Warriors-Nuggets reaction: “Jokic gave me hell” + breaking down NBA MVP race | Draymond Green Show

Warriors-Nuggets reaction: “Jokic gave me hell” + breaking down NBA MVP race | Draymond Green Show

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You what’s up everybody welcome back to the Draymond Green show we are recording this Sunday night um after a tough loss man that one versus the Nuggets um we’ll talk about the game we’ll talk about the MVP race we’ll talk about the Western Conference playoff battle

Slra um Jackson and I were laugh at starting this episode because my night nurse is in there sleeping and she’s snoring and I wonder if the mic’s going to pick it up so if it does pick it up y’all get a special episode today but by the way Night Nurse she’s amazing

Um incredible and she’s been great for my wife and I with the baby so shout out to her uh but I hope y’all catch that I hope the microphone picks that up anyway make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel youtube.com Draymond greenow make sure you go subscribe check

That out and let’s talk about a few things get in on the action with the draft King sports book an official sports betting partner of the NBA new customers who deposit at $5 or more can get a no sweat bet up to $11,000 back in bonus bets how cool of a

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Why they are defending Champions um and if we were to meet that team in the playoffs I think they’re are some adjustments that we can make that can put us right in position to win um but that’s a great team and Joker 3216 and 16 gave me complete hell

Tonight I’ve had my fair share of good matchups against Joker um I’ve given him a little bit of Hell on some nights but he gave me total and complete hell tonight and I had Absolut absolutely no answers and I’m just going to laugh about it because either you laugh or you

Cry and so I’m going to laugh about it I had absolutely no answers tonight and um I mean he was brilliant and he is in incredible shape man y’all should have saw this man running the floor I had to like turn on my my burners a little bit

A couple times to like keep up with him from running the floor and he was just going man it wasn’t like he got tired like he was just going and going and um man shout out to Joker it’s always fun play against him I wanted to uh I got a

Lot of respect for Joker always have I love the way he go about his business um obviously a great basketball player and Joker caught me with the shoulder in the chin and they didn’t call offens a fou and I wrapped him up and we was coming

Back down the court and and he was like brought that that that was definitely a foul he was like 100% a foul he’s like but I didn’t Tred to on purpose and I’m like no I know you didn’t try to on purpose um which is why I didn’t file

You hard and just kind of wrapped you up because I know you didn’t try it on purpose um love I love playing against the guys where there’s a mutual respect of like the work that you put in the work that I put in um there’s a healthy

Competition and that’s so I I always I enjoy the honor of playing against Joker uh God that I got a tremendous amount of respect for and you got to love playing against the great to see how you stack up and you learn from it and so like I said tonight

He got the absolute best of me um and and they they won the game but I had no answers zero answers tonight and and I’m all with that it happens to the best of us um I feel like I’ve been doing very well defensively I had no answers

Tonight and uh so the next time we play which will be in the playoffs um like you you remember that and you like all right I know I did this and that was all wrong so I’m going try these things now because against great players like they’re always improving and really the

Last time I really played Joker um was last year I don’t think I played against them any times this year and so guys like that is always improving and you have to figure other things out as a Defender you know so uh I didn’t get it figured out tonight and that’s okay um

Jamal Murray also had a very good game and you know Joker and Jamal Murray in the pick and roll is devastating uh it’s it’s one of the toughest covers if not the toughest cover in the league um Steph and I are probably in that category for totally different reasons

Obviously because of Stephan I’m a great screener and then I make some plays out there you know the whole thing um before y’all like oh Draymond you’re not joking like of course I’m not Joker and I’m not claiming to be Joker so before you go there it’s dead um but anyway uh that

Pick and roll combination um it really got them going uh once they was able to start connecting on that Jamal start hitting a couple shots you got to help a little more hit Joker on the pop back three and it was kind of domino and from there uh

Went into the half tied of 6161 but they had to taken total control control of the of the game and um came out of the half they came out they um they went up 75 65 went up 10 points and then we battled back got it to four and

You know we never really got control of the game again I think we took a lead at some point again maybe but we never really like gain ground again uh they they kind of dominated the game from that point so you got to give them guys

A lot of credit I thought we did some good things defensively uh Aaron Gordon is still playing great basketball uh he’s Aaron Gordon has grown so much since that playoff series two years ago when we played against those guys that the player that he is today um is so

Much different and better um and More Physical um than he was then and you know you get in the playoffs sometimes and the playoffs will shock you and the physicality will shock you and I think the physicality of the playoffs against Aaron Gordon in 2022 shocked him now

Think about it he had been in Orlando most of his career never really play a bunch of Min for basketball and then you kind of get thrown into that and I think it shocked the hell out of him well some people get shocked and they never recover but those that do recover get

Better and Aaron Gordon is a part of that group uh totally different player physical as hell and in 2022 you weren’t really Worthy about his physicality he physical as hell like he is seeking contact on rebounds he is seeking contact on post UPS way more physical

