Draymond Green Postgame Interview - Game 3 - Grizzlies vs Warriors | 2022 NBA Playoffs

San Francisco vs. the Warriors beat Raymond it was just a matter of you guys getting into an offensive rhythm tonight was do you think the difference in this

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? I think it was a matter of stopping turning the ball over, we turned the ball over to a lot of turnovers in the first half, 14 turnovers, three turnovers in the second half, you know, so we've always believed that we are a very good shooting team, but if they don't look at the rim, it doesn't matter and then you get good looks, I think tonight we found great shots, we didn't, we didn't settle for good shots, we found great shots and they went in Draymond, how much is clay a barometer for your offense, when it goes, does it seem to be the team's? maybe because the way he plays well, I mean, if he's taking those shots and shots instead of dribbling and looking for them it's not a great sign and that's not what happened tonight, yeah, I mean.

You know, we all know what clay is capable of. You know he's one of the best shooters to ever play his

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. I think a lot of people tend to forget that one of the guys that revolutionized the game of basketball so that's what you expect from him and you know our words to Clay are always "let's find great shots" um and you know you find great shots in Clay he can take him down since we know Draymond what did you think of Wigas Wiggins playing Bully Ball going coast to coast? the bounce, that's what we've been asking of wigs all year long for two years or however long it's been here.

He lowers his head and reaches the hole. It's really hard to stop him from getting to the basket and you know it was amazing. he plays right before the half, but that's what he's been throughout the

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, you know what he is, he's bigger than just dunks, the way he's been rebounding and the physicality he's been playing with and boxing , I think you know, sometimes they catch us. There's a lot of rebounding, but when you're a boxing guy you don't always get the rebound and he's been doing an incredible job no matter who it is, who he's facing or boxing, I mean, I saw four or five possessions.

Myself, where I'm on the other side and he's boxing Tim Tillman and hitting the ball, you know, so we need him with that mentality. It's huge for us, Draymond. You see Porter at a plus-30 tonight and this isn't the first postseason game in which he's been a great player in the plus-minus, does that ever surprise you? You look down because he's not and he scored some threes tonight, but he hadn't scored much, but does that make sense to you? Sometimes he has it because he's been a guy all year long that just makes the right play, knows where to be on the court, bounces the ball really well, you know, he's very stable, you know, he doesn't take a lot of risks, he's just a very constant force. to us, so it's not surprising, you know, even though otto wants a max deal in this league when it was hard to get the max, you know, sometimes guys get the max now just because they're supposed to.

I didn't sign a max contract when $100 million was hard to come by and you know, he's healthy and I think that's been a big part of it the last three four years. He's been injured and he's healthy and he's playing great basketball for us all year, not just tonight, but he was a very impressive player tonight yesterday you were talking about the importance of you know Jaws is going to get his way, but limits everyone else, how do you think they did it? I think we did a pretty good job, you know, letting Bain loose, let loose a little bit tonight. four for seven out of three um but overall I think we did a good job stopping other guys like I said you have to stop the guys you can stop because it's very hard to stop jah

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did you have a chance? to see the play where john moranka seems to get hurt, yeah, didn't they knock knees?

That Jordan pulled his knee and John Morant just tweeted and then deleted that Jordan broke the code. You have an answer for that. No, I don't have an answer. It seemed to me as if they had knocked knees before he arrived. That's nice. than I thought I saw, but no I'm not going to see it, go tit for tat, we have a basketball game to try to win on Monday, you guys were like super turnovers early, still making almost every shot you got , what was resolved, look, me. Guess what caused all the turnovers at first and then what kind of solution you guys worked out, um, I think from the beginning we were probably getting too much into the paint, uh, trying to get it out, um, we're dancing a little bit in our cuts and then we're just sloppy with the basketball um and you know once we clean that up you know turning the ball over and not getting shots is a problem trying to stop them in transition after turnovers is a totally different problem than It's almost impossible, so not turning the ball over allows us to set up our defense, when you get your defense, you come down with a balanced floor, you become great, you know you can get transition opportunities and you know they all go hand in hand, but I think we're finally where you're not driving too deep or trying to pass the ball, you get into space and you see the first guy open, just move him.

I think we did a good job on that. Jordan was getting attacked in the second game and you know. Even Jock had a nice little highlight game on him, what do you think of how Jordan responded in the third game and the way he attacked? I thought it was beautiful the way he spoke offensively, but even more so, I thought it was incredible. how he defended it and competed on that side of the ball, you know, yesterday, I think it was, you know, I talked about him having to defend, you know, and that's the expectation, if you want to win a championship, everyone has to defend , you have to do it. try hard like I said, I don't expect him to go out and be Marcus Smart, that's not what he is, but when you go out and try hard on that number one side of the ball, your teammates can rally behind you, but even you .

I know more, from an XL point of view, you put up some resistance and the guys can come to help if you need help and I think he was, I mean, we didn't need to help him much tonight, he was him, they put him into action. He sat back and stood guard and that's what it takes, Draymond, you guys are undefeated in the postseason in this building and three of those wins have been blowouts. I wonder what they think about the chase as a playoff house now that we have a There's a long way to go, you know, hopefully we'll get five more wins in this building and get this over with, hopefully, or if we need more, we'll take more. , but you know, I think it's you who knows that everyone is more. comfortable at home and that's the reality of the game we played and you know the fans were good tonight, they brought energy, I think you know, after the first few minutes of the game we gave them energy to feed and you know it's been working for us, but we have another game on Monday, it's going to be even harder, much harder than tonight, Draymond Brent Clark said some things about you after the first game, Taylor Jenkins said what he said about Jordan tonight, does it feel like were they trying to do it?

Paint a picture about yourselves, that or maybe a narrative about how you are playing, your style of play. Do you feel like you are the more physical team? We've historically been viewed as a pretty soft jump shooting team. I mean, I'm not making this up, that's what the academic report has always been. Get physical with them and you know, that's what it's been like since I've been here, so the pain, the pain is what we always talk about. about non-Steph minutes and watch and see how they measure up and usually if they do it right, they win the game.

Did you watch that and get a feel for how good the non-Steph minutes went tonight and why you think that happened? no, no, that's not something we ever see, you know, if you see it as culture staff, maybe I'm not sure, but it's not something we see as a team, uh, I mean, I think you know when you look the minute those things are not on the court, now you have Jordan Clay out there and you know it's one thing when Jordan is a second year player or a first year player, Clay is somewhere rehabbing and then you're trying to fight with Steph minutes, but he Put those two guys in there and they're wigs and it's a totally different ball game, so I thought that group played well tonight and I played 26 minutes largely because they were playing so well, so which was great for us.