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00:00When you get to the tip time, the ball is tipped.
00:03Like, where will you be on the nerve-o-meter?
00:07All the way up.
00:08Yeah.
00:08All the way up.
00:09I buy what Anthony Slater said.
00:11Here, let's just start with it right away.
00:13Which one is it, Grandy?
00:15Where is it?
00:15Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
00:17Here it is.
00:18I got it.
00:19Everybody ready?
00:19This is from the Joes on the roast this morning.
00:22Slates.
00:23Warrior Insider.
00:24This is exactly where I want to start.
00:26Part of why tonight is so massive.
00:28To, you know, win this game and not play Friday night.
00:31I think, I honestly think this is the biggest night of basketball for them since Game 6, 2023 against the Lakers.
00:38Like, the result of tonight, to me, dictates whether they have a realistic playoff path, playoff life ahead of them, or if they're kind of dead on arrival.
00:48Really?
00:49Yeah.
00:49Oh, yeah.
00:50Wow.
00:50Because I'm, expand on that.
00:52Yeah, please, because.
00:52No, we'll expand on it.
00:54He's absolutely right.
00:56I'm going to Wesley Hogan this one.
00:58Radio Insider, you know what I'm talking about.
01:01This is the biggest game in the history of mankind.
01:04Yeah.
01:04And yes, no, it's not a championship game.
01:08It's not even a playoff game.
01:10But understand, in my mind, not only does this dictate whether or not any sort of a playoff run is realistic,
01:18this dictates the entire offseason.
01:21This dictates what you do next.
01:24If you don't win this game, all of the yay, Jimmy's here, and the Warriors are contenders, boop, balloon pops.
01:33No, it wasn't.
01:34Wasn't good enough.
01:36Couldn't do it.
01:37Didn't get where you needed to be.
01:39You're just going to flimsy your way out.
01:40You're going to lose in five to Oklahoma City.
01:43Listen, I hope I don't have to be proven wrong because I hope that the Warriors win this basketball game tonight.
01:50But the way those guys think with their championship mentality, you lose this game, whatever you did to get to this point was effectively not good enough.
02:01Unless you pull off a real gigantic miracle by winning Friday and then winning against a 68-win team.
02:08And I won't bombard everyone with the numbers and the research, but teams that are that good in the regular season, they don't lose in the first round.
02:15The only time a team did was when they were a flukish 67-win team.
02:20It was Dallas, and it took a we-believe against an inexperienced coach.
02:25And you mentioned a lineup switch and all the rest of it.
02:27That is not who Oklahoma City is.
02:29They were dominant.
02:30They're now healthy.
02:31They are deep, talented, long, and good.
02:34So that's a team you want to avoid, which means you win tonight.
02:38You get Houston.
02:39No guarantee you beat the Rockets.
02:40Not at all.
02:41Their path to continuing this journey is much, much easier by winning tonight.
02:47And it's like, I'm with you with everything you said, but I actually think the idea of playing Friday, it goes even further than that.
02:55Yeah.
02:55I think it's threefold.
02:56Number one, Oklahoma City's awesome.
02:59Number two, your fatigue level if you have to play Friday is shot.
03:04And number three, how on earth can you actually have full-blown confidence in the Golden State Warriors and what they've built if they go into a situation of four home games over the last week and a half where if you just win one of them.
03:22Just one.
03:23You're favored in all of them.
03:26One of them, you were favored by 18 points.
03:30You win one of them and you're in the playoff bracket and you win none?
03:37How can we feel that what we have felt is realistic if that's what unfolds?
03:45Now, listen, the only waiver I'm going to put out there is it's one night and it's one basketball game and wonky things can happen.
03:55I don't know if does somebody have to limp off or whatever.
03:58Do you know what I mean?
03:59Yeah.
04:00Does jaw go for 60?
04:01Does he hit nine threes?
04:04I mean, that's the scary part.
04:07It's one basketball game and I never judge a team based on one night and 48 minutes.
04:13I don't think that that's fair.
04:15I don't think you can look at sports teams, Niners, Warriors, Giants, whatever.
04:19You would never watch one game and go, well, I've made up my mind about who you are.
04:24No, but the judgment would be bigger.
04:25And I think you laid it out perfectly.
04:27You laid it out perfectly where you didn't have Steph and you lost Atlanta and Miami back to back.
04:32That sucked, but understandable.
04:34And then you come home and you retired against Houston after the gauntlet and you lost.
04:39Okay, San Antonio, you cannot lose to a Wembenyama-less San Antonio Spurs team at home.
04:46And then you back that thing up with a tough loss to the Clippers.
04:49You played well.
04:50So for me, you wouldn't be judging it based on one game, but it would be judging them on what you're describing,
04:55which is consecutive home losses in spots where you needed to come up with a win.
05:00Well, and the premise is also based on this is if they were to lose tonight as well.
05:05Well, then again, not on Friday.
05:07Right.
05:07If you lose on Friday as well.
05:08Well, yeah, if you let Friday, forget Friday.
05:10If you lose on Friday, I mean, the whole thing is just an abject failure and an embarrassment.
05:17But again, yeah, like Houston, okay.
05:20There's the fatigue setting in and Houston is good.
05:22The Clippers, man, that's a great basketball team.
05:25I thought the Warriors played really well.
05:27And you lost.
05:28You lost in overtime.
05:29Okay, I can wrap my head around that.
