Speaker 1: I said they wouldn't do it. I said they couldn't
Speaker 1: do it. I said they'd never do it again. And
Speaker 1: they did it. They did it. The Warriors did go
Speaker 1: nine to one in the first ten games. The Warriors
Speaker 1: did go back to the finals with the same crew
Speaker 1: including Wiggins and Pool, which I thought they needed another star.
Speaker 1: Apparently they don't. And now I have had a couple
Speaker 1: of thoughts and a couple of revelations. One, you're welcome.
Speaker 1: I mean, the mush continues, so if that's what it takes,
Speaker 1: like maybe I'm technically the biggest Warrior fan out there.
Speaker 1: And Two I'm ready to lay down. I'm ready. I'm
Speaker 1: ready to change. I'm tired, dead tired. I didn't sleep
Speaker 1: a wink last night. All I could think about was
Speaker 1: how do I prevent taking so many damn ls on
Speaker 1: these Warriors. So I figured out a plan at around
Speaker 1: three fifteen in the morning last night, when I was
Speaker 1: scrolling TikTok and looking at Summer League outfits on Pinterest,
Speaker 1: Dark Deep Hole, and then I thought to myself, I
Speaker 1: have an idea. I'm gonna bet the Warriors to win
Speaker 1: every single fucking game until Steph Curry retires dead serious,
Speaker 1: dead I'm not joking. This is not a bit. This
Speaker 1: is not a bit. I am dead serious without exception.
Speaker 1: I'm preseason. I'm betting them in the preseason games, Summer
Speaker 1: league games. I'm gonna bet them every game in the
Speaker 1: regular season. Steph Curry preseason, MVP Future, Finals, MVP Future,
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson Finals MVP Future. I'm going to bet them
Speaker 1: every series in the playoffs because we know they're gonna
Speaker 1: get there again. I'm gonna bet them, uh and they're
Speaker 1: over on their win total in the futures market. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bet them to win the West. I'm gonna bet
Speaker 1: them to win it all all by September, every single
Speaker 1: year until Steph Curry is no longer a Warrior. If
Speaker 1: the Warriors lose, do you think I care about that?
Speaker 1: Do you think I care if the Warriors lose and
Speaker 1: I lose money because of it? Do you think I've changed? No,
Speaker 1: I've not changed. I'm just finding a new strategy. I'm
Speaker 1: just finding a new way in and it's I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be rooting for them. You're gonna it's gonna sound like
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for them, but you know, in my heart,
Speaker 1: I'm rooting against them. You know what I mean, Chess
Speaker 1: not checkers. You know what I'm saying. Like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say that there's still a dynasty. I've already started it.
Speaker 1: I've already started on every hit, best franchise I've ever seen?
Speaker 1: Who cares that the first ring that they won without
Speaker 1: KD wasn't with Kyrie because he was injured in Game
Speaker 1: one and was missing Kevin Love? Who cares about that?
Speaker 1: Who cares about that? Who cares that they gave up
Speaker 1: a three one lead to the Calves without Kevin Durant?
Speaker 1: Who cares? They're still the best team. They're light years
Speaker 1: ahead of everyone else. If I lose the money, I
Speaker 1: don't care. I've started to make my own heisty at home.
Speaker 1: The money that I spend on all the is now
Speaker 1: just going to mushing the Warriors. It's called the Warriors
Speaker 1: mush Fund. And I'm either going to be extremely rich
Speaker 1: or extremely happy, and either a way it's a win
Speaker 1: for me. Chi ching, chi ching. It's either a I'm
Speaker 1: like eating off of Warriors tears or I'm eating steak
Speaker 1: dinners off of Warriors dubs. Who cares? Dub nation. I'm ready,
Speaker 1: I'm ready, dub nation and we talk about the Warriors
Speaker 1: moving forward a lot, but it's fascinating to hear Steve
Speaker 1: Kerr reflect on how they got back to the finals
Speaker 1: after missing playoffs two straight years. What was the reason?
