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00:00We wanted to share this with you and again here
00:02Here's the background and it's still it makes me laugh the way this came together because that was such an impressive win
00:08And I'll also share with you that while everybody was already gathered in the media room on Saturday night
00:14Grandi's doing post right e dog and Whitley are ready to go. They're in position. Everybody's ready to rock
00:21But it gets quiet because the fans have all left
00:24This game's been over for almost a half hour
00:26And then all of a sudden you hear someone coming down the hall like this. I got the ball
00:36It was like the hell's going on it was Draymond Draymond green now
00:40Did he get the ball of the three-point shot that he hit or actually what I I think we found out
00:47It was he got the ball. That was Steph Curry's
00:5225
00:55Thousandth point. Yep, right, so he heads down the hall
01:00Three minutes later here comes another screamer down the hall
01:08I mean like wow
01:10Hell's going on now. Well, it's Steph and we later asked Steve Kerr
01:14What's what's the what's the boom and apparently that's Draymond greens three-point celebration whenever he hits a three-pointer
01:21He starts yelling boom
01:23So these two guys are batting back and forth with it with one another and again is half hour after the game
01:28so I was struck by the energy that they still had for this victory is a big win and
01:36Then everyone wants to talk to all of the guys about all the little intricacies of this game and all of the sudden
01:43Here comes one of my Cal Poly students Jocelyn. She gets the microphone and looks at Steve Kerr and goes so Steve
01:49His team is playing very well, how are you going to enter Jonathan Kaminga back into this lineup?
01:56He jokes that this is too hard-hitting of a question. It's a great question, but then he gives
02:02This answer it's a really difficult
02:05Thing when when you are playing really well, and then you have a key guy coming back and it's always tough
02:11so I think the idea is just
02:14Bring him along slowly, you know play him in short bursts help him get his rhythm back
02:18But you know, we've got to keep playing he Santos, you know
02:21We've got to keep playing the guys who are helping us win right now. And so usually this stuff
02:27has to kind of play out and
02:30So we'll hope that it plays out. Okay, I found that to be a fascinating answer because a he admits the difficulty of
02:38Trying to mess with anything right now and then goes on to also be like look of course
02:44This is Jonathan Kaminga. Of course, we're gonna we're gonna get him in there
02:47But it's gonna be short short bursts build them up see how he plays
02:52But oh, by the way, if any of you think I'm taking geese Santos out of the lineup, I'm not doing it
02:57And and so that's kind of where my head is as I leave the arena that night is like man
03:03These guys are really humming right now
03:06And and it is very much and if it ain't broke don't fix it thought process for me with the Warriors
03:12And it's the same thought process for them because it's clearly not broken and if you think about since they got Jimmy Butler and
03:19They're 11 and 2. It's the third best record in the Association
03:22Cleveland of course is 13 and O and the Thunder are 13 and 2 and then you're next at 11 and 2
03:29So why would you try to upset that what you have going on?
03:32Which has been unbelievable and you're not going to you're gonna work Jonathan coming back in and if you continue to win
03:39And he feels better and he gets stronger and he gets his fitness back whenever that is then
03:44He'll I think slowly and gradually get back to a role that is more prominent
03:49but if it looks like he's pressing or things are stalling or
03:54Things are not as good as they were before he came back
03:57Well, then his minutes won't be what they have been and that's what we saw from buddy healed
04:01Buddy's minutes went down because he hasn't been as productive and he hasn't shot the ball as well
04:07And that's the same thing with everyone. Come on Looney's minutes down TJ D
04:11Well, you don't get to play anymore because now we found Quinn post who is a stretch five
04:16So your center spot is Draymond Quinton and Kavon and TJ D is the odd man out
04:22And so that's the way it'll have to be with everyone, especially if the cominga comes back and it's not going great
04:28Here's what Steve said specifically about de Santos when asked all the cutting the playmaking
04:34He saw the backdoor cut he made in the first half and he got the layup from trace
04:39He keeps the game going with his play with his cutting and movement
04:42We had a play in New York the other night at the garden where he had dream on on a backdoor cut for a dunk
04:48And that that was not a called set. It was just basketball happening and he's in the middle of that stuff
04:54He just knows how to play and the game continues and really flows when he's out there
05:00You know, we use we call them connectors, you know, that's a popular word these days
05:05He's a connector game really flows when he's out there. I mean, that's that that's really hard to go away from so look
05:13At the end of all of this I do really feel for Jonathan situation
05:18And this is part of what I was trying to say a week ago
05:21when I said this is more challenging than I think a lot of people are giving it credit for when people are like
05:27Ooh, we're humming and Jonathan's coming back. I look at it more like oh you're humming, but Jonathan's coming back
05:34I don't know how that's gonna go. I hope I hope for this to go as
05:39Wonderfully as so many people think it will and and that would be great
05:43I would love for this to be seamless
05:45but I've been a part of too many conversations over the last three years about Steve Kerr and his rotations and how
05:51Difficult it is because everybody wants everybody to play all the time and when you're winning at this kind of a clip
05:57I'm telling you man the world like
06:00The Warriors have worked their way into actually being a contender
06:04like
06:06Actual you're talking about your power rankings earlier and was it ESPN?
