WEBVTT - What's Wright - Grizzlies-Warriors prediction & NBA Play-In, Lakers-Wolves + NBA awards 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:05.040 Welcome in What Driving Nick Wright Episode three nineteen, Huge Show, 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:09.039 Huge Day, fresh off the Masters, NBA Playoffs starting and 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:15.000 fresh potentially with a new what Big Day for What's Right, 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:20.200 maybe a new partnership. And today, if not today, certainly 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:23.560 this week we're gonna two hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:27.120 So shout out to everyone works on the show, Shout 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:31.280 out to Demand myself, everybody, Blue Duck, volume, all the folks, 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.280 and shout out to my friends at Seat Geek. More 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.320 on them later in the show. But I had a 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:38.840 big meeting a few weeks ago and they're like, hey, 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.960 who are some brands you actually use? Like things you 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.600 actually use. I'm like, well, you already took care of 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.879 the sports betting with my DraftKings. That's a check. And 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:52.040 I was like Peloton every day, five days a week 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.920 during the NBA playoffs, but that's fine, five to seven 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.960 days a week. I said that cars, I said, Mercedes, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.760 still looking at them. Sharpie's Sharpie. I've been trying to 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.160 get you guys for ten years. I mean your number. 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.399 They're probably like, we don't need to pay to endorse it. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:11.880 He he advertises us more than anyone ever and Seat 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.520 Geek because I had just when they had talked to me, 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.280 I had just bought those courtside tickets to Lakers Grizzlies 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.880 hadn't gone yet on seat Geek. I bought my theater 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.440 stuff on seat Geek, and guess what, seat Geek's now 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.400 a part of the What's Right team and so more 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.080 on them in a bit, but appreciate them as always. Demanse, 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:31.759 how are you. I know you've been a little under 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:32.080 the weather. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.520 I'm pretty good. Good at sea pops still a lot 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:35.959 better these days, but we're on the. 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:41.320 Okay, good, you sound good. You sound better than I thought. 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.760 Your mom talked to you this weekend. She was like, 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.679 Demansey's sick, he's coughing and all this stuff. I was 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:51.320 like Tuesdays and she'd show because listen, we can't do 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.200 and I understand. Warriors Clippers happened. We have Lakers Thunder 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.240 or Lakers Timberwolves. My NBA Awards ballad is today we 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.720 are pre emptively bumping our NFC over Unders. Instead of 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.480 during the show, as we've done three straight shows before 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.359 the show, We're now doing that Thursday because Wednesday night 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.960 we're not gonna need to talk Thursday, we're not gonna 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.000 talk a lot about the Wednesday Night nine ten muck 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.600 play in games. So Thursday when doing NFL over unders today, 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.000 we're gonna do awards ballots. But you know, we also 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.919 have to do the producers. You know, the producers all 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.760 of a sudden, they care a lot about the utube algorithm, 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.640 about what goes viral, and they're like, eh, Clippers, Warriors, 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.560 was Sunday Lakers stuff does really well. Maybe we can 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.320 trick Nick into not talking about the Masters by putting 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.480 in what missed the cut. So here's what missed the 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.359 cut and including what's gonna be a five to twenty 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.160 minute missed the cut segment. It won't be twenty, but 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.920 it's gonna be a few minutes. Dallas drafts Pagebeckers number one. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:51.400 That was obvious. Max Crosby's new assistant GM in Eastern Michigan. 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.880 That doesn't matter. Here's what does matter. Rory freaking McElroy 0:02:55.760 --> 0:03:02.000 in an all time Masters Sunday, an all time Masters tournament. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:06.200 In the last six years, Demons, there have been twelve 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.520 people to walk on the moon. There have been two 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:14.360 people to complete the career Grand Slam and Golf Rory 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.960 just became one of them. It's just facts. Since the 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:24.000 advent of colored television, you up until Sunday were twelve 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.320 times more likely to walk on the moon to complete 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.720 the career Grand Slam. Just fact, and Rory had been 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.120 trying and trying and trying. The five people who had 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.640 completed it before they completed it, it was Sam Sneid, 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:42.920 Gene Sarazen, Gary Player, Jack Nicholas and Tiger Woods. Fact 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.360 checked me on that producers. But I'm ninety percent sure 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:50.160 those were the five. Sarahzn Sneed Player, Nicholas Woods. Those 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.880 five guys all completed it either on their first try 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.840 or their second or third try. Rory was on a 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.800 had eleven tries tries, couldn't get it done, and then 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:08.320 this weekend he goes into Sunday with the lead. So 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.360 let me back it up a little bit. Thursday, Rory 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.800 having one of the best masters. Oh, I gave it 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.760 to Sam Snead. It was Ben Hogan. My apologies, my goodness, gracious, 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.279 terrible job by me, Good job by Sam Snead for 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.240 me thinking it was him, but obviously it's Ben Hogan. 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.960 I got Sarah and Wright Snead wrong. Doesn't matter. Back 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:34.640 to Thursday, Rory announcing himself, this is gonna be my tournament. 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:40.440 He's on his way, cruising to probably a sixty six 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:47.320 round one in Augusta and then double bogie fifteen, double 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:52.800 bogee seventeen. All of a sudden, a majestic round turns 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:58.440 into even part. What happened? Rory? How does that happen? 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:04.479 But then he rebounds Friday with a great round Saturday, 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:11.000 despite having another double I'm sorry, no. Saturday, another great 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:16.039 round and then we're like, okay, he's the leader. Bryson 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.000 hits a huge putt on eighteen. Bright It's gonna be 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:23.279 Bryson and Rory, the two most popular golfers in the world, 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:29.400 both polarizing for their own reasons. Final pairing at Augusta National. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:33.599 When just last year, when Rory was looking like he 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.120 was gonna win a major, Bryson up and down from 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.280 the bunker at eighteen to steal it from him. Rory 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.159 crestfallen leaves without talking to the press. Everyone gets mad 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:49.599 at him. Sunday though he's got the lead, two shot 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:55.080 lead going into Sunday. At the Masters first hole, another 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:59.160 double bogee, it's now three double bogeys on the round. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.120 Only one guy ever has won the Masters with three 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:07.800 double bogies. He then follows that up with a terrible 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.080 second hole, and all of a sudden, Bryson is in 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:17.720 the lead and the Rory meltdown is on. It would appear, 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:22.479 but it wasn't. He then rallies over the next ten 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.320 holes takes a commanding lead. I think it was a 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:31.520 four shot lead at that point. Demonsay on DraftKings he 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:38.080 is minus twelve hundred to win the tournament, minus twelve hundred. 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.320 All you gotta do, Rory is cruise. Just relax, chill, 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.880 don't worry. Cruise. So we get to the thirteenth hole. Sorry, 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:48.800 my phone's playing the sound because I'm looking at the 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.400 highlights so excited. Get to the thirteenth hole. He is 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.159 a four shot lead. Bryson has melted at this point 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.600 to par five. He's been going for par fives and 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:03.359 two all weekend. Is you know what, I'm gonna be smart? No, 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:07.920 Jean van der veldeing here, I'm gonna lay up, leave 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.480 myself a beautiful eighty yards to get on the green 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.720 and he duffs it. One of the worst pitch shots 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.200 you'll ever see a professional golfer hit right into the creek, 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.080 right into the creek from eighty yards out, and all 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.400 of a sudden he has his fourth double bogie of 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.280 the day. All of a sudden, it's a tournament again, 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:38.640 and nobody can believe it's happened. So we but very 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:44.320 next hole another Bogeye is the Rory meltdown complete? It 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:49.360 is not an amazing fifteenth and seventeenth hole, And all 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:53.920 of a sudden he gets to eighteen. Justin Rose holds 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.360 the butt. He gets to eighteen, demansay, we just need 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.520 a four, a four, and you put on the green 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:05.280 jacket a four and you're a legend forever. Rory McElroy, 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:11.800 who was such a prodigy in Northern Ireland, his dad 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.440 and his buddies pulled money when he was like ten 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:20.800 years old to bet with the bookies in Ireland. One day, 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:25.520 my son's gonna come back to Europe, to the United 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:29.000 Kingdom and win the British Open. The bookie was like, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:30.800 give me a break. He's like nope. In fact, I'm 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.319 gonna give you the exact details on that. Rory McElroy 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:39.600 dad British Open bet. This is an all time story 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:48.640 So Rory's dad walks in to a bookie shop in 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.120 the UK. He says, I got a fifteen year old son. 