Did Warriors Win Battle, But Lose War?

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00:00The clock is dark. The Warriors don't have to shoot it.

00:02Buddy Heald's going to dribble this one out.

00:05And a gutsy, hard-fought, huge victory for Golden State

00:08as they win game one with Steph Curry back in the locker room

00:13with a strained left hamstring for over half the game.

00:16And the Warriors, with only one day of rest after a tough game seven,

00:21they have captured game one of this Western Conference semifinal series.

00:25Final score for the Target Center.

00:27Golden State, 99, and Minnesota, 88.

00:32Tim Roy on the call, 95-7.

00:34The game, Warriors beat the T-Wolves in game one.

00:39But Steph Curry gets injured.

00:42Looks like he's got a hamstring injury, Goo.

00:44Not going to play tomorrow.

00:46Wow.

00:47But the Warriors, you know, we've got to balance it out.

00:50That was a gutsy win.

00:52It was an overwhelming win in a lot of ways.

00:57But now they may have to deal with playing without Curry for, I don't know how long.

01:02I don't, we're all going to be guessing, right?

01:05Listen, and with all my imperfections, what we do on a daily basis, Donnie,

01:10is we share with the listeners, it's like our diary.

01:14And I'm so despondent after what happened with Steph Curry last night.

01:20I'm fired up for the win.

01:22I got thrown out of a watch party, a group chat with my buddies because they said,

01:27I'm turning into you because I was so fixated on what the future was and not enjoying.

01:33I mean, they were mad.

01:34But I'm mad.

01:35And, Stiney, this was a great effort by the Warriors to hold Minnesota to 31 points in the first half

01:42after the Game 7 defense.

01:45That was championship defense yesterday by everybody in black.

01:49And Draymond, the second game in a row, showing you there may be no other.

01:54This could be the first time seeing this.

01:58But with that said, you're telling me the game after Steph Curry helped close, he played 45 minutes,

02:06he comes up lame, and now I'm looking at this team through a different prism.

02:11I'm going to be positive.

02:13I need your help and the listeners.

02:15But, Stiney, my gosh, I'm just like this grade one strain.

02:19How can I sit here and look at you and say everything that was, I could taste it,

02:23and it was manifesting into a run?

02:26The chef, 16 years in, has never had a strained muscle.

02:31So, I don't know when he's coming back, but I almost want to tell you all, call me crazy,

02:36I would rather have lost Game 1 and had Steph with the healthy hamstring.

02:41I'm going there early.

02:44You want some good news?

02:45Give it to me.

02:47You ain't going to need Steph Curry if the Timberwolves play like that.

02:51I mean, goodness gracious.

02:53You know, I'll give, you know, you got to give the Warriors credit for winning that game,

02:59but oh my God.

03:01Oh my God.

03:02I am panicking.

03:03Yeah.

03:04I'm talking about the Timberwolves.

03:05I hear you.

03:06What was it?

03:07I mean, that was maybe, that was the worst game I've seen them play.

03:11I mean, you're laughing, but we're like, that was wow.

03:16I mean.

03:1711 points in the second quarter.

03:19Anthony Edwards.

03:21Stiney, those weren't misses.

03:22Those were bricks, bud.

03:24They were terrible.

03:26By the way, guys, from Sham Sharania, so the official Steph Curry injury designation is

03:32a grade one hamstring strain.

03:34It's the first time he's ever strained a muscle in his NBA career, but they expect him to miss

03:39at least one week.

03:41So game four is six days away.

03:43Game five is eight days away.

03:45Game six is 12 days.

03:48Man.

03:49Well.

03:51That's not official, though.

03:54I mean, but.

03:55Yes, it is.

03:55No, he said a week.

03:56Oh, it's from the Warriors.

03:58This is from Sham Sharani of ESPN.

03:59It's a grade one hamstring strain.

04:02They're expecting him to miss at least one week.

04:04All right.

04:05Wow.

04:05I think the Warriors officially are like, he's missing.

04:08They haven't gone that far, is all I'm saying.

04:10But no, there's nothing from Warriors.

04:11I'm not saying he's wrong.

04:13Yeah, yeah.

04:13Thanks.

04:14Thanks, Evan.

04:15But that's 99.9.

04:17And with big boy like Shams, you would think.

04:20You would think.

04:20Yeah.

04:21You would think.

04:21But go ahead.

04:22Yeah, Minnesota was awful, but I'm giving the Warriors.

04:25Stiney, they were in their space.

04:27And I don't know if Minnesota didn't know that the Warriors had this,

04:30did their first look with Jimmy Butler.

04:32But my goodness, man, the Warriors' defense is spectacular.

04:36And maybe they can climb this tree.

04:38We'll talk about last night without Steph for a few games.

04:41But I'm going to need more from Jimmy.

04:43But last night, Buddy Hildegin and Draymond Green, Stiney,

04:47are my stars.

04:47And Coach Kerr, he is, he is, I mean,

04:50Captain James T.

