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00:00Boy.
00:01Yeah, boy.
00:02Warriors.
00:03They're shambles.
00:04But do you feel me on Kaminga, though, his verbiage?
00:09What's your bottom line with Kaminga?
00:11What do you want me to agree with or disagree with?
00:15That he doesn't think he doesn't have the skill set right now to play three.
00:19I would probably agree with that, that he probably thinks he's doing it better than
00:24Steve Kerr thinks he's doing it.
00:25So what does that mean in the end result, if you're listening to Dre, who, my goodness,
00:32was a basketball savant with that sound?
00:34If you're listening to Steve Kerr, I guess that's what concerns me, is the guy that it
00:40should matter most to, maybe hadn't been in the lab trying to work out, maybe he doesn't
00:45think he has a rebounding problem.
00:49I mean...
00:50He can cut with the best of them.
00:51He can cut?
00:52Yeah.
00:54The athletic is all outdoors.
00:57You look at him like, boy, you should just kill the three position on the court.
01:03But you don't rebound.
01:05And he doesn't have the ha-ha.
01:08See, I don't think he thinks that, man.
01:11And that's the issue.
01:12I'm not sure what he thinks or he doesn't think.
01:13I'm just trying to figure out a way to get Kaminga on the floor more, because it looks
01:17like some things are stacked against him.
01:20That's all.
01:21Do the Warriors have too many of the same type of guy?
01:25You got me thinking that before we went to break, when you went over, like Moody, Gary
01:30Payton II, Melton.
01:32And I love all of them, but it's like, oh boy.
01:34Let me just do this real quick, and if you want to jump into this conversation, we're
01:37talking Warriors 8-8-8, 9-5-7, 9-5-7-0.
01:43The Warriors open up their season Saturday against the L.A. Clippers, first exhibition
01:48game.
01:49They go to training camp this week, and there's already been a lot of nuggets that have come
01:53out from where they are in Hawaii.
01:58Do you want to get these guys on the court?
02:00Just say yes or no.
02:01Steph Curry.
02:02Yes.
02:03Wiggins.
02:04Yes.
02:05Green.
02:06Yes.
02:07Melton.
02:08Yes.
02:09Payton.
02:10Yes.
02:11Heald.
02:12Yes.
02:13Kyle Anderson.
02:14Yes.
02:15Looney.
02:16Yes.
02:17Kaminga.
02:19Yes.
02:20Guys.
02:21Like, they, they, this team has never been more poised, I think, to make a move.
02:26How many guy-guys are there in that 11?
02:29I count two, or one and a half, and I'm being real.
02:32Well, and that, you know what I mean, Stony?
02:33Yeah.
02:34I mean, it could be a strength, and it could be a weakness.
02:37I do think they're deep.
02:39How quality is their depth?
02:42I mean, they got pros on this roster.
02:44There's no doubt about it.
02:46It's just a matter of figuring out how you divvy up the minutes.
02:50Who's going to be the odd man out?
02:54Somebody's going to be wanting more playing time.
02:58Probably a guy, a guy and a half, or two guys.
03:01But I'm mostly focusing on Jonathan Kaminga right now, and how do we get this kid on the
03:07court?
03:08888-957-9570.
03:09Let's go out to Devon.
03:10Devon's in an Uber.
03:15What's going on, Devon?
03:17How you doing, man?
03:18Hey.
03:19Good morning, guys.
03:20How you guys doing?
03:21Doing well.
03:22Yeah.
03:23So I wanted, first of all, man, I'm so happy to talk warrior ball again, man.
03:30From playing ball, I need people to understand this.
03:34Kavon Looney can shoot the ball.
03:36Kavon Looney can dribble the ball for a man his size.
03:40But we don't see him do that in a lot of people.
03:43So a lot of people don't think he can, right?
03:45The coaching staff already has their built-in plans on what they want guys to do.
03:50I don't think Kaminga isn't a good rebounder.
03:53I think for most of his career, he wasn't asked to rebound the ball until fairly recently,
03:59right?
04:00And he's somebody that they wanted to get out and transition, right?
04:04Because he can finish at the rim at a high level.
04:06So with, um, I think that him and Wiggs being at different positions, I think they're going
04:14to flourish.
04:15Um, I'm not saying I'm not saying finals, I'm not saying deep run, but I think it'd
04:21be better than what most people expect.
04:23I think it's, you need that.
04:25You need to be able to switch man with all we all, it seems like a lot of offenses are
04:29being run.
04:30It's a bunch of, okay, who's the weak link.
04:33That's who I want the screen on me, you know, for mismatches, but to have trace and, and,
04:39and Dre there for, for defense, Kaminga and Wiggs for defense, which lets Steph be able
04:45to go for 30, 40, 50.
04:47I like that.
04:48I'm not going to lie.
04:49Uh, and I do agree with you though, with Milton, Milton's a solid pro Moody.
04:54I wish he can get some burn, man.
04:56And I, I actually want to see the guy play and if it means not in the Warriors, so be
05:01it, even though I would like for him to play, but, uh, just, just, just to, just to call
05:06in.
05:07I like the lineup, you know, and I, and, and I, and I hope that with a year of Kaminga
05:11is saying, okay, this is what it's like to get some love and respect.
05:15Hopefully he'll make the next jump.
