WEBVTT - You're Welcome Dub Nation 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:18.400 On this episode of the Heat Check. Oh boy, it's 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:23.079 the episode that Warriors fans have been waiting for. The 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.360 Warriors are nine and one, folks, So I address the 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.200 month long beef that I've had with dub Nation. We 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:35.160 also get into the most improbable tag team beef I've 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:40.040 ever seen in basketball. Jokic brothers, not Nikola Jokic, the 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:44.680 other two Jokic brothers versus the Morris twins. Cannot make 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.280 this ship up. So do me a favorite brock and 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:55.920 drop that motherfucker beef. Today is dedicated to Golden State 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:00.880 and the media and the fan base and really everyone 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.560 on Twitter who is just coming at me in the 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.200 comments nine and one, nine and one, nine and one, 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.440 nine on one. And I do stand by my take 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.319 that they are the most illusional fan base in the NBA. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.560 Like they believe that even when the Warriors were a 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:18.960 lottery team, that they were somehow making progress, right they believe, oh, well, 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.280 if it was just not for this and for that, 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.479 we would have won the title. And it's like Warriors meet. 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.119 He's like, oh, Jonathan kamingas Jonathan coming is me Jalen Brown. 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.640 Jonathan Kmen is the future of the franchise is like 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.200 you're lying. You know, Bob Myers is not as good 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.679 as everybody wants them to us to believe, but they believe. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:41.000 They are standing and coming after you if you say 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.559 anything negative about their team, and they are this way 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:49.760 all of this week. They're usually smoking something, and this 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.160 week they're smoking this is a new term, smoking that 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:58.800 Trista pack, which means I am the source of getting 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:03.279 murked online because why I was, I mean, I was wrong. 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:08.240 I was wrong. It all began, folks, in August. Andy 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.560 Lou is a friend of the show. Andy Lou and 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:15.359 Sam s Vndiari host a podcast called The light Years Podcast, 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.080 and they talk about the Warriors. I don't know if 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.880 they're really media or fans or what. And so Andy 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:25.000 Lou puts on Twitter the Warriors should start nine and 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.320 one even without Clay first ten games of the season. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.560 And we became friends. Actually last year when my take 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.280 went cool when I said Steph wasn't Batman and then 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.720 he went on an MVP. I think I'm actually good 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.480 for the Warriors. Like every time I say something about them, 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.320 the opposite happens. It wasn't great when I said they'd 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:45.800 go to the finals, and they didn't even make it 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.160 to the playoffs. So anyway, when he said they would 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:53.760 go nine and one, my guy, Andy, I couldn't just 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:59.040 allow this delusion to continue to persist unchecked. So this 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.480 is what this is what I said. This is why 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:08.959 I love Warriors. Media just delusional and fucking hilarious. My god, Andy, Lou, 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:14.360 Warriors should start nine and one, even without Clay. Really, 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:21.320 let's take a look at those first ten games, shall we? La? Lakers, LA, Clippers, Memphis, eh, Charlotte, Atlenta. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.840 Couldn't be five and five, could be six and four, 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.960 but nine and one, you will not be. People got 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.400 very mad at nine and one. You will not be, 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:38.520 so folks, I was a little concerned. I was actually 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.200 a little surprised that that video immediately went viral like that, 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:46.840 immediately two months, three months early from the NBA season, 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.960 ten games in thing went crazy. This was a logical take, like, 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:55.520 no Warriors, no real national NBA person would say that 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.440 the Warriors without Clay Thompson could beat the Lakers and 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.880 the Clippers and the Grizzlies and the Hawks. The Hawks 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:07.120 had just gone to the Eastern Conference finals, so people 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.000 were like, oh, Tristan, I'm coming back and bookmarking this like, ooh, 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.240 I'm gonna save this. And they did. They did save 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.320 it too, they did. But I was confident. I was like, 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:18.000 you do that, you do that, let's revisit this all good. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:23.120 And then sure enough the season came and the Warriors 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:30.040 started rolling Lakers, dub Clippers, dub Sacramento of course, dub OKC, 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:36.040 DUB Memphis, l OKC, dub New Orleans dub and along 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:40.279 the way. Along with every Warriors win, I continued, this 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.039 video kept getting resurfaced, Hey, where are you at? Who's 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.040 here for? Who's here? Where the Warriors are? Three and one? 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.200 Who's here for the Warriors? Four and one? Who's here 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.920 for the Warriors? Five? One? Every victory was like a snowball, 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:56.120 just running going faster and faster downhill, like the momentum 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:00.960 is building. And then things really came to an impetus, 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:07.000 a inflection point, if you will, when the Warriors beat Charlotte. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:12.560 Charlotte was the win when I said to myself, ooh, 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.720 the math. The math is not in my favor right now. 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.920 I don't know, it's getting a little tight. This six 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.440 and four, this seven and three, this eight and two, 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:27.080 even is starting to get a little improbable for me. 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.440 And then of course Andy loo back into my mentions 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.680 after that win, he responded, quote, tweeted it again, brought 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.240 it back to the top of the timeline and said, 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:45.200 Queen we coming, and they came. Boy, yes, they did 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:49.720 screenshots of my TikTok everywhere the little like I made 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.880 a face like and that screenshot became a meme on 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:58.599 like a blunt is my face? Were smoking a Trista 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.760 pack one more, two more game? As we smoking that 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:05.839 Trista peck, God, they were going to smoke me. Jordan Poole, 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.440 him sliding into the camera starts becoming the meme of 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.640 who's here for Trista criek being ratioed online. It even 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.919 made it to Freezing Cold Takes, and you know things 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.760 go viral when you make it to freezing cold takes. Listen. 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:24.560 Nine and one was a ridiculous assertion, me saying that, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:29.800 and a ridiculous assertion might not come true. Isn't that ridiculous? 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.400 So then the Warriors only had left the Rockets and 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.240 the Hawks. Let me tell you, the Rockets they're not 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.400 winning any games this year. So it was the Hawks, 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.440 and everyone knows I love some kvon looney, uh, but 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:48.599 I really love kvon Herder. His name's Kevin, but when 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:52.320 the crunch time comes, he becomes Cavan. I love Clint 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:56.240 Capella and I'm all about Ice Tray. So I'm like, yes, 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:00.440 let's go. Okay, Hawks, don't let me down? Hawks, And 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.279 the video just continues to go viral and more viral. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:07.240 Who's here before the Warriors played Trey Young? Who's here? 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:12.880 Who's here for that? Okay? What do I do next? 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:17.000 People are salivating the time is here, Warrior sights. We're 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.840 blogging about this game before it even happened, Like one 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.800 more game and Trista Creek is wrong? What am I? 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.800 Stephen A Smith? I'm not stephen A Smith? What is 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.600 going on here? So then the game tips off and 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.880 the Hawks are up fifteen points and I'm like, Hawks 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.200 are up? This could be listen and to hedge and 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.440 to hedge my pain. I did take the Warriors minus three, 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:46.640 like I did bet Warriors minus three in case the 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.600 inevitable happens, I at least win money. And then I'm 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:54.760 sort of right, and then I'm like, Okay, I'll lose 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.160 some money for this take to technically be right on 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:01.000 a technicality, I would still be right. And then Steph 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:07.320 went absolutely nuclear. Steph fifty points drops fifty points on 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.480 the last game. I'm like, Steph, here heard it. Steph 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:11.920 had to have heard it. He's like, this is it. 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.920 This is the tenth game. I'm gonna absolutely go bonkers. 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.960 I'm literally gonna hit every shot from half court. Literally 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.400 if I had a dollar for every time the announcer 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.880 said Steph Curry heat check. And I was like, they're 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:28.000 talking about my podcast right now, Steph Curry heat another. 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:32.360 That's three heat checks for Steph Curry. And I'm like, yeah, 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:36.480 it is, it is. We're gonna talk about this tomorrow. Yes, boy. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:42.360 We did so to all of that. To say, how 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.800 do I wriggle out of this? I don't think I can. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.880 The Warriors are nine to one, and I was wrong, 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:55.640 And you know, I wasn't really wrong, because it was 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:02.080 we're in the prediction business. But I was wrong when 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:05.280 I firmly asserted that nine and one they would not 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.560 be because that nine and one right now they are. 