 What's the worry y'all? If you did not know, there was a basketball game tonight. It did feel like that, but there was one tonight and the Boston Celtics got, they licked back. They were showing the graphic a hundred times in this broadcast, or maybe I just saw it a hundred times on Twitter. The Boston Celtics have not lost back-to-back games this whole playoff run. Once you hit them, they hit you back and they did that. Who would have thought that having the defensive play of the year back on the court mattered or having Al Horford, a star in his rollback mattered and they clobbered the Miami Heat? So shout out to them, man. This was a game that very early on, it felt like the Heat were gonna take it when I say early on. I mean, literally very early on, like the first six minutes of the game because they were doing all the hustle things. They were diving on the floor for loose balls. They were getting the offensive rebounds and putting it back up. And then the Boston Celtics decided never to miss another jump shot. In the first half, they were 12 for 19, if I'm not mistaken, 12 for 19 from the three point line. And I like your odds. If you shoot 40 total threes in the game and you hit half of them, I like your odds to win that game. And they did that. Marcus Smart gave you the best version of him. You know, in game number one, they struggled dramatically, based on both sides of the floor. They didn't have a guy that could bring the ball to the court successfully. That's how you got the six turnover game or six turnover quarter from Jason Tatum in the third quarter of the game. Number one, this one, it was Marcus Smart. 24 points, 12 assists, one turnover. He had a couple of steals. He had five threes. He was in the game when he probably should have been pulled because they were up by so many points. But hey, it's Marcus Smart. Who gonna tell Marcus Smart not actually? He may tell Marcus Smart, stop playing because it feel like he's missing two games every series. He's, we're up by 15, the 16 and three minutes to go. Yank him. He had a great game though. Al Horford had a very good game. And just like that, this series is tied and it has officially started because the home team lost a game. But even with that said again, I mentioned this before I picked the boss itself. So when the series, I was disappointed in the Miami he not being able to punch back after the end of the first quarter or the end of the first quarter, half of the second quarter, they did not fight back. Jimmy Brawler in game number one gave your master class 40 points. And even in that game, you know, you had people like Gabe Vincent step up. You had Max Drew step up. And then Bama DiBio didn't really do anything in the first game, offensively, but you look past that because you ended up winning. Who cares at the end of the day, right? We're in game number two, where you end up losing by 20 plus points. And one of the guys that's a Max contract player on your team ends up with six points, granted, good defense, you know, it's Bama DiBio, he's gonna play good defense, but six total points. Basically back to back games, I don't know, maybe it was eight points last game, he was held under 10 points on back to back games. And I understand scoring in the Boston Celtics in general has been very tough for NBA players over the past four to five months or so. But still, Bam, Jimmy gave you 29, he gave you six rebounds. He was 61% from the field. He gave you a quality game. And he was just looking around for somebody to help him out. And you didn't get that for Bama DiBio, who's a Max player. You didn't give that Tyler Hero, who was damn near unanimous six minute of the year and the guy is looking for a big ass bag this off season. You didn't get that from pretty much anybody. If Gabe Vinson is your second best player, I don't like your odds to win that game, especially if you're giving up 127 points. But in their defense, they haven't played this bad defensively pretty much off season. I saw the stat that the points per possession that they gave up was the highest all year round. So I don't think that they're giving up 127 points next game, but still the offense has to come too. And one thing I have noticed from watching them with Cal Lauri and watching them without Cal Lauri, first of all, that streak of seven straight games without Cal Lauri is dead. Now they're 71, which is still a pretty good record. Bama DiBio relies so much on Cal Lauri shot creation. And I guess you could say the same thing for a lot of the people on the team, but Cal Lauri, or at least a good version of Cal Lauri is essential for this Miami Heat team for them to win this series in my personal opinion. But it's felt like everything with the Boston Celtics way, even the chase down block from Tyler Hero was called a foul. That's going in the Boston Celtics favor. But Grant Williams was mic'd up again. Number one, he gave them pretty much a stinker. In this game, he came back out with a 19 piece. And he was taking, he took a mid-race jump shot that was so far away from the rim. I was like, bro, only