 Welcome back to the Ramble for a lot of y'all. This is not the new yeah I'm saying you've been around you was here for episodes one through six and this is number seven for some of y'all This is brand new and if that's the case I'm slightly and I'm saying slightly disappointed because I mean you don't follow all the channels This is a series that had lasted on my Kenny channel that I'm moving over to Kenny for real for reasons that we'll talk about in a Couple seconds, but I feel you into what this series is really about is something that I started Source to beginning of the NBA bubble where after the games are done or there's big news or something I come down to the basement I turn on that camera turn on this microphone And it is a unscripted unfiltered opinion based show why I just kind of ramble is literally me rambling about stuff and It can start at something like LeBron James and somehow we'll be talking about Delaware. I don't know how it's a ramble I'm just talking. I'm just talking and we go here and people enjoy it for some reason and since they enjoy it I enjoy making it so yeah We're here with another episode is September 2nd as this episode is going up for people that is asking Why is it on this channel not the other channel without sound is so too suspicious or sounded like I did something wrong The Kenny channel was under investigation right now. I promise you I didn't do anything wrong It's more on the YouTube side of things and hopefully they get it figured out relatively soon But I can't I can't rely on YouTube it could take a week months before they figure out What the heck is going on over there so in that that time here I didn't want to just sit here and not upload a ramble So now it exists on Kenny for real because there's nothing going on on Kenny for real And you know what the more I think about it with the ramble series makes sense if the name of the series was Kenny for real Because it is Kenny for real right you know I'm saying I'm this is me with no script No, no, nothing. It's just me being myself and talk about hoops Hmm something we'll think about this show also exists To try to get another show that I can host on House of Highlights or wherever else I already have one show and I love it But I want a more talk show oriented show and this has been my application for the first six episodes So far I have not got the attention of my general manager, but Doug if you're watching episode seven take notes Baby, I'm about to go in and we've got to have a lot of fun So we had two games today game two of Milwaukee versus the Miami Heat and the game seven of okc versus Houston That game just wrapped up maybe five minutes ago. My heart is still beating out of my chest And again, I'm not associated with any of these two teams But it felt like I was and that's exactly what you want from a game seven But I'm gonna go in chronological order to talk about the first game of the day Even though it feels like it happened so long ago that I don't even remember everything to happen in that game the main thing And we're gonna all agree on this if you watch that game is what a terribly ref game Every time a team loses a game I get people in my mental saying ah, it's the Celtics versus the refs It's the Raptors versus the refs is the 76 versus the refs Everybody believes that their team lost the game because of the refs and I usually disagree Usually usually reffing is very consistent and overall okay. You know I'm saying it's very really I'm like, okay This game was perfectly referee because it's it's human. It's humans and human make errors so I'm not I'm not faulting them for that but today's game the first game of the day was a catastrophe when it comes to reffing basketball and I am actually so surprised that ended the way it did if you do not know what happened You've been living under a rock. I feel you in when a couple seconds left in the game The Milwaukee Bucks are down by three They get an imbalance play for Chris Middleton that is four or five feet behind a three point line He goes up to take a three going Jarajah closes out But if you ask me he's going he's literally just raising his hands completely up literally straight up and he gets Called for a foul. Oh my god, Chris Middleton knocks down all three free throws and then I feel as though and Again, this is an open discussion. I'm just the one with the microphone But the comment section is the comment section I feel as though when we get back on the other side of the ball and Jimmy Butler takes that shot I feel like that was a makeup call because they know that the Gorondragett call was a mistake It was a mistake Gorondragett literally played defense exactly where you would teach a closing out on a jump shot He didn't get under him. He didn't he didn't lean over He didn't reach up. It was literally rule of verticality like it was Roy Hibber like this And he got called for a foul Right, you can't you can't Negatively give you can't give consequences to good basketball plays and if you ask me Gorondragett made a good basketball play there Contesting the shot straight up So I believe that the refs gave Jimmy Butler that call because they knew that they screwed up on the other side of the ball But just a just a whole moment made it seem like you missed two very very crucial moments of basketball And you know what made it even worse Steve Javi. Oh my can we get him off of the TV screen? The man has been out of ref for almost a decade and it has not been a single time with it Like let's let's go see what Steve has to say about this call There has not been a single time with Steve Javi has been like no the refs are tripping right there The refs got that messed up. Just the refs are 100% right, huh Steve? I Understand they pay you but bro the reason why they have you on the broadcast to get that that insight that we can't get from the refs on the court because what is the name mark Davis