Who should the Rockets prefer, Memphis or Golden State?
The Drive with Stoerner & Hughley talked about it here.
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00:00I see people as I see someone on the text like, hell no, I want Golden State.
00:05This team in the past years, national media will pick Golden State.
00:10They won't win, but maybe one game.
00:13Okay, sure.
00:15Listen, man, for me, I'm like, hey, man, what's the path, baby?
00:20What's the path?
00:20Now, I'm not saying you're scared to death if Golden State is there,
00:24but what's the path?
00:25And the path that makes sense is the Memphis Grizzlies who haven't won a big game
00:30in like a month, they haven't won it.
00:32They have dropped themselves.
00:34Hell, they were in the two spot.
00:35They've dropped themselves down to the eight spot,
00:38and they are struggling in every big game they had of late, they have lost.
00:42Just watch Minnesota put like 140 on them, 80 in the second half on them.
00:47Like, no, that beat the team.
00:48Didn't have to fool with that nut Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler,
00:52Draymond for five, six, seven games, however long it would take.
00:57Steve Kerr, that crew that's won championships.
00:59I'm not saying you're afraid at all, but to me, this is a very clear thing.
01:05Like, you would rather face the Memphis Grizzlies.
01:08Look, I'm a path guy as well with you.
01:10I don't believe championships are, you know,
01:14it's not one of those deals where when you win a championship,
01:16it goes, oh, well, they had an easy route to the title game.
01:18And Kansas could play a 16, a 9, a 12, a 10.
01:23Let me get all of it.
01:24The path of least resistance, and I agree with you.
01:26I think Memphis, I don't think.
01:28I know Memphis is that team, whether you talk about just talent
01:31or you talk about experience, the championship, pedigree, DNA.
01:35Memphis is that team.
01:36Hell, they just fired their head coach not too long ago.
01:38Memphis is that team.
01:38Oh, yeah, that part two.
01:39Yeah, this is the team that you want to face.
01:41But I'm going to be honest with you, Ron.
01:43The goal don't scare me one bit if I'm the Houston Rockets.
01:50And I know that's aggressive.
01:52I know that's aggressive right now.
01:54But when you look at the matchup, I think it's a good matchup for the Houston Rockets,
01:59especially if Jimmy Butler is going to do what I've watched him do for two
02:02or three times this year with the inability to take the game over.
02:05If it is 100% reliant upon Steph Curry to do the work on the offensive end of the floor.
02:11Lay off Jimmy's a little different.
02:12Yeah, I know.
02:13I know.
02:13I'm banking on it.
02:14And he's gotten busy a little bit here lately.
02:15Fair.
02:16Absolutely fair.
02:17Absolutely fair.
02:18But what I've seen personally of late, I would love to get a shot at Golden State.
02:25The Houston Rockets fan in me would love to get a shot at Golden State
02:28before they bust the band up, so to speak.
02:32I know Clay's gone.
02:32But before Kerr and Curry and Draymond and everybody's gone,
02:38I'd love for this young Rockets team to get another shot at them.
02:42Being more physical, being a defensive, you know, dominant team,
02:47I would love to see that matchup.
02:49I'd love to see how they handle Steph Curry.
02:51Now, this is obviously coming on the heels of when they held Steph Curry to three points,
02:55which is not going to be playoff Steph Curry.
02:57But I don't know.
02:58Golden State does not scare me.
03:01And right now, I think I would love to see the Rockets get a series from them
03:08before Curry gets the hell out of there.
03:12Hey, there's some people who are rolling with you.
03:15Lauren Mack says, bring me Golden State.
03:17Memphis would play us way harder than Golden State would.
03:20I don't agree with that at all.
03:22So, we need the monkey off out, and I'd go with it.
03:28Someone else text in as well.
03:31Warriors in five, if that happens, they would eliminate the Rockets.
03:35Someone else text in.
03:36I agree with the show on this one.
03:38Not only that I don't want to deal with the refs, they scare me.
03:42I'm not, you know, I ain't going to get in with the refs.
03:44Right.
03:45Well, it'd be silly to want to see Golden State.
03:48Steph Curry makes me nervous.
03:50Yes.
03:50Always.
03:51I know, listen, they did a number on him,
03:55especially with who should be first team all defense this year,
03:58with a man Thompson, did a number on him and held him to three.
04:02I got to believe that Steph Curry and crew would be,
04:07you're going to see a different person in a group that has.
04:12And listen, Udoka has experience too, right?
04:14He's been to the finals.
04:15He lost to the finals to this Warriors team as well when he was in Boston.
04:20I'm just saying, this is a group that has been there before,
04:24and it's early on in this thing to me.
04:28Give me Ja Morant.
04:30Give me that all day long.
04:33Give me the assistant head coach.
04:35Yeah, give me that.
04:36And a bunch of guys it's never done.
04:37I agree.
04:38Steph just, I mean, just, hey, like Steph can go for 40 at any moment,
04:43and Jimmy can too.
04:45Well, what do you, Tyler, what do you want is, I think, obvious.