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.600 He's gonna win the British Open one day. Me and 0:08:55.679 --> 0:09:02.120 my friends have uh, me and my friends have pulled 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:08.200 together two hundred dollars. Guy's like, well, all right, I'll 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.640 give you five hundred to one on it. It's like, 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:15.000 all right, two hundred bucks to win one hundred grand, 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.839 I'll take it. And ten years later Rory does it. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.520 Twenty six years old. Dad walks back in says, hope, 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.520 you spent that two hundred dollars wisely, give me my 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:29.240 hundred racks. But then Rory went a decade without winning 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.640 a major. Shortly after that, still no Masters, no career 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:36.520 Grand Slam. He walks up to eighteen knowing a four 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:43.680 and I win the Masters. Puts it in the sand. 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:48.720 That's okay, just get it close, Rory, get it close. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.640 He gets it to six feet this putt to win 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:58.920 the Masters, pulls it left missus. Oh my god, this 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.440 is gonna be the most crush loss in golf history. 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:07.840 Playoff hole. Justin Rose been steady, Round one leader, Round 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.480 two leader, just chillin. All of a sudden crazy putt 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.120 for him on eighteen to get in the playoff. Rory 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.240 hits his second set on eighteen in the playoff hole 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.880 within four feet shot of his life, drains the putt, 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.840 puts on the green jacket, weeps, sobs the stuff dreams 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.880 are made of. Now one of the fifteen greatest golfers ever, 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.600 one of the ten greatest golfers of the last one 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:37.720 hundred years, Rory Dan McElroy And oh yeah, have you 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:42.240 looked at the other majors this year? One is the 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.520 PGAs that of course he crushes. The US Opens, that, 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.160 of course he's won at. And guess where the British 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:53.679 Open is? Demons in Northern Ireland where he's from. Oh my, 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:00.679 what a what a weekend of golf. All of that 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:05.160 took place on me and your mom's anniversary. And I 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:10.400 was sitting in a sports book in Philadelphia, where man 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.600 sometimes being in Philadelphia being Nick Wright can suck. And 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.680 I don't know if your mom gave you this story. 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.920 It was I disarmed everybody all day. Everybody that came 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.040 up to me, I could see in their eye like 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.720 they want to talk trash to me. So every single 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.520 person that came up to me. I said congrats on 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.840 the super Bowl before they could say anything, and I 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:35.160 disarmed everyone. Everyone because of that was quite nice, except 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.760 for one person who was a little drunk at a 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.920 bar and really got in my face and was really 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.000 quite rude to me. And here's the tricky part about that. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.000 That one person happened to be a female, and your 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.480 mom was sitting right there and I was like, oh boy, 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:52.800 this is not going to go well for anyone involved. 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.760 Her boyfriend's recording I'm like, oh, she like really played 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:00.400 this whole confrontation. I'm like, hey, I congrats leaving you 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.040 win the super Bowl, and she was like, in this 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.720 stupid South Jersey accident, like stop talking all that shit. 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.160 I'm like, I didn't talk any shit. I second congress 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:09.560 to one of the super Bowl. I'm just having a 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:11.600 good time. She was like, then, why'd you come up 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.720 and talk to us. I'm like, okay, you're a hammered 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.280 I'm just listening. And as soon as she said that, 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.120 your mom stood up and I was like, oh boy, 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.720 time to go. Nice to meet you. See you guys later. 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.640 We're out of here. But so that was Saturday, Sunday. