If there’s one thing Dray is qualified to talk about, its stuff like this.

Yeah he’s spitting harden is there to give you 20 and 8 why the fuck are you consistently letting him guard Brunson coaches fault for not trying to change that and players fault for not doing anything

Can’t argue against anything he said. 

If anyone knows how to beat James Harden in the playoffs, it is Draymond. 

Dray would be an all time coach if they put him in a straight jacket

He’s right. If you make it that easy from the getgo, Brunson has all the time to break your defense or rhythm to get hot on his own.

And people say Dray wouldn’t do good on any other team. Man just broke down defensive strategies on how to not get put on an island. The league is so trash with players not fighting through screens, going under and letting shooters get a shot, willfully letting their teammates take a bad match up without rotating.

That wasn’t Harden’s fault. It’s anything, his coach should’ve pulled him or when it comes to a switch, trap or tell your players fight through the screen. Now they’re hunting 13 like it’s rabbit season

Unfortunately Draymond has a point

This is what the box score watchers don’t understand about Draymond and how responsible he was for the Warriors’ success. He wasn’t going to let Steph and Klay get punked. Listen to the IQ and energy. Mobley nor Allen are this guy. They don’t have that energy, that drive, that heart, or that dawg in them.

No arguments

Cavs defense lacks communication. Draymond is a quarterback on defense which is why his guys are always in the right position.

I like this version of draymond….i never thought I’d say that.

I mean, he’s right.

Dray knows ball

This is true. When the Cavs played against the Warriors, Iman Shumpert, Delly, JR, whoever, they were fighting through Draymond, Iggy, and whoever else’s screen to stop Curry from getting an ISO on Kyrie and K Love.

thats actually a good point about Steph.

true, a timeout would’ve helped in instructing whoever to fight through the screens, but cavs needed them for next game

My man is livid just watching this

The first clip in the video is insane. There isn’t even a screen set, Dean Wade just vaguely follows Mikal Bridges to the corner while Harden gets stuck on Brunson lmao

Damn that’s a great perspective.

Fans have been pointing this out for yers now it seems. The switch everything defense can be really really stupid sometimes. Its to the point where offenses dont even need to set actual screens. Players just nonchalantly trot out there and get three straight unnecessary switches that gives them the exact matchup they want.

Idk why coaches are so hellbent on giving the offense exactly what they want.

The irony is the whole league moved to this ‘fuck it, just switch if someone even breathes on you’ mode of defense bc of Steph

His release was too quick so you had to just bite the bullet and die on every screen. It made sense

But I’m old school and it USED to be you fought to get over a screen to stay on your matchup. The way ite just completely shifted across the league is a very subtle thing but it’s the reason defense has gone to the toilet. Dudes don’t fight screens it’s probably not even taught

What a great distillation of what it takes to win meaningful baseball games. Multiple players taking on unsung dirty work that won’t show up in a stat sheet. Draymond executed that at an elite level for about a decade.

(Also, Cavs need prime Kevon Looney to put the clamps on Brunson)

Steph probably does a better job on brunson than harden

I hate Draymond but a player like him is what the Cavs are missing. Not for the ball kicking but for the basketball IQ. He’s basically a player coach. In between his flagrant fouls and technicals, he makes sure players are doing what they’re supposed to do.

The Cavs don’t have anyone like that. Mitchell and Harden are mediocre leaders and have mediocre basketball IQs (compared to other superstar players). Mobley is too quiet to be a vocal leader and also doesn’t seem to have that next level basketball IQ.

LeBron would be a perfect fit for this role if he wanted to come back (for the right price) but I’d definitely worry about the defensive fit with him, Harden and Mitchell. Especially if they had to give up someone like Allen to afford him.

Yes, and their rotations are trash. Even if they are late, I feel like someone should still be rushing out to contest, but there are just guys stand and watch.

If Dray could lean more into THIS aspect of commentary instead of ranting about how Kerr actually hurt his career sonehow he could legit be such a great basketball personality.

Holy shit an enjoyable take from Draymond where I learned something. Hell must’ve frozen over

Cavs feel like they need the Iggy glue guy on defense. Just don’t have the defensive talent and planning/execution just looks way too off. And someone who can actually point that stuff out and be accountable on that end in real time

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point

They’re obviously exhausted at this point. We let Toronto take too much out of us in the first round, unfortunately. Going up against a deep, well-rested and well-coached Knicks team is just a lot to ask of these guys. We had our opportunity to steal Game 1 and the series might be over after squandering it.

Or it’s the fucking coaching assignment. The idea that they ARENT HUNGRY AND NEED TO STEP UP! Is so overplayed. Maybe, just maybe, you can blame coaching here

Yeah, I blame Kenny and his staff more than anything.

They really were switching immediately with no communication. I was so confused how easily they put Harden in those positions.

Ppl just love to hate on James like he’s the same player from 10 years ago. He was supposed to be their 3rd best player yet he’s treated like he’s the guy.

Didn’t youose the NBA finals off the back of conceding a switch from Klay to curry?

“When you set your screen for your star player, you have to move and set it illegally! They won’t call it!”

Cavs look so bad. Should’ve been Detroit

And I’d even argue hardens defense isn’t that awful. He’s putting in effort he’s trying. His offense has hurt the Cavs the most in my opinion not his defense. I agree with the stuff Draymond is saying tho

the Cavs attacked Steph for years

won a championship doing it.

draymond isn’t right because he is yelling

Except Brunson was contained very well last night and they got beat by Josh Hart.

