 What's the word? What's the word? What's the word? Oh my god, did it live up to the hype ladies and gentlemen? This feels like adventures in game, baby. We knew it was gonna be good We didn't expect it to be this good. Oh my god, the Western Conference playing was Amazing a couple housekeeping things leave a like is one subscribe if you knew is to we dropped an episode of called game today Go watch that I would appreciate it It helps the channel it didn't do very well on this episode But hey if you got some free time go watch it leave it a like in these episodes of the recap and now an audio platform So go to Spotify type in called game You can also listen to this as far as and watching it too. I know we want to talk about Warriors Lakers But let's take a few minutes to talk about the first game because it was a good one too It's gonna get buried in history. It's gonna get buried in history because the Western Conference and the Warriors and Lakers one was So so good, but let me spend a couple minutes talking about this first game before we get to the the big one All right Spurs come out super super dry. Memphis juices come out with a with a bang Jammer and hit a three in the first quarter. I'm like a job or innocent threes It's over with because every team that guards Jammer and when it matters they're gonna be like hey You shoot I'm your Tony Allen Still in Memphis because we don't trust your jump shot He hit one he hit two throughout the game and that was amazing Dylan Brooks Good performance Dylan Brooks is one of these guys that you know, he's gonna bring it on the defensive side of the ball There's all the statistics. I mean the people that are commentating the game We're showing you like Dylan Brooks when he is guarding the martyr rose the martyr rose in this this from the field This from the field Dylan Brooks is a clapper on the defensive side of the ball But you don't really know what you're gonna get from offensively He can be one for 10 or in today's case He could put up 24 points and they needed all of that even though it wasn't like crazy 24 He fouls the heck out of everybody, but he played great defense and that was what mattered The main guy in this game the MVP were giving an award to Jonas Valinichunas a 2020 game This was a battle of the underrated centers between a Yacopoto and Valinichunas I think a lot of people realize how good Valinichunas is I think not as many people realize how good of a defender Yacopoto is because he plays for the Spurs And nobody watches the Spurs really Both of them came to play you get the win for the Memphis Grizzlies. I'm not if I'm the Spurs Spurs fans I'm not tripping too much about this man. You just didn't hit shots, you know Long-term, I think the core that you have that you are building probably is better with a lottery pick I saw my boy Pierre even tweet. Is this the last game we see of DeMar de Rosen in a Spurs uniform? That's something that we got to look out for this off-season, but when you look at your core of Dejante, Lani, Keldon, Yacop, Devon Vasell off the bench, you're in a good spot, bro So I wouldn't even trip too much. Honestly You win this game. You're probably losing in the next one anyway because less Transition Memphis fans, you know, I ride with you, bro But we got to talk about the main the main course and that was the Lakers versus Warriors. It was everything Yeah, yeah, this was this was better than the snap. It really was better than the snap Let's talk about a man that started off the Golden State Warriors came to play I want to commend them as you know the Golden State Warriors lost this game lose by three because LeBron gave gave One of the most ridiculous shots and play in history Yes, yeah, yeah and play in history. He said he was seeing three Rams and he shot it at the middle one So the Warriors do lose this but the Warriors have no business being in this game when it comes to just just tallying up talent Warriors fans should be super excited that they competed I would take them in this second-playing game against them if it's grizzlies because they just beat them if it's grizzlies like three To four days ago. I trust them more against them if it's grizzlies But as far as them going against the Lakers who are I would say I'm gonna give them the 100% healthy tap Even though we know LeBron and Anthony Davis may not be 100% But they're playing, you know, I'm saying the the biggest availability biggest Ability as availability is the way the sand goes and they're playing the Warriors don't match up when it comes to talent with the Lakers But they had this game And it was good. It was good You got to show the love to Stephen Curry because this man is a master on the offensive side of the ball Everybody knows this but the gravity that this man has when he is running around the court is ridiculous There were so many plays and I'm gonna give ESPN a W because they did a great job of reshowing a lot of