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00:00Before we take some calls and go any deeper into this, it might be fun to relive all of this a little bit.
00:07Grandy, did you put together a little something here about Steph Curry's three-pointers?
00:12Yeah, you want me to play it?
00:14Well, either way, yeah, go ahead. So, 12 three-pointers last night. This is a montage of all of them.
00:23Curry weaving in traffic, stops on a dime with a dribble, runs through a Draymond pick, turns, fires, splash!
00:30Spins it out to Draymond, back to Curry, it's a relocation three and it's good on the left wing.
00:36Curry backs up, shoots a deep three over Eadie and hit it!
00:41Curry, left sideline, stops, and shoots a three right in front of the Grizzly bench and hits it.
00:46He is on fire right now.
00:49Butler in deep, draws a crowd, back to Draymond, hand off Curry, off the screen, it's a three and it's good!
00:55Curry knocks out another one, his fifth three, he's got a 19-point first quarter.
00:59Curry at midcourt, guarded by O'Dama, takes a deep three right on the logo!
01:04O'Dama didn't know what to do so he backed away and Curry said thank you very much.
01:09Draymond leads the break, Draymond bounce pass Butler, pass over to Curry, Curry in the corner, takes it away from Wells and hits a three!
01:17And the Warriors can go two for one here.
01:19Curry though takes a quick three and hit it from the right sideline!
01:23He's got a 32-point half, what the heck, you don't need a two for one when you've got Curry!
01:29My goodness, that was ridiculous!
01:33Draymond sets the screen for Curry who takes a three, it's up and good!
01:36What a smart play by Draymond Green.
01:38Frees up Curry just like that.
01:40Butler throws to Draymond, hand off Curry, Curry takes a left side triple, it's good!
01:45He's got 38 now.
01:47Curry takes it down the middle of the floor, stops and shoots another three, it's good!
01:52Straight on!
01:54His 11-3!
01:56Curry off the screen by Draymond, lost his handle, gets it to Moody.
01:59Now to Pajamski, back over to Draymond, to Curry, left corner, lets it fly!
02:04Three ball, left corner, pocket!
02:06Warriors take the lead 121-120, Curry's got a 50-point game!
02:12And best of the game is next.
02:14Okay, good night everybody!
02:16You want to do it tomorrow?
02:18Um, yeah, if it feels like that, then yeah.
02:21Shoot your shot, it's actually all they've got.
02:24And the last one, Mark, hits me where he hits his 12-3 and it gave him a one-point lead.
02:30Right.
02:31121-120.
02:32There's something about those kind of games, like the 50-burger games are not blowouts.
02:37Because you don't need that, like you don't need that kind of a performance from a guy.
02:43Unless the other team is staying right there with you.
02:46And so, yeah, just chalk it up as another completely special one.
02:50For anybody who was just listening to that, that was two straight minutes.
02:54Just shy of two minutes.
02:57That's how long it took just to play the three-pointers.
03:01Wow.
03:02Just to play the three-pointers.
03:04And, like, at 12 of them, quick math, that means that Steph Curry scored 16 points outside of the three-point line.
03:15He had a good, solid NBA game without the three-point line.
03:19But 36 points just from behind the arc.
03:23Yeah, and eight from the line.
03:25So he made four other baskets, I'm being told.
03:28And of the four baskets he made, I would dare you to remember any of the four.
03:33I do remember a drive and a kiss.
03:37Off of the glass.
03:38Yeah, late in the game.
03:41Fourth quarter.
03:42Fourth quarter.
03:43Final four minutes for sure.
03:44Maybe even final two minutes.
03:46I think it was an answer to a jaw drive.
03:49Steph went down.
03:50But other than that, yeah, I can't remember many.
03:52Can't remember many two-pointers.
03:53No, I mean, and the team, in totality, 28 of 28 from the strike.
03:58Yeah, that was crazy.
04:00100%.
04:02Of all of the stats of last night, go back to the beginning of the year
04:06when this was the worst free-throw shooting team in the entire NBA.
04:0928 of 28 last night from the line.
04:13That's incredible.
04:14It is incredible.
