 What's the word, y'all? First of all, I wanna apologize for the low energy and the change in my voice. It seems like I am sick. All of my tests are coming back negative, so I'm guessing this is cold. We were cooped in for the last two years, so I completely forgot the common code exists, and I don't even know what to do with myself. But one thing I won't do is take a day off because there are people out there that have this crazy conspiracy theory that Kenny don't like the Memphis Grizzlies or the Warrior series, or Kenny don't like the Boston versus Milwaukee series because he finds a way to never upload when those games are on. Here I am, through cold, through sickness. I am here to talk about these series, so eliminate all those conspiracies, man. Let's talk about it. Today's video is brought to you by PrizePix. Hit that link in the description and download the PrizePix app and use code Kenny because you're matching all the pods up to $100 for new players. 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That if you use code Kenny, you're automatically entered and you can be flown out to Chicago to watch a Bulls game live in the United Center with me next season. You just got to use code Kenny, you're automatically, automatically entered. So I want to say thanks again to PrizePix for sponsoring this video. Let's get back to recapping these games. The Golden State Warriors game is the one I'm going to talk about first. He's the one that's readily on my mind. The final score says 14 point win for the Warriors, but I promise it's a lot closer than that. Shout out to the Memphis Grizzlies. A hell of a season. We're going to talk about that in a second. But the Golden State Warriors closed it out. Game six clay is a real thing. People were questioning if game six clay basically was dead after all of the injuries and the answer is no. Even though there were times in this game, I'm like, bro, clay, you're trigger, you're just a little bit too trigger happy. He'll miss two in a row. They hit three after that. You're like, I guess we'll live with that. Bro attempted 22 shots, ended with 30 points. I think that's Ty Dillon Brooks, with the most points in the entire game. He was incredible today. He was electric. Kevin's looking at the crowd. He's putting up six fingers because even he knows that game six clay is a real thing. And I got to imagine that when you have a nickname like that game six clay, it's an immense amount of pressure once you hit game six because everybody's now expecting you to turn up and have the best version of yourself. He came through for them because they needed, you don't want to go seven games with a Grizzlies team that don't have John Moran. Again, I'm going to talk about them because this is one hell of a season. Nothing but a success story. And I cannot wait to see what happens next with the Memphis Grizzly team. But game six clay was a real thing. Steph Curry struggled for majority of this game, but in the fourth quarter it hit some huge, huge shots. But my MVP, it's co-NVPs. Number one is Kavan Looney. He turned into Dennis Rodman. He turned into Will Chamberlain, who turned into one of the greatest rebounders of all time. And in the last two games after Gary Payton the second went down, they were deciding to try to match the youth of the Memphis Grizzlies, try to match the energy, the pace of the Memphis Grizzlies by having John the Kaminga start and every single one of them games, they came out so very dry. Then they went with the good old classic, the one we know works, which is Kavan Looney at the five. He ended with 11 offensive rebounds. And in this game, bro, it was so very early, very early on for the goal to say words. They were throwing the ball all over the place. They ended with just 17 turnovers. Well, I promise if you were watching, it felt like 30. They on fast breaks, a leak out for Clay Thompson and Steph Curry over through him. The later in the game, it was Steph Curry on the leak out and Clay Thompson over through him. Dre My Green is dribbling off his own foot. It's just turnover after turnover after turnover. But the thing that balanced it all out was the offensive rebounds. Kavan Looney with 11. And my second MVP is of course Stoic Wiggs. There has to be some type of nickname for Andrew Wiggins that showcases that bro never shows emotion. Again, the only time I really see him show emotion is when he's dunking on Carl Anthony Towns. Other than that, the bro hit a couple of huge shots in the fourth quarter. Got some big blasts, got some big offensive rebounds. He ain't smile, he ain't flexing, yell at the crowd. He ain't do some no showboating whatsoever for Wiggs. He just got back on defense every single time. And it's entertaining because Dre My Green in the third quarter made a layup over Jiren Jax Jr. and he flexed and yelled at him. And then Wiggins just do something very similar. Just get back on defense. It's like there's so many different personalities here. It's just, he just get back on defense. This is what Wiggins do. But he had some big, big time shots in this one, especially down in the fourth quarter. Kavan Looney with his great rebounding. And you ask Cley Thompson getting the game, six version of himself. And then Steph Curry hitting some big old daggers down in the stripes. That was all you really needed. I'm excited to see who they go against because the Dallas versus Sun series is coming up or coming to an end Sunday. And one thing I question and you know, we gonna do a whole type of preview of whatever series we ended up getting. In my notes, it says, I wonder how they play against a team that has better offensive weapons, and better rebounding. Because the 17 off or the 17 turnovers against a team that's like fully healthy and at the superstars and are good rebounded team, that 17 turnovers really is gonna hurt you like nine times out of 10 when we talk about a normal game. And if you're going against the Phoenix Suns, if I'm not mistaken, I would guess that they are better rebounded team than Memphis Grizzlies. They probably not giving up 25 offensive rebounds, but they