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Speaker 1: Welcome to Hoops Tonight, presented by Fandel Here at the volume,
Speaker 1: I am Jason Timp Happy Thursday, everybody. I hope all
Speaker 1: of you are having a great week. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be a Golden State Warriors themed pod. There are three
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors topics that I'd like to get into,
Speaker 1: two of which have to do with my teammate here
Speaker 1: at the volume, Draymond Green's podcast. He had Steph Curry
Speaker 1: on today. You have to check that out if you
Speaker 1: haven't done so yet. They go for about an hour
Speaker 1: and a half. They get into a ton of basketball stuff,
Speaker 1: they get into some stuff off the floor as well.
Speaker 1: If you haven't checked it out yet, please do. It's
Speaker 1: on the volumes YouTube page, as well as on drey
Speaker 1: On Green's podcast feed. They had a debate in their
Speaker 1: interview about whether or not the two thousand sixteen Warriors
Speaker 1: were actually the best team ever even though they didn't
Speaker 1: win the championship, which I want to get into that
Speaker 1: a little bit. Then Draymond in an earlier podcast had
Speaker 1: an interesting point about media criticism and holding the media accountable,
Speaker 1: and he actually brought that up again with Steph Curry
Speaker 1: in that interview. I wanted to get into that a
Speaker 1: little bit. And then at the end, for those of
Speaker 1: you stick around, I'm gonna do a preview of the
Speaker 1: first round series between the Denver Nuggets and the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors. Not a lot to go on from this
Speaker 1: season because of injuries, but we have a general idea
Speaker 1: of what the series is gonna look like. I want
Speaker 1: to get into the weeds on that a little bit,
Speaker 1: but let's start with this bit between Steph and Draymond
Speaker 1: about the two thousand sixteen Warriors. First of all, let
Speaker 1: me show you what Draymond said that essentially puts you
Speaker 1: in a place, uh, undoubtedly the best team ever. Um,
Speaker 1: if if we were to complete it, no good to
Speaker 1: be in a conversation. To be quite frank with you,
Speaker 1: I still think we have the best team ever. Although
Speaker 1: we didn't finish it and win a championship, I still
Speaker 1: think that was the best team ever. So, first of all,
Speaker 1: I understand the sentiment for both of them surrounding that team.
Speaker 1: In a lot of ways, that was the most organic
Speaker 1: version of the Warriors, and it was an extremely popular
Speaker 1: team around the league for a lot of ways. They
Speaker 1: played a brand of basketball that just was so likable
Speaker 1: that everyone seemed to kind of get behind that bandwagon.
Speaker 1: For good reason. I'm a big believer in supporting good basketball.
Speaker 1: I think it's good for the health of the league,
Speaker 1: and I understand why they would think they were the
Speaker 1: best team ever, that's how dominant they were in that
Speaker 1: regular season. However, there is a little bit of a
Speaker 1: context there that I've brought up on many occasions over
Speaker 1: the years on my podcast, having to do with why
Speaker 1: I think that team was so particularly dominant. So, to
Speaker 1: be clear, before we even get into this conversation, that
Speaker 1: team was amazing. They were better than the team the
Speaker 1: year before that won the championship. So they are a
Speaker 1: bona fide championship level team. I'm not trying to undercut
Speaker 1: that by any stretch of the imagination. I just don't
Speaker 1: consider them to be in the running for the best
Speaker 1: team ever. And there are some very specific reasons why
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into that, so so much
Speaker 1: of it had to do with catching the league off guard.
Speaker 1: So what Steph Curry brought to the table as a
Speaker 1: shooter that was not just a threat further away from
Speaker 1: the rim, but straight up deadly basically inside of half court,
Speaker 1: not just and when he's wide open, but with a
Speaker 1: quick release and a willingness to shoot. This was the
Speaker 1: key difference. Steph Curry would attempt shot that defenses wouldn't
Speaker 1: even dream that step or any guard around the league
Speaker 1: would attempt. And so during that regular season, and remember
Speaker 1: Steph was really good the year before he was the
Speaker 1: m v P, but he only averaged twenty three points
Speaker 1: per game the year before. There was a difference in
Speaker 1: in his level of aggression offensively between that season and
Speaker 1: his unanimous MVP season. But defenses around the league were
Speaker 1: incredibly ill equipped to handle what Steph Curry did on
Speaker 1: a night in a night out basis that was always
Speaker 1: because of how unique his approach to the game was.
