 What's the word y'all NBA finals game one? I'm broken baby. Shout out to my guy Reese made it for the fire Devon Booker tee three games away I know I know I know I'm supposed to be unbiased around here, but I'm excited man I don't want it to be just three games away by the way I do want a long and productive season or series But hey three games away for the Phoenix Suns bro and today was a good game though It wasn't necessarily a crazy close one the box had their couple runs in there to cut it down to seven eight But who stepped on the necks of the team? Christopher Emanuel Paul who stepped on the next the Bucks DeAndre Aiden who stepped on the necks of the injuries injuries did too Because though Yana's did play in this game and had his moments in this game Obviously not a hundred percent. He only attempt at 11 shots. He shot. He shot more free throws on the actual shots He was more playing the decoy role. I mean if you look at his final stat line 20 points 70 rebounds forces, but the 11 shot He wasn't the the dominant Yanis that we've seen for this entire run and obviously you can tell it was the knee He was lifting up court a few times where he was giving a ball off and like hey y'all do y'all thing I'm gassed. I think it's been over a week since the last time he actually played like actual NBA basketball And there's a guy there for his entire career Leading up into this year at least where he was never a guy that was going to give you 40 minutes a game because he's playing So hard on the off his side of the ball. He's a bulldozer bulldozer bulldozer He doesn't have the lungs to play heavy heavy minutes And you take a whole week away from productive basketball And of course he is gassed out of this world and he can't bulldozer to the lane like he normally does That's that and they also play some amazing defense on him today, man The Phoenix Suns had a scheme and they tried to basically send the whole team at him any time They got close to the rim. There are screenshots I'm pretty sure people got screenshots where Yanis has the ball within the three or four feet of the rim And there's four jerseys around him from the Phoenix Suns like bro You're not getting a look and even within that the first half first quarter or so he looked as dominant as ever Like the knee wasn't bothered me got a shakedown block on McHale bridges. He's dunking He's doing everything in his power to keep his team in the game But he didn't really have it for the Milwaukee Bucks The the others didn't perform Chris Middleton had a okay stat line You 29 points per game or 29 points this game a couple moments We hit a couple in a row and it felt like he was very productive a Jew holiday Continues to distinguish if Yanis is not playing he can be super effective But when Yanis is playing he struggles offensively and they didn't get the production from Bobby Portis as you've seen I'm you didn't a production from Brent Forbes who they tried to play a decent amount of because they need shooting This team coming into this series was shooting 30% from a free throw line as a team I mean they shot 44, which is great in comparison, but they had to run a lot of Brent Forbes They had to run 10 minutes of Jeff Teague and at the end of the day Those aren't two players that you would normally run in the NBA finals This is game one though Typically in a game number one teams rotations are eight nine deep and as we get deeper into the series people can cut off cut off because it matters More the Dante de Vincenzo injury is super significant You know, of course Yanis is injury significant But Dante de Vincenzo's injury is significant because if Dante de Vincenzo is here and he's healthy and he's playing Brent Forbes doesn't touch the floor Jeff Teague doesn't touch the floor and a lot of those minutes from Pat Conna's and maybe get cut down He wasn't terrible. He wasn't good either and Dante de Vincenzo does that He throws an extra defender for some of those perimeter guys that they wouldn't normally get But this series is very far from over. I'm gonna talk about the Suns for sure But this series is very far from over because I saw my guy Taz Mellis tweet this and I didn't really think about it The Milky Bucks are one and four or one and three out of the four game fours They played this series or this season on the road to the finals and the one game that they did win was an overtime game in Milwaukee that was a Jimmy Butler game tire Yeah, is that the last highlight of Jimmy Butler's season? Yeah, probably So this is not a team that comes out and be like a we on y'all butts and game number one They take some time to do some adjustments and I think they have some adjustments to do because on my podcast this morning One of the thing I was saying is that one of the key factors to the series obviously health again But like the pick and roll defense with the Milwaukee Bucks because early in the last series against Trey Young and them They were drop covers drop covers drop covers and the Trey young drop 40 and as the series went on they started to hedge a little bit more They started to switch I saw Brooke Lopez guard and Trey young a bunch at the end of this series because they changed their defensive scheme and Devin Booker and Chris Paul as good as Trey young is in a