Dray ain’t tell a lie here He spitting

No shit

That’s real shit.

I mean he is like 110% on point here. I normally dislike listening to him but this was great.

Yeah. This is one of the few topics Dray has cred on; defense is a team thing, everyone working to get the stops.

That nobody comes to the rescue and the coach doesnt change the defensive scheme when they’re getting cooked on the ECF is insane.

It’s not like Harden isn’t immediately accepting the switch. He could be the one fighting over if he wanted to. For some reason this is the gameplan and he doesn’t seem to have a problem with it.

On me in games one the Knicks fought so hard not to switch, then watching Cavs come down and just concede it was disgusting to watch lol

Cavs simply don’t have any defenders. They’re best wing defender is Max Strus and he ain’t that good either

Name Names

Probably one of my biggest pet peeves in the league is this exact shit. Same shit happens in pick up 😂

Do the cavs even really have an actual good perimeter defender? Like dean wade is a guy, but throw him on the spurs or thunder and he’s what, the 4th/5th best defender?

Gsw defensive scheme was built around pre switching to minimize teams ability to hunt Steph. And it didn’t hurt that Steph, while not an exceptional defender by any means for most of his career did do his best to fit into those schemes and gave consistent effort.

This is before last nights game right. So Cavs adapted and the solution is we’re gonna give a 40% 3 point shooter wide open threes

Welp..ain’t wrong

But the Warriors did allow it.

By the 2017-18 playoffs, Curry switched on 46 percent of picks when LeBron James was the ball handler, 56 percent when James Harden was the ball handler, and 62 percent when Chris Paul was the ball handler.

In 2016 at the end of game 7 the Cavs just get a switch to out Curry on Irving to let him iso

Curry wasn’t a bad defender, and in 2018 the team was so good it didn’t matter, but teams repeatedly hunted Curry and were able to force switches on to him a lot.

Cava are gassed. Defense is about effort and the don’t have the energy to keep up. 

As a warriors fan, Dray is so good behind the mic with his analysis, I wish he does this full time!

He’s right however they did give up the switch on Kyrie in the finals….

NONE of that was actually bad D from Harden, Brunson hit some TOUGH shots!

He’s not wrong

Alright Dray you got me hyped up I’m ready to fight through some screens coach!

Didn’t Kyrie hit the shot in Steph’s face Game 7 from a switch or…………

Harden has been part of some excellent defending teams. It’s about scheme, and Draymond is clearly correct here

Hes correct that they should try harder not to switch but its still going to happen sometimes. And I do remember playoff games where Steph was successfully targeted. The real magic there is that somehow Steph became an above average defender.

That 1-4 low set makes helping tough with a risk of leaving a wide open three.

Dray is trying to call into the tip line. We make actually see a strategy change next game.

Look, you ain’t beating anyone if you’re bricking wide open 3’s all game. It is what it is. Defense woulda been nice but it wasn’t happening last night.

The one thing he should be talking about in his pod

Do people actually watch his podcast?

I didn’t watch the game last night but this was so noticeable during the comeback in game 1 when Brunson was going off. There was just no help. Old ass Harden being put on an island over and over while the opposing star is on a heater

More of this commentary please (I’m so tired of the ref discourse)

Warriors allowed it in 2016 when Lebron cooked Curry repeatedly off the screen and switch

Weird to me they haven’t made this adjustment. Once the Cavs started fighting through screens to stay on Cade we were SOL.

Surprised Kenny hasn’t made that adjustment yet.

Why does he move so much when he’s talking

They didn’t even choke ONE guy! Or kicked a single ball!

I’ve ALWAYS wondered why these “defensive gurus” simply can’t figure out a way to prevent picking on a defender like that. It’s not even like the Knicks were doing anything elaborate. Literally simple picks. The Cavs are supposed to have an elite head coach, and the most promising assistant coach in the league. And they just sat there and did nothing. Very shameful coaching performance, but I loved to see it.

Hope the Cavs put their ego aside and listen to Draymond here. He’s direct but honest and knows this better than anyone.

It’s not an effort thing. This is very clearly how we’ve scheme the defense. We just switch everything despite not having the personnel for it. We’ve been doing this for two years. It’s honestly pretty frustrating.

Put this man on Inside 

To be fair look at the lineup they had in down the stretch. If Harden doesn’t guard Brunson then it’s Mitchell or Wade. Mitchell is your best player on offense so you don’t want him defending Brunson so that leaves Wade. The Cavs don’t have a lockdown perimeter defender and they’re being exposed.

Man, shut up, Dray

There’s plenty video of your lazy ass standing there or strolling back to the other side of the court, or wasting time arguing with the refs when you could be back on defense.

Its coaching decision to switch everything. I take issue with him putting it on the players

But this is exactly what happened with Steph in the 2016 finals. LeBron was hunting that mismatch the last three games of that series.

How tf is it not James harden job, he’s out there … James isn’t a good defender but James not getting a hand up 🙋🏽‍♂️ is absolutely embarrassing

I now know why it always seems like Dray is yelling at a ref but not getting a technical…. that’s just the way he talks! lol. if the baseline is this demonstrative , then I didn’t raise my voice at you.

there’s a weird parallel to how physical the thunder is