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00:00Bob and Reno on Willard and Dibbs.
00:02Hey Bob, what's up?
00:05Hey guys, doing good.
00:06How about you guys?
00:07We're good.
00:10Excited for my birthday weekend.
00:12You know, we get to go see the Warriors play.
00:13I didn't, I honestly bought the tickets
00:15before I found out about that.
00:17A hundred dollars during the retirement
00:18and that just put the icing on the cake.
00:21Woo, nice, nice, nice call.
00:23How are you guys feeling?
00:25Oh, sorry, my bad.
00:26No, go ahead.
00:27I wanted to say, how are you guys feeling about Sunday?
00:31I know they played the Mavericks not too long ago
00:34and I know the whole trade thing went down,
00:37but one thing a lot of people had mentioned
00:39was they need to get in the paint early.
00:42What are you guys' thoughts on that?
00:44Especially with now acquiring a guy like Jimmy Butler.
00:47And then also, you guys talked about the question
00:50of sense of urgency in the regular season.
00:52To me, I really can't think of a time
00:55we really had a sense of urgency.
00:57Maybe it was last season, but you know,
01:01playoff-wise, I would say the sense of urgency
01:03was when Clay and KD went down.
01:06You know, because everyone wanted that three-peat.
01:08Especially, you know, a lot of Warriors fans
01:09really wanted that three-peat.
01:11Just didn't happen, but I would say
01:12maybe sense of urgency was last season,
01:14but I couldn't really tell you the last time
01:16I've seen a sense of urgency in a very, very long time.
01:19Yeah, Bob, thanks very much.
01:20Appreciate that.
01:21I mean, as far as the matchup on Sunday
01:26with Dallas, I know what everyone's thinking
01:28when they're talking about the X's and O's,
01:30and Dallas is missing all of their big guys,
01:32and it's like pounded inside, pounded inside.
01:35I look at it personally from a little bit of a broader view.
01:38They're a better team than the Dallas Mavericks right now.
01:41Kyrie Irving went absolutely crazy.
01:43I would not expect that to happen again,
01:45because I would never expect someone to play that well.
01:48So, sure, sure, obviously.
01:51Yeah, see if you can establish something inside,
01:53but that's not really the Warriors'
01:55offensive strength anyway.
01:57I just think the Warriors need to be sharper,
02:00and if they're sharper at the start of the game,
02:03they'll start winning these games.
02:04I hope that, and I trust that they do.
02:07I mean, they understand the same urgency
02:10that you're feeling, they feel double.
02:13Trust me, and if you want any evidence,
02:15it's the fact that after that Dallas game,
02:1722 hours later on a night that every star took out
02:20in the NBA, those guys went out and played.
02:23Not all of them, but a lot of them,
02:24and those guys went out and played
02:26and won a basketball game in Houston.
02:27Because they're feeling the urgency,
02:29and you're talking about the last time that we felt this,
02:32and I keep thinking back to last year,
02:34and I was just going through the schedule,
02:36and I'm looking at a loss against Minnesota
02:39that dropped them to 36 and 34,
02:41and at the time they were the 10 seed,
02:43with a one game cushion on the 11 seed,
02:45and I don't remember the exact moment of that game
02:49coming in on the next Monday,
02:51which was Monday, March 25th,
02:53but I do remember the time, and it was like,
02:56are they gonna miss the play-in?
02:58I mean, is this where we are with this team?
03:00And they did go out and win 10 of 12,
03:03and it didn't net them a top six seed,
03:05it netted them a play-in spot,
03:07and it only got them into the 10 seed, I believe,
03:10and so the urgency, though, down the stretch was,
03:13oh my God, Joe Lacob said you're not gonna be a lottery team
03:16and here you are, a game up on the 11,
03:18so I do think last year we had a certain amount
03:22of that urgency, now this is different
03:25because you got Jimmy Butler in,
03:27you got 27 games left, and it does feel like
03:30things have opened up a little bit for them
03:32to make their way up the standings
03:35and maybe get to a six or a seven.
03:38Like, I totally buy it, but I also think
03:40that this comes in hotter than that,
03:43I'm talking about this year versus last year,
03:46and the last time regular season games
03:49had this kind of thump to them,
03:51this kind of sense of urgency,
03:53and it is because of Jimmy Butler,
03:55it's because the Warriors have made a proclamation
03:59with this acquisition.
04:01You want me to say it?
04:02It's a proclamation sensation.
04:04You don't have to.
