Full Transcript for Another Steph Masterclass, Warriors SURVIVE in OT vs. Magic

starting to see more and more teams, or more and more people, I feel like, believe in this Warriors team. And again, you may on the one hand look at a game like tonight and say, well... You've got an Orlando team that's playing without Bankero, and you have an Orlando team that's playing without Desmond Bain, and you have an Orlando team that's playing without Jalen Suggs. And you'd hope that maybe you don't necessarily have to have the game be in a dicey position in the second half after a brutal third quarter to where you have to sort of save it. But my goodness, sometimes the entertainment value is worth a little bit of the struggle. And I think tonight, watching what Steph Curry did in scoring the final 12 points against of regulation for the Warriors to just absolutely by the sheer force of his will get them into the overtime session tied at 110 and then to help put the game away. The defense got the stops and were getting stops as we were progressing toward the finish line and in overtime, but they just couldn't get a freaking rebound to save their life tonight and maybe make this game end better. A little bit more calmly, you look up into the night, 24 offensive rebounds in this game for Orlando. The Warriors got destroyed on the boards overall, 57-41. And a lot of that, 57-41, again, is the offensive rebounds. 24 offensive rebounds. Do you know how many offensive rebounds the Warriors had in the game? You talk about getting beat on the boards. And we welcome in Kyle Haar in the Daily City Studios. Do you know how many offensive rebounds, Kyle? the Warriors had tonight? 00:04:45 Speaker 6: Whatever it is, it was, I mean, not nearly close to what the Magic had. 00:04:51 Speaker 3: They had three, which is almost unheard of in its own right. They had three for the game. 42 total rebounds, 39 defensive rebounds, so 24-3. Offensive rebounds, second chance points. The Warriors' second chance points tonight in favor of Orlando, 33-2. 33-2 second chance points. So that was the story of the game. It felt down the stretch as if the Warriors were working harder for their offense than Orlando was, that Orlando was kind of getting more comfortable possessions and shots. But any way you slice it, any way you add it up, it still winds up being a win for the Warriors, and it's their seventh consecutive win and the expectations potentially are starting to change for this team. And I got to tell you, when Wendell Carter went to the free throw line, Wendell Carter Jr., in the overtime with the Warriors up by two, I think that's the loudest I've heard Chase Center in at least four and a half years, at least since the playoffs in 2022. So I ask the question for those that maybe are leaving the game today, and driving home, or even a few of the folks here at Harmonic and Thrive City, is that the loudest you've heard chase since? Because it was incredible. I mean, it was, and there was some frustration, I think, from the fans. I thought it was as loud, it might

have been as loud as I could remember, maybe in a non-playoff setting in the history of the building for the Warriors. It felt honestly and sounded like And the way a lot of the Valkyries crowds have been praised, honestly, through their first two seasons of existence. And it was sort of a coming of age or a we're back kind of a moment maybe from the fan base that's been so frustrated with the way things have gone and some of the injuries and the lack of maybe putting a roster together. There was just a joy and an energy inside the building that And, yeah, you give the Magic a lot of credit for battling, but it was almost a Warrior fans in real time, we're witnessing them falling in love with this team and what Yaxels brought to the table and the bench group and Steph still showing everybody, even at age 38, that he can play at an MVP all-time great level, which is exactly what he did tonight in helping to lead the Warriors tonight. to this victory over the Orlando Magic. So a lot to get into. 808-KNBR-415-808-5627. We'll get to the YouTube chat. Appreciate everybody, as always, watching on YouTube and Twitch, the KNBR X stream as well. And what a night, a Saturday here at the Warriors with a major, major win. to keep the momentum going, and they're able to get the job done by 7 in OT. All right, let's get to the phones. We'll start it with Drew Down in Tracy. Here our tip-off caller tonight on the sports leader. What's going on tonight, Drew? 00:08:07 Speaker 4: Good evening, J.D., Kyle. Man, seven in a row? That's unbelievable. Unbelievable. So, you know, we're going to go Drew down for three. Number one, obviously it wasn't pretty, but, you know, Steph and the guys, they refused to lose. Shout out Brother Lynch. And kind of like golf, man, there's no pictures on the scorecard. There's no pictures on the standings, man. Winning is winning. Whether it's ugly or not, they got the win. And number two, we'll go with Yaxel, man. It wasn't always pretty, right? He had some turnovers. He had some fouls. But at the end of the day, he had big plays in the fourth. I think he had nine points in the fourth, ended up with 23-8. And the team continued to trust him and continued to go to him, even though he had some turnovers, right? And it paid off for him. He made some big plays in the fourth. And then number three, how could I not go with Stephen Wardell– or Wardell Stephen Curry, excuse me. 00:09:04 Speaker 3: 41 points. 00:09:04 Speaker 4: 41 points. Check this. A true shooting percentage of 87.6. I'm not sure how that's mathematically possible, but. 00:09:15 Speaker 1: It's Kirby. 00:09:16 Speaker 3: It's insane. It's insane. I mean, yeah, 13-19, five threes. He made 10 free throws. I mean, that's about as efficient a 41-point game. as anybody can have. I mean, you think about it, he took 19 shots. He scored 41 points for crying out loud. I mean, that's basically akin to making every shot. I mean, so yeah, you look at the true shooting and all of that,

it's absolutely incredible. And yeah, I think you bring up a great point. I'll let you finish, Drew, about about Yaxel, because they needed his scoring tonight. And this is one of those games where, you know, he's shown he can go get 37. He's shown he can go get 31. He's shown that he can score. But there were a couple. I think the two threes he hit tonight, ball gets kicked to him, and he just sticks an open three. Not easy shots to hit, but he's grown to be so comfortable in hitting those shots. He was efficient tonight. He hit some repeated tough drives tonight. There was one where Draymond really set him up, and it felt like it was going to be an easy bucket. and the defender was right there, and Yaxel had to go up and really hit a tough shot. There were like three driving twos that he was just so polished on, and they needed it tonight. You know, if this had been a 6 of 15, you know, instead of a 9 of 15, and he ends up with 17 instead of 23, we're probably, Drew, talking about a Warriors loss and them coming up a little bit short, and the entire tone of the show tonight is a little bit different. Had the six game winning streak not extended to seven and been snuffed out by this magic team. Again, no disrespect to them. They played their ass off tonight, Drew. But when you look at them not having Bain and not having Boncaro and not having Suggs, I mean, you're talking three of their top four players. You got to make sure that you don't have this game turn into a loss if you're the Warriors. And It was Steph and Yaxel and plenty of other heroes to go around, but I think Yaxel deserves to be acknowledged in the manner that you did here to start the show, so I'm glad you did. 00:11:20 Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's one thing if, you know, for whatever reason, if the Warriors just, like, they weren't hitting shots, you know, and the Magic, at one point the Magic did start cooking, but, you know, if it was one thing, if it was just one of those games where you're like, hey, man, they won six in a row, like, they should have won, but maybe they're due for a little hiccup, but when you're up 16, and then they come on in the third quarter and just completely shut the faucet off and go on that run. But to me, yeah, like you said, they continue to go to Yaxel. He even hit some big free throws. He had two consecutive possessions, right? He hit a three, and then he hit a bank shot off the glass, right? Five big points late. 00:11:56 Speaker 3: Yeah, he had a couple of bankers, but, yeah, it was big late. He makes his free throws, too. He ends up with the dunk that iced it when the Magic were trying to trap there before they foul and trying to create a turnover. It was a hell of a pass by Niang. Niang, that is not an easy pass when you're getting doubled to hit the long man. But if you can hit that pass, obviously, when they're trapping, you're going to get an easy dunk. And that was sort of the moment that Warrior fans could actually breathe a little sigh of

relief when Yaxel was able to dunk that down. and the Warriors were able to kind of put it on. It felt like there were so many chances to put the game away, and every time you felt like the Warriors were going to put the game away, you looked up and the Magic were up by two until that point where they were able to finally put it away. 00:12:44 Speaker 4: Yeah, there was one play. 00:12:45 Speaker 3: It was an overtime. 00:12:46 Speaker 5: It was a. 00:12:48 Speaker 4: Yaxl had the ball. I think he got double teamed, and Bassey was cutting to the rim wide open, and Yaxl just kind of rushed it and missed the pass. There's plays for him where I think the game's going to start to slow down a little bit more for him, and it's going to be a little more patient. And when that double comes, he's going to be a little more calm in the moment. But I thought he was huge tonight. And then just to get back to Stephen Curry, I saw a stat on the broadcast. Most 40-point games after turning 35– 16, Wardell Stephen Curry, more than Jordan, more than LeBron, the self-proclaimed GOAT. Nah, Stephen Curry has the most 40-point games after turning 35. The longevity GOAT is Stephen Curry. Pelicans next? Can they win eight in a row? Have a good night, guys. 00:13:36 Speaker 3: All right, Drew, appreciate you, man. 00:13:38 Speaker 4: 808-KMBR, 415-808-5627. 00:13:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, second 40-point game for Steph of the season. 77th of his career, for those of you scoring at home, the 16th 40-point game after the age of 35, which is the most in NBA history. As he passes LeBron, LeBron's got 15 for the second most, and Michael Jordan has got the third most. So Steph, most 40-point games north of 35 years old. It's Steph, LeBron, MJ. Absolutely, absolutely incredible. And, yeah, you look up, and it was an awesome, awesome night for the Dubs, who are the first team, by the way, since the– wait, I don't think this is correct. Let me get this right. Here's the list. So the longest winning streaks to immediately start a season following an 0-3, following an 0-3. The Warriors have now tied Oklahoma City– Philadelphia and Boston with the second longest winning streak in NBA history for a team that lost their first three games. Only the Mavs of 2006-2007, which by the way, that was for those scoring at home, fun fact, the Mavs of 07, that was the team that the We Believe Warriors beat in 2007. They, the Mavs, started 0-4 that year. and ended up running off 12 consecutive wins to get to 12-4 after they started 0-4, but then they ended up obviously losing to the Warriors in the We Believe squad in the playoffs. So a lot of fun facts here to get things rolling. Dubs OT with J.D. Warriors get the win, 126-119 in overtime. All right, Kyle, let's get it going in the chat, YouTube chat, best YouTube chat in sports. Want to talk to the people. My thoughts on this can be tabled beyond the initial comments here for the moment. We'll kind of get it in as we roll through here. I do want to give Bassey credit because he scored the first four points for the Warriors in overtime, and they needed it because Steph, who ended up playing more minutes than I think the Warriors would have wanted tonight, 35 because of the OT. Steph was resting to start the OT. He came back in with about four and a half to go, and you knew he was going to come back in, but the question was would Steve Kerr rest him at the start, and he did. And, you know, where are they going to get offense without Steph here to begin the OT after working so hard, and he had the last 12 of regulation. Well, Charles Bassey gave him a quick four and helped to stabilize things as Kyle Haar works on his popcorn in the Daily City studios here. Tortilla check. Oh, tortilla chips. Sorry, it looked like popcorn. I'm like, Kyle's just crushing some popcorn here to get it going. Robert Brown, our first up in the chat. Curry getting MVP votes this season. That'd be wild. I mean, I don't do MVP on November 7th, but, I mean, top of my head, he's got to be on the short list right now if you were to do it on November 7th. Good one there to get us rolling from Robert Brown. Let's keep it going. We'll try to do a little rapid fire, although you know me, I get off on these tangents trying to make sense of what the people want to talk about versus what I have in my notes, but you never want to bury the lead on a night like tonight. The lead really truly is Stephen Curry and the greatness that he brings to the table for this team. Steph's scoring does look like it's coming a little easier. I do agree with that, Gene. He's just much more comfortable. Tonight I thought it was the drives even more than the threes. And, you know, Steph, it was reminiscent, honestly, of the Sacramento series for me tonight. I was sort of thinking back to the series in 2023 because I think that was one of the best series that Steph ever had in his career in terms of finishing plays on the drive when teams would come out at him and just kind of casually working his way in and using the defense against themselves to get not only to the free throw line. And there was a question a couple days ago, I think it was on Monday, where Steve Kerr was asked about the whistle that Steph was getting. And basically, hey, are you noticing that Steph's getting more foul calls this year? And Steve, I think, in some way, attempt to not want to jinx it, Steve had said, I don't really notice anything different. But Steph is getting to the free throw line a little bit more, I feel. I don't know that he's necessarily doing anything different, but when you drive more, you get to the free throw line more. So that is the one thing. And when you're composed in your drives and you're intentional in your drives, you do get to the free throw line more. And I think we've seen Steph and, you know, to Gene's point and our buddy and our buddy and thank pods, uh, Steph is getting a better whistle than last year. So I didn't mean to take you out of

