The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Draymond Green Show - Knicks Loss, Poster Dunks, LeBron's Podcast

Episode Date: March 19, 2024

Draymond Green reacts to Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors losing to Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and the New York Knicks, the Dubs sub-.500 home record, the team's victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday, Anthony Edwards poster dunk, Kyrie Irving's incredible game-winner over Nikola Jokic, LeBron James and JJ Redick's new podcast, and more. 0:00 Start1:00 Knicks loss19:00 Poster dunks24:00 Kyrie's shot29:00 Bron's new podcast Produced by: Jackson Safon #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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terms and responsible gaming resources. What's up everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. We are back after another Dubbs home loss. We've been very specific about home because we for some reason can't get home games figured out.

But we'll get into that. We'll talk about the last couple Dubbs game actually. Also there's a new podcast that's popped up that we're going to discuss a little bit. But before, that remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel. This is not the volume YouTube channel,

although we want you to subscribe there as well. But make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel and get everything from the Draymond Green Show right there. Appreciate the support on that, but let's get into it. Since after a game, I am tired. I'm sore I'm ready to go to sleep, but I got you before I do. The Dubs beat the Lakers 128 to 121 since we last talk.

And then we lost tonight to the Knicks, 119 to 112. It's tough defending Jalen Brunson. If I'm honest, I actually prefer to defend him more in ISO than a pick and roll. He's so crafty, man. You start adding a screen of pick and roll with Jailen Brunson, and he's coming downhill, and he's got all the pivots and sidesteps and drawing files, and he uses his body great, finishes well. Jalen Brunson is a three-level score.

He can finish at the rim. He can finish in a mere race. He got a floater. He got a three. He got a pull up. He scored at all levels. And so me personally, I'd rather guard him one-on-one than guard him in a pick-and-roll.

Guard him in a pick-and-roll is tough, almost impossible. And like you're blitzing. But the thing is with most guys, when you blitz him, they get sped up, they get off the ball. He never gets sped up. He plays at his own place. So, like, even if you blitz, like he's not really trying to go somewhere.

He's just going to wait till the floor opens up, and then he's going to make his move. And interestingly enough, you know, it works every night. And he is playing at an all-MBA level. It's good to see him getting his dude that he's getting. I think, you know, I played Jalen Brunson. We did in the playoffs a couple years ago with Dallas. That is a totally different player. And by the way, he was really good then, so I'm not going to act like he was a bummed in

and just like who he is now. He was really good then. So much so that in that playoff series, he was actually my matchup. He was their starting guard, but I matched up with him that playoff series because he was that good. So he's been good.

I'm not sure any of us thought he'd be this. It's been fun to watch. J.B. is one of those guys that you cheer for because he's humble. He's second round pick as national player of the year. I know what that feel like. but he's humble. It's been beautiful.

You know, watch his dad get a chance to coach him in the NBA, challenging him in the NBA. Like I've seen a couple of clips where he started to play. His dad, like, shut up, man, go play. Like, man, that's so dope. So happy for Rick Brunson and Jalen, man. What they're doing over there with the Knicks and the Big Apple. Absolutely incredible to watch.

and then one of his Villanova buddies, Josh Hart is playing out of his mind. And when I say out of his mind, I don't mean that in a disrespectful way. I don't mean that he's not capable. But like, I think Josh Hart's got like four triple doubles in the last two weeks, two or three weeks or something like that. He'd never had one before this season.

Exactly. You know, so he's playing incredible basketball. More you look at that trade last year they gave. him away for a pack of peanuts and it's been a great addition and you know Josh does all the little things he rebounds he passes he defends he pushes the tempo he definitely offense I said rebound offensive rebound in particular he's crashing the glass every single time just the energy he brings to the floor he played 48 minutes tonight couldn't tell he played 48 minutes he never seemed to be tired one time um

gotta get them guys their credit. And then the other Villanova, buddy, which is my guy, Devo, Dante, Defenzo. He's playing well. And I think the beautiful thing about what Dante is doing, they're just letting Dante play. Like, Dante, you go play, you figure it out. He's knocking shots down.

