 What's the word, y'all? Did Lottie Walker just put the Golden State Warriors away? I'm gonna say no, not yet. I'm not gonna completely write off Steph Curry until it's actually, actually over. But being down 3-1, as we know throughout history, for most of the time, it's a death sentence. Now, we have seen Steph Curry drink my green and clay times come back from down 3-1 before, so I'm not writing them off completely, but it don't look good. It don't look good. Also, the TikTok corgi predicted that the Warriors are gonna go down 3-1, and he predicted that they were gonna come back, so maybe that's still up for grabs. But Lottie Walker, over the last two games, had been a revelation. So after the first two games, me and the guys were talking about Darwin Ham and his rotations and his approach to the playoff rotations. For the most part, through the first two games, he kept it very close to the chest, and the Lakers offense was very stagnant. There wasn't a lot of people out there that Steve Curtin, the Warriors, trusted. They let LeBron shoot as many jump shots as he won. They let Rihachi Morris shoot as many jump shots, even though he's been hot this postseason. They didn't have a lot of people on the court that the Warriors respected. And I was asking for Darwin Ham to kind of divvy that up, is to allow Malik Beasley to play a little bit. He's one of the higher-valued 3-point shooters, and hell, you traded for him for his 3-point ability. But instead of it being Malik Beasley, it's been Lonnie Walker. And it hasn't necessarily been a 3-point shooting, but in general, it's been Lonnie Walker giving the booths offensively something that Steve Curtin company haven't really prepared for. And in this game, the fourth quarter wasn't about LeBron, it wasn't about Anthony Davis. They came into this game on this fourth quarter, I think down by seven points. And instead of it being a dominant performance from one of the top 75 players of all time that on the Lakers, it was Lonnie Walker who was getting the isolation possessions that was getting a bulk of the jump shots instead of Bron and AD. And he might have done it against 3-1, and the series is not over, but 3-1 is tough to come back from. Especially when you consider that the Lakers have been very dominant at home this season, or I guess in the post-season. If I'm not mistaken, I don't think they've lost the home game just yet. And again, the Warriors have struggled to perform at home. I know in the playoffs, it has been relatively decent. They went into Sacramento, I went to on the road, but the Lakers are just playing a little bit better. And earlier in this game, I was given a lot of credit to Steve Kerr because I thought his coaching was great. I mean, he started, Gary Payton the second, you know, to start the game off. And I was very intrigued by like, okay, what did they see over the last couple minutes of the last game that made them think that Gary Payton was the choice? Because in my mind, off rip, I'm like, ah, because he's a non-shooter, I mean, they just gonna allow him to pack the paint. Absolutely not. They brought Gary Payton into every single action, which means that Anthony Davis was brought into every single action. And early in this game, the Warriors were getting into the basket at will. Steph Kerr was getting downhill. And if it wasn't him finishing at the rim, he's dissing off to somebody else who might have dissed off to somebody else. And boom, they was getting bucket after bucket and I don't know how many points in the paint they had in the first half, but I guarantee you it was way more in the first half than the second half because once the second half came around, we didn't see a lot of that. And I was so very excited to see what Darwin Ham was gonna talk to his team about and see what type of different things he was going to do in order to counteract that because all first half, it was Steph Curry putting Gary Payton in the action or somebody else putting Gary Payton in the action and making Anthony Davis come up to the point of attack. So now the pain is completely over because it's over the last couple of months, Anthony Davis has been the most dominant defensive player in ball and a lot of that is in that paint. And then you saw in that first half, they got him away from that and they was just getting bucket after bucket. And I'm like, Darwin, what are you gonna do? What adjustments will you make? He didn't even need to make adjustments, y'all. At least he didn't have to make a lot of adjustments come fourth quarter because they went away from Earl and Doug quarter, they did do it a little bit. And Steph Curry was having a ridiculous third quarter. It wasn't even about him scoring the ball. He was dishing it off and he ended up with a triple double, which is dope for Steph Curry. But I think he would trade that triple double for a win. But they did it a little bit in the third, but in the fourth quarter, it was pretty much gone until like one of the last possessors in the last three minutes. And you're like, what is happening? Your team came into this quarter with a seven point lead and the thing that was working over and over and over was gone. Even Stan, was it Stan or Jeff? One of the Van Gundy's was talking about in the broadcast like, where did it go? And then the few times they did use it in the fourth quarter and then in the basket. So I don't know how you go away from it completely. The Lakers also decided that like, we allow Wiggins to shoot. It all started last season. We're just gonna allow him to shoot. And he missed a ton of shots today that was completely wide open. And it was a good game plan. Because would you rather leave him or would you rather leave Clay? And Clay got a lot of shots up today. A lot of them didn't fall, but I would again take my chances with Wiggs versus Clay. Speaking of that, late in this game, Clay took two heavily contested three point shots that like, I can't get behind. I know he's Clay Thompson and he's definitely made those shots before in his career. But given the atmosphere of the Lakers and they were in the middle of a really good run for Clay Thompson to just come down court in the first shot attempt he saw taken and then brick it is rough. And I'm not even counting the one where he had to get it up with two seconds on a shot like that, it wasn't really relevant. But like, there was one on the top left wing and then one in the corner where he just missed. And he got one very good look when Lonnie Walker who had done again, we talked about Lonnie Walker offensively because he was really solid. Lonnie Walker and his denial on