 What's the word y'all? All right, I'm a level with you. I will not be overreacting to the things I saw today. It was basically a ploy for me to get you to click the video. And I guess we can say mission accomplished because here you are. We just watched the Miami heat take care of businesses against the Philadelphia 76ers. And then the Phoenix Sun shot like 100% from the field to beat the Dallas Mavericks. We will be talking about these things. We will be reacting to these things. But overreaction is a bit of a stretch because we all understand that this is a long seven game series. Leave a like, subscribe. I'm just a guy with a microphone. My opinion basically has no way whatsoever, but I appreciate you listening. All right, I'm getting a lot better at putting down notes as I'm watching these games. So before the game started between Miami and Philadelphia, a lot of people were wondering what the start of lineup was gonna look like for the 76ers going into this one. And some people speculated that Deandre Jordan was gonna get the start. And boy were they right. Unfortunately for 76ers fans, man. Deandre Jordan, and I've said this in a video before, has coasted his way over the last two seasons with basically being a nothing on the offensive or the defensive side of the ball. And what makes it even worse is that, okay, so he ended up playing 17 minutes in this game. And I think I saw something on Twitter that if you get rid of the Deandre Jordan minutes completely, the 76ers win this game. I know it's easier said than done or it was just a weird hypothetical if he don't play, then it don't matter. But in these 17 minutes, I didn't see bro positively impact the game whatsoever. So you're like, all right, can it ain't that big of a deal? You know, game two gonna come up. Doc Rivers gonna make those adjustments. Doc Rivers went to his post game interview and said, hey, we gonna keep playing Deandre Jordan. Why? Oh, because you want a lobster for James Harden? He threw one pass to Deandre Jordan the entire game. Bro has been coasting along and I was praying even when Joellen B ran out, he was not going to be traveling to Miami. I was thinking to myself, all right, ain't no way Deandre Jordan is going to get real minutes. You know, you got B ball Paul who did get minutes in this one. You got Paul Milsep who basically ain't played in a long time. But both of those options will be better than Deandre Jordan. And he still got the minutes and it was a lot of them. I cannot believe that the, here go my notes. Oh, here go my notes. Deandre Rivers put out a small ball lineup in the second quarter and that team went on a nice little run. So I was like, okay, you know, I know Eric Spokes are gonna make some adjustments at halftime. I'm expecting Doc to make the adjustments to have that lineup that went on that run to basically, they took the lead in a game where they were the heavy underdog. I think it was an eight point underdog. They took the lead going into the halftime because this one lineup, here's a tweet. In the final five minutes of the first half, the 76ers play Tarris Max, James Harden, Danny Green to buy his Harris and George Nieng. That's their small ball lineup. They went on an eight to two run to take their first lead of the game. That lineup did not see the floor again. I don't understand how this is the lineup that got you back into this game because it was ugly for some time in that first half and they never played together again. The 76ers had a ton of mental lapses in that third quarter where the Miami Heat decided to basically wake up. Tyler Harrow had like three possessions in the third quarter where he ended up wide open on threes. And I think he had two of them wide open on threes and was like afterwards the entire 76er lineup looking at each other like how the hell did he get open? But it happened again and again and again. And those were the things that weren't happening very often in the first half. They kind of kept them into this game. And well, James Harden, one of the things we said in the preview without Joellenby being there and I know it's confirmed for sure now that he won't be there for game one or game two. The optimistic that he can get there for game three or game four, but we were like, man, James Harden's gonna have to turn back the clock at least a little bit. Nope, not the case. And part of it of course is him. But the other part is like the Miami Heat defense. We just saw them make Trey Young average like 15 points per game in a series. Trey Young averaged 30 points in the regular season. And then he got to a series against the Miami Heat and he averaged 15 on poor efficiency. So yes, James Harden, was it the James Harden they expected or they needed to be? But it was also the Miami Heat defense doing what they do best. And that's just like completely taking out a star player. I give my MVPs for these games. And listen, yesterday's video or a couple of days ago whenever we were talking about game one between Bucks and Celtics, I said my MVP was Brook Lopez. And one of the top comments was like Kenny, the MVP is undoubtedly Yannis. Of course, my boy. But everybody gonna talk about Yannis. It's the thing on this channel that's called the Kenny for All Stars. And these