the replays from this game And it's not just like oh the Steph Curry double contested three-pointer replays But it's like him just running around the court basically showcasing One of the reasons why Steph Curry is as dominant or is as good as he is is because this man will not stop Moving at all you think he's gonna come up to shoot a three-note be slipping back door for easy Layup the man had four or five like reverse layups. It was great Andrew Wiggins was amazing. It is so funny that Draymond Green last season after they traded for Andrew Wiggins He was like Andrew Wiggins got the ability got got all the tools to be a great defender in his league And we were all like we just saw him for five straight years We know he ain't got the defensive side of him. Well, he does and he showcased that a lot today Garda LeBron. He did an amazing job. All things considered. It's LeBron. You're not gonna stop LeBron All this considered he did an amazing job and then there was like this two-minute period I think it was late in the third quarter early in the fourth quarter Well, Wiggins was selling on the offensive side of the ball turn over he tried to take its jump shot he thought he was fouled it hit the corner of the rim and Then cuz me and the boys, you know, we always watching these games together and Mike is a Lakers fan He's like, yeah, Wiggins keeps shooting those and then two minutes later He was like Wiggins, please stop shooting because Wiggins started on offensively jump shot And I don't know if it was counted as an one but got strong on somebody. I think it was I think it was KCP Got strong on the finish Wiggins is turning into one of those players that yeah He'd probably be best if the third the fourth best option, but you live with that You will really live with that especially if he's given a defensive effort Draymond Green You watch my podcast, you know that when we did our all Award show a couple days ago, I guess Draymond Green was highly highly considered to be in top three Am I defensive player of the year? I didn't end up giving it to him I think I put him on the all defensive first team and I remember seeing people in the comment section like Kenny Draymond ain't that great of a defender like he was five four years ago And I was like you expose yourself my guy this man Draymond is an amazing defender still You know how like I always want to I always say that Rudy Gobert is the defensive system for the Utah Jazz Draymond Green is up at that caliber as well Now it is a little bit different because we go bears a seven foot player and him contesting at the rim is a lot easier than Draymond, but Draymond as a defender is damn near the system for the Golden State Warriors He is every literally everywhere and then people are slighting him because he can't score man It finished with two points and those two free though. He cannot score Yeah, at all, you know, he had that one year. He averaged. I think it was two years in a row He has like double digit points. He's not like pretty solid from three pointer one year The one a year is an all-star. That's dead that that's right mind green the offense of shooting the ball Draymond is dead, but as far as like a floor floor general is still there and defensively He was amazing on and he he got Anthony Davis completely out of this game in the first half And then a lot of the third quarter then then Anthony Davis showcased that hey I'm a superstar. So even if you're playing amazing defense on me I'm still a superstar and I can make some shots too But Draymond was ridiculous Kim Baysmore hit a couple of the biggest shots in the game and said like they don't Have the talent that they should even been in this game in the first place Jordan pool big shots as well. That's all the love. I'm giving to the war to the Warriors Let's go to the actual winners here Let me give you my winners Contavious car will Pope when the team first started and they were they were looking dreadful The Warriors are running the gun and they're doing this the guy that kept them afloat was contavious car will Pope The guy that kept them afloat and this is weird to see that this man shot one for four Wesley Matthews down the strikes was amazing and maybe I'm just thinking about his defensive highlights He was amazing He got an offensive rebound here this and that and they decided to close out with him instead of dinner shooter because dinner shooter was Terrible he was him and Cal Kuzma was killing the Lakers all game long and then Frank Volga was like, you know what Kuz? We're not gonna play you in this moments We're not gonna play you in his moments Shooter we're not gonna play you in these moments and then Andre drumming didn't play none of the fourth quarter, which was the best thing Frank Volga could have done I don't know it felt like this man Andre drumming got so many touches he only ended with three shot attempts But I promise he ended with like eight nine