 What's the word y'all? I'm behind us with you. I didn't think I was going to be able to make this video. I am as sick as can be, but the Boston Celtics became one of the few teams in the big history to be down 0-3 to force a game 7. So I gotta do what I gotta do. So if there's an abnormal amount of cuts in this, that's because I gotta clip my throat, I gotta drink some water, whatever, the show must go on. Now they wanted a few teams to force a game 7 to be a down 0-3, but they have an advantage that none of those other previous teams have and we gotta talk about that. After we talk about the enjoy basketball newsletters ladies and gentlemen, we drop Monday, Wednesday, Friday, all things NBA. I know right now it's not too tough to keep up with the league considering we're down to our last couple games of the entire year, but throughout the course of the NBA season enjoy basketball newsletters away to keep up with the league in the best way possible. 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Their record at home is staggeringly bad. I think it's around 500 and you got to remember that this is a team that has been one of the top seeds for the last couple of seasons. So the fact that they struggle at home where they are 500 team in the playoffs, it's going to play a part or it has played a part. How big of a part would it play in this in game seven? I don't know because in the last series, the home court was something. They ran the Philadelphia 76ers out of the gym behind a magnificent game from Jason Tatum. Again, the Miami Heat are a different monster when it comes to the small intangible things in basketball, something that the Philadelphia 76ers feel like they were lacking. So it shouldn't be that easy, but Elimination game Tatum seems to be a thing. And this is saying something because they were up by 10-ish points with like four or five minutes to go and they allowed the Miami Heat to get right back into that game. And that fourth quarter, we got to look at the Boston Celtics fans. It was not a pretty show. The Jason Tatum ended up with like six points in the second half completely and not a lot of those was coming in the fourth quarter. But the course of history changed in just 0.1 seconds, which is crazy. Now, the Boston Celtics already are going to have some difficult conversations as obviously whether they win the championship or lose this game seven, because of course, Jaylen Brown is up for that Super Max extension at $300 million. And if you want to have $600 million between Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown, just two players in the roster, you got the second curtain thing coming at the end of next season. There's a lot of conversations for the Boston Celtics to figure out how to build the championship team because they've been able to build the championship contender for the better half of a decade. But we're talking about championship team. Now that they get this game seven, those conversations are going down the line just a little bit later. And now with them having this game seven and the home court advantage where the Miami Heat team that we're seeing right now looks dramatically different than the Miami Heat team. We saw the first three games in a series for the five games in the last series and for the five games of the series before that. And a lot of that boils down to their star level play. In a game six, I want to make sure I get my numbers right. I'm going to make sure I get my numbers right. You got 21 points from Kayla Martin. You got 10 points from Max Drews. You got 15 from Gabe Vincent. You got eight from Cal Laury. And I think all eight of those came in the second half. You got Duncan Robinson in the fourth quarter scoring 10 of his 13 points. That is the the production that you want from outside of your top two players. But now you hit the top two players not showing up to work. I know Jimmy but ended up with 24 points. Let me bounce eight assists. If you watched the game that wasn't a Jimmy Butler performance that we've seen earlier in the series or in the last series. I know that well damn I didn't realize he shot four of 16. Sheesh. I mean in the paint alone the Boston Celtics hit them on the club. I think they shot 30 percent of the field in the in the painted area. That's supposed to be the easiest shot of basketball. Not with Rob Williams down there. I guess not without Hufford down there. And what scares me a little bit is that this might have been the game for the role players to play their best ball. And now you go back to Boston where you can't really rely on those role players to have those great performances. My boy D Mills always say role players play better at home. And I again I ain't never looked up the statistics to prove that to be right or wrong simply with the Miami Heat. But again Kayla Martin has such a game gave Vincent hit his shots. Duncan Robison. Oh Duncan Robison as it looks at the end of the game. But I can't be mad at Duncan because he was one of the main reasons why that 10 point deficit that you had in that four minutes were down to zero and that you eventually had to lead. But we mentioned it at the last game there are just times throughout the course of Jimmy Butler's career where his whole objective is to draw the foul. And he's one of the best in the game at it right. If you look at total free throws