DRAYMOND: Jerry Stackhouse “always tell us it’s a time you have to get serious”; Podziemski’s heart
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00:00 Draymond, interested to know, when you went back in with those five fouls late in the game and they needed you on the floor, what was kind of going through your mind? What got you mentally there so that you could stay out there as long as you did?
00:11 DRAYMOND GREEN, POSTGAME G4-HOU-GSW: Just not pick up a cheap one, but I'm never gonna be one of the guys that, just because you got fouls, you don't defend. I feel very confident in my defensive ability to defend without fouling and so I'm gonna contest at the rim, I'm gonna — but in that situation, you just gotta make sure your fundamentals are clean. And so that's what I try to do. If I'm gonna go vertical with Amen at the rim or if I'm going to guard Sengun at the post, I just try to make sure that my fundamentals are there. But yeah, I can't be a guy for this team, just because I got fouls, I lay off. I'm our defensive anchor. You gotta be that. And if I foul out, I just foul out. I'm better served — this team is — I can better serve this team just playing and if I foul out, I'm gone, than staying out there and just giving up baskets.
01:06 What'd you see on that last play against Sengun?
01:13 He likes the iso right in the middle of the paint, so he started coming downhill. I gave a little ground and Stack (Jerry Stackhouse) always tell us it's a time that you have to get serious. He says it's time to get — and you just try to pick that point. I don't want to pick it too early where he's facing me and now I pick up a cheap one, so just try to find that sweet spot and where to get serious, as Stack says, and thought I found a good spot. He took a deep jump hook.
01:46 You said, I think it was a couple days ago after last game, about your technicals and how you sometimes strategically used them.
01:53 Yeah. I got a technical tonight and there was guys way more aggressive than me, so yeah, that's crazy.
01:59 Well, what happened overall in that second — I think it was the second quarter — from the technical and then —
02:04 They were trying to muddy the game up, but it's fine. We kept it pushing.
02:12 Draymond, I'm curious your thoughts on Podziemski and not so much his shooting or his skills, but for a young guy, as Steve said, he is a second-year player who acts like he's a — plays like he's a 10th-year guy. What about his makeup allows him to have a game like this on this stage?
02:30 I think it's his heart. Skill is — the skill is there. That's why he was — what pick was he, the 14th pick or something like that? 19th pick. That's why he, coming from a smaller school, 19th pick, the skill is there, but it's his heart and I like to call it irrational confidence, although I — he puts the work in, but he has irrational confidence. It's one of those things that I actually wish I had, but he just has the ultimate belief in himself and his abilities. And he went out there, he showed it and, quite honestly, he's been showing it for the last few months since he came back from injury. He's pretty much been lights out and tonight we needed it in a major way. And he stepped up, he answered the call, 26 points. Just, he's one of those guys that you just, you want on your side. People try to pick on him. They do this, they do that. He don't back down from anybody. He's smart as hell on both ends of the floor. Great draft pick by Mike (Dunleavy, Jr.).
03:45 Draymond, when it comes to Dillon Brooks, obviously he's always after the mental game. He's always talking on the free throw line. Anytime the ref is not paying attention, he's throwing a…
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FROM APRIL 28, 2025, postgame after Game 4, Houston Rockets at Golden State Warriors, held at Chase Center in San Francisco, CA.
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