04:15And I do want to give a quick 30-second shout-out to Daryl on BART.
04:20I was in a BART.
04:22It was kind of a nightmare.
04:23Full train.
04:24This today?
04:25This is yesterday.
04:26Yesterday.
04:27And I got on the train, and it was a delay.
04:29There was a train stuck in the tube.
04:30And so everybody who was waiting for an earlier train,
04:32we all got put into one train.
04:34And I'm, like, holding the strap, and I'm just, you know,
04:38trying to fight through it.
04:39And I look over, and there's a guy watching the game on his phone.
04:42And I look, and so now I'm, like, I'm watching his phone with him.
04:46It's early first quarter, and now I'm clearly looking at his phone.
04:49And after, like, six minutes or seven minutes of this,
04:52he takes out his earbud.
04:53He goes, Dude, love your show.
04:56And I was like, Oh!
04:58You know, so we do a little back and forth.
05:00His name is Daryl.
05:01So shout out, Daryl.
05:0219th Street Daryl.
05:04He got off in Oakland, and I said, Don't go.
05:06Don't go.
05:07Please don't go.
05:08Or if you do go, leave your phone.
05:09Totally, dude.
05:10I'll mail it back to you.
05:12But shout out, Daryl.
05:1319th Street Daryl.
05:14What up, Daryl?
05:15And, you know, we're watching the game, and it's like, Man,
05:17this game is back and forth in first quarter.
05:19It's like, Oh, my God, the chef is, like, he's already heating it up.
05:22And I'm thinking, Man, I cannot wait to watch this game.
05:25And luckily, Daryl's got it on his phone, so I'm watching the game.
05:29Yeah.
05:30And I guess I could have watched it on my phone,
05:31but there were so many people on the train that, you know,
05:34I'm holding on with two hands because I'm a little bit older,
05:36and I get the bum knee.
05:37And so, like, I don't want to bring my phone out and do all that.
05:39But shout out, Daryl.
05:41Do you ever do that, like, on an airplane maybe or anything like that,
05:44like where you're just like, I'm going to go ahead.
05:46It's kind of like cheating off of somebody else's test in high school.
05:49Yes.
05:50But instead, it's like, you know, content,
05:53maybe a streaming service that you don't have or something like that,
05:56just a little over-the-shoulder peek.
05:58It can get a little bit uncomfortable.
06:00It can.
06:01Yeah.
06:02Well, if you're on BART and you're on your phone and you're texting whomever,
06:05and, you know, it's like the phone is eight inches from me,
06:08I'm going to read your text.
06:10I mean, I'm going to read it and, you know.
06:12Don't do that.
06:13Don't get all up in other people's business.
06:15Well, then put your phone away.
06:16Don't watch a Warrior game.
06:17That's different.
06:18Yeah.
06:19Don't be reading the text he got from Anna.
06:22The night before.
06:23Who knows what's going on there?
06:24Darrell was locked in.
06:25Okay.
06:26Oh, good.
06:27He was locked in.
06:28Good.
06:29And I guess he didn't mind me looking because, you know,
06:30eventually he's like, dude, love the show.
06:31I listen every day.
06:32So, thank you, Darrell.
06:33Perfect.
06:34Appreciate you.
06:35What up, Darrell?
06:36Yeah.
06:37What up, Tony?
06:38Let's go to the phones.
06:39How do you like him now?
06:40What did this game do for you, Warrior fan?
06:42And I want to answer that here in a little bit,
06:45but let's go to Tony in Concord.
06:47Hi, Tony.
06:48Thanks for calling.
06:49What's up?
06:50Thank you for taking the call.
06:51Yeah.
06:52Yeah, I'm calling regarding the player called Drazen Petrovich.
06:57Drazen Petrovich.
06:58Yeah, you guys asked the question, which player today would look like Stephen Curry.
07:06Now, I just wanted to say that Drazen Petrovich's mom was Stephen Curry's babysitter,
07:13and Drazen Petrovich played with Stephen Curry's dad.
07:18So, Stephen Curry modulated his game after Drazen Petrovich,
07:23because they used to play on their backyard.