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.280 Your mom's out shopping. The reason I even said any 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:34.640 of this in the sports book. Sportsbook folks know me 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.480 and they actually like me. So they're like, hey, Nick, 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:42.680 we have a we have it's a ten TV setup, 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:48.319 two giant ones and then eight good ones. They basically 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.760 gave me the remote for Sunday. They're like, you picked 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.559 the games, you picked the sound. What a dream? Here, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.680 I'm signaling them when to go from the sound of 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.280 the Masters to Warriors Clippers. We've got the Lakers in 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.600 the bottom corner because bronis playing. I've got a bet 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.880 on the Nuggets to beat the Rockets. We got that going. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:12.040 Oh my goodness, what a dream. So all that was Sunday, 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:17.240 capped off by Rory McElroy and capped off by the Warriors, 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.880 potentially wrecking their whole season. Now to the part of 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.680 the show. Everyone who has a financial incentive on the 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.520 show wished I would have led with which is the basketball? 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.319 But I care too much about the golf to leave 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.560 it out. Go ahead? Uh? 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.680 Yes, The play in tournament starts tonight. On the West. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:35.959 We've got Golden State in Memphis. On the East, got 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.400 Orlando and Atlanta. There's lots unpack in Orlando. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:40.839 And Atlanta. So I don't think we're gonna get to 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:41.320 it today. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.679 You wrote, you wrote, you said there's a lot to unpack. Yeah, 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.840 another one who gives it? We're not talking about Atlanta? 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:50.360 Go ahead? 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:50.800 Yeah. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.880 So the big story is Golden State's in the play 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.320 in and the bigger stories. What did you think of 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.760 the game that knocked them into the play in? They 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.400 obviously took an ounce of the Clippers. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.600 All right, So I think a lot of things. I 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:10.200 think the first thing is I owe Draymond Green an apology. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:14.959 Nine years ago, demonse, the Golden State Warriors were playing 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.920 the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference Finals. It's 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:24.200 a very famous series because in those Western Conference Finals, 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.200 the Thunder were up three games to one, and the 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.000 Warriors came all the way back, most famously because of 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.640 Klay Thompson's Game six, a brilliant Game seven, and then 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.480 the Warriors, of course went on to lose their own 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.080 three to one lead in the NBA Finals. Many people 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.280 falsely believe the reason they lost that series was because 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:47.120 Draymond Green got suspended four game five. Now, that reason 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.760 that belief is so absurd is because not only did 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.720 the Cabs blow them ount in Game five, but the 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.840 argument was, well, Lebron wouldn't never scored forty one if 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.080 Draymond was on the court, and so in Game six, 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.840 when Draymond was on the court, Lebron scored exactly forty 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:02.600 one one. Again, but that's neither here nor there to 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:08.160 the apology. So in those NBA playoffs, the reason Draymond 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.760 Green got people falsely believe Draymond Green got suspended for 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.840 punching Lebron James and the groin. That is not We're 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.000 slapping him in the groin, however you want to put it. 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.160 That is not quite right. Draymond Green got suspended for 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:27.720 accumulating four flagrant foul points. He got a flagrant foul 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.120 in round one against the Rockets for body slamming Michael 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.440 Beasley as the game was ending, in something that no 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.720 one quite could ever figure out why he did. He 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.760 got a flagrant foul point for slapping at Lebron James. 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:45.880 But in the interregnum of that, he got a flagrant 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:50.240 foul point for attempting a layup and kicking Steven Adams 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:54.200 dead in the groin. And so all that accumulated, and 0:15:54.480 --> 0:16:00.640 I was very vocal that that was obviously intentional, because 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:05.720 no human being ever has ever shot a layup and 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:10.280 had part of the layup motion b their left leg 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.800 go at a ninety degree angle into the air towards 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:17.600 the baseline. So obviously he was trying to do it. 