 What's the word y'all? I hope y'all realize how blessed we are as basketball enjoyers, man. The second night in the world of the playoffs, where we had a three game slate and all three of the games were a banger, man. That don't happen often, bro. It feels like there's always that one games you turn off in the third quarter because you feel very confident that the other team ain't coming back. Today you didn't have that confidence. We had three bangers. And before I dive deep into these things, let me give you the clip notes version of them, all right? The Minnesota Tim Wills had two separate 20 point leads in the game and they proceeded to lose both leads and lose the game where it was called the target center was rocking the first playoff game in Minnesota the next amount of time, the fans wanted it and the players seemed like they didn't, especially in that fourth quarter. And that brought out a lot of toxicity. We're gonna dive deeper into that a little bit later. Game number two, Jalen Brunson in the Dallas Mavericks played Rudy Garbera off the floor. Basically the first time Rudy Garbera has legitimately been played off the floor. You know what I'm saying? There's been times where he might not have looked great but this is the first time Quinn Snyder was like, oh, damn, I actually got to do it. And Jalen Brunson was looking at all 30 teams and saying, hey, I'm worth every single pin you think I'm worth plus an extra 10 am. Shout out to Jalen Brunson, get your bad king. And then lastly, the Warriors go up 3-0 in a game where Yoke has tried to do everything he can 37, 18, and five, some steals, some blocks. He just, they didn't have enough because Steph Curry off the bench is still the greatest six man of all time. Jordan Poole, this is not a hot streak. Jordan Poole is just legit. Jermon Green, defense was great. And Clay Thompson hit like nine threes that felt like banger after banger after banger. 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Subscribers are getting a notification first and it's very, very, and I mean very, very limited. So hit the link in the description, man. Enjoy basketball newsletter. Let's quickly talk, not quickly, let's talk about this game where the Minnesota Tim Wolves just couldn't do their thing. First of all, it started off amazingly, right? Patrick Beverly started off with, I think the first nine points in the entire game. My hair is bugging. The first nine points of the entire game, he's getting MVP chance and they going crazy. Anthony Eris is hitting the shots, D'Angelo Russell is more aggressive this game than the last game and it was one thing they really needed from him and then the second quarter comes around and they look terrible. We're like, oh, all the shot making that they did in the first half, all the great defense that they had in the first quarter is gone but no big deal, right? Cause in the third quarter, they built that lead right back up and we're talking about a 20-something point lead in the fourth quarter and they proceeded to score nine points. I know they finished with 12 because Anthony Eris hit a late three. They had nine points for the first 11 and a half minutes of the fourth quarter and the defense was atrocious and the person that's getting the finger pointed at them the most as you can imagine is Carl Anthony Towns. He played about 33 minutes on the court. He had eight points. He had five personal fouls, four turnovers and five rebounds. He matched his fouls with his rebounds as the center but I'm giving a little pass because V8 began a lot of boards. He has played four post-season games this year. Two of them, he did not crack 10 points. Unacceptable for the franchise player, unacceptable for a potential all NBA center that is known for his offensive side of the ball. People have said that he's one of the most skilled big men of all time and two, two times this year he's proceeded to give his team nothing, nothing. And I talked about this in the last game they played in Memphis where Carl Anthony Towns has his way to commit fouls in the worst ways possible. It's not like I'm at the rim heavily contested shots and dang, I hit that man on the arm. All right, my fault. It's like sticking his leg out on jump shots, setting super bad screens or the foul that brought him out of the fourth quarter was bad. I want to say for some context where you're like three and a half minutes and into the fourth quarter and they don't have a field goal. The Minnesota Timbers have not put up a field goal and the Memphis Grizzlies are rolling. And at this point, Carl Anthony Towns has only attempted three shots on the game. Think about that. He's attempted three shots in 30 minutes of play up to this point. I understand what's going on right now. He is our offense usually. Let's get him the ball, right? So let's see what happens on this possession. He sees Brandon Clark. He's like, you know what? Get through Malik. I got Brandon. I'm gonna try to take him one-on-one. He hooks Brandon. That's an offensive foul. And Cat has never committed a foul in his entire life. Never any accountability. 