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00:00I'm gonna go in to tonight
00:03very much feeling like
00:05That was a one-off
00:07That was a one-off the Warriors cannot be that bad again
00:13They can't be and I'll point to something with the Dubs tonight again. If you're just joining us Curry's out
00:18I'll point to something with the Dubs tonight that you and I said with about 10 minutes left to go on our show last night
00:24You know yo kitches out Jamal Murray's out Steve Kerr has always said he hates it when the other team does that
00:30Because your team relaxes and you know who's waiting in the wings behind whoever those people are NBA players
00:38Now yeah, they're not great, but they're NBA players and
00:42Same thing for the Warriors tonight who's backing up Steph an NBA player pods is back
00:48He'll probably play a big role
00:49And I don't see any reason on their home floor
00:53With Jimmy Butler and Jonathan Kaminga and all of the people who are available tonight
00:58I don't see any reason why the Warriors should not be able to compete in this game
01:02Especially after last night where you look at what the Nuggets did without their two best players
01:07They had energy and they had bounce and so yeah if you're the Warriors you look at that last night
01:12And you think that should be us on our home floor
01:15We are a little bit desperate not super desperate
01:18It's not a must win
01:19But if your pods coming back, and if you're TJD who I do think we'll get some minutes to try to slow down
01:26You know Giannis onto to Kumpo and all the rest of it go out there, and you play like Denver did last night
01:31They played hungry and energetic the Warriors were sloppy and tired yep
01:36Yep, absolutely by the way. I only take issue with one thing you just said
01:42Um you said it's not a must win. I'm not gonna disagree with that. I don't want to get into this is a big
01:49Flippin game to BFG mark
01:51They are all big flippin games and Grandy brought this up before the show the Clippers or I love Mark Randy
01:57But I respect well exactly and that's all I really care about in this moment because this is a fair observation
02:03Sensation which is that if the Warriors lose this basketball game tonight
02:09You wake up in the eight seat wait the eight seat good
02:13You're a minimum waking up in the seven seat wait that can't be right you lose
02:17You're in the fact check this guy Clippers host the Cavs. I know it's the Cavs. They don't lose yeah
02:27They lost their last game boy the Clippers are only a three-point dog same thing the Warriors are so Clippers beat the Cavs
02:34Clippers have won six of seven okay, if the Clippers win that game, and you lose tonight you the eight oh god
02:41I almost swore you're the eight
02:45Yeah, so for all let's get stuff some rest. That's a long. It's not a long road
02:51The urgency is off the charts. We got 14 left
02:55Yeah, you need to win almost all of them
02:58Well if you want to avoid the play-in, which is what you need to win nine of the 14
03:05You know 48 get you the sick. Oh have you seen the Wolves schedule yes
03:12They're gonna win all their games they lost last night right they stink right so how many times is that they stink the reeling
03:19It's their first loss in three
03:21Yeah, I mean they're gonna win most their games to play New Orleans twice later this week, so yeah
03:27Go ahead. I get it go nine and five and enjoy
03:31Hosting the play-in tournament
03:32I wonder 48 gets it done, and that would be nine and five and I'll say no the Timberwolves have 12 left
03:39So they would have to go ten and two to beat you
03:42What's the tiebreaker like with you in Minnesota you have it okay?
03:45So they need to go ten and two if you go nine and five
03:48They have to go ten and two to beat you that doesn't sound right yeah, cuz they're 40 and 30 yeah
03:53Percentage points behind you they shouldn't like if you have five losses
03:57Nine and three yeah, and they will and they will all right, so we'll see but for me
04:04And let's go to the phones. I know it's full full
04:09Tonight is not about urgency or staff or
04:14Standings it's about Rick celebrating well, and that's how they do it
04:17Yeah, and that's and that's their way, and I can't argue with that, but you better win the game
04:21You better win the game, I'm Jason in Oakland hi Jason. Thanks for calling on Willard and Debs. What's up?