Clay Thompson for the majority of the fourth quarter was he lead as well. But there was one hiccup, I don't remember if it was on an offensive rebound or whatever where Lonnie Walker had to make a split decision. So do I guard Wiggins or do I guard Clay? And he made one step towards Wiggs and Clay ended up with the ball and Clay made the shot. But for the most part after that, it was denial, deny, denial and then heavily contested Clay, heavily contested Clay. But the stops when Anthony Davis had to sit in that shelf 101 with Steph Curry for back to back possessives because they couldn't get that rebound. That's what that is the moment you ask for, for Anthony Davis. Where like all game long, I wouldn't say the word roasted but they made him make decisions that he didn't want to make for the majority of the game. But in that moment of time, it was him versus Steph Curry and he got the stops twice. And that's why I was just watching the posted because I'm recording this right after LeBron did his little interview when he said that Anthony Davis is the best offensive player in ball and this is one of the reasons why. I did also really love the embrace that Lottie Walker got after the game. There was like, this was the game of his career. No offense or buts about it. And now you're up three games to one and you gotta go to chase. Something tells me based on what the last series did with the Lakers versus the Grizzlies that the next game is gonna be a very heavy coast game for LeBron. Or maybe he don't take that approach because it's the Warriors and you respect them. Maybe a little bit more than you respect the Memphis Grizzlies. But there's still a world where Steph Curry and come to get their 3-1 comeback revenge. You know what I'm saying? In this series is after what happened. So again, it's not over with but boy is it's gonna be rough to win not just game five but also go back into staples. Yeah, staples. And then when that game then go back like 3-1 comebacks. Again, we've seen them done before. I guess, okay, see what this core but the exterior parts aren't the same where you're asking for somebody to step up to help Steph Curry who was having a mech. Again, he didn't shoot the ball well from three but having another really good game and you just look in and you're like who's gonna do it? Who's gonna be the one to step up? It was Gary Payton again in that first half but they went away from him. It's gonna be rough. A super fun game nonetheless. We got a really good game one that was the Jordan Poole shot in the game two and game three blowouts both ways. And what I realized about myself and something I didn't know, I'm so used in the last couple of years to kind of enjoying the playoffs by myself, you know, I'm usually here and oh man, that sounds terrible but like I usually do myself. That's why I'm like the most attentive. Saturday was my boy's Mike's birthday. He's a Lakers fan. We went over to his crib to watch the last game on Saturday and I don't remember anything about it. And that don't mean that I wasn't drunk or not. You know what I'm saying? But like because I was socializing and stuff I don't remember much about it. So I need for these games to be alone so I can dissect and get content for y'all. Anyway, that wasn't the only team to go up 3-1. The heat, the heat did it again. I just cannot believe this team was one game away. And this video was definitely gonna be more geared towards the heat depending on how this game ended because I know we've talked about this before. It's becoming more of a reality more and more every single season where like the regular season is basically just for the Super Die Hard fans that just want something to do every single night which is watch the game of all but it doesn't matter as much as we try to make it. We're like right now, again, the Warriors are down. The Warriors were at 60, and now the Western Conference is different this season in a lot of seasons, but the Warriors were at 60, they beat the three and now the Lakers who are a playing team, a seventh seed are one game away from being in the Conference Finals. Another playing team out East is one game away from being in the Conference Finals. And you look at them like, okay, why did the Bucks play so well in the regular season? Why did the Knicks go in that big run in the regular season just for them to be in a situation to be down 3-1? With the mind of he, Hart and Hussle has prevailed again. Like he cultured something that's mean a lot, but when it's rocking it's rocking and right now it is. And last series we saw Mitchell Robinson, Julius Randu, Ihar, all of these dudes dominate the Cavaliers on the glass. And that was one of the main reasons why they got down with that series so easily. I mean, I'm not even mentioning Josh Hart as well. They got down with that season so easily because they got so many extra possessions and given up offensive rebounds is the moralized editing that's doing it. And in this series, they have a few games where they won the rebounded battle, but in this game specifically, ew, it was nasty, bro. It was nasty where like the effort was non-existent. And this is a series where I think that a lot of people did look at the Knicks at being the favorite mostly because they showed that their depth was one thing that they can rely on in that first round and because the Hart and Hussle from the Knicks were a thing and right now it's gone. And I just got the notification that Julius Randu was saying maybe they wanted more than us? Um, that's a rough quote from your all NBA, all-star caliber player going into a game where it's win or go home. So I can't say exactly what the next game is gonna look like, but the heat have their number right now. And then we got the BAM offensive game. And if BAM has given you 20, how much was it, 23 points? Oh, it's gonna be rough because again, BAM hasn't been able to do this much in this post-season run. But if he's giving you this and Jimmy's giving you his production and you also could get Kyle Lowry who was getting turning back the clocks and then get a random, you're gonna get a Duncan Robinson shooting four for five from three game. He ain't shot at will, he's one for seven a night. It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. So tomorrow is a big day because we got the other two series are tied to two. And yeah, going up three two is pretty solid. And we're going back to Denver, who's been amazing at home. And then we're going back to Boston and we'll see exactly what happens, man. Leave a like, subscribe. Let me know what you think about these series so far. Yeah, whatever.