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00:00Stiney. Guru. Stiney. So, let's go.
00:08I like that drop. Oh, yeah.
00:11Guru. Stiney. Guru.
00:13All right.
00:14So, this is the kind of thing that I've got to address.
00:19I've got to address.
00:21650.
00:23Stiney, you just riding off the Sharks as a Bay Area team?
00:27You came in on fire this morning about the Sharks.
00:30See, this is,
00:33I'm not going to blame it on a mandate from above.
00:36I won't do that.
00:38But you're right.
00:39I came in today thinking,
00:41here's what I was thinking, Guru.
00:43So, I'm looking at our four
00:46major sports teams.
00:47Here we go, Evan.
00:51And
00:52if you've noticed, they've all taken the same route.
00:57Okay?
00:58The Sharks have
01:00a general manager named Mike Greer, played in the league 16 years,
01:03former player, young guy, 49 years old.
01:06African-American.
01:07He's running the Sharks.
01:09Buster Posey.
01:10I couldn't believe this.
01:1137.
01:13Posey's 37 years old.
01:15He's now running the Giants.
01:17Mike Dunleavy, 44,
01:19running the Warriors.
01:21And John Lynch,
01:2353, which, trust me kids, it's still young,
01:26running the 49ers.
01:28And
01:29I was just thinking about, okay,
01:31we've got four GMs who are young
01:34GMs
01:35and
01:36to my way of thinking,
01:39you could use today
01:41as a starting point
01:43to judge all four.
01:45We could start right now because every organization is at, to me, a definable point.
01:52The San Francisco 49ers,
01:54they're in a Super Bowl window.
01:56John Lynch,
01:57to me, the goal is win the Super Bowl.
01:59It still is.
02:01Lynch, as an executive of the Niners,
02:03they're either going to win it this year
02:05or they're probably going to have to re-tinker next year.
02:09I don't want to say start over,
02:11but
02:11they may have to
02:13tinker on the fly a little bit to keep this thing on top.
02:16But the goal to me for the Niners is simple.
02:18Can Lynch get over the hump?
02:20Mike Dunleavy,
02:21what's his goal?
02:22He's got a team that's two years removed from a dynasty.
02:26And the dynasty may be dying, and that's okay.
02:28I think we can say the dynasty is dying.
02:31Okay.
02:31I think we can say that.
02:33So the question then becomes,
02:34what does Mike Dunleavy do
02:36to mitigate
02:38the after-dynasty run?
02:39And reinvent, yeah.
02:41What's the goal of the Warriors?
02:42To me, it's get right, it's get back in the playoffs this year
02:47and start re-establishing ourselves as some kind of contender.
02:50Facts.
02:51The Giants,
02:52to me,
02:53Relevancy.
02:54The Giants, yeah.
02:55What's the goal of the San Francisco Giants?
02:57To me, next year would be to make the playoffs just like it was this year.
03:01Once you make the playoffs, anything can happen.
03:03And then you got the Sharks.
03:04Sharks have been the worst team in the league the last two years.
03:07They've won, what, 22 games and 19 games the past two years.
03:11So they're at the bottom, but they've got
03:14they've got young players.
03:15They've got a group they think they can grow with.
03:18So Mike Greer's got a big job ahead of him.
03:21But I was just thinking about
03:23what are the goals for each of these four teams?
03:27What are your expectations for these four teams?
03:29I mean, it wasn't long ago.
03:31We expected the Giants to contend for World Series.
03:34Are we still there?
03:36Where are we with the Warriors?
03:37888-957-9570 is the number.
03:42And
03:44what are your expectations for these teams?
03:47Is it still always about a championship?
03:49Or can the Warriors, for the first time,
03:52maybe in, what, eight, nine years,
03:55can the Warriors actually have a successful season
03:58if they don't win it all?
04:00And I think this will be the first time we ever answer the question.
04:02Yes.
04:03Wow.
04:03Yeah, I think they can.
04:04Oh, I was going to just come with the hell no.
04:06And the reason the hell no is why they were in on those big,
04:09the big fish, Paul George and marketing,
04:11because I don't think that will suffice Steph Curry.
04:14Like, of course, he wants to win stuff, but he wants to win it all.
04:17He's still playing at a high level.
04:19And that's why Mike Dunleavy told us to our,
04:21excuse me,
04:21told us to our face the other day,
04:24enjoy it.
04:25And I think there's an added pressure on,
04:27and I mentioned the deadline for the Warriors to do everything under the sun
04:31to get Steph had the necessary help so they can get right back,
04:35not for the playoffs.
04:36I'll take that.
04:37But Steph Curry said it in Vegas,
04:39things change quickly in this league.
04:41So I think there's a pressure for Mike Dunleavy to appease Steph
04:45and Draymond to go get them that necessary help to where it's not.
04:49Hey, you guys had a cute little season.
04:51You got back to the playoffs.
04:53I think they got to contend and you need talent to contend.
04:57And right now, I don't know if they have,
04:59I'm waiting and excited, but man,
05:03I don't know.
