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It’s official: the Warriors are headed to the Play-In tournament as the 10th seed. With potential matchups against Portland or the Clippers looming, Steiny and Guru discuss the reality of being "behind the 8-ball." Are we looking at the end of an era, or can the Warriors pull off the impossible and fight their way into a first-round series against OKC or Denver?
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00:00But they're coming off a one-point loss last night, but that's not the story.
00:04What would you describe where they're at if I said right after last night?
00:09Did anything change for you?
00:11No, not in the big picture, but what changed is the immediate.
00:17Yeah, I mean, clearly this team is in a better space than they've been in any time,
00:23I would think, in the last two months, with the possible exception of that one game
00:27where they beat Houston in Houston, and that's when Draymond Green got a text from Steph Curry
00:32saying, hang in there, I'm definitely coming back.
00:36So, you know, the Warriors since that point have been struggling,
00:42but, you know, they play well last night and they get Steph Curry back,
00:47and now the way I look at it is you've got a chance to get into the playoffs.
00:53I don't believe you had much of a chance to get into the playoffs
00:56if Steph hadn't returned, but obviously he gives you a fighting chance.
01:00I don't see any reason why the Warriors couldn't win a game against Portland
01:05and then either Phoenix or the Clippers.
01:07I'm not saying it's guaranteed, and I'm not even saying it's better than a 50-50 chance,
01:11but with Steph Curry, you've got a shot.
01:14Let me – I know tomorrow's the Kings game.
01:18When do you expect – I know Curry doesn't run this by him.
01:21It's going to be about Horford?
01:21No.
01:22Does Steph start tomorrow?
01:24That's a good question.
01:25You know what – it could be game one if we're in Portland.
01:28I'm just curious.
01:29I mean, I would think that just at some point he's got to start.
01:33Yeah, yeah.
01:34But by the same token, if the Warriors choose to be super careful with him
01:41and say, look, he's not playing more than 26 minutes a night,
01:47then maybe he does continue to come off the bench
01:50because it guarantees that he can play the last six or seven minutes of a game.
01:54Yeah.
01:55You know, it's funny.
01:56If you bring up – maybe Steph will keep coming off the bench.
02:01I guarantee you that a lot of Warrior fans are saying no.
02:05I mean, if he's ready, he's got to start.
02:07And, obviously, if he's going to work his way up back to 30 minutes, he will.
02:11I'm just saying for down the road, Goo, a year, two years from now,
02:17you know, Steph Curry is absolutely capable of being a special kind of sixth man, I think.
02:24It could be something we haven't seen.
02:25Yeah, we saw the whole game change yesterday.
02:28No doubt.
02:28No doubt.
02:29And, you know, I come in every day with you four hours, get on your nerves,
02:34on your guys' nerves.
02:35But, I mean, I just share what's in my heart.
02:38And I just – you know, I couldn't come up with a better script than yesterday
02:43in regard to how he was moving, what I thought he was going to move like,
02:47if there was a getch or a giddy-up.
02:49And I'm being honest, at the beginning I was thinking, okay, that's what I was looking for.
02:54Is that good or not?
02:55But, man, he knocked it out the park.
02:57It's one game.
02:58I don't know how he's feeling today.
02:59But, man, what you talk about the possibility of him being something we haven't seen
03:05in regard to a sixth man with his, you know, speciality of shooting it from deep
03:12and just putting on a show.
03:13Yesterday wasn't the Olympics at all.
03:15But it was a part of every time he let it go, you thought it was going in.
03:19And Houston just looked frustrated.
03:20And I got to give them credit because I've been coming down the road thinking they,
03:23you know, they needed to grown up in the room and they won the game.
03:27But now it's about, okay, Steph's healthy.
03:30How good is this Golden State Warrior team?
03:33And right now they're the 10th seed in the West.
03:35Yeah.
03:37888-957-9570 is the number.
03:41Steph Curry's back.
03:43And I'm wondering how Warrior fans are feeling about it right now,
03:47whether they think that this thing can get done.
03:49And what I mean by that is can this team find a way into the playoffs.
