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00:00My best guess is that we have probably understated over the last couple of years
00:06what it was like to be in that Warrior locker room and it probably felt really really stressful
00:11and hard. You had one year marred by the Draymond Jordan pool thing. Good point. And then the next
00:17year was uh Mr. Mopey Pants. I'm sorry to call. No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But he was. Say that
00:26to Michael next time we get him on. I will. If we ever do. Probably not. Not anymore. Not now. Not
00:32now. Holy cannoli. This is crazy. I'm sorry dude. I call it for me it's momentary. I don't think
00:38that that's like defines who Klay Thompson is but it did last year. Yeah. You were Mr. Mopey Pants
00:46and it stunk. It stunk for everybody and I only I also say that because we know dude we heard
00:53not just what we saw but like we heard from inside the room dude this is really wearing
00:59on everybody so we've had back-to-back seasons that have both ended in really bad ways
01:05frustrating ways and the locker room was not a happy place and this year it is and buddy is
01:13probably kind of like the face of that because he looks like he's happy no matter what the hell's
01:18going on yeah I agree and you know what has taken place throughout the year where you had
01:23DeAnthony Melton who looked like he was a great fit Dennis Schroeder was an awkward fit I think
01:29that he was struggling to find his footing with the team slow-mo Kyle Anderson was a great pro
01:35you hate to see him go Lindy Waters a good young player but you look around the team now and you've
01:41got the three ogs Steph Draymond and Jimmy Butler you've got a couple of mainstays who've been here
01:47for a while Kavon and GP2 then you've got a whole slew of the pups and then you've got this guy over
01:54here just grinning ear to ear did you go seven for eight tonight or did you go one for 11 I don't
02:00know doesn't matter doesn't matter I'm gonna do what Steph tells me to do and that's why I'm here
02:05you know what else he's gonna do he's going to play basketball and I mentioned this many times
02:10already on this show two angry guys uh he played 84 games last year buddy healed that's almost
02:17impossible you have to get traded and when you get traded you have to rush to your new team
02:23to play 84 games so buddy's a dude who impressive make or miss uh play well or play poorly he just
02:32is a guy who strikes me as somebody who enjoys just playing basketball he healed is also the
02:36only warrior to play in every game so far this year there you go there you go even the ones we
02:40didn't want him to that's correct yeah that's that's he would even think that's funny exactly
02:46did you just nickname our show two angry guys I thought that's what you had called us no two
02:51losers uh whatever losers you can neither one of us is angry yeah nobody famously I'm angry Jeff
02:57that's awesome I mean you get angry sometimes I haven't been angry in a long time but yeah two
03:01angry guys two losers is a little bit too harsh I know although 707 did just text in a fact
03:07that the underdog pick of the night that I gave out was also an epic fail oh boy uh 707 says
03:13Willard you're Luka Luka under 46 and a half pra did not hit last night no it did not not even close
03:22by the way Luke on a heater yeah sorry I tried although I will tell you I've learned taking
03:28unders on Luka and Shea a bad idea risky it's just not a good thing like rooting against those
03:35guys to put up stats is just not fun because they do it on every possession right it's bananas yeah
03:43the usage for those guys is uh is almost uh like they might be one of two in the league in usage
03:49and Luka go get your board now yeah go get your board yeah he will get you an assist too especially
03:54now that you're playing with LeBron where you just flip it over to LeBron and you know
03:59he's now just kind of a three-point shooter deluxe ball is in their hands on every possession
04:04and so you're just gonna uh yeah you're gonna rack that thing up so you know my fault my fault
04:09uh Vince in the city hi Vince what you doing hey what's up guys uh just listening to the show
04:17like I always do on my way home you know nothing better than really listening to uh
04:21listening to a couple of guys talk about my favorite teams from from the home home city so
04:27but what I wanted to talk about was first off let's think about Steph's greatness right like
04:34we all know he's one of the greatest to play but like this guy drugged the team to a play-in
04:40basically by himself he didn't have very much of a supporting cast since they won the ship in 22
04:46and then you look at Jimmy Butler and he's done the same thing but got them to the finals
04:51coming through the east and like I draw parallels between the two guys not not stylistically with
04:57their play but mentally with with how they approach the game and how much they just want to
05:02win they they they both have that dog in them like they both got a killer instinct and they
05:08they go out there and leave it on the court every night that they play they don't pack it in and I
05:12think the fact that now you've got two guys on the same team who just want to win and play ball
05:19like you guys just touched on not having clay or like having these bad attitudes or like
05:24bringing this negative energy to the team is just hey let's just go get this dub let's just try to