He's hitting floaters. He's playmaking. Them boys look good. Got to take your hat off to him regards to all the injuries that they've been dealing with. They are playing at a very, very high level. And it starts with the head of the snake, Jalen Brunson. And then Josh Hart and Dante and Miles McBride got off tonight.

But those three guys in particular, they're doing the night in and night out. And it's, you know, hate to be on the wrong end of it. But like I said, Jalen Brunson in particular, extremely, extremely tough guard. He gave us hell tonight. The Knicks lost is our third straight loss at home, which, again, I don't quite understand. We seem to be playing a lot better and more connected on the road than we are at home.

And that's a problem because we keep kind of having this week at home, week on the road, week at home, week on the road. And it'll pretty much be like that through the end of the year. And we're going on the road and covering ground and then just giving it all back at home, which is frustrating because obviously we all,

I don't need to continue to talk about to play in and play, off race. We all know what's at stake and what's there. And if you can go on the road and win these tough games, then you should be able to come home and dominate your home court. And yet we sit here at 17 and 18 at home this year. And honestly, it's unacceptable. If I had an answer for you, what's happening, I would 1,000 percent not give you the answer, but I actually give the answer to my team and then tell you how we did it. but we can't seem to figure it out.

And, you know, it's like when you're at home, you should feed off the energy from the crowd. You should, you know, everybody should play better when you're at home. And that's just not happening for us. So what are there? 14 games left? Yeah, about 14 games, 13 or 14 games left. Got to figure it out at some point,

because these games are very critical to this race. And you can't keep taking one step forward, two steps back, and that's what we keep doing. So we got two more games on this current homestead. Wednesday versus the Grizzlies, Friday versus the Pacers, two very winnable games, yet two young, scrappy teams. The Pacers in particular play fast as hell as we know. The Grizzlies are playing with nothing to lose.

got so many guys out, those guys that are playing, just going out there and playing basketball, free, uh, no concerns. And, you know, they took SAC to overtime tonight. So won't be easy games. Uh, but if we go play our brand of basketball, they're actually very winnable games. So, got to win the games that you're supposed to win. Tough loss tonight. Knicks are playing well. They're good. Still a game that we should win. especially at home. But you have to win the games you're supposed to win and try to steal a couple of that.

You're probably not supposed to win. So it'll be very important for us to close out this homestown, make sure we go on this road on the two-old, well, two-game win street, and then going into Minnesota, then Miami, then Orlando. Like this road trip is going to be a tough road trip. However, I seem to worry less about the tough road trip,

because we seem to play well on the road. But you can't count on that. You got to take care of the games that you're supposed to take care of. Minnesota's played a great all year. They're tough at home. They're tough anywhere. So got to take care of these last two. Put ourselves in the best position that we possibly can.

We know what's at stake. With the Laker game, it was good to take a 2-1 series lead. Be that that could come down to a tie. Let's hope not. but it could. And so it's good to take a two-one lead. We played them one more time. Hopefully we'll be able to take that one as well.

But in speaking of the Lakers, as I said, we beat them 128 to 121 nights ago. And before the game, Rui Hashemura said, I'll probably just butcher Rui's last name, so I apologize. But Rui said that this is pretty much like a playoff game, and he was not lying. They are in a position where every game is like a playoff game. We're in a position where every game is like a playoff game for us.

And, you know, we were able to go take that game. But that's definitely the feeling you have right now, you know, being in the position that we're in. You don't get the luxury of, like, resting and taking it easy and not worrying about a loss. Like, everyone counts. Every single one of them matter. And so, yes, we definitely felt the same way Rui felt. And I think we approached that game with that type of intensity, and we were able to take the game.