03:53By the way, the winner of the knockout tournament.
03:56Oh, yeah.
03:57The winner is Robbie Price from Daily City.
04:01Wow.
04:02Robbie Price from Daily City is our knockout winner.
04:07Our third annual knockout challenge where listeners get to play knockout on the Chase Center floor.
04:14And it comes one night after Steph Curry put on a show here in an arena that I hadn't heard
04:20as loud as it was for a few months.
04:22That's for sure.
04:23No doubt about it.
04:24And, you know, you just think of the worst-case scenario and why I was in the camp for a
04:29little bit.
04:29And I won't front and lie.
04:31You know, hey, just shut them down.
04:33You know, you don't want them to get hurt.
04:34And then he shows us what he's capable of and the work he put in to come back.
04:40So now you and I are fundamentally different.
04:42I'm a dreamer.
04:43But, man, I would love, first you've got to handle business, to win those two games
04:47and just see what it would look like against an OKC or a San Antonio.
04:51Like, I don't know why, Stoddy, I want that.
04:54I know this team is behind the A-ball in regard to these young guns up atop the Western Conference.
04:59But I want to know in a playoff, win-or-go-home series, could we get one?
05:04Could we get two?
05:05Yeah, I mean, look, and it's funny because I think some Warrior fans or fans in general are saying, you
05:12know,
05:13look, don't get ahead of yourself.
05:14And I get it.
05:15You can't get ahead of yourself.
05:17But the Warriors are playing in the play-in.
05:19That's official.
05:20If they lose every regular season game from now until next Sunday, they are going to play versus the nine
05:28seed.
05:28And that means they're going to get either Portland or they're going to get the Clippers.
05:34And the bottom line is you've got to win two games.
05:38And without Steph Curry, I didn't give him much of a chance.
05:43Neither did I.
05:44But with Steph Curry, you obviously give him more of a chance.
05:48The odds are still stacked against them as a 10 seed.
05:51Has any 10 seed off the top?
05:53I want to say no.
05:54Has any 10 seed broken through into the playoffs?
05:58Is Miami when they were eighth, I believe, years ago to go to the finals to play Denver?
06:02I could be wrong.
06:03Everyone let us know.
06:04So this would be, I'm pretty sure.
06:06No way no 10 seed.
06:07Think about it.
06:08No, I don't think a team from the 9-10 has got to the playoffs.
06:13Okay, so when Miami did it, they were...
06:16I want to say eighth.
06:17Okay, so...
06:18I felt like they were eighth.
06:19All right, so no team has won two road games in the play-in to get to the postseason.
06:25So for what it's worth, that's what the Golden State Warriors are going to have to do.
06:29And that's part of Steph Curry's assignment also here for the Golden State Warriors.
06:36Tomorrow they play the Sacramento Kings.
06:38And you said, will Curry play?
06:41And I assume he will.
06:43I mean, today's obviously a big day.
06:44You'll see how it feels.
06:47And I'm sure he won't practice, but he'll go through some light stuff.
06:51And hopefully, when he gets out of all the stuff he does, that he'll be ready to go for tomorrow
06:57night.
06:58Let me get your advice on something.
06:59Because I don't want to say it's bothering me, but it's eating at me.
07:03And it's the finality of the season, which basically means nothing.
07:07And I'm a bit disappointed because we're cemented in the 10th.
07:10But none of these games this week kind of alter, you know, our possible seeding.
07:17And I don't know if that's how the league had it or whatnot.
07:19But it just kind of showed you how bad it's been here on Warrior Land for the, you know, past
07:25couple of weeks since Steph went down.
07:27But do you think about that at all?
07:29That, you know, these games don't change the fact we'll be on the road.
07:32That's how far we've fallen.
07:34Real quick, guys.
07:35Miami last year, as the 10th seed, won two games to advance to their first-round series.
07:40Oh, damn.
07:40And then eventually lost to the one seed.
07:44So what happened last year?
07:44It's just one time.
07:46In the East.
07:47Right.
07:47And Miami's.
07:49Wow, good stuff, E.
