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00:00you were right about the game no one's going to take that from you um i didn't predict a sweep
00:06i've been very confident in this series i remain very very confident in this series but but
00:14health is always the set aside and you and i don't always see eye to eye on this one because
00:20for instance i will go back to the nfc championship game forever from uh two plus years ago and tell
00:27you that it's like great the eagles won but yeah we knocked the quarterback out of the game yeah two
00:35of them right so like that's different that's different it doesn't mean it didn't happen
00:40but that's different i'll be the first one to stand up right now and tell you that if steph curry or
00:47jimmy butler miss extended periods of time the warriors are going to be ousted they're not that
00:54good without either of those players so that's my thing today there i'm sorry warrior fans there is
01:01no strength in numbers i'm sorry there just isn't on this team and so everything that i'll speak just
01:09for me everything you hear me say about the warriors in these playoffs is dependent on the idea that they
01:18stay healthy if those two don't stay healthy you can take everything i say and throw it in the trash
01:23yeah and then i think it's fair and you're right about strength in numbers because you look at this
01:27team and you've got steph curry uh top 10 all time probably higher than that jimmy butler hall of
01:34famer draymond green hall of famer okay then let's go beyond that moses moody fourth year first year
01:41really mattering uh pods second year uh quentin post rookie buddy healed journeyman kavon looney
01:49limited and limited minutes gp2 basically out of the league four years ago before the warriors figured
01:57out how to use them g santos newbie from brazil so if you get beyond the big three you're looking at
02:04six to seven or eight other players who are either rookies or young journeymen or severely limited so
02:12you're right about strength and it's not strength in numbers it's just numbers and numbers are numbers
02:18they are if you have pods numbers and numbers are numbers if these guys play well the others
02:25then you have a chance to make a deep run oh no yeah there's two starters that go out in the second
02:30quarter i know pods came back and he was awful in the game anyway he was not ready to roll because he
02:36wasn't feeling well or whatever jimmy butler goes out and yeah you're like i hope did you all have the
02:40same moment i did like you you sit down you get comfortable and you're like okay first quarter action
02:47home game right rockets they delivered the first punch that's all fair and the second quarter happens
02:54and and here comes the we're ahead of new orleans by 38 lineup and and it's a playoff game right
03:02and i'm like what the hell led to this like that's that's our next pitch here we go something bad
03:13happened pat spencer is on the floor kaminga's out there and everyone's like oh gosh here comes
03:20kaminga this is like a moment for everybody and and and steph and jimmy are both not on the floor at
03:26the same time right neither one of them's out there which the warriors never ever do almost never and and
03:33and you're looking at this going this this team does not have a chance to win a playoff series if
03:40that's who you're putting out there that's that's a no that's not gonna work yeah so that second
03:46quarter team did better against houston than the first quarter some of those guys credit yeah they
03:51came out they weren't scared they they tried they did a couple things they did some weird things
03:56yeah i give them credit for not being scared right and you played a second quarter where you only lost
04:02by four and you lost the first quarter by 10 so the second quarter team the second unit so to speak
04:09and some of those guys are third unit but they came out and at least kind of held their own and
04:13that's where i look at this game at the end of it you lost by 15 you got to a point where you were
04:19down seven or eight late and it's like they should be down by 25 right now but they weren't so for me
04:25the positives is how you you still kind of hung in there up until there was about three and a half
04:30minutes left when houston went on that last little flurry up until then through all the bad stuff you
04:37still were in the game they rebounded better and oh by the way if your name wasn't jaylen green you
04:42still can't shoot right the rockets are still the rockets it's just one of them was awesome last
04:48night and that was enough and shangun's a problem still but he's he's an all-star right like that i
04:55mean that i don't that's baked into the cake if you ask me that's fine but i tell you what what did
05:01jaylen end up with 38 yep all right right now i'm gonna take the under on any rocket doing that again
05:08for the rest of the playoffs it will not happen again nobody i'll even lower it for you 35 not
