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00:00Let's go out to the phones. 888-957-9570. What is the matchup that matters to you? What is the
00:07aspect of this series that you are really focused on? For me, it's the Warriors' brains. I just
00:14think there is too much savvy, too much veteran know-how, too much playoff experience, too much
00:21ability to work the officials, and so you can shangun me, and you can say, can I get an amen,
00:27and you can all you want with all of these athletic freaks that the Houston Rockets have.
00:33The Warriors are smarter, been there, done that, and I just cannot for the life of me see
00:40how this thing goes longer than six games and how anybody but the Warriors comes out on top.
00:46I think it is a six-gamer, and I put this out earlier on the YouTube chat, I think during
00:51the Steine and Guru experience, I have it as a loss, win, win, win, loss, win. I think
00:58they lose game one, and then they get the split in two, they hold serve at home, you go back
01:03to Houston, you lose, and you close it out here in game six at home. I can see that.
01:07That's just my official Nostradibbless prediction. You can lock it up, kukush, or you can just leave
01:12it alone. There it is. But you're betting the Rockets in game one, huh? I'm not betting
01:18anything. Minus a point and a half. Yeah, I'm not betting anything when it comes to the
01:24association. Yeah, I don't. I find it to be so difficult. I mean, just, well, I mean,
01:29I've done okay this year. You have. I've done okay this year, but I don't want to, I don't
01:33want to, yeah, like unless something jumps out of the page for a Warrior game, I'm going
01:38to avoid those because my brain gets all scrambled. Yeah, and I do like, I mean, I can't bet against
01:43the Warriors. What are we talking about here? Right. I like a game two wager, and in this
01:47case, if the Warriors do win game one, then they'll go into game two, and they'll probably
01:51be favored by four and a half or five, I would guess. That's a big number on the road, but
01:56maybe. And if they lose game one, then they'll probably be favored by two and a half or three
02:01in game two. Well, if they lose game one, I like them even more in game two. That's my
02:06point, yeah. Because that's when a champion shows up, I think, often. And Houston just doesn't
02:13have enough offense to run away from the Warriors, so that's the other thing I would
02:17foresee, close basketball games. And if you give me close basketball games, I understand
02:23where one person could be like, well, give me the team that's going to rebound better
02:27and is more athletic and all that. And I'm like, ah, I'd like the team that's more likely
02:33to get a whistle and make their free throws. And that's the Warriors, 100%.
02:38100%. No doubt. But we'll see. We'll see. What do you think? All right, Jonathan in
02:43the city on Willard and Dips. Hi, Jonathan. Thanks for calling.
02:47Hey, thanks for taking my phone call. I totally agree with you, man. At this point, the Rockets
02:53are kind of like Nassim Ahmed, a one-trick boxer. And we're going to box him. We're going to
02:59counter when he throws that one trick. And we're going to counter accordingly. And also,
03:05I want to see, you know, this is wishful thinking. I want to see DeSantos on his way
03:12to grabbing one of those rebounds, just accidentally sits on and lands his butt right on Dylan Brooks'
03:20face. And before he gets up, let's go of a really wet fart.
03:26What is happening? Jonathan, what is this? What are you doing right now, man? Like, are you
03:31is, have you had a few or what's happening to you today?
03:35No, I just, that guy triggers me. I still, I'm not like Steve Gruden. I let it go already.
03:41I still can't believe what he did to a GP too. That was two eight, you know, 1980s NBA is
03:47no place for today's NBA. And I just can't, I can't let it go guys.
03:51I understand that. I like, I'm, I'm somewhere in between, but I'm not, I'm not fully over. And
03:58thank you, Jonathan. Um, I'm not fully over Dylan Brooks, but I never, like, I also, I didn't like
04:04Dylan Brooks before that happened. I just don't prefer basketball players like that. And I know
04:12what some of you are going to say, which is, well, wait a minute. You root for Draymond Green.
