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00:00a voice of the phoenix suns john bloom joining us on the river islands guest line
00:05hey buddy how you doing what kind of fight is your uh are your boys going to put up tonight
00:09oh uh well first of all good afternoon uh happy to be with you guys thanks buddy more happy
00:16about the release of the giant city connect uh uniforms making the debut oh that's what i'm
00:23pretty stoked about i'd like to change topics are you noticing something here i noticed it's a
00:28hijack it's john bloom hijack do you know that this is this is controversial are you saying that
00:33you like the giant city and by the way people don't john's bay area guy you big giants fan you you like
00:39the city connects i absolutely love them after i read kind of the reasoning for how they incorporated
00:46purple first of all yes think about me right i mean i'm an orange and black guy through and through
00:51san mateo high school started it off go bearcats let's go from there it was the giants you know
00:56the giants in my blood from day one that made me orange then i go to syracuse and become even more
01:01orange and then i become the voice of the phoenix suns who i've been a fan of for 30 something years
01:05so orange is like mainstay but purple sneaks in there with the suns it's never been part
01:10of the hijack face as far as i'm concerned but then i did a little reading and i realized that way
01:15back in the day when they were in new york city they wrapped uh purple as a violet as part of the
01:20the connection with nyu because you know they were called the violets i'm glad that i don't know
01:25anybody that was ever called a violet uh but uh that said i'm excited about it i like the little
01:31tie-dye look to it i like all the little details and i did already order one and it is arriving
01:37tomorrow i'm pretty fired up yeah and you mentioned violet and my late grandma grandma vi was violet so
01:44i'm partial to violet but john you laid it out beautifully and just the the detail of it there's
01:49psychedelic influence music genre glove patch nyu so this is about jimmy hendrix and the hate ashbury
01:57boys that's what this is about yeah and i love it i mean that that you i mentioned tie that because
02:04that just kind of wraps up that whole uh genre and and day and age uh that obviously played such a
02:10role in the growth of the city that we love but uh you know it also and willard knows this as well
02:16as anybody did i'm a music absolute freak like i if it wasn't sports i'd be all in on music and i
02:22still kind of am in a way uh and so yeah the fact that there's a little tip of the cap if you will
02:27to that uh history history means a lot to a long time giants fan yeah and a nod to the 60s and
02:33obviously the hate ashbury and lava lamps as well and i i can picture you down there in san mateo
02:38as a teenager in the early 90s with your lava lamp and you know maybe some other stuff going on and
02:44i could see you definitely uh feeling these kind of vibes don't don't don't turn a peter frampton
02:48on next to this guy you'll lose him you'll lose him for an hour and a half or end up down the street
02:55in a in a in a in a van down by the river totally uh builds character you know all those days city
03:05connects aside i want to go back to mark's first question which is are you guys showing up tonight
03:10because boy it'd be nice for the warriors to get a win what kind of a suns team are we getting
03:14tonight john i thought i successfully dodged that one all right let's uh let's talk about the phoenix
03:19fans uh they've lost six straight they've lost virtually all hope of uh making the play in
03:26which is just uh still absolutely perplexing to all of us that are around this team um bewildered all
03:34those words that come to mind uh kind of reminiscent of the way you guys were feeling
03:39when i visited you last when the warriors were right around 500 and then the suns went out and
03:44put a whooping on them in uh in the city by the bay and that was only what i'm uh two months ago
03:50that was two months ago i take that back that did kind of fly by anyway uh regardless boy how things
03:56have changed and now you know the suns are a mess i mean that's really the only way i can put it guys
04:01devin booker's playing his butt off as always kevin durant's been out the last three games with
04:06an ankle injury he's obviously not going to play tonight uh it's curious to see whether he plays
04:10any more the rest of the season after tonight uh there's a possibility that if the mavericks go out
04:15and win tomorrow it's over uh they will not have a chance to to make the top 10 and they'll be
04:20mathematically eliminated and you know like i said i think i may have talked to you guys months ago
04:25about how disappointing the season already was and they were over 500 at the time now here they are
04:30eight games below and uh bound to miss the top 10 in the west with uh the highest payroll in the
04:37history of the sport six game losing streak all of them by double digits a lot of them by a lot of
04:44double digits but it was a tough stretch of games too when you look at who they were playing boston
