 What's the word, y'all? The Chris Paul, gold estate warrior experience is going pretty good so far. And we gotta say so far because, listen, we're only a week into the NBA season. Things are changing so rapidly. They play again today, second night of it back to back. It might look awful. And then everything I say in this video doesn't matter, but I need to talk about this because it was one of the most intriguing things about this off season. Real quick, I just wanna remind you that it is Kenny Beach and podcast day. Mondays and Thursdays were dropping two times a week for the NBA season. And in this episode, I talked about six things that I'm overreacted to for the first week of the season. Some really good, like the team that I think is the heavy favorite to win the championship. Some really bad, like my favorite team in there. Let's be nice. Whoa, so far through the NBA season. It's available here on YouTube, but also available on Spotify and Apple Podcast. Go download it, show some love. It's a completely independent project. And I'm trying to get as the number one basketball pod in America. I need your help. So if you like this video, you'll like that because it's very similar. Me, a camera, talking hoops. So go check it out. Obviously you know they decide to trade the 23, 24 year old Jordan Poole for the almost 40 year old Chris Paul. And a lot of us are very curious about what it would look like. When he was traded to the team, he did his press release and there was a reporter that asked him how he feels about coming off the bench. And he kind of made us have the assumption that he wouldn't really accept coming off the bench because he asked the reporter, are you the coach? So last night for the first time in his entire basketball playing career, 1,300 in some odd games, Chris Paul came off the bench. It's a crazy streak. Like LeBron has come off the bench before. Chris Paul was just like, nah, never in my life until yesterday. And it looked good, y'all. It looked really, really good. Even the two games where he started looked really good. I know they started off the season by losing but since then it has worked. Until yesterday at least he was leading the league in assists per game. Oh, I'm sorry. He was second because Tyrese was leading. He was second in the league in assists per game and the team was playing good ball when he was on the court. But when I say the experiment has worked, I want to remind you that Wardale Steph Curry, the second junior has been in the league for 14 seasons. 14 seasons, that's almost a decade and a half. And there has never been a time where Steph Curry goes off the court for his normal rest and the bench, his replacement has been good enough to just maintain whatever work Steph Curry has done. Steph Curry's on-off numbers had always been ridiculous because they've never put together a bench or backup point guard that was just good enough to maintain. He'll come off his first thing of rest up by five and by the time he checks back in, they're down by six. He's like, oh man, why did I just do all of that for? Well, through three games. The numbers say, right now, when Steph Curry is off the floor, they're maintaining slash getting better. Mind blown. You gotta give a lot of credit to Chris Paul, of course. A lot of credit to Jonathan Kamegan, all of the other players that are maintaining these, but this is the first time in 14 years, y'all. And yesterday versus the Houston Rock is the perfect example of that. My notes say, when Steph Curry got subbed out with four minutes and 10 seconds left in the first quarter, the Warriors were down by three points. And typically that just means that, man, when Steph Curry checks back in, they're gonna be down by nine, not anymore. Because with seven minutes and 42 seconds left in the second quarter when he reappeared, the Warriors were up by 13. That is a 16 point swing while Steph Curry is just resting. Yesterday, the second unit for the Golden State Warriors were the better unit. And that just doesn't happen often. It hasn't happened often in the Steph Curry era. So here are the stats from pbbstats.com, a free site, by the way. When Steph Curry's on the floor, they have a net rating of a minus 2.72. I think we can make this something that that's not gonna maintain itself. It's gonna get higher because of Steph Curry. But when he is off the floor, the net rating is amazing. The defense has been amazing. Now, just based on the small sample size, I'm assuming those numbers are gonna average each other out where Steph Curry on the court won't be a negative net rating. And when he's off the court, won't be a plus 18. But again, these are very good signs of things to come. Compared to last season when he was off the floor, they had a negative net rating and of course a positive net rating. We can go through the entirety of Steph Curry's playing career and the sentiment will be the same because that's just the way it always has been. Even with seasons of Kevin Durant and where they can maybe stagger the minutes when Steph Curry