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Speaker 1: How about a little instant reaction on the Dubs the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors one ten ninety nine win over the
Speaker 1: New York Nick. So when the football season ends and
Speaker 1: during the late part, you know, the playoffs, I start
Speaker 1: watching some NBA stuff in December a little bit, then
Speaker 1: in January, but I'm really locked in on the NFL.
Speaker 1: And then NFL season ends, I go on vacation, I
Speaker 1: come back and I start watching a couple games a night.
Speaker 1: So tonight I sat down and said, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: watching Dubs Nicks. We hit our DraftKings Parlay tonight our
Speaker 1: three teamer. We took the Warriors to beat the Knicks
Speaker 1: in New York without Andrew Wiggins. They win. We took
Speaker 1: Draymond Green to have over five and a half assists
Speaker 1: and Steph Curry to have over twenty seven and a
Speaker 1: half points again. Julius Randall doesn't play for the next
Speaker 1: he's been out a while. And Andrew Wiggins didn't play
Speaker 1: for the Warriors, but they've won seven straight road games.
Speaker 1: And I've talked about this, I really have reservations. And
Speaker 1: there are a lot of times you'll see a really
Speaker 1: good young team, like Oklahoma City is really good. They're
Speaker 1: not getting to the NBA Finals. They're just too young.
Speaker 1: Sga Holmgren are really good players. But this is a
Speaker 1: man's league. In fact, that's what's interesting about the Warriors
Speaker 1: is right now they have three young players they're going
Speaker 1: to have to count on in the playoffs to some
Speaker 1: degree to win. Now. Jonathan Kaminga is a kid I
Speaker 1: talked about two years ago. I came out of high school,
Speaker 1: went to the G League. I remember the first time
Speaker 1: I saw him, it was like a second or third game.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, this kid's gon special, really long,
Speaker 1: really twitchy, really dynamic. But he's only twenty one years
Speaker 1: old now and he's been in the league like two
Speaker 1: and a half years. You know, he wouldn't even be
Speaker 1: in the league yet as a college football player. To
Speaker 1: the NFL. That's why you have to be so patient.
Speaker 1: I mean, in the NFL, if you come in and
Speaker 1: you're a quarterback, I'll give you until Thanksgiving of your
Speaker 1: second year. By that time, you know, Daniel Jones, it's
Speaker 1: not going to work, Sam Halle, It's just not going
Speaker 1: to work. Kaminga is like in year three now and
Speaker 1: he's just now flourishing because he went high school right
Speaker 1: to the G League and to the Warriors, and the
Speaker 1: Warriors have a pretty sophisticated system. James Wiseman couldn't catch on.
Speaker 1: Di'angelo Russell was there for a minute. They wanted him
Speaker 1: out of town. It can eat up young players. Jordan
Speaker 1: Poole just to goofy for the system. Not reliable. So
Speaker 1: Kaminga is just a kid. He's a baby twenty one
Speaker 1: years old. But that dude is tonight twenty five points
Speaker 1: eight rebounds, really really good around the basket, excellent finisher,
Speaker 1: and they're going to have to He'll start and they're
Speaker 1: going to depend on him for thirty four minutes in
Speaker 1: the postseason. And it's okay because Draymond at the other
Speaker 1: forward is gives you, like the grown up, the adult,
Speaker 1: the experience, and Draymond's very much a coach on the floor.
Speaker 1: They're also Moses Moody now has been around a little longer,
Speaker 1: a very good on ball defender. They're going to rely
Speaker 1: on him to play start or not. Also Trace Jackson Davis.
Speaker 1: Now he's a second round kid out of Indiana. He probably,
Speaker 1: you know, he'll get some bench play. He's young as well,
Speaker 1: he's twenty four years old. Second round pick. Nice job
Speaker 1: by Mike Dunleavy Junior to find him in the draft.
