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00:00Hand off Curry on the sideline, Curry in trouble, trapped, behind the back to Butler, Butler with three, takes the jumper, got fouled by Dylan Brooks with 2.7 on the shot clock.
00:13Wow. Yeah, wow.
00:16No, we're not having fun. Give me a record for this, I don't like Dylan Brooks, so we're never having fun. I'm a fierce competitor, he's a fierce competitor, there ain't nothing fun about that.
00:26Dub Nation, it's the voice of the Warriors, Tim Roy.
00:30You're listening to Willard and Dibbs on 95.7 The Game.
00:34Dylan Brooks, also the man who fouled Jimmy Butler on the big rebound at the end.
00:38Yep.
00:39There's nothing more Bay Area sports satisfying right now than when that look hits Dylan Brooks' face.
00:48That look of, ah, crap, we just lost.
00:52Yeah.
00:52That's the most satisfying thing in Bay Area sports right now.
00:55And the other one would be when he twirls his finger trying to get a review and his own team ignores him because, you know, Jimmy fouled you.
01:02Yeah, it was no flagrant, it was no anything else.
01:05And even with the Steph Curry double-tech moment where he fouls Steph and he kind of chucks him to the ground and Steph goes, that's two.
01:13That's two on you.
01:14And Dylan gets all mad because, you know, Steph Curry had the wherewithal to know how many fouls was on Dylan.
01:19Well, and he punched at the ball while Steph was, like, in the process of getting up.
01:23Like, okay, let's go there.
01:25And 888-957-9570, I wanted to read this too.
01:29This is kind of funny, and it goes in line with Dylan Brooks on the Boxer and Gerson work injury attorney's text line.
01:35307 texted in and said, yes, okay, it's an experience game.
01:40My experience is I now sports hate Houston as much as I sports hate Memphis and crew like Desmond Bain and John Morant.
01:48I didn't think it was possible.
01:50And the playoffs will do that to you.
01:52It's the same ugly mugs every other night for a week and a half to two weeks, and it gets you.
01:59It absolutely gets you.
02:01And the Warriors have tangled with Dylan Brooks specifically a lot in the playoffs.
02:06And every time, there's extracurricular.
02:09So I get it.
02:10I get it.
02:11I will say this about Dylan, though.
02:13He's a different player than he was in Memphis.
02:16He's a better offensive player now than he was a few years ago.
02:20Or he's just getting more chances than maybe he did in Memphis.
02:24Yeah, I think that's it.
02:25He's got more skill than I realize.
02:27Don't get me wrong.
02:28I still would not cross the street to help him out.
02:32But he's an effective player.
02:36And, man, he gets under your skin.
02:39I get it.
02:39No, so, okay, the play that you're referencing.
02:44Here's my thing.
02:45And maybe this isn't fair.
02:49I don't want this to sound Homer-ish.
02:51I would say it if the other was true.
02:53I don't understand the idea of a technical foul for, quote-unquote, taunting.
03:01Here's why.
03:02I'm not saying, in general, taunting can't be a tech.
03:05Because that's what they teed up Steph for.
03:08Taunting.
03:09They used the word.
03:10Have you seen one play in the playoffs where there isn't taunting?
03:15Jimmy Butler, like they've read his lips, is literally in front of the refs calling Dylan Brooks a bum and a B and an N-word and all this right in front of the referee's face at the free-throw line while they're standing there.
03:31That's not taunting?
03:33You're just expressing your opinion of another person.
03:36That's all.
03:37I mean, I don't know, man.
03:40That seemed like a funny word to me.
03:42How the hell are you going to watch these playoffs and pick out one thing where Steph Curry held up a couple fingers and decide that that's taunting?
03:51They're taunting each other on every play.
03:56I didn't get that.
03:57Brooks was the one who reached in and started whacking at the ball while he was getting up.
04:01He's also the one who...
04:02After he got taunted.
04:03And he committed the foul prior to that.
04:06Exactly.
04:06So, common foul.
