DRAYMOND: “in order for us to win basketball games, it requires Steph Curry to be great and he was”
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00:00 Draymond, was there any moment or example in the game where they were kind of whittling back the lead and having Jimmy out there sort of stabilized the ship? I mean, you've never played in a playoff game with him, I know it's felt like it, but this was the first one.
00:18 DRAYMOND GREEN, POSTGAME G1 GSW-HOU: Nah, I think there were several moments where they cut the lead to three. One time they cut it to seven and with a chance to push it over, push it further down, but did a great job in getting Jimmy the ball. It always just settles the offense down. Even that last one he hit over Sengun, that's what we want. And I think we gotta do an even better job of making sure we getting him the ball. But, overall, man, he's such a huge calming force for us, just calm everything down, get us to our spots, and get us a good look.
00:53 I know you guys have won some tough games, obviously, in the past, but you're known for threes threes and Steph and other thing. How satisfying is it to win a game that's basically on toughness? It's basically on just keeping them as much as you can off the glass as you did tonight.
01:07 It was very satisfying to win any role game, any playoff game in general, but definitely a role playoff win. I think we can play a lot better, that's the encouraging part about it. I don't think we played very well at all, but still gotta find a way to win and we did that with our defense, held them to 85 points. So playoffs, it don't matter how it looks, you just gotta find a way and then get better and come back improved team the next game.
01:38 Steve said it felt like 1997 out there with their style of play and how different it is from kind of the modernized space-and-pace type game. How is it facing them and, I mean, how do you feel coming out of a game like that where you gave up 22 offensive rebounds, but they scored 85 points?
01:58 I said in the post game interview, at times their best offense is the offensive rebound. They are elite at that and so it's something that we expected. I thought we did a decent job in the first half. We held them to seven, but then second half it was way outta control, so we gotta do a better job there, but that is their style of play. They rough you up. They grab, they hold, they crash the boards. It's very extremely physical team, you gotta give 'em credit. They do a great job of it, so we just gotta make sure we're prepared for that coming into every game, but that's who they are and it is what it is. Every team's got an M.O. that's theirs. You gotta do what you gotta do to try to beat it.
02:39 If you had to explain what you guys did tonight to hold them to 85, 50 words or less or whatever, what would you say and also what did Stackhouse say to you that one time on the sidelines?
02:50 I think overall we just flew around. We didn't give up any easy looks. We followed our defensive game plan, just make them take tough shots and be a lot better off, if we can get some rebounds. You hold 'em to 39% shooting, 34 of those baskets, I mean, they had 34 baskets, what, 10 of 'em was on second-chance points on second opportunities. So we gotta do a better job there, but overall, I think we just did a good job of following the game plan, flying around, not giving up easy buckets and then just reacting to their actions.
03:32 Stackhouse?
03:33 Stackhouse, he just told me, keep doing what I'm doing, I was doing. He said, "You're doing a great job." We're not worried about what's going on out there, so don't get so caught up in your emotions during that time. Stay locked in and so he…
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FROM APRIL 20, 2025, postgame after Game 1, Golden State Warriors at Houston, held at Toyota Center in Houston, TX.
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