Speaker 1: What was the answer of the Steve Kurr said, you
Speaker 1: might wonder Steph Curry because why wouldn't it be. Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be? It's always Steph. It was always Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: Steph Wardell, Stephan Curry. Everything good about the Warriors revolved
Speaker 1: around Steph. Take out Steph. No more light years. So
Speaker 1: Kurr said that the genesis of this team, I guess
Speaker 1: shedding their skin or becoming a butterfly again out of
Speaker 1: being a caterpillar was when he signed his four year,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen million dollar extension. Unlike a lot
Speaker 1: of stars, Lebron James Lebron, Curry put almost no pressure
Speaker 1: on the Warriors to quote unquote win now and get
Speaker 1: another star. Curse said, a lot of stars would have said, no,
Speaker 1: you have to trade all these young assets for a star.
Speaker 1: I need a star. Organizationally, the decision was, let's grow
Speaker 1: these young guys so we can have a bright future.
Speaker 1: Very few people and Steph Shoes would have said, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll embrace it. Let's go to work instead of making
Speaker 1: a big, splashy trade like they were saying, maybe they
Speaker 1: would go out and get Beel. Remember that that was
Speaker 1: big news Ben Simmons. Thank god they didn't do that.
Speaker 1: They use their two first rounders on young players Kaminga
Speaker 1: and Moses Moody, very young, probably never gonna truly truly
Speaker 1: contribute in a meaningful way while Steph is in his prime.
Speaker 1: But they don't care. He's gonna be changing diapers. He
Speaker 1: doesn't care. Don't even get me started on James Wiseman.
Speaker 1: We've talked about that a million bajillion times. But Steph
Speaker 1: just listened to Bob Myers and the plan was, we're
Speaker 1: gonna win now. We're gonna keep this team together, the
Speaker 1: Corps is staying together, and we're gonna draft a bunch
Speaker 1: of youngsters so that this team never falls off a cliff.
Speaker 1: We have a big mortgage on this Chase Center. We're
Speaker 1: not about to go back into meeting when your little
Speaker 1: lass retires. And they asked Steph. Hey. Also, by the way,
Speaker 1: Draymond fell in line. He even voiced his support for
Speaker 1: Kaminga on draft night all the way from Japan during
Speaker 1: the Olympics, if you remember, and so they asked Steph
Speaker 1: why he didn't use his leverage and Steph said, that's
Speaker 1: not how I operate. There were conversations in different paths
Speaker 1: to take, and we all had conversations about going different ways,
Speaker 1: meaning they probably didn't initially agree. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I have a lot of trust in
Speaker 1: Bob Myers, a lot of confidence and what we're about.
Speaker 1: There was no panic. Obviously a help that we won
Speaker 1: a couple of championships that affords some patients, but there
Speaker 1: was no panic in terms of getting me, Clay and
Speaker 1: Draymond another run at it, figuring out how he could
Speaker 1: get pieces around us to make it work. Just patients
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, and now are back
Speaker 1: to the finals. They have Jonathan Kaminga, who's bouncy only nineteen.
Speaker 1: He came off the bench three times. This playoff series
Speaker 1: gave the Warriors eighteen, seventeen, and seventeen three separate playoff games.
Speaker 1: What and then Moses Moody, who nobody expected to do
Speaker 1: anything right away. He spent most of the season in
Speaker 1: the G League, then out of nowhere gave the Warriors
Speaker 1: ten minutes and seven points in a close out game.
Speaker 2: Ridiculous, Not to mention, they found Gary Payton second, literally
Speaker 2: inside of a couch cushion. Literally they cut him and
Speaker 2: he was like, can I just still stay around? Like
Speaker 2: do you mind if I just like still come to practice?
Speaker 1: You on to pay me? It's gonna hang around, And
Speaker 1: then they signed him. Only the Warriors dub nation. We
Speaker 1: in here discarded, nobody wanted him. Has me sick to
Speaker 1: my stomach. It tastes bitter sour like a bad diet.
Speaker 1: The Warriors are back to the Finals with just their
Speaker 1: core three by not panicking taking on a contract they
Speaker 1: might live to regret like La did with Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: But instead they just put their faith in Andrew Wiggins
Speaker 1: and Jordan Poole who's only twenty two by the way,
Speaker 1: and a guy named Gary Payton the second and they
Speaker 1: got to the verge of the Promised Land because Steph
Speaker 1: put his faith in this Silicon Valley crazy mindset of
Speaker 1: winning now and winning later simultaneously. This seemed crazy and
Speaker 1: still probably does seem crazy to most folks on the outside,
Speaker 1: even me. While still simultaneously building for tomorrow in a
Speaker 1: sustainable way. Golden State fans don't deserve this. They don't.
