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Speaker 4: We got Marcus Thompson joining us coming up in about

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Speaker 4: thirty thirty five minutes or so. But it was great

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Speaker 4: to catch up with Susan Sluster And as I noted

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Speaker 4: at the beginning of the interview, well, when we talked

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Speaker 4: to Susan last week, it was our continued speculation and

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Speaker 4: what were we gonna make of the bullpen and was

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Speaker 4: this lineup gonna be good enough to carry the Giants?

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Speaker 4: And now we actually had four games to kind of

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Speaker 4: digest and analyze, and both for better or for worse JD.

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Speaker 4: The Giants have won and lost games in a fashion

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Speaker 4: that has felt very similar to a lot of what

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Speaker 4: we've seen over the past half decade. And if you

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Speaker 4: want to put the torture element of it, well we

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Speaker 4: can go all the way back a decade and a half.

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Speaker 4: Tony Vaitello first win as a manager. Oh, he got

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Speaker 4: to do it in the torture fashion.

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Speaker 2: Yes he did.

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Speaker 5: And I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go there because

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Speaker 5: it may leave, it may lead to a pet peeve,

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Speaker 5: and we're gonna get to that come up. But later

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Speaker 5: on in the show, there were a couple of interesting

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Speaker 5: things that Susan brought up that I wanted to get

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Speaker 5: into with you. Two things, one longer leash in her

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Speaker 5: to get Keaton win, you know, have too much be

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Speaker 5: earning the win. But you know, Keaton Win was the

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Speaker 4: You know, I had this thought to myself while we

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Speaker 4: Dude, that was it, Like that was the sign that

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Speaker 4: you actually won that game in Seattle despite all the

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Speaker 4: Jake Moody anxiety in struggle. But it was also clear

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Speaker 4: at the same time that it wasn't comfortable last night.

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Speaker 6: Again. I'm not saying maybe that.

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Speaker 4: Was the straw that broke the camel's back, but that

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Speaker 4: was one where it's like, Okay, giants didn't have to

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Speaker 5: And I remember and obviously the NFL's did different, but

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Speaker 5: and there was the thought that, you know, had they

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Speaker 5: don't think this is that as it relates to to

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Speaker 5: I do think, you know, the first fail basically is

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Speaker 5: Tony Vitello going to it. I know Susan had brought

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Speaker 5: in you know, she doesn't know, and it's fair, She's right.

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Speaker 5: We don't totally know exactly whether Tony Vitello is a

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Speaker 2: I'm inclined to believe. And again, I don't know. This

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Speaker 5: I'm inclined to believe that Vitello wants to be a

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Speaker 5: to have to have more patients. Then maybe you know,

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Speaker 5: the second game? Preaches patience and puts the same lineup

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Speaker 4: for today. And I would say on the Vitello Patients

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Speaker 4: Maybe it's a little different in pitching, especially when you're

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Speaker 4: protecting a lead versus trying to steal one. But the

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Speaker 4: early returns also showed that Tony Vitello isn't afraid to

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Speaker 4: be is a bad bullpen, and so Tony Vitello figuring

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Speaker 4: that will be an area where we will judge him

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Speaker 4: a lot on his performance this year.

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Speaker 5: And I'm also saying that he's done anything, and I again,

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Speaker 2: Oh thank you as well.

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Speaker 4: All right, well we'll get into both of those subjects

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Speaker 4: JD Waltzer with you on this Tuesday. Thanks for joining

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Speaker 4: We talked to Marcus every other week. He's been back

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Speaker 5: Yeah, some breaking news from Warriors practice today, as Steph

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Speaker 5: How how fitting considering all that he means to the Warriors.

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Speaker 5: Then again, I don't want to I don't want to

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Speaker 4: I don't I don't want to go religious on you either.

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Speaker 2: You need them.

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Speaker 4: And even if I was just gonna say real quick too,

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Speaker 4: It wasn't the standings that were necessarily watching right now,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 5: And it's this thing has been angling toward him coming

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Speaker 5: What's the point, Well, a big part of it is Steph,

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Speaker 5: I think, wanted to come back to try to help,

438
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Speaker 5: you know, see how it looks with Porzingis, but also

439
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Speaker 5: see if he can't potentially propel this team into the

440
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Speaker 5: into the first round of the playoffs with a couple

441
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Speaker 5: of play in tournament wins, which is what it's going

442
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Speaker 5: to take, one in Portland and probably one either in

443
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Speaker 5: Phoenix or LA against the Clippers coming up here in

444
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Speaker 5: about two weeks. I wanted to go back to tie

445
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Speaker 5: off the Giants conversation before we get to Marcus. The

446
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:49,520
Speaker 5: other interesting thing that that Susan Slusser of the Chronicle

447
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Speaker 5: had to say, we were talking about the d H

448
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Speaker 5: spot and obviously because of the Dever's health concerns and

449
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Speaker 5: keeping him off his feet, he's been, you know, in

450
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Speaker 5: the D spot as opposed to playing first base. She

451
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Speaker 5: thinks Jurar and Carnassion is just gonna be the dude.

