Matt Steinmetz

Had a chance to talk a lot of Warriors with Mitch and Pitch on ESPN Las Vegas 1100/100.9-FM. We touched on several topics, including the Warriors’ letdown against the Denver Nuggets, the reaction of Oklahoma City fans for Kevin Durant’s return and whether or not the passion is still there for the Warriors — and their fans, and plenty more.

Link to interview with Mitch and Pitch on ESPN Las Vegas 1100/100.9-FM.

We also hit on Warriors rookie Patrick McCaw, who played his college ball at UNLV.

–For as much as players try to downplay the importance of certain games, it’s obvious that Saturday’s Warriors-Thunder game was a biggie. How else can you explain both teams getting absolutely blown out in their next game? The Nuggets hammered Golden State and the Wizards drilled OKC on Monday.

It’s impossible to get up for every game. In the Warriors’ case, it wasn’t just beating OKC, it was beating Memphis the night before. Memphis had beaten the Warriors twice already this season, so that made it back-to-back emotional games for Golden State. They couldn’t muster one more big-time effort at Denver on Monday.

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If I played Stephen Curry 100 times in H-O-R-S-E, I might be able to beat him a game or two. OK, maybe not a game of H-O-R-S-E, but maybe a game of P-I-G. But I’ll bet there would be one game where Curry was just off, and maybe that one time, I was shooting the lights out. It’s possible.

What I’m saying is that every once in a while, Curry can struggle, he just won’t have it, he can’t buy one, if you will. Those games tend to be a tad infrequent and they mostly get lost amid his slew of good and great games.

I’ll link to “Warriors WrapUp when it becomes available.

Curry went 0-for-10 from beyond the arc against the Lakers earlier this season, and had a 1-for-11 against Milwaukee and an 0-for-8 against the Clippers. He’s also susceptible the periodic high-turnover game, though less this year because he’s handling it less. But he had an eight-turnover game against Detroit, including six in the first quarter.

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Yeah, I gotta tell you, I’m not really psyched to put together a bunch of paragraphs on the latest Warriors’ win — the one in Oklahoma City on Saturday night … You know, Kevin Durant’s first trip back to that place most people have never been to.

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I want to talk about the Warriors-OKC game, but that’s almost exclusively what I want to talk about. The game. Not really interested in Durant’s walk to the team bus from the hotel, Draymond Green getting into it with somebody, the restaurant that said no,  etc. Anyway …

Here’s link to “Warriors WrapUp,” the postgame show on 95.7-FM The Game.

The Warriors were in control the whole game against the Thunder, and wound up winning very comfortably. I can’t remember the exact score the Warriors won by right now, but I’m pretty sure it was by 15 or right around there.

Oh, real quick, before I go any further, there will be many who will be critical of Russell Westbrook, his 11 turnovers, and plenty more about his play. But Westbrook is the least   of OKC’s worries. Put me in the pro-Westbrook camp. I mean, you take Westbrook off the Thunder, they’re a bad lottery team. With Westbrook, they’re 31-24 in the tough Western Conference.

Here’s what I think of Westbrook and the people who nit-pick him.

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