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drop that motherfucker beef. Today is dedicated to Golden State and the media and the fan base and really everyone on Twitter who is just coming at me in the comments nine and one, nine and one, nine and one, nine on one. And I do stand by my take that they are the most illusional fan base in the NBA. Like they believe that even when the Warriors were a lottery team, that they were somehow making progress, right they believe, oh, well, if it was just not for this and for that,

we would have won the title. And it's like Warriors meet. He's like, oh, Jonathan kamingas Jonathan coming is me Jalen Brown. Jonathan Kmen is the future of the franchise is like you're lying. You know, Bob Myers is not as good as everybody wants them to us to believe, but they believe. They are standing and coming after you if you say anything negative about their team, and they are this way

all of this week. They're usually smoking something, and this week they're smoking this is a new term, smoking that Trista pack, which means I am the source of getting murked online because why I was, I mean, I was wrong. I was wrong. It all began, folks, in August. Andy Lou is a friend of the show. Andy Lou and Sam s Vndiari host a podcast called The light Years Podcast, and they talk about the Warriors. I don't know if

they're really media or fans or what. And so Andy Lou puts on Twitter the Warriors should start nine and one even without Clay first ten games of the season. And we became friends. Actually last year when my take went cool when I said Steph wasn't Batman and then he went on an MVP. I think I'm actually good for the Warriors. Like every time I say something about them, the opposite happens. It wasn't great when I said they'd go to the finals, and they didn't even make it

to the playoffs. So anyway, when he said they would go nine and one, my guy, Andy, I couldn't just allow this delusion to continue to persist unchecked. So this is what this is what I said. This is why I love Warriors. Media just delusional and fucking hilarious. My god, Andy, Lou, Warriors should start nine and one, even without Clay. Really, let's take a look at those first ten games, shall we? La? Lakers, LA, Clippers, Memphis, eh, Charlotte, Atlenta.

Couldn't be five and five, could be six and four, but nine and one, you will not be. People got very mad at nine and one. You will not be, so folks, I was a little concerned. I was actually a little surprised that that video immediately went viral like that, immediately two months, three months early from the NBA season,

ten games in thing went crazy. This was a logical take, like, no Warriors, no real national NBA person would say that the Warriors without Clay Thompson could beat the Lakers and the Clippers and the Grizzlies and the Hawks. The Hawks had just gone to the Eastern Conference finals, so people were like, oh, Tristan, I'm coming back and bookmarking this like, ooh, I'm gonna save this. And they did. They did save

it too, they did. But I was confident. I was like, you do that, you do that, let's revisit this all good. And then sure enough the season came and the Warriors started rolling Lakers, dub Clippers, dub Sacramento of course, dub OKC, DUB Memphis, l OKC, dub New Orleans dub and along the way. Along with every Warriors win, I continued, this video kept getting resurfaced, Hey, where are you at? Who's here for? Who's here? Where the Warriors are? Three and one?

Who's here for the Warriors? Four and one? Who's here for the Warriors? Five? One? Every victory was like a snowball, just running going faster and faster downhill, like the momentum is building. And then things really came to an impetus, a inflection point, if you will, when the Warriors beat Charlotte. Charlotte was the win when I said to myself, ooh, the math. The math is not in my favor right now.

I don't know, it's getting a little tight. This six and four, this seven and three, this eight and two, even is starting to get a little improbable for me. And then of course Andy loo back into my mentions after that win, he responded, quote, tweeted it again, brought it back to the top of the timeline and said, Queen we coming, and they came. Boy, yes, they did screenshots of my TikTok everywhere the little like I made a face like and that screenshot became a meme on

like a blunt is my face? Were smoking a Trista pack one more, two more game? As we smoking that Trista peck, God, they were going to smoke me. Jordan Poole, him sliding into the camera starts becoming the meme of who's here for Trista criek being ratioed online. It even made it to Freezing Cold Takes, and you know things go viral when you make it to freezing cold takes. Listen. Nine and one was a ridiculous assertion, me saying that,

