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Draymond Green hasn't been shy about his feelings on the play-in tournament. Steiny and Guru break down whether Draymond's mindset reflects the reality of the Warriors' season and if "just making it" is enough for a team with championship DNA.
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00:01so lebron james and the lakers are in town tonight curry's just come back from injury
00:07and i understand they're not one two in the standings but doesn't it feel like a giants game
00:12in what regard this is i don't hear a buzz this could be oh this could be the last time
00:19no they play each other this probably won't be but could be could be the let it could be the
00:24could be the warriors last home game of the year that's what it could be who knows if lebron james
00:30packs it in but he's not and they're and they're going to play collectively i've you know two to
00:36three years each of them that that's what i believe okay so i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna argue against
00:40my own point here which okay so you know i said okay sure bring bring lebron in here be a
00:47three
00:47ring circus well maybe it won't i mean steph and lebron are playing a game tonight at chase
00:54there's not very much excitement at all and so why would it be exciting next year
01:01when they're playing together and this goes back to so try to bear with me here um
01:09yesterday evan and i were talking about bill simmons uh he had a podcast i haven't let me
01:14know where he city yeah where he talked about how you know steph curry has never been the best player
01:20in the nba that even in 16 or whatever that year was um you know lebron's team had him three
01:28anyway he said lebron's been the best player and then in 2022 it became yokich so
01:37maybe the reality of the situation is that curry and and lebron are
01:44they're old news but they're not what well then why doesn't anybody care about the game
01:49because we're if you want to be real and put the rat on the table brought to you by echo
01:52pest control
01:53the bottom line is this this has been an f season for the nba everybody's talking about your product
01:59we're watching coaches tell their players to foul miss me with the explanation tanking is is is running
02:06rampant and the bottom line is the way that this system and season is set up with this new plan
02:11there is not much theater for the end but i will tell you tomorrow night the game of the year
02:17to me
02:17you don't even know this is portland and the clippers that's a game that has meaning in regard to
02:22who's going to get that a seed uh for the plan but we can't throw rocks at the warriors laker
02:29matchup
02:29when the lakers have handled their business and they got there they solidified where they're going to be
02:34and the golden state warriors we have questions in regard to health but i'm being so real partner
02:40the playoffs are about a week two way like when you say buzz what do you mean because i will
02:46i'm
02:47gonna be watching and it like what are you looking for at the end you know what time it is
02:52when teams
02:53are already know where they're kind of slotted at and the warriors are one of them and the lakers as
02:57well i mean i think really when you say buzz well this yeah there's there's not a buzz about tonight's
03:03game and i get there are reasons but you know it's still lebron and staff and i think i think
03:10what we're finding out is that you know they're they're getting passed by like and it's it's natural
03:17they're both they're both up there and they don't you know one guy's on a team that's not a factor
03:23um staff and the other guys on a team where he's not even the best player and so like
03:31they're they're not they're just both not as intriguing as they were five years ago
03:38or compelling and i don't know that they're going to be good enough next year to
03:43be successful well up until healthy enough partner i thought which time
03:48which time last year in the playoffs or this year the runners need okay we got her last year
03:54how the league had so many young options in regard to ant yokich whatever fits your bill jaylen green
04:00but the uh jaylen brown the bottom line was we still and i think you said it you tell me
04:06if i'm wrong
04:07we still talked about how great lebron and steph were before before lebron decided to play third fiddle
04:13um how they were still carrying the league and how could you believe it that they're doing it at
04:18their age well i don't think they're carrying the league anymore that's kind of what my point is is
04:22i think they're becoming an afterthought now if they get together can they do it that see that's
04:27where i'd like if you put steph finally if they got to combine forces i gotta believe you're staring
04:33at a fifth or sixth seed and then again the question you're saying win team with health with hell
04:39for the playoffs what could you do like who wouldn't want to see that even if like you got
04:44to do everything if you're joe lacob for everything for steph okay so we're still doing that i just
04:50wanted to be clear right we're still doing that gave us so we're not you know that was come on
04:54now
04:54that was what that was everything for steph too no no but they didn't get him right but my point
05:02is
05:02that their mindset is still they're trying yannis was everything for steph lebron was everything for
05:06steph paul george was everything for steph marketing was everything for steph kawaii was
05:09everything for steph durant's everything for steph they haven't gotten any of them yeah so but that's
05:14a different conversation no it isn't are you not getting the guys waste your time again well i was
05:19told that they they you know they sniffed uh marketing another guy they sniffed yeah but they
05:26went the other way like draymond talked him out of it i don't care why they don't they haven't
05:31gotten anybody and like they keep bringing up these big names that's all i and
05:39you know as far as next year goes i'd
05:45you know i i don't go ahead bring him in no bring him in right but you're telling on yourself
05:51that's what i would say i think you've already told on yourself well yeah but let's stop telling
