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00:00It's tense. It's sad. It's it's
00:05Dare I say it sounds and I know that this is what today sounds like to people
00:11It sounds like
00:14They don't have any answers and they're at the doorstep of giving up. I
00:19Don't think that's happening. But that's what it sounds like. Yeah, I
00:24Do but I guess they don't have any answers that part of it
00:28I'm buying and they will never give up unless they fall to a spot where
00:32You got 12 games left and you're really out of it. I'm with you
00:35I'm not saying that you're implying that they're going to quit
00:38Yeah, but there is a certain amount of fata complete when you heard it last night from Steph and Steve
00:42They both were kind of like we're not just gonna look to gut the organization and Steph said we're not gonna fling
00:49Assets or hurl assets around just to try to get a
00:53something that might work or might not work and I do think that that's got to be coming from Mike Dunleavy and also
01:00Joe Lakob where you look at it and they watch every game like we do and you see what we see
01:06Which is this team is, you know, they're 19 and 20 and that's kind of who they are
01:11and yeah
01:12if comingo were healthy and
01:14If you know GP to were healthy if buddy could shoot and if Dennis fit and we can play the if game all you want
01:20At the end of the day you went to Toronto
01:23Rested but not healthy against a team. That is terrible a team that is
01:28Reeling and you lost and you lost another clutch game and they've played actually the second most clutch games
01:35second only to tomorrow's
01:37opponent Minnesota and the Warriors are
01:4011 and 13 he said
01:43500 but it feels like they lose most of Minnesota's played 25 the Warriors have played 24
01:49Clutch games and yeah, the Warriors are kind of that same team. That's good news. Then tomorrow's game should be close
01:56You yeah, that's the bet. I mean cuz they both play in a ton of clutch game
02:00By the way, we should define that the definition is I think it's a game that is within
02:05Four or five points with four minutes left within five in the final five minutes
02:10Five and five final five minutes. It's a thing but well, but it's I think it's made up
02:16But you know, so are so many other things right like I'm not saying it's not tell you something
02:22It indicates how many games you play that are close
02:25Although I would argue like if you're down five with five minutes left, you could still lose by 18
02:30Yes, you win by 18, you know, well, but it still means it was
02:35A close game and for a while. Yeah, I remember Phil Jackson years ago used to talk about this and
02:41Cuz it struck me because we have this concept that you're like if the Boston Celtics play the Washington Wizards like well
02:48That's gonna be a flip and blowout. Well, it's it's
02:53incredible how often an NBA basketball game
02:58Comes down to the final five and is and is still within striking distance because quite frankly
03:04Let's say you're up by six with five minutes to go, right?
03:07That's still a very close basketball game that could go either way
03:11And so, you know, I don't know if that's a compliment or not. I do think this
03:17This is what dogs the Warriors. They are right there. I don't think that they're that far off from the
03:25Competition and the other teams there
03:27I think what they're missing is actually the stuff that happens in the final five minutes of basketball games
03:35other teams get easier shots than the Warriors do and
03:39That is why that it that's a result of a couple of things. It's a result of not having a prolific second score
03:45it's a result of being short and
03:47therefore having to
03:49Generate shots with a six-foot-two player who has four people defending him
03:5525 feet from the rim
03:57You add all those things up and what the Warriors need to do in the final few minutes of a basketball game is harder
04:02than it is for most other teams, which is why I remain today in favor of
04:09an addition of
04:11Some sort at the deadline who might be able to mix up that stew a little bit and I do think boots of it
04:17I think he would mix up that stew a little bit and that might be all they need
04:22To just win it a little bit higher clip not be prolific
04:26But like dude turn that that clutch record into something that's about four or five games over
04:33500 as opposed to two games under last year
04:36They were 24 and 24 in clutch games
04:39They played the most clutch games in the Association last year and they were a 500 club and this year as I mentioned
04:46They're 11 and 13 and you look at the teams that are really good and they're really good in the clutch
04:54Cleveland is 14 and 2 in clutch game. Okay, C's 8 and 4 Boston's 12 and 7
04:59Those are the three best in clutch games Orlando is next and I'm sorry
05:04Houston is next and they have four of the best records in basketball
05:07So if the Warriors were a little bit better, they would be in that six or seven seed spot
05:14but I do look at you know
05:15why they're not better in the clutch and it's a lot of the reasons you were just talking about because
05:19If you're a defense and you get down to clutch time and it's a five-point game with five minutes left
05:25All right, Steph. We don't want you to beat us. We're gonna guard you
05:28I don't know everywhere and we're gonna make Draymond or Buddy or Dennis or
05:34Slomo or whoever else the Warriors are gonna trot out there
05:37You guys go ahead and beat us and those players have not been good enough to
05:42Beat you and does Vujovic help you probably a little bit
05:46I think he does mentally but from what I heard Steve say in our interview
05:49They're not gonna really expend a lot of assets to do just about anything over the next three weeks
05:56I don't think he takes a ton of assets number one and number two Steve Kerr is not gonna stay on the radio three weeks
06:02Before the deadline. Yeah, we're looking to make a deal, you know, and I think that's actually
06:06If we get a little cynical for a second about this
06:11concerted effort by Steve Kerr Steph Curry and Draymond Green to suddenly go public with the idea of
06:17We're not out here flippantly to make some sort of awful deal. Well, okay. Let's think about this
