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00:00Reviews for all the players.
00:01Steve Kerr, Mike Dunleavy speaking to the media around 1 o'clock today.
00:04We'll have all that coverage right here on 95.7 The Game.
00:07Steph, on if they go shopping for another big free agent.
00:13Take a listen here.
00:14Yeah, like I said, there's a little bit more clarity on what we have.
00:18Jimmy being, you know, a big part of that.
00:21There are obviously guys in this league, if for whatever reason come available,
00:24every team's going to call.
00:25This is how it works, whether stuff happens or not.
00:28Like, more times than not, it doesn't.
00:30But we have clarity on what we have in terms of our core and experience.
00:36But we do know we need to probably get a little bit bigger across the board.
00:40Struggle shooting at times.
00:42Those can be addressed, but how you get to that, I think,
00:46is what Mike's going to have to figure out.
00:48We got confidence that he can do it.
00:50I like the vibe that we have a little bit more clarity
00:54and a little bit more understanding of what me, Jimmy, Draymond have been able to do
00:58this last, whatever, three months.
01:01Try to make a few tweaks and make it as good as possible.
01:03How do you like that, Mr. Bonte?
01:04How do you like that, Mr. Bonte?
01:06Good morning.
01:08Look at that smile on your face.
01:09New York Yankees hat and everything.
01:11Oh, Paul, put his mic up.
01:12Give him a mic up.
01:13Oh, my God.
01:14It's only been a month.
01:15There's no snare in my headphones.
01:16Come on, guys.
01:17It's only been months of doing this.
01:18I mean, come on, man.
01:19What is going on back there?
01:21It is Friday.
01:22I know you guys mellowed in on Fridays.
01:24Not today.
01:25Did you listen to Anthony Slater?
01:26No, I did listen to Anthony Slater.
01:27I did listen to Slater.
01:28Very political.
01:29I'll tell him that.
01:30No, I'm kidding.
01:30He said JK might be a warrior next year.
01:32I think that surprises a lot of people.
01:34Yeah, that's not happening.
01:34I'll put my bottom dollar on that.
01:36I'll put my bottom on.
01:37Are you reporting that?
01:38No, I'm not reporting that.
01:39I'm teasing.
01:39I was teasing.
01:40Yeah, I know.
01:41I know where you're going.
01:42That was a joke.
01:42I know where you're going.
01:44I don't think Joe Laker wants to let Jonathan Kaminga go,
01:49but if you're Kaminga and you're not guaranteed rotation minutes,
01:52and you just put together those four games without even being part of the picture,
01:57and I'm not saying he was perfect in these games,
01:59but he's the only guy who really could stay in front of his man
02:01where he was blow by a city for the go-to-state Warriors.
02:04Point of attack defense was kind of concerning when they traded Andrew Wiggins.
02:07Point of attack defense.
02:08It matters, folks.
02:09Don't listen to the online jabronis who say point of attack defense is overrated.
02:13Well, they broke down the Warriors' defense at will,
02:15whether they were in zone, in man.
02:17It did not matter.
02:18They got wide-open look after wide-open look,
02:20and it was getting more open by the series end.
02:22So I don't see a situation where J.K. wants to be here,
02:25and I don't want to put words in his mouth,
02:27but just reading the tea leaves where he's like,
02:29I don't know, I don't know, I don't know,
02:31and I know Steve Kerr is going to speak a little bit later today.
02:34If he didn't fit on this roster,
02:36what the hell makes you think he's going to fit next season
02:38with Jimmy Draymond and Steph Curry?
02:40He's as good as gone,
02:41and I hope we enjoyed the Kaminga experience.
02:44I think he's gone.
02:44There's no, I put a 90% chance that he's playing in a different uniform next season.
02:50Wow.
02:5090% chance.
02:52Okay.
02:52I'll take your word on that.
02:54I'm looking at this team, and I just, I have so many questions.
02:57Like, this whole married to Steph, Jimmy, and Draymond,
03:02there's spacing issues.
03:03Oh.
03:04Okay?
03:04Galore.