is It's mark something the guy that made all the bad calls today in the first game mark something I'm completely on a blank. We're not gonna get him explaining the call So Steve Javi's job is supposed to be like, okay, this is why he called that and and I disagree with it It has not been a single time and you know what Doorsburg gets a lot gets a lot of hate and a lot of love I'm a I'm gonna love Doorsburg camp by the way. She went in she went in on Steve Javi like I'm gonna tell you I disagree with that one Steve telling the man straight up to his face the guy that had refereed for decades No, you're wrong because he was He was he was his backing his referee brother and and that has been a problem and not just refereeing But a lot of different professions recently were like no matter what you're gonna you're gonna back up the brother And that is in the same or occupation as you and it's not always the case It can't be the case if one of my co-workers is wrong about something I should be able to openly disagree or tell him that he's wrong and both of us get better from it That's like Steve Javi clown clown clown clown I don't want to see him back on my TV screen, but I will so yeah They just to very very bad plays and you know what? Throughout the course of this game There's a lot of fouls caught on jump shooter and for majority of them I agree like it was terrible closing out throughout the entire game But again these two calls at the end of the game when it's four seconds left and when it's zero seconds left Those are two very bad calls, you know, but anyway enough of the referee and let's talk about the stuff that was actually done by the players Coach bud. I guess it's not the players but coach bud. I It is written in stone at this moment and you know what I was giving coach bud the benefit of the doubt For another year, but I can't do it anymore. He's just not a good playoff coach Amazing regular season coach He has always been with the Atlanta Hawks and now with the Milwaukee Bucks regular season coach It was magnificent. You can you can lead a team to the number one senior coach But eventually we got to get deeper than that. We got to get to the playoffs. We got to get to the finals We got to get to the finals you guys are the are the favorite You can't get eliminated around to but right now you are on this trajectory to get eliminated around to and again It's a combination of a lot of things we're gonna focus on codes But here the rotases are still very confusing to me Understand yeah, yeah, like why is Yannis not playing more? He is the MVP of the league He is your star player and though them The Miami Heat have done an amazing job guarding him throughout the course of this series If he is who we say he is if he is who we think he is he has to play more minutes This is playoff basketball coach, but 36 minutes 38 minutes is literally not enough for a guy like him If he has he is as good as he is on the offense side of the ball and as good As he is on the defense side of all the wind defense player the year There's no reason why he shouldn't play 40 minutes a game now understand and this one he was in and out of foul trouble understood But I'm not even just talking about game two at this point. I'm talking about game one I'm even talking about the last series and even though they got out of that in five You still wonder why the heck is Yannis not playing more? Why is he not playing more and there were times in this game and maybe I'm answering my own question here Where the team went on runs without Yannis on the floor? So I guess I am answering my own question That's why he probably wasn't the game as much the teams went on these these small 80 runs You know six two runs, you know just stuff like that to get into the game without him on the floor Man, it's this is this is gonna be a very critical series for Yannis man He started to get to that point where every star player has gone through this or like we transition from oh It's okay kid. You'll get him next year to like, okay Here's let me see some results because what I'm seeing from the second round of the playoffs from him is that though He is a very dominant player if you let him get a full head of steam if you don't allow him to get a full head of Steam he is going to struggle He's going to struggle and he hasn't incorporated things as soon as you know what that is that's cap because to the beginning of the Season he was shooting those may raise jump shots with confidence and now we rarely see him I don't know what happened to him over the course of the season But he was going he went from a player that again It wasn't super reliable But it was he was doing it enough for teams would have to step out on him and that opened things up so much more for the Entire team if he could step in and take that mid-range jumper or he can step in and take a three-point here and there And it's got to the point where he has lost all confidence in that and The one time he did show confidence in his game He stepped into a three to do hit the whole side of the backboard Way off. It's just like man, Yannis, bro I'm again, I root for everybody but a player like him I'm exact. I'm really rooting for because the small market teams deserves things like this But man is he's making it very hard for His case to be the best player in the NBA if that's the case he wants, you know so Miami did this without Jimmy but even having a good offensive game again Jimmy Butler is An impactful player even if he's only scoring 11 or 12 points or whatever it ended up being Even though he did almost sail on that one pass. Oh, he almost sold in that one pass And then he missed a free throw to Denny. Oh, also with Yannis, he's just got to be better the free throw line man he just has to be and Like you can see him he people compare him to Shaq all the time and he's looking like Shaq at the free throw line But I gave a lot of