Speaker 1: It was always going to be a team that would
Speaker 1: struggle more in a postseason series when teams had enough
Speaker 1: time and enough reps to really try to find some
Speaker 1: way to counter what Steph was doing because of how
Speaker 1: unique it was, there was there weren't baked in pick
Speaker 1: and roll coverages are baked in, you know, defensive schemes
Speaker 1: to stop a guy like Steph because no one likes
Speaker 1: Steph existed. Like look at the peak of the two
Speaker 1: thousand sixteen unanimous m v P run was Steph drip
Speaker 1: across half court in a pivotal possession, literally the game
Speaker 1: winning possession against the Oklahoma City Thunder, and nobody picked
Speaker 1: him up. He walked into it was a long shot.
Speaker 1: It was like a thirty eight foot or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: It was a very long shot, but no one picked
Speaker 1: him up. That's not how Steph gets guarded anymore. Ever
Speaker 1: since then, in two thousand forward, the way step has
Speaker 1: been guarded is completely different. Now the credit to step
Speaker 1: and this is why I think steps better now or
Speaker 1: maybe before this recent slump, but like last year's Steph
Speaker 1: two one step. The reason why I said that guy
Speaker 1: was better than two thousand sixteen Steph is because defenses
Speaker 1: now know how to make things harder on Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: They pick him up the second a crosses half court
Speaker 1: all game long, the error on the side of sending
Speaker 1: two guys to him all the time. They rough him
Speaker 1: up off the ball. That was something you didn't really
Speaker 1: see until Oklahoma City in Cleveland did it in the
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen playoff runt. So many things about the
Speaker 1: way defenses guard Steph Curry now is so different and
Speaker 1: so much more catered to him, and he still was
Speaker 1: amazing last year. That's why I think he was better.
Speaker 1: He's elevated as a player so much that as the
Speaker 1: league has adapted to how to guard him, he stayed
Speaker 1: one step ahead of them the whole way. That's a
Speaker 1: credit to step That's why I've always been such a
Speaker 1: big fan of his. But getting back to two thousand sixteen,
Speaker 1: he was catching everybody off guard. They had no idea
Speaker 1: how to guard him. It's like in the two thousand
Speaker 1: thirteen playoffs when he was playing against the Spurs and
Speaker 1: they were going underneath ball screens against him with no
Speaker 1: big at the top, and he was just literally walking
Speaker 1: into three point shots against them. There's just a huge
Speaker 1: difference in the way teams guard staff now compared to
Speaker 1: the way they do they compared to the way they
Speaker 1: did back then. So that seventy three win team, I think,
Speaker 1: in terms of talent wasn't quite as good as what
Speaker 1: their record demonstrated. Still probably a sixties something win team,
Speaker 1: still very much a championship caliber team, held they literally
Speaker 1: won the championship the year before, not undercutting that at all.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that their talent wasn't quite as good
Speaker 1: as what their record showed, and I think you saw
Speaker 1: that in the postseason. That's why they struggled so much
Speaker 1: with Oklahoma City and that's why they lost to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: In the regular season, you would have thought both of
Speaker 1: those teams were significantly below where the Warriors were. Then
Speaker 1: they get into a playoff setting and they're kind of
Speaker 1: like all the same. I all three of those teams
Speaker 1: are right around the same level when they got into
Speaker 1: the postseason. So I leaned towards the two thousand seventeen
Speaker 1: Warriors as obviously far and away the best team that
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, because it was like the two thousand
Speaker 1: sixteen Warriors with everything that they brought to the table
Speaker 1: and that gigantic wing score obviously one of the best scores,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the best score of all time. That
Speaker 1: was what pushed them talent wise into that conversation with
Speaker 1: the best teams in the league. Then you get sixty
Speaker 1: seven wins. Then you get, uh, just an unbelievably dominant
Speaker 1: playoff run. They didn't even lose a playoff game until
Speaker 1: they were up three oh in the finals. That to me,
Speaker 1: is a much more traditional best team of all time
Speaker 1: type of candidate. It's it's not just regular season dominance,
Speaker 1: it's playoff dominance. And the reason why the two thousand
Speaker 1: sixteen Warriors weren't dominant was because they were catching the
Speaker 1: league off guard in a lot of ways, and the
Speaker 1: league just wasn't prepared to handle them until they could
Speaker 1: see them in a seven game series. So again, I
Speaker 1: understand their sentiment. I just disagree. I didn't see the
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen Warriors is really one of those types
Speaker 1: of truly dominant teams in NBA history. One of the
Speaker 1: things with Draymond Green that I wanted to talk about.