05:56let's okay when do we stop telling ourselves and start telling the truth you know what i mean let
06:00me ask you this what and i keep saying it like i was somebody with my sales background sonny if
06:06one
06:06customer doesn't buy you don't stop you keep going until you get that one so yeah i disagree with that
06:12and and i'm gonna be honest what you're i don't want to call your trepidation or any warrior fans
06:17trepidation about the future i'm talking about next year that's why i'm getting a headache talking about
06:22it now i'm so honed in on these three games left of the 82 for the regular season the play
06:28in and
06:28then we could get to the playoff and that's putting my that i'm being such an adult when it comes
06:34to
06:34sports and i'm proud of myself because i'm taking nothing for granted and steph getting hurt with
06:39that runners and he missing the amount of games has me shook to the core of okay this ain't even
06:45close
06:45to how bad it could really get it's going to do you do you think it's ever going to get
06:50bad well when
06:51he leaves and he didn't play that was no shade at any player that was bad we didn't have a
06:56star on
06:57the court but i watched that's bad we don't have any young guys to look forward to right now so
07:05okay
07:06and so the reason you're going to go get lebron is because you don't have enough young guys
07:10all right fair i think they would go get lebron because joe lake would think we might have a
07:17puncher's chance joe lake wants lebron to fill seats but isn't he doing that now with curry
07:22what do you mean when he's not hurt the seats are healthy yeah no when he i'm saying that part
07:26of it
07:27hasn't got funky to where you need somebody to go with steph to fill the seats the chef's doing that
07:34the kitchen is full the seats the chase center has not been full this year well i have we haven't
07:40read anything we've been there the chase center has not been full this year to the degree it has
07:47been would you give me this to fight that to combat that it's not been written about or an issue
07:54yet as far for joe lake up you know what i'm saying he ain't driving to to work like oh
07:59my god
08:00they're not coming that's what i'm saying yeah you ever see you ever see the third quarter of a
08:05game people are getting the free food and the free drink fine yeah if you think if you think chase
08:11is as full and as exciting as it's been in the past then i don't know what to tell you
08:16how about
08:16because it hasn't been i'm gonna give you the point all the more reason to bring in lebron from a
08:20business standpoint exactly that's why you're doing it okay just then just acknowledge right it's not
08:26it's not basketball it's business so see i think you get a more than a um portion of the basketball
08:33element i mean because prom still can bring something to the tape i i just believe if the
08:40golden state i no i'm with i'm listening to you how can i get a how can this team
08:49how can this team with what's happened the last two years and the age of their roster
08:55say let's go get the oldest player in the league like it's a joke almost to me
09:04and then you know what like seriously goo next year when curry gets hurt are you gonna say it's
09:09buzzard's luck or when lebron plays 42 games it's buzzard luck no you would butler never comes back
09:15it's butter but uh i get all that what i want you to do because i think you're being unfair
09:20what would
09:21you do i told you but tell us again just remind me like what would you do i would i
09:26you have to
09:27make a decision on poor zingas do you want poor zingas back or not i don't want him back for
09:32one
09:33more year and if you're asking me would i rather have lebron james for one year or not lebron james
09:39for one year i'd probably say i'd rather have lebron james for one year but don't try to trick me
09:44into into into believing that we're that we now believe we're a serious contender and a serious
09:51franchise right now that's all i'm saying well my point is you you would be better if both those
09:57things happened and poor zingas remained a warrior and you brought in lebron can't you just look me in
10:02the face and say goo you're dead right they they i don't i don't know if they'd be better you
10:08thought
10:09they would be better no you thought there was no chance they could miss the playoffs this year
10:13and but i didn't foresee jimmy and and now you could say well dummy why didn't you i didn't see
10:19that okay but i'm giving you an opportunity to see it with lebron and with curry and still with
10:26butler i was with horford we saw the horford i'm being real i would rather take those chances
10:32than yeah just be boring like they were when steph was out okay i i okay and i'm not look
10:43i i'm
10:43sitting here saying if they go out and get lebron i would understand and i would but i wouldn't take
10:50them seriously as a championship team just because they got lebron um let's go to chris in pleasanton
10:58hey chris what's going on man what's going on i think uh how are you doing today doing well thank
11:04you so i think the big elephant in the room nobody's ever talking about is maybe it's just
11:10the coaching and steve kerr's got to go they've been up by 20 points so many times only to lose
11:16that game by one point at the end yeah can you hear me yeah i can hear you i was
11:23waiting for you to
11:24add on a little bit yeah so i mean it seems like he's got all these star players yet even
11:31his
11:32coaching is what's losing the games it seems like in my opinion yeah i i don't know how much talent
11:37they have on that floor right now uh outside of staff to be honest with you but i i hear
11:44you chris i
11:44you know it's like what does lebron mean for kerr if anything you know does that mean does that mean
11:50kerr is going to be back for definitely at least one more year thanks a lot for the call chris
11:55appreciate it man what did i say to you uh you can back me up in the green room had
12:00a great time with
12:01you evan and and will christie in the suite and i'm sitting there and all the noise and rightfully so
12:07is about doug christie and what the kings did at the end of that game but i just asked you
