The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Draymond Green Show - "That's All Folks" For Suns, Anthony Edwards Has Arrived

Episode Date: April 29, 2024

Draymond Green discusses the Minnesota Timberwolves sweeping the Phoenix Suns, Jusuf Nurkic having a tough series, the future for Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, and Bradley Beal, and how Anthony Edwards is helping Rudy Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns reach another level. Dray also discusses Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks taking a 3-1 lead over Joel Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers, Paul George and the Los Angeles Clippers tying the series against Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks, whether LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers have a chance to come back against Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets, and much more. 0:00 Start 3:00 Suns Swept 24:00 Knicks-76ers 36:00 Lakers-Nuggets Produced by: Jackson Safon #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Number one on the list is the Suns losing game for 122 to 116 to the Timberwolves in a suite. And if I'm honest, the Suns is always a touchy one for me. Um, because I'm a little conflicted. I like to see, I want to see the sons do well. Matt Ishby, a Spartan dog, uh, got, you know, became the owner of the Phoenix Suns franchise about a year ago. Uh, so I'm always rooting for Ish.

Um, book, man, I'm always rooting for book. You know, I've talked to y'all a million times about, you know, my love for book and wanting to see him succeed. And book got that seriousness to him that you know. need from your star players in order to win in these big moments. And I really want to see that happen for him. I think Book is in year eight now, if I'm not mistaken, year seven or eight. You know, and the thing about Book is book window started a while ago, and he's been so good

since coming into the league. He's, you know, when his rookie year started, it wasn't playing a ton and you can quickly see he was the best player on the team. And before you know what the ball was in his hands and, you know, it's been in his hands since. And so, you know, I don't want to see Book get to that point where people start writing him off as if he's not one of the guys because he is one of them guys. And so there, man, I got nothing but love for Brad, you know, I want to see seeing Brad compete yesterday. He filed out trying to guard Anthony Edwards.

And I talked to y'all before about what I think needed to happen in that series. And Brad went down swinging. and everybody would say, oh, man, he had nine points and blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, no brother was guard, Anthony Edwards. And so if you go back to what I said about what Kevin Durant needed to do, Kevin Durant needed to go take on that challenge. And the reasons I said that, one of the things that I did say when I gave a reason is was Kevin should not focus on offense.

Kevin should lock in on Anthony Edwards on the defensive end, play a role on the offensive end, get what comes to him on the offensive end, get what comes to him on the offensive end because he's still Kevin Durant. So the defense's going to overreact, but lock in on the defensive side of the ball and, you know, whether that's spotting up, whether that's, you know, getting your spot every now and then

on the offensive end, but your main focus shouldn't be on the offensive end because I don't think that's what the team would need at that point. With Grace and Allen being out, a lot of that changes because they're missing about 15 or 20 points from Grayson Allen. They're missing some floor space that Grace and Allen provides. they're missing, you know,

Grace and Alice presence. And so I do understand a little more from that standpoint, but essentially what I'm getting at is, that's essentially what happened to Brad Bill. Brad Bill is so focused on trying to take Anthony Edwards out the game. Legs gone, came hit a shot, it starts spiraling for him fast, foul trouble. But he went down swinging, and I got to respect that.

And unfortunately, that is all, folks. That is all I'm not sure which Which tweet aged worse Shout out to my man Coos I love Coos got nothing You know no Coos for many many moons But there's no

Coos is a truth teller Coos is a real one And there's no secret That Coos's tweet About not being the team Did not age well this year It just didn't age well Washing struggled a bit this year

year finished with almost identical records to the Detroit Pistons after Coos's tweet. And so the tweet, the tweet spoiled fast for Coos, though. Like, it's spoiled fast. And ironically, the tweet may have spoiled even faster from the Big Softie. Big Softie wanted to tweet after we lost, you know, when I post pictures.

That tweet spoiled so fast. Like that's spoiled milk. And yeah, that is all, folks. So, you know, you got to be really careful when you're not that successful. And you try to take jabs at people because you really don't, when you really don't have control of your own success, you know, when you don't play a large enough role in your team success, when you can't really affect the outcome of the game, like you can go have 20 rebounds and lose a game.

