 What's the word y'all? I cannot believe that Miami Heat did it man. I thought with them being down by 15 plus points in this game that this, the main topic of this video is about to be about the Knicks. If we gonna still talk about the Knicks, but I thought we gonna open up the show talking about the Knicks dominating the Cavaliers. But instead we just saw one of the biggest choke jobs ever. And absolutely I'm gonna be hyperbolic today because I'm on edge. The Warriors just won their first world game of the series. Everything is happening right now. And I'm filming this right after that game ended. So if there's post game interviews, rumors, whatever, whatever, whatever. Just know I ain't seen it. I'm just out here reacting to the games that we saw today. I picked the Milwaukee Bucks to win the championship this year. And I'm not alone. They were the Vegas odds, Vegas favorites to win the 2023 NBA championship. And they just lost in the first round. And five. And five. Now we dropped the video a few days ago talking about how injuries, of course, have played a big part in a lot of these series so far. Giannis went out early in game number one, he's game number two and game number three, came back and it has not mattered. There's so much to talk about in this game alone. But I wanna start off by giving the flowers and the love to Jimmy Butler, to Gabe Vincent, to BAM out of bio for getting this triple W, even though he fouled down the strikes and to Coach Eric Spostra. Because he coached circles around Coach Bud. He made Coach Bud look like a JV in high school coach while he's one of the greatest of all time. You know that list of the top 15 coaches of all time, Spostra's on there for a reason. And you saw that in this series and you saw that specifically in game five. Now we got the Knicks versus the Miami Heat in the second round. This is, and we gonna talk about it, we gonna preview or whatever, that's not what today's about. But I just cannot believe we just saw an AC take out a one for the first time in a very long time. Cause we don't count the year that Derrick Rose tour is ACL. So I just cannot believe everything to happen in this particular game. Another example, where Coach Budenhozer was often, simple as that, I was trying to find another way to put it as simple as that. We talked about that in game four, how the Miami Heat went on a 13-0 run in this game. And he never called a time out or nothing. And of course, the Miami Heat went on to win that game. And this win, I can pinpoint time after time after time where Coach Bud did some ridiculously dumb thing. Exam way, using a challenge in the first quarter. I've never seen a time where a challenge in the first quarter was worth it. Number two, the Miami Heat have a sideline out of bounds. And I can't say the only option is to throw the ball at the rim cause there was a lot of different options, there was time left. But he yanked Brick Lopez out of the game so there was no rep protection on the shot that Jimmy, Jimmy probably had no business making. But there's no rep protection at all on that shot. And then lastly, these are just the three of us on top of mind. I think if we watched that game, I could be like, oh, there's a moment, oh, there's a moment, oh, there's a moment. And lastly, not calling the time out at all in overtime where his team didn't know what to do at all. Giannis is scared to get fouled, that's something we gotta talk about. He's scared to get fouled, he gives it up. And I think it was to Chris Middleton. Chris Middleton gives it up to Grayson Allen. Your season is on the line and Grayson Allen has the ball with three seconds to go. If I'm the coach, I'm running to half court if I have to, to call this time out because no way, they didn't get a shot up. Because Grayson Allen, it's not in his DNA to try to make this, he Euro stepped with half of a second left on the clock. Like there's no way Coach Bud coats his game like that, bro. Also I'm realizing that my light and it's gonna be weird, I don't care. I'm already here, we already rambling. The offense in this series in general stuck. And the half court, a lot of the times in this fourth quarter and over time, not over time but in the fourth quarter, we got Giannis pull up mid range jump shots. And it's like, yuck, obviously. It's like yuck. And if your coach's supposed to you, anybody on the Miami heat, you like, we love that. We want him to take that shot over and over and over again. This is one of the first times, at least on the top of my mind again, I'm just reacting. Where I felt like Giannis was afraid. I remember in the NBA finals last year he had a game or maybe it was the finals of conference lines. Let me fact check this, where he struggled so mightily from the line and he went up to the podium and he said, I'm still gonna do what I gotta do and get to the free throw line and let the results be the results. So I'm summing it up, but that's something I remember. And for 85% of the game, that was facts. He ended up shooting 23 free throws tonight. 