 What's the word y'all? Gary Payton II has a fractured left elbow. We'll have MRI tomorrow. I know that seems like it doesn't matter because Gary Payton is like, who? That's actually huge. And I guess we'll talk about that. Wow. Well, nobody expected the two, three matchups to end in the sweep. And if you did, that's hella disrespectful to Boston or hella disrespectful to Memphis. It's both of those teams get hoop. And we saw that today, man. We're going into game number three, one, one on both sides. And I'm excited to talk about these games. Let's start off with the first one because, well, the first half, Boston Celtics looked decent. And game number one, they got punched in the face from the very beginning. And they did not know how to handle it. And game two, they did the punching. And a lot of that. And you know what, we had to give our MVPs to Jalen Brown, of course, because Jalen Brown heard us talking. And game number one, Jalen Brown basically had his worst performance of all time. It felt like, in the game number two, he came out and scored with 19 points in the first quarter. He was hitting heavily, could test the threes. He was hitting step backs, turn arounds. He was doing everything you want him to do in a series like this. And he cut down those turnovers from seven yesterday's game to just two today. He was amazing. And the first half, I saw the worst basketball I've ever seen from Giannis. We're talking about a two-time MVP, a Hall of Fame player, you know what I'm saying? A finals MVP from last year and the first half of this game. Giannis in his 18 minutes played. Two for 12, 0 for three from three, four assists, two rebounds, five points, two turnovers. The Boston Celtics had a game plan and they executed on that in the first half. Now, second half, Giannis came out a little bit different. You know, he was nine for 15 from the field. He put up 23 points. By that point, it was just, it was all over with at the end of the day because that first half was so, such a big half. And then when you have Jason Tate, I'm on the second half also playing very well. They just, they were just not enough run for the Milwaukee Bucks to make this competitive. But Boston, bro, you know, this is the defense I expected him to play, but I didn't expect it to go this great in the first half. Like Giannis is still, Giannis, you know what I'm saying? He's still an all-time great, a guy that feels like he could get a basket whenever he wants to. But again, they really did their thing in the first half. And if you remember my recap for game number one, I was talking about how I thought that the Boston Celtics did a decent job, a very good job of forcing Giannis to miss some shots that he normally makes. And in this one, they also did that. But the thing that did kill them in game one, but didn't kill them in game two was the three point shots from the others. Did they hit a total of three threes this game? They went three for 18 from three this game. That is insane. We didn't get no Bobby Porter's threes. We didn't get no Grayson Allen threes in 28 minutes. They were getting ran off the line. And that was more of what the Boston Celtics had did the entirety of, not the entirety, but the last four to five months it felt like of the regular season, where it didn't matter who you were or where you were, the Boston Celtics were contesting shots. And because of that, the closeouts were so good, Grayson Allen, the guy that can normally hit that shot didn't even have time to get it off. So I think that the defense in the first half was great. But I'm trying to figure out what version of each team do I believe in these next four games? Because in game one, the Milwaukee Bucks looked amazing. They won the game. They looked way better than they did today, but amazing is still a stretch. I don't know if they looked amazing in game one. They looked good enough to win the game. But in game two, the Boston Celtics was that. And then in the second half of this game, the Milwaukee Bucks are like the better team. But the first half, the Boston Celtics were elite. I don't know. This is why I don't like predictions. I do them for the sake of clickbait and for video titles, but I don't like predictions because it's so hard to predict. I think that like, I'm a guy that can admit that I watch a ton of basketball, but there's still a lot that I don't necessarily understand, right? So we talk about what email Yodoka change. I guess I could give you like some layman's terms, but like high level stuff. I can't even predict what the hell Coach Budd is gonna do in game three to make it better for this one or what email might change for game three. So the second half of the Milwaukee Bucks don't go as crazy as this. You know, it's fun. It has been fun. The real MVP, like I said, Jalen Brown, great. Jason Tatum, great. Actually, the MVP was their jump shooting. Now, we talked about the game number one, the Milwaukee Bucks are a team that's gonna make you take threes. And in game number one, I think they attempted like 53s. They were 36% from three, which is not bad at all. That's actually pretty solid for 50 made threes or 50 attempted threes. But today it got up to 46. You got five threes from Jason Tatum, six threes from Jalen Brown, six threes