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00:00Let's do this. Let's go to Elena in Arizona. Hey, Elena. What's happening?
00:06Hi, you guys. How are you doing? We're good.
00:10Cool, so I want to talk about a couple of things.
00:15Starting with Draymond. There was a lot of people that want to trade Draymond.
00:18Let's trade Draymond from the beginning of the season and I hope they can see his value now.
00:24Draymond is really valuable. There's no one really like him. You can't name one person that is his size, has this much IQ, especially defensively, that can literally defend 1-5 and be effective.
00:39And not just that, he calls plays before they happen. He's very good at anticipating size-wise.
00:45Giannis had how many inches on him and weight-wise and he still held him to 0 out of 6 when he defended him, so he's really good at what he does.
00:54And nobody knows Steph, especially on the floor, as much as Draymond does.
00:59I feel like I'm enjoying the Draymond-Jimmy combo more than I am enjoying the Jimmy-Steph combo because I feel like they work really well on the floor together.
01:09And about Kaminga struggling, I think we should give him a little break. He came back to a completely different team.
01:16Plus, Kaminga plays a lot better with Steph on the floor because he has spacing to drive, but now he really doesn't have that.
01:23How many shooters do you really have on the floor? You really don't have many.
01:28And, I don't know, Buddy is actually useless too because when he's not making shots, he's worse than post.
01:36You know that he's shooting worse than post this season from 3?
01:40Yeah, but post is a really good shooter though. I get what you mean. You said he's worthless when he's not hitting shots, but what about when he is?
01:49Even Jimmy post-interview was like, we want Buddy to hit shots consistently because when he actually makes shots, he actually guards somebody.
01:58He's actually making slide marks because he's right. When he's not offensively in rhythm, he's very destructive even defensively.
02:06So, he's a liability on both sides when he's not that and he's pretty much useless.
02:11Some playoffs, that's going to be bad.
02:13Well, it could be unless he's hitting shots and then it's good.
02:16Like, Elaine, I appreciate the call. It's a good call. We love it when you call.
02:19You got a lot of good warrior takes. I just think for me, Buddy Heald is somebody where you're going to have to get on the bumpy ride and go on it.
02:31That's it. I look at Buddy Heald like parenting.
02:34You have to show up every day and some days are going to be really great and other days are going to make you want to punch yourself in the nose.
02:42But, what are you going to do? You can wake up the next day and do it again.
02:47So, Buddy's going to go out there and get his whatever 20 minutes tomorrow night and the shots might fall and they might not.
02:54And yes, it might hurt you certain nights, but there's also a hell of a lot of data that says when he is hitting his shots, the Warriors are next to unbeatable.
03:01You need him. They need somebody who can shoot threes and a lot of times, Buddy is that guy.
03:07Well, if you look at his career, he's been that guy.
03:11He's been pretty consistent as far as a season goes and night to night, sure, he might go 0 for 7 and then he'll go 6 for 8.
03:19So, that's just the way it goes with Buddy Heald and you hope that you get good Buddy when you need good Buddy.
03:24And last night, you didn't have Steph and Buddy was awesome.
03:26So, you have to play Buddy Heald. You have to give him his shots and he's averaging 10 shots a game this year with the Warriors.
03:34And so, yeah, 42% from the floor, 37% from three and you just hope that he makes his threes because that's all you really need him to do.
03:43Yeah, and then she mentioned Kaminga. I just want to say this real quick. I just want to get this off my chest.
03:49I'm not doing this to this guy. I'm not going to do this to this guy.
03:53Do what to this guy?
03:54We're not doing this. Every 17 minutes, let's reboot our take on Jonathan.
04:01I saw this everywhere last night. Warriors got worse as soon as he got back.
04:07I feel like everybody with the Warriors and many around the Warriors tried to say every time we asked the question,
04:15how do they go about reintegrating Jonathan Kaminga, the same word was uttered every time.
04:21The word was slowly, slowly. And I took that as coaching.
04:27They're trying to let you know this isn't going to look perfect right away, but this is what we're doing.
04:34And I think it's very obvious why they're doing it that way.