05:16happening no one not once even 30 probably not and maybe 30 like fred van vliet two of eight okay
05:24there you are again he's two or something at the end of every game pretty much and shangun had 17 on 15
05:30shots not that uh productive yeah 16 rebounds but good player like he's just a good player yeah
05:36does all kinds of things on the floor dylan brooks 6 of 12 amin thompson 4 of 7 like that's all
05:42normal that's within the range of normalcy that's workable that's not going to blow the warriors out
05:48tari easton 6 and 9 he played great he played great he played great and and he nailed pat spencer with a
05:54towel which was moron what are you doing right like what i will here's one thing moron but when
06:02you look at it like that was an absolute uh center cut towel throw oh dude he nailed not only did he
06:09nail him but it spread out and it covered him stick and stay yeah it was incredible it was incredible
06:15and pat rips it off and he he mean mugs him and it's like good for you pat yeah pat spencer mean
06:20mug is not that intimidating but anyway nothing says a fight in 2025 like a guy throwing a towel
06:27a basically a glorified hanky into another guy's face what are we doing if it was 1977 there would
06:33have been weapons and punches and chairs dude there yeah i threw a towel in his face how soft are you i
06:40mean the uh you know kind of the uh if you want to make an analogy out of it or Houston threw in the
06:47towel don't worry i still think the warriors are winning this series but 408 just sent this in
06:52boxer and gerson work injury attorneys text line and here's where i'll agree i i don't want to get
06:56into oh the officials are mean to the warriors there's a steph curry conversation but the physicality
07:03is what it is the warriors are delivering plenty of blows also draymond was innocent of nothing last
07:09night and so um i don't think that warrior fans have much to say about just general like that whistle
07:19or this whistle or or or any of that but here's where i will agree and and the text from 408 says
07:25i just want to say that if draymond did what amen thompson did he'd be suspended for a minimum of a game
07:33i've now re-watched it 20 times and he was not pushed first of all you're right he was not pushed
07:39you brought up the point that it wasn't even looked at and let's say what if green versus green was the
07:45other way around what if draymond delivered the forearm to jaylen green's face oh he's thrown out
07:51of the game no doubt there is no doubt and jaylen green missed yes he did he did but and and draymond
07:57has earned that and i understand that your reputation in life is what it is but if you're a warrior fan
08:03feeling today like there's a little something different there where like the reputation
08:09sort of doesn't lead to that kind of tarry eason if draymond did that you're thrown out you're
08:16thrown out all tarry did was get one tech so i'll agree there um these houston kids are so new they've
08:24not had time to build up any ill will with the refs yet and reputation exactly dylan other than brooks
08:31right and i that's why i just was surprised about the amen thompson to not even like go to the
08:36monitor and look at it and review it and whether or not it should have been a flagrant or not whether
08:41or not it was cheap or dirty i don't know the young man's intent i don't think that he has a reputation
08:46of being that but to not even look at it for me felt a little bit short-sighted especially when you know
08:53as an officiating crew what the head coach said before the start of the series which is yeah we're gonna try
09:00to see if we can't make the refs call it we're gonna foul them every time every chance we get
09:05so as a ref you know that that is going to be the blueprint for houston it's going to be physical and
09:10that happens and you don't even look at it that for me was a misstep all right let's hear from y'all
09:15okay eight at eight nine five seven nine five seventy this is what we want to do all afternoon long is
09:20just hear from you you can get it off your chest you can get your observation out start the process of
09:26feeling better so that we can get ready for saturday night and we'll look for information
09:31on jimmy butler throughout the show we expect some sort of news we think um but uh but we'll have it
09:38for you as soon as it happens let's go to jason in oakland to lead us off hi jason thanks for calling
09:42hi good afternoon guys i want to ask you guys a serious question okay can steve kurt coach a team
09:51that shouldn't win a game like if you don't have steph curry and jimmy jimmy butler you know when
09:58you say everybody say he's a great coach but sometimes the great coaches coach guys that
10:04shouldn't win a game win at least two or three games or just say one game like guys that just
10:10own the bitch and he just he put everybody in the right position to win it seemed like if he don't