My AD left early in that game with an eye abrasion, a cornea abrasion, I heard it was. I was swollen shut for the most of the game. So he was not able to return, which not going to lie helps. Anytime you don't have Anthony Davis on the floor, on the other side, it helps. And so, but nonetheless, happy to see AD back out there tonight.

The last two minutes of that game had to be the weirdest two minutes or minute in the 50 or whatever you want, of all times. It took 20 minutes to get through those last two minutes. And honestly, at the time, obviously we were up 124 to 120. because Brian hit a crazy three in the corner,

which after review, they said he was out of bounds, so it didn't count, which made the score 124 to 117. And they had the ball. They were coming down. Now, minute and in 50 seconds left, you got the ball down seven. You come down to hit a three, and that's a 124, 120 game.

That is a totally different ball game. Like that's a, you got a game. Like, that's a two-possession ball game. with essentially probably three possessions left. Yeah, give or take. Two to three possessions left, two possession ballgame. And after the long delay, it was just kind of like, let's, like, game over, let's get out of here.

You know, after 20 minutes, everybody's stiff. You're just over it because they can't figure it out. And it was crazy because I heard the roughs, like right after, as soon as it happened, the first time I heard maybe Mitchell say, let's just go to the stopwatch, which they end up doing 20 minutes later. But I was wondering, like, whose call is that?

Because I heard the referee say, let's go to the stopwatch. So is that like the scorers table call of like, no, we got it, it's good now? Because there was also a possession earlier in that game. Maybe it was the third quarter. Could have been earlier in the fourth quarter. But there was a possession in that. game where we actually got 28 seconds on the shot clock because the shot clock had reset. And I was sending the game and I watched it when then back 24.

And then it just started ticking and taking and taken and none of the referees noticed it. And I thought that was an interesting possession because if the referees were to go stop it, right? And then you go and you look at the stopwatch and the game and like to sink all these things up. if you get to 24 seconds, like, can you really give us a shot clock violation because we're looking at the shot clock, right? So, like,

no, I don't have to go get a shot up because there's 21 seconds left on the shot clock. And so I thought that was a very interesting thing, but that was clearly the beginning of what we then learned of a clock malfunction because they just couldn't get it figured out. And honestly,

I think we were going to win the game, no problem. Like, you know, we should close that game out. But you can never be so certain. And I think that really screwed the liquors. Like, they didn't stand a chance after that. Like, by the time we start back playing, and you see their possession, it was awful. And Brian ended up scoring, but it was maybe after like 20 seconds,

and he just tried and tried and tried and then he finally got, you know, lay up to go in. And, but it was over. Like, the flow of the game was gone. Like, everything. The rhythm was off. Like, I told us, everybody's stiff. Like, it was actually pretty crazy.

I'll take it. Like, we got to win. We closed the game out. But I was also very shocked that, like, Brian or Deham didn't go crazy. O.G. D. Hamm. Y'all know that's my OG from Sag Nasty. I was surprised that they didn't go crazy

because the referees just kept taking, like they start the clock, and the shot clock didn't start, and then they take two seconds off the shot clock, but they're back there still, and then they started, and then they took, before you knew it,

they have 14 seconds left on the shot clock. The game clock at this point is 10, 11 seconds less than what it was, and now they got to go get a possession. I would have been furious, I must say, because like, why are we losing time because they can't get the clock right? Like, so I would have argued for that clock to go back to 24. I would have argued for the game clock to go back.

Like, let us take it all the way back out, back down there, and let the clocks go back to where they should go. That's what my argument would have been. So I was very shocked there, like, but that everybody just kind of let it go. But, as I said, you also kind of get to a point where you like, yo, just get us out of here. Like, it's been 20 minutes to finish these last two minutes down seven. But again, you hit a three, four point game, and it's totally different game.

