It’s not some deep stat, even Charles Barkley made fun of this regarding Harden, who does know more than most but admittedly doesn’t watch the sport that closely, metrics wise. I don’t think the game plan was to be down 15 to 20 points every game, lol.
@@jagdeepsingh723 Chuck knows his basketball. And I think the Warriors knew the game/series was a marathon vs a 40 yard dash. Eventually Harden was going to wear out. I remember everyone criticizing Harden for not showing up in crunch time, during those series. It's hard to show up when your legs have no more to give.
@@Techno4more At the end of the day, they won. He didn’t really get facts wrong. But here is where I lean more towards you: No one can account for or could have predicted Steph scoring 45 in the 4th quarters of game 5 and game 6. That’s what made the difference.
Interesting to see Draymond in this position. Making podcast appearances, the Turner and B/R deals, this is pretty good stuff. He's gonna be a great presence on TV after retirement.
How do I get to heaven? Will my good deeds be measured against my bad deeds? Do I need to be a good person to go to heaven? How do I know if I'm good enough? Well the bible says no man is good, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. So how do we get to heaven? Answer: By believing on Jesus Christ who took the punishment for our sin on the cross. There are no amount of good works we can do to achieve salvation because salvation is a free gift of God. We need to humble ourselves, realize we are sinners and that we need a savior. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave his only son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Draymond's memory is a little off. The season before we beat them in a game 7 in their building. The following season K.D. gets injured in game 3, they win that game and the next. Warriors win 5 at home, and close out in 6 in Houston.
@@hublotkingcole683 bro listening to that breaks my heart we really were the best team that year then sold, we should have kept harden and Paul together cause Paul is thriving
It’s so interesting hearing the behind the scenes on these games. When you watch the warriors, you see the shooting. You see steph and clay making 60 3-pointers a game. But this team was on another level as a team together. The strategy involved and the dog mentality, iam even more impressed with the warriors than previously. And Draymond is an interesting story teller and good broadcaster as well as a defensive beast and the heart of the warriors.
They had curry kevin durant klay Thomson and draymond green that's all that mattered. Do you think the other teams don't have a dog mentality? What the other teams didn't have is TALENT, and the warriors were STACKED with talent.
that strategy is the reason why they went to 7 games & could've lost in 6 back in 2018. Draymond can act like all they had to do was tire harden out like CP3 wasn't the deciding factor but it sounds like his personal feelings are involved when it come to CP
@SUBSCRIBO Lets be clear here are we even talking about the sane game? You are not seriously out here claiming that guys were missing wide open and contested shots because some fouls were not being called. I just watch Steph hit 3 after 3 while being fouled and not getting calls. Your excuse is thin, find a new one. Playing for calls is one of the reasons why Celtics lost and why surprise surprise Harden who had been getting soft calls for years dropped off after the rule changes
The rockets were not up 2-1 the 2019 year. Golden state won both games at home to start the series then Houston won game 3 and 4. Warrriors won 5 and 6.
Yup, KD got hurt in 3rd Q of game 5 when the series 2-2, but the splash brother took over in the 4th. game 6 was that legendary game where Steph scored 0 pts in the first half but dropped 33 in the second half.
point is when KD went down the series was tied 2-2 anda fter all that talking about "we would've beat ya'lll" here was the golden opportunity and could't deliver
@@hoopsdontlie4010 Up 3-2 with homecourt advantage is different than tied 2-2 without it. What happened in 2019 doesn't necessarily negate or invalidate claims for 2018
Funny how years later, turns out Morey should have built the team around CP3, with Harden in a "Robin" role and made a more balanced offense with a stronger bench (like in Phoenix Suns 2022).
Draymond is also an overblown role player who isn’t even as good of a “small ball playmaking 5” as PJ tucker, so he can flap his gums for all of eternity about how houston wasn’t capable of beating GSW I don’t really care. He’s Rodman with no grit.
2017-2018 they were a tough match up for GSW. 2018-2019, GSW was just better than them. Also, they weren’t up 2-1 in 2019. They tied it up 2-2. GSW just outplayed them in games 5 and 6.
Only problem with this is 2019 Golden State was clearly worse than the 2018 version by every metric, regular season and playoffs. Seems much more likely that some timely injuries (Iguodala going down right before the series turned) led to the Warriors having to switch up their gameplan in 2018, which allowed the Rockets to pick up a couple of close games in the middle of the series before the right adjustments were made.
Alic4444 you sound goofy, harden was underperforming that series while Cp3 was the best and most reliable, they missed 27 threes and still only lost the game by 9 points with no Cp3, it’s obvious who would’ve won
@@Shortballa11 When a team has 4 all stars, you cant really game plan against them too much. Other than leaving draymond open and switching on everything, the warriors can’t be played any other way except tight man to man defence. With the Houston rockets, they actually played in a way you can game plan against them so you’re wrong. That’s why gsw never lost with durant, there was no game plan to stopping the three best shooters of that era.
Couple of facts: 2018 Rockets were a much better team than the 2019 squad w/ Ariza and Luc creating a defensive shield on the wing compared to Austin Rivers and Iman Shump in 2019. Also, the Rockets were actually down 2-0 then 2-1 in 2019 against the Warriors rather than up. Nonetheless, the Warriors won and were the better team overall. Respect.
Good GMs are humble and don't put themselves in the limelight. Jerry West - would never boast but quietly put together great teams - Lakers / Warriors / Grizzlies, etc.
@@djt8870 That is true. But we will NEVER know. And KD got injred next year. They had a chance alr. Its even and fair and they were up 3-2. Injuries happen everytime. Its part of the game
@@zeroxyzzz Rockets were not as good when KD got injured; only 4th seed. Plus it’s not just Chris Paul’s injury, it’s also that they missed 17 threes in a row in the second half of game 7. 17! They shot 16% from 3 that game, which is incredibly bad shooting luck. And with all that GS only won by 9 points. Dray just can’t admit they got lucky that year.
Chris paul signed his big contract before his second year in Houston forcing the rockets to sell everybody to cover his crazy wages. They were a very different team the second year.
@@Famemusicoffical he's a glue guy and locker room leader. Him and Marcus smart are the same way. If they aren't on your team u hate them. But would love to have a guy like that on yours
@@GrimeBot-io7ho I like it. It's always a little better when the refs let them play too. Green got a bad rap bcuz of a cheapshot or 2. Most of the time it's not that bad.
I was 100% with Draymond until he started mentioning the KD injury. That Rockets team wasn’t beating that Warriors team when KD went down. That series with that KD-centric offense made it KD vs Harden. When KD went down, it made it The Warriors vs Harden. The Warriors went back to their free flowing ball movement offense and that Rockets team wasn’t beating them. It was iso ball vs iso ball before that injury and that kept the Rockets in it.
@@anthonyhands5690 y’all keep saying this but he isn’t just getting end of the bench scrubs kings blazers and Timberwolves have offered him decent players. He wants a top 10 player for Ben and that’s just not happening.
@@anthonyhands5690 end of the bench scrubs? Most of the trade offers were for starters and good young players. Daryl is holding out for All-NBA players for Simmons. You still thinks that he can get a disgruntled Dame, Beal or Harden for Simmons?
