DRAYMOND: Zion’s “gotten so much better”; Stackhouse “level of accountability”; Kyle Anderson praise
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00:00 (Draymond, what does it feel like after wrestling back-to-back nights) with Zion?
00:02 DRAYMOND GREEN: Hurts. Bad. Hurts. But it was fun, man. He's gotten so much better. just playing him over the last, what, the first four years of his career? Like, you could tell previous years that he was getting in better shape, that he was starting to take the game more serious and you could just kind of see gradual steps. You can tell now he's been in the gym working and improving to get better. To me, what that looks like is (he was) so worried about weight, everybody talking about weight, and I've struggled with that, so I know that struggle. And so that's just the only focus. And it looks like now he has that so in check, that he can actually focus on his game. And he's gotten so much better. So it was a tough battle. He got the best of me last night and I just wanted to come out and put up a better defensive performance than I did last night.
01:07 Helping limit him to 5-for-20 tonight and you also did a great job —
01:12 I was the main defender. Helping is crazy, but it's cool.
01:17 Limiting him to 5-for-20. You also did a great job on Lauri in Utah. Just how would you evaluate the way you've started this season defensively?
01:25 I wanted to come into this season in great shape. I know when I come into this season in great shape, that is the key to me having a great season. That is the key to this team having a great season. And spend all summer of watching everyone talk about Chet and Wemby and what they're doing defensively. Don't forget about Dray. So I want to be in that conversation as well. And I think I've earned the right to at least be in the conversation. So every game I'm coming out here motivated defensively to get back on the First Team All-Defense. I think I had a really good year last year defensively. I just didn't play enough games. So it's a goal of mine to get on that team and then put myself back in the Defensive Player of the Year category is a goal of mine. So when I'm matching up with these guys, that's my mindset. Like I said, it's not going to work out every night. He had, what, 31 last night, something like that, on a very efficient, what, 12-for-19 or something? And so I just wanted to make him take tougher shots tonight, try to meet force with force. And I was able to get a couple strips and then also my team is helping me. I'm not going to sit here and act like it's just all me. We're shrinking gaps, flying around, getting deflections, showing a crowd. It's always a team effort. No one guy is ever stopping a superstar in this league by yourself. But in saying that, got to meet the force with force and I wanted to do a better job of that tonight than I did. He put a couple moves on me last night. He spin. I was out of bounds somewhere. So I wanted to have a bounce-back game tonight.
03:10 You've won a challenge in the last four straight games, and I say 'you' because often times you're the one calling it. Last year, you guys were bad at challenges. Do you, like, do you feel like the referees are more willing to overturn it right now? Or are you guys just being better at which ones you're deciding?…
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FROM OCT 30, 2024, postgame after Golden State Warriors vs New Orleans Pelicans, held at Chase Center in San Francisco, CA.
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