April 21, 2025 • 11 mins
The Warriors take an early lead in their series with the Rockets.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Playoffs are underway. I wish the.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Regular season would have more playoff style basketball. The regular
season and the playoffs are two totally different games, and
I understand it's eighty two games.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I understand that.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
The players aren't going to take some of the November
December games as seriously. When you get in the middle
of the season and you're not ready to the you're
right around the All Star break, those early February games,
there's games that are mailed in, especially when you're at
the end of a back to back or the end
of a long road trip, and it's just it's just
not good basketball for a lot of the regular season.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I don't think that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I don't think any sport takes games off like the
NBA does. In the regular season baseball, it's always up
to the pitcher. If the pitcher's hot, you're probably going
to win. If your pitcher sucks that night, you're probably
going to lose. If you overtax your bullpen. But Aaron
Judge isn't not trying to hit a home run every
time he comes the plate, And I wonder sometimes if
(01:04):
a basketball player is actually trying to get thirty tonight
after he's gotten thirty three straight nights in a row,
and especially or even I'll give it, give you this,
Garrett Cole is not trying to give up hits in
the middle of a season. And I believe that defensively,
players don't care if the other team scores as long
(01:24):
as they score more. I want to these get All
of these games, except for Memphis and Oklahoma City, are
relatively competitive, and there is people diving on the floor
for loose balls. There is a lot of physicality the
referees are letting. I mean Steph Curry got held twenty
five times in the fourth quarter alone, going from one
(01:44):
side of the floor to the next. He had to
do all kinds of moves and slap hands and stuff
just to get open the other night last night, and
the referees just looked at him like, it's the playoffs
play on now.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
If that were in January, that had five.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Fouls on the guy that was guarding staff, he'd been
shooting free throws the whole second hand, it's better basketball.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I wish we could get.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Somewhere along the somewhere along with that with the regular season,
but I'm gonna start with Houston and Golden State because
I'm not ready to believe that Houston is ready to
be a championship team. They have the makings of one,
but there's usually some growing pains that take place. Oklahoma
City was in that boat last year. Two years ago,
(02:23):
they were the playing team. Last year they were the
second or third seed, and then they didn't make it
past the second round. And now here they are as
I think the best team in the NBA, and I
would be very I think they're gonna win the championship.
I think they're going to be either Boston or Cleveland
out of the East. Shay is a really good player,
their rest of their team is great. I think Oklahoma
(02:45):
City is playing good basketball at the right time, and
I expect them to keep on winning. But the game
last night with the Golden State Warriors comes down to
Butler and Curry. I don't know for how long those
two guys can carry one franchise, but I do know
it's going to be fun to watch them try, and
especially if Steph Curry can run into thirty footers in
(03:07):
drain shots. And I'm gonna say this and I'm not
trying to compare Steph Curry to anyone, and I the
comparison that I am going to attempt to make, but
it's not a comparison, So don't get me wrong here.
I'm going to bring up what UTSA had a few
years ago in Javon Jackson. Certainly they're not the same players,
(03:28):
but they play similarly with the style, and Javon would
walk across half court and if you weren't guarding him,
he'd shoot it and walk down to the other end.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It was good.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Steph Curry does that times a million. Steph Curry's an
NBA All Star and the greatest, one of the greatest
point guards in the history of the game. And if
I were changing the logo, I would change it to him.
The Jevon Jackson's playing in Germany and dropping twenty five
a game not compare.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I'm not trying to compare him.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
But what I am going to compare is that everybody
now that's a guard is emulating is emulating Steph Curry.
Caitlin Clark's game is patterned around Steph Curry four or
five years ago, Javon's was at UTSA. You look around
college basketball, men's and women's. As soon as they get
the green light boom, we're shooting a three. That's the
(04:16):
impact that Steve Kerry, Steph Curry's had. He's got a
coach that's allowed him to play that way and he
doesn't disappoint. And there was a highlight reel that was
just shown in here a few minutes ago, and the
three threes that he made in the fourth quarter, eyes closed,
falling away, runs into a three, comes off of a
(04:38):
couple of screens, gets held, pulls away, backs up, fakes
one way, goes back, shoots another three. It is amazing
how he is able to shoot shots. And then you
take all the rest of the basketball world and they're
all emulating him. Go to a college game, go to
a high school game, especially if you have a coach
that's pretty liberal with the way teams run their offense.
