 What's the word, y'all? We just got an instant hardwood classic game one. If you're a neutral fan like I am, this is exactly what you want from your NBA finals. In 20 years, it's gonna be a high to the off season and they're gonna be playing the replays of game one of 2022 NBA finals. Y'all know me if you've been around this channel. I'm not one to overreact, especially not to a game one, especially in the NBA finals. We got two very, very talented and gifted teams and two very, very smart head coaches. A lot of things are gonna be changed throughout this series, but boy this gave us everything. We got the amazes swings. We got crazy shot making. We got good defensive adjustments at halftime. We got an amazing Steph Curry quarter. We got Al Horford blowing kisses to his family in the crowd. Dare Gwai get the Fred Van Vleet post baby bump. Today's video is brought to you by PricePix. 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Whole moments of swings and now Peyton Pritchard and Derek White are doing a Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen impression becoming the greatest duo of all time. The Boston Celtics just stole game one on the Warriors who had not lost a game at the chase center, this entire playoff run. They won game one in the chase center where their all NBA first team player shot 17% from the field. Final fourth quarter was 40 to 16. And one of them was like a three that didn't matter. Me and pops looked at it was 40 to 13 when they pulled the starters. I'm just, I'm at a loss for words. And like I said, I'm not one to overreact from a game one, especially when we have Steve Kerr and Eme Yudoka who we saw at halftime, not easy, but how talented these coaches are. Let's start off in the first half everything we saw. It felt like the lights were extremely bright for the Boston Celtics. If you get a first quarter where Steph Curry gets three and I counted three wide open threes, it wasn't like transition threes. These are like in the half court where the Boston Celtics Marcus Smart is looking at the next person, the next person looking at Marcus Smart, like what the hell just happened. You got three shots like that from Steph Curry and he was making them count. That first quarter Steph Curry performers like, oh snap, he been here with y'all been talking. He been here with y'all been talking. To get to the second quarter, he said a lot of the second quarter because he played the entire first court. I don't think he scored a single basket in the second quarter, but it was okay because you had some other people there to alleviate the pain. But one thing me and pops were talking about was like Steph Curry had this crazy first quarter, but it's still at the end of the first quarter the words are only up by four. That voted very well for the Boston Celtics Steph just had an amazed performance and we still only two possessions away from having this game. And then you saw that in the second quarter the Boston Celtics score a lot more. The defense gets a little bit more locked in and like I said, Steph Curry ends up with zero in the second quarter and we go into half time feeling like this can go either way. And then boom, things change. Once we got to the third quarter I loved the adjustments that even you're doping the team ran because like early on. So I talked about this in our preview about the defensive versatility from both of these teams, right? Early on for some reason I was very surprised to see them running a ton of drop coverage with Steph Curry. We were running these picks and they were going under the screens and stuff. I'm like, do we not realize this is greatest shooter of all time? And then we got to the third quarter and they were still running some form of a drop but they weren't dropping too much. I remember a play in the early third quarter where they ran a pick a row and Robert Williams is maybe six inches away from Steph Curry opposed to like two feet. I'm not good at measurements by the way. So it could have been either closer or further but either way they were playing a lot higher in the third quarter and that kind of ruffle Steph Curry's feathers. He wasn't getting the same shots, you know what I'm saying? He wasn't getting the same shots, same looks as he was in the first half but it didn't matter because the rest of the Golden State Warriors came to play once we got to that third quarter and then we get to this third quarter. They made one, two, three, five, six threes. The Golden State Warriors made six different threes and then when I think Iggy hit that one in the corner I think that was the third quarter and a lot of the things that we said in our preview start to come to fruition where I talked about the dry streaks that you see in the Boston Celtics office from time to time that literally happened in that third quarter and I had people tweeting me like, hey, everything can you say and this preview is coming true and then it did it because that dry streak turned into Niagara Falls or something and once we got to the fourth quarter and I could not believe the shot making early on the shot maker was left right. It was Boston hit one and then out of worry said one Boston hit one now Jordan Poole's coming to hit another and then well that was it. We