your flow, Kyle, but that was something that has been asked about, and Steve Kerr didn't want to get into it a couple of days ago because they're worried about the fact that, you know, maybe it's going to change from where it's been here. Jay Bird, 408. Curry is on Real Man. How lucky are we to be able to watch? This guy, night in, night out. What happens when Jimmy and Moody get back? We might have something cooking here. That's really where it stands right now. And we talked about this on Just Dubs this morning. People are starting to take notice, it feels like, across the league. I think Warrior fans are starting to feel it a little bit. With each win, they're starting to feel it a little bit more. And I don't want to say necessarily the expectations are changing, but the outlook on what this team could be Before those guys get back, with the addition of those guys, with the possible move with the Porzingis contract, it goes back to what I've said all offseason and all through training camp and even in the first handful of games to begin the season. Can the Warriors make the second half matter by playing well enough in the first half? And 0-3 wasn't going to cut it. Not any breaking news there, but 7-3 very much cuts it in terms of Using a first half to make a second half, and I don't think they're going to play 700 ball in the first half by any stretch. I mean, you look at what that would entail. You go 700 ball in the first 41 games, and you're talking about a team that's pushing winning 30 out of 40, 29-30 out of 40 at that point. But yeah, Curry, unreal. And I think you're right. There might be something cooking here. And I think they need every one of these wins, every one of these wins to be able to continue the momentum, to have it continue to develop into, into something special. If you're a warrior fan right now, you don't want this streak to end until at a minimum Houston or San Antonio. You don't want this thing to end tonight. It would have been a letdown, even with the record at six and four, you know, Having Orlando with so many players out, that would have been, again, still feeling okay about 6-4, but you'd feel like, ah, you know, let one get away a little bit. And knowing that you've got the Houston game and the San Antonio game coming up here on the horizon. where you're going to be more tested. They need every win they can get, and this is something I've mentioned a lot. They need every win they can get when Steph is healthy, when Draymond is healthy, because you know those guys are going to go through spells of a season where maybe they're not going to be. And at that point, you may find yourself falling a little bit more back to the pack if it's for an extended period of time. You just hope, obviously, that it's not an extended period of time and certainly not a season-ending period of time. But I'll also share, Jay Bird, before we move on to our next comment, I mentioned it to Austin Scott, who's doing great work on the

KNBR digital side. I often say this about Austin, and I haven't said it in a long time, and I'm just going to say it again. Austin Scott is the best KNBR employee at his job. He is the best. Kyle Haar is great. We all know about Kyle Chung's plus minus. We are loaded with talent up and down the staff, so it is not a slight against anybody. But Austin Scott covering games on the digital side, he is the best employee we have at his job, hands down, bar none. End of story. And so I want to give him a little shout out as he gets to cook it on the on the KBR social feeds from the locker room and from the postgame press conferences as I sit here and sip on a Kolsch on a Saturday night talking to the people and Dub Nation and everybody who's who's fired up. here to have the Warriors win their seventh consecutive game. But I said to Austin, and Austin's a younger cat. Austin's, you know, 20s. I think mid-20s now, actually. He's growing up from where he was. But younger guy. And I said to him, I said, man, like, you are going to tell your grandkids that you saw Steph do some crazy-ish, like, in person. Like, I'm talking, like, 30, 40 years from now. you're going to be like, I got to witness this in the ways that the old heads got to witness, you know, MJ or Bird and Magic or, you know, Wilt and Kareem and Bill Russell, if you keep on going, you know, farther and farther down the line. And so I just, it's that level of special. And look, we're covering the games. We're being objective. We're getting our work done. We're coming on. We're talking to all of you. But, I mean, what Steph is doing is truly, truly, truly spectacular and just unbelievable. Unbelievable. And tonight, and really this entire run here of these last handful of games, really the whole streak. And I know Steph's played six of the seven during the winning streak and took the one game off against the Clippers where the Warriors were able to win anyway. But this started for Steph in Denver tonight. And I think it was ignited, as I've said a bunch, by Yaxel and the way that he burst onto the scene in the first week. And he's got Steph fighting for him, and Yaxel's fighting for Steph, and everybody's fighting for everybody to help earn these victories in the early part of the season. And it just feels like something is just compounding. The momentum is continuing to build, and I'm telling you, I'm going to mention it probably at least 10 more times tonight. I thought Chase Center in the overtime when Wendell Carter Jr. was shooting those two free throws that he missed. I know he split another pair. I thought it was the loudest I've heard Chase Center in since the 22 playoffs at a minimum and maybe for a Warriors game. I know there's been the Valhalla and all that, but for a Warriors game, at least four and a half years, that's the loudest that Chase Center was. And it felt like almost a cathartic revitalization or re-engagement of the Warrior fan base with this team that kind of in some ways

feels with the pressure off of being a title contender it feels like there's just an appreciation for the way that these teams or the way that this team specifically is trying to to get the job done. So, Jay Bird, appreciate you. You got me going in about five different directions, but it's all gravy here on Dubs OT on this Saturday night on these sports leaders. You listen to KMBR 104.5 FM at 680 AM San Francisco, the sports leader, Cumulus Media Station, 808 KMBR, 415-808-5627. on the phone lines, on the Golden State Lumber and Showroom text line. Sounds of Dubs OT coming up. We got fun with numbers coming up. We got a long way to go. We're going to keep this thing going at least until 10 o'clock, probably a little bit beyond 10 o'clock. We get a great crowd outside, great crowd inside here, people hanging out at Harmonic. Ian J., I asked after the first Laker game, could Steph be the best player on a contending team? I believe the answer is yes. Well, we debated it. We definitely debated it. There's no question. But you needed to see him with a number two. I think it's hard to judge when you don't get an opportunity to see him with a legit number two. When he's had Jimmy after the trade, I mean, that's the last time before tonight they'd won seven in a row, March of 2025, right there in the aftermath of that. When was the last time the Warriors won eight in a row, Kyle Hart? Do you know? I'm not going to give the answer right now, but do you know? You can yes or no it. Need to think on it. I'm going to give you some time to think on it if you don't. But you can guess. 00:27:06 Speaker 5: I'm going to go. Yeah, I'm going to guess here. 00:27:09 Speaker 6: I'm going to go 23. 00:27:15 Speaker 3: No, it was not 23. Not in the year that they beat. No, we go farther than that. We go farther back than 23. So the 23 team, we go farther back than the 23 team. Yeah, and thanks to ChatGPT who ran through it. Since you guessed, I will just give the answer now. But, yes, I have not independently verified it, but I wanted to get a quick answer to it before I could independently verify it. Warriors' last eight-game winning streak was in the championship season, 2021-22. It was in January and February. January 21 through February 7, the Warriors won, at that point, nine in a row. So they, at least eight in a row, you got to go back to the 2022 season. That was the championship season. That streak right before the All-Star break was bad. broken in Utah. And I believe when the Warriors lost, I think the Warriors were 41-13, if memory serves, on that night. So they were off to an incredible start. I think they were 41-13. But yeah, the 22 season, the last time they've won eight in a row. I mean, they haven't won eight in a row yet. They got to win on Monday. But should they get to eight in a row before they go to Houston and San Antonio, it would equal the longest winning streak for the Warriors since that january february of of 2022 all right let's get a couple of more here in the youtube chat kyle what do we got as i take a quick sip here yaxel with the clutch three you can't teach that he's just so comfortable spotting up and and shooting so comfortable spotting up and shooting uh quick quick uh quick pause here for i need to pause 10 seconds kyle so uh Hum to the people real quick. 00:29:23 Speaker 5: I need to make a little adjustment here. 00:29:24 Speaker 3: I had the popcorn. 00:29:25 Speaker 1: I had the popcorn. 00:29:32 Speaker 3: I had the popcorn. I had the popcorn. I had the popcorn, and it was– I shouldn't have had the popcorn at halftime because sometimes it just kind of gets caught. Oh, yeah. And you need to take a sip or you need to kind of cough it out a little bit. So that's kind of where we're at here at this point. But, yeah, Yaxl with the clutch three, no doubt you cannot– You cannot teach that. And his shooting has been the greatest skill that has surprised me the most from where we were. And I also think it's the skill that's allowed for him to be the 20-plus point a game scorer instead of a guy that's maybe averaging 14 or 15. And that, to me, is why he's been such a game changer. It's been that ability to score in addition to all the other things he does. But, yeah, when you are... in a spot where the game could get away if you miss the shot and you stick the shot, that is about as freaking good as it gets. And the Warriors found themselves in that position in the fourth quarter a number of different times. I mean, just kind of running through the fourth quarter, Warriors found themselves down by one. Magic scored the first five of the fourth to push it up to a six-point lead. Draymond missed a wild layup, but then blocked a shot on the other end. And Draymond, for all the offensive issues, Draymond was awesome tonight defensively in a big way. The rebounding was a little bit of a struggle, but yet that led to a Niang three. I made the note that Orlando had gained a lot of confidence offensively. I really thought they were getting into their sets and kind of getting whatever they wanted. But, yeah, Yaxel, with the big three, Warriors were down 90-89 when he got that kicked out to him, and he drilled it to make it 92-90, and then he had the drive that Drew Down mentioned to make it 94-92 after Yaxel. Orlando had scored, and that was in the lead-up to when it was all tied at 98 apiece, and Stephen Curry came back in with about four and a half minutes to go, and Curry carried the Warriors into overtime by scoring the final 12 of the night to help get to overtime. He'd add on five more in the overtime. He ends up with 41, and the Warriors wind up 126 to 119 winners over the Orlando Magic in OT. Rusty Nail chiming in. Oh, bring that back. I hadn't made a comment on that. Six turnovers for Yaxel. It's tough to have this much pressure, but the Warriors core is aging and he doesn't have the luxury of a slow development timeline. They need him. He's good enough to play through