Speaker 1: Interesting player. They have Sarich, they have Jackson Davis, so
Speaker 1: they've got some length. They're not as small as they
Speaker 1: were so but they're going to have to pivot from
Speaker 1: these veteran players. Klay Thompson now coming off the bench,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry Wiggins will be around, Draymond Green. Sarich has
Speaker 1: some days on his resume. But you're going to the
Speaker 1: Moody cominga and the young kid out of Indiana to
Speaker 1: give you real minutes, and the Warriors. The small ball
Speaker 1: thing goes cracked me out. You know, there's two things
Speaker 1: in the NBA. I kind of roll why eyes at
Speaker 1: Everybody talks about how mobility works. No, it doesn't. It
Speaker 1: worked for Lebron. It worked for Lebron when he went
Speaker 1: to Miami, he got two titles. It worked from in
Speaker 1: Cleveland he got a title, and it worked. In La
Speaker 1: he got a title, and it worked for Kevin Love
Speaker 1: who joined Lebron, and Chris Bosh who joined Lebron in Miami,
Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis who joined Lebron in Los Angeles. Mobility
Speaker 1: isn't how you build championships. That's not how it works.
Speaker 1: It worked for Lebron in three places, Okay, going to Miami,
Speaker 1: coming back to Cleveland, going to Los Angeles. It hasn't
Speaker 1: worked for Kevin Durant other than one time he goes
Speaker 1: to the Warriors. Since then, Brooklyn didn't work. Phoenix bit disappointing.
Speaker 1: So the mobility thing, you know that that's not winning titles.
Speaker 1: San Antonio mostly had a core group. Golden State they
Speaker 1: won before KD, they won a title after KD. You know,
Speaker 1: Boston gets Drew Holliday, but that team for years was
Speaker 1: built around Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum, and Marcus Smart. Now
Speaker 1: I like the upgrade Drew Holiday, but their two core
Speaker 1: guys are Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum. So I think,
Speaker 1: you know, mobility is something we talk about all the
Speaker 1: time in the NBA, and I just sort of rolled
Speaker 1: my eyes. The other thing, I kind of you know,
Speaker 1: people talked about small ball. It worked for the Warriors
Speaker 1: because they had the three best shooting players, the best
Speaker 1: shooting backcourt tandem ever, Jerry West Gale Goodrich for most
Speaker 1: of my life was the best shooting backcourt ever, and
Speaker 1: then supplanted by Klay Thompson and Steph Curry, and then
Speaker 1: they had Kevin Durant. Yeah, they had the three best
Speaker 1: shooters of all time playing together, and they went and
Speaker 1: got bogued at one point they got Kevin Durant. They
Speaker 1: weren't that small. There were small ball lineups that were
Speaker 1: worked for them, but it doesn't work now they're pivoting
Speaker 1: off it by getting you know, Looney, Trayvon Looney has size,
Speaker 1: Sarich has size, Cominga's long, Jackson Davis is long. He's
Speaker 1: kind of a forward center six nine six nine and
Speaker 1: a half. So they're just they're not They just more
Speaker 1: formidable in the front court than before. So small ball
Speaker 1: worked because really the Warriors had unique players, a wing
Speaker 1: in Draymon who can defend Biggs, and Stephan Clay, the
Speaker 1: best shooting back court ever. That's your small ball. People
Speaker 1: try to duplicate it. It didn't equal titles, and mobility
Speaker 1: doesn't really work. It worked with Lebron several times. I
Speaker 1: think the Warriors are really dangerous. I really do. I
Speaker 1: think they've won seven straight road games. They have a
Speaker 1: nice mix of young and old, and they have one
Speaker 1: of the highest IQ. They have probably the smartest team
Speaker 1: in the league right now. Between Chris Paul, Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: Clay Thomps and Steve Kerr Draymond Green, You've got I mean,
Speaker 1: you've got a lot of games. You've got a lot
Speaker 1: of games with those guys. And that's why I would
Speaker 1: take him head to head over an Oka. See, even
Speaker 1: the OKC is built for the regular season. The regular
Speaker 1: season is it is a complete marathon. And you know
Speaker 1: for older teams who are doing load management, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, like Lebron James has a great fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: you know against the Clippers, he would prefer not to
Speaker 1: play the following night. I mean he took the Celtic
Speaker 1: game off with Anthony Davis. These old guys pick their spots.
Speaker 1: Young guys get injured less and they heal faster. So
Speaker 1: I think the Warriors are going to be a real team,
Speaker 1: and it's a nice mix of old and new, and
Speaker 1: I really like watching them play. It is you know,
Speaker 1: the other thing about the three point shot, which I
Speaker 1: think is overstated. I think so much of analytics in
Speaker 1: baseball and in the NBA is based on regular season games,
Speaker 1: and you know there these are long you play. The
Speaker 1: averages analytics are averages over the course of time. But
Speaker 1: when you get into playoff basketball or playoff baseball, you
Speaker 1: just got to get outs. You go into a series,
Speaker 1: you're going to bring starters on three days rest, You're
Speaker 1: gonna use them in late innings as starter if you
Speaker 1: have to win a game six or a game seven.
