00:00The Warriors, all of you fans are mopey donkeys, and everything is fine.
00:05I get it.
00:05They don't look very good right now.
00:07I guess my question, because I'm joking about the mopey donkeys thing, kind of,
00:11but my question is, are y'all not in it for the long haul?
00:16You've all done sports before.
00:18These seasons, there's such an ebb and flow to this.
00:22So, like, yeah, it's not good right now.
00:24But do you think that the not good right now means that it's just not going to be good the whole time?
00:31Or are you buying that there's so many, there was the schedule thing, they could make moves,
00:39Steph's not healthy.
00:41Like, I'm sort of just on the premise that this is probably going to get better.
00:46I don't know how much better, and I don't know if better enough,
00:50but I am on the premise right now that what we have seen at the quarter poll
00:54is probably going to get better on some level.
00:58No?
00:58Yeah, better, but how much better?
01:00Yeah, I don't know.
01:01A little better, a lot better.
01:03That's what we'll see.
01:04Right.
01:04And I was joking with Grandy yesterday about his whole, like, 48 wins.
01:08It's easy money.
01:09And now here they are fighting tooth and nail to beat the Pelicans to get to 11-10.
01:14But it might be.
01:15It still might be.
01:16But it might also be, like, Steph's been hurt already once, if not twice,
01:22and he had a sickness.
01:23No doubt.
01:24I mean, yeah, I guess we could, like, you could eliminate the whole, like,
01:28oh, there's no worries whatsoever.
01:29It's automatic.
01:30I mean, that doesn't really exist because anybody could get hurt badly at any time.
01:35But go back to the year where they beat the Kings in the playoffs
01:39and they, like, couldn't win a road game.
01:41Remember that year?
01:42Wasn't that the same year they couldn't win a road game?
01:46That was 2023 after they won the title.
01:48Right.
01:49Right.
01:50And at the end of the year, you got all the tankometer teams,
01:55and you just start winning.
01:57Didn't the Warriors end up winning 46 games that year?
01:5944.
02:0044.
02:00Okay.
02:0144.
02:02Like, 49 wins, you're not that good.
02:07They won 48 last year.
02:09They won seven of their last nine that year.
02:12Yeah.
02:12They won 44.
02:13So that's what I'm saying.
02:14Like, if they keep hovering around, and you heard what Fridell said,
02:17the schedule's going to totally loosen up.
02:19Like, they're going to be an over 500 team.
02:23A well over 500 team.
02:24Right, but yawn at a 44-win season, that's a yawn.
02:29Well, 44 is not well over 500.
02:31That's only six games over 500.
02:33I would bet on them going well north of 44 wins.
02:36So right now, if you were offered 47 and a half as the over-under,
02:39you would take the over.
02:40Probably.
02:41And I don't even know if that still exists.
02:43It's probably higher than that, based on the schedule.
02:45I'll look it up while you go to the phones.
02:47Yeah, okay.
02:49How about Red Reggie in Oakland?
02:51Hi, Red Reggie.
02:52What you doing?
02:55Hey, there's my two boys.
02:57The two boys.
02:59Sorry about that.
03:00That's a solid three.
03:02That's a solid three.
03:03Oh, my God.
03:04That was good.
03:05That was good.
03:06It was mainly so unexpected.
03:09You needed a little bit of a longer.
03:11Hey!
03:12There they are.
03:13There they are.
03:15I had to give my best impression of the caller from the Hayward Hills.
03:19Love when he called.
03:20Hopefully I did it justice.
03:21You did it great.
03:22Absolutely.
03:22And Red Reggie, the boss is going to hate you,
03:25because Dibs and I have it in our contract that when that happens,
03:29it's the weekend.
03:29Ladies and gentlemen.
03:30Yeah, now we're off for the next two days.
03:32Thank you, Reggie.
03:35No problem.
03:36Hey, I just wanted to holler at you guys real quick about why I'm down on the Warriors
03:41and why I think a lot of the fans are down on the Warriors.
03:44And actually it has nothing to do with their feet currently or their standings.
03:50Like, I think this season so far I probably only went to one game in person
03:55and I probably only watched two games, to be honest with you, on the television.
04:01And I think the biggest reason for that is they're not very entertaining to watch,
04:08especially when you compare the team to the glory years.
04:13Like, there is really – there are actually people leaving work, rushing home to watch the game.
04:19That's how entertaining it was.
04:21And I just don't get the same feel when I watch this team, you know.
04:26It looks like they don't play with joy.
04:28And to be honest with you, it's not really a joy to watch them currently, how they're playing.
04:33But I think Steph is still entertaining, but the team as a whole, I don't know.
04:39I just don't – I'm not really entertained when I watch the games.
04:42That is – hey, Reggie, thank you.
04:45That was funny and informative because that that he just said, whew, that's a big statement.