23 free throws. So he 100% wasn't afraid until it got down to those clutch ones. You know, on the jump ball, he almost turned it over because he saw two people coming at him so he wouldn't have to get fouled. And luckily Chris Middleton saved the ball and ended up getting the Drew Holiday Sands and Drew Holiday missed the free throw. And then the last one is the last play of the game. Jimmy Butler kinda cut off the sideline but it wasn't enough that would naturally prevent Giannis from doing what he could do. But since he cut it off with some contact, this is just me speculating, I don't know. But it felt like Giannis thought that maybe a whistle was gonna come and he would much rather give the ball to Chris Middleton to do something instead of getting fouled to go to the free throw line. Now in this one, he shot 23 free throws and he missed 13 of them. He shot 43% from the line. He makes half more of those. A couple more of those, they win this game undoubtedly. And again, he's never been a good free throw shooter. I mean, we had the games in the finals where he dropped the 50 piece and he was parked from the line where he turns to Steph Curry or Steve Kerr or Jose Calderon from the free throw line. But that's not him. But even this is not him. Missing 13 free throws to shoot a 43%. That's what 25%, I'm not 25% points less than what he normally does. Like overall, if you were just looking at the stat line, 38, 23. Like that stat line is crazy. Like it felt like he was giving it all on the line. And for the most part he was, but there was these moments where he's afraid to get fouled that kind of, in some cases, swayed this game to the other side. Giannis is the best player in the world. I've set that for a few years now. But I am 100% certain that after this game or being one of the few people to be a one seed and lose to eight seed, people are taking, they're gonna take that title away. And I'm not gonna say they're wrong. And again, I would still say he's the best in the world. But if somebody said no, he's not the best in the world anymore based on this, I can't say they're wrong. Now again, he's dealing with the buttocks injury, the lower back injury and all of that. And that probably, not probably, that obviously played a major part in the series in general. I can't say specifically this game. But the series in general, again, he missed two total games in the series. And then I might as well put it at three because he got injured so early in game number one. And again, I don't know what the severity is, but maybe, you know what, I'm not even gonna say that because I can't live in a world of speculation. I got too many people watching these videos. But this is a historic collapse even with Giannis missing the two games. Because, I mean, they showed us all season long in the games that Giannis hasn't played and whether it be this year or last year, whatever, this is the same core that they can pretty much get it done. I'm not saying that I would pick them to win a championship if Giannis is not there, but in a series like this where it is the Miami, let's be real, the Miami, he played a great series, but the Miami, he'd are very far away from a great team. They just are. I mean, I know he fans are riding high and they should because they just pulled off something legendary. But until the playing or the win against the Bulls, the playing 98% of the he fans were done for the season. Like they watched them in 82 games and came to the realization, oh, this is a lost year. You just lost to that team in a seven game series and it didn't even come close to being a seven. It was a straight up five. I don't see how Codesbug keeps his job. I had already heard some people kind of calling for him because even basically saying that he had been carried by the postseason run that ended up in a championship. And again, being a championship coach is something that only a few people in the world can say. So it's not like, I can't say he's the worst coach of all time because he was the coach on the team that won a championship. And yes, Giannis dropped 50 and was again turned to Steve Kerr at the Frito line. I mean, Bud still coached that series and coached that team. So he's very far from being awful, but in this series, he looked close to it. Nick's versus Heat. Not me honest with you, Spoe. Tom Debedo just coached one hell of a series in itself. He just coached one hell of a series in itself. So you're not about to go against a Codesbug level coach. You're going to get another one of the best in the league right now. So I'm very curious to what that's going to look like because it's going to be a chess match. But again, we're going to get to preview on that once we get closer to it. I do want to talk about this series that I would say that of course now other than the Bucks, the most disappointed team in the playoffs for me has been the Cavaliers. This is a series where I picked the Cavaliers to win in seven. I knew that the Knicks are really, really good, but I ultimately won with the Cavaliers to win a series before it started because I thought the Donovan Mitchell and his star factor would be a little bit too much. And I overestimated that and I underestimated the depth and the coaching of the New York Knicks because my pick to be in seven, another situation where it wasn't, it wasn't even close to being seven. There was no moment in this game five where I felt like, okay, the Cavs, here they go. I think there was one moment actually where a third quarter DG hit a three to cut it into whatever. And I was like, okay, maybe everyone's about to come. It did not happen. It did not happen at all. The Knicks have had this season or this series very, very easily. And we got two bad games to RJ Barrett. The last time we talked about the series, we were talking about how RJ hadn't showed up and since then he's been playing phenomenal basketball. I did not expect for Mitchell Robinson to be the best big man in the series, simple as that. Remember, Jared Allen was an