Speaker 1: So the analytics go out the door. You manage differently,
Speaker 1: you use your bullpen differently, you use starters differently on
Speaker 1: fewer days rest. And at basketball, playoff basketball becomes very situational.
Speaker 1: It becomes very much about get a basket. That's why
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard has been when he's healthy, a very good
Speaker 1: playoff performer. Get a stop, get a basket, doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be a three. And so I think this Warrior
Speaker 1: team is obviously going to lie a large part on
Speaker 1: Steph Curry hitting threes, but They've got a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that can get you too. Now is Kaminga is
Speaker 1: a guy that's really good around the ten. They've got size,
Speaker 1: they don't have to shoot the ball as well. Pods
Speaker 1: is a nice rook. He's the next play, but can
Speaker 1: be a little bit of a slasher, which I like.
Speaker 1: I don't think you have to rely on threes. And
Speaker 1: I think small ball was overstated just due to unique
Speaker 1: generationally gifted players for the Warriors that other teams rosters
Speaker 1: couldn't duplicate. I think the NFL Combine this week, let's
Speaker 1: talk about that. The combine really isn't about the measurables
Speaker 1: and the performance. What it really is is a chance
Speaker 1: for general managers and personnel people in the NFL to
Speaker 1: get together and a lot of late nights, a lot
Speaker 1: of beers, a lot of cocktails. And it's like they say,
Speaker 1: a lot of business gets done on the golf course,
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff gets done at the combine. I
Speaker 1: thought my guess was that Justin Fields would be moved
Speaker 1: from the Bears to Atlanta around the combine that you
Speaker 1: just you know, you get a couple of beers, guys
Speaker 1: sit down and what my guess the way Justin Fields
Speaker 1: would work is that, Yeah, I don't know exactly what
Speaker 1: you do, but like the Bears have the ninth pick,
Speaker 1: Atlanta's got the eighth pick. Maybe you swap those and
Speaker 1: a third round or something like that feels reasonable. So
Speaker 1: the Bears move up one slot and get a third
Speaker 1: round or that feels like something you can do for
Speaker 1: Justin Fields. I don't think he's going to be a
Speaker 1: superstar in Atlanta, but I do think you can argue
Speaker 1: he'll be the most talented quarterback in the NFC South,
Speaker 1: where he's just not He's not as good as Jared Goff,
Speaker 1: and I don't think he's I don't think he at
Speaker 1: this point is trending to be nearly as good as
Speaker 1: Jordan Love. So if Kirk Cousins comes back for two years,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins right now is a more efficient quarterback than
Speaker 1: Justin Fields, and so he would be the fourth most
Speaker 1: reliable quarterback in the division. That's not a good place
Speaker 1: for him. I think it's a much better place for
Speaker 1: him to go to Atlanta, where you know Baker and
Speaker 1: Derek carr are. You know, they can win a lot
Speaker 1: of games, especially Baker. He's won a playoff game. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a playoff quarterback in the AFC and the NFC.
