The Herd with Colin Cowherd - The Draymond Green Show - Dray's Suspension + Game 3 Reaction

Episode Date: April 21, 2023

Draymond Green discusses his surprising suspension from Game 3 by the NBA and the Golden State Warriors big victory over the Sacramento Kings including Steph Curry's performance, Kevon Looney's rebounding, Klay Thompson's patience, and more. Then he addresses the flagrant and technical fouls called in the 76ers / Nets game on Joel Embiid, James Harden, and Nic Claxton. Finally he gives his thoughts on the Suns / Clippers matchup including how LeBron James and the Lakers "screwed" Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers. Produced by: Jackson Safon #Volume #herdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The volume. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. This is the first episode since I was suspended. Very intentional, by the way. Very intentional on that. Dubs got a win last night. So that was huge.

Let's just get right into that. Just for all our listeners out there, obviously, as you know, our first episode is usually on Amazon. Em. This episode will not be on Amazon Amp. However, we're right back at Amazon Amp next week with the top of show, beginning of the week. But let's get into last night's game. The NBA playoffs are upon us. 20 teams will get in

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took care of home court. I know everyone wants to hear my thoughts on the suspension. I never knew you could be suspended for a flagrant to the happen. happened seven years ago. And I also didn't know you get suspended for interacting with a crowd that's flipping you double birds and yelling your name and chants

that you suck and like you interact with them. I didn't know that either. Saying that my guys play well. My guys played really well, stepped up to the challenge. And it was absolutely incredible to see, I hope everyone enjoyed the game the way I, I mean, I can't say

I really enjoyed the game, quite frankly. There's nothing worse. By the way, being suspended from a game, like at this point in my career, it will never, like, affect me from an emotional standpoint outside of, my fellas was in the dog fight

or is in a dog fight and just not being able to participate in that dog fight, that's crushing. Like that, like, because you just feel like, you know, you're leaving them out there by themselves, leaving them astray to just figure it out. So to not participate in that dog fight, that's what bothers me the most. To get suspended from game five of the NBA finals, there's never another NBA game that you can suspend me from. That'll be like, oh, my God, I'm suspended. but just not being able to participate in a dog fight with my brothers,

that part is the worst. And so I'm very thankful of an effort that guys put out there yesterday to save our season. You know, you don't want to ever go down 3-0. We know the odds are well against you, stacked against you, crazy if you go down 3-0. And guys took care of that. How did that happen? Steph Curry, we saw NBA final, Steph Curry, which was absolutely incredible, controlled the entire game.

It was just like a calmness. So like, I'm not letting us lose. I'm in this moment. It is what it is, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Masterful. Like, what we watched Steph Curry do last night was just a master at work. It was Rick Celebrini, who you all heard me talk about. Rick always say, Draymond, I had a friend, and he used to always say basketball is jazz.

Like, basketball is jazz. And if you think about jazz music, it's just peace and, like, it's smooth and, like, you feel the rhythm to it. Basketball is jazz. And so when I was working back from my hip injury, Rick would always say, Draymond, it's jazz. Like, I had to relearn how to run again. I had to relearn how to jump again. I had to do all of those things. But he would always say, hey, man, slow down.

It's jazz. move, like, you got to move with some, some rhythm and, you know, not so irky-jurkey as you're trying to get back and you just want to get there, like, it's jazz. Steph Curry's game last night was just jazz. It was beautiful. It was absolutely beautiful. It was in control of everything. There's not many guys definitely in the league right now that can control a game like that.

You're talking, Steph Curry. LeBron James, Luca, that really, like, controls the entire pace of a game. Everything that happens is so incredibly hard to do that, to watch Jeff Curry do that last night. You held me down again, brother. Help me down again. I can't thank him enough. Absolutely amazing.

once again, if you did hear it to a master at work. Not oftentimes in life do you get to see a master at work. So appreciate that because I sure did. When I got to that arena last night, I got to the arena after the game, and I just sat there next to him, I said, yo, wow, wow. Like that was just masterful stuff. And we talked about it. We talked about what he saw.

Some of the things that we spoke about leading into the game and then to speak about those things after the game and see like, yo, those things worked. It was special. The aura was special. Now, how do you build on that? We'll get to that. Kavon Looney, nine offensive rebounds, 20 boards.

It's crazy because we were talking about rebound in the basketball. And I, like, threw out these numbers to guys like, yo, you get this amount of rebounds. And you're going to get this amount of rebounds. Like, this is what we need from you. And I'm talking very important. important guys like Steph, Clay, Wigs, JP, these are the amount of rebounds we need from you.

And I told Loon 20. Did Loon get 20 rebounds because I told him to, of course not. Loon is more than capable of getting 20 rebounds. But the fact that I told him 20 and he actually could go do that, 20 rebounds in a playoff game against a team that we've struggled to rebounding. It's 20 rebounds? It's masterful. Incredible.

