#Warriors pre-Cavs off-day, Klay's trainer @bucketsworth, CJ Holmes: Hangover over? Live chat, PVO!!
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TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:
(To be filled in as we go. Note that timestamps are not functional on livestreams until the livestream is overwith.)
15:00 CJ Holmes arrives and we talk about his background, what he does on game day
17:00 locker room, practice observations
21:00 Wiggins "championship glow", it depends who's available
26:00 my own experiences on the beat, the camaraderie with the team as a former athlete
31:00 Donte DiVincenzo interview from practice on Steph Curry
33:15 Steph "never gets rattled", "holds everybody accountable...also gets on himself"
35:00 from Donte's interview: seeing the Xs & Os from game film different than oncourt
36:00 will Jordan Poole play better defense if he plays better offense? More energy?
44:00 team chemistry, bench celebrations (also the gift/curse of a deep bench)
49:00 mentioned: Bazemore, Mo Speights, Barbosa, Jordan Bell, Quinn Cook, JTA, Damion, GP2
54:45 still looking for a hired position (part-time) for marketing on TikTok, Instagram etc.
56:45 my thoughts on Moody: POA defense could be better
58:15 does the subpar defense of JP and Moody indicate championship and/or extension hangover? Is it harder for youngsters to get over hangovers like these?
1:00:00 circumstances in which I would go interview Kerr for a nugget of information
1:04:45 have we been doing less split actions? I've seen Looney doing handoffs, but with Wiseman doing PNR with JP, I would say for the bench, yeah. Donte x Wiseman didn't require split action due to Donte's ability to get in the paint, so maybe those habits spread into the second unit where we couldn't really do split-action and hence the stagnation (even with Jerome)
1:07:15 maybe these three days off equate to a "mini-vacation"
1:15:00 why Jordan Poole *is* actually worth the $123 million (because of Tyler Herro)
1:20:00 Charlie Torres mentions "flow state" for Klay when things are rolling
1:20:45 "Michael Jordan would do that on his first shot: fade-away"
1:21:30 Alonzo Trier on stepping away feels good, Charlie saw it with MJ Game 5 or 6 1998
1:23:45 Trier, Klay, Kemba Walker, Kevin Durant: "They would hop and run away from the hoop when the ball's not even in"
1:26:15 Charlie tore his knee up 3 or 4 weeks before Klay: "apprehension is the craziest thing"
1:27:00 Charlie had Klay (before Achilles) AND KD in the gym (who was about 85% after Achilles)
1:31:00 Charlie says Klay is probably already at 100% mind and body (but there's apprehension)
1:32:30 Charlie took 3 weeks worth of games last season to gel (had 3 seniors), this year's team is taking longer even though more talented and younger
1:33:45 Klay was in a slump 2016 or 2017, Finals to Team USA: "we shot one day and he was too tired to shoot"
1:35:00 "ups and downs are gonna look worse" because the team isn't playing as well
1:36:45 Charlie brings up stuff like Barkley and Ronnie 2K, didn't mean to cyber-bully Ronnie, during water breaks
1:38:00 Klay is super-competitive and anything can light a fire (MJ reference), an edge: "I like when Klay has that edge"
1:41:00 Anthony Goods of SwishCultures
1:42:45 Klay had to play big in high school, can this rub off on Poole? "It all comes back to how competitive you are"
1:44:45 Stanley Johnson has been making Charlie's shoulder sore
1:45:45 one thing Klay does better now than before injuries: putting the ball down and finishing, shooting off-balance shots out of triple threat, off of shot fake and shooting off sides he doesn't like shooting from (left hip shot), "gonna take real game-like failure for game-like results"
1:48:00 Charlie was on Cole Swider's podcast
1:53:30 is it harder now for Draymond to yell at guys for bad play? Maybe it's time for Draymond to change his personality a little bit, to not always walk on that line
2:11:00 we haven't had a championship team in recent memory (as far back as 2011 Dallas) that returned so many youngsters in the 2nd unit (or just a JP equivalent)
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Fri 11/11 Cleveland Cavaliers at GSW, go live at 6:30PM PST, tipoff at 7:00PM.
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