10:17have star players and i understand that that you know we need star players in the league to win
10:23games but great coaches pull pull the great greatness out of mediocre players like do they
10:30jason can i disagree with your premise i'd love an example who's the nba coach that's pulling wins
10:36with pat spencer uh i say uh it uh what's the guy a dope if a dope if he was in houston the way he
10:47played you can see he's an nba player he's not a he's not a he's not a he got nine points
10:53came in there beating guys off the dribble steve kurt he will always have him at the in the back of the
11:01bench well yeah he came out and played like he can he play like an nba player he didn't play like
11:07he was scared but he was getting up beating people off the dribble hit layup i know he got the three
11:12off the backboard but that was in only person that i can say that shouldn't be in the game
11:17and he's probably right about is kaminga kaminga looked lost he was making them shots but he still
11:24was looking around like he didn't know what was going on or i just believe it was because
11:29he hasn't played and it was just you know like i'm just throwing out here because uh jimmy jimmy
11:35butler got hurt but outside of that uh buddy hill shouldn't be playing and i know i i've been we
11:41talked about this all day at my me and my friend house yeah he's putting buddy hill i would put
11:46kaminga in the game before buddy hill well but i just want to you know yeah yeah jason thanks so much
11:52appreciate it i love the passion and i understand where you're coming from but even if you like the way
11:57pat spencer played i don't think that you're i mean you're not advocating that either a steve
12:04kerr should be playing pat spencer more or you're not advocating that because pat spencer had a couple
12:09nice drives to the hole that that means that steve kerr should be able to coach that group to a victory
12:15on the road in a playoff game against a really good team who has their best player absolutely going
12:22off to score 38 points no there's no coach that had nothing to do to me with coaching last night
12:29now as far as your last quip about kaminga and buddy healed i just think that we've been round
12:34and round on this so many times and you either accept this or you don't the the bottom line is as
12:40annoying and frustrating as buddy healed can be he is a three-point shooter stats will tell you he is
12:47actually one of the most accomplished three-point shooters in the history of the game therefore his
12:53presence out there changes in the way a defense guards you and even though jonathan hit a couple
12:59threes last night he is very inconsistent to say the least with regard to his shooting and therefore
13:06you don't need to guard him on the three-point line and the defense can totally clog the middle
13:12and that's why based on not just steve's thoughts but actual analytics you can't replace shooters
13:19with jonathan kaminga you just can't no you can replace jimmy butler with jonathan kaminga yes you
13:25can that's what they did and it took kaminga a little bit of time to get comfortable and try to
13:30find his game and he wound up four of twelve and a couple of those were threes that were open threes and
13:35great he knocked him down but the thing that jonathan does the best he struggled with last night which is
13:41driving to the hoop and making layups and he had a couple that were short he had a couple that were
13:45just flat misses and it's good that he was able to get in there and play because if john if jimmy
13:51butler's unable to go in game three i don't know if you start jonathan kaminga i don't know but he
13:56definitely gets the same amount of run that he got last night which is 26 minutes and you're gonna
14:02need jk to do some of the things that jimmy does which is attack the hoop and score yeah the difference
14:08being on that one though obviously like jk he can attack the basket sort of off of what steph curry
14:16creates right you can't just give him the ball and say okay let's run plays through your iso play like
14:23you do with jimmy butler because one of the things that actually frustrates me about jonathan kaminga
14:28he can drive he can but when he does it's a shot period there's no passing out of that drive
14:36there's no nothing out of that drive if there's a shot it's a shot right there's not a shot we're
14:42throwing up over the backboard and run down the other way that's the kind of stuff that drives me
14:46nuts and why i've had so many debates with so many of you over the year about jonathan being a great
14:53finisher he's not he's not and i'm not coming down his road because this isn't about last night last
15:01night was a terribly unfair spot for jonathan as far as us assessing his play that's not fair i'm
15:09saying that based on what we've seen from him for two years he's not a great finisher because you know