03:05And I suggested yesterday that I, just, this is what I would do.
03:09Draymond's extremely important, right?
03:12Obviously, he connects a lot of their lineups defensively.
03:15I don't think he can be a starter for this team all year next year
03:19and think that come playoff time,
03:21he is going to have enough left in the tank,
03:24and they will have enough guys humming offensively
03:28to be able to offset the spacing issues.
03:31So I think he should embrace that Iggy role, 18 to 25 minutes a night
03:35during the regular season, come off the bench,
03:37you're in the closing lineup, you're in that small ball five to end games.
03:40But for the bulk of the year, I can do different lineups
03:44where you're not that small ball five in the bulk of the game.
03:47But I don't want to start games in the clunkiness,
03:50because I think one thing that really stuck out to me in the playoffs
03:52is starting games, their offense was suspect.
03:55And so I think it's easier to bring him off the bench,
03:59conserve him a little, preserve him a little,
04:02so that he's better down the stretch, down the end.
04:04And I think him being in that closing lineup is the most important.
04:07I work backwards.
04:08People are losing their minds that I even suggested.
04:11Well, no, it's something they're going to have to consider.
04:14And this is why I would consider it.
04:18The guy shot 26%, 25% from the three-point line
04:21over the course of the postseason.
04:23You can count on one hand how many really impactful games he had,
04:29and it happened to be offensively when he got the three-point shot
04:31rolling in game seven against Houston and game one against Minnesota.
04:34Wow, look at that.
04:36When he's aggressive offensively, they're a different team.
04:39But it's not consistent enough.
04:42And so then I said to myself, okay,
04:44Steve is saying that he's the greatest defense player ever.
04:47He was in the finalists for the DPOI.
04:51And I watched what Shane Goon did.
04:53And I just watched what Julius Randle did.
04:55And at times I watched what Nas Reed did.
04:58I'm saying, well, if this is my guy,
05:00you've got to cut the water off somewhere.
05:02Julius Randle had 23 assists over game two and game three.
05:05He was incredible.
05:05He dropped a triple-double.
05:06He was their best player in the series.
05:0825, 8, and 7.
05:10Yeah, he was their best player.
05:11So if Draymond is not guarding their top front court player,
05:15and I got Draymond Green,
05:18who maybe considered the greatest defensive player ever,
05:20that's an argument.
05:21And, you know, I got my favorites.
05:23And he's up there on the short list.
05:24But, you know, I grew up watching Hakeem, Jordan, Pippen, Robin,
05:28Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett.
05:30Like, we've just forgotten.
05:32So if that's the case, you know,
05:34you're going to run this back with the space.
05:36And then, by the way,
05:37Jimmy Butler only shot 30% from the three-point line.
05:40And he's not blown by his guys.
05:42We talked about this during the season.
05:44Look, and Mully asked a great question I want to ask you guys.
05:47When they traded for Jimmy, I get it.
05:49They had to make a move.
05:50I was against a move because I thought, well, what is it going to do?
05:52But they had to make a move.
05:53I thought it was a good move.
05:54I concede that.
05:54I concede that.
05:56But were they better?
05:58Or did they just look different?
06:01Were they better with Jimmy?
06:03Or did they just look different?
06:04No, I thought they were better.
06:06But they also played lesser opponents.
06:09And there was a sense of urgency that they played with as a team
06:13that they didn't play with at all prior to him coming.
06:16I think because of where they were record-wise and into the season,
06:20the longer it went, though,
06:22I do think that the problems that we all thought on the front end
06:26started to rear their head.
06:27It had to do with sophisticated defenses, game planning against them.
06:31And then I think the lack of shooting around them.
06:33And just stylistically, we talk so much about Kaminga doesn't play the system.
06:39Jimmy plays nowhere near the ball movement that they want to do.
06:43He's a ball stopper.
06:44He likes to hold it.
06:45And then he's 13, 12, 11, 10.
06:48Then he starts to get into his action.
06:50And if you don't have a lot of shooters spaced out around him,
06:53I think that the half-court offense is really bottled up.