So happy we got out there with the win. That was weird. I mean, figure something out. Like, I thought all the arenas have, like, the little shot clocks that can go, like, down in the corner of something happened. But, like, figure something else out. It was very, also very weird sitting there listening to a guy go, 15 seconds left on the shot clock 10 seconds left on a shot clock 5 seconds 5 4 3 that was also very weird And so after that between the weirdness of the clock and like the weirdness of listening to someone count down the shot clock

It was over and we took out we took the dub I think we was going to win anyway as I said But you can never be so certain and I thought that was a tough break for the Lakers In other news, there were a couple dunks in the land of the NBA tonight that arguably both dunks of the year. Anthony Edwards, number one, completely, completely baptized John Collins, made him fall down to the ground, made J.C. grab his eye like his eye was hurting, which, listen, it could be. Because I saw an grab his hand after. He has a head contusion, officially, official injury from that dunk.

Listen, even if you have a head contusion from the dunk, you can't announce that you have a head contusion. Like, just kind of got to roll with it. I pray that he didn't leave the game. Did he lead a game, Jackson? I think he did leave, actually. He only played 20 minutes. So he left the game. You also can't leave after that.

Like, I'm sorry. I may be concussed, but I at least got to go run up and down this court. or five more times. Like, if I mean for a few, five more minutes, like you just can't leave right after that because say this, for instance, like, we live in a strange world, right? Like, weird world, crazy world.

Like, what have you never going to game again? And your last seconds on the court was that? Like, think about it. Again, you just never know, like, we live in a crazy world and, like, basketball can be a crazy sport and it demands so much of the body. Like, you just never.

never know. And so, like, what if that was your last time? And, like, you're going to be remember like that. Like, J.C., you can't lead the game, man. Come on, J.C. You, J.C. a high flyer. J.C. than had his fair share of putting guys in that rim. Like, we've seen him. That man used to catch them lives in Atlanta and, like, don't jump because you're in the rim. Tray Young will put it to where only he could get it. And he get it, and then whoever's underneath you dunked on. So we've seen J.C. catch his fair share bodies. You can't lead the game, J.C. You just

can't, man. Like, it's okay. You know, it didn't go great. Like, golly, that dunk was wild. Man. Anthony Edwards gets, like, he attempts, like, one of those, maybe like every four or five

games where he actually attempt those. He had one of he attempted a couple weeks ago, AD, just missed it. He tried one like that on me before and it didn't work out. Thank God. Oh, praise be to God. But that dunk, golly. And then Atman comes out and says, that's the best dunk of my career. Like, relax that. Like, we get it. You got the right. I guess so. Do what you do, young fella. Man, that dunk is crazy. And then Jalen Johnson pretty much jumped over Austin Reeves. The poster, if you go look at the NBA's Instagram,

account. The poster is crazy because like Austin Reeves' face is kind of in the man's crotch area and that picture ain't going nowhere. Like you, it's there, it's stuck. And I'm not going to make fun of you, Austin, because I'm still playing and I would hate for that to happen to me. Just like, by the way, J.C., I'm over here talking. I ain't making fun of you either because it happens to the best of us. But J.C., you still can't lead a game and Austin, some guys you just don't set up for a charge against.

You've been in the league long enough now. You've got to know that there's some guys. You've got to learn that rule of verticality. Because even if you jump, at least your head isn't stuck in the position on the poster where it's at now. You know, like if you jump and go vertical and he still dunk on you like that, like your head position and it's different and it all looks different like yeah you got dunked on but like that's a different thing what happened Austin so you all better work on the rules of

verticality with Austin Reeves so next time he see a guy like jaylin johnson coming down that paint he know exactly where to go that was tonight now let's discuss Kyrie Irvin yesterday. Kyrie Irvin decides that he's going to take a running left-hand hook over the outstretched

arms of the MVP. Well, he'll probably be MVP this year, but he's definitely a two-time MVP. Joker. And, like, that's the shot he went for. Like, he didn't try to, like,

create a different, like, he actually comes off, like, Boom, boom, going into the lefty hook. Like, what's wrong with Kyrie? Cairo is crazy. And ironically, he had that shot yesterday. I was having a conversation with a few friends the other day about how good Kyrie, that night before, actually, about how good Kyrie Irvin is.

