 What's the word, y'all? Three games slating the association. Let me give you the clip nose verge before we dive into all three of these. The Atlanta Hawks get eliminated in five, man. Wow, were you surprised? You shouldn't have been because the Atlanta Hawks have played like an eight seed the entire season. So you shouldn't have thought that they were going to be able to take out the one seed. But even with that said, they are definitely bogus for losing this game specifically because no Jimmy Butler and no Kyle Lowry and Trey Young had like the worst playoff series that you can imagine. Again, we're going to dive deeper into this. So they bogus out to Deondra Hunter for even making this a game. But even though Deondra Hunter made it a game, this wasn't a game. The Miami Heat had this convincingly for 99.9% of it, all right? So shout out to the Heat. This is the best version of Victor Lodipo since all the injuries and that could be scary for the Eastern Conference. We will dive deep into the Atlanta Hawks and the Miami Heat advance to the next round in a second. Game number two, and I guess this is my own personal order, the Phoenix Suns win a must win at home where Chris Paul has a huge bounce back game from game number four. We put up like four to six points. McKell Bridges plays almost every second of this game and puts up 30, the real MVP over there. Hope Brandon Ingram is okay. He like jammed his finger or something on his shooting hand and that's not the greatest, but I hope he is okay. And lastly, the Memphis Grizzlies steal one from the Minnesota Timbers and they were down by like 10 with like six, seven, eight minutes left at home. They steal one to give them a three to lead. And now the Suns and the Grizzlies only need one more win to advance to the second round. That's the clip notes version. Let's get into the deep dive. I'm gonna start off with this Minnesota Memphis game. I've never seen a series and I've been watching basketball for a long time. Maybe not as long as some of the people watch this video, but a long time. I've never had a series that was equally fun and frustrating. That's what this series has been. Let me explain. Actually, I don't need to explain to you why it's fun. You've been watching this series. You get a Jameran poster, a Jameran game winner. We get play after play after play where it seems like very good coaching. Chris Finch calls timeout. Jaws is a beautiful play. Jaws is a beautiful play to get Anthony Edward to open corner shot. South Georgia McLaughlin throwing that pass and boom, a three point shot. Great shot. Carnegie Towns had a huge bounce back game. I had a lot of people criticized and we put up a third and even tonight he had a really good game. A Jamer has been doing this thing. Desmond Bain is having breakout performances. This has been undoubtedly a fun series because it's been so back and forth. But it's been frustrating because you can see the age of this team every second possession. If you did not know, these are two of the four youngest teams of all of basketball. One of their average age is 24.9 and one is 24 exactly. I don't know which one is which but there are two of the four youngest teams in the NBA. Let me give you some examples of some bone headed, frustrated plays. Last game, game number four. The Memphis Gris are down by four points and on the call Richard Jefferson are telling them or telling the Minnesota Timbers don't even play defense. It's three seconds left in the game. The only thing to make this a game is if you foul a three point shooter and he hits the shot. Desmond Bain shoots a three that's five feet behind the line and at the average is contestant. Why even put yourself in a predicament to almost foul? He didn't foul. Luckily, bone head play. Bone head play number two is actually, it's not even a singular play. This man, Jarrett has been the second most frustrating player for me, this whole playoffs. Number one is Trey Yon because Trey Yon, come on bro, you're an NBA player. What the hell are we doing on average and whatever you average? We gonna talk about that but like that's number one frustrating player to watch in this playoff run so far. Jarrett is number two. We talked about last time bro was averaging 23 minutes per game. Today, he played 17 and a half minutes. All defensive Jarrett probably. I mean, a balance right now. But he was all defensive on my list and you ain't no use for your team on the bench. I mean, the three extra claps you're giving sure but you are no use to your team on the bench and bro cannot stop fouling. Was the last foul he got number six questionable? Sure, but the entire, ooh, y'all know I hate talking about officiating but the entire officiating for this game was trash. So I mean like, he has to be better. Even if they get out of this round if you want to have any chance of doing anything in the next round against the Warriors or any chance of doing anything against anybody else you have to stop fouling. And we've seen this amongst like good big man defenders when they're young. We