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00:00you know how there's been so much talk this year about the warriors age who looks old who doesn't
00:05look old okay now steph got hurt and it's a usage injury jimmy butler is he showing signs i heard a
00:11funny caller on steiny and goo talk about how butler gets into the paint and it's just pump fake
00:16pump fake pump fake pass out which is like kind of what you do when you get old because you're
00:22like i'm not jumping over anybody anymore do you want to know who has a characteristic that i think
00:28at least i'm guessing might have something to do with fatigue throughout games and seasons
00:36it's actually not steph and jimmy it's draymond please explain the three pointers he hits are
00:43always in the first quarter always oh yeah he never seems to ever hit a shot in the second half
00:51well that's legs totally that's just legs we were joking about it what people i was
00:58watching with last night we were talking about it and i go well if draymond's gonna hit me three he's
01:04like do it fast because i know damn well he's not hitting any in the second half and then on cue
01:09swish swish in the first quarter yep and no more ever again and his misses were not just misses they
01:16were not close they're not and it seems like that every game i don't have any data in front of me but
01:22it feels like that the the scoring draymond needs to happen early because he's not going to be there
01:28late pretty much and i'm looking at his uh threes nba.com you can look at any stat from any player
01:36swish swish and uh i'm through the next two threes airball airball uh the one in the corner in the
01:44second quarter was short the one in the third quarter was uh the opposite of norwood it was wide left
01:49and yeah he went on to miss another one in the third and then he missed another one on the fourth
01:54two for six from behind the line and i think it is legs and you know hard to hard to fault him for
02:00it and he's shooting more threes than he normally would and i saw him play with a certain amount of
02:05not desperation and not disinterest but kind of a mix between the two like
02:10oh the heck with it i got if nobody else can do anything and i'm looking at his last three
02:16you're down 18 with 809 to go you got about three minutes to either make it a game or we're gonna
02:23white flag it and so he's shooting threes because pods you can't hit kaminga you had a quiet second
02:29half buddy was ordinary which i mean buddy's buddy whatever jimmy butler was sick and not effective
02:37and i don't even know who else you can look to and think you're gonna score in the second half they
02:43had nothing so you dream on it's like you know what i got no legs i'm not a great shooter but
02:49i'm about all they got shoot your shot it's all you got except for they don't even have that they
02:54didn't have anything yeah yeah until that until the third string came in and almost almost gave you
03:02the backdoor cover i mean i was laughing so hard i was like oh my god the number is five
03:07like quentin post for three yeah even five and a half where you could find it seven feet short
03:13like i don't know why the hell he pulled up six seconds to go like why are you shooting it from
03:17half court quentin dub nation it's quentin post hey quentin all right let's go to uh let's go to
03:23kai in the city hi kai thanks for calling hey how's it going guys uh i'm gonna keep this quick
03:30so uh i got this chart right in front of me uh can you guys hear me yeah yeah yeah okay so i got
03:37this chart in front of me as of this morning anthony edwards and julius randall are the number one and
03:42number eight playoff players in terms of ratings everyone else on this list that is either leading
03:48their series or uh except for the celtics has two or more of such these players and uh of the top 20
03:56playoff players in these playoffs currently everyone else who has one player uh the caveat
04:02here is that steph curry was injured so he's left off his list for the ratings etc but uh has been
04:07eliminated so alfred singun number 18 eliminated lebron james number 19 eliminated donovan mitchell
04:12number five only calves player on this list down three one the celtics have three players they're down
04:18three one so that's the outlier but each of these other teams that are left in the playoffs have two
04:23top 20 players jimmy butler is rated at number 10 so what does that tell you i think that goes back
04:28to what dibs is saying right it's like all of those comebacks had some other guy doing something
04:35legendary do i think that this team can do it yes because i'm not going to waver in my faith
04:39but it's going to have to be some combined effort it's going to have to be draymond just being a bat
04:45out of hell completely locked in trying to find his offense early as you just said and so that's kind
04:51all i have but it's like where is that coming from and i guess that's like really the answers
04:55that we need well and i think where most people would answer that and kai thank you very much
04:59most people would answer that as that's sort of the source of their frustration today which is it
05:06feels like there's nowhere to turn the warriors have nowhere to turn when it comes to who can you
05:12turn to in a moment like this and sure there's the cominga part of it and he's been largely very good
05:18in this series and deserves a ton of credit for being ready and at least giving them what he's
05:24got even though it's led to zero wins but all of that said uh here's what i accept in fact someone
05:31on the youtube chat during the break um was just saying i think it was md sports i want to shout him
05:37out he's like hey you know look at the bulls back in the jordan days if jordan was out you still have
05:45pippen and rodman and then kukoc and all those things and i responded with two things i go number
05:50one you're right it's a really good roster but guess what that group does if mj gets hurt they get
05:56beat and secondly that team those years you're not dealing with second aprons and luxury tax penalties
06:06and all of these cap figures that are now welcomed into the party so um if you want to rip joe lacob
06:16for not spending like a hundred dollars for every dollar on luxury you can do that like go ahead
06:24get mad but i'm gonna look at a team that's got steph curry making 55 jimmy butler's making just short
06:3050 you have draymond green at 25 and i'm gonna go i i like i get it you did not have the opportunity
06:38to fill this roster out with a bunch of amazing uh just in case steph curry got hurt that that let's
06:45it's just not realistic not anymore no and you know the same depth that we all talked about in 2022
06:52that depth is mostly still here i know you don't have jordan pool but you do have gp2 who was a big part
06:59of that championship run and you had kevon looney who had you know 20 rebound games he's still here so
07:05some of that depth you had then is still here but the big thing i look at is what you're relying on