04:48twice minnesota new york i houston i i get that but i guess uh like just to dive a little further into
04:55what you expect tonight you're right devin booker is playing well but but is there a lot of want to
05:02left with with these guys right now or or are they just like let's get this week over with
05:08i think to be honest with you will i think the want to level has been low all season relative to what
05:14people expected and wanted to see from this group i think you know when you look at just where the
05:20shortcomings have been defensively energy wise 50 50 balls holding opponents off the offensive glass
05:27not turning it over all those things that come from hustle they were short on and that was a thing
05:33that you know kept occurring all season long uh now you can point to whether that's effort or is it
05:39detachment from the message from the staff and the coaches uh maybe it's all of it you know maybe
05:45that's really what it is when we're all sitting here racking our brains trying to figure out what the
05:49problem is you know i think there's just too many of them and uh i think it's leading to probably
05:53another big shuffling of the deck for uh the phoenix suns coming up in the off season and when that deck
05:58gets shuffled and we saw michael malone get fired today and a team that is top four in the west and
06:04phoenix is 11 and with a loss likely going to be out of the playoffs is that shuffling going to include
06:10not only new players in and out but also possibly a coaching change yeah i mean i think everything is
06:17possible i just hope not the radio guy all right dibs right yeah that guy you know let's keep that
06:23guy in place he wants to do it for a little bit longer uh give him a shot it's a beautiful thing
06:27that we don't get judged on wins and losses isn't it yep yep everybody michael malone come on michael
06:33malone really i mean i have you ever seen anything like this like the play like it's it's not just
06:41malone i mean you got taylor jenkins in memphis um like i i'd ask you this john like what what does
06:48that actually say because i don't really know what led to to all of this relationships with stars
06:55or whatever but what what is it what's what's running nba locker rooms right now
07:00it's crazy and now we're just going to go ahead and do it like with a week before the playoff start
07:06like you're going to make a move like that uh when when i was just telling people i think the
07:10nuggets could represent the west now i know that's going to piss warrior fans off a little bit
07:14but i just think jokic is still the best player in the world and so when you've got that guy on your
07:19team you got a chance to make it all the way and at this point in time you know obviously i was saying
07:24that before it looked like jamal murray's injury was more serious than it is and now they've lost
07:28four straight and then they fire their coach i did what the heck do i know i i just think it's a
07:33crazy business i think that uh coaches uh you know obviously the value of a coach
07:38is uh different depending on what owner you talk to some owners believe that you know the coach's
07:44value i guess isn't that high and others uh are going to stay loyal no matter what and it's a
07:49fascinating study yeah and you look at the stability of golden state and you had bob myers and it turned
07:55into uh mike dunleavy who was his assistant and it has had a lot of continuity here which i do think
08:01has great value and i wonder about phoenix and you know where the suns go going forward because
08:07mark and i john had this big debate last summer about can they go forward with this big three and
08:13mark didn't think they could and i thought they could and i was right but i was also kind of wrong
08:18because they went forward with the big three and it didn't work out so what's the pivot point for
08:23phoenix with bradley beal and a no trade and devin booker a guy who wants to be there and kd who
08:29you know has kind of been bouncing around yeah i think the only thing we know dibs is that they
08:35they don't want to trade book and that booker doesn't want to go anywhere so that's the consistent
08:39message i know i've been telling you guys that for years that he's just you know phoenix through
08:44and through he just loves this community and they love him right back and as great of a hooper as he is
08:48he's an even better dude and so that all mixes together and means if you know what you're doing
08:54running the franchise you don't give up on something like that that means that much uh you know
08:59akin to a steph curry to the warriors i really believe that and now i'm not telling you booker
09:04is the player that steph curry is right you understand kind of what where i'm referring
09:08to on this yep yep absolutely absolutely his meaning to the community and what he's done
09:14for this team minus championships which obviously is what this franchise this fan base wants more
09:20than anything because i was just in boston looking up at 18 banners talking to those
09:25mass holes and saying why can't we just get one why can't we just get one oh man john bloom is the
