Speaker 1: Drama, maybe other drama. I get accused of many things online,
Speaker 1: and I've had a lot of introspection about why I
Speaker 1: think they don't really get me. I think they think
Speaker 1: I'm being serious. But the biggest accusation that I get
Speaker 1: is that I hate the Warriors, probably because I said
Speaker 1: that the Warriors weren't I mean, probably because I said
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr was out there trying to load manage Steph
Speaker 1: when Steph wanted to win games. He's like playing Steph
Speaker 1: twenty five minutes a game last year, being like who
Speaker 1: cares about winning games? Like I don't know Steph cares
Speaker 1: about winning games. Probably because I said James Wiseman was
Speaker 1: a terrible pick and they would never be able to
Speaker 1: build around him. Well as I said they should trade
Speaker 1: the pick to turn into Kaminga so they can get
Speaker 1: a better piece to win. Now I'm trying to help them,
Speaker 1: probably because I said they wouldn't go nine and one
Speaker 1: in their first ten, which they ended up squeaking in
Speaker 1: squeak win to a nine and one just to squeak.
Speaker 1: And in fact, because of this, I still have people
Speaker 1: right now blue check marks with hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: followers being like Hey, has anyone checked in on that
Speaker 1: Warriors media and fans are delusional? Lady? Yet that's a
Speaker 1: real tweet right now, right now, dammit, right now. You're
Speaker 1: up three zero, your team's up three zero in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals, and you're coming at me with that
Speaker 1: that bullshit, that front running energy. What this is? Why,
Speaker 1: this right here is why I want bad things for
Speaker 1: your team? Is you, Alexis Morgan?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: It's not about Alexis. It's about the whole collective of them.
Speaker 1: And I have to point something out. The truth is
Speaker 1: I swear I've said this before. I don't hate the Warriors.
Speaker 1: I hate Warriors fans. I really like Dre, I really
Speaker 1: like Clay, I really like Steph Pool love Pool. He's annoying,
Speaker 1: but he love them. Steve Kerr, Gary Payton, the second
Speaker 1: nice story, good kid out of Oakland, undrafted, stays around
Speaker 1: like amazing story Looney like Looney a lot. Also, by
Speaker 1: the way, if anyone says Steph is an annoying, like
Speaker 1: they're lying. He's one of the most annoying players to
Speaker 1: be against. Like when he does this, oh you just
Speaker 1: want to go, or when he does the little poop
Speaker 1: like thing that he does you're just like, let me
Speaker 1: help me poop you anyway. But deep down I like
Speaker 1: them all. I like the players a lot. They're like
Speaker 1: so many likable players on the team. But because of
Speaker 1: the fan base, because of the we are the champions,
Speaker 1: my friend blasting out of their speakers when you're in
Speaker 1: the lottery. They have podcasts called light years because they
Speaker 1: believe they are light years ahead of everyone else. I
Speaker 1: want to say, sit down, be humble, sit down, fail,
Speaker 1: just get used to failure. Please. They're just so entitled
Speaker 1: and it's like I just desperately want you to lose
Speaker 1: because of that. All of that just makes me not
Speaker 1: say I'm rooting for this team. I'm just like, I
Speaker 1: just want to see them sad. I just want to
Speaker 1: see them sad, and I want to see them up
Speaker 1: another pick and I want that pick to turn into
Speaker 1: one need deer in headlights player, just like James Wiseman.
Speaker 1: And it's like, not even all the fans, it's a
Speaker 1: minority of the fans. They're a lowed and they're obnoxious
Speaker 1: and they don't go away, and they come out like
Speaker 1: little what's the groundhogs? They come out like little groundhogs
Speaker 1: when they're up three to zero in the Western Conference Finals, like,
Speaker 1: come at me when it's zero zero, Come at me
Speaker 1: when you're down in a game, you know. Ooh, And
Speaker 1: sometimes because of this vitriol that lives inside of me
Speaker 1: for this fan base, I say to myself, trusted, this
Speaker 1: is poison. You're poisoning yourself. What are you doing? Don't
Speaker 1: give this amount of energy for this fan base? Oh
Speaker 1: kind of aren't you more enlightened than this? Something so
Speaker 1: stupid and petty and dumb, Like can't you just breathe,
Speaker 1: get on the headspace, app chill. There's more life than this.