07:26If you look at Stephen Curry's game at the college or the early part stage in the NBA,
07:34you are seeing carbon copy of Drazen Petrovich.
07:38So, now, another thing is that quick release and penetration to the game
07:44and all that, you look like you're seeing Drazen Petrovich.
07:51Another thing is, he died in an accident in Europe.
07:56At age 28, yes.
07:57And his career was short.
08:00I remember back home, he was Croatian, and we had a team,
08:05where it was Drazen Petrovich, Tony Kukoc, Vlade Divac, Dino Raja,
08:12and we were talking at the time, can this team play against one team in the college?
08:20And the answer was no, because the game was played physical,
08:25and we were thinking there is no chance that today's NBA European players
08:31could come to the US and play.
08:33But, Drazen Petrovich was the very first player that came to the US,
08:38and he planted the seed.
08:40If anybody likes today's basketball, they should go and watch Drazen Petrovich.
08:46When he came here, he was playing against Michael Jordan.
08:49He was going with him neck and neck, which means,
08:52if you put Michael Jordan and Stephen Curry today,
08:57I bet you Stephen Curry will go with Michael Jordan neck and neck as well.
09:02Tony, thank you very much. Appreciate it.
09:05There is obviously, and you can hear it in Tony's voice,
09:08there is an unbelievable love for the player Drazen Petrovich was,
09:15and Drazen was a great player.
09:17Amazing.
09:18In a very short period of time, for those of you who don't know who that is,
09:21he did die back in 1993 at age 28, tragically in a car accident.
09:26He was coming off of a season where he had averaged just over 22 points a game in the league,
09:30and yes, he had only played in the league for the better part of about five seasons,
09:34maybe not even that, maybe more like four.
09:37He played, I think, from about age 25 to age 28,
09:40had had back-to-back seasons of scoring over 20 a game.
09:43He's a great player, and I have no doubt that maybe there was some inspiration
09:47involved in all of those lines, those bloodlines and whatnot that he just drew
09:53between Stephen Curry and Drazen Petrovich,
09:56but I'm also going to speak for a lot of you who are listening to that,
10:01and that felt a little overdone to me.
10:05Drazen was great and was up and coming.
10:09To start putting him on the plane of Michael Jordan, I feel, is not accurate, number one,
10:15and number two, the idea that Stephen Curry's game is modeled directly after Drazen's
10:21and therefore is a carbon copy, at a minimum,
10:24the only thing you could say is even if he modeled something after Drazen,
10:28he then took it to eight new heights.
10:30We're not talking about the same level of players.
10:34Great player.
10:35We're not.
10:36I do think that if he would have stayed alive and continued to play in the NBA
10:40for ten more years, he would be top 50 of all time.
10:43Great player.
10:44For me, just watching him play a little bit, he was a phenomenal player,
10:49one of the greatest players to ever come over from Europe at that time,
10:52and I'm looking at the 1992 Olympics, the Dream Team, and Croatia got the silver,
10:57the team that he was talking about, and they lost to the U.S. by 30 each time,
11:02by 30 in the group stage and by 32 in the gold medal game,
11:05which no shame in that, where it's maybe the best team in the history of basketball,
11:11the Dream Team itself, but Drazen was going to be that guy.
11:14He was going to be one of the greatest players, I think, ever to come from Europe,
11:19but when you talk about who Steph modeled his game after, look at his dad.
11:23And a lot of us don't remember his dad.
11:26Younger people don't remember Del Curry.
11:28Del Curry was one of the first early on three-point snipers.
11:32He was a guy who was an absolute bucket from the outside.
11:35But see, when I hear that, I always get a little, not uncomfortable,
11:40like everybody's allowed to have their opinion,
11:42but I get very, very firmly against anything that sort of calls Steph Curry
11:48just a great shooter.
11:50He's a great shooter.
11:52And, you know, so if we're going to bring up any of these names,
11:56including Del Curry, and say this is who Steph modeled the game after,
12:01maybe, maybe at its beginning, but then you have to give the acknowledgement
12:07that maybe Steph started to perfect other things that even he,
12:11at the beginning of his career, didn't know he could do.