06:56I would make the move.
06:57I would make the move 10 out of 10 times that they made.
07:00That being said, I'm also not opposed to thinking like,
07:04okay, it was good.
07:06But if I could flip Jimmy for something else,
07:09I would be open-minded.
07:10It would have to be the right deal.
07:11It would have to be the right deal.
07:13We're in lockstep here.
07:14What about you, Joe?
07:14I was very disappointed.
07:18And quote-unquote, maybe that's my own expectations I put on him.
07:21Just Jimmy Butler.
07:23As soon as Steph went down, I get it.
07:24It's a tall task.
07:26But we all gassed this guy up.
07:28I did it, and I had to take a step back yesterday.
07:30There's a Grand Canyon gap between Stephen Curry as a superstar
07:37and Jimmy Butler as a star.
07:39And I needed to check myself because when they made the trade,
07:41I was like, wow, they got another legit playoff performer.
07:45But you know what?
07:46That was a different team and a different player
07:48in a different situation.
07:50And he was younger.
07:51And he was in an Eastern Conference.
07:52It was an Eastern Conference.
07:54You're playing in the West.
07:55Well, you got some long athletic dudes in Houston, Minnesota,
07:58Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Dallas, the Clippers.
08:02The Lakers are going to retool.
08:03Listen, the West is not getting easier.
08:06So I want to say this.
08:07And I was disappointed.
08:08I was disappointed.
08:09I don't want to be all doom and gloom.
08:10But one thing, we touched on this a couple months ago.
08:13There was an Orlando game in Orlando where Stephen Curry scored 56.
08:18And Mully tipped it off.
08:19That's why I watched the game with Mully.
08:20I'm like, oh, wow.
08:21And then I start to see it.
08:22I'm like, oh, snap.
08:23Oh, I see it now.
08:26I don't think Isaac and Paolo Bancaro was guarding Jimmy Butler,
08:29which allowed Orlando to not double him.
08:31They had a longer, bigger guy on Jimmy Butler.
08:34We saw it down in South Beach, Miami,
08:35when Bam Adebayo completely took Jimmy Butler out of the game.
08:38What did Minnesota do?
08:40They basically played straight up on Jimmy with McDaniels, Randall, or Edwards
08:44and did not go for his pump fakes and kept them off the free throw line.
08:48You know why?
08:49Because Jimmy right now at this stage of his career,
08:51look, he was really good for the Warriors.
08:52There's no doubt.
08:53They don't make the playoffs without Jimmy.
08:56But he had trouble blown by his guy off the dribble.
09:00And when he's driving to the paint in the middle of the defense and there's six seconds left
09:04and he's throwing grenade balls to guys who are non-shooters,
09:07yeah, the offense is going to get bogged down at times.
09:09So I don't know how you can run it with Draymond and Jimmy in that same lineup there.
09:14So I'm kind of with you with tinkering some things if you do run it back with the top three.
09:17It's a great point, Bonte.
09:18And Udonis Haslam, former teammate of him, he's now with ESPN.
09:22But he made a great point where he said Jimmy Butler, what he does best is pray and expose other players' weaknesses.
09:30If those players aren't showing weaknesses and they're a better player overall than Jimmy,
09:35they're going to have their way more often than not with him because he's a guy that's more mental.
09:39He does have physical intangibles.
09:40He's a bigger guy.
09:41He's 35.
09:42But he's 35.
09:43He's not Anthony Edwards.
09:45Again, there's no team that's ever won a championship in NBA history when your top three players are 37, 35, 35.
09:52So I understand why Joe Lacob and Bob Myers and now Mike Dunleavy was trying to make this thing work with the youngsters.
09:59Now, watching the Celtic City, Doc, I started going back in history thinking about all the dynasties, right?
10:03The Celtics had lulls after dynasties.
10:06And then they tried it with Glenn Byers and Reggie Lewis.
10:09And they both died.
10:10They both died, unfortunately.
10:12You know, the Bulls, they just ended up blowing it up.
10:14Shaq and Kobe, which they traded Shaq.
