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. With the Warriors' second off day and the transition

from January to February, I wanted to bring back the kind of combination podcast that I've been

doing the last few months, which is a schedule analysis and then the four factors going through

where the Warriors are relative to

this point last year and also relative to the rest of the league because both of those things matter.

And I'm going to start with schedule analysis, especially because that part is actually done.

The Warriors, you know, because their January schedule is done, whereas with four factors,

still a little bit of time left.

And I always like to start this with back-to-backs, because back-to-backs are the most central of the schedule-related issues.

And in January, the Warriors only had two back-to-backs.

They had the one a little bit earlier where they were in Orlando and then in Miami with that

strange early game, and then in Miami with that strange early

game and then the more recent one with the Clippers and the Blazers. And the Warriors went 12 and

two in January. One of their two losses was on the second end of a back-to-back. That was the loss

in Miami to the heat. Arguably, well, not arguably, their most surprising loss because, I mean,

Miami's, even though they're on this eight game winning streak, they're still worse than Memphis,

which was the Warriors of their loss. And the Warriors did not play a single team that was on

the second end of a back-to-back. So there's no real need to talk about that from that component.

And in a surprising Warriors fans will call it encouraging

development, the Warriors actually have a pretty significant advantage in terms of back-to-backs

in February. February is a weird month for the NBA because due to the All-Star break,

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