 What's the word, yo? This is not a word I threw out there lightly, y'all. If you've been around the town and you know this word, it's not used regularly, but today we got a vintage James Harden performance. I think that is sports. We thought it were vintages around so much. Like, I remember anytime Derrick Rose did a scoop layup they were seeing vintages. Oh, perfect example is today. Jeff Green threw down a monster dunk in their game versus the Suns tonight and they were vintage Uncle Jeff. And I'm like, Jeff Green dunched the ball like that like twice every 10 games. It can't really be vintage. If he's still doing it, James Harden had a vintage game. He had 45 points. And it made me think, when was the last time we saw James Harden drop 45 in a game? Here's the answer. August 12th, 2020. That was the last time we saw James Harden drop a 45 or above game. Today's video is brought to you by PricePix. 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Anyway, he's got this performance 45 point game including a game winning shot practically. And then he's got the block on new door in the bubble which was a great moment. And then again, he's got the shot against the Spurs. And in those games, the stakes are slightly higher. Maybe not slightly. I mean, James Harden block happened in the game seven. But this went considering all the things that's going on in this series was huge. They took home court advantage. They were 10 point underdog. Just re-look that they were 10 point underdog. No Jorlin beat. We still don't know if he's gonna be healthy for game two. This is a game the Boston Celtics win or should win 100% of the time. There is no excuses to lose to these 70 stitches without Jorlin beat. Especially when you consider the way their defense looked in the first quarter. JB, Tatum, everybody was getting to the lane at will. At will. And I even made a tweet like they get into the rim and it's about as easy as can be without having Jorlin beat back there on the back line. I thought this was about to be a quick, easy game for the Boston Celtics. Get to the basket any time you want to. Lay it up, dunk it, whatever. But the 76ers stayed in that game even though the Celtics were shooting like some craze, like 70% from the field in the first quarter. We saw Dianthe Melton come off the bench and give them big minutes when they needed them. And of course, James Harden started off this game with like 12 straight points. So we knew from the very first quarter he was gonna be on the heater and he kept them in this game long enough for the Celtics to do something that they've been doing a lot this season which has collapsed in the last couple minutes of the game. Again, this is a game that you have no business losing considering there's no Jorlin beat. Maxi was great, of course, Harden was great. Nandy Melton gave quality minutes. B-Ball Paul made four of the Clutch's free throws of this entire career and none of them hit the backboard. None of them hit the rim. They were all swoosh, swoosh, swoosh. 75% free throw shooter for this season for B-Ball Paul and that's an uptick from the last couple of years. So shout out to him, man. Clutch, Clutch, free throws. But I wanna give the praise to the 76 for winning this game because they're in the series. They took home court at Venice which is crazy to think about. But ultimately the Celtics fumbled heavily. Matt had a very good tweet. The Celtics really shot almost 60% from the field, 40% from three, 94% from the line, at home and lost. Now this was one of a quicker game because there's not a lot of free throws but still they shot nearly 60% from the field and 40% from three and lost a game at home. At the end of the Atlanta series I walked out of that thinking, oh, the Atlanta Hawks really surprised me. They look better throughout the course of the series than I ever imagined and maybe they could use that to come into next season with a little bit of, I don't know, confidence or whatever. Obviously they lost the series and maybe I'm rethinking that. Maybe the Atlanta Hawks didn't impress me but instead the Boston Celtics are just different. Last year on that second half of the year when they really went on a big time run it was hanging their hat on the defensive side of the ball. We talk about it all the time on the second half of the season they were the best defensive team almost of all time. I had to go back in some of their series from last year and you can see what the scores were. I mean, they gave up 118 points here but for the most part this entire series they were clamping up. I mean, a game ended like this in today's game, a 109, 103 is considered a low score game. You know what I'm saying? And for the entirety of their playoff run in the second half of the season they had been clamping up. Here it is against the Bucks. They held the Bucks to under 100 points. One, two, three different times in a seven game series. The last five games of the Atlanta series they gave up 120, 117, 121, 130, 130 and then 106 and then tonight 119. So their identity has changed just like that was more of an offensive thing and they were the number two offensive basketball behind the Sacramento Kings. So it's fair but you need both of them and you don't have to behold and seems to under 100 points no more but definitely can't be giving up 130 points to the Atlanta Hawks or 120 points to a team that didn't have maybe probably the league MVP playing. Think about that. The league MVP is on the sideline and you still gave up 120 points and the one play that sums up the entire game was the play where they don't recognize how much time is in the clock. It's going down to zero seconds practically on the shot clock and they throw it and Tyrus Maxi gets an easy lay or dunk or whatever. So it has not been pretty. The good thing about it, Boston, is that of course it's a seven game series and you need to get your lick back but I mean, I'm sure there's somewhat optimism that Joellen Beat is gonna come back and now the