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00:00What we're talking about is just an open-ended question to all of you
00:03What's bugging you about the Golden State Warriors right now because you could go just about anywhere
00:07My answer was I like I'm just sort of I get why they're saying it
00:12But it's it's tiring to hear the parade of well
00:18The other team gets up for the Warriors. We get their best shot
00:22Somebody goes off or my favorite catch-all. We weren't ready to play
00:28Hmm, I don't even know what that means
00:30Like I know how fans process it we point right at the head coach and go
00:36Why didn't you give them your win one for the Gipper speech that got everybody inspired so they could jump out of their shoes and play
00:42Great, but that's not what NBA basketball looks like. There are no there no pregame
00:49Inspirational Newt Rockne speeches. That's not what a game looks and sounds like on a on a Tuesday night
00:57Like
00:58These are 30 something year old men
01:00Yes
01:01I'm 20 something year old men
01:02but making millions of dollars and you go out there and you have a game plan and you try to execute it and
01:09The Warriors had their uniforms. They were on time. They had their shoes
01:14The announcers announced them. They all went out on the floor
01:18Therefore they were ready to play. I thought there was only one comment from anyone with the Warriors that actually to me
01:26Was a real thing after the game and it was this from Jimmy Butler. I'm definitely 30 back
01:33But we want him to be right
01:34We're so expected to win. We got to put up a better effort than we put up the last two games
01:40He's back I think it's a little bit different. Okay, that's it
01:43We need Steph Curry back
01:44But we need to put up a better effort than we did the last two of course
01:47And that's the part that I'm fixated on and yes, of course
01:50You need one of the greatest players ever in the history of the Association
01:55Yeah, of course, you need him to play to be at your best
01:58But short of that you got to show up especially in these first quarters where you come out and you can't hit a shot
02:05You can't get a stop and you fall behind again
02:07For how many games in a row now where the first quarter just gets away from you and you're chasing it now and you're chasing
02:13It without 30 who is the number one guy who can help you come back?
02:18He's a 9-0 run waiting to happen on three straight possessions
02:22I mean, well, by the way
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02:45Whether it's Warriors College or heck anything else, right?
02:50So sure, there's the the the Steph Curry part of it, but here's kind of what I'm getting at
02:55I don't think you can come out of a game like last night and start talking about we weren't ready or we weren't focused or
03:03We played poorly or our effort wasn't there all those to me. Those are all buzzwords
03:10I look at it more through this lens. This was on TNT
03:16This was anticipated from the moment you got traded here. People started circling this game
03:22you got
03:24totally smacked in the mouth in your last game on
03:27Saturday in Atlanta and
03:29You are fully aware that the standings could not be any tighter
03:33So if you're gonna gather all those facts up and tell me that you weren't ready to play then something's wrong with you
03:40Like something's really really wrong with you
03:44Like you need a therapist
03:47I'm not kidding. Maybe a motivational speaker. You're not ready to play you need a therapist
03:54You need an intervention
03:56What the hell kind of a response is that to?
04:00We're in Miami game two of a road trip that's gotten off to a terrible start
04:06People are lined up outside to boo Jimmy Butler
04:09Pat Riley's in the building and Jimmy hates him and oh, by the way, you're down your best player and
04:15That's what you're gonna give us after the game. We weren't ready
04:19Well, the other team tries really hard because we're here exactly what well you need to be shaken
04:25If that's the problem
04:27I guess it's the problem because he said that that's the problem and if that really is where we are and I understand that
04:33It's been a long year and that was game 72 of 82 and you're probably tired and you you know
04:39you flew cross-country to play Atlanta and
04:42They stuck it to you and now you had a couple nights off to rest up and get ready for Miami
04:46And you know, everybody was ramped up and Draymond even said it on his podcast
04:51Oh, yeah, Jimmy's gonna be on 10
04:53Jimmy's gonna be at 10 and I know Jimmy and he's gonna be a 10 on the
04:58Readiness meter and then you come out and Jimmy's at about a four and Draymond's at about a four and
05:04Everybody for the most part was just kind of you know
05:06They're out there playing but you didn't feel the urgency
05:09Watching it and they fell behind again and they they had a quick rally and you mentioned it after they got within eight
05:16late late late in the third quarter
05:18Miami actually went on a 10-0 run over the end of the third and then the beginning of the fourth and they put it back
05:23To 18 and it was night night. Yeah, I'm just like go through all the comments that we heard
05:30You know, here's here's Steve Kerr, you know, it wasn't our best stuff clearly, you know
05:35It couldn't make a shot 9 for 38. I go 17 for 25. I just give them credit
05:41You know, we played very poorly, but you know, it's not like, you know, we were throwing the ball around the gym
05:46We had some shot clock violations because they played great defense
05:49We didn't connect the game very well and they just lit it up
05:52Spo had him ready to play as we would expect, you know, given the circumstances
05:57You know with Jimmy coming back and they were ready and they knocked everything down
06:02Early and we missed everything and we were playing upstream the whole game. Okay, so like even listen to Steve
06:09He's like well, it's not like we were just turn the ball all over all over the place
06:14Okay, Steve like do you want to know what like it's seemingly none of them will get to is just like
06:21we were thoroughly outplayed and
06:24Seemingly just don't we don't have the energy for this. I
06:28Don't know what else well, they're not ever gonna say that right and he did say
06:32That's my boy did give coach. Oh credit, you know, Eric's bolster for having his team ready
06:37And they did knock down a lot of shots early, but you know in general when you watch the game
06:42Yeah, they didn't turn it over a lot. But when they had the ball, they didn't put it in the basket either
06:47So yeah, you didn't have a lot of turnovers
06:49You didn't have a lot of assists because he couldn't make shots and defensively
06:52They had a lot of open shots and they knocked him down and that's why you got run out of the gym
06:57Especially the fourth quarter. Yeah, they're classy and they're professional. So like they don't want to do a press conference
07:03That basically has four words
07:07Which is what they could do if they really wanted to get real Steph Curry didn't play
07:13Yeah, well, what about that coach? We're not very good without him
07:17We're just not and and who knows like they're too veteran laden of a team for Steve to have that kind of a press conference
07:24That's kind of a college or a high school type of a response
07:27Right where you're trying to get something extra out of those guys. Listen to this. This one's a fascinating one
07:33Anthony Slater asked him about their offensive issues
07:36Beyond just obviously as you mentioned just missing shots. What what problems do you feel like need to be solved offensively right now?
07:44Well, you know we're
07:50We're having to
07:53Sort of make some decisions based on spacing, you know
07:57And without staff and so I you know, the decision I made tonight was to start Gary
08:04In order to guard hero and I thought he did a really good job on him early
08:07And I like the game was with the way the game went in the first quarter for the most part
08:12We just couldn't make anything. So I'll look at the tape, but I I liked a lot of the looks we got early in the game
08:18Sometimes they don't go in. I'm very confident
08:21You know with what we're doing because over the last whatever 20 games since we've had Jimmy we're top five offensive team
08:28So tonight wasn't our night, but I'm very confident that we'll be fine Friday. How about that?
08:33I mean
08:34He was struggling to find the right way to get started to explain it and I think you said it on our show thread
08:40Earlier like the real answer is I don't know who to play or I can't play who I want to play
08:46And so I'm kind of just throwing it against the wall right? We're not very good when Steph Curry's not on the team
08:51Right, and you've got too many guys
08:54offensively who aren't threats and
08:57We talked about the three-point shooting and you could look up and down the lineup and a lot of those guys
09:02You shouldn't expect to be able to shoot the three