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00:00Oh, hi, Guy. How are you doing today?
00:02What up, what up? How are you guys doing?
00:03What's good? I'm good.
00:04Yeah, how was the flight over there?
00:07That was good. Pretty smooth. We just got here.
00:10Just chilling a little bit, you know, for getting ready for tomorrow.
00:14Can you tell us what the Warrior flight is like?
00:17Like, what do you eat? What do you all do?
00:20Oh, man, so yesterday after the game, right, we got to lift a little bit,
00:25you know, make sure that you stay at the top of our, you know, our body.
00:30Then we got to do all the things that we need to do to feel better the next day.
00:37Then today we travel in the morning.
00:39So they have all the, you know, all the kitchen.
00:43Everybody from the kitchen is at the airport.
00:46So they have, like, breakfast ready for us and everything that we need to get in the flight.
00:52Then we get in the flight, pretty smooth flight, and just, you know, land here, get a bus,
00:57get to the hotel, and just wait for tomorrow.
01:01Is it assigned seats? Is it first come, first serve?
01:04Is there a certain amount of, like, is there a pecking order or rules?
01:08What's it like on that flight?
01:10No, so there's some great seats, you know, because we all, like, tall.
01:15So all the seats are very nice.
01:21And also, you know, you just, you just, we know most part of the young fellas sit in the front
01:29of the plane.
01:30The veterans, they sit a little bit more back to the plane.
01:34So that's the kind of one thing that we have in there.
01:38You probably haven't had a flight with Kristaps yet, have you?
01:44Yes, we did.
01:45The first, where we were at, I think that was for two games we had Kristaps fly with us.
01:52Oh, right.
01:52Before he was playing, he was flying with you.
01:55So, because you were talking about how tall y'all are, but nobody's that tall.
01:59So where does he sit?
02:01He sits, like, in a seat that doesn't have the table, you know, so he's got more leg room.
02:08So that's going to be good for him.
02:10I mean, it's incredible.
02:12And I guess at your height, because you're, what, 6'7 or 6'8,
02:16and it's got to be, like, one of the worst times in your life to be that tall, right, on
02:20a plane.
02:21Oh, yes, yes.
02:23This plane is not a problem, you know.
02:25It's a great plane for us.
02:27But when you go in a commercial flight and you don't go in the first class
02:32and you've got to go in the back, you know, that's, especially for me,
02:37because I travel a lot, because, you know, my hometown is Brazil,
02:41so I've got to be in the flight for almost 20 hours.
02:44So, yeah, if you don't get a comfort seat, you're in trouble.
02:50I get it.
02:51Guy Santos is with us here on Willard & Dibs.
02:53We do have some basketball questions we'd love to throw at you.
02:56And super appreciative that you're coming on today.
03:00I think a lot of Warrior fans are wondering about how things change as a group
03:07when you don't have any of your big-name players out there,
03:12and there isn't that pecking order thing.
03:14And you guys have talked about how much the ball moves,
03:18and it really looked like that yesterday.
03:20What's the difference in your strategic approach when you know there's not going
03:25to be a Steph or a Jimmy Butler or a Porzingis in the game?
03:31So, we know that for us to win games, especially on defense,
03:36we've got to be very, very tied up in, like, what we're going to do on defense.
03:41So, we start on that on defense, but offensively, you know,
03:45when you don't have Steph, when you don't have Jimmy, you know,
03:48Porzingis guys that are going to have the ball more in their hands,
03:51you just got to move the ball.
03:53You got to make the ball run for us.
03:55So, that's one thing that we have in mind.
03:58And somebody got to create the first, you know, the first,
04:02make the first domino fall.
04:04And everybody just keep moving the ball, keep driving,
04:08keep taking the best shots.
04:10And I feel like we've been doing that very, very good.
04:13I think last game we had a lot of assists, you know,
04:16one of the most assists, like, games in the season.
04:20So, that was one of the biggest reasons,
04:22because we didn't stop to move the ball.
