 What's the word y'all? Hey, this is the earliest recap video I have ever filmed because the Warriors are down by 47 with a whole quarter and a half to go and they close our game with no Jammerant. They're down by 47. This is why this game is so great to me because it's as unpredictable as possible. I mean, I thought that the life was sucked out of Memphis after the last game where they were up or at least in it without Jammerant. Jerry gets his shot blocked and Steph Curry turns up in the fourth quarter. I just assumed that even if the Memphis Grizzlies were to win this game, I just assumed that the Warriors would come and fight. It is 108 to 60 right now. Are we serious? Shout out to Jerry. Shout out to the Memphis Grizzlies defense because they are turning these boys over like it's nobody business. Steph Curry's done for the night. There's 15 minutes of gameplay left. Which is smart. I mean, why even playing when you're down by 50 almost, right? But wow, the earliest, earliest I've ever done it. It is now 110 to 61. It is 110 to 61. Clay Thompson is done for the night with a minus 45 and 25 minutes. Are you serious? As of right now, listen, these numbers are just gonna increase. Actually, no, I would assume that Taylor Jenkins is gonna pull his starter soon. Not that he see that the Warriors threw the red flag in. But Jaren Jackson, Jr., 21 points, eight rebounds, three assists, four threes. Dez & Bane, four threes. Tyus Jones is the most premier non-turnover point guard in the history of basketball. Today, 21 points, nine assists and literally zero turnovers. They have three as a team right now while the Warriors were sitting at 18. 18 of them things. And that is as disappointing as it gets if you're a Warriors fan. Luckily for you, if you're a Warriors fan, you got two more shots to close this series out. But the way to ease Memphis Grizzly's team, this team has been playing over the last two games. You can tell that they are not afraid. Last game was a stinker on both sides, but you can tell that these boys are not afraid at the moment. They play pretty solid without Jamerant being in the lineup during the regular season. But then, I think before tonight, they had lost their last five games without Ja. This is a crazy, crazy momentum, but you got to go back to San Francisco and get another one, Memphis. Make it a game, man. What you did tonight is replicable in the sense that you can force this team to turn the ball over. It's insane because their offense is so fluid and so great. And I guess that's the reason why they turned the ball over so much. But in the regular season, they were 29th in turnovers per game, only in front of the Houston Rockets who played 18-year-olds. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to Stephen Adams. You're going against a team that basically doesn't have a center or doesn't play a center. He came in and got six offensive rebounds, five offensive rebounds for Brandon Clark, and then three for Jarron. They came out with a game plan and they succeeded. I made a joke about coach Mike Brown because he is the interim coach because I guess Steve Kerr is in health and safety protocol and they have not looked good under Mike Brown in these two games. So I made a little jokie joke about it and King's fans are not happy because jokes are typically at their expense. When you hire a guy like this to be your head coach, who knows what's going to really happen, but rough. This is taking the, not the pressure off, the pressure's on, but it's taking the focus away from the Celtics, you know, because 30, 40 minutes ago, that was the only thing that was on my mind. The way this Boston Celtics team blew a game. It was very reminiscent of earlier in the season. You remember early in the season before the Boston Celtics went on the legendary run, they were blowing 20-point leads. They were just collapsing under pressure. Today was the first half. They've done that in some time and it couldn't have been at the worst time in the 2-2 series and game five. It is the most important game of the series, I think. I'd like, actually, let me go get those numbers because I remember reading those numbers in its back from NBA.com. Teams that went game five with the 2-2's best of seven series, going to win the series 82.8% of the time. So game five is about as pivotal as any other one. You know what I'm saying? It's as pivotal as any other one because now the Boston Celtics were just at home and they lose and now they gotta go to try to win two more games, one in Milwaukee and one back at home. It's gonna be hard, man. This boy, Giannis is ridiculous and I just saw a statistic that in closeout games in the Bucks' favor and the coach's butt error, they are eight and oh. When they have an opportunity to step on your neck, they do that and they do it successfully. So this was a game that you needed, especially considering the circumstances. You were up by, I don't know how many, actually, let me go look and see how much you were up by. With eight minutes to go in this game, the Celtics were up by 11 points and it felt like they had it. You know, that's still a lot of time for sure but it felt like they had a lot of the momentum going into that. And then a lot of things started to change and here go my list of notes of things that change in that eight minute span. The first thing on my list says, Mark is