Locked on Warriors: Apr 12, 2018: Dubs vs. Spurs in 1st Rd. - Klay's Season - Kerr Deserves Credit

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🗓️ 12 April 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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It's official, the Warriors will begin the playoffs at Oracle on Saturday against the San Antonio Spurs. No Stephen Curry for this series. The Dubs played the Spurs well on two out of three occasions this season, with the final meeting resulting in an ejection for Draymond Green and the lowest point output of the season for GSW (75). The Spurs will mostly likely be without Kawhi Leonard, but LaMarcus Aldridge has been stalwart at the 4/5 position all season. The Warriors' bigs will have their hands full. Klay Thompson has had a confusing season. He shot the ball better than he ever has, but that did not come with an increase in scoring. He barely hit 20.0 ppg this year, going 9/27 on the last game of the season to get the 23 points he needed to reach that plateau. He also had a down year defensively, according to advanced metrics. He will need to be the nuclear weapon we know he's capable of being in the playoffs. The Warriors' coaching staff deserves credit for keeping morale high and reaching 58 wins despite all the the injuries the team has dealt with. They could have easily won ten fewer games. Steve Kerr did a great job of keeping the environment fun, and making sure everyone got a chance to play significant minutes. That focus on morale will bode well in the playoffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Greetings, Hoops Heads, welcome to Locked-on Warriors, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network.
0:25.6	It's Thursday, April 12th.
0:28.3	I'm your host, Aliko Carter.
0:31.3	Well, after 82 games, it's going to be the San Antonio Spurs facing the Warriors in the first round of the playoffs, most likely without
0:39.3	Kauai Leonard.
0:41.4	But they still have Lamarcus Aldridge and are going to be, and they execute you to death,
0:45.2	they're going to be a very tough matchup for the Warriors without Stefan Curry in the first
0:50.3	round.
0:50.7	But at the end of the day, the Warriors might have dodged a bullet. A depleted Spurs
0:56.7	versus a surging Minnesota team or a surging New Orleans team or the Oklahoma City Thunder.
1:06.1	I think the Warriors definitely dodged a bullet there. Even the Utah Jazz would have represented
1:10.7	a more tough out than the Spurs and the Warriors are dodged a bullet there. Even the Utah Jazz would have represented a more
1:11.1	tough out than the Spurs, and the Warriors are definitely getting off a little bit easy here,
1:16.8	which is nice. You know, I think that after all of the injuries, it kind of worked out well for the
1:23.8	Warriors, karma coming back to give them something that, you know, to give them a little
1:28.7	present.
1:29.2	And I'm not taking anything away from the Spurs.
1:31.3	I'm really not, but they've kind of limped into the playoffs, playing mostly 500 basketball.
1:37.5	And obviously, Lamarcus Aldridge is a big handful, but just up and down the roster,
1:42.5	the Warriors are more talented.
1:44.0	They'll have
1:44.4	home court. It shouldn't be more than a six-game series. I'm saying dubs in five, but we will be
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