05:28go stack as many wins as we can get let's see where we get we've got the talent now you know
05:35the young guys are promising and I think it just you know I just think the fact that you got a dog
05:40and you got such a smart player who does something like Steph said completely different from his game
05:46they complement each other so well and now there's so there's gravity inside that you can't
05:51just focus on Steph wherever he goes kind of like it's been it's like when you're playing like you
05:57know park and rec or whatever you know the guy's the best player on that team and everybody else
06:02kind of doesn't do anything you just focus on one guy you shut him down the whole team you know the
06:07whole team's kind of like lost so this guy Jimmy Jimmy's been great and I I think uh I think we
06:14were really lucky to have him for the next couple of years and I'm excited to see what's coming Vince
06:18even with all that said there's no way you thought it would look this good this fast right
06:24absolutely not I mean I didn't know like all we have is covered in the media because we're
06:29not in that market and it is just oh Jimmy's another bad attitude kind of guy it's like oh
06:33great now now we got to deal with another you know diva but he's he's not saying anything he's just
06:39playing ball and I love it like it when you get a group of guys who are like in the same direction
06:45and are working towards the same goal it's really hard to break I mean nobody I don't think anybody
06:51could have predicted that it would be like it would gel this quickly this well and it's been
06:57great and I love to see it because I love my team to win Vince thanks man appreciate it love the call
07:02uh yeah again I I don't want to make this about like oh we didn't know Jimmy was that good like
07:08Jimmy is a legit like how many Jimmy's are there in this league you're like guys who you know
07:15you're like you can be a one on a successful team there's not that many and also a guy who can be
07:22a two and not only be okay with it but be a two and then make the three four five six and seven
07:29suddenly better that's the thing and I'm looking at the thing like there's no way that we could
07:34have known that and again it not just working and fitting but immediate exactly like immediate it
07:40was like add water it's like you remember those old sponges my mom used to buy those little hard
07:45sticks that if you added water it would become a sponge yeah like that's what Jimmy is this is
07:50hard sponge it just came in and he added water whole thing just yeah it'd become uh those dinosaur
07:58ones where you put four drops of water triceratops there's stegosaurus we got a t-rex over here yeah
08:04kind of what it's been uh pods I mentioned before he's a plus 120 since Jimmy came 13.6 points a
08:12game moody's a plus 101 since Jimmy came that's wild 11.3 a game post plus 51 not quite as eye
08:21popping 9.6 a game now I know he was trending toward you know being a knockdown shooter and
08:28really starting to be better and I know buddy healed has been up and down but he's been more
08:33up and down and what Jimmy has brought is not only gravity and we all want to talk about that and what
08:38that means but also that swagger to the team well I just think it released all the pressure because
08:44by the way you're going through these role players and we could look at some of these games on the
08:48road trip where you're like dude the role players sucked and we go to the game in Orlando if your
08:53name wasn't Quentin Post you sucked even Jimmy sucked like Steph Curry won the game by himself
08:59yeah but the the point is it releases all this pressure because you don't have to be you don't
09:07have to be perfect every night now suddenly they feel like a team that's got options if you're not
09:13playing well this guy's gonna pick you up and that's kind of what comes with like the vibes
09:18and the belief and and the release of pressure we all know this you no matter what you do in life
09:23you can release the pressure and you will perform better hashtag guru at knockout release yeah boy
09:31I'm sorry but for real soon I'm gonna try to tell him release the pressure and the ball will go in
09:39like I I make a layup I did not care or expect anything out of that day and to end up being
09:46with Grandy on the final two and like what like zero pressure I felt none and so that when the
09:55Higgins behind me going dude Willard's on fire well no I can shoot a free throw I'm a white guy
10:00who can't jump I learned how to shoot a free throw I can shoot a free throw but also they're going in
10:05because I didn't care just relax everybody looks so relaxed yeah thank you well and I've watched
10:11the humble brag in there I watched your Instagram which back today of uh of the final between you
10:17two and uh posted the L yeah you posted the L yeah Grandy with a I mean I don't know if uh
10:24if it's something that needs to get looked at for next year but he's shooting this like
10:28go forward jumper and if this was a true free throw that's a violation because he's going over
10:35the line I don't know the rules I do know that I don't either it's a little bit of a nuance because
10:39and I'm not going to discount the the fluidity of your jumper because it was nice you had the
10:45wetter going but he is jumping over the line every single time I'm not bothered by it mainly
10:51because not either I'm just saying the two minute report will also show that I completely fouled
