 What's the word, y'all? All right, man, the Western Conference Finals have officially started. All I'm asking for is eventually we get some fun, like close games. I would argue that this was fun just because Warriors basketball went at its peak. It's like the most pure version of basketball. There were so many times I was watching this game and I was like, damn, that was fun. Even though I ended up being a blowout and it seemed like they had the game from tip off, it still was enjoyable. But I do, y'all, I do want to see some close games. So hopefully tomorrow's game between Boston and Miami's either close or the next game in this series is even close. I mean, Dallas just won a series versus the Suns where every single one of the games was a blowout. I think the average margin of victory before we even get to the game, 7-30 point blowout with 17 and a half points. This is what Dallas is, is they go live and die by the three. If they're not shooting well, they're gonna lose by 20. If they are shooting well, they're gonna win by 20. Like, I don't understand the people that try to overanalyze game ones because it's so hard to tell what the hell you're gonna get from game two to game seven, especially when you have some of the most elite coaches. I saw the Dallas Mavericks go down 0-2 in their last series. Jason Kier makes them change and boom, they won their series, you know what I'm saying? But I gotta give a lot of flowers to the Warriors because they did their thing. Let me go ahead and look at my notes. I love the amount of different coverage as they threw at Luka Donchich. There was one thing that the Phoenix Suns didn't do last series. They pretty much had one singular game plan and when that game plan did not work, then that was it. But in this one, Steve Kerr threw, I saw boxing one or what I seem to see as boxing one. Maybe it wasn't, but in those possessions that felt like a boxing one, there was zone. There was straight up a one-on-one defense between Wiggins and Luka and they did such a good job of not allowing them to cherry pick matchups, right? In the last series, Luka was like, we won Chris Paul, we won Devon Booker and I'ma give them 40. With the Warriors defense worked so much, so much harder and they were like, yeah, you're gonna get some possessions where Steph Curry's guarding Luka but we're gonna do everything in our power to allow Steph Curry to be guarding whoever we need him to guard. And that was one thing that Reggie Miller was talking about on the broadcast, even though that broadcast the team might not be the best, I thought they gave some good insight. He was saying that the Mavericks aren't doing a great enough job to get Steph Curry as the primary defender and in my mind, I'm watching these games. I'm like, well, that's because the Warriors are not allowing it, they're just not allowing it. It was just great team defense where the rotations was all great and they were doing everything. Wiggins had one of his, can I say one of his best defensive performances? Wiggins has been a great defender all season long but it's on the main stage. Now, when he's going to get Luka, who just averaged like 30 something points per game in the last series and turned into Michael Jordan in the game seven, but he contained Luka. Especially when we get to that third quarter, Steph Curry comes out, 10-0 run by the Warriors. He's shimmying and doing some dances and stuff but it was like back-to-back possessions where Luka tried to get to the paint and they cost turnovers. Draymond Green getting the cookie job and one thing I like about that play specifically Draymond Green got the steal and he was on a fast break. Draymond Green, not a guy that normally looks to score often and he kind of got the Kenny Beecham syndrome. I hate being on fast breaks by myself because there's so much pressure and though the layup is the easiest shot in basketball, if you missed that layup you'd laugh and start but he passed it to Clay Thompson who at that point had zero points and that guy Clay Thompson going. Even though he only hit one three on the day, they got him going. He was hit and turned around, fade away, mid-range jump shots and sometimes you just need to see that ball go in and Draymond Green just dissing it off to Clay Thompson for an easy layup on a fast break helped that a lot. But man, Jason Kier got to figure it out, man. Like I said, this Dallas Maverick team was down 2-0 in their last series. So they know how to fight back the sand goals. The series is not starting to a home team loses and so far in the conference finals, the home team is won. So it is what it is. Kevon Lune deserves another MVP award just like he deserved to get in the last series, the last game of the last series. Cause I thought he did a very good job. There's a lot of times where in order to prevent Steph Curry from being the one that was guarding Luka Donchich, it was Kevon Lune. And I was like, do we like this matchup more than Steph Curry? And the answer was yes. It was like the slow footedness of Luka being countered by the slow footedness of Kevon Lune. We felt like every time Kevon Lune was guarding in Luka Donchich, it was like step back three attempt. And he made a few of them. I'm Jaylen Brunson made a few of them as well, maybe not threes, but just overall jump shots when Kevon Lune was switched on to him. But Kevon Lune was playing some really good defense in space versus the better ball handlers on this team. So thumbs up to Kevon Lune. They used to talk about it on the broadcast