 What's the word y'all welcome back to Kenny for real today. We're talking about the conference finals I think this is the first time I've actually done a video on the conference finals But here it is. I've been having so so much fun here on Kenny for real I've made it a priority to try to upload as much as is possible Because though the main channel is amazing. I love doing what I do over there talking basketball It's like my passion So I don't know why it took me so long to really transition this channel into that But you guys have been showing a lot of love yesterday Uploaded the video of me reacting to the Billy Donovan news is a bulls fan and that was fun So if you if you miss any of the videos a lot of them are still relevant Like the NBA has been happening so fast in this bubble that sometimes topics like this like this topic today May not be relevant two days from now because we got the next game in the series You know I'm saying so I do want to talk about Lakers Nuggets Because game three was incredible. It had the It looked like it wasn't gonna be and then the Lakers put together that run and it ultimately We saw Jamal Murray just be Amazing to like Jamal Murray had three plays where he had a three-pointer He had the dip down the dust down to to Paul Millsap who was hiding in a dunker spot And then he had the three over Alice Caruso three amazingly clutch clutch clutch plays to secure his win for them because the tables were turning man you know I'm saying the Lakers were looking like the comeback kids and not the other way around and one of the main things I want to talk about in today's video is kind of like I don't watch the talking heads on the ESPNs or the Fox sports or all of these other platforms that do You know sports talk because at the end of the day I see them It's like people that are concerned about the ratings above all and then there you know There's a little disconnect there because I can understand why the ratings are the ratings are significant I mean your show doesn't continue unless people are watching it So you see some of those people may have opinions that aren't really their opinions But they say it because they get people talking and it works because even though I don't watch the shows I'm gonna talk about some of the shows in this moment right here. You know I'm saying and if I was on TV Ratings will be a priority, but not to that extent ladies and gentlemen. I'm not saying crazy stuff just for the sake of ratings It's just not who I am. I mean we're getting a hundred thousand views per video here Me just being myself and not having to say anything outlandish. So you know I'm saying so when the Clippers blew that 3-1 lead to the nuggets I saw a lot of the talking heads on Twitter or what like if it's gonna be a 30-second clip on Twitter of their show I'm gonna click it. I'm not gonna watch the whole show, but I'll click the 30 seconds and I'm not saying names, but I saw a few people basically saying congratulations to LeBron for securing your championship cake walk Clippers let us down no competition type thing like the Lakers are going to just sweep sweep sweep to covers finals sweep the finals nothing really matters and Then I also see people on Twitter with that same opinion and I don't know if people on Twitter are getting their opinion from those shows or whatever But it's just not true The nuggets are real like I like what do the what do the nuggets have to do to be considered real in your eyes You win the series and then we can start talking about them being real after game one versus the Utah Jazz On the Ramble if you remember to ramble one of the things I said about them I had a whole like 10 minute segment about the nuggets and one of the thing I said was like Other than like the box, which is wrong other than the box the Lakers and the Clippers if there was a team that was like fourth in my eyes But if I would have money if I was a better man I would put it on the nuggets and I laid it all out. They're like, hey, they have the best center of basketball I can say that confidently at this point the best center and basketball They have an emerging superstar in Jamal Murray who's making that contract They gave him look like a good contract because I remember when he was given out I was one of the people like yo Jamal Murray ain't even ain't even showed us that much He has glimpses. He has shown glimpses, but he hasn't been able to do it consistently now He's doing it consistently so that contract looks cool. So they have a superstar. Yo kids I know he doesn't look the traditional fit the traditional superstar, but it is what it is He is a superstar in an extremely good playoff player and Jamal Murray who's an emerging superstar And I don't know how things look for him next year or the year after that If you ever get an all-star appearance, but as he do if he's playing the way he's playing right now He is an emerging superstar and then the role players fit well. They play well We haven't seen a lot of great Jeremy Grant offense in this series until game three But defensively he's always gonna be that guy Michael Porter, Jr. Is a guy that could occasionally go out there I mean, this is really his first NBA season. Sometimes he can be like the X factor They have all the things to be considered a very good team and they're coached very very well So I don't understand the notion that LeBron and the Lakers have this cakewalk again Of course, the Lakers are still the favorite, but there's no way people that are watching That watched any of the last couple series can just say that this is a cakewalk And I know LeBron and the rest of the team don't see it is that because they've watched it LeBron to keep referring to them as the comeback kids because he's aware of what they can do when they're back against the wall You know I'm saying so I don't really understand the notion that this is a cakewalk for LeBron again I would I'm still picking them to win this series, but if the nuggets ended up winning I don't think it's that much of a of an upset because we just saw what they did for the past couple rounds We know that what they're capable of They didn't just come back on the 3-1 against a normal team They came back on the 3-1 against the team that a lot of the people consider the heavy favorite to win it all So it's not it's not this cakewalk, but other than that And do you want to talk about some of the things I've seen from this series? And some of the things I think are interesting Like I mentioned Yoko is his best center of basketball Some of the shots that he is hitting and attempting is ridiculous Other than that one very very late last game where he just kind of threw it up and hit the opposite side of the backboard There was a wild one But Jamal Murray had three straight possessions to close out this game You're like bro He stopped the bleeding because the Lakers were there and that veterans ship that that the vets the vets the rondos Of the team were coming out and bringing them back, but he had the The three the first three Then he finds paul milsap sitting in the dunker spot The Lakers were running his zone and completely forgot about the dunker smite and paul milsap being the veteran that he is Veteran savvy player because that's ever that's they say that every time paul milsap does anything The veteran savvy player finds the dunker spot jamal murray No luck to him dunk and then the three on alice caruso to To completely get it done And I think yoko's in his post games like I don't care