 What's the word y'all? Tonight we have big series saving wins from the Cavaliers and from the Phoenix Suns. And no, I'm not saying that they're gonna eventually win these series, but like you definitely don't wanna lose the first two games of a series when you have home court advantage. So this game, Eve is the playing field at least a little bit, but not exactly. Cause they still technically lost home court advantage by losing game ones. Regardless, both of those teams showed some really good things going forward. And I guess the Boston Celtics played a game today. It was on NBA TV. And I watched the first 15 minutes and then the game that I care about came on. You know what I'm saying? The Boston Celtics playoff for me doesn't start into the next round. They gonna beat up on Atlanta, we all know that. It's gonna be a four, it's gonna be a five. It's one of the other, at least that's what it feels like. So they don't get a lot of watch time, especially when the Knicks versus Cavaliers game was starting shortly after. Cause I was seeing in my comments section over the last couple of videos, man, Kenny ain't talking about us. Talk to Mrs. Celtics fans. And the same thing for the Denver Nuggets fans. Y'all series, y'all playoffs, they started just yet. Now if Anthony Edwards dropped 50 and they still a game in Denver, then we can have a conversation. But based on what I saw in the first game between Denver and Minnesota, it's gonna take a lot to still a game there. And based on what I've seen from the Boston, Atlanta series so far, you know what I'm saying? So we'll talk about y'all later down the line. Just be chill. Again, big wins from the Cleveland Cavaliers and from the Phoenix Suns. I'm recording this video right after the Suns and Clippers game has ended. So if storylines develop overnight, that's why we didn't talk about them in this video. A game like this is one of the reasons why I picked the Phoenix Suns to win the Western Conference. And it wasn't the perfect game. It was highly flawed. We're gonna talk about some of those flaws because some of the flaws from game one came over to game two, but they were just so dominant in the mid-range area with three of the greatest mid-range scores of all time. I think the actual stat was they were 21 of 27 in the mid-range area. How do you stop it? And then we get a vintage type fourth quarter from Chris Paul to put the cherry on top. And again, it wasn't perfect, right? They only made 10 total threes and five of those came from the hands of Torrey Craig. I do not expect Torrey Craig to consistently hit five three-pointers in the game. Also, they basically got no bench production, which was the story in game one. So it was a flawed win, but it did showcase how good things can be. And on the other side of things, I'm watching this game and looking at how ridiculous Kawhi is on both sides of the ball and seeing a really good Russell West per game. Ladies and gentlemen, we talked about him game one being a hero. He shot three of 19. Today, he shot 56 percent from the field. He made two of his three threes and he was eight for eight from the free throw line. This is a very good Russell West per game. But between Kawhi and Russell West per, that was the only production they got. Everybody else in the team was awful shooting the ball. And I mentioned how the Phoenix Suns only made 10 threes. That didn't matter today because a team that normally makes a ton and attempts a ton and the Clippers only made 11. 0 for four for Bones Highland. 0 for three for Norman Powell. 0 for four for Nicholas Patum. Those are guys that usually hit a couple here and now breaking it down a little bit more. Again, this man Kawhi Leonard all season long. At least, okay, let's cut out maybe the first month of the year where he's coming back from that big injury. He has been so very dominant and he has been a player that historically throughout his career has upped it in the playoffs. Many guys on the podcast are trying to figure out the players that should have playoff next to their name. You know what I'm saying? Like playoff Jimmy for the most part. Again, he does have the series where he got swept by the Milwaukee Bucks where he was stupidly locked in. But for the most part, playoff Jimmy has been a real thing more often than not. Playoff Kawhi has been a real thing. We also got like playoff Rondo from back in the day. Even though Rondo himself said there's no such thing as playoff Rondo, it was. At least that's what it felt like. The Bulls were up 2-0 as the lower seed before he broke his hands when Rondo was here. I ain't forgot about it Rondo. And playoff Kawhi is a real thing on both sides of the ball, man. In this game, it started off a rush to Westbrook on Cavendran but eventually evolved to have Kawhi Leonard as the guy on Kevin. And again, Kevin had a really good game throughout the course of it. But like in those possessions where it was 1-0-1 between Kevin DeRen and Kawhi, it's like, I don't know, perfect for an NBA fan. It's neutral here. We got one of the greatest offensive individual firepower players and Kevin DeRen being guarded by one of the best perimeter defenders ever. And now Kawhi Leonard's not the same perimeter defender that he was five years ago, but he's still very, very good. So to see a lot of possessions like that was really cool, but the Clippers just needed somebody else to