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00:00They are Stiney and Guru on 95.7 The Game.
00:07Wow.
00:08Woo.
00:09What's up, baby?
00:10Hey, hey, hey.
00:11Payday Friday.
00:12Warriors got paid last night.
00:16Yeah.
00:17Yes, they did.
00:18I'll tell you what, that was a really good game.
00:21I texted you the thread, what, at about the start of the fourth quarter?
00:26I said, this is a really good game.
00:28And Evan gave the heart emoji.
00:29Oh, I didn't see that.
00:31That means he agrees.
00:32Yeah.
00:33You know, it doesn't have to be 130-129 for it to be a good game, no doubt.
00:37Next question.
00:38But they needed that.
00:39Defense is a part of the game.
00:40And that's what the Warriors were.
00:41I know Kaminga's a story.
00:42Yes, he is.
00:43And Wiggins, everybody.
00:44Yeah.
00:45But Stiney, their defense was just, good God, man.
00:48And that is a young, athletic, one-on-one basketball playing team in the Rockets.
00:53And the Warriors just got their number.
00:55And shout out to Kaminga, man.
00:57Absolutely.
00:58And let's get it going at 888-957-9570, because there is so much to talk about regarding that
01:05game last night.
01:06And the one thing that I kept thinking about last night, because we've talked Kaminga,
01:14man, 360 degrees.
01:17And boy, that game last night makes you say, we've got to be real careful.
01:24We've got to be real careful with-
01:26I want to say with what?
01:28With where we're going with Kaminga, meaning that game last night.
01:34And listen, I don't have a strong opinion on if you want to do something, if you don't
01:40want to do something.
01:42But the one thing I was saying yesterday was, you've got to take into account what he could
01:48be a few years down the line.
01:50And then obviously last night, that's the best game that I can remember him playing.
01:56But to me, more important, that's the best game that Wiggins and Kaminga have played
02:01together in a while.
02:04Like both those guys were really good.
02:07Both those guys were the best players on the Warriors last night.
02:11And the reality is, both those guys carried him the night.
02:14Carried him for the entire game.
02:16And go ahead.
02:17It was just a hell of a game and a hell of a performance by those two guys.
02:23And you know, Evan said it too.
02:25He texted the thread.
02:26Evan, I hope I'm not snitching, but it was good.
02:29Just like I was listening to Evan post-game.
02:31Nobody wants to talk about this, but-
02:33Were you on yesterday?
02:34Yeah, he was on.
02:35Yeah.
02:36Okay.
02:37Good job, Gu.
02:38All right.
02:39But what this looks like for his portfolio around the league, per se, if Kaminga, you
02:45know, if something were to pop off.
02:48I'm a guy that, I said it, I want to see him play 30 minutes a night.
02:53And I'm not saying you're going to get that Kaminga, but good God, partner, how can the
02:57Warriors collectively take that performance, it's one game, between those two, and take
03:04it into tonight to where Kaminga could feel that, what word am I looking for, that freedom
03:10or play that way with the opportunities maybe that are not going to be there in abundance.
03:17So that's, I don't want to bring the party down because I'm not, but that's the key.
03:22And Steph's playing tonight, Norm and I and Evan and you will be there, but I'm just wondering
03:26how do you bottle that up to where moving forward, that's the guy that you know what
03:33you saw last night.
03:35You got to get 30 minutes good or bad.
03:37I mean, obviously Kaminga's not going to have that kind of game all the time, but if his
03:44approach is like that all the time, then you got to believe that he's going to have more
03:51success in those situations.
03:53Can you define approach real quick for me?
03:55Are you smart?
03:56He took what the defense gave him, he, the threes he took were, he did, he made some
04:03nice passes by keeping it simple and hitting the open man.
04:08And I mean, you could just tell by the way Curry and Draymond were reacting from the
04:11bench that the way Kaminga played last night was at a different level than he's played
04:1695% of his career.
04:20And I thought they were going to blow it.
04:22I got to share that with you, but see, missed a shot, kind of was a bad miss.
04:27There's just a miss Paz, I love you.
04:29And then I was like, oh, here come the Rockets.
04:31You can't lose this.
04:32And they didn't, man.
04:34Well, but this is kind of what I was thinking about with Denver.
04:37I was telling Nahiga in this yesterday, I was like, the Nuggets or Rockets, the Nuggets.
04:42So the Warriors played 43 good minutes against the Nuggets and they let it slip away in,
04:47in the last five minutes.
04:49But they played well against the Nuggets.
04:52They didn't finish it.
