WEBVTT - Bucks Stomp the Celtics & Winning Time Monday 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:19.439 Come on, come on, this episode of the Heat Check. 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:24.720 The second round of the playoffs is already here. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.480 We are ready, We already got drama. 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:34.760 As Draymond gets tossed from Game one, his flavor in 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.320 two is not getting reversed. 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.120 The Grizzlies lose a heartbreaker to the Warriors. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.680 Box are still underdogs even though they slammed and humbled 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.120 the Celtics. Sixers start the series without mb for god 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.320 knows too long, and this might mean another early. 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:50.920 Exit in Philly. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.400 Out in the West, the MAVs and the Suns get 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:55.560 underway with a healthy Luca and. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:59.880 A healthy Devin Booker. So before we get into it, 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:14.520 just drop that motherfucker beak Man the second round of 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:18.319 the playoffs. I just love the playoffs so much. We 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.320 are already loaded with drama. 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:25.280 Let's start out with the East, with the favored Celtics 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:30.759 taking on the Champs. Someone tell me, riddle me this. 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:39.640 How are the defending champions underdogs in any situation in 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:40.080 the East. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:40.720 I don't know. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.800 I don't understand it houseway. I know Middleton is injured, 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.640 I know it. I'm aware of this, But this is Yannice, 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:56.520 Like Yannis is a different cat He's not Steph Curry, 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:01.240 He's not you know, Kevin Durant, He's not even Lebron James. 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.360 Like, this is a guy who. 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:09.120 Is largely offensively, defensively unstoppable, and then a bunch of 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.639 other guys who make his job easier. 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:13.800 Please make it make sense. 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.840 Let's look at the regular season record between the Celtics 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.560 and the Milwaukee Bucks for a second, because I've been 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.880 just wrapping my brain around how Vegas could make these 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.480 odds the way that they are. Celtics two and two, 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:32.040 So they split against the Bucks this year and thought 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.360 maybe without with Chris, the Celtics would be favored. Here's 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:40.440 the thing, though, the Celtics beat a Yannis list Bucks 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:46.200 without Yannis in overtime in November in overtime and Dennis Shrewder, 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:48.960 Who the fuck does Dennis shrud think he is? Dennis 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:53.440 Shrewder had thirty eight in that game. They then beat 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.799 the Bucks during the point in time where the Bucks 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.680 didn't give a fuck about basketball, like December, that part 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.399 where it's like not quite trade deadline season, all Star 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:08.800 breaks a while away, and let's be honest, the Bucks 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.160 already won this damn thing. They don't need to push 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.080 to win every single game. The last two times that 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.960 they played the Celtics, the Bucks beat them at home 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.919 twice one seventeen, one thirteen, and at the end of 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.840 the season beating him one twenty seven, one to twenty one. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.840 So to recap, the Celtics never beat the Bucks without 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:26.560 Dennis Shooter. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.200 Not like a tremendous like piece of information, but there 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:32.880 is no Dnis Shooter in this matchup. 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:34.320 He's gone now, he's been traded. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.920 And they never beat them in Milwaukee, and they only 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:43.840 beat him once with Yannis. And listen, when you have 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.720 Dennis Shooter coming off the bench and he's giving you 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:51.440 forty that's not insignificant. And and like, let's also be 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.120 honest about what Milwaukee's doing. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.000 They don't. They've realized they. 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.520 Don't need to win sixty games in order to win 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.920 the championship. Like they no longer have to prove to 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:03.400 the world the Milwaukee's on the map. 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.120 Milwaukee's very firmly on the map. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:10.080 They decided we're gonna low manage, We're gonna coast, just 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.080 doesn't matter one through six. We're fine, We don't we 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:14.800 don't need to be the number one seed. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.920 We don't only need ESPN to. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.120 Put us ninety two point seven percent to make the finals. 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.599 Like, it's fine, put us a three seed, put us 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:23.040 a sixth seed. 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:24.200 As long as we don't have to play in the 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.520 play in tournament, we're good and and that's like pretty 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.719 much a matchup problem for anyone. I tell you what, 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.400 as a better as a gambler, I could not run 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:40.560 fast enough to the window when I saw that Vegas 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:44.080 gave me the Bucks at plus one seventy. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.839 Five for them to win the series. You're talking about 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:46.840 almost two to. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.920 One money for the Bucks, the defending champions, to beat 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.600 the Celtics, who have been good for like two seconds. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:55.880 Like what are we talking about here? 