 What's the word, y'all? Hey, when was the last time y'all got a video like right after the games ended? Like I always record these videos after games end, but like right after, as far as publishing, it don't happen very often. But when the first game starts at noon and then it's all wrapped up by six o'clock, hey, I can come in here and record night in, night out. Man, be sure to leave a like, subscribe. Let's talk about the second round of the playoffs, two games, Milwaukee beats the Boston Celtics and the Warriors close it out in Memphis. Two role teams take home court advantage. And we gonna start off with the first game of the day. I'm trying my very best to watch this as a fan, but also remember that I got to record these videos because I think that earlier in the playoffs, round one, I would watch these videos strictly as a fan and I forget about everything that happened in it just because I'm so in the moment. I'm so excited about it. But I had a lot of notes about this one. You know what, let me say this right off rip before we even get to the video. Just because I predicted that my prediction was this team was gonna win in the NW, this is not my team. I'm a neutral fan here. I don't care if my predictions are right or wrong. Y'all, I'm not rooting for the Celtics because I picked the Celtics to win the series. I'm not rooting for the Warriors because I picked the Warriors to win. I just won good basketball. And we got that one way or another. I'm just saying that, you feel me? I don't really care. I just had to make a prediction for the video. You know prediction videos do a lot better than anything else. Anyway, the Milwaukee Bugs went into Boston and it was a dog fight from the very beginning. It was great defense on both sides, man. They were talking about on the broadcast how Jason Tatum had a lot of goals and one of them is to be all defensive player and he was playing so great defensively. Drew Hale was getting in all people's stuff. But listen, there's one person, I'm giving my MVP award in every one of these games. There's one person that deserves MVP award. He has six points, didn't hit a three, didn't make to the free throw line, shot three of seven. My MVP of today's game, Milwaukee Boston is Brook Lopez. I had made the joke before during the bull series that Brook Lopez is a Kimmelized Juan. Brook Lopez is a Kimmelized Juan defensively, bro. They had, I told y'all in the preview of this series that the Bucks are going to pack the paint and let people shoot. And I saw somebody on Twitter like, man, the Celtics only want to shoot three today. No, that's not what they want to do. That's all they can do because that's the way the Milwaukee Bucks plays defense. They took 53s, the Boston Celtics took 53s because any time they got any dribble penetration and tried to go up, it was Brook Lopez at the rim. He only had three blocks today, but I promise you if they counted like the shots that he contested that ended in the miss, he would have had a double, double, double. Let's add that stat. Let's add another stat. Actually, Kirk Goldsbury has it right here. I just refreshed Twitter and it was the first thing that popped up. The Celtics shot just three of 20 from the field when Yanis and or Brook Lopez contested the shot, including one for 15 on two pointers. And I will say majority of those two pointers are like, get into the rim and Brook Lopez say a no. Or Jason Tate, I'm trying to do a little size up, Midi and Yanis say a no. The defense was absolutely amazing. And I would say that the defense was pretty good on both sides of the ball, but you saw the Milwaukee Bucks has some of the others, which is what we talked about in that series, step up a little bit more. Because though Yanis had 24 points, he had a triple, double today with 12 assists and 13 rebounds, I think that the, that the bosses Celtics did a pretty good job guarding him individually. Of course we had to lob to a selfish fire. I think they did a pretty good job defending him individually, but what they lacked was making those rotations once he made the next pass. And the next pass was hitting Grayson Allen. And the next pass hitting Drew Highley, who had a magnificent game offensively and defensively. So they need to figure out how to a neutralize because you're not going to stop Yanis. I mean, keep saying neutralize or deter him from having a dominant scoring performance, but also find a way to get back on the shooters and stuff. It's going to be hard because in order to stop Yanis, you probably send in two bodies. And how do we rotate? Because Yanis's progression as an NBA player went from, who is this guy getting drafted? So, oh, we can kind of see, oh, Jason K. got him playing point guard. That's kind of cool. Most approved player to MVP, to the defensive player here. And now the next step in his progression has been his playmaking. And this has been happening over the last couple of seasons. This is not the new, I'm not super surprised that he can make these passes, but that was part of his progression to become a well above average passer. And it's one thing that I guess I could say that he has done better than Kevin Durant in the last series. Like the way they guarded Yanis was similar to Kevin Durant. And I thought they would do it a little bit differently, but it was very similar. But with Kevin Durant, he doesn't have maybe the same vision that Yanis had at least today to find the shooters. And Kevin Durant