04:54And I think as a, as fans, sometimes we have a tendency to say, well, ah, the first 43
04:59minutes doesn't matter.
05:00They blew it.
05:01And it's an L.
05:02Yeah.
05:03But I remember thinking yesterday and saying like, okay, but if you play 43 minutes like
05:07that again tonight and you're better in the last five minutes, then you're going to win
05:11the game tonight.
05:12And so that's where, just because you start playing well, doesn't necessarily mean you're
05:16going to win every single game.
05:18But if you start playing like you've, you played the last two nights, you're going to
05:23win games.
05:24You're going to win more games.
05:26And that game last night was a game where they won because they were playing really
05:31hard.
05:32They were scrappy.
05:33And then their two forwards, Wiggins and Kaminga were, they brought it home.
05:38They closed the game.
05:39Particularly Kaminga.
05:40And they defended, Stoney.
05:41They did it on both ends.
05:42Yeah, they did.
05:43They did.
05:44And, and you're right.
05:45Nobody's here to bring the party down.
05:48But the reality of the NBA is you got a game tonight.
05:52And the chef will be back.
05:54And Draymond may be back.
05:56So now we get back into Kaminga played a season high minutes last night.
06:03He had 33.
06:04He was terrific.
06:06Okay.
06:07But now we got Steph coming back.
06:09And more importantly for Kaminga, we got Draymond coming back.
06:13So how does Steve Kerr keep Kaminga in the fold for as long as, you know, if 30 minutes
06:20is the goal, can he get 30 minutes if Draymond Green's on the floor and healthy?
06:24It's fascinating.
06:25I don't know.
06:26And it's a key, Stoney.
06:27Yeah.
06:28888-957-9570 is the number.
06:32I'm telling you what right now, if you're a fan of Jonathan Kaminga, this is your day.
06:36Yeah.
06:37This is your day.
06:38This is your day to call because there's absolutely no doubt that if that becomes more of who
06:45Kaminga is, then we might be starting to have a different discussion about this team and
06:52this team's future.
06:53And whether or not you want to think about moving a guy like that.
07:01Yeah.
07:02It's about incorporating him or making him, again, we're just talking about Kaminga, Stoney,
07:07be able to feel whatever he was feeling, that burden that felt like it was lifted off of
07:13him and the ball was finding him.
07:15His teammates were, they needed him.
07:18And it was beautiful to watch.
07:19But also Kavon Looney, Stoney, he has Shingun.
07:23He made it difficult.
07:24He's got bricks in his pocket.
07:26He started the game and I loved it all.
07:29And ask me real quick, the best component of this Warrior team through 21 games.
07:33Ask me what it is.
07:35What's the best component of this Warriors team?
07:37Their team defense, Stoney.
07:39And that was on display last night, man.
07:42And again, that was not against a scrub team or unathletic team.
07:46They were getting after it and made the rockets.
07:50It was hard.
07:51And the rockets came in hot.
07:52And just the last thing to piggyback on Kaminga, he finished that game in Houston in OT and
07:58down in the fourth.
08:00They couldn't do anything with him when they blew that 30-point lead.
08:04So that was, it was a great win, man.
08:06I just think it's interesting and I was part of the discussion yesterday about this team
08:13and they'd lost five in a row and where they go from here.
08:17And it's amazing what one game can do, especially when you win a game against the Houston Rockets
08:24without Steph Curry and Draymond Green.
08:27I mean, let's face it, Warrior fans, we went into that game last night thinking just what
08:35Bob Fitzgerald and Kalenna Azebuki were saying.
08:37Just try to keep it close.
08:39Just try to keep it close.
08:40And they got a lead early.
08:42They had control of the game.
08:44Stop it.
08:45From start to finish.
08:46Itsy.
08:47From start to finish.
08:48So, great night for the Golden State Warriors.
08:50Doesn't get easier tonight.
08:52T-Wolves have been howling.
08:53They've won three in a row.
08:55And they play the Timberwolves tonight and then Sunday, but boy, you sure, you gotta
09:00feel different.
09:01I know it's just one game, but boy, what an encouraging game that was last night for the
09:06Golden State Warriors.
09:07888-957-9570 is the number.
09:13You want to talk about Kaminga?
09:14We can do that.
09:15How about the fact that Kaminga and Wiggins played very, very well together last night.
09:22To me, it was kind of a vintage Kyle Anderson game where the box score says a lot of single
09:28digits here and there, but the guy knows how to play.
09:32And the Golden State Warriors put together a real, real good game last night.
09:36You kind of wonder how they could lose five in a row.
09:38I know I'm being some Tommy, but man.