15:14exactly what he's going to do when he drives he's just going to bang the ball into the board whether
15:19the shot is open or not yeah what's up great in terms of uh who might start if jimmy doesn't play
15:24it's also worth noting that podjemski didn't begin the second quarter but they began the second half with
15:29gp2 replacing podjemski and post replacing butler so if butler misses maybe they just start post from
15:36the jump we'll see maybe treymon goes to the four and you play post and quentin got hit four threes
15:42last night yeah he did yeah yeah okay quentin he got the uh you know he got the uh the lid off the
15:48off the can yep and i i sent that after he hit his second three and you're like not now dibs
15:53i mean i felt like i was one of your kids like the worst night ever and you're texting about
15:58might take it to the bank prediction i know and i got it right our warriors live predictions
16:03i got mine right too but i'm like who cares jimmy butler's hurt the warriors lost by double digits
16:09what was yours again moses moody more than one three okay yeah he waited a little longer to get
16:15it but he got there he did he had three threes but you know i was just trying to bring a little bit
16:19levity to what was absolutely a a very dark and disappointing night i wasn't in the mood i know
16:25you weren't i felt like one of your kids not now dibs or like your dog you know yeah go take a shower
16:30i ran and got in the crate actually yeah don't get the crate penny dang yeah in the crate totally
16:37all right and just whatever it's one game disappointing the lingering effects uh positively
16:43is cominga got to play and if he has to play again well he's shaking out the cobwebs i don't know if
16:50you found something with pat spencer but you went to pat spencer and he played like he felt like he
16:56belonged which was pretty awesome quentin got the lid off the basket which also was cool so there were
17:02some positive takeaways in an otherwise disappointing night yeah i get like no nobody found anything
17:09you know we found we found out the warriors aren't very good if jimmy butler's hurt that's what we
17:13found i think we already knew that um these guys are all on an nba team their job is to go be good
17:20at basketball when the coach points at you and so sure pat spencer had some moments jonathan had a
17:27couple of moments what did he score 11 points you know and he was not terrible on defense either
17:33i don't i don't think jonathan went out there and embarrassed himself for any of that stuff
17:37and again it's a terrible night to just suddenly assess jonathan kaminga i get it because he finally
17:43got an opportunity i don't think he hit a home run with that opportunity no but that's a very very
17:49difficult thing to do with all of those circumstances um there were a couple of plays that i thought were
17:55a little troubling uh jonathan kaminga he's out there and there were a couple of uh rebounds that were
18:01there to be possibly contested for or had and i saw him ball watching a little bit on
18:07on plays where you had nobody else underneath the basket offensively and kaminga was just
18:13along the baseline kind of chilling not really getting in there and fighting for rebounds he
18:18wound up getting three rebounds one offensive but just a few times that i was watching just jonathan
18:23i felt like he was not fully aggressively engaged in what's going on and that's been a little bit
18:29of a knock of his no doubt no doubt i mean that like and but i i have compassion for how hard that
18:35must be uh with everything that has gone on surrounding him um but at the same time like
18:42i also get it that if if you want to think boy if i were him if i were him and you get suddenly
18:51thrown into the game i would literally take a lighter and light my butt on fire like that that
18:58has got to be how you approach that moment and did he no but i also get why the guy is probably
19:06second guessing every little thing that he's doing it's a terribly difficult scenario but anyway no the
19:12warriors didn't find anything last night here's what you're praying for pods throw up and feel better
19:18and and jimmy man hope toughen up play through it get right back to the same damn rotation that got
19:25you here that's what i'm hoping for we didn't find anything on the end of the bench go get your
19:30shooting shirt back on and cheer for jimmy butler that's what i'd like to see all of those bench
19:35players do of course but if you do need to play pat spencer you know that he's not afraid of the
19:41moment and that's true you know he he came out and it was one of those things where it's like all
19:46right pat do your thing but don't you feel that way every time he comes out i kind of feel i've never
19:52seen it in the playoffs i've never seen it in a moment where pods isn't in the locker room sick
19:58and jimmy's got a tailbone bruise and now you need pat to do things and he did things
20:02so i mean points for pat no doubt