Speaker 1: And then I see the clip from the Great Charles
Speaker 1: Barkley to give me the strength that is required to
Speaker 1: go to battle with these fans that I need to
Speaker 1: continue my petty tour, and I let's just play it,
Speaker 1: because it's like, okay, I'm ready, now, I'm ready, I'm here.
Speaker 3: Why do you think the MAVs are the best team.
Speaker 3: I don't think they're the best team. I just cannot
Speaker 3: pick with the Warriors because I hate their fans, their
Speaker 3: fans obnoxiously. I actually like the players on the team
Speaker 3: and the coach, but I hate their fans. So you're
Speaker 3: just saying that. So, no, no, I'm pulling for the Maths,
Speaker 3: But why do you think they can win them? Because
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna divide interventionally. I just want to see
Speaker 3: these people suffer, Okay, I want to see these losers suck.
Speaker 3: Let me what I do.
Speaker 1: Let me throw some video at you, Kenny, Okay from
Speaker 1: from game and.
Speaker 3: I couldn't understand that. I'm just like, no, listen, I'm
Speaker 3: just telling you, I'm pulling for the Maths because I'm
Speaker 3: rooting against these the Warriors fans. Let me, they obnoxious
Speaker 3: and they're pain in the ass.
Speaker 1: Listen. Yeah, come on, Chuck, That's what I'm talking about, Chuck.
Speaker 1: I needed that. I needed that, like reality check. I
Speaker 1: needed to know it's just not me this annoyed by
Speaker 1: these people, Like this is a grown man played basketball
Speaker 1: for a very long time, all time great and he's like,
Speaker 1: I don't even have a reason fuck them. Really, truthfully,
Speaker 1: I don't think that they can win, but just like Lord,
Speaker 1: strike them down. There are others that want to see
Speaker 1: the Warriors destroyed and dismantled. If there was a way
Speaker 1: that I could see the Warriors succeed and this fan
Speaker 1: base to still feel like they failed, I would do that.
Speaker 1: The Warriors look like they're heading to the finals and
Speaker 1: it probably is gonna be a sweep, which is gross.
Speaker 1: Are you okay? You're good? Because not a steph, not Dre,
Speaker 1: not Clay, not Pool. The biggest X factor in these playoffs,
Speaker 1: especially this round. Never thought I would say it. Playoff Wiggins,
Speaker 1: playoff Wiggins one of the most inconsistent, like actually consistently
Speaker 1: awful in high pressure moments. Somehow Andrew Wiggins has arrived. Arrived.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a sentence I just never even can, like, really,
Speaker 1: I never imagine saying it. He's averaging twenty one to
Speaker 1: seven and four in this series, twenty one to seven
Speaker 1: and four on forty six percent shooting and forty percent
Speaker 1: from three and and putting clamps down on Luca. I
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna be burnt chicken. And he is
Speaker 1: being up Luca to the best of his ability. No
Speaker 1: one can stop them, but guys, he is doing everything
Speaker 1: and offensively cooking Luca that dunk. Oh my god. Wiggins
Speaker 1: as the primary defender on Luca has been a part
Speaker 1: of Luca just shooting forty four percent from the field,
Speaker 1: committing twelve turnovers in three games, and Luca averaged eleven
Speaker 1: and ten rebounds in the first two series. Now he's
Speaker 1: only getting eight. It's just he's wearing him down with
Speaker 1: his length and his bounce and his just I don't
Speaker 1: even know what. And the craziest thing is the Wiggins
Speaker 1: is getting better and better and better every single game.
Speaker 1: The previous series, he was putting up fifteen seven and one,
Speaker 1: putting up fourteen seven and two against the Nuggets, just
Speaker 1: every series. What is he gonna do in the finals
Speaker 1: twenty eight, nine and five? Like, what the And this
Speaker 1: all culminated into a disrespectful, emasculating, horrendously rude dunk on
Speaker 1: Luka Doncic. He poked him in the eye while he dunked.
Speaker 1: Who poked someone in the eye while they dunk Wiggins?
Speaker 1: It's a new move, never seen. It probably should have
Speaker 1: been ejected for it, but hey, it's a flagrant in
Speaker 1: my opinion, I was a flagrant. But however, seriously, Wiggins
Speaker 1: is the reason that this offense is so hard to stop.
