 What's the word y'all you know what's going on man game for just wrapped up and I got to do what I do Which is turn on the camera turn on the microphone and talk about that game? Usually unscripted. I may have a couple bullet points going into it But I ain't got no script or none So if you knew around here subscribe and if you've been around here be sure to leave it like the growth and the love on These videos for the past couple weeks have been incredible and let's continue to build on that man So game for just ended there are things in it that I enjoyed Which is like overall for the second time in this series We had a game that the fans can look at and say hey it was a good game So that's good. So there are good things about this game, but there are also bad things I want to touch both after I talk about not really a realization But something I thought about halfway through this game, right? So in the second quarter I tweeted something along the lines of Anthony Davis picking and popping more than I wanted to You know Anthony Davis, right? He is one of the more dominant post players in the entire NBA and As a as a fan again for you guys that don't know I'm a neutral fan in this fight I just want good games and I want the series to be extended at the end of the day Don't look like that's gonna happen, but you get what I'm saying So I don't care who wins these games But I just want the best level of basketball and to me the best level of Anthony Davis is when he's on the block Right and I see a lot of fans Criticizing Jimmy Butler's game for because it wasn't nearly as aggressive as game 3 I understand that But one thing I wanted to try to do is kind of look at it from a different perspective Why aren't these things happening? Right? Why isn't Anthony Davis on the block in this game or in game 3? Or why wasn't Jimmy Butler as aggressive in game 4 as he was in game 3 when you look at it from that perspective You kind of realize why the thing that you want isn't happening So Iggy had said after game 3 that his goal when he was guarding Anthony Davis, which he had The primary Anthony Davis assignment since they gathered at the zone was to prevent Anthony Davis from touching the post Touching the lane. I think it was his exact words, which He did a damn good job of I mean we talked about Iggy man one of the greater defenders of this current generation He'd literally won a finals MVP based on his defense again He had a couple big moments in those two, but you get what I'm saying He's a very good intelligent defender and you can look at me and say Kenny, bro Anthony Davis got three inches of height on him in a bunch of weight He should probably be able to back down Iggy, which you're probably right about but the end of the day Iggy's defense was just so good And it prevented Anthony Davis from getting into the paint and getting into this rhythm that he had in the first two games Cool. I mean at the end of the day the pick and poppin is the dagger of the game So now I look like a fool for saying he was picking and popping too much But on the Jimmy Butler side now let's figure out why Jimmy Butler wasn't able to have another 40-point triple double Which again was the best game of his career and people are saying to me after that last episode when I talked to talked About it is Jimmy Butler's best game of his career. They're like Kenny. What about the 50-point game? He had against the 76ers when he was a bull You mean the random Regular season game against Philly and that wasn't even good Philly with Ben Simmons and Joel We're talking bad Philly where Jared Bayless was the starting guard Sure 50 is 50, but I'm gonna take a 40-point triple double over a 50-point against a bad team any day So why was he not able to do that? It's because Frank Vogel and the LA Lakers had a different scheme on Simple as that when in game three. They was hunting the switch when he had a small defender whether they've been Caruso I guess Danny Green technically Kenny Kenny Call to a pope. I guess is why his team at Kenny for contagious. I mean it makes sense But it's just weird to hear so whenever he had the small defender he attacked when he had the bigger defender They didn't get the switch. He got some maybe the lane and he kicked out It was it was that simple, but he made it look so you know I'm saying it was that simple But with the new changes that Frank Vogel in the Lakers had it was Anthony Davis all the time You weren't getting that switches to Alice Caruso. Nope, not today. I mean it did happen sometimes That's what you did see Jimmy Bullard get the buckets that he ended up having but for the most part They had Anthony Davis on him and we know Anthony Davis again defensive player to a candidate was second this year He's always been in the elite elite defender So yeah, I think looking at it from a different perspective can change the way you think about the game And that's something I realized today watching watching the game So let's talk about the things that I didn't like about this game first and they will transition to the good stuff The bad thing was a I don't think the officiating was great I'm not it was not the determinant factor of the game. I need to get that straight It was not the determinant