04:51Kirk right now with these rotations.

04:54Stiney, you got it or not, you're coming out.

04:56Everybody's available.

04:57Go in.

04:58If you're, come out.

04:59I love it.

05:01Kerr's in his bag.

05:02Yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't know if, you know,

05:08it's that old half and half thing.

05:10I got to give half the credit to the Warriors and then say that, you know,

05:14Timberwolves, I mean, they're fourth in the league in three-point percentage.

05:18They go five for 30.

05:20I can't make a shot.

05:22They can't make, they couldn't make any shots.

05:26I mean, they just couldn't make any shots.

05:29And the Warriors win a game where, they win a game on the road where they shoot 39%.

05:36Man, oh man.

05:37You know, that's kind of one of those games where, man,

05:42how many times does a road team win when they shoot that poorly?

05:46But it was an indication of how good the Warriors were playing defensively

05:49and how much that the Timberwolves couldn't make a shot, quite frankly.

05:55Again, Stiney, I'm being real.

05:57And it looks like Spadoni and Lubman and Shasky put out a poll,

06:01who'll get your game ball, we'll get to that.

06:03But the winner was Buddy.

06:04And I'm not, Buddy is, like, I think he's playing like prime clay,

06:09you know, just on both ends of the court.

06:11But Draymond Green, after kind of being basically quiet in game five

06:15and six of the Rockets series, Stiney, I don't think if I,

06:18I don't know if I've seen him play better.

06:20Like, just talk to me about what you've seen from Dray and hitting, you know, 4-10.

06:24But it's when he hit the four that kind of set the tone.

06:29I mean, when he plays like that, over the years,

06:32the Warriors have had a lot of success.

06:34He was an offensive threat.

06:35He made his threes.

06:37Defensively, it looked to me like he was just roaming free in the lane.

06:42He was just roaming free.

06:43And he, you know, every time a guy had the ball in the wing for the Timberwolves,

06:47he was leaning that way and kind of discouraging them.

06:51And then if they didn't come, he would drop back into the middle

06:54and wait for the pass to go to the next guy.

06:56And if they tried to penetrate or get into the lane,

06:59he was right there to make it congested and crowded.

07:03And that's one of the reasons why the Timberwolves couldn't finish anything

07:07around the basket.

07:09And the Warriors won the rebound in battle.

07:11I didn't have that on my bingo card.

07:13Yeah, there we go.

07:14And also the offensive rebound, Stiney.

07:17So, again, this is not about the rest of the league,

07:20but all four road teams got victories in the first round of the playoffs

07:24in game one.

07:26But do you think there were nerves in regard to Minnesota?

07:30Can they duplicate that bad effort again tomorrow?

07:33Because if the Warriors somehow without Steph, that's what we know,

07:37can play that hellified defense, who am I to sit here and say they can't hold it down

07:42and come back here with a 2-0 lead for game three Saturday without Steph?

07:47I mean, we can talk about rust, but then you got to talk about the Warriors playing on one day.

07:54It doesn't matter if the Timberwolves weren't ready or they were rusty.

07:58They, you know, now they're down 0-1.

08:01Damn!

08:01They let the Warriors come in and kind of dictate that game.

08:05And they never, the Timberwolves never got it going.

08:10Yeah, I mean, it was one of those games where when you look at the box score for the Warriors,

08:14they had about seven guys who played well.

08:15And you look at the box score for the Timberwolves,

08:18excuse me, I don't know who played well.

08:21Onas Reed?

08:22That was it.

08:23That's it.

08:23I'll give you, it was so bad, I'll give him a plus.

08:26He made a few shots.

08:27That's all he did.

08:28Wow, man.

08:30But anyway, Warriors go up 1-0.

08:34Looks like they're going to have to do it over the next two or three games, though,

08:37without Steph Curry.

08:39I'll tell you what, if there's a silver lining,

08:41it's that when we've seen injuries in the postseason,

08:47sometimes we say a play was dirty or a player was dirty.

08:53At least for this one, nothing happened.

08:57I mean, he just, it looked completely innocuous.

09:01It happened, I thought it happened on the defensive possession when he was down near the Warriors bench,

09:07and then he made that little floater.

09:09Because he was on one, Stiney.

09:10He had that look in his eye.

09:12Yeah, I mean, he looked like Steph.

09:15But you said he ran two miles at game seven, or what did we say, 2.2 miles, Stiney,

09:20and this is the first strained muscle of his career.

09:25All right, 888-957.

09:279-5-7-0 is the number.

09:29Warriors steal?

09:32See, that's what I mean.

09:32They didn't steal anything.

09:34They didn't steal anything last night.

09:36They just took it.

09:38I guess that's stealing, though, isn't it?

09:39Yeah.

09:40They deserved it.

09:41They earned it.

09:42And they made the Minnesota Timberwolves look very, very bad last night.

09:49All right, Warriors Wednesday is brought to you by Friedman's Appliance.

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09:55We'll see you next time.

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