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.520 And to be fair, I didn't say they would go 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.440 six and four. I said they could go six and four. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:19.240 Hurt people. That's a very nuanced distinction. It's not technicalities. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.640 So let's break down what's happening with the Warriors. Now, 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.079 all of that to say, we gave you the backstory. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.560 What's happening? Who are the Warriors? Ten games into the season. 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.000 I'm gonna do three things. I'm gonna tell you what 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:36.679 happened that I saw coming, what happened that I absolutely 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.880 did not see coming, because there were some things. And finally, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:44.040 because the Warriors still the fan base, excuse me, the 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.880 Warriors fan base is still delusional. I'm gonna throw a 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.920 little splash, little cool water on you because they are 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.679 now already planning their victory prey. They're already spending money 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.000 on finals tickets like they are. That's where they are, like, 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.959 That's why I troll them. Here's what I saw coming. 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.360 Steph Curry is Batman. Steph Curry is going to have 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.560 an MVP season. Steph Curry is going to go nuclear 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.880 on many nights. He is going to be musty TV. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.560 We're gonna be talking about him all season. Tenth career 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:17.080 fifty point game, tenth fifty point game. He is the 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:21.480 oldest player in the NBA history to ever drop fifty 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:27.880 with ten assists at thirty plus years old. Underneath him 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:32.440 is Wilt Chamberlain at thirty one. Another thing I saw 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.480 coming was Jordan Poole killing it. I mean, everyone on 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.240 Earth said that it would be this breakout year and 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.720 that Jordan Poole would be that way, and he did. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.760 And he bowled the last ten games of last year. 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.880 So he averaged eighteen a game the last ten games, 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:53.040 and he's averaging eighteen now. So yeah, Jordan Poole. Could 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:58.360 Jordan Poole, though, be as much of a consistent force 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.080 a safety valve for Steph until Clay came back. I 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.000 did not know. I wasn't. It wasn't affirm no, but 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:10.400 it wasn't affirm yes. But also what I did see 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.360 coming that a lot of folks did not see coming 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.079 because they're still mad about this take, is that Kaminga 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.680 and Moses Moody or Moses Moody as Kendrick Perkins would 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:23.400 call him, our G League players, they are not guys 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.920 you will lean on in any form or fashion. Because 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.480 everybody was saying, oh yeah, and Kaminga is gonna be 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:31.800 able to play right away, and as soon as him 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.160 and Moses Moody and why no, those three guys are 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.679 non factors. Then the most respectful way I can disrespect 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.760 those three is right now, they are non factors. They're 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:49.000 both all of them right now. Wiseman, Moody, Kaminga all 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:53.560 relegated in some way to the G League. So those 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.760 are the things that did not surprise me. But there 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:01.199 were things that did right. First of all, Andre Gudalla 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.920 I thought was washed. I thought he was washed. I did. 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:09.800 I can't lie. He went to Memphis, sat nowhere, he 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.760 was at home on on his bed. Basically, he was 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.600 not doing anything. He told the world, I'm not playing 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.880 basketball for the Memphis Grizzlies. They are trash. I'm only 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.320 going to a contender. Ended up taking a buy out 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.160 to Miami, excuse me. And then I don't know what happened, 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.280 but pat Riley and Eric Spolster didn't really use Andrea Goodall, 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.400 and I thought to myself, they didn't use Andrea Woodall 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.000 probably because he's old as fuck. Right, he is old. 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.800 He was a Finals MVP. Does he have enough? He 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.200 was a two way guy that once you lose a 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.920 little athleticism, you are now non relevant. I tell you 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:45.319 what it was like. Andrea Gudala went into a cryogenic 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:51.959 freezer in Miami, the heat version of the cryo infrared sauna, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:56.920 where he literally just I don't know, turn if I 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:01.000 could turn back home, you know, like that, That's what 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:05.040 Andre Gudala did in Miami. Like he is now back 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:06.680 in Golden State, which is the only place that he 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.959 wanted to play, Only Golden State. I think there was 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.840 like a little like chatter about the Nets, but not really. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.760 He really wanted to go back to the place that 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:20.120 he actually lives. And now it's like, holy shit, Andrea 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:25.640 Guidala is actually dunking. It's like when Blake Griffin went 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:26.960 to the Nets and you're like, oh, yeah, you were 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.160 playing possum. You weren't actually old, you weren't actually injured, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.280 you were not washed. You just wanted the world to 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:33.800 think you were washed so that they would buy you 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.400 out for nothing, literally, so you would be discarded so 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.880 you could go to the place you really wanted to play. Right. 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.560 I did not see that move coming. I did not 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:48.400 see that move coming. Uh. He is anchoring the defense, 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.640 which we'll get to in a second. That shocking start 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:57.400 is because of the defense. They they were a top 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.520 five defense the last twenty games of last season, but 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:04.640 they had some real struggles midway through. Like they right 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:10.960 now have a defensive rating of ninety seven, which is absurd, 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:16.160 Like that is to communicate how ridiculous that is is, 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.560 Like nobody's even under a hundred besides them, Like they 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.920 are the only team that's holding opponents to less than 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.840 one hundred points. No other team below one hundred. And 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.680 they're doing that because of Andre Guidalla. They're doing that 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:34.560 because Iggy and Draymond Green as a duo are like, yo, 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:38.080 we are gonna be back to this tough, nose, gritty, 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:43.400 defensive minded team. And they're coaching players like b A Leicha. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.880 Be A Leichia is a defensive liability mostly on paper, 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.640 and right now he's playing great defense. Did not see 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.240 that coming. Another thing I did not see coming, which 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.080 we need to talk about is at depth, Like I 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.840 saw that Rasher, I'm like, oh god, they really who 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:02.560 is gonna give them buckets? Is it? Because it can't 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.000 be Draymond Green. Draymond Games and Green's gonnave you eight 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.560 points a night, Like so you got Steph with fifty, 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.760 He can't average fifty a night. So Steph with thirty five, right, 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.760 and then you got Draymon with ten maybe eight, So 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.760 that's forty three forty three points. Where's the rest of 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.760 the points coming from? Okay, then Jordan Poole, we'll call 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.440 it eighteen do the man. They're like, okay, I'm like 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.920 a halfway to one hundred, right, where is it all 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:32.640 coming from? You got Ubre chucking, he's gone, baysmore chucking, 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.120 He's gone. That ended up being a great thing for 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.880 them because the ball stoppers now they're in motion. Now 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.920 everything's moving, people are cutting without the ball. They're playing 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:45.440 the almost like the Beautiful Game version of basketball. Strengthen numbers. 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.000 Damian Lee averaging twelve points a game. I can't believe that. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.840 You got Bielichi. He's playing his part, andre Iguodala, he's 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.480 giving them buckets. I don't know what's happening. I actually 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.640 still can't really make sense of it. You look at 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.000 the box score and you're like, I don't really understand 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.560 and how those numbers all add up to one point fifteen. 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.600 But they do. They lire like two points here, four 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.160 points there, six points there, seven points there. It's like 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:13.240 literally Steph Pool and then a bunch of random little 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.960 sprinkle sprinklings like little salt and pepper, little oregano, little 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.480 time like and then they're the meat, right and then 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.000 you're like, oh yeah, they're getting green beans and matted potatoes. 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.160 Back Klay Thompson's coming, He's gonna give you who knows 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:32.080 twenty five and Gary freaking Peyton Junior the second whatever 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.960 each one. I don't know. He's leading. He's second in 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:38.800 the NBA in three point percentage, fifty six percent. So 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:43.400 it's Lee, Balicha, Peyton and Toscano. Those are guys. Those 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.920 are not guys, you know what I mean. They're not guys. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:50.600 They're guys in this system, but they're not stars. The 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.560 coaching staff I had no idea about either. Like Kenny 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:57.120 Atkinson is known for his player development, and to be fair, 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:00.520 the Golden State Warriors basically looked like track on the 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:06.280 development side, and they cleaned house, bought, hired, hired, we'll 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.480 call it hired, but bought all new coaches to help 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.280 them with the development. And that shit is wor king, 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:17.440 I tell you what. Wh Draymond and Iguidala and Kenny Atkinson. 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.880 He's also known for like his ridiculous practices and training regimen, 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.120 and like it's like Tom Thibodeau came to Golden State. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:29.040 That's that's Kenny Atkinson and they're like, wow, okay, so 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.760 they are playing that beautiful game defensive minded. But on 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.880 top of that, another low key thing I didn't see 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:41.120 coming was rebounding. They are insanely good at rebounding despite 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:45.000 not having a single player averaging more than eight point 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:49.040 eight rebounds a game. Like that's crazy, Like they're all 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.800 just rebounding like crazy because the stop is really no 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.880 good if you're not getting the rebound, because if they 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:56.720 get the rebound off a stop, it's basically like the 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.879 defense didn't even exist. You wear yourself out, nothing, nothing 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.359 works there. Getting stops then secures the boards. Then that 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.320 gets them out in the transition. Too much nerd talk, 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.840 but pretty much the Warriors in that case, when they 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:11.159 get rebounds and they get stops, they are unstoppable. Drouble 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.879 drive hit threes, Night Night Sleep Mask. So all of 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:16.880 that to say, the Warriors don't have to have State 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:21.040 Steph wear the Cape anymore. Steph goes nuclear, but he 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:25.160 doesn't have to go nuclear, if that makes sense, that's 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.960 a huge difference. So now here's where we get to 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:35.160 the cold water portion. I'm sorry Warriors fans, but there 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:39.320 is something ridiculous happening, and the nine and one has 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:43.600 only fueled it. Right. They now believe, you know, believe 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.200 in Ted Lassel and like believe Warriors, like we believe 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:51.080 team like the Warriors fan base now says we are 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.800 winning the title. Let me just be very very clear, 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.720 you are not winning the title this year. They probably will, 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:02.560 They probably will now, they probably will. Now they let 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.320 me just look at the camera and say, if you 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:09.920 win the title after November ninth, twenty twenty one, you're 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.600 fucking welcome. You are fucking This happened with the Bucks, 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.840 has happened with the Bucks. Actually, right around now, eleven 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.240 games into the season, I said the Bucks would never 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.640 win the title, and they won it. So you're welcome. 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:25.280 So you're welcome. Back to that, back to that. These 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.880 these fans aren't even satisfied with the hot start. They 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.240 are now crowning them the kings of the West. They're 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:36.560 now saying that they are ridiculous and like the title contender. 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:38.600 I went on ninety five point seven the game today 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.439 and they were like, are you ready to crown us? 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:41.920 And I'm like no, and they're like, we'll crown them 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:45.360 for you. I'm not trying to harsh your mellow dub nation. 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.600 I'm just being realistic. You haven't beaten anyone at all yet, 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.000 you haven't beaten anyone at the top of the standings. 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:54.359 Yet you have zero wins against anyone in the top 0:19:54.440 --> 0:20:00.360 six of either conference. Like that is something to point out, right, 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:02.680 like something to keep an eye on. You look good, 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.800 but you look good against losing teams. Thirty three and 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:10.679 fifty nine are your combined opponents winning stats. That is 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.760 forty percent winning. If you were to take that, that 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.119 is a top that is a bottom six team in 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:19.679 the NBA, Like they are the bottom of the barrel 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:22.840 teams that you have played against in one So Memphis 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.600 you should have beaten and you didn't, and they are 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:30.560 still kind of right there. Let's circle back ten fifteen 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.120 games down the road. Really, let's circle back in January 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:34.840 after you played the Box and the Nets and the 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:39.240 Sixers and the Sons and Nuggets, and that you haven't 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.560 played any of