practices is three pointers in the post-season, I mean, in the off-season. Which I'm cool. I mean, it's about to get him paid. You shoot 40% from three and also give you lead-level defense. You gon' get paid. But yeah, he missed those. Jason Tatum had a great game. He talked about Deuce going swimming in Miami. That's the number one thing on his priority list. I don't really have anything to say about this game because halfway through it, it was 25 points at halftime and I was disengaged. You know, I do my job, right? I still watch these games just in case there is a run. But I got the game on a big screen and you can't see my setup. But I got another monitor underneath it and I was watching Cubs versus Diamondbacks. I was watching Trevor Story put together the three-home run game. Like I was focused on that while there was not a lot to say about these things. The heat need BAM to play better offensively. They need somebody else outside of BAM and Jimmy Butler to step up and they need not to allow the Boston Celtics to hit 23s in the game if they wanna, you know, take another game from Boston in the TD Garden. But it's deeper than that. The NBA has a problem at the moment and I was rocking my brain trying to figure out is this a new problem or is this something that's been happening in the past couple of playoffs and I just don't remember it because everything is sunshine and roses once it's over with, you know what I'm saying? Like I'd be thinking like, man, that playoffs was fire and then I'm going back and like, was it really or did we have three games, all of that playoffs that were elite and that carried the entire thing. In the last 13 games that we've watched as fans of the playoffs as enjoyers of basketball, and this is from overtime, out of the last 13 games, the average margin of victory is 22.4 points. We have not had a, oh, we had one single digit win from the Miami Heat against the 76ers at the end of that series. But even that, it was like, it wasn't really that close. Average margin of victory is 22.4. Now granted, some of that is because these sons lost by a gazillion points to the Mavericks and then the Heat won a game by a gazillion points against, who the hell was that against? So they won by a gazillion points in game five versus the 76ers. And again, I'm trying to figure out is that, obviously that's not normal. 22.4 is insane. But do we always get these years where the games are mostly blowouts? You know, like again, I'm gonna keep referencing this because it's fresh in my mind. The Sons versus Dallas Mavericks series was a seven, but every single one of them games was a blowout. And you're like, Kenny, why is that the case? It's because the lack of variation when it comes to basketball nowadays. And this is, again, I'm an enjoyer of basketball. I enjoy watching the game basketball. I'm just keeping it a buck with you. Teams have all nights and off nights that we're talking about from the three point line. The boss of Celtics just hit 23 pointers in a game. The opposing team didn't match that nearly at 50%, the 50% tile, so it was a blowout. I mean, that's really what it is. The other night, the boss of Celtics shot 22% from a three point line on about 50 attempts. If you're losing that many possessions and then the opposing team, well, actually the Warriors actually didn't shoot that great either. But still, that's one of the cases. The Bucks in game seven shot four for 33 from three, while the Celtics shot 22 from 55. Blowout game right there. You can just look at four made threes versus 22. There's no way you're keeping that game close. And obviously there's nothing you can really do about it, right? There's nothing that Adam Silver can put into the rulebook to prevent blowouts. Or I even made a tweet at the referees that people took way too seriously. Come on now, y'all got under. Why the hell would I be? Anyway, people took that way too seriously, but we do have a blowout problem currently right now. And again, as a basketball enjoyer who talks about basketball for a living, I'm okay with dedicating that time to even if it is just a five minute recap of what I saw in the game, I'm okay with dedicating that time. But if I'm thinking about like my dad who's not a super, super diehard NBA fan, why the hell would he continue to watch tonight's game after the first quarter or after halftime? You know what I'm saying? That is the problem there. Like, and overall the products is kind of me, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? We down to our final four teams and all three of the games that we've seen so far have been a blowout. Not so fun. Not so fun. These are supposed to be the most elite of the elite. And I think that they are, but even the elite of the elite, we having those off nights while the other team is elite of the elite. So I don't know, man. It's just something that's going on within the NBA. I don't have anything else to say about it really. God, this is probably the shortest recap of all time. But what do you say? What am I supposed to talk about? So I'll just see you tomorrow.