WEBVTT - Boston Fans, Double Birds & a Big Win 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:09.559 No not, come on, come on, come. 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:19.400 On, come on on this episode of the Heat Check. 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:23.000 The play ins are over. We are into the real 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:28.680 deal coke Keel the playoffs. Most of you guys don't 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.440 know what the Coquel River is, but that's it's an 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:32.000 inside joke. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.720 But real deal co Keel. Baby. We talk about some. 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:38.720 Of the major storylines and outcomes of the first games 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.519 of the first round of playoffs, and we already have 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.280 major t and major drama. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:47.080 We have scuffles, we have the birds flipping the birds 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:48.080 at the garden. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.360 It's officially playoff time, like real playoffs, real deal co 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:53.040 Keel playoffs. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.000 So do me a favor and drop that beat, my 0:00:55.160 --> 0:01:16.080 big I'm perfect, good man drilling excites. Okay, the playings 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:16.440 are done. 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.760 Though they are done, that means we've got one and 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:24.240 eight's perfectly set up. We've got the Pelicans playing the 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:30.240 Suns and we got the Hawks playing the heat both 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.800 of them probably gonna be light work, unfortunately for the Clippers, 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.360 because the Clippers should be in this spot, which would 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.759 have set up for an elite eight to one matchup, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:44.360 a battleground from the Western Conference finals last year. 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.800 But of course, my man playoff P is the gift 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:49.080 that keeps on giving. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.720 And can't even get to the playoffs. Playoff P is 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.559 now playing p fos around. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.920 It gets COVID. COVID. How do you get COVID. 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.840 Between game one of the playing game and game two? 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:08.160 You lose in Minnesota? What were you doing there? There's 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:12.400 not even any good strip clubs in Minnesota. In Minneapolis 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.160 for you to go in Shenanigan. You know, he's married, 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.280 he's married to his former stripper. He's married, he has 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.160 kids with her, So there's not even any of that 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:23.000 in order to like entice you, and then they would 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.000 he would have gone back to LA to play his 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:29.160 own home playoff game against the Pelicans and no COVID. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:36.560 And as a quick aside, the win that the Pelicans 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.520 eked out of the Clippers was was actually personal to me, 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:44.560 very personal, extremely personal to me. All Right, So now 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:46.960 that the Pelicans go to the first round, they are 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:51.880 now not lottery eligible, so they get no lottery balls, 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.079 which means that the Blazers do not get their lottery 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:00.799 pick from pick five to fourteen, Pick do you think 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:01.280 we get? 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.320 You might ask? Probably next year? Right, like a next 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:05.160 year's first. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.800 For the pals, I'll still be bad, No, sir, we 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:13.840 get the twenty twenty five first round pick. We have 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:17.240 to wait till twenty twenty five first round pick, but 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:21.640 not the Pelicans first round pick. It's the Milwaukee Bucks 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.800 first round pick. So it's probably gonna be pick thirty. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:26.680 Fuck that. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.440 The defending champs pick. That's the one that we get. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.960 And of course, which made it equally this is a 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.800 total aside which made it equally painful for me, was there, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.200 how how many former Blazers were on those two teams. 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.560 It was sickening. You had on the Clippers. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:48.920 You had Robert Covington, you had my man Norm Powell, 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:53.440 you had Nick Batum all way back Blazer Dan up 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.200 literally like do something, Nick Batoom. And of course Club 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:01.480 Trillion Tony Snell on that team. Four former players on 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:06.520 the Clippers, also CJ McCollum on the PILs, Larry Nance 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:12.840 Junior on the Pels both eating Fuck that gross gross. 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:17.640 So yeah, we'll get back to that. We've got some storylines. 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.760 But the matchup that I care the most about, well, 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.599 the matchups that I care the most about two sevens. 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:28.279 The two sevens are elite number two Celtics versus the 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.480 seven nets, And damn did that not disappoint That was 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.200 everything that we could have asked for and more. Kyrie 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:40.760 nuclear Celtics escape on everything that you want them. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.200 To do right. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.240 All the while they've been succeeding through isoball, but no, 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:47.560 not this time. 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:51.600 They made extra pass extra after extra pass. They were 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.880 pump faking. We had Marcus Smart pump fake out of 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:56.839 a three, which he loves three, so he took ten 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:57.200 that night. 