Speaker 1: So again, so before we even get into this, let
Speaker 1: me just show you what Draymond said. So this is
Speaker 1: a clip from Draymond Green on his podcast talking about
Speaker 1: holding the media accountable for the predictions that they make.
Speaker 1: Take a listen. I mean there are were people that
Speaker 1: said the Los Angeles Lakers was going to win the championship.
Speaker 1: If this is what you do and you say you're
Speaker 1: great and your expert analysts and you paid the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Lakers too winning championship, you kind of gotta be
Speaker 1: fired and as somebody got to start holding people account
Speaker 1: of Like you're so far off from being right. You
Speaker 1: gotta think about it. There's ten teams that's currently still
Speaker 1: alive in each conference teams total, there's thirty teams in
Speaker 1: the NBA. You picked that they'd be the number one team,
Speaker 1: they're not even one or twenty. You're like, you're so
Speaker 1: far off in any other job. If you're that far off,
Speaker 1: could you imagine being an analyst for a venture firm
Speaker 1: or an analyst like on and on Wall Street or
Speaker 1: something and you're that far off, like you lose your job.
Speaker 1: Like somebody gotta at start holding people accountable for these
Speaker 1: hot takes. Okay, So I think this topic is super interesting.
Speaker 1: You know, like I have never interviewed an NBA player,
Speaker 1: but I hope to very soon. I already have something
Speaker 1: lined up for this offseason, and I hope to interview
Speaker 1: several NBA players this offseason, and this specific topic is
Speaker 1: something I plan on bringing up with every one of them,
Speaker 1: because I think it's such an interesting dynamic. The media
Speaker 1: is in such a weird position where your job is
Speaker 1: to criticize people, right Like, it's a weird dynamic, and
Speaker 1: I'm curious to hear an NBA player's perspective. I actually
Speaker 1: agree with Draymond that the media should be held accountable.
Speaker 1: I just disagree specifically with the method with which he
Speaker 1: would do so. So for starters, understand where he's coming from.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody knows who's been following my show for
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, knows that I have a
Speaker 1: basketball background. I it's nowhere near as impressive as any
Speaker 1: NBA player out there. But I played in college like
Speaker 1: a half dozen games where he scored twenty plus points.
Speaker 1: My career high was in the thirties. Like I made
Speaker 1: an All conference team. I was a good college basketball player.
Speaker 1: Tried to play pro and I just wasn't good enough.
Speaker 1: And for the record, when I share those videos and
Speaker 1: I have you guys comment underneath them like, oh, like
Speaker 1: you should get a training camp invit or oh, the
Speaker 1: Lakers have an open roster spot, like, no, let's cut
Speaker 1: that ship out. I have way too much respect for
Speaker 1: these guys that have made it. I would never, in
Speaker 1: a million years ever compare myself to an NBA player
Speaker 1: unless I had an NBA jersey on, and I don't,
Speaker 1: So let's just dead that right away here. I'm a
Speaker 1: decent basketball player. It's just it's for my own benefit.
Speaker 1: Has nothing to do with me trying to put myself
Speaker 1: in the shoes of the NBA player. But had I
Speaker 1: made it to the n b A, I would have
Speaker 1: thought exactly like Draymond. I'd be sitting there like, who
Speaker 1: the hell is this guy in his room? Was stuff
Speaker 1: hanging on his wall talking into a camera telling me
Speaker 1: how to play the game of basketball? Like I get that.
Speaker 1: I totally get that sentiment, and I would probably be
Speaker 1: the exact same way. But it's just the reality of
Speaker 1: the circumstance here. The NBA needs the fans in the
Speaker 1: NBA needs the media, and the media and the media
Speaker 1: needs the fans, and the fans need a media. It's
Speaker 1: like a it's a very it's a very symbiotic relationship.
Speaker 1: You can even throw the organizations like the owners in there. Like,
Speaker 1: if one group disappeared, the whole system would fall apart.
Speaker 1: If we didn't have players, there being no league. We
Speaker 1: didn't have fans, there be no league. If we didn't
Speaker 1: have owners, there'd be no league. And if we didn't
Speaker 1: have the media, there would be no league. It's a
Speaker 1: very symbiotic relationship. But we have a very specific job.