and a ridiculous assertion might not come true. Isn't that ridiculous? So then the Warriors only had left the Rockets and the Hawks. Let me tell you, the Rockets they're not winning any games this year. So it was the Hawks, and everyone knows I love some kvon looney, uh, but I really love kvon Herder. His name's Kevin, but when the crunch time comes, he becomes Cavan. I love Clint Capella and I'm all about Ice Tray. So I'm like, yes,

let's go. Okay, Hawks, don't let me down? Hawks, And the video just continues to go viral and more viral. Who's here before the Warriors played Trey Young? Who's here? Who's here for that? Okay? What do I do next? People are salivating the time is here, Warrior sights. We're blogging about this game before it even happened, Like one more game and Trista Creek is wrong? What am I? Stephen A Smith? I'm not stephen A Smith? What is

going on here? So then the game tips off and the Hawks are up fifteen points and I'm like, Hawks are up? This could be listen and to hedge and to hedge my pain. I did take the Warriors minus three, like I did bet Warriors minus three in case the inevitable happens, I at least win money. And then I'm sort of right, and then I'm like, Okay, I'll lose some money for this take to technically be right on a technicality, I would still be right. And then Steph

went absolutely nuclear. Steph fifty points drops fifty points on the last game. I'm like, Steph, here heard it. Steph had to have heard it. He's like, this is it. This is the tenth game. I'm gonna absolutely go bonkers. I'm literally gonna hit every shot from half court. Literally if I had a dollar for every time the announcer said Steph Curry heat check. And I was like, they're talking about my podcast right now, Steph Curry heat another.

That's three heat checks for Steph Curry. And I'm like, yeah, it is, it is. We're gonna talk about this tomorrow. Yes, boy. We did so to all of that. To say, how do I wriggle out of this? I don't think I can. The Warriors are nine to one, and I was wrong, And you know, I wasn't really wrong, because it was we're in the prediction business. But I was wrong when I firmly asserted that nine and one they would not be because that nine and one right now they are.

And to be fair, I didn't say they would go six and four. I said they could go six and four. Hurt people. That's a very nuanced distinction. It's not technicalities. So let's break down what's happening with the Warriors. Now, all of that to say, we gave you the backstory. What's happening? Who are the Warriors? Ten games into the season. I'm gonna do three things. I'm gonna tell you what happened that I saw coming, what happened that I absolutely

did not see coming, because there were some things. And finally, because the Warriors still the fan base, excuse me, the Warriors fan base is still delusional. I'm gonna throw a little splash, little cool water on you because they are now already planning their victory prey. They're already spending money on finals tickets like they are. That's where they are, like, That's why I troll them. Here's what I saw coming. Steph Curry is Batman. Steph Curry is going to have

an MVP season. Steph Curry is going to go nuclear on many nights. He is going to be musty TV. We're gonna be talking about him all season. Tenth career fifty point game, tenth fifty point game. He is the oldest player in the NBA history to ever drop fifty with ten assists at thirty plus years old. Underneath him is Wilt Chamberlain at thirty one. Another thing I saw

coming was Jordan Poole killing it. I mean, everyone on Earth said that it would be this breakout year and that Jordan Poole would be that way, and he did. And he bowled the last ten games of last year. So he averaged eighteen a game the last ten games, and he's averaging eighteen now. So yeah, Jordan Poole. Could Jordan Poole, though, be as much of a consistent force a safety valve for Steph until Clay came back. I did not know. I wasn't. It wasn't affirm no, but

it wasn't affirm yes. But also what I did see coming that a lot of folks did not see coming because they're still mad about this take, is that Kaminga and Moses Moody or Moses Moody as Kendrick Perkins would call him, our G League players, they are not guys you will lean on in any form or fashion. Because everybody was saying, oh yeah, and Kaminga is gonna be able to play right away, and as soon as him and Moses Moody and why no, those three guys are

