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Warriors Steal Game 1 vs. Timberwolves Despite Steph Curry s Injury _ Inside the NBA · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: They're sixteen and one, allowing one hundred points this year,
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  Speaker 1: including four times this postseason. They win it by eleven
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  Speaker 1: and Chris Finch a short time ago.
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  Speaker 2: It starts with Anthony.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he I thought he's was you know, he
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  Speaker 3: struggled early and then you could just kind of see
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  Speaker 3: the light go out a little bit for a while,
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  Speaker 3: and then you know, obviously we had to try to
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  Speaker 3: get him going in the second half.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, it was one of those games
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  Speaker 3: where he kind of came out with the predetermined mindset
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  Speaker 3: what he was trying to do, and just rather than
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  Speaker 3: just playing the game that was in front of him.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned kind of the energy. The spirit starts with
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  Speaker 3: ant Is that something that you and he talked about
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  Speaker 3: maybe ahead of Game two?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Is I mean, what is there to talk about? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you're there, you're the leader of the team, and you
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  Speaker 3: got to come out and set the tone. You know
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  Speaker 3: in all ways that that happened, and if it's if
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  Speaker 3: your shots not going like you you still have to carry.
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  Speaker 2: The energy, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't I don't think there's you know,
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  Speaker 3: if I got to talk to guys about having the
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  Speaker 3: right energy coming into opening around game, opening second round game,
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  Speaker 3: and you know we're not you know, we're not on
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  Speaker 3: the same page. So any general update on Steph, any prognosis.
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  Speaker 5: At all day to day, you'll get an MRI tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Did you talk to him?
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  Speaker 5: Just what was I talked to him at halftime just
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  Speaker 5: you know, he's obviously crushed, but you know, the guys
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  Speaker 5: picked him up and played a great game. And obviously
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  Speaker 5: we're all, you know, concerned about stuff, but it's part
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  Speaker 5: of part of the game. You just, uh, guys get
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  Speaker 5: hurt and you move on. Our guys did a great
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  Speaker 5: job of moving on and getting a great win, you know,
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  Speaker 5: forty eight hours after a game seven road win. It's
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  Speaker 5: an amazing group of guys. These guys are they're they compete,
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  Speaker 5: and they're together. We've been the best defense in the
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  Speaker 5: league since Jimmy trade. And that's what's keeping us afloat
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  Speaker 5: right now. I didn't say anything they you know, by
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  Speaker 5: the time we got into tuh halftime into the locker room,
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  Speaker 5: Steph was already in there with an ice bag on
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  Speaker 5: his on his hamstring, and the guys already knew and
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  Speaker 5: we just we didn't say anything. We just I just
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  Speaker 5: told told Gary he'd start for Steph, and you know
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  Speaker 5: we talked about the plan for the second half.
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  Speaker 3: What can you say, just abud buddy heals full part
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  Speaker 3: two way, defensive, stopper, shooting, whatever you want to call him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: how would you describe that game?
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  Speaker 5: But Buddy Buddy was following up that that amazing game seven.
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  Speaker 5: He was just crucial for us and I think he
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  Speaker 5: started out the game oh for seven and uh we
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  Speaker 5: needed every one of his twenty four points. The Steph out,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we had very very few options offensively, and
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  Speaker 5: the guys did a really good job of of just
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  Speaker 5: defending and trying to run off Missus so we could,
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  Speaker 5: you know, get get the offense going before they could
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  Speaker 5: set up their defense. Not that it was a great
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  Speaker 5: transition game for US. I mean we only had six
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  Speaker 5: fast break points, but when you're defending like that, you
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  Speaker 5: always have a chance. And some guys hit some some
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  Speaker 5: big shots, you know, Buddies three, Gary's three, Jimmy had
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  Speaker 5: a bucket in that stretch where they cut it to
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  Speaker 5: I think eight or so. So we did what we
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  Speaker 5: had to do. Great defense and you know, just kind
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  Speaker 5: of hang on in that fourth quarter what was Draymond.
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  Speaker 1: Doing eight games in the postseason. Now for the Golden
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  Speaker 1: State Warriors, they're minus ninety eight in the paint, they're
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  Speaker 1: plus one forty one from deep uh, and they're up
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  Speaker 1: one nothing over Minnesota. Interesting to hear from both coaches
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  Speaker 1: well and obviously Fence. Yeah, but let's start with Steph
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  Speaker 1: and you guys, look, we don't know the severity of
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  Speaker 1: the of the injury to the hamstring.