from Grant Williams. Shout out to the homie. Y'all know anybody that followed me on Twitter in the NBA world of, or I've had a conversation with is the homie. So Grant Williams is the homie. He ended up with 50% from the field, six made threes and elite level defense on Yodas pretty much all night. Him and Al Horford and Robin Williams, they really did their thing. Now, they got into a lot of foul trouble, especially in that second half, but they did their thing in that first half to basically suck all of the air away for the Milwaukee Bucks. So I'm excited to see who comes out punching in game three because what it seems like is whoever wins that first quarter might end up winning that game. That's what it feels like. Whoever's winning this first quarter is gonna have all the momentum for game number three. I'm so happy that we got a good Jalen Brown game. And this was a bit scary because obviously Marcus Smart did not play, he was sitting court side with his ruled jacket on and his green hair. So they needed a good Jalen Brown game because Derek White had given you nothing offensively. His defense was elite in this game too. And that's something you kind of expect from Derek White at this point, but he can't hit a shot. And that's basically been the case for the entire season for them, but he's such a good defensive player and he's pretty decent when it comes to playmaking or just making the right move or making the right read that you can live with him being 0 for six in a lot of cases. Today was one of those cases. He had the best plus minus on the entire team with zero made field goals and five fouls and saying, that sounds like a Marcus Smart stat. Yup, this is Marcus Smart and Derek White's body. But you gotta go back to Milwaukee, man. You gotta go back to Milwaukee, boss and take home court advantage back. I know those Milwaukee Bucks fans are crazy. And I guess the Boston Celtics fans are crazy too, but you get what I'm saying. It's gonna be tough to win those games, but I think they could, but the Bucks could too. We were making jokes and stuff, talking about how Brooke Lopez or Akema Liza won. Bro, didn't even attempt a shot to like the fourth quarter it felt like. Akema Liza won would never, you know? He would never. I like going to NBA.com and looking at like the hustle stats, especially with two teams like this, they're pride themselves on the defensive side of the ball. Just kind of looking at like contested shots and offensive box outs and stuff like that. It's just like some NBA nerdy stuff. And I'm basically that right now. Jason Tatum and Al Horford. I'm sorry, Al Horford and Robert Williams can test a ton of shots, which makes sense because they were guarding, yeah, and it's a lot of the game. But you know what? I said, Brooke Lopez was an Akema Liza one. He let the league or let the game and could test a shot still. So I don't know. It didn't feel like he was Akema Liza one today, you know? But again, the Busters house did hit a lot of outside shots. So what do I expect for game number three? Hopefully we just get a good game, ladies and gentlemen, because I've been enjoying these. Even though this was somewhat of a blowout or not somewhat, it was definitely a blowout. I still enjoyed watching this one because even when the Milwaukee Bucks started to go on their little run, I was like, is it over? Even in the group chat, Derek was like, I'm looking at that money line of the Busters or the Milwaukee Bucks. I think it was that plus 1800 and Derek was like, oh, I want to take that money line. I don't know if you ended up doing it. I actually encouraged him to do it. So I hope he didn't take my, I hope he didn't take my place. I'm a bad friend, I guess. Let's get to the next game. The Memphis Grizzlies win. Do not get swept in their home court, which is the best thing. I think a ton of this games went down to, of course, to meet your is Jamal Morant. He was insane today, 47.8 rebounds, eight assists. And you know what, in game number one, damn, I hate when I be doing these recaps and then I say something and then people clip it and send it to me. Cause in that video, I was saying like, damn, I think John Morant relied on his three too much or fell in love with his three too much. That three point was hidden today. Five from 12, from three. He ended up with the same amount of May threes as Steph Curry and Clay Thompson. He only attempted 12. Steph Curry and Clay Thompson attempted 23 together. Demetrius, Jamal Morant was insane, especially in that fourth quarter. I know there was that one foul with Jermaine Green that I cannot wait to see the two minute report. I think it was within the last two minutes. The two minute report where it was a foul on him for John Morant. I think that kind of swayed the momentum a little bit cause the Warriors were starting to have a little comeback. Come back if you want to call it that. But bro, him breaking down Jordan pool or when the Warriors are trying to play the foul game, him going back court and hitting, hitting Wiggins with a little in and now getting past him. He is just such a blast, bro. So we got Luca dropping 45 yesterday. Jamal ran dropping 47 today. The league is just such good a hand. The Memphis Grizzlies won this game when we got a bad