Draymond Fires Back at Dillon Brooks, Kendrick Perkins & Explains Suns Ejection

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What's up, everybody?

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Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show. On today's show, we will talk about the Valks winning the championship. The NBA has a serious injury issue. It is serious. The injury bug is alive and well. And we'll also talk about my injection since we have not spoke about that. And there's been some people speaking that will speak to about that. So let's get right into it.

Before we talk injection, the Dubs are riding a five game win streak. The Dubs are five and three after getting off to an and 3 start.

One five in a row. Started at Denver after losing to Phoenix the first time in Phoenix on the second half of a back to back.

We also played them on the second half of a back to back again, but we beat them that time. Anyway, started in Denver, then Minnesota, then we came home and took on the Lakers, beat the Lakers at home. And then we beat the Clippers at home. And lately, lastly, we beat Phoenix at home. Like I said, for the second time, playing them the second time this year, each time has been on the second night of a back to back. But speaking of that game, got down pretty big again. I think we were down 17 points or 20 points or something of that nature in the first quarter, top of the second quarter. And then we kind of got it going. We've got to stop getting off to these starts and kind of digging ourselves a hole and then coming back. Think Denver, we did not dig ourselves a hole, but a lot of these games, we have dug ourselves a hole and had to fight back. Interestingly enough, in the Laker game, I think we were down 25 points and by halftime we were tied up. We were down 40 to 15, if I'm not mistaken, and by halftime the game was tied up at 53 to 53 And so we need to get off to better starts, which will be important. You just don't want to have to dig yourself out of a hole the way we've been doing. Needless to say, as a team, we've been playing very well. Steph has obviously been playing at an MVP caliber level, averaging 30 points a game in 28 minutes. Steph Curry is averaging more than one point per minute that he's on the floor. That is insane. Who's also doing that right now is Luka Dantjic. Luka is doing the same exact thing. Definitely, you know, obviously very early to talk MVP, but you know, people have these conversations all year long. And early in the MVP race has to be those two. Those two, I think, have played probably as well as anybody in the league, better, or better than anybody in the league. I would say those two have definitely gotten off to the better starts of any players. What they're doing, what both of them is doing is incredible. For Steph to be doing what he's doing at 38 years old will be 39 in four months. It's something we've never seen before. And, you know, interestingly enough, you know, obviously he missed a bunch of games. He missed a bunch of games last season, you know, and, you know, there were all the talks about, oh man, you know, he's had this neat thing done, or, you know, he's still not feeling well. All these different things, all the talk, and he's coming out and he's putting a lot of that talk to rest. Now, obviously hasn't played back to backs, which is smart, especially when you look at all the injuries that are taking place, or excuse me, all the injuries that are happening in the NBA currently. You look at all these soft tissue injuries.

Probably smart, very smart. You know, I know myself, I haven't played back to backs, and, you know, our staff is like, yo, there's so many soft tissue injuries right now, and just playing the back to back right now just ain't worth it, you know, for the long term consequence. You know, but Steph has played absolutely amazing. Obviously, Yaxel, who's right up there, again, very early, early rookie of the year talks. Yaxel's playing incredible basketball, had a tough one against the Lakers, and how he bounced back against the Clippers was amazing. And, you know, like I said, myself and Steph set that game and he bounced back 37 Like, you know, I played bad, I didn't play that well, 37 Next game. Like, that's how you respond. You know, we saw someone ask Steph, like, what's the difference in between this year and last year? He goes, uh, Yax, and that's a fact. You know, Yax has completely changed the outlook of his team. Now, as well as Yax has played, he's played incredible, you know, scoring the ball on all different levels, shooting the ball well, um, like, playmaking, you know, really smart basketball player sees the court. As well as he's doing all of those things, one thing he's added to our lineup that no one's talking about is, it's just your size. You probably wouldn't understand if you've never seen him in person. But Yaxel is a pretty big dude. He is like legit 6'9, 6'10, I don't know, probably 250, 255 pounds. Like, so the sheer size that he adds in being on the floor, it makes a difference when you have that type of size and length. It makes a very, very big difference. And so, just, I'm telling you, his skill has been amazing. But just his presence alone changes the look of our team. And that's been one of the most underrated things, I think, being spoken about, about what he's brought to this team. It's just his sheer size alone. Which now, even if you're smaller, those lineups aren't as small. You know, when you look back at our, like in our heyday heyday, you talk about our small bar lineup. Our small bar lineup was Steph, who's now the small 6'3, 6'7, 6'7, 6'8, 6'10.