The Play-In Situation Is Set Up Well For The Warriors

The Play-In Situation Is Set Up Well For The Warriors

That’s what makes it great yeah all right let’s uh what is this all right Warriors 888 957 yeah I asked you a question about the front Court like eight well that was before L told me to go to break a minute early um tjd Jo Mar gree Fu Court what

Do you think about that well I think it works against certain matchups you know uh I do like the high low uh matchup when offensively let’s go offensively you’re going to have Draymond Green at the top of the key okay so who are the other guys that are going to be with

Them is it going to be Wiggins clay Steph cuz I think that that works against some lineups where it gets a little clunky for me is when teams sag off of Draymond and they’re sagging off of tjd and you don’t have tjd as a high

Pick and roller I I do believe that that lane can get very very very clogged um and then it allows that Free Runner who’s not guarding Draymond to be able to double and sag off of things so now all those guys coming off of screens you’re not getting clean looks off those

Screens off those those staggers guys are already hedging and jumping them so it really is matchup dependent for me yeah I’m with you but I like it I mean like there are points in the game where I like what I’m seeing I think TJ D’s hands have been the biggest Revelation

For me watching him this year I think in this it’s funny you bring up his hands we mentioned this on the postgame show and I asked fezy this said his hands for a rookie now I know he played four years in Indiana but I I don’t never see him like

Bumble the ball fumble the ball or Los a ball like his hands are like vice grips he gets his hands on that basketball he catches it and he knows what to do with it it’s rare that you see him drop a pass and he finishes around the rim with

Both hands really well um for a guy that’s not huge I mean he’s tall relative to the NBA but like relative to his position he’s not a large guy but he finishes with both hands very well around and I like I think tjd AER there’s no question about it is that something you

Do against the hypothetically you’re playing the Lakers okay and they’ve got Anthony Davis no I don’t think that that works against Anthony Davis mat up dependent yeah I think against Anthony D you want to spread them out and you want Anthony Davis to have to move more and

This is where it’s really incumbent on Draymond to have a game like he had last night against a team like the Lakers because then that forces Anthony Davis out from the key you you saw it last year when he’s able to pack into the paint and he doesn’t have to move it

Allows him to help everyone he can shot uh defend around the rim he can block guys like you have to draw him away from the hoop and I think having tjd and Draymond against that team in particular I don’t think I love that but maybe I’m

Wrong no no no no that’s a good point it’s not about being right or wrong Shas you always remember that but but I’m open but but no that’s that’s that’s a fair take cuz I I think I’m with you there um because tjd right now the next

Step for him we always talk about the next step for p The Next Step for kaminga the next step for tjd is to develop a nice little 105 foot little mid-range jumper if he can because people are going to Sag off him they try to play him going to the rack he does

Have a soft tou to R the rim but against Anthony Davis because I think about the Lakers you may have to see them at some point and we all remember that second round Series last year where ludan whether it was Loney or Draymond or jich

Green who jich green had to one game and then flamed out there remember him but he spaced it he spaced the floor you had to guard him but that is a fair qu like ad will sag off into paint just play them so that’s that’s tough and then

Draymond to play the other guy that is a little tough so here’s where I I’m I’m going with this if they play the Suns though in this one game scenario I might be more inclined to to try that lineup out gets nurkic Suns will start who will

They start Beal Booker even though nkit is not the greatest Defender and maybe having more shooting on the floor provides more space but like where’s kaminga at at that point you know healthwise this is why I think they’re all interconnect the more and more I think about it look

The Suns present their own unique set of problems but if you’re asking me Lakers are suns in a one game scenario I think I’m leaning Suns yeah I hear you suns are struggling though man that’s I I don’t look I don’t want to see I I would rather be in a position

Where I wouldn’t have to have the season on the line in a one game scenario but it feels like that’s the only opportunity they’re going to have right now and so I’m looking at it and I’m saying boy the Lakers would be just the worst possible match up because of AD

