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The Warriors finished their road trip 3-1 with wins in Houston, Oklahoma City and Minnesota. Steph Curry scored 36 points in the Tuesday win against the Timberwolves. Jonas Jerebko chipped in with 18 points in 18 minutes off the bench.
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The Warriors beat the Rockets for the first time this season and they did it on the road without Kevin Durant. Ray and Joe talk about better defense, rebounding and a solid performance by DeMarcus Cousins.
The Giants pitching staff looks good so far in spring training. Two members of the staff who are hoping to be more consistent this season join us today. Chris 
Stratton is vying for a spot in the rotation or as a long man in the bullpen. Mark Melancon is finally healthy and wants to retain his spot as the closer.
“I had some really good games and some really bad games. Boch (Bruce Bochy) wants to know what he’s getting every day and that’s what I want every day is I need to know what I’m going to go out there and be capable of. I need to work on being a little bit more consistent and being better.”
really well. Will (Smith) did a great job and he’s very capable of doing it, likewise Tony Watson and some other guys. That’s the good thing and I think it’s a real staple on our club right now is the bullpen. I think we have a lot of really good arms. Whatever happens it’s going to shake out well.”
The Warriors 33-point loss to the Celtics on Tuesday night was a bad look on several fronts. Ray and Joe talk about what went wrong and the post-game comments from Steve Kerr, Kevin Durant and DeMarcus Cousins.
The Gold Glove left side of the Giants infield is back healthy and ready for a productive season. After injuries derailed SS Brandon Crawford and 3B Evan Longoria 
in 2018, they are poised to produce at previous career levels both at the plate and in the field.
“The biggest thing was swinging at good pitches…When you’re going through a little bit of a dry spell you start getting a little more anxious and you’re swinging at pitches that you that you don’t necessarily want to be swinging at and getting yourself out because of it.”
It is a tough ballpark to leave the yard and it’s just an overall more difficult ballpark to hit in with the weather. I think it’s more about trying to grind through at bats here and hit line drives. It took me probably three quarters of the year to get into that mind set…I’m positive that I’ll be more comfortable stepping into the box in game one this year than I was last year and I think that will translate into some better production.”
Philadelphia. We discuss Andre Iguodala’s comment about Steph Curry being the second best point guard in NBA history and look at the possibility of center Andrew Bogut returning to Golden State.
Giants catcher Buster Posey and outfielder Mac Williamson join us for our first Inside China Basin podcast of 2019. Both players are trying to get back to normalcy. Posey underwent hip surgery and is getting back to 
100%, while Williamson feels great after dealing with concussion symptoms for much of the 2018 season.
“I think mechanically I wasn’t able to swing the way that I always had and I’m sure that had something to do with it overall, but I was kind of having to tweak things to change my mechanics which I hadn’t had to do in the past.”
times, but I wouldn’t change it. I was going after a ball, trying to catch a ball in foul territory that was a meaningful out in our game…What are you going to do, let it drop? Pack my bags to Triple-A? It’s an unfortunate series of events…I just need to be more athletic and not trip (over the bullpen mound).”
for a playoff berth. Steph Curry hit 10 three-point shots and scored 38 points to lead Golden State to the victory, its 17th in the last 19 games. Ray and Joe discuss the win and Draymond Green’s technical foul, which almost proved to be costly.
The Warriors head to the All Star break with 16 wins in their last 18 games, but they didn’t finish well in Portland on Wednesday night. Steve Kerr was ejected and Golden State ran out of gas, getting outscored 35-12 in the 4th quarter. Ray and Joe discuss the loss which didn’t included DeMarcus Cousins, 
who had the night off. He seems to want more minutes (photo of him on the right was from the game in Phoenix when he asked to stay in the game) and he will play an important role down the stretch of the season.
On the court, the Warriors ran all over the Spurs with a 50-8 advantage in fast break points during a 141-102 win. But, after the game Kevin Durant scolded the media for asking too many questions about his impending free agency. We discuss 
Durant’s rant and hear from Draymond Green in an interview that he did last week with Ros Gold-Onwude on NBA TV.