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00:00That was one of those two and I think that that's just a juice boost to any warrior fan when you see that guy dude
00:06Start hitting the way he did literally right out of the gate
00:10But I also I'll tell you this and this isn't anything negative at all
00:13I hate it when they go up 17 in the first quarter
00:17I can't stand it when they because I know I know it's going away. Well, I know that's the NBA
00:25That's the NBA there was no doubt in my mind that Memphis was gonna chip away chip away chip away
00:31and that this would be a stressful game and
00:33and and so I'd almost just rather be stressful the whole time because then if you lose that thing we get the whole like you
00:40Blew it you had a 17 point lead, which means nothing that early
00:44So that's kind of how I mean it
00:46But I certainly don't mean it from the standpoint of like what Steph looked like in the first half of that basketball game
00:53Just absolute the height of his powers and I love Quentin Post at halftime
00:58Why are you giving me a totally right? What the hell did I do to be standing here right now?
01:03That was kind of what we were all thinking just beautiful stuff
01:07And I like we've sat here for 16 years in this market talking about this man. There's nothing left to say
01:15That's the only thing I have left to say is I don't get it. I don't even understand. I don't understand it
01:21That's not a human being that's AI not Allen Iverson like the future AI that
01:27That's I cannot I can't believe what what I'm seeing when I watch him play like that
01:33It reminds me and I'm thinking about that in terms of what you're saying
01:37Like where you watch something and you're like, how how is that possible?
01:42And I my first thought was Barry Sanders
01:44When you watch Barry Sanders run the football and he gets a little handoff and there's three guys in front of them and it's you
01:50Know jab step jump cut whatever juke spin and he ends up getting 14 yards on a play
01:56that should have been minus four that might be the only one I could think about as a
02:00Mental comp where you watch it and you go wait how and Steph last night had 32 in the first half
02:07first off he had 32 at the half and I mean if he didn't have 32 they might have been in some trouble because
02:13You know Memphis was getting everything they wanted and more that game was not about defense last night
02:19And I don't want to dwell on the negative. We can ask Steve Kerr about it at five o'clock like
02:24defensively
02:25what are we doing because it's been a little bit lopsided, but Steph with 32 at the half and
02:32Man, Jimmy stepped up and Draymond was good and everyone. Yeah, the whole thing was like incredible and needed
02:38Yes, except for I mean as you're just all they like Steph was great. Jimmy was great. Draymond was great and yep
02:45period
02:46That's the end of that sentence. Yes, and that scares you a little bit. It's okay for that to scare you a little bit
02:53Moses Moody I thought was solid
02:55I thought he had a solid game and then outside of that there were a couple of moments
02:59You know pods with the the put back there at the end. Yep
03:02That was beautiful buddy healed hit a big three outside of that
03:06But he made everybody yank all kinds of hair out of their head always that is just that was buddy ball
03:12No question about it, whatever Quentin Post hit a few threes come on Looney hit a three
03:17So there were little moments here and there you can't guard him. No, I mean not from three, right? Why would you?
03:23That's not on the scouting report, but maybe it will be soon
03:26Anyway, bottom line is phenomenal night for the Warriors and I kind of threw this out there like I think this is a cool
03:33Moe D-day
03:34Right here on 95 7 the game and I apologize for anybody who hasn't had their 40th birthday or maybe even 50th
03:41You might not even know who the hell that is granny. Do you know you you believe you've heard of cool Moe D
03:45I actually don't know
03:47Okay, he's a rapper from the late 80s early 90s from when rap was really getting started man
03:53Okay
03:53When it was really becoming a thing and one of his classic beats is how you like me now
03:59And that's the question that I want to ask
04:02Golden State Warrior fans, which is how do you like him now?
04:06And and I actually the reason I want to throw that out there eight at eight nine five seven nine five seventy
04:11Yes, Steve Kerr joins us at five and it's nothing but you until then so how you like him now
04:16I think there are a bunch of fair answers there last night was
04:20Wonderful. It was convincing. It was a relief. It was a performance for the ages
04:27There are a number of things you can say there. It has unfortunately
04:31solidified nothing
04:32It is solidified nothing
04:35But in this four-game stretch, we all agreed had to have that one and they got it
04:41So now now we start getting ready for tomorrow night where they will play three of the top four seeds in the West in
04:48Four nights and have to do some plane travel
04:53Along the way a back-to-back tomorrow and Friday night
04:57Against past champions, it's all still really hard and Russell Westbrook did not help late last night
05:04and so this thing remains really really tight, but you take last night for what it was what a
05:12Phenomenal phenomenal performance. What a great night. And so what does it mean? What does that add up to how you like him now?
05:19Yeah, you like him a lot
05:21You like him a lot more than you did if they would have lost that game and yeah
05:24They were up 17 and you knew Memphis would make a run and eventually Memphis got the lead in the fourth quarter and you thought
05:30Oh boy, how can you do this?
05:32like Steph's gonna go for more than 50 and you're gonna lose at Memphis like with
05:38Jaron Jackson jr. And foul trouble the whole way and you know things were very physical and you thought that you know
05:43Steph was so good that you can't possibly lose this game and yet there you were
05:48Down late in the fourth quarter and and you pulled it out. So how do you like him now?
