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00:00This is something we wanted to play with a little bit with regard to our conversation with Steve Kerr yesterday
00:05Because I said this earlier today
00:08If you're really a good basketball team, that's actually like ready to ride
00:16It's not the Knicks game
00:18Where you go look impressive. It's this one and
00:22Here's what I mean by that you win at the Knicks and it gets everybody's attention. It's exciting
00:28Therefore it's also easy to get up for maybe we should have thought of this when we were talking
00:33Oh back end of a back-to-back that one's gonna be hard, right?
00:37But the adrenaline takes over
00:39Steve Kerr told us Madison Square Garth still got that thing Mike Spike Lee's there
00:44It's getting everybody going Steph Curry performs the way he does the Warriors have a really nice second half
00:49They win the game over the Knicks Carl Anthony Towns is out. The Knicks are actually struggling a little bit all that stuff
00:55But to me if the Warriors are really ready to ride
00:59This is the one where I want them to look good because it's the end of the road trip. It's not the Knicks
01:06It's the Nets and it's easy for you to go
01:09Oh, we're a double-digit favorite in this one and the Nets can be pesky
01:13They've already beat the Warriors once to this year, right and it inside Chase Center
01:17And it was back when the Warriors were playing really well, actually
01:20So this one's pesky and scary to me
01:24And this is the one where I want the Warriors to show. Nope. They're total pros
01:30they are minding their business and and they are going to be a
01:34Consistent winner in the second half of the year. This one shows you how buttoned up you are
01:39Yes, because you have everybody except Kaminga and yes
01:43It's the end of a road trip where you have played five games
01:46But it's not a back-to-back and there was no travel involved
01:50So this isn't one of those where you go from Dallas to Houston and you have to play a game 22 hours later
01:56And it's a really difficult spot, which they actually won that game against Houston
02:01But this is a classic stay-and-play where you got to New York
02:05You had the adrenaline of Madison Square Garden you went out there and didn't play great in the first half
02:10But then shook off the cobwebs and came out and beat the Knicks
02:15Then you went and had a birthday party for one of your beloved teammates who turned 35
02:19Shout out dream on green and you could party all through the night and into the morning and you had an off day
02:26We talked to the head coach. There were no OTAs. No organized team
02:31Activities all they had to do was go to your hotel
02:36Sleep play video games
02:38Netflix and chill whatever you want to do and then you had all day today to get ready and play basketball
02:45So this is a classic no excuses game. You're better than Brooklyn. You didn't have to travel
02:51So miss me with the whole like, oh, you know end of a road trip blah blah blah
02:55Yes, it is the end of a road trip, but you had no travel you had an off day and now you play against the team
03:02It's not as good as you oh, I'm with you your business
03:05But that's what I like that's what I'm focused on I like I agree with you
03:09It's not it's not a building of excuses
03:12But to me if the Warriors play well tonight
03:15It says a little bit more than maybe people will think like I agree with you
03:19But at the same time if the Warriors go out and play well tonight
03:22They do win this one by double digits or even by seven or eight or nine or whatever. I don't really care
03:27I didn't learn anything on this one. I'm staying away from it
03:30But if they do that, then I'm gonna come away and be like, okay
03:33That's that's that means something because as you said, it does mean you're buttoned up
03:38Yeah, and Steve told us yesterday that they are I don't think we qualify for that team right now given where we are
03:45We would qualify for that if we were, you know rolling along if this were six seven years ago
03:52I would definitely be concerned about a letdown in a game like this, but where we are 20 games left
03:58Last game of the trip a lot of tough games coming up, you know in six
04:02But only a couple games out of 10, you know
04:05We're not in a position to let our guard down and our guys know that so we'll be ready to roll
04:09Okay, and and by the way, not only do I a have no reason not to buy what he's saying
04:14I do think there's some evidence of it already with the Warriors and we've complimented them for this over the last two or three weeks
04:21Like I mean for lack of a better way to say it
04:24It does appear at times in these last few weeks that the Warriors are playing harder and want it more than their opponent
04:30It really does the game in Houston's the one that stands out to me
04:33We're right before the all-star break half the league's out there players and even the Rockets themselves were like, oh, we'll play our guys
04:40But like half the game
04:42Yep
04:42Well, they played it like an NFL preseason game almost and the Warriors with about whatever
