WEBVTT - NBA Playoff weekend reactions 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.160 On this episode of the Eat Check. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.079 It's a Sunday night, that's when we're recording it. The 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:20.200 playoffs are here. The first weekend of the NBA Playoffs 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:21.120 are in the books. 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:27.440 Let's just say overall, not counting what we just saw yawn. 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:31.280 Other than a couple of games on Saturday and the 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.520 game with OKC and the Pelicans, it was blowout city 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.479 favorite teams aka the home teams dominated and there were 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:39.440 a few surprises. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:41.760 Looking at you, Milwaukee Bucks. 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.960 Let's get right into an Anthony drop O, motherfucking beat 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:59.640 the should be Rihanna, Okay. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:07.400 All boots. I have four or five top. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.600 Live story that we'll dig into before talking about the 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.679 other four series. Let's open up this episode with the 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:17.080 Sixers versus the knickt series that opened up on three 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.480 thirty Saturday, probably the biggest news of the playoffs so far, 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:26.759 because Joel Embiid started the game dominated said game looked like. 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:30.080 The Sixers were going to roll Knicks. Fans online were 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.560 shaking in their fucking boots. Oh yeah, what the fuck 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:34.000 is going on? 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.640 Oh my god, Madison Square Garden celebrity rote everyone is shook. 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:42.320 And then and then the dumbest. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.200 Thing I think I've seen happened. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:51.440 Joel Embiid decided to dunk for the first time since 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:57.920 his knee injury. And not just dunk like nobody's around 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:04.840 in a lob. No, he dunked like that drunk uncle 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:09.680 does in his fucking slides at the barbecue, trying to 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:14.520 dunk on his little nephew's only to stumble and ball 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.720 into the smoker and ruin the whole fucking shindig because 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:23.400 you gotta take unk, drunk unk to the hospital, to 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:24.040 the er. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:27.040 That's what he did. I'm not joking. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:35.720 He locked the ball off the backboard to himself and 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:40.440 dunked into a crowded area, knowing that that knee was 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:47.880 not stable, came down on his knee badly, tough, like 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:53.800 a hard hard landing, goes to the ground immediately, his 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.640 eyes rolling into the back of his head, glazing over. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.200 It might have been the dumbest thing I've seen anyone 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.640 with the nagging injury do. Like, what the fuck, dude, 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:12.480 This isn't November one, this is postseason hoops. People were 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.680 like on Twitter, Oh, the Sixers shouldn't have let Joel 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:18.519 and be play. They should have protected him. 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.480 From himself is what you're supposed to do with your players. 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.160 Blah blah, blah blah blah. What are we talking about here? 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:30.280 He was out eight weeks, He was out. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.520 The extended amount of period of time he was supposed 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.560 to be after the surgery to get right, and if 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:41.640 he wasn't right, then certainly it was not the Sixers 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:46.520 call for him to try that fucking move. If you 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.640 feel froggy enough to attempt that dunk, you gotta be 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.560 one and ten percent, brother, because if you're not, I mean, 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.320 Joel and B could legitimately. 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.960 Every play of every game. 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:03.320 He's on the k of never returning to a basketball 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:07.040 game ever again. Like I am constantly afraid we will 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:12.200 never see him play another minute. This is the type 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.760 of dunk you see in a high school McDonald's All 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.800 American game, and that was what Joel ANDB decided to do. 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:19.240 I just can't believe it. 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.840 I'm still thinking about it, as you can tell no 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.840 idea by the way he left the game. Of course, 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.080 what kind of drugs they gave him because they were 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.880 shooting him up with something. Because he didn't even look 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.080 like he was cognizant of his surroundings. 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:35.440 He could have been at Ruyer Park. 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.880 He could have been like in his middle school game, 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.919 like he had no idea what time in space he 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.000 was at. All I know is he was just hitting 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.120 free throw after free throw, still putting his body on 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:51.239 the line, and was faded the rest of the game. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:57.080 But even zombie Joel Embiid was unguardable. Thirty six minutes 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.360 thirty three seconds on the floor, Sixers out scored in 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.080 New York by fourteen. When he was off the floor, 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.080 they were minus twenty one. What is the. 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.600 Status going forward? I don't know. I have no. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:13.520 Idea, but the truth is, let's be honest, feels like 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.200 the Sixers are dead. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.520 I don't want to say that, but. 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.400 Did you see him? He doesn't look anywhere close to right. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:24.919 That is how much air was taken out of this 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:26.039 team when he hit the ground. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.560 Went back to the locker room. And another thing, by 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.640 the way, where the fuck, where the fuck is buddy 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.039 healed at? Excuse me? 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.599 Where did you go? You left Indiana and you came 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:40.200 to this team, your very first playoff appearance in your life, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.200 and you acted like you've never played basketball before. He 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.080 just acted like it was me out there, like. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.000 Don't give me the ball. I don't want to shoot 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:54.640 it at all. He was over two two two shot attemps. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:06:01.200 Dog Yo, Buddy Healed shoots like seven seventeen times a game, 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:08.400 recklessly contested, open, off the dribble, catch and shoot doesn't matter, 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.360 Buddy Heal. That's all he does is chuck. No, sir, 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.680 Nick Nurse was going out of his mind, like that's 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.240 the whole reason we brought you here. Here's what he 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.240 said about Buddy after the game. Listen, Buddy didn't get 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.520 much of a chance last night. He didn't have a 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.880 couple of plays there. He didn't play good. It's a 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.080 game where you can't extend minutes when a guy has 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:31.120 three or four mistakes. 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.320 By the way, Nick. 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.680 If you're not gonna give Buddy Healed rope when he 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.120 makes mistakes, then Buddy Heel is not gonna be out 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.440 there because Buddy Healed one thing we know, outside of 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.480 the fact that he loves the chuck, Buddy Healed makes a. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:49.960 Lot of fucking dumb mistakes. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.640 If you keep passing up threes, Buddy Heeld, and keep 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.919 making dumb decisions, you might just not see yourself on 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:56.280 the court. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.240 No mo As for the Knicks, whoo. 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:04.080 They they were getting their asses saved by the others. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.440 Josh Hart was getting sagged off of and hit. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.279 Five crucial threes. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.640 Deuce McBride, oh my god. Both of them combined to 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:18.440 carry Jalen Brunson, who was eight for twenty six with 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:23.280 five turnovers. Even Josh Hart was like, damn. When they 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.760 asked him, they said, Hey, did you know Jalen Brunson 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:27.480 eight for twenty SIXY goes damn? 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:28.480 My bad. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.720 McBride was five for seven from three put up twenty 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.400 one and josh Hart had twenty two. Here's the thing, 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:37.200 even though. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.120 It feels like the Sixers are cooked, if you look 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:40.160 at the box score. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:45.720 Five Nicks had a negative plus minus rating and the 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:51.080 bench Bogdanovich plus twenty seven, Mitchell Robinson plus eighteen, McBride 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:52.200 plus thirty seven. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.000 You just cannot count on that every game, or even 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.080 more than maybe once or twice during a series. So 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.520 if Joelen beat his banged up, it's not gonna matter. 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.480 But there's a whole lot out on the line on 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:08.320 Monday night, all right. 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.320 The other big story of the weekend. Set your clocks. 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:17.560 It's dame time. Oh yeah, Miami heat fans hadn't been 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:22.800 fucking sick. They watched whatever Skeleton crew. They just played 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:27.400 the Boss and the Celtics. Oh my god, when you're relying. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.680 On Heimi Hawkes and Nikoli Jovich. 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:33.440 And Tyler Hero aka the Dame package, I tell you what, 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:34.559 it's not good. 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.400 And then on top of that, watch Dame DeWit he 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.720 did today last night? Oh my god. 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.679 Everyone, by the way had given up on Milwaukee, including 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.680 the entire set of inside the NBA, including all of Twitter, 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:55.640 including me, no Joannie, who knows way he's back. Middleton 0:08:56.080 --> 0:09:00.520 has had a swollen knee since twenty twenty one, has 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:01.480 been looking. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:07.040 Tired, beaten down, sad, tired old. 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:12.800 But you know what, nothing nothing on planet Earth, as 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:17.280 I know full well as a Blazer fan, invigorates Dame 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:23.160 Willard like meaningful postseason basketball. Now I only know of 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:28.520 postseason basketball. You know, the type of occurrence where you 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.040 know you're not really doing shit, but you're in the postseason. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:35.640 This is like whoa Milwaukee could actually contend for a title? 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:41.520 And he went off. He could add sixty, but it 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:45.400 didn't even matter. How good was he. Halfway through the 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:49.520 second quarter, Damian Lillard had twenty nine points and the 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:54.079 Indiana Pacers at that point had twenty nine points. He 0:09:54.160 --> 0:10:00.440 was literally outpacing the entire Pacers team ended up with 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.120 thirty five, but he didn't need to do much more. 