 What's the word, y'all? To go out like this two years in a row is kinda sad. I can't even lie to you. Here I am, feeling good at the Boston versus Philly just because it was a good game, not because of the outcome, but because it ended up being a good game. Like, all right, let's see what KD and Devon Booker got in the tank, because as of right now, that's what the team is. And they both gave us stinkers. I don't know what they ended up with. I couldn't start filming this video, I have time. I gave them a little bit more of a benefit of the doubt. I ain't looking at the box score. They did not have good games. That's what the series had been though. Devon Booker shoots 75% from the field and KD also give you 28, you win in those games. But if he struggles, if Kevin struggles or Devon struggles, what are we gonna do? And what they're gonna do is get blown out on their home court again in the playoffs series. We'll come back to the sons. I wanna get all of my praise to the different nuggets because as of right now, they've looked like the most complete team in the playoffs from the offensive side to the defensive side. They had to figure it out. Coach Michael Malone gets his guys to the conference finals again. And we might even get a 2020 NBA conference finals rematch with the Lakers being one game away. They still gotta beat the Warriors, but we might get a rematch here. And I think now they're better equipped to potentially make the long run. Every time I was appearing on someone else's show and they were asking me about the Western Conference, I picked the sons because I trusted Kevin and Devon. And I was like, oh, that depth thing. Yeah, it's a concern. But with Kevin and Devon or Rockin', it's not gonna be a lot of teams that can stop them. And that held to be true. But if they're not Rockin', then it's like crazy. The losing Chris Paul sucked. Deondre Aiden, I plan his game sucked. But those two players, as much as we love Chris Paul on this channel, that wasn't gonna, you know what I'm saying? It felt like even though we had the two games where the sons ended up winning, this was a series for the Denver Nuggets to win. And I made a tweet about this a few days ago. This was when Yokechette is 50-piece in that loss. I mentioned on this channel after the Bucks got eliminated. I still think Yonus is the best in the world. But there's a lot of conversation about who's the best in the world when the best in the world fails. Understandably. Did he fail? Did he fail? You ask Yonus, that's a no. And I don't know how you could be watching these games and watching what Nikola Yokechette has been doing and not saying that if he ain't number one, he ain't no further than three. Because the defense thing is what everybody pointed to as his biggest downside. And as of right now, he's a okay defender. This series right here was supposed to be the moment where he was going to get exposed, right? High pick and roll with Chris Paul. He's one of the best pick and roll players of all time. Yeah, he's 76 years old and not as good as he was at least two years ago. Kevin Durant and Devin Booker. Now again, Kevin Durant and Devin Booker did get they stuff off parts of this season or the series. But there was no exposing of Nikola Yokech on the defensive side. There wasn't a single moment where I watched this series where I thought to myself, Yokechette feels outmatched when he's playing defense that didn't exist. So now you add a net with his offensive toolbox. How can we not say he not top three? And if Yana say one, and we say Yana say one because he was a one seed and got eliminated, fair. I'm doing Yokechette is the one. But no matter what, no matter who they go against in that next round, they gonna have to figure some more things out because both of those teams have the different things. If I had to guess which team the nuggets match up best with, it might be the Lakers, yo. And I noticed crazy because the Lakers have been taking care of business and have not lost the home game yet as I'm recording this video. But again, I'm thinking about last year in the playoffs with Steph Curry and them boys did the exposing of Yokech and maybe that still can be the case because Steph Curry is such a nasty player. I don't know, we speaking too ahead of let's focus on this game in this series. Every time a team gets eliminated from the playoffs or fails, again, I'm putting that in quotation marks here. The interpretation of failure is all over the place at this point in time of sports, you know what I'm saying? Actually, this team failed. Simple as that. Can they bounce back? Absolutely yes, but I'm gonna say this team failed. You traded for one of the greatest of all time in the middle of the season and you got eliminated in the second round. I call that a failure. Every time we see a team be disappointing or fail, we always try to figure, okay, what is next? And what's next for the Phoenix Suns feels very obvious. Right now as I'm recording this video, but it might end up being way more complicated once we get to that pathway this off season. Chris Paul is 37, I'm just gonna keep saying different numbers. 