what anybody says He's a superstar and I'm not going to say he is a superstar But the way he has been playing in the past last round You got to give it to the clippers. They kind of neutralized him to some extent You got to think about they were throwing paul george. They were throwing kawai They were throwing pat bev. They were throwing every perimeter defender they had of him. So he struggled to some extent I mean, he still had a couple big games But um, the Lakers don't really have that level of perimeter play. So perimeter defense. So Jamal murray can do what he does And the Lakers again, they had this run Well, I was like, let's let's go because at this point before the run it was born It wasn't it wasn't a very good game. I mean the nuggets were looking amazing and the Lakers looked like they didn't want to play You know, I'm saying if you're a nuggets fan, that's a recipe for a great game But it just is a casual not a casual but like a neutral fan It wasn't looking very good until the Lakers put together this run But one thing that really bothered me throughout the entirety of this game And I want to take a look at some stats here to see if okay So anthony davis finished with two rebounds this game And I promise you he had zero until like the last minute or two in a game That is literally unacceptable from our all NBA first team center Because that's that's what he was this season playing 42 minutes There's no world where he should end up with two rebounds Kind of kind of makes you want to go through like his game log of this entire season Like there has to be like one of the lowest rebounded games of the of his career It's just because he's always been a double double guy I mean this season he'd technically average a double double because he's playing with lebron and lebron's going to get his rebounds Two but he's always been a guy that's going to get eight nine rebounds a game and going through this game log wise He had one game this season where he had one rebound that was against the the atlanta hawks or they won by 20 But other than that, he's he's never put up these type of numbers ever Like ever On the rebounded tip and not even just that jevel McGee didn't play that many minutes But he ended up with one rebound and the white howard Ended up with one rebound And while i'm talking about the white howard, uh, if y'all don't know these are all unscripted I don't have like a key bullet points. I'm kind of just talking off the dome Game one the white howard looked amazing. He was a energy guy It looked like he was kind of getting under yokich's skin He was in the the huddles of the nuggets just trying to be a pest and he was doing that very well But yokich and the different nuggets have adjusted and in the last two games He hasn't done anything but foul literally. He hasn't done anything but foul in his minutes He went from a guy from game one. I was like, oh snap the white might legit be a x-factor going against a guy Like yokich he might be an x-factor than after that yokich is like he's not even there. He does nothing but foul Right, he does nothing but foul and one of the reasons why jevel McGee hasn't really got that many minutes And I guess last series because of the small ball and in this series is because He would be guarding the focal point of the offense and though jevel McGee is a solid defender He's not guard the focal point of the offense good defender and a playoff game type player You know I'm saying but the four fouls from the white this game I don't know how many he had last game But it just seems like the only thing he does other than game one is to kind of clapping people's face and foul And I want to take a look at the numbers here Yeah, the eye test does not serve me wrong the nuggets destroyed the lakers on the glass I mean that's that is crazy to think about because they may simply did not get minutes this game I mean he may have got a couple but like he didn't play significant minutes. They kept running out the lineup of mill sap Of grant and yokich and then you got think about the lakers ran a bunch of minutes of the white Howard a bunch of minutes of Jevel McGee and anthony davis together. There's no reason for them to lose the rebounded tip 44 to 25 Absolutely dominated on that and one thing I can say about the Denver nuggets and we've seen this they're resilient And they are a reactionary team It seems like we're like yeah, it may take them three games before they realize what they have to do to win a series But they are good enough to read and react and adjust accordingly And I feel like maybe that's what they've done in game three Again, I'm still picking the lakers to win this series, but I don't think this is a kick walk series um LeBron And sometimes I try to figure out if I expect too much of LeBron to me He is the best player in basketball still at the age of 77 years old or have or oh, he is he is still the best player in basketball Um, but there are moments where like I would love for him to assert himself as the best player in basketball And during this run, he was like a good He was playmaking But I wanted him to snap it from playmaker bronze who's scoring LeBron because he can do that But at the end of the day, he was probably pretty pretty gassed You know LeBron is always going to be a guy that's going to make the right basketball play and pass it to Cal Kuzma in that situation Was the right basketball play, but sometimes as a fan you would like to see him Take over the game and more than this playmaking. I hope I'm making sense here because like When it comes to the right basketball play throwing it to Cal Kuzma in that situation was the right play And if Cal Kuzma hit the shot, we'd be praising LeBron for making the play But the fact that Cal Kuzma didn't hit the shot Makes me want to say like hey, let's drive to the paint a little bit more You know what I'm saying? Somebody said am I recording? That's that's very very weak. How can he tell that? You see that? I don't how does he know that I'm not live on twitter right now. How would he know if I'm I'm recording? I'm so confused on that. All right Well, that's that's spooky Bulls and six 2023 he might legit be for the future And if that's the case that sounds great to me bulls and six w's um What do I expect from game four? I would expect LeBron to come out. You remember that one game he dropped like 20 points in the first half I want to I think LeBron's gonna come out like okay I need to go up three one and I know three one has been a bad place to be if you're going against the different nuggets But I was looking for the stat and I was listening to maybe it was a close podcast and they were trying to figure out What is LeBron's record in a series when he's up 2o? How has LeBron ever blown a 2o series lead? And the consensus they came to without doing any research is no So I don't I don't expect it to happen now Um, but I'm glad that the nuggets put together this game because if they went down 3o obviously it was over But I didn't expect them to go down 3o honestly. I did it All right. Let me know what you think about the series so far. Hopefully game What are we looking for game four of the other conference finals does well tonight? And there's something to talk about because I don't think I've actually even talked about that series on this channel either So maybe you expect another video from me later tonight after that game. I really don't know really don't know But thank you so much for watching like subscribe if you are new i'm out