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I'm never a guy that's gonna front my move watch the last video of the recap watch my podcast I've been keeping it a buck right Typically, I don't root against teams in this game. I was rooting against the Indiana Pacers now a lot of Pacers fans took that's a hard kitty. Oh my god They even clipped it and put it on Instagram. It was no hard feelings between me and the organization or me and the fans I just think it's a little bit more fun to watch the Charlotte Hornets long term That was that was simple people took it real personal but listen the Pacers proved me wrong It was fun watching them dominate very fun I've but I've always I even put in the caveat in this but people clip this out that I'm a big fan of Watching some bonus and what's a bonus is doing some bonus things and today He didn't even have the game that you would want him to have in order for you to advance and win now game It was the other it was the surrounding pieces I am so happy that this man Doug McDermott has a home Now I don't know if you'll be here long term, but he looks like a pacer, right? He plays like what you would want from a player on the Indiana Pacers and when I saw him They did a baseline at a bounce play where he got it back and got like a layup I was like, yeah, they're gonna win this game at that point. He had like he is I think those the first two he scored he had two open threes and I'm like this game is 100% over They look like they wanted him more and if you go back and watch the episode I dropped yesterday I said that the Pacers will probably win his game because of their experience and they look like they knew what it was like to Be in a game 7 scenario because they do you know that? Because they do I'm just gonna say they do has a bonus been in the game seven off the top of my head I don't really know but they've been in these these high intensity Moments in their NBA careers a lot of these players Malcolm Brogdon on his Bucks run just a holiday been on a thousand playoff teams Like these are players that have had moments in the playoffs That's exactly what I said last episode, but I like the idea of seeing a mellow in a seven game series But I listen if they're gonna play like this, I'm glad that the Pacers won it You know I'm saying do you the guy that surprised me the most now again? I do watch a lot of basketball, so I'm not gonna act I'm not gonna be a casual here, but oh say percent, right? Because the last month of the season every single year we see players have this crazy month players that Aren't really I don't want to say NBA players because a lot of it'll be a NBA players But players put up ridiculously great stats and the last month of the season because some teams have decided to fold it in and this Guy has opportunity and that was kind of the way I was thinking about oh shade for a lot of his game cuz he's been hoping for them You know if you've been watching the Pacers over the last month. He has been actually hoping for him He had a like a 30-point game. He's been super efficient with it So I was always curious so I'm curious now of how much of what we're seeing from Brissette is legitimately him because that changes the little path for the Indiana Pacers a little bit long term He's a young player. He just spent one season with the Toronto Raptors And I say one season because he played like what 10 games at the max He played he played one season in out of Pacers or with the Toronto Raptors and now he's here And in the when now game this man look like he might have been the second best player on the it's Third best player on the entire court behind Doug McDermott behind Demontus a bonus, and then it was brissette So I'm super excited. I love to see like no name You know second round picks late first round picks make a name for himself And this is the biggest place to do it because though I feel like a lot of people aren't invested in the Pacers and a lot of people aren't invested in the Hornets I feel like a lot of people are invested in the play-in and for this to be the first game They saw to see this guy dominating the way he did was great But it was also bad for like the casual fan and look at this to be like the play-in bro It don't matter they just the 30 points, but then game to start it shout to the Pacers We're gonna talk about the matchup against the loser of game two because this one let let up Lived up to the hype a little bit more a lot more because about a half time. It was a very close game I know I'm on spaces with the homies. We got 1500 people in spaces That's the same talking about the first half of this game And I was like, yeah, this is about to be one. Let's go go down to the wire. Nope Jason Tatum Cumberwalk a beginning of the third court. I think it was a 24 to 6 run to start the third quarter Ridiculous and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna bury the lead a lot of this is because Bradley Beal Again second game in the row. He just does not look healthy. He goes back to the locker room Three minutes in he's already grabbing at his hamstring and I was listening to no dunks I'll send my homies over and no dunks go subscribe to their YouTube channel They post quality content every single day I think it was Trey Kirby that brought this point that I didn't even really think about the previous games between the Washington Wizards and The Boston Celtics they have Bradley Beal as a primary defender on Jason Tatum I think Jason Tatum had a 40 He had a 30 like he has always given them buckets because he's too fast for Rihachi Mora But he's also too big for Bradley Beal and he was throwing the hamstring on Bradley Beal Jason Tatum is licking his fingers because this is the environment JT was bred for bro 50 50 in a win now. I mean, I guess for this game. It's not win or go home It's not but it's like super important that you get this first game because game number two You don't you don't want to go into game number two. So for him to come out and drop 50 when they're like Decimated is amazing and then they end up losing Robert Williams, too Marcus smart goes down like they got some bad luck right now, but they pull out this this game I'm very curious