05:53You like him a lot and you know
05:55Maybe tomorrow as we take a second look back at last night
05:59you start to think a little bit about you know, the defense and the matchups and this and that because
06:04There was a lot of things last night that were head-scratching
06:07But right now you just bask in in the win. Give me some what was head-scratching last night?
06:12Oh the inability to like guard the screen role in the lob like Zack Eadie had a couple of
06:18Easy lobs and John Moran as much as he is a
06:22Flawed player as a as a leader as a one
06:26I do think that what he did with the basketball some of the buckets he made especially early in the game
06:31It's like they have a problem guarding really quick athletic. Well, I mean who doesn't have a problem guarding John Moran?
06:39That's like saying Memphis has a problem guarding Steph Curry. Well, they're
06:44Approach but they're very hard to guard
06:47Even listening to the conversation when you guys were kind of talking about Memphis
06:50Like how kind of dumb are you with the way you approach Steph Curry? Well, it's
06:56It's very hard. It's very hard
06:58Like I for 16 years people have been trying to devise a plan to slow down Steph Curry and so far
07:05They've come up with bubkis. Well, it's hard. It is hard. Yeah different teams have
07:11Different levels of success and I do think that you know, if I'm coaching against the Warriors and Steph Curry
07:17I'm gonna make sure that I send two guys his way every single time and you can you know
07:23Top block him and you could deny him the ball and you could make things a lot harder than Memphis did
07:27Memphis kind of let him go about his business as if he was Seth Curry. No disrespect
07:33Seth is a good player
07:35but you're dealing with one of the best players in the history of the game and a guy who
07:40he's gonna shoot a three from
07:4323
07:4443 or beyond and he got off to such a start that you would think hey
07:49Maybe an adjustment at some point might be in order. But again, I thought
07:54Here's what I loved most about last night
07:57We went into this thing and we pointed out I think what the warrior advantage was in this game and it's exactly what they utilized
08:05They utilized their advantage because you can say well the Warriors stars went off so did the Grizzlies stars
08:11They went off to yeah, I went off Jaron had a great game
08:15Aldama had his moments like the Grizzlies did fine
08:19but what's the Warriors advantage their brains and their leadership and so therefore their approach and I thought that's what won the
08:26basketball game in the end
08:28Yeah, and also three being better than two and you know
08:32When you have Steph Curry making 12 threes in a game
08:35that's a recipe for disaster if you're the opponent and if you take out Steph's 12 for 20, the Warriors were 10 of
08:4336 36. Yeah, not good. Not good. Tell me percent. No, there were moments in the game
08:48I thought where if you're a warrior fan and you're super tapped in and you watch all the games
08:52The thing you worried about was happening like late third quarter early fourth quarter
08:58Good looks were being created for pods
09:01Yeah
09:02And moody dream on dream on and they weren't falling and and and you're you have that thought go through your head
09:08Which so often does throughout the year can somebody else?
09:13please
09:14Make a shot and and and with Steph out of the game early in the fourth quarter
09:20That's when Memphis really kind of grabbed it and looked like they might win the game and I can tell you my little guys
09:26Looking at me. He's like dad. They got to put him back in the game
09:29I'm like, well, they can't play him 48 minutes, right? Somebody else has got to hit a shot
09:33So he goes hey, there's eight and a half minutes left to go. When are they gonna put him back in?
09:39I said probably about six or seven minutes left. That's usually what they're shooting for
09:43They're gonna bring him back in and thankfully they did and once he's there there were a couple of shots
09:49Namely the moody three that get knocked down and it calms you down a little bit
09:54But some of the things that you worry about as a warrior fan, I think are still there for sure
10:00Yeah
10:00You know you're on the road and you know role players on the road as we've talked about and Steph actually played
10:05The last eight minutes of the game 758 he comes in and even at that Steph in the fourth quarter wasn't good
10:12He was two of eight and one of five from three. He went record-hunting. He admitted it. Yeah early his first two
10:18Yeah, he went record-hunting
10:21You know go ahead and hunt the record and you know, it was a game that wasn't yet in the balance
10:25But after he missed those two, he's like, okay now it's basketball now
10:28I have to go out there and actually play but the team three of fourteen from three in the fourth quarter
10:34So even though you had the lead and you ended up outscoring them by nine in the fourth quarter
10:39It took a little bit more than just you know, Steph being hot and the team being hot to win
10:43Well, I thought when you watch that fourth quarter you got shades
10:47I mean everyone's like ooh playoff atmosphere and I was like and playoff performance
10:52You watch that game and you can see in the fourth quarter
10:56Go back if you're a warrior fan to game seven Warriors and Cavs when both
11:01Teams are just going back and forth brick and threes and they're all short
11:05Nobody could get the legs to get the ball there because it gets overwhelming in that kind of an atmosphere
11:11I would think it gets exhausting. Yeah, the moment is very big
11:14You're on the road and so we saw a lot of that
11:17I thought from both teams where there was a period of time where it was just empty possession after empty possession
11:23Because it was a playoff game. Yeah, it's too much and the big difference though was uh, you had him me Butler
11:31Get to the line and go six of six in that fourth quarter. So that's kind of difference me exactly
11:36So when Steph's not hot you have a guy now who can get to the the charity stripe and get you points for free