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.440 By the way, uh took a pump fake and found 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.960 a Jason Tatum cutting to al horpor come on now 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:11.480 with like literally zero seconds on the clock, Jason Tatum 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:15.960 strap KD held him to more turnovers than points in 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:21.320 the first half. What on Easter first and foremost also 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:25.000 we already know because that wasn't even close. It wasn't 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.120 even close to that being the only thing that was 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:28.640 at hand. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:30.960 Let's talk about Kyrie. 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.320 And the Boston Celtics fans, because he would like to 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:37.559 tell us that there is no hostility. He said it 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.880 to Nick Fodell. It's not hostility, bro. I'm not sure 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:45.480 what it is, but it's something kai At one point, 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.200 just for those who are listening to the podcast, aren't 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.920 fully up to speed on history. They're not like it's 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.760 not fully in the forefront of their mind. Kyrie Irving 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.640 was supposed to play the remainder of his career out 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.560 in Boston. He was traded from the Cavs, and he 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:05.559 wanted to go to a place with multiple banners, which 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.000 the Nets have have none. But he wanted to go 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.520 somewhere with multiple banners for a chance to make his 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.800 own route. And things got toxic fast. He said, if 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.680 you guys will have me, I'm planning to sign the extension. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:19.480 It was on like one of the first games of 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:24.160 the season. He announced it in front of the crowd. Kyrie, Kyrie, 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.640 we love you, and then all of a sudden, him 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.279 and Terry Rosier fucking around and beef you've got issues 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.480 with everything, like he's mailing it in after an injury 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:39.520 plagued year of the year before. Kyrie then ends up 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.240 leaving on his own accord, as we know, not staying 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.640 the remainder of his career as the Boston Celtics. Celtics 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.760 fans big mad, big big mad, because did you see him? 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.240 Because did you see him? Imagine putting Kyrie Irving in 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:57.800 that lineup what excuse me? Mark Smart off the bench, 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.080 Kyrie Irving starting point guard, Derek White in the mix 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:02.680 Al Horford, Ugh. 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.000 What so, Yeah, they're salty, they're salty balls. So he 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.920 comes back to the garden. He's always burning Palo Santo 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.240 or whatever before he comes and plays there, just to 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:14.400 get the bad juju out. 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.400 So he comes and plays in the first round last year, 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:18.800 stomps on Lucky. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.680 The Boston logo puts everybody in a big baby. 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.880 Davis then gets involved. Look it up. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.760 It was just a lot of fanfare and he gets 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.480 a lot of hate. Now obviously a fan. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.600 Also later threw a bottle at Kyrie in Game four 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:36.400 last year. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:41.520 Thinks highly charged. We'll say not hostile, highly charged. It's 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:45.240 probably the best best way of putting it. So, yeah, 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.600 you knew this playoff was gonna be intense. They've got 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.240 the winner go home mentality. They were playing team pretty 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.040 much most of the year because Kyrie Irving doesn't want 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:56.080 to get vaccinated, and holy shit, was it ever intense. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.360 Seventeen lead changes in the game, back and forth all day. 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:01.200 Who is gonna win? 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.680 Kai Historic thirty nine points six for ten from three, 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:12.880 five rebounds, six assists, four steals one block, and boy 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.080 was he not quiet about it. He was not quiet 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.440 about it. Fans were heckling him all night. Kyrie flipped 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.480 them off at minimum four times. I don't know if 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.480 you want to count the double the double flip as 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:26.520 one or two. 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.080 Hard to do. Maskool on that folks. 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.200 Then at halftime a fan was like, Kyrie, you suck 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:33.959 and he said what he said? 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:34.800 What did he say? 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.360 He said, thank you so much for your support. No, 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.360 he said, suck my dick, bitch. 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.319 That's what he said. Jesus what he said. I didn't 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.320 make that up. That's not like my synopsis. That's a 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.760 direct quote. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.720 Also, come to find out, it was probably five flipoffs 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.319 because there was a legendary behind. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.280 The head double Bird. The double Bird. 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.440 Best part though between in terms of the drama was 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.720 the post game. Ask about the drama that Kyrie Irving 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.240 simply didn't want any part of. 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:08.280 Let's hit that clip. 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.400 It looked like there were a couple of times where 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.200 you gave the fans a finger. I'm curious was there 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.480 anything that you thought cross the line today? And are 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.760 you the kind of guy that gets motivated by kind 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:23.679 of going back and forth with the fans. You kind 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.640 of use that internally as something to fire you up. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.640 Look, i mean, I'm just where I'm from. You know, 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.520 I'm used to all these antics and people being close nearby. 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:36.840 You know, it's nothing new when I come into this 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:38.440 building what it's going to be like. But it's the 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.600 same energy they have for me, and I'm gonna have 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.679 the same energy for them. And it's not every fan. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.040 I don't want to attack every fan, every Boston fan, 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.960 but you know when people start yelling pussy and bitch 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:50.840 and fuck you and all this stuff, it's bus so 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.120 much you can take as a competitor, and you know 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.280 where the ones expected to be docile and be humble 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.920 and take a humble approach. Now, fuck, that's the playoffs. 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.719 This is what it is. You know, I know what 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:04.600 to expect in here, and it's the same energy I'm 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.040 giving back to them. It is what it is. I'm 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.520 not really focused on. It's fun, you know what I'm saying. 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.640 And like, like again, is where I'm from. I've dealt 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.720 with so much, so coming in here, you reliship as 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.400 a competitor and this is you know, I'm gonna keep 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.800 repeating myself when I say again, but this isn't my 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.200 first time in TD garden. So what you guys saw 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.160 and what you guys think is as entertainment, or the 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.720 fans think is entertainment. All is fair and competition, you know. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:31.959 So if somebody's gonna call me out of my name, 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:33.520 I'm gonna look at them straight in the eye and 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.840 see if they really about it. Most of the time 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:36.360 they're not. 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.600 Got read to that point, do you feel like the 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.199 hostility that you get. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.079 Still, let's not let's not focus on this, like ask 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.439 me questions about the game, like it's not about the fans, 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:45.520 the fans aren't playing. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:49.079 From a basketball standpoint, you feel like the hostility you get. 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.079 There's no hostility, bro, it's basketball. 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.800 When you were flicking some people off, I say that some. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:58.439 Hostility from what what point are you guessing that that's 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.040 hostility or like hostility for me is like growing up, Well. 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.160 We've never seen that from you. This season where you 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.920 are running down the floor flaking people. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.160 Off, is the first time you actually caught it. Because 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.800 it's a big time game. I respond in different ways, 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.280 you know what I'm saying, I'm not trying to focus 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:14.520 on that. If you want to ask me a questions 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.200 about the fans. Go ask them, go on the street 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:17.040 and ask them questions. 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.840 But I'm asking from your perspective, from basketball perspective. Do 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.800 you feel like the hostility that you get is not hostility? Bro? 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.640 Do you feel like the energy you get from fans 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.600 in this building or embrace it best from you? 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.040 Embrace it. Embrace it. It's the dark side, embrace it. 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.479 No one's talking enough about the fact that Kyrie Irving's 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:44.400 definition of hostility is wrong, that what's going on. Let's 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:49.320 quickly do a little, just a little like Google search 0:11:49.400 --> 0:12:00.520 on the word because unfriendliness, opposition, conflict, hostility, all those 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.000 three things true. Also, did you notice Kyrie Irving tried 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:05.480 this isn't even a part of what we were planning 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.200 on talking about, but he tried to bring it back 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:11.360 around to his struggle again his life, his I don't know, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.600 we've all gone through things, We've all seen things. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.040 That maybe aren't on Wikipedia. 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.320 But listen, what I can google about Kyrie Irving is 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.880 that he lived in Melbourne, Australia, a suburb of Q 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.040 before relocating when he was two years old because his 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:35.040 dad played basketball. Folks he had I'm not even gonna 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:36.960 go into it because I don't know enough. I'm just 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:41.480 gonna say, upon first glance that seems upon first glance. 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:43.960 I want to make sure that everyone knows I'm not. 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:46.800 I didn't dig into this and say it was a lie. 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:51.199 I'm just saying it's suspect to me. That's all. It's 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:56.760 just a little suspect to me. No hostility incorrects her anyway. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.240 This shit is gonna be lit every game, especially at 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.120 the Garden. I hope we get four games at the 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:06.560 Garden and we will get four forty point performances from 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.679 Kyrie Irving, and they're gonna need everyone for them to 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:10.440 win this series. 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.840 My god, has it been fun already? Let's move forward. 