Hello and welcome to the Hood Collective podcast. We talk about the NBA. We're doing it on early afternoon on Wednesday. Sorry for the delay in the post in this week is because I was traveling on Tuesday for an interesting project that I'll be talking to you about pretty soon.

But joining us from Oakland, California is Anne Scabes, Mark J Spears. Hi, Mark, how are you?

What's happening, man? We got we got the color coordinated this week.

I know you got the Zeta San Jose State shirt you got there. There you go. We just whipped up on Fresno, our so-called rival. So I decided to wear this and attributed that victory.

Nice. Well, you were in San Francisco last night, Tuesday night for Steph Curry's return.

I was a surprising game. I'm gonna wait and hear what you have to say about it. I was jet lagged AF. So I was totally out last night by nine o'clock central. I watched the first half of Dotted Mitchell going back to Utah and then I passed out. So I caught up with it this morning. But, and I'll tell you what I thought about it. I didn't see it in real time. But I, I wrote the game. So I want to hear the sun's going to be on the ground.

I'm not sure if I can get up with the stunning win. But I want to hear what you thought about it.

I was interested in before the game. I mean, money will William look like usual like down and out.

You're already lost and ready to get like beat up like the scene in Chris was story. You know, like it looked like he was bracing for something.

You relish in these kind of opportunities to coach against the team that, you know, you try to figure out this puzzle with not all the greatest pieces. And he actually said he did. And I always remember that George Carl.

To me, he always coaches best games when I covered the nuggets when he was under man. And it's almost like before I, you know, you know, a Freudian slip. I saw it coming before it coming.

You know, I am very confused by the warriors like we beat up the young guys on their teams so much for their struggles for their poor start for their defense. And like you got to beat up the vets.

Like they just didn't come to play. I think Clay said it best like they kind of relax with Wiggins back with Steph back, you know, and think the assumption was with these guys back or just like be rolling.

But when Steph was healthy, they were struggling too. And I'm going to give them a pass right now.

For a moment, and they've had this really bad three games streak at home, right. They haven't played good basketball, late with or without stuff.

Because they just haven't so many new pieces that it got have to get reunited, you know, not only is Wiggins back and Steph back, but Andre, a dollar is back to for a little while he was.

Yeah, so you got thrown out of the game. Yeah, exactly. Well, there's that. And did show some sprightness, which it was impressed me. He had a nice one handed put back dunk. And I'm like, okay, he's still got his legs.

But like there's no excuse for that like no book, no CP, no eight, no cam Johnson, no campaign, like that's embarrassing man at home.

Yeah, where they they've actually been amazing. And you know, they're about to go on a road soon. And they're lucky that the Western conference has not been outstanding.

You know, body everybody in the Western conference other than I guess Denver, maybe Memphis hasn't hasn't taken off. So they've actually had basically an ability to still stay in the pack.

But I mean, the way they're playing this team is starting to look more and more like a play in team and not a play off team. And they they need some size to their small teams are taking advantage of them on the boards. And I'm just I will say that I am concerned about this team now, especially defensively, they're just poor. And we'll see if they turn it around.

Yeah, Dario Sarich really had one of his best games of the year on them. He was like, that was his like return game, right? Yeah, yeah, I mean, I mean, he's playing but not well. Yeah.

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