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00:00Now back to Willard and Dibbs. Take it away, Mark.
00:03Well, thanks, Steph. Somebody should take it away from you.
00:07You're doing too much work.
00:08Wow, wow.
00:09No, he's doing too much work.
00:10You're the guy who's big on shoot your shot, it's all you got.
00:14Yes.
00:14And he did that.
00:15No, but you're-
00:16And now you're coming down on him.
00:17No, you're missing my point.
00:18I'm not happy about this at all.
00:20You guys, like, I clearly, I sucked at texting last night
00:25because it went on so long that 40 minutes after the game,
00:32I'm walking the dog through the dark, which I always do,
00:35which gets a little crazy sometimes because she'll chase after those skunks and raccoons and everything.
00:40And I can't even see them, but she can smell them when they're around the corner.
00:43You got her on a leash or you just let her?
00:44Of course she's on a leash. What do you think, I'm crazy?
00:46Well, it's after dark.
00:47Yeah, I'm not letting the dog just take off after a skunk and get sprayed in the face at 11 o'clock at night.
00:53Right in the face.
00:55In the face.
00:56Totally.
00:56Yeah, no, we're not doing that.
00:58So, anyway, I'm trying to walk the dog, let her do her thing so she can go to bed,
01:04and I'm still trying to explain myself to you guys
01:08because clearly what I said and the way I said it at the beginning was not landing.
01:14There is nothing about Steph gave up that was coming down Steph's road.
01:20There's nothing blaming Steph.
01:23It is a new way, in my opinion, of saying what we've all been saying for so long,
01:28which is that Steph needs help.
01:31And I don't mean help in like, oh, he needs a dog who can be the second scorer
01:34or maybe even the first scorer.
01:36I'm like, he needs to be able to trust that he can run the offense
01:41and that it's going to lead to something good.
01:43That's it.
01:44He needs teammates who are not going to fumble the ball or throw the thing out of bounds.
01:49And yes, sometimes he does too.
01:52But, like, he needs to trust the process.
01:56Yeah.
01:56And I mean that within possessions.
01:59And that shot last night said to me that he doesn't.
02:01Well, the problem with your text, and I'm looking at it now.
02:03Yeah, what'd I say?
02:04It was a three-word sequence.
02:08And...
02:09You gotta scroll back, man.
02:10We texted a lot.
02:12Yesterday at 930, you wrote the words, he gave up.
02:17He did!
02:18When you say he gave up, that is code for, in some people's eyes, he quit.
02:24And Grandy fired back, he gave up?
02:26Three question marks.
02:27Question mark, question mark, question mark.
02:29I'll take a Steph 30-footer on every damn possession over moody driving
02:33and trying a wild layup that he can't even hit rim on.
02:35And I looked at that and I went, right, that's what I'm saying.
02:41And I chimed in to try to lighten the mood with,
02:43the Quentin Post era has arrived, followed up by,
02:46dee-diculous.
02:48Right, but then two minutes later, you gave a Grandy's right.
02:53And I'm like, we're saying the same thing.
02:58He gave up means he gave up on the idea that if I pass out of this double team,
03:04that Moses Moody will be able to meet the ball at the rim,
03:08or that Andrew Wiggins will be able to drive and get a layup,
03:11or that the ball will spin around the perimeter
03:15and someone will be able to knock down a three.
03:17He gave up on that idea.
03:19As he should.
03:20Fine.
03:22Nowhere in the text did I say, stupid idiot.
03:25Right, it's a four for your Abe Willard.
03:28I didn't do that.
03:29He gave up on the idea that this was going to lead to a shot,
03:33so he took it himself.
03:35Totally get it.
03:36Yeah.
03:36Totally get it, but it's not going to be winning basketball.
03:39Well, then the follow-up to that would be the question about
03:43what is going to be winning basketball,
03:45because you've got Buddy and Quentin and Guy and Andrew and Steph on the floor,
03:51and Steph has a screen coming from Andrew,
03:54and I'm sure he's thinking, if I take the screen and dribble to the right,
03:59it's just going to lead to me being double teamed,
04:01so why not just pull it here?
04:03I'm open.
04:04Totally get it.
04:05I can reach the basket from here, and I'm pretty good from 30 plus,
04:08and so I don't know if it's him giving up as much as it is
04:11the realization, sensation of the fact that their offense is nonexistent without him.
04:18You know what's crazy, though?
04:21Cha-ching.
04:23It's also a little window into kind of how the NBA works,
04:28because you're like, you really notice how different defenses are
04:32in the final five minutes of basketball games,
04:35because they have no problem finding open threes for three and a half quarters.
04:39None.
04:40None.
04:40It's just a matter of whether they knock them down or not,
04:43but you all see it.
