 what's the word y'all welcome back man this is the last series we're down to at the most the last seven games of the NBA season which is weird to say I made it a mission going into this year to upload way more on this channel and I think I succeeded in that we grew this channel to over half a million subscribers and once the season is officially over I will be still uploading but it's gonna be not three times a week like it is right now you know I'm saying at least until we get to the off season we can talk about signing trades and and drafts and stuff like that but I might take a little time you feel me just come back just know what things happen and then be a come back to the source and that is the candy for real channel and we're down to our last two teams the Boston Celtics and the Golden State Warriors I cannot be more excited I've picked the Boston Celtics and every single playoff round so far you know based on their matchups and I've also picked the the Golden State Warriors and everyone in their series as well candidly speaking though the Suns were my favorite to win it all so hypothetically if the Suns would have beat the Dallas Mavericks and got to the conference finals I would have probably picked the Suns I probably would have been wrong because the words are really good but I'm just saying based on the match as we saw for the first three rounds of these teams I've always picked the team that made it to the finals so kind of a dub that ends today though um because I can only pick one and I will eventually even though y'all know predictions around here is not something and I'm I'm necessary glue to if I pick a team to win doesn't mean I'm rooting for them to win I don't really care if I'm right or wrong but I know y'all like predictions and I I thought very long and hard about these things over the last couple days oh you like the hoodie maybe you don't I mean I guess there's a video about that I don't this is the enjoy basketball hoodie man these are 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list of things that I like for the seltzes going into the series things that I dislike things that I like for the warriors and things that I dislike and I kind of sort of did that but one of the reasons why I don't go to school or I stopped going to schools because structure is really hard for me so even though I made it like I gave myself this assignment and I and I'm giving myself an F because I did it really complete it y'all know I'm a rambler but let's get into it so even before I gave myself those things these were the top four things that came to mind when I started to think about the series and we're gonna dive deeper into these things as we go along the first one is the seltzes defense have the best guards that the warriors have faced and I guess generally speaking this is the best defense to where it's his face in this playoffs um I saw somebody tweet at me that this is the first time in a long time that the number one offense and number one number two defense are going head to head in the finals which is dope I think that the main thing that's going to determine who's going to win this series is who wins the turnover battle that's how like super important it is to go to say where's a known if we free-flowing offense uh to cough the ball over quite a bit and the bosses seltzes are are pretty good at at getting those out and then on the opposite side as well like Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown have been pretty turnover prone in this little run I think Jaylen Brown had a couple games we had like six seven turnovers like JB you're not even like the ball handler around there uh Jason Tatum if I'm not mistaken I guess I can look this up it's like number one number two and number three when it comes to total turnovers a turnovers per game in this this playoff run so the team that wins the turnover battle will probably maybe win the series I think it's that important because I mean that's extra opportunities for you to score um kevaluni which version of kevaluni will we get we got a series versus the different nuggets where he was almost unplayable and he didn't play a ton and then he turned into one of the greatest players of all time in the other series the golden state warriors doing an amazing job not hiding Steph Curry but preventing Steph Curry from getting switched on to we saw this in the Dallas Maverick series right Luke is a guy that's going to hunt the defender that he wants and Steph Curry's usually a guy they did an amazing job of hedging or blitzing these screens so it turned whoever was the five man who else was the guy that was picking he turned him into a playmaker so whether it be Robert Williams or Al Horford we're going to need them to elevate their playmaking and then lastly Derek White and Marcus Smart need to hit shots because the Golden State Warriors will allow them to shoot especially early in the series now if Marcus Smart start to hit at a 40 clip then they'll probably start to guard them but I'm assuming that the first couple games of the series they're going to live with Marcus Smart and Derek White taking as many threes as they want I think they would probably even live with having Al Horford or maybe even Grant Williams who's a 40 3 point shooter but I think they would live with those shots at least early on until they showcase that we can hit those and now we got to reformulate what we're doing defensively but I've seen in series where the Golden State Warriors completely did not guard a player and I know it's been oh my god seven years how long ago was the Tony Allen thing Tony Allen they didn't guard it up they put the center on Tony Allen said we'll find we're fine we're playing four on five because we don't trust him offensively and though Derek White has had a couple decent games or not decent really good games for the Boston Celtics at the end of the last series I still