Golden State Warriors Vs. Sacramento Kings Preview | 4/16
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00:03 The Warriors did not have to play against the Sacramento Kings at all this year
00:07 when they had Keon Ellis in their rotation, which is a pretty big difference
00:11 because Keon Ellis is, I mean, he is gonna be in Steph's jockstrap all night long.
00:16 Now, does that even matter?
00:18 I think the thing everyone kind of unconsciously knows is that if Steph
00:22 is feeling it, if it's a Steph night,
00:24 if Steph doesn't even have to look at the basket to get his shot off,
00:28 it doesn't matter.
00:29 You could have Bill Russell and Sean Marion in their primes just like trying
00:34 to double team them and it absolutely won't matter.
00:38 So I think, kind of sad for the Kings, although the Kings ending up in the ninth
00:42 seed like whatever, they didn't do a disastrous trade.
00:45 They didn't trade a first round pick.
00:47 They didn't do anything stupid at the trade deadline.
00:49 They still have Sabonis, they still have Fox.
00:51 They have Monk on a really team friendly contract.
00:53 They've clearly found something in Keon Ellis.
00:56 I think that has to be viewed as an overall win for their franchise.
01:01 I'm taking the Warriors here.
01:02 I mean, the Warriors outside of Gary Payton are fully healthy.
01:05 How many games this entire season has the entire Warriors rotation been healthy?
01:10 I mean, I bet if I set the line at nine and a half, you'd probably take under.
01:14 They have they have coming back.
01:16 They have Chris Paul back and playing.
01:18 I think one of the things we will see the Warriors do,
01:21 is I think we're gonna see a lot more of Chris Paul and
01:24 Steph Curry on the floor together, because the Warriors don't have the guys
01:28 on the wing to punish them, because Malik Monk and Kevin Herter are not available.
01:33 So we're talking about Davion Mitchell and
01:35 Keon Ellis as the secondary perimeter guys.
01:38 So you can't punish Chris Paul.
01:39 I mean, Chris Paul's a good defender, but he's 38 years old and he's smaller and
01:42 they're not gonna be able to,
01:44 not really gonna be able to make Golden State pay for that.
01:46 One wrinkle I might have if you're looking to make some prop bets and
01:49 things on this game.
01:51 I wonder if they dust off Kavon Looney for this game.
01:55 So Trace Jackson Davis has been starting in center for them.
01:58 They've been starting super small with Trace Jackson Davis and
02:02 Draymond Green together.
02:04 They might not want Draymond Green to have to do 35 minutes on Domas tonight and
02:09 then have to go up against whoever awaits them in their next game,
02:15 whether it be Zion or whether it be Anthony Davis.
02:17 It's gonna be a tough assignment for Draymond.
02:19 So I wonder, and Looney did so good on DeMantis Sabonis in the playoff games
02:24 last year, I wonder if we see 18 minutes of him tonight.
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