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00:00There's a set-aside conversation that's larger than anything else than either of the first two results, and that's the health of Jimmy Butler.
00:09So we sit here, and we wait, and by the way, spoiler alert, you're going to get breaking news here in the next few hours.
00:18Yeah, most likely, yeah.
00:19But it's not going to be definitive. It's not going to tell you anything.
00:22Well, hopefully it's not going to tell us anything, because the only thing we could find out would be bad news.
00:27Right. Jimmy Butler, I would bet, just about every dollar I've got, Jimmy Butler's going to be listed as questionable for Saturday.
00:36They're going to come out, they're going to say, look, this is a day-to-day evaluation sensation, and he's going to be questionable for Saturday,
00:43and we're going to have to wait until Saturday to really know if Jimmy Butler is going to play.
00:49But the little whispers that I do hear sound like the Warriors aren't overly concerned,
00:55which tells me when I factor in the toughness of Jimmy Butler and then the moment that we're in,
01:00in that it's a playoff series, I personally would be surprised if we don't see him by Monday.
01:06I don't know anything on that. That's just my guess in this moment.
01:09So I don't think this is a series ender.
01:12But if Jimmy Butler does miss, I'd say, boy, the next three games,
01:19then I think the Warriors are cooked.
01:20I think the Warriors are cooked if he misses the next three games.
01:24If he misses only, even if he misses both games three and four,
01:29my guess is the Warriors would probably have enough to split the home games.
01:33And then you turn it into a three-game series and Jimmy returns,
01:35and I would still give them a pretty good shot.
01:38But we'll see.
01:40But listen, this is the weakness of Warrior basketball this year.
01:45There is no strength in numbers.
01:47I hate to tell everybody that.
01:50There's no strength in numbers this time.
01:52Sorry, Pat.
01:52You cannot lose Jimmy or Steph.
01:55You lose him, it's over.
01:58It's over.
01:58It's going to be hard, yeah.
01:59And I do think that if they were without Jimmy for the next three,
02:03could they win one of the three?
02:05Yeah.
02:06And then you get Jimmy back for game six?
02:08Well, I like those chances of the Warriors winning game six with Jimmy back at home
02:13and then a game seven in Houston.
02:14It's a crapshoot.
02:15It's a coin toss, so I wouldn't be super dismissive over a three-game absence.
02:21I agree with you that I don't think that it's going to be that long.
02:24And heck, we all here at 95.7 The Game and Warrior fans,
02:27we've all become kind of experts on pelvic contusions.
02:32No joke.
02:33It's been three now in the past, what, five weeks?
02:36And we've seen it.
02:37We've seen three different ones.
02:38And we've seen what the return-to-play timeline and the protocol is.
02:43Now, I do think that Jimmy Butler's was the most severe of the three.
02:47But I would also add that Jimmy Butler, not that he's the toughest of the three,
02:52but I do think that he's got a certain amount of want to
02:56and the countenance to be able to play through it.
02:59Not to say that Steph couldn't have, and you're right.
03:01Like, he missed Miami, then he missed Atlanta.
03:04If Atlanta was game three against Houston, would he have played?
03:08I believe he would have.
03:10Probably.
03:10So, can Jimmy be ready for Saturday?
03:12Maybe.
03:13Will he be ready for Monday?
03:14I do believe that by Monday, five days removed from what happened,
03:19I think that that's a fair timeline for him to be ready.
03:22Hopefully, he's ready Saturday.
03:23We won't know.
03:24And, again, stay tuned to 95.7 The Game for all the latest as we get word on the MRI.
03:29We're going to get interrupted by a bunch of stuff today.
03:32What else?
03:32We're going to get interrupted by a birdie has told us that a little bit over an hour from now,
03:37the NBA is going to announce the winner for Defensive Player of the Year.
03:40Okay.
03:40Okay?
03:41We're going to get interrupted by that.
03:42I believe it's going to be Draymond.
03:44We'll see.
03:44Stand on it.
03:45Yeah.
03:46We're going to try.
03:47We're also going to get interrupted by, and I hate to break this.
03:50You might want to play the breaking news right now.
03:52Skaloon, skaloon.
03:53Sports fans, the NFL draft is tonight.
03:59The draft starts in three hours.
04:01Like the supplemental draft?
04:02No, this is the actual real McCoy.
04:06The real McCoy.
04:06Yeah, it's actually happening tonight here in three hours.
04:09Grandy's going to do a draft special after our show tonight.