Speaker 1: They didn't do anything to deserve it. They never did
Speaker 1: a thing. They just continue to be entitled. But it's okay.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna profit from it and we are fully of board.
Speaker 1: No negative commentary anymore about the Warriors. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: get me, You're not gonna trick me. It's all Warriors.
Speaker 1: It's gold, gold blooded. That's what they call it. Absolutely gross,
Speaker 1: absolutely gross. All right, really quickly before we run, because
Speaker 1: I gotta go. We got another show to do. Is over.
Speaker 1: It's a round Boston about to kill the heat, thank god,
Speaker 1: the heater or a hospital wing. They have no half
Speaker 1: court offense. Jimmy Butler's on one knee, Kyle Lowry's thirty
Speaker 1: pounds overweight with one hamstring. Victor Oladipo is the only
Speaker 1: serviceable guy they have right now. Tyler hero off of
Speaker 1: bad groin. I mean it's bad. Miami had a hard
Speaker 1: time scoring in the half court when everyone was healthy,
Speaker 1: let alone where they're at now. The only shot that
Speaker 1: we have we I don't even know what we call
Speaker 1: non Warriors fans have. I promise I will not say
Speaker 1: this anymore. Is it Boston wins this series? Because Boston's
Speaker 1: obviously a much better team than the Heat. Miami needs
Speaker 1: to go now after another scorer to open up the
Speaker 1: half court offense. I'm thinking hearing a lot of conversations
Speaker 1: around Bradley Beal. How they get them? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Are they gonna trade Jimmy doesn't feel like that. That
Speaker 1: certainly doesn't help them. They need Jimmy and somebody like Beal.
Speaker 1: Do they trade Bam? I'm not sure, but it does
Speaker 1: feel like for them to be the number one team
Speaker 1: in the East and consistently being slept on because we
Speaker 1: didn't trust Jimmy and we didn't trust Bam and all
Speaker 1: these other randoms, they are randoms. Max Struce, of course,
Speaker 1: he went one for eleven in a big game. Like
Speaker 1: he's Max Stroops. He's undrafted, Like Omer, you're Steven, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's Irmar, Omar, you're seven, you'erked seven? That's his name,
Speaker 1: that's his name. Of course, Duncan Robinson's overpaid. He he
Speaker 1: went to like Wellesley and then transferred to Michigan. These
Speaker 1: are not good blue chip players. Like Victor Oladipo was
Speaker 1: the biggest blue chip player that you have, and he
Speaker 1: has to have a funeral for a knee, so they
Speaker 1: need to figure it out. They got to the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference finals, and I think that's about it. Like, yes,
Speaker 1: they went to the finals. Yes they went to the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference finals. But somehow in your heart and your soul,
Speaker 1: when you say to yourself, is this Heat team prepared
Speaker 1: for the future, what do you say, is it yes?
Speaker 1: Not to me? That half court offense. I am so
Speaker 1: glad I don't have to watch another Heat game for
Speaker 1: a while after this. And I had twenty five to
Speaker 1: one odds on them to win it all. I could
Speaker 1: have won a lot of money. And you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't care. I don't want to
Speaker 1: watch another second of that terrible, terrible team play ugly
Speaker 1: LA Lakers style basketball. Get it out of here, get
Speaker 1: it out. What happens next, I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: pat Riley's gonna be active, just like Dallas will. They
Speaker 1: need to figure out what to do with Kyle Lowry though.
Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry because he's making forty million dollars and he's
Speaker 1: thirty seven million, thirty seven dollars seven twenty million dollars
Speaker 1: a year for two more years. And he's thirty seven
Speaker 1: years old with an injury history. So what do you do.
Speaker 1: Figure out a way to get him to retire. That's
Speaker 1: what you do. Buy him out. Maybe he'll be healthy
Speaker 1: next year and help him and turn him into unas
Speaker 1: has them there it is, I fixed it. That's all
Speaker 1: the time that we have for the heat Check. We'll
Speaker 1: be back on Monday with a new episode, so follow
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