Kuminga and the Warriors at a crossroads!

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00:00I really feel like we've arrived at a crossroads.

00:04And sure, all roads lead to.

00:06We all know how to.

00:08And so, I don't want, like, I feel like today we can do this.

00:12Okay?

00:13Both thugs in harmony?

00:14We can do this.

00:15Crossroads?

00:16We can do this without the conversation arriving at,

00:22Yay, Jonathan!

00:23Bad Jonathan!

00:24Yay, Jonathan!

00:25Bad Jonathan!

00:26Let's go to Oakland!

00:27Yay, Jonathan!

00:27Let's go to Benicia!

00:30Oh, Jonathan's a baby.

00:31Like, no.

00:32Forget all that.

00:33The Warriors are at a crossroads.

00:36They are.

00:39And I think that that's why, again, you know how my brain works.

00:44Whenever we read something interesting, why did people choose to speak to a reporter?

00:49And why now?

00:50Why did Draymond have that press conference?

00:53Why did Jimmy, Jimmy Butler, give the come-hither to Anthony Slater of ESPN,

01:01Hey, follow me around for an hour.

01:04I want to talk.

01:06And give him absolutely brilliant stuff.

01:09I literally, I was inspired to text Anthony this morning.

01:12I'm like, dude, that was great work.

01:15That was an enthralling read.

01:17It was great.

01:17Long one, too.

01:18Yeah.

01:18ESPN.com, for those of you who partake.

01:21But the Warriors are at a spot.

01:24So, without taking any sides, what happens and what do they do is kind of my question.

01:31And I think the only answer is, indeed, Jimmy Butler.

01:37And I do think he's the Obi-Wan Kenobi now of this story.

01:42Help us, Jimmy Butler.

01:43You're our only hope.

01:45Steve Kerr and Jonathan Kaminga, they don't hate each other,

01:48but I don't think that they're going to, on their own, find common ground and the key to all of this.

01:56Steve is too quick to feel like, when he sees it not working, I'm going the other way.

02:01And Jonathan, he is too quick to get his feelings hurt by it.

02:06And it's a cycle.

02:09It's a cycle that just, I don't know if it's going to go away.

02:13Boy, those first two weeks of the season were fun.

02:15We thought that it had all gone away.

02:17It didn't go away.

02:19And it brings up old wounds right away and all of this stuff.

02:22And Jimmy Butler is trying to be both Steve and Jonathan.

02:27He's like, Jonathan, I see a lot of me in you.

02:31And I understand your situation.

02:33And I'm going to guide you through this.

02:34But I'm also going to tough love you.

02:36Because when you go out there doing that crap that you do, these are, I'm paraphrasing,

02:40but these are quotes from Jimmy.

02:41When you go out there and start doing that BS that you do,

02:45I'm going to call you on it so that we can win and get better.

02:51So, can this group coexist or not?

02:56Well, I mean, we'll see.

02:57Yes and no is the answer.

02:58And can they win?

02:59That's it.

03:00Yeah, sure.

03:00It doesn't matter.

03:01I don't care what the roles are.

03:03And then they've lost.

03:04And then you lose to OKC.

03:06And even if you didn't have the roles not worked out, now you'd probably lose that anyway.

03:10But Draymond makes his comments about agendas.

03:12And now today, an article, a big article drops with really good reporting

03:17and sourced quotes from Jimmy, basically saying, yeah, we had dinner

03:20and we basically are laying things out and JK's the guy.

03:24And I do think that if Jonathan Kaminga plays as well as he did early

03:28and he's your fourth best player, let's just say,

03:31and he's a viable piece and a viable part and he plays the right way and all the rest of it,

03:36this team, I don't know if the sky's the limit, but you could be a top four seed

03:39if Jonathan is able to play like that consistently.

03:42If he isn't able to and he's not able to play a lot of minutes,

03:47because Steve Kerr doesn't believe in him,

03:48and then he goes into a mode where his knees hurt or the dauber's down

03:53and he decides that he's not going to play as aggressively

03:57or the way that they need him to play,

03:59well, this thing goes down in a hurry and he probably gets dealt on January 15th

04:04when he possibly can get dealt.

04:06So you ask me, can this work?

04:09Yes and no.

04:10You've seen the yes, you've seen the no, and now he's out with bad knees.

04:15And so for me, it's very simple.

04:16It can work, but it also cannot work.

04:20Well, except for, to me, if it can work and it cannot work, that's a no.

04:24Because it can't be sometimes yes, sometimes no.