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.600 Nine years later, I'm here to tell you, Draymond, I 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:26.320 apologize I was wrong. Turns out you sometimes just spaz 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:30.320 out on layups because with the game on the line 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:38.360 down two in overtime, Draymond Green had a wide open layup, 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:43.360 no one to kick, and in some weird failed attempt 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:48.680 to draw a foul. I guess kicked the air, fell 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:54.600 backwards and smoked the layup. And that was only one 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:59.640 of his two grievous late game mistakes. So the other 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.560 one is this, and the broadcast I think screwed this 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:10.560 up end of regulation. The Clippers get the ball, tie game, 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:16.720 thirty one seconds left. So what that means is make 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.960 or miss. The Warriors are going to get the last shot. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.360 You play solid defense for twenty twenty four seconds, you're 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.040 gonna have seven to ten seconds if you're Golden State 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:34.359 with a timeout. Kawhi gets the ball with four on 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:39.280 the shot clock and now eleven on the game clock 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:46.480 and Draymond panics and takes a foul to give, which 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:48.879 the broadcasts like, oh, that's no problem, they're not in 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.560 the bonus's foul to give. It was a problem because 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.000 now the shot clock resets to fourteen, there's only ten 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.600 seconds left it Now the Clippers get the last shot, 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.560 and now the worst thing that worst case scenario for 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.360 the Clippers is overtime as opposed to worst case scenario 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:10.000 being losing. So Draymond messed up the end of regulation, 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:16.320 smoked the layup at the end of overtime, and all 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.560 of a sudden, the Warriors are in the play in. 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.240 There's another part of that game that I must address 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:33.320 because Steph Curry. Listen, Steph was utterly brilliant in the 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:38.000 fourth quarter of that game, hit hell hit a shot 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.000 that he thought was the game winner. I know because 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.440 he did his shimmy afterwards in the end up losing. 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:49.119 And I even can not ding him too much for 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:53.920 the eight turnovers in that game, even though those were rough. 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.320 But when Kawhi' is locked like that and held, Chris 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:02.520 Dunn is real impressive defensively, all of a sudden, you're 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:06.159 gonna force some turnovers find so be it. But the 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:08.160 other thing that happened at the end of that game 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.399 is something that has happened to Steph Curry at the 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.760 end of close games, particularly close, high leverage games for 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:18.840 his the majority of his career, which is Steve Kerr 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:23.400 takes him off the court because he is a defensive liability. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:32.200 And I understand that people get so enraptured by Steph 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:39.399 Curry's offensive brilliance one of one shot making, the gravity 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.920 as on the game, all of it and sustained excellent 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:46.880 at age thirty seven, that people sometimes get a little 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.679 over their skis and they're like, not only is he 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:54.480 top ten? Why is he not in the goat conversation? 0:19:56.280 --> 0:20:08.560 And I have been hesitant to have him quite officially 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:13.160 crack my all time top ten, so my all time 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:19.600 top twelve in order. Longtime listeners know this, viewers know this, 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:21.880 and I will do this off the top of my head. 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:23.560 I will know I will get it right if we 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:32.840 end with twelve. Is lebron Kareem, Michael Magic, Russell, Wilt Duncan, 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:42.040 Kobe Bird, dream Shaq, Steph so Shack and Steph are 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:46.399 right on the outside barely. They are both one of 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:51.879 one unique forces in NBA history. They both, however, have 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:55.840 one feature that no one in the top ten does, 0:20:56.720 --> 0:21:01.680 which is, in the some of the biggest games of 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:09.920 their careers, their team took them off the court because 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:14.240 of a flaw in their game that they were never 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:19.000 able to quite correct. For Shaquille O'Neill, it was late 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:23.119 game free throws if they had a lead late and 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.840 the other team was definitely going to foul. Phil Jackson 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.840 would say to Shaq, we're better off with you not 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:36.000 on the court this possession. And Steve Kerr, for STEP's 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:40.960 entire career, if given the opportunity to go offense defense, 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.680 we'll have one of the greatest players of all time 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:47.040 stand next to him rather than be on the court. 