04:17Um, I see, I do see them as a little bit different. Draymond does push the line and cross
04:25the line, but he also, he encompasses such unbelievable basketball know-how. Um, I see
04:33Dylan Brooks. Now he is impressed this year with the way he shot the ball. I'm not going
04:37to call him skillless by any stretch, but I do think Dylan is somebody who literally walks
04:42onto the floor and, and is looking to push, shove, fight, challenge the rules immediately.
04:51I don't mind trash talk. I don't mind getting in the other's head, but I, I, I just, I'd love
04:58more skill than, than what I see with that or, or the skill that you have, use it. I feel
05:04this way about James Harden, who's incredibly skilled, but the skill that he uses most is trying
05:09to fool people. I'm like, dude, no, use your basketball skill. It's not what he tries to do
05:14the most, but it is part of his repertoire. I'll give you that. And I don't think that Dylan Brooks
05:18is a guy who gets out on the floor and is thinking first and foremost about fouls, hard fouls,
05:24dirty play and the rest of it. And this year you pointed out the skill level and he shot almost 40%
05:30from three. He's their best three point shooter this year by numbers. 35.5% for his career. And this
05:36year he shot more threes than ever. And he made more threes and you know, he's, he's 29.
05:41He's now been in the league for eight years and it looks like, well, this year might be
05:46the anomaly, but it looks like he's actually improving and getting better. And I do have
05:50a little bit of a softer spot for him. Having watched the documentary of the Olympics. Was
05:57it, uh, the gold, it wasn't gold medal, but it was a gold. Thank you. Quarter gold. Thank
06:02you, Grandy. I'll make eye contact. Thank you, Grandy. Yeah. Ding yourself. Uh, Dylan
06:09Brooks, there's a scene where he's having dinner with family. It's like a table of
06:1412. Why is he in that? I didn't finish it. Why is Dylan Brooks? Because they, they
06:18showcase all, well, not all the countries, but they do a thing on France. They did a
06:22thing on the Joker and his team and they did a thing on Canada. Oh, Dylan play for
06:26Canada. Yes. Okay. So you, there's a, a meal that they have Dylan Brooks and his, his
06:31family, his parents and family, friends and siblings. And he comes across as
06:35just a sweet, lovable Canadian. What did he order? I didn't really look at his
06:39plate and they didn't really dwell on it that long, but you see him out to
06:43dinner. That's what I want to know. Isn't that what you ask someone when they
06:46tell you that they went to a restaurant, what'd you get? Right. But I didn't, I
06:49didn't ask him. No, I just, yeah. And it was like a two minutes. I'm just telling you
06:53why I, I was interested in knowing that. I want to know. I, I, you can learn to go back
06:58and look at it. You learn a thing or two about a person based on what they
07:00order. And the way he came across in that scene and in that documentary
07:05quarter gold. Thank you, Grandy. I'm, you could probably, you know, co-sign on
07:09this. He came across better than what I thought he was. Well, I'm probably the
07:13only person in this market who doesn't hate Dylan Brooks. Yeah, because he went to
07:17Oregon. Thank you. I have actually talked to him as a person. He is a very fine
07:23person. Oh God. Person. I don't know about a basketball player, but as a person, how long
07:27did you talk to him to be able to come to that? Over the course of multiple
07:31times as a member of the media, if you really like him, you would have called
07:36him something better than very fine person. So when someone speaks to a media
07:40member, even multiple times, you then know, you know that person. Yeah. You
07:45know, Steve Kerr. I don't, I don't claim to know Steve Kerr. I like, I think
07:52judgments on Steve Kerr can be based on a lot of things because for over a decade
07:58we've watched the way he's handled multiple situations, what he has said
08:02about certain things, not just the fact that we've talked to him directly a whole
08:06bunch of times. You know what I mean? Like I, I'm not going to claim, for
08:10instance, like, um, people will do this. Like the warrior players, we feel like we
08:17know them, right? Cause we've listened to them talk a million times. Do you know if
08:21they're a good dad or husband? And no clue, no clue, no clue, no clue. So, um,
08:29I'm glad Dylan was nice to you before he got a paycheck, but actions speak louder
08:37than words in my house. I get that. And I'm just relaying what I watched and what
08:43I felt when I watched it. It doesn't mean that, you know, I'm all team Brooks now
08:48and I won't forget what he did to Gary Payton, even though Steve Kerr has said
08:51that's in the past and you know, you got to move forward. I, I just look at this
08:56series and you talk about matchups. I'm looking at the Dylan Brooks, Draymond
09:01Green matchup, not head to head, but more about composure and who gets more
09:07technical fouls in this series. Who gets more technical fouls in the series?