05:04I'm telling you right now.
05:06I would, I would say you're crazy.
05:09I would say you wouldn't be the only one.
05:10You're crazy to go into the season with an expectations of Warriors can win it all.
05:16Like, aren't you?
05:17How about getting back to the Western Cup?
05:19Like being, you know what I mean?
05:20Like the five seeds you talk about and maybe you win two rounds.
05:23You're in the Western Conference finals.
05:25Like it can't be going backwards from not making the playoffs and taking two
05:31baby steps that we want around.
05:33I don't even want the Warriors and I know Steph saying this to hell with a
05:37play in.
05:38We are a playoff team.
05:40My days are numbered as you know, being able to carry us on our back and I feel
05:44right now.
05:45I cannot identify and maybe it's Kaminga.
05:47Maybe it's pods.
05:48Maybe it's Melton.
05:49Maybe a slow-mo.
05:50I can't identify that second or third or that second and second and a half.
05:56Why do you think they're going to be a title contender?
05:58Because Wiggins can ball and if he, you know, got the new haircut, the new look
06:02and got his family step past him, you know, he's at ease, you know, I know
06:06the heart's heavy, but Kaminga with the blonde hair.
06:09Well, like what if those two dudes just think about it.
06:12Those two dudes.
06:13Then they make then they I think could be a playoff team.
06:16But what about noise in the playoffs?
06:19I think that's because Kaminga and Wiggins collectively.
06:24It's not any athleticism being able to all they got they check all the boxes.
06:29Can you sustain it?
06:30Could they don't check all the boxes?
06:33Kaminga and Wiggins to me.
06:37They there's a bunch of boxes.
06:38They don't don't check 2022 Wiggins.
06:41Okay, I'll take that.
06:41We'll take that all day that checked all the boxes.
06:44You can't take that all day because he's never done that all day.
06:48But but I want to get to the bigger point of.
06:52You you can't go into this season with an expectation.
06:57The Warriors are going to win it.
06:58Can you?
06:59I want to get now.
07:00I'm hitting the reverse because when you say it like that, my questions is
07:05I just said to you 10 minutes ago.
07:06Snotty make the playoffs for the Warriors for me.
07:09But for Steph, they got to do more than that.
07:12Why?
07:13He's under contract for three more years.
07:14He's a winner and he's still playing at a high level.
07:17I don't watch things erode around me.
07:20Okay, and I'm not the reason when I'm I'm the John Lennon of the group.
07:25I'm doing my thing.
07:26You got to get me talent that can help me.
07:28That's what makes it look bad.
07:30If Steph's playing at a high level and that's why last year wasn't cool to me.
07:33He didn't have a great second half.
07:35No doubt.
07:35He stepped back a little but at the end of the day, it's about getting him help.
07:40Okay.
07:41So if they don't want a championship, Stani, I'm not breaking any China.
07:44But if they don't make the playoffs, oh my gosh is Armageddon
07:49because then it's really over with Steph Curry.
07:53I'd say I'd man.
07:55I just don't like to talk in extremes like that.
07:57Like I think I don't think it's fair to think this team's a championship
08:01contender right now, maybe halfway through the year.
08:04We'll we'll think differently just like in 2022.
08:07I don't think a lot of people thought they were a contender.
08:09Then they start 31 and 9 and everybody says, well, what do we got here?
08:13So what's success for the Warriors for you this season?
08:16Get to five.
08:17Get to six, right?
08:18And that might be 52 wins.
08:20You're right because this could be thick but it could also I mean things
08:23could break and they could 47 might be able to get there.
08:26It depends on the year.
08:28I mean they got to six.
08:29Who's to say 44 won't get you to six this year like it did two years ago
08:33and I don't want to bring up the and I will because we'll get into it later.
08:36The Osler Draymond conversation, but Stani, I'm sorry.
08:40I'm still holding on to the math.
08:42I know you're gonna be like guru.
08:43The Warriors won six.
08:44They didn't if he doesn't miss 25 games, the Warriors aren't what they
08:51were a playing team.
08:52You know what?
08:53I mean, we could have been talking about them being a four or five seed
08:55if Draymond was available.
08:57So right then and there is bigger than basketball.
09:00It's about availability.
09:02So that's what Osler was talking to Draymond about.
09:04So I bring that up because it gives me more confidence that this wasn't a
09:08natural non-playoff team.
09:11I mean, it is what it is.
09:12He went messed up.
09:13But if you ask me what went wrong for the Warriors last year before I say
09:17anything about a screen or lack of defense, I'm saying Draymond was gone.
09:23That was the death blow.
09:24Okay, and I'm saying that Steph didn't have a great second half that Wiggins
09:29was AWOL, that Draymond got suspended, and Kuminga was a little bit up and
09:35down.
09:36That's, I wouldn't put it all on Draymond, but I'm more interested in
09:42how could you possibly, how are Warrior fans going to enjoy this year if
09:47they're not willing to see success in something other than a championship?
09:53When we know right now, it looks like a long shot right now.