Voice of Golden State Warriors Tim Roye Joins The Show Before Game 1 of NBA Playoffs

 Voice of Golden State Warriors Tim Roye Joins The Show Before Game 1 of NBA Playoffs

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (02:34):
One o two on Sports Talk seven ninety is the
fourth and final hour of it. Anything goes Friday here
on the program Sunday Night inside Tota Center. We'll have
it for you right here. Ashle's gonna be on our
sister station. We're going to the blowtorch. We're going fifty
thousand watts for Game one of the Western Conference first
round series between the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets.

(02:55):
Joining us now the longtime voice and a good friend
of the show, Tim Roy with ninety five seven and
the Warriors Radio Network. On your way to the airport
right now. How is the current Bay Area freeway situation?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
So far? So good? I live way out by Napos,
so I've got a little bit of a hike to
get to SFO, but so far it's pretty good. Usually
middle of the day is probably your best bet to
drive around the Bay Area because that's when the traffic
is minimal and you can get here to there. We've
got coastal clouds coming at me and it's just kind

(03:29):
of a nice day.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Last stupid question about weather. Have you ever driven when
during a earthquake?

Speaker 3 (03:35):
And what is that like? If you do?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
I have driven during a small earthquake and the car
just kind of bounces a little bit. I've not driven
in a big one. But actually, this is the anniversary
of the nineteen oh six quick which San Francisco in
a big way and then a huge fire afterwards decimated
the city. And they always pause to remember that a
lot of people lost their lives on this day and night.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Wow, great reference of history there, Tim Roy, the voice
of the Warriors with us here all right, Tim, So
you are not a typical seventh seed. Vegas doesn't believe that.
I don't think Golden State Warriors believe that. I certainly
don't think Memphis believes it. Twenty was a twenty one
and seven. Since Jimmy and the staff have been in there,
beyond the record itself, and look, I've seen you guys

(04:22):
play obviously a handful of times, including once in person.
What has been the change in your mind since Jimmy
joined Golden State.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Jimmy brings a he kin put all the puzzle pieces together,
and he brings a belief. He brings a confidence, and
he also brings playmaking abilities. So when Jimmy has the ball,
he's a little bit like Andre goadala where he really
wants to set up other people. He doesn't really want

(04:53):
to score as much, but when he has to score,
he can score. And so he's done like three things.
He's Our defense became a lot better with Jimmy on
the floor. Free throw shooting, which was abysmal before he
got there, is now pretty good, and they get to
the line a lot more because Jimmy draws bowls and
so he's kind of blended everything together and has allowed,

(05:18):
you know, the role players for the Warriors to flourish.
And there's a little bit of chaos when Steph and
Draymond play, and Jimmy brings a little more order to
the party.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Do you think there has been too much reliance on
If it's not Jimmy and Steph, the team is in trouble.
I know Brandon Pejemski has really broken out this year,
especially from three point range, so I don't want to
di seclude him, but it felt like in that game
against Memphis, and certainly in the Rockets game when we
saw you guys a couple weeks back, it was those
two guys and you were kind of searching for that

(05:52):
third score. Has there been a lot of third searching
during this last two month stretch of Warrior Basketball.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Not that much, but there has been more lately. Moses
Movie went on a really incredible, incredibly consistent run for himself.
He was getting ten to fifteen points every night. He
was solid as a rock. He's lost a little confidence
of late, but I think I think he'll be fine.
He started to get his shot to fall a little

(06:20):
bit in that Memphis game, but Jevski has incredible confidence.
But but you're right, I think at times they do
look too much for Jimmy and Steph, and I think
that's what you know, you need to have those other
scorers to to really balance the floor out and to
keep the attention off Step and the way teams are
guarding step with a lot of top locking, a lot

(06:42):
a lot of you know, guys not even looking to
help the off of other people, so that you've got
to have guys that make the other team pay. I
think that's gonna be a big key for Golden State
in this series, if they can get consistent scoring of
some of the other guys.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
We had our friend Ryan Hollins and show earlier today
and it was one of the things that I was
gonna bring up to you almost immediately he brought up
with me even asking John the Kaminga has had some
really great games against the Rockets, especially earlier in the season.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
But there have been a lot of d mp CDs.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
I don't know if you're perplexed by because you see
it every night and you know obviously know what the
coaches are thinking, but we as outsiders. Johnathan Kamena, I'm
stunned that there are as many d mpcds. What's going
on with his rotation time.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
I think Steve wanted to shorten the rotation for those
last two games, and I think he really wanted to
make sure the ball was gonna move all the time,
and I think that's why he he didn't play Jovian.
I think it'll be different in this series because I
think the matchups are a lot different than Lawyers as
opposed to the Clippers. So I would expect him to play.

(07:52):
And yeah, he brings to athleticism that the Lawyers don't have,
and so I just think for Jonathan it's a matter
of him kind of seeing the floor and being patient
and doing other things. You know, he hasn't rebounded the
ball as well as maybe he could. He's such a
great athlete, you would assume he could rebound better. I

(08:13):
think that's one area they like him to do well,
especially in this series where you know, defensive rebounding for
Golden State's gonna be huge.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Were your thoughts about what you just you liked and
didn't like about what Golden State did when Adams and
shann won the floor at the same time together.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
I like the fact that they didn't go crazy with
adjustments per se. I like the fact they stayed the course.
I don't like the fact.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
That they I don't think they did a good.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Enough job rebounding playing against the Twin Towers there and
and so I think that's that's again. I think it's
going to be a huge key for Golden State. They
give up way too many rebounds in the second half
against the Clippers, second half of overtime, and you know,
they had to play really against a similar front court.
You know, when Edie and Jaron Jackson Junior out there,