saw this with Robert Williams like last year and the year before that. A lot of people saw the two main things about Robert Williams games. They say, hey, he can not stay healthy and he cannot stay on the floor and this season he got a lot better on the second half. He still struggled with injuries here and there but he got better with not fouling and now he's an all defensive player. Jaron is still an all defensive player in my eyes even when he's fouling but in the playoff series playing 17 minutes is unacceptable. He played the same amount of minutes as Cal Anderson. Supposed to be the second best player, you know? Bonehand. We talked about Anthony Edwards hitting the huge shot that the biggest shot of his career until this point, right? We talked about him taking that big shot and hitting that big shot. And then on the other possession on the other side defensively he gambles for the steal that leads to a ja-marant layup for games. Bonehead play after Bonehead play but it's still fun and I'm still enjoying it. Now I don't want to talk about these type of things. If you've been watching this channel for a long time you know that there's one portion of the game of basketball that I absolutely hate talking about and I know it's a big portion because everybody talks about it. Everybody on Twitter and Reddit like, oh if it wasn't for this one part of the game my team would have won and that's the officiating. So you know, if I am talking about officiating things went kind of south and listen, I'm not saying but I'm saying that fourth quarter officiating was God awful. I'll leave it at that. Fourth quarter officiating? It's God awful. Ja-maran was having a terrible game until the fourth quarter. Got some whistles. He definitely got some whistles but he also had to hit the big shots. He had to hit the three that he hadn't hit all series long. He had to hit the shots. They had to get the stops and they did those things. So they won the rebound in battle. They killed the Timberwolves on the glass on the offensive glass and that led to second chance points and all of those things matter man. All of those things matter even with the questionable officiating. Now they go back to Minnesota for a game six and I think it's a coin flip on who gonna win that. Obviously Minnesota has the advantage because I'm guessing there's gonna be somebody protesting the game there. So that's a plus three to everybody's morale and abilities to shoot the ball. But other than that, I think it's a toss up man. I think both of these teams have played each other well. It's just different on any given night. The Atlanta Hawks got eliminated in five. Again, like I said, not a surprise that they got eliminated in five. I didn't see enough of this team for me to even think that they had a chance to maybe pull off an upset. Like people believe that there was a chance that the Brooklyn Nets could pull off an upset. I don't think anybody is picking the Atlanta Hawks to beat the Miami Heat. Unless you were still on a honeymoon from last season's run which would have been crazy because this team didn't look anything like that. I know they went on a nice little run on like the last month and a half, two months of the season. But even then, this team did not look nothing like that. John Collins was dreadful and he's still fighting this injury. I guess I commend him for playing but I guess, I mean, not really. You didn't contribute positively for the entire team. Trey Young got absolutely clamped up the entire series. I got the stats and they aren't pretty. Trey Young ended the series with 30 tone turnovers and 22 made field goals. He was seven for 38 from three and he had 30 assists. He was being hunted on defense and was held to single digits, two times of five game series. Dreadful and well, well, well, a lot of people are not enjoying this run, which makes sense, man. This was extremely bad. Again, even though we didn't expect them to win the series, we didn't expect an all NBA player to put up the numbers that he did where two of these games, Kevin Knox outscored him and like nine total minutes of basketball. And as much as we can talk about the downfall of the Atlanta Hawks, I'm gonna take the time to talk about the greatness that is the Miami Heat. Like I said, how Laurie got injured in the last game. He didn't play, or two games ago and he didn't play this one. And it was basically a late scratch with Jimmy Butler. I mean, I guess he got some time to like get healthy for the next series, whatever. But two players that are super important, the point guard and the literal star player who had been killing the entire series are out of this. This is a time for the Atlanta Hawks to be able to steal the game, but they couldn't because Victor Oladipo who had been sitting on ice for 97% of the season came in today and look about as close to the all-star version of himself as I've ever seen. And I am not exaggerating. I don't know if we're gonna get this version of Victor Oladipo for the rest of their playoff run, but tonight he