didn't have the same shooters that Yanis has. Either way, I think that the defense on both sides are pretty good. There's a lot of slapping in here. Here goes some of my notes. My notes say Brooke Lopez, it came alive as one. And I hope y'all don't take that two series. I'm just kind of showcasing that. He's a great center defensively. He not Hakeem. Okay, you to understand that, but I know there's stupid 10 of people that didn't. Next one says only shooting threes. We talked about that, right? They weren't only shooting threes because they want to is because that's what the Bucks gave them. Transition defense. This is the first time in like two months, three months, while I saw the Boston Celtics, I remember the Boston Celtics getting slapped in the face. The Milwaukee Bucks were a way more physical team and with that physicality, they got out and ran. They got out and ran. And it seemed like the Boston Celtics had no answer to when they started to run. And the Milwaukee Bucks have been a team that ran and they'll pull up on the three. Drew Holly's pulling up for three or Pat Connors is pulling up for three or Gray Snaddle pulling up for three. They don't really necessarily go for the easiest basket. They go over the one that they feel confident with and they got a ton of fast break points. 28 to eight, they dub them in fast break points today. Unacceptable for the Boston Celtics who had been such a great defensive team on getting back in transition. Today, they just didn't do it. Nothing easy for the ball handlers. Yes, that's another great thing. I talked about Drew Holly and his excellence today. And in the preview, I was saying that the Bucks cannot afford to have a bad Drew Holly offensive game. And today ended up with 25 points. But when I say nothing easy for the ball handlers, I mean that so literal, bro. Anytime somebody brought the ball up the court, soon as they hit half court, it was Grayson, it was Drew, it was Javon, it was Pat. Anybody that was guarding the ball handler, they really got in on it. And I'm thinking early fourth quarter that was a play where Grayson now was trying to pick somebody up 94 feet. And he got all the way there. He ended up committing a foul, but it was just like that rigged it, great defense. And I don't think the Boston Celtics were really prepared for that. I knew that Javon Card, if he was gonna get big minutes, he was gonna go out there and try to defend his butt off because that's what he does, is what he's done his entire life. And the Boston Celtics got to see that in the hardest way possible. Jason Tatum's trying to start the offense he was at, what is it, Lucky? Is that the guy's name? The Kyrie Stumthorne, the leprechaun? Is it Lucky the leprechaun? He was trying to start the offense that far back because he couldn't get any closer because Drew Holiday, because Javon Card or all these other perimeter defenders. And then the last thing on my notes for this game is just JB and that is Jalen Brown. I did not realize that Jalen Brown was playing through injury. They talked about that on a broadcast. I didn't know from the first round. I guess they were so dominant in the first round and then recognized if he was laboring out there. Today, they allowed him to shoot pretty much any shot he wanted to. He got a ton of open looks and they were not falling. And Jalen Brown being known as a two-way player, I thought his defense was lackluster today. And as a guy that's not known to be the primary ball handler, seven turnovers is unacceptable. And you look at some of those turnovers, it's like, oh, we got a rebound, we wanna run. Oh, I threw it off the buck's foot and now they got a layup on the other side of the ball. They just need him to be better. They need him to be the all-star caliber player that he can be. You got Marcus Smart going through a million injuries. I thought that he tore his shoulder, dislocated his shoulder because, listen, I have torn both of my shoulders. One of the multiple times that leaned to the locker room to help, I've done that. Freshman year high school, I've done that. You feel me? At what school were we at? I don't remember what school we at. It was a role game and I literally just walked off the floor and my coach was like, you're gonna need a substitution, huh? Hell yeah, coach. You can see the back of, if you look at the back of my shoulder, my bone is right there. Yes, I'm gonna need a sub out. I think I also have 14 points in the first half of the game. So he was like, ah, it was at Fenton. If you know Fenton, I did it at Fenton. Either way, I knew that walk and I was like, dang, he dislocated the shoulder. But what some people don't know about dislocated shoulders, you can just pop that joint back in and go back to hoop and a lot of the case. Not every case, but a lot of the case. There's even times where I've dislocated my shoulder and it popped itself back in and I stayed in games. So like when I saw him go back to the locker room, I was like, oh, it's a dislocated shoulder, but he can probably come back into it. But they said it was just a stinger and then he got kneaded in the quad and now he got hit in the face. Marcus Smart was so big for them today when he went to the locker room where he wasn't on the court and it was Peyton Pritchard. It was just Derek White as a primary ball handler. The team suffered dramatically. The ball stopped moving and they could not get any baskets and didn't defend very well. So