Warriors Take Series Lead Despite Stephen Curry's Injury

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00:00Warriors beat the Wolves 99-88 to take a 1-0 series lead.

00:04Steph Curry, of course, is the story here.

00:06He left in the first half with what's now been known as a grade one hamstring strain

00:10that's going to keep him out 7 to 10 days at the minimum.

00:14So guys had to step up last night.

00:16Jimmy Butler, 20 points, 11 boards, 8 times.

00:18Buddy Heald, who did nothing in the first half, came alive in the second half,

00:23hitting threes all over the place on D&T.

00:26Tremont Green, the hub of the wheel, finds Buddy Heald.

00:30Buddy Heald delivers a three ball.

00:33Buddy was 0 for 8 until that bucket of nuts was going to the rim like he normally does.

00:39He can't finish a heel in transition.

00:42Back-to-back threes.

00:43Buddy Heald knocks him down, and Chris Finch wants the timeout.

00:49I remember Buddy in college.

00:52He could really shoot.

00:53And then I think he's been sporadic in the NBA.

00:57Like, he gets hot and cold.

00:58Right now he's hot.

01:00He's hit 14 threes in the last couple of games.

01:03He can go cold.

01:05You know, the game before that, he had zero.

01:08Zero points.

01:09Like, this guy can go hot and cold like nobody's business.

01:12He's going to be key to this now because, you know, Butler, Green,

01:18we know what they're going to do.

01:19We know what they're capable of and what their job is going to be.

01:23They're going to have to hold down this team with Curry out.

01:27You cannot win without Steph Curry.

01:29There's no way they're winning anything without Curry, like a title or going to the,

01:35you know, Western final or anything else.

01:37I don't believe they can even win this series without it.

01:40Like, so he's going to miss seven to 10 days.

01:43Let's just call it a week at least at the, at the very least at the best, he's not going

01:49to play for a week.

01:50So that means he's going to miss game two.

01:54He's going to miss the two games in San Francisco at the chase.

01:57Right, Mike?

01:58I mean, that's at the very least, that'll be six days at least.

02:01So when they go back to Minnesota is when they're going to need it most.

02:06And those are going to be the hardest games when they have to go to the target at the

02:09end of this series.

02:10The series is just getting started.

02:12That was a huge win last night that they won without him.

02:15He had whatever 13, 14, when he pulled it, you saw him pull it.

02:18You saw him leave the game.

02:19He never came back.

02:20He's done.

02:20We know that now.

02:21So the moral of the story is for me is that Heald is going to have to stay involved shooting

02:29the rock and he's got to knock down shots.

02:32He's got to have, in my view, 18 plus a night.

02:37No questions asked.

02:3918 plus a night.

02:40He had 24 last night.

02:41He's got to go into that realm.

02:43Anything over 20, they're Gandhi.

02:46Well, look, there's going to be a lot more shots available now, right?

02:49With Steph not out there, someone's got to shoot.

02:53And that's, on a nightly basis, it's got to be either Heald or Podzemski, right?

02:57Who's got to, they've got to make more shots or a combination of both of them, you know,

03:03make it, you know, those are the two guys that, and I think more buddy, you're right,

03:07than Podzemski, but they have got to now provide the long range points for the Warriors

03:14because Steph's usually good for, you know, on a really good night, five, three, six, three,

03:18seven, you know, those guys have to make up all of that ground with Steph not there.

03:24And I think they've got to use Peyton.

03:26His defense has got to be part of this because Green can't be the only guy that's a real

03:33defender on that team.

03:35I think Looney is.

03:36They need Peyton.

03:37They need Green.

03:37They've got to have three guys that are making stops.

03:40Like, you look at the Knicks.

03:41They've got Ananobi.

03:42They've got Bridges.

03:43Because everybody has to step up on the other end and get stops because I don't believe

03:50that the, in my opinion, the T-Wolves won't have another game under 90 in the series.

03:56They had 88.

03:57It's not happening again.

03:59No.

03:59And I think that's the thing that surprised me the most was that, like, didn't you feel

04:04like Minnesota just looked like, for some reason, they looked so disinterested.

04:07They looked so disinterested last night.

04:10Like, it's the opening game of the second round.

04:13Like, they look like, between Randall and Ant, like, they just looked like they didn't

04:17want to be there.

04:18It was so bizarre what was going on.

04:22You can't explain it.

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