those teams. Let's not pretend also that 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:44.359 this team hasn't had hot streaks before. They might have 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.080 just had them in the beginning of the season in 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:49.080 the most ridiculously easy hot, like ten to fifteen game 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:51.240 stretch anybody's had in the NBA. I don't even know 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.120 how they got that. Adam Silver just gifting them an 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:57.399 easy hot start. They had many times last year they 0:20:57.440 --> 0:20:59.639 were super hot and then they went ice cold. There 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:01.359 was a reason that I said the Warriors could go 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.040 to the finals last year because of this. This right here, 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:08.119 this team can be this. Will they be this in 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:10.760 times where the playoffs and they trap stuff and then 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:12.879 he's turning the ball over. Oh boy, now we go. 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:16.560 Here we go again? Right. I get Warriors fans that 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:18.399 you think that this year is different. I think this 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:21.560 year is different too. I love that the Warriors are 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:24.840 getting their swagger, and more importantly, clay Back. I love that. 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:26.840 I hope he's fully healthy. I want him to shoot. 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:30.080 I wanted to be a defensive stopper. I want to 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.399 be mobile. I want to be healthy. I like it 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:34.520 when they're good, despite what people think. I like the 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:39.000 Warriors being good. But it is too early for this. 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:41.240 It's too early for this. It's too early to be 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:45.760 like Trista dynasty back on banners. We're just planning out 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:48.239 where the banners are gonna go, or we're doing our 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:51.840 ring sizing. Even andre Iguidal is like, yo, we haven't 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:55.840 played anybody. We haven't played anybody, he said, the hots teams, 0:21:56.000 --> 0:22:00.000 the team's hot start. Okay, it's okay. He noted that 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.560 favorable schedule to open the year. No, shit, it's favorable. 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:06.520 What did I say? It was thirty three and fifty 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:11.200 nine combined winning percentage. Yeah, that is a very favorable schedule. 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:14.520 Nine of Golden State's first twelve games are at home, 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:18.080 so yeah, not quite ready to eat all the crow, 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:20.800 just a little piece of the crow's foot. So my 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:25.680 final message to you guys is fucking beat somebody before 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:27.600 you get all up in my mensions, before we start 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:31.000 sizing guys for their rings, shall we? And in the meantime, 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:32.680 you're fucking welcome. 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:36.199 I'm like this tag team back again. Check get torec kid, 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:38.320 let's begin party on part of people. Let me hear 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:40.760 so nor as DC's in the house jump jump rejoices 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:43.160 of the party over Yeah a party over the way behind. 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:43.919 Said yeah, sick the dead. 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:47.920 Yeah, these three words mean you didn't Zay, whoa. 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:53.720 It is, Get me the beef. I didn't even know 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:57.440 I needed. Oh my god, inject it into my veins. 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:01.080 So here's the story. Uh really this real quick recap. 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:05.560 Nikola Jokic is a hard rock. He is a fucking monster. 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:08.760 He is he's very jolly. He's not playing any games. 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:11.080 He is not playing any games. He he wants all 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:12.880 the smoke. Not only does he want all the smoke, 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:15.480 all his family wants all the smoke. Right. So here's 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:20.040 what happened during the game where the Nuggets somehow someway 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:21.840 beat the shit out of Miami Heat. I don't even 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:25.440 know how. I don't know how without Michael Porter Jr. 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:30.000 Mark Keith Morris decided he was going to put a 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:34.000 hard elbow into Yolkic's back like a side swipe. But 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:37.119 he also put his knee behind Yokic's knee while he 0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:40.720 did that. Very dirty, fucking play, very dirty, and as 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:43.000 he walked away, yok is not having any of that bullshit. 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:47.760 He basically got a head running start and body checked 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:51.800 Mark Keith Morris in the back. He fell fucking hard, 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:56.720 got him boom drops, rolls around in pain. It's a scene. 0:23:57.000 --> 0:24:00.920 It's a scene to behold. Scuttle button happens on the court, 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:04.560 as it always does. Refs come in, both guys get ejected, 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:06.720 and then Jimmy Butler comes in and he's like, Yo, 0:24:07.359 --> 0:24:09.879 bring your ass to the back, bring your ass to 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:12.240 the back. Let's right, bring that shit to the back, 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:15.240 right now, let's fight. You know, he's basically like doing 0:24:15.280 --> 0:24:17.280