04:38Everybody knows the upside to Jonathan Kaminga.
04:41But Steve has also said, but look, this isn't preschool like we have to win these games.
04:47So you have to assess the situation and then come playoff time, figure out exactly how you're going to go about doing it.
04:55But you have to go through that process. And that process is just getting started.
05:01I don't like this. Now we're all off of Jonathan Kaminga because he had a bad game.
05:09Because by the way, the first two were pretty damn good.
05:11Right. Right. I mean, against Sacramento, great game. Oh, Kaminga. Yeah, he hasn't missed a step.
05:17And then against the Knicks, well, a little shaky, but that's fine. You won.
05:22And then against Denver, OK, boy, I mean, he wasn't he wasn't awesome, but they lost the game.
05:28They were all bad. Yeah, he was not one of the top five bad Warriors on Monday night.
05:32And then last night he wasn't great and you still won the game.
05:35So I'm not I'm kind of with you, Mark, as far as like the roller coaster of Jonathan Kaminga.
05:40He's had four games back, four games with this new look warrior team.
05:44And yeah, 24 minutes last night, he wasn't spectacular and he didn't finish.
05:49So can we maybe look at Steve Kerr and say, good job, Steve?
05:53Because Steve and the staff kind of saw what fans are seeing.
05:57Like, J.K. was not great last night. And did he finish the game? No, they went elsewhere.
06:02Exactly. Yeah. We're going to keep going on the phones.
06:05Brandon Pajemski is going to be on with us here in 13 minutes.
06:08And right before Pajemski, I want to share something from Logan Murdoch's piece in The Ringer.
06:15There's a quick story about Jimmy Butler that is different.
06:21It's different. I think that this will be this will be interesting to you.
06:28So stay tuned for that, because we're going to do that here in just like the next five or six minutes.
06:32Nice. We'll let you know. Jonathan in the city.
06:35Hi, Jonathan. What are you doing, man?
06:38Just sitting, taking my break. Good afternoon, guys.
06:41I just want to say, man, at this point of his career, his assistant, he's like a special teams player or a power team, power play team player in hockey.
06:50But the bad thing is, he's in the NBA. They don't have those in the NBA.
06:54Because if he gets significant playing time, like starting five and closing five, we've seen that, man.
07:00So all the callers who's calling, you know, for Steve Kerr to give Jonathan Camingo more playing time.
07:05Just go back in time, man. And look at the games before he got injured.
07:10He's getting all that minutes, getting all he could handle.
07:13And you know what? The team was tiptoeing around the 500 record.
07:18And another point I want to make on this call, you know, it's critical buddy yield.
07:23Yesterday, it was a good buddy, man. Hopefully, we see more of those.
07:26Because every time we see a good buddy, he makes me want to go, you know, old school MTV Polish or a buddy.
07:35Thanks, Jonathan. Appreciate that.
07:38We'll have more buddy yield shots to go in. That part's obvious.
07:40The JK thing here. Let me put a ball on it this way.
07:43Let's talk when you feel like JK cost you a game.
07:47That hasn't happened yet.
07:48No.
07:49That hasn't happened yet.
07:50If JK cost you a game, then we've got a real, real big problem.
07:54Because the Warriors don't have games to toss right now. Literally none.
07:59They have no wiggle room.
08:00So if that happens, then we can, like, hurry up our conversation about Jonathan Kaminga and his fit.
08:08But that has not happened yet.
08:10And I think he's been more good than bad since he's come back.
08:14And it's been a few games.
08:16And everyone's told you this is going to take a minute.
08:18So give it a minute. Just give it a minute.
08:21Right. And while you give it a minute, maybe you can put some respect on Steve Kerr's name.
08:26Because last night, when we can all see that Jonathan Kaminga was having a hard time, JK played less than three minutes in the fourth quarter.
08:33And he did not finish the game.
08:35So we all want to talk about his rotations.
08:38Well, Steve Kerr saw what we all saw, which was, you know, not JK's night.
08:43And so down the stretch, you didn't play Jonathan Kaminga and you won the game.
08:47So we all want to criticize the rotations.