10:16There were some dark days for the L.A. Lakers.
10:18San Antonio tried to thread the needle with Kawhi Leonard.
10:21And, hell, they were maybe the closest team to extending it.
10:25And then Kawhi's ankle in game one against the Golden State Warriors in 2016 or 2017, I should say.
10:30Zaza goes underneath.
10:31All of a sudden, Kawhi's not there anymore.
10:33He walks out of San Antonio.
10:34It is hard to keep things going, which is why I still scratch.
10:38Like, during that series, I don't know if it was just me.
10:41And I'm watching game three where the Warriors probably, that was the game to steal.
10:44They're on four going into the fourth quarter.
10:46He went one of seven in the fourth quarter.
10:48One of seven in the fourth quarter.
10:49But I kept thinking, while watching the Warriors dribble, dribble, dribble, shot clocks running down, dribble, dribble, dribble, they can't penetrate the paint, they can't get two feet in the paint.
10:58I kept thinking about Jordan Poole saying, damn.
11:01Because in the article that Slater and Marcus Thompson just wrote, they just wrote this yesterday.
11:06And I had to take a lap.
11:08I had to take a walk around the neighborhood after reading this one.
11:10I'm not going to lie.
11:11I got a little infuriated.
11:13Slater and Thompson wrote this in the Athletic yesterday.
11:15But the need for their offensive punch was magnified this postseason.
11:19Some of the organization who landed on the side of exploring Pajewski's value see a need for more of a Jordan Poole type of playmaker.
11:26A confident shooter and offensive creator who can share in the playmaking load with Curry and Butler.
11:32Both veterans will require rest and management next regular season.
11:35So that's the other thing.
11:36You're going to need to rest and load manage your veterans.
11:39And by the way, when Jimmy got here, they didn't play OKC.
11:43They didn't play Minnesota.
11:44They played the Lakers once.
11:45They played the Clippers once.
11:47But who else?
11:48Denver.
11:49They played Denver basically without Jokic.
11:50Houston.
11:51Houston.
11:52They played them once and they lost.
11:53They played them twice.
11:54They beat them before the All-Star break.
11:55But they lost on April 6th when Steph Curry got three points.
11:58So you're going to see the whole energy a lot of next season in the Western Conference.
12:03Mavericks are going to be better.
12:04The Spurs are going to do things.
12:05Like Cooper Flyer.
12:06The Mavericks, by the way.
12:07What you haven't addressed is the financial thing.
12:10So part of why Poole was so important and Kaminga and Moody and Wiseman before their extensions,
12:18the fountain of youth in this league is Chet Holmgren on a rookie deal.
12:23Is Jalen Williams on a current rookie deal?
12:25Jordan Poole when he was on a rookie deal.
12:27If you're going to have bloated, expensive contracts and guys who are very at top of the market,
12:33if you will, in $60 million staff, which he's earned, and $25 million Draymond a couple years ago, $50 million Clay.
12:39You need to have these guys making dirt cheap who are unbelievable value.
12:45And so the part on the missing of the draft picks isn't just the player and the playmaking and all that.
12:50It's tremendous value for your organization and it's the lifeline for sustainability because you get bird rights and you can go over certain luxury taxes.
12:59And once you lose those pieces and those players, it becomes very difficult to assemble a team when three guys,
13:05Jimmy, Steph, and Draymond are making $140 to $150 million and the first apron is $190.
13:12It's just very difficult.
13:13Well, no, it's going to be very difficult.
13:15And I know if Kamingo's the one piece that they have here, and sure, you want cheap assets, but you want your stars.
13:20You want to build a great team around your stars.
13:22And, you know, that's where the Draymond dynamic comes into play.
13:25That's where the Jimmy, because Draymond agrees, one of the best defenders, but Julius Randle had his way.
13:30Julius Randle had his way.
13:31And Draymond's not getting younger, right?
13:33Now, some of that you could say, well, the point of attack defense is so bad, Bonte, that the defense got broken down anyway.
13:38Buddy and Pogs were so poor.
13:41But Buddy did his job for me.