And I think a lot of that stemed from the 22 22 playoffs where he was like oh no I’m coming back better I’m coming back different I’m coming back stronger coming back more physical and he did that and they won a championship in large part due to what he brought to

That team last year and he’s still bringing that uh so you know lot of respect for Aaron Gordon as a champion that’s a different man and you you got you got to respect that Steph obviously had a tough shoe tonight uh six for 19 those happen uh you all you know they

Did a good job defending them I thought Joker did a great job in the pick and roll guarding the pick and roll today uh Pope you scream Pope and he never like they’re scream magnets in this league and Pope’s kind of complete opposite like you screen Pope number one he’s

Hard to screen number two if you scream know even if you hold the screen he don’t just die and stand there he’s still going to go back chasing Steph and I thought they did a good job with their coverage uh Klay came off the bench

Firing in the first half and I think uh it’s on me I got to do a better job of making sure he get more touches in the second half although um our minutes don’t match up as much as they did before think it’s still my role on this

Team to make sure uh that he is getting more shots uh in the second half and you know missed a couple but they weren’t as consistent as I thought they needed to be in order for him to stay in the groove that he was in so that falls on

Me I got absolutely destroyed by Joker that falls on me so pretty much this this loss falls on me and I’m going to take this loss I’m going to flush it down the toilet and we’re going to move on to Washington and we’re going to go

Get back on the winning track and we’re going to go have a great road trip that is what I am switching my focus to um um Jackson wants to know what Joker and I were laughing at uh what we were laughing at is I went up to him I said

Hey can you do my podcast can you really do the podcast can can you do the podcast and I don’t know if any of y’all saw the clip of uh Joker at Allstar with Andre hudalla uh asking about the podcast and Joker’s running from him and

So I was kind of making light of that and he said oh my God BR I’m a bad person I’m a really bad I’m a bad person I’m a really bad person for that so I thought that was uh that was that’s what we were laughing at I thought it was

Hilarious um you never seen Joker on the podcast I haven’t maybe y’all have I haven’t seen it and if it did it was probably about horses uh was not about the Denver Nuggets or no Bas or no basketball game uhuh but that was that uh on to the Western Conference playoff

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Last minute tickets lowest price guarantee uh the Mavericks Lakers Warriors pelicans and Clippers lose today nugget Suns Kings win uh the one through four seeds are separated by two games the 5 through 10 seeds are separated by four games and at this point in the season this kind of when you start paying

Attention to the standards because you know like we got 25 games left you know like every one of them matters and every day matters and you get on the run right now somebody lose a few things can change in a heartbeat so right now is when you really start diving in paying

Attention what’s going on around the league who lost tonight who won and tonight would have been a huge night for us to win with the teams losing that did needless to say um we did not take advantage of that it’s not the end of

The world uh but now you got to go on this road trip and maybe win one or two that year technically not supposed to win and that’s okay I think we’re more than capable of doing that and guys are going to be locked in and focused on

That hopefully we’ll get Chris back um on Tuesday I hope I don’t know that to be factual uh if not Tuesday hopefully we get them back Thursday if not Thursday maybe Friday and if not Friday hopefully by Sunday no but honestly it will be good to get CP back in the

Lineup uh and I know you know he’s eager to get back out there um you know and it’s that time of year where the competitors want to play like you want to be out there you you know it’s it’s after the allar break you get that win

And you know it’s time to gear up for the playoffs and this is what we going for and playing for so this is a fun time of year and I think you’re going to see guys Locked In All Around The League um just nor on like what’s ahead and

Then you’ll also see some teams start shipping their cars off um to Miami and their summer home and la and like some you you got some of that coming up in the next couple weeks too you know maybe little Charlotte little Charlotte action you know uh little Detroit little

Detroit action you know you you start to see those teams like start shipping their cars off uh you know that’s just how it goes when you start see some teams gearing up like all right this is what we going for the pretenders and the contenders it

Is that time of year and so you know pay attention uh all of a sudden you see one guy’s Instagram story and it’s like a moving truck in front of their house already in Charlotte you like oh man like what’s going on like they ready to get on up out of

Here shout out to my young boy m i love M that’s my young dog uh a lot of respect for Brandon Miller too that kid is going to be really good but back to the Western Conference playoff race I’m getting off track a little bit let me lock back in so

Um we are looking at the standards now well at least I am this is the time of year that I do and and you really start paying attention um we got some games I know we still got the Pelicans uh coming to town um we still got the Lakers at least one

More time uh we’re done with the Kings I think we got the Clippers at least one more time so you know you’re going to uh we’re done with the Suns finish with the Nuggets um we got the Mavericks maybe three times and so you know you can make you

Can make your head you know you can you kind of can control what you can control but you need to win those games and then some of those games you lose them and it’s like losing two games because you’re losing to that specific team so

We got to make sure we’re locked in uh winning all the games we need to win but also in those games in specific those are big games and you need to be locked in for them so the Western Conference playoff race is heating up and the Eastern Conference race is very

Interesting which we’ll get into with the MVP race so the MVP race right now Joker is the favorite on DraftKings um SG Luca Giannis and Tatum the next four and I guess after tonight if even if I didn’t want to agree that joker was the favorite which I didn’t disagree