09:33voice of the suns and joining us on williams 95 7 the game uh look uh warrior fans are knee deep in
09:39in what they're doing right now and obviously jimmy butler has worked out and all that but i i still
09:45think there's at least half an eye on what happens with kevin durant going forward um do you think that
09:52he can still be a central figure on a team that matters yes without a doubt that dude is still
10:01the durantula he's still the slim reaper he's still the easy money sniper he's still all those things
10:07he's still a little dramatic on online and and you know all that stuff too he's gonna he's gonna you
10:13know kill some trolls on his downtime that's just something he's gonna get after but uh at the same
10:18time i mean i i feel so lucky to have called his games the last couple of years i i debate in my
10:25head you know about the trade that brought him here which obviously broke up a team that went all
10:29the way to the finals with mikhail bridges cam johnson and company uh and and that's a heartbreaker
10:34right there for suns fans it's something they're gonna think about for a long time but instead of
10:38dwelling in regret i like to think about the positives and uh getting to watch that dude who
10:43for the last couple years has been amazing he is one of the all-time greats he deserves all the
10:47accolades uh i would love for him to stay and finish his career as a member of the phoenix suns i'm
10:53interested to see what they do and obviously if they get a good enough offer uh then maybe they do
10:57uh turn the page based on how disappointing these last couple seasons have been so for warrior fans who
11:03haven't been totally focused on the sons we know about booker and beal but who else john should be
11:08be keeping an eye on tonight as the warriors get ready to head to the desert for a big one
11:12yeah you know obviously debon booker's been leading the charge he's looking for a little
11:17bit more help scoring lines from beal who was out for eight games with the hamstring issue before he
11:22just came back for the last couple uh tyus jones has been shooting the three really well so has
11:27royce o'neal and royce is back in the starting lineup tyus jones is now coming off the bench
11:32for the sons and i you might recall i thought that he was going to be a real key to this team
11:38success this season and and it was surprising that it just didn't work out with him and a lot
11:43of the time he was off the ball and i felt like he's a guy who should be on the ball the way he's
11:47performed being you know a leader in assist to turnover ratio for now six straight seasons in
11:52the nba so you know again i think there's a lot of things that we look at with this team and you
11:57could look at the rookies uh ryan dunn's in the starting lineup he's from virginia and has been
12:01excellent uh two-way player uh is is really good defensively is growing into his offensive game
12:07and uh you know i think it's just a case of i'm fascinated to see what the warriors look like
12:12in person with jimmy butler because this will be our first look at it there are a lot of sense fans
12:17who are pining for jimmy butler to be here and you might recall a lot of the rumors had him coming
12:22here and had this being his top spot and his desired location so uh it looks like plan b is working out
12:29okay for jimmy pretty much yeah i think jimmy was one of those people who were was pining to uh to end up
12:35in phoenix so uh john bloom voice of the suns with us john uh what is your view on the warriors chances
12:41in the postseason look if this group's healthy uh then i like it a lot based on and i in the
12:51beginning of the year i remember we were calling kind of steve kerr the the uh the mad scientist a
12:55little bit with how he was doing his rotations but i i read into it and i i realized that what he's
13:00trying to do is figure out who he can trust in what situations uh and i trust him and so if he's
13:06got the full deck that that has been put together right now i think you got a great chance like i
13:11said i was picking denver what the heck do i know they're gonna have a brand new coach
13:14who's never coached before running the show they still got yokich and i think they're gonna be you
13:19know tough to deal with oklahoma city is everybody's picked to flame out i'm not picking
13:24them to flame out someone's gonna have to step up big to beat the thunder i really believe that
13:28yeah no doubt about that and they've got the lakers again tonight here coming up in just about a half
13:33hour in a game that we've all got a good eye on um all right john have a great call tonight thank you
13:38so much brother thanks for having me fellas and uh yeah let's uh a toast to the city connecting those
13:44behind it uh and kudos to the people coming up with that it starts with a win tonight gotta remember
13:49now the creamsicles were winners so untouchable yeah you got it it's one thing to be like here's what
13:56they look like i care about do you win in them so i better win that game tonight let's get some
14:02more dubs keep it going let's go all right there it is thanks shotty shot