 What's the word, y'all? Yeah, it's Raps, ladies and gentlemen. Shout out to the Dallas Mavericks for getting this far. I'm overachieved when we go talk about that, but this series is over. Unless, unless they become the first team at 147-ish to come back down 0-3, yeah, it's kind of Raps. It might be in four, five, six, or seven, but it feel like this is a Warrior series, and we're gonna be talking about them previewing them once they get to the NBA finals. But this game, hey, listen, this is what it boiled down to for me personally, because I've been seeing a lot of conversation on Twitter. The game just wrapped up like five minutes ago, and a lot of the conversation on Twitter is revolving around Luka's defense. Ah, Luka gotta get his shape. Ah, Luka gotta become a plus defender, boom, bam, bam. Which is, yeah, those things help for sure. Luka being a good defender or plus defender at the bare minimum would be okay, and it would help. But that's not why you lost. That's not why you lost today, you know what I'm saying? You had three people show up to play basketball today. That is one reason. Reggie Bullock was 0 for 10, and Maxi Kleba was 0 for five, and he had a lot of shots in this game that he completely decided that he didn't want to take because he lost his confidence. You lost the rebound battle. You lost the assist battle. I mean, you lost... Oh, you actually won the turnover battle. Okay, bright sides, bright sides. Listen, Luka being better on defense, like I said, of course it would help the overall idea of this team, but you didn't lose this game because Luka is a negative on defense. It was the other stuff. It was the smaller stuff, and Andrew Wiggins. Yep, and Andrew Wiggins. So those are the reasons why you lost these games. Well, I guess this game. But it was interesting. That's all I asked for, right? You know, all I asked was for interesting games, and the Dallas Mavericks was fighting. You had Luka, Jalen Brunson, and Spencer Demity be the only people to show up today, which is insane. And that's not anything new for the Dallas Mavericks in the series. It feels like they can never have a game or every single one of their players play up to. Just average for them. It's always a few people that's giving them complete duds. Oh, for 10, Reggie? Oh, for 10 after the way you shot in the last couple series? Maxi Kleba, I was raving about your 3-point shooting. You shoot like 49% from three throughout the playoffs until the series. And actually, let me go look at the series stats because I'm actually very curious to see when it comes to the series, the people that were hitting the shots in the first two series. How are they performing so far? Davis Bertans is shooting 16% from three to series. Maxi Kleba is shooting 22% from three to series. Reggie Bullock is shooting 45%, and I don't think that's definitely not accounting for today's game. And then Maxi Kleba's number is not accounting for today's game. These are in the first two games of the series. So you take that over five for Maxi Kleba, and then you add that over seven for three for Reggie. Bullock, those numbers are a lot rougher, a lot, a lot rougher. Like I said, this might be the end. This might be the funeral or the pre-funeral. There's a party before the funeral. Is that called the wake? This is the wake for the Dallas Mavericks. And I don't think their fans should be upset about anything because this was an over-performance. They should be thinking about what happens in this off-season or in the next off-season or whatever it may be to improve this team. One thing I would dread for this team is that the front office will look at what they're doing right now and be like, the pieces are here. Let's just run it back. Another year of Luka. We bring back Jaylen Brunson, another year of Dorn Finney Smith. Oh, Tim Hardaway, Junior's back. That was the missing piece. I would feel so bad for the fan base if that's the case because I believe that with this current roster, a championship is going to be a super hard to win. And that's why if you look at my pre-playoff thing, I put them in had to be perfect because I think everything had to be perfect for them to win this championship. But they did exceed my expectations for sure. But I don't think that Luka needs a secondary superstar alongside them. But I do believe that they need some improvement across that roster. I do believe they need a viable center, like above average center play for the defensive reasons, for the rebound of reasons, because they're gonna be on all of those aspects. I think we'll talk about their entire off-season once the series has ended. And I wanna focus on the goal to stay warriors because the dynasty continues. The dynasty continues. After a couple of years, what we thought it might have been lost, here they are back in the finals. And for me personally, I know dynasty has a couple of different meanings to different people, but I would count this core as a dynasty. You win the first championship with this current core when I'm talking about Steph Curry, Clay Thompson, Drey Montgomery. Boom, the year after that, Drey Montgomery kicks in people in the nuts and they end up blowing the 3-1 lead. Kevin Wright comes to the team. You win a couple more championships. And then he leaves to go on to his next team and then you use a couple more seasons to get back to the conference finals and just one game away from being back to the finals. To me, they have been one of the most dominant teams in the last, I don't know, eight years. For me, that's a dynasty. That's what a dynasty is. Now, they had to capitalize and go here win that championship. I don't know if it's gonna be against the heat. I don't know if it's gonna be against the Boston Celtics and I don't know who out of picking that series so far. But in this playoff run, in the 2022 playoffs, the goal to stay warriors has looked like the best team, for sure. And then now they got me thinking