@@anthonyhands5690 who do you think he can get? all 29 teams know that 76ers are in a tough position and they are just having a field day lowballing them
@@anthonyhands5690 warriors offered Wiggins and their first two picks before the draft last year, they asked for wiseman to be included and got hung up on. Morey is greedy and they’re wasting embiids time
@@jamessoften3811, What are you talking about, I'm not crying about anything, I'm a Rockets fan And without KD and Cousins, the Warriors then became the same team that won 73 games in the regular season in 2016 & a championship in 2015 without both KD or Cousins So again WTF are you talking about
@@shawncain882 not really. the team lost many good bench players when kd came. so that team without kd was worse than the 73 win team. and yes, ur crying lol imagine bringing up injuries to cp3 in 2018 as an excuse but when kd went down in 2019 rockets still couldnt capitalize on it. you can say 2019 rockets were worse but that doesnt change the fact that harden and cp3 disappear in the playoffs
@@jamessoften3811 , Bro you're lost on my point/perspective in response to Draymond's comments, but I'm not going to waste anymore of my time trying to explain it, think what you want to think..
It was one game and the warriors played so much differently than with KD that its not a perfectly fair argument. I remember Looney having like 14 pts out of no where cuz they were playing different
I liked that Daryl said that..this is entertainment so it makes the story line more interesting. He didn’t say anything that we didn’t already know. Him saying that also didn’t determine the outcome of the series
I feel like Chris Paul getting injured had the biggest impact. That's one of the best PGs ever. Hard guy to have injured in a series that was extremely tight. Regardless of what happened the following year.
@@donmon808 The thing is : Rockets lost CP3 and lost the series. Warriors lost KD and still won the series. And KD is a way better player than Chris Paul. So injuries offset each other and what remains is : 2-0 warriors.
@@Pigaroulettes That was a different year though. The fact remains that they were up 3-2 the one year in the West Finals before CP went down, and they would've faced a weakened Cavs team for the chip that year. The following year they weren't as good of a team. Maybe they should've beat the Warriors that following year but it's still not the same year. No one denies that the Warriors ruled the West, people just point out that the Rockets would've probably won it all in the 2018 playoffs if CP didn't go down.
@@sgshumblecrumb6046 What people? Rocket fans? If CP and Harden had a history of playoff excellence I would buy this argument, but since they don't I just assume they would have lost regardless.
@@Pigaroulettes The Rockets losing CP was miles more important than GS losing KD who still have Curry, Klay, and Draymond and still a championship team without him, Rockets only other star was James. CP was leading them past them that series and arguably the reason they were up 3-2
@@99nikniht y'all keep forgetting momentum and conficence exists. Just like there is a much smaller chance of the Warriors winning 73 games without the confidence of winning a chip, the Rockets window was the year they lost focus when Cp3 went down. Developing a mental block against your demon, even subconsciously is a real thing.
I still don't understand how Morey, who's damn near the mascot for analytics, thought Harden isolating and dribbling the air out the ball would win a title?
LMAO not just Morey. Many Rockets fans thought this was the way. And yet some of the recent Chip teams that weren't the Wariors (Raps, Lakers, Bucks) all have multiple guys who can handle the ball so it gives their elite player a breather and have high impact roles on other parts of the game. AD clamping on Jimmy Buckets was one of the best defensive jobs in the playoffs in a while. Giannis getting a legit second option in Jrue Holiday so Middleton can be the best third option opened things up for the Bucks and Giannis' game. So Giannis can finally save his 50+ nuclear option scoring games he was due for while the rest of the team was being efficient.
Basketball is a team sport. You can get away with Harden dribbling his mind out during the regular season, you can get away with an unimaginative 2-man pick-and- roll game all regular season…but in the playoffs-when teams come ready to play defense…it just won’t work.
It pretty much did. Plus that’s the whole point the Rockets were close to beating them. Cause either CP3 or Harden got the matchup they wanted and attacked it
@@bboywolf Iggy😂😂😂 ah yes, you’re superstar line-up was missing iggy😂😂 man, the Warriors had Steph & KD and you talking about Iggy as to why they couldn’t close out sooner😂😂😂😂
Those Rockets teams were so freaking good. Dantoni don’t do defense they say (or he say) but they were top 5 for 5 years straight. Offensively we still see their influence today. Wish it would have ended with at least 1 ring for what they put together out there.
I think a lot of Warriors fans knew Draymond would work on TnT years ago. Eventually probably take over Chuck's spot when they both retire from where they are now. Just watching Draymond do press conferences & interviews since getting drafted , u can tell he has a lot of knowledge for the game .. a real good basketball IQ. Also he's good with a mic , entertaining , and great at breaking sh.t down.
@@bakusbakul4327 im not saying iggy is better than cp3, but no one can defeat the hampton 5. Plus, iggy in playoff is a defensive-finals mvp level. His iq and defensive prowess is second to none.
warriors were missing kd and cousins. game 5 it was pretty much tied when kd went out, and steph been playing awful all series. no excuses for james harden and cp0 not to win the series. not to mention in game 6 steph had 0 points in the first half but somehow the warriors were still up at halftime.
@@jamessoften3811 boogie barley played that year and that team was worse than the team from the year before. And that was the year before Steph had 0 points at half
draymond greene is the last dude to talk about moving in silence. I think he's still mad at deryl for the ben simmons thing. He blames deryl and not ben for his bad behavior
Yeah but draymond is a player... Players talk. The whole point of his argument is that *as a general manager* (like daryl morey) you're not supposed to out yourself and say that you're building your team to beat another team specifically because it puts a target on your back
As a Houstonian, and Rockets fan... The Warriors took the Rockets heart in that 2017-2018 playoffs,,,so that next year - there was no way they would beat the Warriors...
I'm a Houstonian & Rockets also, 2019 Rockets team simply weren't as good as 2018 Rockets team, Warriors didn't take their hearts at all If anything seems like the only team the 2019 Rockets really cared about beating & got up for was GS, they kind of slept walked through the regular season against everybody else
@@shawncain882 if the only thing the 2019 rockets cared about was beating the warriors, how do they not do that with kd out? the mvp of the playoffs till that point
@@jamessoften3811, The first thing I said was the 2019 Rockets weren't as good as the 2018 Rockets who had the best record in the league that yeat, was I not clear...
What he said was spot on that’s the flaw in his game he dribbles far too much to create and has to shoot in volume to be effective . Dreymond really knows the game well. His game is built on IQ.
The rest of the rockets were not talented enough to handle the ball…rivers gordon tucker ariza…these guys are built to stand and shoot 3s…the rockets as a whole were not built on skill but on the principle that if they hit enough 3s they can win the game…that was dantonis system
Nobody could have out “talented” the warriors…their roster was too stacked…the only shot we had was for harden and chris to take turns isoing as they were the only ones skilled enough to breakdown the defense and find shooters
@@stephen3087 read what I said I didn’t say he said that specifically but common sense you can gather that understanding . Every year he’s gassed in the playoffs why because that dribbling and shooting the way he does . Y’all be so quick to not read to understand just want to comment
Also the “standing around” from the rockets was so that they could conserve their energy for the defensive end as the warriors are built on insane ball movement…alot of running around for r defense
Totally disagree with his 2018 take referencing the 2019 season. That 2018 rockets was a different team and I think win that series had CP3 not been injured
In my opinion we played much better against warriors with KD because of was isolating for a mid range every play When he got hurt I knew we were gonna lose
I know that’s hella weird and I’m a warriors fan and I felt that way when Kevin was playing because of exactly what you said, he slowed the offense down and made it “stale” no ball movement, no flow of the offense, a lot of people felt that way if you talk too them about it
Thank you. The numbers fully back that up, too. In the 2017-18 regular season, the Rockets beat the Warriors 2/3 games. The time they lost? Durant was out. In the 2018-19 regular season, the Rockets beat the Warriors 3/4 games. The time they lost? Durant was out. And, obviously, the Rockets tied the Durant GSW in the 2019 playoffs through 4 games and 3 quarters, and then lost the 4th of game 5 and game 6 without him
I don't think Morey talking had anything to do with it. I think the Harden teams, even with CP3 were too focused on Harden as a scorer and a creator. Eric Gordon is solid as a #3 but he wasn't even on the all star level. GSW was too deep
they lost cuz the belittled mid range and the basketball Gods wasnt havent it. refs werent gonna bail Harden out in the playoffs and if those 3s arent droppin how u gonna stop a goldent st run?
