WEBVTT - Opening Weekend Of The NBA Playoffs Changed Everything 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:07.120 You're tuned into heat Check, buttal quick on this episode 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:08.080 of the Heat Check. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:12.440 The first weekend of the NBA Playoffs are here and 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.960 they did not disappoint. We got upsets in Milwaukee and Phoenix, 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.440 we got blowouts in Denver and Philly, and of course 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:23.360 we have drama baby between our dogs and the Bean 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.120 team the Sacramento Kings. I'm here to break it all 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.640 down for you, So Nick my man, drop that generic 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:30.840 ass beat that should be Rihanna. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:41.680 So the first weekend. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.839 Of the playoffs has come and gone, and we have 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.239 some storylines already that are brewing. What I'm gonna give 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.000 you is my three things that I found interesting from 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.680 each of the series, beginning out West, ending with my 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.840 breakdown of the Warriors and the Kings, because as you know, 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.680 I'm in the grind and I am in Sacramento, but 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:00.600 I did want to get you caught up for So 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.640 let's start out West, where three of the four series 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.880 got interesting really fast. Let's start in Memphis, Lakers Grizzlies. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:16.680 Fascinating game. Fascinating game, full of good, bad, and mostly 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.520 ugly for the Grizzlies. They end up losing to the 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:26.880 Lakers one eight one twelve. So it was the blowout, folks. 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.640 They pull out a row win, they steal home court 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:31.880 from the number two team in the West, And yeah, 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:33.920 I think a lot of people saw that coming, right. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.280 I think a lot of people said the matchups don't 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.080 favor the Grizzlies because there's no Steven Adams, there's no 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.000 Brandon Clark, and what is Xavier Y Chilman gonna do. 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:46.800 He's gonna get eaten alive by Anthony Davis. But the 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.160 way that it ended up happening was in a way 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:50.440 that nobody did see coming. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:52.240 So here are the three things that I took away 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:52.840 from this game. 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.400 First, the Lakers beat the Grizzlies on their home court 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:01.320 despite the fact that Anthony day To Davis got injured 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.920 in that game. It nullified him essentially in the second half. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.440 That was huge. Everybody says that if Anthony Davis isn't healthy, 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:09.440 this team is cooked. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.680 They were not cooked. When Anthony Davis could not lift 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:12.040 his arm. 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.200 He was out there in the second half barely able 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.480 to function, and he was a non factor offensively in 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.399 the second half. So despite that, this team can win 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.760 without him in the short term. Second, the Grizzlies dared 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.919 the Lakers role players to beat him, and they lost. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:27.600 They did. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.520 Ruey Hatchi Murray had twenty nine and six, mostly on 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.080 uncontested shots. In the postgame, Desmond Bain admitted that was 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.720 slightly a flaw in our system. Let's see if Ruey 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.000 can do it again. These role players were gonna make 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.880 them beat us every single time. But the problem is 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.280 Rouy only has to do it for one game. He 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.920 did it once. They got their job done and now 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:50.560 the Lakers all they have to do is continue to 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.640 hole home court. And understanding the Laker role players means 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.560 looking at Lebron as well, because Lebron another thing to 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.080 think about. Ron just took one shot in the fourth quarter, 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.840 only why so that he could get the ball to 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.720 Ruey Hachimura and Austin Reeves. They were combined nine for 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:10.840 ten from the floor in the fourth quarter. 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:11.880 Think about that. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:16.440 Lebron James, the fourth quarter man, the clutchman himself, deferred 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:22.000 to Austin Reeves and Ruey Hotchi Mura and it paid off. 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:23.760 So if you're the Grizzlies. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.120 Thirdly, you must be in panic mode because Ja Morant 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.040 hurt himself. Not only did he hurt his wrist. He's 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.640 doubtful for Game two and maybe longer. But the truth 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.119 is that he was hurt five minutes left in the game, 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.600 and he just really wasn't a factor in that game. 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.040 Jaron Jackson Junior played really well. He had thirty one, 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.920 four and five, and they still got dogwalk. You're gonna 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:49.760 need big performances out of Jaren to just compete. Imagine 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.120 how much things can change. The Lakers were cooked, they 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.360 didn't even look like a plan team, and now it 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.760 feels like they could possibly sweep the Grizzlies. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:03.760 Let's move on to Heat versus Bucks. What happened there? 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:09.280 I mean, in a nutshell, Jannis got hurt before you know, 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.840 the second if I think before the first quarter even ended, right, 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.040 he seems to be okay. It's a tailbone issue, but 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.960 they were getting blown out before Yannis even left the court. 