touches and you like bro, please get the ball out of his hands We got Anthony Davis and and and Andre drumming on the court together and we're feeding Andre drumming. Are you kidding me? But then Frank Volga was like no we good We're gonna run small Anthony Davis don't like plant center But he's going against the warrior so you can run center because they're a small team as well and then LeBron man LeBron first half I don't know why LeBron does this things what he liked to and I guess he does this in the playoffs as well But he does it in the first game of a seven game series He's like I'm gonna fill out what this team is running first game We might lose team but second game I'm gonna realize what this scheme is and I'm gonna destroy it that feels like what he did in this game But it was like first half it was first quarter type stuff and then he came out in the third. Oh my god Dots after the man was Patrick Mahomes bro dots after dot after dot first He gets put back in the game early third quarter. He looks at Cal Coolsma. I this they read you can read this man lips He says cut There's nine other players on the court right now that can hear you bro You told Cal Coolsma to cut he cut and you still got that pass in it's the fender can hear you You still still got the pass in he was throwing dot after dot Alice Caruso cut boom easy Matthews cut easy right oh Westie Matthews don't go up with it one more. I just The greatest bro legitimately the greatest and not to mention the biggest shot of the game a such a broken play This man Steph Curry Steph Curry in an eliminate elimination game a game that matters the most and this is why we wanted to play And this is why the NBA fans thought the play-in was a beautiful beautiful idea Because it had two of the greatest players in the NBA battling it out when it mattered the most You know And it came down to the wire it came down to a literal last shot y'all last shot I'm in and people were complaining about the refing. Let's talk. Let's talk about the refing I'm not typically a guy that's gonna talk complain about the rest because I know this is a human-made job But but some some things are inexcusable Let's talk about the Jermaine Green foul on LeBron James if you don't know what happened LeBron James on the break Jermaine Green tries can test hits them all in his junk bump bump bump poking the eye LeBron on the court Basically crying, but it's that cry that like something is in your eye cry You know, it's not like he was boo-hoo crying But like you could tell he got poked in that left eye, right? He got poked in the eye And then it had to review it in my mind I was 100% certain this was about to be a flagrant because it was contact to the head and typically Once you have contact with the head on whatever it is a flagrant one at the minimum and if it's excessive as a flagrant two Now if you don't know the scenario Jermaine Green has already have a technical foul from from technical from from yapping at the mouth So he gets called for a flagrant. He has thrown out of this game and it's like two minutes left in it And I believe that the refs didn't call it a flagrant for the viewers And I made a tweet and maybe this is the wrong tweet I said that was a good call from the referees They say it was the right call But for the viewer experience to get them utmost Potential out of this game. I think Dreymond Green had to be there now You can have a conversation with me about should that matter in a win or go home game And you're probably right that it shouldn't matter if this should be a flagrant you should call it as a flagrant But I'm happy that they didn't am I wrong here probably 100 actually not probably I am wrong here That should have been a flagrant, but I am I'm super happy that they didn't call it a flagrant And guess what at the end of the day it didn't matter the Lakers still won this game And this man has another story to add so his resume I was seeing three rims out there because I got poked in the eye and I still hit the shot you know I'm saying and Again, you kind of want the refs to be consistent Because if I think of any other portion of it if this foul happened in the first quarter and Dreymond doesn't have a technical foul yet I think they call it a flagrant Honestly, do they do think they call it a flagrant, but they get a call from Steve Javi like bro We got the most of you as we ever had in a in a game I can't wait to see the radius for this you can't throw a dream on bro He's a big part of what the Warriors are doing here if you throw a dream on well, they have no shot So you know what let's just get LeBron these free throws and guess what they did on the next possession They call the moving screen on Dreymond to give the ball back so so LeBron got two free throws and then possession You know what I'm saying is that better they get dragged my kicked out of the game I don't know you tell me but what a game Now I know Suns fans