might turn you over close to the rate of the Memphis Grizzlies. I guess the Memphis Grizzlies is one of the best turnover rate teams at all of basketball. But still, I wonder if they're going to get to Suns, will they be able to replicate some of this with the 25 rebounds? Or if they're going to get to Dallas Mavericks, maybe that's the fable matchup for them because the Dallas Mavericks also try to go small and then maybe Cavanaugh and Luni can take advantage. I don't really know. We gonna do a whole preview once we figure out who's winning between Dallas and Phoenix, okay? Let's talk about the Memphis Grizzlies because this is one hell of a series or hell of a season for them. Being a playing team last year, basically defeating the Golden State Warriors and get that last play-in spot or get that last playoff spot and then for everybody to elevate. And we were talking about on the podcast a little while ago basically asking each other, what do we do if we were the Memphis Grizzlies? It's off season. If you did not know, they got the executive of the year over there. I forget his name already, but he won executive of the year for basically, I guess drafting very well because it's not like they did a lot of trades. They traded for Stephen Adams, but that's pretty much it. This season it was like draft. I, he didn't even actually do much this year. He traded Grayson Allen. He traded away Jonas Valentino as a guy and Stephen Adams. And then everything else is just like growth and development. But maybe it's like giving him the award now for his drafting over the past three years. I don't really, I don't really know. But we were asking each other, what do we do if we're the Memphis Grizzlies? Cause they had an amazing season ended up being a two C surprise in everybody, but they're going to be more teams out there that are going to be completely healthy. The Clippers are going to be back. The different nuggets are going to be back. And how do we prevent ourselves from having a hell of a season this year and being disappointed next year? And what I said in there was, I don't do anything dramatic. I don't try to trade for a secondary superstar to put it alongside Jamerran. Because in my personal opinion, I looked at all the progression that we got throughout the roster this year. And I'm expecting a lot of those players to get even better. Now I know progression is not linear, but I look at what Jamerran turned in from year two, being a borderline, all a player that was in all star conversations to being a player for a good, chunk of the season was in MVP conversations. He went most improved player. He ends up being an all NBA player. I would guess this season. That's a crazy progression from year two to year three. You wonder what he looks like from year three to year four. Dezen Bay went from a good rookie to like, we believe in him so much. We're going to trade away some pieces that might take some minutes away from him. We're going to give him the key, not the keys, but we're going to have him run a lot of guard this year. We're going to up his usage rate and boom, in my opinion, he won my most improved player. We see the progression from year one to year two from Dezen Bay. What does year two to year three look like? And then Jaren Jackson Jr. gets better. Maybe Zyler Williams takes a big jump from year one to year two because it seems like they continue to get better and better and better from person one to person 12 every single season. It might even be Brandon Clark who had like a setback year last year to come back this year. Next year, he's even better. Or maybe it's the Anthony Mellon who people forget is only like 24 years old. I don't know. I just believe in the internal development that has been happening within the Memphis Grizzlies. And I personally will not do anything to change that. Now they do have some decisions with I think how Anderson is a free agent this off season. And Tyus Jones, even though he did not have a good game today, he's gonna be a guy that's going to be highly talented and free agency as a good point guard. So I don't know how they navigate those things but I'm excited to see what year, I was gonna say year three for them. Why would I wanna say that? What the next year for the Memphis Grizzlies looks like? This is one hell of a year to be the two seed and take the goal to say where it's two six considering that John Moran got injured early on. Just a super, super bright future for them. But now let's talk about Jason Tatum on Friday the 13th. Jason came out to play, man. It writes itself, bro. He came out to play and had his best playoff performance of all time and I'm seeing something because I feel like I have, even though Jason Tatum's like 23, 24 years old, I feel like I have a ton of playoff moments in my mind from Jason Tatum, whether it's Duncan on LeBron when he was a rookie or even earlier this season, the game went to lay up against the Brooklyn Nets. And then today, putting a stamp of approval or a stamp on this game. I mean, early in it, I wouldn't say he was struggling, but yeah, at the end of the first half he had 18 points. It was great. He had a lot of shots, but he was shooting seven for 16. And I think a lot of that is like early in the game, he was trying to get to the basket and instead of looking to finish the score, he was looking for the fouls and he wasn't getting the whistle. And I think in that second half, he had the same mindset to get to the basket, but instead he was trying to finish. In the second half, man shot 10 for 16. He had three threes and they came at crucial times. He had on a personal 11-0 run in this one. He was incredible. And you had, let me go to my notes. I had a lot of notes for this if I'm not mistaken. Some of them might be one sentence notes, but hey, let me read some of my notes. Tatum is good. Tatum is really good. Tatum's unstoppable. Tatum in the wing three pointer is a go-to move. Hey, bro, I be watching these games and just jotting down whatever comes to mind that I want to mention in the video. And is that his signature move, the side step, the side step