are the people that aren't the superstar players because you know the superstar players for the most part are gonna have good games. Yannis played amazingly. He had a triple double. He was dominant even though he didn't shoot the ball officially. He had the most dominant performance for somebody that wasn't a fish from the field. But everybody gonna talk about Yannis's performance. So my MVP was Brook Lopez. And in this game, of course, Tyler Hero had a great game. And Bam on the Bio had his best playoff game of this season so far. My MVP was PJ Tucker. Yep, PJ Tucker. How's it plays? Drawing charges. It's like you would have thought he played with James Harden once upon a time. Okay. Because his defense on James Harden was great. It seemed like he knew the moves. He drew a couple charges. He got into the passing lanes. They basically smothered James Harden to the point where he had to pass out to these non-shooters. Or I guess people that are normally shooters but became non-shooters like George Nyang. Or I guess Danny Green. The Miami Heat defense is just that elite. And I think that they can continue that same mindset or that same game plan. We're gonna smother James Harden and see if anybody else can do anything. I thought the 76ers were best in this game when they were getting out and running. I know they weren't necessarily fast break points but like off a make. It was a couple of possessions when they were just down court. Tobias Harris. Oh my God, have I gone this long without mentioning Tobias Harris. Beautiful game for Tobias Harris. A waste of game because nobody else sold up but a beautiful game from Tobias Harris. But again, I think that if they have a chance in the series or they want to have a chance in the series, they need, and I mean this honestly, they need to take game two in Miami. And they need James Harden to find a way. Cause let's be honest with you. James Harden has been guarded a couple of different ways in this career. We're talking about a former MVP. He's seen a lot of different coverages. So what the Miami Heat are doing is great for sure but James still needs to be James. He still needs to find a way to break it. And maybe breaking it is finding the shooters and they make the shots this time around or him turning back the clock but I don't see a world even with Joel and me coming back in game three, game four where they're down 0-2 and they ended up winning the series. So they need to make it happen. But it's gonna be hard to happen because the Miami Heat are just that good. And it's a testament to great coaching. People understanding their role and just great depth. Game one in the first round, Duncan Robinson hit eight threes. He got a DMP coach's decision today. Just wasn't the time that they needed him to shoot threes. Crazy depth where even with Cal Laury still being injured and people were making jokes about his fit. I thought his fit was fire, especially when we got people going to the Met Gala and I can't relate to none of the outfits. High fashion, can't relate to none of that. I could relate to what Cal Laury was wearing. You know, I swung a golf club before he felt like he was playing golf out there. So shout out to the Heat, taking care of business. Even though in that first half it had me a little worried about what the heck they was doing, they fixed it. We got to talk about the Suns beating the Dallas Mavericks in the game where Luca had 45, 12 and eight assists. Jeez, Luca, Luca, Luca. And in our preview of this series, I was talking about all the different bodies that the Phoenix Suns could throw at them. It's gonna be Michele. It's gonna be a little bit of book. It's going to be Jay Crowder. It's going to be Tori Craig. And I was writing that. They threw a bunch of bodies at him. None of that mattered whatsoever. None of that mattered whatsoever. And it's just so cool to see Luca do these things. Obviously they didn't win, but we are really witnessing like just a guy that will go down in history if he can tell you to stay healthy. As it's one of the greatest of all time. We're seeing this. How old is Luca Dutchess? I'm gonna guess 24. He's 23 and he's a young 23. He just turned 23. Luca is the youngest player with 45 points and 10 rebounds in a playoff game since Kobe did it in 2000, 2001. He's a young 23 and he just put out 45 on the number one team in the entire NBA. Unfortunately, some of the people that he relied on heavily or the team needed to perform did not. Jalen Brunson struggled heavily. And I think part of that had to do with the amount of length that the Phoenix Suns have, we saw him destroy the Utah Jazz because the Jazz has Mike Hanley and Donovan Mitchell who are both like 6-1 guards. They don't really have the length that the Suns had and the Suns do a lot of length his way. And he struggled. His footwork was still crazy. I think we can all agree that like when it comes to guards and the NBA, Jalen Brunson got some of the best footwork of anybody that's not like a super superstar. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to JB, but this was not his game. He has to find a way to evolve to the point where he can be impactful because that length is not going anywhere. You know, he needs to look at what he did in game two and try to find ways to use his quickness and scored the ball more. Spicer-Denwoodie, who we said was the X factor for the series for the Dallas Mavericks gave them literally nothing today. And it was a lot of of Maxi Kleber and a lot of Luca Doncis, but everything in between was a bit iffy. In my notes, I said, the maps can hang question mark because in a time where I was ready to basically turn off the game and start filming his video, they went on a little run in that fourth quarter and I was trying to figure out, was this them turning it up and showcasing what they could be? Or was this the songs like, oh, we good. We could just dribble out the clock and take lazy shots and not really defend, just make sure we don't foul. And it might be a little bit of both. I don't really know, but I think that they can hang for sure. Like I said, I have the sons winning this series, but I think they can hang. Miney William said something at the end of the third quarter in this interview that I just thought was like genius, but also so very simple. I mean, it just felt like he was, of course he wouldn't do this because why the hell would he care about what the Utah Jazz did? But he was basically just saying the exact opposite of what the Utah Jazz did in their entire series. He was just basically saying that it starts at the point of attack. And if you could focus on a point of attack that gets rid of all the other options on the wing is for our shooting goals. I mean, it was that. And I guess the point of attack defense wasn't as great because, you know what, I'm at the point now where I can still say somebody played great defense and got killed, played great defense and got killed. Let me give you some of the examples. Hold on, hopefully, hopefully these clips have gone live. Here's an example of like good defense, but Luca is just a dog. So it doesn't matter. You know, sometimes you just get those players. You'd be like, okay, we did what we could on this play. A pick, they do switch and Javel McGee knows what's coming. He gets a little step back. You know what Luca about to do. That's a contest. That's a good contest if you ask me. And well, he's a Luca Donchich, you know? So we had a couple of plays like that in this game where the defense was good, but Luca was better. There's a lot of possessions where he made some of the greatest defenders, perimeter defenders in basketball look foolish. Like, Mikel is a good defender. He's one of the better defenders in the league, but Luca just made him look foolish sometimes. You know, that's how good of a player he is. Next thing in my notes says Booker needed that rest. Next thing in my notes said Booker needed the rest. We were talking about game six versus the Pelicans and Booker just did not look like the best version of himself. Today he did, which is dope. Aiden made them pay, which was a big thing coming into the series. You remember my preview where like it's a lot different when someone gets really good bearer who don't, it don't matter who's guarding him. They won't pass on the ball. They will force feed DeAndre Aiden and let him do a thing. And he can bruise, he can do the little mid-range jump shot. He's got a big bag for center, you know? And he made them pay today. And a lot of the Dallas Mavericks' defense is predicated on forcing teams to take two pointers, forcing teams to try to get to the basket or forcing teams to make mid-range jump shots. And unfortunately for them, two of the best mid-range shooters in all of basketball play for the Suns. So Chris Paul today ended up 7-4-13 from the field and the Devon Booker only shot 35% but still they have mid-range shooters on their team. So I'm not saying that the Dallas Mavericks have to change their defense because it worked for them all season long and you don't want to just change it right now on a whim after a game one, but maybe adjust it slightly to prevent those guys from taking over the mid-range because those are the two dudes you do not want taking those shots. Also it's kind of hard to talk about games that aren't necessarily close. Like this game ended up being close seven point game but let's be honest, man, Phoenix at this game the entire time. You know, Dallas came out flat, Phoenix did not. The crowd was rocking. This is a really, really good crowd of Phoenix. So it's kind of hard to talk about games that are blowouts. I just hope that for game number two Philly shows up and Dallas plays a little bit better because me as a neutral basketball fan, I like long series, man. I don't want to see nothing ending four because the NBA is predictable when it comes to this playoffs, but also if they're going to be predictable, at least make it fun predictable. You know, if the higher seed is going to win every single series, at least make it a little dramatic. Give us a six, give us a seven or something. And yeah, anything can happen. Tomorrow we got game two of Milwaukee versus Dallas. Okay, all right, all right. I think they were talking about on the broadcast that Thursday there's no games whatsoever, which is weird to me. So I don't know what the hell I'm uploading on Thursday, but there's no games. So I don't know. I guess there's some old tweets that we can react to. Content, baby content is king.