@@bsimmonds1733 Oh, they beat Toronto for sure. People ignore that the warriors were on fire up to Klay's injury. Game 6 Klay was on full-motion, Steph's threes were falling, Dray was playing phenomenal defense... it was up to that play, that Danny Green injured Klay. It all fell down. The whole Oracle arena shut down, Steph fell on the floor and didn't get up, and it all felt so horrible... never ever had I seen such a mood-changing moment in sports (aside from Hayward's injury in opening night). The Warriors lost the finals right there and then, not when the game finished. Had Klay not been injured, they would have won game 6, and with their championship experience, they would have beaten Toronto in game 7. No one can change my mind about that.
@@bsimmonds1733 that can be argued. But its not like the Raps then didn't have the ideal lineup to go after the Warriors. Kawhi was a closer and Nurse had a small ball lineup ready if he needed to take out Gasol. In the playoffs outside of Spoelstra, Nick Nurse is probably one of the best trying to fight lineup schemes with his own brand of small ball in the playoffs.
Could you imagine saying the Warriors losing KD is the same as the Rockets losing Chris? The Warriors still had Steph, Clay, IGGY & Dray, that's a proving championship right team there! A kinda Healthy Rockets had to go gm7 with that squad before they added KD, df losing KD gonna do really besides giving the Rockets a 50% to win games?
rocket fan who was at game 7 of the WCF and it still hurts lol. Only 2 teams went all in during the GSW dynasty. The Hou-GSW series were always defacto finals. Hell of a rivalry man, we just couldn’t get over the hump (we would’ve if CP doesn’t hurt his hammy)
Honestly they had all the chance in the world especially in that game 7 when they decide to keep shooting after missing 30+ straight shots and 3s and not go to the rim I remember watching that game frustrated these guys did not adjust
The Warriors lost KD and still had RG exact same roster that won 73 games. KD was icing on the cake. Losing CP3 was like trying to bake a cake with no flour.
Fatigue is the unavoidable weakness of any heliocentric offense, and it can cost a team everything. The more fatigued a player becomes, the less effective they are on both ends, and the greater the risk of injury. This is why Denver and the Lakers try to keep Jokic and LeBron respectively under forty minutes on the floor without their co-stars, even if another three or four minutes might bring them a win. Harden is struggling in Brooklyn now for much the same reason he struggled in those playoff series. This would show up in analysis, it could be modeled, but analytics is limited by the questions asked, and the success of the metrics you do measure tends to blind you to the possibility of the metrics you don't.
Draymond is on course to become a panelember in a NBA show after he retires. He's very good in these podcasts already. He just needs to double check some facts (such as Rockets being 2-1) and he is set to go. He can provide deep analyses and his arguments are not being seen in the media as of now, so he's a good addition I guess.
@@Uchawibeatz you know that Houston rockets team wasn’t the same team stop it that was the year James harden was dropping 40+ points every single game do your research
@@IvanDiaz-fl6ff still doesn't explain why they lost in 2019. They were not good enough. It was Steph, Klay and Draymond against a fully loaded Rockets team. CP3, Harden, Tucker, Capella, G Green... My point is that injuries did not play as big a factor cause we saw both teams lose a star player and in both scenarios, the Rockets choke. They shot 0-27 from 3 when they had the lead. In 2019 (game 6) they went like 3 minutes without scoring a basket at home. I don't care if Harden was soring 40+ pts it did not translate into winning either series. Do actual research
Draymond is straight up asking and answering the questions. Why did they do that, great question me, heres the answer me. Its so sweet, man loves to talk
No it’s not, he still has to hit a high pressure shot during those free throws. They just could not stop harden whatsoever so they knew the rest of the rockets team wasn’t good and they had to capitalize off of them.
I respect Draymond's opinion... But real ones that watched the series know, Houston lost the series themselves. They had homecourt advantage, the warriors in the palm of their hands, but they didn't want it bad enough. I've seen many series where when a star is out due to injury, that star's team can't win even if the refs try to help them. Houston still had an even chance and imo should've beat the warriors, but they didn't. I'll never forgive D'Antoni, Harden and the rest of that 2018 squad for losing that series
@@WalterFlanagin a max contract player didn't change couldn't change the outcome because he choked. The 2nd half of game 7 was the worst performance of Harden's playoffs history. Instead of being a leader and slowing the game down making plays for his teammates and getting to the free throw line with ease (as he used to), he chucked 40 footer shots for fun like it was the all star game. It didn't help the fact the whole team missed 27 consecutive threes in that half too. Harden gave up. D'Antoni didn't make adjustments, he lives and dies by his philosophy.
@@ColdHoops omg Harden had a bad performance when the entire defense could focus on him instead of his costar???😱 Forgive me i’m not shocked. CP3 averaged 19.8 points per game in that series and they lost game 7 by single digits. CP3 100% changes the outcome no argument
"The Rockets built a team to beat the warriors but the warriors built a team to win championships" That's the difference between both organization -ctto This was from an interview to rockets owner 3 years ago after gsw beat rockets in the playoffs again in 2019, here's the video ruclips.net/video/dqklXWISm-U/видео.html
Put it this way the rockets were built to counter the warriors perfectly... well as perfectly as they could have been. On paper the rockets had no where near the amount of talent the warriors did Harden is great and CP3 is great but they aren’t Steph and KD and on top of that the warriors had Klay and dray. But they surrounded their stars with versatile defenders hustlers and 3 point shooters and they relied on the 3’s to beat the warriors it was the only way anyone was gonna beat that team if the Cavs built their team the same way the rockets did around Lebron and kyrie they would have done much better than losing in 5. The story would be told much different if the rockets just could have went 4 or 5 for 27 from 3 instead of 0/27
I won’t even lie to you I think harden is a better player than Steph this just my opinion but mane if prime harden had the pieces golden state has omg give harden Klay and Kd and dray (not Brooklyn harden)
Still remember the “we were a hamstring away from an NBA championship” then the very next year KD goes down in game 5. Series tied, score tied, Houston healthy and what? They never win another game 🤦🏽♂️ all that talking for what?
@@ichigokurosaki7454 No he wasn't. Not in 2019, and not now either, but especially not in 2019. He lacked explosiveness and ypu could tell something was off. He looked like an old man trying to explode in that series.
Being a Draymond type of player in real life 😂 i love how he gives praise to LeGOAT ✊🏾 all them wars they had lol it aint easy to salute the opposition
What CP3 will never get is that the Warriors since 2015 are the ONLY team that can play switching Defense and beat it . The 2018 and 2019 Rockets couldn't do both at the level of the Warriors . The Rockets 3 point shooters wilted under the pressure in 2018 against the Splash Bros / KD , and 2019 against the Splash Bros in the Playoffs . D'antoni as Rockets Head Coach made the mistake of using short benches of 8 players too much , and exhausted those Rockets players . One of tbe big reasons CP3 got injured in the 2018 Playoffs . Kerr beat the Rockets with 10 or 12 players deep , so his team was fresher in those 7 game series .