04:07That one was on him.
04:08If you want to call a tech, that one was on him.
04:11You didn't even need to call a tech.
04:14Dude, let him get up and walk away.
04:16Well, you did because he came in and he punched at the ball.
04:18And so that is a...
04:19So then that's a tech.
04:20That's right.
04:20On Dylan Brooks.
04:21And it was all provoked by Steph Curry and the taunt of the...
04:26Nice.
04:26Again, I'm not saying that is like every taunt is not equal, but watching the replay and I was in the press box and I was like,
04:34that's going to be a classic double tech and we move on.
04:37And then Draymond got, you know, he caught a stray.
04:41He caught a Draymond.
04:42We should just start calling it a Draymond.
04:44Not a stray, but a Draymond.
04:45It's like, you're in the neighborhood, Draymond, so you get one too.
04:48He caught a Draymond.
04:48And in this moment, I thought that he actually was coming in to try to keep the peace.
04:53And his version of keeping the peace is like pushing people away.
04:56Not aggressively, but he was trying to, you know, clear the area.
05:00Look, I thought everything Dray did in that moment was trying to protect Steph.
05:05Agreed.
05:06Dray turned into an offensive lineman if you went and knocked the quarterback down after the play.
05:11He's going to come protect you.
05:13So I'm with you.
05:14I didn't think Dray needed a technical there.
05:16I didn't either.
05:16I thought it was a classic, like, yeah, Steph gets one because it's a taunt.
05:20And whether or not that taunt is equal to every other taunt you're talking about, you're right.
05:24But, you know, for it to come from Steph and Dylan reacts, fine.
05:28Double text, we move on.
05:29But then Draymond catches one.
05:31And that's the moment where I thought that the refs lost a little control of the game.
05:36And I don't really blame them that much because that game was so physical and so intense.
05:42How do you really, quote, keep control of that game?
05:45It's almost impossible in that moment to keep control of it.
05:49I agree.
05:49I agree.
05:50I mean, you look at the personalities are on the floor, the size, the urgency, everything that's going on, the physicality.
05:59I don't know how you calm everybody down.
06:02And again, we don't want this stop-start nature.
06:05We don't want everything called.
06:06So, I didn't really have a big problem with the fouls that were called in the game.
06:13I just thought that when they went to review, they came out with very weird answers.
06:18Yeah.
06:19I'm like, wait, that's what you went and looked at?
06:21You went and found that Draymond Green, who essentially did nothing in the situation you're talking about, gets a technical.
06:29And then, on the next one, when he gets tangled up with Tari Eason, you decided to call a flagrant when he's literally pulling at the guy's shorts.
06:39People are yanking jerseys.
06:40I'm like, those are classic technical fouls.
06:43But you didn't want to call a technical foul.
06:45No, no.
06:46Because then Draymond's out of the game.
06:48So, you just came out and you went, yeah, flagrant foul.
06:50I'm like, that's not a flagrant foul.
06:52I didn't think.
06:53You could look at what he did with his feet.
06:55Okay.
06:56And he has a history of his feet being involved with other players.
06:59I would have called that a technical then, if that's how you felt about the feet, because it was kind of after the whistle had blown.
07:05So, I would have called that a technical.
07:07Yeah, and instead, I mean, you called it a flagrant because you knew that he had a tech.
07:11And so, I do think that it was a little bit of an easy way to punish him without having him be kicked out of the game.
07:17Because, honestly, neither of the two things that Draymond Green was involved in were ejection worthy.
07:23Like, the first tech I thought was a soft tech.
07:26He was kind of coming in, I thought, to try to, you know, keep the peace.
07:29And the second one, where he kind of red-a-tats Eason with his shoes, that's not a flagrant, too.
07:35That might be a flagrant one or a tech.
07:37And then, who's my man who tackled Butler?
07:39Was that Eason also?
07:40Was that Tari Eason?
07:41I think so.
07:42Who tackled Jimmy Butler?