And I actually said to a couple friends, and like the world will take this and, like, run with it and try to make it something to, of what it's not, when it's actually a compliment, because, anyway, I said, Kyrie Irving is the score that everyone, the world thinks of Kevin Durant. And what I meant by that was, like, there are some things at times that you can do to Kevin to make it a little tougher on him.

Why? because he's seven feet and he handles the ball a lot. And if, you know, there are times where because he's seven feet, if you time it right, you can pressure up and like press up into Kevin and make things a little bit tougher. You know, he has to turn his back or something and get him out, just get him out of rhythm a little bit. But like he's seven feet.

So most guys that can guard him out there when he's handling the ball, it's not going to be seven feet because seven footers don't want. move like Kevin Durant. Kyrie Irving, you can't, like, do anything to make it hard on. Like, you can't make the game tough for Kyrie. Like, he's one of the best three-point shooters. He's got one of the best mid-rangers, arguably, if not, the best. He has, he's arguably the best finisher in the NBA.

He has floaters with either hand, as you can see by that. He can finish with either hand at the rim. him. Kyrie can also switch and shoot a mid-range jump shot with his left hand. Like, if you get him in a bad way in the air, he can actually just shoot it with. Like, there's actually nothing you can do to stop Kyrie from scoring. You just try to do all you can to make him take a tough shot, and then you got to live with the results.

But Kyrie Irvin, the way he scores the basketball, the amount of things that he's capable of doing, unbelievable. I saw Damian Lillard tweet, Dame Dahlia. Tweet, Kyrie Irvin is the most skilled player in NBA history. And quite frankly, I'm not sure who can argue against that. And even if you want to argue against it, you got to argue your point. Like, it's not just like, oh, yeah, that person. Like, no, you got to argue why.

That's how skilled Kyrie Irvin is. Like, that dude, he got to get. for basketball, I figured out. Like, when it comes to playing with the basketball, he's got that figured out. Oh, I figured out. I mean, that shot, yes. See, even attempt that shot.

Like, you just, like, that's what he, I want you to understand. He went for that shot. Like, this is Kyrie Irvin. He can come off and bink back and, like, he went for that shot. That, to me, It's crazier than anything.

He went for the running hook with the left. Went for it. That's different, man. That's different, Kai. I take my hat off to him. That's unbelievable. Unbelievable. Like, the things that Kyrie is capable of is unreal.

There's an argument. Now, me personally, I may argue Steph Curry the most skilled player we've ever seen most talented just some things

that he could do but as I said before you have an argument it has to be argued because the skill level is unbelievable and before we get out of here

LeBron James is starting a new podcast with J.J. Reddick and the podcast is called Mind the game. Mind the game. The podcast is aimed at like nerdy basketball fans.

Like you love the X's and O's of basketball and from what it looks like they'll be just talking X and those like pure basketball conversation. I'm excited to check it out because I love a great basketball conversation and you don't get to have those often with many people and you definitely don't get to watch them often.

So I'm excited to check it out. I must say I am a little upset that LeBron James is like going on a podcast and he still haven't been on a Draymond Green show. But when it's your own thing, you kind of can't say anything. So I guess I'll live with it for now. Pick the bone with him that I got to pick with him later. nonetheless that is coming out tomorrow

and I am excited to check it out I hope you all are excited to check it out as well JJ and Brian two of the best basketball minds in the game today when I say in the game I mean speaking the game playing the game you name it two guys that we all really will enjoy watching breakdown the game of basketball

so y'all so make sure y'all go check that out that'll be fun to watch And like I said, I'm looking forward to it to see two guys that know the game the way those two guys know it and then also aren't afraid to hear themselves talk. I love it. Looking forward to it. Until next time, that's a wrap. Make sure y'all remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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