13:45Buddy did his job.
13:46He hit 15 threes in the series.
13:47He is who he is.
13:48I thought Buddy as your seventh man is going to be great value for the Warriors moving forward.
13:52This was Pogs' first postseason.
13:55I thought he showed a lot of fight in Game 5.
13:56I thought he showed a lot of grit.
13:58But he hit a speed bump.
13:59And in the ideal world, Pogs is a 25-minute guy, but he's his starter.
14:04I'm not so sure about that.
14:05I think he's a backup point.
14:06But you know what?
14:07Pogs, it's hard for me to be mad at Pogs in this situation.
14:10I'll look at the big dogs.
14:11And when I look at the big dogs, and I see Jimmy Butler making, what is it, $55 million next year?
14:17And when you get paid that money, that's number one alpha dog on Batman type money.
14:22I can win a game with Steph out.
14:25They lost four straight.
14:26They lost four straight.
14:27And Jimmy took 20 shots in the last two games.
14:3120 shots.
14:31And you precede that because you were on air.
14:34But I'm watching the Celtics without Jason Tatum, who are a better team, overcome for one night and win one game that the Warriors couldn't.
14:45Yep.
14:46And it really bugged me.
14:47Well, you know, Game 3 was the game that they had.
14:50But you know what bugged me, obviously, was the J.K. stuff.
14:54And, you know, obviously, I was on the show.
14:56And we've taken a lot of calls over the last four years.
14:59I remember the first day Shask and I drove up to Sacramento to go watch J.K.'s first ever game at the California Classic.
15:04And Tim Roy talking about, this guy reminds me a little of Varad Artes.
15:08And this guy was getting DMPs.
15:10And I think, you know, you can say what you want about him.
15:12And I know online is going to say a lot about him.
15:14And, you know, people are going to nitpick things about rebounding.
15:17Or we're not sure he needs to rebound better.
15:19But for this guy getting four DMPs.
15:22And basically being used as a, let's break glass in case of any emergency and play Kaminga.
15:28And all of a sudden we're like, oh, wow.
15:30Kaminga can play with Jimmy.
15:32Oh, wow.
15:33Kaminga gets thrown into a conference semifinal.
15:35This is the Western Conference semifinals, folks.
15:38This ain't a game in January.
15:40This ain't some regular game in late February.
15:42This is the Western Conference finals against a team that went to the Western Conference finals last season.
15:48And Kaminga goes out there, 8 for 8, 18, goes 8 for 11.
15:51It's like, all right, let's see what happens next.
15:53Oh, let me go get a 30 burger.
15:55And I've got to have a game.
15:56Oh, let me go get 23.
15:57Oh, wait, let me go get another 22 and try to guard Anthony Edwards.
16:01There was a lot of flaws.
16:02There was a lot of flaws in this game.
16:04I get it.
16:05But damn it, this guy went 11 for 12 for the free throw line.
16:08And he's 22 years old.
16:10He was one of the few players, real quick, Bonte, that looked athletically comparable to what they were playing against.
16:16In a league full of athletes.
16:17And I'm on a team that's unathletic.
16:20That's not one of the more athletic teams in the NBA.
16:23And I got this guy sitting on a bench.
16:25And he comes out there and does that.
16:27And people say, oh, well, he's a scrub.
16:28Just send him to Brooklyn.
16:29Or he's a scrub.
16:30You know how many NBA people are looking around the league and saying, damn, that guy can play.
16:34They come in the same article.
16:35It was like, people sitting behind me.
16:36It was like, wow, Kamiga.
16:37Did you see Justin Jefferson sitting courtside?
16:39He was talking about, he was sitting next to J.J. McCarthy.
16:42He goes, I saw Kamiga down in high school.
16:44When I was in Miami, he was in high school.
16:46He was killing dudes.
16:48Matt Barnes, Gilbert, everybody in the world has said, why wasn't Kamiga playing?
16:52And that, to me, was the most infuriating aspect of this postseason.
16:56Is watching that young man go out there and ball.
16:59But I wasn't surprised.
17:00Were you surprised?