was off the floor, the team was just not good. Just a three game sample size, but it's looking in the right direction. The one thing that is different though, and I'm asking Warriors fans at home how they feel about it because this is again, not normal for them. They're usually a team that's run a gun, get out and the pace is typically high. Actually last season, they let the entire league in their total pace. And this year, it's low. That's one of the things about adding a Chris Paul to your team. He's a almost 40 year old point guard that likes to take his time and is very meticulous by the way he passes the ball. So the pace is pretty low. I think right now it's around 19-ish. When you talk about last year was number one, dropping down to 19 through the first couple of games. That's a huge difference. I'm sure part of that is because we only saw Dream on Green for this one game and he's a guy that get a rebound and push and push and push. So I'm just curious to where they land when it comes to the pace. And because of this pace and the way they play the ball, they've always been a team that has struggled with taking care of the ball. They've always been a team. And the top three, I guess bottom three when you think about turnovers per game and so far through this year, they've been taking care of the ball pretty good. So it's like, what do you as a team or as the person, what do you value the most? Do you wanna run a gun a little bit because that's what you know, even if that means you turn the ball over a little bit more or are you okay with this more lax approach to basketball where you protect the ball more, which is always a Chris Paul thing. Chris Paul's teams typically don't turn the ball over a lot but you're sacrificing that pace that you have just been known for over the last decade or so. And that makes me think that this team throughout the course of the season is gonna have a couple different identities. The one identity where you have some of the younger dudes with Steph Curry and stuff that will get to run. And then another identity that's like, let's slow it down. Let's take our time when you have Chris Paul in the game. The connection between the two Steph Curry and Chris Paul we saw pretty heavily in pre-season and they may be excited to watch a bunch of Warriors basketball and that has translated well over to the regular season. Yesterday when they were going against the Houston Rockets, again, the second unit was significantly better than the first unit, but we got down to like four minutes left in the game. This was what I was deemed to be the closing lineup of the team. I was wondering what five will be on the court and they went with their start of five. So Chris Paul is just sitting there twirling the stumps and that's just one of the realities of coming off the bench. Now, once we got down to the last minute or so of the game, they took out Kivah Looney and they went on with this new lineup of death, which I hate calling things lineup of death because the actual lineup of death was just so very elite and these other lineups don't really compare. So I kind of want to change the name, but for lack of better term, the new lineup of death came in 10. My bad, I got my notes wrong. He didn't sub in for Looney. He subbed in for Wiggins, but at that point, if they were already up by seven points with a minute and a half to go, so or two minutes to go, so it didn't matter too much. So actually, I wouldn't even consider this the lineup of death because Wiggins was on the bench. And yeah, Steph Curry did Steph Curry things in that fourth quarter after starting off real slow. Obviously you saw the clip of Dylan Brooks' guard. I mean, you know, you've been keeping up. If there's one thing that kind of worries me about Chris Paul at the moment is that he has not made a three point shot yet this season. And we've seen his three point efficiency go down and down and down with his old age. His knees, I don't know if it's the knees. He's not getting enough live. I don't know what it is. And I'm not going to be one to dissect it because he's the NBA player and I'm not. But the three point shot hasn't been there at all. And I feel like it is a very crucial part to the Warriors identity to have people that can stretch the floor or keep the door open. Because if we get to the playoffs and Chris Paul is a negative three point shooter at this point of his career and teams are scheming around that, it just will be more difficult for him to be an effective player. But there are a lot of times over these last three games where I see Vince as Chris Paul and I'm like, yeah, that's my boy. That's my boy. If you've been watching Warriors basketball so far, let me know what you think about the Chris Paul experiment. Am I overreacting to three games of the year? Maybe it will even each other out. And then now the Steph Curry thing continues to be the thing where when he's off the court, they suck. But I'm excited for it. Let me know what you think. Leave a like, subscribe and I'll see y'all tomorrow.