And welcome to Whitehears.

Samus Fandiari here sitting in for Andy Lou. Vignesh from GSTV Fast Break,

the Warriors blog at the Mercury News, the heir apparent to the blog father, Adam, Lardson.

Bigdash, how you doing, man?

I'm doing great. Sam, great to be on here. Happy New Year. I'm glad to be chatting with you.

Yeah, so we're recording this right after the Pelicans game. Sam, great to be on here. Happy New Year. I'm glad to be chatting with you. Yeah, so we're recording this right after the Pelicans game. And, yeah, like, I don't really

want to talk too much about this because how much can you really read into a game without

Steph and Dremond? And we can now say it without Clay because apparently he's returning very soon.

But still, some things to talk about tonight.

So, like, let's start there.

What are your initial thoughts on this game?

Initial thoughts, it's going to be hard to win games if Steph and Dremond and Clay aren't playing,

if Jordan Poole doesn't score until 3.9 quarters of play have already happened.

Right.

On the flip side, what you saw in the last couple of minutes

is exactly why the Warriors are so high on Jordan Poole

and why I think most of Warriors Twitter was super excited

when they saw the article on his development and growth

in the athletic between Anthony Slater and Marcus Thompson the second.

It's a demonstration of potential and also kind of frustrating at the same time because if that happens maybe two or three, four minutes earlier or even before that, the Warriors have a chance to win this game.

But on the flip side, again, they got a ton out of their rookies in Comingda and Moody,

and they saw enough there to at least be slightly excited.

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