04:24Everybody was playing and running for each other.
04:26And that was what made us really, really play, I think,
04:30one of the best basketball games of our season right now,
04:33without Steph, Draymond, Jimmy, and Porzingis, you know.
04:37It was awesome yesterday to watch.
04:39And, you know, as a fan, I kind of kept waiting for the bottom to drop out,
04:43but you fell behind and you guys bounced back.
04:46And how much of that do you think was because you went out there
04:49and you played so fast against a Denver team that's a little bit older
04:52and they had played a lot of games lately?
04:56Exactly, exactly.
04:57So, we lost, kind of, we kind of lost the control of the game.
05:02We stopped making shots, you know.
05:04We stopped making what we were doing the first, the whole first half.
05:07But then we just, you know, we stayed together.
05:10The whole team stayed together.
05:12And we knew it.
05:13We, in the bench, when we had a timeout, we knew it,
05:16they're going to have a run.
05:18So, we said, okay, they have their run.
05:20Now we got to get back to the game, keep playing like we were playing,
05:23and that's a process.
05:24You know, if we keep playing like we're playing right now,
05:26the shot's going to fall again,
05:27and that's going to make us come back in the game.
05:30And that happens in the fourth quarter, especially, you know,
05:33with BP showing up for big time like he did last night.
05:37Guy, I want to talk to you about just, and it's not so much about your numbers,
05:41but it's a little bit more about how this is just all feeling for you.
05:45I'm looking at, and this covers almost exactly a month,
05:49I'm looking at 11 games now, straight games where you're scoring,
05:53where you've had 20 or more minutes.
05:55I'm also looking at, for instance, just the month of February.
05:58You're shooting 57%.
06:00You're shooting over 45% from three.
06:04This has got to be the most consistent play that you've had as an NBA player,
06:10I would imagine, and I wonder how it's kind of changed life for you.
06:14Oh, man, I'm not going to lie to you.
06:17I'm feeling really good right now about the shooting, you know, the confidence.
06:20But I think especially when you know that you're going to play every night,
06:24when you know that, like, your team trusts you, the staff trusts you,
06:30that gives you way more confidence to go out there.
06:33And, you know, like, you take shots with confidence, you take shots that you think,
06:39like, yes, these shots are one of the shots that I've got to shoot and I'm going to make it.
06:43And I feel right now I'm in this position, you know, like, all the teams trust me,
06:49you know, the coaches, they always keep telling me to be aggressive,
06:52to keep, like, driving to the paint and kick the ball out and make, you know,
06:58make the right play all the time.
06:59And that's where the confidence came from, you know.
07:03And the confidence keeps growing, especially games like yesterday where,
07:06I mean, you mentioned it, no staff and all the rest of them were out.
07:09And so now you go on a quick little back-to-back road trip.
07:13How much does yesterday help you and all the other guys go into tomorrow
07:17and on Wednesday to feel even more confident?
07:21We played a great team yesterday and we knew it.
07:25That's, you know, one of the best teams right now.
07:28So we're here right now in New Orleans and after we play Memphis back-to-back.
07:35But yesterday was a great, great example for us to how we got to play.
07:41And, you know, there is days that we're going to make a lot of shots early in the game
07:44like we did.
07:45And there is games that we're not going to make that much shots.
07:48But just for us to keep playing the same way that we're playing, you know,
07:51everybody running for each other, everybody sprinting back for defense,
07:57sprinting to the offense, and just giving 100% of, you know, 100% all the time,
08:03that's going to make us, that's going to put us in a great position to win
08:08against every team, you know.
08:10Because what really matters is yesterday we kept the game just like even, you know,
08:16like we didn't let them go 20 points over us.
08:21We didn't go 20 points against them.
08:23But by the end of the game, the game was basically tight.
08:27And we had BP showing up, you know, and just playing like he was playing.
08:32So that's the goal for us for these two games too.
08:35Guy Santos is with us here on Willard and Dibs on 95.7 The Game.