Jiren Jackson shoot at night. We got another, nothing performance from Desmond Bain at least from scoring the ball. Dylan Brooks got ejected, which we have to talk about because that's actually huge. It's huge for this game and huge for the series. But they ended up winning this one. Xayar Williams who had been injured for the entire into playoff so far came in in the rookie. That bro was like 19 years old or maybe 20 at this point. He had four threes and two of them back to back in the fourth quarter, which were huge. I'm tight as Jones, one of the better backup point guards in the league. Struggle, Kyle Anderson struggled, but they won this game because Jamal ran refused to let them lose. And I love those type of performances, man. And sometimes those performances don't end in 47. Sometimes those performances end in like PJ Tucker, seven points, three rebounds and two steals. But like when I see a player think to themselves, we are not losing this game and they go out to do everything in their power to do it. I love it. And that's what we got from Jamal. We have to talk about the Dylan Brooks, Gary Payton, the second foul. If you did not see Gary Payton, the second on a fast break all alone until he wasn't and Dylan Brooks tried to contest a shot, hit him in his head. He fell on his shoulder or his arm. And literally as I started recording, he fractured his elbow and that's huge. Gary Payton, the second, if you remember, was one of my players when it came to my all defensive team, even though he didn't play a ton of minutes in the regular season, I knew how good of a defensive player he was, whether it be just all of his IQ or just one-on-one defense. And in game number one, the Warriors decided we're gonna start Gary Payton, the second because we need somebody that can keep up with Ja. Don't expect Gary Payton, the second to stop Ja because Ja is still Ja, right? We still talking about an all NBA player here and just one of the better all NBA players too. But you needed somebody to at least contain him, make him work a little bit harder. And that's what Gary Payton, the second job was. So to have him leave or be out in the two minutes, open the game up dramatically for Ja Maren. No if ands and buts about it. No if ands and buts about it. And Dylan Brooks fell and now we're getting ejected. Dobby would agree is because we ain't gotta worry about him jacking up 14 threes and hitting two of them. That changes the series a little bit because the Warriors don't have many off or defensive people that you can put on Ja Maren and say, we think he can slow him down. And you see that Ja ended up with 47 tonight. Does he score 47 of Gary Payton, the second is there? I don't think so. He still probably has a great game. I'm not taking that from Ja, but it would have been a lot harder to do the things he was doing if he was to getting switched on to Steph Curry all these possesses, you know what I'm saying? So to have Gary Payton, I mean, you fractured elbow. I'm assuming, I ain't a doctor, but I'm assuming a fractured elbow means that he's probably gonna miss some time. And that changes the way Steve Kerr has to coach this series. The Warriors were in this game even with them shooting 18% from three. Like I said, five from 23 from three from Clay and Steph Curry. Actually, let's add Jordan Poole in that. Actually, just take everybody into that. They were seven and 36 from three from Jordan Poole, Steph Curry, Wiggins and Clay Thompson. I don't expect them to shoot 18% from three again in this series. I don't expect it because a lot of them are open looks. You know, the Wiggins shots, a lot of Wiggins threes are gonna be open looks in that corner. He just bricked all of them. He didn't have the poster and it's not, it's not very often you see Wiggins show hella emotion. And we saw Wiggins show hella emotion. He was like talking trash. I'm like, dang, these Memphis boys get under your skin wigs. I mean, I like to see it. You know, everybody else will be yelling when they post the rise of Wiggins. The only dude they should be like, I dunked on cat. Cool, let's get back on defense. Today he showed that emotion. So they were in this game even though they could not see the bottom of the rim from the three pointer. I don't expect that to happen again. But I am very curious to see what Steve Kerr decides to do when it comes to stopping John Morant or slowing down John Morant. Five threes from John. Insane, bro. Wow. Three point shooter. In the beginning of the season, the first couple of months, he was like a 37% three point shooter than the last couple of months. He couldn't hit anything. Hey, if you catch a stride at the right time, it's gonna open up the game. It opens up the game for him dramatically because you know, if he's getting down here, there's not many people can stop him. But you have to also at the garden from three. Kind of tough, kind of tough. Jemma Green also gets hit in the face in this one. And he has this big old swelling on his eye and he basically missed the entire first quarter. So the Warriors definitely got banged up in this one. And the least valuable player today, I hate to do it, Clay Thompson, man. Five for 19 from the field, two for 12 from three. There was one basket or one attempt that he