Shout out to Kavana Looney. I'm always mesmerized by Loon's attention to detail, by his professionalism, because those are the things that allow Kavanaughan Lune to get to where he is today. You're talking to a guy who went through three hip surgeries really before he stepped on an NBA court. A guy who, you go back and watch Kavon Lune's highlights from college and from high school,

like totally different player to figure it out like that to still add value and having to recreate yourself you don't see basketball players do that when you see musicians try to recreate themselves they go to hell um when you see boxers try to recreate themselves they go to like you go down the list people trying to recreate themselves it's a losing battle kovon kovon looney did that plus more 20 rebounds non-offensive. Nine assists. It's huge.

Making plays. Offensive rebound, kickout three. Absolutely incredible. Dominated the game with four points. For all of you out there that say you have to score the basketball to dominate the game, you lie. Yes, of course, you need a Steph Curry

who goes for 36, right? Like, of course. But you lie. Or maybe you didn't lie. you just didn't quite understand. Absolutely incredible performance by Loon. Andrew Wiggins, the pace was incredible. Wigs more so than anybody, he met force with force.

When he caught the ball on the post, he went towards the run. He met force with force. He got to the shots that he wanted to get to, and he continues to elevate his level of play. Having Wigs back, I told y'all, after game one, although we lost. He's trending upward, which means our team will trend upward.

You saw playoff wigs last night. You saw playoff wigs, the wigs that you saw in the playoffs last year, you saw that last night. And quite frankly, that's what I can appreciate about this team more than anything. It's when your back is against the wall, how do guys show up? And guys showed up. And it was huge. And the list goes on.

Moody off the bench, 13 points, 16 minutes. The points were great. Quite frankly, I think his defense was incredible. I think how he was muddying things up and getting in the fray for rebounds. Only had three rebounds, but you'll miss it if you're not paying attention. Boxing out, cracking back on the guy so someone else get the rebound. Not making game-plan mistakes. Moses Moody continues to trend upwards.

continues when his name is called, continues to be ready. Jonathan Caminga grew last night. Had a tough first stint when he got in the game. Stuck with it. Change the entire game. Flying to the basket for dunks. Rebounds, putbacks. Defensively.

Change the game after a first stint. He grew last night. That's important. Jamichael Green gave incredible minutes last night. Guy who hasn't played much. No one's ever happy when they don't play. I know everybody's going to say, oh, man, Jamichael was upset on the bench. Number one, you're in the playoffs.

Things get very heated. Emotions run high. You much rather have and know someone that's know that somebody's in it than not know they're in it at all. So I know everybody's going to say, oh, man, him and the coaches they were talking and it was a little heated. Of course it was heated. Down 2-0.

or O2. Back against the wall. Of course everybody's on edge. That's what you got to appreciate. How do guys respond when on edge? I thought the way Jamichael played, his coverage, picking rolls, rebound in the basketball,

the toughness that he brought to the floor for us, was huge. It was huge. You'll miss those things. Jordan Poole played it, It had a great floor game. Great floor game. Patient.

Didn't even hit shots. One huge play, and not knowing people who missed this. Clay Thompson had a shot. He had a step back. And no one will complain about Clay taking that shot. It's a mid-range over defender, but of course, Clay makes that.

Who cares? Had the shot kicked at the Moses Moose Moody in the corner. Moses Moody goes in and gets an N-1. That unlocks things. Huge play. At no point did Clay Thompson force anything? And then he hit some big shots down the stretch. You know why?

Because he didn't force anything. Locked in on the defensive end. Absolutely incredible to watch. Anthony Lamb, number hasn't been called in two and a half weeks. Stay ready. Dante DeFincenzo was huge. But we've been talking about Dante all year. But this is the playoffs.

He was huge. Answered the bell defensively, offensively, answered the bell. Thought it was an incredible performance by the guys. I thought our coaching staff did an incredible job with the game plan. Locked in. Starting to come together for us. And that was great to see. And saying that, we did what we were supposed to do.

Took care of home court. Now you got to go win again. Tide his thing up two-two-headed back to Sack. I'm excited as hell to be back in the lineup. Whatever that means, that means. As I'm watching that game last night, all I can think of, I was on text with Chris Wings. So if you saw Chris Wienes behind the bench texting a lot,

he's texting me. And that was my point of contact if I needed to get anything to the coaches. And like I sent him a few things here and there, like little small things. And when I got there last night, Jemma said, man, I was asking Wims. Like, what does Draymond got? What does he got for us? He said, Williams kept saying like, man, he's not saying much.

I said, gentlemen, sometimes it's just not anything to say. Like, you have to feel when there's nothing to say. And the way the guys was playing, there was nothing to say. Because even when shots weren't falling, we were in control of the game. So there's not much to say. It's locked in, airtight on the game playing. There's just what. It wasn't much to say.

Absolutely incredible. Like I said, shout out to the coaching staff. Steve, Jama, Decky, QDahl. The list goes on and on. Chris DeMarco, Jacob Rubin, Chris Wings. Absolutely incredible. It was incredible to see. Those guys locked in.

We know what our coaching staff is capable of the situations and the game plans that they're capable of putting. and that was one of them nights like we've seen in the past last night. It was beautiful to see. I also know everyone wants my opinion on Joel and B. I also know everyone wants my opinion on James Harden. If I can give you my honest opinion, I don't care. I will never be a...

