 What's the word y'all welcome back to the playoff recap? We are here to talk about basketball. Hey people are mad at me yesterday Oh, people are mad at me yesterday yesterday We had two blowouts or two games that I didn't have much to say about y'all know around here I'm not gonna force myself to do an episode just because there's basketball played So I didn't do an episode and my mentors was filled with fans like oh When my team my favorite team wins Kenny is never talking about us. I had nothing to say I just I'm just not gonna force it, but today on the other hand we had to yes I said to games of playoff basketball because that first thing we counted as a scrimmage and I have nothing to say about it Okay, let's talk about the Clippers, you know cuz over the past year. I Have been the guy. I've been one of the guys to give the Clippers the benefit of the doubt I've been one of the guys to defend the Clippers on on multiple conversations with friends on my podcast this and that It's over bro. I'm done giving them the benefit of the doubt next time We are giving them the benefit of the doubt boy Y'all better show me a lot because if you remember before the playoffs I came on to the show and I said I can't imagine The Clippers Losing the last two games of the season one of them being against okay See who are at that point we're like the worst team of all time. They were doing it, right? They know what they're doing their tank and they're successful, you know And they're all right They lost the game against them and I forgot there was one more game at the end of the season that they lost against a team That wasn't the play-in and the title comes to the podium like no, we're not trying to mess with the seating We just want our guys to be healthy and rested for the playoffs when in reality They were trying to see themselves to get the more favorable matchup and avoid the Lakers but here they are against that favorable matchup losing two games at home Losing two games at home, and I'm done. I am done Saying that they could do this they could do this and again the series is not over But I think I said the statistic that they showed at the end of this I think it was 96 point yada percent of the time if a team goes up to oh They win the series and I bet that doesn't even account for a lower seed doing it and taking home court advantage convincingly and then people on my tour at a timeline like yeah It's a big deal that the Clippers are down to oh, but the last time Kawai was down to oh He came back and won a series against the Milwaukee Bucks that happened a few years ago If you don't remember when he was with the Raptors they went on to win the championship You know the story but it's so much different It is so much more different because he was down to oh as the lower seed So he lost two games in a row whoop they do he just had to take you know He had to take one away I guess two away from them This is completely different. They had home court advantage and fumbled twice This is insane, bro, and I cannot and I'm maybe the minority here. I cannot pinpoint What about this team needs to be fixed or things that I want to see differently for them to end up winning You know cuz cuz Tyron Lou didn't make a few changes today One of the few changes was actually a successful one He played Terrence man today Terrence man practically got zero minutes in the first game He came in Terrence man is a positive defender. He hits some shots I would say he was a net positive in this overall game So he tried to come in and make some changes, but with that Like Sergei Baca didn't play. I can't look at Lucanard making 18 million and not He's getting DMPs in a playing get a playoff game making 18 This man is what the third fourth highest playing paid player on your entire team He's getting DMPs right now and Saying I don't like I said, I don't know what it is like typically we come in here like oh I want to see this and that like remember when we talked about the Lakers losing game one I was like Marcus all has to play by the boom by the band Marcus all plays and they play significantly better than they win I'm not saying I'm I'm gonna coach it a year But like there are some things you can look at and be like that's what you need to change That is the biggest thing and I don't know what it is this man Kawhi Leonard Balling absolutely balling especially in that first half what he had 30 going into the half And he he was like exerting all this energy on the off the side of the ball But like they have so many good defenders right Marcus Moore senior Paul George Patrick Beverly Nicholas Petu Rajon Ron I guess maybe not Rondo so much nowadays These are all guys that are good of good defenders that you should be able to put on Luca to not stop Luca because it's Luca we're gonna talk about the greatness of Luca in a minute But to slow down Luca so you don't have your guy that already gave you 30 Also have to kill it on the defensive side of the ball, but they couldn't do it So Kawhi had to draw 41 and then he also had to guard Luca