting. Like, I think Indiana staff gonna have to take a deep dive, like, importance, like, who hurts us more because J Dub had a pretty average, not great, but decent, like, decently productive Game 1. And they should have won a game. Like, they blew the game, but they should have won the game. But Chet was bad. Like, Chet did not have a good game. And you fast forward. J Dub played better tonight also. Chet played better tonight also. Everybody played better tonight. But I'm just not sure that, especially in this series, that if I'm not the opposing coach on Indiana, I'm not making the bet that our game plan need to be focused on these three guys. What we can do to take these three guys out of it. And what can I do to take Alex Caruso completely out the game? How can I scheme against Alex Caruso to possibly take him completely out the game because he's so important to everything they do. Like, defensively, he's so important to everything they do offensively. He could be another guy that can handle the ball, that's smart, that make decisions that's going to shoot the right shots, not take the wrong shots. So if you can put him in a situation where you can figure out how to make him uncomfortable, how to make him, how to make the coach second guess playing because he's clearly not all the way bought in on him. He's. We'd be starting them like you understand the importance of that. So how can I put him in a position to where he have to think, meaning Mark dag know how to think and he may go the wrong way. I think that's what the Indiana Pacers has to be figuring out. Like, this has to be a matchup game for Them like they gotta get so diabolical down to each matchup, each person on the floor. How can we exploit any weakness that OKC has? Because obviously OKC is the better team. But they don't have the experience. And because they don't have the experience, you have to exploit those things while they don't have the experience. And that's where this series gets really interesting for me is can Rick Carlisle and his staff exploit OKCs? You exploiting their youth means a multitude of things, but simply put, putting them in situations that they have not seen that they can be uncomfortable in. And that is going to take a little while to figure out because you already stole one game. So all of a sudden you get to a certain point in NBA Finals where you still wink, get a note, you put doubt. Anything you need to creep in for you to win this series is what has to happen. So it'll be interesting to see if they make some of those adjustments to make them more uncomfortable. Because ultimately right now, I think even with OKC losing game one, they were comfortable. Like they felt like they should have won, they came out, they played hard, they got it done, and that's that. So what can you do to make this group uncomfortable? As I think what. And obviously that's everybody's like thought, right? But like them more so than other. Like how do you make them uncomfortable to where you can play at their youth? Because the only way you can play at their youth is to make them uncomfortable and then play at it. Right now if you just leave them comfortable, it's irrelevant. But if you can make them uncomfortable and then pull their you strings, I think that's how you ultimately got to beat this team. And I think that's what Indiana has to do. But going back, you know, to Holly, like I said, Holly gotta be, gotta be more aggressive and you gotta come out swinging cause the guy's gonna follow you. That's just what it boils down to. So we'll see. OKC's bench was, was great. You had Caruso with 20 off the bench. You had Aaron Wiggins with 18 threes, 18 points, five threes off the bench. And now the show goes on the road and it gets more interesting. You know why? Because role players play better at home and not on the road. And all the role players stepping up is what, one for OKC today. But I can see what Indiana's theory is. We're going to try to take everyone else out, make it tough on everyone else, and make Shay beat us one on one problem is Shay had 34 and eight and everybody else got off. So if that's going to be a theory, you guys actually stop everybody else. And they did not do that tonight. So, you know, I think if I'm Indiana, I think you got to throw more zone OKC pack to paint a little more. Sometimes you got to dare them to shoot. But I think just like with any NBA team, like especially at this level, you got to switch it up. Like sometimes you got to be daring in the shoe, sometimes you got to be flying at the close and like you just got to keep these guys off balance. Once again, playing at that youth, I think if you can do that, that's ultimately what wins you the game. I saw something that Mark Dagno said after the game. He said Indiana is an acquired taste. We haven't played them a lot. They play a distinct style on both ends. I just thought the guys did a good job of just improving, which is important. Going from game one and game two, I see what he's getting at. Like they're a little uncon, They're a little unconventional for sure. But when it boils down to it, you got to go out there and beat me. And then tonight OKC just did that. So I think this series is interesting. OKC could very much so go win the next two games. Indiana, as we know, could very much so go on to win these next two games. And I think it's going to be like ultimately Rick Carlisle has to undoubtedly out coach Mark Daniel in order for the Spacers to win this series. I think Rich Carlisle is a great coach. I think he's capable of out coaching someone, so we'll see if he do it.