06:25Like a little bit more cynically and analytically
06:28Like I think we all took it and we're like either you loved it or you hated it
06:33You know guru for example was like that felt like a white flag and I'm like boy
06:36This guy's the most self-aware star ever. I love that Steph doesn't want to crater the organization
06:42might they be doing it for anything strategic I
06:46Think the league if you call the Bulls right now
06:51They're gonna be like the Warriors are desperate. Let's let's squeeze. Let's squeeze the pressure point
06:58So now the Warriors are gonna go public and they're like we're not doing your stupid deal
07:02You know what I mean? I think there's there is value in that sure and there's a lot of posturing now
07:06Look, you got to at least look like you're not desperate even when you are right and you might not be desperate because you might
07:13Be continuing this freefall into oblivion where it doesn't matter what deal you make and I'm hearing
07:20Steve and Steph they sound more defeated than ever before and Steve Kerr actually used the word
07:27Fading like this is what happens when you have a fading team
07:31That was you know a champion a few years ago and a dynasty a few years before that and he mentioned, Oklahoma City
07:37How Oklahoma City is what the Warriors used to be young hungry fast and efficient?
07:43And now the Warriors are not as hungry and old and slow and you look at last night's game and Steve said it
07:50the pace they played at was the slowest pace they played all year and you don't have dream on green and
07:56Who do you have to really push the pace you've got Steph coming up on being 37 here in a couple of months and a
08:03Lot of players who aren't really up tempo fast players. Anyway
08:09This is what he said with all the questions
08:11We're asking and the one we've been asking you all day eight at eight nine five seven nine five seventy
08:15And we will take your calls right now is
08:18Looking at the Warriors situation listening to Steve Kerr. What do you want him to do?
08:21And and the four options that we put up on Twitter make a big trade
08:26I'll make a smaller trade, but keep your assets in place do absolutely nothing or tank
08:33So you call it on that which one you would do even though I'd argue the Warriors are answering some of your questions already
08:40I don't think that they're definitely not going to tank and
08:44They're very very likely not going to make some massive swing trade
08:47That's kind of the message that they're all giving right now
08:50But you can certainly weigh in on that and we'd love to chat it out with you
08:55But Steve just joined us and we will have that for you in full again in the five o'clock hour if you missed any portion
09:02Because he was as always really good
09:04But he said there's only one question that the Warriors should be asking right now, and this is it
09:09It's just a question of man. This is
09:13You know can we can we help him like what can we do?
09:16I you know I I watch I watch him still out there
09:19Performing and playing at such a high level and he's bringing so much joy to so many people not only at chase
09:25but in every arena people are so excited to see this guy play and
09:30There's so much value in that watching him perform
09:33And yeah, I think our fans recognize that understand that and they want to see him perform for as long as possible
09:41As they should this guy is one of the greatest
09:44Artists of all time he's just an incredible performer, and we all we're all lucky to watch him play and you know
09:51Hopefully that something that goes on for another few years
09:54It sure looks like it, but in the meantime it's so it's a much tougher spot to be an organizational event it was
10:01You know for us even the last couple years and and I think everyone recognizes that I know what some fans are thinking
10:08And and it is not a pleasant thought which is you're starting to hear them talk about
10:14Buy a ticket not to see the Warriors win right buy a ticket to see the last couple of years of the great
10:22Performer Steph Curry right because you won't get to see him much longer
10:26That's sort of the messaging of the last 24 hours, and that's what Steve said yesterday
10:32And that's what Steve said again today. He's talking about entertainment and
10:36Artist and he's not talking about winning and competition of course that's there, and that's the
10:43Underlying factor of all of this is Steph Curry wants to win
10:46And he wants to compete and he wants to be a champion
10:49But at the end of it when you get the end to the end of a career of a great player sometimes it
10:55It's not just about that it can be about other things and I share this with the group earlier
11:01With Kobe Bryant a guy who was a one-team superstar, and you were probably down there for the end of his career
11:08He made the playoffs in 15 of his first 16 seasons, and then his last four years
11:14He didn't make the playoffs at all one of those years was the Achilles year
11:18Where he played about six or seven games, and then the last two years they were 38 and 126 they were bad
11:26He played about 30 minutes a night and shot every time he could and I believe the fans
11:31They came out in droves because it was the end of Kobe you were down there
11:35And I'm sure the talk at the time wasn't like we need to surround Kobe with you know
11:40We need to give Kobe one more run
11:42It was the reality of where Kobe was right and the reality of where the Lakers were in there in their era
11:48But nobody wanted to trade him of course or tank or anything like that. Yeah, you did you just wrote it out
11:54You wrote it out, and I think that we're we're more likely headed toward that and you even yes
12:00You didn't tell Steve like you know trade Steph Curry
12:03But you kind of threw that out there as a as an idea in the ether, and he didn't even let you finish
12:08He's like no no no we're not well
12:09No
12:10And I know they wouldn't do that
12:11But I didn't want to speak to the idea that I do think there are fans
12:14And this is sort of the other side of the coin
12:16They're worried or or predicting that Steph is gonna get to the point where he will ask for the trade right?
