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Sam Spendiari here, got my guy Tommy, sitting across from me.

And happy New Year's Eve.

Nice Warriors win to close out 2025.

Got a little dicey there for a second, but ultimately, look, on paper, Toronto, Brooklyn, Charlotte

is not like the three hardest opponents.

But when you look at the flying cross country back to back into a 10 a.m. start,

basically three games in under three and a half days. What do you want to call it? Something like that. I'll take two and one on that trip. I mean, you can't like, you know, you can't look at it from that negative of a lens. And they're trending in a positive direction. And you know what? I'll take it. I'll take it to close out the year uh big january yeah i mean look at the end of

the day that's five out of six that they've won now definitely trending in the right direction like

you said any of these east coast swings where you're especially during the winter you're playing

in in cold weather cities a lot of your team isn't used that maybe a lot of your guys haven't

spent a lot of time on the east coast like you take two and one on these type of trips.

You know, like even though you would have loved to be three and O, three and O was definitely there for them to take.

You leave this trip taking two out of three.

You're going back home now.

You're what, 18 and 16 on the season when you were 13 and 15 two weeks ago, not even two weeks ago.

Things are moving in the right direction.

It feels like they are ironing out some stuff rotation-wise.

They're finding the right combinations, for lack of a better term.

And yeah, it just feels like they're moving in a positive direction for like a little bit of an extended period of time for the first time this season.

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