12:12this morning
12:12how the hell were they how did we not beat that team even with no perzingis or harford
12:17how were they even in the game on the road because you're you i'll tell you you want me
12:24yeah no i'm be quiet because you're under some crazy illusion that the warriors are still a team
12:31that can play not well and beat anybody and i don't know how many times they're 500 500 what do
12:39you
12:39mean how did they almost lose to the kings so i'm living in the past
12:45no but go get lebron but now you're talking to lake up or go get kawaii i'm talking to you
12:51no there's not a guy there's never been a guy that's come down the pike that you haven't wanted
12:55because i want to get better i like paul george i love those guys you name like nobody no there's
13:01no guarantees that paul you think paul george would have made the warriors better well okay i'm
13:05just wondering just asking this is a this is our reality here in warrior world shout out she
13:14there's some tough decisions to be made but again i would love to see porzingis back and there's a
13:19risk in that for one year why not lebron for one and then what you've talked about where you got
13:25me
13:25excited that everything comes clean in regard to the books and you start there maybe steph is looking
13:31around like let me help you do it let me help you you know what i mean they gotta know
13:36but i would
13:39like to see them play at least four games against okc just for the sake of let's see how far
13:45off we
13:45are like you know i want to see that well you can they're 10 they're the 10 seed so they're
13:50nine
13:51places off and here's the bottom line and i don't care if you disagree or not because i'm right
14:01you are more excited about an oklahoma city series than draymond green and i mean that from the
14:07bottom of my heart would you say that's a problem and we'll call you a fan that's what i am
14:12yeah but
14:13it's more the state of the nba and that man but like do you think do you think draymond green's
14:23thinking god i'd love to play okc to see exactly where we're up until hearing that comment the
14:30answer would have been hell yes no no let's flip it steph curry who told us to our face all
14:37i want
14:38is a chance how do you get a chance qualified for the playoffs okay how do you do that two
14:42road games
14:43this year so forget what dray's saying that well okay now we're gonna forget what dray's saying i'm
14:49telling you he's so prideful i believe guru i'm just the guru telepathy he's so he's really excited
14:56but he said he's not come game time for the plan first game he'll be all in but he ain't
15:02he'll be
15:02all in like he was all in last night or two nights ago not gonna be any more in i
15:07don't believe let's
15:09listen to it again draymond green getting ready for the play-in it's not exciting it's not but you know
15:17i'm a competitor so i'm going to the game i'm gonna do all i can to win but it's not
15:21that exciting
15:22do you think you'll be excited next week when you have two do or die road games that we'll be
15:26on big
15:27stages well listen you go on the road in a game that you need to win i think you know
15:32as a competitor
15:33you're gonna rush to the challenge you know but i'm not going to sleep tomorrow night like man we
15:38got this play in next week gotta get my rest like no it ain't that exciting i mean shot at
15:43the nba
15:44and the playing itself but that that's what he's really doing but he told you i'm gonna be ready
15:49and in in play right he's gonna put it into robot mode which is i know i have a game
15:56tonight so i'm
15:57gonna be a profession but it's not like whoo playing sky high warriors coming out like that's
16:04not the way it works and they see it and they go i mean when the game comes i'm sure
16:10i'll be a
16:11competitor like i am every time i play but other than that i'm not doing anything special how come
16:17because we're not going anywhere but he's a winner he's a champ four times over so that's why he knows
16:24i'm being honest here with you draymond this is the only way that you can qualify you're really truly
16:29not a playoff team he did not like but i would hope he doesn't fire that burns within it like
16:37that
16:38anymore man i'll give you that like they just you that that hit me they don't want it like that
16:45green as competitive as he is is not as hungry as he has been come on now i mean that's
16:54that says it
16:54right there and maybe that's why joe lacob didn't look and again i'm i can't read minds but i just
17:01kept watching him even when people were up and the warriors were going on runs the other night against
17:05sack he didn't look too enthused just for kicks what would you rather do have lebron for one year
17:11or kawaii leonard for two but you give up your you give up two first round picks oh lebron for
17:17one
17:17first round picture like that's that's which route i'm going though calvin's growing up okay so just so
17:24just so we're clear you're gonna you're gonna probably draft somebody at 15 who in this draft
17:30should be a rotation guy and you're going to bring that rookie onto a team with lebron
17:35and steph and draymond and horford we did it with will richard yeah no no you did it with
17:42kaminga didn't play you did it with wiseman didn't play you did it with moody early in his career
17:47didn't play yeah steph uh steve kerr's gonna look down the bench and say i'm going to a rookie
17:53instead of gary payton the second come on we know what we know what's going to happen yeah but we
17:58don't know if that's going to be his choice like if we don't that's in flux okay so then you're
18:03going
18:03to bring in a new coach to coach a team with lebron and steph next year nobody asked me but
18:08just in
18:09regard to that i honestly believe if uh if kerr would have dipped stats stats or stackhouse would
18:14get the job like that's how far i believe that search would go it's my two cents you didn't ask
18:19yeah i don't i would disagree with that i probably i think they'd probably go with outside but
18:25what do i know mike malone's off the table michael malone off the table
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