pick and roll These are guys that are just as good or even better. We're talking about Chris Paul He might be the greatest pick and roll player of all time So I was saying that the X factors what bud decides to do on the pick and roll and his goal was a Brooke Lopez In the game drop coverage and Bobby porters is in the game We trust Bobby porters on a perimeter a little bit more of the brick Lopez We can switch those things and boy that they see that switch and Chris Paul and Devon Booker We're like, yeah, we'll take that and Bobby didn't necessarily play terrible terrible defense But when you got two of the greatest pick and roll isolation players in the league It made them look real bad a couple in the place was Objectively bad, but he played some really solid defense on some Devon Booker moves and Devon Booker just rolls up It shot over them. They also picked out Brent Forbes as Any good team would do in a situation like this. Who is the weakest link on the court? It's obviously Brent Forbes, so let's go at Brent Forbes with Devin Let's go at Brent Forbes with with CP and they did that and did that and did that and Brent Forbes said a couple shots for them But when he is a liability on the defense side of the ball He's giving up this many points. It ain't necessarily a good thing for him to be on the court So I would expect for game number two is either two things Here's one of the two things either he's gonna come out game two and he's gonna hit four threes in a row like he did in that one game against I forget who or he won't play Or he'll play instead of 12 minutes. He'll play two minutes and then Bud's like, okay short leash We can't really do that Man what a game from Chris Paul, bro? First ever finals appearance from my point God and boy did he show up first quarter He didn't really do much first half really. He didn't really do much the recorder comes around. All right I'm done planted the pace and let my other guys get involved It's my time to shine and he did that step back and one threes way twisting his ankle and I'm just I'm like, bro No, this ain't this ain't the time and then later in the game. He hurt his hand. I'm like, bro This is not the time Chris. This is not the time for this But what a great performance from him Devin Booker didn't necessarily shoot the ball Well, I'm looking at eight for 21 one for eight for three But he was hella aggressive when it came to to get into the free throw line And I saw some people and these these people don't represent the entire fan base at all But I saw a few bucks fans tweeted me like yo Kenny look at the Disparity and the free throws and it's 26 to 16 and throughout this game It wasn't really that close at one point. It was super super lopsided until Yannis drew a bunch of fouls in the fourth Quarter and what I would just say to that. It's not that it was rigged The Suns legitimately tried to get to the basket at any time they can and it felt like Chris Middleton drew holidays At a team we're settling if it wasn't Yannis bulldoze in his way to the paint They didn't really have much paint production other than you know, Brooke Lopez had a couple shots, you know but this team is Dramatically different schemes when Yannis plays and when Yannis does it and when Yannis plays it's Yannis as the aggressor Right. I think I heard somewhere earlier when I was listening to a podcast I think it was Zach Lowe's podcast I could be mistaken and if I was savvy enough I would look this up when I'm talking about it But they were saying that these are the two lowest Freed throw attempting teams in the entire league It's Yannis carrying the box when it comes to free throw attempts and then it's like Devon Booker because yeah, hey, Deodra ain't an amazing game We're gonna talk about that But um, six free throw attempts is really good for Deodra ain't considering even having games was zero from zero from a free throw line But hey, if Yannis wasn't making it to the paint nobody else was really trying to be aggressive You know, there may be a few plays that were missed fouls, but that's just in the scheme of basketball It's gonna happen that way. Um, but let's talk about Deandre a Graphic pops up on my screen. I had the screen shot that day. Hold on I gotta go to my Twitter got the screen shot that thing But I think it was like the last player to have a 2015 game going with rebounds and NBA finals was like Tim dunk, let me see here this first player with 15 points and 15 rebounds in a finals debut since Tim Duncan and 99 Deandre Aiden completely dominated this game Completely Dominated this game and all of the great centers that were in the finals or in the playoffs this year He stands above all He stands above all and and what a performance from him. Chris Paul did him so dirty Because the last shot of the game It's like five seconds left or so Chris Paul literally just steals the rebound out of Deandre Aiden hands Preventing him from setting another record of having a 2020 game. So he had to settle for a 2219 game still great Still great hands were immaculate no turnovers for Deandre Aiden today and you know him if he's probably not gonna miss He's probably not going not gonna miss somebody said I'm just looking at my Twitter account here Y'all know these are off the cuff. I just