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Light Years: A Golden State Warriors Pod

GSW-Portland Post Game

Light Years: A Golden State Warriors Pod

Blue Wire

News, Sports, Basketball, Sports News

4.4621 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Sam is joined by Vignesh Venkataraman of the Mercury News' GSW Fastbreak Blog to discuss the Warriors win over Portland, the inevitability of Stephen Curry and growing chemistry of Steph, Poole and Wiggins.  Later (20:45) we take your calls. Host: Sam Esfandiari Guest: Vignesh Venkataraman Producer: Tim Angan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And welcome to Light Years. We are recording this on the Spotify Greenland map after the Warriors victory over the Portland Trailblazers 17 and 2.

0:30.7

I have sitting in the primary writer of the GSTUB Fast break blog on at the s f chronicle vinesh how are you doing

0:42.9

him man i'm doing fantastic sam how are you doing today oh you know it's good this is how i know the

0:49.5

warriors are truly back this was a delightfully boring game. I don't even know how else to describe it.

0:57.1

At no point did it feel like Portland threatened them, even though the Warriors never really

1:03.2

blew, I mean, they blew the game open in the third, but it was always kind of in the balance.

1:08.2

But at any point where you worried Portland was actually going to

1:11.8

threaten the result? No, not really. And I think you said it. This is, the Warriors are back. It feels like

1:18.2

2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, all over again, despite an entirely new cast to characters. And, you know,

1:26.7

what's the phrase, the more things change, the more they stay the same?

1:29.3

Portland did change a lot.

1:31.1

Their defensive style is different.

1:33.4

They refused to get their heads blown off and drop coverage against Steph.

1:37.1

They were pansy, physical.

1:39.7

Anthony Simons went nuts.

1:41.6

And yet, if you look at the result, the Warriors won by 15 again.

1:45.6

So, yeah, I agree with you.

1:47.4

I think it feels a lot like dynastic warriors.

1:50.5

And a quote unquote, ho-hum victory is just what the doctor ordered with some big

1:53.9

gangs coming up in the next couple weeks.

1:56.1

Yeah.

1:56.3

So this was what, their eighth or ninth game in a row they won by double digits um at home anyway it just

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