(04:59):
It's f Curry basketball and he's thirty eight years old,
thirty seven years old, and he did it again last night.
I don't know how long he can do it, but
I'm gonna sit back and watch it because we're probably
never going to see anything else like it whenever he
comes to us. I don't think that the Warriors can
beat Oklahoma City. I don't even know if they can
get out of the second round. Well, actually they would.
(05:20):
They're the seventh seeds, so they wouldn't play Oklahoma City
till the finals, so they would play the Lakers most
likely or the Timberwolves, which we'll talk about in the
second In the second round, I'm not sure they can
get past that series. But beyond that, this is going
to be a fun series to watch and I think
they're going to beat Houston, win and win this series.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
As far as for Steph Curry, I do agree with you.
You know, he definitely has changed the game over his
last however many years, what fifteen plus years that he's
been in the league. Because we go back to this
when we're talking about, especially in this day, modern day
of the NBA, if you're not shooting at east thirty
(06:01):
two thirty three percent from three point range, you're almost extinct.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Especially you're not a three point shooter, especially at a guard.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It's like, you know, hey, if if even if you're
six foot one, six foot two, you may be slow,
you may not have the best you know, uh, dribbling skills,
but if you're shooting thirty five percent thirty seven percent
from three point range, you know what, we'll find a
place for you.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You know, I hate to.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Bring up to bag on it, but just say, like Bronnie,
Bronni is undersized as a two guard.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
But if Bronnie could.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Shoot thirty five forty percent from three point.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Range, it'd be in the NBA. He would have a spot.
He'd have a roster spot.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
He would have a spot that you could sit there
and defend him and be like, yeah, but he's shooting
thirty five to forty percent.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Here's the thing is, I'm not sure that you can.
I think Steph Curry practices every day what he does.
Of course, there's no question about that.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Look at that. There's stuff, yeah, but there's the it factor.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You got to just have a little bit of it
to be able to do what he does.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Because there's a lot of people that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Could practice till the sun goes down every night, and
they're not going to be him or anywhere near it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
We're close to him. It's like free throw shooting.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I'm sure Shaquille O'Neil tried to practice free throws until
he got to a point where this is futile. I'm
either going to make it or I'm not, no matter
how long I practice and when you're When you're a
bad free throw shooter, you're just I don't know that
you can make yourself a better one. You can make
yourself an average one, but I don't think you can
make yourself a good one. So if you're a forty
five percent foul shooter, I think you can get to
(07:35):
sixty five percent with work. But if you're an eighty
percent foul shooter and you work at it, you can
get to ninety plus. It's about there's a there's a
talent factor that comes with that. And I think Steph
Curry was born with a gift and then he has
coaches that's allowed him to use.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
That gift at his discretion.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, it also helps he's got good DNA as well,
you know del.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, well deal, Curry was a good shooter, but he
wasn't that good. I know he wasn't that good. But yeah,
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I don't think Mom had anything to do with make
him a better shooter.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Maybe maybe she was like, hey, you know what, Steph
or STEPHANU, you're gonna you can't have dinner until you
make one hundred free throws in a row without missing.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You know, it could be something along the ill be
back in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I'll be bad.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'll be bad.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Don't worry, mom, I'll be back in five Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, he does this routine in practice every day with
a guy that rebounds for him, and he has to
swish five three five in a row.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
If it hits the ram, the count starts over.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
If it hits anything but net string, and he has
a way of measuring, I mean just just barely grace.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Is the rim not good enough?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
You gotta have five five Swiss free throws in a
row before you leave practice.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, well, real quick, you know, talking about free throws,
I do think it. Yes, it is putting in the
work and effort, but it's also a h It's also
a mechanics thing because you can look back. You can