believe the Warriors are okay with him shooting the shots because notoriously he has been a wishy washy shooter all right now let's get to a little bit more structure we're going to break down some of those things things that scare me we're going to start off with the Boston Celtics number one on my list is Robert Williams's health there's a lot to be said about the paths of these two teams both of these teams have had I won't say easy paths because winning basketball and winning four out of seven basketball games against professional athletes is always going to be hard but they've have had these games where like Ben Simmons didn't play in people were expecting Ben Simmons would play Chris Middleton got injured in the in the bull series and then you got Jimmy Bala leaving the game three Cal Lares on his last check P.J. Tucker got injured but on the opposite side you went against the the go to say words when it gets to different nuggets or miss a two max players you went against the Memphis Grizzlies and Jamarang got injured halfway through the series and then the last one I guess there wasn't a lot of injuries but we all kind of knew that the Mavericks were going to struggle against the go to say words so each one of these teams have been relatively healthy compared to their counterparts and I noted the Boston Celtics had been banged up like I'm talking about Robert Williams's health because his health is super important in the last series we had some games just playing like 15 to 16 minutes a part of that might have been matchups but I think a good amount of it is he has been injured he's been questionable for like every single game in the playoffs y'all Marcus smart is jumping up and flopping and doing all these things and getting hurt as well so Robert Williams's health scares me a ton because I do believe he can be one of the most important pieces in the series but there's also a part of me that believes that even if he is healthy they might not run run him a ton but I'm going to give the argument for running him a ton a little bit later once we talk about the things that scare me for the uh the go to say words number two that scares me um and I talked about Derek White and Marcus smart shooting that scares me a little bit just because I know these are players that can be wishy washy when um the Celtics were going on their huge run and winning a bunch of games starts the end of the regular season Marcus smart had ended up shooting like 40% from three in like a month span and he's himself has been up and down and part of that is because of his injuries and everything but like I said I do believe the go to say words would allow these dudes to shoot all day long until they prove otherwise prove that they are reliable shooters the Blitz so the Blitz on the defense or the hedging on the defense that the go to say worries do it's so easy to say like ah Jason Tatum is going to you know try to get Steph Curry on them every single possession in his workout workout workout well he thought the same thing at least I thought the same thing about Luca and Luca's damn good at getting the matchup that he want and he didn't get a ton of those matchups once he gets to the latter part of that series and I think it's going to be a very similar thing like I mentioned how when they're hedging these things whether it be Jason Tatum or Jayla Brown who's who's ever orchestrating this picket row is probably going to throw it off to the road man and the road man has to make that quick decision and one of the reasons why I believe Rob Williams might not play a lot because if he is healthy is because how much do you trust Robert Williams in the short role majority of the times you rather have Al Horford because Al Horford actually is a plus passer so that that's one of the things offensively that scares me a little bit about Derrick White potentially not Derrick White Robert Williams potentially playing so many minutes but again Ema Yodoka has had games this playoffs where Robert Williams played a ton of minutes and sometimes he's chilling on it's very dependent on how the other team is doing and that's why Ema is in this position because he has read and react pretty great when it came to the series oh um yeah the thing that scares me another one is Jason Tatum it seems like every single series so far he's had that one stinker and the last series it was game uh game three where he had like 10 points on two four eleven like it was I don't know if that was exactly but he had a big stinker the series before that game three as well he had a big stinker and in the first series versus the Brooklyn Nets he didn't have necessarily a big stinker but he did have a game and I think it was game two that he didn't look like the best version of himself luckily the rest of the team stepped up and the Brooklyn Nets can't score because the defense is legendary so I just don't believe that they can afford to have a Jason Tatum stinker game especially at home because we don't we don't talk about it might as well get into with the Warriors haven't lost a home game just yet so if the Warriors are continuing his dominance at the chase center and then we get to the TD Garden and Jason Tatum has one of his stinkers at home I don't like the odds of them winning the series right there hopefully Jason Tatum doesn't have that stinker there's a possibility that he doesn't but so far throughout this playoffs it just seems like there is that one game and I want him to change that because it just means better basketball for us as neutral fans but like it feels somewhat inevitable in a way which is crazy I mean we're still talking about a guy that's like 19 through 24 I don't know how old Jason Tatum is I still haven't googled it I know he's young we talked about a young up-and-coming superstar so I mean it's allowed on this plate to be stellar every single game so it feels like we might get one of those