09:12Um, pretty even matchup. I think it's a pretty even matchup. It's a playoff. So
09:17probably Draymond. Yeah. Dylan's not afraid to get a tech. You got 16 this year. Number
09:24two in the league. Uh, you're listening to 95, seven, the game KGMC FM and HD one San
09:28Francisco and Odyssey sports station. Always live on the free Odyssey app. And now
09:31company live from the laughing mug studios. Okay, here we go. Keep going. It's Sparky
09:36everybody in Alameda. Hi Sparky. What are you doing? Oh, having a get together with
09:43the kids at school right now, actually. Oh, nice. But you know, yeah, you know, I got
09:48to show up to be a father sometimes. Nothing says, nothing says being a good dad, like
09:53calling a radio show from a kid's event. Yeah. Yeah. It's the passion. It's the
09:59playoffs. We got to do some, some of the things sometimes, but, uh, since you were so
10:03much into Dalenbrook, I cannot wait to re quote claim on, uh, Blake Thompson calling
10:10him a clown because he called his, uh, how good they were doing a dynasty back when
10:16there, we got there, they got their ass whooped and play time. We came on the
10:20media saying, I cannot wait when this clown said, Oh, I cannot wait winning games.
10:25It's a dynasty, but you know, this is what we do. That's why he said here or there
10:31I'm happy to see them matching up. Yes. I think he has multiple, multiple ways to
10:37prove himself because I think he got something personal against the
10:40warriors. And you know what? Let it's the playoffs. Let the game comes, let the
10:46best win near here or there. I think, uh, or, or players are getting older and we
10:52deserve a chip, but they got to show it. They wanted to, you know, we can wish all we
10:57want, but that players got to, so they also their, their job and we hope for the
11:01best. Yep. They got to go do it. Sparky. I'll say this. It's funny when he says, uh,
11:06um, and I, in this case, he's talking about Dylan Brooks. Like, I think he's got
11:10something personal against the warriors. Do you know what I've noticed? Because,
11:12and again, the warriors have changed so many times, but if you're, if you're talking about
11:16the core, Steph and Draymond and Steve, I guess you want to put Kvon Looney in there too.
11:21Sure. Yeah. Um, almost everybody in the league has something against those guys because
11:26they've been around for so long and have succeeded so much that if I, if I said,
11:34does LeBron have something against the word? Yep. LeBron's got something against the
11:37warriors. Does Dylan Brooks have something against the word? Absolutely. James Harden,
11:41James Harden, James Harden thinks the warriors are why he hasn't won a championship. Let's say
11:46they got to the finals. Um, does, does Boston have, have beef with the warriors? Do they have
11:51something that they'd like to say to the golden state warriors? Like there are so many,
11:56many matchups where somebody's got something warrior related in their crawl and it's just,
12:02it's a compliment to them. It's just because they've been there so long and they've succeeded
12:06so many times. It's the ultimate compliment because, and that's where I think when, you know,
12:11Ryan Hollins talks about it being a rivalry, if you're Houston, yeah, you see this as a rivalry
12:16because you want what the warriors have had four times over. And so you look at this matchup
12:21and you're hungry for it. So you take them on as a quote rival, even though the last four times
12:27these teams have met in the post season, the warriors have won all four of those series.
12:31So is it really a rivalry when you beat Houston every time in the playoffs? Probably not, but
12:37Houston looks at it and thinks, yeah, it's a rivalry because we want to do what you've already done.
12:41No doubt. 888-957-9570. How about Steve-O in the city? Hi, Steve-O. What's good?
12:49Hey guys. Thanks for taking my call. Happy Friday.
12:52Yes, sir.
