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00:0095.7 The Game, Breaking News.
00:07Jimmy Butler will not play tonight.
00:10So in Sacramento, we still await official word on Draymond Green,
00:14but the Warriors are down Steph Curry, and they are down Jimmy Butler.
00:19In Sacramento, tonight, on the back end of a back-to-back.
00:25That's not so adorable, Mark.
00:26No, and not very surprising either.
00:29I mean, if you've got lower back soreness, you try to play, you go out there,
00:34they pull you out of the game, I was going to be very, very surprised
00:38if they put him back into the game the very next night.
00:41And Grandy just now telling me in my ear that Pods, Brendan,
00:44Pajemski kid, Pajemski is questionable with left wrist soreness.
00:49Pajemski kid.
00:50Too much shooting?
00:52Pajemski.
00:53Yeah, probably from that ball he threw in Milwaukee last week.
00:57Might be.
00:57That looked like it hurt.
00:58He threw it very far.
01:00And I don't know if anybody else is on the report or might matriculate onto the report,
01:06but something tells me that, I mean, Draymond Green's been banged up early,
01:10and if you don't have Steph and you don't have Jimmy, I would not be stunned if Draymond also was out.
01:17No, I would not be stunned either.
01:18Moses Mooney was great last night, and he had some comments on this.
01:22Yeah, Grandy, what's up?
01:23I was just going to say, I can read you the full injury report quickly if you want it.
01:26Yeah, let's do it. Go for it.
01:26So, Jimmy Butler out with a right low back strain, they're now calling it, not lower back soreness.
01:31Stephen Curry out with general illness.
01:33Draymond Green questionable with a right rib contusion.
01:37D'Anthony Melton still out with the left ACL surgery.
01:39Pajemski questionable with left wrist soreness.
01:42And the only other, Alex Toohey out with left knee injury.
01:45Oh, they're going to play without Toohey also?
01:47Yeah.
01:48No.
01:49Not Toohey.
01:51Moses Mooney said, we don't need Steph Curry and Jimmy Butler.
01:56I mean, for the first time doing it this year, but I think we'll be all right.
02:00We play that way and practice a lot of time in preseason.
02:03It'll be this group versus that group.
02:05So, we used to playing with each other a little bit.
02:07I think we got all the pieces we need.
02:08Got all the pieces they need.
02:10And remember, if you're just joining, DeMontis Sabonis and Zach Levine,
02:15will be out for the Sacramento Kings tonight as well.
02:17So, lots of big names that will not be performing tonight.
02:22Yeah.
02:23And Keegan Murray out also for Sacramento.
02:25He'll be out for the entirety of the month.
02:27So, it's going to be, with apologies to Toohey,
02:31it's going to be your twos against our twos.
02:33Your twoies against our twoies.
02:35Well, I mean, I think everybody, not everybody,
02:37a lot of us are probably thinking the same thing.
02:39And I was kind of waiting for the Jimmy thing to really say this.
02:42And now that we've got the Jimmy thing, this is,
02:44this to me is the first thought that comes to my mind.
02:48Okay, J.K., here we go.
02:51Here we go, right?
02:52Like, and interestingly, I don't necessarily feel like this means,
03:00okay, dude, like, go take over.
03:02I don't think that.
03:04I still want Jonathan to play the way he's been playing
03:08because he's been playing beautiful basketball.
03:10In other words, if he's now got so much on his shoulders offensively
03:15that he stops rebounding, not good.
03:17Plus, if he just wants to do ISO Joe, that's not good.
03:21That's not good basketball.
03:23Yes, he fulfills the role as option one,
03:27but I'd love to see him do it within the framework of the ball moving around
03:31and also trust these other players like Moses Moody,
03:34who can knock down shots and play good warrior basketball.
03:39But he gets to do so in a featured role now.
03:42And this is what the thought process was in the offseason.
03:47I know you said it a bunch of times.
03:48We were like, there are going to be nights
03:50where you have an opportunity to go be the guy that you want to be.
03:55Tonight is the first night of the year.
03:57And last night was a night where he kind of could just recess into the background,
04:01and he took seven shots.
04:03He didn't even play 25 minutes.
04:05And last night was really an odd one.
04:07And that's why I think that deep down,
04:09it might have been a Steve Kerr, like mini load management kind of game
04:14where you didn't play Kaminga a ton.
04:16Jimmy's back flared up.
04:17And so he didn't play a lot.
04:19Pods played 24 minutes.
04:21Buddy Heald played 20.
04:22You had a whole bunch of Pat Spencer in the ball game.
04:25And so you looked at Phoenix and you thought,
04:27we could probably get away with our twos and our threes.
04:29So let's go ahead and try and do it.
04:31And even though Kaminga was out there a lot without Jimmy,
04:34and Steph took a bunch of shots, but that's about it,
04:37I think that tonight, Kaminga, having not played a bunch last night,
04:40can go out there and really be a lot more aggressive
04:43and maybe play 37 or 38 minutes and try to carry this thing.
04:47We'll get to Shanahan in just a sec.
04:48You want to take a stab at the starting lineup tonight?
04:52Is it out?
04:52No.
04:53Oh.
04:54What do you think it'll be?
04:56Well, and this will be assuming that Draymond Green is in.
04:59Okay, you're going to assume that he's in.
05:01I guess.