non factors. Then the most respectful way I can disrespect those three is right now, they are non factors. They're both all of them right now. Wiseman, Moody, Kaminga all relegated in some way to the G League. So those are the things that did not surprise me. But there were things that did right. First of all, Andre Gudalla I thought was washed. I thought he was washed. I did. I can't lie. He went to Memphis, sat nowhere, he was at home on on his bed. Basically, he was

not doing anything. He told the world, I'm not playing basketball for the Memphis Grizzlies. They are trash. I'm only going to a contender. Ended up taking a buy out to Miami, excuse me. And then I don't know what happened, but pat Riley and Eric Spolster didn't really use Andrea Goodall, and I thought to myself, they didn't use Andrea Woodall probably because he's old as fuck. Right, he is old. He was a Finals MVP. Does he have enough? He was a two way guy that once you lose a

little athleticism, you are now non relevant. I tell you what it was like. Andrea Gudala went into a cryogenic freezer in Miami, the heat version of the cryo infrared sauna, where he literally just I don't know, turn if I could turn back home, you know, like that, That's what Andre Gudala did in Miami. Like he is now back in Golden State, which is the only place that he wanted to play, Only Golden State. I think there was like a little like chatter about the Nets, but not really.

He really wanted to go back to the place that he actually lives. And now it's like, holy shit, Andrea Guidala is actually dunking. It's like when Blake Griffin went to the Nets and you're like, oh, yeah, you were playing possum. You weren't actually old, you weren't actually injured, you were not washed. You just wanted the world to think you were washed so that they would buy you out for nothing, literally, so you would be discarded so you could go to the place you really wanted to play. Right.

I did not see that move coming. I did not see that move coming. Uh. He is anchoring the defense, which we'll get to in a second. That shocking start is because of the defense. They they were a top five defense the last twenty games of last season, but

they had some real struggles midway through. Like they right now have a defensive rating of ninety seven, which is absurd, Like that is to communicate how ridiculous that is is, Like nobody's even under a hundred besides them, Like they are the only team that's holding opponents to less than one hundred points. No other team below one hundred. And

they're doing that because of Andre Guidalla. They're doing that because Iggy and Draymond Green as a duo are like, yo, we are gonna be back to this tough, nose, gritty, defensive minded team. And they're coaching players like b A Leicha. Be A Leichia is a defensive liability mostly on paper, and right now he's playing great defense. Did not see that coming. Another thing I did not see coming, which we need to talk about is at depth, Like I saw that Rasher, I'm like, oh god, they really who

is gonna give them buckets? Is it? Because it can't be Draymond Green. Draymond Games and Green's gonnave you eight points a night, Like so you got Steph with fifty, He can't average fifty a night. So Steph with thirty five, right, and then you got Draymon with ten maybe eight, So that's forty three forty three points. Where's the rest of the points coming from? Okay, then Jordan Poole, we'll call

it eighteen do the man. They're like, okay, I'm like a halfway to one hundred, right, where is it all coming from? You got Ubre chucking, he's gone, baysmore chucking, He's gone. That ended up being a great thing for them because the ball stoppers now they're in motion. Now everything's moving, people are cutting without the ball. They're playing the almost like the Beautiful Game version of basketball. Strengthen numbers. Damian Lee averaging twelve points a game. I can't believe that.

You got Bielichi. He's playing his part, andre Iguodala, he's giving them buckets. I don't know what's happening. I actually still can't really make sense of it. You look at the box score and you're like, I don't really understand and how those numbers all add up to one point fifteen. But they do. They lire like two points here, four

points there, six points there, seven points there. It's like literally Steph Pool and then a bunch of random little sprinkle sprinklings like little salt and pepper, little oregano, little time like and then they're the meat, right and then you're like, oh yeah, they're getting green beans and matted potatoes. Back Klay Thompson's coming, He's gonna give you who knows twenty five and Gary freaking Peyton Junior the second whatever each one. I don't know. He's leading. He's second in