games and you just don't want it to happen at home because this has been a team the Golden State Warriors I guess like that here's me bleeding into myself when I'm having these conversations I saw another stat that was like the Golden State Warriors when they have Steph Curry Clay Thompson and Jerry Montgomery dating back to the first time I make the playoffs has always won at least one game on the road I mean every streak is meant to be broken eventually but that is a damn good streak I don't know how many playoffs series that is but we've seen them win a lot of championships we've seen them make finals runs when they didn't you know I'm saying they didn't win the finals or even like early in their careers so if that stands to be true and they're also the most dominant home team in the league right now you get what I'm going now those are the things that scare me about the boss the Celtics and the last thing on the list I'm sorry two more things one the second to last things is might be the biggest one is that the the Celtics have these periods of time where they struggle they just go through these slumps where they just cannot score the ball or they'll go through these slumps where it's two to three turnovers back to back to back you like settle down settle things down where the opposing team goes on a 22-2 run just like they have done this you saw it at the end of game seven you know with three minutes left they were up by 14 points and they barely got out of that one they go through these slumps and and with the Warriors being as as high-powered of an offense that they can be you cannot afford to go through the deep slumps that we can we've seen them do um in game one of the games versus the heat I don't remember the exact one they couldn't score the ball when it got to the third quarter that was an extreme slump that you cannot afford against the gold and stay worse because they will make you pay more likely than not and then the last thing that I'm a little bit afraid of is I don't have the numbers to back this up this is based off the eye test they haven't played against in a super elite level offense just yet um the the Brooklyn Nets basically is Kevin Durant and a bunch of people around them that they don't trust the the Bucks took them to seven without Chris Middleton you know they're they're playing against the Bucks is like Yannis could have is we just gonna make sure that drew how they don't step or isn't able to step up but this place isn't able to step up and they bring us to Miami Heat and we all knew that the biggest question mark for the Miami Heat this entire playoff run is how does their half court offense look they have not played against the team as good offensively as free-flowing offensively is the gold and stay warriors um as I try as I bleed in a little bit more I do believe that they're decently equipped to to guard some of these things because they have so many switchable pieces because they have such good IQ when it comes to defense but I'm saying this is definitely a uphill battle for them when you compare it to their previous matchups all right let's talk about the things that I don't like about the warriors the things that scare me about the warriors the guard defense on the the boss itself is the best that they're gonna see 100% it is the best that they're gonna see look at every single one of the series who we Monta Morris and Will Barton we gonna dog them uh we got Jamaran and like Dillon Brooks and Desmond Bay and that's I and then we got uh last series it was like you know what I'm saying this right here we have the defensive player of the year Marcus Smart and then Jaylen Brown or if it's not Marcus Smart it's Derek White you're gonna get however many minutes Steph Curry plays his minutes are gonna be matched with Marcus Smart and or Derek White there's you know Steph Curry's one of the greatest of all time and he can tease your show that night in and night out this is about to be a huge huge matchup because no matter what these guys play defense bro they play defense this is the best defensive team in the league and the best up top defense they've seen so far the the bosses Celtics have great size and if I look at the other teams that you know the Golden State Warriors have played against so far in this playoff run there's one team that gave them somewhat of a you know a little bit of a scare and that was the Grizzlies when it was Jaren Jackson Jr. and Brandon Clark or there was the Grizzlies when it was Jaren Jackson Jr. and Stephen Adams more specifically the Stephen Adam minutes when you when they're going against a team that is big it seems like they struggle until Kevon Looney came to play at the end of that series or the last couple games of that series when you went really big they struggled because getting to the basket and finishing at the basket is tough and what do we know about the the bosses Celtics this is the reason why I'm saying like there's pros and cons of playing Robert Williams Al Horford we just saw this man be be impossible to score on once you get to the paint Robert Williams similarly impossible to score on when you get to the paint so we're talking about a team that that accelerates or play amazingly when they're going against the the maybe smaller defenders but we're talking about two grade A big man defenders you know Steph Curry is gonna not gonna struggle but it's gonna be harder to get to the basket because he's got a face mark is smart and then once he get there's like oh there's there's Al Horford down there there's there's Robert Williams down there you know I'm saying so uh I don't have the exact numbers but I remember seeing the numbers after the Golden State versus Grizzlies series that was like man with Stephen Adams and Jaren Jackson Jr. were together the Golden State where he struggled at this amount and I think that could be that could be replicated because we have