05:01I mean, I honestly think that he'd be out,
05:04but for the sake of the exercise, we don't yet know who's in and who's out.
05:08And Pods is questionable with the wrist.
05:11So I think that you're going to have, it'll be Pods and Moody.
05:16It'll be Draymond, Kaminga, and Quinton.
05:19Interesting.
05:20That's my guess.
05:21Not Al Horford.
05:22No, I still think you want Al.
05:25And maybe Steve said this to us when we interviewed him last week.
05:28Like, if Al's going to play 20 minutes, and let's just say it might be 24 tonight,
05:32if he's going to play 24, wouldn't you rather have six of those minutes be at the end of the game?
05:38And I don't know if you need six of those minutes to be at the beginning of the game.
05:41I think if he's going to be on limited minutes, it's better suited for him to be in that second unit,
05:47late first, late second, mid third, and then late fourth would be your four stints for me anyway.
05:55Yeah.
05:56Moody and Kaminga both in the lineup.
05:59Sure, you could do that.
06:01We're waiting on Draymond.
06:02We're waiting on Pods.
06:03Don't forget Buddy Heald.
06:05Buddy, you know, shot the ball pretty well last night.
06:08Maybe you get him in early in and should be not a featured night,
06:14but I want you to sit back with your remote control and watch this one
06:18because you know who's going to get some minutes tonight.
06:20My guy, Will Richard.
06:21Your guy, Will Richard.
06:22I love Will Richard.
06:24Recalled from Santa Cruz without ever having to go.
06:27That's the way to get sent to Santa Cruz.
06:29You know why he didn't have to go, right?
06:32Because they did it on purpose, even though they knew they were going to call him back the very next day.
06:36Yes, and Santa Cruz doesn't play.
06:40They don't play until Friday.
06:41Oh.
06:42So, yeah, he got optioned or whatever the term is in the NBA.
06:46He got sent to Santa Cruz, but, haha, joke's on you.
06:50They don't play until Friday.
06:52So he goes to Santa Cruz, and he walks in the gym, and it's empty.
06:57Haha.
06:57Can I bring a conversation that happened in the lower bowl last night to the air?
07:02Because I literally got to a point where I'm like, I don't know how to answer this.
07:07For whatever reason, I'm sitting there with lovely Christy and my longtime friend Craig.
07:11We're watching the basketball game.
07:13And Christy at one point goes, where's Will Richard?
07:16I know you guys all like Will Richard.
07:18Where is he?
07:19And I'm like, yeah, it's been a while.
07:22He's not in the game.
07:23And they got the B and C team out there, and he's not in.
07:26I wonder what's going on.
07:27So you pick up the phone, and poof, there it is.
07:29Oh, he's been assigned to Santa Cruz.
07:32But she goes, isn't that him right there on the bench?
07:35I go, yeah, good call.
07:37That's him.
07:38So he's not in Santa Cruz.
07:40This spilled into, and this is all.
07:43Boy, if you've got friends and family, and you go do stuff like this out in the world,
07:47this is the kind of conversation.
07:48This would happen on this radio show, where the conversation immediately ends up in something
07:53where you're like, this is so meaningless and pointless, but we're all now kind of curious.
07:57Somehow, this launched into a conversation of how does Will get to Santa Cruz?
08:03Yeah.
08:03Does he have a driver?
08:05Do the Warriors Uber Will to Santa Cruz?
08:10Or, where I ended up, I go, well, they probably know how long he's going to be there.
08:16And that might have something to do with it.
08:18Because Christy's like, well, the man's going to want his car.
08:21He's going to need his car down there in Santa Cruz.
08:24I go, but they might be on the road.
08:25They're flying around.
08:26He's going to come back.
08:28Does anybody know, if Will actually were headed to Santa Cruz last night, do players drive
08:34themselves, or do they get a driver to the G League?
08:41Anyone know?
08:42Yeah, I have a good idea.
08:43What happens?
08:44Caltrain.
08:46He takes Caltrain.
08:47That was an opportunistic piece of junk.
08:50Why bother fighting the traffic and the brake lines and worrying about parking?
08:53You jump on Caltrain, all electric now, by the way.
08:57You can scroll your phone.
08:58You can have a snack.
09:00You can chat with friends.
09:01I can't believe you did that.
09:02Caltrain.
09:03You already did that today, Diggs.
09:05Yeah.
09:06You just got...
09:06And you know what happened?
09:07You just got...
09:08Added value.
09:08...for that one.
09:09That's called added value.
09:10No.
09:11You get off at the Tamien Station in downtown San Jose.
09:13You jump on a bus.
09:15Kaboom!
09:15No, you know what that's called?
09:17Volunteer work.
09:18That's what you just did.
09:20You know exactly what that is.
09:23Volunteer work.
09:23You and I have had this discussion about added value.
09:27You know what added value is?
09:28Is yesterday when I wore my R&S Garage Doors sweatshirt, I was in need of a closer and I
09:34was in need of a hoodie.
09:35Kaboom!
09:36Well, now, you know, you got something out of that.
09:38You got warm.
09:39Yeah, I did.
09:40And this, you just lost vocal cords for no reason.
09:43I will see.
09:45Anyway.
09:46Caltrain.
09:46Yeah.
09:47Yeah.
09:47All right.
09:47Chat with friends.
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