factor of the game like some people like to try to make it Sure, the heat had a lot more free throws at one point But if they were rigging it for the heat, don't you think? Don't you think that they would have got those free throw calls in the fourth where it matters the most? Because the heat didn't shoot their first free throw to like three minutes left in the game in the fourth Court at least so Officiating was not good, but it was locked. It was not the determinant factor of this game And like there was a lot of times like for example The mark heath Morris pull up three Kelly Olin it gets out of the way But he gets he still gets called for the foul cool or like the LeBron chase down LeBron chase down I Look, I thought it was clean when even when they showed the replay It was only one angle it looked pretty clean to me But they called it a foul so again, it wasn't a great officiated game It wasn't the determinant factor either Which is good so fish egg not good flopping is something that has been around as long as I've been a fan of basketball This is not anything new It's not like it just started in this finals or it's not like one team did it more than the other or one player Did it more the other? But when you think about the NBA finals, right? The finals are supposed to be a time where the casual fan can tune into basketball and see the best versions of the NBA Right, that's what the finals is about a casual fans should be able to tune into a finals Be like, okay, these are the best two teams So let's see the best product and to me when you got all the flopping and stuff You're not really getting the best product You can say the same thing about the officiator when you got a foul every 10 seconds It's you're not getting the best product for the viewer and I mean viewing numbers are down like 50% is what I read Ridiculous, maybe we should have a whole video talking about that because there are a lot of different factors that can play into that But 50% is kind of crazy. I think football is only down by 4% so it's a it's something We should have a conversation about maybe we have a conversation about it when the finals is over because it looks like it's going to be over sooner Rather than later, but for my casual fan I can understand you watching a quarter and see somebody fake like they get hit in the face and you'd be like Bro, he didn't even touch you like literally he didn't even touch you and that would turn you off to the game or The the players right Iggy and LeBron have to be the most complaining as players ever any call any call going against them Bro, we saw you scratch his eyeball G you found him stop it You're I've never understood that because it's not like a referee will see you complain LeBron Iggy or whoever it may be and think You're right. I'm gonna switch my call. This is not the way it works. So you doing it Never answers any questions get back on defense. Let's just try to get it back You know I'm saying let's just try to get it back. You didn't get your call or they caught a foul on you Let's just go to the next play. So those things were on display A lot and another thing that didn't like Kendrick Nunn and this game specifically. I did not like Kendrick Nunn So many instances in this game. You're like Kendrick, Kendrick Nunn think he's playing my career You know I'm saying Kendrick Nunn, I think he thinks he's playing my career We're just trying to take the entire team and he gets blocked or he missed a shot or this or that So those are the those are the things I did not like but the things I did like is something that I have become more Conscious about over the past season or so and it's similar to what I said earlier about like looking at it from a different perspective But I was very curious coming into it to see how these two teams Change right as a as a fan two years ago I was just coming to game four and just watch it But now I came into it like okay Frank Vogel has to change something right Jimmy Bully just tore him up They got killed last game Not literally, but you get I'm saying they got killed last game So I came into a thinking like I'm interested to see what Frank Vogel does to to get his team back And he did it You know I'm saying and I'm also interested to see what they're supposed to do for game five though Those are the things that I really like to see like the little chest matches from the coaches because I mean in a series like this I guess it's not going to be the determining factor But in some series the little chess match ends up being the reason why a team wins a series But in this case, I think these two teams are just kind of outmatched You know I'm saying I one team is superior. The other one's not Kenny Carwell Pope and I'm saying we were talking about Deadshot last episode We Mike was like they don't call him Deadshot for no reason But Deadshot actually hit some shots and Kenny Carwell Pope, which is I'm gonna keep saying that until it sounds right to me Timely buckets man one in the corner the dunk or lay up whatever was in transition late in the game Just just great great minutes from him all around I think that the body language of LeBron is the funniest thing to pay attention to especially towards Kuzma Specifically