see what Jeremy s Soohan for instance, you know, Jeremy
Sohan went from two hands and i'll he just uses
the one hand and it's about just a little under
seventy percent. What has gotten better looking?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Sorry, I know. Sorry.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
If you have any kind of a crutch when it
comes to shooting free throws, you're not a good free
throw shooter. It's the same thing with putting. If you
if you put with a long putter. The old that
there's only one golfer in in my lifetime Thatt putts
cross handed that I give a pass to, and that's
Jordan Speed. But if you put cross handed, if you
put with a long putter, if you use the claw grip,
(09:28):
you've got to flaw in your putting stroke. And that's
fine if that's the way you make them, but you
become if you're not putting conventionally. I mean, Ben Crenshaw
and Dave Stockton are considered the two best putters of
all time, and they did mess around with a claw
grip or something else, or to shoot it with their
eyes pet with their eyes closed, and they did it
the correct way, and they have a gift. And then
(09:50):
they went out and worked on that gift forever. So
and and Tiger has never put it any other way
except the way you're supposed to. If you have a
if you have to manipulate the way you shoot free throws,
there's a flaw in your free throw.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I'm not saying it's a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And if you can get from sixty five to seventy
five by doing some kind of manipulation, that's great for
your team. But you want to be Rick Berry, Steph
Curry good, then well Rick Berry. But he did that
from beginning that.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Underhand or was they classify the granny seat he did, but.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He did that from high school forward and when he
first started playing basketball, that's the way he shot free throws.
Will Chamberlain tried it wasn't very good at it. But
if you're not shooting free throws conventionally, then there's something
Don Nelson used to shoot with one hand. There's everybody's
trying something. But if you're not shooting, if you're not
playing the game in a conventional way and you're going
(10:42):
through a routine and you have there's just something about
the it factor that those guys have. And Steph's got
that all right. There's some other games in the East.
We'll talk about some that's baseball stuff. We got an
NFL draftop to get to Cooper Flag. What are the
Cowboys going to do at twelve? Lots of options there,
all that straight ahead the next hour on the ticket
Playoffs are underway. I wish the.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Regular season would have more playoff style basketball. The regular
season and the playoffs are two totally different games, and
I understand it's eighty two games.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I understand that.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
The players aren't going to take some of the November
December games as seriously. When you get in the middle
of the season and you're not ready to the you're
right around the All Star break, those early February games,
there's games that are mailed in, especially when you're at
the end of a back to back or the end
of a long road trip, and it's just it's just
not good basketball for a lot of the regular season.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I don't think that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I don't think any sport takes games off like the
NBA does. In the regular season baseball, it's always up
to the pitcher. If the pitcher's hot, you're probably going
to win. If your pitcher sucks that night, you're probably
going to lose. If you overtax your bullpen. But Aaron
Judge isn't not trying to hit a home run every
time he comes the plate, And I wonder sometimes if
(01:04):
a basketball player is actually trying to get thirty tonight
after he's gotten thirty three straight nights in a row,
and especially or even I'll give it, give you this,
Garrett Cole is not trying to give up hits in
the middle of a season. And I believe that defensively,
players don't care if the other team scores as long
(01:24):
as they score more. I want to these get All
of these games, except for Memphis and Oklahoma City, are
relatively competitive, and there is people diving on the floor
for loose balls. There is a lot of physicality the
referees are letting. I mean Steph Curry got held twenty
five times in the fourth quarter alone, going from one
(01:44):
side of the floor to the next. He had to
do all kinds of moves and slap hands and stuff
just to get open the other night last night, and
the referees just looked at him like, it's the playoffs
play on now.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
If that were in January, that had five.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Fouls on the guy that was guarding staff, he'd been
shooting free throws the whole second hand, it's better basketball.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I wish we could get.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Somewhere along the somewhere along with that with the regular season,
but I'm gonna start with Houston and Golden State because
I'm not ready to believe that Houston is ready to
be a championship team. They have the makings of one,
but there's usually some growing pains that take place. Oklahoma
City was in that boat last year. Two years ago,
(02:23):
they were the playing team. Last year they were the
second or third seed, and then they didn't make it
past the second round. And now here they are as
I think the best team in the NBA, and I
would be very I think they're gonna win the championship.