credit to the Miami Heat from to Eric Sposter to everybody that played minutes in this game Had their own little impact Tyler hero, bro Tyler hero is so fun to watch he plays this swagger that that you don't really see from rookies like that And if you do see it from rookies, it's like the drama rant type rookies It's not really like the guy that was drafted after 10 plus getting the you know That type of confidence and maybe that's just the Miami culture and when I watched the Miami heat I'm so jealous. I am so very jealous because it all the culture and everything But Jimmy Butler's on that team and he was once on my team and he's very very good And he could have been very good on my teams do but back to Tyler hero when I saw him and saw with shoes He was hooping in I was like, you know what this is gonna be a game. He's playing in those Kobe's that released last mamba week The undefeated collaborations. I think there were Kobe fives the proto and maybe somebody in the comment section You can correct me if I'm wrong, but they They're the undefeated collaboration and when I tell you I struck out on those and all the other three Kobe shoes They're at least in Kobe week or mamba week But those are the ones I wanted the most and if you look at the resale They're like at 2000 dollars now and I'm not making Tyler hero money So I will not be getting those undefeated Kobe's but I saw him on his feet And I was like, you know what he gonna have a game in a game. He did have Just coach coach bud The series is not over. Obviously we've seen teams come back from down to oh But it's they're making it very tough for anybody to believe that they could make a comeback And then we get to the last game of the night game seven Houston Rockets versus okay See a similar situation this game to ref it was was bad. It's just overall a bad day for refs I feel like the NBA has got to this point. We're like we're reviewing so many things. It's just killing the flow of the game I cannot be the only one whether it be and like I'm okay with the coaches challenge I believe that the coaches challenge can be a very important thing in basketball I mean, I know it could be very important because if if Gordon's logic and in the air exposure in them if they had their coaches challenge Chris Middleton don't get those three free throws because the refs are able to review that and if Milwaukee hit their coaches challenge, maybe Jimmy but it don't get that last one So yeah, the coach of challenge could be very impactful, but all of the other stuff We got to see if this is a flagrant. We got to see if this was unnecessary force It could just kill the whole vibe of the game especially since it's not just okay. I'm looking I'm looking I'm looking Okay, we done in 30 seconds. We're talking four or five minutes are being spent on a play where Cal Corvus is closing out and sure he did get under Chris middle No, he get out he got under somebody he got under Iggy it was under Iggy and I'm somehow a transition back to game number one But this is the one that's on my mind right now. Yes, he did get under and sure that is unnecessary force Sure, if that's the rulebook, it's a flagrant But did you really need to review the play for five minutes to see that? I saw that from the crib as soon as it happened Like what the heck is going on Steve here Steve Javi? Yeah, I think that's a flagrant. No, yes, we saw it too Steve Anyway, getting back to the other game Like I mentioned earlier my heart was beating crazily throughout these last couple minutes game 7 loop door Was it was something bro thick thinking about him is just he signed a like four-year five million dollar contract early in this season And now you I bet he is kicking himself from signing that long-term deal for that amount of money because he has showed How impactful he can be as an NBA player throughout the course of the series? Okay, see I'm a Houston has decided to not guard him whatsoever and though he put up some stinkers like that one game He was just shocking them. Oh, he had a game 7 where he put up 30 and it's unfortunate for him and I think I saw him crying when he was leaving the court and I understand the emotion he had the best game of his career his entire career and The thing people are going to talk about the most is his turnover after his block shot on James Hardin That's what people are going to talk about the most was unfortunate because he had a spectacular game on both sides of the Ball James Hardin couldn't do anything offensively. He was in Alcatraz. Lou Dorre had that man on clamps 30 points to but it was just that slow release and shout out to James Hardin for getting out there and closing out James Hardin's defense is way better than it was four years ago when he was a laugh at stock of the NBA Um, I was I was happy with the Chris Paul game just a couple possesses down a stretch I just wish that he would have took to control like we know he has been throughout the course of this series in the course of this Season, but that last place specifically the one that ended in Lou Dorre taking a shot and they game blocked Giving a lot of credit credit to I'm getting credit to Dan Tony He knew who he knows who Chris Paul is and how Chris Paul closes out these games So when Chris Paul gets the ball off the catch, they send a double team immediately Literally as soon as he touches the ball and they get 10 gets the ball at his hands of Shagos Alexander Who who has to launch it across the court to Lou Dorre? So shout out to Houston Rockets and Mike Dan Tony for clamping up not even just that last possession But shoot the possession after that when they try to get the inbound and somehow it goes to Stephen Adams Instead of the lives of Stephen Adams that was right there But the last couple minutes The Houston Rockets really gathered in on the defensive side of the ball and that is the reason they won this game tonight Shout out to