Speaker 1: There's a there's a reason I don't speak ill of
Speaker 1: the Warriors.
Speaker 2: There is.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you think that I'm some sort
Speaker 1: of lifelong Warriors fan and all I do is big
Speaker 1: them up and talk about how good Steph Curry is
Speaker 1: and how Draymond Green's a Hall of Famer, Or don't
Speaker 1: worry about what Andrew Wiggins has got going on in
Speaker 1: his personal life, stay out of it. Steve Kurz one
Speaker 1: of the best coaches of our generation. Like, I don't
Speaker 1: say that because I want them to succeed.
Speaker 2: You don't think.
Speaker 1: I haven't noticed that they haven't been playing well all season.
Speaker 2: You don't think I'm watching these games.
Speaker 1: You don't think I haven't seen that they have one
Speaker 1: of the worst records on the road in basketball. Like,
Speaker 1: you don't think I think that's a problem. You don't
Speaker 1: think that. You don't think I don't see it. You
Speaker 1: think I just want them to know. The reason that
Speaker 1: I praise them is because I want them to stay asleep.
Speaker 1: Complacency is the enemy of excellence, and I don't want
Speaker 1: the Warriors to be excellent.
Speaker 2: That's facts.
Speaker 1: And I know that me talking badly about them is
Speaker 1: only gonna give them motivation. Did somebody not tell CJ
Speaker 1: McCollum that, because CJ McCollum acts like he's never been
Speaker 1: on the receiving end of Warriors vitriol. Before Little rewind Machine,
Speaker 1: CJ McCollum and the Portland Trailblazers were.
Speaker 2: Up fifteen points every single game in.
Speaker 1: The Western Conference Finals against the Warriors, and they lost
Speaker 1: every single one of them.
Speaker 2: They were swept. CJ.
Speaker 1: McCollum should know fucking better. They have been peacefully slumbering
Speaker 1: all year. They are raizor thin to being mathematically eliminated
Speaker 1: from the playoffs, and they against the Pelicans were down
Speaker 1: twenty in a crucial game and they didn't seem to mind.
Speaker 1: So why the fuck did CIJ McCollum decide he wanted
Speaker 1: to start chirping at Draymond Green and Steph Curry and
Speaker 1: Dante DiVincenzo when he was up twenty. The best revenge
Speaker 1: on the Warriors is to say absolutely nothing pound them,
Speaker 1: tell the world how good they are and how they're
Speaker 1: going to be. Okay, pack up your shit and call
Speaker 1: your wife and be like, yo, we're about to eliminate
Speaker 1: the Warriors.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is what happened Wednesday night.
Speaker 1: Like I said, they're up twenty, Pelicans are hidden threes,
Speaker 1: Golden State sleepwalking seasons on the brink. Siej's chirpin' now.
Speaker 1: Marcus Thompson breaks it down like this. McCollum might have
Speaker 1: saved the Warriors season because Draymond became a madman and
Speaker 1: woke the Warriors up on a run you've never seen
Speaker 1: since I don't know last year when they did it
Speaker 1: a million times.
Speaker 2: The Warriors were on.
Speaker 1: The brink, so it felt a few admitted it so
Speaker 1: much after the game. Two nights after brutal mistakes down
Speaker 1: the stretch cost them a critical game against Minnesota, they
Speaker 1: were down twenty to New Orleans.
Speaker 2: What are you doing? CJ?
Speaker 1: So he's chirping. Drey decides enough is enough. He starts
Speaker 1: hammering the Pelicans left and right, body checks Brendan Ingram
Speaker 1: like he's playing hockey, gets a flagrant one heart foul
Speaker 1: away from being tossed.
Speaker 2: So why did he get so mad?
Speaker 1: At the point, I'm gonna put myself out there and
Speaker 1: then I hope that the guys will back me up,
Speaker 1: he said, And if they don't back me up, are
Speaker 1: season's over?
Speaker 2: Anyway?
Speaker 1: That was the most important game for the Warriors season,
Speaker 1: and CJ. McCollum decided to give them extra motivation like
Speaker 1: he was some muse I've been amused before for the Warriors, remember.