talk at end of third quarter, early fourth quarter is going back and forth and then we got to the fourth quarter. There was nothing that the Boston Celtics could throw at the rim that didn't look like it was going in. I think they started seven from seven from three and the performance that we got from Al Horford just made me smile again being the guy that played the most amount of games without a finalist appearance and him to come out here and perform so great was amazing for him but me as a fan I was excited for him and I'm recording this like literally right after the game ended so I can't give you the actual plays at these things but in the fourth quarter Al Horford had 11 points at one point he went on an 8-0 streak by himself. He had two wide open threes and they hit like a step back shot in the like short corner. I'm like bro, what do you do about that? Jalen Brown, yes Jalen Brown until we got to the fourth quarter shooting 16 for 17. I remember the graphic very vividly and then we get to the fourth quarter. He had four straight shots. Like it was his possessions where they started to switch or not started to switch. There was a lot of switching in this game because they were matching each other. You saw the Warriors go small and then the Boston Celtics matched that we'll have an Al Horford as the only big and then we have Peyton Pritchard, we have the Jays and it was Peyton Pritchard, the Jays Derek White and then Al Horford so they switched in pretty much everything and same thing with the Warriors. And then we get to the early this fourth quarter you get the switches where Jordan Poole is on Jalen Brown and that was like barbecue chicken for Jalen Brown in the fourth quarter. He took advantage of those things and he got them going in a game where we got to the fourth quarter. Jason Tatum didn't score. He was a plus 27 but didn't score in the fourth quarter, bro. Derek White. We need to start having this conversation about the post-season baby boost. Now I will go out on a limb and say that this probably not working for everybody but in recent NBA history we saw two people turn into fathers in the midst of a post-season run and just play the best basketball of their lives right after it. I'm a new father. Could y'all say in the last month you've seen my content get better? Probably not, but in the basketball court? Man, we saw Fred Van Vleet do it in their finals run and then now Derek White. We talked about in a preview where the Warriors were going to give Derek White that Tony Allen treatment. They got that to an extent. And when he was open, he made the pay. Hell, when he wasn't open, he made the play pay because that shot on the left wing it was like last couple of seconds of the shot clock. He like threw it up there and it went in. That was the moment I knew this was a wrap for this game. Even though we got the crazy office that they can be in the gold and stay Warriors, that shot right there was the silencer of the crowd. After that shot, I'm seeing people walk out of the arena because they knew if he's hitting that, then we don't stand that much of a chance and they didn't. The fourth quarter was about as amazing as you can get. As again, as a neutral fan watching this because it was so much Warriors in the third quarter it felt like nothing that the Boston Celts could do was gonna bring them back into this game and well they did. Now, let's talk about the things that we saw and what we can take away because again, like I said, I'm not a guy that's going to overreact to these games, right? I said very early on how like you had the crazy great Steph Curry quarter and yet you were just four points away. That's a pretty good sign for the Boston Celtics. But if I am the Warriors and I am a Warriors fan, I think I'm going into game number two thinking ain't no way in hell they gonna have another quarter when they hit all of those shots. Could be wrong. It is the finals, right? It only take a little bit. It only take a little bit. You only gotta win four out of seven, right? And they stole one. But if I'm the Warriors, I'm like, even though Derg White has been amazing for the last four games, I don't know if we need to guard him like he's the second come in the Fred Van Vleet. We all know if we need to guard him like he is actually Steph Curry. Let's see if he can do it again, right? Let's see if Al Horford can continue to hit the shots even though like I did a live stream for Leech Report earlier today and it showed like in the regular season Al Horford shot 33% from three and in the postseason he was shooting like 42% or something. So the postseason Al Horford might be a real thing but some of the other things maybe you don't trust as much. But then again, you cannot trust that Jason Tatum is gonna have another game where he shoots 17% from the field. And our preview we talked about that that game felt inevitable and the odds of them winning that game felt like close to zero. But they did. Stealing game one on the road in a series like this is so very crucial because the Golden State Warriors, we talked about the stat a few times on this channel. So the entirety of the Steph Curry clay time to Draymond Green era, they always steal at least one road game, right? And how dominant they had been