to see what happens to Robert Williams because I mean They're going against the Brooklyn that's next series I think everybody in the world is picking Brooklyn to win that series But if the the boss itself is one of your competitive, I think Robert Williams can help that but this is also As far as them not having a center It probably works out well against the the Nets because the Nets don't have a center that they trust too much either But it's still the Nets, you know I'm saying I'm thinking Nets and Nets and five maybe Nets and six If I'm being curious or I'm being courteous Nets and five makes a lot of sense But for Jason Tatum to come out and drop a convincing 50 like like like hot as can be and on top of that You also get Kimball Walker looking like the Kimball Walker They paid all that money for it was great And at the end of the day, of course is Jason Tatum and Kimball Walker's play that gets in the victory But also on top of this would also get them that win was the fact that brass seamless was not afraid To not play the bumps and I say bumps very lightly I mean like the players that you don't trust in the playoff series He didn't play those dudes until the game was already at 15 It was already at it was already at 20 and those are the type of things you need to do for a one game elimination type thing And they saw an opportunity a listen if we win this game We got the next couple days off JT could get a little bit of rest We go run JT we go run Evan for me a we go run Kimba and then you up by 20 at one point Oh now we can bring in Romeo length for the you know play the last half or the last quarter in the beginning of The third or the end of the third we can bring in the victory to God Luke or next out to Luke right net man I love to see him successful And I use success very lightly, but what a what a game from Jason Tatum and all-time performance Then might get lost in the shuffle Because I saw a tweet right after this game like this don't officially count as regular season game It doesn't officially count as a postseason game or like a playoff game So where does he says statistics live? What is there gonna be another tab that says play in? Because last year we had to play in Jama Ranjop like 35 40 and I don't know where I can find that a basketball reference. So this 50 might get lost in oblivion But if this is a playoff game ridiculous ridiculous, we have to talk about Russell Westwood's performance I just noticed that that that's that's been in the way the entire nine minutes We do want to take of these things Russell Westwood performance Not great. You can look at the box score. Oh, yeah, 20. Yeah, 14. Yeah, five You only turn the ball over four times It was dreadful The watchers lose this because Bradley Bills hamstring and Russell Westbrook didn't do enough to put them over the hump You know what? This is just one of those games, man You give and take with Russell Westbrook, right? He will have seven games of greatness and then have one stinker It just so happened that there's one stinker is the most important game in a season for them And now they have to go against Indiana and I think this matchup is super interesting because I believe That the Indiana Pacers have the end of paces have defenders that they can throw at Bradley in Russell Westbrook That look that little man TJ McConnell's gonna get on some skin You know I'm saying I don't know if you run TJ on a raw NATO who's starting or whatever But they have defenders similar to like the boss itself. This has defenders. You know I'm saying So it should be a very interesting one this whole last game between Pacers and Wizards Really depends on what this man Bradley Bills hamstring is looking like I don't know if we have a scheduled date like is this do they play on Thursday? Do I play on Friday? I don't know But if this man can't get his hamstring right hamstrings one of those nagging injuries my boy Mike suffered a hamstring injury His worst off sophomore year. He was starting Suffered a hamstring injury Three games to the season and lost his starting job and was never the same until we're 24 now He might be a little bit from from sophomore year That's how crazy hamstring injuries can be but it also can be a one-week injury So it's like this big old timetable that can be different It's just the worst timing for Bradley because everybody knows Bradley Bills is one of the most elite scores We have in the game today, but if he can't run he can't be as explosive He can't cut the way he normally does He's gonna have a 10 for 15 or 25 game. He's gonna just drop 22 when he average is 30 Well, I really love the second game tomorrow should be better. It should be I don't know it may not live up tonight, but tomorrow should be better and we'll see There any other things I want to talk about in this one The Charlotte Hornets disappointed me I just had a feeling that they were gonna come out look young and they did that to them to the max. They played like They had practice in the morning They don't You catch a flight home and that's it, but they played like yeah, we'll get them next time there. No, bro It was no next time so it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate depending on who you ask I guess but if this is the pacer scene that we're getting for the next game Shout out to them, bro Shout to them, bro. All right, so bonus didn't even have a good game and they they won by 30. That's insane I mean, he had a good game. He didn't have a good scoring game. I'm sorry He had a good scoring game and they won by 30 insanity insanity I let me know what you think about this next playing game for the final 8c. Who do you have? Do you have the beat up watch the Wizards? I guess technically the beat up Indiana Pacers 2 But the beat up for the Indiana Pacers is different than the beat up for the watch the Wizards Because the beat up for the watch the Wizards It's like trying to play through it and the pastures like a next man up. Oh shade. Let's go, bro We ain't got Miles. We ain't got this guy. Oh, say, what's up? Summoners Wow quality player, I guess Let me know what you think leave a like go listen to a podcast platforms and I'll I'll see y'all See y'all tomorrow. Peace