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:00.520 The fact that the Nets got swept has now put 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.359 I don't know, like it's like a pill. Everyone is 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.240 taken like, oh you beat the Nets. Oh now you're 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.040 the Now you're the favorites, like they should have never been. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.359 The Nets should have never been the favorites, Like they're 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.640 not good. I can't say this as stress this large enough. 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.840 You're here, Brock. I've been screaming this from the mountaintops 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:28.840 since October plus one seventy five. Yonis Anta Takupo. He's 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.920 a thirty fifteen and five guy. How and he's hitting 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.800 free throws out? What? Then? I? Okay? Then I double 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:37.960 back and I was like, what, I get him plus 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:42.080 four and a half? What did that? Then I double 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.640 back again, live what they're up and I'm still getting 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:45.640 him plus two and a half. 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:45.839 What. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.799 Then I'm like, okay, Well, now the they're like probably 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.400 gonna score one hundred and eighty points when I can 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.359 get under one hundred and ninety six total points. Like 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.440 this is a defensive like matchup, give it and like, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.200 no matter how much we give props to Boston and 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.120 their defense, like, do not sleep on the Bucks defense. 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.280 They've got guys who will just like cut your legs out, 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:13.080 Grayson Allen, Grayson Allen Marcus smart is the matchup you 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:18.000 didn't know you needed. I The Bucks are stifling Brook Lopez, 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.400 one of the best room protectors in the league. Nobody 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.599 speaks about him, Nobody even utters his name. They're just like, oh, no, no, 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.960 miss christ Christopher Middleton, what no Chris with a K? 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:35.279 Obviously that in the Bucks, Well what are you talking about? 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.360 And then okay, then the Bucks of course do exactly 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.000 what I thought, which is like they should win this game. 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.560 Let alone like four be four and a half point dogs. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:49.000 Headline, Boston hit in the mouth, out muscled by Milwaukee 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:53.480 Bucks in physical game one. Tell me how that changes? How, 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.960 Like is Chris Middleton a part of the out muscling. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:58.800 I don't think so. 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.440 Like no nobody's ever said like Chris Middleton bully ball, 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:07.160 like never moving forward with or without Middleton, I'm not 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:11.560 sure anyone out muscles Milwaukee in the NBA like period. 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:13.640 Even Phoenix couldn't do it. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.080 That's why they had to figure out a way to 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:20.440 get other centers involved, because one center is not enough. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.320 You'll just get into foul trouble. And like then you've 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.400 got DeAndre Ayton sitting his ass on the bench because 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.200 he's got four fouls in the first quarter. Now you 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:31.000 gotta roll out Frank Kaminski, Like let me just if 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.520 you don't know Frank Kaminski just the way that I 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.560 say his name. He's been cut. He's been cut already. 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:40.080 They've got JaVale McGee. Now, they've got Bismack Meambo. Now 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.920 they've got plethora of depth in case really just for 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:48.240 this scenario, really, just because Joannis and Brook are a problem, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:53.400 and for Game two, Milwaukee is yet again, somehow inexplicably, 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:54.520 the line has not moved. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.880 A must like like anything. It's four and a half again, 0:07:58.120 --> 0:07:58.520 take it. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.559 If you're above a and you've got sports betting legal 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.360 to you like, take that, don't. I don't care that 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.440 they're gonna make adjustments, All of them will. And if 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.040 somebody needs to explain to me how in game two 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.800 is going to go different than Game one, everybody's like, oh, well, 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.720 the Celtics they just shot so bad. They were just 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.320 so bad, Like, they can't possibly shoot as bad as 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.119 they did. They were just chucking from everywhere. They shot 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.640 fifty times from three, They shot fifty times from the 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.400 three point line. They can't possibly be that bad. They 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.560 shot eighteen for fifty. By the way, percentage wise, that's 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.319 actually better than they've shot all year long. Their season 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.360 long three point percentage is thirty five point six percent 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:46.839 from deep. So tell me exactly how this changes. They 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.200 shot ten for thirty four in the paint. How do 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:55.400 you fix that? Got two guys, Yannis and Brooke. Where 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.880 how are you gonna spread them out? You put them 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.160 on the perimeter, somehow stretch them out. You got what 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.320 you got? Fucking time? Lord on, like on the three 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.520 point line, get out of here? Who is who is 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.160 going into the paint? How are you gonna stop that? 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.040 Here's what Jalen Brown said after the game. We've gotta 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:14.640 be smarter. 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:15.840 In game one. 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:17.800 We weren't. So we look at it, we learn from it, 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.480 we come better back for the next game. We shot 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.640 a lot of threes tonight, a lot of them great looks. 