he's towards the top. Like that's the thing he does. And in this game alone he ended up with 14 free throw attempts. Like that's part of his game and I'm not discrediting him for that. But eventually got to put the ball in the basket. There are a lot of possessions in this game when Jimmy Butler didn't even touch the ball. Now I'm not saying that everything has to be ran through your star player. I mean I don't know if that's the recipe for success. But we're talking stretches of the game when Jimmy Butler's not involved whatsoever. And in the fourth quarter he had 15 points which is great. I mean he ended up shooting eight that 10 free throws in the fourth quarter. There was a lot a lot of free throws in this game. And again another one of the reasons why they were able to come back from down 10. But it also felt like he was not looking at the basket as nearly as much as you want him to do. I like how level headed everybody is in the post-gamer with with Jimmy Butler saying he gonna smoke him some cigs have a beer and get ready for the next game. I like how level headed that is. I like how Eric Sposher did something he don't normally do. Which is come to the podium and not guarantee anything. But it's rare to see Eric Sposher say something like we're gonna figure this out and we'll be we'll be back in the final whatever the exact quote was. That's not something that Eric Sposher normally does. So we'll see. Because this is gone from a Cinderella story that that is one of the best stories involved to like they could be the first team out of 180 I think the number is to blow the 3-0 lead. Which is insane. 0.1 seconds is all it took. And I've seen a lot of conversations on Twitter about specifically Matt Struce on the inbound where if you look at Matt Struce he leaves the inbounder and that allows Derek White to cut straight to the basket for the tipium. And in defense of Matt Struce I will say it seemed like the game plan was to deny Jason Tatum. So when Jason Tatum flared up to get the ball he went to prevent for Tatum. And it seemed like the right idea. Marcus Smart again is in a position to win or go home big shot in the playoff. I don't know how it's always Marcus Smart but he missed the ball so perfectly that like Derek White got a V line straight to the basket for a tipium. But because Matt Struce had went to deny the ball there with Tatum there was no time for recovery which means there was no box out on Derek White and there was also no box out on the other side because if the ball were to miss the other way I mean Tatum was there for the tipium. I mean you got to put a body on these people but it seemed like I mean you're running the zone one of the major things about a zone is hard to put a body on somebody for a box out and that's the hill that you died on. There's also a lot of stuff I saw about the amount of time that was added to the clock because when Jimmy Butler shot his free throw it was at 2.1 second they went back to reviewed it and they gave another 9 tenths of a second on the clock to make it three seconds and they're saying this is this what makes me read. I never understand this part of the game and I'm not talking about it from like I don't know it feels like and I've been guilty of this as well so I'm not singling any fan base out or anything like that when you lose a game like this you want to do everything in your power to point the finger at something and after that game I'm not speaking for all Miami Heat fans but for a lot of fans I saw in the timeline they gave it to the fact that the amount of time was added to it and I rewatched the Jimmy Butler foul on Al Horford about as many times as anybody could the referees got it right but to think it would potentially be rigged for it to perfectly land in there you know how many factors played a part in Derek White getting that lay getting that tip in it was more than just having the extra zero point whatever seconds it was a lack of a box out it was the denying of Jason Tatum it was the zone defense it was a hard cuff from Derek White and Jason Tatum where they're like no matter what I'm not just going to stand around and let nothing happen and they had to be the perfect perfect miss you know what I'm saying so I can't look at the fact that there was extra time on the clock and say dang we should be in the NBA finals right now instead of looking in the mirror and say hey our star player has to do better in the last or the first three and a half quarters our all-star center our all defensive center got to shoot more than 30% from the field when he's just taking layups and mid-race jump shots it's not that there was extra time on the clock this was a winnable game and your star players didn't come through you had two shots on the other side from Bucket Robbins so he was wide wide open he was open on the first one then he took his time he dribbled the ball he even said he tested the air in the arena submit shot it's basketball you know he's one of the better three-point shooters in all of the league it's basketball and it's not just a rigging against the mind that's not the way it's working that's it that's all literally got to say hopefully by tomorrow the day after I fill 100% so I can really get into my bag but I am I'm pretty sure that once this camera goes off my voice is going to be going again so I appreciate y'all watching