Speaker 1: So like, if I never criticized anybody, if all I
Speaker 1: did ever was come on here and say positive things,
Speaker 1: you would hate the show. No one would listen. Why
Speaker 1: Because one it's not authentic, I'd be lying to you,
Speaker 1: and two that's just boring. It's boring to sit there
Speaker 1: and listen to propaganda all day long. It's something that
Speaker 1: frustrates me when I've been dealing with some of the
Speaker 1: segments of the Lebron fan base. I want to be like,
Speaker 1: what's the point of this man, Like, you can't actually
Speaker 1: just wake up every day and spend every single minute
Speaker 1: just shedding positivity on on on one specific person that
Speaker 1: you don't even know personally. It's just a weird it's
Speaker 1: a weird dynamic. But the reality of this job is
Speaker 1: we have to criticize people when they play poorly, and
Speaker 1: we have to heat praise on people when they play well.
Speaker 1: And so from that standpoint, like it is a very
Speaker 1: weird dynamic. And I totally understand why people like drey
Speaker 1: On want the media to be held accountable. And I
Speaker 1: totally understand why they would be piste off to hear
Speaker 1: a guy, even a guy like me who's a good
Speaker 1: basketball player, even a guy like me, leaping and heaping
Speaker 1: that criticism on them. I can totally see why that's infuriating.
Speaker 1: It's just the reality of the dynamic. It's the reality
Speaker 1: of the system, it's the reality of the way this
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Speaker 1: So where I disagree with Dramma because I a hundred
Speaker 1: percent agree with him. I want to be held accountable
Speaker 1: for my job in the same way that I'm holding
Speaker 1: those guys accountable in their job. But I just disagree
Speaker 1: with picks, like with the Lakers, like all of us. No, no,
Speaker 1: he thought they were gonna miss the playoffs. Nobody did, not,
Speaker 1: even you, Draymond, Like that's just the reality of the situation.
Speaker 1: It was a shocking outcome. Like if basketball games were
Speaker 1: easy to predict, if NBA playoff series were easy to predict,
Speaker 1: we'd all be rich from gambling on them. It's the
Speaker 1: parody and the up in the air nature of all
Speaker 1: of this that makes it so exciting. It's why we
Speaker 1: like it so much. I just things like making picks
Speaker 1: I disagree with. Where I think you have to hold
Speaker 1: the media accountable is in the nuts and the nuts
Speaker 1: and bolts of their analysis. So for instance, like I'll
Speaker 1: give you an example, like I've been critical of of
Speaker 1: Joel embid handling double teams. I did a whole thing
Speaker 1: about that today with the Raptors. I have watched a
Speaker 1: ton of Sixers games this year because I cover the
Speaker 1: whole league and that's my job. But there are Sixers
Speaker 1: fans that have watched every single game this year, and
Speaker 1: some of them twice. And so from that standpoint, like,
Speaker 1: if you guys are watching then and and I'm wrong
Speaker 1: about Joel embiad handling double teams, if I'm flat out wrong,
Speaker 1: you need to tell me. That's why I keep my
Speaker 1: d M s open on Twitter. If I'm doing something wrong,
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong in my analysis, I hope I get
Speaker 1: called out for it. It's something I've been used to it,
Speaker 1: especially surrounding the game of basketball. Like any of you
Speaker 1: guys who have played basketball in college, you're used to
Speaker 1: getting called dirty words, you know, when you're not playing well.
Speaker 1: You're used to getting yelled at. You're used to getting
Speaker 1: criticized for making mistakes. Like I'm used to that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. I hope that over time we develop a
Speaker 1: healthy balance to where players can be critical of NBA
Speaker 1: media members. I just don't I just disagree with Draymond
Speaker 1: in the sense that I wouldn't say, like, oh, I
Speaker 1: picked the Sixers too up to lose to the Raptors,
Speaker 1: and if I'm wrong about that, that that means I'm
Speaker 1: bad at my job. Not necessarily picking series and games
Speaker 1: is really really difficult. Remember that thing for a while
Speaker 1: where Stephen A. Smith picked the NBA Finals wrong, like
Speaker 1: nine years in a row or whatever. It was, like,
Speaker 1: it's just a really really difficult thing to do. But please,
Speaker 1: by all means, like especially NBA players, Like, if you're
Speaker 1: listening to my show and you happen to hear me
Speaker 1: say something about a coverage or a scheme or something
Speaker 1: where I'm just flat out wrong, then I need to
Speaker 1: be told and I need to be held accountable for that,
Speaker 1: And I hope that that happens more frequently. It's it's
Speaker 1: super interesting dynamic. I hope to to ask that to
Speaker 1: certain players because I'm really curious to see what what
Speaker 1: is it like to go to work and then when
Speaker 1: you're done, to come home and to have like the
Speaker 1: media telling you that you suck on one night, or
Speaker 1: that you're really good on one night, Like it's a
Speaker 1: it's a really really difficult balance to strike. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, it's just the reality of the way
Speaker 1: this whole system works, and it has to work that
Speaker 1: way because that's because people like authentic and people are
Speaker 1: going to naturally gravitate towards things that they find likable.