it. And they need him to play through it. And I think in some ways you almost have to accept the turnovers are just going to be part of the deal here. as long as he's providing the other things that he's providing and he's providing it. I mean, and he did tonight in a number of different ways that we've illustrated here in the first 33 minutes of, of this show. So there are going to be nights where he's learning the NBA game, or maybe he's a little bit overmatched athletically for, even though he's a monster in terms of his size and physicality, maybe the handle gets a little loose and, Whatever it is, maybe they're putting a little too much on him. However you want to chalk it up, you're going to have to live with the turnovers, and it's going to be, I think, part of the growing pains. I really do put it like when Steve Kerr had joked about how Steph and Draymond were allowed to turn it over because they had brought so much greatness to the table for the Warriors for so many years. I feel like on this team, Yaxel's kind of in that category now. Like, you need him so much, and he brings so much good. It's like, yeah, turnover schmurnovers. Like, just, again, if it costs you games, it costs you games, but that's part of his development as well. And you've got to have a better option. Now, if there are games where maybe he's struggling, and we get down the stretch in February and March and April, and Jimmy Butler's back and playing at a high level, then maybe at that point, you can roll with Jimmy Butler and others if others are playing capably on a given night to be able to get to the finish line in a game at that stage. So, yeah, redraft, where's Yaxl going right now, JD and Chat? I mean, three, four, two? I mean, I think he's been, I think, I mean, the top rookies have been, I mean, Kyle, I'll get a quick thought on you. I mean, if I had to just go one, two, it's Boozer, Yaxl. I feel like to this point. I know Acuff for his scoring has gotten some run. I'm probably putting him a little bit farther down the list, especially after watching him play in person a couple of times. Yeah, he's on the Kings. He kind of has to put up that many shots. Yeah, and Acuff is– I'm not saying Acuff is bad, but nobody in their right mind– should be saying that Acuff's been better than Yaxel. 00:34:46 Speaker 6: Right. 00:34:46 Speaker 3: That's the one that, like, and I'm not sure anybody has, but Acuff's going to put up scoring numbers. Yaxel's putting up scoring numbers and doing other stuff and helping a team win. And so I think to this point, I mean, if you want to say Boozer– and he's helped them win, I think, I mean, I think Yaxel, I mean, you might go as high as two right now as we sit here a cut, what, two and a half weeks into the beginning of the season. Kyle, give me your two real quick. 00:35:16 Speaker 6: No, yeah, I would do Boozer and then Yaxel. I think what Boozer's doing, and he's, what, four years younger than him, but I will say I feel like the

rookie of the year race might come down to, if it is Boozer and Yaxel, And they're putting up similar stats that they are right now. I think it would come down to which team is better. 00:35:35 Speaker 5: And I would lean the Warriors would be better than the Grizzlies, you would think. 00:35:41 Speaker 3: As funny as it is to say, two of the big-time surprise teams in the NBA to this point, you had the Grizzlies who won their first six, and now they have lost three in a row after winning their first six. So they are 6-3 now. And you've got the Warriors who lost their first three and now have won seven in a row to pass the Grizzlies for the first time in the standings. Warriors, by the way, went from ninth up to fifth now in the Western Conference standings, for those of you scoring at home. Up to fifth at seven and three. Tied with Minnesota, tied with Houston, five, six, and seven. And again, the Warriors are going to get a crack at Houston. They're going to get a crack at San Antonio who's been hot but right now I'd say probably I don't know I want to know who the team was that had him in the top five but didn't feel comfortable with the maturity level there was a report that there was a team that had him as a top five talent but because of the maturity concerns that were out there didn't feel like maybe he was the best fit for their team and I think ultimately that's what it comes down to Like, the Warriors can handle Yaxel, the personality, because they've dealt with all kinds of freaking personalities. I mean, they've dealt with, I mean, Jimmy. They've dealt with Draymond. I mean, Clay, KD. I mean, Boogie Cousins was here for a minute. I mean, Jordan Poole's kind of a weird personality. I know he was a younger player. Like, the Warriors, and maybe I'm missing somebody, but the Warriors have had no issue dealing with big-time players. you know, big-time personalities or guys that may be a little bit different. In fact, I think they welcome it. But I will say it's not necessarily for every locker room. And so maybe there were some teams that thought that maybe he wouldn't blend well with some of the other younger players in their room. I think Yaxel is perfect for what the Warriors have in terms of all the vets. He gives them a youthful energy. He gives them a joy. He gives them a, man, what the– heck are you doing at different times like opening night going up against Luca and the toe to toe and mixing it up with the officials but also he gives them energy he gives them youthful energy but he kind of plays like a vet and he fits their system so it's really I mean the Warriors are getting the best it feels like of all worlds in terms of Infusion of energy, the best of the youth, and then a guy who plays in some ways beyond his years. Dig up 1166. Yaxel has learned early to be able to play with Curry, and many players in the past couldn't do that. He's not exactly like Jimmy, but there's a little bit of Jimmy to him. Like, he's a better stand-up shooter from three at this point. He's better, I feel like, at kind of finishing maybe strongly on some of those drives than jimmy at 37 36 37 but there's a little just poise throw it to him and things calm down now jimmy doesn't turn the ball over so that that's different but i it yeah it's it's all good it's all good and yeah i like i don't know i like i i used to hate the numbers robert brown 0506 but uh now i kind of like the numbers no i i kid but uh yeah uh, Yaxel's been playing, playing terrific basketball. We got to vote here. Uh, yeah, I know Boozer's field goal percentage has not, not been great. Uh, and, and look, I think Yaxel's got a shot to win rookie of the year. If, if the Warriors win 48 games or something like that, and Yaxel's their second best player in doing it, then I mean, look out, Sky's the limit at that point for his ability. He is 100% in the Rookie of the Year conversation. And I would also say keep an eye on the Rookie of the Month awards because sometimes the Rookie of the Month awards, the NBA will come out with a– and they don't do it in October– But October, November is counted together. And so right around the first week of December, it'll be Western Conference Rookie of the Month, Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month. And often, obviously, the guy who wins the most of those monthly awards and how do they do it within those months wind up winning the Rookie of the Year award. It's a little early for me to be looking at the rookie ladders and rankings and everybody kind of power ranks them every week. I know I've seen a lot of Boozer, Yaxel, Acuff because of his scoring at different points. So we shall see. It's a little early for that, but make no mistake. 00:40:28 Speaker 1: Cheers. 00:40:29 Speaker 3: Cheers. Cheers. 00:40:29 Speaker 7: Cheers. 00:40:29 Speaker 3: Appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Salute. Yes. 00:40:34 Speaker 1: Yes. 00:40:34 Speaker 3: Yes. Yes, ma'am. Appreciate that. Chime it in here. Dubs OT. Anybody that wants to say hi, you say hi. You can come. We are chilling right now. Life is good in the Bay right now. as the Niners get it going. Warriors, by the way, Kyle, completed the 49er bye week sweep. The Warriors won every single game in between the 49ers when they last played in Atlanta and their next game. So the Niners haven't played in two weeks. The Warriors won every single game. Their winning streak fit right into that. that window where we haven't had a 49er game to talk about. They went 7-0. The streak started in Denver the next night and has rolled right through here until the 49ers take the field against the Raiders tomorrow afternoon. 00:41:30 Speaker 5: Oh, no, they picked a good time to have the spotlight, you know. 00:41:34 Speaker 3: They picked a great time to have the spotlight. 00:41:35 Speaker 5: You get all the attention. I mean, the Valkyries won, but all the attention. 00:41:40 Speaker 7: Yeah. 00:41:40 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:41:42 Speaker 3:

Well, and it's funny, the Valkyries flipped their series when the 49ers were in Atlanta. Remember, they were down 2-1 and playing the day before the Niners played the Falcons, and they got the win in Game 4, came back and won Game 5, had the weird Game 6. And so the Valkyries won three of the final four of that series, essentially, in that same stretch. But, yeah, Niners back at it tomorrow, of course, and we'll have that for you right here on the sports leader and Dubs OT rolling on here. Kyle, how are we doing on time? Can we keep going a little bit? I feel like we're going to be in trouble, but we're not. 00:42:20 Speaker 4: No, no. 00:42:22 Speaker 3: Like eight more minutes? 00:42:22 Speaker 8: Yeah. 00:42:23 Speaker 3: You go like seven? 00:42:23 Speaker 5: Yeah, five to seven. 00:42:24 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:42:25 Speaker 5: Okay, let's take one about 24. We'll take one about 924. 00:42:27 Speaker 3: All right. 00:42:28 Speaker 5: 808-KNBR-415-808-5627. Quick check of the text line. 00:42:38 Speaker 3: It wasn't as much personality as it was his age. That from the 707, 951, Warriors' hottest team in the league. Nobody playing as well as Chef Curry is. Clutch Curry does it again. That from the 331. Warriors on an absolute roll. Yeah, this is the best roll they've been on since right after they acquired Jimmy Butler, and it's right up there with the championship season in January and February. 408, Curry is unreal, man. How lucky are we to be able to watch this guy night in, night out? What happens when Jimmy and Moody get back? Might have something cooking. Somebody texted and chatted. That was like verbatim. Who was that? Who was our guy that said that was verbatim? I had that marked. Somebody copied and pasted their text into the chat. Who was that? Raise your hand. It was one of the regulars. It was one of the regulars, but yeah, they texted in in the 408, so down in the South Bay, getting the job done. Let's do a couple more, Kyle. Let's go rapid fire here to close out the segment strong. Lengthy segment here at Harmonic to open things up. We were down bad the first three games. It felt like it was going to be another long season. Boy, did it. And every one of those wins is two more losses you'd have to take to get back to that point where you feel like, Oh my God, this could be a really difficult, painful type of a, of a season. It's why they got to keep stacking them. And I think it's why not losing a game like tonight, like the difference it's one game literally, but the difference between seven and three and just the look of seven and three and didn't lose to Orlando without Boncaro and, and Bain and Suggs at home, despite the fact that Orlando played, their tails off tonight and deserves a lot of credit but seven and three looks better than six and four I mean that is now you're now you now you'd have to lose four in a row to get to 500 you lose tonight you only got to lose you know you could lose three of the next four and you're back to 500 and you know that's obviously on the table with some of the tougher games that they've got coming up on the road not to get into the schedule game here on November the 7th but there's every bit of breathing room that this team can get, and I think they've got to get Monday, too. Get to 8-3, and then take your chances with those Houston and San Antonio games. There's going to be a ton of eyeballs on them. I'm so excited for those games. A couple of later starts in the Central Time Zone, nationally televised game. ESPN's got the Houston game. Amazon Prime, Kyle's favorite, has got the San Antonio game a week from Friday. And, of course, we'll be all over it right here on the Sports Leader on right after both of those games with Dubs OT and the best Dubs coverage in the Bay. All right, moving forward here in the chat. Parallel crush. Yaxelborg is a combination of Iguodala, Draymond, and Klay in terms of versatility. This team needs one more piece aside from Butler and Moody. I agree with you. They need Yaxel to keep it up. They need to keep Steph healthy and keeping it up. They need to add Butler and Moody, and they need to use the Chris Stabbs-Porzingis contract to bring in that final piece. There was a name that was rumored, and this might have been, I didn't actually listen to the podcast, and so I want to be fair here, and I didn't see our friend Tim Kawakami tonight. I think he's getting ready for the Niner game tomorrow. And so this may be an aggregation sensation, so I don't want to twist around Tim's words, and I usually like to listen to the podcast before I go with something that's said. But Tim, I think, threw out the Nuggets, and I think everybody thought maybe he was talking about, you know, guys if the Nuggets struggle that could be available. And I think everybody kind of ran with Jokic, which is sort of the pipe dream of it. What about Aaron Gordon? What if you could get Aaron Gordon? And you could take that salary off of the Nuggets because the Nuggets may find themselves in a position where not necessarily tearing it down the studs, but wanting to shed some money. And I think Aaron Gordon would be a terrific fit on this Warriors team. Defense, ability to rebound. He's a lob threat on the interior. He's a barrier kid. Man, I should call him a kid. Come on, don't call me. He's like 30-something. but bury a guy, bury a guy from the South Bay. And so I don't know. I kind of like it. I don't know if I would have thought Aaron Gordon as the Warriors' second best player, but if you're telling me you've got Aaron Gordon and Yaxel with Steph and then maybe Jimmy, I think you might have a little bit of action there. So could somebody like an Aaron Gordon be the piece? that the Warriors are looking for. Stay tuned, as they say. San Jose Jazz fan, I like Aaron Gordon. Mid-East finest. And, of course, San Jose Jazz fan is going to say that. But who knows? If Jimmy sees this team winning, he might find his joy again. We did get a