06:10How do you know the NBA app right actual league app says that they are up to number five the only teams ahead of them
06:17Boston Cleveland OKC Lakers, yeah, I'm ahead of Denver
06:21Well, even if you go to like a more neutral metric, which for me is the gambling markets
06:26they're probably top six or top seven right now and odds to win the title if you go to
06:32FanDuel or any of the offshores the odds were before Jimmy Butler got acquired
06:38They were about 60 to 1 and last time I looked they were at 16 to 1 and those odds are probably even smaller now
06:44That now that they've won, you know 11 of 13 or 12 of 14 and they're one of the hottest teams in
06:51Basketball outside of Cleveland and OKC. They're the hottest team since the deadline. Yeah, there's no question
06:57All right. Let me pull this up and see where they are
07:01Okay, I mean you want to uh, you want to play a game real quick sure you got any game show music over there Randy
07:08Let me see
07:10All right, go ahead and name all the teams that are ahead of the Warriors in the current NBA title odds race
07:17How many are there? Um, I feel like I shouldn't tell you. Don't tell me. Okay. Yeah, you don't have to tell me that
07:23Make it too easy. I would think that Cleveland is ahead of them. Ding
07:27Okay, sees ahead of them doing the favorite right now. Okay
07:32Boston is still ahead of them day. That's the Eastern Conference. Yep. The Lakers are ahead of them. Ding
07:38Ding
07:40Denver's ahead of them. That's correct. Ding and I'm gonna say that's it. That's it. Oh
07:49So close you're missing one, there's one other team that narrowly
07:55Current odds to win the championship than the Warriors the old narrowly would it be Milwaukee?
08:02No, sorry. The Warriors are ahead. Sorry of the Milwaukee Bucks. Yeah
08:07Would you like to try again, I guess it would be
08:11Memphis, but that doesn't make sense. Oh
08:14That's buzzer number two. Memphis is behind Milwaukee
08:19Nope, one more one more shot. Ah
08:22Man, or else gotta walk the plank. Yeah, I hate that darn plank. Uh
08:28Houston oh
08:31Sorry, no
08:34Houston sorry, I'm glad you caught that that was sorry and that was always my favorite. Rest in peace. Sorry. No
08:41He was so dismissive
08:45Alex was like the most pompous nice human being of what is Uganda? Sorry. No, sorry
08:52It's what is Rwanda? How could you not know that? Yeah, well the answer here is what is what is the New York Knicks?
09:00Mother New York Knicks at plus 2,400 narrowly ahead of the plus 2,800 Wow
09:072,800 state war you were you shopping for that? I want to get a piece of that
09:12That's a fan duel special. Okay. So right now that's one two, three, four five six
09:16They are seventh in the NBA title odds right now. Okay. Yeah, I mean again
09:2328 to 1 I I think I saw something where they were down to 16, but well isn't at the duel
09:30Is what we use? Yeah, I think there's two different questions here
09:32One is just what do people think in terms of how good they are?
