Houston, Warriors Have a Problem...

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00:00All right, I'm looking for somebody to tell me what happened last night with the Warriors.

00:0690-84 with about two minutes left, they end up losing 91-90.

00:11I texted Evan after the game.

00:12I said, what just happened?

00:13He said, that's a great question.

00:16Good, what happened last night?

00:18You didn't text him.

00:20Where was I?

00:21You text him personal text?

00:23Yeah.

00:24Yeah.

00:25Sometimes when I text the thread and I try to be conscientious and straightforward.

00:29What happened to Spadoni and Hive?

00:31Then I get a response that is inappropriate and I try to want to actually have a conversation.

00:38We're in a good mood today.

00:39What's up, partner?

00:40You're looking great.

00:41You did your thing okay.

00:42TVU with Sal.

00:43I would have left the glasses off, but Stiney, I'm telling you, I just feel like they choked.

00:48They choked that game off, man.

00:51And I wanted them to play in Las Vegas, but the bottom line is when you got three possessions

00:57and you got two Hall of Famers on the court and you get two 24 second shot clock violations,

01:02something's wrong.

01:04And we've watched the Cadillac run out of gas in too many games this year.

01:08And I know and I'm trying to be cool, Stiney.

01:11There was no Wiggins.

01:12There was no Moody.

01:14But damn it.

01:15I just I'm sick.

01:16There's no way the Rockets should have won that game.

01:19And I'll leave you with this.

01:22Jonathan Kaminga this.

01:23Jonathan Kaminga that.

01:26Everything's Jonathan Kaminga.

01:28Kerr, how about you give him the keys and you don't need Draymond to Vinny testify to him

01:35and throw him a pass cut to the basket.

01:38Let's take the training wheels off.

01:40If you're going to empower Jonathan Kaminga, we want to see it.

01:43Give him the ball at the top of the key.

01:45Maybe he turns it over.

01:46He drew.

01:48Whatever.

01:49I didn't want.

01:50I didn't like that play where Draymond threw it over his head or whatever.

01:53Like, come on, man.

01:55They give him the ball top of the key.

01:57I saw and you cook or make a play.

02:00So then Steph shoots the ball when you could have milked the clock in the Rockets.

02:06Who again, IQ wise, they got all the talent in world study.

02:09I'm not sold.

02:10They didn't even look like they knew they needed to fail.

02:13And Curry went for the night.

02:15Chef, if you're listening, you went for the night night.

02:18Because you had no business not bleeding that clock.

02:21Well, that's all.

02:23Let's take a few things.

02:25Hey, I'm sorry, man.

02:27One is they tried to get Kaminga the ball in the lane

02:31and Draymond threw a terrible pass.

02:33And to my way of thinking, the reason you don't give the ball to Kaminga

02:38at the top of the key in that situation

02:40is because the Rockets are too good defensively

02:43and he's not good enough with the ball.

02:45Damn.

02:46I would not.

02:47They were trying to get him that little midrange in the key

02:50where he could just raise up and go over somebody.

02:52But the Warriors got into trouble last night when they dribbled too much

02:56because that's what the Rockets love.

02:58They forced what?

03:0022.

03:01Yeah.

03:02I think six of them, and I'm not saying they don't hurt,

03:05but they had six shot clock violations, 15 turnovers,

03:09which puts them over 20.

03:11Just right there, Scottie, what does that signal to you?

03:14Did you just say Wiggins wasn't there

03:16because I do believe that number wouldn't be that high?

03:19Or to keep it real, Goo and Stiney,

03:21this is why they're linked to another bona fide score,

03:26regardless of his age.

03:28You don't get shots off?

03:30Come on, man.

03:31To me, what I watched in the first half was an athleticism discrepancy.

03:38The Rockets gave the Warriors a lot of problems with their athleticism

03:43and with how aggressive they play on defense.

03:46And if the refs are going to let them play, which they did,

03:50then that's going to favor the Houston Rockets

03:52because they were the more aggressive team,

03:54and that's the way they play.

03:56That's the way they have to play.

03:58I mean, you know what's funny is I watched the Houston game last time,

04:02and I thought that team's not very well coached at all.

04:05Right. Barkley was having fun with them last night.

04:07But I watched them last night, and I thought, you know what,

04:10I think Doka knows what he's doing.

04:12That's a really, really bad offensive team.

04:16Okay.

04:17They're really bad offensively.

04:19So the only thing, what I think he's doing is saying,

04:23you've got to play defense, and if you play defense,

04:26I'm going to give you more leeway on offense

04:28because I know we're not a great offensive team.