Jimmy update today, by the way. I was– brutal traffic, by the way, today, getting from the East Bay into the city. Took your boy an hour and 45 minutes– So I usually time it out pretty well. And no complaints here. We're all having a good time. But I try to time it. And Saturday's a little different. I've got my 7 o'clock game, 7 o'clock tip routine. And I adjusted a little bit for Saturday, thinking I have a little more time to get from the East Bay Inn. Hour and 45 minutes from the creek to get in. So I missed Steve Kerr's pregame press conference. I actually got there. I left at like 2.15 a.m. thinking I could get there by 345, and I pulled up at about 4 and walked into the building at about 405. And so Kenzo Fukuda, who does a great job, Cal guy, Cal Kenzo. 00:49:03 Speaker 5: Apparently, he's also, like, my neighbor. Like, Steve Kroener's my neighbor. 00:49:08 Speaker 1: Oh. 00:49:08 Speaker 5: He's also, like, right across the street. 00:49:12 Speaker 3: Kenzo's your neighbor. 00:49:13 Speaker 4: Well, we. 00:49:14 Speaker 5: Kind of live in like a triangle. 00:49:17 Speaker 3: Well, the next time we go to that, like the next time we go to that unnamed, that unnamed bar and, and that unnamed burrito spot, we got to like, we got to invite Kenzo. We got to invite Kenzo to come out and, and, and have a couple. Man, that sounds like a good time. Yeah, that's a good time. That sounds like a good time. We just got to find a night I'm not doing sports vote on the nights where I'm not doing Dubs OT, which there are some nights like that coming. I'm not going to get on that tangent, at least not tonight, but maybe around Thanksgiving week we could figure out a night. Maybe we go to Tim's Tuesday Trivia as a little field trip. That's in a completely different part of the city, but like completely the opposite. So maybe those need to be two separate nights. I digress. Kenzo Fukuda, who's doing a great job, and he was on the Valkyries run, and he's a terrific young up-and-comer in the game. And we've got to get Kenzo on a sports phone or at Just Dubs. He had asked Steve Kerr about Jimmy Butler, just kind of an update. Jimmy Butler per Kerr, via Kenzo Fukuda, who put this out on Twitter... Kerr said that Jimmy Butler worked out in his full Warriors uniform and Butler walked into the locker room in the full home whites, looked like he got a good sweat in, and it's a sign that his recovery and rehab is ramping up. Imagine Jimmy in full uniform. That's pretty freaking incredible and fired up there. So, yeah, I mean, we're still, I think, at least two and a half months away from Jimmy coming back as we sit here on November, two months to January. I think it's more toward the end of January in the beginning. But, yeah, I think Jimmy is finding his joy. Did you see Jimmy dancing around tonight? I mean, did you see Jimmy? 00:51:21 Speaker 6: When Horford did the little pump fake and go and add that quick step. 00:51:28 Speaker 5: Yeah, no, he loved that. he he's been loving it on the bench he. 00:51:32 Speaker 3: Really has jimmy's been jimmy's been freaking incredible freaking incredible uh so yeah good good good stuff there uh let's do oh we you know what that we gotta take a break we blew through the break me talking about going and having a beer and a burrito with kenzo and kyle uh in in san francisco we we we burned through we gotta take a time out now or the The bosses are going to get mad. 808-KNBR, 415-808-5627. Dubs OT with J.D. We'll continue on here on the Sports Leader. 00:52:09 Speaker 1: Live from downtown. 00:52:10 Speaker 3: Curry, way downtown. 00:52:11 Speaker 4: Bang! 00:52:11 Speaker 8: Bang! 00:52:13 Speaker 1: This is Dubs OT with John Dickinson on the Sports Leader. Streaming live at KNBR.com and on the KNBR app. 00:52:22 Speaker 7: Two-point lead in the ball coming upon the final minute of overtime. 00:52:26 Speaker 3: Wagner with Curry on a switch. Shot clock down to seven. 00:52:30 Speaker 5: Steph dances, floats, fires. 00:52:32 Speaker 3: And hits. 00:52:34 Speaker 6: It. 00:52:35 Speaker 3: He's got 41. 41 for Steph. Warriors get the win in OT, 126-119. We're back here at WOT with J.D. from Harmonic Brewing in Thrive City on a Saturday night. 808-KNBR, 415-808-5627. Big thanks to Kyle Haar and the Daily City Studios for allowing me to go. I don't even want to say how long we went. But we didn't violate any rules. We're getting all the spots in in the proper hours and all of that. I don't want to get the email. We don't need the emails. But we're back here. Warriors have won seven in a row. And we'll see if they can make it eight in a row for the first time since the 2021-22 season. when they take on the Pelicans on Monday night to close out the six-game homestand. 5-0 for the Dubs on the homestand with one more to go as the Warriors look to stay hot. Look at us stay hot. Cheers. Cheers, cheers, cheers. Absolutely. 808-KMBR, we'll keep it going here. Back to the chat, a couple of texts. Anybody on the phones? The offense... The offensive rebounds, mainly a size issue. I thought that was the case tonight. I definitely thought that was the case tonight. I thought that Orlando, for as many players as they had out, Wendell Carter Jr. was unbelievable. They have some bigs that have some athleticism. I just think they're a bad matchup for the Warriors straight up. I mean, De Silva had five offensive rebounds. Carter had six offensive rebounds. Kane had four offensive rebounds. I mean, they were just crashing. It was at It felt like in the first, I don't know, two and a half quarters, it was like almost throw it up and go get it if you were the magic. And then as the game got going in that third quarter, bad third quarter for the Warriors tonight. We definitely need to point that out. We talked a little bit about the turnover issues for Yaxa Lindaborg, but third quarter, Warriors got smoked. It was 37-20 in the quarter. Warriors were actually up 16 going to the second half and

just a complete and utter third quarter meltdown to allow for Orlando to take the one point lead going to the fourth quarter. And the Warriors were in trouble and Orlando was feeling good. They were extremely confident offensively. And yeah, you look at that third quarter, it was... It was, you know, Black got going for Orlando in that quarter. Da Silva hit a couple of threes in that quarter. Wendell Carter hit a couple of threes and was doing his thing. And then you look up in the fourth quarter specifically, that's where they really hit the offensive glass in a big way. And the Warriors just, I think playing smaller lineups definitely impacted those things tonight for Golden State. So We saw some of the Warrior flaws tonight in addition to seeing the Warriors' ability to compete and win while for a decent chunk of the game maybe not being at their best, especially in the second half. They were on the ropes left and right in the second half. All right, back to the phones we go. And up next here. Oh, he dropped? 00:55:57 Speaker 4: Oh, all right. 00:55:58 Speaker 3: All right. 808 KMBR. Give us a call back. We'll put you back up, Eric. Eric, yeah, I didn't know. Eric, that's on me. I didn't ask Kyle, and I didn't refresh my screen. So if you were sitting there for a while, I apologize. That one's on me. Usually, you know, we take breaks. Like, Kyle and I, we'll talk to each other. We'll be like, oh, how's the vibe at Harmonic? You know, what are you drinking tonight? Like, who's working, you know, tonight? It's Mike and Julia. 00:56:30 Speaker 9: Yeah. 00:56:31 Speaker 3: And it's also like, do we have any calls? What do we want to do this segment? Kyle was like, yeah, I need to go get some water and kind of chill for a minute. And then I had to, you know, there's a festive crowd tonight. People are coming up and saying hi and posing for pictures. And, like, it's just a fun night, great vibe. But I got a little lost during the break, I'm not going to lie. So we didn't hammer it out. So, Eric, call back, and I promise you, Kyle will break in. and say, J.D., stop whatever the hell you're doing, stop your yapping, and get to Eric's call, and we'll bring you right in. If not, totally understandable that you moved on. J.D., can we talk about the difference in shot attempts? Sure we can, Mata6689. We absolutely can talk about the difference in shot attempts because you look up and Orlando shot the ball 33 more times than the Warriors did. 33 more times. The Magic had 113 field goal attempts. You know how many threes the Magic shot tonight? They shot 54 threes. The Warriors, much more judicious in their three-pointers taken tonight, 15 of 32. They did get beat from three tonight in terms of overall makes, 18 of 54, so 33%. but 54 attempts in this one for the Orlando Magic. And it comes directly from a couple of things. Warriors had 19 turnovers, so fewer possessions. With the turnover advantage, 19 to 14, that Orlando had, only turned it over 14 times.