08:39Guy, I'll tell you this.
08:40I think for fans, it's really fun to see a star the size of Steph Curry be as into
08:46the game as he is on the bench over there, even though he's not playing.
08:51And I wonder what that's like for you guys.
08:54What is he saying to you on the bench?
08:57And what does he talk you through?
08:59And what do you draw from that?
09:01Man, just to have Steph on the side is great because, you know, over everything,
09:08he's like for a lot of us that are way younger than him, we grow up watching him
09:14playing and you have a guy like him that he was four-time NBA champion already.
09:20A lot of NBA All-Stars appearance.
09:24He was champion.
09:25He was two-time MVP, you know, all that.
09:30And you have him right there with you just cheering for you and just talking to you,
09:36giving you some advice for some type of like plays on offense or defense.
09:41Yesterday he had like, I think I saw BP saying in the media that he was talking to BP to
09:47be,
09:48you know, to like take the shots with confidence and be aggressive.
09:52And when you have a guy like him, a guy that made all he does right there cheering for you
09:57and, you know, just supporting the team, it's great.
10:01Something great is going to happen because of that.
10:03So it's always good to have a guy like Steph on the side for supporting us in these games.
10:10Love that.
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10:20and we're talking live with Guy Santos after the team landed in New Orleans.
10:24Yeah, and playing off that, Guy, like growing up in Brazil,
10:27how much NBA do you get to actually see on the daily?
10:30And who was your favorite player when you were a kid?
10:34Man, that's a good question because like NBA for me was way too far a dream, you know,
10:43just to make to the NBA because come all the way there to America
10:48and change your whole life, learn another language.
10:53And that was a way, you know, far a dream for me.
10:57But I started watching it in 2014, 15, because I usually,
11:03I was used to watch more like the national basketball in Brazil, the pro league in Brazil.
11:08But then after, I remember Leandro Barbosa, he was playing here for Golden State.
11:15And I remember the year they won the championship.
11:18And then, you know, I was locked in on NBA, watching almost every game,
11:25trying to, you know, watch the games with going to some friend's house
11:30because I didn't have like, I don't know if they have NBA pass by the time,
11:35but I didn't have, you know, like ESPN or something.
11:39Like, I didn't have nothing like that.
11:40So I had to go to my friend's house to go watch it.
11:43That's how I had my first, you know, my first time watching NBA
11:47and just seeing Steph, Klay, Draymond, all these guys killing him.
11:52Then they have like KD coming for the team.
11:55So that was when I started really watching NBA.
11:58Speaking of what you watch and going back to the plane flight you guys were just on,
12:02I should have asked you not just what you eat and where you sit,
12:06but what do you watch?
12:08And by chance, was it Steph Curry's new goat movie?
12:13So I already watched the new, you know, the Steph movie.
12:17I went to the movie theater to watch it.
12:19It's a great, great movie, you know, just to watch it.
12:25And see, like, I saw Steph was doing the voices of one of the, you know, the characters.
12:33Yeah.
12:33So that was really, really fun because I could recognize right away when was him talking.
12:39And when I'm in the flight, usually I'm a guy that I like to play video games.
12:45I have a handheld PC that is, like, you know, I can play everywhere.
12:51So I just bring it to me, with me, and I just play that in the flight.
12:55I want to hear more about you seeing the goat movie.
13:00Like, so you give it a good review.
13:03Who did you go with?
13:03Did you go with a teammate, or how'd that all go?
13:08Man, I was, like, when I watch it, I watch it, me and my girlfriend.
13:14Okay.
13:14Yeah, my girlfriend with me.
13:16So I was, you know, whatever the goat was, I was there.
13:22So I was with him all the time.
13:25I mean, that's pretty awesome.
13:26And do you have moments where you kind of, I don't know, pinch yourself when you realize
13:31that you're playing basketball on the same team as Steph Curry?
13:35Yeah, that was the first, I remember the first game that I played with him that he gave me
13:41my first assist was in Memphis.