The fact that Draymond had an idea how many dribbles per possession Harden would have tells you how much preparation goes into game planning.
Truth!
It’s not some deep stat, even Charles Barkley made fun of this regarding Harden, who does know more than most but admittedly doesn’t watch the sport that closely, metrics wise. I don’t think the game plan was to be down 15 to 20 points every game, lol.
@@jagdeepsingh723 Chuck knows his basketball. And I think the Warriors knew the game/series was a marathon vs a 40 yard dash.
Eventually Harden was going to wear out. I remember everyone criticizing Harden for not showing up in crunch time, during those series. It's hard to show up when your legs have no more to give.
it was an exaggeration. the real numbers are not close to that lol. also he had a lot of facts wrong
@@Techno4more At the end of the day, they won. He didn’t really get facts wrong. But here is where I lean more towards you:
No one can account for or could have predicted Steph scoring 45 in the 4th quarters of game 5 and game 6. That’s what made the difference.
Interesting to see Draymond in this position. Making podcast appearances, the Turner and B/R deals, this is pretty good stuff. He's gonna be a great presence on TV after retirement.
How do I get to heaven? Will my good deeds be measured against my bad deeds? Do I need to be a good person to go to heaven? How do I know if I'm good enough?
Well the bible says no man is good, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. So how do we get to heaven? Answer: By believing on Jesus Christ who took the punishment for our sin on the cross. There are no amount of good works we can do to achieve salvation because salvation is a free gift of God. We need to humble ourselves, realize we are sinners and that we need a savior.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave his only son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Draymond's memory is a little off. The season before we beat them in a game 7 in their building. The following season K.D. gets injured in game 3, they win that game and the next. Warriors win 5 at home, and close out in 6 in Houston.
@@brotherdj777 quit pushing religion onto others
@@happygilmore929 Seek Jesus...seek wisdom. Avoid eternal hell, ignorance is no excuse.
@@brotherdj777 seek allah
You could feel that that 2018 window to beat the warriors was the only chance for the Rockets to win it all.
Over 20 straight 3s...missed
@@hublotkingcole683 Chris Paul also injured in game 5.
I always felt like it was a fluke. Warriors were shook but I felt like it if they run the series back 10 times, Warriors win all ten
@@hny2396 still gonna choke even a healthy rockets...
@@hublotkingcole683 bro listening to that breaks my heart we really were the best team that year then sold, we should have kept harden and Paul together cause Paul is thriving
It’s so interesting hearing the behind the scenes on these games. When you watch the warriors, you see the shooting. You see steph and clay making 60 3-pointers a game. But this team was on another level as a team together. The strategy involved and the dog mentality, iam even more impressed with the warriors than previously. And Draymond is an interesting story teller and good broadcaster as well as a defensive beast and the heart of the warriors.
*Klay
They had curry kevin durant klay Thomson and draymond green that's all that mattered. Do you think the other teams don't have a dog mentality? What the other teams didn't have is TALENT, and the warriors were STACKED with talent.
Was?
60??? More like 5-20
that strategy is the reason why they went to 7 games & could've lost in 6 back in 2018. Draymond can act like all they had to do was tire harden out like CP3 wasn't the deciding factor but it sounds like his personal feelings are involved when it come to CP
This explains the infamous, brilliant and frequent 3rd/4th quarter comebacks of the Warriors so much!
@SUBSCRIBO You mean the one that you are still salty about?
@SUBSCRIBO Did the refs cause the team to clank all those 3s
@SUBSCRIBO objection. Relevance
@SUBSCRIBO I did tell you why. Refs have no control in a team missing a historric number of 3s
@SUBSCRIBO Lets be clear here are we even talking about the sane game? You are not seriously out here claiming that guys were missing wide open and contested shots because some fouls were not being called. I just watch Steph hit 3 after 3 while being fouled and not getting calls. Your excuse is thin, find a new one. Playing for calls is one of the reasons why Celtics lost and why surprise surprise Harden who had been getting soft calls for years dropped off after the rule changes
When Draymond retires, it’s safe to say he’ll have the most interesting behind the scenes stories.
Lol remember Dennis Rodman?
@@Sergdagangsta Dennis sounds like he's fuckin mumbling all the time 😂
He doesnt have the most interesting stories hes the only one telling them
@@joecaljapan It's already his
@@donmon808 Correct
"it's not shade it's advice" LMAO he turned that from shade into an insult
The rockets were not up 2-1 the 2019 year. Golden state won both games at home to start the series then Houston won game 3 and 4. Warrriors won 5 and 6.
Yeah he confused the 2 series.
Yea facts
Yup, KD got hurt in 3rd Q of game 5 when the series 2-2, but the splash brother took over in the 4th. game 6 was that legendary game where Steph scored 0 pts in the first half but dropped 33 in the second half.
point is when KD went down the series was tied 2-2 anda fter all that talking about "we would've beat ya'lll" here was the golden opportunity and could't deliver
@@hoopsdontlie4010 Up 3-2 with homecourt advantage is different than tied 2-2 without it. What happened in 2019 doesn't necessarily negate or invalidate claims for 2018
Funny how years later, turns out Morey should have built the team around CP3, with Harden in a "Robin" role and made a more balanced offense with a stronger bench (like in Phoenix Suns 2022).
Preach brother. Was saying that back when that team was together
u lost ya damn mind 😂😂😂😂😂. The city loves harden MVP telling him to play robin
So are you saying that this current Suns team could beat that Warriors team that had KD?
CP3 can't ever beat a Steph led GSW. He is not in the same class. Steph is already in the GOAT convo while CP3 is arguably a top 5 PG.
@@gullintanni how is Steph in the goat conversation?
as a rockets fan, this hurt💔
Blame mike d’antoni not adjusting
as a harden fan its so painful
Draymond is also an overblown role player who isn’t even as good of a “small ball playmaking 5” as PJ tucker, so he can flap his gums for all of eternity about how houston wasn’t capable of beating GSW I don’t really care. He’s Rodman with no grit.
@@LeeGHThomas lol you sound hurt 🤣🤣 I like pj tucker but don’t remember him being a defensive player of the yr like draymond 🤷♂️
As a Warriors fan, I’m glad.
2 years ago everyone was laughing at Dray calling him a scrub. Nice to see him get the respect
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2017-2018 they were a tough match up for GSW. 2018-2019, GSW was just better than them.
Also, they weren’t up 2-1 in 2019. They tied it up 2-2. GSW just outplayed them in games 5 and 6.
I caught that too. Rockets never led the 2019 series - the home team won every game until game 6 when the Warriors closed out in Houston.
Only problem with this is 2019 Golden State was clearly worse than the 2018 version by every metric, regular season and playoffs. Seems much more likely that some timely injuries (Iguodala going down right before the series turned) led to the Warriors having to switch up their gameplan in 2018, which allowed the Rockets to pick up a couple of close games in the middle of the series before the right adjustments were made.
@@Alic4444 and the 2019 Rockets weren’t significantly worse than the 2018 Rockets?
Yeah that's true Draymond doesn't have a photographic memory like Lebron
Alic4444 you sound goofy, harden was underperforming that series while Cp3 was the best and most reliable, they missed 27 threes and still only lost the game by 9 points with no Cp3, it’s obvious who would’ve won
Yep. Morey basically told the Warriors to game plan against them specifically
Yeah not smart.
@@therealallpro it became even more common when Darryl said it lol
@@Shortballa11 the rockets won 65 games in 2018, everyone was game planning against them.