12:15What Steph Curry does inside of the three-point arc,
12:19I find incredibly, incredibly significant.
12:23His creation around the rim to be able to finish in front of people
12:27who are twice his size is incredible.
12:30Look at the rest of his box score last night,
12:33with his rebounding and assists and his steals.
12:36This is a true, true all-around player who has clearly, to me,
12:42worked on his game in ways that very few do.
12:46And I do think found some things that he could do that maybe even as a young player
12:50he didn't realize he could do.
12:52So I'll buy all of these names as far as inspiration,
12:55but he has flown by them, galaxies beyond them at this point in his career.
13:01He has, but at the end of it, when you look at his career to date,
13:0547% of his field goals have been three.
13:08Sure.
13:09I mean, he is more than just a shooter because he's able to do things inside the arc.
13:14Absolutely.
13:15But what sets him apart from every other player ever,
13:19and maybe going forward for 20 or 30 years, who knows?
13:22And I was looking at the all-time list of three-point shooters,
13:25and I don't know if there's a player currently playing who can catch him.
13:29Harden is right now about 900 behind him,
13:32and Harden probably won't play more than a year or two beyond Steph,
13:37even if he does.
13:38So I don't think he'll catch him.
13:40And you could talk about Trey Young, who is way behind him in threes.
13:44I don't know if there's a player currently playing who's going to get to 5,000 threes
13:50because I think that that's where Steph ultimately will land.
13:53If he plays three more years, we did this before,
13:56three more years he could probably get to 5,000 threes,
13:58and I don't know if anybody else currently playing can get there,
14:01and maybe the league will change their rules or maybe they won't.
14:05And we do know that the three ball is going to be shot more now than ever before.
14:09For sure.
14:10And so, yeah, he's more than just a three-point shooter,
14:12but that is the one thing that sets him apart from every other player ever.
14:16Right, but I also think there's art to the way that, like,
14:20which three-pointer do you pick up?
14:22There are a lot of guys in the NBA who can stand in a certain spot,
14:25and as the ball moves, it gets to them, and they shoot a three,
14:28and they do it at a high level.
14:31Nobody can create a three-point shot in front of the defense,
14:37put people on skates, find open space, quick release, not even Klay.
14:42So this isn't about, like, some sort of a Golden State Warriors thing.
14:46Nobody creates a three with a 6'8", 6'10 guy standing in front of him
14:52the way 6'2", Steph Curry does, and that is a big part of what makes him special.
14:58I just think that it's kind of like going back to the crossover,
15:02what you guys were talking about with Memphis.
15:04There are all kinds of analytics in sports, defensive coordinators,
15:09defensive stoppers, big guys, small guys, teams have been in the lab
15:14for 15 years trying to figure out how to defend this guy.
15:19Can't do it.
15:21And he's 6'2".
15:23Don't believe the bio.
15:25He's 6'2".
15:27I got him at 6'2 in the bio, actually.
15:29Good, good.
15:30I thought the bio might say 6'3".
15:32He is 6'2".
15:34And, you know, as we all get older, we all shrink a little bit.
15:37Now he's 6'1".
15:38He might be by next year.
15:40It doesn't matter.
15:41And what you're saying is, to me, the most remarkable part about it,
15:45and just watching last night, he made 12 threes,
15:48and he did it in 12 different ways.
15:50There were a couple of 38-footers, catch and shoot, dribble this,
15:55off the pick, all the rest of it.
15:57The way he's able to do it, you're right, it's not just –
16:00and I don't want to diminish Ray Allen and what he was as a shooter,
16:04but a lot of it was just catch and shoot.
16:07And, you know, I'm Ray Allen, you give me the ball,
16:10and even if you're on me, I'm going to make it.
16:12His shot form was so pure, just boom, catch it, over the head,
16:17and I'm going to make it.
16:18And Steph does it in so many different ways.
16:20Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at on it.
16:23And that's why last night was probably the best example so far of this year
16:28of where I think two thoughts come to mind.
16:32It's the thing we always do when Steph has one of these kinds of performances.