13:43In that transition, he passed me the ball.
13:46I promise you, I never, I never, like, received a pass that was so heavy like this one, you
13:52know, because that was, like, it's just Steph Curry passed me the ball to do a layup.
13:57What could go wrong?
14:00That's awesome.
14:01I love it.
14:02Hey, Guy, you're so much fun.
14:04We've loved talking to you the last few weeks.
14:07We love to do something with fancy guests like yourself on the way out the door called
14:14the Big Finish and ask you some fun kind of off-basketball questions.
14:17You up for it before you go?
14:19Yes, yes, of course.
14:20All right, so here's the deal.
14:23Yeah, so we give you two categories, and then you pick one category, and then we'll give
14:28you a couple questions out of that category.
14:30So the categories are Hair Jordan or Traveling.
14:36Which would you like to do?
14:39I do Traveling.
14:40Okay, Traveling.
14:41Question one, what country is on your wish list that, to this point, you have not yet visited?
14:48Bahamas.
14:49Bahamas?
14:50Wow.
14:51Yeah.
14:52Yeah, that's because of Buddy.
14:53Have you discussed this with Clay Thompson as of yet?
14:58Not with Clay, because when Buddy was here, he was really, really talking about Bahamas all
15:04the time.
15:05Clay was not talking that much about Bahamas, but the way that Buddy was talking, you know,
15:11I said, all right, Buddy, I want to go there.
15:13That sounds awesome.
15:14Have you done any of the other island-type stuff, Jamaica or Hawaii or anything like that?
15:20Yes, yes.
15:21I went to Hawaii.
15:23I was in Hawaii, actually, for the Alistair break.
15:25My fiance, she plays there.
15:27She played beach volleyball for the University of Hawaii, so I was there.
15:31That's a smart move.
15:33That's a great vacation spot.
15:34Question number two, Guy.
15:36Would you rather drive across the USA or get on a boat and sail all the way to Europe?
15:42No, no.
15:43I would drive across the U.S.
15:46I don't like the ocean that much, you know?
15:49Are you a seasick guy, Guy?
15:52No, not seasick, but I'm kind of scary off the water, you know?
15:57I don't know what's under there, so I'd rather stay in a car driving across the U.S.
16:03So, wait a minute.
16:04Does this go to the beach as well?
16:06Like, when you go to the beach, do you just kind of stay on the sand?
16:09No, no, no.
16:10When I'm in the beach, I go to the water, you know?
16:12But one day, I know that it's really deep in the ocean.
16:15No, no.
16:16I don't like that.
16:16Okay.
16:17I'm kind of with you, Guy.
16:18I get it.
16:19Really deep in the ocean.
16:19All right.
16:20I feel like we probably know how you're going to answer this last question.
16:24He might surprise you.
16:25But let's ask it just in case.
16:27Would you rather take a vacation in the hot sun or in the cold snow?
16:33I'm with the hot sun, man.
16:35Yeah.
16:35That's what I thought.
16:37Yeah.
16:37Do you ski?
16:39Does Guy ski?
16:41Guy ski?
16:42No, no, no.
16:43No idea.
16:44Never, never.
16:45We don't have, you know, we don't have snow in Brazil, so.
16:48I play, we call it au chien, that you know when you be juggling the ball in the sand?
16:55Yep.
16:56Yeah, so we have me and the friends just juggling the ball together all in the sand with the sun,
17:01you know?
17:02You have some coconut water and some music going on.
17:06That's my type of vibe.
17:08That sounds good.
17:09Now you're talking to a man who with a winter break went to Hawaii.
17:12Yeah, exactly.
17:13Yeah.
17:14I get it.
17:15All right.
17:16Hey, Guy, once again, you're a delight.
17:19Keep it up.
17:20Keep putting those threes in and good luck over the next two nights.
17:26I appreciate you guys for having me.
17:27Thank you, sir.
17:28Nice, Guy.
17:28There he goes.
17:29Guy Santos.
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