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'They Got 3 Old Guys' Inside the NBA Crew Talks the Warriors' Future · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: So only before we get to the Warriors. So only
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  Speaker 1: only two things happen when Minnesota goes to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Thirteen trips to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Either lose a conference finals.
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  Speaker 1: Three trips to the conference finals, ten first round knockouts,
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  Speaker 1: and this is a year they go to the conference
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  Speaker 1: finals again. Meantime, the Warriors season comes to an end
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  Speaker 1: after winning Game one, then they lose Curry. Then they
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  Speaker 1: lose four straight. Well, I was going to say you
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  Speaker 1: started getting into that conversation a bit earlier, Chuck, But.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you got three old guys. Man. The Kaminga thing
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  Speaker 2: is interesting because the three old guys making a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money, so you pretty much stuck with them for
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  Speaker 2: the next two years.
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  Speaker 3: And the Kaminga thing.
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  Speaker 2: We're in the back. We're like, damn he the play
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  Speaker 2: that he doesn't play. But now you got to make
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  Speaker 2: a decision. You got to make a decision whether to
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  Speaker 2: pay him or not.
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  Speaker 4: They've made that decision because the Ordicle, they didn't extend him.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't extend them. And also they don't play him
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  Speaker 4: when Steph is there, meaning his contribution. They don't feel
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  Speaker 4: helps when Steph is there. They've said it, yeah, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna disagree with you.
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  Speaker 2: They said, I know that. I know that, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying he's the only one on that bench. That's explosive.
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  Speaker 2: And you can't go to war with a three old
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  Speaker 2: guys against the West and think like he was the
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  Speaker 2: only guy out there when you said, like, oh, he
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  Speaker 2: can play with these Minnesota Timawas guys, but he's a
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  Speaker 2: he's a restricted free agent, which means that's like and
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  Speaker 2: I say, I don't want to make a comment because
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  Speaker 2: they know they know.
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  Speaker 3: Him better than we do.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't extend him when all the other rickeys got extended,
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  Speaker 2: so it tells me they don't believe in him.
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  Speaker 1: That's my personal Do you not think Golden State could
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  Speaker 1: have could have if Steph doesn't get hurt, could have
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  Speaker 1: won this series?
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  Speaker 3: I do not. I think they could have.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they could have.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think it was very valuable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's very body because.
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  Speaker 4: The way that everyone was guarding Steph Curry in the
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  Speaker 4: playoffs made it so easy. They the the overall extension
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  Speaker 4: of denial, meaning I don't care where the basketball is,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna stay with Sta. Well you think that
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  Speaker 4: so that at everyone else? Do you think that's an
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  Speaker 4: unusual defense.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying you think Minnesota would have played them the
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  Speaker 2: same way the Rockets did.
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  Speaker 4: They were That's why they lost Game one. They were
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  Speaker 4: playing him like that and then and then they got up,
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  Speaker 4: they got up fifteen and he got hurt.
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  Speaker 3: Step at that time was the one dynamic player that
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  Speaker 3: can take over a game. He hasn't really been stephed
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  Speaker 3: this old playoffs. Houston did the little trickery defense. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he had to be a regular player.
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  Speaker 4: But Minnesota started with the same trickery defense before he
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  Speaker 4: was hurt as well.
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  Speaker 3: But to answer and his question, if he's healthy, he
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  Speaker 3: can give one of those games with thirty forty fifty
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  Speaker 3: and it could change sais So that as your question,
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  Speaker 3: I think if he was something, they're definitely gonna won
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  Speaker 3: the serious.
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  Speaker 1: And so wouldn't our conversation be different than rather than
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  Speaker 1: saying they're stuck with these guys, It's like, okay, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to the Western Conference finals. Ye now, let's see
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  Speaker 1: what happens next year with them.
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  Speaker 2: They wouldn't they wouldn't be favored against DENVERO. Okay, see
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  Speaker 2: that's true. But see you without the point I'm making
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  Speaker 2: you old people get older. Steph gonna be a year older,
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler gonna be a year older, Draymond gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a year older. The notion that you think they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be better a year from now, they just gonna be older. Well,
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  Speaker 2: young people get older yet too, they do, but they're
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  Speaker 2: still younger than them old Jesus all right, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, here goes my microphone. The step The.
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  Speaker 2: One thing about sports, father time, he ain't never gonna lose.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I do think that the Golden State were is
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  Speaker 4: they don't have enough size, you know when when they
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  Speaker 4: were winning the UH, when they were winning championships or there.
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  Speaker 4: Even though he had the great I mean, you had
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  Speaker 4: three great players in their prime. But you also before
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  Speaker 4: that when they had Andrew Bogit, they had you know,
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  Speaker 4: Looney was younger. They had they always had a five
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  Speaker 4: man who could uh Igdala coming off the bench, and
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  Speaker 4: the and the one who actually hurt Kevin Durant in
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  Speaker 4: the UH, I mean Kawhi Leonard. They Kenneth Jordan's So
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  Speaker 4: they had they had a sixth patutula, Yes, they had
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  Speaker 4: they had they always patula. They always had a six ten,
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  Speaker 4: six eleven guy that was serviceable, and I don't think
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  Speaker 4: they have that now. And Draymond plays too many at
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  Speaker 4: the five, and this is in his career,