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We're gonna move around this league a little bit before we get out of here. What is your reaction to Wimby the Monk? I saw a meme that said, oh, Wendy went bald already. It's over for the league now. Much respect to anybody who's following their religion, who's following their beliefs, whatever it is that they believe. Much respect to anybody. I didn't know I was a little surprised by the photo op, but I guess in 2025 you can't be surprised by any photo op. But yeah, when I saw it, the first thing I thought was like, is he in San Antonio? Like I hope he's doing well. Obviously we remember he left with a blood cost, so I've been keeping my fingers crossed and sending up my prayers to the big man just for everybody to be healthy. So I hope that means he's healthy. Moving forward to my guy, Spartan dog, Michigan State alum. He went to grad school at Michigan State. He's a Penn State undergrad. It's my guy actually trained me for the NBA draft. So little quick story for y' all. I signed with Ron Shade coming out of college. Ron Shade is my agent. Ron, that's my brother. Still to this day, Ron is with Octagon Sports now, but Ron is my brother. That's my guy. And I signed with Ron coming out of college and I went to Chicago where Ron live for like three or four days and I was training and it wasn't that the trainer wasn't great because I actually thought the training was great. Like when I go to Chicago, I still train with him. Like he's incredible. His name is Basil Basis, incredible trader. But I trained her for a few days and I told him like, yo, I'm gonna go back to Michigan State. And the reason I went back was more so it wasn't about the trainer or anything. It was about I felt like I had grinded and became who I became at Michigan State. So literally my first three summers in the NBA, every summer I went back to Michigan State because I felt like that was the place where I go and when I go there, I lock in like no other. I grind, I get to it like. And so that's where I felt comfortable like going through my pre drive grind at so I went back there and who trained me for the draft, literally trained me for my pre draft workout, was Jordan. I Jordan was a video guy, video coordinator at Michigan State. He had been a GA before then he left and took the video job at Penn State, came back and took it at Michigan State and trained me for the NBA draft. Jordan Ott becomes the head coach of the Phoenix Suns Shout out to J Ott. J Ott came into the NBA with the Hawks, worked under Bud super tight with Kenny, went to Brooklyn with Kenny, worked on the staff with Darvin Ham. The Lakers win his Kenny's top assistant Kenny Atkinson at Cleveland and yesterday or two days ago was named head coach for the Phoenix Suns. And man, to watch somebody like come from a video coordinator at Michigan State Ga to like becoming a head coach in the NBA so special. So I'm happy as hell for Jordan. Hbo, Brian Gregory, all Spartans, Paul Rivers Spartan happy as hell for them. So congratulations Jordan. Shout out to Jordan. I think Phoenix got a great one. Shout out to Jordan's wife, Jordan. They are the best known them since I was 16 years old and to see him become a head coach in this league and just grind his way up, it's absolutely incredible. And I know Phoenix got a great one when you talking X's and O's, one of the best in the business. Not a guy who's afraid to hear his own voice. Absolutely incredible to see. So I'm happy as hell for Jordan. I and like I said, shout out to him, shout out to Matt, shout out to the Phoenix Suns and locking in a great coach that I think will be there for the next 20 years if you want to be. Speaking of trainers, Bron discusses how the next generation are relying More on basketball trainers instead of just playing the game. I heard what Bron said. I know he said like, yo, I just went to hoop. And I agree with that. Like growing up, I actually didn't know. I didn't learn how to do a proper individual workout till I got to college growing up, like, I'm going to hoop. Like, where's the nearest run? Drop me off, I'll play all day. Like that's what we did. We hooped all day. So I think there's a huge benefit to that because you just learn to see the game. Like, you learn to see the game. I talked on Kimmel the other night about my son and just like watching him play and like how he knew how to play and he like some of the stuff I know he'd pick up on naturally just because he's always around basketball, he watch it. And so you imagine growing up like you did, like we did. You playing basketball all day. The nuances and things you figure out about the game. It's different when somebody just putting you in a position to tell you to do this move. Like, how do you use your creativity? How do you learn? Like, oh man, I can do this. If somebody just say do this. How do you know what you're about? How do you know what your game is if you never tap into it and just figure it out? And so I understand. Like, I think, you know, there's a time and place for a trainer and I think, you know, with where the game has gone, like, you need those resources in order to be successful. I feel like basketball used to be a poor man's game. Like we all played it, poor kids played it, we were poor, we had nothing and it was our way out. Basketball is not a poor kid's game no more. Basketball is a rich kid game. Like the days of seeing LeBron James from Akon, Ohio, from a single mom, those days are numbered. Like they're not. Because if you don't have the resources these days, like you can't make it. It's become a rich kids game. And basketball didn't used to be that. And so I think all of that goes into like with the trainers and stuff. Like. But that's. I also feel like that's why, like you don't see as great a basketball as you did before because there's no imaginations. Everybody's doing the same thing, playing the same way. And I think a lot of that is due sometimes to having trainers. Not that having a trainer is a bad thing. But again, if you never get to use your imagination, then you just become a karma copy of somebody else the trainer created. And so I agree with Brian to a certain extent. I think, you know, you do gotta get out there and play. And you gotta get out there and just figure it out. Because when you get out there on that court, ain't nobody to put you in a position. You gotta put yourself in the position. Ain't nobody there to place you. You gotta get there. So I think there needs to be a healthy balance, and I don't think that balance is near being found. I did not watch the Lance Stevenson, Michael Beasley one on one. These are fan questions, by the way. I did not watch it. I didn't know what time it came on number one. But I did see the back and forth before and after and saw some of the highlights that looked very entertaining. One thing's for certain, we all know Michael Beasley is one of the best guys to ever dribble basketball and like shoot the ball and put the ball in the hoop. Michael Beasley is one of the best has ever done. I don't think you won't get many basketball players to disagree with that. And so I heard it was super entertaining. I think it was dope. I saw some people say it should be at All Star Game. I think King of the Hill would be fun. But it kind of becomes a dunk contest. A lot of people don't want to get embarrassed. So how many people really do it, I don't know. We'll see before we get out of here. Who wins game three? You got Indiana going home. I'm taking Indiana. Game three. I'm going to take Indiana. Game three crowd going to be electric. They haven't played well, so they got to have a good game coming at some point. They ain't just going to keep playing bad. And I think they saved it for game three, first one at home. So I'mma take Indiana Game three. We shall see how it turns out. But however it turned out, me and BD will be right here live after game three. Check us out. Tune in. Don't miss out until next time. That's a wrap for this episode of the Draymond Green show with bd. But he not here today. Deuce.
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Ryan Seacrest
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