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.960 Really like it at that point was always over. But 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:09.520 the shouting Dame defensively was also pretty good, had some deflections. 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:11.640 Who thought Chris Middleton? 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.560 He was solid twenty three points nine for fourteen shooting. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.600 The team collectively was strapping. Everyone put him in body 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.920 bags except for Siakam, who had thirty six. Halliburton ooh, 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:28.360 Halliburton nine, six and seven. You can't do it. Can't 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.640 have that from your point guard. And also, by the way, 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.960 Deeran Fox with never So let's stop with the bullshit 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.120 of the Halliburton versus Fox comparisons. 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.000 So now Milwaukee flips the narrative. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.560 Pressures on Indiana in game two five served for him, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:44.920 and now people are like me, are scratching their heads 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:49.720 thinking could potentially this Milwaukee teams, I don't know, compete 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.960 do some shit even without Yannis. 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:54.800 They take care of business. 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.400 Joannis gets to rest for two weeks. Things get very 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.760 interesting in Milwaukee. But as John Hollin' likes to say 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.920 a series does not begin until Doc Rivers goes up 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:05.719 three to one. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:07.600 All right, move on. 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:12.760 The third top line story is, oh my god, Aunt 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:18.480 Edwards has fucking arrived. In another series that everyone had 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.000 written off, the home team, the Minnesota Timber was decided, 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.960 Oh no, we're not about to let you guys come 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:24.920 and clown us again. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.239 No. No, Phoenix Suns. No, No, the same. 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.120 Team that molly wopped them last game of the season. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.520 Just like the last game. People were like, damn, I 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.199 was not familiar with your game. The Wolves show why 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.360 they were the best defense in the NBA all season. 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.840 As Kendrick Perkins says, I know, I cannot believe it either. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.800 The Wolves exposed every flaw that the Suns had in 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:54.640 just the first half alone. The Wolves pester Devin Booker, 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:59.000 pestered Bradley Beal all game, picking them up three quarter court, 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.080 making them more to get the ball in their offensive sets, 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:07.360 usually operating on sixteen fifteen fourteen tick tick tick, they 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:12.120 rushed shots. Booker was awful five for sixteen. Grayson Allen, 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.240 the best three point shooter in the league, just got paid. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:16.240 Zero for three. Yuck. 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.800 Let me tell you about an X factor player who 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.120 has been scratching and clawing like his name was Johntay Porter. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:28.760 Try to get some fucking minutes. Niko Alexander Walker was 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:34.439 electric factory eighteen points, four for nine from three four 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.600 fucking steals. But it was the Edwards show. No, no, 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.680 it was really just him. He took over in the 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.959 second half and absolutely destroyed the Suns, talking shit to 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.880 Kevin Durant, his favorite player, saying listen here, I told 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.080 you you can't guard me. What the fuck did I 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:51.120 tell your old ass? 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:55.480 Yeah, yeah, you can't guard me. It was a moment. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:57.080 It was a moment. 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.280 Aunt Edwards said, it was the best moment of his 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.520 entire life. That's how much he loves Kevin Durant, and 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:04.640 that's how much he loves. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.160 Cooking Kevin Durant. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.760 We will see how the Sons respond, because Devin Booker 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.520 is getting absolutely killed in the Twitter streets right now. 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:19.920 And then fourthly, another shock Clippers. Yeah, yes, yes, the 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:20.840 La Clippers. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.559 We had given up on them, We had left him 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:30.760 for dead. No Kawhi and playoff James Harden you dead 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:35.520 in the streets versus Luca and Kyrie laid by just 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.520 a two by four to the don't paste of the 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.480 Dallas Mavericks and just destroyed them in Game one. They 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.360 did it as three point underdogs at home. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:43.000 And the reason. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:50.439 The reason is James Harden. The reason is James Harden. Wow, 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.559 can't believe I'm even saying it. He was unstoppable in 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.719 the first half. He had twenty eight, he. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.199 Had six threes, his number was two and a half. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.720 He blew right back that after the game. He was like, yeah, 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.559 you guys forgot I was an elite scorer. Huh Yeah, 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.920 yeah we did, James, Yeah we did. The Clippers held 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.840 the Mavericks to just eight points total in the second quarter, 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.520 and after that it was just nine nine sleep mask 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:16.920 Kyrie had thirty one. 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:18.520 Luca ended up with thirty. 