04:29Who's going on did was going on Willard so hey we go back three weeks if we go back three weeks
04:35And we said to ourselves when the trade happened in the next 16 games the Warriors will be 14
04:41Into you guys be like nah no they won't come on man
04:45We can't we can't make this a story today cuz cuz Steph was tired guys
04:50Storm away the ball man. We are not the Washington. I'm at the Wizards
04:56We are going to get into the playoffs whether it be a play in or not
05:01We we are 14 and 2 from where we was at because I remember this
05:06You was talking about Steph was done. We probably need to trade him you had a whole different conversation
05:13I never said that
05:17Never said that Jason you had a whole last month dibs the Warriors was done. He was like you know what you did
05:28So where we at today yeah
05:31You need to be like you know what I ain't even want to talk about it today cuz last month
05:36We thought we was we was done. We thought we was gonna be the 92 Warriors the 93 with a Baron Davis come on man
05:42We okay we okay Jason Jason. Thank you
05:46I agree
05:46And I think 14 and 4 since the trade and that includes the Laker game that Jimmy didn't suit up for right
05:52I mean so 14 and 3 if you want to skip ahead or do you know how many plays fine?
05:57Whatever it is Jason's not wrong like it's been amazing and nobody would nobody would argue against that
06:02I'm not I don't find last night to be concerning in a grander sense
06:08I find it to be frustrating because they missed an opportunity
06:12But that's sort of my point tonight like you can't let last night build on itself. I don't care that Steph's not playing
06:20That's the urgency. I'm talking about you can't do last night, and then do it again
06:24I said last week in this four-game stretch three and one or it's a bogey
06:30Steph not playing tonight does not change that for me you want to make par you go three and one
06:36You win tonight, and you beat Toronto on Thursday, and then you get on a plane
06:41It's not that easy
06:43Tonight because a lot is tougher after last night
06:45And I I do think that last night for me is a little bit more of a gut punch because of the way
06:51It went and put aside the fatigue and the fact that Steph Curry had
06:54One of the worst games you've ever seen him play in more than a thousand regular season games
06:59and he said it in the post game that he wasn't good and
07:03Now he's gonna take the night off because he needs rest or his back hurts or all the above or whatever
07:08But it's the way that that game went you got dominated on the glass by a bigger more athletic team
07:14They had two or three guys who you could not stop and they aren't including their two best players
07:20And you had kind of a team that looked a little bit sloppy and desperate in my opinion
07:25Yeah, but I mean doesn't that again always two ways at least to look at things the Warriors played as bad as they did
07:33Possibly play I think and down by three with three minutes to go clutch game like clutch game
07:39You know like so we can in other words you can say well Aaron Gordon cooked them
07:44Not wrong at the same time if you just don't play like
07:50Kindergarteners on the offensive end you win the game if you just don't throw the ball off each other's shins
07:56Every other possession you win the game
07:59So well they did the same thing yeah, they had 20 turnovers and so did you I
08:05Didn't find their turnovers to be equitable with the Warriors turnovers
08:08I'd have to look at all the turnovers had some ridiculous turn of course
08:12But Denver also had some pretty bad and sloppy turnovers where you know passes that were just inter
08:18intercepted at the top of the key and they went the other way and you know if you look at the totality of
08:23How it went the Warriors didn't shoot the ball well from three and when they don't shoot it well from three
08:28They're gonna lose most of the time kind of true in all NBA games by the way
08:34They only have one punch a lot of them though. It's Orlando. It's Houston
08:37There's a lot of teams out there that are gonna be in the playoffs where we go boy
08:40I mean Houston did this last night
08:42They were disgusting for three quarters on their own floor against Philadelphia, and they're not a good three-pointing shooter team
08:48But they were in the fourth quarter
08:49They came back and won the game in overtime like you know the whole make or miss league thing kind of frustrates people
08:55When you shoot 56% from the line as well, and you shoot 24 from 3 with 20 turnovers
09:02They were they were historically right brutal last night
09:06And the staff at Lucas
09:07Director of sports shared is and he even threw in the NBA and the WNBA where that had never happened before and yeah
09:14You're right
09:14I guess the glass half full take is they were down by three with three minutes left while
09:21Historically brutal basketball yeah, yeah, so the other side of it is Denver didn't have their two best players
09:26And they weren't good either no doubt no doubt, but you don't you don't get that again
09:30I like for me. There's no excuses tonight. I don't want to hear well, but the chef no
09:36Yes, I I thought since the trade deadline. It's like oh, it's a deep team again
09:41And you have you have star factor outside of Steph and you have insurance outside of Steph and outside of Steph and okay
09:49So let's see it outside of Steph. Let's see it
09:53D and Walnut Creek ID. Thanks for the call
09:57Hey, thank you guys yeah, first
09:59I want to say you guys are the most fun to listen to and when one of you is missing
10:03It's not the same. I mean no disinfect to the Willard dibs bench, but you know I miss it when one of you's gone
10:10Well, then D. Then you better enjoy today and tomorrow because my because my man dibs is gonna go get drunk after that
10:18Okay, well, let's break down last night's game. You know I don't want to rehash all the bad stats, but