the NBA in three point percentage, fifty six percent. So it's Lee, Balicha, Peyton and Toscano. Those are guys. Those are not guys, you know what I mean. They're not guys. They're guys in this system, but they're not stars. The

coaching staff I had no idea about either. Like Kenny Atkinson is known for his player development, and to be fair, the Golden State Warriors basically looked like track on the development side, and they cleaned house, bought, hired, hired, we'll call it hired, but bought all new coaches to help them with the development. And that shit is wor king, I tell you what. Wh Draymond and Iguidala and Kenny Atkinson.

He's also known for like his ridiculous practices and training regimen, and like it's like Tom Thibodeau came to Golden State. That's that's Kenny Atkinson and they're like, wow, okay, so they are playing that beautiful game defensive minded. But on top of that, another low key thing I didn't see coming was rebounding. They are insanely good at rebounding despite not having a single player averaging more than eight point

eight rebounds a game. Like that's crazy, Like they're all just rebounding like crazy because the stop is really no good if you're not getting the rebound, because if they get the rebound off a stop, it's basically like the defense didn't even exist. You wear yourself out, nothing, nothing works there. Getting stops then secures the boards. Then that gets them out in the transition. Too much nerd talk, but pretty much the Warriors in that case, when they

get rebounds and they get stops, they are unstoppable. Drouble drive hit threes, Night Night Sleep Mask. So all of that to say, the Warriors don't have to have State Steph wear the Cape anymore. Steph goes nuclear, but he doesn't have to go nuclear, if that makes sense, that's a huge difference. So now here's where we get to the cold water portion. I'm sorry Warriors fans, but there is something ridiculous happening, and the nine and one has

only fueled it. Right. They now believe, you know, believe in Ted Lassel and like believe Warriors, like we believe team like the Warriors fan base now says we are winning the title. Let me just be very very clear, you are not winning the title this year. They probably will, They probably will now, they probably will. Now they let me just look at the camera and say, if you win the title after November ninth, twenty twenty one, you're fucking welcome. You are fucking This happened with the Bucks,

has happened with the Bucks. Actually, right around now, eleven games into the season, I said the Bucks would never win the title, and they won it. So you're welcome. So you're welcome. Back to that, back to that. These these fans aren't even satisfied with the hot start. They are now crowning them the kings of the West. They're now saying that they are ridiculous and like the title contender. I went on ninety five point seven the game today and they were like, are you ready to crown us?

And I'm like no, and they're like, we'll crown them for you. I'm not trying to harsh your mellow dub nation. I'm just being realistic. You haven't beaten anyone at all yet, you haven't beaten anyone at the top of the standings. Yet you have zero wins against anyone in the top six of either conference. Like that is something to point out, right, like something to keep an eye on. You look good, but you look good against losing teams. Thirty three and

fifty nine are your combined opponents winning stats. That is forty percent winning. If you were to take that, that is a top that is a bottom six team in the NBA, Like they are the bottom of the barrel teams that you have played against in one So Memphis you should have beaten and you didn't, and they are still kind of right there. Let's circle back ten fifteen

games down the road. Really, let's circle back in January after you played the Box and the Nets and the Sixers and the Sons and Nuggets, and that you haven't played any of those teams. Let's not pretend also that this team hasn't had hot streaks before. They might have just had them in the beginning of the season in the most ridiculously easy hot, like ten to fifteen game stretch anybody's had in the NBA. I don't even know how they got that. Adam Silver just gifting them an

easy hot start. They had many times last year they were super hot and then they went ice cold. There was a reason that I said the Warriors could go to the finals last year because of this. This right here, this team can be this. Will they be this in times where the playoffs and they trap stuff and then he's turning the ball over. Oh boy, now we go. Here we go again? Right. I get Warriors fans that you think that this year is different. I think this

