 What's the word, y'all? We got ourselves a series, ladies and gentlemen. After the Boston Celtics won game four, I came to this channel and I said impressive win, but I'm not talking about the series no more until the Celtics take at least two games or to Miami, he wrapped it up. And here we are going to a game six, going back to Miami, where he fans are feeling a little bit of pressure as they should. They should feel pressured, but they still get two chances to win one game. So we don't know exactly what's gonna happen, but the Boston Celtics are two games away from pulling off the biggest comeback in NBA playoff history, but in the same token, the Miami Heat are one game away from being in the final. So again, I don't know how it was gonna go, but I'm excited that we're getting the series because in the Western Conference though, we got four real good bangers between the Lakers versus Nuggets. It was still just four games. And right now with the Boston Celtics when they're playing, they're trying to extend this thing. Jayla Brown said, don't let us get one. And then they got one. He said, don't let us get another. And then they got another. There have been teams in the history that have done this, right? That have been down 0-3 and then made the run to get to six or made the run to even get to seven, but nobody in NBA history have won that seventh game after being down 0-3. It's happening baseball. It's happening hockey, but it has not happened in the NBA. And I remember even before this game, I was listening to a bunch of podcasts that I respect and they were saying like, hey, if there's any team to pull off the biggest comeback in playoff history, it is this one and I understood it. Because again, I try to be as candid with y'all as possible. But before December started, I picked the Boston Celts to win. Not because I thought that the Miami Heat weren't good because obviously they've been showing through the first two rounds that they are a hell of a team, even though they ended up in the play-in and lost the first play-in game. They showed us a would beat in Milwaukee and then beaten up on the New York Knicks that this is a real legitimate team. So I didn't pick against the Miami Heat thinking that they were gonna be weak, but it was more, the Boston Celtics have the recipe to win a series like this. The first three games, they used none of that recipe. None of it. Through the regular season, the Boston Celts were top three and totaled three point makes and they were top seven when it came to percentage. This is a high value, high percentage three point shooting team. And when I made my original prediction, I'm coming off the idea that in that Miami Heat versus New York Knicks series, though the Heat again pounded their chest in, they shot 29% from three that series. I know Emma Walkie was killing it in that series, but like, they're coming off a series where they did not hit a ton of their threes and the Boston Celts as though they hadn't impressed me and they're serious against Atlanta or they didn't impress me and they're serious against the Philadelphia 76ers. I just kinda look at the volume of three point shooting and what the Boston Celts could have been and said, hey, that's the winner of the series. Again, I'm one win away from Miami Heat from being wrong and two wins away for the Boston Celts of being right. But again, I don't come here thinking right or wrong when I'm making my predictions because it's basketball at the end of the day. I think it's actually more fun when I'm wrong because that means the unexpected has happened. Either way, they mentioned on the broadcast that the Boston Celts of so far in this playoff run are undefeated when their team hits 15 threes. Makes sense. Again, we're talking about Missoula ball and Missoula ball is highly analytical. It was like, we're gonna shoot a lot of three point shots. We're gonna get to the basket sometimes, but more than likely, we're gonna live and die by the three pointer. And that's one of the reasons why they wanted the best offensive basketball because three is greater than two and they got a decent amount of elite level shooters. You saw that specifically in the first quarter. I mean, well, you saw it throughout the entire game, but the first quarter is where the momentum started. And I mean, the game was over from the very beginning. Like, I did always feel like the Miami Heat were good for a really good run because the Boston Celts do have a history of getting up by 10 to 15 points and immediately not being able to know how to shoot the ball. And when they don't shoot the ball, then they don't know how to get to the basket or they don't know how to take the midi. But today, again, the shots are falling. But I did think the Miami Heat was gonna go on a nice little run, but they didn't and we're gonna talk about that after we talked about that first quarter because yeah, it was something, man. The TD Garden is rocking and every once in a while. And I understand Jason Tatum has been all NBA first team two times in his young career already. Like the league has determined that Jason Tatum is one of the best at basketball. He's been a top two player at his position according to the voters for a few years now. Again, that has to do a lot with some injuries here, but I'm just saying that the resident may say that Jason Tatum is him, even though he's had time specifically in this series where he couldn't score in the fourth quarter or he has some turnovers where he's traveling, yada, yada, yada. But there's times where you see him come out in the first quarter and you're like, oh my God, this man Jason, I understand all of the hype because it is real and this is what you got today. Now it didn't stand for the entirety of the game but they didn't need it to, but in that first quarter I think he was monumental in setting the tempo and the idea behind the game. He was getting to the basket, he was hitting shots and there was a ton of energy. When I watched this game and there was one specific moment where I was like, okay, the boss's cells look like they're gonna wrap this up. When we're talking first quarter, it was a play where Al Wolfer was on the glass like he was Dennis Robin. And I'm like, oh, he's putting in that type of effort. Oh, Marcus Smart just hit two threes in the first quarter. Yeah, this might be a quick win for the Miami Heat and it ended up being so much so the air exposure didn't start thinking towards game six and didn't even play Bama, Jimmy Butler in the fourth quarter. So Tatum had an amazing fourth quarter and that's what's gonna be talked about a ton because he had to be done. He's talking to the crowd, yada, yada, yada, but we cannot look past where Derrick White also did simultaneously in that first quarter, also hitting, I think, three threes in the first alone. He's just been really good and it's interesting