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00:00we'd love to hear from you did wednesday suddenly make you just feel satisfied um or uh do you need
00:06more uh waleed in san ramon hello waleed thanks for calling what's up guys uh listen you guys
00:14talking about uh one night stand versus relationship i don't think we can talk about
00:18relationship uh with porzingis right now uh i mean the guy is great when he plays he fits with
00:24the team he fits with staff uh but he can't go two games without popping up on the injury report
00:30so
00:30unless he takes a major pay cut or you know he's on a one-year prove-it deal with the
00:36warriors i just
00:37don't see the warriors resigning him uh you know with big money i like this is just my perception
00:43waleed but i i definitely think that uh porzingis's next deal will be a short one i've always thought
00:51of it that way um simply because of the health stuff that you're talking about and also because
00:56of the warriors wanting to always align everything with steph's contract like i i don't know if i'm
01:03making something up but in my head it's the warriors and chris taps get together on like a one-year
01:0915 20 million dollar deal that's kind of what i think yeah and if you look at like the breadcrumbs
01:15that have been laid out chris taps has missed the majority of the year came here played in almost two
01:20thirds of the games came out and said that rick celebrini is the goat and when he actually has
01:25played he's played very well and i think if you're porzingis you understand fully where you are in your
01:31career and he's what 31 years old now and he's been paid a bunch and he's not going to go
01:37out there
01:37and get a four-year deal worth 150 million he might get a four-year deal worth 100 million i
01:43don't
01:43even think that that's out there no whatever's out there for him is probably a shorter term deal
01:49worth less than he's making now which is 30 so if you can make two and 40 somewhere else or
01:55you
01:55make one in 20 here i think you go one in 20 here and see if dr rick celebrini can
02:00continue to get
02:01you healthy i'm just reading body language when he talks and it feels to me like that's what he wants
02:07to do he wants to stick near rick celebrini um i would think as a warrior fan you're not looking
02:13at christoph's saying man he can't stay off the injury report i would say the way we felt about
02:18this three weeks after the trade deadline i think things have suddenly gone pretty well he's been
02:24pretty consistent not all the back-to-backs sure there's a nagging injury to tonight anthony slater
02:30reported an hour ago that the expectation is that christoph's will play tonight so um the warriors
02:37have a pretty clean injury report again um i'm not saying everybody's feeling really well i don't know
02:42how draymond's knee is feeling how steph's knee is feeling how christoph's ankle is feeling but i
02:47think they're all going to give it a go and um again he played that one game after the trade
02:53deadline
02:54and then he was out again and all the mystery and steve coming on our show and pots and whoopsie
02:59daisy
02:59i shouldn't have talked about that the way we were feeling then wouldn't you say that it's gone
03:04pretty well since then it's gone pretty well i mean overall it was going to be 27 games that he
03:09could
03:10play and i said if he plays in 18 that would be kind of impressive if he played 18 of
03:15the 27
03:15and he played 15 of 27 and then he played 16 of 28 if you count wednesday as a game
03:22and it actually
03:22was a game it wasn't a playoff game it wasn't a regular season game which really should have been
03:27what's bugging me because that's just stupid like decide which one that is nba stat people but they
03:32haven't it just kind of lives in purgatory but when he plays he's averaging 16 a game and he plays
03:4024
03:40minutes which is not as many as you'd like i mean you honestly 30 minutes so if you look at
03:45his last
03:45year in boston 42 games half the year 29 minutes a night 19 and a half a game is that
03:52worth 20 million
03:53to you to have him maybe be ready for april next year probably yeah 19 and a half a game
03:59good player
03:59in 29 minutes really good player like he is unguardable and he and he brings an aspect to
04:06this team that they have not had for so long and you saw it in a big game last night
04:11or two nights ago
04:12you saw it you saw it but i'm not done with the soft launch i i'm just not done with
04:18it i would love to
04:19see um because again what tonight's game represents is not just tonight's game if tonight's game goes well
04:27you get at least four more that's what i want out of a soft launch you don't want to have
04:32your soft
04:33launch and then have everybody gather with the boss the next day and be like turns out we're not ready
04:37for the soft launch we likely we close back down for a little while we're pushing opening date back
04:42this is okay fourth quarter went well now we get to do it again if there's a consistent four quarters
04:49that comes out tonight you went on the road again okay let's go to okc even if they beat us
04:55that's the
04:55champs it's okay but let's keep getting reps let's keep getting proof of concept right now what i have
05:04is optimism but a question and i and i will take this question to seven o'clock tonight did you
05:12just
05:12get hot for the fourth quarter or do you have a little something cooking here i know you got a
05:18little
05:18something cooking steps back on the floor like i'm not dumb i get that they're better than when
05:22they're centered around crier and leones but they also could have very easily just whimpered out and