that he looked dead tired out there and he did. And I was like, y'all up by 22 points at this point. Can you get him two, three minutes of rest? You got some other, the mind you'll be Elitsa, you know, John of the Kaminga. Cause at this point, one of the other reasons other than the Dallas Mavericks losing the three point game or just shooting terribly was the rebounds. In the last series, they pretty much won the rebound battle every single game versus the Suns. And it was one thing I remember talking about in the pseudo preview that we did at the end of the Warrior series. I was saying that the Dallas Mavericks are a good rebounded team. So I wonder how the Golden State Warriors are rebounding against them, because Dallas had won the rebound battle in every single game in their previous series. And in this one, the Warriors dominated the glass and dominated the paint. Total rebounds is 46 to 58 by double digits. Steph Curry led all rebounders with 12. And this allowed them to get out and run a little bit. It was the good old Russell Westbrook thing. We're like, we know Stephen Adams couldn't average like 12 rebounds a game in those years in OKC, but we were okay. We're letting Russell Westbrook get the rebounds because of course he was chasing history, but also that means our offense starts immediately because we don't waste one and a half seconds trying to out let it to our guard. Now Steph Curry got it, and we can just straight up run. And this is what happened when you got Kevon Looney on a switch with Luka Dodgecich. And that was one of the reasons why the bosses, no, not the bosses. Luka Dodgecich and the Mavericks rebounded the ball so well in the previous series as they're like Luka with toy with the opposing big man. And now they can't go out and rebound where the Warriors turn into a great team rebounded team. You know what I'm saying? That allowed Wiggins to go out there and get some more. Drey Montgomery was great today. He was flexing out of air one. The defense from him and Wiggins and Kevon Looney was elite today. And if you continue to get that, it's gonna be a hard series for the Dallas Mavericks. Like I said, man, this Warriors team is the purest version of basketball imaginable. And I'm a guy that loves a lot of different kind of basketball. If you've been around for a long time, you know that even when it was James Harden, Houston Rockets, dribble, dribble, dribble, 20 seconds, step back three, or get past my defender corner three. I enjoyed watching that style of offense mostly because it was different. And the Warriors offense is different because it's so fluid. And that's how you get the games where you have 17 turnovers because they may have a trouble reading and reacting to what they teammates be doing. But in this one, I mean, when it is working, it's the most beautiful thing of all time, bro. It's legit. Every basketball fans wet dream, which I'm being honest with you. And dang, they don't have the play-by-play up just yet. I have a couple screenshots of times of plays. Every time I watched in this game, I was like, ooh, that was nice. I screenshot at the timeline. Oh, no, I didn't because YouTube TV, YouTube TV is trash and you cannot screen record and or screenshot. So I'm about to show you the plays and I ain't got them because YouTube TV, anytime you screenshot them, it goes blank. That's such an ale. What am I gonna do with a screenshot? I understand screen recording because I can record a 22 minute episode of whatever. But screenshotting, bro, that's ridiculous. And now they got me looking for him and I don't even remember what they were. I think one of them was a pass by Clay Thompson. So let me go find Clay Thompson's assist. No, no, no, no, no. Kevon Lune is actually the real deal. I know there's the meme about him being the next Kevin Durant when he was back in high school. Obviously he's not that. His role has changed dramatically since back then. But bro, he's just such an underrated play. Everything about him has become underrated. The passing. I mean, you've been playing in a warrior system for the entirety of your NBA career. Things like this happen. This is one of the plays that made me say, wow. You got Wiggins trying to ice up right here. Shout out to Jaylen Brunson for helping. Luca, who's obviously not a great one-on-one defender. Pass Kevon Lune hands might not be the greatest, but look at that. Look at that. The decoy of, oh my God. Look, this is what I mean. The decoy of Steph Curry. They tried to switch step, but Reggie Bullock is lost in the sauce and now it's a lay-off of Clayton. One more time. One more time. Boom. Oh my God. Come on. That's pure basketball. In this game, they were using Kevon Lune more in the pick-and-roll than Draymond Green. And it just made Kevon Lune such a better passer. And you saw some of that because they weren't really guarding Draymond out there, which makes sense. I mean, if I'm coaching against the Warriors, my job is not to prevent Draymond from beating us because if Draymond beat you, he deserves it. Put that to his resume. But this is an amazing job. That's all. Did I mention the name Jordan Poole yet? I don't think I mentioned the name Jordan Poole at all. Jordan Poole, great. There was one play in the third quarter with one minute to go that I'd put in my notes. And the reason I have this clip right here is because I was thinking to myself, I don't even, I don't think that even though they won this game by double digits, and it was a good event to win from the tip off, that Steve