But it's the offensive rebounds. 24 to 3. How do you wind up with 33 more field goal attempts? 24-3 on the boards in favor of Orlando. It's the reason Orlando was in the game. Second chance points, 33-2. The Magic won second chance points tonight by 31 and lost the game. Hard to do, but it was a big part of the reason why. And I thought Orlando was a step quicker tonight in addition to the size, in addition to the physicality. I thought the Warriors did at times look a step slow. Not Steph, especially as he was leading them toward overtime with 12 straight points. But, yeah, the difference in shot attempts is not one that you see every night. And I don't think– I can't remember the last time I saw a disparity in field goal attempts at that level of north of 30. And a second-chance point disparity because Orlando was clearing the glass. Warriors only had three offensive rebounds, and Orlando was getting all the rebounds. Like, they just completely dominated the glass. In total, 57-42 on a night where the Warriors wind up winning in OT 126-119. All right, so let's move forward. Douglas Mikes really thought Niang was going to be another Jemichael Green. Sorry, Niang, I wasn't familiar with your game. I mean, as George Niang goes, the Warriors go because he was terrible the first three games. and couldn't hit a shot. He's been awesome the last seven games. He's been awesome. And another night where George Niang's getting into it with somebody. Another night where George Niang ain't afraid of the smoke. Another night where George Niang is going up and sticking his nose in against somebody bigger than he is and wanting to fight. I thought it was hilarious. So Niang and Wendell Carter are being separated. I don't know if you caught this. But basically, Draymond, it was almost like a tag team wrestling match. Basically, Draymond's right there, and Draymond almost tagged Niang and then kind of took him out of the fracas, and Draymond inserted himself into the fracas at that point. So it was kind of funny to watch. But how many times have we seen Niang get into it with somebody? He's getting into it with Carter. He's getting into it with others. Niang is a. 01:00:51 Speaker 3: Niang is, I think, what they call an irritant. He's an irritant to the opposition. And there are a lot of dudes who I think don't want to say– they're okay with some trash talk, but they don't want whatever Niang– they don't want to hear from Niang, basically. And so he's kind of an irritant maybe to some other players in that way. But– Unbelievable pass to Yaxel for that dunk as well, and he hit three more threes tonight. I mean, his claim to fame in his career has been wide open three. I'm going to knock it down. He hit three of them tonight, four for six, plus 13. The defensive deficiencies didn't hurt anything. He had one assist tonight, and it was that ball that he threw to Yaxel to get the Warriors in. basically the clinching bucket when Orlando was trapping down the stretch there in the overtime, trying to basically force a desperation turnover. All right, let's get Danny in Vancouver in here on the Sports Leader as he joins the conversation. Danny gets the Eric treatment. I said, Eric, you call back. Kyle's going to interrupt. Kyle didn't even have to interrupt. I'm checking the screens now. I'm ready to roll. Great to see Danny in Vancouver on Thursday here at Harmonic. And he joins us now here on Dubs OT. What's going on tonight, Danny? Hell of a game. Hell of a game. 01:02:21 Speaker 4: Hell of a game. 01:02:22 Speaker 7: So, first of all, it was absolutely great to see you yesterday. Thanks for being so gracious as always. And just love the show. So, yeah, I was actually on a flight, so I just got caught up. I taped it, but I taped the game. I didn't leave enough time. So, it got down to like 30 seconds left. So, I had to run to my... NBA, I had to fast forward. So I got the overtime. What a game. Two words, Stephen Curry. I think if you just said Stephen Curry, that would tell it all. But what an amazing game. I'm sure you did too, JD. I'm sorry I haven't caught any of your comments that I'm going to have to listen to later on tonight. But I had that sinking feeling in the first quarter. I don't know if you did because they just weren't putting them away. I mean, they should have been up by 25 points in the first quarter. And I'm going to give a lot of credit to Orlando. I mean, that's a well-coached team. I know they're shorthanded, but I thought they played very well. Like, really, really were just tough and gritty and kept fighting back. But you know what? Maybe, J.D., this is one of those ugly wins where, you know, it's not a pretty win, but they managed to do it. So they didn't play their best. But, you know, besides Steph was absolutely out of this world. But they hung in there. So I'm really proud of them. So I had a feeling they could sweep the whole thing, but really curious what you think. 01:03:54 Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought Danny, you know, Steph, first of all, just refused to allow them to lose, which, you know, is the main headline. I think Orlando, even with the guys out, and we talked about Bain and Suggs and Bancaro, obviously, who are, or difficult matchups in their own way. I think Orlando came in, I thought, a little bit desperate. And I think they've got some athletic guys. They've got some bigs. They're just the kind of team that torments the Warriors, I feel like, more than maybe some other teams. And I think they were desperate. They come in at 2-6, and they're just trying to turn their season around before it completely gets away from them because they have so many guys out. And I was really impressed. I mean, tonight is one where I sort of bookmark Orlando, and I feel like if the Warriors are actually going to be a pretty good team, I feel like maybe Orlando's got some better days ahead once they get a little bit healthier. I felt like tonight was a night to give Orlando a lot of

credit for the way that they played. And I thought the Warriors, when they couldn't put them away, Orlando really gained a lot of offensive confidence toward the end of the third quarter and in the fourth quarter to where you thought, damn, like they're just going toe to toe now. And Orlando's running their offense. And when they're not scoring, they're getting the rebound like every freaking time and getting another chance or getting to the free throw line. And so it became, you know, a night where Steph had to do something extraordinary and to allow for the Warriors to prevail. But, yeah, I think it was that. And I do think tonight was as much or more about what Orlando did do, despite the fact that they were dreadfully shorthanded. I mean, basically three of their top four players out. I thought it was more about what Orlando did do than what the Warriors didn't do, even if it wasn't maybe the Warriors' best game, Danny. 01:05:49 Speaker 7: Could I add another comment to it, J.D.? Sure. 01:05:52 Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it. 01:05:54 Speaker 7: I'm telling you, I'm loving me some George Nyang. I mean, I like him. I think he's really smart. And he's got some attitude. I mean, he's taking the smoke. I think that's great. I love it. You know, what are you thinking? 01:06:11 Speaker 3: I had no idea that he was kind of a, I don't want to say likes to fight guy, but unafraid to get into a skirmish. I always kind of viewed him as a smart player, a really good shooter. I've liked him when I've seen him against the Warriors. It feels like he's kind of hurt the Warriors at different points when he's gotten opportunities to play. But some guys are just that way. But yeah, I mean, he couldn't have been any worse, honestly, in the first three games. But he's been terrific in these last seven. And the one thing that he's done throughout the course of his entire career, which is a baseline for all of it, is he's been a 40% three-point shooter through his whole career. And if you are a 40% three-point shooter, eventually they're going to start to fall. He was three for three tonight. But you're right, the intangibles. He doesn't get destroyed every night on defense like you thought he might. He is physical and guards up a little bit in terms of bigger players and kind of sticks his nose in. He does seem to be an irritant to the opposition in ways that maybe get them a little bit off their game. And he's a hell of a passer. They used him as an inbounder, and he got that ball to Steph the other night. I mentioned the pass that he threw to Yaxel for the clinching dunk when Orlando was trying to maybe force a turnover there at the end. to have a last-ditch chance to tie the game in the overtime, and he was tremendous. And so, yeah, he is, you know, he was coming off a pretty, he didn't play last year at all, coming off of an injury, so I was kind of wondering, like, is he just done, somebody in his early 30s, but. 01:07:56 Speaker 3: He's been a really good fit,

and he's got a personality for as much as he's unafraid to mix it up, Danny. He's actually got a pretty funny, like he's a personality where you can see him getting along well in the locker room. Like he's kind of a sneaky, funny type of personality, whether it's in the press conference or maybe with his teammates. So I'm guessing he's a guy that's pretty well liked by his teammates, which can go a long way as well. 01:08:26 Speaker 7: Yeah, and I was going to say, I thought Will Richards did make– I thought he made a good contribution when he went in there. He seemed to stabilize things in the fourth quarter, and I was curious what you thought of that. 01:08:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, Kerr went to him for a spark. He wasn't in the initial rotation tonight, and then Kerr went to him when things were kind of going awry, and I think he's been a spark I think he has been a spark in a few different games you know young player that when maybe things are going wrong can provide a little bit energy he's just flying around he's flying around defensively he hit a he hit a little little pull-up shot tonight only four points but I I think I think he and Kerr Danny have come to some kind of an understanding of hey there might be some nights where you're not going to play But there also might be some nights where it looks like you're not going to play, and then I'm going to put you in there because I think you could change the game. And I think tonight was one of those nights where he wound up not playing a lot, but the time that he played, I agree with you, was impactful. 01:09:32 Speaker 7: Yeah, I think he can be sort of like take over what GP gives them eventually. I think he's very athletic, but he's got offense as well. He can hit the three-point shot. So that's going to be interesting. So what do you think, 8-0? Are we going to sweep it? 01:09:51 Speaker 3: I mean, at this point, I think you've got to sweep it. I mean, I'm looking at the Pelicans, and I mean, the Pelicans are 4-5 at this point. I believe the Pelicans, I want to say, I might be wrong on this, but I believe the Pelicans play tomorrow night. I'm going to double-check that real quick. Oh, perfect. So the Pelicans, it was the Pelicans and Miami. I knew there were two teams that were coming in on the homestand that were second of a back-to-back, and it's actually the same scenario that Miami had. Miami played against the Clippers down in Englewood on Wednesday night before they came to play the Warriors, and the Pelicans play the Clippers tomorrow in L.A. or in Englewood, and so... The Clippers are. So, yeah, the Pelicans are going to be on the second of a back to back, just like Miami was. So I feel like the rest advantage. We've got to get in addition to it. Got to get it. You got it. And it just sets everything up, Danny. It sets everything up for Houston and San Antonio. You want to be eight and three and then we can start to see, OK, where does this team stack up? We know they're not afraid of