10:56Grandy earlier in the it was a no call I was up above no it was a no call it's a good no call I'm
11:01not going to come down his role for some rule because I fouled that man I'm not either I'm
11:05just saying watching back in the replay in your IG by the way I fouled him on purpose too yeah I
11:11did not just foul him it was purposeful yeah I got that man John Stockton that man I wish you
11:16would have given him the treatment the GP2 got the other night when he had his nose broke I'm
11:22not gonna break I'm not gonna break another man's nose okay because I've had my nose broke
11:26enough fun no enough fun yeah no I would have powered through you would have he wanted also
11:31probably true he wanted it he did want it he wanted it yeah I broke my cheekbone but that's
11:36broken noses that's gotta be worse you know you know when uh you know when we I always think it's
11:41funny when we do this to teams you sit there like a fat rubbed pumpkin on a on a couch with a bucket
11:48of popcorn and uh watch a game and you'll be like yeah the other team fat red pumpkin the other the
11:55other the other team wanted it more I'm like is there anything more disgustingly presumptuous
12:02than someone in their 40s 50s 60s whatever sitting on a couch halfway across the world with popcorn
12:10going you gotta say it with your mouth full my friend doesn't want it enough I'm like they just
12:15want it more oh my god but true story and knockout he wanted it more they did you gotta see it yeah
12:26no doubt you're going after it went after that sucker well we get to the finals you gotta turn
12:32it up before the finals I mean you don't have to real go that hard no like I wasn't like I wasn't
12:37tanking gave it everything I had yeah little hobble made a few shots he moves quicker than me
12:43I lost yeah he wanted it more why also I don't know what celebration I would have even had had I
12:49won but Grandy had a planned celebration he wanted this that was not planned you you the night night
12:56just came out no yeah I mean yeah it came out it was not planned okay I don't know if I believe you
13:01I'm not buying it I mean I don't know if it's for sale but I'm not buying it if it was planned I
13:06would have hit it the second that went in that's true it did take a minute I had to do like I did
13:11a lap did somebody give you did someone give it to you like hit him with the night no no okay I
13:17think Bonte Bonte might have said Bonte might have let him know you need to hit that man with
13:23the night night Bonte was way too excited for just being a spectator like when we got to two
13:28he started jumping right in front of our faces he's jumping up and down I loved it and then he
13:32chased him he chased Grandy the way Guru chased his son when he hit that buzzer beater yeah
13:38I think that's wild we can ask Bonte on Friday Bonte filling in middays we're gonna have a Bonte
13:43Willard crossover let's throw the ages for the first time in years and I I'm gonna ask Bonte
13:50if he has a little FOMO I think he misses being on the air every day I don't think he misses getting
13:56up at 4 30 I did it for 15 years and it's not pleasant but we all would who would do something
14:01for every day and then when you stop it like yeah you're gonna miss it of course and I think that
14:05the camaraderie we have as a station it it shined bright on Monday at the event and you can see that
14:11Bonte was happy to be out there and happy to be a part of it again absolutely absolutely before 30
14:17though I don't think he misses probably not that part the alarm the alarm boy yeah can go bleep
14:21it I was a 344 when I was doing mornings all those years why 344 just because I like the odd numbers
14:27I like to keep it a little bit off balance and I would sit and we'll go to the phones because
14:31this is really inside baseball but I would set my alarm clock between 43 and 52 minutes ahead
14:37that way when I the alarm would go off I would look at it and I'd have the shock value of I'm
14:42late even though I knew that it was set so the clock would show like 4 38 and I'd be like I got
14:48to get up even though it was really 344 wait sorry really quick dibs what time would your alarm go
14:52off a 344 44 and you said that's an odd number it's odd that it's not like a round number like
14:58I get up at 345 it's like it's odd that he would do 344 not 345 okay yeah yeah you can 44 is an
15:05even number but I know I know it's a very even number and and it's my number at the craps table
15:11heart 8 44 shooter yeah don't mess willie mccovey that's right you hit a few of those you knew that
15:17number you knew that jersey number 44 oh yeah no I would have known I would have known yeah yeah
15:24I know hard four is uh two twos which is 22 will clark okay there we go will clark
15:31I mean will close my heart six hard six 33 uh roger craig and mary bird again
15:43was it really did he wear 33 I believe him okay that's a rare five I have the director
15:48great batting stance remember that guy that was very stiff and upright and he did actually get
15:53a hit I think in the world series against the rangers there's like a hundred million dollars
15:58for one hit that matters off to google it whatever um anyway go to tmc and uh in san jose what's up
16:06tmc what are you doing hey guys loving the conversation today um obviously we're all
16:12smiles in warrior land right now but two things come to mind as I was listening to your guys
