Steph Curry Drops 56 Points, Where Can Warriors Finish in the West? | Inside the NBA

Hey, our game wasn't bad. It wasn't bad, but when a guy get 50, that's special. 456, yeah. But look at, hey, Orlando. Worst shooting team in the league. In the first quarter, they shoot 83%. Wow. Must've had a lot of left. And they're up 34-23. Apollo for three. They led by 17 and never trailed in the first half. And then, oh my goodness, Steph. Just starting to cook. He had five in the first quarter. Had 16 in the second quarter. Oh, no way. Are you serious? To end the half. 66-52, Orlando, though. You can't lose this game, can you? Yes, you can. Sure. Because in the third quarter, Golden State outscored them 40-21. Come on, man. Curry had 21 in the first half, and he had 22 in the third quarter. This guy, this is a fluke. No, that first one wasn't supposed to go in. Well, you're on fire. God, look at that there. Come on, guys. Steph outscored the Magic in the third quarter. Oh, my gosh. He makes it look effortless. Come on, man. Put some wood on his ass. OK. Oh, see, that's when you don't respect somebody. You have to work it on your golf swing. You just don't have no respect for somebody. You know, Paulo Banqueiro didn't have a bad night either. He had 41. But Steph had 56. Come on, man. Oh, my gosh. He had had 13 30-point games. No 40-point games this year, and he goes for 56 in Orlando. 16 for 25 is incredible. 12 for 19 from 3 is incredible. Yeah. 19 threes is incredible. But to make 12 of them, to get them off, like, people don't understand the most amazing thing is that takes a lot of energy. It takes a lot of energy to get 19 threes off. You could say, oh, I'll give you the green light. You wouldn't get 19 shots off in the next game. Jimmy Butler had 5.4. They should have traded for him. 30 and 4 now, Golden State, when they take a lead to the fourth quarter. You know what I need right now? Jimmy Butler traded him again. You know what I need right now? What's that? You need to hear from Steph Curry. Obviously, it took all those points, but it took a collective resilience that I love that we showed tonight. Could have been easy to lay down the first game of a road trip down 16, 18, whatever it was. But we all clawed back, and I fed off our teammate, my teammate's energy, too. With every gray hair that pops up on top of your head, you get to appreciate moments and milestones like this. So very, very special. Just scoring the basketball. I love to do it. I love to have nights like these, and I just want to soak it all in. So this season, the top output, 60 by De'Aaron Fox. Giannis with a 59, and now Steph has joined Nikola Jokic with 56 in the game this season. That's impressive, man. Can we talk about the Golden State Warriors here for a second, who are now 32 and 27. Minnesota's playing later, but they are tied with Minnesota right now. In fact, they won the season series 3-1. So right now, Golden State in the number seven spot, and just a hair behind the Clippers to avoid the play. And the narrative the whole time, Shaq, has been, well, Golden State can get in there and play it. But what are you thinking now about this team, which is 7-1 now since Jimmy Butler joined it? I think their motivation is one last time. When they lost Klay, and Draymond and Steph was there, and a bunch of youngsters. Probably won't get it done, but with the addition of Jimmy Butler, they have a chance. If they keep playing well, if they keep fighting like they played tonight, they have a chance. I'm going to go on the record, pull out your little yellow pad. They will not be in the playing situation, guarantee it. Golden State will be a playoff team and not a play-in team. Hey, when you're on fire, though, I think the one thing that we watch is a great one. Come on, man, put a hand up. Take the ball out of his hand. You got to take the ball out of his hand. You can't let a guy just burn down your damn house like that. You take the ball out of his hand, make somebody else beat you. I mean, after you get 30, 40, 50, you say, like, dude, take the ball out of his hand. I mean, he is one of the greatest players ever. He is one of the greatest players ever. But you got to, you can't, they didn't make any adjustments. No, they didn't make any adjustments. But I think, you know, Chuck, it's too late. I know that, but they should have made it by 35, because you got to see if somebody else can beat you. Ernie, you know, I'm going to, what's going to be interesting, put those stats back up, please. What, the standings, you mean? The standings, yes. They're coming. I think you can take those top five teams out. Of what? Like, I don't think any, I think, You don't think they're going to dip? I think three, well, actually, you can put, I think two to five going to fluctuate to the end. But they're all in, they're all in the playoff. Yes, but if you look at 26, 27, 28, you lose one game, you go from 26, you go down. So I think, Then you go 26 to 27. No, I think, so I think, it's just my personal, I think six to 10, those teams are going to stay right in there. Come on, man. Please don't throw my sons in there. That's just, now you're pissing me off, Ernie. Hey, Ernie doesn't have the button to move that. He didn't do that. Sons are 11. Yeah, okay, stop right there. There's nothing going to happen after that. Seven through 10 are in the play. That's it. But, but my thing is, See, now y'all just, Out of the way. Okay, okay, okay. Out of the way, Brent, out of the way. I guess, You be your own man up there, Brent, out of the way. Listen, okay, the Jets got a chance, according to these damn numbers. The Pelicans got a chance. That's just all from perspective. Oh, they just telling you where they are right now. Hey, if the Pelicans go on a 22 game winning streak, they'll be right in this thing. But, so I do think, I think six to 10, I don't think any of those teams going to move. You don't, I really, Six to 10, Because they got a five game, because you go to five, they got a five game. Golden State going to move up. Who? Golden State's going to move up. No, but I'm talking about, No, he said those 10 teams are in. Those 10 teams are in. But I think six to 10 are going to fluctuate, because neither one of these teams, the Lakers I think got 21 losses, am I right? So, the Rockets got 22, but neither one of those teams are going to make up five games. So I think six to 10 going to just be rotating for the rest of the season. You know the Warriors avoid the play-in, Kenny. No, they're going to have to play it. I think the Clippers will have enough talent. They have enough coaching. Timberwolves going to be in the play-in game too. For the Clippers to be six. And let me say this, Kenny. So the Timberwolves going to be in the play-in game, a hundred percent. All right, let me tell you something, Ernie. And to me, the wild card are the Mavericks. Like, if, first of all, let's give Nico Harrison some credit. The trades he made last year, and obviously the Luka thing, he's made some good trades. He made the Mavericks relevant last year. He's not, everybody's upset about the Luka thing. But if it wasn't for the trades he made last year, the Mavs would not have made it to the finals. But, I'll say this now. If the Mavs can tread water. Until A.D. Until A.D. and Gafford and Lively come back, nobody want to see them boys. It's a totally different team. I mean, that's a totally different team because those guys, those three guys together are going to, if you put their averages together, they're going to average 34 minutes, 35 minutes a game. So you're starting front line and you're number one backup. It's not in the game. So you can't even play the games the way you're supposed to be playing right now.