 What's the word, yo? We've watched one game of every single series so far, and low-key, I'm a little bit afraid that we're about to get robbed. Because if you've been an NBA fan for some time, you know that we traditionally don't get a ton of great series in the first round. We might get a four-five that go to seven that's very interesting, maybe a three-six, but for the most part, there's not a lot to talk about in the first round of playoffs traditionally. Now, this year has a lot of potential to see a bunch of different series go one way or another. It's not always just the top seed anymore. And with that said, we saw three injuries today. Some of them, of course, weighted greater than others, but three injuries can potentially prevent us from seeing some all-time great series. Let's be real. The one I'm thinking about in particular is the Jamerat one. I think the Grizzlies in the Laker series is one of the most intriguing series before it started because I could have saw going either way. I want to remind everybody, I'm a neutral fan. My boys have been gone for a few days now, so I'm watching all of this just to basketball. Enjoy your trying to break things down, dissect whatever. And I've made two appearances. I'll be real. I made some appearances. And some of those appearances, I ended up picking the Grizzlies in seven. And some of those appearances, I ended up picking the Lakers in seven. So my opinion about this series has changed from the moment we knew it was gonna happen. To now, I wish she watched, I wish she watched because I didn't really know. I can see it going both ways. Of course, with the Jamerat hand, and as I'm recording this video, it is the third quarter of Denver Numbians versus Minnesota. I've already decided that the game is over. So if the Minnesota Temple Wolves have a crazy comeback, I guess we'll stitch that into this video. But as I'm recording this, we don't really know. We found out that it's not broken, which is great because Tyler Hero literally broke his. And they got that notification fast. They sent him back to the back room and they're like, oh, he's broken. He's out 46, he was in the entirety of the playoffs. But we know it's not broken for Ja, but he was already dealing with some injuries there. And we don't know about the ligament, the tissues, yadda, yadda, yadda. And maybe by the time this video is out, we know and we ain't got to even talk about the idea of Jamerat not coming back. But if he doesn't come back, we're legitimately getting robbed of something that could have been great. I mean, game one was about as fun as a game one can get. No, okay, it was maybe the second most fun game, maybe the third most fun game one behind the Sacramento Kings, go to stay worse because that was a banger. And the Clippers sons are the banger too. But LA versus the Grizzlies, we saw a lot of good things from both sides. But ultimately the Lakers went on a crazy run down the stretch. Austin Reeves is him a barely and Marie Hachimore had the greatest game of his career according to Desmond Bain. But we all know if there is no Jamerat, there's no chance. And one of the reasons why I was wishy washy flipping here and there when it came to this series because I believe that losing Stephen Adams is as big as a loss you could get without obviously talking about Jamerat or Jaren Jackson Jr. But when you compound that with also the loss of Brandon Clark for the year, like with those two dudes being down, I thought they were going to be very crucial in guarding the Lakers, a team that gets to the basket and draw a ton of fouls. And shout out to Xavier Tillman because he hasn't been bad, but there's a reason why he was getting DNP Co's decisions early this season because the two guys ahead of him at the center position were just better. And I think for this matchup, they would have been better. But now we take Jamerat away. I'm like, bro, this series could have went a smooth seven. And when I was job, it's like, can they get one? Maybe, I mean, Jaren has been looking really good over the last couple of months, but like, one even might be a stretch without being. I'm praying that Jamerat is completely healthy or as healthy as he can be to participate at least. Cause again, today he wasn't completely healthy, but he still had a stretch to that third quarter where he was taking the game off. You know what I'm saying? So just some freak accidents between him and Yanis where somebody's coming over to try to draw a charge and they're trying to go over and it's weird. I saw some people have some tastes that that we need to get rid of the charge completely, which is sometimes I've never heard anybody argue, but it's an intriguing argument. I disagree, but I can understand why somebody would say that. And Taylor Jenkins did say in his post game interview that Jamerat's availability is in question right now. And again, I mean, if he's not, even if he's not there for game two, it's probably wraps. You cannot go down 0-2 when you head home court advantage and then go to the stake percent of the crypto, stake percent of my crypto and think that you can win that series and come back, especially with Anthony Davis, at least being relatively healthy. He's saying school and yeah, things like that. So I don't know, I thought that series was going to be the best series out of the first round and it might end up being one of the worst, depending on what Joss' health looks like. Let's talk about some of these other games because the Phoenix Suns are a team that I picked to win the Western Conference. They lost game one to the Clippers. Oh