452
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Speaker 5: And basically because Devers has been unable to play the field,

453
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Speaker 5: it's prevented in Carnassion, who's got some pop from basically

454
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Speaker 5: being the everyday DH is. The way Susan made it

455
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Speaker 5: sound a little surprised, that maybe they didn't mix it

456
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Speaker 5: up a little bit more in terms of getting him

457
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Speaker 5: in over Casey Schmidt at first base. But I would

458
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Speaker 5: have believed that there would have been a little more

459
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Speaker 5: mix and match with the DH spot when Devers can

460
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Speaker 5: play first base. But it's interesting because she said it

461
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Speaker 5: straight up. She thinks it's in carnassion as the DH

462
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Speaker 5: until Bryce Elders is ready and then that's his spot.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a really interesting takeaway and I'm glad

464
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Speaker 4: we circled back to that one. It also makes me wonder, like,

465
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Speaker 4: what's the timeline we're looking at in terms of Rafael

466
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Speaker 4: Devers getting to be back to playing first base, and

467
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Speaker 4: then also how is that going to affect the playing

468
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Speaker 4: time of a Casey Schmidt. Would we see him sub

469
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Speaker 4: in for someone like Luis a RIIA's light in situations

470
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Speaker 4: in which you're not only thinking about your bullpen, maybe

471
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Speaker 4: a more reliable option at second base Defensively, although to

472
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Speaker 4: be fair, Arise has.

473
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Speaker 6: Been just fine there for the most part early in

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Speaker 6: the season.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's been good early in the season. And again

476
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Speaker 5: I've I've talked about the fact that that I, I mean,

477
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Speaker 5: I really like Casey Schmidt is kind of a super sub.

478
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Speaker 5: Now the Giants have built this roster to where you know,

479
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Speaker 5: are you are you gonna be you know, sub and

480
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Speaker 5: Adamas out once a week? Are you gonna be sub

481
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Speaker 5: and Chapman out once a week? Like historically that's not

482
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Speaker 5: the case. Obviously a rise is gonna want to play.

483
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Speaker 5: So are they only at bats gonna be first base?

484
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Speaker 5: Could you look at Casey Schmidt even potentially in the

485
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Speaker 5: outfield a little bit at some point, Uh, you know,

486
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Speaker 5: I think that's something. But he's got a hit to

487
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Speaker 5: make it to make it obviously matter. And you know,

488
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Speaker 5: through the first four games he did have he did

489
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Speaker 5: have a knock last night.

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Speaker 2: That that led to a run.

491
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Speaker 5: But to this point it hasn't you know, through four

492
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Speaker 5: games in the small sample been enough. But uh it

493
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Speaker 5: interesting incarnacion straight to Bryce Eldridge. When Devers can come

494
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Speaker 5: back and get to first base, you know, let's say

495
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Speaker 5: five five out of you know, five days out of

496
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Speaker 5: six or four games out of six in a week.

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Speaker 4: I mean, with Logan Webb on the mounta tonight, this

498
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Speaker 4: could be another great opportunity to evaluate that bullpen. If

499
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Speaker 4: web is looking a little bit sharper, the bats can

500
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Speaker 4: do enough to get another lead. Seeing the Giants try

501
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Speaker 4: to protect the lead last night, that was a first

502
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Speaker 4: and I'm glad that we got to see that angle.

503
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Speaker 4: I'd love to get the chance to see them do

504
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Speaker 4: it again. And hey, I Frian Walker it gets another

505
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Speaker 4: opportunity to close. I know we're all going to be

506
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Speaker 4: watching eagerly whether he gets to save or not. Marcus

507
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Speaker 4: Thompson will join us when we come on back. Has

508
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Speaker 4: been all over the figure skating grind, but of course

509
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Speaker 4: he's Marcus, so we can talk to him about anything and.

510
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Speaker 6: He'll always deliver.

511
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Speaker 4: He'll join us when we come back on The Sports Leader, KNBR, The.

512
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Speaker 1: Sports Leader, Craig and Greg Copy and Silver. This is

513
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Speaker 1: K and BR see Sports Leader feeling in for Greg

514
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Speaker 1: POPA is John Dickinson on the Sports Leader.

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Speaker 8: You know we're playing, you know, a really solid half

516
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Speaker 8: and then we just can't sustain it. And you know

517
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Speaker 8: the I think that's where you really feel the injuries.

518
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Speaker 8: You know, you just you just need you need more depth,

519
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 8: you need more firepower.

520
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 7: But we've just got to keep fighting. You know.