08:50And yet, we don't want to give him the credit that I believe he is due when he sees what we all see and he reacts accordingly.
08:59Like, Kaminga didn't play in the fourth quarter.
09:01He played three minutes in the fourth quarter.
09:04I think Steve has been completely true to his word in exactly what he said he was going to do with this situation.
09:09Like, yeah, we've got to see it.
09:11We've got to work him back in.
09:13It's challenging.
09:14And we're winning.
09:16We're winning.
09:17We're trying to win every night.
09:19And so if something doesn't look right, yeah, we're not going to bang our head against the wall and keep doing it
09:25because somebody's got a contract or a big name.
09:27Right.
09:28No.
09:29So I think he's been very true so far in these four games.
09:31Mike and Hayward next up.
09:33Hi, Mike.
09:34Thanks for calling.
09:35Yeah, so I was talking to you guys yesterday about the loss to Denver and everybody was all concerned.
09:40I'm not really concerned about the Warriors, but they're going to win.
09:44They're going to win some games.
09:45But the main thing I think is currently we're really good with the matchups.
09:50They're really flexible with matching people up.
09:52I don't know what they're playing with the three guys they've got with Kaminga and Draymond and Curry.
09:59They do a good job matching people up together with those three people.
10:04Right.
10:05They really do.
10:06They've always been that good and flexible with that.
10:08So if they can turn over the turnovers, that's why they're losing the games.
10:11Turnovers.
10:12Right.
10:13The other thing also is that there was this thing about Draymond being exhausted.
10:17He didn't seem like he was too exhausted yesterday.
10:20The big deal about him being exhausted.
10:23Wait a minute.
10:24Let me finish.
10:25All these comments about him being exhausted.
10:26He said it.
10:27I know he said it.
10:28But he didn't look exhausted yesterday.
10:30He had a hell of a game.
10:32And he didn't look exhausted.
10:34I don't.
10:35Yeah.
10:36Mike, I don't know if we can look at things that way.
10:40Ask me if I'm exhausted right now.
10:42Are you exhausted?
10:43Kind of.
10:44Do I sound it?
10:45No.
10:46You sound all right.
10:47There you go.
10:48You sound normal.
10:49Just because somebody plays well does not mean that they're not tired.
10:52I'm going to accept Draymond at his word the other night.
10:55They're all exhausted.
10:56It's March.
10:57Now it's NBA exhausted.
10:59Look, I have no idea what it's like to be a professional athlete and go through the
11:03rigors of the daily schedule and get on a plane and get treatment and go out there and
11:09have thousands of people expecting you to make all of the shots and make all of the
11:13right decisions.
11:14And then when you don't, they're going to rip you and torture you and all that stuff.
11:17Is it exhausting?
11:18I don't know.
11:19Yeah, probably.
11:20Probably.
11:21But, like, I don't know why we would want to hold them to those words as if, therefore,
11:27you're supposed to act on it differently.
11:29Like, that's why, to me, the most important thing that was said this week was Draymond's
11:34response when they asked him about Steph Curry.
11:39They said, Steve said Steph's exhausted.
11:41What's your take?
11:42He said, we all are.
11:43Figure it out.
11:44Got to figure it out.
11:46I don't think that that means, oh, you're never allowed to sit again.
11:50But it's risky.
11:51It's risky.
11:52And I'm certainly allowed to also sit here and be, like, super skeptical that this isn't
11:57going to get him at some point.
11:59That's all.
12:00It might.
12:01It also might help him.
12:02Having Steph Curry rest might help them on Thursday.
12:05And if he sits on Thursday, it might help him down the road.
12:08And we talked about the championship year where he missed the last three weeks of the
12:12season because he was actually injured, but he came back fresh and they went on to win
12:17the championship.
12:18So it just depends on what you're focused on.
12:21And I know that everyone wants to look at these last 13 games and think must win and
12:25you got to do this and you have to do that.
12:27But the most important thing is when you get into the playoff or the play in, whatever
12:31it is, you got to be ready to go.
12:33You got to be fresh and ready to go out there and compete.