smart, check out my hair, we gonna get to that. Bobby Portas' rebounding came up extremely, extremely clutch. Let me see this box score. How many did he finish with? Seven offensive rebounds from Bobby Portas and none of them was bigger than the one off the Miss Giannis Frito very late in the game. And that was make enough for a play where he had a wide open layup and he like completely, basically air balled it. Huge rebound from Bobby Portas. He air balls his layup and then they get a stop and he's running the fast break. Bobby running the fast break. He gets it on the wing and he had an open three but decided to one more. And I think he won more than to Pat Connaughton and Pat Connaughton hit a huge three or it might have been Drew Holiday. It's all rubbing together today because Drew Holiday hit some big ones. Pat Connaughton hit some big ones. Pat Connaughton got one of the quickest releases. It don't matter where he catches the ball, he's shooting from it. If he catches it above his head, he's releasing it right there. If he catches it to his left, he's releasing it right there. That guy's trigger is ridiculous and he had a big time performance. Coach Budd decided, hey, George Hill can't play 30 minutes. So he only played 12 and he, I mean, he was a minus 15 in those 12 minutes but he decided that actually this lineup with George Hill in it is not it. We gonna ride with our dudes. And I mean, I gotta mention Yannis because another 40 point performance, 40, 11, three assists, some clutch free throws down the stretch again. He missed that one, but it was like calculated. You feel me? He knew that Bobby was gonna get that rebound but Yannis continues to be just like the greatest in the world. Simple as that. Let me go back to my notes. Oh, there's a tweet. There was a tweet that I saw on the timeline that kind of sums up this fourth quarter for the Boston Celtics and it is from, it's from Keith Smith. I knew his last name was Smith but I could not think of his first name. So Keith Smith rewatching the fourth quarter the Celtics gave up at least four, three pointers because someone usually Tatum, Brown or Grant were barking at the refs and didn't get back on defense. And that had been a big problem for the Boston Celtics this game where the other team goes on a huge run on a fast break because somebody doesn't get back. Tatum had to play in this game or ended in a Wesley Matthews three because he was talking to the refs because he didn't get a call that he thought he deserved. You cannot do that in a game five when this team is having momentum and having this comeback. Whether or not you think you got fouled or not, you got to go play defense. You wait to the next day of ball if you really got something to say to the refs. But let's be honest with you, how much of the complaining to the refs do you think actually changes the way the refs do their thing? I think there's an argument that it matters to some extent, right? Like I've definitely seen clips of Steve Kerr telling to the refs, watch the way he doing that on Steph. And then three possessions later, the defender does exactly what Steve Kerr told the ref to watch and then it was a foul. I know it can help, it can open up the eyes to the referees, but like if it's happening to this extent, to the extent that Keith Smith said, what do you say, four, three pointers were given up because somebody wanted to complain to the refs and not get back on defense. Insanity, bro, insanity. Easily avoidable outcomes. And then this is a conversation deeper than this initial game or any game at all. And we actually had this conversation on our podcast about flopping. Flopping is a big thing in the NBA. It always has been, you know, from as long as I've been an NBA fan, flopping has been a thing. From Manu Ginobili, Andre Karolinko, though like I know we remember these players fondly, but they were floppers too, you know what I'm saying? It goes from the best players in the league to the worst players in the league. It's a part of basketball at this point. It's ingrained in our culture as fans or in the NBA world and it needs to change. It needs to change, you know? I'm not specifically pointing the finger at Marcus Smart, but he's the perfect example right here, right now. And the play where Drew Holiday ripped him on the very last possession. The fact that this man jumped four feet in the air and threw his hands up like he got, that somebody shot him is ridiculous. And there was a play earlier where he flopped and got an offensive foul. And I guess this gamesmanship, Kenny, flopping in general has become a part of our game and it makes it hard, not just for the NBA fans to enjoy the game because of it, but it makes the game harder for the referees. We always talk about, oh, ref was trashed, it was terrible, bout a boom, bout a bam. And then you have to realize that these refs are being manipulated by the players because Marcus Smart or Giannis or Pat Connitum, Garrison Matthews, Grayson now, I did that in my main channel video. I called Garrison Matthews, Grayson Allen, and I know the comments about go crazy, that video's coming out tomorrow. But because they're flailing their arms and they've become so very good at selling a call, that it's hard for the referees to know, was he really hit? The thing happening game four versus the Warriors in the Memphis Grizzlies, right? Steph Curry