521
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Speaker 8: We played a really good first half, held him to

522
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Speaker 8: forty six, and they really got rolling in that third

523
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Speaker 8: forty points seventy in the second half total, So kind

524
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Speaker 8: of a combination of poor offense, you know, leading to

525
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Speaker 8: transition defensive issues and game just got away from.

526
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Speaker 4: Us, and more talented and healthier Denver Nuggets squads certainly

527
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 4: ran away with that one against the Warriors.

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Speaker 6: Over the weekend, it is.

529
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Speaker 4: Time to talk to Marcus Thompson of the Athletic as

530
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Speaker 4: we do every other week. He joins us on the

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Speaker 4: UMA guest line. Marcus, what's going on? You got silver?

532
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Speaker 4: You got JD with you today?

533
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 7: How are you? Oh man, I'm chilling. What's going on? Homies? Now?

534
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 6: We're good man.

535
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Speaker 4: Actually, I'll just start the interview on a pretty sour note.

536
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Speaker 4: We haven't talked to you since that horrific Moses Moody

537
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,719
Speaker 4: injury and what was otherwise feeling like a really meaningless

538
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 4: overtime and a regular season game against two teams that

539
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 4: essentially know what their fate's going to be. How much

540
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Speaker 4: does the injury not only stink for Moody the individual,

541
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Speaker 4: but how much does it stink for the Warriors offseason

542
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Speaker 4: plans and in the next season.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I think primarily he's such a good dude,

544
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Speaker 9: and like a model teammate and what they want from

545
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 9: like players that that that really burns like you're taking

546
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Speaker 9: that out of your mist right out of the culture.

547
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Speaker 9: So I think that's a big part of it. And

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Speaker 9: you know, and Moody he's you know, he's a veteran

549
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Speaker 9: now he's older, so like, you know, he figured to

550
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Speaker 9: have some impact and some influence on top of that,

551
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Speaker 9: even if they, you know, wanted to.

552
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Speaker 7: Use him, he was like one of their last.

553
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Speaker 9: Better chips because you didn't have kamingas you don't have

554
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 9: that anymore, and you know, you'd have to do a

555
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 9: like some kind of sign and trade with pods because

556
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 9: you don't want to like, you know, he's he's he's

557
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 9: up for an extension and you know that those things

558
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:21,360
Speaker 9: are hard to do.

559
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Speaker 7: So really, if they did.

560
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Speaker 9: Want to make a move, maybe not a significant one.

561
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Speaker 9: Moody is a desirable player on their roster at a

562
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Speaker 9: good salary, So you could you could say like they

563
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 9: lost that ship because now he won't be treble. But

564
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Speaker 9: I think more anything is like the culture spirit. I mean,

565
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Speaker 9: he is a wing that matters a lot, you know,

566
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Speaker 9: So they don't have a wing for next season, so

567
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Speaker 9: not at least they know what to go and get.

568
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Speaker 7: But yeah, it's it was a devastating globe, but.

569
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Speaker 9: Largely because he's such a good dude, did everything right,

570
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 9: did everything exactly how they would want it to be.

571
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Speaker 7: Done, and then he suffers this like terrible injury.

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Speaker 5: It's brutal Marcus. And it does create another hole. And

573
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Speaker 5: I think you could have made the case that because

574
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Speaker 5: Jimmy Butler is going to miss at least half of

575
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 5: the season next year, that they needed another They needed

576
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 5: a wing anyway, and now and now you don't have Moody,

577
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 5: you might need two wings, and that that makes the

578
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 5: predicament I think all the more difficult as you look

579
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Speaker 5: at just the narrow path that they're going to have

580
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Speaker 5: to navigate between.

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Speaker 2: Do you keep melting or not?

582
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Speaker 5: Can you even keep Melton if you're going to keep

583
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,919
Speaker 5: porzingis what do you do with Draymond? Like they're just

584
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Speaker 5: all these questions, and now you add another hole at

585
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Speaker 5: a position that I think was already a hole, which

586
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Speaker 5: is is that wing spot.

587
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Speaker 2: They were going to be counting on him playing a

588
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Speaker 2: lot next year.

589
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, if if you, if you got a

590
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Speaker 7: silver line into that.

591
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Speaker 9: The one thing they can tell any free agent is man,

592
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 9: I got all the minutes and shots you won, right,

593
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 9: you don't have money, you.

594
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Speaker 5: Could start at the three, come in and start at

595
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Speaker 5: the three.

596
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Speaker 7: This this is wide open right now.

597
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 9: And you know, if you don't have a bunch of

598
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 9: money to throw up people, which they don't, right like,

599
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 9: that's that's the next best thing you can offer. So

600
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 9: it could look a bit of appealing, especially knowing Jimmy's out,

601
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 9: Moody's out, and even with those two, like you said,

602
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:15,719
Speaker 9: they already needed wings.