One thing you're never going to do is say, you're not going to see me say, man, this guy did that and he didn't get this. that ain't me. I don't roll like that. Number one, I'm never in favor of seeing a player get suspended. I'm never in favor of seeing a player get kicked out of game. So Buck stops there. What you won't get from me is the victim, not a victim.

I told you all last year, I'm treated differently. It's a badge of honor. Not the same as all these dudes. I'm different. But different equals championships. So you take the good with the bad. Got to live with it. But what I won't do is get on here.

Like, man, Joelle should have been suspended. That's whack. James should have been kicked. That's whack. Just playoff basketball. Nick Claxton should have been kicked. That's whack. Just playoff basketball.

That's Nick Claxton going up against Joel and B. MVP at NBA. You dunk on him, you should flex in his face. Because he's going to give you 40. flexing yours. So when I get my moment, you should flex in his face. And I bet you there was not one fan who paid to watch that game that said, man, why is he flexing in his face? No, because you appreciate that. I'm a fan of the game of basketball. I'm an NBA fan. So as a fan, I was very disappointed to see Nick Clackson get thrown out. Like, them boys battling. That's the same dude that

just got kicked. He dunked on that guy. They kicked him. And he get thrown out for standing up to him. Like, come on, that's white. So I'm never going to be someone that's in favor of anybody getting suspended. Anybody get kicked out of a game. So if you're looking for that, you won't get that here. That's just not how I wrote.

Stuff get heated. You live in that moment. It's the playoffs. You plan for something. But quite frankly, most people don't understand winning. So you'll never understand the emotions of it. but you plan for something, it's the playoffs. So to see those guys get kicked out of that game,

I'm not here for it. That's not what I pay cable to see. A huge part of the reason I have cable, obviously have kids, but I like to watch a bunch of basketball, and that's not really what I paid to see. I paid to see Nick Claxton get his get back after having zero points

and then have a big, a big first half dunk on Joelle and B and stand up to him. Joel and B's the big bad bully. Not because Joe L. Embed is the big bad bully, literally, because he's that good. So in that situation, he's the big bad bully. Nick Claxton has to stand up to him.

He has to. He already don't have a chance. He doesn't stand a chance. Joel and beat is that good. That's no no Nocta Nick Claxton. Joel is that good. So you have to stand up to him. He don't stand a chance anyway.

So when he had those moments to throw him out the game for, like, that's not playoffs. That's not what we're paying to see. It's not what these fans are paying. Those fans are paying to see that thing. That's what brings this game alive. Not him going to the shower. That's, man, come on.

Stop it, really? And you know he got one tech, come on. We can't do that. We can't do that. So that's my thoughts on that. Before we get out of here, I think one other series that I've really been paying attention to

is the Clippers and Phoenix. I've been paying attention to all the series. I'm lying. But one I want to speak on is the Clippers in Phoenix. And what do I? I want to say about that. Been a great series. Lutterway Russell's competing for everybody who's shitted on Russ.

Take that. That's Russ being Russ and it's beautiful to see. Book. It looked like a man on a mission, locked in. KD. doing what KD. do. What this series looked like is ultimately boiling down to is this. The Lakers screwed the clippers. How?

What are you talking about, Dremont? Because the Lakers getting in, LeBron James is in. LeBron James is always going to be marquee game. Steph Curry is always going to be a marquee game.

So in turn, the Clippers, you end up playing every other day and you got Kauai Linder playing 40 minutes. I saw a statement where Kawhi played 42 minutes, and Talu said, this is what we've been,

this is what we've been, preparing for it. For him to be, I play for you two minutes right now. And then he's out for game three sucks because he's dominating. He's having an incredible series and then have to miss game three. Sucks. But if there's two days in between, so you say game, call it yesterday's Thursday, and then game Sunday, it's totally different.

But what you have to understand is all of that stuff is based on a TV schedule. TV slots matter. So LeBron gets the TV slot. Steph Curry gets the TV slot. The Clippers were on NBA TV last night. But they've been playing every other day. They play yesterday, they play tomorrow. It's been tough.

Changes everything. Changes the series. So that's actually a game within the game. That's understanding the business. That's understanding the TV stuff. that's understanding a lot of stuff that I know people don't really pay a part of, but that's actually affecting that series.

We get a game three without Kawhi Leonard. Norman Powell has 42 points. Russ has 30, 11 and 8 or some 33, 11 and 8, something like that. But no Kauai. You want to see the stars in the playoffs. So that's an unfortunate one, that, quite frankly, it's pretty tough to correct. You think about it from a perspective,

you got the Lakers and the clippers who share the same building. The L.A. Kings is also in the playoffs. They also share that building. There are so many things that goes into this that is actually affecting that series. So I'm interested to see how it plays out. I think we got Kauai coming back for game four. However, you lost home court advantage back.

So now you've got to go back to Phoenix and win another game, even if you win game four. It's a tough situation. Hope I helped everybody understand the business a little bit more today. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Looking forward to getting back Sunday. Be great in Chase Center,

12-30 start, early game. Looking forward to getting back in that dogfight with my guys. That's a wrap. This episode of the Draymond Green Show. Until next time, peace.