him and they were going on to play against the Lakers and well That's a series small ball versus the Lakers who run like a two center lineup. That's gonna be something something to see But I give a lot of respect to Robert Covington Robert Covington is a meme throughout my youtube career But everybody knows if you've been really watching for a long time that I really am a fan of Robert Covington It's just so happens an NBA 2k 20. He sucks But Robert Covington is an impactful player man offensively defensively He had one of the best games of his season today and they needed it They needed exactly that the man was hitting like step not step back besides step threes over a contest We're like, they woke up. Can you slow down? And yeah, I just wish I wish that Chris Paul would have been able to get a shot up because he has been a Clutches player in the NBA, but it is what it is man. Okay, see one heck of a series last season Especially when you look at that that one graphic that says like okay See had a 0.2 chance of making a playoffs before the season started according to like ESPN And then they got all the way to the playoffs and took the Houston Rockets to seven. It's one hell of a season Um, I'm trying to think if there's anything else about this game specifically that's worth talking I don't think it really is. I mean, it's a cool game I'm more going to talk about okay sees future because I think that is like up in the air right now Because there are a lot of different directions that this team can go and if you ask me I think Sam Press is going to pull the trigger on maybe a Chris Paul trade this off season Why his value is still in an all-time high Okay, not an all-time high because that man was very very valuable when he was in New Orleans But added high in the recent years at least and I think they probably at the reset You know Like what's the ceiling on the team with with the age and chris paul And the players they have now probably not very high But if you keep shaggy outside, Xander would say will you keep blue door? You keep all these draft picks that you have accumulated plus an additional draft pick maybe with a chris paul trade Sam Press is a smart guy. Sam Press is a smart guy And I think that that would probably be the route he goes but anything can happen, right? If he does bring back chris paul and bring back gala nari and sailors running back I wouldn't be surprised either But I think there's a ceiling on this team and maybe we just saw that ceiling, you know Especially with chris paul getting older And now I know he switched to veganism and that's one of the main reasons He was able to stay healthy this season But he is still an aging NBA player an aging point guard at that and one of the positions that relies a lot on athleticism So I if I was him if I was saying presty, I would be like, okay Let's see what we can get for chris christopher paul While he's still an all-star caliber player and they're gonna be teams out there looking for him shoot I wouldn't be surprised milwaukee bucks looked at him again Especially because they needed somebody to close out games for them. I wouldn't be surprised I mean it's been rumored that the nicks want to take a look at him because they just want a culture change And chris paul does that chris paul comes to your team and Well players are gonna play harder. They're gonna they're gonna hate chris paul probably but they're gonna play harder They're gonna get smarter and he's gonna lead your team to the playoffs a lot of the times more often than not Um, but okay. See he has one of the most curious off seasons ahead of them We know the untouchable pieces those say gillis alexander wasn't amazing in this series We know that his potential with skyrocketing and and we know that one day he'll probably an all-star Ludor has showed his value especially on the defensive side of the ball Um, but everything else I think is kind of up in here. There is basely there is basely I'm not saying he's untouchable, but I think we understand that there is basely has a high ceiling as well Um, but everything else should be on the table for sandpress, you know, kc and and I'm saying as an outside I wonder what the okc fans think. I mean you may you may be your okc fan. You're watching this video What would you think about your off season? Are you looking to like just run it back? Keeping chris paul with 40 million dollars 35 percent of your cap Or you look into though you may love chris paul from this one season You're looking about thinking about the future because I don't really know You know who's the happiest man in the world though James harder because again, he did not have a good game whatsoever. It's again other than the block the block saves it a lot um But if it's not for that and they somehow lose this game bro, he was going to get destroyed and he might still get destroyed um From the media And everything i'm not gonna destroy him. You know, it's not it's not my character to try to Say negative things about players Um, but he might still get destroyed because notoriously throughout game sevens He's he's kind of went blank and he definitely went blank in this game, man Possessors where i'm like, okay, where's james harder? He just wasn't really there um, but again, luckily on the defensive side of the ball they clamped up and got out there to victory basically Being more clutch and the clutch is taking the basketball. You know what i'm saying? So that's that's a w I think that's the end of the the ramble today I want to get to some off season stuff, man The off season is around the corner br is dropping articles daily of stuff So maybe i'll get back to reading those articles or whatever I don't know if you enjoyed it leave it a like shout out to my asomniacs, baby This one's coming out before specifically for you. So let me know in the comment section and somniac gang because you're real You're the real deal