towards Kyle Kuzma Just just please just when they're on the court together watch his body language Because the play that I was talking referring to earlier when LeBron had to chase down block on Jimmy Butler The reason why LeBron had to chase it down is because Kuzma was literally staring at LeBron with the ball Like he had never played basketball before and then through a telegraph pass and Jimmy Butler just picked it off and LeBron's body language like And then you see a mouth and as he's getting back on defense So that one and then there's a lot of situations where I guess the whatever scheme they planned on doing whether it is going super under Jimmy Butler What they did Cal Kuzma have screwed it up and LeBron looks at him like it's just it's always towards Kuzma when I realize it bro And maybe that's why the fans made the position petition so that Cal Kuzma doesn't get a ring for some reason Also also with the game plan that's one thing they forced Jimmy Butler to be a shooter He scored 40 points last game without taking a three-point shot So whenever he did this pick and roll to try to get the smaller defender They went so far back on it Then Jimmy Butler had to shoot them and we know Jimmy Butler is a below average three-point shooter So again shout out to Frank Vogel and the Lakers for getting this new game plan to get themselves up on the 3-1 I don't have to tell you the significance of this Being up 3-1, but it's really good in the playoffs and especially in the finals I mean we've only seen it happen one time where team has come back not saying it's out of the realm of possibility He nation, but I'm saying it's unlikely. I would not be surprised if this series is ended by Friday honestly, and I'm looking into my notes because I Do have a few things sometimes For example, I have Duncan Robinson They actually got this. Oh, yes So the Lakers got to switch into Duncan Robinson a lot My notes would say Duncan Robinson switch and then I got to put together now what I meant They did get to switch into Duncan Robinson something that they weren't able to do in game three And then when LeBron sees Duncan Robinson in front of him is basically like he's being guarded by five seven Kenny Beach I'm it's just a cook session, bro. It's it's an easy bucket. You know I'm saying it's an easy bucket But there's a stretch in this game And this will be the one of the last things I talk about where we saw LeBron James takeover and maybe not in the traditional sense It wasn't like he dropped 21 straight points and for his team like he did back in whatever year that was But instead in the third quarter there is a possession where he got a steal up to Danny Green for a dumb boom Next possession they get the stop LeBron does the little oh, you're not gonna guard me Look, you know how you always look when you got to do that step back three He did that hit the step back three boom And then he had one more shot in the lane time out Miami heat and they're coming out of the time out He has scored again. So we're talking about LeBron James having five Mathematically he had like double-digit points straight for his team like ten points when you count the assists And again that that ten points didn't like flip momentum dramatically or anything And maybe it went under the radar for some people But as a fan of LeBron seeing him take over like that was really really cool Because we haven't really seen that in the in this series specifically just yet So to see that even if it was at a smaller little situation was cool Anthony Davis was on his way to looking like last game where he like man They're really playing him out of the series, but then he turned it up crazy That some of the turnaround baseline shots. He hits is ridiculous I just saw a pie chart of like his field goal percentage in the finals ridiculous is all green He was over one in the corner three to series but in that green everywhere shooting like 60% from everywhere else ridiculous So shout out to him for that and then LeBron was in a similar situation to where it's like early in the first quarter I was like wow that he might have really found a solution to stopping LeBron I think he had like four turnovers in the first quarter He's wasn't looking good But then again like I said he turned it up and they end up getting that victory It was not a pretty one It was not a pretty victory but a victory is a victory and we might be seeing that five game series that many people predicted I Hope not. I mean again as a fan of basketball I want as much of it as possible But if it ended in five I could reflect on this season and say that it was a good one The longest season I've ever been a part of I mean, I think the first game last year was October or something We're in October talking about the finals. So That's all I really have for this game looking forward to game five and maybe the heat You know pick themselves up and change it and make it a game six I don't really know either way Hopefully enjoyed it if you did leave it a like subscribe if you knew let me know what you thought about game four And your remaining predictions for this series. I'm gonna see a lot of Legers and five in the comment section. I'm already knowing But I'm gonna read it anyway