@@Tb-gz4qt nah everyone was game planning against warriors
@@Shortballa11 When a team has 4 all stars, you cant really game plan against them too much. Other than leaving draymond open and switching on everything, the warriors can’t be played any other way except tight man to man defence. With the Houston rockets, they actually played in a way you can game plan against them so you’re wrong. That’s why gsw never lost with durant, there was no game plan to stopping the three best shooters of that era.
The Warriors are the perfect sports example of the best mix of math and talent.
And lost the finals
@@chrisedwards6289 but 3 rings out of 5. Can live with that.
@@chrisedwards6289 lol bro what is this response
Yup go figure the home of AI - San Fran has good intel. People underestimate computer vision and projections.
Perfect example of great drafting...but their GM put his foot in his mouth regarding KD..making him feel unwelcome.
Couple of facts:
2018 Rockets were a much better team than the 2019 squad w/ Ariza and Luc creating a defensive shield on the wing compared to Austin Rivers and Iman Shump in 2019. Also, the Rockets were actually down 2-0 then 2-1 in 2019 against the Warriors rather than up.
Nonetheless, the Warriors won and were the better team overall.
Respect.
So your point was irrelevant we were better
@@MichiganHendough Draymond was gaslighting bro. That was the point.
I was so mad about Chris Paul when he took that extension because Ariza left 😓
Good GMs are humble and don't put themselves in the limelight. Jerry West - would never boast but quietly put together great teams - Lakers / Warriors / Grizzlies, etc.
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Very true, Daryl Morey always finds a way to keep himself as the center of attention.
Don’t forget the clippers , Jerry West is the goat gm
Speaking the truth, great game plan
Truth is if chris paul dont get hurt rockets win
@@djt8870 That is true. But we will NEVER know. And KD got injred next year. They had a chance alr. Its even and fair and they were up 3-2. Injuries happen everytime. Its part of the game
@@djt8870 Chris paul never makes it to the finals that's the truth
@@dt-lg2oc lol he was just in the finals last year
@@zeroxyzzz Rockets were not as good when KD got injured; only 4th seed. Plus it’s not just Chris Paul’s injury, it’s also that they missed 17 threes in a row in the second half of game 7. 17! They shot 16% from 3 that game, which is incredibly bad shooting luck. And with all that GS only won by 9 points. Dray just can’t admit they got lucky that year.
You're so good at this. Love the content and how you get the guest to talk more and give more insight.
Chris paul signed his big contract before his second year in Houston forcing the rockets to sell everybody to cover his crazy wages.
They were a very different team the second year.
Facts, way different team, way different CP3 as well, him and Capela missed majority of regular season and came back just for the playoffs.
@@Jordan-pj1nz what would have prevented ownership from paying?
And y’all don’t think KD or Steph would have carried the warriors regardless?
#BigFacts Also, I'd have to disagree with the Moray thing. But the harden thing was accurate...and that's on D'Antoni
lol, they were the same team but worse.
Hated draymond at first. But as time grew so did my respect and admiration for him and the way he plays.
Except for in tht cavs finals
He’s great, but hearing “real G’s move in silence” from Draymond Green is so funny
@@Famemusicoffical he's a glue guy and locker room leader.
Him and Marcus smart are the same way.
If they aren't on your team u hate them.
But would love to have a guy like that on yours
I'm a huge Draymond fan...but the dude's a little dirty.
@@GrimeBot-io7ho I like it. It's always a little better when the refs let them play too. Green got a bad rap bcuz of a cheapshot or 2. Most of the time it's not that bad.
It was tied 2-2 when kd got hurt. And iggy got hurt in game 3 the season before when gsw was up 2-1
I was 100% with Draymond until he started mentioning the KD injury. That Rockets team wasn’t beating that Warriors team when KD went down. That series with that KD-centric offense made it KD vs Harden. When KD went down, it made it The Warriors vs Harden. The Warriors went back to their free flowing ball movement offense and that Rockets team wasn’t beating them. It was iso ball vs iso ball before that injury and that kept the Rockets in it.
Man I saw the same thing during this series.. guess i know the game better than I thought
All I can say is that Daryl likes to delude himself like how he's handling the ben simmons trade.
How is he deluding himself by not trading Simmons for end of the bench scrubs?
@@anthonyhands5690 y’all keep saying this but he isn’t just getting end of the bench scrubs kings blazers and Timberwolves have offered him decent players. He wants a top 10 player for Ben and that’s just not happening.
@@anthonyhands5690 end of the bench scrubs? Most of the trade offers were for starters and good young players. Daryl is holding out for All-NBA players for Simmons. You still thinks that he can get a disgruntled Dame, Beal or Harden for Simmons?
@@anthonyhands5690 who do you think he can get? all 29 teams know that 76ers are in a tough position and they are just having a field day lowballing them
@@anthonyhands5690 warriors offered Wiggins and their first two picks before the draft last year, they asked for wiseman to be included and got hung up on. Morey is greedy and they’re wasting embiids time
having wine 🍷 for the guests is an underrated strategic move by JJ - really gets them to open up and share some juicy deets by the end of the convo 👌
“They thought”
They took the Warriors 7-game & lost without CP3 in Game 7
2019 Rockets were not as good as 2018 Rockets, bad analogy by Draymond
@@shawncain882 2019 warriors also not as good as 2018 warriors, especially without kd and cousins. cry
@@jamessoften3811, What are you talking about, I'm not crying about anything, I'm a Rockets fan
And without KD and Cousins, the Warriors then became the same team that won 73 games in the regular season in 2016 & a championship in 2015 without both KD or Cousins
So again WTF are you talking about
@@shawncain882 not really. the team lost many good bench players when kd came. so that team without kd was worse than the 73 win team. and yes, ur crying lol imagine bringing up injuries to cp3 in 2018 as an excuse but when kd went down in 2019 rockets still couldnt capitalize on it. you can say 2019 rockets were worse but that doesnt change the fact that harden and cp3 disappear in the playoffs
@@jamessoften3811 , Bro you're lost on my point/perspective in response to Draymond's comments, but I'm not going to waste anymore of my time trying to explain it, think what you want to think..
That’s how the Spurs beat LeBron in 07
Let him do what he’s gonna already do but shut down the others
The Spurs beat Lebron in 07 because Lebron carried a team full of nobody's to the finals. They had no chance
Both statements are true tbh
@@datboitrelafool9469 lol while guarding him with the entire team
@@TK-ev yea I’d have to agree. Just because fans voted Big Z and Mo as all stars once or twice doesn’t mean they were EVER actual all star talent.
@@frankiethefrog1752 Mo was only an allstar because Jameer Nelson was injured. I don’t think Z was an allstar at that time.
Not gonna lie I love Reddick episodes especially Butler and Haslem but this one is a gem
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@@jstdun does it grind your gears that much?
Draymond's right, the whole "if CP3 wasn't hurt" argument flew out the window after the Rockets lost to the Warriors without KD
Small sample size lmao it was one game
More like 2018 was the real chance the rockets can beat the warriors if CP3 wasn't hurt
2 games
It was one game and the warriors played so much differently than with KD that its not a perfectly fair argument. I remember Looney having like 14 pts out of no where cuz they were playing different
@Jerry KD got hurt game 5 at half with the series tied. So they had a game and a half to prove themselves +…no KD lol
Bro i want to know Hardens perspective on those years against the warriors for real.
I liked that Daryl said that..this is entertainment so it makes the story line more interesting. He didn’t say anything that we didn’t already know. Him saying that also didn’t determine the outcome of the series
Exactly! Everyone in the league knew the Warriors were the favorite to win it, so why not build a team that matches up well with them?