year is different too. I love that the Warriors are getting their swagger, and more importantly, clay Back. I love that. I hope he's fully healthy. I want him to shoot. I wanted to be a defensive stopper. I want to be mobile. I want to be healthy. I like it when they're good, despite what people think. I like the Warriors being good. But it is too early for this. It's too early for this. It's too early to be

like Trista dynasty back on banners. We're just planning out where the banners are gonna go, or we're doing our ring sizing. Even andre Iguidal is like, yo, we haven't played anybody. We haven't played anybody, he said, the hots teams, the team's hot start. Okay, it's okay. He noted that favorable schedule to open the year. No, shit, it's favorable. What did I say? It was thirty three and fifty nine combined winning percentage. Yeah, that is a very favorable schedule.

Nine of Golden State's first twelve games are at home, so yeah, not quite ready to eat all the crow, just a little piece of the crow's foot. So my final message to you guys is fucking beat somebody before you get all up in my mensions, before we start sizing guys for their rings, shall we? And in the meantime, you're fucking welcome.

beat the shit out of Miami Heat. I don't even know how. I don't know how without Michael Porter Jr. Mark Keith Morris decided he was going to put a hard elbow into Yolkic's back like a side swipe. But he also put his knee behind Yokic's knee while he did that. Very dirty, fucking play, very dirty, and as he walked away, yok is not having any of that bullshit. He basically got a head running start and body checked Mark Keith Morris in the back. He fell fucking hard,

got him boom drops, rolls around in pain. It's a scene. It's a scene to behold. Scuttle button happens on the court, as it always does. Refs come in, both guys get ejected, and then Jimmy Butler comes in and he's like, Yo, bring your ass to the back, bring your ass to the back. Let's right, bring that shit to the back, right now, let's fight. You know, he's basically like doing the Jimmy Butler I'm so tough thing you know that he does. I can't actually tell if Jimmy Butler's tough,

but he seems pretty tough. I think it's just his teeth mostly, like his teeth are not fully straight, so it makes him look more tough than he is. That's just my thought on that. And then things did not calm down yet all. I don't know why, but it does. Things did not calm down at all. During the postgame pressers, Eric Spolster, head coach of the Heat, went in, this is what he said. That was a very dangerous and dirty play. Keith took a foul and it was one

of those fast break take fowls. Basically making excuses for Mark Keith Morris, which he shouldn't have done. And then he did it with his shoulder. You might deem that as a little bit more than just slapping somebody. Yes, I do demant more than that. Yes, But after watching it on film, it was a take foul. Remember we talked about this before. I don't know really when the term take foul became a thing. Oh, there's a simple take foul. That's how I saw it. And after the play,

what Jokic did was just absolutely uncalled for. You just never see he's supposed to do in that Like it was a scene. Like I said, Jokics responded this way during his postgame presser. Yeah, I thought it was a dirty foul, a dirty shot. Me and Bam were basically fighting the whole night. It was a nice fight. I think you can play fair and still play aggressive and fight with your guy, but it was a little over the edge. That's why I reacted. I'm not supposed to

react that way. But the truth is I need to protect myself. So yeah, if you thought getting a little night sleep rest would uh see cooler heads prevail. Oh you're wrong, you are wrong. Things have gotten even more heated in the daytime today. What we got instead was somehow someone a tag team match where the Jokic brothers somehow got involved. They created listen to this, They created a brand new Twitter account as a as a duo.