05:31The Spurs one for me remains the loss of the year.
05:34Very, very disappointing and frustrating.
05:36But now you're here tonight.
05:38You're here tonight.
05:39And I firmly believe that the spectrum based on tonight could not be wider.
05:44And here's what I mean by that.
05:46If you win the basketball game tonight, I think you can waltz to work tomorrow morning as confident as can be.
05:54I think that the path ended up exactly like you would want it to be.
05:59You're out of Oklahoma City's bracket and you're playing a team that apparently doesn't have anybody over the age of 22.
06:06I mean, I know Dylan Brooks, but you get what I'm saying.
06:08Zero playoff experience and a bunch of pops.
06:11So that's what you would get first.
06:14And you'd get rest.
06:15Not as much rest as you could have had, but still rest four games, four days off before you play in Houston on Sunday.
06:21To me, that's peacock time.
06:24That's, hey, all right, we're in.
06:26The path is good.
06:27Let's rest.
06:28Let's take a break.
06:28And let's see if we can make some music now.
06:32If you lose this basketball game, it is completely to the other end of the spectrum.
06:37I don't know how you could swagger into anything.
06:41Anything.
06:41Well, that would be four straight home losses and you'd be facing a hungry and probably a good Minnesota if they're the team that you wind up, I'm sorry, Sacramento or Dallas in the play in.
06:53And, you know, you'd like your chances against both.
06:56But at that point now you get to what you're talking about, 48 minutes of wonkiness and who knows what can happen over the course of four quarters.
07:03So I do think you're right about the spectrum of emotion because, yeah, you wanted to be top six, but you could look back and say, you know what?
07:11We won 48 games, two more than last year.
07:14We are near perfect since Jimmy's been here.
07:17And, yeah, things got sideways late, but we handled it in the play in.
07:21We're the seven.
07:22Houston's got only three rostered players who are over the age of 30.
07:27So you're right about all the pups.
07:29And Jalen Green was born in O2.
07:31So is Shen Goon.
07:32Thompson was born in O3.
07:35Half their roster is younger than my oldest son.
07:38And that's where we get in my personal world.
07:41So, yeah, you're 48 minutes away from, like you said, Mark, a little R&R.
07:46So the Warriors would be off tomorrow, off Thursday maybe, late practice Friday, flight to Houston.
07:53It's a manageable buildup for a Sunday playoff game.
07:57And the other side of it is, oh, God, now we've got to play Friday and grind it out.
08:00And didn't Anthony Slater say this morning that that game Sunday would be a noon game?
08:07They're talking about Oklahoma City?
08:08Yes.
08:09Probably.
08:10Yeah.
08:10I mean, yeah, I don't know.
08:12I think I heard that from Steine and Goo.
08:13It's probable.
08:14It's probable.
08:15So then your turnaround would be, like, barely more than 36 hours plus a flight to Oklahoma.
08:21Yes.
08:21Slater on the morning said he would expect it to be a 36 hours between game on Friday and game one Sunday.
08:27You know the last time the Memphis Grizzlies beat a Western Conference playoff team?
08:31It's been a long time.
08:32It's been like a month, right?
08:34I think you said this earlier in the week or last week.
08:37Let's see.
08:37April, one month would be to March.
08:39More.
08:40Right.
08:41Well, I mean, two months?
08:42No.
08:43Keep going.
08:43What's the date of their last win over a playoff team?
08:46January 30th.
08:47Yeah, that's two and a half months.
08:48They beat the Houston Rockets by one point.
08:50Man.
08:51And since then, they've beaten no Western Conference playoff teams.
08:54And by playoff, you mean just the top six, right?
08:56I'm talking about the top six.
08:57Top six.
08:58Okay.
08:58Or throw the Warriors in if you want.
09:00Top seven.
09:01Throw them in.
09:01I mean, I know they're technically not a playoff team yet.
09:03I'm scrolling.
09:04I hope I'm not missing one.
09:06They've beaten Dallas a couple of times.
09:08One of them was the last game of the season, which didn't matter for either of those
09:12teams.
09:13So, I kind of throw that out.
09:15But, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
09:16They beat Phoenix three times.
09:18Yeah, they beat Phoenix.
09:18They beat Utah.
09:19They beat Miami.
09:20They beat the Pistons.
09:21They beat Charlotte.
09:22Yeah.
09:22Houston, January 30th.
09:23Houston, January 30th.
09:25That's the last time that the Memphis Grizzlies beat a Western Conference playoff team.
09:28And when they did that, they got to 32-16, and they've gone 16-18 since then.
09:34Like, I don't want anybody to mistake this.
09:37Memphis is very talented.
09:40And they're Memphis.
09:41We know the history.
09:43But don't get it twisted.
09:45It's not a good basketball team right now.
09:48And this is where, and I, like, you and I have, I think we've successfully gotten to
09:52the point where we just kind of, like, chuckle about it with each other, about you are what
09:56your record says you are.
09:57Oh, yeah.
09:58The Grizzlies are 48-34, and the Warriors are 48-34, and no, I do not buy that you are
10:04what your record says you are, because the Warriors are 23-8 since they got Jimmy Butler.
10:10They're a very good basketball team.
10:12The Memphis Grizzlies, in the months of February, March, and April, are a very poor basketball
10:16team.
10:17And those are the two teams that are playing basketball tonight.
10:20And that's why the Warriors are a big favorite, and they absolutely can't lose.