I feel like Chris Paul getting injured had the biggest impact. That's one of the best PGs ever. Hard guy to have injured in a series that was extremely tight. Regardless of what happened the following year.
yeah the following year has nothing to do with it. They win if CP3 isnt hurt
@@donmon808 The thing is : Rockets lost CP3 and lost the series. Warriors lost KD and still won the series. And KD is a way better player than Chris Paul.
So injuries offset each other and what remains is : 2-0 warriors.
@@Pigaroulettes That was a different year though. The fact remains that they were up 3-2 the one year in the West Finals before CP went down, and they would've faced a weakened Cavs team for the chip that year. The following year they weren't as good of a team. Maybe they should've beat the Warriors that following year but it's still not the same year. No one denies that the Warriors ruled the West, people just point out that the Rockets would've probably won it all in the 2018 playoffs if CP didn't go down.
@@sgshumblecrumb6046 What people? Rocket fans? If CP and Harden had a history of playoff excellence I would buy this argument, but since they don't I just assume they would have lost regardless.
@@Pigaroulettes The Rockets losing CP was miles more important than GS losing KD who still have Curry, Klay, and Draymond and still a championship team without him, Rockets only other star was James. CP was leading them past them that series and arguably the reason they were up 3-2
"Real G's move in silence"
That's something you learn from someone who's been to jail. That's a life lesson, not just basketball.
Facts
Someone who been to to jail but move in silence 😑yea ok
Jail is not a good reference for that quote
lmao corny
If they were moving in silence, they wouldn't have been in jail. 🤷♂️
Tell ‘em Draymond. Real GEEES MOVE IN SILENCE
Nah it just came down to cp3 going down the series in game 5 🤷🏽♂️
@@IvanDiaz-fl6ffexplain the following year genius. KD was out, and Chris Paul was healthy, but Houston still lost.
@@99nikniht just keep it simple they lost without Kd. The what if Cp was not injured ends it right there. They never would've won
@@99nikniht y'all keep forgetting momentum and conficence exists.
Just like there is a much smaller chance of the Warriors winning 73 games without the confidence of winning a chip, the Rockets window was the year they lost focus when Cp3 went down.
Developing a mental block against your demon, even subconsciously is a real thing.
@@TK-ev 2019 series was tied 2-2. Then KD goes down. What confidence was Houston lacking when KD goes down, who is the best player on gsw?
"Real Gs move in silence" coming from a guy who is vocal about how great of a defender he is on weekly bases
I still don't understand how Morey, who's damn near the mascot for analytics, thought Harden isolating and dribbling the air out the ball would win a title?
LMAO not just Morey. Many Rockets fans thought this was the way. And yet some of the recent Chip teams that weren't the Wariors (Raps, Lakers, Bucks) all have multiple guys who can handle the ball so it gives their elite player a breather and have high impact roles on other parts of the game. AD clamping on Jimmy Buckets was one of the best defensive jobs in the playoffs in a while. Giannis getting a legit second option in Jrue Holiday so Middleton can be the best third option opened things up for the Bucks and Giannis' game. So Giannis can finally save his 50+ nuclear option scoring games he was due for while the rest of the team was being efficient.
@@t4d0W why’d you exclude the warriors they have multiple guys that can bring up the ball
Basketball is a team sport. You can get away with Harden dribbling his mind out during the regular season, you can get away with an unimaginative 2-man pick-and- roll game all regular season…but in the playoffs-when teams come ready to play defense…it just won’t work.
It pretty much did. Plus that’s the whole point the Rockets were close to beating them.
Cause either CP3 or Harden got the matchup they wanted and attacked it
It did work tho they just got unlucky with injuries
@@ChillRichard no it didnt. Iggy got hurt and then they won 4 and 5. With iggy they lose 4 and 5.
@@bboywolf Iggy😂😂😂 ah yes, you’re superstar line-up was missing iggy😂😂 man, the Warriors had Steph & KD and you talking about Iggy as to why they couldn’t close out sooner😂😂😂😂
@@ChillRichard he's a finals mvp. somehow you laugh at curry for no fmvp and discredit iggy? how. you sound dumb
“They thought” lol
Those Rockets teams were so freaking good. Dantoni don’t do defense they say (or he say) but they were top 5 for 5 years straight. Offensively we still see their influence today. Wish it would have ended with at least 1 ring for what they put together out there.
I think a lot of Warriors fans knew Draymond would work on TnT years ago. Eventually probably take over Chuck's spot when they both retire from where they are now. Just watching Draymond do press conferences & interviews since getting drafted , u can tell he has a lot of knowledge for the game .. a real good basketball IQ. Also he's good with a mic , entertaining , and great at breaking sh.t down.
Yea Morey made a strategic blunder. By the time the Dubs faced the Rockets, they knew exactly how many time Harden dribbled the ball every posession
Without Chris Paul injury THAT YEAR with THAT players, Warriors dont beat´em. Idc next year cause cannot be compare. He has his pride xd idc
Rockets still salty, they thought they would win if cp3 didnt get injured. DUDE, if we have iggy from game 3-5, it wont even reach game 6.
It's actually hilarious how lucky GSW have gotten since 2015
Comparing CP3’s impact to Iggy’s is straight laughable
@@bakusbakul4327 im not saying iggy is better than cp3, but no one can defeat the hampton 5. Plus, iggy in playoff is a defensive-finals mvp level. His iq and defensive prowess is second to none.
As a Rockets, I still must agree with you, Iggy getting injured helped Houston & CP3 in particular a lot
Iggy wasn't as statistically impactful as CP3, but Iggy's defensive presence was, remember Iggy won a Finals MVP for his defense on Lebron
Lets be honest the Rockets choked they should have beat them at least once
2018
They did beat the Warriors but not in a best of 7 game series. They brick'd all those 3s at home and that was their own downfall.
Hindsight is 20/20 (not the year) had the Rockets experiment worked The NBA would be a completely different landscape
The Rockets never led in the second series Vs Golden State. They trailed 2-0 and 3-2. That rockets team was worse than that team too
warriors were missing kd and cousins. game 5 it was pretty much tied when kd went out, and steph been playing awful all series. no excuses for james harden and cp0 not to win the series. not to mention in game 6 steph had 0 points in the first half but somehow the warriors were still up at halftime.
@@jamessoften3811 boogie barley played that year and that team was worse than the team from the year before. And that was the year before Steph had 0 points at half
@@jaytheactivist8520 no steph had 0 points at the half in game 6 2019. check it urself
@@jaytheactivist8520 2019 is where steph had 0 and cooked the rockets in the 2nd half
@@ThaTruth223 you talking game 6?
This is a reminder to everyone that working in silence is very important. Let your success make the noise.
draymond greene is the last dude to talk about moving in silence. I think he's still mad at deryl for the ben simmons thing. He blames deryl and not ben for his bad behavior
Are you a LeBron fan? I'm just asking because LeBron fans DESPISE the Warriors with all their soul. Just thought I'd ask🤔
He's a Klutch Sports guy so of course he'll back a fellow Klutch Sports client. It's honestly pathetic by Dray 🙄
Yeah but draymond is a player... Players talk. The whole point of his argument is that *as a general manager* (like daryl morey) you're not supposed to out yourself and say that you're building your team to beat another team specifically because it puts a target on your back
what he said and meant went right over y’all head
@@ThaTruth223 right it went way over a couple niggas heads. Shii crazy how slow niggas can be and think they still right 😂
The second year Chris was hurt again too
As a Houstonian, and Rockets fan... The Warriors took the Rockets heart in that 2017-2018 playoffs,,,so that next year - there was no way they would beat the Warriors...