04:53And that sends a shiver down the spine of everybody who works for the Warriors when you say that.
04:59It's one thing about a little losing streak, lackadaisical start.
05:04When you say that they're just not entertaining and they're not fun
05:08and they don't look like they're having fun, that, to me, is fundamental to what we're doing here.
05:19It's why you don't see me freak out and scream and rip teams and whatnot.
05:25It's not that I'm never frustrated by my teams.
05:28It's that if I'm not having a good time, why are we doing this?
05:34Like, I'm not here to be mad.
05:36Like, that's what I would – I've always wanted to interview an Eagle fan
05:39because it's like I get that your city is different from ours, but do you – are you – are you having fun?
05:45Because you're, like, mad and you're fighting and you're screaming and you just look miserable.
05:51You realize that this isn't an assignment, right?
05:54You don't have to be here.
05:55Yeah.
05:56And so, kind of like what we've talked about for the last few years with Giants baseball.
06:02If it's not entertaining, well, then you're probably not going to go.
06:06More people are going, though.
06:07Attendance is creeping up because they've gotten more entertaining.
06:10And it's recency bias, but that game against New Orleans, Nick Friedle joined us at the top of the hour.
06:16And that was a tough watch.
06:17And I watched most of it, and it was just basically two teams hurling a leather sphere at a metal object and then running after it.
06:25Totally.
06:26And, like, neither team could shoot.
06:28And it was fun to watch Sadiq Bey, grown man, warrior after warrior.
06:33Former warrior.
06:34Kind of, yeah.
06:34Almost a warrior.
06:35But that game was not that entertaining.
06:38Now, there have been some very entertaining games.
06:40Steph and San Antonio, 46 and 49.
06:43Are you not entertained?
06:44If you're not entertained by that, I can't help you.
06:47But, and I don't even know about the joy part of it because I still think they're trying to figure themselves out.
06:53I also, I have decided for myself that I'm going to believe them with everything they've talked about with this schedule.
07:00And I do think, I know no one wants to feel sorry for them, and I'm not asking you to, but I do think that they've traveled at such a level to where they, yeah, they're tired.
07:12They're tired.
07:12I don't think that this was very enjoyable for them.
07:15But it's their job.
07:17So, yeah, you need to at least kind of try to look like you're having a good time.
07:21But I think that the good times will be, I think there are more coming.
07:25There are more out the front window than in the rear view, I believe.
07:29But that's something for them to know.
07:31If that's how you fans feel, that's something for the Warriors to know big time.
07:35And I wonder how much of that transcends the league in general because I just was running the numbers and 41.7% of all shots are three-point shots.
07:44And the Warriors take the second most.
07:46And if it's not Steph, and I'm thinking about the game against New Orleans where Draymond Green, they're not even guarding you in the corner.
07:53And you just miss after miss after miss.
07:55And Buddy can't hit the three.
07:57Oh, it gets rough.
07:57It's rough.
07:58And so, it's not only, okay, yeah, you want your team to make the three.
08:02But all teams do now is shoot threes.
08:04Almost half a shots are threes.
08:07And the Warriors, for a time, had taken more threes than twos.
08:11And, yeah, they've taken 928 threes and 1,834 total shots.
08:18So, 928 threes, 9.06 twos.
08:22Wow, more threes.
08:23Than twos.
08:24Crazy.
08:24Gross.
08:25Honestly, gross.
08:27Hey, real quick, Big Smooth, because John Feliciano's about to join us.
08:30Go ahead, Big Smooth.
08:31We're a little short on time.
08:32What's up?
08:34Who the heck is John Feliciano?
08:35No, just kidding.
08:36But, anyway, listen, to add to the pessimistic cartoon characters you're speaking of, what
08:46about Glum from Gulliver's Travel?
08:50We'll never make it.
08:51Oh, yeah.
08:51I just know we won't.
08:52The reason why I won't be, the reason why I would not be Glum is because Steve Curry has
08:57always been saying, this team is not, if you listen to him, he's been saying, this team
09:01is not going to look like it is now.
09:03So, Seth Curry coming in, Melton coming in, it's going to make a big difference.
09:09And I believe the reason why there's no panic in the building, they're already working on
09:13a trade deadline character.
09:15They already have somebody picked up.
09:17These trades take a while.
09:19It's not just like they're picking up the phone on the trade deadline.
09:22They already know who they're going after, and they already see it.
09:26So, this team, we're 50-50 right now.
09:28We're 500 with the way we're playing.
09:31I think that's very optimistic.
09:33Anyway, you guys have a great...
09:34All right, Big Smooth, thank you very much.
09:35Yeah, I just, that's kind of the premise I'm on right now.
09:38Based on some things that I think are a fair guess, it's going to get better.
09:43I'm with you.
09:44I don't know how much better.
09:45I don't know better enough.
09:47But this is going to look better than it has to this point.
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