(09:04):
those are two large humans, so I expect them to
be ready for it. I think you may see more
of Cavon Looney when that group is out there, and
you also may see more of Quinton post.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
His post is a.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Guy that, especially with Jimmy's out there, he kind of
opens the floor for Jimmy because you know, he can
shoot a three, and so you know you've got to
honor that, and if you don't, he's gonna knock a
couple down. So I think that's that's gonna be maybe
one of the keys that for the Warriors is can
they get to my post and can Cavan give them
the kind of you know, rebounding minutes that he's so

(09:39):
good at.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Fazy with Tim Roy, the Voice of the Warriors, with
us here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on
Sports Talk seven ninety and a lot of the conversation
nationallygue Tim is the experience of Golden State versus the
inexperience of the Rockets per se and now look, obviously Dylan,
Fred and Steven and Landel to a smaller extent have
been around the playoffs before.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Is there a part of.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
What you think Steve will tell the guys is, Hey,
it's time for us to throw that first punch earning
the game, to get this team that doesn't have a
lot of playoff experience off kilter.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Earliest early on, I.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Would I would hope so. But but you know, the
Warriors tend to not get off to great starts usually.
You know, they've especially in the last couple of months,
they've gotten off to these slow starts and they're down
like you know, ten to right at the beginning of
the game, and then they kind of get back into
the flow. You know. I don't think he'll say anything
special about that except to be ready, but I'd like

(10:35):
to see them get off the good starts. And by
the way, you know, if you look at the West,
this this whole bracket, Matt is just insane. I mean,
if they say Memphis wins tonight, that's another forty eight
win team, right, And he'll have you know, everybody's forty
eight wins are better and from eight to three, it's
all buttoned up within a couple of games of each other.

(10:56):
I mean, there's gonna be four good teams going home
at the of the first round of the West. It's crazy,
absolutely crazy.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well, I mean, selfishly, when you are Tim and you've
been in this spot before, when you're the number two
seed in.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
The Western Conference, you're saying to yourself, all.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Right, we need to get get rid of this first
round series, not let it go say six or seven
games and then really start to worry about the semifinals.
Not only are you facing a Golden State team that's
had your number four times and ten years in the playoffs. Realistically,
this is not a seven seed Golden State team. The
team transferred whatever to what they are now based off

(11:31):
of the trade, and they're improved play the back two
months of the season.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Oh absolutely, yeah. I mean the Warriors don't look at
themselves as a seventh seed. I don't think anybody should
look at them as a seventh seed because ye let's
face it, a couple of shots go against the Clippers
and they're in the entire other bracket. So yeah, I
think again, I think three to eight those teams are
all in one big you know, mos pile. Though, I

(11:58):
will say this, I think the other mean that is
really took off in the last month and a half
of the season are the Clippers. Kawhi Leonard is back
and he is he's hunting, and that that's a problem
for everybody in the West.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Well, Timmy, thank you so much for coming on.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Look forward to catch up with you and your your
crew coming into this weekend. Give me one intangible some
that no one's talking about that you're going to keep
a keen eye on during the seven game stretch or
hopefully seven games at least.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Oh wow, Yeah, you know what, I expect a great series.
To be honest with you, I don't think, you know,
one team has a huge advantage over the other. Uh.
I would say that, you know, for the Warriors, I
think it's got to be said, you know, keep what
you know, what can Kamenda do in this series? How
can he help the Warriors? And will he be an

(12:48):
X factor if he gets the time in this series
that I expect him to get. You know, I think
that that to me would would be uh one thing
to kind of keep your eye out. What what does
he bring to the table for the Warriors? And you know,
on the on the Rocket side, you know, just how
they you know, get used to playoff basketball, how quickly
they get used to that. It's gonna be a big

(13:10):
deal for them. And and I'm just thrilled that I
got through this entire interview without one Stripper reference. So
there you go.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
Well that's that was an hour and a half ago.
Thanks for listening.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Before we let you go, Hey, we were just talking
about Sacramento has largely rejected the A's so far. And
you used to live in Sacramento. You're from that area obviously,
and you covered the A's and did games with them
for many years as well. Why hasn't Sacramento said, you
know what, I know they're short term fixed, but we
like to have them here. What's up with the lack
of love affair right now for them?

Speaker 2 (13:41):
I think it's just it just goes back to dealership.
The ownership has has alienated everybody. Uh, And I think
Sacramento is saying, hey, wait, but we think we should
have a major League baseball team here. They've wanted one forever.
It's a base it's really more of a baseball town
than a basketball town. It's pretty a lot of great
bats the baseball players in that area. And so I think,

(14:04):
you know, the ownership has just really struggled to find
any common ground with the fan base right now. And
and you know, they until they do, you know, they're
always talking about Vegas. They're not talking about Sacramento. So
I think people were saying, hey, why should I go
watch them if they're only going to be here a
couple of years. I think they've got some fence mending

(14:25):
to do in the in the next few months.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, my key, obviously you got to stop Steph and
one for ten a week ago Saturday was fun for
us to watch and call. Obviously, how much physicality will
the Rockets be allowed on Steph? Will it get into
his system a little bit? Will the whistles come quickly?
And if those types of games happen like that again,

(14:49):
I think the Rockets have a very good chance. If
there's quick whistles, Steph goes the free throw line takes
advantage of it, or Golden State makes enough moves to
separate Rocket defenders and men Thompson, Dylan Brook, I eed
anybody else in that group to Gibsty's step some free avenues.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
That's where I think the Rockets could be some serious trouble.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
I think it's gonna be a fun series, all right.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Well, safe travels, go the speed limit, don't get a ticket,
and we'll see you on Sunday night.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Oh I fair back often, Okay, Yes, sounds good.