step out, up outside of him and outside of Russell Westbrook and they did not get that. We're in game one, you saw other people step up and become factors. And today just wasn't the day. That book game was nasty though, man. I enjoy a good Devin Booker game, especially because Devin Booker has evolved to the point over the last couple of seasons where he is not just all offense. I mean, I guess you can make an argument that he never has been just all offense, but he played for teams that won 19 games and nobody really cared about the defensive side of the ball. But since they have been a contending type team, Booker has upped his intensity on the defensive side of the ball. So not only did he give you 38 points, he also gave you a lot of possessions where he's locked in on the defensive side of the ball. And then again, having a vintage moment from Chris Paul where he breaks the curse, the Scott Foster curse is no longer. And then for him to have what eight points in the fourth quarter, shooting 57% from the field and it was just, it was almost a perfect storm for them. And Deondre Aiden had less points in this game than in his last, but I felt like this was a more dominant performance from Deondre Aiden. Again, I didn't expect him to be booming on people or using that physicality that we know he could, but instead it's like a little jump shot here, 16 footer here, here, here, and he killed the glass. And my major criticism for Deondre Aiden after game one, there's no way Chris Paul and Kevin DeRanch should have more rebounds to you on a normal basis. Especially when your opposing team is killing the offensive glass. And they did get out offensive boarded again, but it was less of an impact today as those other days. And then I say series saving, but that doesn't mean that I think that the Clippers are done. Like it's very, very far away from that. I'm just saying that you don't want to go down no two and then go on the road for two more games. So it's series saving in that sense, but by no means does this mean that the Clippers are dead in the water because people that normally his shots did not his shots today. Move on to the Cavaliers next, but the Cavaliers finally show the world why they were the number one defense in basketball this season. Game one, I saw a lot of jitters from Evan Mobley from Derrius Garland who was missing bunny after bunny, both of them Evan Mobley missed seven layups that felt like and they all were the exact same. And then Derrius Garland had one possession in particular that I remember is where he got to the mid-range area, took a mid-range shot, missed it. They got an offensive board to kick it out to him for the exact same shot he missed it again. And I'm like, ah, normal Derrius Garland's taking one of those two. And in this game, DG DeFiji was locked in. And it was a show. And Evan Mobley started off this guy. I think he started off this game like 0 for three, 0 for four, but eventually started making those shots. And I'm like, this is the version of the Cavaliers I expected from game one. We didn't get it. But they got production in places where they didn't get a lot of production from before. I used to play two minutes, got to early foul trouble when people were saying that he's also dealing with an injury, whatever. Danny Green got PT. The last week of the season, there was a game where Danny Green scored 20 points or whatever. And I made a video, like a little video on Twitter, like, this is why the last week of the season is hard to watch for me sometimes, because a guy like Danny Green that was getting a ton of DMP coast decisions just get thrown into the fire and he gives you 20. He was thrown into the fire again and he had one shot. He had one shot. But he played 20 minutes. And I was low key impressed a little bit with his mobility. It felt like the games that I have seen of Danny Green since that injury in the playoffs a few years ago where his mobility was at an all-time low and you kind of question, man, is this it for Danny? And it's a little bit better today. And they kind of needed that if ICE is going through some injuries. I said it after game number one that I did not want to see Ricky Rubio and Dean Wade play minutes. They did it. And I said they're not bad players before a matchup like this. They just don't fit with guarding the New York Knicks or with scoring on the New York Knicks. And they both got zero minutes play even in the garbage time where Robin Lopez gave us two post hooks. We did not see no Rubio. We did not see no Dean Wade. But it must feel really good for Cavs fans right now to have a game where Donovan Mitchell didn't need to drop 30 plus for them to have a chance. He has an efficient 17 points, 13 assists game for Donovan Mitchell. He was relying on these other dudes to do his thing and Keras Loverd off the bench. This was one of his better games recently and it came in the playoffs series. This was a really good one. I know a lot of the conversation about this game is about Julius Randall while he was in the game for the last two minutes. And then Reggie Miller on the call had to bring up Derrick Rose. And they showed Derrick Rose and Derrick Rose's dreads are like down here. I didn't realize his hair was that long now. And you know, flashbacks to the series against the 76ers where Derrick Rose is in the game when he probably shouldn't be in the game and