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.640 Three, but it did not matter because the MAVs were 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.120 fighting upheld all the rest of the way and not 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:27.040 even Luca could save them. You want to know how 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.120 much this changed people's minds, Vegas's minds. The Clippers were 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.800 three point underdogs at the start of game one. The 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.600 opening line for Game two is now Clippers minus six. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.360 That is a nine point swing. World class beat down. 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.840 The Clips put on the Mavericks, and it's gonna be 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.760 a tight series. What the bottom line is anybody. 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.800 Counting out the Clippers, even without Kawhi. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.640 Is doing so at their own peril. Steve Barmer, he 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:52.040 might just have a heart attack from. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.120 Joy all Right. 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:59.080 The other series, except for one because that game ended late, 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.160 have a ton of drama out east. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.320 The Magic, we're visiting the Calves. 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.640 Cleveland got probably the best half of basketball they could 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.280 ever get from Evan Mobley. Cleveland rode a twelve point 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.600 a half point time lead into a never in doubt 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:14.560 fourteen point win. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.440 But one thing that this game underscored. 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.520 Orlando has one of the best players in the world 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.800 in Palo put Up twenty four. They have a roster 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.240 of ten guards surrounding them. None of them can fucking shoot. 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.320 What is going on with this team? This is one 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.800 of the worst three point shooting teams I've ever seen. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.080 The Magic shot eight for thirty seven from three, eight 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.920 for thirty seven. I'm shocked they even got eight. Honestly, 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:42.640 they shot the guards. The guards shot one for seventeen 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:43.120 from three. 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:44.600 Yo. 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.560 Your best three point shooter on this team is Jonathan Isaac, 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.440 who is seven feet tall. He's fifty percent from deep. Again, 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.920 in this game. You need magic to address this issue. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:57.960 Whenever you get sent home. That needs to be like 0:15:58.000 --> 0:15:58.960 priority number one. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:03.560 The Calves, congratulations to you. You showed up. It's very 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.280 easy to forget. This team went nineteen and one at 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.440 one point during the season missing multiple players. They are 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:10.440 very dangerous and. 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.480 If they play like this going forward, team's going to 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:19.600 be very toy. The other Eastern series was predictably an 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:24.120 absolute dogwalk. The Celtics took a Heat team without Jimmy 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.320 Butler and took them to the woodshed. The box score 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.000 shows they won by twenty, but listen, that took a 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.440 thirty to seven run in order for them to get 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.760 it to that point. The Celtics led ninety one to 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:39.840 fifty nine after three. The Celtics led ninety one to 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:41.600 fifty nine after three. 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:43.720 Boston looks very good. 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.320 Tatum was getting tripled doubles and six players with double 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:48.440 digit points. 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.560 That's what we expect from the Boston Celtics. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.360 They were not tested, which is both good and bad. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:55.480 The series is over. 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:56.000 We know this. 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.680 The Celtics have way too many guys to score. The 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.840 Heat have absolutely no one. Now that Jimmy Butler is out, 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.880 they have no talent in three of the five starting 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.080 positions they really wish they had. Dame Willard Tyler Hero 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.639 got played off the court as he could not handle 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.720 Drew Holliday or Derek White or even Peyton fucking Prichard 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.480 Go Ducks and got strapped by. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.720 Them to the tune of four for thirteen and eleven points. Gross. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.240 All this just goes to show. 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:25.400 You Jimmy Butler's been carrying this team like he makes 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.240 these bums look good, honestly, like he makes Duncan Robinson 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.840 look like a star. He got Duncan Robinson paid, he 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:37.520 got Tyler Hero paid. himI Hawks is like the. 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.399 Only guy they have. I don't even know if BAM's 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:40.440 any good, honestly. 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:44.919 I did say that the Heat would be a lottery 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:48.520 team and they're not. So Congratulations, Heat team, you have 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:50.240 the fifteenth overall pick and you're. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:55.160 About to get fucking swept. Alright, move on out, West. 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.639 We got two series left to talk about, the first 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:59.360 being New Orleans versus OKC. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:07.679 The Pelicans playing without Zion and everybody gave him no chance. 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.080 They were the biggest underdogs outside of the Heat, biggest 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.720 underdogs in the West, and that includes the Nuggets versus 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:20.920 the Lakers. Enter Trey Murphy. He is points per game 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.600 balloons without Zion in the lineup. He had a great 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.240 game both defensively and offensively to keep the Pelicans very 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.840 very close pretty much the entire well the entire game. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.640 It was back and forth over forty league changes. 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:38.600 Chet Chet played pretty damn well offensively, had multiple threes. 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:40.720 He's getting bodied. 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:43.040 In the post by Neonis Valentunas, but guess what doesn't 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.000 really matter when you have like five blocks. That's what 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:50.119 he's there for. He's the slim Reaper number two. This 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:51.800 was really the only good close. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:52.360 Game on Sunday. 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.600 Every time the Thunder made to run, they had multiple 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:55.880 ten point leads in the second half. 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:56.879 The Pelicans answered. 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.679 CJ McCollum was clutch, but it was valanchooting who is 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.760 a very dominant force. His rebound prop was seven and 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:07.720 a half. He had twenty rebounds, nine offensive boards. The 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:11.680 game was absolutely bonkers. Came down to the final possession 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.199 for the Pelicans. And the thing that I loved is 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:19.720 that shay Gil Alexander has shown people who have been 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:21.840 asking whether he can do this in the regular season 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.239 and not the playoffs that. Oh boy, he can do 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:25.920 this in the postseason as well. 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:37.120 Down down two, No, down one, Yes, down one, Shay. 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:41.520 Gilgess Alexander bait CJ. McCollum into getting into his body, 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:47.120 off balance, fade away to the side, floater, splash and one. 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.119 Hell yeah, that's what we're talking about. That's what I'm saying. CJ. 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.520 McCollum had a three in order to take this thing 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:55.800 all the way down to the clock. I think there's 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.000 fourteen seconds left, get a game winner. No, no, heavily 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.680 contested hits the rim okac one. 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.520 New Orleans zero. And if this is any indication this 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:06.400 is going to be like the best series in all 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:08.080 of the first round. Oh my god. 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:10.760 Like I said, people have been saying they want to 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.640 see SGA in a high pressure situation. It doesn't get 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.800 any more high pressure than that. It came down to 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:21.159 SGA making this incredibly tough shot and that being the 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:25.760 winning bucket. They had scored. Nobody scored after that. All 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.080 in all, Oka see has to love winning a game 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:28.320 like this. 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.840 They played sloppy, They let a lot of shit go and. 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:33.800 They're gonna have to clean some things up because there's 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.359 really no reason that you should be playing a ninety 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.280 four to ninety two game, especially when you're the best 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:40.560 three point shooting team in the league. A few more 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:43.760 games like this, they will all be playoff bets tested, 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:50.679 and we end fittingly with the Nuggets. As I've said before, 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:56.359 the Nuggets are like danas. They are inevitable. The Lakers 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:57.720 may have played the best first half that they have 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:00.159 against the Nuggets in two years, and guess what, it 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:02.920 did not matter. They took a three point lead in 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:04.959 a halftime at the break, and not a single person 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:06.679 in Purple and Gold felt. 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:06.919 Good about it. 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.240 They were up by double digits at one point, thirteen points. 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:15.399 Nobody felt good about it. Why because these numbers don't matter. 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.920 The lead doesn't matter if you're up by double digits 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:20.560 when Yokich is out on the floor. These are not 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.639 real minutes. This is not reality. This is a dream 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:25.840 for you. This is like a fantasy for you. This 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:28.560 is a world where you can compete. The only way 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:32.520 you can compete is when Yokich is not there. The 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:36.280 inevitable Nuggets run is going to happen, and there is nothing, 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.800 not one thing the Lakers can do about it. And 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:41.879 there was not one thing that they could do about it. 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.320 To be fair, no one else can stop them either. 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:50.240 So congratulations Nuggets, Uh, you are already NBA champions. But 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:52.560 especially the Lakers. The Lakers team is not built to 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:54.959 compete with Denver. They don't have enough three points shooting. 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:56.840 They don't have enough height to deal with Aaron Gordon 0:21:56.840 --> 0:22:00.880 and MPJ and Jamal Murray. Denver's bench is more effective 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:02.800 than the Lakers bench, even though they have like two 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:06.880 guys Christian Brown and Peyton Watson, like they really have too. 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:09.960 D lo is fucking trashed in the series. 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:11.720 He's gonna get played off the court. I think he 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:15.560 had like four points, eleven points. It was. 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:17.520 He was horrible. He was over eight from three. 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.120 Lebron was pretty good, twenty seven to six and eight 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:22.960 eighty was really good, thirty two and fourteen. It just 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:25.560 did not matter. When the Nuggets decided, Okay, it's the 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:28.320