04:04No, I did, like, they have made a declaration,
04:09if you will, they are about now,
04:11and now they have multiple stars,
04:14and you just have a very hard time
04:16kind of half-stepping, which is what I feel like
04:19sort of happened at the end of last year,
04:21you boogied for the last few weeks,
04:23won a bunch of games, got into a play-in,
04:25totally got blown off the floor and went home,
04:27and Klay Thompson stared into the sky.
04:29Like, that's not what this team is capable of
04:33or what they're doing.
04:36That team last year never had this level of excitement
04:40from their fan base, as I feel like they do right now.
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05:01Phil Moe, Mike, is on the line.
05:03Phil Moe, what's up?
05:06Yo, what's poppin', Willard?
05:08Willard, what?
05:09Do you get that a lot, that people say you know it all?
05:14Of course.
05:14Did you mention that,
05:16because you always be like, I don't say if I know it all,
05:19but I'm gonna keep it real.
05:21I used to think that, but you do know a lot,
05:23so I give you kudos for that.
05:25But there's also a lot that I don't.
05:27There's also a lot that I don't know, Phil Moe.
05:30I know.
05:31Yeah.
05:32You ain't know everything.
05:33You ain't that good, bro.
05:33Yeah, I don't know.
05:34I don't want to know everything.
05:36My God, it's not like I'm not trying
05:37to get on Jeopardy or something.
05:40Nah, but deals is all up, Will of Fortune.
05:43That's true.
05:44I'm jealous of that.
05:46Three bankrupts, Phil Moe, Mike,
05:48in case you ever see the episode.
05:49Spoiler alert, the wheel got me,
05:51but I got my jokes in now.
05:54Oh, I love it.
05:55I love, and you know what I love?
05:56Y'all keep doing the little Herm Edwards.
05:59Y'all been doing that for like three days.
06:01I love it.
06:02You gotta get it right now.
06:04Gotta get it right.
06:05That's a deal for Phil Moe.
06:07It becomes addicting, you know?
06:09I started doing it, and then Mark started doing it,
06:11and now I can't stop doing it.
06:13You listen up, you might hear it again now.
06:14I can't stop doing it.
06:16I'm trying to let you know now.
06:18Trying to let you know.
06:19Anyway, the urgency, the last time I felt the urgency
06:24was probably, we believe, if you remember,
06:26I always tell this to Stiney.
06:29Don Nelson in Chicago, he declared defeat for the season.
06:33He was like, man, that's the last time
06:35I felt the real urgency,
06:37because a lot of times you feel it,
06:38but it's not really there,
06:39because you don't really feel like it's a chance.
06:41But maybe it was different, because back then,
06:43I didn't really feel like it was a chance,
06:44and they turned it out, so I feel differently about it.
06:47So that's the last time I really felt urgency.
06:50But I just wanted to talk about the names
06:52these guys were talking about as far as college basketball.
06:54You guys said Darren Collison.
06:56When did he just stop playing basketball in the NBA?
06:59It's crazy.
07:01The guy from Oregon, I know you remember his name,
07:05Donnell Harvey from Florida.
07:09And Steve Logan, he was like a Mahmoud Abdularou
07:14from Cincinnati.
07:16And you know who don't get enough love?
07:19Reverend Knight and Arthur Lee.
07:22Wow.
07:23Do not get enough love when it comes
07:25to college basketball in the Bay Area,
07:27because they was going crazy,
07:28and it was only like five, seven, and six, one
07:31as a backcourt.
07:33They were balling.
07:35I just want to let people know, man,
07:36if you have any chance, they need a documentary on them too,
07:39because they was going crazy right before
07:41Jacobson came and Twins came.
07:43But for real, for real, man, I love y'all show.
07:46Keep doing your thing.
07:46Don't forget to watch that back.
07:48Thank you, Phil Moe, always.
07:50Yep, love that.
07:51Can't reach the majority of my back,
07:53but I got a scrub brush that I have to go to,
07:55because flexibility is at an all-time low.
07:59It gets tough now.
08:00You know, that's just that, it's the great beyond.
08:03Nobody really knows what's going on back there.
08:05I mean, you could ask somebody.
08:07You could try to look in the mirror.
08:09Oh, or you could just do the ignorance is bliss thing.
08:12What's going on in the middle of your back?
08:14I don't know.
08:15No idea.
08:16I don't know.
08:17There could be something awful back there.
08:18I don't know about it.
08:20You gotta tell somebody if you see something.
08:21No doubt.
08:22I mean, see something and say something.
08:28See red, say no.
08:30See hair, say no.
08:32Kyle in Walnut Creek.
08:33Hi, Kyle.
08:34What are you doing?
08:36Willard Gibbs, how you guys doing?
08:37Happy Friday to you.
08:38Yep, you too.