got pushed in the back late in the game and it was a foul on, I think it was Desmond Bain, then they showed a replay from a different angle, he wasn't even touched. But because Steph Curry just so good at flailing his body around, it was a foul. And I don't mean the guys are trying to have this conversation, how do you fix this? Because it is such a big part of our game. The NBA said years ago, we gonna start finding these players, how many times have you legitimately seen the player get fine? Maybe a handful, seven in the last five years since they talked about this thing, it doesn't happen often. So I'm trying to figure out what do we do next? And the idea that came up to mind, and it's literally, we did it on the podcast, right? And I didn't even prep for it, this was the idea that I had in mind and you tell me, cause I guess the audience is bigger here than with the podcast, what you think of this idea when it comes to flopping? Now I will not tell anybody that once a flop happens, then we need to go look at the monitors and go see was it a flop or not because the game is already as long as it is when you look at these monitors. I'm not trying to add to that because it's slow, it slows down the pace, it slows down momentum. But what I will say is there could be some type of retroactive punishment if you wanna call it that, similar to them waiting to after the game to find somebody. But we start using these extreme flops and I don't mean like just like some flops are more impactful or bigger than others, right? And when we get to these extreme flops, these flops that manipulate the refs in a big moment, we gotta start figuring out a way. And the thing that I said was we start to turn them into technical fouls retroactively. Now I don't mean that one flop means one tech because I think that just gives such a small window for these players, right? Because in my mind, when you get a certain amount of technical fouls, you get suspended for a game. And I think you can use that type of method when we're talking about flopping to just discourage players from doing it. Marcus Smart won't flop as many times. This player won't flop as many times if he knows that if I flop 20 times, I'm gonna get suspended for a game. And my team needs me. And you know these things carry over to the playoffs. My team needs me. I don't know what it is, but that was the first thing that came to mind. And I don't say I love the idea, but that was just the first idea that I had. Anyway, let's talk about Drew Holiday because Drew Holiday has had a ton of ups and downs in this series alone. Because in some of these games, you can tell that he is trying to make up for the loss that is Chris Middleton. And it makes sense. I mean, Yanis can do everything by itself and they don't have a ton of shot creators. They got shot makers. We talk of Pat Conniton. We talk of Brooke Lopez. They got shot makers, but they don't have a lot of shot creators. So Drew Holiday over the series has tried to put that backpack on and take over some of those possess for Chris Middleton. And in some of these games, you could tell he's trying obviously, but he had been struggling for the entirety of the series right now. He's shooting 34% from the field, 35% from three. And obviously that's not going to cut it, but he's averaging 22 points per game. But in this game, it shows why Kevin Durant, it shows why some of the greatest players in the league say that Drew Holiday is the best perimeter defender in the league because when he is locked in, he is locked in. And I think, you know, I watched a lot of Bucks games this season, not all of the Bucks games. I thought that in the regular season that he didn't show this type of intensity as often as we're used to, which is okay, they just got off a championship. Why do I need to give my all defensively for 82 games in a season when I know I could turn it up into playoffs? And that's what he has been doing, man. Those last two possessions are absolutely insane. The snatch block save and to get the ball back is ridiculous, Drew Holiday's defense. And then the very last play, no time out for the boss of Celtics. Something happened where Marcus Smart was the only player that was looking to come to the ball. That's one thing I can say about Marcus Smart, even though he had some bonehead plays where Bobby Porter gets the offensive rebound. Some of that is because Marcus Smart didn't box out completely or the Drew Holiday block. Marcus Smart is never afraid of the moment and sometimes it's to his own detriment, as you see today. But if you look at their post-game interviews, he says in it, these plays were built for Jason Tatum, but something fell apart. There's some miscommunications and now nobody knows what to do. Everybody was standing around. This is literally what Marcus Smart said after this game. This was built for Jason Tatum. It didn't go through, so everybody's standing around, so somebody had to do something. So he decided it was going to be him. And he said, obviously, if he knew that Drew Holiday was there, he wouldn't go and open that shot, but Drew Holiday happened to be there. It was like, damn, I was trying to think of an anime reference. I know there's a ton. There's a ton I can make, but I'm struggling. Also, it's eight minutes left in this game and the Grizzlies are still left by 50. They have 126 points and they have