Draymond Green thought Golden State Warriors “f***ing sucked” in 2022 before winning NBA Finals

Draymond Green thought Golden State Warriors “f***ing sucked” in 2022 before winning NBA Finals

welcome to the brand new Draymond Green Show YouTube channel hit subscribe so you don’t miss out on any of our content and and the unique thing that I that I thought and you’ve probably been through this may maybe not but I I just couldn’t believe how much better we got from playoff game number one you know and against Orlando in the first round to two months later by the time by the time you know we saw you guys uh I just can’t believe we just kept improving improving improving and that’s that’s also really special really fun to be a part of absolutely you know obviously our teams before were a little different um maybe 2015 but we kind of got good early in that year but 2022 I know exactly what you’re talking about because that year I I’ll kid you not I I’ll be honest so 2022 is the first year of Miami Grand Prix uh F1 Formula 1 and my friend and his family they own the race and so they they had laid it out all my friends was going and I think it was maybe May 5th which obviously as you know is like right at the end of the first round of the playoff yeah and he’s like are you coming to F1 are you coming f one I’m like yeah we suck like I’ll be there we’ll lose in the first round for sure like that’s what I thought of like the team we had and I’m like yeah we’ll lose in the first round I 100 like leave me locked in I’ll be there and uh we we start the We we played the first game of the playoffs and I called him after the game and I he actually he had text me he’s like you’re full of like you guys look great I’m like yeah we actually just look better than I thought we did but like hold off I I’ll still be there for F1 right and we start playing and we going through and we got better better and better and better then we get to Dallas Mavericks in the Conference Finals and it’s like we didn’t even feel like they had a chance like like oh this this is money and then we get to the finals and like you guys everybody thought we’d lose to the Celtics we were we weren’t big enough the Celtics were way too big they were younger they were more athletic they were all of these things however and where you guys uh were different they had guys that knew how like they had I mean they didn’t have guys that knew how and we had guys that knew how where you guys different in 2019 Kawai knew how yeah Danny Green knew how right like when you when you have those guys that know how like do you feel that as a coach like it makes a big difference I felt like that was the edge for us in that finals against the Celtics in the year where we got better and better and better like you just explained as a 12-year NBA veteran recovery is very important to me as I continue to get a little older the body just doesn’t bounce back the way it used to to so I’m a big fan of hyper ice especially their normat Tech boots what’s great about the new normat tech Elite is that they dish all the extra hoses and control units from the old model this one is fully self-contained with a small set 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then I don’t think they understand a lot of the intensity of it like like I me when we were playing you guys I can’t tell you how many times I’d be like God damn these guys are fast like damn they just keep on right you know like and they don’t ever get tired and and I kept telling my team they’re fast but you run you you be be fast too you keep running fast too right so so again just the the you can’t get tired man you can’t you can’t succumb to the the two-month grind or the or how physical it is or the pressure of it all like you just got to keep staying locked in and keep man it’s it’s that’s the thing I think the guys that have been through it can impart on everybody else and help them get through some of that 100% it’s crazy because I was in a I was in a meeting yesterday and I was talking to um someone and he was just speaking about like man get to the NBA finals and if you lose like those guys just look so crushed and I was telling him I said you know you getting to the NBA finals and losing I’ve done twice it’s actually the worst thing in the world because you play two extra months of basketball and you have absolutely nothing to show for it um you’re expected to like you have the same summer that the Champions had but they get the party and get a pass and get a little longer to get in shape because you know they’re coming off Championship whereas if you lose in the finals no one remembers everybody like oh you should come into the next season in tip top shape all these things like it’s a totally different mindset but what I was telling him is I said as much as you are as as much as you are like disappointed and hurt that you lost what really happens is you go through the NBA Finals to your point and by the time you get to the end of it your mind doesn’t allow you to process how tired you are your mind doesn’t allow you to process the exhaustion but the moment it ends it’s just like everything’s just wiped out of you like it is a grind like no other to your point I don’t think anyone really understands that yeah the biggest difference is this though right like when you it your phone rings a lot when you don’t the phone stops ringing that the whole the whole pace of everything comes to a screeching halt right that’s what I always find interesting after a season that you don’t win it is things get quite really quick right um but yeah I think it’s and and you’re like I couldn’t believe it was over and I I swear to God I just got home and I was back in for League you know like man that was like two weeks you know three weeks later you’re back and getting ready for next season you know as a coach and I know you’re just trying to recover recover like crazy if you’re a player right get your body right and just just try to heal up right absolutely cuz you come out of those things beat up it’s crazy we’re this close to crowning an NBA champion I like the Celtics by the way in six Jaylen Brown’s going to be my MVP and I love the Celtics in 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Draymond Green & Philadelphia 76ers head coach Nick Nurse discuss how the Toronto Raptors got better throughout the NBA Playoffs in 2019, and Draymond Green feels the same way about the Golden State Warriors in 2022. The year the Dubs won the NBA Finals, Draymond thought his team with Steph Curry and Klay Thompson would lose in the first round of the postseason before the Warriors steadily improved to win it all.

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