 What's the word y'all we are back with a recap man? We got three games to talk about because yesterday we had a playoff game I don't really have much to say about Milwaukee versus Brookless all tagging on to the end of this one But we just found out that James Hardness alpha game number two turn off injuries, please It is just messing up this whole thing, but I mean based on game one it seemed like they may not need them We'll talk about that a little bit later I want to talk about the game that is fresh in my mind that is the clippers getting the win and game seven I guess the Dallas matters but technically come back. You know I'm saying they were down three two They went to Dallas got a win and they came home to gotta win the first roll team to get a win and it was it was kawai This man kawai put on a masterclass of being able to take over games shoot efficiently Playmake kawai Leonard the playmaker and guard your team's best player It is kind of insane like I'm gonna go back to our last episode when you're talking about within Lakers got eliminated How I said in that that we didn't have that takeover LeBron I'm not going home moment that you want from not just LeBron But from like any star player on the team faced elimination you want them to like give me give me the ball I'm gonna go get a basket kawai Leonard did that in game number six I wanted to do a whole episode of game number six about that kawai Leonard did that in game number six He got to his spots and he completely took over said I'm not going home and then in game seven He may not have had the most he didn't have the dominant offensive performance isn't in game number six He shot 10 for 15. He almost had a triple dough I know triple doubles ain't the same as what they used to be You know, Russell Westberg has done it four out of five years Luka don't just put no blue triple doubles triple doubles are not easy to get but um easier to get than maybe ever before But kawai Leonard the guy that's not really known for his playmaking to be one assist away on the triple double in a game Seven will also suit him 10 for 15 and also Gordon Luka Donchich. It's incredible, right? And we're gonna talk about this a little bit when we talk about the Trey young versus Philly game people always question like man You like in this case right Ben Simmons a top three defense player to a candidate But in the first half against Trey young he didn't get the assignment you like why this guy could guard one through five Why do we not have been Simmons on Trey young what we found out is I guess it don't really matter too much because Ben Simmons Got Swiss stones to Trey and I think he picked up two really really quick fouls And I think Trey young maybe just a little bit too quick for him But either way when you have a guy like kawai Leonard like Ben Simmons to an extent that is doing so much on the Offense aside of the ball and yes, I'm saying Ben Simmons is doing a lot on offense I know he's not jump shooting. He may not be scoring a ton. He's doing a lot off the side of the ball It's hard to ask a player a drop 40 for us and also guard Luka. Please pretty please. That's the only chance we got Kawai is a robot Goura is a robot. He literally did that he dropped 40 something points while guarding Luka Donchich And and you know, I'm giving a lot of credit to Tyron Lou I've been a critical a guy that's been really critical of a Tyron Lou Throughout his tenure here before when he was at Cleveland But he made the necessary adjustments to win this series, bro If he doesn't make the adjustments on on the Luka Donch's defense that he did in the second half of some of these games If you didn't make the adjustments to tell Zubats You got to sit your butt down because you can't play in this series and to have the guns to stick to playing Ultra small ball you got a 7-3 and a 7-4 player on the other side and they got this win Got this win. I'm excited to see this next series, man Um, I think the Clippers match up pretty well as Utah. This is gonna be Utah's testament You know, I'm saying if Utah can get out of this I think a lot of people don't believe in Utah as a real contender contender Even though there was a number one team in the league Historically greats three-point shooting team all of this all of that Um, I think I think majority of people will probably pick the Clippers to win this series. I'm not making a prediction I'm just letting you know what I think majority people will pick Because they will have the best player in Kawaii Leonard And what we just saw in the last two games is when it matters the most Kawaii Leonard can up it a little bit And but at the end of the day in this game number seven a lot of this had to do with the others I know we always talk about the others And I'm not gonna get to the spiel of it. But the others for the others for the Clippers. This is what we got Marcus Morse 23 a Series high for him not a seven of nine from three and he hit the dagger to close the game Nicholas Batum had been great or defensively all series long You got Reggie Jackson who had a 20-something game last the other day and now backs up with 15 and another dagger type shot Terrence Mann who wasn't even getting rotational minutes last season the playoffs put up 26 minutes and at 13 points Right at Bobon and then like like Lucanard who didn't even play the first half of the series making a lot a lot a lot of money Making a lot