Houston. We know that they're comfortable playing against Houston. They've been very comfortable against San Antonio. But let's see how this version does in those matchups. Getting to that at 8-3, I think, is big. And then we can have a little fun watching those games Wednesday and Friday as they begin the road trip. 01:11:19 Speaker 7: Thanks, J.D. Let's keep it rolling, and I'm going to go now and listen from the beginning. Enjoy the overtime show. Have a good night. 01:11:28 Speaker 3: Thank you. Thanks. Appreciate it, Danny. Thanks a lot. Danny in Vancouver checking in here. Dubs OT with J.D. here on the Sports Leader. 2-5-4, Golden State Lumber and Showroom text line. Dubs have the league on notice with the... Young stud, Yaxel Lindenborg, ready to contend. 5-1-0, giving a shout to Will Richard, who I think Will Richard has been a spark plug in a couple of these games. And even Steve Kerr rewarding him with a start. He feels like a little bit of a trump card to play at different points when certain things need to be, when you need a little bit of energy or youthful exuberance. All right, let's go ahead and take... timeout. I may sneak in a text or two. You know what? Let's go back to the chat. I'm going to go back to the chat here. Kyle, I'm looking for ones that you have queued up and Kyle's just winging it tonight. I'm going way, way, way back. Let's do like two or three chats and then we'll take that timeout so Kyle doesn't get in trouble because we have spots that need to play before 10 o'clock or we're going to get an email from corporate or something from the bosses. Book of Barnett Magic had like 30 more shots, 25 offensive rebounds, 20 turnovers. How did we win? Well, Wardell, Steph, and Curry is how the Warriors won tonight. And a lot of contributions from some others. We talked about Yaxel. We've talked about Will Richard. I mean, we've talked up and down the lineup as far as different guys who have made a positive impact. We haven't done our plus-minus leader tonight, by the way, Kyle. Plus-minus leader. And you know what? I... Plus minus leader tonight was Niang at plus 13. Not surprising in his 25 minutes. You know who deserves some freaking respect put on his name tonight, Kyle? You want to take a guess? Who needs some freaking respect put on his name tonight? I wasn't going to say Pods, although Pods was solid. He was solid. 01:13:33 Speaker 5: I mean, efficient. 01:13:35 Speaker 3: 15 and 7, solid. Plus 6, 38 minutes. You need him out there. Draymond freaking Green. deserves some respect put on his name and you know what had the Warriors lost you know what people are going to be lining up to say two points two points two points miss layups two points can't shoot offensive liability one for five two points two points two points they need more scoring I get it I understand it Draymond Green was a monster defensively tonight and and also had six rebounds and and There were four or five times he made stops and the Warriors just couldn't get the rebound. One, he got fouled on a ball over the back where he made a stop, couldn't corral the rebound, and Wendell Carter blasted him over the top. Draymond had two unbelievable blocks tonight. Draymond plus 11 with Curry's plus 11. Niang led it with plus 13, but Draymond and Curry both plus 11. Draymond played 33 minutes. Draymond flipping green. Put some respect on his name that I don't care if he had two points. He did a lot of really other things well and helped the Warriors win. All right, timeout. 808 KMBR. We'll come back. We'll get our sounds at Dub's OT. And we will push toward the finish line as the Warriors win at 126 to 119 in overtime. Dub's OT on the Sports Leader. 01:14:59 Speaker 1: Dub Nation, this is the real and inside story on Warriors basketball. Dubs OT with John Dickinson continues. Streaming live at twitch.tv slash thesportsleader. 01:15:14 Speaker 7: Magic with a one-point lead. 01:15:18 Speaker 3: Curry's got Carter on him. 01:15:19 Speaker 5: He says, I will work on. 01:15:20 Speaker 3: The big guy. Steph around. 01:15:23 Speaker 8: Him. 01:15:23 Speaker 5: Steph floating. 01:15:25 Speaker 1: Steph good. 01:15:35 Speaker 3: Stephen Curry on the drive, getting to the free throw line, finishing in the paint, doing it all to help the Warriors to their seventh consecutive victory tonight, 126 to 119. It's WOT with JD here on the sports leader. Anyway, KMBR, if you want to sneak in a call here, we'll keep things rolling. Our sounds at WOT is coming up momentarily. As Curry goes for 41, and the Warriors earn themselves the win. And you look at tonight, 5 of 10 for Steph from 3. Well, if you break down the shooting for Steph and Curry tonight, he was 7 of 8 in the paint tonight. 10 of 10 at the line, but the layups, the floaters, the finishes, really driving against tough defense tonight. that was hell-bent on not allowing him to beat them from the perimeter. And Steph made him pay on the interior. Again, 7 of 8 on the interior. So 14 points in the paint and then 10 more free throws on top of that. So basically 24 points in the paint or via free throw. He's attacking more, he's getting to the line, and that was the game-changer it felt like tonight. for the Dubs as they get the win over Orlando. All right, before we get to our sounds of Dubs OT, did we play the thing, Kyle, or no? We didn't play the thing, did we? Did we play the sounds of Dubs OT? 01:17:02 Speaker 5: We did not play the thing yet. 01:17:05 Speaker 3: Okay, we haven't played the thing yet. That's okay. Because we're going to do a text, and we're going to do a couple of chats, and then we'll get to our sounds of Dubs OT here. And we'll kind of mix it up a little bit. We'll do some chats. We'll do some sound. We'll do some chats. We'll go to the text line, and then we'll do fun with numbers, and we'll call it a night here from Harmonic coming up and head towards Sunday. 5-1-0 shouting out Pods on the Golden State Lumber and Showroom text line.

Pods has been playing really well, best we've seen. He's a big reason for the win streak, and the biggest change from his last two years is how consistent his three-point shot has become. That was always going to be the game changer for him, is making– the open ones and shooting them confidently, not being indecisive, not do I want to shoot it, do I not, do I trust I'm going to make it, am I not, I need to dribble in and then I'm going to stop and lose my dribble and what do I do, it's a tough shot, kick it to somebody else and it's an even worse shot or it's a turnover. That has been there less and less for Brandon Pajemski in the early part of the season. But yeah, you look up tonight and he winds up knocking down four of five from three on a night where the Warriors only hit 15 out of 32. Only took 32, but they were efficient from three-point range at 46, just under 47%. And, yeah, Potts has just been super steady. What's the Warriors' record when Brandon Pajemski plays Kyle Haar? Little sneak peek at fun. They're 7-1. when Pajemski plays. 7-1. He missed two of the three losses. Not to say they would have won. in Phoenix. Obviously, Steph and Draymond and Horford didn't play that game in Phoenix going back two weeks ago tonight, but he didn't play in the opener. The Warriors got thrashed in the opener as he was dealing with that little bit of a lower back thing, but he was an All-82 player a year ago, and so there's no reason to think that he can't play the rest of the way here, 10 games in, play the final, what, 72 and end up with 80 out of 82. But he has been a difference maker in a lot of the subtle ways that he's done it in the past. But the three-point shot, that's a great call from the 5-1-0 on the Golden State Lumber and Showroom text line. But yeah, 7-1 when Brandon Pajemski plays this season with the Warriors. with the Warriors now sitting at 7-3 overall. All right, let's do a couple chats, and then we'll get our sounds at WZOT. We'll kind of mix things in. Steph, 13 for 19, making Draymond look like a genius. Draymond plays with Steph. What's 13 assists? Draymond was awesome tonight. In every way other than scoring, Draymond was awesome tonight. He was. The defense, the assists. Like, he's finding his way in a little bit of a different role, it feels like, offensively and kind of making it work. But, yeah, Draymond's been terrific here in the early– in tonight's game specifically. And I know if they had lost, we would have been talking Draymond two points, can't make a layup. Like, that would have been what we're talking about. But they were able to win in large part as I grab– something important here for those on the YouTube chat. 01:20:35 Speaker 5: Is that a refill? 01:20:37 Speaker 3: Grab a little something important here. It may very well be. Looks great. We don't need to do a full pause. Not a full pause 10 seconds, but that first sip feeling here on WZOT at Harmonic in Thrive City. This guy, Stench... I actually thought Horford should have played more because he can space with Draymond. They actually played Bassey and Draymond together a little bit tonight, which I was like, damn, Bassey and Draymond. Like, when are you going to do that? But it was in part because they were getting eviscerated on the offensive glass. And so, yeah, I think Horford could have played. I don't disagree with that. Although tonight was a night where Horford had, what two blocks tonight himself that were that were spectacular but he wasn't hitting shots and I think it's harder on a night when he's not hitting shots to play him and I do think despite the fact that he held his own defensively the size and athleticism I thought tonight of Orlando did bother Horford but maybe a little more but it felt like Bassey felt like he fit the mold and His game is more like the Orlando guys' game in terms of fighting around the interior and boards and offensive rebounds and all of that. So I kind of agree, but it really wasn't Horford's best night offensively, and the Warriors needed the offense. Draymond with 10-plus assists and two points for two games in a row. LMAO. Robbie Goodwin. Let's keep it moving. Thanks. And we love all the newbies in the chat, by the way. Felton loves Bari. Thank you. for chiming in. With this team as is now, would you welcome into the fold Buckets and Moody once ready, Jimmy Buckets, or are those guys trading? No, I think you're bringing– I think, okay, it might be two separate answers. I think you can bring them both. Jimmy is for sure coming back. Jimmy is for sure not somebody that they're going to– like they've come this far with Jimmy, and if you weren't going to trade Jimmy before you had action– On the positive, like you're not trading him now. Jimmy's into it. Jimmy, again, Jimmy did a full workout in uniform tonight pregame in the practice gym, not on the main floor. Jimmy's not going anywhere. Moses Moody? 01:23:07 Speaker 6: No. 01:23:09 Speaker 3: Moses Moody, because of his $ 13 million contract, and look, they could use Moses Moody point of attack, 3 and D wing. They could use Moses Moody steady. Moses Moody fits really freaking well with this team. You could plug him in, and I think the guy that may play less is Guy. Honestly, if you get both of those guys back, and Guy just looks physically like he's really struggling with this knee tendinitis thing. So I think it's a scenario where, like, you start looking at who's going to play, who's not. Like, immediately I think you could go Jimmy, Axel, Draymond, Pods, and Steph as a starting five. And I think Guy would step out at that point, and then Moody could come back. Like, you may just end up– I kind of wonder if Guy's going to be able to play through the knee thing or he's going to need to shut it down or maybe even have some kind of a procedure at some point to– to clean it up. Although, again, without Moody and Jimmy, they do need him. He does still make an intangible type impact on the game with his