man, the Kevin DeRetz, Phoenix Suns ever finally got their first loss and it's a critical one. You wanted this first loss to happen in the regular season. Definitely not game one of the policies we have home court advantage. And I would get a lot of credit to a few people. Obviously Kauai Lun and Ultra Robot, he played every single second in the second half. Again, doing great things. And if you look at the way he performed over the last couple of months, I think he was player of the month for the last month of the season. You saw that he was ramping himself up for these type of moments where he could play a ton of games. The post season is a little bit different for Kauai because you know you're not getting back to backs. The best you're going to do is one day in between and sometimes it's going to be two days in between. So he can afford to go out there and get you 40 minutes because he knows tomorrow is going to be resting and he's back. These are the type of wins that Clippers fans have been warning me of all season long, even when no Paul George, you're going to have those games where EG is on where Terrence Mann chips in and Norman Powell come off the bench to do his. Kauai almost had 40. You know what I'm saying? He did his thing. And at one point they were in complete denial mode. But they're like, you know what? Kauai has killed us so much that we will be willing to throw two bodies and we ain't even got the ball. And let these other dudes, Eric Gordon and Terrence Mann, win this game for him. And they came through. And you know who came through more than anybody even though he shot three for 19 or whatever the statistic was, Russell Westbrook down the stretch. And I made a tweet that I think people are misinterpreted. I quoted that last play where he got the block and forced the ball off of Devin Booker. Again, a crazy play to know the situation and make the right move. I quoted that saying one of a kind player. Cause I do not think there's many people in the history of basketball that can have a game that they shoot three for 19. And then still in the last couple of minutes helped win a basketball game with eight getting offensive boards because I think that's where the Suns lost this game. Let's be real, we're gonna talk about that in a second. But he got a big offensive board down the stretch that led to him getting fouled. He knocked down two free throws where he was shooting 66% from the free throw line all season long. And then on the defensive side, having that one-on-one with Book getting the block and throwing it off him. And he do the thing or was it this side, saying he got a lot of heart. That's real. Cause he was three for 19 and there was some ugly shots in there, y'all. But you look past all of that because he did what he needed to do in the end of his game to close it out. The Phoenix Suns to be paying this no disrespect to Deandre, he's not the sole reason why they lost this game. But to be paying the man $30 million and he cannot grasp a rebound down the stretch has to be pretty demoralized. I'm looking at it. He was third on the team in rebound and behind Chris. I didn't even realize that Chris had 11 boards. And then Kevin around also had nine and then Deandre eight and hey, again, this is not, oh, Deandre eight had lost this game. But like down the stretch, you needed to secure a rebound and there was a few possessions in the last couple of minutes where they just did it. And I think that the biggest hold that we all knew that the Phoenix Suns were gonna have to overcome to win a championship came to fruition today and game one, which might be scary. We might have to have a conversation about that later down in the series where we knew that their depth could be relatively questionable on a day to day basis. We got the games from book who in himself had a great defensive night and also has some big shots. Of course he had to turn over and stuff down the stretch, but like he dove on the floor quite a few times, had the one going out of bounds. We threw it up for a layup at Torrey Crank where he did a lay that looked very LeBron-esque. And I'm like, that's just kind of crazy. Book gave your game, KD gave your game, Aiden gave you about 20. Chris Paul had two shots and one of them shots was like the first shot of the game. Facilitator, whatever. Oh, Chris Paul not looked to score anymore. They got Benz production and 10 points. That was what their Benz production was. Well, on the other side, it was 34. It's gonna be tough to win that game because the Clippers are so deep. We're in this series, you're gonna need your star players, your top four to just have really, really good games where you can overlook some of that. And some of that was cause Monty didn't trust them. You know what I'm saying? Not a lot of them got minutes. I was surprised to see Josh Akogi not get more than 10 minutes because I felt like post-trade, or I guess even before the trade, Josh Akogi was playing the best basketball of his young career and I think he ended up a little at six, seven minutes play today. So this is why I love the playoffs because we look at game one to react to game ones and then we got these coaches who are just the best in the world of what they do where I know that Monty's gonna make some changes but also Ta-Ron Lu was gonna do some counter changes on some anticipation type stuff. So these playoffs, especially when you got teams that are close and talent, it's about the coaching down stretch and I think we got some good coaches, you know, trying to figure it out. Giving up 130 points to the Miami Heat, a team that was