game plan changes a little bit. I would like to see if Joellen Beat is not back in game two. That the drop covers from Al Woofer to whoever it may be is completely gone because James Harding killed you on that all game long. That's enough about this game. Let's go talk about the other game. So I said all first round that the Denver Nuggets playoffs does not start until the end of the first round and now they're in the second round. I didn't even get to talk about game number one. My apologies, Jamal Murray had an amazing performance. They killed on the glass. They did pretty much everything correctly and blew them boys out of the water. Today we just saw Jamal Murray have a stinker of a game. A stinker of a game didn't matter. Typically the games where we see Nikola Yocas have to go out there for 35 plus points. They don't really equate to wins because it changes the entire play style of the Denver Nuggets. Today he had nearly 40, 16, and five but he had other people step up. And honestly, the other person that I'm thinking about, I didn't even realize, had two points on the night. Christian Brown, Christian Brown woke up this morning not knowing that he was gonna have to guard Kevin Arendt probably and then did it and did it well. Imagine telling Christian Brown when he was in the national championship game whenever that was that in the year's time, you're gonna be guarding Kevin Arendt in a pretty high stakes game. You're gonna do a pretty damn good job. I wonder if he would have believed you. Christian Brown has been one of the better rookies this season. I don't know if he's gonna make an old rookie team because he's a role player and a lot of the other rookies that you know, you only get 10 spots, they're usually starters and getting a lot of shot attempts. He has been plugging play and been pretty good. I mean, again, this is a playoff game. He played 15 minutes in this one and they were a quality 15. And again, a series does not start until the role team wins a game. So the Denver Nuggets took care of business. Great, now they gotta go to Phoenix and Lee's get one. And I'm scared for the Phoenix Suns, y'all. I'm gonna be real, I'm scared for them because they even tried to play the numbers game. The main reason why I was like, you know, we talked about this that the Suns have to start pair obviously with Kevin and Devin. I didn't even think about that. Devin has been one of the best players in the playoffs behind probably Jimmy Bully. He's probably number two and Kevin Arendt is Kevin Arendt, right? That alone is good enough for a lot of people to believe you are a contender, you can win any series. But we talked about it as a numbers game that three is greater than two and the Denver Nuggets gonna get a lot of three-point shots up and they got people like Jamal Murray. They have people like KCP and other people that hit their shots and the Phoenix Suns have notoriously not been a good three-point shooting team. They don't get up attempts and they don't get to the basket to draw fouls. Well today they attempted 31, three-point and so I was proud of it. Kevin Arendt himself attempted 12, but it's different because a lot of the situations where the Denver Nuggets are attempting, they're 27, this is a Rockfest tonight, but they're 27 and a lot of cases catch a shoot other than Jamal Murray who's like in the floor a lot of the times. They'll catch a shoot opportunities. We felt like the Phoenix Suns all of the years is like Kevin knowing that we need to shoot more threes so I'm gonna dribble up court and shoot my three. You know, it's off the dribble and he's Kevin and he's gonna hit a lot of those. But tonight, two for 12. Devin Booker, same situation. He might get a catch a shoot three here and now but for the most part he's creating for himself. I'm thinking about one on the wing where he held the ball for like six seconds before he attempted a shot, but he attempted it and it went in, off glass. I think Kevin hit one off glass today too, which is weird. They even, they tried to play the numbers game and lost it. And one of the things that I'm gonna say bother me, but I think we've mentioned this on this channel before and I'm recording this right after the game ended. So I don't know what any of the pressers are talking about. Mighty Williams and a lot of Phoenix Suns fans, I see on Twitter, complain about their lack of free throws. Ladies and gentlemen, they're not a team that gets to the basket and that's where you draw contact usually to get free throws. So they shot five free throws on the night and there was 21 from the Nuggets. Either way, they came out more aggressive and I thought that the Suns game plan when you think about the more three-poor shooting and we saw Josh Akogi, even Damian Lee, these guys got in on the office of glass was like, okay, they switched it up because in game number one they got killed there and it didn't matter. And now we know, listen, he's my favorite of all time, we know that Chris Paul's body can't do the same things that it was able to do four years ago and we knew, not knew, but we speculated based on the history that he was gonna come up with an injury eventually and it just happened. And it's a groin injury, which is one of the more lingering issues you can have and their backup Cameron Payne missed a lot of time. He finally came back and he wasn't good today. So now you might be going into game three on your home court without Chris Paul and Denver has a lot of momentum. So I'm a little bit worried for the Suns and again, anything can happen in this long series you've seen teams go up two on lose all the time but the different nuggets have looked amazing so far and that's even with them tonight shooting very poorly from the field. Been a heck of a series though. I'll tell you that much. It's been a heck of a series so far even though it's just been two games. I'm excited to see what Phoenix has. I guess I'll see y'all tomorrow but we got man tomorrow is the start of the series.