04:47five hours sleep from Dallas the night before came out with all their guys and
04:52Steph Curry was injured the other night the night before the game at MSG and they had to test him in pregame warm-ups
04:58And what did he do? He played and played very well and did the night night and all that stuff like the Warriors they are
05:06acting out what Steve just said
05:08Which they have to do because they don't want to be in the play-in and they understand that
05:13We're in the spot in the schedule 62 down 20 to go
05:16You've got to go out there and handle your business and I know the idea of getting the four or the five is probably
05:23Far-fetched and it might be out of reach
05:25But if you look at it right now
05:27You are closer to the ten then you are to the five and you are the succeed
05:32You're three back to the five and you're two and a half up on the ten. So there's footsteps behind you mathematically true
05:40Emotionally untrue in my opinion agreed, but you're the Warriors you understand the reality of the math
05:46Yeah, like the ten the ten seed has no players the ten seeds best player is Klay Thompson
05:52Love ya
05:53You are not like his dad
05:56Went on the air in LA today and said I am predicting the Mavericks to lose ten games in a row
06:02They're that bad. He said his son is stuck in purgatory
06:05Direct quote so I don't like the Warriors are not in danger from the Dallas Maverick
06:11You're right, but the idea of where you are and you know, Minnesota is still real the Clippers are legit
06:19The Kings I don't think are much of a threat, but you're only a game and a half up on the King
06:23Although playing oddly well since the bonus left, right?
06:27So bonus got hurt and the Kings played really well and they put the fear of everything into Denver last night
06:32Denver came back they won but but yes, Sacramento looks still viable on certain nights
06:38Of course, and if you're the Warriors and last year you won 46 games and you were the ten seed now this year 46 games
06:45Probably get you better than the ten
06:47But I think you have your eyes on 48 if you get to 48 wins
06:51you're gonna be at least a six and that would mean you go 14 and 6 the rest of the way and
06:56When you start to look at the final 20 games and you want to chalk 14 wins tonight is one of them
07:03You're better than Brooklyn. You are
07:05Rested you didn't have to travel and you're almost completely healthy other than cominga
07:11Tonight it's one of those classic no-excuse games and didn't you mention earlier that the spread is ten and a half big?
07:18Yes. Yes here
07:20I'll get you the I want to make sure that you said that on the air because sometimes I get confused like you and I
07:25Will talk did we say that?
07:27Right. Was it in the break? Was it in the green room? It wasn't on the air. Yeah, it definitely was ten and a half
07:33let me
07:36Let me get the
07:38the up-to-the-minute thing on that but
07:41Important, but oh, it's always very important. I know it is but the bigger point is these are the games
07:47Okay, these are the games where you can't have a hiccup like the Utah loss when the trade actually went down
07:55That's when we go you can't lose that game to Utah
07:58Well since then you almost haven't lost at all. So that lost the Utah was
08:05Unfortunate, but you've made it so it's mostly irrelevant because you've been on such a heater
08:09Yeah, absolutely and it is about to get juicy
08:12You know for all of the talk like I think that this comes in waves when people go the Warriors have the easiest schedule
08:18in the NBA true
08:20But that's an evolving stat because then once you get through a road trip where you're playing a bunch of bad teams
08:26Well now maybe you don't have the easiest schedule the rest of the way
08:29You certainly don't over the next week and a half
08:32I mean
08:32I don't know how many of you all look ahead to see what's coming
08:36But they're gonna play in Brooklyn tonight
08:37And if they presumably go out there and win that game and make their record 35 and 28
08:43Take a little gander at the homestand and it's pretty sexy in ways that maybe you didn't realize
08:49Detroit is coming on Saturday. That's now a very good basketball team. They have a better record than the Warriors do. Yes, Detroit
08:57Portland is coming Monday night. Don't glaze your eyes over the Portland Blazers
09:04You're better than them
09:05You should win but take a look at who they've been over the last month of the season you realize that's a very viable team
09:12And if you're not paying attention, they go get you now you watch out. Okay, they've been much better. You're right
09:18Yes, Sacramento on Thursday
09:20We all know what that dynamic is like and then you've got three games in four nights starting next weekend
09:27Knicks
09:28Nuggets box pow pow pow bang bang bang
09:31So you get yes, you got to be ready because I do think there are like if we're real
09:36This is not a this is not a six and O homestand that's coming up. No, probably not
09:42Honestly, I'm four and two if I gave you four and two right now, would you take it?