Speaker 1: It's why I like Draymond so much. That's why so
Speaker 1: many people like Draymond so much. He's authentic. He's gonna
Speaker 1: get up in front of the camera and he's gonna
Speaker 1: shoot it straight to you, and that's a super likable quality.
Speaker 1: And I kind of feel like I have to do
Speaker 1: the same thing in my job. And I'm really glad
Speaker 1: Draymond has been shining a light on that because I
Speaker 1: think it's such an interesting and important topic. I just
Speaker 1: don't I just don't think we should start holding people
Speaker 1: accountable for picks, because then we're all in trouble, if
Speaker 1: that makes sense. So let's move on to this nug
Speaker 1: Gets Warriors series. I think it's going to be a
Speaker 1: super interesting one, even though we don't know much because
Speaker 1: the Warriors have been utterly decimated by injuries this year,
Speaker 1: let's get into it a little bit with the basketball, Okay,
Speaker 1: So first of all, most of the data from this
Speaker 1: season is useless for this particular matchup. Yes, the Nuggets
Speaker 1: went three and one in this matchup this season, but
Speaker 1: Steph Curry and Draymond Green logged zero minutes together in
Speaker 1: those four games, so one of them was missing from
Speaker 1: every single game. Those are two like in terms of
Speaker 1: basketball teams, those two players are arguably the most irreplaceable
Speaker 1: players in the league for their specific roles on that
Speaker 1: specific team. So that kind of skews all of that data, right,
Speaker 1: So we have to kind of try to piece together
Speaker 1: what we know about the Warriors and when their full
Speaker 1: strength with what we saw from those individual matchups. In
Speaker 1: those individual matchups, we saw Yo Gets struggle a little
Speaker 1: bit with the Warriors length and athleticism. We saw Kievan
Speaker 1: Looney do a pretty nice job defending him in isolation.
Speaker 1: Those are two good signs for the Warriors, But other
Speaker 1: than that, not a whole lot we can take from it, right,
Speaker 1: So we've got to kind of try to piece this
Speaker 1: together based on what we know. First of all, Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: Draymond Green, Clay Thompson, they've barely played together at all
Speaker 1: since two thousand nineteen, So from that standpoint, you're counting
Speaker 1: on them falling back into rhythm that they've built over
Speaker 1: the decade. Right, You're hopeful that even though they haven't
Speaker 1: played together much, that they'll be able to quickly recapture
Speaker 1: that because of how many reps they've had in the past.
Speaker 1: Obviously a lot is gonna be on Jordan's Pool in creation.
Speaker 1: One of the most interesting dynamics of this series is
Speaker 1: the fact that Nicola Yoki has turned himself into a
Speaker 1: decent defensive player as a drop coverage bick strictly outside
Speaker 1: of that specific scenario, not great. Okay, So in that
Speaker 1: scenario that the Warriors, in particular with Jordan's Pool and
Speaker 1: Steph Curry are going to pull Yokas out of drops,
Speaker 1: he's either going to have to be way up at
Speaker 1: the level of the screen all all series long and
Speaker 1: those with those two particular guys in ball screen actions,
Speaker 1: or they're gonna have to do a lot of switching.
Speaker 1: And either way, Yokis is gonna have to over a
Speaker 1: ton of ground on the perimeter, which is just not
Speaker 1: a strength of his. So in that specific situation, I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna have a lot of free rolls to
Speaker 1: the rim with not a lot of size and athleticism
Speaker 1: on the back line because Yokich is going to be
Speaker 1: out on the perimeter. So let's move on to Denver
Speaker 1: on offense, because I think this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: really interesting part of this series. First of all, we
Speaker 1: know that they're going to send a ton of help
Speaker 1: to Nicola Yokich and their individual matchups this year, it
Speaker 1: primarily was loony on the ball, and what they did.