12:54I want to thank you for a little bit of that Giants talk and shout out Wilmer Flores,
12:58RBI leader in the league. But we are here to talk about the warriors and the matchup I'm concerned
13:06about is Sengun and Draymond. And the reason is Sengun's proven that he can get under Draymond's skin.
13:18And we need Draymond to be clear headed. He's been so good this season and we need him to just focus
13:27with intensity on his defense, get his rebounds, maybe a couple of random threes here and there.
13:33Um, but that's the matchup that I really am most, uh, most concerned about. Thanks. Thanks again,
13:39guys. Let's go. Yeah, let's go, Steve. Thanks, man. I can see that. Look that that game a couple of
13:45Sundays ago. Um, one of the best games I've ever seen Sengun play and he's a good player. I'm not
13:51saying that this was like out of pocket. He's a really good player. Um, but I was really impressed
13:56by him that day. Don't think you're going to get that level of output from him every game. Um,
14:02and I, and I also like, is Draymond going to be up against the line? Sure. That's where Draymond
14:07often plays and the playoffs are here. So I think he'll pick his spots to kind of push the envelope
14:13a little bit, but the idea of a 22 year old player sort of out maneuvering Draymond in terms of the
14:21mental side of the game and, uh, trash talking and getting under his skin and everything. Come on,
14:28come on now. Like if we've got any faith that Draymond grain is the future hall of famer that he
14:35is, he is not going to let a 22 year old outwit him off the court and lead him to technicals and
14:42a suspension or something like that. That I doubt that very much. I don't think that that's going to
14:47be the way Sengun would go about it. I think that the way he plays with a relentlessness on the glass,
14:54especially, and he's a guy who can certainly score. And he's also somebody who like many players in
15:00the association upon little contact, he can throw himself to the ground. And this happened in the
15:06last time the warriors played them. And Sengun went down a couple of times really, really easily. So
15:11it's not only baiting Draymond through his words and trash talk. He won't do that, but he certainly is
15:18going to try to get Draymond green to contact him and he might, you know, try to draw a couple of
15:23fouls with some floppy. That sort of thing is just as effective theoretically in getting to Draymond
15:29as words are that actually might make him even mangrier. Maybe, maybe. Uh, and again, like,
15:35I don't think that that matchup is even solely on Draymond green. In fact, I know it's not like,
15:41um, I know that the, the rockets team is aware of the fact that Kevon Looney has had a lot of success
15:47guarding Alper and Sengun so far this year. So you're going to see that matchup. Um, and, uh,
15:53and Draymond move to the four or take a break at certain times. So I think the warriors have a lot
15:58of stuff to throw at him defensively, very good player. He's going to have his successes, but,
16:04uh, baiting Draymond into a problem. I, I, I doubt let's go to Dan highway four again, eight at eight,
16:11nine, five, seven, nine, five, 70, taking your calls on what you see as the matchup that matters
16:17in this series. Hi, Dan. Thanks for calling. What's up. What's up, Willard? What's up,
16:22Dave? Uh, the matchup I'm looking at is Steph Curry versus the ref. Um, he tends to never get a
16:28whistle. I mean, not never, but a lot of times he doesn't get the whistle he deserves. And I feel
16:33like for a superstar, he deserves a whistle. Um, do you guys think he should like act out getting
16:40fouled more, like be more dramatic about it? I'm not saying complain to the ref or like play it off a
16:45little more because he gets held, he gets fouled all the time. He doesn't get a whistle. Um, and
16:50another question I'll take off the air. How many technical fouls does Curry have in his career? I
16:55really don't remember any. Thank you. All right. Thanks. Um, he has had some, um, didn't he get,
17:02uh, did he get ejected for the mouthpiece thing? He's been ejected. I believe three times in his
17:07career, two times for the mouthpiece. One, he threw it when Jordan Poole didn't pass him the ball
17:13and he threw it and it happened to go into the crowd and he was ejected. And there was another
17:17one where he threw it, I think in not into the stands, but off of the scores table, essentially.
