Draymond Green and Baron Davis react to Steph Curry calling the Warriors "very mid" at .500. They see it as a wake-up call and discuss roster moves: getting Jordan Kobierzycki back, more minutes for Andre Iguodala, and more aggression from Andrew Wiggins. The team's chemistry is solid, they say; they just need to play better.
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Obviously we need JK out there and want him out there, but I think, you know, being in the space that we're in, struggling a bit, getting a veteran like Slow Mo out there can help right the ship. You know, it can help settle things down.
Yep.
And so I think it'll be a little more Slow Mo. We need a lot more Wicks. Consistently, which he's been great all year. You know, I'm not saying he hasn't been consistent, but we gonna need Wiggs to be even more aggressive. And then all of us gotta pick it up. You know, everybody gotta be willing to shoot because it's not gonna be as much pressure on the rim without JK putting that pressure on the rim. And everybody gotta come out ready to fire.
No, I agree. I mean, you know, it's a golden opportunity for some of the dudes and for, you know, like we said in the beginning of the year, y'all got a lot of depth and versatility. This is kind of like could be a great turning point. And speaking of turning point, you know, Steph calling the team very mid.
What does that reflect about who you guys are right now, but what you guys can be going forward? How do kids say it? We're very mid right now. We're just very average.
Right. I mean, and then he turn up the next game, hit 8 for 8 from the 3-point line. But you know, calling the Warriors very mid, You know, man, let's drill in on that.
Man, listen, when he said that and I read it, I was like, "Oh." And I sat and started thinking about it. I'm like, "Yeah, I get what he's saying. I get where he coming from." We are definitely like right at .500, like right middle of the pack, very mid. And we heard him and I think we've played a little better since, but again, that's, it's still got an equal stack in wins together. And we haven't done that. So until we do that, like he said, you never wanna, when you're going through it, you never wanna really accept that you're mid or that you're not a good team or whatever it is. Like it's a hard pill to accept. And we haven't accepted it because we still think we got a chance and we could right the ship, but it's tough.
Yeah.
And so for him to just come out and say it like, hey.
It's real.
Elephant in the room, we mid right now. "All right, so now what?
Now that we can acknowledge that, what we gotta do to figure this out and get better?" And so when I first saw it, it was like a double take, but then I'm like, "Hmm, yeah, we are very mid right now." Sometimes, but it's a humbling experience 'cause sometimes you gotta humble yourself and say like, "Yo, we around here doing this, we doing that, we saying this, we saying that, like we was this, we not that no more." You know what I mean? So it's like almost like a self-check moment to be like, yo, we are very mid. And then to look up and be like, hold on, we mid? How are we mid? You know what I mean? We need to recalibrate. 'Cause ain't nothing mid about, you know what I mean, what we doing. And so, you know, when it's the big dog talking like that, you know, it's almost like a wake-up call for— Absolutely. Absolutely. So, but also—
Everybody.
Everybody else, yeah.
And it like, you know what, another thing that it does is it can also give guys confidence because it gives them like that freedom to be like, yo.
Yeah, it's no pressure.
This is what we need to do, right? And so then they don't have to live up to the pressure that's been created by what we've done. You know, because that's a thing. Like you come here and you feel like you need to live up to the pressure of what we've been. And that's not a realistic thing.
Yeah.
And so, I think that that also helps with that. But we start a 4-game road trip today in Detroit, followed by the Pacers and Raptors and Timberwolves. In your honest opinion, what do you see the toughest matchup of this road trip and where do you see the record being in this road trip?
I mean, I would like to see y'all go 3-1.
I think— That's a great road trip.
2-2 is a good road trip. It start in Detroit, you know what I mean? Like these young dudes, they hungry, they coming off a 500, you know what I mean? They already 500, they just been playing, really just playing they ass off. You gotta beat Detroit.
Yeah.
Because then that puts, then that take the pressure off of, you know, Halliburton, you know what I mean? Don't want that Steph fade. And Indiana, they coming out like, you know what I mean? They coming out playing just as hard as y'all gonna play.
Yep. And maybe harder.
I like Toronto. I think that they are at home. They're just like how the Toronto Raptors used to be when they weren't when they were not DeMar, you know what I mean? When they were not contenders, you better not go in there half-stepping 'cause you could get knocked. And then, you know, the Timberwolves waiting for y'all because they fit, you know, that's one of them other, that's one of the team shit that's very mid, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
They hella mid. So it's like, who's going to start laying some foundation and concrete in that middle market, you know what I mean? And like really product—
Pretty much the same mindset we got right now.
Yeah, hell yeah. And like, you know, and it's that mindset to have when you in the season like this, getting ready for All-Star, getting, you know, the ups and downs, trying to get like, we up, we down, we injured, people coming in and out, all of this, you know, for this All-Star push, like, What are your thoughts around, just like, talk to the fans about everybody is going through something, right? And then like, what is kind of like your recipe, or is there a team meeting, or, you know, how do you guys like start righting the ship? Is it a meeting? Is it, you know, like, 'cause you know, fans are always asking like, "Oh, we need a team meeting. Those dudes should just get together and talk," or, Like what is the philosophy around kind of like this wintertime? Like winter is here.
You know, you have team meetings here and there, just trying to figure it out and talk amongst each other, which we've done. But the interesting thing about this team is it's like, it ain't zero bad blood. Like the chemistry on this team—
Crazy.
Is incredible. And so it's not one of them things of where you need to get in and like call somebody out like, yo, we ain't hitting on this. Like, it ain't none of that. Like, the chemistry on this team is incredible. And so I guess the play, like, we just gotta play better, you know? And like, that has to be the focus for us. Like, we just have to play better because all the other stuff that you need to make you a winning team, we have. Like rocking with each other off the court. We have like, you know what I'm saying? Like all the things that you need around the play to be a great team, we have those things. And so we just gotta play better and win some games. So I don't, you know, I don't really always like—
Stop losing, stop losing games.
That's what I'm saying. This ain't one of them situations where it's like, yo, they struggling and— It's problems in the locker room. It ain't nothing like that. And so we've thrown games away that we shouldn't. Like, you just gotta win.
Yeah, I totally agree, bro. I totally agree. You just gotta stop losing the games you not supposed to lose or figuring out a way to like, you know, even like the little mid-season tournament, going back to that and the Houston, it's like, look at that.
Yeah.
Like, damn. And then it was like 3 games just like that. I was like, wait, what happened? Like, I thought we had that locked up. You know what I mean?
Yes.
And that's the difference between being very mid to being like, oh, we still solid in the top. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm.