09:47Oh, are we in the mode now? We're probably we're gonna shake our head at four
09:51No, I'd probably take it just because four and two is good
09:54You know what? I mean, you're asking for win two of every three two of every three
09:58Yeah, and when even when you're at home, then yes. Yes. I'll take it because then you hit the road again for a bunch of
10:05Jimmy-junk, you're gonna get more Jimmy-junk on the road there when you when you leave again, so
10:10Yeah, I think I would well
10:12I think I mean if if I give you a four and two homestand and a win tonight, then you'd be 39 and 30
10:18Let's ride right, you know 39 and 30 years at least in the six
10:22And you know, you'd have 13 games left and you'd be at 39 wins
10:26Yeah, I I think that that's more than acceptable exactly
10:31Yeah, exactly and I don't want to go too deep with the schedule game
10:34But you're right about the upcoming homestand because Detroit better record than you right now by a half a game
10:41you have the same number of losses, but the Portland one is really interesting because they were
10:4613 and 28 at the halfway point and since then they've won 15 of 22
10:52Yeah, they've got 15 and 7 they can play. Yes, and yeah, they can play and they're like
10:57Beating a lot of teams on the road and at home and Portland is not the same laughingstock that they were earlier in the year
11:04Yeah, I mean it's still there's still a take-care-of-business type of team when they're in your gym, right?
11:08like they went to Boston last night and
11:11And Tatum didn't even play and and Boston still handled them pretty pretty much with ease
11:17Peyton Pritchard scored like a thousand points or something. Yeah, I don't know if you saw that
11:21But do you 10 threes and he had the granny now is flashing his 41 though 41 points, right?
11:2810 threes good Lord bet his under to add him to the list
11:32No bet is under because that that's the kind of game that makes it is over under get totally inflated
11:38Longer six-man-of-the-year right there. Is he? Oh, yeah. Well, I she had 43 points 10 for 16 from deep good Lord
11:47Also 10 rebounds and five assists and bought but be careful good Boston sit like everybody tonight
11:53Boston is sitting everybody tonight
11:55Tatum is questionable, but there's no Brown. There's no Chris stops. There's no
12:01Bunch of guys bunch of guys are all sitting out
12:03But Peyton Pritchard with more games with 10 or more threes than Reggie Miller
12:10Go ahead. Reggie's never had one ever. Yeah, Ray Allen has won
12:14Yeah, and again, this goes back to yesterday's conversation about Steph Curry and changing the game
12:18It's the game has changed so much that Peyton Pritchard good player. I'm being told
12:24Possible six-man-of-the-year is averaging like 14 or 15 tonight. It's good player 10 threes 10, right?
12:3110 threes Ray Allen did it once Reggie Miller never did it. So nowadays
12:36Anybody and no disrespect to double P's but you know
12:39You have the ability to go out there and shoot so many threes that you can hit 10
12:43You can get hot Pritchard currently minus 220 on the sixth man of the year. Oh, okay. Yeah
12:49That's a so I bet 220 to win a hundred that sounds like a lock
12:52Who else are even the candidates Malik Beasley of the Pistons plus 250 then you get into the plus like a thousand range
12:59Who is the Warriors sixth man
13:03Exactly
13:05He's been absent the last two months. Is it Jonathan Kaminga? I mean, is that what you would say? Yeah, I mean
13:10That's probably although there's still it's funny that that all died down about like is he gonna start when he comes back?
13:16Like that just went away
13:18completely if you believe
13:20NBA rumor ville
13:22Tonight is the last night without Jonathan
13:26Yeah, if you believe the NBA rumor mill Chalmers was on this and he's pointing to Detroit Saturday night for
13:34For Jonathan Kaminga's return that whole conversation got quiet real fast
13:39Yeah
13:39Super quiet and if you're the Warriors and you look at tonight in Brooklyn
13:44That game will get over at about 11 o'clock New York time. And so it's a long flight home
13:50No doubt and tomorrow you're not gonna you're not gonna practice tomorrow. You're not gonna scrimmage
13:55And then you get ready for a game on Saturday, so they've already made the decision. I would imagine about coming
14:02Internally, I would think they know and if it's not Saturday, I would bet that it's Monday against Portland
14:09It's gonna be one of those two
14:10Maybe you just wait and see how much swelling he gets on the flight home because you know how those airplanes can get you
14:16If you have a little inflammation, it'll get you in the air now without me. It'd be an inflammation sensation. Yes it would