05:29lost that game by 15 points yeah they could have for me the the questions about the soft launch as
05:35you
05:35put it have been answered and the questions that can't be answered will remain unanswered and the
05:40biggest question is can chris taps make it through an entire year and play 50 to 60 games and you
05:46won't
05:46know that until you get through an off season and if you sign him then you can get more time
05:51with
05:51celebrating and you can figure out how healthy he can actually be so the questions to me that need
05:57to be answered now they've all been answered like gee can he be a real player absolutely is pods a
06:03rotational player on a good team yes can draymond still defend sure does steph still have a fastball of
06:09course uh al horford my god is he ever clutch and i don't know all the things that you wonder
06:15about
06:16this team i think they've all been answered but it's got a blend like you kind of went individual
06:20by individual and and we've watched this before i've given you the example before that's always the
06:25first one that pops to my head i was working in la when the lakers got dwight howard and steve
06:30nash
06:30and they were all on the front of sports illustrated and everyone was like oh my god right it's a
06:35super
06:35team it's a super team they sucked out loud they sucked they were the eight seed they got swept but
06:43their guys weren't all old some of them were but some of them weren't so colby pow nash dwight i
06:53mean
06:53meta artest whatever you want to call him was part of like there was so much talent on that team
06:59and
06:59they never gelled and so that's what i thought we got to see a little bit on wednesday night
07:06it's not just individual by individual are you good and can you play but what does this look like
07:12together and in the fourth quarter you had to feel pretty encouraged with the way that group was kind
07:21of blending together and i know it looks better because shots were falling and that's why i want
07:25to see more yeah i think even in the first half it blended well the third quarter is where things
07:30got really kind of sideways first half i mean everyone played well except for al horford and
07:36that was partly why you had so much of a deficit but i thought the poor zingis draymond steph
07:41trio was really fitting well together and so i don't really worry about the blend my biggest concern is
07:47what cannot be answered which is the health and the longevity and all the rest of it like steph at
07:5238 which
07:53is where he is right now 38 in a month and you get to october it'll be 38 and a
07:57half i don't think
07:59that he's going to be any more of a deteriorated asset than he is now the way he works in
08:03the off
08:03season he's an absolute machine so now he can't do it every night but you get to the big games
08:09and these
08:09big-time players can do big-time things and that's why tonight to your extent of you know the big
08:15game
08:15tonight soft launch i would love to see them be able to do it again within 48 hours and move
08:21on to okc
08:21yeah um josh on i-80 is uh is next up hi josh thanks for calling what's going on fellas
08:30happy
08:30friday yo yo um yeah so the word satisfaction right there's an interesting question because
08:36when they had their game wednesday i woke up like oh it's wednesday curry's playing we can upset them
08:40we can go do this and i was i was a little bit more excited about the day today i
08:44kind of woke up
08:44like oh they got a game today i'm gonna put it on and i think this is the reason why
08:48i think a lot
08:48of fans may be be feeling this way it's that we went two months without curry you know and i
08:56think
08:57that the warriors warriors fans more than anything else they're a little bit more like 60 more
09:02curry fans really than true warriors fans like we love curry so much that the performance that he gave
09:09us and that's another steph master class we went two months without it and then for him to just come
09:14back play in game with winter go home and he just does what he does in the third and fourth
09:18quarter
09:19it's like ah we've been waiting for that so long when you get it you're like uh okay the season
09:23ends
09:23or whatever we don't plan to win a championship we just want to see curry we want to see him
09:27ball and
09:27he gave that to us on wednesday night in such a great fashion that you're like ah the season's over
09:32at least we got to see curry do it one more time this year and then let's get to next
09:35year i would
09:35love to see it mark to your point i would love to see it for another four games i definitely
09:39want them to
09:39win tonight i'm gonna be locked in i'm gonna be watching but i think the way fans are feeling is
09:43because they're just like we got what we wanted you know i'm saying we don't think we're gonna
09:46win a championship but we want to see steph curry be great we got to see yep josh i think
09:50you're josh
09:51thanks i think you're spot on and and here's why um i don't look at it that way like i
09:57i don't look at
09:58this like okay we got our shot of curry um you know now we can you know it's like married
10:03people who uh
10:04you know maybe you only go uh twice a month uh but you know so you're you're longing for it
10:10and
10:10then you get it you're like i'm good for another couple weeks don't do that like i i don't i'm
10:15not
10:15in on that you're like the shot of curry the other night not enough and and and here's kind of
10:21the way
10:21i look at tonight and then next week and it's perfect that the word lottery is attached to this and
10:28it's perfect that ken just walked into the studio can you get no no no you're gonna like this