wing three, is that Jason Tatum's signature move? I love to see that Marcus Smart had a bounce back game. When you think about how game five ended with him having three back to back to back possessions that a lot of people credit to them losing that game, even though, you know, they were blowing like a 13-point lead to fourth court anyway. It wasn't all Marcus Smart. But anyway, you look at the way that ended and him coming out today earlier in this one, it felt like Marcus Smart versus Giannis was gonna be the storyline in this one. You know, he ended up with 21 points. He didn't overshoot. He didn't have any turnovers. He played good defense. He had seven assists. This was as big of a bounce back game for Marcus Smart as you can imagine. And it was perfect. Derrick White, second quarter, Derrick White was great. And I won't even say that he finally came to play because I think for the most of this series, he's been okay. He's just not gonna be a guy that's gonna go out there and shoot it extremely efficient. Even today, he was only one for five. But in the second quarter, he had big time plays and big time moments for them. Jalen Brown also came to play and they take this game or the series to seven. And they were talking about on the broadcast that in the last game of the season, if you remember, the Milwaukee Bucks sat everybody while the Boston Celtics played to win. The Milwaukee Bucks, you know, they said that they weren't trying to avoid the Brooklyn Nets, but let's be honest, people did not really wanna play the Brooklyn Nets. And that might come back to bite them. Now, home court advantage has been that big of a thing so far in this series. People have been winning on the road the entire time. But in the game seven in the TD Guard, and I wonder will they end up regretting the fact that they set their players because we're getting that game seven in Boston, you know? And listen, a lot of credit to the Boston Celtics. They deserve this one. But bro, the Milwaukee Bucks, oh man, oh man, oh man. Giannis gives you a 44 point game, 20 rebounds, six assists. He shot 14 from 15 from the free throw line. And you lose because the only other person that came to play offensively was Pat Connaughton. Drew Holliday had the great performance last game and then followed that up, but not that good of a performance. Grayson now is getting absolutely hunted. And I don't even know how he ended up playing 22 minutes because if I'm Coach Budd and he not hitting the shots and they're hunting him on defense, I don't know why he plays that many minutes. Also, why the hell is George Hill getting as many minutes as he's getting? In the post game interview, Coach Budd, and I promise you, this is a real quote or I'm a paraphrase because it was a little quote. He was basically saying that we got George out there because we liked the way he defends. And I'm watching this game. And every time George is out there on defense, they're trying to get the switch on George. They're going at George every single time it felt like. So Budd said we like his defense. And then somebody else questioned like, why is his defense different than Javon, who's a way better on-ball defender who fights over the screens? And he was like, he gives them something differently defensively than Javon does. I guess he's alluded to the fact that Javon is more a better one-on-one defender where George Hill might be a better team defender. I don't really know. But in the last video, when we were talking about them winning game five, I was giving praise to Coach Budd for not playing George Hill more. I think it was like 12 minutes. And today ended up being 18. And like, Kenny, that's not that big of a difference. But in the game like this is, it is. It is that big of a difference. If George Hill plays more than 10 minutes next game, oh, in the game seven, oh, Coach Budd, Coach Budd, man. Hey, listen, that championship saves you, bro. Well, come on, man. Come on. Now there are rumors that there's a chance that Chris Middleton comes back for game seven. I wouldn't necessarily believe those rumors until I see a tweet from Wolger Shams. I would not be trying to bet on this game or anything like that with that in mind or even like make a prediction to this game because I don't know if he's going to play. And if he does play, I don't know what version of him we're gonna get. He's missed the last X amount of, I don't know, was it the last 10 playoff games? Something like that. Early in this game, well, not early in this game, but for the entirety of the Bucks existence under Budd, they play drop coverage and they say, shoot your threes and we gonna pack the paint. We're gonna prevent you from getting to the basket. And if you're going to win this series, you better hit your threes. And in this game, 17 made threes for the Boston Celtics, seven from Tatum, five from Smart Four from Jalen Brown. They pretty much had all of them and Derek White gave them one as well. But in this game early on, they were doing their typical normal drop coverage and it was getting smoked. And then there were some possessions where they were like switching it. And I was like, oh my God, Colts Budd is gonna switch this up. And then two possessors later, they went back to drop and got killed at drop. So I would expect Colts Budd to maybe do a little bit more switching because it worked out at least a little bit in the small sample size we got in the first half of this game, but at least throw them different looks because it seems like that drop coverage is getting dominated from the three. I don't know if the Boston Celtics shoot another seven, make another 17 threes or you miss all of your threes. But it's a possibility. It's not the first time that's happened in this series. All right, man, that's really all I have to say. I can't wait for Sunday. We get two game sevens. I'm excited about that. My apologies if my energy wasn't at as high as you normally get it. But brother, I am sick. I'm just gonna hope that this pass is over by Sunday, Sunday night when I gotta do my big recaps for game sevens. I appreciate you watching, bye.