Steph Curry Injury, Jaylen Brown vs. Jayson Tatum + Martin Lawrence Joins The Show

Draymond Green (0:00)

What's up everybody, welcome back to The Draymond Green Show. On today's show, we have my man, the myth, the legend, Martin Lawrence, joining the show. But before we get into the interview, we've got to talk about last night's game against the Rockets and also JT versus JB, amongst other things. Let's get right into it.

Rockets broke our eight game winning streak. Steph Curry left the game in the first quarter with right abdominal soreness, ultimately turned out to be, after an MRI, an oblique abdominal tear. He will be reevaluated in two weeks. Re-evaluated in two weeks, I would say, there's probably no chance that he's back in two weeks. You're kind of just reevaluating in two weeks and kind of seeing where you are, you know. An oblique injury is one of those things that like, it kind of, it tells you when it's healed. You know, there's no set certain timeline. Like, some of them heal faster than others, depending on the severity, depending on where it could be. Some of them heal faster than others. Some of them take longer.

So it's no certainty. But then you get to the point to where, you know, you need your core strength, you need your rotational strength, you need, you know, you need all of those things. So as you progress, as the pain starts to subside, you start to push the boundaries more and more. But no one knows how long that will take. I think after a few days, you start to get a better picture of what it is that, that you're kind of looking at. But I'd say right now, you know, you're just dealing with the initial soreness and you're kind of taking it from there. So we'll have to see how this goes. Hopefully, you know, it's a more moderate one, if you will, than been extremely severe. But like I said, over the next few days, those things kind of start to declare themselves. And so we'll have to wait that one out and see. Ultimately, though, we end up losing the game. I think, you know, we had the lead down to six, with like six, seven minutes to go in the game. And I think we had a few great looks, three possessions in a row, we just didn't make them. And it's a make or miss league. I think if you make those shots, one thing you gotta understand about the Houston Rockets is, we got a little mind control in that arena, you know? And so all of a sudden, you hit one or two of those shots, they feel different. They start to feel that pressure. You start to feel that, oh man, is this happening again, type feeling, you know? And so needless to say, get them credit. They did what they needed to do to win the game. Like I said, I thought we kept ourselves in the game for pretty long. They pulled away there at the end, but thought we did a great job of staying in the game and giving ourselves an opportunity to have a couple looks to pull within three to possibly tie the game. We just weren't able to knock them down. And that happens. I know a lot of people are saying, oh man, the Houston Rockers are a dirty team. I don't get off into the dirty thing. Every now and then you see some people that just do things that are downright dirty. And it happens. And when it does, I'll speak on it. Do they do some bullshit when we play them? Absolutely. I think the thing that may irritate me the most is like they play super physical, but then they start flopping sometimes. So I would say like that irritates me more, but I'm not gonna sit here and call them a dirty team. They're a physical team. And by the way, when we were watching film pregame, you could see on the film, they physical as hell. And so get them credit. You know, I'm not gonna sit here and call them a dirty team. Definitely not gonna do that. But in saying that, they are a very, very physical team.

As we move forward now with at least, at least without Steph for, call it the next three weeks at least, and then you're probably re-evaluating from there. We're gonna need guys to step up, you know? I'll probably have, I'm going to have to shoot more. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. Gonna need Yax to step up.

It's a lot to ask for, a rookie. I think what we've seen is this rookie is cut out for.

BP, gonna have to step up. And by the way, both of those guys have been playing incredible. Both of those guys have been stepping up. But the one thing that we've spoke about with this team is our depth, and we're gonna need guys stepping up. You know, Mel, gonna need Mel stepping up. As I said before, it's such that B Will is out. You know, you look at it, and B Will averaged almost 11 points in 14 minutes, 15 minutes per game.