07:12more is young inexperienced unproven players and just one postscript to the jordan point i just looked
07:19at his playoff log in the six championship runs yeah he didn't miss a game he played every single game
07:25there you go and he played 47 and 29 44 40 40 so different era but michael jordan wasn't the guy
07:34that they had to go without in these series because the dude played correct yeah that's like that's why
07:40when you and i had this conversation about a week and a half ago and i got all the captain obvious
07:45responses for saying that if steph or jimmy misses time the warriors are dead i used a word that i stuck
07:52in there extended i know right i know in the past steph curry has missed all couple games jimmy just
08:00missed a couple games in the last round and they won they won so you will miss a couple games you
08:05miss a couple games you want to miss a series you're gonna lose that series you're good you're gonna lose
08:11that series um that's that's that's just how i see it tough and you know going back to that year that
08:17i cited before they did have a lot more depth and steph was eventually able to come back and play he
08:24wasn't at 100 percent and ultimately i do think that's what kind of led them to the demise but
08:29you mentioned it before that team went 73 and 9 so beyond steph curry being really really great and
08:35he was the league mvp you had a lot around him to where you were a good team obviously historically
08:41good absolutely 888-957-9570 robin in mountain view is next up on on willie and dibby hi robin
08:48hi hi how are you guys doing what's up uh i just uh had two things uh one i just have a gut feeling
08:57that steph's gonna play uh tomorrow night and my second point uh is uh i i like your i like what
09:03you were saying about how you know everyone's trying their best and it's still not enough uh with
09:07kaminga draymond and uh butler but i just feel like all three of those guys didn't click on the
09:11same game like that that uh third game it was more butler but he didn't have the same on the
09:16fourth so i think this fifth game you know out curry if all three of those guys can play well and
09:20you know have some of uh buddy shooting i think we can get that game uh robin thank you very much
09:26it has been all but confirmed i actually have even seen some shams type reports floating around
09:33nobody wants to be all definitive about it because the warriors have not given their official
09:38update which is not coming until tomorrow so steve kerr is not going to give it to us tonight either
09:43yeah but um your sneaky suspicion that he's going to play tomorrow night he's not he's not gonna play
09:50tomorrow night well think about it in terms of what we know about sports where a player gets
09:55re-evaluated on a day it's almost never that that player then plays that night so he'll get
10:02re-evaluated tomorrow probably what in the morning at some point yeah and usually that means okay he's
10:09cleared to start resuming basketball related activity and darn it we might have a chance to have him on
10:15sunday i also like keep in mind like it's not like the warriors are just like okay tomorrow's wednesday
10:22let's go check on step right they're looking at him every minute of every day the re-evaluation
10:29wednesday just means that tomorrow's the day we're going to get a statement made by the team
10:34the pr staff is going to put out a few paragraphs i can already tell you with 90 certainty what it's
10:41going to say steph curry was re-evaluated with his hamstring today and he's it is showing that he's
10:48making progress and he will be re-evaluated again although um you know like we'll be re-evaluated
10:57again on uh saturday right if the season's still going which it might not be exactly 11 and a half
11:04point underdog tomorrow night very difficult and you know teams that are down 3-1 lose a little bit
11:11more than half of game five no matter where that next game is being played and you look at boston down
11:173-1 without tatum and they're in real trouble and the warriors without steph going on the road
11:22against a minnesota team as i mentioned in the crossover they're healthy they're younger they've
11:28had no setbacks they only play eight guys they're healthy and some steiny said earlier about their
11:35record over the last 48 games something like 34 and 14 just a crazy record since they figured out how
11:42to use randall they've been humming they've been one of the best teams in basketball minnesota's
11:47fantastic this is one thing i know the way that it looks and i i mean man if i had a dollar for
11:54every person like i looked at it minnesota not that good they're so good i understand they've had
12:01some bad shooting games give the warriors defense some credit number one give all of the nba officials
12:08some credit because this is all so physical you're watching people's shooting percentages almost all go
12:15down that because these guys are all exhausted so this is kind of the way it looks and sometimes
12:20it's not the most savory thing but like this take that people arrived at after watching like two
12:28basketball games and going i checked it minnesota sucks they don't they're so good their roster is as
12:36good as any roster in the nba i believe one through eight i really do especially right now late in the
12:43season because their superstar is not just healthy he's 23 right 23 and he's playing amazing and he
12:52wants that he wants that i think that randall is a guy who has figured out in this offense how to cook
12:58and defensively you've got an elite uh perimeter defender in mcdaniels who is i guess somebody was
13:05saying 6 10 6 9 i didn't realize he was that big and long but he defends like a guard and then you
13:12have four time dpoi and you can discard that all you want but the man is a great interior defender
13:18rudy gobert so defensively they have an ability and then something else that steinie said earlier
13:24and he's right all eight of those guys will without gobert but you've got seven guys who can absolutely
13:30shoot the three including your seven foot backup big nas reed oh dude and dante divincenzo
13:36can stroke it so they can get you in a number of different ways yeah like i i sort of and i feel like i said
13:41this before the series minnesota because they did this to the lakers they they will have at least
13:46one game maybe two where they just go absolutely white hot from three and they will beat you and
13:54there's nothing you can do about it and last night for me that was that game the third quarter
13:58was that game they were incredible there's nothing the warriors could have done about that in the
14:03third quarter last well they could have scored on their own end and made it so instead of being
14:07down 20 you're down 10 maybe that's that was to me the frustration part of it because yeah minnesota
14:12what they were doing it's like oh my god okay you're still probably gonna lose you're still
14:16probably gonna lose but if the 17 nothing run was 17 to 8 instead well now you're hanging around