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.800 We understand that's what they want us to do, so 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:27.280 we're gonna figure it out. Why do you think they 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.880 want you to do that because you're not good at it? Like, 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:35.480 so smarter is not gonna get you taller. Like, you 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.640 can be as smart as you want. But they're seven 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.480 feet tall and Giannis is like two seventy five. 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:45.880 So listen, you made the exact number of threes. Your 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.640 record suggests that you're gonna make moving forward, You're gonna 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:49.720 shoot sixty of them. 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:50.000 Now. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.400 The bottom line is this, the Celtics were crowned way 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.839 too early. And I like the Celtics. If they weren't. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.199 Facing the Bucks, maybe they'd face the Bucks in the 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.440 Eastern Conference Finals and then they would go to sleep 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.880 to the Bucks then instead of now, like I don't know, 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.360 like I don't know why we get into these trends 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.760 of like, well, you beat the king, you took the 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.760 king down, and now you've got the crown like first 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.640 and foremost, like the Emperor had no clothes, like, so 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.280 you guys just kept thinking like maybe if we keep 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.240 saying that they have clothes on, that the Nets are 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.640 gonna be like a real team. They're just never have been, 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.520 never will be. They had no depth and just because 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.640 the Celtics beating didn't mean that they ended up getting 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.360 any more respect than what they are. They're they're a 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:40.680 matchup disadvantage with or without Chris Middleton. Let me ask 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.000 you this, what happens if Chris Middleton was in the series, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.960 then it's like, I mean, it was a dominating performance. 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.760 They were up largely the whole game by double digits 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:57.800 with their number two score out. M Yeah, you have 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.960 Marcus Smart banged up. He's not gonna not be banged 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.920 up because he's dealing with Drew Holliday and Grayson Allen 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.559 and Bobby Portis and his goggles. Like that's what this 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.240 is gonna be. So I know, and you've got Jaylen 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.040 Brown with a lingering hammy as well. I don't know 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:16.440 what you want me to say, but if you're a 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:20.240 better just go ahead and keep hammering the Bucks and 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.079 take that shit to the bank, because the Bucks look 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.559 like right now they're going back to the finals and 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.680 it's probably going to seven with the Suns and then like, honestly, 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.840 quite honestly, my heart will be broken, but it feels 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.800 like the Bucks are going to win it again. Jianness 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.080 is the best player on the planet. He is unguardable, 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.480 and thus the Bucks I can I cannot imagine them 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:49.679 being stopped. Uh, let's move forward with another amazing series 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:50.880 that has begun. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.920 Lord Warriors versus Grizzlies what I would. 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.880 Call the Spider Man pointing at Spider Man two superstar 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:05.199 guards like physicality all over, guys who are just gritty 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.480 with You got Dylan Brooks, you got Desmond Bane, you 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.360 got Draymond Green, and Draymond Green's Steven Adams is in 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.400 health and safety protocols. I can't wait for him to return. 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.600 Series is one hundred percent going seven games. How do 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.600 I know that Game one told me everything that I 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.040 need to see to predict that these teams really aren't 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:27.079 separated by much. Either team goes up thirteen does not matter. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:32.120 They can score in an instant, they can get very 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.800 shaky in an instant on both sides of the teams 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:40.959 two very evenly matched competitors. Game one was pretty much 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.880 exactly like we predicted, very gritty, incredibly tight, dozens of 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.559 lead changes, big time game winning shots, big time go 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:53.120 ahead shots, bodies hitting the floor, ejections, game winning shot 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.960 followed by a potential game winning miss like Draymond Green 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.600 hitting someone like ays per usual. And so let's talk 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:05.679 about this Draymond ejection for a second, because me and 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:10.160 Draymond have had our own little thing back and forth drawing. 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:12.080 But this is what happened. 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.080 It happened when he got into a battle with Brandon Clark, 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.400 small five killing who fell to the ground with Draymond 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:24.560 holding onto his jersey like it was the safety bar 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.000 at her on a roller coaster, just hanging on tight, 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.959 just trying to stay in that little chair of death. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.840 And so then they called the flagrant two. You're ejected. 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:35.720 He's out of the game. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.320 Right before the second quarter, Draymond decided he was going 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:44.720 to address it. I want to play that for our folks. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.200 I am dumb enough to think that it would not 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:53.800 even be a flag or one. That you know, the 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.160 playoffs are a little tougher and not as soft as 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.440 the regular season, you know, and that you know you 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.000 can you can bump a little more and you get 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.000 away with a little more, you know. Like I think 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:10.080 tonight was probably a reputation, a reputation thing more so 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:15.600 than a hard file. By definition, if we go through 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:20.080 the definition of a flagrant two file, I'm not sure 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:27.640 that that play would quite be the definition of a 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.720 flagrant file. I'm not sure it would meet that criteria. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:36.080 First and foremost, you dragged them onto the ground. It 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:40.640 was like considered a body slam. So yeah, that's gonna 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.040 be a flagrant one, probably not a flagrant two. 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:44.320 Here's the issue. 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.480 The league is now not going to reverse it. Now 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:53.480 Draymond Green has two flagrant points, which four makes it 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:57.000 a one game suspension, So one more of these little 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:01.320 antics you're out for an entire game. And if it 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.240 was reduced, then Draymond only gets one flagrant point, which 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.480 would give him more wiggle room in case he does 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.960 that shit again, and then he has another flagrant point 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.880 to wiggle with The Grizzlies' response to the ejection pretty 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.560 much a big like who gares Brandon Clark says, yeah, 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.120 He's been known for this in his career, like flagrant 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.600 fowls is his thing. I've watched them on TV my 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.240 entire life. Not shocking that he would do that. But 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.480 the thing that I think a lot of fans may 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.680 be missing is that the Draymond Green ejection might have. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:31.840 Actually helped the Warriors. 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.040 The Warriors at one point in time, were down twelve 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.960 points while Draymond Green was in the game. Draymond Green 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.400 is a matchup issue because of Jaron Jackson, because of 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:44.120 Brandon Clark. Draymond Green's a tremendous competitor at one of 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.920 the best defenders in the game. But losing him was 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:51.200 like a splash cold water and a little bit of gasoline. 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:55.240 They were like fucking zombies out there. Grizzlies were out 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.720 to an early lead, they were in transition. Warriors, look shook, 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:05.800 memphisis rocking. Steph's missing shots, Everyone's missing shots. Clay then said, 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.960 as soon as Draymon went out, we ended up having 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.800 extra motivation and the team played the rest of the 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:18.000 game hopping mad like that's a level of intensity. 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.520 That you don't get when Draymond's still there. 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.960 Like, by the way, Grizzlies were up one point one 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.560 point one minute, twelve seconds left in the in the 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.920 first half when Draymond got ejected, Like I said, they 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.520 were up by as much as twelve with Draymon in 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:38.880 the game. But the most important thing about this game, 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.440 where I'm thinking this could go seven, and I'm also 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:45.800 concerned about the Grizzlies poise, we need to talk about 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.360 that last thirty six seconds for a second. Let me 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:52.920 set it up for you. Down one point, Grizzlies ball. 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:57.800 Ja Morant has it thirty six seconds to go. Grizzlies 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:03.080 have a two for one opportunity because of the shot clock, right, 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.800 you gotta get a quick bucket. They have a full 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.680 twenty four and you still have time left to get 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.080 a bucket in case either they don't hit one or 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.520 they do, you can't have them have the ball. Then 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:19.480 you gotta play the foul game, et cetera. Jaw that's 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:20.440 the standard. 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.080 Two for one, that's the standard. 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.280 That's what you're supposed to do. Jah, who I love, 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.440 By the way, so no shade to jaw. Took a 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:32.159 full twenty seconds just to get a layup. That fucking 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:36.240 got blocked by Steph Curry, who's known as a piss 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:37.840 poor defender in the league. 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:42.200 Where he's saying I shut him down. 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.879 He's literally shit talking jaw like, yeah, I stopped that 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:45.920 shit he blocked. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:50.760 You took you twenty seconds to get blocked. Then you 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.200 then wait to foul. 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.440 You take a full seven seconds to then foul because 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.240 you've literally wasted all the time. 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.000 Now they can just run out the clock. They're up. 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.439 You take eleven seconds to do seven seconds to do that. 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.960 That brings the clock down to eleven seconds left in 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.000 the game. But you had a foul to give, which 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.639 you must have not known or you would have foiled immediately. 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.040 Then you take another full five seconds to foul to 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.920 send Klay Thompson to the free throw line ninety percent 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:26.119 free throw shooter, dumb shit. Thankfully, Klay Thompson misses them both. 