I think they're going to be either Boston or Cleveland
out of the East. Shay is a really good player,
their rest of their team is great. I think Oklahoma
(02:45):
City is playing good basketball at the right time, and
I expect them to keep on winning. But the game
last night with the Golden State Warriors comes down to
Butler and Curry. I don't know for how long those
two guys can carry one franchise, but I do know
it's going to be fun to watch them try, and
especially if Steph Curry can run into thirty footers in
(03:07):
drain shots. And I'm gonna say this and I'm not
trying to compare Steph Curry to anyone, and I the
comparison that I am going to attempt to make, but
it's not a comparison, So don't get me wrong here.
I'm going to bring up what UTSA had a few
years ago in Javon Jackson. Certainly they're not the same players,
(03:28):
but they play similarly with the style, and Javon would
walk across half court and if you weren't guarding him,
he'd shoot it and walk down to the other end.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It was good.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Steph Curry does that times a million. Steph Curry's an
NBA All Star and the greatest, one of the greatest
point guards in the history of the game. And if
I were changing the logo, I would change it to him.
The Jevon Jackson's playing in Germany and dropping twenty five
a game not compare.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I'm not trying to compare him.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
But what I am going to compare is that everybody
now that's a guard is emulating is emulating Steph Curry.
Caitlin Clark's game is patterned around Steph Curry four or
five years ago, Javon's was at UTSA. You look around
college basketball, men's and women's. As soon as they get
the green light boom, we're shooting a three. That's the
(04:16):
impact that Steve Kerry, Steph Curry's had. He's got a
coach that's allowed him to play that way and he
doesn't disappoint. And there was a highlight reel that was
just shown in here a few minutes ago, and the
three threes that he made in the fourth quarter, eyes closed,
falling away, runs into a three, comes off of a
(04:38):
couple of screens, gets held, pulls away, backs up, fakes
one way, goes back, shoots another three. It is amazing
how he is able to shoot shots. And then you
take all the rest of the basketball world and they're
all emulating him. Go to a college game, go to
a high school game, especially if you have a coach
that's pretty liberal with the way teams run their offense.
(04:59):
It's f Curry basketball and he's thirty eight years old,
thirty seven years old, and he did it again last night.
I don't know how long he can do it, but
I'm gonna sit back and watch it because we're probably
never going to see anything else like it whenever he
comes to us. I don't think that the Warriors can
beat Oklahoma City. I don't even know if they can
get out of the second round. Well, actually they would.
(05:20):
They're the seventh seeds, so they wouldn't play Oklahoma City
till the finals, so they would play the Lakers most
likely or the Timberwolves, which we'll talk about in the
second In the second round, I'm not sure they can
get past that series. But beyond that, this is going
to be a fun series to watch and I think
they're going to beat Houston, win and win this series.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
As far as for Steph Curry, I do agree with you.
You know, he definitely has changed the game over his
last however many years, what fifteen plus years that he's
been in the league. Because we go back to this
when we're talking about, especially in this day, modern day
of the NBA, if you're not shooting at east thirty
(06:01):
two thirty three percent from three point range, you're almost extinct.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Especially you're not a three point shooter, especially at a guard.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It's like, you know, hey, if if even if you're
six foot one, six foot two, you may be slow,
you may not have the best you know, uh, dribbling skills,
but if you're shooting thirty five percent thirty seven percent
from three point range, you know what, we'll find a
place for you.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You know, I hate to.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Bring up to bag on it, but just say, like Bronnie,
Bronni is undersized as a two guard.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
But if Bronnie could.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Shoot thirty five forty percent from three point.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Range, it'd be in the NBA. He would have a spot.
He'd have a roster spot.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
He would have a spot that you could sit there
and defend him and be like, yeah, but he's shooting
thirty five to forty percent.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Here's the thing is, I'm not sure that you can.