had. And I hope it's up. Yes, I always film these videos at the right time. I wanna see if I can find this clip. I think it was in the third quarter. Clay Thompson took like an ill-advised dash shot. It's hard to say that because he's Clay Thompson, right? And he can make pretty much any shot on the court. But like, I think it was a transition turnaround mid-range jump shot. And like the body language with Steph Curry was like, is he serious right now? Let me see if I can find that clip. I do wanna say very confidently, I'm sure there's gonna be a game in the series, probably game six, where Clay Thompson looks amazing. Game six, Clay, is a real thing. But anyway, let me get this clip for y'all. This is a fast break kinda, not even. Actually, no. There's four Grizzlies back on defense right now, Clay. All right, four Grizzlies back on defense. And look at this is the play right here. Step back, jump shot. Look at Steph Curry in this corner of your screen. He dropped his arms like, are we serious right now? And I'm not no body language expert. I'm a guy that typically don't even read body language, but I just thought this one was funny. He like, come on dog, we serious right now? You know, this is the time where we reset the O, or even hit Jordan Poole in the corner or something. There's a lot better options than the shot that we got. Like I said, man, there's gonna be a game. There's gonna be a game where Clay Thompson is him. Is this a matter of time? But right now, through two games, it's not looking great. Yet through these first two games, Clay Thompson shooting 38% from the field. I mean, I'm sorry, 28% from the field, 22% from three. It's not the greatest. Obviously, it's literally the worst. I'm looking at everybody else. It's not the greatest. It's literally the worst. Actually it's not because you know, you know whose numbers are worse. Dylan Brooks. But the difference is Clay Thompson's average at 36 minutes per game. But because Dylan Brooks got ejected in two minutes of this one, he only playing 16 per. But Dylan Brooks was shooting 18% from the field. 22% from three. They having to me it off, y'all. They having to me it off. Shot averaging 40 on the series. 39% from three. Sheesh. I'm excited for the rest of the series. I don't anticipate that the Warriors are gonna shoot 18% from three again in the series. Also don't anticipate there's gonna be many people on the Warriors that can check Jamarrent. So you know, we gotta see how it goes. Post game interview from Steve Kerr says that Dylan Brooks broke the code. Players have not to injure someone and jeopardize his career. The line is pretty clear. He added, you don't hit a guy when he's midair, club him, break his elbow. That's where the line is. Words from Steve Kerr right there. No comment. I mean, obviously the play was not cool whatsoever. You cannot convince me there's an argument that he was making a play for the ball. You're like, Kenny, Draymond Green, Draymond Green doesn't get a pass for his bullshit either. Like I'm calling out all of it. You know, any play like that where it's unda... You cannot convince me that that was a ball play. There's no way. It's unacceptable in the game of basketball, bro. It's unacceptable. But Steve Kerr, what about Zaza Patulia? Huh? What about Zaza Patulia? You know, I made a tweet on one of my accounts that was like, if I'm ever, if I'm ever unironically biased, because sometimes I'll say some crazy like, future bull, Anthony Davis, which, you know, not a reality. I'm just talking, just to talk. If I'm ever unironically biased, please call me out. And it's mostly because like, I was looking through subreddits and I think I was in the Warriors subreddit. And there was a clip from game number one where John Moran scored on Jonathan Caminga and he said, he can't effing guard me, right? And there was people and I'm not, this doesn't account for the entire Warriors fan base. I can't believe I gotta say that because people are like, Kenny, we not all like that. Of course not. But within that subreddit, there was like, oh man, I hate him. He's not, you know, trash talking, show bold and bull, that's never the right way to go. And my mind I'm thinking, that man from Steph Curry be shimmying on people. Showmanship is part of basketball. And it's okay. If I was John Moran and I got a bucket, I'ma tell somebody he can't guard me either. Or if I'm Steph Curry and I said the heavily contested three, that was important, I'ma shimmy too. Like that is undoubtedly biased towards your favorite team, right? And I never wanna be that guy. And Steve Kurt, I agree with your sentence. I agree with just the sentiment behind this. What Dillon Brooks did is unacceptable. But what's your say about Zaza? When he fucked up a Kauai Leonard's year, not even year, the next six years I feel like a Kauai Leonard. Kauai ain't been healthy since that day. You feel me? I don't know man, y'all keep me up to that too. If we somehow get to the point in 12 years where the bulls are like really good. And I mean like really, really good. And I just make playoff goods be like really, really good. And I start spewing some buyer stuff. Please, please call me out because I'm not above any of that, all right? Okay, cool. Thank you for watching, I'm out.