I would say a better two man defensive lineup over there with the Boston Celts I know Jaren Jackson Jr is all defensive no disrespect to Jaren but like I trust the two over there more than I trust the two over here also similarly how I said that the Celtics haven't played against an elite level offense these warriors have not played against the elite level defense you know I'm saying they have they have not played against the elite level defense and I'm talking about the elite I mean the elite of the elite who's like with the Boston Celts you're one and number two so they have not played against the defense like that they've had a relatively I know every every okay first of all can we have this conversation you say something like the team has had an easier path and people just oh my god Kenny you're just no I'm just stating factually they ran through their competition and that could be a testament to them being great but also getting a little bit of luck I've said this a million times in order to make it to the finals and when the finals you need a substantial amount of luck it's just true it's just true you know I'm saying and they've had that they haven't had to go against an elite level defense the way things broke out them getting the Dallas Mavericks was a blessing for them I don't think like I would have picked the Suns going into the series based on what the hell I just saw with the Suns I'm sure that the Warriors would have took care of business too but it would have been a better defensive team than what you got from Dallas you know I'm saying so this this is not a team or not a defense they've ever faced before at least this season when it comes to the playoffs I got something in my notes that I can't even read it's I typed it and it's not legible how is that possible oh no I know what this is the my note said the offensive numbers might be somewhat skewed and um the the regular season offense for the goal say was good it wasn't the elite of the elite but once we get to the playoffs they're right now like one of the greatest offensive teams you know I'm saying they are the greatest offensive team out of every team that made the playoffs they are number one offensively and I think some of that might be skewed based on the competition I don't know how much of that we can completely believe in a hundred whole heartedly like do we do we really believe that they're like one of the greatest offensive teams of all time they turned it up that much come play off time or is it somewhat in the middle are you know I'm saying that's that's in my notes that's what I bet by that and then lastly is a turnovers with the goal to save wars you know they cough the ball up a ton the Celtics usually get that get those and get to running so those are the things that I dislike about both of these teams right now let's get to the things that I like and me being a hater um the things that I like are significantly less than the things that I dislike so so let's let's get into the things that I like about the seas um I wrote this before I knew that Iggy might play or that Otto Porta Jr was cleared or or that Gary Payton II was cleared but the first thing on my notes is that the lack of big wings for the Warriors they got those actually uh they actually got this if Iggy's playing if Iggy's playing you know what you know what do I trust Iggy am I crazy am I crazy for not maybe having extreme trust in Iggy since Bro ain't played it forever and then when he did play he didn't look good is he just a playoff player at the bare minimum he should be able to fend at least a little bit he's he's like my dad's age at no okay that's disrespectful but he is older um so do I trust him keeping up with Tatum doc trust me keeping up with Brown in 2022 this ain't 2015 or more you know what I'm saying but they do they I guess they do have bigger wings um the things I do like defensive versatility for the Boston Celtics throughout every single series that they've had so far they they throwing everything at Kevin the ramp they're throwing everything at Yanis and then and with the um with the Miami Heat they did a lot of drop coverage because we don't trust Cal Laurie on their pull-up jump shot yeah we know he can hit it but we don't trust it as much they showed a ton of um defensive versatility and I think you're gonna need that in the series I mean running around and chasing Currie and Clay Thompson is a full-time job that like if you do it successfully you deserve 200 amps you know I'm saying but they have the positional versatility of defensive versatility to maybe get some things done and that's one thing I really do love I also have that on the Warriors list um as far as positional or defensive versatility listen we talked about the number one and number two defensively you know I'm saying yes you cannot be number one and number two without versatility was actually not true because the Utah Jazz were the number one defense like a couple years in the row they weren't very versatile they they were like funnel in the defense to Rudy Gobert and hopefully he stops them so that's not that's not a lot of versatility but these two teams have versatility um they have done now regular season stat but they've done a pretty damn good job against the Warriors in recent history regular season again they only play against each other two times and then this year I tried to go back and watch those games but I got 30 seconds in I was like why the hell am I watching this because let me I wrote down everybody that was injured in that game hold on so the first time um there is no Clay Thompson no Jordan Poole nor Al Horford and no Grant Williams and I'm pretty sure Josh Richardson was the only team so no Derek White why would I watch that game I think that take anything away from that and then in the second game there was no Wiggins and I think that was the game that Steph Curry got injured by Marcus