38 years old at this point and we have not seen a year in the last, what feels like seven where his body didn't give out on him in the middle of a playoff run. I don't know how you can bring him back and say, okay, he's part of our initial core when it's failed you, the Phoenix Suns year after year in these last couple. Two was DeAndre Aden. There's no way around it coming into the season. We know there was some things between him and Manny Williams. He got the offer sheet from the Indiana Pacers. He was ready to pack his bags. They match it or whatever, but it felt like after last year, after last year, his time when the Suns was over, he thugged it out. They thugged it out. They got through the season, but it wasn't without his turmoil where even in this series alone, the team was winning. Jock Lendell came off the bench and gave a ton of energy. And instead of celebrating because the Suns were winning the game, he was neglected to give high-fives to his teammates. He was around pouting, pouting. He don't do post-game interviews like those are the type of things that me personally, I don't like. Because yeah, of course, you wanna play the game of basketball because that's what you get paid to do. And of course, because you're passionate about things, you should be able to put those things to the side with the idea of the team's success and think, all right, next game, I got it there. They had Jock Lendell today and shout out to Jock Lendell, he helped us win, but now it's my time to do the thing. And he said that in his post, right? He said, all right, you know what I'm saying? I gotta do what I gotta do. Never came, never happened. He started off the last game with like three offensive boards and then he dunked the ball. We like, yeah, that's what we've been waiting for. Instead of that little finger roll from a seven foot one guy it never stood to that point. And then today we found out he's not playing. Okay, no big deal. I mean, well, yes, big deal, but no big deal because his on-off numbers between him and Jock Lendell, Jock Lendell was the better big in this series. So, okay, whatever. They down by 30 points going into halftime. They show him as he walked into the tunnel, he's got a grin on his face. I don't care what anybody said. Your team is in a win or go home game. They're down by 30 and you're smiling. You're ear to ear with it? Like that rubs me the wrong way. And I'm not even a fan of the team. I'm not one of his teammates. I'm not on the coaching staff. I'm a neutral fan watching this pitch that he's smiling because they down by 30. Where's the competitive juices? Where are they? So you think that Chris Paul's got to be out of the door? I don't know what that looked like. What team are interested in the Chris Paul if he showcases year after year that he can't stay healthy in the playoffs? What team can convince themselves that Deandra Aiden is worth trade a fork considering he's got paid max money and he was, I wouldn't say I'm playable. That's a stretch, but Jock Lendell, the undrafted dude in his draft class, played better than that. So what do they do? What teams take on some of these contracts? And it's not just about taking on the contracts anymore. It's about building a team, you know? Cause yeah, if we just want to do a contract dump, a lot of teams be interested in that, but like, how do we, after what we saw this season, how can we build a team with these two pieces and get better for next year? And that's tough. That's going to be tough. And I don't envy the people in charge. I think Monty Williams got outcoats in the series, but he also was running with Kevin and Devin and a Landry Shamit game here. So I don't, I don't know. I know some people are calling for Monty Williams. I can't, I can't say that just yet. You know what I'm saying? Either way, uh, Coach Michael Malone is back in the conference finals. Nikola Yoko is back in the conference finals. And it's the coolest story considering Michael Porter Jr. and Jamal Murray being back for basically the first time and immediately they get a little shot to the conference finals. This is a duh. Let's talk about the other game. Let's talk about the first game. That was the, that was the fun game of the night. You know what I'm saying? And then they start off that way. It did not start off that way. I thought this was about to be a blowout and I was ready to talk about it. And then the comeback came. And again, I'm watching this as a neutral fan. And this, this is what I felt when it was over. If I am a Philly fan, I'm so sad right now. You live to see another day there. It's going to be a game seven. And it's going to be a Boston if you prove and that you can win their boss. You've done it a few times now. But this was a, the recipe for a game you win 85% of the time. And unfortunately this ended up being in that 15% where you ended up losing. Jason Tatum off scoring the ball wise. Didn't do anything for three quarters. Turned it on the fore, shout out to JT. There was going to be a ton of conversation. I mean, there's