because, you know, when we get to playoff basketball, a lot of it, not all of it, but a lot of it is picking matchups and finding mismatches that empower your best players to play their best ball. And in this series so far, we've seen a lot of Jimmy Butler going at Derrick White and it's not saying that Derrick White is a bad defender because Derrick White made an all defensive team this season but out of the starting five of this team, out of the collection of players, he might be the weakest link as far as when it comes to the size and everything. Like, no, I know Marcus Smart and him are very similar in height, but he is built differently. Marcus Smart built like a, like a firehunter. So Jimmy Butler was going to him. If you look at the percentages of Jimmy Butler when he's guarded by Derrick White, they're pretty damn good. So to see him come out and again continue to shoot so well, it's just like none of, none of, none of Fies? He completely eliminates a lot of the hunting of him because he's getting it back 10 times 10. Also in that first quarter, they were turning the Miami Heat over like no other. I don't know how many they ended up with, but it was like clockwork, boom, boom, boom, boom. How long it gets to inserting to the starting lineup? And like, yeah, never played basketball before. I mean, he had been really good previously coming off the bench. I guess he just can't start. He's just a super sixth man because he put him in the lineup, then he struggles. They can go to comes around and this is where we get to see Jalen Brown pretty much his best quarter of the series. I mean, for the first couple of games, even the one that they won, it felt like he was, his powers they got taken away from him on some space jam type stuff because he was doing things that he normally don't do. And Regimental was talking about in the call how he thinks that Jalen Brown's hand has been messed with him. That's how he's shooting such poor percentages from the free throw line, like his jump shootings at an all time low. I think he was shooting like 20% on jump shots, which is mind blowing really think about it. But that quarter was like, okay, that's the Jalen Brown that made an all in the B18. And then you get around to the second half. All you have to do if you're the boss of Celsius is maintain some energy, play the defense and you win the game and that's exactly what they did. On the other side, man, I was pretty disappointed in the performance we got from Jimmy Butler. There's times, and again, I've been watching Jimmy for a long time since he was drafted here in Chicago and I got to see his progression as a player. There's times where Jimmy Butler basically decides that he doesn't want to shoot the basket. And it's mind blowing to me considering the stakes in this game that he ended up with, I think 10 shot attempts on the entire game. Now, part of that is he is a pump fake machine. Like one of the best features for Jimmy Butler is that he draws a ton of fouls. Whether you like it or not, it's a feature of his game and he's damn good at it. This is one of those games where he was looking for that more than he probably should have been looking for a pump fake, pump fake, pump fake. Oh, they not biting on it no more. All right, let me give it off to somebody else. Instead of the aggression that we've seen throughout this playoff run for him, this was probably his weakest game of the playoffs completely so far. He went to the podium after the game and he pretty much guaranteed a game six wins. So I'm guessing that means that he's gonna come out with the aggression that we've seen from him. But this is a game that, especially with Gabe Vincenbien that was a huge blow by the way. I know people are sliding on the rug. Gabe Vincenbien was after 17 points per game on 58% shooting, 50% from three this series. Like Gabe Vincenbien is one of them boys. He's been one of the best players for the Miami Heat. So with him being out, of course, Hiro still being out. We need our two best players to be that and you didn't get that from Jimmy or Bam today. We mentioned how the bosses cells are undefeated when they hit 15-3, so they did hit 16. The Miami Heat are also undefeated when Bam Manabayo scores 20 plus points. And today it was an ugly one, man, for sure. A lot more turnovers do you want from Bam Manabayo. And again, he wasn't scoring at the same rate that he had been in some of those previous wins. So when your top two players are not performing to their capabilities and you're also under man, it's just gonna be really, really hard to win those games. And maybe the crazier thing is they shot the three point ball pretty solidly. The value was probably lower than what it normally would be. And again, that's some of that's because Gabe Vincenbien is not there to help out every like he opens the game up so much. Duncan Robson had a good game which is something that you're maybe excited about going into game six that maybe he gets a little bit longer of a leash to get more minutes and stuff. But this is a really rough watch if you're a Miami Heat fan. As a new true fan in all of this, I'm excited either way because I want people to continue to recognize that no matter what happens for the rest of the series, you will be seeing history. If the boss itself just come back from down, no three. Well, that's the first team in history to ever do that in the NBA. If the Miami Heat close out this series, then they're one of the few teams to be in eight seed and make it to the finals. I know last video I mentioned the Knicks and I forgot or didn't recognize it. Knicks actually won the conference finals and ended up in the finals so it's just a part of history that's past my brain because I was barely born back then. But they could be one of the few teams as an eight seed to make it to the finals. So as a new true fan, this is just good because at this point, I mean, if the Miami Heat have one game four, we basically would have four to six, seven games left of basketball for the year and I don't want that. I feel like it was just yesterday. I was at the Warriors ring ceremony, taking it all in that I'm here for part of history and the season is close to over. So I'm taking all games. Even if it is a game like this that maybe wasn't entertaining to watch, if you didn't watch it second half at all this game, you ain't miss a single thing. You know what I'm saying? More basketball is better than no basketball. So yeah, I'm excited to see the next game in a few nights. Couple videos ago, I was telling y'all that we did an icy collaboration with Enjoy Basketball. And I just want to give my thanks to y'all because we sewed out in like five hours, which is ridiculous. Every time we do a merge drop, I'm always so appreciative and surprised at the amount of support y'all really show. 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