all star last season and Evan Mobley just finished third in DPOY this year. So like, I was pretty confident that at least one of those dudes would be able to outplay Mitchell Robinson. Absolutely not. Mitchell Robinson was everywhere, all series long, whether we could protect in the paint or getting extra opportunities. Tonight specifically hit 11 offensive rebounds, 11 of them things. And Ham single-handedly made a front court of two seven-footers look small, look tiny. And I also didn't account for basically Jalen Brunson being the best player in the series, simple as that. Like tonight, again, he didn't shoot the ball crazily, 36% from the field, two for six from three. So it wasn't a great shooting night for him, but he outplayed Darius Garland. He outplayed Donovan Mitchell in this entire series. And this is so crazy because Julius Randall didn't have a good series. There's no reason the Cavs shouldn't have at least made this a six-game series, a seven-game series or something. Julius Randall got injured in this one. And in one of the games, he didn't even play in a fourth quarter because the other people on the roster was just playing better. And that's a testament to Tom Thibodeau being a good coach. And there's a testament to the depth because again, there was no quitting grimes for the last couple of games. Didn't matter. Q Grimes has been started for a great majority of the season. They lost them. Didn't matter. Josh Arcelin to that starting line today. Before that, we saw Miles McBride minutes the game before. Do you know how demoralizing or backbreaking it is for your team to get out rebounded on the offensive glass by 13? 13? I love what Josh Hart said to Mitchell Robson. He told Mitchell Robson, you get rebounds. I get rebounds that like break hearts. I don't know the exact quote, whatever. And it's true. When you gotta do like Josh Hart, let me see who they list Josh Hart as. A six-fold wing crashing in, getting offensive boards. That is demoralizing. And now we have Mitchell Robson getting 11 specifically tonight. It's like, boy, what are we supposed to do? I'm realizing that my lighting has been all over the place this video. Hey, you got to accept it, man. It's one o'clock in the morning. We gotta film. The only bad thing for the New York Knicks as they came out today is that the fact that the Miami Heat won their game, which means they won their series, which means that this series has started way earlier than some of the others. It was like, with Trey Young hitting that shot, Joel Abbe gets an extra couple of days of rest and you would have won at a couple extra days of rest for Julius Randall's ankle. We don't know much about that other than he didn't play the second half. And again, Julius Randall is a all NBA, he might make all NBA this season. Didn't need him this series. Is that crazy? They didn't need him this series. That's unreal. But again, we about to see some coaches and juggernauts potentially go at it. And that's gonna be fun. They say a series does not start into the role team wins a game and the Warriors did that. The Warriors did that. Who expected a 20 piece from Trey Ma Green? Because if you got your hand up, I'm saying you lying. Trey Ma Green coming off the bench might be the recipe for a run. Honestly, it's so crazy to say it out loud, but he was super critical today. And you know what, I'm allowed Trey Ma to talk his stuff. You know what I'm saying? Sometimes Trey Ma be having those games where he overfolded and then he finally hit one and now he talking and talking. I'm like, bro, you just missed the four previous ones. Be quiet. But nope, today you can talk all the trash he wants because they just took the series. It's not over obviously, Kings fans, but like now you just need to win one and we're going back to Chase, a place that we don't lose that often, you know? We finally got a resemblance of a solid DeMonte Savonis game, but it didn't matter because Kavanluni having another 20, I didn't realize he got to 20 rebounds. I mean, let's be honest with you. Once this Heat Bucks game went to OT, the Warriors game kind of went on a backburner because this was more important, but I didn't realize he got up to 22 rebounds. I think the super unfortunate part for the Kings perspective is that some of their worst shooting nights of the entire season have happened in this series. I think, I mean, I haven't looked at, they shot 29% tonight. They had one of the games that they ended up winning. I think that was game two to end up winning was the worst shooting night of their season. And then game four was like the second worst shooting night. And I think this one might be in the top five or bottom five as well. So young team missing a bunch of shots. It's kind of unfortunate. I think that De'Aaron Fox was dealing with his injury and we didn't even get like a crazy Steph Curry game. We got the last possession where he just running around the court until he eventually got a layup. That's when I started to film this video because I let that swaps. But yeah, the Warriors took that game and now they're one game away. The Lakers lost their game. So we going back to the Staples Center to see that one. I'm just excited at how great basketball has been in the first round of the playoffs. I'm a little bit afraid that like because this is so good that the second round might be mid, but I'm not gonna woo it because I need it to be great. So shout out to Jimmy Butler and Miami Heat, just ridiculous history being made. And I'll see y'all tomorrow.