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:55.800 It's not disqualifying from anything other than jumping guys like 0:21:56.000 --> 0:22:03.320 Dream and Bird and Kobe and Donky, So it's not disrespectful. 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:05.840 You still have him ahead of doctor j out of Jokich, 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:08.360 out of Jerry West, out of Oscar, out of Jiannis, 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:13.440 hat of Durant, head of all those guys. But you 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:20.840 saw it again, and so those were my initial takeaways, 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:27.280 and then my further out takeaway was, wait a minute, 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:34.520 Kaminga wasn't under the weather, Kaminga wasn't dinged up, Kaminga 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:40.280 was a fully healthy DNP coaches decision, which again maybe 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.280 that was covered during the broadcast, but I was toggling 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:47.880 sound masters to the NBA, and so I didn't realize 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:55.320 that that is a huge story and what that means 0:22:55.320 --> 0:23:02.240 for the Warriors vibe check going forward and the Warriors' chances. 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:06.000 So Golden State had it all out in front of them, 0:23:07.680 --> 0:23:11.760 where if they had just taken care of the Spurs game, 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:16.360 which they blew in a horrific fashion. And I don't 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:19.879 know if we've talked since then, but that Spurs loss, 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:22.359 just like I think we did it on Thursday. I 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:27.080 don't know. I think it doesn't matter. Really echoes through 0:23:27.119 --> 0:23:31.480 this season, much like the Spurs win over the Nuggets 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:34.560 last year cost them the one seed. Echoed through that 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:36.280 season when the Nuggets all of a sudden, they are 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:42.879 blowing a game seven to the Timberwolves. So that loss 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:44.399 made it to where the Warriors weren't going to be 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:46.880 able to get to the four or five line. This 0:23:47.040 --> 0:23:50.320 loss puts him in the play in and we have 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:56.080 seen the Warriors have issues in the play in, Lebron 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:58.560 hit the three over steph their first game ever in 0:23:58.640 --> 0:24:07.359 the play in. Draymond then smoked a layup as time 0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:11.359 expired in their elimination game of the play in. They 0:24:11.400 --> 0:24:15.720 went to overtime and the Grizzlies beat them. And then 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:19.679 last year, Clay has the worst game of his career 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:21.480 and they lose to the Kings in the play in. 0:24:21.840 --> 0:24:26.879 That's over three And while no one has been less 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:31.520 impressed by the traveling circus that is the Memphis Grizzlies 0:24:31.560 --> 0:24:34.639 than me, as of late, the Grizzlies can win tonight, 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:41.320 and if the Grizzlies win tonight, demand the Warriors season ends. 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:46.959 Not because the Warriors won't beat the winner of MAVs Kings, 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:52.080 but because the Warriors, having cost themselves a week off 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:59.200 dealing with Jimmy Butler's quad contusion, Jonathan Kaminga's ego contusion, 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:04.639 and then all of a sudden heading into Oklahoma City, 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:07.760 will get absolutely cooked. 0:25:09.520 --> 0:25:13.360 What's going on with Jonathan Mingo? You're saying the egle thing. 0:25:13.400 --> 0:25:15.800 What's well Curb sounds like. 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:19.439 For the first time in three months. Kerr was like, no, 0:25:19.560 --> 0:25:25.120 you're just not in the rotation, And. 0:25:23.800 --> 0:25:26.640 I mean by the X factor for that team. Maybe Pods. 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:28.159 I could see Pods being that. 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:32.000 But whatever it is, Man, Kerr just decided in our 0:25:32.000 --> 0:25:34.560 biggest game of the year, we are better off giving 0:25:34.600 --> 0:25:38.159 you zero minutes, and it was and according to the 0:25:38.200 --> 0:25:41.960 people who've covered that team, the closest the players are 0:25:42.000 --> 0:25:45.800 not mad about it. So that's like, now Kamingo's kind 0:25:45.800 --> 0:25:47.520 of been on the ounce. He wanted a big contract. 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:50.080 I didn't give it to him, but still you thought 0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:53.000 that he was going to be important. And so now 0:25:53.040 --> 0:25:57.119 the Warriors' best case scenario is they go into a 0:25:57.200 --> 0:26:01.680 two week all out death match with the email Udoka's 0:26:01.760 --> 0:26:06.520 Rocket squad, with Amon Thompson fresh off holding Steph Curry 0:26:06.560 --> 0:26:11.959 to three points, putting him in jail for two weeks. 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:15.560 And if you're lucky enough to get out of that 0:26:15.760 --> 0:26:18.840 series only bruised and battered, you have the Lakers waiting 0:26:18.880 --> 0:26:25.320 for you. So none of that's good man. So I 0:26:25.359 --> 0:26:29.119 think this weekend was disastrous for the Clipper or for 0:26:29.160 --> 0:26:34.560 the Warriors, and I think they absolutely could lose tonight. 0:26:35.400 --> 0:26:39.760 I know they're seven point favorites. I like, you know, 0:26:40.160 --> 0:26:45.880 Jah is a live grenade and he can go off. Yeah, 0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:50.359 And so I think that is very dangerous. I know 0:26:50.400 --> 0:26:52.639 you have another play in question. Do that and then we. 0:26:52.640 --> 0:26:54.840 Can uh yeah, So how do you feel about the 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:56.720 play and do you think that it should maybe be 0:26:56.840 --> 0:26:59.399 taken or should they leave it to give you know, 0:27:00.200 --> 0:27:03.159 teams like players like Steph the opportunity to make it 0:27:03.200 --> 0:27:05.320