Actually, I would guess that Suns fans wanted to see the Warriors win this one because again It's halloweyes the Warriors aren't anything compared to the Lakers But the Suns it's so unfortunate get Chris Paul is my my guy man They're going against the Lakers in the first round That's that's that's about as tough as it gets you grind your butt off You grind your butt off to end up a top seed and no There's no such thing as a buy in the Western Conference at all But you play to be get one of the top seats to get a lesser opponent in the first round But instead you're about to get LeBron James with an extra what three four days arrest That's a little bit rough. Who would I pick to win that series? I do not know my guy. I Do not know like it's it's it's a coin flip. It is a coin flip But that's why the Western Conference is as good as it is I'm trying to think of other moments in this game though worth talking about just know just know that everybody that watches game enjoyed themselves Even if you're a Warriors fan and you lost you had to admit This was an absolute banger and when you think about the stakes involved in it It might end up being the game of the year so far because yes game 10 of the season where this player did this and ended in The overtime game winner is fun. Don't nothing beat a win or go home Type game that came down to the last shot Wow So next we have Memphis versus the Warriors like I said, I probably picked the Warriors here because Steph Curry Already did that thing to him a couple days ago But anything can happen man. The Memphis Grizzly showed us today that they are capable of it John Morant said before this game We got to work on our closing and though they almost fumbled this bag again. They went on like they they gave up like a 18 and no run or something with Val and Tuna's got out of that game. They almost fumbled this bag as well They said they got to be better at closing games I still believe that they could win it But if I'm putting money on a win or go home Versus Steph Curry a superstar versus a team that doesn't have a superstar was like win by committee I'd probably go with Steph Curry And I think that Adam Silver would probably rather have Steph Curry as fun as John Morant is to watch and as fun as The Memphis Grizzlies are to watch as a collective I think he'd rather see the MVP caliber player and the playoffs, you know And I think most fans outside of Memphis would agree But then again, who knows it's gonna be a it's gonna be a 1-8 matchup with the Utah Steph Curry versus the Utah Jazz would be amazing to see We'll be amazing to see How much of an impact Rudy go beard could have in that series? You know Because obviously Rudy go beard is limited offensively But these guys run so small when it matters the most we've seen We've seen Individual series were like when it was down to the wire and the opposing team went small Rudy go beard was kind of out there now. He has got significant I have to keep defending Rudy go beard on this tip He has got significantly better with keeping up with perimeter players and then like three four years ago When they were going against the Rockets, but it's still not amazing enough that I feel confident with him getting on a Steph Curry Swiss Steph Curry's already made that man spent around Multiple times has been two times He's he's hard to guard when you're seven foot one, you know So let me know what you think about this man. I swear. I felt like an Avengers movie, bro I appreciate y'all go watch called game for real for real because behind the scenes things It was a 10 out of 10. Which means that it was the the worst performing video We've uploaded this channel in the last 10 not good for morale if I'm keeping it a buck That we put so much work into the show and y'all didn't mess with the episode I and this isn't me talking about because this is what the show is I believe that called game and and what people Want to see a called game is very dependent on who the guest is, you know what I'm saying So like if I got Derek Rose on the show tomorrow Everybody's want to watch that but since it's daddy is young and maybe not many as people attached to daddy is young Less people are gonna watch it So so I gotta figure out a way to get people engaged in that show even if the talent portion It's not somebody you care about too much I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it. I'm also thinking about turning these rambles Like we're gonna do these post-game rambles keeping it 10 to 20 But also thinking about doing in a whole separate podcast. It's like 45 to an hour Pat McAfee style where I have guests in how would you think about that? Let me know I'm just spitball. I'll see y'all tomorrow when we talk about I think it's only one game tomorrow If that game is trash if it's a blowout, I'm not making an I'm not talking about it I'm just letting you know, I'll tweet about it. Follow me on Twitter. All right. Bye