16:16this feedback as well as one of the previous callers so it had to kind of work out appropriately
16:22right in the sense that you know oh they started off the offseason trying to get either marking in
16:28or whoever they could get right and then it led to okay well do we try and go for levine right or
16:34oh let's put all our chips in and try and get katie right and that didn't work and lo and behold
16:40they probably said okay I guess we're going to go to jimmy right and I couldn't help but
16:44reminisce and say like it felt like just a decade ago they went to dwight howard thinking
16:52we're going after dwight howard and that felt through like you know what we'll get this guy
16:57from denver called andre godalla and look how that worked out over the years right
17:04I couldn't help but think like imagine if it has that kind of impact right so that's one
17:10and then two you know obviously he's having a positive impact not only with the ogs but
17:15with the young guys right so that could pay dividends both ways in the sense that
17:21you're helping ogs make deep runs but who knows down the line it's ironically jimmy could be that
17:29proper bridge of that supposed two timeline concept of getting these young guys mature
17:38enough to play with the old guys properly wouldn't that be ironic if he's the guy that
17:43bridges everything together so I'll leave you guys at that and just kind of let you guys comment on
17:47my comments no doubt yeah tmc couple thoughts come to mind that would be ironic it would be
17:52very ironic and I like the fact that he used irony correctly because a lot of times people
17:57think that they use irony when it's actual coincidence exactly this would be irony
18:02because jimmy butler has had a reputation of not being a bridge builder or a real helper of
18:09younger weaker players but like I said even back when this happened one thing that I had sort of
18:15said not in favor of the deal but like I'm not making up my mind about who jimmy butler is
18:20because of someone else's experience that's fair let's have our own experience with jimmy butler
18:24and then let's also be mindful that it's been three weeks and and everybody always loves everybody for
18:29three weeks so this can still go many many different ways but yes our experience with
18:34jimmy butler might end up being totally different than what the experience was in miami in fact you
18:40may even argue that that's likely and the role that he's being asked to play here is different
18:45he is not the face of this franchise and never will be right so like that that's a completely
18:50different responsibility and and all of that stuff so sure it it would it would completely
18:57uh be ironic um but at the same time like yeah I I just kind of I hit it with that sort of level of
19:06of openness um if you're a warrior fan your relationship with jimmy butler started three
19:11weeks ago you forget everything that happened before that yeah that's all nba stuff and it
19:15doesn't affect you like the stories of him clowning his teammates in minnesota and what he did in
19:20miami and how he forced his way out quote unquote those are all things that you can hold against him
19:26if you want but as a warrior fan it starts when he arrives in la and he gets his number 10 is
19:32jimmy butler the third and you see fans rushing to buy his jersey and since he started playing
19:37they're nine and one when he actually plays basketball so for me that's when the jimmy
19:42butler clock actually begins well and then the other thing that he's talking about that I think
19:45is worth our time is look don't be afraid to admit it sometimes when when moves work perfectly
19:54there is luck involved and that's okay the warriors tried hard for this person to be named
20:03kevin durant not jimmy butler now I have no idea maybe it would go even better I don't know how
20:09that's possible yeah but it doesn't feel like it would and you would have had to give up a lot more
20:14there's no coming on the team there are multiple first round drop picks that are out the door
20:19and kevin durant while a better offensive player is is maybe not the connector that jimmy butler
20:25has been and not as good of a two-way player as jimmy butler is so um look if you would ask me
20:33back that day I would have definitely picked durant over butler even at the higher price
20:38but as we sit here now that looks like that would have been the wrong thing to do and the only
20:43reason that happened is because kevin said no that's the only reason so yeah the warriors also
20:49got a break right and that that happens in sports it does minnesota took back-to-back point guards
20:56in 2009 they took johnny flynn and ricky rubio and they chose not to take staff curry and so
21:02the warriors were able to scoop and score on the sharpshooter from davidson and if minnesota wasn't
21:09run so poorly he wouldn't have been available so was that lucky yeah and it was also lucky that no
21:14one drafted brock purdy until you got to the mr irrelevant spot so this is it's commonplace in
21:20sports where you get lucky and even if you draft brock purdy it's i i guess i hate to use this word
21:26i mean it's lucky that people in front of him got hurt so that you could even take a look at him man
21:30that seems mean-spirited no but the point is is he he could have easily still been on the bench
21:36yeah he could have easily still been watching football and nobody would even know no luck
21:41involved when your coach is running your qb into the ground there we go