04:12Look forward to that.
04:13Yeah.
04:14Grandy's in.
04:14He's grinding.
04:15He's like Mississippi State offensive tackle.
04:18He's in there, man.
04:19He's like learning names and stuff.
04:21Grandy's Grinders.
04:22Yeah.
04:22I like that.
04:23Forget Gruden.
04:23So, that's happening tonight.
04:25Grandy, Evan, and Sterling.
04:26Six to ten tonight.
04:27Oh, I look forward to that.
04:29Wow.
04:29That's a good grouping.
04:30My source is telling me that the 49ers with the number 11 pick will select Amen Thompson.
04:37Houston Rockets.
04:38As I tweeted last night.
04:39Good tackler.
04:41A really physical defender.
04:42A guy who can play outside linebacker.
04:44He can rush the passer.
04:46And we know he's a good tackler, especially from behind.
04:49Here's something that maybe our listeners wouldn't expect.
04:54So, you dove into the tape.
04:56Deep dive dibs.
04:57I dove into the tape.
04:58Yeah.
04:59Everybody watched this play north of 15 times.
05:02Maybe not.
05:03But those of us.
05:04Way north.
05:04Well, like those of us who do this, right?
05:07Yeah.
05:07I'm going to talk about this.
05:08We all watched this over and over and over again.
05:11And Captain Ref over there, you think that this was a dirty play.
05:17Yeah, I do.
05:18And I don't.
05:19I'm interested to know what you saw that makes it dirty.
05:22Well, what I saw was a player who was somewhat tangled up with Draymond Green.
05:27And he breaks free.
05:28I don't believe that Draymond pushed him.
05:30Agreed.
05:30And I believe he lost his balance.
05:32And instead of avoiding contact, I felt like he sought the contact.
05:38Interesting.
05:39I mean, Amen Thompson clearly had lost his balance.
05:42But as he loses his balance, I see a man who, as he's falling,
05:46goes arms out into Jimmy as opposed to arms down to the floor.
05:51And again, this is really hard to make a judgment on a pro athlete in 0.13 seconds.
05:57But what I saw and what I've seen over and over again
06:00is a player who sought out the legs of Jimmy Butler and he went right through him.
06:05And then after the contact, Amen Thompson goes to the ground and he covers his face,
06:10even though I don't believe he was contacted at all by Jimmy Butler on the play.
06:15And I didn't see any remorse after the fact where, so Thompson goes to the ground,
06:20he gets up, and there's not even that moment of like, oh snap, you know,
06:25I accidentally bungled into this guy and this guy is on the floor writhing in pain.
06:31I didn't see any of that remorse that you normally would from a player who accidentally contacts someone.
06:36Yeah, you might.
06:36I don't know what he was feeling if he covers his face.
06:39I don't know if he got hit on the head on either the ground or what part of his body contacted with Jimmy Butler.
06:45He definitely could have gotten hit in the face by a shoe or something like that.
06:49I don't know.
06:50But to me, when you say like he lost his balance, I'm like, well, there you have it.
06:55He lost his balance.
06:56When you lose your balance, you lose your control of where you land and how you land.
07:00Now, the only thing I look for in situations like this, just, you know, those of us who've played any organized basketball before, you know this.
07:08If you accidentally end up in that spot where you are underneath an airborne player, the rule is you do everything in your human power to catch that person.
07:23You have to catch them.
07:25Now, because he's falling, I don't know if he could.
07:28I don't know if he could.
07:29But I've been in that situation, believe me, because I don't jump very high.
07:33So people jump over me.
07:35And I've been in that position.
07:37And it is your job.
07:38If you end up, you're playing defense and you're like, whoops, I didn't mean to be here.
07:42Somebody's over the top of me.
07:44You can't just let them land on you and shove them to the ground.
07:48You got to kind of, you kind of got to grab them and see if you can brace their fall.
07:52There was none of that.
07:53But again, inadvertent might be too soft of a word.
07:57I don't like saying it was totally inadvertent.
08:00But I don't think it was purposeful.
08:04You could say it was, there was some neglect, maybe.
08:08But I, you know, I didn't see it necessarily as a dirty thing.
08:13I just see it as an incredibly unfortunate collision.
08:16Yeah, I see it as both.
08:18And I'm looking at the YouTube feed and we have a poll that got put up eight hours ago.
08:23Was the Ahmen Thompson foul that knocked out Jimmy Butler a dirty play?