17:01Because we saw it two years ago.
17:03We saw it last year.
17:04You know where I stand on.
17:04You know where I stand.
17:05That part right there.
17:07And they're going to lose another young asset.
17:09And we're going to roll back with a team.
17:11And look, Curry's still playing at a high level.
17:14But where's Draymond going to be at?
17:15And where's Jimmy going to be at?
17:16At 35, 36.
17:18See, the thing for me that's the most irritating.
17:20I do this show every day.
17:21I see all the talking, the texting, the calling.
17:25I see all of it.
17:26And there's some things I'm guilty on and some things that drive me nuts.
17:29We talk pods.
17:31We talk Kamiga.
17:32They're 22.
17:33They're making very little.
17:35Yes.
17:35Okay?
17:36Draymond, if you even suggest that he had a poor playoff, people are like,
17:41you don't win any championships with him.
17:43I'm not talking about what happened before.
17:45I'm analyzing what I just watched.
17:46And what I just watched was Julius Randle go 25, 7.5, and 6.
17:518 for 27 from 3.
17:53And Julius Randle, 22 and 23 from the free throw line.
17:56And Draymond did nothing on him.
17:58Well, after campaigning for two weeks about DPOI,
18:01and then I watched every big body him down the stretch.
18:04Well, that was the thing.
18:06And Draymond mentioned it after Game 7.
18:09Well, he said, I was embarrassed about Game 6.
18:11Well, I was embarrassed about what happened to the Houston series.
18:14The Houston series was not.
18:15Going into Game 7, Draymond Green had 19 turnovers and only 18 assists.
18:1819 turnovers, 18 assists, and was averaging 6 points a game.
18:23All right?
18:23And shooting in the mid-20s from the three-point line.
18:25Then you get to Minnesota.
18:26And here's, again, I asked JTA and Festus about this.
18:29And I asked Mully.
18:31I come from the old school.
18:32I grew up watching basketball in the 90s.
18:33Hell, even Reuben Patterson.
18:35That's an aid for the pass, right?
18:37From Cincinnati.
18:37The Kobe stopper.
18:38The quote-unquote Kobe.
18:38But that's what dudes did.
18:40They said, I want to guard the best.
18:42Yes.
18:42I'm going to guard.
18:43I'm going to shut off the water.
18:44And I'm looking at our guy, Draymond Green, who was a finalist for the DPOI.
18:48There's Julius Randle.
18:49And I get it.
18:49Julius Randle has given Draymond a business at times.
18:52But you're Draymond Green.
18:56Julius Randle is cooking.
18:58He's dropping dimes.
18:59He's dropping triple doubles.
19:01He's facilitating.
19:02He's bringing the ball up the floor.
19:04That's got it.
19:05Draymond's got to put him in the box.
19:06And maybe five years ago, he does.
19:08But he didn't in this series.
19:09And that is alarming when you say, okay, he's 35.
19:13He's not guarding Julius Randle.
19:14Julius Randle's cooking anyway.
19:15And when he does guard Julius Randle, he doesn't care.
19:17He's going at him.
19:19I'm listening to the T-wolves in the tunnel saying, go at him.
19:21Go at him.
19:22Go at him.
19:22Like, literally on their side.
19:23Like, go at him.
19:24Go at him.
19:24Go at him.
19:25They were not afraid of him.
19:26And then, Mark, you add to the point that offensively, because everybody starts talking
19:31about offense.
19:31Oh, the Warriors need more offense.
19:32They need more offense.
19:34He shot in the mid-20s from the three-point line.
19:35And to me, the lineup about Kaminga, Kaminga can't play with Jimmy.
19:40No, the lineup that was really bad for them.
19:42And I'm not trying to pick on the youngster.
19:44Ponce and Draymond.
19:45Because both do the same thing.
19:47They dribbled too much.
19:49They weren't hitting from the outside.
19:50And no one was guarding them.
19:52Gobert was allowed to sag off Draymond all series.
19:56Yeah.
19:57It's.
19:58I'm with you.
19:59Because all of a sudden.