hustle, and he's a smart player and the like. But Moody, because of the $ 13 million, could be packaged with Porzingis, and you could take back a $ 30 to $ 35 million player if you're the Warriors, if you put Moody in the deal. And Moody could be a young player that might be appealing to bring somebody back. So Moody could... I think, be a salary-filling type of a player in conjunction with Porzingis. I don't think Jimmy's going anywhere. I've been a big gee glazer, John Jay. I was like, do I– I almost– like, am I going to read that or am I not? I've been a gee glazer, but he should take some time off. Yeah, physically it just looks like he's not where he needs to be to be able to make an impact, and you feel for him because– He's not the most athletic guy, but he does play his ass off with what he's got. And he was so key last year, you know, as the Warriors were dropping like flies at different points. And even as they were starting to figure out how to win. If this team's legit after 30 games, go all in for the right player. Parallel crush. Good comment there. Another newbie. Love the newbies. We are like WOT is on fire to begin the year here on the sports leader. And the YouTube chat's been awesome. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Who coughed it up more tonight, Warriors or J.D.? Well, nobody coughed it up tonight. The Warriors won the game, although they did have, what, a 16-point halftime. It was the Warriors' largest lead. 16 at halftime was the largest lead, and then they ended up in a little bit of trouble. Found themselves down six there early in that fourth quarter, but able to come back and find a way to get it to overtime, find a way to win it. I love Moody. No trades, please. Do we need them now? I do not think we do need trades. Again, I think the perfect world scenario is Jimmy just comes back. You're able to use Porzingis to bring somebody back that can be a rotation player. But to get the right rotation player, another team may want Moody. We got to let it play out. I'm a Moody guy as well. both literally and figuratively. Like I, I, I am like a moody guy and also I like Moses Moody, but I, yeah, I, we gotta let, we gotta see, we gotta see a couple more months of where this team is at. Cause honestly, we may get to a point where a few weeks from now, we're like, damn, they really could use most Moody and, and, and Jimmy Butler, you know, as things, I mean, it's all, it's been a great 10 games and, especially under the lens of they were 0-3, it's only 10 games. And everybody should be excited. And like I've said, Chase was as loud as I've heard it in four years, minimum. It just felt like a reemergence of Warrior fans. It felt like an emergence. This whole homestand has felt that way. Like you had the Warriors chance going, not tonight, but it's happened a couple of different times on the homestand. I know somebody had said, JD, tickets are cheaper now. And, you know, people are getting back in the building. Great, awesome. And they said, look at the Pelicans game. Like you can get in for a reasonable price compared to recent years. Well, I hope that stays the same. Because I feel like you've got a lot of Warrior fans that maybe haven't been able to go in recent time that are– they're reconnecting with this team on that level of being in the building and cheering them on. And I'm telling you, like, I, I think, I think anybody would have missed those two free throws as loud as it was when, when Wendell Carter went up and missed those two in a, in a really big spot with the Warriors up by two and Orlando just unable to be, to be put away. All right, let's do one more and then we'll get to our sounds at WOT. Still going to mix in some more chats. J.D., does my 48-win regular season record sound not higher, lower? It's on the table, Kyle. It's on the table. It's on the table. Kyle McKiernan. Not Kyle Haar. Although, I mean, Kyle Haar had– what did you have, Kyle? You had what? You had 45, 46, right? You were close. Kyle Chung had him winning like 58. But I think that was a little too optimistic. 01:28:39 Speaker 6: Okay. 01:28:40 Speaker 3: It's on the table. It's on the table. By the way, no Giordo tonight, right? 01:28:47 Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, yeah. 01:28:48 Speaker 5: No, she's a losing player. 01:28:51 Speaker 3: No Giordo. Okay. No Giordo Monday, right? 01:28:55 Speaker 5: No Giordo Monday, but Giordo on Wednesday. 01:29:01 Speaker 3: Are you serious? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I love Giorno, but that's interesting, the way it's shaping up. It's interesting the way it's shaping up. No Giorno Monday, but she's back when they play Houston on Wednesday. I mean, we love Giorno. But, I mean, if they are 8-4 and she's got three L's, like, there may need to be a meeting. There may need to be a meeting. There may need to be– because she's– I mean, I feel like she's got to be good on Niners, right? She's got to have a good Niner record. 01:29:41 Speaker 6: But the issue is, like, she's only available on Tuesday and Wednesday. It just so happens that they lose on Tuesday and Wednesday. 01:29:51 Speaker 3: What's the Warriors record on Tuesday and Wednesday? I don't know. Well, they're 0 for Wednesday. 01:29:56 Speaker 8: Okay. 01:30:01 Speaker 5: She had the first Laker game. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. She only does. 01:30:05 Speaker 3: Two season one states. She had one more. She's got more than one L. We shouldn't be burying her if she's only got one L. There were two Ls. 01:30:16 Speaker 5: I think she only has one L. 01:30:17 Speaker 3: There was another one. Really? 01:30:21 Speaker 6: Yeah, because we did a stream only. 01:30:29 Speaker 5: That was a no. 01:30:30 Speaker 3: No. Yeah. But she wasn't there that night? 01:30:33 Speaker 5: No, no, no. 01:30:34 Speaker 3: I thought she was there that night. 01:30:35 Speaker 9: Yeah. 01:30:36 Speaker 8: Yeah. 01:30:37 Speaker 3: She might have been there like running the Stanford game or something. No. No? No? 01:30:43 Speaker 4: All

right. 01:30:45 Speaker 3: All right. All right. I digress. I digress. All right. Let's get to Sounds of Dubs OT. 01:30:52 Speaker 1: KNBR presents the Sounds of Dubs OT. 01:30:56 Speaker 7: I can see the headline now. 01:30:57 Speaker 10: Kerr says Warriors better without Curry. 01:31:00 Speaker 3: No glass, no balls. 01:31:01 Speaker 11: I want to get my joy back. 01:31:01 Speaker 3: I'm happy here, you know, off the court. 01:31:06 Speaker 1: Now here's John Dickinson. 01:31:08 Speaker 3: All right, let's get to it quick, fast, and in a hurry. We'll run through. We'll get some more chats, and then we'll call it a night here. Big Steph Curry night. We'll hear from Steph. We'll hear from Steve Kerr. We'll hear from Draymond. We'll hear a little bit more Steph. But let's just start with Steph on– just the confidence that's growing within him about the team around him as this season continues to get going. 01:31:33 Speaker 9: There's a moment tonight where we started overtime and me and Draymond, you know, had a minute and some change rest and we didn't like it on the bench. But the idea of, hey, look at this lineup that's out there. We have full confidence that, you know, they could go out and get us off to a good start. And they won that minute and a half by four points. So Those little moments are key for us to get through 82 games and just build confidence that whoever's out there on the floor, no matter what the combinations are, we have enough to win on any given night. So I'm proud of those type of moments because it takes a lot of trust and commitment from everybody. 01:32:09 Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. And you're thinking, uh... Over time, Steph, how long are you going to keep him out? I thought Steve put him back in with 4.30 to go. I think he's in a perfect world in regulation. Maybe that would have been around 3. But Steve had two bonus timeouts. They had four timeouts at the 4.30 mark in regulation. So Steve could take a timeout to get him back in at 4.30. He could take another timeout when they had a failed possession. At about 3-10, the use it or lose it, he had two of those. He took them both. That got those guys a couple of reps. They ran a great play, by the way, out of the 3-10 timeout and got Draymond a layup that he smoked. But, again, Draymond was really good tonight in every other way, but they ran a beautiful play to get Draymond a layup that he just doesn't quite have the lift or the finish there. But, again, impacted the game in a lot of other positive ways. But, yeah, the Warriors, the plan is working. To this point, I was extremely skeptical that the plan could work. It didn't look like it was going to be able to work the first three games, but the plan is working with the planned rest nights for the vets, the back-to-backs, the bench depth, the way the pieces all fit together. I mean, this team is 7-3, and they probably should be 8-2 with the game that they tricked away against the Grizzlies going back to the home opener. But that is all forgotten with the fact that they've won these last seven and should have the ability to make it eight on Monday night. 808 KMBR, let's keep it going here on Sounds of Dubs OT. Here are Steve Kerr's thoughts on just the game overall. Wild night at Chase Center as the Warriors get the win in OT. 01:33:52 Speaker 10: Yeah, these games always scare me when people are out for the other team because the league is filled with hungry, young athletic players and the way everybody plays now it's speed and crash the glass and create extra possessions and I mean we only got out of there alive because of Steph and then some great individual efforts by guys but we got totally outplayed that whole second half they were amazing 33 more field goal attempts it's almost impossible to win a game but I'm proud of our guys because they gutted it out. 01:34:36 Speaker 3: They gutted it out in a big way, and again, it took a Herculean effort from Steph, and you do give credit to the magic for the game that they played, and they now fall their fourth straight loss to 2-7 overall, and they're just so banged up, and they've got the new coach and trying to implement some things, but the Warriors also handling business here in the early going against some of the teams that have been struggling. You know, they've got the win against the Clippers. They've got a win against Phoenix. They've got a win against Orlando. Miami's struggling at 3-6 at this point in the season. So they've taken advantage of some teams that are one or two lost teams. But we've also seen them beat Denver. We've also seen them beat Minnesota. We've also seen them beat the Lakers. So they've got some wins against some really good teams as well. Let's keep it rolling here. with steve kerr more on this one and specifically about the decision here to rest steph and draymond for a minute or two at the beginning of the overtime after the warriors had worked so hard to save the game and even get it into an overtime we've. 01:35:50 Speaker 10: Talked about it over the years last couple years um You know, in the old days, we would just obviously never even think about it. Just Steph would play, you know, 15 straight minutes. But it's not the old days. And we've got to make sure that we're handling him and Dre in a good manner in terms of preserving them for the course of the season. But also we've got to lean into the depth that we have. And that was part of the equation. You know, Bassey giving us the best chance to win the jump ball. And his scoring inside. I mean, that team just overwhelmed us tonight with athleticism. And that's why we went to Bass in those key spots. He had a great block at the end of regulation. A little bit of a tough break, you know, not finishing the game. But, you know, Bass, he's going to play a big role for us. 01:36:46 Speaker 3: And he already has played a big role. I mean, you talk about winning on the margins, winning the tip. Wanted to make sure you win

