You are locked on Warriors, your daily Golden State Warriors podcast. I am Daniel Rue, your host,

and so happy to bring you your team every day. The Warriors had another off day on Monday,

so two in a row, which is nice for the team, and different for the podcast, because usually

I'm getting used to the pattern of game on, game off, and going back and forth. For those of you

who didn't listen to it,

you can check out the podcast I did on the Blazers game with Eric Garcia Gunderson of Locked

on Blazers. It was a fun conversation. Also, I wrote about it for the athletic. You can check

that out there. I wanted to use the second off day to talk about, I was going to do basically

listener questions and things like that because I get a lot of stuff through various channels, through Twitter, through Facebook, and through email.

And originally I was just going to kind of go all over the board, sort of an email bag, different things.

But then what I realized was a lot of the questions were about the same general thing.

And so instead of being a broader email bag,

this is just going to be talking about centers because a lot of the interest and questions and

everything else surrounding the Golden State Warriors are around the center position because they

have so many other things already handled. So instead of getting into some of the other questions

at other positions and also because I talked a little bit about the Durant situation, I think was

last week, and there isn't a lot of news on that. I can, I'm working on a piece that will kind

of crystallize it a little bit clearer, but there isn't a whole lot more to say there. So instead, what I'm

going to do is tackle a few different questions that I get a lot on the basic center stuff. And

the first place I want to start is something fundamental, which is I get asked a lot why the

Warriors need to start a true center in the first place, why they can't

go with Draymond Green at Center considering everyone knows that's their best lineup. And the reason

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