04:44You get to the final five of basketball games,
04:47and suddenly the Warriors turtle up.
04:51Why is that?
04:52Well, defenses are now, obviously, the best players are on the floor,
04:56and they are realizing we don't have to conserve energy.
05:02There's five minutes left.
05:04We go for broke.
05:05We send everything we have.
05:07I mean, absolutely unload everything we have at defending Steph Curry.
05:15And what happens when they do that?
05:18Can't find a shot.
05:20He can't find a shot.
05:21No one can find a shot.
05:23Well, they can find a shot.
05:24They took shots in the final five minutes,
05:27but it's a shot that the defense wants.
05:30So if you're guarding a team of Buddy, Quinton, Guy, Andrew, and Steph,
05:35you're worried about Steph.
05:37And then if you can stop Steph and you're thinking about the rest,
05:41am I going to give up a Quinton post three-pointer from above the break?
05:46Sure.
05:46I'll take my chances.
05:47Sure, sure.
05:47Buddy healed in the corner.
05:49I'll take my chances.
05:51Andrew Wiggins driving to the rim.
05:53That's a shot I'd rather not give up because he's a good finisher.
05:57Am I going to give up a Guy Santos corner three?
06:00Absolutely.
06:00No, you're not.
06:01He's going to hit that thing.
06:02He might hit that thing.
06:03He might hit that thing.
06:05But as a defense, you're looking at that five-man lineup
06:08and you're thinking, we stopped Steph and I like our chances.
06:12Steph took five shots after halftime and he made one of them.
06:16He was one for five after halftime and it was a layup.
06:20So if you're Sacramento and you think we can hold Steph Curry to two points,
06:25not including free throws, after halftime, I like our chances.
06:30Do you know what Guy Santos is shooting from three-point range?
06:34This year?
06:35It's got to be around 40%.
06:39That's a good guess.
06:4039.4%.
06:4239.4%.
06:43But in the month of January, which is when, by the way,
06:50almost all of his three-point shots have come,
06:53like there was garbage time stuff a couple months ago, whatever, 43%.
06:5943%.
07:01That's pretty good.
07:02And that's over a stretch of the whole month of January.
07:04And he's probably attempted on the year 43s, I would guess.
07:10Total threes taken.
07:11Total threes taken for the year.
07:16I just looked at it.
07:16It's 33.
07:18He's 13 for 33.
07:19You can't beat me to it and then ask the question yourself.
07:22I was just ballparking it at 40, but that's fine.
07:2613 for 33.
07:27He was four for five last night?
07:29Yeah.
07:30Four for five.
07:31Yeah.
07:32And that accounts for almost a fifth of his threes
07:36he's taken on the year.
07:38Point being, if you're Sacramento, you've
07:40got Quentin Post, who's played in five games,
07:43Guy, who doesn't really ever finish games,
07:47and Buddy Heald, who you know very well.
07:49And you know, Buddy can get hot and beat you,
07:51but he didn't last night.
07:53So you're going to get a double team and triple team staff.
07:56He did, and then he didn't.
07:57Right.
07:58That's Buddy.
07:59Yeah.
08:00Because they're going to make it harder on you.
08:02They're going to run at you a little harder.
08:03I don't know how closely y'all have watched the NBA
08:08and look around at what games look like in the first half.
08:11Dude, there are stretches where you watch the game
08:15and it'll flash and look like the All-Star game.
08:17Exactly.
08:19Dude, people are sitting there and just
08:21watching each other score in the first quarter,
08:24but not in the fourth.
08:26And that's the thing.
08:27I think that's the thing.
08:29I think most teams look at how to attack the Warriors,
08:32and they're like, look, if they're hot from three,
08:34we're going to have to sort of withstand that rain.
08:40But over the long haul, we think we can get,
08:43and they know this, there's data,
08:44we think we can get to a clutch game with five minutes to go.
08:48And if we do, we're going to totally clamp down.
08:51We're going to run everything at Steph,
08:53and this team is going to have a hard time finding the shot,
08:55and we'll come out on top.
08:56Yeah.
08:57And that's what they've been doing.
08:58That's exactly what Sacramento did.
09:00It used to be, back in the day, where the Warriors were
09:03the best three-point shooting team in the league,
09:06they shot the most and they made the most,
09:08and that's just not who they are anymore.
09:10And if that's not who you are, then you
09:12have to be able to score elsewhere.
09:14And Steve Kerr told us earlier in the week,
09:16we're not good at layups, and we're not good at free throws.
09:19So your three-pointers are down, and you
09:22don't make the shots inside of five feet,
09:24and you don't get to the foul line, and when you do,
09:26you miss.
09:27So what are we talking about here, offensively?
09:30You're a mess.
09:33That's exactly right.
09:34That's exactly right.