Speaker 1: I said it a month ago. It's bears maybe three
Speaker 1: weeks ago, but A bears repeating Dallas stinks, Dallas stinks.
Speaker 1: They are nowhere. They're going absolutely nowhere this year unless
Speaker 1: they have a knock the ball out of the park
Speaker 1: type trade. And I'm not talking about Facundo Compazo and
Speaker 1: Kemba Walker. Also, by the way, Kemba Walker did ball
Speaker 1: out the other night. Kenbra Walker's good for four games
Speaker 1: a year, okay, so he's fresh. He hasn't played since
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks, and we're gonna like give him
Speaker 1: his flowers because he put up what did he put up?
Speaker 1: Kemba Walker, Let's look it up really fast stats if
Speaker 1: I don't even need to look up stats because he
Speaker 1: only has one stat. He hasn't played since forty two
Speaker 1: minutes thirty two points because Luca didn't play. And I
Speaker 1: tell you what, the Dallas Mavericks without Luca are unwatchable.
Speaker 1: They are unwatchable. So Kemba getting forty thirty what is it,
Speaker 1: thirty two points or forty thirty two points in forty
Speaker 1: two minutes goes twelve for twenty five and four for
Speaker 1: thirteen for three. Oh gross, that just tells you everything
Speaker 1: you need to know about what you have in Kemba Walker.
Speaker 1: He did that with like he's played like no minutes
Speaker 1: since since December of last year. Anyway, Now the MAVs
Speaker 1: finally see it my way. Now the MAVs finally see
Speaker 1: what we've been saying. According to Tim Cato, who just
Speaker 1: dropped this huge article today on The Athletic, the realization
Speaker 1: is dawned on the MAVs that they have to figure
Speaker 1: it out. They have to trade some folks. Who's tradable,
Speaker 1: who's tradable on this team? Everyone except for three players
Speaker 1: is tradable. Everyone's on the trade block like it's a
Speaker 1: fantasy football team right before the deadline, except for, of
Speaker 1: course Luca and two others. Who do you think those
Speaker 1: players are? So it's Josh Green and check's notes Spencer
Speaker 1: Dinwoodie back to Josh Green. That is a high praise
Speaker 1: for a guy, for the fact that Josh Green is untradable,
Speaker 1: untradable for any price. This is a guy averaging seven
Speaker 1: two and one. That's high praise. That is some some
Speaker 1: wow type moves, some behavior that I do not understand.
Speaker 1: But Josh Green is improving and he's the kind of
Speaker 1: player that the league is always looking for, right, Like
Speaker 1: a guy who's very versatile, a guy that can kind
Speaker 1: of fit into every scheme. He's not only a three
Speaker 1: point shooter who can play defense, but he's a guy
Speaker 1: that can put the ball on the floor. He can
Speaker 1: get defenders to collapse on him and pass out as well.
Speaker 1: And this is Green's only his third year, so it's
Speaker 1: gonna probably be fascinating to see what kind of extension
Speaker 1: that the MAVs offer him. Probably won't offer him anything,
Speaker 1: and he'll leave for nothing because that's what the MAVs do.
Speaker 1: But is he the long term answer in Dallas for Luca?
Speaker 1: Will signing him in any way make Luca happy? In
Speaker 1: signing him? Will it in any way affect Luca at all?
Speaker 1: I'd like to know. And what does it say that
Speaker 1: you only have two players besides Luca that are technically untradable?
Speaker 1: And are they untradable? Though? Like, if I gave you
Speaker 1: a first round pick for Spencer Dinwiddie, would you do it?
Speaker 1: You would? You would? Wouldn't you If I gave you
Speaker 1: a first round pick and someone who matched Josh Green's
Speaker 1: salary for Josh Green, you would do it wouldn't you,
Speaker 1: You would like that's bullshit. The only guy that's untradable
Speaker 1: really is Luca. This is the worst roster of any
Speaker 1: NBA team that I have seen that's like a competitive team.
Speaker 1: I think that the Orlando Magic roster is better than
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks roster. Let me say that again. I
Speaker 1: think the Orlando Magics roster is better than the Dallas
Speaker 1: Mavericks roster. From one to fifteen, the Orlando Magic have
Speaker 1: a better team then the Dallas Mavericks, a team that
Speaker 1: went to the Western Conference files last year. That is sad,
Speaker 1: that is hopeless. The rest of the roster, Christian Wood,
Speaker 1: Dori Infini, smith Y, Veil McGee, Tim Hardaway Junior. You
Speaker 1: trade one, trade all but for the love of christ
Speaker 1: I don't know, figure out a way to get Luca
Speaker 1: some sort of help, because if you don't, he is gone.
Speaker 1: There will be nothing that you can do. He will press.