Yeah ad is a problem ad is a problem by way and like LeBron you know look at the LeBron numbers the last couple of years against the Warriors they’re not that the Warriors have not slowed him down you see what’s on our television screen why you doing that to me it’s the

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Houston Rockets who lost which was thank goodness um the Kings losing Malik Monk Is huge right they they to me feel like a vulnerable team uh all these teams feel very vulnerable so let me just preface that like there’s a reason all these teams are in the box but like

Losing Malik monk you’re losing a big spark Off the Bench for that team he has been he and he’s he’s a warrior killer like he’s crushed the Warriors at times I look at the Suns I don’t know what to make of them I I really don’t I don’t I

Don’t want to face Booker and KD in a one- game scenario but at the same time like they feel very vulnerable like I don’t have a lot of faith in them uh and they’ve only been together for a short period of time like just look at the

Games logged between Beal and and KD and Booker and like they don’t have a lot of synergy and then I look at the Lakers it’s like I think they’re very flawed but I’ve seen them play this Warrior team and they present a certain set of problems in terms of their size the only

Time the Warriors have really like there’s that one game that they went off they should have won the game they ended up losing but like when ad went off the floor totally different game felt like a totally different game for the Warriors they beat the Lakers one time without

LeBron James um that one feels like I have to throw that out the window Am I Wrong see next well we’ll see next Tuesday we’ll see next Tuesday um when the Warriors and not dismissing the Rockets right now cuz like the Rockets I’m going to I’m going to dismiss the

Rockets I’m going to dismiss you think so yeah I am I think so I’m not worried about the rockets at all yeah I’m there with Draymond I’m I’m not worried about their I have a little bit of of worry they they they played their hot streak they had their hot streak

They won 11 in a row they got humble yesterday I just look at it like the Warriors are one turned ankle away from being in a tough spot did you guys see the shot Luca had yesterday at at the three-point line the underhanded like are you kidding me underhanded Luc had a

Great week no he’s having we when he was like he should have drafted me against the Kings and now this I mean doubt he’s having a hell of a week he’s having a hell of a year shasy he’s having a hell of a year yeah this guy is unbelievable hey I mean he’s

Probably gonna come in second place in the MVP voting look at donic what are you crazy steiny says I’m having a hell of a year is that what that was you’re saying to meon that’s deal um real quick you’re talking about like the Suns and you’d rather face

Their schedule right now it might not be the craziest thing if you look at all the sches kings Lakers Suns this what the Suns have coming up at New Orleans home to the Cavs they just got Donovan Mitchell back then they’re home against the Timberwolves Pelicans Clippers at

Clippers Kings Timberwolves and then I look at the K that’s that’s a tough hold on hold on let’s stick on the Suns for a second before we move on to the K I got the king schedule up but just on the on the Suns now yet on paper it looks tough

Okay has to play for the number one seed so that’s going to be a tough and I feel like Shay is trying to go for the MVP as well no doubt maybe I maybe they do something different but the Clippers I think they’re vulnerable they they it feels like they played their

Best basketball second worst defensive rating since the All-Star they it feels like they played their best basketball and right now Dallas is five just think about that Dallas was just in a play in Bo in the box they’re now five if they played the Clippers they played the

Clippers in a series I’m taking the Dallas Mavericks oh in a series yes that’s what I’m saying you’re going through the schedule correct just take this the way they’re playing the form that they’re playing with yeah I just don’t believe I’ve never believed in the clippers but keep going yeah so that’s

That’s all I was going to say like I know I know they’re winning a couple games here and there and they’re trying to get healthy but something’s something’s a Miss with the Clippers something’s off very off so I wouldn’t just and and look who they podcast yeah they do have podcast itis

But number one they beat the Sixers by one point no NB we know the Sixers been struggling and be coming back back this week yep against OKC they beat the Magic by three that’s a good win we all saw Orlando though they can’t shoot they’re they’re Sho really is incredible how

