No Tanking, Gui Santos Levelling Up
Warriors Plus Minus: A show about the Golden State Warriors
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4.6 • 703 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Tim and Nick Friedell discuss the Warriors' victory over tanking Memphis on Wednesday and how Gui Santos is establishing himself as a rotation NBA player. Also: Jonathan Kuminga's fast start in Atlanta.
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| 0:00.0 | I think plus minus kind of tell you a lot. |
| 0:04.4 | Hurry steps back. |
| 0:05.7 | Bang! |
| 0:06.7 | Bang! |
| 0:07.0 | Bang! |
| 0:07.6 | Back! |
| 0:08.6 | The plus minus statistic. |
| 0:10.9 | It's just that they tell us the truth. |
| 0:12.4 | Are you a believer in that statistic? |
| 0:14.4 | You tell me. |
| 0:15.2 | I know it's good to be a plus. |
| 0:16.6 | It's Warriors plus minus. |
| 0:19.9 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:20.9 | Welcome to a Warriors split, a back-to-back, a big, big, big back-to-back. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm here with Nick Fredell, Warriors Plus-Mines. |
| 0:29.0 | Oh, I should have said that's an addition of split the back-to-back edition. |
| 0:33.4 | We are recording this in the final minutes of the Warriors. |
| 0:36.3 | I assume will be a victory in Memphis. Big thing for me, Nick, on this one, this is why the Warriors can't take, because there's other teams that are going to take way, way harder than them, even if they had any idea about doing, which they don't. What are you going to do? How are you going to lose to Memphis in this situation? Now, they did normans it's not tanking they don't have their first round pick they're just terrible uh Memphis |
| 0:58.2 | uh no John Morant no Zach Ety knows Cedric Howard no Zach Randolph no Marcus Saul uh no Mike |
| 1:06.8 | County Jr uh Tony Allen I don't think he was healthy either so uh well by, they'd get a dunk. So I was a little worried that it might blow this. I'm not going to blow this. They're up 131.105. I don't know what the final score is going to be. But Nick, they can't tank. How can you tank in this situation? There's just too many teams tanking way ahead of them. Warriors are going to get their 31st victory of the year. |
| 1:28.5 | They're going to end up with 39, you know, 40 maybe even, |
| 1:33.1 | even if they're not playing everybody every time. |
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