20:00And then last year, real quick, because you're spot on, Chaski.
20:03Just thinking about the Kaminga situation again.
20:05Last year, it was Wiggins and Kaminga can't play together.
20:07And by the end of the year, they were playing together.
20:09And playing very well together.
20:10This year, it's Jimmy, Dre, and Kaminga can't play together.
20:13Oh, well, you know, the 30 minutes that they played on the court together just wasn't good enough.
20:16Plus, minus.
20:17Jimmy and J.K. played just fine.
20:19And Jimmy said it.
20:20Yep.
20:20I can play with J.K.
20:21Yep.
20:21We can thrive.
20:22We can thrive.
20:22That's what he said.
20:23And what did Kaminga do?
20:24He thrived.
20:24They scored 63 of the 94 points in game number three.
20:27Let me take it a step.
20:28Or 97, whatever it is.
20:29Anyone else stepped up in that game, they win it.
20:30Anyone else.
20:31Well, and GP2 just wasn't good in the playoffs.
20:34Like, no one wants it.
20:35We like him.
20:36He's a good guy.
20:36No, he had a rough playoff.
20:37He had a rough playoff.
20:38He had a rough playoff.
20:38I thought minus 57.
20:39I mean, he's there for point of attack defense.
20:41He didn't.
20:41And you know what?
20:42Minnesota scored 72 points in the paint in game five.
20:4572 points in the paint.
20:47I mean, it's just.
20:48So, yes, they got older.
20:49They need to get more athletic.
20:51And the problem is, what wiggle room do they have?
20:53Now, Jonathan Kaminga's a great piece.
20:56I would look the other way.
20:58Look, we're two months away from a wild offseason.
21:00I don't think this is going to be one of the wild seasons in the NBA.
21:03I think Booker's gone out of Phoenix.
21:04I think KD's going somewhere.
21:05I think Giannis is gone.
21:07The Dallas Mavericks.
21:08Denver's going to do something.
21:09Oh, Denver's going to do something.
21:10By the way, give them their credit.
21:12That is a tough, hard-nosed, greedy basketball team.
21:15For them to force a game seven.
21:17Oh, my God.
21:18I can't get enough of that series.
21:20But there's going to be a lot of things happening.
21:22I wonder if the Warriors will sit back after these pressers.
21:26A month from now, looking at the league and saying, boy, you've got to have at least four offensive threats out there on the floor.
21:31Would they consider the unthinkable of pivoting off the core and breaking up the core?
21:37And would you go Steph Kaminga and add some other pieces, some big boys in here?
21:42Or would you run it back with Dre, Jimmy, and Steph?
21:45I don't think running it back.
21:46If we're talking about making the playoffs, running it back, yeah, you can make playoffs.
21:50But I think there's a ceiling on it.
21:52I don't think it's a championship team.
21:53It's a young man's league.
21:54Look at the West.
21:55I know.
21:56They're all like, LeBron got bounced in the first round.
21:58He's too old.
21:59Him and Luka, that's not working anymore.
22:02To be close-minded.
22:02It's a young man's game.
22:03See, to me, if you're just operating this offseason with Jimmy, Dre, and Steph, and we can only trade the others, I don't think you can get significantly better.
22:14888-957-957-0.
22:15You can hit us up on the Boxer and Gerson work injury attorney's text line if you have any questions for Bonte.
22:20He's in the studio for us the entire hour, courtesy of River Islands, obviously pre- and post-game host for NBC Sports Bay Area when it comes to the Warriors.
22:29And now some Giants, I'm sure, on the horizon now.
22:31Bonte.
22:32We don't need to talk about it now.
22:33We don't need to talk about it now.
22:34My first series is Bobby Wade Jr. and the Royals next Tuesday and Wednesday.
22:38Are you going to wear your Bo Jackson jersey or what?
22:40No, I should wear it.
22:41That would be pretty cool.
22:43Salvador Perez was the last guy on the Royals roster to play in the Giants World Series in 2014.
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22:54We're going to get into Stephen Curry going down in game one and how obviously that affected this series.