Speaker 1: Yoki does a lot of spin moves in the post.
Speaker 1: That's how he protects the basketball from people reaching. What
Speaker 1: they did is they tried to as he was spinning
Speaker 1: was when they would send the double and it actually
Speaker 1: caused Yoki a lot of problems. So we know how
Speaker 1: they're gonna handle Yokich in his post up situations, doubling
Speaker 1: while he's in the middle of moves and rotating on
Speaker 1: the back end, which they do a great job of
Speaker 1: because they have so many athletic wings. So the other
Speaker 1: there's two other aspects I wanted to look at with
Speaker 1: the Nuggets offense. First of all, a huge part of
Speaker 1: the Nuggets offense is transition Yokich is such a good
Speaker 1: passer off the rebound. He can get the rebound immediately
Speaker 1: go into a dribble or two, and make any pass
Speaker 1: up the floor, whether it's a full court bounced pass,
Speaker 1: a lob over the top, anything hitting a guy running
Speaker 1: the floor and transition. That's a huge part of Denver's offense.
Speaker 1: So a lots a lot of pressure is gonna be
Speaker 1: on Golden State to get back, but they have the
Speaker 1: requisite athleticism and speed to do so I think they'll
Speaker 1: be fine. So the last thing we got to look
Speaker 1: at is the dribble handoff stuff. A huge part of
Speaker 1: yokich Is game within this offense when he's not posting
Speaker 1: up is catching the ball at the elbow and guards
Speaker 1: coming off of him. In dribble handoff situations, it's really
Speaker 1: really difficult because all of those guards can shoot, so
Speaker 1: you have to chase them over the top, so almost
Speaker 1: always they have an advantage getting into the lane, or
Speaker 1: if they do go under the dribble handoff, they're getting
Speaker 1: wide open jump shots all game long. So once again
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of pressure on the Golden
Speaker 1: State guards and wings to cover a lot of ground.
Speaker 1: But this is a very very deep team. You guys
Speaker 1: heard if you haven't gotten to it yet again, got
Speaker 1: to check out that Steph Curry Draymond Green interview as
Speaker 1: they talked about they are a deep team. A lot
Speaker 1: of playoff teams around the league right now kind of
Speaker 1: have their seven or eight guys that they know for
Speaker 1: the rotation. As Steph and Draymond we're talking about today,
Speaker 1: they are deep. They've got four or five guys that
Speaker 1: will be in and out of the rotation on any
Speaker 1: given night. The idea there is they have so much
Speaker 1: speed and athleticism in depth to go to that they
Speaker 1: should be able to cover all the ground they need
Speaker 1: to to make up for that. The way that those
Speaker 1: actions work, again, these are actions that are not being
Speaker 1: run by superstar players. You're not dealing with, you know,
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant coming off of a dribble handoff. You're not
Speaker 1: dealing with, you know, Damian Lillard coming off dribble handoff.
Speaker 1: These are pretty average guards and wings that are coming
Speaker 1: off these dribble handoffs. So it's the action that compromises you.
Speaker 1: You can make up for that with a commitment on
Speaker 1: the defensive end to help and rotate and recover around
Speaker 1: with each other. That's something I think the Warriors are
Speaker 1: absolutely going to be capable of doing. I think the
Speaker 1: Warriors are gonna win this series in five games. I
Speaker 1: do think Yogis will get one at home. He causes
Speaker 1: enough pro bloms with his size and the and the
Speaker 1: Warriors in particular are not a big front court team.
Speaker 1: That's that's been their biggest weakness. That's why they're so
Speaker 1: paranoid about James Wiseman and the fact that he hasn't
Speaker 1: been able to play it all this year. They need
Speaker 1: interior size, that's there. That's Denver's big advantage. I think
Speaker 1: they'll be able to weaponize that to get one win.
Speaker 1: But I think this is gonna be a relatively easy
Speaker 1: series for Golden State, which is the perfect situation for
Speaker 1: them to get reps and to get their continuity back.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, that is all I have for tonight.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys as always. We are off tomorrow,
Speaker 1: but we will be back on Saturday for Day one
Speaker 1: of the NBA Playoffs, and I can't wait. I'll see
Speaker 1: you guys in a couple of days.