of money. Hey, he put up 11 and hit a couple big shots as well And then you look on the other side of things the others for Luca now Luca did not play an amazing second half But the others for him didn't really step up Tim Hardaway Jr. Goes down an injury really really early on and I don't know if that was the reason he shot one for nine But he missed some time and it was with his ankle or something like that. Bobby was really solid poor Zegas Poor Zegas poor Zegas get a door finish me. I've had a good game too He was everyone off inside of the ball or offensive rebounding poor Zegas This is this is whenever a team gets eliminated my mind immediately thinks about okay What does their offseason look like right? Let's quickly talk about what the Dallas Mavis all season should look like Because believe it or not the Dallas Mavis are not a young team They have a young star right and it's value with building a team right now around Luca because you don't have to pay him Max money when he he will get max money as soon as he's eligible So this value in trying to build a contender or championship team right now and they thought they did it with the poor Zegas tray. Hey, we got this one two punts We got the seven three center that can stretch and also do a little bit is he can defend the paint He hasn't been what you want him to be he hasn't been a two option if anything has been three options But you're paying him like the one option So they have to figure out how you get a second star alongside Luca because there's too many moments in these games As great as Luca is and he makes some of the craziest shots I've seen it's too many moments where he knows they're like, bro Nobody else in this court can create their own shot. So I have to do it all He needs someone else on his roster to do that And if I'm not mistaken the Dallas mavericks will have a little bit of cap space this offseason I didn't do too much research But I feel like they can make the necessary moves to get another guy They can also handle the ball another guy that can create his own shot for Luca because they need that as soon as possible Because you don't want to be paying Luca don't just this max money that you missed that window I mean the Atlanta Hawks are the perfect example of this we'll get to that game in a second We're like Trey young cylinders Ricky contract this offseason. They went spending by Donovitz Galanari They had rondo they spent the rondo Chris Dunn They had all his money because they're star player They're also a couple players make it like five million dollars because he's he's allowed to pick a few years ago So I'm curious to see what they do The MBAs is such a good hands with Luca and Trey young and Donovan Mitchell and Devin But think about all the players that said big-time moments in this playoffs right now Just they're just all like under 25 26 years old. It's crazy Then Simmons Joel and beat I'm still counting them as young even though they've been in the league for a long time So congratulations to the Clippers moving on to the next round the Dallas mavericks have some real big decisions to make The Josh Richardson trade is looking worse and worse by the day six total minutes played in this one and two turnovers Seth Curry Seth Curry in this game is a difference maker. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm really saying So let's move on to the other game of today because it was a crazy woman You let a Hawks come out 50 points and to 20 or something like it was the biggest lead Let me see what the biggest lead of this game was the biggest lead of the game was 26 I mean, it was a 26 point game at one point and they almost threw it all the way That last six minutes was the most intense basketball I've seen in a long time bro because they didn't want it It seemed like they did not want to shout out to bogey because he hit the shot that mattered the most And then he came down and hit some free throws when he had it shot a whole free throw in the game until this point Big time over here, but Trey young in his first half Amazing second half got a little bit more difficult. They start throwing more covers Then you got you got some Ben Simmons minutes You got some anti-style you saw some double teams They tried to get the ball out of Trey young's hand, which is a good thing But not maybe a good thing good thing without by Donovan's is hitting the shots came hurt It's in the shot Williams coming to the game So like I love Trey young because he he's a very capable passer more than capable passer So he sees his double team and he's able to find the man in the split second But all that almost went down the tank bro all of it and that's why I think this is gonna be a good series Bro, I think originally because on my podcast they make they make you pick. Hey, what is this series going to? I think I was like Philly in five. I think I may have said Philly in five But I hope it's not this game. She was way better than I expected it to be honestly And I think I said feeling five more net on Joe the beat is completely healthy in it from game of one It looks like he was but the type of urgency that Philly play with in that last six minutes They need to play with that off of 40 42 more minutes on top of that six You know I'm saying because they didn't have that in the first three and a half quarters And then they put it together But I mean the fact that they got this win Atlanta got