Speaker 2: Nine to one.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel good when they used your content or
Speaker 1: you're chirping to motivate them to excel in your face.
Speaker 1: Desperate times call for desperate measures. Draymond and at halftime
Speaker 1: lit a fire under the Warriors. Most notably, Steph comes
Speaker 1: out in the third quarter like vintage Steph Curry all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, a twenty point lead turned into a
Speaker 1: four point lead in like a minute. That's what they do.
Speaker 1: You piss them off. You turn around and the lead
Speaker 1: is gone. Not only is the league gone, now you're
Speaker 1: down and they're still talking shit. They were talking shit
Speaker 1: down twenty and now they're talking shit up five and
Speaker 1: now you're quiet.
Speaker 2: Steph it in seventy five seconds. Think about that. Three
Speaker 2: threes in seventy five seconds at the end of the
Speaker 2: third quarter.
Speaker 1: A twenty eight footer, a thirty two footer, and a
Speaker 1: twenty seven footer.
Speaker 2: Those are really long threes. There's really long ones, and.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, just like that, your elite is gone.
Speaker 1: Stop talking shit to the Warriors, And that was that.
Speaker 1: When Steph does that, they're not beatable. And the funny
Speaker 1: thing was like not brandon Ingram coming at Draymond or
Speaker 1: CJ chirping Steph. That was the tipping point. It was
Speaker 1: actually CJ barreling through new player on the team, Dante DiVincenzo.
Speaker 1: Fine player, fine player, but not him like he was
Speaker 1: a straight blocking dummy.
Speaker 2: That sealed the deal.
Speaker 1: Dante very mild mannered kid, doesn't want any smoke, just
Speaker 1: wants to play basketball.
Speaker 2: He looks at mclum He's like, Yo, why are you
Speaker 2: taking this out on me? I wasn't even trying to
Speaker 2: be the tough guy. I'm just trying to hoop. I'm
Speaker 2: just trying to win games. He runs over to Draymond.
Speaker 1: He's like, Yo, let's get these guys. I was ready
Speaker 1: to just be a part of this. Now I'm leading
Speaker 1: the charge as well. And you know what, everyone rallied
Speaker 1: around Dante DiVincenzo because you're not about to body our guy.
Speaker 2: You're not about to bully our role player. Insane.
Speaker 1: Now the sleeping giant has been awoke with I'm sorry, CJ.
Speaker 1: It's all your fault. When they win the title, it
Speaker 1: will be because of you. They will probably give you
Speaker 1: an honorary ring because you helped save the Warrior season.
Speaker 1: You're more important right now than our man twelfth on
Speaker 1: the bench, Anthony Lamb. You are Bill Freakin Simmons. The
Speaker 1: story yesterday was that the Warriors are going to ditch
Speaker 1: Draymond and he's gonna go to the Dallas Mavericks. By
Speaker 1: the way, that's a lie, just a straight lie. But
Speaker 1: also we need to really step back and say, if
Speaker 1: Draymond or Jordan Poole are leaving this team.
Speaker 2: By the way, Jordan Poole had an excellent game last night.
Speaker 2: It's Jordan Poole.
Speaker 1: Draymond Green is the second most important player on this
Speaker 1: Warrior's team. If you're a car, the Warriors are a car.
Speaker 1: Traymond Green is the engine of the car. Steph Curry
Speaker 1: is the transmission of the car. What is Klay Thompson.
Speaker 2: The tires?
Speaker 1: What is Jordan Poole the sunroof? Jordan Poole is the sunroof.
Speaker 1: Awesome to have, definitely a luxury that you want. Do
Speaker 1: you need a fucking sunroof? Absolutely not. Am I paying
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand dollars more for this car because of a sunroof. No,
Speaker 1: if the sunroof doesn't get along with the engine, sorry sunroof,
Speaker 1: you gotta go. Championship back on, folks, thanks to CJ McCollum.
Speaker 1: Couldn't you just leave good enough alone. Our dubs are
Speaker 1: gonna be just fine, just like I said, championship caliber team.
Speaker 1: I'm the only one that's been riding with them.