07:44And they're like, I saw it, and I'm like, oh, my God.
07:48They're like, horrible foul.
07:49And they're going to review it for flagrant.
07:52He tackled Jimmy Butler.
07:53And they go, we're going to review it.
07:54And I was sitting there in Splash.
07:56I'm like, yeah, that's going to be a flagrant.
07:58That's going to be two shots on the ball.
07:59And those cats went over there for about three minutes, and they walked out and went, we've got a foul on Steph Curry.
08:07I'm like, what?
08:09Where are you?
08:11Like, what?
08:11And then they show the replay and decide that Steph Curry, who kind of fingernails Tari Eason.
08:18Right.
08:18In other words, shoved him into Jimmy Butler.
08:21I'm like, that is the most wackadoodle answer you could have come out of your booth with.
08:26Go back in your booth and try again.
08:28And that's an incorrect answer.
08:30Just please don't go back in your booth, because that thing was two hours and 50 minutes.
08:34Holy crap.
08:35Like, an NBA game is supposed to be about two hours, two and change.
08:38Yeah, 2-15 in the playoffs.
08:40Sure.
08:40I'll give you that.
08:41I think it was 2-50.
08:43And, you know, by the time we got out of there, we got to our car.
08:46It's like, okay, now it's 10-30, and, you know, it's going to be a long night now.
08:50I don't want to call her out.
08:53Lovely Christy looks at me.
08:54The fourth quarter is about to start.
08:56And we've already, like, we've kind of had the drinks that we're going to have.
09:01We've had the food that we're going to have.
09:03Yep.
09:03Servers come by about five times and gotten the, no thanks, we're fine, kind of a thing.
09:08And she looks at me, and she's like, I'm kind of getting bored.
09:12I'm like, what?
09:14Bored?
09:15It's a two-point game.
09:16She's like, it was a two-point game two hours ago.
09:18It's still a two-point game.
09:20Can we get some flow going?
09:22And then the fourth quarter was incredibly entertaining.
09:24Yeah.
09:24Yeah, dude, that was a journey.
09:26That was a long cruise.
09:27No doubt.
09:28And I was thinking about you because, you know, you didn't call me out on the air, but you
09:32guys, you and Granny are both like, hey, you going to stay for the whole game?
09:35Yep.
09:35And I was like, well, you know, if it's a 12-point game with four to go, I'm out and this and
09:40that.
09:40And so I'm sitting there, and this thing is like, man, four-point game.
09:44It's a two-point game.
09:44It's a three-point game.
09:45And I'm like, well, there's no way I'm leaving this thing early.
09:48This is one of the greatest games I've ever been to in my life.
09:50And then I look down at my watch, and it's 9.45, and we got five minutes to go in the
09:56fourth.
09:56And I'm like, oh, boy.
09:58I mean, it's going to be a late one, but there's no way I'm leaving this game.
10:02Be honest.
10:03At 11 o'clock at night when you're sitting in Lot A traffic, were you mother bleeping
10:08me and Granny for telling you you needed to stay to the audience?
10:11I was on the phone with my wife talking about, will Safeway be open for me to get infant
10:16Tylenol?
10:17Well, so I actually had stops to make.
10:19The answer is yes.
10:20I didn't see you in the aisles.
10:23They're open until 2.
10:23They're open until 2.
10:24Yeah, exactly.
10:25So by the time I got to that Safeway, and you know.
10:29Well, I was doing dishes because my children don't know to clean up after themselves when
10:33they get their own dinner.
10:34Yeah.
10:35So anyway, that's what I was doing at midnight.
10:37I was doing dishes.
10:38It's great.
10:38I got home at about 11.40, and at about 1.07, my daughter woke up screaming.
10:43So I got about, I got about 48 minutes of sleep last night, which is pretty cool.
10:47Oh, that's 48 minutes more than we used to get in college.
10:51Dude, no doubt.
10:52That's okay.
10:53But I'm no longer 20 years old.
10:54You're not, are you?