West Coast Clash: Warriors vs. Clippers - Game Analysis
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00:00 Let's get out to San Francisco for a key clash in the Western Conference here.
00:06 It's the Clippers and the Warriors.
00:07 Tip time in this game, 10 p.m. Eastern.
00:10 If we look at the opening line here, very interesting movement.
00:13 A -1.5 favorite here for the Los Angeles Clippers.
00:16 You know where he's sitting now at the FanDuel Sportsbook?
00:18 A -3 favorite, not to the Clippers, but to the Golden State Warriors.
00:22 A total that opened up at 237.5, now back down to 234.5.
00:27 The Clippers and the Warriors, and by the way, Davis, two weeks ago, like before the
00:31 Super Bowl, my early season prognostication here for the Warriors was to get their team
00:35 total under, and I felt like I was a genius.
00:37 But it looks like the Warriors have hit the gas pedal.
00:40 Is that enough also?
00:41 Now is the favorite tonight to handle those Los Angeles Clippers.
00:45 Yeah, so the first thing, I'm just looking at this line, and I'm saying something is
00:51 fishy here.
00:52 Something is not right that has not been reported yet.
00:54 So Kawhi is not going to play, but I don't even think Kawhi being out is enough to make
01:00 them a road dog.
01:01 So I'm wondering if they do, and this is pretty classic NBA stuff here.
01:05 We talked about it a little bit on the show yesterday, where we're almost to the All-Star
01:10 break.
01:11 You can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
01:13 You're going to be on the beach.
01:15 You're going to be relaxing at home for a week.
01:18 Maybe we just do the full squad rest for the Clippers, where Harden doesn't play, Paul
01:23 George doesn't play, and we let Russell Westbrook take as many shots as he wants for 40 minutes.
01:29 Obviously that's not reported yet.
01:31 On the other side, the Warriors are just having the absolute worst possible season they could
01:38 have had.
01:39 They have won five in a row.
01:41 The only guy who is out for them right now is Chris Paul with his hand injury.
01:44 He is going to be reevaluated in two weeks.
01:47 They finally figured out a little bit of something where Klay Thompson is actually really the
01:52 power forward for them right now.
01:53 He's mostly guarding fours, which makes sense.
01:56 He's still a great defender, still very strong, just not as fast, not as agile, and that has
02:01 allowed them to play more lineups where Klay is the four on defense, but the two on offense,
02:08 which means they can still play.
02:11 They played a little bit more of Kaminga, Wiggins, Thompson with whoever as the five,
02:17 and it's made them a little bit better on defense.
02:19 Curry's numbers, like the last two weeks of the season, we are getting some vintage stick
02:24 Curry at 30 points in that win against Utah.
02:28 He actually had 42 last week against the Pacers.
02:32 I think I just talked myself into the Warriors here.
02:34 I started out going, "We're going to take this fishy Clippers line," but I think we
02:38 are going to take the Warriors here minus three.
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