Tim Kawakami, the editor-in-chief of the very athletic Bay Area.

Tim Kawakami.

Tim Kawakami, who has covered the NBA for over two decades and more specifically the Golden State Warriors over the last 12 years.

This is the TK Show.

Hey, everybody, Tim Kawakami here, a TK Show recording from the home studio. Very glad to have all of my guests, not for the first time. It's Warriors General Manager, Mike Dunleavy. Mike, how you doing today? I'm doing great. Well, all things considered, I'm doing fine. But it's good to be with you. Good to be with you. Last night, Warriors looked really good in the first half, not so good the second

half. Obviously, no Steph Curry, no Jimmy Butler, or we can go down the list, no, no

Christophezegos. And since the All-Star break without either Steph or Jimmy, two and five,

just, you know, big picture. You can't just assess everything just based on the last thing.

But how are you viewing things right now just for the season and maybe for the kind of future

beyond that? Yeah, I mean, I think you look at it coming into the season, was really excited

about this team. I felt like it was one of the best rosters we've had in a while. Maybe dating back even prior to our 22 championship team. I really thought this roster was good. And then got up to a slow start, whether some people talked about the travel, the road trips, things like that. I thought we found our way in January, had some home games. We're coming into, things were coming around for us, and then Jimmy goes down.

And that was a big blow.

And then, since then, Steph's down.

We've acquired Chris Stops.

He's been unable to play.

So I think it really makes you realize, like this idea of going all in, people talk about

putting all your chips on the table, draft picks. Obviously,

we've done it financially spending, but there's also a roster construction component about going

all in. And you build around a certain group of guys. When you build around Jimmy and Dremont and

Steph, you know, and to a certain degree, Christops is involved in that now with the way we look

at him. And these pieces aren't available.

You know, you look down the line and while we have great depth, we're not really built to sustain for too long those guys being out.

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