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:30.280 You get a jump ball because you tip the ball 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.400 out of bounds on his free throw misses. 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.840 You probably shouldn't even gotten the ball at that point. 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.760 Then as soon as you get the jump ball, there's 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.520 four point two seconds left in the game, you call 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.960 timeout somehow the refs give you three point six seconds. 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:49.600 You don't challenge that can test that inexplicable. They're even 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.000 talking about it on the broadcast. Now you got three 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:58.360 point six seconds left and you're down one, Okay, then 0:18:58.440 --> 0:18:58.959 what do you do? 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.200 All of a sudden we draw up a play. 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:07.919 For Jah Morant coming from behind half court being fully 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.040 guarded with the full head of steam. Which is the 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.359 whole point is that we want to get jaw like 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.120 a pseudo in transition. You only have three point six 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.240 seconds left, folks, the shock quality is going to be 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.240 not so good. You're basically hoping that he gets fouled. 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:23.720 By the way, Jahn Morant not so good of a 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:25.200 clutch freeto shooter either. 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:29.240 What is this mess? 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.760 Like? Maybe one of the biggest thirty six second messes 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:33.880 I've ever seen. 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:35.720 They still had the ability to win that game. 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:41.359 There's just this is where they thrive normally, Memphis tough situation. 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:46.000 Memphis has now lost their home court advantage. You know, 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.240 Golden State thinks that they have a leg up because 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:52.359 they did it without Draymon. Confidence levels are high. Just 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.000 no predicting where this goes would not shock me though, 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:57.879 if Steven Adams and Draymond Green get into it. Steven 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.960 Adams by the way, for folks, you don't member got 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.119 into it with Draymond when he was in Okac and 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:07.480 they had those intense battles with Katie Ross and Steven Adams. 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.320 He kicked Steven Adams in the in the Adams apples 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.920 like multiple times in the little like twigs and berries. 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:20.960 So this is gonna be firework prediction time because I 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:22.440 they say I'm a Golden State hater. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:34.840 Grizzlies in seven figure it out. Grizzly's fucking me out 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:35.240 for the. 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:38.120 Least two games in their second round series against Miami Heat. 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:43.160 This is massive thirty points per game, twelve rebounds per game, 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:47.159 up to Tennis's per game. This is a team that 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.160 would struggle to make the play in tournament without Joel 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.160 Embiid in the East. Now they face Miami Heat, team 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:55.560 that is extremely physical. By the way, as soon as 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.600 Joel Embiid comes back, that thumb issue isn't going away. 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:02.359 They have multiple guys that can score on the perimeter, 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.400 defend on the perimeter. There are a lot of role 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:07.920 players that are gonna come in give you good minutes, 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.160 even without Kyle Lowry who's not playing in game one, 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:13.640 even if Jimmy Butler missus time, which he will play 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:16.200 in game one. Like you've got Victor Oladipo, You've got 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:19.600 Gaye Vincent, You've got Caleb Martin, you've got Max Struz. 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:21.600 You got a bunch of guys that the casual fans 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:22.320 never even heard of. 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:25.160 They might get you. Twenty five. Didn't even mention Duncan Robinson, 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:29.240 didn't mention Tyler Herro. This is a nightmare. The WOJ 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:32.400 bomb is that there's Oh, this is the bomb. This 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:33.959 is the sound of the WOJ bomb. 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:34.600 Uh. 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.720 There is optimism that the Sixers get Joelle back as 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:41.399 early as game three or game four, excuse me, pause, 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:46.159 as early as Like that doesn't inspire me. 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:49.960 That doesn't give me optimism. You could be already down 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:51.240 three zero by then. 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:55.000 If you don't think Doc Rivers is a good coach 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.760 when he's up three to zero, how do you think. 0:21:57.560 --> 0:21:59.640 He's gonna be down three to zero? 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:03.560 So much scoring now has to fall on a guy 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:06.000 who hasn't been elite in two and a half three years, 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:09.280 hasn't been elite before the word like the last time 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:12.359 James Harden was elite. Was before we knew what social 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:16.880 distancing was like, we didn't even know the word COVID. 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:19.960 That's the last time Harden was hardened. 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:24.359 Now he's ecstatic that he lost left Houston because he 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:26.520 had to shoulder the burden. He went to the nets 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:29.520 where he's like, well, I got Kyrie and KD. Awesome, 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:33.400 I don't have to shoulder. Wait then KD goes down, 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:37.679 Kyrie does Kyrie things that he bolts. He's like, I 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:40.680 now get Joel Embiid. I don't want to be the 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:44.440 number one scoring option. And now when the lights are bright, 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:48.160 James Harden playoff. Harden comes to play. 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:53.240