Smart um so I couldn't watch it I guess I wasn't gonna get much out of it anyway um but throughout the Steve Kerr error this is what I saw on Twitter throughout the Steve Kerr error there's only been a handful of teams or if not just one team that has a positive record against them and that's the Boston Celtics maybe take it with a grain of salt because we're talking about a regular season thing but it's true it's true and the things that I like about the um Warriors um positional versatility and they've been there before I I've been racking my brain about how much I believe in the they've been here before so they should have somewhat of a of an advantage I'm sure that matters to an extent but should that be something that you really think and talk about the Celtics haven't been to the finals but it's not like this is their first playoff run you know I'm saying they've been in the conference finals with this core before a couple of times with this core before so know that you haven't been at the game seven of the NBA finals definitely not as many times the Warriors team but I don't I still don't even I still don't really know how how much should I take that into consideration I've been seeing some people um as as they make their predictions and stuff um try to put this on the same level of like uh what was that 2020-12 O.K.C. Thunder in Miami Heat saying that we got this young up-and-coming team and that's Tatum and Brown versus Katie Steph Curry James Harden making a run early in their careers versus this established team with with Superstar Hall of Famers in their prime and I don't subscribe to that and the reason I don't subscribe to that is basically what I just said is that the Boston Celtics though this is their first finals appearance and though Jason Tatum might be between the ages of 19 and 24 and Jayla Brown might be between the ages of 20 and 26 they have playoff pedigree Al Horford played a million playoff games Marcus Smart has been in a ton of playoff games you know they have experience just not to the highest degree and when I think about the O.K.C. Thunder team they basically had close to zero playoff experience I think they have one maybe one year of experience but it what I don't even think they got far I think it was a first round exit I could be mistaken there but this is a team that knows at least a little bit about the way to playoffs go um and and I I do believe I think a lot of people are easily saying warriors in five or warriors in this or I do believe this is about to be a dog fight I pray it is actually because I can't I can't go for another quick series or blowout type series I do believe these teams match up way better than what people are thinking because the Golden State Warriors look so dominant in their run and because like the Celtics let the Bucks take them to seven without Chris Middleton or the Celtics let the Heat take them to seven with Cal Lauri looking 10 pounds overweight no disrespect but come on man um and with Jimmy Butler playing on one leg for half of the series so people are seeing those two things and saying warriors in five because the warriors are the warriors right I do believe these teams match up extremely extremely extremely well but I do have to make a prediction because that's why you're here some of y'all it fast forward to this part and you're a jackass for that come on let's be real let's be real unless you're going back to hear the reasons why my final prediction go to my notes warriors in six warriors in six that is my prediction I can see it going anyway obviously you don't get this far just to get your ass swept I mean it happens sometimes in history but I do I think the biggest reason why I picked this and like out of everything that I just said and what I like or what I dislike the main thing for me is the drought thing the slump thing that the bosses Celtics go through right and and I start talking about how they've been so dominant the words have been so dominant at home but listen like I said they they haven't played an amazing competition to get here you know I'm saying they haven't so maybe that's that's even skewed or the fact that they always win one road game if you're as dominant as you can be at home you only need one road game you win the series the thing about the boss itself is they have not lost back-to-back playoff games at all this one not one time but I'm extremely excited about what we got and we're gonna see man we're gonna see I just at the end of the day as a neutral fan who's not rooted for anybody I want a long series and I want a close one do not give me if it's gonna be a long series don't give me that 20 point win here then the other team went by 20 20 win here and then the other team went by 20 I don't need that I would I would rather take a four game series that was close every single game than a seven game that it was like blow out after blow out Boston versus Brooklyn was one of my favorite series in this entire playoffs and that shit ended in four because every single game we got a game win a layup from Jason Tatum we got some games ended where it's like two possession game with 30 seconds to go I will take that over a seven game series where it's a blow out every single time like the Suns versus Mavericks one that was a cool series too but I'm taking the four that was really close over the seven that was blow out after blow out after blow out you know so that's my finest preview man I there's a ton of things that can be said more but I'm ended up that man let me know what you think in the comment section be looking out for these go buy one it's extremely limited I think it's like 500 total and the last time we did merch we sold like 5000 so you know they're gonna fly off like some some damn Jordan's in the sneaker app okay maybe not that fast but they're gonna fly out so I appreciate all the support I just remind y'all to enjoy basketball man we out