still a ton of conversations around his name right now. But those are kind of hushed now that they ended up winning that game. He took over in that fourth quarter. But you get a bad game from him. A bad shooting night for the Boston Celtics. And you can't close it out. Again, you were in the hole for a lot of this game. So you made your own comeback. But once it ended up being 0-0 where it was a tie game with however many minutes left. This is a game you got to go grasp. And I fear for y'all's sake, talking to the Philly fans, that this was the one that got away that might cost you a finals appearance. That last seven minutes of the game six might have caused you a finals appearance. The first finals appearance in 20 plus years. I'm not writing off Jimmy Butler. I'm not even writing off the Knicks against Jimmy Butler just yet. But it feels like the winner of this series, this bottom half of the bracket is going to be the team that wins the conference. So for you to be right there, a lot of momentum in your home court and not be able to close it out. I don't know what to say, man. And you know what? I was feeling good in the middle of that run. I'm like, okay, is Doc about to do it? Is he about to kill a curse? Is he about to not blow a series and make it to the conference finals? Well, here we are going into a game seven. And again, in the game seven, anything can happen. You got Joel Labeen, who's the MVP of the league this season. You got James Harder, who just had two 40 pieces in this series. You got Tobias Harris, who they needed to show up today. And I'm not even mad at Tobias Harris as his series altogether. I think he's been fine. I think he had a lot of great hustle and defensive moments in game five that like makes it okay if he's struggling or things like that. But tonight, nonexistent in 40 minutes, maybe? Like he played a ton of minutes and was kind of nonexistent all over the court, which is not what you want from a dude that you're paying $30 million to. It's not what you want from a dude that, it's kind of murky, but you can say that there is a decision to be made, Jimmy Butler and Tobias Harris. And you went one way and the other dude went the other. It's not great. And I won't say most must win because they have another chance. But like in a game that was right there for the taken, you let it slip through your fingers. And if you do not win game seven, you're gonna look back on that game and Philly history. You know what I'm saying? Not just for the next two, three years, but like in Philly history, you're gonna look through that moment and be like, we had it, bro. Harden has been such a rollercoaster this series where you got the two 40 pieces. You got the two duds in between. You got the last game where he wasn't elite elite, but he was good. And then you got another game where like there's stretches of this game where he looked great. Like the third quarter, he was getting into the free throw line. He was drawing his fouls. He was hitting his shots. And then the fourth quarter came around. I don't know if the brother scored in the fourth quarter. And I'm sure he played 12 minutes or close to it. You know, and those are the moments where you need him. Like he was crucial for that run that brought them back into the game. But when it was right there for the taken, I mean, again, it's crazy. So I mean, the seas, boy, I won't say lucked out because your superstar player started to play. This is actually something I've never seen before from a guy of his Jason Tatum's caliber. And again, I know there's conversation around JT right now after the finals last year, going into the season in this series about who he is as a player. What are we not getting into that? I'm just looking at it exactly what it is. This all NBA player, Jason Tatum. I don't know if I've seen a guy that makes all NBA based on his offense and the based on his ability to score be stinky from the field. And was it the first court and back to back games? He didn't get a field goal. You know, I want to look into see when his first actual field goal ended up being with eight minutes left in the third quarter. He went the first 20, 28 minutes of ball and did not get a basket. That's their star player. They're all NBA player. And somehow they still won this game. That makes no sense to me, but it happened. And I don't know who I feel more confident in going into game seven. Neither of these teams have been super impressive. And I guess that's why it's been a good series because it's back and forth, back and forth. But I don't, if you ask me who's winning game seven, I'm going to say Boston just because it got home court advantage. But it's like 51% of me is feeling Boston and 49% of me is feeling Philly. Like it's nothing there. Which again, hopefully it's not a Duh game seven. I don't know. Set out to the different nuggets. We'll see what happens with the Phoenix Suns. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of conversation and stuff between as I'm recording this video and when it comes out. So we might come back to it later down the line.