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.279 He'll be banged up, of course, in the short term 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.920 moving forward, But listen, man, if you don't have Giannis, 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:28.160 you're essentially a seventh seed. The Heat had a lead 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.880 pretty much all game before and after Jannis left the court. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.960 Jannis might miss Game two. Tailbone injuries are no joke. 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.800 I mean Steph missed I think ten games with a 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.039 tailbone injury. He had to wear a diaper when he 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.039 came back, So it's gonna be really interesting to see 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:50.680 what happens with Giannis. More importantly, though, Tyler Hero broken 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.599 hand drained a corner three with a broken hand out 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:55.760 for the rest of the playoffs. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:57.039 Massive loss to. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:58.680 The Heat that he and are one of those teams 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.760 that when they are streaking and when they are hitting threes, 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.680 they are really really good, and when they're not, they 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.560 fucking stink. The team against the Bucks shot sixty five 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.920 percent from three. That's gonna be something that you need 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.400 to look out moving forward Without Tyler Herro. What is 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:17.080 the solution to replace Tyler Hero? Do not say Duncan Robinson. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.800 Do not say that he got six minutes in the 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.600 entire game, and he's that's probably the amount that he's 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.520 gonna get all serious. His agent probably called Spolster and said, 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:29.200 we need six minutes for Duncan sometime. Probably gonna need 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:31.479 a big Oladipo game, Probably gonna need a big Caleb 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.120 Martin game. Probably gonna need a big Gay Visit game. 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.320 I don't love that for the Heat. Second, the Bucks 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.280 need to find someone they can hit a three. They 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.480 were pathetic. It was fucking horrible. They were twenty four 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.520 percent from three. That's not gonna get it done. Jay 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.320 Crowder very streaky player. Bobby port Is very streaky player. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.080 Middleton and Drew you need more from They were all 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.560 combined four for twenty five. You cannot, you cannot, You 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:54.280 cannot do that. 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.760 You cannot do that. Joe Ingles he played pretty well 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.880 from three. Maybe you feature him more. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.800 God he's slow. Goran Dragic got a DMP. Maybe he's 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.120 a part of that answer listen. And thirdly, it's the 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.680 Jimmy Butler show. Forty three minutes was the most all 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:13.039 day by any player. He was on the court pretty 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.720 much the entire time. He's gonna try to will this 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.880 team in the second round, and it's just we know 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.360 it's not gonna happen, but playoff. Jimmy Butler is a 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.880 real force. I think he had thirty five, five and eleven. 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:28.640 I think he had three steals. But that bench, that 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.599 bench for the heat is fucking awful. Kyle Lowry can't 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.480 be the one who helps you. He's just the kind 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.840 of guy that gives you thirty one one night gives 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:41.839 you two the next he's a bad lawnmower with a 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.360 bad spark plug, like you don't know if it's gonna 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.240 start or not on any given day. But this is 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.920 a weird series. Both teams feel like they're equally in trouble. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.359 Felt very very sure that the Bucks were going to 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.880 be able to take this in five, maybe even in four. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.600 But if Giannis is out, I don't know. They live 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.560 and die with Giannis. If he's hurt, you. 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.839 Rest him as long as you can as necessary, but 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.440 hopefully not so long that you can't crawl out of 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.280 a hole. Very very interesting series. Did not see that 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:16.200 heat went coming Clippers versus the Suns. You look at 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.120 the box score, you see the Clippers pull out an upset. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.280 They take game one one fifteen one ten in the valley, 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:27.320 and you say, wow, probably you know, probably big Nick 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:31.080 Batoomb game, Like wow, Russ must have had twenty five 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:35.360 or thirty. But no, the game was not at all 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.960 what you thought. It was the Kawhi show, of course, 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.320 and he did not disappoint. Thirty eight points, including a 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.320 clutch dagger after clutch dagger in the second half, he 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.000 was hitting threes. He looked really, really good. On the 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.440 flip side, KD carried the Suns, was seventeen in the 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.120 second quarter. Didn't look good in the first quarter. And 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.560 the problem though with the Suns is that KD did 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.360 not take a shot in the final five minutes of 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.520 the game. That's a big problem. Moni did not learn 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.560 his mistakes from last year. Dude ran out eleven players, 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.080 which is pretty insane considering that their bench is fucking awful. 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:11.560 You know that the bench stinks. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.360 We've always known that, ever since Kevin dray Trent Kevin 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.120 Durant trade went down. We do not need to see 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.160 Landry Schmidt and ish Wayne Wright in clutch time. We 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.200 do not many Williams. Why are you getting out coached? 