hopefully both of these players could get back healthy because again, I want the best version of every team and Chris Middleton not being there. Didn't really matter today. Didn't matter today. That's gonna be the case for the entire series. I think that Boston's gonna wake up and Eme Udoka has showed in this short NBA career that he's a guy that can make adjustments. So I'm very curious to see what they try to do differently in game number two. Also a bud. Will bud make any changes? Probably not. Bud is a great coach. But you're not a guy that usually steers too far away from what he normally does, you know? They gonna pack the pain again and be like Peyton Pritchard, we gonna let you shoot again or Grant Williams is gonna let you shoot again and all the other people. So one hell of a game. It didn't end up that way. I guess the end of the fourth quarter got away and then they pulled starters, but for three and a half quarters, this was a banger, but the real banger was the Warriors versus the Memphis Grizzlies. Jeez, bro. Yes, sir. This was a great, great game. And I saw somebody on Twitter say this and it's facts. Jordan Poo had 31. Jiren Jackson Jr. had 33. Jai had 34. That's three people that put up 30 plus points. And I think they're all under the age of 23. I think this is what the tweet says, which is great, right? We got some good performances. I mentioned that Jiren Jackson Jr. was basically my most disappointing player in the first round because I know where he can be offensively and defensively, but he didn't stay on the floor. But if you look at game six versus the Wolves and game one versus the Warriors, he did a phenomenal job not being in foul trouble and it led to him playing 31 minutes. And then the shot failed the beginning of the series. That can be dangerous for the Warriors because I feel like one of the Warriors game plans like he's a high-value, low-efficacy three-point shooter and we'll live with those. And today they end up getting the win, obviously, but he's shot the ball extremely well. He had some heat check moments with that look here jump shot and it was going in. And I got to give a lot of credit to actually, actually one of my notes says Dylan Brooks just be shooting. Literally my notes say Dylan Brooks just be shooting. And that's facts. But I do want to give him a lot of credit because he was playing with 5,000 this game. And a lot of times when somebody is playing with 5,000 obviously they become like a revolving door. They're trying their hardest not to get that sixth foul. Bro drew a charge. He was diving on the floor still to get jump balls. He did a lot of different things that might not show up on a stat sheet with 5,000 that kept them into this game. He also shot a couple of bone head shots in the fourth quarter that might have got the matter of the game, but still got a lot of love for Dylan Brooks. We did not get a Desmond Bain game. And I think that might have been the missing piece, man because I feel like they had control of this game a lot. The officiating in both of these games were questionable. Again, I'm not a guy to usually talk about officiating, but there are a couple of moments in this game specifically where I'm like, ref's kind of bugging. The one with Clay Thompson misses both free throws and the ball goes out of bounds. Obviously on Dylan Brooks' hands and they're like, we ain't see it, let's jump the ball. I'm like, oh, that's a bit of a feat. But it ended up being what it was being. The goal for the Warriors are like, we're going to let John Moran shoot. We're going to let Jiren shoot because we don't necessarily trust them. We trust Desmond Bain's shot, so we're going to contest that. We trust some of the other people's shots, so we're going to contest that. But Ja tried to make him pay. He had his first two threes of the game. He had another one down the stretch in the fourth quarter if I'm not mistaken. That was big, but I think that he fell in love with it just a little bit too much. That he fell in love with it just a little bit too much. He had a great game. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that they lost his game because Ja Moran took three extra threes that he probably shouldn't know. That's not what I'm saying, but I do believe that once you see a couple go in, you're like, oh, I can make this shot all the time. And obviously he's better when he's going down, he'll go down, he'll go down, he'll. He had a phenomenal game. I loved that the Anthony Melton played his way back into the rotation and I'm hoping to see more minutes for him in game number two, because he basically didn't get a lot of PT at the end of the temple series because he struggled offensively and defensively. And today him putting up 14 points in his rebounds. He had a couple of steals, which is great, but where they lacked the most in this game, especially in the fourth quarter, was their rebounding. The Warriors aren't even known as a team. They get a lot of offensive rebounds because a lot of times they're playing small with Jermon, who got ejected, by the way, I guess we'll talk about that in a minute. They run small, Kevon Looney don't usually play a lot of fourth quarter minutes. So they're not a team that kills the offensive glass, but in this game, they did. And I was thinking like, okay, how about we just, I'm saying we as if, I'm part of the coaching staff for the Memphis Grizzlers. Why don't we just put Stephen Adams in the