04:27I agree.

04:28It has to be almost all the time yes.

04:30Like everybody...

04:31It's easier said than done.

04:31Well, not really.

04:33Like, I get where you're coming from.

04:35I know that there are desires and egos, and this is high-level stuff.

04:41But if you want your company to work, everybody wakes up and knows what they need to do that day.

04:48Do the four of us wake up?

04:50And it took us some time to get there.

04:52But to the four of us on this show, do we wake up and we know exactly what everybody's got to do?

04:58We know when they need to be ready with it.

05:00They know exactly what we're doing.

05:02If there's a shake-up on a particular day, or someone's out, or someone's got something else going on, then that's discussed.

05:11And that starts at the beginning of the week.

05:15And believe you me, like for instance, what do we meet about this morning?

05:18Monday.

05:19That's five days away.

05:20But we're ready.

05:22We're ready.

05:22And everybody knows what they're doing.

05:24What we do is not as hard as Golden State Warrior basketball.

05:27And there are fewer people involved.

05:28I get it.

05:28And the roles by now are much more defined.

05:30But there's also Salesforce down the street that has 8 billion employees.

05:35And they wake up, because a couple of them are, I have friends who work in that building.

05:40Like, you wake up and you, thank you, you know what you have to do.

05:46But you don't always do it.

05:47Even if you know, like, you know what you have to do.

05:50And sometimes you miss a read.

05:51Then you have a bad day.

05:53Well, sometimes you have a bad day.

05:54Yes.

05:54I mean, that's my point.

05:55You've got to limit the bad days.

05:56You can know what you're supposed to do and still not do it.

05:59Go out there.

06:00And, you know, Draymond Green is among the top five players in turnovers this year.

06:04And he hasn't played in every game.

06:05And so, he knows what he's supposed to do.

06:08And sometimes he doesn't do it.

06:09Steph Curry had a game where he only had two field goals.

06:12And one of them was a Jimmy Butler hand it to you, two on none break.

06:16Right.

06:16And these are extreme examples, but Jonathan Kaminga knows, I think, what he's supposed

06:22to do, whether or not he can go out there and do it, whether or not he wants to do it.

06:26Those are things that I can't determine, nor can you.

06:28That's an interesting comment.

06:30I wonder about that.

06:31I think he knows what they want him to do.

06:33Well, he knows in a general sense what they want him to do.

06:36But that's sort of like, before the game starts, Jonathan, do you know what we want you to do?

06:41Yes.

06:42Okay, now you're actually playing ball and you're crossing half court.

06:47Do you think Jonathan is fully, fully, like, totally confident on what he is supposed to

06:53be doing on each given play?

06:57And yes, some of this is extemporaneous.

06:59Right.

06:59Like, they make this up as they go along.

07:01Brock Purdy to Christian McCaffrey last week.

07:03Everybody thought, wow, what a beautiful, schemed-up play by Kyle Shanahan.

07:07Guess what?

07:08It wasn't.

07:09It wasn't schemed up by Kyle Shanahan.

07:10It was Christian McCaffrey noticing that a bunch of open space that they didn't know

07:15was going to be there was there.

07:17And then it was Brock Purdy noticing what Christian noticed.

07:20It was the two of them non-verbally noticing the same thing.

07:24Boom.

07:25Touchdown.

07:25So there's all of that.

07:27I get it.

07:28I don't know that Jonathan does feel confident on every given play, on that chemistry, that

07:37thing that people have when it's all kind of working and you're all on the same page.

07:41I don't know.

07:41I don't know the answer.

07:42I think the role changes, too, based on who's out there with him.

07:44And I love that answer from Jimmy that you read in the crossover about, yeah, he'll play

07:49the dunker spot.

07:49And, J.K., you can ISO and you can cook.

07:52But when Steph is not out there, you don't play the same way you do when Steph is out there.

07:56And Steve has always said, when Steph is on the floor and he's only playing 31 minutes,

08:01so that's 17 minutes right now, a game, 48 minutes last night.

08:05But in general, it's about a third of the game where you don't have Steph.

08:09So a third of the game, you've got to figure out how to play differently because you're not

08:13going to play the same way.

08:15Jimmy's answer was awesome on that, and I encourage you to read it, ESPN.com, the Slater

08:18article.

08:19They don't have the same level of panic.

08:22Defenses don't.

08:23So if you're going to penetrate, they're not going to not help because Steph's not out

08:27there.

08:28So when it's just Jimmy and J.K. and others, yeah, you have to play differently.

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