04:31And they got into the Warriors,

04:34and they made the Warriors uncomfortable for a lot of that game.

04:37And it was only until the Warriors kind of adjusted to that quickness,

04:41that length, and that athleticism that they started controlling that game.

04:46But then at the very end, you know, the last quarter,

04:49I felt like they regressed a little bit with how they took care of the ball

04:54and how responsible they were with the ball.

04:59And I just saw some video of Pods,

05:02who made a three that I thought was sending the team to Vegas,

05:06along with Lindy Waters III.

05:09I thought he made a three.

05:12And then who else?

05:13Kaminga made a corner three, and I'm thinking this thing is over.

05:16But to have that IQ between Draymond, Steph, and Kerr,

05:21not to be able to get a shot off, Stony, that doesn't sit well with me.

05:26And now we've seen video, and I don't make this up,

05:30of it looks like Buddy, I don't know if you saw this, Stony,

05:32Buddy Hilden, Pods getting into it, going to the sidelines, over.

05:36I don't know what, but that's never good.

05:41So I didn't expect to see that from this Warrior team,

05:45but damn, they gave that one.

05:47Hey, Houston took it, Green made the free throws,

05:50and Coach Kerr's about to get fined probably by midday here because he went in.

05:55But Stony, I will say this, and I'm not one of those softies,

05:58you can't let it be prison ball the way that you did all night

06:03and then call a foul on Kaminga there.

06:06When they showed the replay, it looked worse than it did live

06:12when they were just scrambling for the ball.

06:15And all those things are true, and maybe Kerr was mad about the foul,

06:20but the way I always look at basketball is this way.

06:24They had chances to win the game, and one Hall of Famer made a terrible pass

06:30and turned the ball over, and then the other Hall of Famer went way too early.

06:35He went way too early.

06:37He shot that ball with 11 seconds to go, and that's a situation where

06:41the difference in the shot clock and the game clock was three seconds,

06:45and if you can pull it off and use the shot clock as a buzzer beater,

06:50then you get a loose ball scramble like they ended up getting,

06:53and the game's over.

06:55Steph absolutely went too early there, but that might be a function of

07:00he thought at that time with that amount of clock,

07:03that's the best shot he was going to get.

07:06Now, if you allow me, I know we're up against it, but you just hit me, man.

07:11You really did.

07:12If the Warriors are trying to find out about Jonathan Kaminga

07:16and what he's going to be, let's just say they think like your thought

07:21you shared with this, well, we ran Draymond, made him part of the play

07:25to get him the ball because we didn't think.

07:27Well, then you already know your answer about what you're working with

07:31in regard to Kaminga, Stiney, because if that is really what was on their mind

07:37and they kind of wanted to eliminate that out of the scenario,

07:40which I wouldn't have, this is what we got to see.

07:44I would have empowered him to be able to trust them,

07:47but if you're telling me that's what they might be thinking,

07:50then you already have your answer on Kaminga.

07:53I mean, some guys are better going to the basket,

07:56some guys are better posting up.

07:58It looked like he was trying to flash to the middle, catch,

08:02and then take that little turnaround that he's automatic with.

08:05And I would not have put the ball in his hands at the top of the key

08:09against that particular team in this particular game

08:13because he wasn't going to draw a foul in that situation.

08:18They were going to converge on him, and then it was going to be a matter of

08:21if he was able to handle the ball well enough and make a play

08:24for somebody else or himself, and I'd rather put him in another position,

08:28which is catch, fade, with that little shot in the middle.

08:32But Draymond just threw a terrible pass, I thought,

08:35and it wasn't the only terrible pass he threw last night.

08:38He threw a bunch early, and that got him off to a bad start.

08:41The next thing you know, they got beat 91-90 to a team

08:45that was just every bit as scrappy as the Warriors were, and maybe more so.

08:50But not as smart, though, Stunt.

08:52Well, how can I say that when they won?

08:54But I'll say this, Evan is my witness.

08:56Last night, for the people that think the refs took this game from the Warriors,

09:00get a stopwatch out or count how long Pudzimski had the ball.

09:04It was seven seconds, and they didn't call it.

09:07They allowed him to throw it in, but, Stunty, that there,

09:11how can the offense be so dysfunctional at the most optimist, you know,

09:16the biggest time of the game?

09:19Because they don't have a lot of great offensive players

09:22that are polished offensively at this point.

09:268-8-8, 9-5-7, 9-5-7-0 is the number.

09:30Let me tell you what's going down today.

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