09:35But then the other side is the odds have to factor in that where the Warriors are because of their early season play
09:42They're still likely headed toward a situation where you've got to like go
09:45It's the Lakers and the Nuggets on the road in round one and that that makes it a very very difficult
09:51Road to to to battle now, it may not play out that way. They may get the five
09:55Maybe maybe they get the four. I don't know
09:58Obviously the odds will change if that happens, but right now
10:02They're they're still sitting there in the 16. That's gonna be a tough spot
10:05it just isn't interesting when you get into these betting markets because Draftkings has them at
10:1114 to 1 move fan duel
10:1328 to 1 as you mentioned and bet bet bet
10:17365 has him at 16 to 1 and
10:19This one that I don't recognize has him at 12 to 1
10:23That's the win the whole thing or the MGM NBA champion
10:2712 to 1 yeah, but that MGM has him as the fifth choice tied with Denver
10:32So, okay. Well if you're a gambler go to bed shop around
10:38ESPN bet has about 25 to 1. Oh, that's a big gap
10:42It's good lord
10:44You don't usually find that kind of gap Cleveland is between 5 to 1 and 6 to 1 across
10:49Eight different shots got them at plus 550 the Warriors are between 12 to 1 and 28 to 1 that's a huge gap
10:57And that I think is maybe the most interesting part of this is that there's no consensus among
11:04power rankings fan bases
11:06Gambling operations everybody's got them all over the place. Let's go back to the phones at 8 8 8 9 5 7 9 5 70
11:13How about Mark in Berkeley? Hi Mark. Thanks for calling
11:17Hey, Mark, did you remember me? I wanted to ask about this Thursday. You're gonna be there
11:22This Thursday gonna be where at at the marketplace
11:29No, that's tiny and guru
11:31Dining guru live at the Emeryville market place
11:35Over here. Yeah, okay for a little watch party. Yeah
11:38Okay, are you guys not worried about the Philadelphia game and the next game that was so close?
11:45Not at all like not even a little bit mark
11:48I mean, that's the that like that's the NBA first of all, Jimmy Butler didn't play in the Philadelphia game
11:53Secondly, the Brooklyn game is at the end of a road trip and they came out at a sleepy start lost one of their starters
12:00a minute in and then
12:02Laughed at a 22-point lead and erased it. That's what good teams do man
12:07You're not gonna just come out and cover every spread, you know
12:10Okay, and tonight I did a little scouting what about this center that's playing tonight with Portland
12:16Which one which which player you specifically thinking about a
12:21white the white the new guy
12:24I
12:25NCAA check what?
12:27So you have you know what big man was he talking about mark? Thanks. Appreciate it
12:31I don't know. Who's the new guy for the for the Portland Blazers. I'm not sure who he's talking
12:38I'm not sure who he's talking. I'm actually talking about Donovan and clinging. Yeah rookie from UConn clinging
12:44Doesn't play it a ton. Yeah. No, yeah, it's coming off a
12:48Tidy little triple single. There's nothing in three and nine and a loss to Detroit. There's nothing. There's no individual
12:55I'm worried about I will tell you
12:58Portland is not necessarily constructed the way they used to be
13:03These are not your father's Portland Blazers, right? They're coming back to earth a little bit. They've lost four or five
13:09But this is a much more dangerous team than they were
13:13Last year or even at the beginning of this year and so you can't get you can't get caught sleeping at night
13:19But where's your big favorite? Yeah, so no, I'm not worried about this one. No, and I don't think that this is a letdown spot
13:26I do think that Saturday was a difficult game because Detroit is playing great and you talked about the travel
13:32and you know getting home and trying to ramp up for that game and they're very
13:36Physical and that thing was back and forth with 22 different lead changes
13:40And so that thing was teetering on the brink of of a loss or a win
13:44It was a fun game with all the back and forth
13:46I look at it a little bit differently to a specific to this spot tonight. So Portland last night
13:52They're on a back-to-back. They played at home last night against the Pistons
13:57So that physicality that the Warriors dealt with Saturday Portland just dealt with it last night and got beat
14:03So I think this is actually a good spot for the for the Warriors tonight