603
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 7: So you know, if if.

604
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 9: There is a silver lining, it's they have minutes and

605
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 9: shots that they can now sell. But it's it's gonna

606
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 9: be tough, Like, I mean, what happens if you know,

607
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 9: the Anthony Melton gets a nice offer, you could very

608
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 9: well lose him too, just because like money, money, money

609
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 9: is really.

610
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Speaker 7: What this thing is all about.

611
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Speaker 9: It's gonna be interesting how they build because even if

612
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 9: they just say, even if Porzingis comes back, right and

613
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Speaker 9: they work.

614
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 7: Out a deal with that, that's.

615
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Speaker 9: Four guys who all of whom might miss time next year,

616
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 9: and you probably should just say they're gonna miss twenty

617
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 9: five games, right.

618
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Speaker 4: Well, and if Jimmy's one of them. That's the first

619
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 4: two and a half money the least.

620
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Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, Draymond, Steph porzingis Jimmy, Like, you need players

621
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Speaker 9: to be ready for when those guys are out, like

622
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 9: is we're watching out You can't you just can't handle

623
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Speaker 9: a Steph absence, like it takes your season. They need

624
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Speaker 9: to be able to do something about that because they're

625
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 9: at the agis and the injury history where you just

626
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Speaker 9: have to expect it.

627
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Speaker 7: So they need they need some horses. They need some

628
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 7: players who.

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Speaker 9: Like they can feel good about, you know, putting this

630
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 9: dude on the court and letting them cook, you know.

631
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Speaker 7: And actually winning the game when guys are out.

632
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Speaker 9: So that that's gonna be a tricky part because you

633
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 9: gotta get you gotta get their healthy. There's no point

634
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 9: to play having all these older guys if you get

635
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 9: to April and you're exhausted. Right, Like Draymond has been

636
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 9: playing this entire time. We say they make the playoffs,

637
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 9: but what does he have left. He's been having to

638
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 9: play while you know everybody else is hurt. So like

639
00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 9: you don't want to get to that position. So they

640
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 9: need horses, man, they need youth, and they need players.

641
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 9: They need real players, not not situational players, not like

642
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 9: a couple of people who would do one thing.

643
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 7: You need to get them for that thing.

644
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 9: They need some guys they got they gotta find that

645
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 9: at all costs.

646
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 5: Well along those lines, I mean, but can you believe Jimmy, Jimmy,

647
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 5: I look this up the other night.

648
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 2: It blew me away.

649
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 5: Jimmy Butler has played thirty He played thirty eight games

650
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 5: before he got hurt.

651
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 2: You know how many games Steph's played.

652
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Speaker 7: Less than thirty eight?

653
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 2: Thirty nine?

654
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 7: That's a gift. Yeah, Okay, that's crass.

655
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 5: I was that is wild to think like Jimmy, who

656
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 5: hasn't obviously played in two and a half months, and

657
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 5: now Steph, who hasn't played with the last twenty five.

658
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 5: But it's I mean, they're both under and obviously Jimmy's

659
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 5: not gonna raise that number.

660
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 2: Steph.

661
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 5: It sounds like with the the you know, the news

662
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 5: of the last half hours. So it's gonna, you know,

663
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 5: if all goes well, get an opportunity to play maybe

664
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 5: three or four more here in the final week. But

665
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 5: but yeah, it's I don't think anybody would have anticipated

666
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 5: that it would have been to that extent.

667
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 2: So Uh, when you talk about needing players.

668
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 5: Though, Uh, for just straight to the point, you want

669
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 5: Kawhi or you want Lebron.

670
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 7: Who do I have to give up for Kawhi?

671
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 2: Well?

672
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:25,959
Speaker 7: What what would you give up?

673
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 9: Are we assuming that this Aspiration deal is gonna result

674
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 9: in a negatd contract?

675
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 7: And I think.

676
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 2: You have to.

677
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 5: I think I think you have to because I don't

678
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 5: know that they can get him otherwise.

679
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 7: I also don't think they'll win the bidding war.

680
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 9: That will ensue once Kauhi is a free agent, Like,

681
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 9: it's gonna be a lot of teams. So in that sense,

682
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 9: I mean, look to me, at this point, Kawhi is

683
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 9: just a better player, right, So you take Kawai in

684
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 9: a heartbeat because he's just like he's younger, right, Like,

685
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 9: that's what you go with. But he has a very

686
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 9: similar history, right, So it's it's still dicey, which means, yeah,

687
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 9: you can give up somebody for him, like you have

688
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 9: to cut some salary if you do get him, right,

689
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 9: that's just unless he comes for the minimum, then you're good.

690
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 9: But if he's for the minimum, if both of the

691
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 9: minimum take take Kawhai.