Speaker 1: But in terms of overall size and talent whip arm,
Speaker 1: you know, Justin's pretty special player. So the combine to me,
Speaker 1: and we sent John Middelcoff there for the volume. The
Speaker 1: Combine's really a relationship. It's like a camp for football
Speaker 1: grown ups where you get all the gms and the
Speaker 1: personnel people and they screw around. They have steak dinners,
Speaker 1: and you get a lot of business done. I don't
Speaker 1: care much about the players testing, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: these personal workouts and testing. I do think, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a trend over the last several years that quarterbacks
Speaker 1: don't throw at this thing. I think every draft has
Speaker 1: a really interesting player. I mean, I think without question,
Speaker 1: everybody knows it's good wide receiver, good offensive tackle class,
Speaker 1: really good three or four really high end receivers, three
Speaker 1: or four really good offensive tackles. You could have six
Speaker 1: offensive tackles taken in the first round. That's a huge
Speaker 1: number the quarterbacks. There's a lot of talent, but I
Speaker 1: think the most interesting player in the draft is going
Speaker 1: to be JJ McCarthy for Michigan, who had a great coach,
Speaker 1: a great old line, a great run game, and a
Speaker 1: great defense in a conference. Frankly, that's kind of Ohio
Speaker 1: State and everybody else outside of Michigan. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: about the only team Michigan face that has equal talent
Speaker 1: in the SEC. Even though Alabama can be great. There's Georgia,
Speaker 1: There's LSU. There's a lot of teams that can stack
Speaker 1: up athletically, three or four teams at the top. Ohio
Speaker 1: State and Michigan just looked different than everybody else, and
Speaker 1: McCarthy benefited from that. Now, he won a lot of games,
Speaker 1: but they didn't really rely on him. He didn't throw
Speaker 1: many touchdown passes, as his biggest games were off and
Speaker 1: against I mean he had I think it was half
Speaker 1: of his touchdown passes against three teams, all of them
Speaker 1: awful East Carolina, Michigan State, in Indiana he had half
Speaker 1: of his touchdown totals and he only had one game
Speaker 1: with three touchdown passes. I believe Pennix had ten, bo
Speaker 1: Nicks had seven. I think he had one game with
Speaker 1: either was it three hundred yards passing or three touchdown
Speaker 1: pass My big concern is he's really slender and let
Speaker 1: me give an example. So I've used this before, is
Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers and I are the same height. And
Speaker 1: I've seen Aaron a couple times up close. He doesn't
Speaker 1: look thick. He weighs two hundred and twenty five pounds.
Speaker 1: I'm the same height and I weigh one ninety five.
Speaker 1: I work out every day. I'm in pretty good shape.
Speaker 1: You would view me as slender. If you looked at Aaron,
Speaker 1: you would view him as sort of slender. He carries
Speaker 1: thirty pounds more than me at the same height chest shoulders,
Speaker 1: but it's that thickness. Years ago I asked somebody about Aaron.
Speaker 1: I said, he doesn't look that big. And this person said,
Speaker 1: look at his caps, look at his butt, look at
Speaker 1: his shoulders, look at his wrists. There's a difference. When
Speaker 1: Johnny Manziel came into the league, he just didn't he
Speaker 1: didn't have the size and the shoulders, the butt, the hips,
Speaker 1: the wrist. He just wasn't big enough. And so I
Speaker 1: look at JJ McCarthy and he's six ' three, So
Speaker 1: he is taller than Aaron Rodgers by an inch and
Speaker 1: a half. Anyways, twenty to twenty three pounds less. That
Speaker 1: is that's noticeable to me. He comes across his slender
Speaker 1: and you know it's somebody. An NFL executive said he
Speaker 1: looks like a stretched out Bryce Young and I never
Speaker 1: thought of that, but in the context of body types,
Speaker 1: it kind of it kind of matches, And so I
Speaker 1: think McCarthy's fascinating. I know two people who I really
Speaker 1: like in the NFL. Executives think he's a Hamnegger, just
Speaker 1: don't really see it. I know somebody else, Randy Mueller,
Speaker 1: a former executive in the league works for the Athletic
Speaker 1: now really likes JJ McCarthy. Obviously, Jim Harball loves him.
Speaker 1: He's rooting for his guys. I don't know quite what
Speaker 1: to make him him now. I didn't like Zach Wilson
Speaker 1: of the Jets out of college. I like JJ McCarthy more.
Speaker 1: I think he throws a better ball and a more
Speaker 1: consistent ball. You know. I didn't like Johnny Manziel out
Speaker 1: of college. I think JJ McCarthy's a much much better prospect.
Speaker 1: I didn't like Tebow at all at a college, obviously.
Speaker 1: I mean, Tebo couldn't throw a consistent NFL football. It's
Speaker 1: not like I don't think he has talent. I do
Speaker 1: think JJ has talent, but the body type, it's just
Speaker 1: it's a completely different sport. I mean the NFL. I
Speaker 1: remember when Johnny Manziel came into the league and he
Speaker 1: was a run around guy, gave Alabama's great defenses all
Speaker 1: sorts of fits. And I think it was a preseason game.