Speaker 1: If you've seen the way that he yells at referees
Speaker 1: when he doesn't like a call, what do you think
Speaker 1: he's going to do when he doesn't like the future
Speaker 1: of the franchise and realizes that you are doing absolutely
Speaker 1: zero to help him. Get to a title, get prepared
Speaker 1: for Luca to start making some serious, ugly, gross, very whiny,
Speaker 1: very annoying trade demands. Lost in the shuffle, that Steph
Speaker 1: curries out for a month with a laborum injury or
Speaker 1: a shoulder separation is kind of the fact that the
Speaker 1: dynasty is sort of on shaky ground right now. In fact,
Speaker 1: one of the major architects of the Golden State dynasty
Speaker 1: and the current GM of the Warriors, Bob Myers, is
Speaker 1: currently working on an expiring deal right now, and according
Speaker 1: to WOJ, Bob Myers two time executive year has not
Speaker 1: been renewed, and Golden State ownership and Myers have had
Speaker 1: conversations about a new contract, but those talks currently appear
Speaker 1: to be on a hiatus row. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's good. I don't think that's good anytime contract talks
Speaker 1: have stalled, which is another nice word, or you know,
Speaker 1: that's what hiatus means. That's a nice way of saying
Speaker 1: stalled contract talks hiatus. That's not good, and it is
Speaker 1: fascinating to me. It's fascinating to me because that Draymond
Speaker 1: punch really sort of reverberated and changed everything, Like the
Speaker 1: team all year has been in turmoil. The chemistry, the
Speaker 1: vibes are bad. Then you got paying You're paying Jordan Poole,
Speaker 1: you paid him, you paid Wiggins. Okay, you got to
Speaker 1: figure out what to do with Clay. Then you have
Speaker 1: Clay's extended cold streak, Clay getting emo in the mentions.
Speaker 1: You've got Wiseman getting demoted to the G League. Then
Speaker 1: you've got Pool's erratic play off the bench. Then he
Speaker 1: plays as a starter and plays well, but he only
Speaker 1: plays well when either Steph or Clay don't start. And
Speaker 1: now Steph Curry has a separated shoulder and is out
Speaker 1: for them a month. Okay, so what does that all mean?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's tough to be gold blooded. First off,
Speaker 1: it's tough right now to be a Warriors fan. It's
Speaker 1: very cold on these streets right now. We keep the faith,
Speaker 1: but my faith is sort of shaking a little bit.
Speaker 1: And now Bob Myers is working and he's on an
Speaker 1: expiring and they can't get a deal done for a
Speaker 1: guy who's brought them four rings and like seven finals
Speaker 1: his six finals appearances. What Now you've got Joe lakeup
Speaker 1: having to talk to ESPN about it and He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we love Bob, We really hope he's here a long time,
Speaker 1: while he simultaneously does not lock up Bob for the future.
Speaker 1: And So, to me, what is this about. It's about
Speaker 1: a half a billion dollars half a billion dollars that
Speaker 1: the Warriors face next year in payroll and luxury tax
Speaker 1: combined for a team that is currently on the cusp
Speaker 1: of not making the play in tournament. Is that acceptable?
Speaker 1: Do you think Joe lakeb wants to do that? Do
Speaker 1: you think Bob Myers wants to do that? No, which
Speaker 1: is why Connor Liturno of the SF Chronicle dropped the
Speaker 1: bombshell today. He said, the Warriors are considering blowing up
Speaker 1: the bridge. Ah, what does that mean? Blowing up the bridge? Yes,
Speaker 1: the two timeline approach may be getting Mixedturno said this
Speaker 1: more than a third of the way through the season.
Speaker 1: The raining champions remain hobbled by an inconsistent bench as
Speaker 1: they enter Sunday's game at Toronto with the league's twentieth
Speaker 1: ranked defense and a two and fourteen road record. Most
Speaker 1: concerning for the Warriors, though, is the fact that they
Speaker 1: sit below five hundred despite Curry having played almost every
Speaker 1: game and posting MVP caliber numbers, and now that Steph
Speaker 1: is out for an indefinite period a month is actually optimistic.
Speaker 1: The Warriors are staring at a hard number. The number
Speaker 1: is forty eight. That's the amount of wins that they
Speaker 1: personally believe it will take to get into the play
Speaker 1: in tournament, not the playoffs, the play in game. Due
Speaker 1: to their two and fourteen road record, they would need
Speaker 1: to win two thirds of their remaining games to make
Speaker 1: that number. There's only one team in the NBA that's
Speaker 1: doing that right now, and that's the Grizzlies. They're the
Speaker 1: number one team in the West right now. The Warriors, folks,
Speaker 1: are not the Grizzlies at this point. I hate to
Speaker 1: say it as a longtime Dubs fan, but right now
Speaker 1: this team wins about thirty three percent without Curry on
Speaker 1: the floor. A month long stretch of six and twelve
Speaker 1: without him, the season is sink. Is sunk, sink sunk,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to say. And it is not like
Speaker 1: they can add any immediate help without making it financially impossible.