I think Steph Curry practices every day what he does.
Of course, there's no question about that.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Look at that. There's stuff, yeah, but there's the it factor.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You got to just have a little bit of it
to be able to do what he does.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Because there's a lot of people that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Could practice till the sun goes down every night, and
they're not going to be him or anywhere near it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
We're close to him. It's like free throw shooting.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I'm sure Shaquille O'Neil tried to practice free throws until
he got to a point where this is futile. I'm
either going to make it or I'm not, no matter
how long I practice and when you're When you're a
bad free throw shooter, you're just I don't know that
you can make yourself a better one. You can make
yourself an average one, but I don't think you can
make yourself a good one. So if you're a forty
five percent foul shooter, I think you can get to
(07:35):
sixty five percent with work. But if you're an eighty
percent foul shooter and you work at it, you can
get to ninety plus. It's about there's a there's a
talent factor that comes with that. And I think Steph
Curry was born with a gift and then he has
coaches that's allowed him to use.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
That gift at his discretion.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, it also helps he's got good DNA as well,
you know del.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, well deal, Curry was a good shooter, but he
wasn't that good. I know he wasn't that good. But yeah,
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I don't think Mom had anything to do with make
him a better shooter.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Maybe maybe she was like, hey, you know what, Steph
or STEPHANU, you're gonna you can't have dinner until you
make one hundred free throws in a row without missing.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You know, it could be something along the ill be
back in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I'll be bad.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'll be bad.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Don't worry, mom, I'll be back in five Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, he does this routine in practice every day with
a guy that rebounds for him, and he has to
swish five three five in a row.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
If it hits the ram, the count starts over.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
If it hits anything but net string, and he has
a way of measuring, I mean just just barely grace.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Is the rim not good enough?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
You gotta have five five Swiss free throws in a
row before you leave practice.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, well, real quick, you know, talking about free throws,
I do think it. Yes, it is putting in the
work and effort, but it's also a h It's also
a mechanics thing because you can look back. You can
see what Jeremy s Soohan for instance, you know, Jeremy
Sohan went from two hands and i'll he just uses
the one hand and it's about just a little under
seventy percent. What has gotten better looking?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Sorry, I know. Sorry.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
If you have any kind of a crutch when it
comes to shooting free throws, you're not a good free
throw shooter. It's the same thing with putting. If you
if you put with a long putter. The old that
there's only one golfer in in my lifetime Thatt putts
cross handed that I give a pass to, and that's
Jordan Speed. But if you put cross handed, if you
put with a long putter, if you use the claw grip,
(09:28):
you've got to flaw in your putting stroke. And that's
fine if that's the way you make them, but you
become if you're not putting conventionally. I mean, Ben Crenshaw
and Dave Stockton are considered the two best putters of
all time, and they did mess around with a claw
grip or something else, or to shoot it with their
eyes pet with their eyes closed, and they did it
the correct way, and they have a gift. And then
(09:50):
they went out and worked on that gift forever. So
and and Tiger has never put it any other way
except the way you're supposed to. If you have a
if you have to manipulate the way you shoot free throws,
there's a flaw in your free throw.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I'm not saying it's a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And if you can get from sixty five to seventy
five by doing some kind of manipulation, that's great for
your team. But you want to be Rick Berry, Steph
Curry good, then well Rick Berry. But he did that
from beginning that.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Underhand or was they classify the granny seat he did, but.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He did that from high school forward and when he
first started playing basketball, that's the way he shot free throws.
Will Chamberlain tried it wasn't very good at it. But
if you're not shooting free throws conventionally, then there's something
Don Nelson used to shoot with one hand. There's everybody's
trying something. But if you're not shooting, if you're not
playing the game in a conventional way and you're going
(10:42):
through a routine and you have there's just something about
the it factor that those guys have. And Steph's got
that all right. There's some other games in the East.
We'll talk about some that's baseball stuff. We got an
NFL draftop to get to Cooper Flag. What are the
Cowboys going to do at twelve? Lots of options there,
all that straight ahead the next hour on the ticket
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