The Warriors are FLYING! ✈️ Brian Windhorst is excited about Golden State’s resurgence 📈 | Get Up

The Warriors are FLYING! ✈️ Brian Windhorst is excited about Golden State’s resurgence 📈 | Get Up

Well let’s focus on the standings right now if you take a look you want to talk about a star studded potential playin look at the teams that are hovering around that area Warriors and Lakers both currently in that range and both likely to stay in that range and so I

Want to bring Wendy in here though because for folks who haven’t been paying close attention right before the All-Star break or thereabouts Wendy when do you feel like things start to take it a turn for these Warriors yeah the last time these two teams played was January 27th it was a

Double overtime game came down to the last seconds LeBron won it with a free throw Steph Curry scored 46 points but was so frustrated with the state of the Warriors he ripped his jersey as he was walking off of the Court after that game Steve Kerr the future Hall of Fame coach

Said don’t worry about it I know we’re way under 500 we’re going to figure it out we’ve got this going I don’t know if I believed him but the Warriors did they are 9 and two cents the number two two offensive team in that run the number

Seven defensive team the big change Klay Thompson to the bench Brandon psky into the starting lineup he moves the ball the team moves the ball Jonathan kaminga in this two timeline starting lineup two young guys three Legacy players kuminga scores in the paint greeny the Warriors have just had their four most prolific

Offensive scoring games since 1989 even more than any time in this last decade they are flying and amongst all those teams that you just showed in those standings they’ve got the easiest schedule the rest of the way how close are you paying attention to the Warriors maybe doing something we didn’t expect

Down the stretch of this season very much so I never buried him completely because of the number of close games they lost when he just alluded to one of them but I think the Golden State Warriors were involved in more of those games than any team in the league and

They were coming up short time and time again so what has happened it’s it’s a really a collection of things Andrew Wiggins has been better he’s still not super consistent offensively but he’s B Bas average about 16 in the last seven games that’s significantly better than

Where he was at the beginning of the year Draymond Green has been fantastic since he came back from the suspension he’s averaging 10 seven and seven during this stretch and it’s just his decision making his Pace his energy his defensive presence it’s all there again like Draymond at his Peak when they were

Winning championships that’s what he looks like right now psky has been a critical part of this he is a winner he’s a ball mover he’s a great decision maker he runs down every single long rebound he comes up with those those winning type plays for you uh that

Promotes Just Energy in your team so there’s a there’s a number of things across the board that are trending up and now the Warriors are starting to win these games that they were losing earlier in the year so no doubt pay attention they’re interesting as long as Steph Curry plays are always interesting

But now they’re actually relevant right now that’s what’s different and no LeBron last night very quickly Wendy should we be concerned about LeBron and his ankle I am told no this is just a maintenance situation this is the fourth time he sat out part of a backtack back

Dealing with this ankle tendonopathy he is hoping to play tonight at home against the Spurs okay so then putting that in context assuming that he’s healthy and obviously that’s the overwhelming assumption I’m telling you right now ahead of time Brian wior one of the two teams we saw last night

Featuring the Two legendary players of their era LeBron and Steph one of those two teams is going to wind up in the Western Conference finals this year which one are you going to tell me it’s going to be so I’m split on this I I think the

Warriors have the bigger you know way to grow because this first half of the season they were so much affected by the suspensions of Draymond Green and other issues with the team that I think they’re you know really maybe not as bad as their record shows whereas the Lakers

Have been mostly healthy with their star players but the thing about it is greeny I’m probably going to lean to the Lakers because of LeBron’s history of leading teams to runs in the playoffs without home court advantage that is not something that the Warriors have been

Able to do much over this last decade of dominance LeBron has won Series without homecourt Advantage like double digit times in his career and that’s what you’re talking about coming out of the play and they just did it last year so I feel like the Warriors have the B better

Growth but I feel like I would bet on you know the Lakers in this question what do you think legs yeah I’d probably lean Lakers I agree with W it’s it’s almost a coin toss the answer to it I’d lean Lakers because of LeBron James ability to control a series because he