10:25Defense they didn't there were a lot of black fields
10:29All that good stuff, but when it comes to Gordon and Porter they couldn't stop a parked car
10:36Now as far as coming I agree with you. He can't some most nights. He can't finish a five-page novel and
10:44What do you think about this
10:46Steph Curry birthday celebration sensation didn't completely wear up the recovery wasn't
10:55I'm not gonna
10:59Like
11:0212 days ago, and you know I like the occasional libation, but I'm not sure if I've had a 12-day hangover
11:09No, he's talking about Steph's birthday, not you're thinking of Draymond's birthday, right that's birthday. We're just on Friday, okay
11:15And did they get after it no no I'm not buying his point my point
11:20I'm not either March 6. It was just Friday
11:22Well my point is like the big celebration was in New York where you got absolutely
11:28Hammered I would imagine I don't know and then you came out you were down 27 to 5 to Brooklyn right
11:33But but they they celebrated deep into the night after on Steph's birthday last Friday as well
11:40Whatever they came out beat the Knicks like yeah, and and yes
11:45That was now five days ago right so no I don't think that has anything to do with oh
11:50They played an awful basketball game, and I'm willing to call it that unless it builds on itself
11:57Unless you see it again tonight. I don't care if Steph plays or not you should take care of the ball that way tonight
12:03Not if you're a professional basketball team exactly
12:05I mean especially in the spot where you are and you mentioned it and it was shock value
12:10But you're accurate in saying that with a loss you could find yourself in the eight seed so and
12:15Stein you said this earlier on Stiney and goo from 10 to 2 the idea of well, let's all now put to bed
12:23Be in the two or maybe be in the three or even get into the four
12:27Because last night was kind of dealt you a little bit of a blow
12:31Houston getting off the deck and winning the way that they won
12:34I think you're more worried about seven and eight than you are about four and five
12:38I don't disagree, but here's here's part of my point about last night, and and and we will build on this a little bit later
12:45if if any of your thoughts
12:48Were based on the Warriors going undefeated the rest of the way then they were ridiculous thoughts
12:53No
12:53But when a game when you're eight point favorite at home
12:56But that's not even a point like this whole idea if we can be the two seed if one loss
13:02Knocks you off of your perch then you were on a house of cards
13:07Like that's not a real thing. There was no way the Warriors were going undefeated the rest of the way
13:12I understand that last night feels like a gut punch because they were sitting stars and it's one of the teams that you're chasing
13:18But I'll extend this point even further if you thought the Warriors were title contenders
13:24And then you wake up today, and you don't that's crazy your point was you didn't believe it in the beginning that yeah
13:30They can't lose one game, and you lose all of your steam agreed that for me has not been shaken
13:36But what has been shaken is the idea of them getting up to two or three or four and you know what yeah?
13:43Maybe even five that was not pretty unlikely anyway. Well if you win last night
13:47It's less unlikely because Denver would only be three and a half in front of you and Denver would be tied for the four
13:53With LA and Memphis you'd be you'd be two and a half back
13:57But instead they said they sat their stars, and you went out and you did that so now for me
14:03It's like six or bust you're not you're not I said this to you yesterday when you brought it up mathematically
14:08You're not wrong, but you're not you're not passing four teams in 15 games
14:12You're just not doing that unless you win all of them
14:14And they lose a bunch like I just don't I never saw that as possible
14:18Yeah
14:18Could they move move up to five or four if things go right and LeBron doesn't come back?
14:23Maybe but it's just a major last night that it has me a little bit more jarred is no yoke
14:28It's no Murray the spread balloons to eight and you do that. Yeah like super frustrating
14:34It's one thing if like okay Aaron Gordon does what he did and you lose by one of the buzzer
14:39And you played well, and you know what tip of the cap you don't tip the cap last night you stunk. They sunk
14:45They stunk like
14:47Objectively they just spend 10 seconds on Moses Moody at the end of the game
14:51Oh, what was Moses doing like what I mean, which part they're down
14:56like 11 and
14:59Everyone's like standing around the court like getting ready to shake hands and Moses gets the ball
15:03and he burst down and he shoots a three and he misses and
15:07Nobody does anything and he runs in and he gets the rebound and he dribbles to the corner
15:11And he shoots another three and he makes it. It just it was kind of a weird like
15:16Like Moses wanted to get three more. Yeah, it just was kind of fun to get those staff
15:22Maybe I'm the only one who was like, I don't know
15:24I think I had already like gone to to punch a pillow or something like that at that point
15:30WC and Sam Leandro, what's up? WC. Thanks for the call
15:35Yo, hey, I'm all with you guys on your analysis and all but we just need to relax
15:41You don't want players first round whoever you are
15:44It's like you ever go to the gym and and
15:48Worst player wants to check you
15:51Well, you'll get you them not showing up, you know, it's like really
15:56So, I mean it wasn't that serious the war is like just like you said when he takes a three, you know
16:02It wasn't that serious. It's it's like let's get the playoffs. Everybody get their legs back
16:07We saw where we're at where we're deficient at
16:10Kurt the coach he didn't look excited, you know, like oh, this is the end of the world
16:19WC can I challenge you on that last point?