the bench warmers in. And the Warriors probably won't crack 90. I'll bet the under if you said it's at 90 for the Warriors right now. Damian Lee for three, he hit it. Uh-oh, I would have just lost the money. They got scored 11 points in eight minutes. They probably gonna do that. Either way, Drew Holiday just continues to be the guy defensively that you need. Just coming up huge in these moments, man. And if this Bucks team go on to win this series and they go on to, because a lot of people believe, and I'm trying to figure out if I believe this as well, that this is the finals. I don't know. I don't know. Nobody has been super convincingly amazing so far in this playoffs. And that's what's making the playoffs amazing to me. Like the heat have been really good, but I can't say that they're the favorite to win. The 76 have had their moments. I can't say they're the favorite. Same thing with this matchup. Well, the Warriors down by 50 to a team without Jamarran. And then Luca sometimes single-handedly taking on the entire Suns team. And then sometimes then the entire Suns team is taking on Luca. And then Jaws out for the playoffs. So there's no team that's had and shoulders over the other ones. So some people look at this as the championship series that whoever wins this is gonna win the conference and go on to the championship and win. I don't know if I believe that just yet, but Drew Holliday, absolutely incredible in the last six, seven minutes of this game, man. And switching it on to Marcus Smart. Yeah, man. And in real time, I was like, what the hell Marcus? But this is a whole team thing. This was not a Marcus Smart thing. Again, he's gonna be the guy to get a lot of the hate, if you wanna call that a lot of the criticism because of the block shot, because of the mis-rebound or because of the turnover that Drew Holliday forced with zero seconds left, whatever it was. But I think it was way bigger than that. Like I said, these are moments where the team in general has to be better. Might be the smallest you'll ever see me on a video screen, but I wanted to let you see Tatum on his play. If we look at the play that the Marcus Smart block, I mean, he sees an opening. And I think 99% of Hoopers see this opening and they're going at the rim. But he didn't have the peripherals to see Drew Holliday, who's normally will probably be attached to Jaylen Brown here, but he just makes the executive decision to come over. Oh my God, I didn't realize that Pat Connaughton recovered so well. Like even right here, if Drew Holliday doesn't even contest, this is a hard basket to finish either way. But you can see, like Marcus Smart said in a sports game interview, this play was drawn up for Jason Tatum to come off this Al Horford thing, but something happened where it was miscommunication. I don't think Al Horford saw that the ball was inbound because he's supposed to go set that screen for Tatum and Derrick White has the ball. You see, he's looking like, is anybody gonna do anything? And now Marcus Smart, like nobody's moving. So I guess I'll do it, you know? So I can't, I mean, I guess I fought Marcus Smart for taking the shot because there's still a lot of time to maybe reset and just go with plan number two. But I don't know, man, I just don't think these guys were super aware of their situation. Okay, I forgot about this turnover with 50 seconds left. I forgot that this one even happened. Wesley Matthews, oh my God. I don't know how I've gone as far as I'll mention the name Wesley Matthews. He played a credible defense down a stretch on Tatum. Forced Tatum to take some really tough shots. I had people on the timeline questioning Jason Tatum's shot, quality, if that's the word I'm looking for. And Wesley Matthews did a great job on him. But this one right here hurts more than all of them combined because find Jason Tatum on your screen, all right? There's the pass here. They say the inbound players, the, oh my God. I didn't realize there was a player down, oh my God. Wesley Matthews ends up falling here. They always say the inbounder is the most dangerous player because he's got this full head of steam now and the opening, right? He's got a scene. He gets it back. With Wesley Matthews falling, like I said, he played great defense on Tatum all night. He kicks his head up. That's a shot for Jay, or at least a temp. They didn't get the shot up. So that's the temp. I'm sure that Yann sort of came over to cover this ground. Oh, but maybe not. Now he's got to make the decision. No, he's going out to contest Jason Tatum and letting Derrick White take the game time shot. I'm living with Derrick White taking the shot. I'm contesting Jason Tatum. But you know, there it is. There's the Drew Holiday swipe and the Drew Holiday seal of approval, man. And hey, it's going to be extremely, and I mean extremely, extremely hard for the Boston Celtics to take this series. I'm not saying it's impossible because nothing really is, but I'm not betting against Yannis in a closeout scenario. I just saw him drop 40 tonight. I've seen him drop 15 closeouts. I know that he wants to end the series and he's going to try his best to do that thing. So let me know what you think about these games. Update to the score, 126 to, oh my God, 82. Kaminga with a huge dunk. They can't even celebrate over there on the bench because we're down by 40. I appreciate y'all.