17:24And that was an ejection. And there was a third ejection that I couldn't find the video of,
17:28but he usually gets about one tech a year. And as Steve Kerr told us a couple of weeks ago,
17:33complaining doesn't work. Those are Steve Kerr's words. Um, yes, he did say that. Right. So then I
17:40asked him, so why do you do it? Human nature, humans, Michael Jackson. Yeah. So, uh, this is
17:46according to AI on Google. So take it for what it's worth. Yep. But AI on Google says that as of
17:53March of this year, as of a month ago, and I'm pretty sure Steph hasn't gotten any in the last month,
17:58that Steph Curry has accumulated a total of 28 technical fouls in his 16 year NBA career.
18:05So it's a little bit less than two per year. If you go over his entire career, 28 technical fouls
18:14in 16 years. And it is wild because I don't know if you could do this with warrior basketball with
18:22anything else. Is there anything else that's happened 28 times and you can barely remember
18:26any of them? Like I can, I can remember a couple, but Steph Curry and technical fouls. Did he get one in
18:34Brooklyn or did he just get a foul? Remember when he got so ticked at the ref and he just took the
18:40inbound pass underneath Brooklyn's hoop and shoved one of the Nets players? I can check,
18:47but I think he got a tech for that because he also kind of stood over the top of the Brooklyn guy.
18:51Yeah. But he was sending a specific message. Like I didn't take that as Steph losing his cool.
18:57I took that as Steph being like, dude, I need to shake the refs. Hello. Are you listening to my
19:03message? And by the way, it freaking worked because they went down by 23 points in the first quarter.
19:09And then they came back and won that game. Yeah. And I'm looking at the, uh, the internet
19:13and it's saying that in game six of the NBA finals in 2016, he was ejected after throwing his mouthpiece
19:20into the crowd, but then it goes on to say he was called for his sixth foul with four 22 left in
19:26the fourth quarter. So you already fouled out. Can you foul out and get ejected? Sure. I mean,
19:32I, I suppose, so it doesn't affect the game, but yeah, you don't get to leave. You don't get to
19:38sit on the bench. You got to go in the tunnel and Jonathan Kaminga and got to go home, but you can't
19:43stay here. Yeah. So I, I guess that was one of his, uh, ejections in the NBA finals after fouling out,
19:49which I don't know how many times he's actually fouled out of games. Probably not many more than
19:55he's been ejected. Yeah. I would say less. Yep. Less six fouls for Steph Curry. That's pretty wild.
20:01Uh, really quick in that game in, uh, Brooklyn in early March when Steph just their full court
20:07pressure from the nets and he shouldered the nets defender and then kind of stood over the top of
20:11him, just call it for an offensive foul. But Steve Kerr was called for a tech. Yeah. Arguing after. Yeah.
20:15I, I look, they're all trying to protect each other and they were trying to send a message to
20:20the refs. And I think that that message was received because that, that game got officiated
20:25differently from that point forward. Uh, it's not why the warriors came back to win. They came back
20:29to win cause they're way, way better than the Brooklyn nets. Um, but I, I remember, and that's kind of what
20:35I mean about watching these games that are coming up and the tone that's set by the refs, that game,
20:42it was clear that Brooklyn was going to come out, totally beat him up. And Steph very clearly felt
20:49the refs were not paying attention. They were not protecting him. They were not calling things that
20:54needed to be called. So even down by a ton of points, he went ahead and took an offensive foul.
21:00Steve went and got a tech. It was like all at once, we're going to go send this message to the
21:04refs. And it worked. It absolutely worked. So sometimes it's not just emotion run amok. It's strategic.
21:12Getting a technical foul. Absolutely. And as Draymond has proven over and over and over again,
21:18when you get the first tech, then you've got a certain amount of leash before you get that second
21:23tech, because they don't want to eject a star player as much as fans think that the refs might
21:28be out to get somebody. You get the first tech and it's like, okay, that's a T enough. And then the
21:34player is going to go even further and make the referees have to eject a player, which they don't want to do.
21:40So a lot of times when Draymond gets that first tech, then he doubles down on what he's actually
21:45trying to do out there. Absolutely.