the tip to get maybe an extra possession there to begin the overtime. And he ended up with four points. He scored the first four points of overtime and can score a little bit. It was the right call. It's an uncomfortable call, but it's the right call given the state of where things are for the Warriors with these veteran guys. It's just are you good enough to be able to withstand the call? And tonight the Warriors have been as they were. in the two games where Steph and Draymond and others sat out, they're one and one in the Steph rest games. But again, the thing that I'm going to keep saying, you have to keep winning these games when you have Steph and Draymond healthy, because as much as you plan nights off for one or both, there is going to be a time where eventually they are going to probably have to miss time at a little bit more expanded rate. And you want to have a cushion that, in the win-loss column to where you can withstand a few losses that basically are schedule losses or losses because you've got a certain amount of your players out. It's why tonight was important and the difference between 7-3 and 6-4. It's why Monday's important and the difference between 8-3 and 7-4 with the Warriors playing against a Pelicans team that's going to be in the second of a back-to-back. Although the Pelicans do, I would say, have some players that can bother the Warriors from an athleticism standpoint. Somewhat similarly maybe than that of Orlando, and it's not like they're 1-7 or 1-8. They're 4-5, I think, at this point, playing their 10th game coming up tomorrow in L.A. before they head up to play the Warriors here on Monday night. to close out the homestand. All right, let's get a couple of chats here, and then we'll finish up with a Draymond and a Steph. Let's just do like two or three rapid fire, Kyle, your choice. Vogel, Yaxel, Brandon Williams were great offseason pickups. Niang gets honorable mention. Niang's been tremendous. But Brandon Williams has been solid. He's a pretty good on-ball defender. He's unafraid to attack the rim. He's got a little ish to him. I kind of like his– he just kind of flies around. He's got a little something to him. But, yeah, Vogel is going to start to get, I think, more and more praise for the job that he's doing as the Warriors continue to play– Great defense. I mean, that's been the other sort of understated part of the equation. When you look at this team and where things stand, the Warriors have been terrific defensively for the most part. Tonight, Orlando got cooking against them a little bit. But yeah, Vogel as basically the defensive coordinator is has been a major addition, not taken away from anybody else, but he's been really good for the Warriors here. And I think they've done more mixing and matching game in, game out in terms of opponent-specific game plans. And I think for the most part early on here, it's really worked in Golden State's favor. All right, let's keep it rolling. One more. Draymond played all-world defense. Yes, he did. He was awesome tonight. Nobody should be slandering Draymond Green at this point for the game that he had tonight. I know if they had lost, it would have been, like I've said a few times already, all the missed layups, all the points, all the different things. But they didn't lose, and Draymond was phenomenal as a facilitator. Phenomenal. defensively in this game tonight. He deserves his flowers for that as somebody that always gets maligned when the Warriors seemingly lack offense up and down the roster. One more, E & J, the team is playing so well, Guy is pretty much out of the rotation, but he started tonight. And that's okay, too. You've got Will Richard, who you can mix in. I don't think Steve's fully comfortable with Will Every night, like if Will Richard was like three inches taller, I mean, he would be like the perfect freaking player for this team. But, you know, his lack of size does at times hurt. But, man, he's a hustler. He's poised. You can tell he's a champion from the college days. Like it's hard to not like Will Richard and what he brings to the table. But, again, if he was three inches taller, he wouldn't have been a second-round pick. He would have been probably like the 18th or 23rd pick. in the first round, and he'd be playing for another team, probably coming in at chase center and putting it to the Warriors as a 6'7 wing that can be 3 and D and defend and fly around. So part of the reason why he is a dub is the fact that he is more in the 6'3, 6'4 range. But he plays bigger than he is as well, and he's just got a great temperament to him, great energy to him. And I think he's really absorbing and vibing with his role at this point with this Warriors team. All right, let's get more sound. Appreciate everybody chiming in. We're going to go another wave of comments as well. This is going to be, by the way, this is going to be our first, I think, this is going to be our first two-hour WZOT. 01:42:21 Speaker 5: I hope you had the over tonight. 01:42:24 Speaker 3: I hope you had the, I did not think we'd make it beyond 1030. I didn't. We started at about, I don't know, we started about 835. And this is going to wind up being, I mean, hey, when the people want to roll and Harmonica's open, like, here I'm thinking, yeah, I might get out of here by 930 tonight. Like, I literally, like, I was like, yeah, I might get out of here by 930 tonight. I may end up walking out of here by 1045. I may end up walking out of here by 1045. And you know what? Who cares? Because the Warriors got the win and people are fired up and the Niners are back tomorrow and I'm going to be out of Levi's and we'll be back here on Monday. You know what? This is freaking living, people. This is freaking living. Alright, let's go Draymond. One more Draymond. We talked about the passing. Deserves his flowers for that. Let's hear Draymond here talking about the assist numbers and being able to initiate the offense for the Dubs.

01:43:20 Speaker 8: You know, we have a lot of guys. Steph creates so much confusion for other defenses, and so Always trying to make sure. He spent so much energy running around. For me, I think you see a guy running around like that, you better keep some eyes on him because there's no one that can keep up. It's like that play when Wendell Carter did a great job on him. He denied him. Steph caught the ball. He got stuck. Threw it back out. Went back door. Wendell Carter was there. He came back out. Wendell Carter was there. Sure enough, he pops open in the corner. And so you have someone expending that much energy. He does it so selfless, from a selfless place. Because it's not just always to get himself open. He knows it causes confusion for other people and get other people shot. So for me, I always try to keep an eye on him. Just make sure he gets the ball when he does end up open. But other guys as well. 01:44:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Steph is just out of this freaking world to watch. And, I mean, Wendell Carter played. I thought Wendell Carter was really good tonight. Ended up 19-11. He missed the free throws in the overtime, missed five free throws. But he was just flying around trying to match what the Warriors were doing, trying to get out and help on Steph. But, yeah, Steph just had the answer every game. every single part of the night tonight to help the Warriors prevail. All right, final clip here in our Sands of Dubs OT. We go back to Wardell Stephen Curry here, and this is a fun one because we mentioned it, and we'll reiterate it during our Fun with Numbers, but this is a fun nugget to mention, which is Stephen Curry tonight moved in front of LeBron. He'd already passed Jordan for the most 40-point games for a player 35 or older. Here's what Steph had to say about passing LeBron after already passing MJ. It's Steph, LeBron, MJ. 40-point games north of 35 years old. Here's Steph. 01:45:37 Speaker 11: It's kind of a weird one, but it does make me super proud of the work that's gone in, especially with some injuries and all of that, but just the idea that I can still get to a certain level. You kind of feed off of that and especially when it's in a winning fashion like tonight where we needed all of them. And yeah, I just, I appreciate the longevity. 01:46:00 Speaker 3: Y'all know that. 01:46:02 Speaker 7: Yeah. 01:46:03 Speaker 3: I mean, it's, it's amazing. And you look at what LeBron did, you look at Jordan. I mean, anytime Kyle you're in the list with where you're atop the list and then the next two guys are LeBron and MJ. I mean, that's like, that's like, that's like being Kyle Chung really. I mean, it's, it's, I mean, That's like the life that Kyle Chung lives every day. 01:46:25 Speaker 6: Just wait until Kyle Chung turns 39. 01:46:29 Speaker 5: Let's see where he is on that list. 01:46:32 Speaker 3: I mean, he's going to be a freaking billionaire at that point. Like, it's just amazing. Like, we are all going to be like, I am

going to be like, we're both going to be like, Kyle, can we come work for you, brother? Remember, we noticed your plus minus first, Kyle, when we're all working for Kyle Chung. here coming up in the future. All right, that's our Sounds of Dubs OT. Let's get to some more chats here as we approach the two-hour mark. We got about 90 seconds to get to the two-hour mark here. Jotson, Jotson, what? Can I say that? Rick Tittles? Jotson, Rick, Rick. I honestly, I'm honestly scared every time the Dubs get up big early in the game. They seem to play far better when they're down by 15. I'd rather be up than down. But, yeah, I made the point to Austin and Digital because we're sitting next to each other tonight. And I said, man, well, Warriors not off to a bad start tonight. Well, that means they're going to lose to the Magic. And he just kind of smiled like, no, come on, JD, that's not going to happen. And he was right. I was wrong. But, yeah, it was the first and third quarter flip tonight where the Warriors ended up great first quarter, bad third quarter. It's been great third quarters, bad first quarters. But don't be afraid. Embrace it. Enjoy it. Love it. Appreciate it. Savor the ride. Savor the ride. Carter Jr. making 18.1. Could he be the guy we trade Porzingis for and attach a draft pick? I don't think the Warriors are going to want to attach a draft pick to Porzingis. But it's interesting. and how much I want to know what Wendell Carter what's left on his contract he's got a couple more years he's signed through 28 he's got the rest of this year and two more years he does make a similar amount to Porzingis I think if you're taking on this year Porzingis expires this year. You don't have to pay Porzingis. That's a wash. And then you're taking on two more years. You're not going to have to give up a pick if you're the Warriors in that type of scenario, assuming they want to actually dump the salary. All right, let's do two more, Kyle. Rapid fire. Warriors went to OT. Why not Dubs OT? Yeah, we've made it here. I met Will Richard the other day. Super humble. Yeah, Will Richard is great. Will Richard is great. No question. Good young cat. Last one? Last one. 01:49:11 Speaker 1: Now, time for the Dubs OT comment of the night. 01:49:18 Speaker 3: Everybody, Kyle Chung tonight. All right. Yeah, cheers to Kyle Chung. I mean, he's, like, got to be– I mean, he's– I mean, look for Kyle Chung in the marina, I would say, tonight. He's probably– He's having a good time. He's making the rounds in the marina tonight, I would imagine. So, yeah, if you see Kyle Chung, be like, hey, WOT. Kyle, we love you, brother. Get back in there. We got to ship Jordan out. Get back in there. Let's keep this streak alive. 01:49:50 Speaker 5: Yeah, can we trade Jordan? 01:49:53 Speaker 3: I don't know about trade. I don't know if we need a trader, but we might need to just shift our role around. All right, let's get to FOMO numbers, and then we're done. 01:50:02 Speaker 1: This is Dubs OT with J.D. Time now for fun. 01:50:06 Speaker 3: I'm a fun guy. 01:50:10 Speaker 1: With numbers. 01:50:11 Speaker 7: No, I'm just having fun. 01:50:12 Speaker 1: On KNBR 104.5 and 680. Streaming live on KNBR.com and the KNBR app. 01:50:19 Speaker 3: All right, we'll make it quick here. Fourth clutch game for the Warriors as they get the win, 126-119 in overtime. 3-1 in clutch games. So the Warriors playing well in clutch games. The one they lost was the one they blew to Memphis home opener. Niang, third straight game with 10 or more points. Career best double figure scoring streak is 6. Fourth 10 or more point game for Niang this year. Draymond Green, a season high with assists for Draymond. Ended up with the 13th. Steph we talked about the games north of 35 40 or more it's Steph LeBron and Jordan incredibly and the Warriors the last time with a seven game winning streak after a three game losing streak to begin a season the Warriors are the first team to do it since the 18-19 Thunder were 0-4, won seven in a row. They've tied the second longest streak of a team that started 0-3 immediately following the 0-3. Only the Dallas Mavericks in 2006-2007 have won more games than the Warriors and these other teams who did it after losing their first three, and that was the We Believe team that the Warriors knocked out. So that'll do it. That'll do it. Our fun with numbers. Truncated Edition. 5-1 at home, 5-0 in the homestand, 7-3 overall, all that. Kyle, appreciate you, my man. Great job tonight. Big thanks to who was cutting the sound tonight? 01:51:49 Speaker 5: Nick Austin. 01:51:52 Speaker 3: Nick Austin for Austin Scott, for Mike out here at Harmonic. We'll talk to you Monday. Julia was here too. We'll talk to you tomorrow at Levi's as well, right here at The Sports Leader. Emirates Cup or bust? 01:52:07 Speaker 2: Oh, hell yeah. 01:52:07 Speaker 3: First of all, you got to start off liking each other. Big, fat, dub. 01:52:11 Speaker 7: Ain't nobody going to stop me. 01:52:13 Speaker 5: I just wake up and I can shoot it no matter if I'm playing or not. 01:52:16 Speaker 3: Who are these guys? 01:52:17 Speaker 4: I love you, JD. 01:52:18 Speaker 3: Bye, sugar. 01:52:19 Speaker 4: Dodges, touches earth. 01:52:20 Speaker 1: Curry! 01:52:23 Speaker 3: Ethical hoops. You're not doing that outside. It's all fake toughness, man.