04:49I mean, anybody that wants to see the Rockets make a run,
04:51you'd rather see the Grizzlies who haven't pissed.
04:54That'd be rewarding.
04:55It'd be rewarding if you pulled it off.
04:57But what turns you on?
04:58I'm going to tell you, man, if we get a Rockets-Warriors series,
05:02I'm going to be jazzed.
05:03Oh, wait.
05:04I mean, I'm excited about Memphis.
05:07I'd like our shot against Memphis.
05:09But, I mean, I will be glued to the TV if it's Golden State.
05:13Oh, yeah, you'll be into it more, yeah.
05:15Y'all know me.
05:16I love any, any damn opportunity to whoop up on the turd known as Steph Curry's ass.
05:23That mouthpiece chewing turd.
05:25I knew that's where he's going to.
05:26I was going to try to throw the mouthpiece in there before you got to.
05:27Don't worry, it comes up into my brain every time I think about that, dude.
05:31I know our fans, all of our listeners love to hear you talk about that mouthpiece.
05:34Oh, it drives me so.
05:35I know they love a series that, that'd be, I'm going to tell you, man,
05:39I could get good and worked up for a Golden State series.
05:42I'm not saying I prefer it, but I would welcome it,
05:45and I would be ready to watch that turd get his ass beat.
05:49This will be just like potentially next year.
05:55And that is, hey, the Texans.
05:58They've won a playoff game, and the next opponent could be the Chiefs,
06:04or it could be the Chargers.
06:09You damn sure know who you want to play.
06:11Sure, sure.
06:12Now, it would be, now, yes, you would be, bring on the homes you want to,
06:16I want to, I want to shut that, I want to beat it.
06:18But you damn near know, damn sure know who you want to play.
06:22And just like this one right here, yes, it would be,
06:25it would be great to shut Draymond's ass up and to send Steph home and do all that.
06:31It would be great.
06:33And like you said, we would be into that.
06:35We would be, I think we would be into it a lot more than we would be,
06:38you know, with the Grizzlies.
06:42But, yo, man, it's, it's,
06:44yeah, it's, I need the path of least resistance.
06:48That's a loser's mentality.
06:50No, it ain't.
06:52Blaming referees is, blame a referee before you even know that they're about to play.
06:56Yeah, that, that's a loser mentality.
06:59Like, yeah, man, there, there are some teams that, like, hey, Oklahoma City, Boston,
07:04bring them on.
07:05We don't give a damn who you, but hell, even Boston, shoot,
07:08they, they wouldn't mind playing that, that, that easier route here.
07:11Hey, if the, if, if I'm a Rockets fan, if the Kings can,
07:15if there was a possibility that the Kings could get there, that's who I'd rather play.
07:18Well, Ron, beyond, beyond the luxury of playing against a team that's never been there
07:24versus a team that's done, that's, that's been a, a, a dynasty to a coach that's, that's,
07:29I mean, I don't know who the head coach is now in Memphis.
07:31Do, I don't, who is it?
07:32Has he, has he, has he done anything?
07:34Who's the head coach in Memphis now that they let the guy go?
07:36It's a guy, he was overseas that they really, really liked.
07:40It's not a championship caliber NBA champion.
07:42He coached, he coached one, one, I forgot what country it was, been in the world championship.
07:48Right, right, that's right.
07:49I remember you, I remember you talking about that.
07:50So, like, that guy, that, that combination would be, would be the path of least resistance.
07:56And there's such an advantage and a value in, not that the Rockets would,
08:00but potentially you could get a series like that over quicker than you could versus a dogfight down the line.
08:04So, like, the, the advantages that come.
08:06That's a great point.
08:07Yeah, the advantages that come, especially with the way the Rockets play, right?
08:10I mean, you know, winning a series and saving yourself a game or two at the end would be big for the Rockets,
08:17given how, how hard they have to play, how, how physical they have to play.
08:20So, um, yeah, it's a no brainer.
08:27But baby, to watch NBA basketball, it's going to be the Warriors down.
08:31Yeah.
08:32You said that ass hat starts banging down.
08:36Yes.
08:37Five, six threes.
08:38All of a sudden, you're like, damn it.
08:42Damn, where's Jha?
08:43Where's Desmond Bain?
08:46Give me Desmond Bain.
08:47Oh, that's good.
08:48I love it.
08:49I love, I love the, and we will, it will be fun.
08:51It will be great to watch.
08:53The city wants the Warriors.
08:55There's no question about that.
08:57All right.
08:58I bet you, as hard as Udoka is, as hard, and I mean, he is no nonsense.
09:04Udoka, Udoka, in game three and four, want to be on Beale Street.
09:09Let me tell you that right now.
09:11I guarantee you that.
09:13He won't be on Beale Street.
09:14Let me tell you that.
09:15All right.
09:16This will be fun.
09:17So, Thursday, tomorrow, I mean, not Thursday, tomorrow night, Tuesday night,
09:20we will, we will learn after that game, after the Golden State Warriors,
09:26who will host the Memphis Grizzlies, after that game,
09:28we will learn who the opponent is for the Houston Rockets.
09:33Should be fun.