You know, like when you really don't affect the outcome of the game, it's really tough to take jabs at people because you got a jab and then like you can't affect, you know, what your end result is, you know. And so, yeah, the big softy bowed out, you know, Rudy Gaubert played great. Hey, by the way, um, Rudy Gobert, Carl Anthony Towns, has been in the league, maybe eight years,

eight to ten years for both of them, give or take. And what Anthony Edwards has taken those guys and done is absolutely amazing. Like, Rudy, Rudy actually not trash anymore. Like, and I think, I think it's, like, a lot of people agree. Now, he just wasn't, like, he defends now, and ironically, you know, he got all the defensive wear. But I mean, like, when you see him on the switches, he's up at the level.

He's not just sitting back in the drop no more. When he gets switched on to the guy, it's like his antennas pop on. Like, oh, I got to sit down. And like, they're about to go at me and I'm guarding. And I think it's been interesting to watch because he is actually impacting winning. And he's actually doing that on the defensive end. where as opposed to other series, he's got to play it off the floor.

Although Phoenix went small at times to try to get back in the game, there were times that they still played Rudy on Royce O'Neill. Before, if you went five guards, there was no chance Rudy Goldberg can play, like zero percent chance. Even if you went a big that can stretch the floor or big that can move,

there was zero percent chance that he could play. And those things have changed. And if I'm honest, I don't think at this point that was a change in ability. That is a change in what's required of you. And quite frankly, like even if you listened to Ants Press Conference last night, he's talking about cat filing too much. Like, quite frankly, I think that that's the leader requiring more of both of those guys. Like, I saw some things during the game,

night, especially when Kat was at the five and Rudy was out, that I'm like, Kat, you can still cover that. Like, you know, maybe, like, do you guard Royce O'Neill, he had to free throw line, drop one extra step. You could take that layup away D. Book just got. And things like that. However, Kat is not a defensive-minded player. So to try to nitpick at all of those little things, it's pointless to do.

You know, and in saying that, I think what Anthony Edwards has required from those guys has allowed them to take the next step in their careers. A young 22-year-old basketball player, superstar, phenom, whatever you want to call him, I personally can tell when something is being required from a leadership perspective. And the way Kat is attempting to defend, like Kat was chasing Kevin Durant around.

Nas Reid was chasing Kevin Durant around. These guys ain't do that before. And yes, I do give Chris Finch his credit as a coach. I do think, you know, he's a good coach. But, man, in the NBA at the point of their careers that those guys are at, ain't no coach making you slide your feet like Rudy Gaubert sliding his feet now. And Kat attempting to defend. That's a guy who you out there with saying,

yo, this is what I need. And you don't want to continue to hear from that guy. And Aunt definitely gives me that demeanor. And I think what he's feeding to those guys, like, yes, his play was stellar. But I think what he's feeding to those guys is even more important because his play could be as stellar as it want. If he ain't got those guys playing the way they're playing, it's the same old Timberwolves. What's changing is his demeanor and changing all of those guys. And now you look at that team, and that was a far more complete team than,

the Phoenix Suns, if I'm honest, that's a far more complete team than the Denver Nuggets. We'll get into the Denver Nuggets a little later in this show, but that team that we just watched that are the Minnesota Timberwolves is a complete team.

Now, Anthony Edwards has had the luxury of bringing in over the last year and a half of veteran, point guard like Mike Conn. And I know Ann is pulling things from him. And that's huge. But we've seen Mike Connolly with Star Bigman before, not be able to get it done. So I got to get that credit to Anthony Edwards, man.

Now, not taking nothing from Mike Connolly. Mike Connolly has been a mainstay in this league. For a long time, we've had battles with team that Mike Connolly's been on. I got nothing but love and respect for Mike Connolly. And this has, this is not a hit at all to Mike Connolly. but more so the praise of Anthony Edwards, that kid is special. And what he's doing,

it's no surprise, you know why? Because he said all alone, this is what he believes, and this is what he was going to do it. He's just going to do it now. And so I think, I think, man, that was beautiful to watch. Anthony Edwards is the star that I've believed it could be since day one,

and then I'm sure a lot of people did believe it could be. I still remember trying to figure out how to trade up from two to one and get that man. But, you know, special, special talent. So the question that comes next is what happens to the Phoenix Suns. What does this mean for the Suns, big three, blah, blah, blah, nothing. They'll come back in next year with that same big three. and hopefully they'll try to retool around that big three.

Now, we knew coming into the year that not having a point guard was going to be a problem, that that was going to be an issue no matter what. And everybody said, no, Devin Booker can play the point. Brad Bill can play the point. And don't get me wrong, they can get you in the offense, they can win you games, but they're not point guards. and being a point guard and trying to think, oh, man, Kevin hasn't had a shot.