Like can you imagine close your eyes for a second and imagine the Jokic brothers, two seven footers that are brothers with the kol Jokic with tattoos and hard rocks, and they're sitting next to each other, huddled up trying to figure out how to open a Twitter account so that they they don't even have an avvy. They don't even know how to put a profile picture up. That's how new to this they are. But they're like twin brother of Marquise Moore, Mark Markkeith Morris, Marcus Morris is

on Twitter. Let's fucking go, let's fucking let's go in huddle up making Twitter account. Did own his ass, right own his ass. This is what they do. And then they follow one person and it's just Jamal Murray like amazing, and people on Twitter are like, hey, I know that Jokic and Jamal are very close, but that is a menacing follow, like it being the only follow is a little scary, a little obsessive and scary. So if you thought that the Marcus the Morris twins would let the

whole things lie. I mean, you just don't know them. They are dogs. So Mark Heath's brother Marcus dropped this on Twitter. He said, wait till Bro turned his back smh, noted ominous noted. Then Marcus Morris tweeted, oh no, so then actually the Then the Jokic Brothers tweeted, you should leave this the way it is instead of publicly threatening our brother. Oh boy, your brother made the dirty play first. If you want to make a step further, be sure.

Oh god, we will be waiting for you. Exclamation mark, exclamation mark. Jokic Brothers. They literally sign the tweet Jokich Brothers. It's like when your mom texts you, hey, make sure you pay your insurance bill. It's due tomorrow. Mom. Uh yeah, I have you saved in my phone. This is like ww eating me. It's like, you guys can't really be meaning this, can't you? Like this is fake? This is

totally real, but it's totally faked. So many threats, so much allusions to violence, Like you want to take it out back. I don't think you're ready for this, Jelly, and you're like, what did you just say? I don't think you're ready for this jelly. It sounds very scary but also sexual. I don't know what's happening, and so if you think to yourself, like me, this is fucking fake. Denver Nuggets reporter Mike Singer, a notable scumbag still a reporter, tweeted, this,

just got a text from Yokiic's brother. This is their real account, responding to Marcus Morris's tweet last night, this is their real account. They just made a brand new account for these purposes. Not a burner with some fake person trying to stir up drama. Nope, it's them. So then Marcus Moore's tweeted this, you got the right ones believe that, like, well, we will go outside. Basically, we

will take it to the streets. Get some violence. If you want this violence, you're the right We're the right twins. You're the right brothers for the job. What And then the Djokis brothers responded, I don't believe that. I know that I know that we're ready for the streets. So we don't believe that we're ready for the streets. We're

from fucking Serbia. Nobody in their right minds would pick a fight with three seven foot brothers from a war torn country except for the Marcus Morris Markith Morris twins. That's how you know the beef has gotten to a boiling point. Apparently Jokich is kind of a dirty player on the court as an aside, and so people are kind of fed up with his bullshit and he's an MVP, jolly old Jokic, and it's like, no, he's kind of dirty. So then Shannon Sharp of course had to come in.

You can't have a real Twitter beef on the NBA without Shannon Sharp jumping in. But he's like, Yokich has the right to protect himself. And Marcus Morris of course quote tweets and he's like, man, shut your drunk ass up. What is is Shannon Sharp junk all the time? And I just don't know because he just called him drunk. I don't know. Maybe I don't know. He does kind of sound. He does have Hennessy on set a lot now that you mention it. Actually he does so much

tea in the streets. But Mark Keith Morris cooled the temp down, cool the temp way down, and he goes I love to see the hate, no doubt. I took a hard foul which I always do, but I've never hit a man with his back turned. Luckily, we built different over here. Wait, you don't think they're built differently differently in Serbia. They are. Let me just say this, they will do some things. I can take my licks

and keep pushing Joker one smooth zero lol ah. And then I love the collective loyalty and support from the rest of the Nuggets organization, which listen like for those who are not thinking about this, like these are the Denver Colorado Nuggets pretending, I don't think pretending becoming the hard rock team in the West. Uh. PJ. Doser, notable role player who struggles to stay healthy, says, everyone in stay ready, just like we do. We're a team full

of guys that aren't going to back down. We're not gonna lay down. We've got each other's back. I guess, I guess. PJ. Doser, maybe stay out of it. I just can't wait. I just cannot wait for the next time that the Miami Heat played the Denver Nuggets. Maybe we'll get him in the finals. That would be something, wouldn't it. Cannot wait? Do not fuck with a couple of triple of Serbian brothers that's all the time that

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