Speaker 1: Next year, Wiseman is gonna cost them ninety million in
Speaker 1: salary in luxury tax penalties alone. If they resign him.
Speaker 1: And the wild thing is this is crazy, This is
Speaker 1: actually getting lost in the shuffle. Did you know that
Speaker 1: they tried to trade Wiseman just recently? They try to
Speaker 1: trade him, Yeah, under the radar. They're trying to do
Speaker 1: it in the shadows of the night, even though they
Speaker 1: say they're building around him, but they are trying to
Speaker 1: in the shadows of the night, trade Wiseman to the
Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs for Yakub Pearl. And you know what
Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs said, thanks, put no fucking thanks.
Speaker 1: You're gonna need in order for you to get Yakub Pearl,
Speaker 1: You're gonna need to give us some draft capital in
Speaker 1: order to make that work. What imagine if you're a
Speaker 1: team offering the number two overall pick in the draft
Speaker 1: who's only twenty one years old for a twenty seven
Speaker 1: year old Austrian who's averaged twenty minutes a game and
Speaker 1: seven and a half points per game his entire career,
Speaker 1: and that team says, no, we don't want that number
Speaker 1: two overall pick unless you sweeten the deal with more
Speaker 1: draft picks. What are you serious? And you know you
Speaker 1: know me, I don't like Wiseman. I never have. I've
Speaker 1: been trying to be positive on him. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: find things to like about him. I'm trying to listen
Speaker 1: to the folks who are deep in the weeds about him.
Speaker 1: But he doesn't know basketball. He knows nothing about basketball.
Speaker 1: And as a yoga person would say, he has no
Speaker 1: mind body connection, you know what I mean. His brain
Speaker 1: can't tell his body what to do and it do
Speaker 1: it right away. There's some clunkiness there. So he's rapidly
Speaker 1: playing his way into being probably one of the youngest,
Speaker 1: most highly drafted negative assets in the league. Wiseman. That
Speaker 1: is the problem. You have a bunch of young guys
Speaker 1: that you drafted pretty high who are now possibly negative assets.
Speaker 1: The guys the Warriors planned on building around. None of
Speaker 1: them are panning out. Not to say they're not gonna
Speaker 1: ever be good. Like Kaming guy, think he will be
Speaker 1: good someday, but some experts think coming and Moody might
Speaker 1: be three years away from being a starter caliber player.
Speaker 1: Then at that point Curry is just on the on
Speaker 1: the backs on the front side of forty. He'll be
Speaker 1: thirty eight years old. The young Warriors, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: do anything. It's just Pool. Pool's the only guy who's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to help the Warriors on their title run.
Speaker 1: And now that that luxury tax bill is coming due
Speaker 1: and Joe lacub isn't gonna pay to lose and be
Speaker 1: in the playing tournament, the question is this, how can
Speaker 1: you win another chip with the Warriors Big three? Can you?
Speaker 1: Can you do that? Because if you can cannot do that,
Speaker 1: it might be time for you to think about finding
Speaker 1: some new people to be called the Big three instead
Speaker 1: of Draymond and Clay. I think Clay will probably take
Speaker 1: as little money as you need him to because he's
Speaker 1: been stealing while he's been injured. I don't mean stealing,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean. And Draymond, he'll probably
Speaker 1: end up picking up his player option. But if it
Speaker 1: all comes down to it, you might need to trade Draymond.
Speaker 1: You might need to trade Clay. And this is what
Speaker 1: Bob Meyer said about why he had his deal. Hasn't
Speaker 1: been done. My entire focus is on the season and
Speaker 1: the team. Hmm. Maybe Bob Myers doesn't want to be
Speaker 1: in Golden State anymore. Maybe the time has come for
Speaker 1: him to put together a new roster because he's had
Speaker 1: a great run and you don't want to end up
Speaker 1: being Washington Wizards Michael Jordan. By the time you start
Speaker 1: looking for a new job, you need to go out
Speaker 1: on top. Maybe he thinks, I don't like what I
Speaker 1: see with these chuckleheads. I don't like the kaminga. The
Speaker 1: very first second that the offseason hit, he took the
Speaker 1: trophy to like Africa and missed team workouts when he
Speaker 1: was specifically told not to do that. If you aren't
Speaker 1: already stressed, if we Warrior fans are not stressed enough,
Speaker 1: keep this in mind. No team has ever won the
Speaker 1: championship and been under five hundred on the road this century.
Speaker 1: Major changes coming for our dubs, and if it doesn't
Speaker 1: happen this season, guarantee you put my bleeding, beating heart
Speaker 1: on it, it will happen this offseason. And that offseason
Speaker 1: might not include the architect of it all, Bob Myerst