05:17Hopefully Wiggs is okay psychologically and, uh, and, and they get something going to take
05:23a month.
05:24Hey, let me leave you with this too, Stani, cause he, he says something about Kaminga
05:27who I'm rooting for.
05:29We all are.
05:30But at the end of the day, rebounding is a want, it's not a, Hey, go out there and rebound.
05:35And the reason I bring up pods is when pods hit the floor, I don't believe they said,
05:40Hey, you need to rebound.
05:41He went out there and did it cause it was a want and a will.
05:44And it kept his ass on the floor and look what it did for his year.
05:48Now he's a fixture, a staple, maybe a possible starter.
05:52So when it comes to rebounding, Stani, that's the dirty work.
05:55Kaminga has all the athletic gifts and prowess to be able to get eight boards in his sleep,
06:02nine, and he doesn't do it.
06:04So for the caller to say, they need to identify and tell Kaminga, we need you to rebound.
06:09I don't think that like, I don't like that.
06:12Kaminga should already know that's going to keep me on the floor and it hasn't because
06:18he doesn't do it or he doesn't want to do it.
06:21Well, I, I'm a firm believer in that particular skill rebounding.
06:25I kind of believe you either got the knack for it or you don't, I just do.
06:30I mean, I'm looking at the per 36, pods is a better rebounder than Jonathan Kaminga on
06:36a game by game basis.
06:38And if you gave pods Kaminga's body, he might double that.
06:43He might just, he might now he might, uh, let's go to Ray in Watsonville.
06:50Hey Ray, what's going on, man?
06:53Let's talk some more.
06:55Yeah.
06:56Hey guys.
06:57Hey, Hey, you know what?
06:58I was hoping that Kaminga would be much better going in the last year and he was kind of
07:06just the same.
07:08I think that, uh, I think, you know, here it is, this year, think about this.
07:12Okay.
07:13Year four, he's going into, he's got the greatest shooter in basketball on his team.
07:18He's got a dream on who is, I mean, listen to him talk about basketball, man.
07:23It's just, uh, I mean, it just drives me a, uh, I mean, he's got such a wealth of
07:29information and you have that on your side and yet he's not, he's thinking that he's
07:34a number one or a two and he can't even get on the, now you're listening to the coach
07:39and listening to everything you guys are saying, it's going to be hard for him to even get
07:43on the court.
07:44So with that being said, how are you going to extend him?
07:48Or if he's looking for, you know, top money, I think he's going to, I think he is going
07:53to, he is going to be a good player, but I don't think it's going to be with golden
07:57state.
07:59It's going to have to be somewhere else.
08:00And I think we probably should have traded them during the summer instead of trying to
08:03wait until the deadline.
08:04What do you guys think?
08:05Yeah, I don't.
08:06Wow, man.
08:07That's heavy.
08:08I mean, you get into an issue now where if, if you don't sign him to an extension, then
08:15if you look to trade him, the team that's trading for him knows they're going to have
08:19to pay him.
08:20So you're going to have to find a team that really likes cominga and I think there's some
08:26out there.
08:27More than the Warriors.
08:28They're like to hell with this three or four.
08:30We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, Hey, we'll deal with it on our watch.
08:33Well, we'll see.
08:34I don't know.
08:35Is there a clamor for cominga around the league?
08:38Because if there is, then you'd probably have to explore moving him, especially if it's
08:44still all about step.
08:46See, that's the other thing.
08:47The one thing that that's been hammered home again, this off season is, Hey, it is about
08:51staff and doing the best we can as quickly as we can.
08:56And that to me points right to cominga, but, and again, this is not, and I'm not, and we're
09:02not doing it.
09:03It's daddy.
09:04We're keeping it real.
09:05We're excited.
09:06I don't want to sound like I'm piling on cominga, but if the reports are true and what you just
09:11said about Steph Curry, I believe it is all about him and it's about getting him the best
09:17possible chance to win another chip or get back or go deep.
09:20If the reports are true this summer, this past summer's Donnie, that the untouchable
09:26youngster was not cominga and it was pods, then you're losing a certain race that you
09:32might not even know you're in when you should, they should be ready to break you off that
09:37extension right now.
09:40And the fact that pods was the guy after one year that was deemed Elliot Ness, Donnie untouchable.
09:46If that's, that should be handwriting on the wall to cominga, I got to get stuff going.
09:52I mean, it's also pods kept stepped into a different situation than, than cominga did.
10:00Cominga got drafted to a championship team that was locked into Wiggins at three Draymond
10:06at four.
10:07So he was, he was going to have an uphill battle, especially at an early age.
10:10Pods got to come under this team as a backcourt player during a year where clay Thompson didn't
10:18have a great year.
10:19So pods got to come in here right away and play.
10:23Whereas cominga didn't have that luxury because they were better when cominga was drafted
10:27and the two guys ahead of cominga are still here.
10:31So I'm not sure what you do there, but it does feel like that's going to be the fundamental
10:37problem that the Warriors have to solve.
10:41Where do they get minutes for both cominga and Wiggins and still have Draymond Green
10:46in the mix at, at, at the four, occasionally playing them at the five.
10:53And it's, it feels like Steve Kerr views the entire situation as trying to shoehorn cominga
11:02in there rather than, well, I'm going to cominga because cominga is a damn good player.