I'm a Houstonian & Rockets also, 2019 Rockets team simply weren't as good as 2018 Rockets team, Warriors didn't take their hearts at all
If anything seems like the only team the 2019 Rockets really cared about beating & got up for was GS, they kind of slept walked through the regular season against everybody else
@@shawncain882 if the only thing the 2019 rockets cared about was beating the warriors, how do they not do that with kd out? the mvp of the playoffs till that point
@@jamessoften3811, The first thing I said was the 2019 Rockets weren't as good as the 2018 Rockets who had the best record in the league that yeat, was I not clear...
@@shawncain882 so? the 2019 warriors were not as good as the 2018 warriors too. your point?
@@jamessoften3811 ovbiously the Rockets had a smaller margin of error to compete with GS. It's not Rocket science
I can’t wait to listen to draymond talk basketball for the next 30 years✊🏾
What he said was spot on that’s the flaw in his game he dribbles far too much to create and has to shoot in volume to be effective . Dreymond really knows the game well. His game is built on IQ.
He didnt say it was a flaw in hardens game….he said they gameplanned to let harden do it all so he would gas out
The rest of the rockets were not talented enough to handle the ball…rivers gordon tucker ariza…these guys are built to stand and shoot 3s…the rockets as a whole were not built on skill but on the principle that if they hit enough 3s they can win the game…that was dantonis system
Nobody could have out “talented” the warriors…their roster was too stacked…the only shot we had was for harden and chris to take turns isoing as they were the only ones skilled enough to breakdown the defense and find shooters
@@stephen3087 read what I said I didn’t say he said that specifically but common sense you can gather that understanding . Every year he’s gassed in the playoffs why because that dribbling and shooting the way he does . Y’all be so quick to not read to understand just want to comment
Also the “standing around” from the rockets was so that they could conserve their energy for the defensive end as the warriors are built on insane ball movement…alot of running around for r defense
Totally disagree with his 2018 take referencing the 2019 season. That 2018 rockets was a different team and I think win that series had CP3 not been injured
yup
They literally had like 2 role players missing, it's as close a series comparison as you're going to get in real time.
In my opinion we played much better against warriors with KD because of was isolating for a mid range every play
When he got hurt I knew we were gonna lose
I know that’s hella weird and I’m a warriors fan and I felt that way when Kevin was playing because of exactly what you said, he slowed the offense down and made it “stale” no ball movement, no flow of the offense, a lot of people felt that way if you talk too them about it
Thank you. The numbers fully back that up, too. In the 2017-18 regular season, the Rockets beat the Warriors 2/3 games. The time they lost? Durant was out.
In the 2018-19 regular season, the Rockets beat the Warriors 3/4 games. The time they lost? Durant was out. And, obviously, the Rockets tied the Durant GSW in the 2019 playoffs through 4 games and 3 quarters, and then lost the 4th of game 5 and game 6 without him
Green's wrong about the 2019 playoff series vs the Rockets. The Warriors was actually up 2-1.
Draymond is made for tv and interviews what a treasure I just enjoy him
I don't think Morey talking had anything to do with it. I think the Harden teams, even with CP3 were too focused on Harden as a scorer and a creator. Eric Gordon is solid as a #3 but he wasn't even on the all star level. GSW was too deep
they lost cuz the belittled mid range and the basketball Gods wasnt havent it. refs werent gonna bail Harden out in the playoffs and if those 3s arent droppin how u gonna stop a goldent st run?
Draymond spitting facts 💯
Yup, great GM’s do their great work in silence.
Golden advice there.
This makes the KD look even worse to me 😂 the Warriors still beat the Rockets in 2019 without him
then they swept Portland, plus you can make the argument If Klay doesnt tear his ACL they beat Toronto.
Its one game
@@bsimmonds1733 Oh, they beat Toronto for sure. People ignore that the warriors were on fire up to Klay's injury. Game 6 Klay was on full-motion, Steph's threes were falling, Dray was playing phenomenal defense... it was up to that play, that Danny Green injured Klay. It all fell down.
The whole Oracle arena shut down, Steph fell on the floor and didn't get up, and it all felt so horrible... never ever had I seen such a mood-changing moment in sports (aside from Hayward's injury in opening night). The Warriors lost the finals right there and then, not when the game finished. Had Klay not been injured, they would have won game 6, and with their championship experience, they would have beaten Toronto in game 7. No one can change my mind about that.
How do you beat someone with no defense?
@@bsimmonds1733 that can be argued. But its not like the Raps then didn't have the ideal lineup to go after the Warriors. Kawhi was a closer and Nurse had a small ball lineup ready if he needed to take out Gasol. In the playoffs outside of Spoelstra, Nick Nurse is probably one of the best trying to fight lineup schemes with his own brand of small ball in the playoffs.
lowkey. this is a better channel than fx sports and espn. keep it going!
Morey loves everyone thinking he’s some kind of GM Jedi, the reality is he didn’t know when to stop and ended up destroying his own creation
Could you imagine saying the Warriors losing KD is the same as the Rockets losing Chris? The Warriors still had Steph, Clay, IGGY & Dray, that's a proving championship right team there! A kinda Healthy Rockets had to go gm7 with that squad before they added KD, df losing KD gonna do really besides giving the Rockets a 50% to win games?
The only problem with what he is saying they would have lost is CP3 got injured if he doesn’t they lose.
And they still lost the next year with CP3 🤷♂️
@@harrizzaini7324 yeah but they didn’t have the same team and they were not up 3-2 and they barely lost game 7 were both sides didn’t score 80.
@@right8630 Well, just like draymond said, KD got hurt when they met on 2018. Yet, they still lost. 🤷♂️
The irony of draymond green saying real gs move in silence is hilarious
dang GSW was like doing body shots on the rockets by tiring james harden
Strength in nunbers was a great motto for Warrior's ball
rocket fan who was at game 7 of the WCF and it still hurts lol. Only 2 teams went all in during the GSW dynasty. The Hou-GSW series were always defacto finals. Hell of a rivalry man, we just couldn’t get over the hump (we would’ve if CP doesn’t hurt his hammy)
The 2018 rockets were 100% better than the 2019 rockets though. The chemistry was better and I’m not sure but i think ariza left
Yeah Ariza left and the defense suffered
JJ ‘s platform is amazing. He’s the Joe Rogan of bball podcasts
Steve Kerr's gameplan is just amazing. It's smart and it just shows how much he trusts his players 🙌
“Real G’s move in silence like lasagna”
- Lil Wayne
Draymond is smart but that take is stupid. The second year was a different Rockets team that struggled in the regular season
Agreed, "real G's move in silence" coming from the dude that won't shut up.
Thank you Draymond I been saying James arms be exhausted after all the dribbling
Except if cp3 doesn't get injured they do beat the Warriors...
Coulda, woulda, shoulda, Hold this L.
Honestly they had all the chance in the world especially in that game 7 when they decide to keep shooting after missing 30+ straight shots and 3s and not go to the rim I remember watching that game frustrated these guys did not adjust
i thought that too but they lost next yr w no KD, just not good enough
@@joeblazey048 Different team that wasn't as good
@@joeblazey048 Different team. Same major pieces but a very different team.
I’m disappointed that Draymond got so many things wrong about the 2019 series. And even when he corrected himself on the 3-2, he still got it wrong.
Thought I was the only one who noticed
Lost game 7 in a way where an entire professional basketball team lost the ability to shoot. Every single one of them
Rigged
now he’s responsible for wasting a year of embiids injury proned career
Him or Ben?