Speaker 1: They're just so balanced. Every game in this series that
Speaker 1: they've had, they've had five guys in double figures and
Speaker 1: in Game three they had seven guys in double figures.
Speaker 1: The Warriors somehow knew that Wiggins would be this. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's true, but they say it is.
Speaker 1: They said. Steve Kerr said that the entire reason the
Speaker 1: Warriors were able to retool their roster and get back
Speaker 1: to dominance was all about Wiggins. He said this, I
Speaker 1: think Andrew Wiggins and that trade is the key to
Speaker 1: all of this. Our whole wing corps was wiped out defensively,
Speaker 1: so the Wiggins trade allowed us to start and rebuild
Speaker 1: that wing defense. Wiggs has just been so good. He's
Speaker 1: gotten so much better over the past few years, and
Speaker 1: he's been the perfect fit next to our guys. I
Speaker 1: don't know where we'd be without him defensively, with his
Speaker 1: work against Luca and every other top wings that the
Speaker 1: Warriors will have to face, he's just been brilliant. So
Speaker 1: I think that was the move to get us back
Speaker 1: to having a playoff roster. Wow, considering how we all
Speaker 1: collectively don't lie. If you're listening to this right now
Speaker 1: and you're saying that you knew that Wiggins was gonna
Speaker 1: be a good piece for the Warriors, just stop lying yourself.
Speaker 1: Slap yourself because that's not true. I know it's not true.
Speaker 1: It's pretty telling. Let's be real, we are all undergoing
Speaker 1: a period of transformation in terms of our opinions about
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins. Two things. If you find a Timberwolves fan
Speaker 1: that says they were unhappy with the Wiggins trade in
Speaker 1: real time, that's a lie. They were ecstatic to let
Speaker 1: him go. They thought Dlo was going to be the
Speaker 1: next Dame Lollard. Now they're gonna get rid of him.
Speaker 1: They gave up a pick to get rid of Wiggins.
Speaker 1: That tells you how valuable they thought Wiggins was. No
Speaker 1: one was was unhappy to see him go. And two,
Speaker 1: like most people, most media people saw this as a
Speaker 1: not just a bad trade for the Warriors, but a
Speaker 1: catastrophic trade for the Warriors in the moment, legitimately calling
Speaker 1: it one of the worst trades ever. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: a bad take at the time. Ladies and gentlemen, may
Speaker 1: I present to you my colleague in this space, Nick Wright.
Speaker 2: Wiggins is a bad basketball player. He's old ninety five
Speaker 2: million dollars over the next three years, starting next year.
Speaker 2: It's it's unspeakable they did this. I listen, I people
Speaker 2: think I disliked the Warriors. There's things they've done that
Speaker 2: irritated me. But going into this year, I said, I
Speaker 2: thought they could be the sixty. I thought that if
Speaker 2: Clay came back at the end of the season, they
Speaker 2: could be dangerous. And that's starting next year. We'll see
Speaker 2: if they can rejuvenate the old Splannish brother fifteen sixteen
Speaker 2: team and be dangerous. It's over for them now.
Speaker 1: We will never.
Speaker 2: See step in another NBA finals ever. They have no
Speaker 2: path forward now.
Speaker 1: Well, Nick, let me just say this, I thought the
Speaker 1: same and they maybe that's why they think they're light
Speaker 1: years ahead of us, because they saw something we did
Speaker 1: not see. Because when you're the fourth or fifth option
Speaker 1: and you're getting open looks, listen like that's the way
Speaker 1: I guess it goes. And people hate Nick right because
Speaker 1: he says outlantish things, but like we all thought this
Speaker 1: in the moment, he just put it on Wax. I
Speaker 1: put it on Wax so truthfully, like back to the
Speaker 1: Wiggans trade espe Nation, their headline for this trade Warriors
Speaker 1: trade for Wiggins was not about Andrew Wiggins really, uh,
Speaker 1: because Steve Curg just said it was only about Wiggins.
Speaker 1: The athletic. Both players d Lo and Wiggins are both
Speaker 1: very poor defensively, they derive any value that they have
Speaker 1: on the offensive end, and the story there has not
Speaker 1: been pretty holy what a just an insane like sentence.