Speaker 1: He's playing for Cleveland. I think they played Washington. Is
Speaker 1: that the one where he gave somebody the finger and
Speaker 1: he rolled out and you know, he thought, I'm going
Speaker 1: to get around this defensive end and he could not
Speaker 1: outrun a defensive end in the NFL. And in that moment,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yep, not going to work because his game
Speaker 1: is movement. It's just not going to work. Lamar Jackson moves.
Speaker 1: You can't stop him. Michael Vick moves, Steve Young moved,
Speaker 1: they got around the corner. So a lot of times,
Speaker 1: you know, you play in college, high school, in college,
Speaker 1: and what works for you does not work, does not
Speaker 1: translate to the NFL. So I'm just fascinated with JJ
Speaker 1: McCarthy to see if it does. I just don't quite see. Now.
Speaker 1: You could say Colin, you didn't see c J. Stroud, No,
Speaker 1: I said Lance Zerline, who works at NFL dot Com
Speaker 1: a draft analyst. He said it Jared Goff was his
Speaker 1: comp and I said probably ten times on the air,
Speaker 1: that's a good comp out of college. I didn't see
Speaker 1: a lot of juice with Jared Goff, but I thought
Speaker 1: he threw a beautiful ball from the pocket. I didn't
Speaker 1: see a lot of juice until the Georgia game on
Speaker 1: c J. Stroud, But he throws a beautiful ball out
Speaker 1: of the pocket. And Zerline was on the Herd yesterday
Speaker 1: on FS one and talked about that that people give
Speaker 1: him crap for that. But if you go look at
Speaker 1: Jared Goff's second year numbers and c J. Stroud's first
Speaker 1: year numbers, CJ got a great first coach. Jared Goff didn't.
Speaker 1: They're very similar. So JJ McCarthy's going to be really
Speaker 1: really interesting to me, you know, like this was the
Speaker 1: best Michigan team perhaps ever, and the best team in
Speaker 1: college football, I thought significantly, with a great o' line
Speaker 1: and a really powerful run game at a great coach,
Speaker 1: very Alabama like and if you start looking at all
Speaker 1: these Alabama quarterbacks, the Bryce Youngs and the tuas, you know,
Speaker 1: they looked Mac Jones. Boy, did we really like them
Speaker 1: out of college. And then you get to the NFL
Speaker 1: behind an average offensive line and you don't really have
Speaker 1: a number one receiver. That's what JJ McCarthy feels like
Speaker 1: to me. The great coach, the great old line, the
Speaker 1: great run game, the great defense support, playing with the lead,
Speaker 1: getting very good field position, just like Tua and Mac
Speaker 1: Jones and Alabama quarterbacks time and time again. Then they
Speaker 1: get into the NFL and they trail and they don't
Speaker 1: have a good offensive line and they're moving in. JJ
Speaker 1: McCarthy weighs six three, two hundred and three pounds, and
Speaker 1: then he probably needs twenty two pounds more with that size,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. He is to me, the most interesting
Speaker 1: player in the first round. All right, little instant reaction.
Speaker 1: Dubs picked up their seven straight road win, beat a
Speaker 1: NIXT team without Julius Randall, but Andrew Wiggins didn't play.
Speaker 1: I think it's a really interesting Warriors team that's got
Speaker 1: a mix of old and young. They finally have some
Speaker 1: front court size, play sort of the same style, up tempo,
Speaker 1: and if you don't understand Draymond Green tonight, Draymond Green
Speaker 1: is I wrote down some of the comments on Draymond Green.
Speaker 1: That dude, this team. Since Draymond Green came back from
Speaker 1: his suspension, the Warriors lead the NBA in points and assists.
Speaker 1: Tonight he had six assists. It's like the line of
Speaker 1: demarcation if you don't get the value of Draymond Green.
Speaker 2: If you watch the.
Speaker 1: Warriors game with the next Night of the Garden, constantly coaching,
Speaker 1: constantly talking communications. Steve Kerr sees this. He's so valuating.
Speaker 1: He's not Steph Curry valuable, but beyond that, he is
Speaker 1: so valuable to the Warriors and his age and communication
Speaker 1: skills with all these young players. They kept miking him
Speaker 1: on TNT throughout the game. Every time you hear Draymond
Speaker 1: Green coaching, teaching, assignments, communication, either get it or you don't.
Speaker 1: I just love it all right, instant reaction. We'll see tomorrow.
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