16:21I mean, you're still the first half and Steve curves out on the court screaming at all of his assistants
16:26Yes, I think I like I I think your point is valid
16:30But I I don't think we can sit here right now and say like it's cool
16:35You have to make the playoffs and that is very much still hanging in the balance
16:43Okay, let's say we win the play yet, all right, okay
16:46You better be scared. Whoever you are. I agree. I agree get back at you in Denver
16:52I agree, but what if you don't win the play it, you know what I mean?
16:56Like I think that and WC thanks like I think that's sort of the message from last night
17:01You're like, oh you end up in the seven seed you win the play in did you notice last night that sometimes you come out
17:07On one night you have a crappy pitch and you throw it and someone whacks it out of the park
17:12Another NBA team. I don't want to be in the play in
17:18tournament period end of TED talk
17:22That's it under any circumstances. Oh, but the well of the opponent
17:27No, I do not want to be in the play and dream on said the same thing last night under no circumstances
17:37Those of you who think well, they're just you know, the Clippers and then you'll beat them
17:40Oh, so Harden and Kawhi have no opportunity to come into chase and be hot on one night and knock you the freak down
17:48zubats
17:50Not gonna get in you and put up 22. I
17:54Don't want to be in that tournament that stinking
17:58Tournament they don't want to be in the tournament as an older team and that is the biggest issue because we talked about it
18:05You want to have that rest you want to play and the weekend you have the Clippers you win that you're the six seed
18:11Chill, you've got Sunday Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Friday
18:15Maybe even Saturday
18:16Get your rest Steph and get your knees right and your back right and everybody else get all the rest you need
18:22And now gear up for a seven game series where you're gonna be the underdog no matter who they play your odds maker buddy
18:28John Avello
18:29Told us that very thing. So no matter what you do, even if you get the six seed you're gonna be an underdog
18:36Against a younger most likely more athletic team. I mean, that's kind of what the NBA has
18:42Lakers maybe aren't younger. Mm-hmm. Maybe I still think they're playing more athletic
18:47Ah, I mean, I don't look at Luka and think athletic
18:53Beyond those two they do have you know as many athletes as you maybe more maybe maybe
18:58We're taking your phone calls first and foremost on what concerns you most about last night eight at eight nine five seven nine five
19:06Seventy both Tim McMahon and Larry Beal on the show today. Let's go to Pete and San Ramon. Hi Pete. What's up?
19:11What's he doing?
19:13Yeah. Yeah. Hi guys. Thanks for taking the call
19:17It was really weird last night, but the strangest thing I saw and I'd love to get your comments was the team stats
19:25points in the paint
19:28Denver had 46
19:30We had 62
19:32Or 64 like 18 points more
19:38What happened there you think thanks a lot. I'll listen. Yeah Pete. Thanks. I think that that's that's simply a
19:46an indicator of three-pointers either falling or not
19:49The Warriors have a lot of made points in the paint because they couldn't shoot threes
19:54and so you got to start doing
19:55something else and that's when you play one-on-one ball with either Butler or
19:59Kaminga and they're gonna try to drive and do things in the paint
20:02Denver had things falling from the outside Porter had it fall and Gordon had it fall and so
20:08you know why take two when you can get three that's I mean kind of a
20:13Elementary way of saying yeah, but I think that's what was going on and the Warriors outscored him 66 to 58 in the paint
20:20So not a huge huge advantage and then you know, the foul line was almost dead even but you mentioned it the three-point line
20:26They got outscored by 18 points when you go 8 of 33 and you turn the ball over 20 times
20:31You're probably not gonna win the game, especially when you go 15 of 27 from the foul line