[transcript] DRAYMOND: “the way I play basketball has brought me a tremendous amount of success…”
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0:00 on what his recent workout routine has looked like: “Pretty much every day. I think my first off-day since I got suspended was last Saturday… Well, yeah, my first complete day off was Saturday. But it was good. I got a lot of work and I was able to play some pickup with some of the guys and got a lot of shooting and a lot of lifting and playing and, what, almost two weeks I feel as about as good as you can feel... Like I said, the positive part is I wasn't injured. So I was able to get all the work that I needed to get in to stay in games.”
0:55 on the NBA stating that past actions do carry weight and if he sees that happening with other players: “…Where I grew up, you don't sit and talk about what another man got or, ‘He didn't get this or he got that.’ … don't compare myself to other people … So I never look at it in that light, to continue mentioning like, ‘Oh, well what he did in the past,’ I paid for those, like I got suspended and Game 5 in the Finals. So you can't keep suspending me for those actions... a teammate need you to come to their defense, I'm going to come to their defense… especially with someone that I've been playing with for 12 years. That's more than a teammate, that’s a brother. Things can be interpreted how people interpret them… For me personally, I have to be on the court for my teammates. Our chances of winning drops dramatically if I'm not out there, so I have to be better at being there and as one of the leaders of this group, just got to find different ways, and for me, that's, that's the biggest lesson in all of it. It's just like, yeah, you gotta be there for your teammate, but you have to do it differently. The same way you would do something when I was 26, I can't do at 33...”
4:00 on how he moves forward if the league is going to keep circling back to what he did before, stacking up suspensions: “…That's okay. I need to adjust … I'm not going to play basketball worried about what they're going to do... The way I play basketball has brought me a tremendous amount of success individually and from a team standpoint, and so I'm going to always be myself and not changing that… there's room for growth...”
6:10 on if, when the suspension came down, he had a moment to talk to the team and what that message was: “Wasn't really much I needed to say to them...”
7:14 on if he saw Rudy Gobert’s comments after the game: “…What's my comment about what he said? (Long pause) No comment in as a comment, right? Cool.”
7:58 on if he regrets holding on too long to Gobert, as Steve Kerr has alluded to: “I don't live my life with regrets… the way the media portrays you is like you're supposed to crack or something… for me, it’s trying to find what's the lesson that needs to be collected in a situation and that's how I reflect.”
11:32 on what the lesson is from Kerr and Dunleavy, whereby from family is private: “Well, the message and the lesson is 100% no one's business… to share those lessons, rather than now it's pretty irrelevant.”
12:54 on what he has observed about the struggles that they guys have been facing over the last two weeks: “Our spacing can be better… defensively we're good in spurts. And in order to be a good team, a great team you have to put as close to 48 minutes together as you possibly can… what's that focus level like coming out of the half?…”
15:26 on Klay Thompson and Andrew Wiggins taking a while to come along: “…it's on us as primary ball handlers, myself Steph, CP, to then make sure that we're getting them in the proper spots...”
17:31 on what he expects the environment to be like Tuesday in Sacramento: “Yeah, I think it'll be fun, a lot of fun...”
18:40 on if the expectation is because of the In-Season Tournament or the history with last year’s playoff series: “I think it's all a part of it.”
18:46 on if he’s observed spotty communication defensively and if that’s something he can help shore up: “…Where I can help most is demanding that everyone is communicating, not that I'm going to be the person to come back and it's like, ‘Oh, he's the savior.’ That don't work. Ever. There's no saviors in the NBA. But what I can do is I can come back and I can hold more people accountable to communicating...”
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