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  Speaker 2: Again, they're going to do an MRI.
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  Speaker 1: But where do you go if he's not going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to go.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's chess, not checkers. We won tonight, so we
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  Speaker 4: did what we were not supposed to do. However, we
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  Speaker 4: got it done. So it's probably gonna sit them out
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  Speaker 4: game two no matter what until we get you know,
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  Speaker 4: all the all the details. Hopefully it's just a little spring.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, Steve curs at the best as part
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  Speaker 4: of the game, and somebody has to step up. Buddy
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  Speaker 4: Hill is probably going to be that guy. He didn't
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  Speaker 4: shoot well in the first half, but he picked up
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  Speaker 4: in the second half. So you know, if you don't
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  Speaker 4: have Steph, it'll definitely be a different different game. Jimmy's
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to take more of the offensive low. He
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  Speaker 4: went seven for twenty tonight. But without stuff, they're just
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  Speaker 4: a regular team. But you know, I say, wrest them
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  Speaker 4: this next game, and then if we win that game,
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  Speaker 4: wrest them again. So you know, because again it's chess
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  Speaker 4: not checkers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, n I would say definitely.
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  Speaker 6: You know, if you're a Golden State, you would let
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  Speaker 6: the team know prior to I wouldn't wait up until
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  Speaker 6: game time, decision and all of those things.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, no, Steph's not playing.
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  Speaker 6: The reason I would say that, I would want Jimmy
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  Speaker 6: Butler to be in the mind frame of I'm going
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  Speaker 6: to be super aggressive the night before, saying, so, he
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  Speaker 6: comes to the arena to shoot around, he comes to
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  Speaker 6: the game before the game, he comes at the game.
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  Speaker 6: He's got a mindset to be the guy he always did.
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  Speaker 6: Like he said in his interview, it's easier when we
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  Speaker 6: have our best player.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to know, No, you're the.
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  Speaker 6: Best player right now and this is what we're going through you.
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  Speaker 1: And who's not to say that he doesn't already know that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that that could have been already related to
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  Speaker 1: him that look, we're not going to play Steph in
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  Speaker 1: game two.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, that's why I said I would do it.
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  Speaker 1: Earth.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a zero chance that still plays in game two.
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  Speaker 7: Zero chance, because that's gonna give him like games three
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  Speaker 7: and four, like he gonna probably be off like four
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  Speaker 7: or five days.
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  Speaker 2: Game three would be Saturday.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so he's definitely not playing a Game two since
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  Speaker 7: they won today. But I was really impressed with coach
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  Speaker 7: Finch in that press conference, like he called Anthony out.
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  Speaker 7: You know when you a great player, and first of all,
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  Speaker 7: you bought all this smoke. You say you wanted to smoke.
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  Speaker 7: You say you wanted to smoke. I want the Warriors,
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  Speaker 7: and you got him and you had one point at
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  Speaker 7: halftime and his energy level was down. So that to
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  Speaker 7: me is what coaching is about. I mean, Shaq's been
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  Speaker 7: in this situation. I've been in this situation. When you're
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  Speaker 7: the man, you get all the credit, but you get
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  Speaker 7: all the blame. That that's that's the way it works.
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  Speaker 7: And I like what he did. He said, hey, Anthney's
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  Speaker 7: got to play better. He you can't come out and
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  Speaker 7: talk all that does and have one point playing and.
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  Speaker 2: Simple of eight and then three three souse.
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  Speaker 7: That game was really the first time pretty much, especially
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  Speaker 7: when Steph went out. You're like, this is when like that,
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  Speaker 7: that was no ten point game at that point. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: but they shouldn't have been down ten. They were down
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  Speaker 7: ten because he was old for seven.
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  Speaker 1: Oh for eight, I said, I'm saying that that that
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  Speaker 1: game at that point was not out of hand. It
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  Speaker 1: was It was just a ten point game. But they
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  Speaker 1: were in the middle of a run. But not only
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  Speaker 1: did they maintain the lead, they built on it up
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  Speaker 1: to twenty three and Golden State takes Game one ninety
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  Speaker 1: nine to eighty eight.