game? Stephen Adams got the C word. I didn't know that. I didn't know he was in health and safety protocol. I did not get that update on my phone. I just Googled it after the game, Stephen Adams, and yeah, he's health and safety protocol right now. They could have used them. I don't think there's a series where Stephen Adams won't play at all like the last one against the Timberwolves, just because there are gonna be minutes where he's messed up with Kevon Looney. And Kevon Looney don't got the foot speed that Carthage Towns does, that they were trying to take advantage of. Kevon Looney had a plan 20 minutes this game basically, and he had eight points and some offensive rebounds down the stretch. So when Stephen Adams comes back, they're gonna definitely need him to play at least a little bit. The Warriors did their thing, man. Clay Thompson missed those free throws, and I was so surprised. But even though he didn't have a great shooting night, he hit the biggest one of the game, the one that was the game clincher. Again, he missed the free throws after that, but he hit the game clincher. And I would love, I hope that these are up, hold on, they are beautiful. I have a couple moments, like time frames in this game that I wrote down that I wanna show y'all the clips of. I don't completely remember why I picked these moments, but I guess we're gonna watch them live by ourself. I don't really remember why I saved this moment, but here we go, let's figure out on the fly. Three point game for the goal to save war. Oh, this is the moment, this is why. You know how much respect you got to have on a player. Watch this. He pump fakes five feet outside the three point line and got bro to jump and stepped in and then hit basically a double contested three. That's insane. That's the one of the greatest shooters of all time. That you legit have to guard him right here on the catch. Gats highest up in the air and then hit the shot. That's why I saved that moment. Clay Thompson, that's a big three right there. I don't remember why I saved this one, but it's the fourth quarter as well. It's a eight point game in the Warriors favor at the moment. I know I'm blocking it, but it's eight point game in the Warriors favor. Let's see why I saved this one. Okay, dribble to a handoff to Jordan Poole and then, oh yeah, it was the pass. It was the pass because I didn't even mention how good Jordan Poole has been. Look at this pass. Look how much John Moran's not even really paying attention. He's standing upright and just to have the confidence to throw that pass and then boom, because he drew the double right here in the corner. That's a crazy play, it's a crazy play. I mean, is it crazy enough for me to put into the video? Probably not, let's do it. Oh, and then the last play was the game tying or the one that could've, not game tying, this would've won the game. And the reason I saved this one is because Clay Thompson knew exactly what was going to be ran immediately and committed. He committed. Usually this is a commitment that Drey Montgomery would make, but Clay Thompson ended up being the guy. Watch the defensive possession from Clay Thompson. Right now, he's on Brandon Clark, right? Ball inbound to Brandon Clark. He sees Josh streaking up. He does not give a damn about Jordan Clark's, I'm sorry, Brandon Clark right now. He like, I know where Jai is going. He's John Morant, I know exactly what they're running. And this is great play call from Taylor Jenkins because if they had a couple more seconds, which they probably should've had a couple more seconds, but the refs again was kind of bugging. This is maybe a bucket. And you see Clay Thompson commit. I mean, you can make an argument that maybe a little bit of arm down low, but still that's a great defensive possession from Clay Thompson. He knows, I damn near choked this game when missing two free throws and 85% career free throw shooter. But hey, at least I got the defensive stop that clinched this game for us. And now we steal home court advantage. We got one more here in Memphis, and then we go home to the Bay. I can't say this enough how impressed I am with the way Jordan Poole has performed in his first playoff appearance. It's not easy to hit the playoffs for the first time and perform as he is. And maybe it's easier because he has Steph Curry and Clay Thompson on his team, which opens the game up a lot more, but he still has to be out there doing his thing. He still has to be out there making shots. Or in the case I just showed you in that video, being able to play make as well, but I'm so very impressed with him. Nine assists, eight rebounds, almost a triple double. And he was phenomenal tonight. He was phenomenal tonight. They even got Gary Payton a second to start for the John Moran assignment. And I thought he played okay defense, even though John Moran again ended up with 30 something as well. But just wow, what a great group of games. And I wished, I know it's not possible because it's Monday tomorrow. I wish that a lot of his games started this early, but then again, we'd have a baseball situation. We're like, why are we starting games at 11 a.m. on a Monday? So yeah, maybe not, but still. Enjoyed the hell out of these games. How are y'all feeling? What are y'all temperatures after game number one? Are y'all feeling pretty confident about the Bugs being able to close the series out eventually or the Warriors closing the series out eventually? Let me know.