Jimmy Butler and Stephen Curry combined for 71 points as the Golden State Warriors defeated the Memphis Grizzlies to clinch the seventh seed in the Western Conference. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Grizzlies gritty loss, Desmond Bane’s incredible game, and the Magic defeating the Hawks. Then, the Athletic’s Marcus Thompson joins the show from Chase Center to discuss Playoff Jimmy Butler, the Warriors game plan, and the looming Houston Rockets.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Es Baraheni & Marcus ThompsonExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson Moody Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. Coming up, the Warriors beat the Grizzlies. We got Marcus Thompson to talk about it. And we're going to go a little bit deep on Orlando and Atlanta. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. Good morning. Play in action last night. We were so back. Yeah. You know, I'm not going to say we got two good games. We did get one really good game. Yeah.
Memphis and Golden State, the Warriors get the big win. We went deep on the Warrior side with Marcus. So stick around for that after the break. Yes, the Grizzlies are not done, even though they did get beat by the Warriors. They've got to go on to play another game Friday night. We don't know who the opponent is going to be yet, but either Dallas or Sacramento.
What do you think about the Grizzlies? I mean, you know, they come back from down 20. And they have that really great run. Ja Morant goes out with an ankle sprain, comes back, and actually has kind of a heroic run there. Give me your impressions of how the Grizzlies played.
Yeah, this was a gritty, gritty loss. For the Grizzlies. You know, we talk about grit and grind. They really embodied that tonight with the way that they fought. I thought that part of it was awesome to watch between jaw coming back from the ankle injury. I thought Zach Eady sort of figured it out as the game progressed. I want to talk about that for a second a little bit more.
But Desmond Bain, the way that he was shooting the rock, the way that he was basically like – leading this team on the offensive end. They got contributions from a couple of different rotation guys, too. It was just a gritty way to try and grind out this away game to try and get to seventh. They couldn't do it because of a few different things. So people are going to bring up Zach Eadie.
Because in the first half, the Warriors constantly went at Edie in pick and rolls. They constantly went at him basically anytime he was guarding anybody. And the thing was, basically, they went Jimmy Butler on Zach Edie, which was the matchup the Warriors were going for. Warriors were completely comfortable with Zach trying to attack offensively.
That part of it, 100% a growing and learning experience for a rookie who's still trying to figure out how he can be impactful. Second half, I thought he really figured it out. And the Grizzlies did a better job of pre-switching certain actions to make sure that he stays around the paint. The Warriors did.
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