08:2753% say yes.
08:2947% say no.
08:31Pretty even.
08:31Which, it's even, but normally these sorts of questions would skew toward the yes because
08:37they are mostly Warrior fans.
08:39Warrior fans, sure.
08:40So this tells me that, you know, even 47% of right-thinking YouTube audience member Warrior
08:47fans are saying no.
08:49My other piece of this, and this is maybe the one that might shock you even more, for
08:54those of you who know me as a ref lover.
08:56And by the way, Zach Zarba got another assignment tonight, so I'll be glued to the screen.
09:00Is he doing the Clipper Nugget game?
09:01No, he's doing the first game tonight.
09:03He's doing New York and Detroit.
09:05Double Z's gets another assignment.
09:07But why didn't they review it?
09:09Like, I understand that it was not a flagrant foul, but they didn't even review it.
09:15You've got a guy who undercuts another basketball player, and we review other things that are,
09:21for me, far less egregious, but we didn't even go to the monitor.
09:26We didn't go to New York to even take a look at it.
09:28That, for me, felt like a misstep by the association.
09:32I'll buy that.
09:33I'll buy that, just because we're reviewing everything on this.
09:36Right.
09:36But, you know, like, here's another opinion that may surprise you today.
09:41I'm kind of with something that Stan Van Gundy said on the broadcast last night, which is,
09:46dude, I don't know what the hell the refs are supposed to do about this series.
09:49I don't know what they're supposed to do.
09:51You, like, where's the line?
09:53How are these three people supposed to figure out where the line is?
09:59Because if you want to draw the line, and every fan is doing this, I promise you that after game one,
10:06Rockets, you know, WGMZ, Rockets Radio, whatever, like, whoever's calling into Houston Sports Radio
10:13probably felt the exact same way.
10:15This punk Draymond's out here throwing people here, there, and other where, and where is the official supposed to draw the line?
10:25Because if you draw the line at that's a foul, then we're not even playing basketball.
10:33Right.
10:34We are going to stop this game every single play.
10:38You're like Mark Grandy in knockout.
10:40I have not.
10:41Free throws.
10:42Yeah.
10:42I have not watched one play yet in this series where I didn't see a foul.
10:46What the hell are you supposed to do?
10:49I mean, it's very difficult.
10:50What are you supposed to do?
10:51Very difficult.
10:52And we talked before about the anonymous player survey that was put out by The Athletic,
10:56and we didn't get into it.
10:58And I'll just spend a moment on this because one of the questions was,
11:01is the physicality in the NBA, is it too much?
11:06And 58% of players said, nah, the offense still has too much of an advantage.
11:11So players themselves, yeah, I was shocked.
11:14Players themselves are basically saying, no, the offense still has too much of an advantage,
11:19and yet you're right.
11:20In this series, I'm watching a game, and I'm like, oh my God, that's a foul.
11:24And that's a foul.
11:26And these are all fouls.
11:27We really want to hear from you.
11:29We're not doing guests today.
11:30It's all you, okay?
11:31So what kind of get your goat about last night's game?
11:35Whatever it is.
11:36What's your observation?
11:37You know how we do it.
11:38What's still with you the next afternoon?
11:40We'd love to hear from you.
11:42And we'll keep it wide open like that.
11:43Whatever you want to talk about, whether it's physicality, refs, Steph, Dylan Brooks,
11:48Jonathan Kaminga, or anywhere in between.
11:49888-957-9570.
11:52You know what my odd reaction is to what you just said, though?
11:55That 58% of players say it's not too physical?
11:58You're asking the wrong people.
12:01I don't care what the players think.
12:03I care what the fans think.
12:05You know what?
12:05NFL defenders all think the rules are too skewed for the offense, too.
12:09Guess why they are?
12:11Because that's what we want to watch.
12:13Sorry, defensive players.
12:15You're not on our fantasy teams.
12:16And we don't care that you're mad.
12:18Keep the quarterback healthy.
12:20And that's what the league did.
12:22So great poll, but I think we're asking the wrong people.
12:26Physicality is not that fun to watch.
12:31I hate to tell these guys.
12:32It's really not.
12:3335 fouls called last night, which is slightly below the playoff average.
12:38And you're right, Mark.
12:39You could have called 65 fouls.
12:40Oh, easy.
12:41But do we really want to watch that?
12:43No, but I don't want to watch this either.
12:45Yeah.
12:45Yeah.
12:45Yeah.