16:37You just throw your hands up, you smile, you end the night both excited,
16:42grateful, amazed.
16:44You know, I'm walking the dog this morning,
16:46and one of my neighbors, a buddy of mine, is out and about,
16:51he kind of called down from his driveway, hey, what's going on?
16:54Hey, you know, how are you?
16:55And within moments he's like, hey, man, I just want to know
17:02if there's ever been anything like Steph Curry,
17:06and what that's like on the road and what it's like at home.
17:11And that's kind of the conversation with him that ensued.
17:15And I think that's where most Warrior fans are today,
17:18where you just look at this and you're like, there isn't.
17:22So what's the comp to Curry, Drazen, Petrovic, or anyone in between?
17:27There's none.
17:29For me, the answer is none.
17:31And I'm not telling you he's the greatest basketball player ever.
17:35I'm telling you I've never seen an athlete and an audience
17:39have this behavior before, not in my lifetime.
17:42Yeah, not in mine either.
17:43Never seen it.
17:44I'm thinking about other athletes who have made me feel this way.
17:49And I was not around for Wilt and his heyday.
17:52But when Wilt Chamberlain came in, you had never seen a big man
17:56able to do what he did.
17:58And he averaged 50 a game, and he played every minute that season.
18:02Actually, there was one game he didn't play all 48,
18:05but he averaged more than 48 minutes.
18:07And at the time, you didn't have Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
18:10You had Bill Russell, great defender.
18:12I've never seen a big man that athletic and that skilled as Wilt.
18:16And I don't remember that because I wasn't yet born.
18:19And then I think about Michael Jordan.
18:21And even Jordan, you could look at him and go,
18:23well, there was Dominique, who was a lot like Jordan, not as good,
18:27but athletic and able to score on all three levels.
18:30Exactly.
18:31And so beyond that, even in the baseball part of it,
18:35Mark McGuire, when he was doing what he was doing,
18:38well, he's just a big dude who hits home runs.
18:41Babe Ruth did that in the 20s.
18:43And so you could close your eyes and imagine McGuire's just a big dude
18:47who hits home runs.
18:48And I mentioned Barry Sanders as maybe the biggest comp I could make
18:52because as a running back, what he was doing with the speed
18:55and the footwork, I had never seen that before in football.
18:59But you skip ahead to this, and the way he goes about making 12 threes
19:04in 12 different ways, 40 footers, catch and shoot, fade away,
19:09off the dribble, in transition.
19:11He does it so many different ways.
19:13Even like Reggie Miller, when he was on a heater,
19:16a lot of it was kind of the same way, like Reggie off the dribble
19:20or off a pick and whatnot.
19:22And Steph Curry's made the 40-foot shot makeable for everyone.
19:27It's absolutely absurd what he sees as his range.
19:32All right, 8 at 8, 9.57, 9.570.
19:36I'd love to dive in kind of to our own question,
19:39which is, all right, how you like him now?
19:41How you like me now?
19:42Well, here's some of the emotions that come out of last night.
19:47The first one is excitement, but it is combined with relief.
19:53Like that's what I find last night's game to be, relieving.
19:58Because now I go, all right, I can tell that you're on the level.
20:05You're on the level that we really were hoping that you were on.
20:12They are now officially, I think, 18-2.
20:16When Jimmy Butler and Steph Curry both play, they're 18-2.
20:2012-0 with that starting lineup.
20:22Yep, exactly.
20:23So you're on the level.
20:26However, I still want to see what happens the rest of this week
20:32before I believe they are above the level that they're going to need to be
20:37to really kind of do the stuff that we're hoping that they'll do
20:40over the next couple of months.
20:42If they go 3-1, you have to paint your face on Monday.
20:45That's correct.
20:46If they win tomorrow, will you go to Michael's and buy the face paint?
20:50Absolutely.
20:51Well, Friday's a busy day, but over the weekend, yes.
20:55I think they're going to win Sunday.
20:58I think they're going to win Sunday against Houston.
21:00If they win one of these next two, I think I'm painting my face.
21:03All right.
21:04Anyway, let's get into it.