about all the things they did to get to this point. Like I said, Kevin Wright came to the team. It takes some extreme circumstances for them to lose that championship. The last year of Kevin Wright with Clay Thompson going down, the KD going down and all of the injuries. I'm not saying that the championship is void because I'm not that type of dude, but a lot of things had to go wrong for them to lose that championship. Kevin Wright decided I want to be a Brooklyn net. And this is why, this is why I'm like, if Zach Levine leaves the Bulls, we need to get something back. Kevin Wright knew that the Brooklyn net said two max spots because Cary Irvin told him that in the, was that the all-star game 2019 in Chicago that he told him two max spots, two max spots and everybody was going crazy over two max spots. But Kevin Wright was like, hey man, these dudes didn't meet decent for the last couple of years. They got me my first championship. I want some finals in VP awards. I don't want to just leave them in the dust. So, you know what Brooklyn? Can you send them some stuff? I guess that's not exactly how the conversation went. But they got back D'Angelo Russell, Sabash Napier and Travion Graham. You're like, I say nothing. D'Angelo Russell, you don't need to play for them no more. But oh boy, that boy Bob Myers decided to flip this man, D'Angelo Russell, for Wiggins. A 2021 first round pick, top three protected. That was Jonathan Camingo. And as you can see, Wiggins blossomed into an all-star. And today, and specifically in that fourth quarter, Wiggins was amazing. I mean, whole game he played really well. But the fourth quarter Wiggins, where you get the poster, you get the put-back dunk, you get him going to the free, Wiggins get it to the free, come on, man. Wiggins shot 80% from the free throw line tonight. Played good defense, let all score. Nope, he did not lead all scores to Steph Curry, also hit 31 and then I forgot Luca had 40. But hey, a star in his role, this was an all-star performers from Andrew Wiggins in the game that you really, really wanted, right? You wanted to suck all of the hope out of this series and you did that and Wiggins did that. He ended up with 10 points in that quarter. He shot three for five from the field and he hit four of the five of his free throws. That's an amazing quarter for Andrew Wiggins, right? So you do all of that. You know, I remember at the time, you know, they pull off the D'Angelo Russell trade and I was a bit, I was questioning it. Like, cause I've seen what Wiggins had done and his previous stop and you know, he was solid. He was good for like 20 a game, but like there was motor issues. There was like, will he ever be able to defend? And boom, they turned Wiggins's career around. And now you, I mean, some people might still say it, but you can't look at Wiggins as a bus, bros, an all-star starter and he's one game away from being in the finals and he played a huge part in it. And then like, bro, they sitting on the bench as the 12th man, this man has been one of the best players on the team that's about to go to the finals. So they turned all of that. And then now they're bridging the current and the future. Even though Jonathan Caminga most moody, having played big parts in his playoff run, we saw what they could potentially do. When Jonathan Caminga got minutes in the regular season, I know I'm talking about regular season here, but come on, man, I can't, I can't expect him to be thrown into the fire of the playoffs as a 19 year old who didn't play. No, like, I don't know that G-Liga night has a playoff. You know what I'm saying? And like, it ain't like Jonathan Caminga played March Madness basketball, when they're going home basketball. I can't expect him to get thrown into the fire and him to perform crazily. But in the regular season, I'm the guy who's like, man, you got to get him one minutes because when he plays, he looks amazing. Moses Moody having up and down, up and down between here and the G, but when he's up here, he's good. And you still got Weisman. I don't know what the hell going on with Weisman, but they've been able to bridge this gap between Steph Curry, who's 30 plus years old, Clay Thompson, and Jermon Green, who 30 plus years old who are, I would say, outside their prime but still pretty damn good. And they've done a really good job at it. I ain't even mention named Jordan Poole they got at the end of the first round a couple of years ago, turned them to a G-League player to one of the more exciting and more impactful players in all of basketball. So I got to get a lot of love to the goal to stay warriors in the way they've done these things, man. I've been trying to explain to people that having a consistent, smart front office dude goes a long way when it comes to drafting, bro. It comes to drafting. Now they ain't shooting 100% from the draft, that's for sure. But when they hit, they hit, hitting on Steph Curry, hitting on Jermon Green in the second round. 11th overall pick, Clay Thompson, Kevon Looney. I don't even know what Kevon Looney got drafted. I would assume his late first round, early second round. Actually, let me look that up because Kevon Looney deserved my respect. My fault, Kevon. 