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.120 From the time that you played the Bucks till now. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.240 DeAndre Ayton figures to be non factor. I don't know 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.320 what's happening with him, but he's not a guy that 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.240 you can really rely on to get you late end 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:38.240 of the game buckets. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.600 He's not in any rhythm. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:42.880 The Clippers are giving him all kinds of space to 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.280 shoot mid range jumpers, and he's shooting him and he's 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.880 he's largely missing them. There is no world that DeAndre 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:53.920 Ayton should be shooting more shots than Kevin Durant and 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:58.520 Devin Booker just can't. And it's where you're shooting him, 0:08:58.520 --> 0:08:59.600 it's when you're shooting him. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.320 Mostly ten fifteen foot jumpers. I don't I don't like that. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.880 DeAndre Ayten needs to attack the rim a lot more 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:06.440 for the Suns to really be in it. 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:08.800 This is a really good team. They should beat the Clippers. 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.160 But now when you're taking the ball out of Kadi's hands, 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:16.640 Devin Booker's hands, and even to a small degree, Chris 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.920 Paul's hands, like you look at it, and he's going 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.880 up against Ayton, is going up against Zubac, plumb Lee 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.880 and Batoum. None of them have more than four fouls. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.679 You have to get them into foul trouble if you're 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.920 gonna win those games. And we've got to give Tylero 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:34.800 some love, right, Like he's a really really good coach, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.840 really really good coach. There's a million strategy decisions that 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.080 you can break down, from how smart his rotations are 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.840 to the decision to play Kawhi finally forty two minutes. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.840 Like I said, Jimmy Butler only played more minutes yesterday 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.680 than Kawhi. That's the only player on the floor that 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:54.720 played more. That's wild considering how listen like, TYLERU got 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.120 a lot of shit for load managing Kawhi, he really did. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.719 Kind of feels like skip minutes in March to use 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.440 them in April, May and June might actually make sense. 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.120 Tyler should get all the flowers, listen, and he should 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.280 get all the flowers for this. Russell Westbrook was not 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:15.200 believed in in La at all, and he came to 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.080 the Clippers and Tyler said, we're gonna let Russell Westbrook 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.280 be him and people thought he was crazy. But that 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.920 loyalty and belief in Russell Westbrook is what won them 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.719 the game. Russell Westbrook won the Clippers that game. He 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.120 had the worst shooting game of his entire playoff career, 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.840 which was three for nineteen, and yet in the final 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.920 two minutes he was the most impactful guy on the court. 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.559 He was hunting for his shots, he was swatting balls away, 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.559 he was playing incredibly good defense. Russ went to the 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.840 bench in the third quarter when the Clippers were down 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:44.520 double digits. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:45.800 Kawhi made a run. 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.120 It was a four point lead, and it felt like 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.000 Russ was never going to see the court again. But 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.080 you know what, Tyde put him back in and he 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.440 let him control the offense all the way to the 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.280 end of the game. He didn't give a shit whether 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.520 his shot was He was his usual Tasmanian devil self. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.200 In the final two minutes, he attacked the rim, he 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.160 got fouled, he made two huge free throws. With seventeen 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.160 seconds left, he made the game saving defensive play on 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.680 Devin Booker. Like he made six plays in the final 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.440 two minutes that won the Clippers the game. Without him, 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.480 they don't win that game. So that's a really, really 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.080 interesting matchup. Can't wait to see. I think it might 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.040 be a long series. Actually I thought this would be 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:28.720 four or five to six games. I think it might 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:29.439 go seven. 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.760 Wolves at Denver. Gross. Worst game of the weekend by far. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.840 That's why it was on Sunday night. For East Coast fans, 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.120 you're probably in bed. 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.600 It's one am. It's one am on the East Coast, 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.440 no fucking shot. Everyone knew that it was gonna be 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.240 bad because the game went off at ten thirty West 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.679 Coast time ten thirty East Coast time. 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:07.240 Excuse me. 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.440 Half the country was sound asleep by halftime. You're not 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.840 gonna see King's Warriors in that death slot. You're not 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.480 gonna see Clippers Sons in the death slot. You give 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.679 it to Denver. Here are my takeaways. Playoff Yokicic is 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.640 here and he's really good. Playoff Yokic is different than 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.480 anybody else. Playoff Yokics is very different than himself. In 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.080 the regular season, he had thirteen, four and six in 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.320 twenty eight minutes, and he fouled out with the Nuggets 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:33.840 up twenty. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.640 But in the first quarter of first half, they just went. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.240 To him time and time and time and time again, 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:44.800 facilitating perfectly sweeping the boards, going up against multiple seven footers, 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.000 and just being the MVP that everybody knows he has 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:51.120 been so second, another point is the Nuggets are just really, 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.240 really good. The Nuggets are really efficient. They have multiple 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:58.120 guys that can get you fifteen points. Aaron Gordon had thirteen, 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.920 Porter had eighteen, Jokic thirteen, Jamal Murray twenty four. He 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.679 was kind of the leading scorer on that team, and 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.440 KCP with fifteen, Bruce Brown off the bench fourteen, So 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:13.600 it was probably the most balanced scoring effort of any 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.160 team in the playoffs this year, and you don't need 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.560 a guy like nicolea. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:20.800 Jokicch to go off for forty. 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.400 You don't you have guys along the way that can 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.440 help you with thirteen, twelve, fifteen, seventeen along the way. 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.800 Really hard to beat a team like that. If you 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.200 have to defend every single player and there is no 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.360 weakness and they can all shoot and score. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.240 That's tough. That's a really tough team to beat. And 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.360 then you know, I think the thing somebody mentioned to 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:38.800 me was like. 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.080 Wow, Michael Porter Junior is a de wildcard, and I said, well, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.000 I think this is a team full of wildcards. You 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.760 never know what you're gonna get from MPJ, but you 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.440 also don't know what you're gonna get from KCP. KCP 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.800 could give you five for six from three, and he 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.800 could also go zero for nine from three. 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:56.439 Day to day. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:02.440 The Nuggets are like night and day. Thirdly, man, the Wolves, 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:07.280 the Wolves are They're just not themselves. They've played two 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.720 playoff games already. They might have been gassed coming to 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.520 Mile High in Denver, but I don't really care. This 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.840 is a team with Rudy and Kat on the floor 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:17.920 that does not make an ounce of sense. And we 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.600 know that Rudy got ran off the floor again. He 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.680 was in negative twenty eight and twenty seven minutes because 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:29.040 the Nuggets exposed him. Karl Anthony Towns was better. But listen, 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:34.520 this roster is getting exposed. They miss Jaden McDaniels, they 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.960 miss Nas Reed, and I'm not really sure that they 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.240 can keep up with this Denver team without that defense. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.480 The series is gonna be over fast. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.680 Game three is the key Nuggets can win against the 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:45.360 Wolves on the road. 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.040 It's probably night night sleep mask. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.680 So Celtics Hawks another one that's gonna be over fast? 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.600 Is this series over before it started? Celtics blew the 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.400 doors off the Hawks in Game one. They built the 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:04.840 lead of twenty fast and in the process served everybody 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:05.400 in the NBA. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:06.600 The Boston Celtics are. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:10.560 Back right that they actually are, especially with Giannis going down, 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.960 may be the team to be in the East. Three takeaways. 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.520 Trey Young sucks. He's terrible in playoffs. He just really is. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.160 Whatever his point number is when you're betting him, just 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.840 take the under every single time. Is the fun levels 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.560 are at an all time low for Portray According to 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.480 Dan Greenberg, how bad is it? 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.560 Trey Young versus the Celtics guards well. 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.280 Versus Derek White, he had thirty one possessions, six points 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:41.560 and went two for seven verse Marcus Smart, reigning Defensive 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.960 Player of the Year sixteen possessions, five points, two for 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:49.280 six shooting, Versus Malcolm Brogden two possessions. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.520 Zero points, zero for one shooting. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.320 There is nobody that he can score on. Derek White's 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.600 probably a shoe in for all defensive NBA team. Brogden 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.760 has a defensive rating of one to twelve point six 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.240 the sho year, which is about the same as Derek Whites. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.560 I have no idea how Trey Young is going to 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:05.560 be able to get loose. 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.800 Second, the Celtics are going to dominate and manage to 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:13.480 dominate the Hawks despite the fact that Robert Williams was 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.560 a non factor. He was legit the only player on 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.800 the roster ide a negative plus minus min seven, and 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.400 this was despite going six for six from the field. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.800 I don't think he's the same player, and I do 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.200 not think it matters against a team like the Hawks, 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.720 and Boston doesn't need him to beat Atlanta. They're one 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.760 hundred percent going to need him to beat the Sixers. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.600 But old boy, listen, the Hawks feel like they're. 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:41.080 In trouble if Trey continues. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.960 Thirdly, his run of mediocre play in Atlanta, does this 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.800 mean he's getting traded. I don't mean to be woo 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.280 Janowski right now and like move forward too far. But 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.800 Quinn Snyder is a good coach and he was brought 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.920 on to suss out whether Trey Young is the future 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.440 point guard for this team. And they do feel like 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.840 they have some major issues to contend with because they've 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.320 got Dejonte Andre. If Quinn Snyder wants to build this 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.000 team to be beating the rest of these Eastern Conference 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.679 teams like the Celtics and like the Sixers, and I 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.840 just showed you all of his stats that were booboo, 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:16.000 what is he gonna do? 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:18.960 This series could be over and four and Trey Young 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.600 could be moved to some random team in the offseason. 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.600 Knicks versus Cavs. What a fascinating matchup this is. I 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.840 think everybody expected it to go seven, and I think 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.840 it still will. Nick stole home court right out from 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:37.560 under Cleveland with performances from their star, a gutty game 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:42.919 from Julius Randall, but also Josh Hart Josh Hart is 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.240 so good on this team. That first round pick that 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.760 they had to give up to get him is worth 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:52.720 every single penny. First off, the takeaways, that is just 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.920 that Jalen Brunson and Josh Hard are like peas and carrots. 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.360 Heart was eight for eleven for seventeen. Brunson went off 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.480 for twenty seven. That's forty four for the two guys 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.040 in the backcourt that went to school together at Villanova. 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.200 When you can get that, it's really hard to beat somebody. 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.399 When Hart is coming off the bench and giving you 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:15.320 fifteen plus. Jalen Brunson had the ball on his hands 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:19.000 for the final minute and there was some timely offensive 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:19.680 rebounding that. 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:21.480 Went into the books for a nixt win. 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.240 But listen, you also had a timely bucket from Josh Hart. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.040 They're not the most talented team, but boy did they 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.840 find a way to scheme to. 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.000 Make Darius Garland uncomfortable. They just bodied them. 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:40.000 Secondly, they made life so uncomfortable for Darius Garland, trapping 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.160 him the entire game. They forced them into five turnovers, 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.000 and he had seventeen points on seven for thirteen shooting. 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.000 He was just a wounded duck, just a wounded duck. 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:55.159 Josh Hart Emmanuel quickly and Garland didn't put up a 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.679 single shot in the second half, So I think the 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:59.040 Cabs are going to have to figure out a way 0:18:59.040 --> 0:18:59.560 to fix that. 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:01.960 They apparently say. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:03.480 That they're going to be more physical in Game two 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:05.920 because Darius Garland said that the refs let them play 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:06.240 a lot. 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:08.959 However, the refs change game to game folks. 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:11.080 He said, we need to hit first and see how 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.200 the refs react instead of being punched in the face 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:14.080 and just laying down. 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:15.840 We're gonna see how that turns out. 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.240 The last takeaways that Donovan Mitchell is worth every single 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.600 cent he is him. He's single handedly brought the Calves 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.720 back almost one of the game too. They didn't have 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.080 any business being in the game, but Donovan Mitchell had 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.960 thirty eight six threes, and without them, I think the 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.280 Calves lose by twenty. Well, without them, the Calves aren't 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.520 even there. Calves are probably just a playing team that 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.159 just gets bounced. I think there's a good chance the 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.800 series goes seven net sixers. 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:43.920 I mean, this is like the Wolves versus the Nuggets. 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:47.360 It's a mismatch. We kind of knew it was going 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:47.600 to be. 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:49.800 We were hoping that there was gonna be a role 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:54.520 player like Michal Bridges who could help you compete. But 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:58.120 when PJ. Tucker is hitting early threes, you know it's 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.040 going to be a bad night. I think they won 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:05.520 every single quarter and they did three takeaways from the game. 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:09.919 Joel is activated playoff mode is really really good. The 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:11.879 box score doesn't look like he did anything twenty six 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.640 to five and three, but he was throwing his round 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:19.440 with reckless abandon The nets have no answer. They have 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:24.320 no answer for Joel Embiid Nick Claxton, you're too small. 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.720 Joel can facilitate around you. It is hard for anyone 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:31.800 to defend Joel Emba, which we know. The problem though, 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.760 is that he took another bad fall. Every time that happens, 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:39.439