this win without DeAndre Hunter is crazy because So I'm gonna give a couple shots in the early on but after that It was just like nothing from him and then they just couldn't get the ball in balance They couldn't get the ball up the court like double team double team double team Matisse is here Ben Simmons is here. You Seth Curry is here on sometimes in Joel and B Being able to just be at the right place the right time to get so many layups and one layup layup left It was crazy, but Atlanta got the win and that's all that really matters You know they said serious as it started to a real take gets a win the road They got a win in game number one on Philly side of the ball if Joel and B this this will happen until The day he retires every time this man gets hit. I'm like I'm like cringing a little bit I mean when you hear a partially torn meniscus in my mind He's out for a couple months The fact that this man was able to play today and not only just that put up 39 and shoot 14 or 15 for the free throw line and almost bring his team back into this game and to a victory is Amazing is amazing. So like people always have a man Joel and B can't say healthy can't say healthy I always try to figure out because I've heard people say being healthy and being available is a skill When a lot of like think about Joel and B's injuries Think about him the injury he had in the last game when he got injured against Washington He went up for a layup and got blocked and landed weird, you know I'm saying but then again This is me rambling of course Derek Rose changed the whole way he landed after his ACL because he was landing wrong it was hurting his legs and stuff So I don't know maybe Joel and B need to go to the same kinesthetic Trainer that Derek Rose went to to learn how to land better So everybody ain't grimacing every time he falls Kevin Ryan falls into this is too too for me now but Kevin Ryan has Hit had really big falls this playoffs and just got right back up So I don't know maybe I shouldn't be grimacing because he don't he don't get injured I'm excited for game number two. That's all I could really say I'm excited for game number two I'm excited to see how they defend Trey young early on instead of like the covers that they were using and yeah Excited to see hopefully Ben Simmons shoot more than 30% from the free-throw line because at the end of the day I don't know who I was listening to But they were saying if Ben Simmons can become a 60% free-throw shooter Nobody will foul him anymore because it's 1.2 points per possession Which is good instead of the one point present point per possession if you shoot 50% would say he shot 30% So I would have been hacking be a hacker be a hacker because he can't hit him But if this may can get to 60% you won't get hacker Ben anymore So let's let's get into the lab. Let's get into a lot I don't know how you got two stars You're gonna be being the same size bigger than you and he should shoot so effectively and you can't you know I would I would hope that they like in the gym to gather at least a little bit But I mean, I don't know last game we want to talk about last night Let's talk about Milwaukee in Brooklyn James Harden going down injury hurts for me I mean as a fan as a fan as viewing this but at the end of the day didn't matter too much because Blake Griffin stepped up Um the guy that was playing overseas, you know, they always got to say that Mike James stepped up amazingly 30 minutes for Mike James in a Playoff game. It's kind of crazy. He did that though a Bruce Brown big-time minutes This was not a carry urban game who had 25. This is not even a Kevin Arrant game who had 29 This was a Joe Harris. This was a Blake Griffin and this was a Mike James game Which is crazy now I don't I'm not overreacting to this because at the end of the day a team that is one of the greater Three-point shooter teams in the league shot three for 30 from three Chris Middleton ended with what 13 total points with 23 shots I don't expect that to happen too much But this is but this is something that I've said before when I was thinking about the Lakers like many Lakers ain't about to Shoot 25% the whole see they almost did Whatever it is you got to correct it immediately and I feel like a broken record when I'm talking about the Bucks I'm talking about coast bud and and I thought this this track record that ended because in the first series it seemed like he was playing Yanis all these minutes he was playing Chris Middleton Joe Holly all these minutes and then in game number one you don't even play Yanis 40 minute I don't understand that Like yes, the the Brooklyn that's had this game like pretty convincingly, but it was never completely completely over So we need Yanis to be on the court more Especially if his support and cast ain't doing nothing. He's the only one that's keeping you in the game right now I don't think I don't expect bring Forbes to shoot one for five I don't expect you how they shoot to first two for seven Christmas over five I don't expect them to shoot this bad from three again And that's like that's what they're gonna have to do to have a chance in a series because if they don't hit their shots Here's me big brain if they don't hit their shots, they can't win. That's the that was big brain That's all we want to say 43 seconds in kill my parley by the way. I had James Harden going off at 30 Barely got 30 seconds play, you know