dead last in total points per game this season, a little bit scary for the Milwaukee Bucks. Not thinking that they're gonna lose this series cause I think Yachts is gonna play and they'll be good. And especially with Tyler Harrow being out four to six, I don't expect the Miami Heat to shoot this well all series long but the Milwaukee Bucks have been a team that's been running people off the three point line all season long. And in the very first game of the playoffs that team shot was 60% from three. Again, I don't think that's sustainable but it's something we should maybe think about for round two or conference finals down the stretch. I was getting a lot of tweets about like, Kenny how could you not make a video yesterday because again that Sacramento Kings versus Warriors game was elite. Yesterday was my daughter's birthday and it was more about her and I didn't really want to film. I just wanted to spend as much time with her as possible. Even I was watching that game. We were watching that game but it wasn't like, sorry babe, you know, having birthday but let daddy go record this video real quick. It was like, you know what I'm saying? It was just an amazing game. I don't even know what else I can really say other than D'Arif Fox is crazy. Steph Curry is crazy. I saw some flags from Steph Curry for the last shot but we got to look past that, you know what I'm saying? I think my boy Lohan had a tweet about it. I'm saying that Steph Curry had 12 points in the fourth quarter to even keep them in the game. It's not always about the last final shot to figure out what clutch means. I think clutch is exactly that leading up to these moments. And yeah, I mean, he missed a shot. That arena was jumping bro. It was everything and more. You know, we knew they was gonna pack the house. We knew it, we knew it. It's a first playoff game in almost two decades. I remember last time they were in the playoffs. It was crazy then, you know? And it's better now. You know what I'm saying? It was a great experience. And the kings end up winning the game where the Montesson bonus did not give them much on the offensive side. He did not give them much. He was missing bunny after bunny. And some of that is due to Draymond Green. Not some of that. I would say majority of that is due to Draymond Green and Cavanaugh Lune's great defense. But boy, to win that first game is crucial. I mean, the Warriors aren't a road team. They haven't been a road team. So maybe we shouldn't have been surprised with it but it is the playoffs and Wiggins was back who looked kind of rusty here and there. I'm sure he'll get it into gear eventually. Like if I was gonna show somebody who didn't know what basketball was, show them one game from the last. Well, I don't wanna get too hyperbolic but if I could just show them one game, it might be that game. It had everything you could imagine. Clutch basket, three-point shooting. We like great defense from the Lune's and the Draymond Green's where you can point it out and talk about rotations. Straight passes. I mean, Draymond had a leading pass that was like, oh my God. So it was like almost a perfect game, especially for a neutral fan that Hart wasn't beating out of their chest because they favored teams in it. You know what I'm saying? And the Knicks took home court advantage. And I was so surprised that Tom Thibodeau ran a full rotation that had nobody played 35 plus minutes. Like we sent a lot of teams across the league playing their best players 35 to 40 minutes already. This is game one. Tom Thibodeau was like, no. And that's the antithesis of what Tom Thibodeau had been through out of the tired of his career. Now, some of that's because Jalen Brunson got into foul trouble early and then Julis Randall's coming off an injury so you probably don't wanna play him 40 minutes in game one. But still he trusted his other dudes down the stretch which is different. I mean, the one thing that the Knicks have over the Cavaliers is that depth. The Cavs don't have that. Like they relied on Dean Wade and Ricky Rubio to come off the bench. No, no, no. They don't have those quality players in New York. Everybody that's coming off the bench and tribute him one way or another. And if they not, it's cool. We got the next person behind him that will. So that's the advantage that they got. And I mean, we saw Jalen Brunson take over that game. It was that third quarter or maybe early fourth quarter, whatever it was. Great game. Evan Mobley for his first playoff game, missed a ton of bunnies. And that might have been nerves across the board between him and Darius Garland who struggled from the field. I think that this series, again, was gonna be a really good one and game one did not disappoint. Oh yeah, Josh Hart. Another team that struggled to get off into boards down the stretch, literally, the last couple plays of game they got off into board. And that's like Mobley and Jared Allen who are one of the better rebounded front courts in basketball. So again, I'm sure it'll get better throughout the course of the series, but I wanna see these coaches go at it. All right, that's enough. I hopefully is back to daily because I don't wanna talk about eight series. Evan's talking about eight series in one video again, even though, again, there's like three of mine even mentioned because what do you want me to say? What do you want me to say? The Celtics did they thing. The Grizzlies are taking care of business. I'm sorry. I guess I'll take a care of business. McKellber's is really good, but for not, you know what I'm saying? All right, I'll see y'all tomorrow.