Oh, man, D. Book hasn't had a shot. Or Brad, you know, D. Book thinking, oh, Brad haven't had a shot. That's a totally different game you got to play. Then come down, all right, get to my spot, get us something good, get us a good shot. That's a totally different game you got to play. And quite frankly, it doesn't best suit those guys to play that game. can they play that in spurs, of course.

But to play that game in the entire season, nice and tall tasks that quite frankly showed to be proved to be one that they couldn't overcome. Because all year long, you know, you see them and they start to make a run and those guys are playing well, and then it just like fall off. And I think that is because, you know,

the consistency and the style. of play due to not having an initiator that you know, all right, this game, every night, this guy is getting us into X, Y, and Z. And I think that that made all the difference. And so if you're the Phoenix Suns, the highest trade value you're going to have is Devin Booker. Do you want to move off your franchise player, Devin Booker? I highly doubt that. Matt Isbby had taken over as a new owner.

I highly doubt he's going to come in and within a year move on from Devin Booker. Deep Book is also one of those special players that you just don't just move on from. But he will have the highest trade value of the three for a couple of reasons. His age, obviously his play. Contract situation. You know, he's got a couple years left. could sign an extension, all these things, but he's 27. And so he'll have the highest value of all of him.

Brad's contract is big with the injury history and, you know, some people will look and say, oh, he only had nine points in this last game. We can't trade for him. So his value would be less than book. Katie's in year 18. So his value will be less than deep book. So with no draft picks in the next, I got a draft pick. I think the Suns had a 22nd draft pick this year,

but outside of that doesn't have another draft pick through 2030. So you don't have picks to move, and you don't really have many players to move outside of those three and two of those. Well, one, Brad value on a trademark, it probably wouldn't be as high with the salary that Brad has and then the new second apron and all those things. coming into effect.

That makes it tough there. Like I said, Katie and you're 18, you know, with a team not knowing where if he's even going to want to come there or blah, blah, blah. And so your biggest asset is Devin Booker. Do you move on from Devin Booker? Now, interestingly enough, we talked about Rudy Gobert. The Rudy Gobert trade completely killed the trade market because they took five first round picks and then no one wants to ever do that again.

So you even seen guys like Dame, I think it moved for two or three first round picks. So with book, what's the most you can get and what's worth it? I don't think anything's worth it. But you have to assess everything when you're in the position that the sons are in. Now, however, they've played together for one year. The books are what they are anyway. So my opinion, you got to come back with those guys. You got to try to retool around them and you got to give it another go.

The reality is none of these things really work in the first year, unless you're going to State Warriors, then they work in the first year. But none of these things really ever work in the first year. And so I'm not on the hype train, oh, it's over and they need to figure out and blah, blah, blah. And like, no, but you definitely have to go back to the drawing board. You know, I saw the whole Frank Vogel would be fired thing. Quite frankly, I think that was a decision that we all questioned as soon as it happened. I don't think any of us thought that Frank Vogel would be Monty's replacement

until Frank Vogel's name came up and you're like, whoa. And so just in thinking back to that, I don't, you know, Kevin's saying, I didn't know my role in the offense and I don't know if Kevin said that or not. That was a quote that's been put out there from sources. You can never be so sure. Those sources oftentimes are correct. Frank Vogel is not an offensive coach. So Frank Vogel, I personally don't think, was ever going to be the one to put all of those pieces into place

from a standpoint that, A, we don't have a point guard. How can we make this work moving all of these different guys around and being creative? That's not what Frank Vogel does. And so I never expected that. And yet to see that come out, that's no surprise. because Kevin's not someone that's just going to bring the ball up a la book, a la Brad Bill, and get his own.

That's not what Kevin's going to do. So that does not shock me one bit. One bit. You didn't see Kevin coming off any pin downs to the elbow area getting to his back. That's when Kevin's most dangerous. When you get Kevin in those spots where, okay, I can't just raise up on you

because you're too small. One drill will pull up, I can completely get rid of. Like, you got to know the spots to get Kevin in. And to Kevin's credit, if that statement is true that Kevin said that, I agree, he did stand the corner a lot. Now, I do know that Kevin will sometimes get upset

and just go to the corner, but all year he was just in the corner. And like I said, you watched their offense and none of those plays was getting Kevin to the spots that he likes to get to. And I know the spots that he wants to get to the score. None of the sets that they were running were really getting him into those spots.

and as great of a score as he is, he still needs the ball in the spots in order to be as efficient and productive as he can be. Get him to his spots and it's a rat. Who's going to stop him? And so I never seen any of that. And like I said, I'm not very surprised by it

because I didn't, when the hire happened to Frank Vogel, I didn't view that as, uh-oh, their offense is about to be crazy. No, the first thought would be their, going to be a good defensive team. And quite frankly, their offense, they struggled in a lot of four quarters and that usually tells you don't have a point guard to get you into the things that you need to get into.

