Impact of Steph Curry's Injury on Series vs. Timberwolves

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00:00Because of the injury to Steph Curry,

00:02Minnesota is greater than a $2 favorite to win this series outright.

00:07In fact, the price on the T-Wolves is stronger now,

00:10despite being in an 0-1 hole than it was for Minnesota,

00:13entering game number one with home floor advantage.

00:16And let's understand this.

00:17The positives aren't that many positives for the Golden State Warriors.

00:20You lose Steph Curry, you're probably the anticipation of you winning the series.

00:23Drops precipitously.

00:24But also understand this.

00:26This wasn't Steph Curry pulling up lame with two minutes to go in the fourth quarter

00:29where the Golden State Warriors had an 11-point lead.

00:31This was, oh my goodness, 13 minutes of the game.

00:33We don't have Steph anymore.

00:35How can we do this?

00:36Let's regroup for game number two because game number one is gone.

00:38They won that game by double digits without Steph Curry.

00:41I'm not saying this is a good sound like, hey, this team can galvanize

00:43because we do see, again, adrenaline-type games.

00:46The other team doesn't quite know how we're going to play.

00:49We're going to be energized, release this one.

00:50Let's see what happens.

00:51Now, granted, you do have a double-digit favorite here for the Minnesota Timberwolves,

00:54and rightfully so.

00:55But I just want to bring up that point was, you know,

00:57this wasn't a game plan thing where Steph sat out before the first tip.

01:01They had a game plan going in, executed it immediately here.

01:03Steph was having a very good 13 minutes in that point, then gets injured,

01:06and they built the lead in the third quarter,

01:08which was impressive and tough enough for that double-digit win.

01:11I'm not saying the Warriors can't win this series.

01:14But boy, oh boy, if you're just betting and saying,

01:16I'm going to take the Warriors here, you're just being contrarian.

01:20The best player down on a series where technically you're not the better team,

01:23good luck with that.