Curry's completely content with the way his team performed. And that might be saying something crazy because, well, you won by 20 in the first game of the series. There were still a lot of mental lapses from the Warriors defense. And I think this is one of them that I kept in my mentions. You can see right here, I don't even remember exactly what happened. So we lab reacted to this one. Oh, here it is. This is what it was. So they're getting back on defense, right? And now when you get back on defense, you've got to pick up and match up well, right? So you get to kick out to Jalen Brunson. Both of these players, Otto Porter and Jordan Poole, are looking right at Jalen Brunson. But Jalen Brunson got the most telegraph looking on his face. He's throwing that ball. You know what he's throwing that ball. He's looking right at Spitzer Divinity, right in his eyeballs. But this is what happened. Nobody dumped down. Kevon Looney's telling Steph Curry to step up. Steph Curry's telling Otto Porter to step up. So like these are like mental lapses that probably shouldn't happen. And Spitzer Divinity had a very good game. He was one of the few people that showed up for the Dallas Mavericks today. But you cannot do this often in game two because I don't expect the Dallas Mavericks to shoot as bad as they did tonight for the rest of this series. So that could have been Dwarf and Smith who struggled today or Reggie Bullock who struggled today. So, you know, stuff like that, I'm sure they're gonna look at two in a film room and get the communications back up so you don't get these open looks from good shooters. This game was fast AF. Also on my notes, literally in my notes, it says fast AF. There were not a lot of foul calls and because of that, they let them boys play. I think the overall time was a little over two hours of gameplay or like overall TV time. And that's counting what like commercials and halftime shows, which was cool. The pacing was good in this game. Could there have been more fouls called? And the favor of Luka Donch is probably, probably, but they was letting them play out there. There's that one play where Dwarf and Smith got called for an offensive foul that I completely disagree with. But like I've mentioned in videos before, our fish eating is hard. They're not gonna get it right 100% of the time. So I'm just cutting them some kind of slack in that sense. And this is what, it's rough about the conference finals because what do I talk about now? I guess the all rookie teams came out, but even that is like kind of nothing to talk about because nobody remembers all rookie teams. I saw Josh Giddy upset that he was on the second team. I understand why he's upset. He had a great season. I think he won rookie of the month every single month that he was healthy, but he wasn't healthy for basically the last month or so. And he dropped down to the second team and Jaylen Green went up and then like the NBA Statenurge or like how is Herb Jones not on the first team. Only five people can make it. You know, it is what it is. Nobody's gonna remember it at the end of the day. It doesn't even improve your overall resume when you retire and try to make it to the Hall of Fame. We can't let Josh Giddy in because he was on the second team when he was an 18 year old, not on the first team. So the rest of the stuff don't really matter. But no, I like that the players when they're upset about it because maybe that's the fuel for Josh Giddy to get in the lab and with him in the second overall pick and Shay and Lou Dorton. Hopefully they can stay healthy and boom, they do a little something, something I don't really know. But that was released today. The only problem in us doing semi-daily videos like this is that the other things that happen revolving around the NBA that may not be on court kind of get overshadowed. We didn't even talk about like Patrick Beverly going on TV for 48 hours and just talking trash about Chris Paul. We didn't even get to talk about that. And I guess Danny Green responded to Patrick Beverly and then now Patrick Beverly responded to Danny Green. NBA is a soap opera. And I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that. Let me hear what Danny Green said about this all. You're a cone. When you play a little bit, you're a cone too. How would you like that? Is this recorded? Is this recorded? Is this recorded? Shout out to Danny Green, I guess. That's great. And what did Patrick Beverly say? NBA is a soap opera. I can get behind this. Once it started getting to the political thing, the epidemiology, that's why I draw the line. But if we just trash talk from NBA players, I'm here for this 100% And Patrick Beverly responded to saying what? And when I tell you it took me 15 minutes, no exaggeration, a full screen this tweet, here it is. He tweeted that Danny Green and said, health and wealth. And I swear Patrick Beverly is gonna use this graphic until the end of his career, end after. He's tweeted it like five times in the last 48 hours. I mean, I don't blame him. You feel me? That's the elite company. But he's using it a lot. And Danny Green said, oh, love bro, I'm not the person who we talking our stuff. Keep doing you champ. He kind of backtracked a little bit. I'm not a fan of that. All right, that's enough for this. I've been, normally I'd be using this keyboard from High Ground, but I recently got this new one and it's now a little bit different. It's an attack on Titan one. This is just me showcasing a new keyboard that I really like. Okay, all right, bye.