With that at all before tonight but if I wanted to agree if I wanted to disagree with that after tonight you kind of can’t say a word you kind of got to be like yeah like it’s him because he got the best of me tonight as

I told y’all but anyway um I think it’s very interesting to see where Shay has jumped uh Lucas at three Giannis slip some and Tatum JT man JT just yeah the the Celtics are seven and a half games ahead of the number two seed in the Eastern Conference do people think the Celtics

Are that great to where Jason Tatum is only in fifth because it seems as if the like the the you know sometimes it’s like that team is winning and that guy’s the best player and playing well and like in this situation clearly that’s not the the goalpost like clearly the goalpost

Has shifted dramatically because in this guy’s case he’s Fifth and they got a seven and a half game lead in the conference that goalpost is moving on JT I don’t know what JT Gotta Do I do know what JT gotta do I told y’all last time

What JT gotta do JT will not be taken serious for the MVP until he win a championship and it just hasn’t been that way for everybody else I must say was not that way for Joker it’s not that way for Yannis it’s not that way for

Joel it just ain’t really been that way for everybody else so I don’t know how it ended up that way for JT maybe it’s because he got to the NBA was and lawon everybody’s like oh like you had your chance but I mean God Le that’s brutal

That’s that’s tough so I’m not sure how JT just always lies me lags behind uh in this voting seven and a half games golly that is crazy and by the way yes the Boston Celtics is a good team but the Denver nuggin is great like they had a really good team

Um wow I don’t know I I really don’t know what to say um yeah I do know what to say JT gota go Inn the NBA finals in order to get taken seriously as an MVP young F I don’t know how the gold post move don’t you like

That but they should acknowledge it because those are the facts they should acknowledge it JT because those are nothing but facts and in other news before we get out of here there was another fight around the NBA I mean what is going on with these people y’all say I need help these

People are fighting Jose Alvarado and Thomas Bryant the smallest guy and the biggest guy got the throwing hands they both got got suspended for three games I mean guys the allstar break is over like you’re supposed to be refreshed and these guys are out here getting into it

Hey man y’all see it ain’t Draymond it’s not me these guys are getting into it um Jimmy Butler and Naji Marshall got suspended for one game a piece and then the young fella jovic left the bench come on young fella even I know better than that I B is

Spending more games than you done played in your career come on young F you can’t leave the bench and who is over there on that bench telling him hey man no stay over here don’t that’s the that’s the most like even my suspensions young fellow they sometimes have to make a decision

Like all right we got like that’s an obvious one they ain’t even got to make a decision or you just getting ding like that bro somebody somebody over there on that Miami bench y’all make sure y’all designate somebody to keep the players Off the Bench cuz y’all could have

Avoided that one with the young fella young F learn your lesson though don’t let them get you with the easiest one even mine they got to make a decision don’t let them get you like that and one more thing about these fights in the NBA um another night in the NBA another

Unwritten rule broken Dennis schroer number one I like Dennis schroer cool dude Dennis you can’t hit Mike connley Mike connley has zero technical fives in his NBA career zero you can’t hit Mike Conley Mike connley is the nicest person in the world in the NBA for sure you can’t hit

Mike Conley number one that’s an Unwritten rule can’t hit Mike Cony number two it’s 25 seconds left in the game and they got three seconds left in the shot clock why should someone take the turnover I just can’t for the to life of me understand this I just don’t

Get it and so because I don’t get it I’m going to propose something in the spirit of suspending people let let we got to get some suspension going for this Unwritten rule being broken and people then like losing their minds if the unwritten rule is broken and someone reacts to the unwritten rule

In the way like guys are reacting to this Unwritten rule being broken it should be an automatic one game suspension like leaving the bench or something like that and you all know I’m not an advocate for people getting suspended because why would I be um an advocate for anyone getting suspended

Doesn’t quite make sense but like this is this has to stop like it’s embarrassing to the guy who gets mad and say like oh you you you were up and you shot again like this is basketball there’s no mercy rule this is the NBA okay you don’t want to lose win the game

But the unwritten rule has to stop and it has to stop now so I’m calling on our commissioner our great Commissioner Adam Silver Joe D somebody competition committee this Unwritten rule it has to be some writing about it because it’s it’s pretty played out and I don’t get

It that’s a wrap from this episode of the Draymond Green show I appreciate y’all watching and checking this out make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel don’t want to miss any episodes we have another interview with a with a goat my bye was that good we got another

Interview with a goat dropping this week that you do not want to miss so check it out till next time peace

Draymond Green discusses the Golden State Warriors’ tough loss to the Denver Nuggets, why Nikola Jokic is so difficult to guard, and how Aaron Gordon has transformed his game. Then, Dray dives into the Western Conference playoff race, the MVP goalpost moving, and fights in the NBA. 

Timeline:
00:00 – Start
01:00 – Warriors / Nuggets 
15:00 – MVP race
18:00 – Fights

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