So in turn, it turns into like book getting off or Brad trying to get to it, but how sustainable is that to do that for entire quarters? All of a sudden you miss a couple and you go down and that team's been playing team basketball. So, nonetheless, I don't think it's over for the Sun's Big Three. Yes, every hell on it be, what do they go next? Or is it over? Like, I don't think so. I think you got to try to retool around those guys.

You bring Grayson Allen back, but you bring Grayson Allen back. If I'm honest, he got to come off the bench because you need a point guard. Now, you sign Isaac Thomas for the rest of the season. I thought that he did at least get a shot to try to see if he could take on some of the responsibility. We didn't see that. So that's the sons. Timberwolves moving on. I'm excited for the next series with the Timberwolves.

We all think that it'll be the Denver Nuggets. Denver Nuggets also has their share of issues. Their bench is not it. They do not have a very good bench at all, and you need a bench to win championships. And I just don't know if their bench is going to get it done. Should be enough to get it done in this series. I think for sure it will be enough to get it done in this series. But as you go deeper into the playoffs, the flaws that you have get more and more exposed.

And if it's going to get exposed, there has to be this next round. It has to be by Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Now, all of the praise that I just gave to the Timberwolves and their Biggs and Rudy Gober and Kat and what they've done, what the Edwards is done for them. And their next series, if they go on to face of Denver Nuggets, that will be put to the test with the big fella Joker. And we will see. But right now, Timberwolves are looking like cut and dry the best, second best team in the West, arguably the first best team in the West.

Like I said, just with their depth on, you know, with their depth, that puts them ahead of Denver. What brings them right back to Denver is Joker going to be like, I don't need no help. I mean, you know, you need help. What do you tell Rudy Goner brother? I got, I got 47. You need a double team.

So it's going to come down to can Rudy Gaubert, not stop him. not stopping, Joker. But can he affect the game the way he was affecting the game in last series? That'll be a big thing. Ant going to do what he'd do. It was good to see Catback out there and have a good series coming off that long layoff. Still food defending sons and telling them that he was the most important player in the series.

And it wasn't. That was a lie. Aunt is and will be the most important player in the series. That's that. And moving on, the Knicks beat the 76ers, 97, and 9. to take a 3-1 lead in the series. And the first question is, do I personally need to apologize to Jalen Brunson

for saying he shouldn't dominate the ball? My answer is no. Here's why. Number one, some things that work in the first round, cool. They work in the first round, they won't work moving forward. It's funny because I had a conversation with a friend of mine last week, Benny Fowler. And I was talking to him actually about Jalen Brunson, and I was watching the Knicks.

And I was like, man, I called him and I said, yo, tell me if I'm tripping. Jalen Brunson is really good, and I feel like I have to believe how good he is. And although I've always believed how good he is, playing at the level that he be playing. that is a different level than I always thought. I think most people thought. I mean, even when he signed for $100 million with the Knicks, everybody said that was a crazy deal and he was overpaid. So we're not going to act like it's just me.

However, I call my boy and I'm like, man, I don't really know if I'm supposed to believe like Jalen Brunson, like, because I know better, beans, like I know better. Like, I know that this gets to a certain level and it stops. It's like he can only do this up to a certain point being your number one option. But you look at them competing, he's smart, and he's going to get smaller guard. And like, I kind of was in this role of like arguing for him, arguing against him, arguing

for him, arguing against him, arguing for him, arguing against him. And that's how I feel about it. But, and so I'll say this, he does have my respect. He's always had my respect. That's not up for a debate. What is up for debate is can he carry a team to, the promise land. By the way, the conference finals to me is not the promise land.

We saw Trey Young go to the conference finals against these very New York Knicks. Uh, well, dealing with the New York Knicks along the way. And to get to the conference finals and hasn't been back since. And so the conference finals is not

the holy grail to me. So although that's a huge step for him to take him to the conference finals, I will take my hat, tip my hat to him. Respect. but that's not like the promise land to me but I'll give him that and so I went through this whole thing with my point I'm like I don't know like 47 points 10 assists one turnover 18 for 30 from the field the one thing that was glaringly noticeable to me when I was watching the game was that

philly plays with joel in the drop and so what they did was just kept putting joel in a pick and roll and jaylon brunson got whatever he wanted because he was in the drop at some point you got to move up the floor, build in the help, and make those other guys beat you. Now, they've shown that they could beat you, but are you going to let Jailen Brunsson get 47, 10 assists, and only one turnover?