talk He this is from Jake and hoops. He's the top reply to my tweet He has worked his way into bam cat and Rudy discusses behind and beating yokas his postseason is arguably their best player over the last six weeks Tell me if y'all agree or disagree with Jake and hoops takes there. I don't think he's too far off I'm not saying I could completely agree, but another tweet that I saw that was very very Interesting was a tweet. I'll be screen signing these tweets because I'll be wanting to talk about these things It's from Mark Stein This is only the ninth game Chris Paul has played in the month And he is uber fresh especially by the standards of this wild season in the show tonight I didn't even think about that while the Milwaukee Bucks are banged up and just went to some seven games Wait, they go to this just going to a long series after long series at the long series Chris Paul missed Games this this series and because of that he really he's fresh He's fresh the freshest playoff run of Chris Paul's career. That's he that's coming off of injury You know I'm saying but that yes that that definitely was a factor in today's game Definitely was a factor today's game. I'm excited for this series man Like I said this series is very far from over the Milwaukee Bucks are a very good team y'all I want y'all to realize this the Milwaukee Bucks. Yes, I've said it before Angel Reese have played a big part in these two teams facing against each other to find us. That's a fact There's no disputing that But the Bucks are a super super talented team and there's anything you could take away from this game Bucks fans You could be like always straight. We're good It's the fact that you shot 44% from three today And I don't know if you've had a single game this series or this whole playoff run that was 44% The jump shot was falling you need Yannis to get a couple more days of health because him going into this being doubtful It's a questionable to another questionable till we good is obviously he's not there He's not there just yet So maybe these next two days and I think they get a three-day break in between that so it might take a few games For Yannis to get healthy But the three-point shots were hitting tonight and it's one thing you can hang your hats on Coach bud has to figure out what to do about the pick and roll coverage because you saw he tried a little bit of both would work Lopez was sitting down and we're not doing anything and there were Bobby porters we switched in and he got ice I don't think the switch is a terrible idea. I listen to me think the Suns made some really really tough shots today I don't know if I mentioned the two names of the camps. I'm Cameron Johnson Cameron Payne Both looking amazing. No Dario sauce because he got into very early on but it didn't matter Definitely didn't matter because the under any was so dominant that they need to really break him out of the game at any point, you know You can't go small like I said, I mean you can't go small like it's the Suns But the Suns are not a team that's gonna be reactionary and say we have to go small too because Aiden is so versatile Wow, I'm excited for this one. Michael burrs. It's a big-time shot So you got his stuff glassed earlier, but it didn't matter scoreboard Yannis Scoreboard Yeah, I'm excited for game number two. Hopefully I could pull up to game number three in Milwaukee I think that's on a Sunday. I might be able to pull a trigger And they're expensive. It's like a grand per seats unless you want to sit in the 300 tonight if I'm gonna sit in the 300 I just did the create So we'll see I let me know what you think about game one. Are you a guy that say it's over? I've seen a lot of people sons and four guy is signing autographs and doing meet-ups and Really? Hypothetically speaking What hypothetically speaking? um, if I were to If I were to Sell autographed pictures of myself Would you buy and at what price? In what price because sons and four guy is selling and people are buying I think I got a little bit more clout than sons and four guy But sons and four guy did talk to Devon Booker. I've never done that book. Hit me up, baby Come on to the show. I also shot my shot at Isaiah Thomas today Ratioed his tweet asking to come on called game and he didn't respond. So I shoot, you know, I'm saying I might shoot 10% But I'm gonna keep shooting so deep book Isaiah Thomas anybody in between hit a brother up come on to the show Speaking of that show the actual hero show while we're here at the end of the episode leave a like subscribe if you want to Leave here. We're taking a brief hiatus on the actual called game episode So I don't want people waiting up on Wednesday's think you're gonna get a show because you're not We're trying to recalibrate Try to figure some things out try to get people booked Because I don't know if you notice the last month has been called game lives Which basically a way you're I'm saying us saying we didn't book anybody this week. It's been a struggle independent You know I'm saying it's hard. It's hard to hit people up Some of my friends are still in season shout out to McGill Bridges. So Yeah, I I'm probably upload tomorrow. There's some stuff on my mind dealing with the NBA I feel like I should upload tomorrow. So I see you then