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.240 The other series that has gotten everyone else's attention is 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.160 in the West. I try to tell y'all it's the 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:27.280 best series. Memphis somehow gets out grizzlied by the Minnesota Timberwolves. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:32.360 Wolves Grizzlies. Who can be more fierce? Who would I take? 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:36.440 Probably a Grizzly. They're bigger. They're a much bigger creature 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:41.600 than a wolf. One on one matchup tough power ranking, 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.080 Grizzly goes up to the top more than a sun. 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:44.680 I don't know. 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:46.480 When you get too close to a sun, they burn 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.760 the shit out of you, though the sun is supreme. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.640 And by the way, a buck gets hit by car 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.439 all the time, like that's it. Anyway, Who would have 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.920 thought that there was a exactly what is a net like? 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.760 Was this little fucking net on a rim? 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:08.800 Was this flimsy ass? Was this flute jazz? Anyway? 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.120 Who would have thought there was a tougher, deeper team 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:13.520 than the Memphis Grizzlies. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:13.800 Not me. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.520 For those who haven't been properly introduced, allow me to 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:22.600 introduce you to not your daddy's or your uncle's Minnesota Timberwolves. 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.760 They are young, they are owned by a rod, they 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.120 are hungry, and they have. 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:27.720 Michael Jordan on the team. 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:33.400 Apparently to the shock of everyone, they are hard as 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.320 coffin nails. I said this series was gonna be my favorite, 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.560 and Game one was not a disappointment, but it. 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:42.200 Was a surprise. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:47.000 I mean, the fact that they were in basically had 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.960 the game in hand the Wolves the entire time was shocking. 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.080 I for one did not see Kitty. 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:59.320 Cat coming out like a junkyard dog abusing Jaren Jackson, 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:04.640 but also abusing More importantly, Steven Adams, the toughest guy 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.960 in the NBA that people say is like that could 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.960 win a strong man competition, to the point where they 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.600 had to sit Adams ass down on the bench because 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:17.040 he was becoming a liability out there. He couldn't do 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.440 shit against on either end. Against Karl Anthony Towns, Towns 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.080 had twenty nine thirteen to three. After his horrible game 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.800 in the play in Karl Anthony Towns and Adams twisted 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.840 he He ended the game with zero points in twenty 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:35.760 four minutes. Jaron Jackson managed twelve points in the other 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.200 twenty four I would call that not a particularly effective 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:43.600 performance from the front court of Memphis. 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:45.440 Also, I don't. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.200 Think anybody saw how much Jaw was going to get 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.240 into the paint in a playoff game. 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:50.760 He went bananas. 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.960 This game was about them Jaw and at Jaw of 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.800 course held up his end of the bargain thirty two, 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.320 four and eight and in the beginning of the first 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:06.280 half nineteen In the first half, Ant low Aunt stole 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.320 the show. And let me tell you it is never 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:13.680 I've never seen jog It upstaged by someone. Ant was 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.880 everywhere like the ant man him and the wasp, just 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:21.000 doing things, especially in the second half, thirty six two 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:25.880 and six and only two turnovers. I'm I'm pretty convinced. 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:30.200 I'm pretty convinced now Aunt Edwards, who has grown three 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.440 inches since his rookie year. He's now six five sixty six. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:35.640 He was sixty three when he got into the league. 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.200 I am convinced now that he might be Michael Jordan. 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.520 I am he was unstoppable. I don't know how you 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.040 guard that. He's like a thicker football version, like a 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:50.560 twenty twenty two Michael Jordan. I saw him hit shots 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:55.000 after one after the other, clut shot, big bucket off 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:59.680 the dribble, euro step in, pull ups, put backs, catching 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:06.479 shoe weight shifts, huge threes, growls. Just wanted it every 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.760 step of the way. We came for jaw, and our 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:14.720 jaws were on the floor for Aunt Edwards. He is 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.359 the third youngest player to score thirty five in a 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.680 playoff game, and it was his first ever playoff game. 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.240 He told the world just wait till you see me 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.480 in the playoffs. I'm gonna be something else, and he 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.520 is something else. I think he's unguardable. He's just so big, 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:34.840 he's so he's just thick and big and strong. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:37.880 I think he's gonna win an MVP or two. 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:42.320 I am so in on the ant train, mostly also 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:43.520 because of his personality. 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:44.600 He said this after the game. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.720 I think it's very important to play out my best 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.960 because they hide me during the regular season. There's no 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.359 national TV games for us, so people don't really get. 