692
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 5: All day, you think Lebron would take the minimum, you think, Lebron,

693
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 5: if he really wanted to.

694
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 7: Will be more likely.

695
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,239
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, the billionaire will be more likely to take them,

696
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 9: not the guy who might be in trouble for taking

697
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 9: more money under the navel.

698
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 7: Like, I just don't think. I think what we know about.

699
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 9: Kawhi is like he wants his money, Like that's just

700
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,479
Speaker 9: always been the case. So in this universe where somehow

701
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 9: he's like, oh it's cool, it don't matter. I'll you know,

702
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 9: I'll just play for the minimum, then yeah, take Kawahi.

703
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 9: But I think the more likely option, and I don't

704
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 9: even think it's likely, just judging about how the Lakers look.

705
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 9: Lebron says, Hey, this is really emotional for me. This

706
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 9: is like, this isn't about money. I just want to

707
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 9: play with Steph one time for a year like that.

708
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 9: That to me, is the most feasible of the options.

709
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 9: Whereas I don't get any sentimentality from Kauai.

710
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 7: Cool. The only thing that might help Kawhi.

711
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 9: Come here if it ain't the money, it's like it's

712
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 9: close to San Diego, right, He's like, all right, it

713
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 9: ain't that far, So I guess I could do the

714
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 9: Bay Like that's about it.

715
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 7: You don't get this whole sense of Kawhi.

716
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 9: It's like I want one run with you know, with

717
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 9: a god with Steph and draymar Like I could see

718
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 9: Lebron doing that.

719
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 7: Yeah.

720
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 4: I mean, look, we got a lot of real endorsements

721
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 4: we could offer Kauhi up here. Actually, speaking of our

722
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,760
Speaker 4: conversation with Marcus Thompson is sponsored by Golden States.

723
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Speaker 6: When you succeed, we succeed.

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Speaker 4: Visit us today at Goldenstate Lumbert dot com. Marcus, you know,

725
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 4: while we have all this talk about money and contracts

726
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 4: and what the off season pieces are going to look

727
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,919
Speaker 4: like as the Warriors trying to solve this puzzle, look,

728
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 4: Porzingis is quietly put together a stretch of not only

729
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 4: solid play, but as I just told JD more importantly,

730
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 4: availability if Porzingis does come back to the Warriors and

731
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 4: continues to have this steady stretch that we've seen over

732
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 4: the past couple of weeks, what kind of money do

733
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 4: you think we'll be talking about for a ballpark for

734
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 4: Christaps Porzingis in this offseason.

735
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 7: I mean, it's.

736
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 9: A I don't think it would be crazy. I think,

737
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 9: you know, a Draymond type deal would make a lot

738
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,399
Speaker 9: of sense. You got to think of they gave up

739
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 9: like Kaminga's deal, which is like twenty three, and they

740
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 9: probably could have faded mortgages didn't want to. So you

741
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 9: think anywhere in that ballpark is fine. If if forty's

742
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 9: on the table somewhere, he's probably like, now he's got

743
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 9: to like take a ill. I don't see them being

744
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 9: I don't think they have a problem. If they think

745
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 9: he can play, if they think he can stay healthy,

746
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 9: give it him like that twenty five because that is

747
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:57,760
Speaker 9: probably going to be a market.

748
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 7: Anything less than that is a steal.

749
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 3: Right.

750
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 9: You do that in a heartbeat. They're paying movie thirteen, right,

751
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 9: So that's just to go, all right, cominga who rode

752
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 9: the Bitch got twenty twenty three.

753
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 7: So that's just what it is. So if you can

754
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 7: get him for a nice deal because he likes where

755
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 7: it is, I think it's kind of a match made

756
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 7: in heaven. They both need each other.

757
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 9: And when the Warriors with these salaries so exorbitant, with

758
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 9: Steph and Jimmy at the top approaching sixty million, you

759
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 9: kind of need a bit of damage good to somebody

760
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 9: who okay with taking a pay cut. So Chris STAPs

761
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 9: kind of fits that perfectly, especially if you have Al

762
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 9: Horford if he comes back for another year, because I

763
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 9: think he has an option. And now if you got

764
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 9: both of those guys, they can kind of offset each other.

765
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 7: It is kind of a really good fit for both

766
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 7: parties if they could work out the money in the

767
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:48,240
Speaker 7: off season.

768
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 5: Marcus, and we're talking with Marcus Thompson here of the Athletic.

769
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 2: If you had to.

770
00:36:54,760 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 5: Choose between Porzingis or Melton, who would you chase?

771
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 7: Man? That's that's cold.

772
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 4: Man.

773
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 9: Come on, man, how you're gonna put me in that spot?