12:23And then would the Warriors do it or would Steph get to that point and he rejected that as well
12:29He predicts that that there's no chance of that
12:32This is the comment you've referenced a couple of times about being a fading team
12:37We're looking at just the welfare of the Warriors
12:40organization and the franchise and
12:43And what that means again? There's no there's no easy answer to this and
12:49You're faced with some really really difficult
12:52Decisions to make you know I remember Danny Ainge when he you know he traded
12:59Barnett and Pearson and
13:01He said he said you know what I learned from red hour back was
13:06You know
13:08Watching that team get old with bird and McHale he said what I learned was I'm not doing that
13:13I'm not I'm not letting those guys get I he said I would have traded Larry Bird if I if I remember correctly
13:18I think Danny Ainge actually said that I would have traded Larry Bird if I was the GM
13:22And that was a fascinating quote and and and one that I would probably challenge Danny on you know
13:28It'd be fun to talk to him about it
13:30You might laugh and say yeah, I mean I say that but that would have been really hard to do you know it and
13:35When it's kind of where we are right you got we got guys who step and dream on are still really damn good and and
13:41But we're a fading team and that you know in terms of our our run our window
13:48Being open all that stuff, so you know Mike's got a tough job Joe Lacob
13:53These guys have really difficult decisions to make and but like I said
13:58We are all on the same page players
14:01Management ownership, we're all on the same page
14:04It's funny that he said it that way at the end is literally a question
14:07I asked of Tim Calicami two hours ago are they all on the same page, and he says that they
14:14Absolutely are and it sounds that way it sounds that way
14:19But you know let's define that page
14:22Well, what what is that page?
14:24And so I don't know in some ways this all feels like a concerted effort to also
14:30maybe adjust or dare I say lower the
14:35Expectations of the team from the public and and just see this through a different view
14:40I do still think there's a trade out there for them
14:42I do still think that they can make the playoffs. I do still think that that can have value
14:48But if we're gonna continue to scream and yell about rings
14:56That's just I mean things could change right Giannis could be on the team a year from now
15:01Well, then I think we need to recalibrate the phrase
15:04Maximize the Steph Curry window because we're well if we're gonna maximize the Steph Curry window
15:10What do we really mean by that because if Steph is chasing a fifth ring and I agree with everything you just said about
15:16Recalibrating our expectations. I don't know unless you are able to do something dramatic. I don't know if maximizing his window
15:25Involves a fifth ring so if we're gonna maximize the Steph Curry window well
15:29What does that mean does that mean?
15:31We're keeping dream on and Steph and we're gonna surround him with the best darn talent
15:34We can and hope for the best like I don't I don't know if you can know what's around
15:40The next corner so I would answer that by saying get better at every chance you can in a responsible way
15:47And then stay flexible
15:50Because you never know and I think that's what they're gonna do which is why I don't think it's a massive swing in three weeks
15:56But there might be a small one if you can keep getting better and stay flexible
16:01To where if if a Giannis or something like that does become available
16:06You're prepared to strike yeah, and that's I think the sensible way to do it without
16:12Sacrificing a lot of future assets, and you know this year you might find yourself in the lottery second straight year
16:18Good, and you know this year you actually get to keep your pick last year. It was conferred elsewhere
16:23So if you're in the lottery this year, maybe you find a young player that does make you better