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:57.920 To see me play. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.280 I have an unless I have an enormous game where 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.520 I score forty something, or I hit a game winning shot, 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:03.680 or I have a huge. 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.240 Dunk and they see it all on Twitter. 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.280 I feel like games like this I have to take 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.399 advantage because it's the only time I get to be 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.800 on TV, so I get to showcase my talent and 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:13.760 everything I do. 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.320 I promise you, Aunt, you'll be on TV more next year. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.160 And then he said, which might be my favorite quote 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.400 of the year, I want the world to know I'm 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:28.600 a great person. I'm always smiling, trying to light up 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:33.160 the room, and I want to see everyone be successful. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:38.480 Tip of the cap to Aunt, because as great as 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:44.560 Michael Jordan was, that quote would never be uttered out 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.840 of his mouth. I don't care if you think I'm 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:48.560 a good person or not. I'm the best player on 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:52.600 the fucking planet ever. All right, so those are the 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:54.320 two series we're gonna get the most in depth in. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:56.960 Let's just kind of quickly skim over because the other 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:58.760 ones were not nearly as good. 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:00.760 Let's go more tea. 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:04.360 In the Bucks series with Chicago got shockingly close down 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.400 the stretch. Bucks ended up pulling it out. Yannis probably 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.080 deserved to be fouled out. There were some very suspect 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:14.000 no calls, and for those who remember the OT game 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:18.000 last year between the Miami Heat in the Milwaukee Bucks, 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.840 it felt like, oh boy, Miami could win this series. 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:24.320 Like man, it came all the way down the wire. 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.160 Miami lost in OT and they gave him their best 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.840 shot and then it was night night, sleep mask the 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:31.880 rest of the way, get your broom out, And that, 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.480 to me is kind of how this series feels right now. 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.000 The Heat just like now, the Chicago Bulls have shot 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:39.760 every bullet and. 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:40.960 Ultimately will fall short. 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.000 In my opinion, they did only shoot thirty six percent 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.679 the Bulls. They probably will shoot better, but boy did 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:51.359 it feel like the Heat series to me. Speaking of 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.200 the Heat one eight matchup between Miami and Atlanta, Wow, 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:59.600 a shlacking like never was close. Things also got chippy 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:04.320 between my Man, Trey Young and Jimmy Butler. Trey Young 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.359 acted like he was gonna beat Jimmy's ass, which was 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:08.480 like super funny a kerfuffle. 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:09.960 They had to be separated. 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:15.119 He held Tray to one for twelve zero for seven 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.800 from three, his worst game of the year by far 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:23.040 eight points. My man Kevin Knox. Kevin Knox, do you 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.280 remember that name? Probably not. The only reason you might 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.600 know him is because he went viral because NBA scouts 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:30.400 were asking him if he had babies that he didn't 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:34.520 know about pre draft. It's not a joke. He outscored 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:36.280 Trey in this game. He was the one that was 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.360 part of the Cam Reddish trade. The Knicks just threw 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:41.800 him in. No, he had more points than Trey Young 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.760 ten points. Trey, as usual, though, remains confident in the 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:47.840 Warrior series with the Nuggets. I mean it's gonna be. 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:50.840 It's not the plan anymore. Trey, Like, you guys aren't 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.360 good right now. You've got no Clint Compell. I mean, 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:54.520 it's just it's a rap for you. 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.200 Anyway. Warrior Series, we move on versus the Nuggets. 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.720 We got to see a Jordan pool, elevating to a 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:04.040 place that we have not seen him. We got to 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:08.880 see in Andrew Wiggins that was how are I put 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:11.920 it better than him? Him his normal performances in the 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:15.600 playoffs playing off ball, catch and shooting. Steph Curry largely 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:18.679 neutralized due to his injury, and Jordan Poole came to 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:22.200 the pool party. So that's gonna be an interesting one. 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:25.720 We got to see how Joki responds. Draymond expects a 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:28.160 huge performance out of him because I don't think he's 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:31.240 gonna go down without a fight. Also, like I said, possible, 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.879 Jamal Murray siding, they're gonna need to get him shaped 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:37.920 up mentally because he's ready to go. Apparently he's physically 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:40.680 able to go. As soon as his mental is ready, 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:43.320 he can play. Yeah, that's new news. That's new news. 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:50.479 Also moving forward between the Sixers and the Rafters, Joel 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:54.879 Embiid dirty play. I think I'm pretty sure Scotty Barnes 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:59.240 twisted his ankle and what happened. Joel Embiid then put 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:01.320