774
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 9: Melton from Cali? Like you know what I'm saying, that's

775
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 9: my guy, Like Melic that's tough. I mean, the obvious

776
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 9: answer is Porzingius because he is like he is what

777
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 9: they need, like and what they haven't had, Like a big,

778
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 9: a stretch big who can shoot.

779
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 7: I mean Quinton Posts is only on this.

780
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,479
Speaker 9: Team because that need is so great, right, A big

781
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 9: man who can shoot and block the rim if you can.

782
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 7: If you told me he's giving you forty.

783
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 9: Games, I'm taking Porzenis Melton as much as you know,

784
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 9: as they as he's beloved in the in the Warriors

785
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 9: locker room is duplicateable, Like there are other players who

786
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 9: can do what Melton does. You just gotta find them.

787
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 9: I mean Porgen, I mean Pajemski does a lot of

788
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:57,240
Speaker 9: that stuff. So Milton is a six to three guard

789
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 9: who can be replaced for Vegas is a seven foot

790
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 9: two center who can't protect the rooms stick threes and

791
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 9: you can give them to them at the post to

792
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 9: go get a bucket.

793
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:07,879
Speaker 7: That's just not replaceable.

794
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 9: So you're gonna make me turn against my Cali homie,

795
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 9: you know what I'm saying, west Side, So we died

796
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 9: the Anthony Milton and choose the Latvian like that, that's

797
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,760
Speaker 9: code that you will put me at this his cross

798
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 9: roads on this wonderful Tuesday morning.

799
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Speaker 4: Walter, I think we're gonna have to fade out this

800
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 4: interview with that Latvian Christaps for zingis rap. I think

801
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 4: there's actually like two of them. We discovered right around

802
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 4: when the trade happens.

803
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 7: So, uh yeah, what there's a rap?

804
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there's like multiple raps. It's gotta be in

805
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:37,800
Speaker 4: our sound system somewhere.

806
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,280
Speaker 2: I didn't know this either, Marcus, Wow.

807
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.

808
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 4: The best part is like we don't even know if Yeah, no, no, no, no,

809
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 4: it's just wraps about him.

810
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 7: Oh oh say he rapped man, Come on. It reminds

811
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 7: me of a great story about his countryman and Bedrins

812
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 7: back in the.

813
00:38:58,600 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 9: Beans.

814
00:38:59,000 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 7: We were doing that.

815
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 9: We were doing an interview and I was interviewing. I

816
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 9: think it might have been Stephen Jackson or somebody in

817
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 9: the locker room with a bunch of us, and somebody's

818
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 9: phone went Remember back when Greg don't know that about this?

819
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 7: Ja do remember back when you would have a song

820
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 7: for your ringtone? Right?

821
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, right, and so you were playing. So somebody's

822
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 9: phone was going off and it was outcast. Hey, y'all right,

823
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 9: So we tried to do an interview.

824
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 7: Somebody's phone is.

825
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 9: Going right, we like, so it got her after a while, like, man,

826
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:33,280
Speaker 9: whose phone is this? Like suddenly Andre Be just comes

827
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 9: running out of the back like I'm sorry, guys, and

828
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 9: he turns off his phone, and everybody's like, what do

829
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 9: you even know about outcast?

830
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 7: He has been on the team for like two weeks.

831
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 9: Like like what does he even though he's out here

832
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 9: slapping big boy, you know, and andre three thousand on

833
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 9: his phone?

834
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 7: So yeah, he was my guy after that. After that,

835
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 7: moment I was like, I like this, I'm just kid,

836
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 7: he's a good one.

837
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 4: I do remember the age of songs as your ringtones,

838
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,399
Speaker 4: because I would a always give people a hard time

839
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Speaker 4: if I thought their song sucked.

840
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Speaker 6: But no, I don't.

841
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 4: I don't know anything about Andras Beidrin's being an outcast

842
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 4: fan that one. I certainly, Uh, that's something I learned today.

843
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 4: That was my what did young Tony learn today moments?

844
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 7: So, uh, while do you remember that? It's yeah, old

845
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 7: enough to remember a song of his ring dog.

846
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 6: I'm an old soul man. I remember. So my dad

847
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 6: was a I think he personalized it.

848
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:23,760
Speaker 5: He might have been about he might have been about

849
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 5: an eight or nine, so I yeah, it's old enough

850
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 5: to probably remember it.

851
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,439
Speaker 9: Yeah, right around that he probably used to have set

852
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 9: up his dad's song and put some crazy song on

853
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 9: his dad's phone.

854
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 7: Right so it looked well.

855
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 4: I remember my dad personalized it to where if my

856
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 4: sister called, it would be Pearl Jam's daughter, and he

857
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 4: thought it was like the coolest thing ever. But I

858
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 4: was like, well, it's a good song, so I'll give

859
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 4: it to you.

860
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, that was me.