looked like he was back in Indy. And if we're getting like 70, 80% of that, that could be extremely. And I mean, extremely dangerous for whoever they see in the second round. And if they get out of that, whoever they see in the conference find was because Vio was him today. And Bam, who I talked about earlier in the season of not being aggressive and just looking like he didn't wanna, not that he didn't wanna hoop because he was still very good defensively, but he didn't wanna play the offense side of the ball with no Jimmy, no Cal Lauri. Hey, who was the next guy? Who's our next all-star Cal the player? It's Bam. And he gave you a good offensive performance on top of the great defense and with a 20-point game, 11 rebounds including some offensive and force is great performance from him. But my MVP over all of this was PJ Tucker because for at least four of these five games, PJ Tucker had Trey Young and Alcatraz. Now I know it's a team effort to guard a guy like Trey Young, but the main focus of defense was PJ Tucker. And I know he not a dude that's gonna score more than at the most nine points, but that defense on Trey Young was a legendary. They gave him fits. It's things that he said himself in his post game interview. Things that he ain't seen since he was in high school. They did that. Sposker, PJ, Gabe Vincent got a lot of minutes on Trey Young. They neutralized an all NBA player who basically just let the league in total points and total it says had him have more turnovers than field goals made insanity. And what's next for the Atlanta Hawks is up in the air in my personal opinion, man. Because if I were them, I'd be calling every team to figure out the values of anybody not named DeAndre Hunter and Trey Young. John Collins, even though he's a good player. Again, he was stinky in the series, but I do believe a lot of that had to do with him coming back from his injury. Him and Trey Young having jailed completely. I know they went on that run and his defense was good during that run, but overall they haven't jailed completely. He's still like 24 years old. Clint Capella has lost a step on both sides of the floor. Kevin Herter has hit a miss, but I will still pick up the phone and ask around. Bogdanovich, I think he's got one more year in his contract. I picked up the phone and asked around. If this team doesn't look dramatically different next season, I'd be disappointed. And Travis Slank, who's done a solid job, but to this point, I'd be disappointed if he didn't make some decent amount of moves. And I've been seeing a lot of people talk about a center. Atlanta fans, you might not like to hit this because the idea about this player has gone very, very self in the last two seasons. Talk about not Clint Capella. Rudy Gilbera is a center for Trey Young. I'm not saying it's the right move. I'm not saying it's the wrong move, but those are the type of things you should be thinking about. That's all. And lastly, let's talk about this Phoenix Suns game. Unfortunately, I only got to watch the fourth quarter. And in that fourth quarter, I saw a lot of great defense from McHale Bridges. I saw a lot of great offense from McHale Bridges. I saw him cutting back door. I saw him hitting shots. If you remember the last time I talked about series, I said that there's no way that McHale Bridges, Jay Crowder, Cameron Johnson, and Landry Shaman continue to shoot like 7% from three together. And though Jay Crowder still was one for five, McHale went four for four. Cameron Payne in this 11 minutes ended up with two threes and bro fouled out. He was all over the place hacking. But he gave y'all his best performance at a playoff so far, and that's a good sign. Landry Shaman even hit a three. I knew that the shooting was gonna come around eventually, and it was enough for them to get this win. Like I said, Chris Paul came out a little bit more of a winch. He did get caught again with a second violation because Jose Alvarado is still super exciting and a nuisance out there. But one thing I'm super concerned about for the Pelican's sake is Brandon Ingram, because of course, like I said, he hurt his finger in this one, and hopefully it's just a jam and it's okay in a couple of days, but I know a jam finger on the shooting hand can be tough, can be super tough. CJ, last two performances, not the greatest, and they need him to be great if they wanna win this series, that's all. But yeah, man, one more game for Memphis and one more game for Phoenix, but anything is still possible. They still have to go into the Positine's territory to make a win, unless we're going to game seven. I wanna see at least one game seven in the first round. Is that too much to ask for? At least one game seven with the stakes are at an all-time high. There's nothing better than a game seven in the NBA. You feel me? I guess a game seven or a elimination game anywhere, whether it be college, whether it be in the NFL, one game eliminations, or in the wildcard game, in the MLB, one game elimination is peak sports, peak fandom, and I need those.