99.9% of refs are calling this an offensive foul because it is. You can't lock an arm like that and push it to the side. And now, Coach Finch had to bring you out the game because we can't risk you getting that last foul because wait, in the play-in, we didn't pull you out the game and you did get that six foul. So now your team is playing at a disadvantage again and they blew this game and they lose this game. It was bad. And it got the own fan base booing them. And you know what? I don't blame them. If I was at this game as a Minnesota Timbers fan, I am very pro, boo your own team if they're playing like ass. Very, very pro at that. You know what I'm saying? Very, very pro. You got to let them know, listen, we love you, but you ain't doing what we needed you to do today and they didn't, right? So with a game blown like that, an embarrassing blowout or a embarrassing blown lead, I decided that I want to go to the subreddit of the Minnesota Timbers and just see what the fans are saying. This is not the first time we're done. It's actually the first time we're done in the post-season, but we did it earlier in the season when the Boston Celtics blew that huge lead to the Chicago Bulls. And we went into their subreddit with a hazmat suit on and we just read all of the wild takes and all of the people that are tweeting or writing with emotion. And I don't blame them, right? If your teams gave up this big old lead, especially in the playoffs, this is a little bit different than the Boston Celtics one because guess what? The Boston Celtics is turning the season around. So I would love to go back and re go through that video and see some of the wild things that were said and see how they hold up now that the Boston Celtics are like really, really good. But I don't blame whatever we're gonna read in the Timbill subreddit because well, this is a one game. I guess the number two seed in the league or in the conference. And you won home court events by stealing game one at their court and you just gave it back up on a game where you had this thing secured. You just couldn't be terrible for 12 minutes and they were terrible for 11 and a half and that blew it. So I'm just gonna browse the subreddit, read some of the things and see if they overreacted or not. So three hours ago, this Redditor said, undoubtedly the most embarrassing game of the season. What a horrible showing by just about everybody tonight. Cat being a baby and giving teenage temper energy or teenage tantrum energy, fence being unable to coach, two 20 point leads blown, all from the home crowd who just wanna see and help the team win. This is by far the worst. Yeah, okay. The top comment says season. I've watched since, Hey, this is what I'm here for. I've watched since 89, 90. This is a top five loss of all time easily on a national stage. Worst loss of all time, in my opinion. And I've been here too. Cheer for guys like Michael Williams, Sam Mitchell and Doug West, where we were nothing set through seven straight first round exits. Watch KG go win elsewhere. Try to get myself hyped up for draft picks like Johnny Flynn all out. Now he's diving deep into the bodies of the Minnesota Timbers fans by bringing up the name Johnny Fitzgerald drafted over Steph Curry. Watch Jimmy, the Jimmy Bully dumped the fire and now this, this is as bad as it gets. Time to overreact. Cat does not deserve a super max extension. Once again in a big game, Karthi Tells was terrible offensively, taking only four shots from the field. Teams are showing that they can take him out of games by putting smaller guys on him. Also he fouls at the highest rate in the league and is a very poor decision maker. This on top of his inability to recognize that a lot of the mistakes are fouls and not the ref's fault makes him very difficult to watch a lot of the times. Did not just say that, that he's never committed a foul in his life because he's gonna argue everything. I am sure this will age poorly, but after watching this epic collapse, this is my take. And I'm glad he kind of have the self-awareness to know that he is overreacting and that this might not age well. I'm gonna say again, I'm a big fan of Karthini Towns and I mean no ill will to him as we going through this. We're just doing this for entertainment. Okay, cool. Can't wait for Cat to have a decent first quarter to get called for a weak foul and get pitched about it. Then truck someone drawn to foul the next possession that ends up shutting down the rest of the game. Yeah, like I said, that's what he does. He deserves the goddamn mid-level set. The mid-level with these stinky stinkers recently. The mid-level is wild. Bro, the Alice Caruso side for the mid-level, which was like a dub, by the way, sent out to the Chicago Bulls. But the mid-level, we've played four playing slash playoff games so far. I'm pretty sure he's crossed 20 point mark once. 11, 29, 15. I didn't even realize that game three is a 15 because they won, so who cares if he had 15? And eight, generally embarrassing. Wow, how about 19 fouls in the last four games? This guy fouled more times than nine than he took shots, just unbelievable. And this guy, he has a Karthini Towns flair. He keep it in the buck. Oh man, not a missing poster for your franchise player. Oh man, not a missing poster for the franchise player. Can anyone explain why Finch didn't call timeout? A 15-0 and an 18-0 run, not a single timeout. I generally don't understand it and accept Finch to get roasted in post-game interviews. Oh my God, we gotta go to the post-game thread. That's where all the toxicity is gonna go. And you know what? We're gonna go by controversial. Oh, let's get it, let's get it. Fire Finch on the spot. Not calling the timeout during the 21-0 run is the worst thing I've ever seen as a Timberwool coach do. And I wanna remind you that the Timberwools once upon a time employed Tom Thibodeau, who's playing people 45 minutes a game. Seattle, take them please. Bro, try to relocate the whole organization. Oh no. Grizzly Fan here. This might be the last one we get to because I know we got two other games that we wanna talk about, but this is too good to not just dive into. I recommend you doing this after every loss because it's fun. I just don't do it every video because toxicity is like, I could get just a small amount of toxicity then I gotta be wholesome for the rest of the week. Grizzly Fan here. Do y'all hate Kat? He's undoubtedly