Can control like physically he can get where he needs to on the court and then beat you as a scorer or passer you know Anthony Davis will because of his size and presence will win that matchup that’s in front of them so those two players are just their physical presence I worry

About Golden State size still I worry about them getting a key defensive rebound at the end of the game if they have to defensively there’s still like some question marks about them the Lakers because of LeBron’s ability to put the ball in his hands and dictate everything on the court and dictate pace

And dictate how you have to play defensively reacting to him I would lean Lakers because of his history we could be living in a world where LeBron James Steph Curry and Kevin Durant are all in the playin imagine imagine the little weekend that we would put together if we

Had that the Celtics have extended their lead in the Eastern Conference to seven games with their win last night so they’re just running away and hiding so let’s just call this the Celtics Invitational uh as as we look ahead to what the Eastern Conference playoffs project to be if indeed they are that

Windy who gives them the toughest run for their money who is the biggest threat to Boston as we go down the stretch yeah I do think Milwaukee because their top end is still probably the best amongst all of these teams I know that it’s very easy to sort of give

Up on the bucks at this point just three and seven their last 10 their offense is cratered since Doc Rivers took over but their defense has shown signs of improvement and look Dame Lillard has been in a terrible slump for for for 2 months now I’m just betting that he gets

Out of it and when you look at their core players their three-man lineup of Dame Le Lillard y cupo Brook Lopez uh those guys still are very productive when they’re out there together Chris Middleton you hope gets healthy I’m not feeling great about the bucks but when

You look at those other teams and their flaws you feel like Milwaukee would have the best chance in a seven game series against the Celtics legs will you allow me a massive caveat yes Julius Randall it’s I mean if Julius Rand comes back and it makes it back and he looks like

Julius ranold the way he’s played this year I’m going with the Knicks the depth that they have how much how hard they compete they wear you out because they are just not going to give you space you’re going to have to kill them to put them away and now they’ve got enough

Supplemental offense around Jaylen Brunson if they didn’t make that trade and it was really just Brunson and Randall I wouldn’t feel this way because of the inconsistency of Julius Randle in the playoffs previously but when you go out and you add Firepower you add a bur

You add a bonovich and these guys have playoff experience collectively they can make shots they can give you a 15 to 20 point game in a playoff game in a big spot they’ve added two of those guys I love the depth now around their top players if Randall makes it back I’m

Going to say the Knicks quickly on Randall I mean he he was resting the shoulder and then like weeks go by and then I hear the word surgery what do we know Wendy well the Knicks never were a little vague about it but they never ruled it out and Julius made it clear

When he was on the record on Wednesday he said look I am rehabbing it’s going well but I can’t say for sure I’m not going to have surgery I think this is going to be one of those things greeny where he does come back tries to play

And sees how that shoulder holds up if you have followed basketball for any length of time you have seen players who have tried to fight through shoulder injuries sometimes you can sometimes it gets reinjured and you can’t the Nicks and Randall are betting on that he can

But it is a huge question in the entire Eastern Conference playoff picture and boy do I have experience with that we dealt with this exact thing in Washington with Chris Weber he had I don’t know multiple dislocations and he would just rehabit and come back and play it would pop out again sometimes

Doing something innocuous he would just tweak it he’d grab it finally you just come to the conclusion you’re not going to be right until you get this thing surgically repaired and that’s going to be obviously you’re going to miss a lot of time he did it he never really had a

Problem with the shoulder the rest of his career but in the moment it’s tough to rehab your way through it I don’t know the situation with Rand but he’s got to make it back for the Knicks for what I said about the Knicks to be true that a real shame with the season

They’re having

The Warriors are FLYING! ✈️ Brian Windhorst is excited about Golden State’s resurgence 📈 | Get Up
Brian Windhorst and Tim Legler join Get Up to discuss the Golden State Warriors’ offensive resurgence. Then Windy and Legs discuss topics surrounding LeBron James, the Milwaukee Bucks and more.
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