10:33so i was involved in a lottery last year um you know this i'm a very big fan of the
10:39band oasis yes
10:41oasis broke up years ago the two brothers hated each other yeah heartbreaking yeah that was it and
10:46they hated each other and it was never going to come back it was just like the eagles and then
10:51what
10:51happened with the eagles well hell freezes over and now they're back well the two brothers whether
10:56they actually made up or not or just decided you know what i'd want i want 50 million there's money
11:01in
11:01all right so we're going to do a budget just a humongous international tour and if you were a
11:08fan of the band you got this like email and it was like you have to sign up for the
11:15lottery you can't
11:16just buy tickets you have to win the lottery for a chance to buy the tickets i did not win
11:24the lottery
11:25no ken did you win the lottery or did you just buy because he went overseas you went to europe
11:31to see this concert yeah it was in edinburgh uh scotland and i we yeah we got uh i think
11:39it was we
11:40waited on ticket master line okay so it was a little different than the lottery here right so there was
11:45a
11:45lottery but obviously like any event you if you're willing and able to spend enough you're going to be
11:51able to go get the tickets so once upon a time the whole i don't win the lottery i'm not
11:58going to
11:58europe for a show like that's just not gonna fit my life right now hashtag ken that's flex anyway but
12:06then they come to the us uh they don't come to the bay area but they do come to la
12:10and they're going to
12:11perform at the rose bowl and i ended up having a conversation with my daughter about it and i'm like
12:17oh this may only happen once i really really want to go and she's giving me the same thing all
12:25teenagers will give you in a moment like that yolo dad yep yolo you only live once you gotta go
12:33and i'm like but and it's expensive and then we're like child care and the this and then that and
12:40the
12:40other bottom line is dibs i didn't go what happened i didn't go it wasn't that i was chicken i
12:52was just
12:52like yeah scared money don't make no i don't actually want to go that bad and um i kind of
13:00regret it
13:01yeah i kind of regret it and i know some people who went and and to hear them talk about
13:05the experience
13:06i kind of regret it and this is how i feel about tonight's game i think you're looking at it
13:13the
13:13same way i looked at the oasis show yeah yeah yeah we want to go but like doing it was
13:19like that bad
13:20it'd be good to be in the lottery we got our shot of curry on wednesday night so like i
13:26don't know and
13:27i think you're gonna feel if they miss the playoffs the same way i feel about missing that show you
13:33are
13:33going to regret it you're gonna miss it if that series starts next week and the phoenix suns are
13:39playing the okc thunder you might miss it but it's different than your oasis concert story and i love
13:45that because ultimately you got nothing on the back end the warriors might actually if you're a warrior
13:50fan you might actually get something out of not getting the okc series you might move up in the lottery
13:55i saved my g great yeah i mean that's not an actual tangible reward though it is the warriors
14:02could actually get something by missing i'm not saying that i want them to lose i really don't i would
14:07love to see poor zingas and chet holmgren go head to head i'd love to see gp2 harass shea gildas
14:14alexander i'd love to see a various number of jalen williams is running around and blue dort who is kind
14:21of annoying as a good defender but steph curry running circles around him the matchup would be
14:25fun i don't love their chances but i'm here for it i want to see yes the matchup and so
14:31i'm not
14:31looking at tonight thinking ah found money we got the steph performance on wednesday it was special and
14:37it was but it was special and when i get something like that i want more i'm not a guy
14:42who plays golf
14:43and makes a birdie and thinks well there's my birdie for this round i think you know what let's get
14:48another birdie let's start stacking some good stuff here so i'm not of that mindset some fans
14:54i'm sure are but i go into tonight thinking you're a two and a half to three and a half
14:58point dog
14:59against a team that is they're good but they're not that good and the one thing that i mentioned
15:05before the break that uh fans need to like pay attention to is they have not faced jalen green
15:11yet this year the warriors have not and since he got back from his injury he has been on fire
15:16including
15:16the play-in game when he had 33 i think in the loss to portland so that's a little bit
15:22of a
15:22different something he's different than the jalen green we remember from last year um he's more
15:28consistently phenomenal he's going to the hole more um he's very very athletic we can ask john bloom that
15:36at uh for they haven't uh they haven't faced christoph's porzingis that's true and they probably didn't
15:42face him in atlanta because he didn't play a lot in atlanta correct but yeah if porzingis plays and
15:48he's questionable i think that he will play i mean i think that all of these things it's always the
15:52case when you get to this time of year like these these teams are different now they're different than
15:57when they last played and they haven't played in a while um they're very very different than when they
16:02played uh mid-season i don't even remember how many times curry played the suns this year i know he
16:09played him i think it's three of the four yeah and i sent you guys the uh the summation of
16:14the
