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00:00Let's put this out there for everybody to chew on a little bit eight eight eight nine five seven nine five seventy and the question
00:05Is is did the starters have to do too much?
00:08And I asked that from a place of where I think the answer is no I thought last night was great
00:16In general I do not have any level of concern that there was no role player
00:22Who really stepped up and did anything amazing? I thought Moody was solid Moody had ten points and
00:28Obviously hit a huge three right there at the end of the game
00:31He was largely in charge of guarding jaw did a nice job defensively even though
00:37I know jaw kind of kind of went off
00:38I thought Moses played a pretty good game
00:41But outside of that the thing that we worry about with warrior basketball was still on display
00:47It was still there can somebody not name Steph make a freaking shot, and it was on display
00:54Yeah, but here's why I think last night was actually perfect the Warriors
01:00played last night like a playoff game and
01:04You can you can look at this one of two ways. I think you can either look at it and go well
01:09Yeah, they're gonna be exhausted if you have to do that
01:11And he's not gonna be that on fire every single time in the playoffs. That's true what I wanted to see though
01:18I wanted to see
01:20between Steph Curry and
01:22Jimmy Butler and
01:24Draymond green that if you really do that if you lock in
01:29Dial-in play the number of minutes that you think you're gonna play go on the road
01:35Against an activated opponent that really needs the game, too
01:39What's that going to look like is it gonna look like it flows together and the answer was unequivocally yes?
01:46You're not gonna win all of your road playoff games against good teams
01:50You're not gonna win all of them
01:51But you need to win some of them a small handful of them
01:54I don't think you need 52 points every time from staff
01:57Yeah
01:57But you need those three at this point in the season to show that that mix works in that
02:05Environment and I thought last night the answer was yes, and that's the answer they've been looking for that's right
02:10and you know Jimmy with 27 and he played 38 minutes, which is kind of close to what playoff Jimmy is and
02:18You know I don't want to say the man's name because we've gone an hour and seven minutes without mentioning him
02:24Don't say it. I won't then don't I'm not going to he didn't play last night
02:29I'm gonna just texted it, and I'm like I ain't reading that I'm not area. There's Jonathan coming you don't
02:35Say it well
02:36He said his own name, and I I don't want to disparage him
02:39But I'm just going to point out the fact that playoff Jimmy or him II him II Butler
02:45he played 38 minutes, and you know he could probably play 40 or 42 or
02:50He could play all the damn minutes if he wants because that's what playoff Jimmy is
02:54He had 27 Draymond green
02:5713 12 and 10 that's a triple-double now
03:01It's not 61 which is I think the Joker had 61 or he was just and we can get to that
03:06He was intense last night like if anyone's gonna break Wilt's record it might be him
03:10Oh, and he might go for a hundred twenty and twenty because he's I mean the dude is that good at all three phases
03:18But you talked about the big three Steph with 52 and 10 and 8 by the way
03:25Phenomenal Draymond triple-double and Jimmy 27 if you get those three to do that well
03:32Then maybe we are talking about June basketball. It's a quick aside there on the side listen to this
03:3861 points 10 rebounds 10 assists and
03:43I can give you a different number that allow you more than any of those three 11 steals. No 13 turnovers. Oh
03:508 fouls he played
03:5353 minutes, that's all the minutes
03:5653 minutes in in that game last night game double OT double OT so not all the minutes double up
04:04He played 53 of 58 correct
04:0853
04:0958 he played
04:1253 minutes by the way so did how'd they do they lost I mean, thanks for us. It's just
04:19Thanks for us. I mean either
04:21Don't shoot a layup or make the layup
04:24The thing about that layup that thing was like bottom of the basket. Well. It wasn't even close here's no
04:31No, and you have a fifth grader, and I've reffed fourth and fifth grade for 35 years
04:36It looked like a fourth grade layup like you're open. You have a layup
04:41Oh, dude
04:42He hit the bottom of the rim bottom of the bass bottom of the rim with a lamp with a lamp
04:47Here's the oddest basketball player I've ever watched play
04:50Like it was on display when they came in here and beat the Warriors a week and a half ago, dude
04:54That guy'll nail a three and then on the next trip down
04:58He'll like step back from 18 feet and shoot it 12
05:02I've never seen air balls like this man throws up right it's absolutely bananas
05:09Here's where last night's Denver Nuggets loss has a silver lining for the Warriors
05:13Does you know that the Nuggets play again tonight tonight, and then they play on Friday night here?
05:20Did you know that?
05:22Outside if Russell Westbrook is their sixth man
05:24And he is and he played 38 minutes in that game last night off of the bench all of the starters had
05:33You know
05:34Inflated minutes four of them had at least 45 or more one starter Jalen Pickett had 32 minutes
05:41Russ had 38
05:43outside of that
05:46Other Nuggets got 21 total minutes. That's it. That's it 21 total that team is going to be egg
05:54exhausted
05:56Exhausted they've got to play again tonight
05:59double overtime
06:0133 minutes of basketball for yoke it's 61 10 and 10 and in a loss and a loss in a loss and I
06:09Just the way he plays like he almost defies fitness the way he kind of like I know
06:14Lopes up and down and if you watched him and didn't know like what the score was or what the stats were if you just
06:22Watched him with your eyes. You'd think this is kind of a joke only
06:2761 10 and 10 yeah
06:30Multiple MVPs and he might he probably I don't know if he should win it this year because Shea is gonna be
06:36Awesome, and they're gonna win 70. Maybe they're 16 and a half games ahead of the Nuggets
06:42I get it, but like the Joker could win the MVP every single year of course. Yeah, that good
06:47Yeah, they were just I mean in the overtime periods
06:50They would just give him the ball and then let him back down back down boom boom
06:55And then he just does that awkward kind of turn around whatever one hander
06:58And it was just going in at least most of the time so anyway
07:04Just just an unbelievable night of basketball last night led by Steph Curry and Nicola
07:11Yokich
07:11But the Warriors get the win and the Nuggets do not and the whole thing is still a big old
07:17Mess of a bucket right there in the Western Conference the Nuggets in the three seed
07:23Are let's see a half game ahead of the Lakers in the four seed
07:27Which is two games ahead of the Warriors in the five seed which is a half game ahead of the Grizzlies in the six seed
07:33And Minnesota is tied with Memphis for the seven seed and another half game back goes to the Clippers of the eight seed
07:40So all of that energy goes into last night. We live it. We breathe it
07:45We we just we can't get enough of it the Warriors get a win
07:49You you relax the shoulders a little bit, and you realize there's still a game out of the eight seed one
07:55Game right and the Clippers play a joke of a game tonight, and they're gonna win it and they're gonna move even closer again
08:01Number one it feels like it might all come down to that last game where my you know
08:07You're the six and they're the seven or maybe you're the five and they're the six and so it won't really matter
08:12But it could come down to that last Clipper game