very good at basketball most of the time. He just whines about everything and looks so damn goofy when he does. We've waited seven years for him to get that attitude, that it factor, that dog in him, but he just doesn't have it. He's cool being comfortable and chilling with his streamer buddies. Wow. Now we talk about his Twitch career. He's been a no show in both playoff series in his career. He's the reason Jimmy Butler flew off the handle and wanted to get out of here. He saw who Kat really was. Damn, bro. Series is not over. All things considered. So we gotta see how they retaliate. Carthy Towns needs a good 40 piece or something to get the fans back on his side. Let's go to the next game. We not spending nearly as many times on these games, but the Dallas Mavericks finally got Quinn Snyder to make an adjustment and the adjustment was let Rudy Gobert sit on the bench. And you know what? When he was on the bench, no, they couldn't get stops, which is their silicon senses, whether Rudy was on the floor or not, they couldn't get stops, but the offense was better with their small ball five. And if there's any silver lining, that's it. You still lost a game to a team that didn't have Luka Donchich. Donovan Mitchell went to his post game interview, y'all. And he was like, it all starts on defense. They were roasting his ass the entire game. They were actively trying to get Donovan Mitchell on the ball handler the entire game. Bro went to the post game interview and said, hey, it starts on defense. Like he was the guy out there clamping. Like he was the dude that was giving us all on the defensive side of the ball. Cause honestly, it wasn't anybody today. They gave 126 points to a team that didn't have Luka. The small ball five. Shout out to Eric Pasco, the homie. Eric K. Manning gave them a good little joke when they went on his run, but other than that, man, this man Jalen Bronson hit so many tough shots bro in the lane. And Maxi Cleaver came off the bench and he's just still shooting lights out. And then Maxi Cleaver went to the bench and they brought in Donovan's Bertins, who the world forgot it once upon a time was one of the most lethal shooters in the entire league. He came in like, oh yeah. You thought he was getting the breather with Maxi on the bench. Absolutely not. Doreffin Smith hit a big old shot down the stretch. And though especially then when he didn't have a great shooting night, he had the one shot, shot clock winding down, two seconds left, step back, like 30 footer, bang. And that was a big momentum shifter because that was when Utah was trying to have a little fight back. Yeah, I think we can all agree that it's time for the jazz team to just call it raps with this current construction of the team. So that's all I gotta say about it. Luke is probably coming back soon. But they don't even necessarily need him to at this rate. Get healthy for the next round, dog. Get healthy for the next round because they don't seem like your boys need you at the moment. They'll probably need you around too, whether it is with the Pals who, you know what I'm saying? Took a game, they took a game. And they got a chance to go up to one of them or the Suns if they could continue to do that thing. The last game. I don't have a ton of say about this game. It is a 3-0 lead for the Warriors. In my little breakdown, my spark notes version, that's pretty much it, bro. Clay Thompson ended up hitting his six threes. He had 26. Jordan Poo had 27. Steph Curry had 27. And Gary Payton hit three threes. What are you supposed to do? Jokic and the guys, they try, bro. They legitimately tried. And Henry Gordon had his best game in the playoffs so far because he had been terrible up until this point. Jokic ended up with 37, 18, five and three steals. He tried his best, but they just don't have enough firepower to match what the Warriors got. Jermaine Green played amazing defense down the stretch in the close game, getting that pick pocket and Nicole Jokic in a couple more stops. They gotta make their free throws though. They shot 64% from the free throw. Well, a team with Steph Curry and Jordan Poole on it shot 64%. Steph Curry missed two, Jordan Poole missed three. That's crazy to me. That's crazy to me. Those boys don't. And Iggy got up for a posterizer. That's all, bro. That's all I gotta say. You know what I'm saying? Down 0-3, the season, the series is over for the Nuggets. So hopefully we get one more masterclass of great performance at the bare minimum for Jokic before we call it wraps and expect them to be contenders next year when Jamal and Michael come back. I kinda wanna go back to the subreddit, lowkey. I will go back in the subreddit, but I think that wraps for me on this video. Tomorrow, the Bulls have their first playoff game in Chicago in what, five years, six years and I won't be there. It hurts my heart and it truly, truly does. Cause I told myself since I've had this relative success on YouTube, the next time the Bulls make the playoffs, I'm gonna be there. I'm gonna be at the game. But when baby Aves being born, I can't bring myself to go to it. You know, you probably said, can't he get a baby center? Bro, she less than a week old. I would feel weird leaving her alone with somebody. Even if it is like her grandma, my mom, I would feel weird with leaving her alone for four or five hours and when she ain't even a week old into this world. You know what I'm saying? I gotta protect my baby. So I'll be, I'll be rooting for the boys, man. Best believe I'll be rooting for the boys. And once we hit the NBA finals, she'll be a couple months old and then we just put the headphones on her and take it to the game. So the Bulls has got to stay alive so we can get to the finals so Avery can go to a basketball game.