861
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 9: I've programmed the song into like Beyonce song Daddy, My

862
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 9: Daddy or something. So whatever bears Mega, we old that's incredible.

863
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:01,399
Speaker 6: Before we let you go.

864
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 4: I did love your story about Carol Lawson and obviously

865
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 4: Duke I did not get to the final four, but

866
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,720
Speaker 4: they had that crazy win against LSU in the tournament.

867
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 6: Who's your final four prediction? I'm both brackets.

868
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 9: Oh that's a tough one. I'm going Yukon and Yukon.

869
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 9: How about that? Oh no, I don't want the Yukon

870
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 9: men to win, so let's go. Let's go Michigan and

871
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 9: Yukon women. I just don't see anybody beating Yukon women.

872
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 9: They're just they're just two loaded. You know, maybe maybe

873
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 9: Bets can go crazy and UCLA. I didn't need more

874
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 9: from Kiki Rice than I saw against Duke, but they're

875
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 9: just Yukon of so loaded. I'm going Michigan, you know,

876
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 9: I'm going Michigan on the men's side, Yukon on the

877
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 9: women's I just there's no way I'm picking both ukas.

878
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 9: This has not happened. Sorry, Dan Hurley, keep your jacket

879
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 9: on straight.

880
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 4: That was incredible the reaction, say yeah, I mean, what

881
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 4: do you think of the ref By the way, like

882
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 4: he's just like totally blocked out and got in the

883
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 4: ref's face. Like obviously, if you see him up you

884
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:03,879
Speaker 4: ruin one of the great March moments right there. But

885
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 4: Dan Hurley is he's certainly on the psychopath list of

886
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 4: coaches by the college standard.

887
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,320
Speaker 7: You cannot see him up there now, I just can't.

888
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 7: I don't care. Like the kids decided the game, y right,

889
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 7: like the players.

890
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 9: Decided the game, and I don't know that it was

891
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 9: like as venomous as it almost looked like playful, like

892
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 9: they knew each other, like like maybe he was like,

893
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 9: we're about to win this and he walked out for

894
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 9: the reft like I told you were about to win this, right, Like,

895
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 9: I'm I'm happy that a collegiate ref did not watch

896
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 9: that call, because collegiate.

897
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 7: Refs they botched calls like that. So I was relieved

898
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 7: that we got to have a historic moment that was

899
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 7: unpaid by referee ego.

900
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 9: So respect to that ref for holding in even though

901
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 9: Dan Hurley is a wild board for doing that.

902
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm totally with you, like you can't mess that up.

903
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 4: But also Dan Hurley doing that, I'm like, you are

904
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 4: a rare, rare breed of college coaches in terms of

905
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 4: just the psycho mentality, and all coaches are kind of

906
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 4: nuts and they're all kind of control freaks, but even

907
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,439
Speaker 4: by that standard, Dan Hurley takes it to a different level.

908
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 9: Nah, if he like the way he was walking away

909
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 9: exactly was hanging off. If he were just like immediately

910
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 9: started breakdancing, it wouldn't have been surprising like he was.

911
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 9: He looked like he was about to do something crazy,

912
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 9: like yeah, you know.

913
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 7: He's just he was pumped druck off the moment too.

914
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 7: He already a little crazy.

915
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 9: Yeah, like some that guy is a hurly for real,

916
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 9: Like you know, they all got their own little crazy streak.

917
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 9: But he's just he's just far more open about it,

918
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 9: so he is. He's great though for college basketball, Like,

919
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:45,359
Speaker 9: especially in this era, we the coaches are just as

920
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 9: much personalities.

921
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 7: Don't give me that dry, boring crap, like give.

922
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 9: Me give me Roy Williams dancing into the you know

923
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 9: what I'm saying, into the locker room after they win.

924
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:55,800
Speaker 7: I want to see the coaches show some life. They

925
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 7: getting paid for it.

926
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 9: They've been getting in IL money before it was in

927
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 9: il money.

928
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 7: But personality. I liked being crazy.

929
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 2: Now I'm with you on that. Yeah, the more crazy

930
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 2: the better.

931
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 5: I gotta ask you quickly about Steph before we get

932
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 5: out of here, that the latest on him is is

933
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 5: went through practice, but he's still got to do this

934
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 5: five on five scrimmage. Not playing tomorrow, not playing Thursdays

935
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 5: doubtful officially for Thursday. Uh. So it sets up the

936
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 5: return here for the for the final week. It sets

937
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 5: up the Easter Sunday return. You can, h you can

938
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 5: create your own joke on on that one, Marcus, Steph

939
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 5: returns on Easter Sunday.

940
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 2: But but would you wouldn't think.

941
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 4: That's exactly what man that That's exactly where Greg.

942
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 2: That's exactly where Greg.

943
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 5: Went when I when I mentioned that earlier. But anyway,

944
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 5: you'll create your own joke as it relates to that.