The reason he only got one turnover is because that drop. There's no pressure on him. He coming off, and Jalen Brunson, when he come off the screen and there's nobody there, he's not even now looking at the guy in the drop no more. He now starts back paying attention to his guy which is let me lock him in back here so he can't get back to the front square the ball up

now he's locked in behind the play and he gets whatever he want floater midi that's where he lived not even after three he lives in those ranges and so of course he's going to go off there but what happens if you bring the guy up to the level of the screen

they got to do something else though like Philly you can't just stay in the drop just because it's Joelle. How do you win like that? You got to do something else. And then also, you got Joel and B. Tyrese Maxie. You got to score more than 92 points.

Because if you hold a team to 97, see, here's the thing. The game plan, in theory, actually worked. You let Jalen Brunson get here. It was 47, 10 assists. They scored 97 points. So number one, you have to score more points. 92 points. they scored 97, you should win that game in the NBA.

So in theory, Jalen dominating the ball actually doesn't work because they only score 97 points doing it, but you got to give them its credit because it worked to get a win. But if a team score 97, you got the MVP of the NBA on your team at home where a role player should be shooting better and making hustle play, You only get 92 points. That's why you lose. So the conundrum that I've been kind of caught in and dealing with on Jalen Brunson,

the jury's still out. And again, I got nothing but love and respect for Jailen Brunson and love his game and respect his game. But I'm talking about to go to the Promise Land. Can he be your best player to go to the Promise Land? I don't know. But damn, is he balling? He's doing it. Gotta give him his credit.

And when you look at the series, I personally think the series can still be turned around because I think Joe L&B is that good. But Joe L&B got to go be that good. Like when you got the best player in the series, and right now Jalen Brunson is looking like the best player in the series, but I'm not doing that. Joe L&B is the best player in the series.

When you got the best player in the series, you always have a chance. And so I still think they have a chance because Joelle can do that. But it's looking like it's over and they're ready to quit. We'll see. Nick's going back home.

You see the way they invaded Wells Fargo yesterday? Oh, they're going back home. Shut the streets of New York City down if they win this game five because it's a rap. We shall see. Clippers versus the Mavericks was a very interesting one.

game down 30 points come back still don't win no kawai remember what I told you all about them taking kawai up to the brink and then like ah he's out you're playing a different team no surprise to me the maver's got down by 30 points you know why because when you go

into that game and you don't know if kawai lander's playing kawai lenders that good you have to prepare for kawai lenter well guess what you prepare for a team that you're not playing against because they're a totally different team when kawai leader doesn't play So they get down 30 points. Nonetheless, come roaring back.

Why? Because you got two of the best scores in our game. Kyrie Irvin, Luca Donchage. They come roaring back, ends up not being enough. James Hardin looked like the... James Hardin didn't even look like Houston James Harder. James Hardin looked like O'KC James Hardin. You know why he didn't look like Houston James Hardin?

Because Houston James Hardin didn't shoot floaters for real. Houston James Harden did not shoot mid-range shots. Houston James Hardin shot. Layups and threes. That looked like the OKC James Hard. And I thought it was very interesting because Dallas is going to have to figure out who's guarding James Harden move forward.

And why they're going to need to figure that out is because I personally don't think PJ Washington is the answer. PJ has shown to be a good defender, a guy that's willing to take on that. road for this team and I respect it. But he can't guard James Hardin. Every time James Hardin made one move, he looked like Ricky Rubio. Y'all remember that time Ricky

Rubio was guarding James Hardin? If this is the real, Ricky Rubio is guarding James Hardin forcing him to the, like crazy stuff. Crazy when I saw Ricky Rubio doing that. However, one move and that's how PJ Tucker looked. PJ was behind James every time he crossed over, like way behind him out to play. And he's, he's, um, banking on getting a shot contest, getting a block, uh, coming from behind James Hardin and getting the block. However, James doesn't shoot his floater like a

normal floater. James kind of shoots his floater out like this and push it. And so there's no way you can get back to get to get a block without following them, which we saw a couple of hand ones on the floater. But I was also a little disappointed in Dallas's deep. from the standpoint, like, Terris Man is on the floor. Somebody shrink the floor and make Terrence Man be you. James Hart can't just keep getting

to the middle of the paint when no one else they're shooting the floor. At some point, somebody who's guarding Terrence Man, just come and stand there. I know where he's going. Go stand there. All right, great. You're going to throw the ball

of Terrence Man. Terrence Man beats us great. We're supposed to go home. but to keep letting James get by PJ and just go into the floater and get whatever he wanted nah that can't work PG hit some big shots big shots from PG

wanted all the smoke and I also loved the type of time that PG was on you know PJ Washington had this whole thing and I respect that too but PG PG ain't forget and see it's always funny watching these young fellas had a moment and started talking because you start barking up the tree of the guys that have been doing this for a long time.