in the at home and you knew that they was gonna steal one. But you know, like I said, every streak is meant to be broken. You needed to take game one or game two. And now you're playing with house of money at this point if you're the boss of Celsius. Obviously you don't play with your food. If you could replicate things in game number two, you gots to do it my boy. You don't play with your food but you walk out of game number one, knowing that if we lose game number two, we still have home court advantage and we feel damn good about it. That's gotta be a great feeling. I know that the Warriors coaching staff are gonna make whatever adjustments is necessary. So it is a better game for them once we get to the fourth quarter. But wow, this game was amazing. What I didn't like from the Warriors in this one is the amount of we gotta in this run type shots that they were attempted early in that fourth quarter when the Celts were doing their thing. It felt like they had got away from all the fluidity that had had them the lead and kept them the lead through the first three quarters. And it just felt like they were trying to hit that silencer that like, let's kill this momentum shot. And Draymond Green in this one, got him it. This is a ridiculously terrible performance from Draymond Green. One thing that Draymond has been amazing at throughout his career is understanding that the open three pointer that the other team is giving me is gonna be there at the beginning of the shot clock and also at the end of the shot clock. So let's use that time in between and try to get a better shot whether it be Steph, whether it be Clay, whether it be whoever. And then if, if not the material last, then I'll take that shot with two seconds to go. I thought in this game, he was trying to fill himself a little bit too much. You feel me? He's trying to fill himself just a little bit too much. Taking those shots earlier, then you really need him to. And I don't know what he shot from the field. He ended up shooting. Okay, the numbers matched that as he shot two for 12 and 0 for four from three. Also missed all three free throws. I didn't even repeat that. So it's just a really bad performance from Draymond Green who obviously is a very cerebral person. And I don't expect him to take those shots again once we get to the second quarter. Cause I think he's a very self-aware guy. There's one thing I learned from listening to his podcast and you know, being a fan of his for some time, he's very self-aware. And I'm sure when they watched that film he's gonna realize, damn, I was kind of bugging in this one. Cause he was. I can't help but to think about, again, I just, just thinking about game one. How amazing the Derrick White trade hasn't looked so far. You know, we got to the regular season. I definitely remember some CS fans being like, man, he can't shoot. He hasn't been shooting well. The boys defense is still good, but man, he's a lot better than he offensively. And he had been, but again, he's like this. I guess these are the moments that Brad Steve has envisioned when he made these trades to pick up Derrick White because boy, he has been incredible. You know what he had a performance in the playoffs with the Spurs. I think he had a 40 piece with the Spurs from Namaste. I gotta go look it up. Namaste, Derrick White had a ridiculous game in that one playoff series that the Spurs ended up in. Oh, he's been in two playoff series with the Spurs. Why do I only remember one? It was, he played against the Warriors, but you know, he played 18 total minutes in that series. So I'm going to act like that one didn't happen. But game three versus the Nuggets, he had 36. That's what I'm thinking about. He had 36 points in 2019. And in this one, how did you get it? How did you get your 36? He only hit a three. He had won three. He was getting down here. He had 15 made field goals and only one made three. That's insane, Derrick. So these are the moments that I guess Brad Stevens and Vigint and boy, between that bringing back Al, what else is Brad Stevens? Was that Brad Stevens or was that Danny H? Either way, they've done a damn good job of these last couple of years putting together the team for this moment and they capitalized. They took game one at the Chase Center. So the guy with the Boston Celtics banner tattoo, he is three wins away from being a prophet. I hope he put some money on it when he got the tattoo because I know he spent money on the tap. So I hope he also put a little cash on them winning the championship because if they do it, I mean, that could have been a nice little bag. So let me know what you think about game number one. Let me know your predictions for game number two. Is there a world where the Boston Celtics go up 2-0? And I mean, they already stole home court advantage, but winning another game is like, it's beyond stealing home court. You damn they guarantee in the series. Game two for the Golden State Warriors is a must win game. 1,000%. So they need to come out and perform, man. Are you enjoyed the video? Leave it a like. Cannot wait to talk to y'all again about game number two. We probably have a video in between that, you know, talk about some all season stuff or some other teams, but until then, I appreciate you.