16:14four act play act one jimmy left early he had the back okay uh no dylan moody goes for 24
16:21dubs win by
16:2211 at home all right act two jimmy goes for 31 curry was terrible i think he was three for
16:2814 uh brooks
16:29punches curry in the stomach oh that one after a three-point shot uh spur suns win that one by
16:36one
16:36yep act three dubs down 10 in the second quarter draymond ejected booker and curry were phenomenal
16:42will richard 20 off the bench oh my god the dubs win act four pat spencer with 20 d with
16:4918 no steph
16:51or booker dubs by four on the road they were down 14 with 10 to go brooks was over four
16:57down the stretch
16:57so four different games four different acts including the dylan punch of steph curry in act three like this
17:04is completely aside from everything we're talking about this is the matchup the warriors wanted
17:09no question yeah of the four teams in the play-in um you want my hot take for the month
17:16of april it's
17:17sizzling the suns are the worst of the four teams it's not even close wow they are that doesn't mean
17:23they won't win tonight and i know they were up by eight on portland with just a few minutes to
17:28go the
17:28other night 11 with six and a half to go and up by eight with three to go and they
17:32lost so they they
17:33choked it away but portland has more dynamic individual performers the clippers more dynamic
17:42individual performers and i think if you add in steph the warriors have more dynamic individual
17:47performers the suns have dylan brooks and jalen green and devin booker and they're all very good
17:52but they're all very inconsistent i don't think booker's been healthy the second half of this year at
17:56all um and and they just they look underwhelming to me right now they're very gettable it's one game
18:03so who knows right but they're very gettable and if the warriors were playing the clippers or the
18:09blazers tonight i would have less hopes than i do in this one the blazers i think especially just based
18:14on what they have evolved into and the fact that they've owned the warriors this year so i'm with you
18:19to
18:19that extent and you know phoenix as a home court i wonder what the saturation point is for warrior fans
18:25probably not as high as in la which it felt like 50 50 sources say it was about two-thirds
18:32clippers
18:32one-third warriors i'd be surprised if it wasn't similar tonight um i don't know i've heard from a
18:38number of warrior fans and they're like we're going we're going there's some people live down there some
18:42people are just like we're gonna hop the flight uh what have you yeah and it's not known as an
18:47intense
18:48home court environment anyway so whatever it is it's not like they're not going to boston tonight
18:55you know what i mean so i i don't even see that as much of a of a factor when
19:00you're dealing with
19:01the veterans of the warriors right i mean they've been in hostile environments and you know they go
19:05to boston in the nba finals and they're chanting blank you dream on and it gets to him and then
19:09he
19:09comes back the next game and plays well and so this is not going to be that this is a
19:13pretty laid-back
19:15sports town as far as you know arizona and phoenix area goes totally i i think there's an emotional
19:20aspect of this too and maybe we're prepared for it and maybe we're ready for it the circumstances
19:25are what they are but when you go into this offseason which is going to be a hefty one for
19:29the warriors whether they're in the lottery or if they have the 15th pick and they're chasing big
19:36names and trade rumors like it's going to be a very rumor-filled active offseason that of which i am
19:44confident but um i think it's going to be sort of a talking point for the naysayers if you didn't
19:55even
19:55make you didn't make the playoffs i didn't make the playoffs that's part of this even if you lost
20:03four games straight to oklahoma city there there's just that's kind of what i'm looking at tonight as
20:10representing it's like dude there's there's a big dance there's a big party you gotta be
20:16invited you have to be a part of this whole thing and like look at what happened last year the
20:23warriors won around but then it ended sort of quickly after that but everything that happened
20:30in those two series felt like it was in slow motion is very memorable very very dramatic and and so
20:38you
20:38go into the next year and that's your reference point to everything that's happening this year i i
20:44think now that it's this close you want that you want that for the offseason and for next year to
20:51have
20:51as your reference point what happened in the playoffs to the warriors the year before i suppose
20:55but i'm not worried about the naysayers because if you go up against okc and you lose the naysayers
21:00are going to say well obviously you're not as good as the top team so we're going to naysay all
21:05the
21:06things that you should be doing and you're not going to do ultimately win or lose tonight beat okc or
21:12not the warriors are going to take the exact same course either way which is we're going to try to
21:17get a
21:18good older ish player in here and try to run this thing back you're not trading steph or draymond
21:23you're not trading jimmy and you might bring back al you are going to go i believe in the same
21:29direction regardless of what happens tonight maybe i think there's some more twists and turns and
21:33forks in the road this offseason than we might be thinking i don't think it's just snap your fingers
21:38get chris stops and offer something up to lebron and kawai i think there's a lot of different ways this
21:43could go
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