Speaker 1: Minnesota crushed the Warriors in the Wiggans trade. These are
Speaker 1: all like media sources, we gotta have takes in the moment, folks,
Speaker 1: Like we can't just say wait and see. If we
Speaker 1: were just like wait and see, then what would people
Speaker 1: really be coming to us for? Like I gotta see,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know, I gotta see, And
Speaker 1: like Nick ray right, like I said, got killed. But
Speaker 1: we can all be right in the moment and then
Speaker 1: be wrong after the fact once we've waited and see.
Speaker 1: And like there was other people saying that the only
Speaker 1: reason they got Wiggins is so that they could trade
Speaker 1: for a bigger guy and just have that cap space
Speaker 1: taken up that you could trade for for someone like
Speaker 1: Giannis or Embiid. That ended up out being true either,
Speaker 1: Like Warriors were like, oh, you think you think we're
Speaker 1: gonna go big, You got looking stupid. We're gonna stay small.
Speaker 1: We're doing all the same stuff we were doing. We
Speaker 1: just want a six to six guy with like a
Speaker 1: seven to two wing span. They can shoot threes as
Speaker 1: well and can put up thirty on any given night.
Speaker 1: Like you don't want that guy, Okay, we'll take that
Speaker 1: guy as our fourth option. Cool like cool, And turns
Speaker 1: out like small ball was exactly the thing that worked.
Speaker 1: Wiggins just needed some time to mesh and develop with
Speaker 1: the players who have won. I can't even believe I'm
Speaker 1: saying this. He needed time to mesh and here now
Speaker 1: he is his entire focus focus on the defensive side.
Speaker 1: And then if you get a bucket inside of the
Speaker 1: offensive flow, which you're gonna get a lot of open
Speaker 1: looks from Steph and Clay and Jordan, hit him, shoot
Speaker 1: ate him on the night, we don't care. And now
Speaker 1: that's what he's doing forty percent of the playoffs so far.
Speaker 1: Wiggins chills on the wing for like, that's pretty much
Speaker 1: what he does. It's in the corner, bat cuts, gets
Speaker 1: easy layups, dunks on people. That's a good spot for Wiggins.
Speaker 1: All of the attention is on Steph, so now like
Speaker 1: he gets to be guarded by like the third or
Speaker 1: fourth worst defender. Of course, Wiggins is gonna cook the
Speaker 1: third or fourth best defender on a team, and he
Speaker 1: only has to guard the third or fourth best player too,
Speaker 1: Like he gets to take Luca, but he doesn't need
Speaker 1: to right Like, you still have guys like Draymond that
Speaker 1: can do that. You gotta clay a little bit. You
Speaker 1: can kind of do it by committee. I love this
Speaker 1: fit so much. So if you're someone like AJ Griffin
Speaker 1: out of Duke, your upside now should be Wiggins like
Speaker 1: and now that's a crazy thing for me to say,
Speaker 1: but I want AJ Griffin. Frankly, I'm ready to give
Speaker 1: up and get Wiggins as a Portland Trailblazer fan. That's
Speaker 1: where we're at. Nurkic for Wiggins and a pick, make
Speaker 1: it happen. Like, I'm ready if AJ Griffin turns into
Speaker 1: Wiggins in four or five years, why can't I just
Speaker 1: have Wiggins right now? Just give me Wiggins right now?
Speaker 1: Third option him, Anthony Simon's dame. He can be the
Speaker 1: third option play defense with this year a little We'll
Speaker 1: get a maybe a center, We'll get DeAndre Ayton. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a team. I know I'm delusional, guys, I get it,
Speaker 1: but listen, that's where I'm at right now, Wiggins has
Speaker 1: been that good. There you go, proof an entire segment.
Speaker 1: I don't hate the Warriors players, I just only hate
Speaker 1: the fans. I covet Andrew Wiggins now cove them like
Speaker 1: like Tyson Beckford. Just cove it, just like putting posters
Speaker 1: on my wall of Andrew Wiggins. Now. I like Clay,
Speaker 1: I like Looney's playing great. Steph is obviously Steph and
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with these Warriors. Were like I said,
Speaker 1: the Warriors aren't the championship team until they win the championship.
Speaker 1: So that's where are we starting. Oh,