08:40Hey guys, I think the sense of urgency is big right now
08:45for two reasons.
08:46One, obviously, having Jimmy Baller,
08:48we know that it's more of a complete team,
08:50and obviously we have a pretty,
08:52I wouldn't say easy schedule,
08:53but a schedule that, like you guys were talking about
08:54earlier, we should win a lot, you know,
08:55a good amount of these games coming up.
08:57But more importantly, if we are able to win these games,
09:01knowing that Cominga is coming back,
09:03that's gonna be two guys that you can count on
09:04to try to get to the free throw line,
09:06stabilize those games when we're playing tougher opponents.
09:08And it really just brings out a more complete team.
09:11So like the excitement of trying to get these games now
09:14to build a little bit of a cushion for the play-in
09:15or hopefully a playoff spot,
09:16but also knowing on the back end
09:18that Cominga is coming back too.
09:19And if we, on the next, you know, four or five games,
09:23just what that could look like as a roster.
09:26It's exciting.
09:28And I think that's also adding to the sense of urgency.
09:31Like, look, we got Cominga coming back.
09:32If we can win these games,
09:33like that just brings even more excitement to the team
09:35and hopefully for the Hopes to get to the playoffs.
09:37So I think it's like a play that's pitch twofold.
09:39It's obviously because we want to play
09:42with the current roster we have now and make the playoffs,
09:43but also knowing that Cominga is coming back too.
09:45That adds a whole other level of urgency
09:47and excitement to this whole scenario.
09:48Kyle, you know what?
09:49I think you're getting at there and it's a good call.
09:51Thank you very much for adding to our show.
09:54This is kind of how I feel about it.
09:56When you look at the urgency or the excitement,
09:58whatever word you want to use for right now,
10:00compare it to at any point during the last two years.
10:02Do you want to know what I think it really is?
10:04This is the first time in the last two years
10:06that a rational human being can think
10:08that the Warriors might actually have something special.
10:12Like two years ago, actually it was a good team
10:15that could compete at a high level,
10:17but there was such a cloud hanging over their head.
10:20Couldn't win a road game.
10:21You could tell that they hated each other,
10:23at least some of them.
10:25And so it was such a cloud hanging over their head.
10:27Last year, let's be real.
10:29Be real.
10:30If you wanted to say that you thought the Warriors
10:33had to do something special,
10:34you had to force it and fake it to say it.
10:37Because you knew.
10:39You knew in your heart of hearts, no they couldn't.
10:42I mean a playing team that got blown off of the floor
10:46in their one game in Sacramento.
10:49So I don't know where this season's gonna go,
10:52but this is the first time in a while
10:54that I feel like a rational sports opinion
10:58is to look at what's going on and go,
11:01huh, this might lead somewhere.
11:03Don't know where yet, but Jimmy looks like he fits.
11:06Jonathan's still coming.
11:08Don't know what's gonna go on there, but maybe.
11:12Maybe.
11:13Maybe something's about to happen.
11:15I think you're selling two years ago short
11:17because that team was flawed in many ways
11:20and the way it started was something
11:22that we had never seen before
11:24and with a punch and all the rest of it.
11:26But you did go up against Sacramento
11:28and you beat them in seven
11:30and then you took on a Laker team
11:31and you were very much in that series
11:34and if it wasn't for Lonnie Walker the fourth
11:37and a miracle run in a game,
11:39you might have been able to win that series.
11:41So it wasn't that they were gonna win a championship,
11:43but that run while a broken squad,
11:47I think was better than maybe how you remember it
11:49and then last year,
11:51and this is where I wanna caution people about,
11:53oh, we're gonna rock it up to the sixth seed.
11:56Last year you were the 10
11:58and you ended the year on a 10 and two run
12:01and you were still the 10.
12:03So moving up in the NBA is not as easy as just,
12:06oh, we're gonna go out there and win our games
12:08and then we're gonna move up.
12:09You went from 10 to 10 last year
12:11even though you wrapped up the year on a 10 and two run.
12:14Yeah, no, no, no.
12:15So it's tough to move up.
12:16It's very, very difficult to move up
12:18because those other teams are gonna start
12:21playing with that same urgency
12:23and then you've got tanking teams
12:24that you're going up against
12:26and all of that.
12:27The only thing I'm confident in in this moment
12:29is who the 10 teams are gonna be.
12:31That I'm confident in.
12:32I think you can get rid of the Suns,
12:34you can get rid of the Spurs.
12:35It's not happening.
12:36Those 10 teams that you see in the spots right now,
12:39those are gonna be the 10 teams.
12:41Can the Warriors be something other than nine or 10?
12:44And then continue to kind of push that optimism.