Poorly they shoot when you watch it you’re like wow yeah 3 for 20 by I mean know it’s bad it’s bad back and they’re all trying to get into the to the Lane and they played the Walgreens Hornets like willly and I started call so why

Are you calling them the Walgreens so so War so here’s the joke the Memphis Grizzlies when the Warriors last played to Memphis Grizzlies the Grizzlies had 11 players on their injury report their injury report was longer than the CVS receipt so therefore we started call them the CVS Grizzlies well the the

Charlotte Hornets they W much better there’s no Lelo they miss they had like eight dudes on a bit I mean it was a joke he’s having a career year it’s like yeah there’s no one on the team who’s going to take shots from him we’ be getting to Grant Williams and him and

Draymond late in the fourth quarter or what happened there uh uh can we get into that so the walg GRE the walg greens Hornets is what we were calling them so the Clippers really not fing them well the the my biggest takeaway after this weekend of warrior basketball it’s not so much

About the game yesterday it’s like the so many would a could have shouldas before we even got to this weekend they they should be five games clear of of where they’re at in the standings they should be in that four five6 spot with relative ease like honestly and it’s

Frust in as a warrior fan blown leads self-inflicted wounds with suspensions um you know not coming around to specific lineup changes early in the year whatever the hell is happening at home Steph Curry is is basically alluding like in a joking way hey maybe we should stay in a hotel for our home

Games like they totally flipped what happened last year on the road and this year and then at home I don’t even I don’t even know what to describe but what’s happened I don’t know and and so like I’m looking at the Warriors right now and I’m saying to myself like if

You’ have just won and and I don’t think this is a hot take by any shs like you should be five games better than where you’re at just watching the year play out and and your lack of cohesion some of the the bad possessions laid in games the situational fouling missing free

Throws again guys getting themselves suspended I think there are a lot of reasons like why the Warriors should be kicking themselves for even being in this position now there are in this position there’s nothing you can do about it you can flip it though with eight games left now I’m looking at the

Kings here they’re up three games on the Warriors in the Lost column Kings play the Clippers tomorrow night let’s see how that goes I’ll be tuned in or Warriors be playing the Mavericks so I can’t watch that game but they’ll play the Clippers Tuesday night then they’ll

Go on the road for four games late season East Coast trip starting in New York City Thursday then they play the Celtics on Friday and they play to Brooklyn NS who by the way the Brooklyn NS spona you watch you watch the Lakers they 17 and nothing in the first I mean it

Was a joke let’s go onook I mean it was once again this NBA season’s a little too long I don’t think it’s just I don’t think it’s that I just think they’re some crappy teams like it just how many people do they have injured right now no well people are

Fraudulent you think if that was a that was a like San Antonio for example Kell johnon on laughing the whole time yeah but but Victor’s playing so they miss soad Kell Johnson Vel I hear you I mean and the war Double D scores and the Warriors Vel scored D

Near last time scored 20 a game so teams are taking they’re in full take mode the Blazers have lost two games by 60 plus points they’re all these teams are taking but then the Kings on this road trip think about their four next five Clippers uh Knicks Celtics OKC did they

Come back home against the Pelicans did they play Phoenix and then they end the city seasonal Portland what if they go to six that’s what if they go to and six well I I said there’s about five games that look very losable for them I but

Again it’s easy for me to say that but they look losable for them like and that game against the Suns I that could be a huge game that’s why the Warriors have to continue to hold serve and keep surging here because I’m looking at it and I’m saying to myself what if the

Suns fall down what if the Kings fall down Lakers go up and you get Suns Kings or Kings and Sons 19 game and in the Warriors in the 78 I’d love that like I want to avoid the Lakers I think we’d all love the 78 seed we’d all love the

78 game and even if you lost that game you wouldn’t be eliminated you have one more game and you’ll have that game at home so

The Draymond Green- Trayce Jackson-Davis front court might be working, and at a time when the play-in situation could favor the Warriors.

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