boom, he tears his ACL. And Julius Randall's in the game that's far gone and he gets hit pretty hard and he's under the stanchion and he's grabbing on to it. He has so much pain. He grabbing on the leg of a fan. And the fan like, is this cool? Like what's going on? And I hope Julius Randall's okay again. I ain't heard nothing else about it. Thibodeaux was asked about it and he said that he was gonna pull Julius Randall but Randall asked to stay in a little bit more to get more rhythm because this was a rough watch. It was a rough game for Julius Randall. It was very reminiscent of the playoff run a few years ago where he didn't have a good one. And again, he's coming off such an injury, you know, thrown into the fire. So it's kind of expected that he won't be the all NBA version of himself. But again, this was definitely a rough one. Can you be disappointed in the player that you didn't have much belief in before? You know what I'm saying? Like usually you're disappointed by somebody you believe was gonna do something. RJ Barrett ain't done a thing in this series. Talk to me about defense, whatever. He ain't done a thing in this series. And that's scary. Paid him a lot of money. And for him to be the third option when his first two dudes have stinker of a games you want him to step up his play. 30% from the field. And again, throughout the course of the season after the Josh Hart trade, we had a ton of games this season where RJ wasn't closing out because Josh Hart was the better option or Emmanuel Quickly was the better option. Like Tom Thibodeaux not afraid to do that even if we paying you $40 million or whatever it is. But it's been a rough two games. And for his sake and for New York's sake if they wanna win this series I think you need some form production. I ain't saying you gotta be all in the A. You ain't gotta be even be all star but you need some type of production because I saw 33 minutes of straight card here on bricks. And that's just not gonna cut it. Lastly, let's talk about the Dramon Green suspension. Yesterday Dramon Green got ejected from a game where Demotsa Bones grabbed his leg and retaliation he stumped on the sternum. And now we got Demotsa Bones being questionable for game three. Let's, Demotsa Bones is gonna play. The man's been playing with a broken hand all season long. I think a sternum bruise is not gonna hold him out of game through the playoffs or crucial game through the playoffs. But Dramon Green got suspended. And that was after earlier today, Shams and them had said, hey, the likelihood of him getting suspended is pretty low. He was like, okay, cool. That was my reaction. Okay, cool. Dramon Green better for the first game of the chase and the cool. That's all, that's all Danny. And then late tonight, they was like, no, he's gonna get a game. And I just wanna clear up some things here because some things are not, not adding up. You know, social media, you know, the injection or the suspension comes out and you know, I'm refreshing to see what people are thinking. And I saw a tweet with a decent amount of interactions and comments and likes and stuff. Basically assuming that the NBA is rigging it for the Warriors to lose. And it blew my mind that that's who we at right now. Y'all, did y'all think that's facts? Think about the landscape of the NBA right now, y'all. The NBA could potentially have a Steph Curry versus LeBron James series in the second round. And you think they, they rigging it to prevent that? You think the NBA is making more money on the Kings advancing? I don't believe so, man. This is not a rigging. You can say you disagree with the suspension. That's fine. But if you, it's not because they wanna see the Kings advance because it's more profitable for their business to see the Warriors advance to see the Lakers potential. Again, I ain't writing the Mifers Grizzlies off, but like with a job or an injury is more likely that the Lakers are gonna advance. So they could potentially see two of the greatest of all time, arguably two top 10 players in the history of basketball see each other in the second round. You think the NBA is like, nah, we don't want that. They're trying to set a president across the league. There are things that you can do and things that you can't do. And Draymond Green apparently crossed the line. Agree or disagree, it's not because the NBA thinks that Sacramento's more profitable or they wanna see that. The story of Sacramento making the playoffs in the first place is profitable for the NBA, but watching the Warriors advance to the second round is way more profitable than that. Can we agree on that? Cool, this was not a rigging. You could disagree with the suspension, but it's not because they want the Kings to advance. All right, cool. I do wanna say on the record that I do not like the idea of Draymond Green getting suspended for game three. I just don't think it's some overarching conspiracy that's anti-warrior as a dude that just wants to see the best basketball being played. Draymond Green helps the best basketball game play. So it does suck a little bit for the series because it feels like that without Draymond, it's gonna be a lot tougher in game three to pull out there with that victory. So I don't know, I just wanted to make it clear that I didn't agree with the suspension, but I don't think it's some type of conspiracy. All right, see you tomorrow.