And PG's been doing that the guys for a long time. And PG got the last laugh. The three he hit over Derek Jones in the corner. Insane. By the way, but let's move backwards a little bit. So PJ Washington, I personally don't think is the matchup for James Hart. And I think if they're going to have a chance of stopping James Hart, if James come out with that same mentality.

Again, James is in your what, 16, 15? It's hard to do that every night, you know, but it is the playoffs. You get days in between. But if James is playing that same style of basketball, A, go help off Terrence, man. Come on now, Jared Daly. Jared Daly always talk about how he got the game plans.

Come on now, Duds. Let's see it. Going up against old T. Louer over there, no T. T. Lestineau a mastermind. Let's see it, Duds. we got, oh, excuse me, we got to see these defensive game plans because James can't just get there and beat you like that. So if James is going to stay that aggressive though, who's going to end up being the key in this series who can actually stay in front of James, take the hit, the shoulder that James delivers, it's Josh Green. Josh Green has not played much this series.

He's playing here and there. but he is the one guy who can actually stay in front and take the bump PJ Washington can take the bump but he didn't do a good job of staying in front now you know he may take on the challenge and say I'm sitting down but that was that didn't look good last night and personally I think Dallas should still take this series especially without the with the uncertainty of Kauai I think the clippers are better off not playing Kauai the rest of the series

you got to see what you got you got also be certain with your guys because you don't want guys like, oh, he's playing this game. Oh, no, it's a regular season. This is the playoffs. Coming in and out of the lineup is tough, can be tough to adjust.

In one game, one play changes a series. So if I'm them, they need to just be certain with what they got. You still got James. You still got PG and you still got Russell Westbrook. You still got two MVPs and a perennial MVP candidate. Should still be able to go out there and compete. possibly win the series, but I wouldn't keep mixing Kauai in and out.

And then also wishing Kauai well. We never want to see that. And last but not least, on this episode of the Dremont Green show is the Lakers beat the Nuggets to extend the series. They will play again tonight in Denver, game five. Do they have a chance to come back? Yes, they have a chance to come back.

and I'll tell you why I don't think they're coming back. But I do think they have a chance. Number one, DeAngelo Russell played well. DeAngelo Russell played well. Lakers can win. Lakers went out of high level when DeAngelo Russell play well. So, DeLoh just got to take that on the chin

and go play well. Can't have a game, hear a game there. This is the playoffs. Go play well again in night, Dilo. The reason I think the Lakers have a chance is because, again, their bench is not good. Denver's bench is not. good.

So that is something they've been able to play at this whole series. They've been leading the whole series. They just ain't won. Finally got to win. So I think they can come back. I don't think it's likely that they're going to come back, but I definitely think so. Because all of a sudden, Jamar Murray, calf strain, questionable.

If Jamar Murray doesn't go to night, or if he is 100% and Lakers take the series back to L.A. 3 to 2, probably winning game 6. So then it's a game 7. It's a coin flip. So I think the Lakers can do it. I see everybody talking to Brian does this. He's the goat.

I'm not sure. I hate when people try to make one incident, oh, if you do this thing, you're a goat. But if not, then what is he like the what? You know, so like these people would be crazy with all. this stuff. But I definitely think it's possible. Denver's bench is a huge concern. However, as possible as it is, I got Joker coming out tonight,

sending them boys home, finishing their breakfast, moving on. But if anybody can do it, take it from me, Brian can pull it off. So we shall see. But I got that one ending tonight. However, shout out to D-Ham, man. Getting the guys to respond the way he responded. Everybody trying to throw D-Ham under the bus.

I hate it. That's whack to me. But he got the guys to respond, and they got another chance. So we shall see what happens. I got that one ending tonight and five. And that is a wrap from this episode of the Dremont Green Show.

Excuse me. Addo, a do, a do, ad, that's all, folks. Peace.