07:51Yeah, I forgot about that, clearly.
07:54By the way, the woman in the gray shirt.
07:57I got a store for you.
07:59Who looked like she was a player.
08:01See, this is the thing.
08:02I'm looking down there, and I watch her, and I saw her shoot, and I said, she played somewhere.
08:06No doubt.
08:06And according to San Jose Jazz fan, he participated and talked to her, and she played at Cal State Stanislaus.
08:15So I'm pretty sure that's D2.
08:17Can I tell you what happened, and I hope he's not listening.
08:20Butcher eliminated her, and then gave her a see-ya.
08:24Wait, what?
08:24Butcher eliminated the young lady in the tournament.
08:27I'm sitting there courtside.
08:29And then gave her a see-ya.
08:31After he eliminated her.
08:32Who did that?
08:33Butch.
08:35But Chesky wasn't in the finals.
08:37She was.
08:38The gray-shirted one?
08:40There were multiple women who competed.
08:41Oh, okay.
08:42Well, let me see if I'm on.
08:43I thought we just had Whitley and gray-shirt.
08:45Yeah, who was good?
08:46Yeah.
08:47Let's see.
08:47She made it to the finals.
08:48Anyway.
08:49I'm sorry, Butch.
08:50I'm snitching.
08:50But, yeah, he said see-ya.
08:51I didn't like it.
08:54Yeah, well, he didn't make the finals.
08:58You hate to see it.
08:59Yeah, you do.
08:59You do.
09:00888-957-9570 is the number.
09:06Go.
09:06Oh, let's go.
09:07I'll tell you what.
09:08What do we got?
09:09Let's go to.
09:10Oh, we got Antonio in Oakland.
09:12Hey.
09:13Joining us on 95.7 The Game.
09:15Hey, Antonio, what's up, my man?
09:19Pretty good, man.
09:20You know, just celebrating my daughter's one-year birthday on Saturday.
09:24Nice.
09:25Happy birthday.
09:27Congrats, buddy.
09:28Hey, thank you, guys.
09:29Yes.
09:29Appreciate it, you guys.
09:30Real talk, real talk.
09:31Much love to you.
09:33You know, very happy Steph Curry came back.
09:36You know, he's a, what, top three player of all time.
09:38And, actually, one of my daughter's birthday gifts was a Steph Curry jersey that I got her.
09:41Nice.
09:42So, yeah, that was good.
09:43And then, you know, I just wanted him to get injured and all that.
09:45And, I mean, of course, I wouldn't mind if he sat out.
09:48But, at the same time, I do want him to play because, like I say,
09:50he's fun to watch and all that.
09:51But, last night, you know, he had his loan where he was cooking Durant.
09:54And, at the end, I think he kind of rushed the shot.
09:56But, he kind of had to at the same time pause for a screen because Green had, you know,
10:00Draymond yelled at him and said, yo, after the game and all that.
10:02Yeah.
10:02It is what it is, man.
10:04Steph is Steph.
10:05And, if we do make it into the playing tournament, I don't like the playing tournament,
10:08even though it's benefiting the Warriors.
10:09But, I still don't like it.
10:10But, I don't know if we can win multiple games and all that.
10:12We definitely can be OKC for the Spurs in this playoff series.
10:15Maybe the Spurs two times, but that's it.
10:17Yeah, I got you.
10:19Hey, thanks for the call.
10:20Congrats again.
10:23You know, I look at it as though, OK, Kalena Azubuki coming up on 95.7 The Game momentarily.
10:30He's down on the court talking to some listeners.
10:34He'll make his way up here at some point.
10:37And, we'll talk to Kalena.
10:41I'm sure he's excited, too, you know.
10:44Because Curry's back.
10:45Yeah, no doubt.
10:45Yeah, I mean, it makes everything better.
10:47The broadcasts are better.
10:49The inexperience, the in-arena experience is better.
10:52And, the product is better.
10:55And, the Warriors are better when Steph Curry plays.
11:00No doubt about it.
11:01Do you have a favorite going into the playoffs right now?