@@Charsi_Escobar daryl morey
@@claytonbrinkman9019 he did sign some pretty brutal contracts, at least he was able to get out of Horford’s deal 🤷🏻♂️
@@Charsi_Escobar
Yes. That was nasty. The Australian is the problem. Other teams want to nickle and dime us.
The Warriors lost KD and still had RG exact same roster that won 73 games. KD was icing on the cake. Losing CP3 was like trying to bake a cake with no flour.
Fatigue is the unavoidable weakness of any heliocentric offense, and it can cost a team everything. The more fatigued a player becomes, the less effective they are on both ends, and the greater the risk of injury. This is why Denver and the Lakers try to keep Jokic and LeBron respectively under forty minutes on the floor without their co-stars, even if another three or four minutes might bring them a win. Harden is struggling in Brooklyn now for much the same reason he struggled in those playoff series.
This would show up in analysis, it could be modeled, but analytics is limited by the questions asked, and the success of the metrics you do measure tends to blind you to the possibility of the metrics you don't.
2019 has nothing to do with 2018. The Rockets were overall much better in 2018.
Draymond’s mic filter not being all the way on bothered me this whole interview lol.
Without iggy getting hurt, series should’ve been over before cp3 got hurt.
Nah..... don't be stupid
@@goatstatusj5112 yeah what a coincidence the dubs lost straight games after iggy got injured.
Draymond is on course to become a panelember in a NBA show after he retires. He's very good in these podcasts already. He just needs to double check some facts (such as Rockets being 2-1) and he is set to go. He can provide deep analyses and his arguments are not being seen in the media as of now, so he's a good addition I guess.
It just comes to down to Chris Paul missing the rest of the series after game 5 🤷🏽♂️
yeah but actually watch the video this time
it comes down to KD being injured in 2019 with the Rockets being up 2-1 bruh that excuse is irrelevant
@@Uchawibeatz you know that Houston rockets team wasn’t the same team stop it that was the year James harden was dropping 40+ points every single game do your research
@@julesceezy9694 I did
@@IvanDiaz-fl6ff still doesn't explain why they lost in 2019. They were not good enough. It was Steph, Klay and Draymond against a fully loaded Rockets team. CP3, Harden, Tucker, Capella, G Green... My point is that injuries did not play as big a factor cause we saw both teams lose a star player and in both scenarios, the Rockets choke. They shot 0-27 from 3 when they had the lead. In 2019 (game 6) they went like 3 minutes without scoring a basket at home. I don't care if Harden was soring 40+ pts it did not translate into winning either series. Do actual research
Draymond is straight up asking and answering the questions. Why did they do that, great question me, heres the answer me. Its so sweet, man loves to talk
Yes that is right. James' foul baiting is a mechanism for him to rest during his free throw
No it’s not, he still has to hit a high pressure shot during those free throws. They just could not stop harden whatsoever so they knew the rest of the rockets team wasn’t good and they had to capitalize off of them.
Whenever I see a morey interview he comes off like a sleazy sports book insider giving you the hot tips
I respect Draymond's opinion...
But real ones that watched the series know, Houston lost the series themselves.
They had homecourt advantage, the warriors in the palm of their hands, but they didn't want it bad enough.
I've seen many series where when a star is out due to injury, that star's team can't win even if the refs try to help them. Houston still had an even chance and imo should've beat the warriors, but they didn't.
I'll never forgive D'Antoni, Harden and the rest of that 2018 squad for losing that series
d'antoni-ball is made to succeed in the regular sesson and fail in the playoffs
@@eroslogan3514 he didn't learn anything from his Phoenix Suns team. 2003 2005 2007 .
How does a max contract player not change the outcome to you? They lost by single digits against a prime all star team bruh
@@WalterFlanagin a max contract player didn't change couldn't change the outcome because he choked.
The 2nd half of game 7 was the worst performance of Harden's playoffs history.
Instead of being a leader and slowing the game down making plays for his teammates and getting to the free throw line with ease (as he used to), he chucked 40 footer shots for fun like it was the all star game. It didn't help the fact the whole team missed 27 consecutive threes in that half too.
Harden gave up.
D'Antoni didn't make adjustments, he lives and dies by his philosophy.
@@ColdHoops omg Harden had a bad performance when the entire defense could focus on him instead of his costar???😱
Forgive me i’m not shocked. CP3 averaged 19.8 points per game in that series and they lost game 7 by single digits. CP3 100% changes the outcome no argument
Draymond’s Mic is starting to get to me on these vids lol
He ✅️ ✅️ ✅️
Draymond, Ariza wasn’t on the 19 team. He seems to skip over that fact when talking about the Rockets blowing the lead in 19, too.
"The Rockets built a team to beat the warriors but the warriors built a team to win championships" That's the difference between both organization
-ctto
This was from an interview to rockets owner 3 years ago after gsw beat rockets in the playoffs again in 2019, here's the video
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ruclips.net/video/zcROgy4zN9o/видео.html
This is litttt so much insight from one of the best 🔥
Put it this way the rockets were built to counter the warriors perfectly... well as perfectly as they could have been. On paper the rockets had no where near the amount of talent the warriors did Harden is great and CP3 is great but they aren’t Steph and KD and on top of that the warriors had Klay and dray. But they surrounded their stars with versatile defenders hustlers and 3 point shooters and they relied on the 3’s to beat the warriors it was the only way anyone was gonna beat that team if the Cavs built their team the same way the rockets did around Lebron and kyrie they would have done much better than losing in 5. The story would be told much different if the rockets just could have went 4 or 5 for 27 from 3 instead of 0/27
I won’t even lie to you I think harden is a better player than Steph this just my opinion but mane if prime harden had the pieces golden state has omg give harden Klay and Kd and dray (not Brooklyn harden)
In that Game 7, rockets had a stretch in second half where they went 0-27 on threes…that’s why they lost.
"Real G's move in silence" is the best quote re Morey ever. 🙏🏻
Draymond is going to be this generations Charles Barkley. He has a bright future as a commentator/ TV figure
Except he got rings
Still remember the “we were a hamstring away from an NBA championship” then the very next year KD goes down in game 5. Series tied, score tied, Houston healthy and what? They never win another game 🤦🏽♂️ all that talking for what?
Different circumstances. Different situation. CP was not the same CP as the previous year.
@@dthamaestro3624 cp still the same. He is not even injured.
@@ichigokurosaki7454 No he wasn't. Not in 2019, and not now either, but especially not in 2019. He lacked explosiveness and ypu could tell something was off. He looked like an old man trying to explode in that series.
@@dthamaestro3624 yes bro but GSW was missing Kevin Durant…. I’m just saying they had a golden opportunity and choked
Being a Draymond type of player in real life 😂 i love how he gives praise to LeGOAT ✊🏾 all them wars they had lol it aint easy to salute the opposition
What CP3 will never get is that the Warriors since 2015 are the ONLY team that can play switching Defense and beat it . The 2018 and 2019 Rockets couldn't do both at the level of the Warriors . The Rockets 3 point shooters wilted under the pressure in 2018 against the Splash Bros / KD , and 2019 against the Splash Bros in the Playoffs . D'antoni as Rockets Head Coach made the mistake of using short benches of 8 players too much , and exhausted those Rockets players . One of tbe big reasons CP3 got injured in the 2018 Playoffs . Kerr beat the Rockets with 10 or 12 players deep , so his team was fresher in those 7 game series .
There's no kd in 2019. Injured
I hate how Draymond be talking like he the best player in the league.