30th overall pick. Yep, because it's the Warriors, right? In 25th, it's the Warriors. They were the best team of basketball before. So yeah, so they've done a pretty good job drafting. The only one that might be a missed only time will tell would be the number two overall pick, James Wiseman, but I even understood the pick in that moment. I still would have probably went Lamello but I understand the rationale of trying to get the big there. And we gonna see how they do, man. We gonna see how they do in this upcoming series because I will say no matter if it is Miami or if it is the Boston Celtics, it's gonna be the best defensive team you've played against so far. I will say that. The best defensive team you've played against so far. And if the Dallas Mavericks somehow come back and win this series, clip all of this and send it to every single one of my tweets to the End of Existence. If y'all are the one to break the mold of the 0-1, 0-1-46, y'all deserve the clown me to the End of Existence legitimately. You deserve it. But I'm excited to see what they end up doing at the end of the season. I mean, Jasekia came in earlier in the year and they was kind of average. They was beating up on bad teams, losing the good teams and then the defense started to click, the shooter started to shoot and then Luca got into shape and just like that, they was coasting along the way. But I mentioned this a couple of videos ago. This one right here reminds me of the Portland Trailblazers. The only difference is this is still an early team in their thing. Like I felt like when Portland, the Portland ended up in the Conference Finals game, it was already rumors about Dame and CJ potentially trying to break up. Ain't no rumors around this team because Luca's like 23 years old. You know what I'm saying? But when I say it feels like the Portland Trailblazer series, it's like a team that surprised the world as like a 4-5 seed getting all the way to the Conference Finals and then getting swept. Potentially, potentially getting swept by the Golden State Warriors because the Golden State Warriors are almighty. Oh yeah, I saw my, man, I be saying my mentions, bro. I don't always reply to my tweets because the main account could get so very toxic. That's why I'm tweeting over there. I've been enjoying tweeting on my baseball account and then my burner account because NBA fans are so weird. But I've been saying to reply, man, can I take one day off? Yeah, I didn't talk about the game last night, but I just wanted to chill with the fam, bro. I'd be uploading like 15 videos a week across platforms. I deserve a day, you feel me? But I can quickly give you my synopsis or my analysis about the last game for show. Let me go ahead and pull this up. Oh man, Idris, no, no, no, it's Bam again, it's Bam again. My elbows are ashy, but hey, it's Bam again. We call this man Idris when he don't perform and it's Bam when he does. And Bam came out to play from very early on. He heard every podcast in the world that's recapping NBA, talking about the fact that Bam Adebayo was giving you like five points a game and he's a max player. And then in this one, he gave you 31 and he looked as aggressive as all can be. And that you haven't caught Laurie back in this game was huge. I cannot express it enough. I know he only ended with 11 points and six assists, but I promise you, his presence was known from the very early on. Getting Bam Adebayo involved, running the break, just keeping the pace alive. He had an early jump shot. He was getting Jimmy involved and Jimmy had to leave with his little injury. And now we got him with an injury. We got Marcus Smart twisted his ankle and I don't know how the heck Brof came back to play. Jason Tatum had a little stinger in the shoulder every single quarter. Somebody with down an injury and the Miami he were able to pull it away even though Jimmy Butler was gone. But the Boston Celtics had a little run and I know everybody's already talked about this about Jason Tatum, how like it's either he's dropping you 50 or he's giving you 10 and he looks terrible. That was, I think I said this in last series too or maybe it was a series before that. This was one of the worst games I've ever seen from Jason Tatum, legitimately. He was giving up the ball to the other team. There was like two possessors in the third quarter where he just, he looked at like Max screws in his eyes and said, here. And Max screws like shit, I don't, Victor Debo came in the second half and made me look expendable. So I need to take this, I need to take this steal and do something with it. And he did. I don't have predictions for the rest of the series, bro. Wish you washy, wish you washy. I just want to see Robert Williams play healthy basketball, bro. Like he's so important to what this team does and yes they have one games and closed out series without him. But I do believe that what he brings is so important to their potential chances of winning the series. So I hope he gets back healthy. I hope that the Marcus Smart ankle thing is not anything that's going to hold him out of a game. Or even if it keeps him into the game, it's not something that he's like lepping along. I hope that Jason Tatum come back to play because Jaylen Brown gave you everything you wanted. I think I got a notification that he is the first person to drop 40 points on Perfit from two-pointers since like the early 70s. That's like a big man stat. You know, Perfit from two, he did that. But you got, you got my MVP of this game going to PJ Tucker. He did everything you could imagine for him playing great defense. Like I said, on Jason Tatum making him struggle and he also finished with 17 points, which might be a career high. I ain't looking at it, but I'm gonna assume it's a career high for PJ Tucker because nobody expect PJ Tucker to do any of that. Anyway, all I can hope for is that in some time in my adult life, before the age of 90, that the Bulls are a team that's ran greatly, like the Golden State Warriors. I know it has happened in my lifetime, but when I'm three years old, that don't count. I was not watching those games. Let's hope that we get a Bob Meyers 2.0 and our tunist, Connie Chovis, that he know what the hell he doing, so I can go five, seven years and only have two down years and then the rest of the years were contenders. Cause that sounds like the best thing as a fan. You feel me? You have a couple of tanking years, you get a top three pick, a number seven pick, and now you got superstars and they're back to being in the finals. I'm jealous. I'm low key jealous. I'm low key jealous. I've been in Chase Center. It's fire, but the Bulls need to do something. I don't know.