11:04Not name the Warriors.
11:05If you can't pick the Warriors, who are you looking at?
11:08I think Boston has a look, man.
11:10Yeah, I got to go with OKC.
11:13So, you see different, huh?
11:14Yeah, I mean, I feel like they, you know, they won it last year.
11:19They came out guns blazing this year.
11:22They started talking about 70.
11:24And, I think at some point, around the midway point, or a little before that,
11:28they kind of said, we can't be attacking the year like this.
11:34And, you know, they had a little down period, but I'm not that concerned about it.
11:39And, Jalen Williams is back.
11:42If I had to make a bet, I would bet on Oklahoma City.
11:44Okay.
11:45What about you?
11:45I'm not mad at that.
11:49Something's calling my name in Denver.
11:51I just, when they get healthy, and that'll be here soon, you would think,
11:56I just think Jokic and Murray got something, and they took OKC seven games last year.
12:01And then, tell me what you think of this theory in the East.
12:04Watch out for old Philly.
12:06Oh, I don't think so.
12:07No, with Paul George and him being back, with Edge Combs, Donnie, and Baxi.
12:11I just, and what's the lights get catch and put it on us?
12:14They could fill it up.
12:16What's my man's name?
12:17Man, he had a game against us a couple years ago.
12:20Score like 30 points.
12:22Comes off the binges.
12:23He's a shooter.
12:24But Grimes?
12:26Yeah, Grimes, yeah.
12:27So, I, Philly.
12:30Yeah.
12:31Boston, too.
12:32What happened to, what was happening with your Lakers?
12:35I mean, you saw what happened.
12:38I mean, are you kidding me?
12:39Reeves goes down with an oblique, and then the hammy, just like Steph had with the Warriors.
12:44So, they're going to have to play the first round without Boston Reeves and Luka Doncic?
12:50They're saying Luka went to Germany to get some special treatment on the hammy.
12:54This was yesterday.
12:55Yeah, it could have been duped.
12:57But they were saying that's where he was headed.
12:59But I hadn't heard it to that extent.
13:01That would be a death blow.
13:02Yeah, I'm looking at the standings right now.
13:04The Lakers are tied with the Nuggets.
13:06So, if the Nuggets finish ahead of them, they're three, and that'll, that sets up Denver and Minnesota again.
13:13And, uh.
13:14I think the Lakers would be happy.
13:15Who would they get if they didn't get the third?
13:18Who would four or five play?
13:18The Lakers would then get the Houston Rockets at a four or five matchup.
13:22I think the Lakers right now would prefer Houston over Minnesota.
13:27I think they probably would, too, because they're hurt, and Minnesota just seemed to have their number last year.
13:34I know it's a different year.
13:35Yeah.
13:35But, um, yeah, we'll, uh, we'll see, uh, how it all shakes out.
13:41I hate our loss, honey.
13:43Well.
13:43It's over.
13:44Yeah, it is.
13:45And, you know, you kind of waited all year for it.
13:49And, um, you know, I probably didn't live up to expectations for you.
13:53I'll take eight of eleven.
13:54Yeah.
13:55And a loss.
13:57But, you know.
13:58Hey, in baseball, I'm a boy, eight and eleven.
14:01Come on now.
14:02Yeah, like you, you know, and it's very similar to, uh.
14:06To what?
14:06Like a Pods.
14:07You know, Pods.
14:08I'm looking at Pods last night.
14:09He was seven for eleven.
14:11Um, eighteen points.
14:13But, you know, they couldn't, they couldn't get over the top.
14:15And, you know, you always want to play well in a win, uh, if you can.
14:19But not, not a bad showing.
14:21Uh, not a bad showing, Gil.
14:22No doubt.
14:23And, um, I didn't win.
14:25But now we just think about what the Warriors can do.
14:28And the finality of the regular season being here.
14:31And, I mean, you could say it's the Kings tomorrow.
14:34And in regard to the standings, not much there.
14:36But as far as another forty-eight minutes, possibly to watch Steph and see how he looks,
14:41you know, act number two, I'm all in.
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