945
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 5: I'll let you run that one by Steph. Uh if

946
00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 5: he comes back on on Sunday. But uh, would you

947
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 5: bring it back against the Rockets? Would you bring it

948
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 5: back against Houston?

949
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 9: I mean it's better, it's better to bring them back

950
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 9: against San Antonio, right, Like, Yeah, I do feel like

951
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 9: I do feel like you know, those comeback games, the

952
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 9: first one back is like largely adrenaline, right, and usually

953
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 9: the second game you tend to like feel it. So

954
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 9: the comeback game, he already has some adrenaline and KD

955
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 9: in the building, right, like.

956
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 7: Yeah, turn it up? Why not?

957
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 9: Like I would bring him back and not to mention,

958
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 9: where's the break in the schedule, Like you know, it's, well.

959
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 2: It's it's it's it's before Houston. It's it's the two

960
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 2: days before Houston. That's the break.

961
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 7: There you go, I'll say, bring them back against KD.

962
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 7: Like what else do you have?

963
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 9: He hasn't played in two months. Warriors fans deserve some excitement.

964
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 9: So Steph's going out there to cook Houston and KD

965
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 9: or at least shrine. Like that's that's the plotline. I'm

966
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 9: thinking right now about my column. So as long as

967
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:07,839
Speaker 9: he give me something to write about, that's cool. And

968
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 9: I could I could go with that. I could go

969
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 9: with Steph comback and gets KD. And I'm in Thompson, right,

970
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 9: I can.

971
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 6: I can make it on Easter.

972
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 7: Let's do that on Easter.

973
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 2: Marcus, you gotta work that in.

974
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:23,479
Speaker 6: That's crazy work that in, man, work it in.

975
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,720
Speaker 7: Brother Watch, Watch Watch the Resurrection puns.

976
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, seriously, Uh, Marcus, you're the best man. We appreciate it.

977
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 4: And you know what, for the next fifty minutes before

978
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 4: dirty work, I will let listeners decide whatever song could

979
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 4: be my next ring tone.

980
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 6: We're gonna bring it back in twenty twenty six.

981
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 7: Let's do it. Let's bring it back. You don't let

982
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 7: me pick.

983
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 4: No, No, I'm letting the listeners do it. You're off

984
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 4: limits right now. All right, I got you appreciate So

985
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:51,760
Speaker 4: thanks Marcus.

986
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 7: See it.

987
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 4: Marcus, Marcus Thompson, always fantastic of the Athletic. You could

988
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 4: get into any which kind of subject, whether we're talking

989
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 4: about pop culture or any sport or didn't even get

990
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:04,799
Speaker 4: to the figure skating and track and field as he's

991
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 4: been writing about in The Athletic, but always good catch

992
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 4: it up with him, and yeah, man, Easter Sunday, Steph Curry.

993
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 4: Look what a crazy little intersection that would be after

994
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 4: we were like waiting all this time. He's out baseball

995
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 4: seasons around the corner, and now we could have Steph

996
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 4: coming back on a holiday with the Giants getting their

997
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 4: season going. And like we like to say on the show,

998
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 4: it's either feast or famine, right, you either have everything

999
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 4: happening at once, or sometimes it's just dead in the

1000
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 4: water dry.

1001
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it will be interesting because as much as

1002
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 5: everybody's excited to see Steph back, I think there's a

1003
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:43,280
Speaker 5: decent chunk of the Warrior fan base that's like, don't

1004
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 5: risk it, don't risk it, don't bring him back, keep that,

1005
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 5: keep those lottery odds. Don't don't risk potentially winning a

1006
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 5: couple of games that gets you into a playoff series

1007
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 5: and kick your your eleventh pick and nine percent chance

1008
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 5: of moving into the top four the draft. Make it

1009
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 5: a zero percent chance because you wind up with say

1010
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 5: the fourteenth of the you wind up with like the

1011
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 5: fifteenth pick because you wind up being the last team in.

1012
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,399
Speaker 5: But we shall see. Assuming Steph makes it through here,

1013
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 5: he's going to be coming back, likely on Sunday.

1014
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 4: Giants play tonight six forty against the Padres a little

1015
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:21,240
Speaker 4: logan web opening day redemption, as he hopes.

1016
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 6: We've also got some.

1017
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 4: Forty nine or talk to get to before we get

1018
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 4: on out of here. A lot of us speaking at

1019
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 4: the owners meetings, some rule changes going around by the committee,

1020
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 4: and we're revolutionizing football right here on the spot. Oh

1021
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 4: and by the way, Kyle Shanahan says, I'm being serious

1022
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 4: this time. We're going to shorten Christian McCaffrey's workload. Let's

1023
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 4: get into all of it. Next, let's pop in Silver

1024
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 4: with JD on The Sports Leader.