Donzitz and here's a spoiler alert Kawhi Leonard is not a heavy minutes guy anymore It's just a fact that with this whole quad thing that happened three years ago four years ago And he's still resting still low managing He is one of those dudes that you should not play 40 minutes because he hits this thing He's gonna hit a wall where he's just not as effective because he just can't do it anymore his botically his body has been Going through the everything, you know So him playing 40 minutes of him giving you 41 points and also trying to guard Luca is insane And they just can't do it. You know, they just can't do it. I just oh my god. I'm done I'm just done defending this team. Show me come back in this series. I Won't I'm not saying nothing else positive until you come back in this series because if you don't oh my god The Clippers are looking back just two years ago Clippers fans I know first of all shout out to you for actually watching this video Because this could be a definitely a day where you turn off social media and you just you get away from it I know it's hard right now Two years ago you had one of the most fun teams in the league you had an 8c wasn't 18 8c 70 That was down the biggest the biggest What is the word? They were losing by the most points in a single playoff game is what I'm trying to say and they came back and won Shay Gildes Alexander Galanari Lou Williams that team was Amazing that team was fun and you throw it all away Plus the future of your team to get Paul George and Kawai to construct this not a no super team It's not a super team, but it was like a Constructed team that was built to win a championship Sam Preston him got all those picks Got a future store and Shay Gildes Alexander and y'all might not get out of the first round After last you're not being able to get out of the second round Two years ago your fun a team with Kawai a team of Paul George a team with Patrick Beverly And and now we're John Rondo this should be a fun team to watch and it is the exact opposite Even in the regular season where things were looking good. I've come on this show and say yeah, they're winning games But visually it's not fun to watch even though statistically they have the best offense in a league They have one of the best defenses in the league. It just wasn't pleasing to the eye And now it's even worse because you're not winning It's insane. Let's talk about the Dallas Mavericks because well, I know this is a 4-5 matchup But it's not at the same time the Dallas Mavericks Talent-wise don't really match up against the Clippers and now that I'm saying this maybe that's not even true Maybe all little talent on the Clippers is extremely overrated We just see them and like oh this player this player this play these are all great players when they rally Maybe they aren't but anyway back to my original thought. They just aren't a team that many people picked to even Get out of five That's dead now. Maybe losing six. I don't know many people that picked the Dallas Mavericks to win this series even though They have do I want do they have the best player in this series? I don't know it doesn't matter even though they have a Generational type talent at the helm who showed us last year that in the playoffs this man can up his play even more from being like What fourth fifth and MVP playing this this man Luca Donchich And I don't know how many words can explain how amazing this man is as a team as a team They shot 50% from the free throw line I cannot like if they would have lost this game because the Clippers Had his little run towards the end if they would have lost this game able to point it directly directly to the free throw shooting They shot 58% from the field Which is more than a free throw 53% from the three which is close to their free throw percentage and 54% from the free throw line Insane Tim Hardaway, Jr. It was way more than a roster or a salary-filling guy when the poor zingers tray went down You know I'm saying like they were talking about this on the broadcast I think at the end of it They were like oh, I know the next regret this and I'm like I don't think they do not send it You know I'm saying the next the next is doing quite okay right now. They don't really they're not looking at all man We shouldn't have traded away Tim Hardaway, Jr. They're doing completely. Okay, you know But Tim Hardaway, Jr. Be in that guy because everybody knew that Tim Hardaway, Jr. Can hope everybody knew and like I said in the last Episode I love a guy that's hot going into the playoffs and he continued that street today Everybody knew he can hoop the the main thing for Tim Hardaway, Jr. Has always been his consistency. He can go four games average of 20 Then you'll have five games average of 12 and bad efficiency, but in the playoffs so far He has been stellar poor zingers had a better game than the first even though they are a few times because the Clippers went Ultra small in the end of this game and then the Mavericks stuck to their guns They played poor zingers. They were playing max again even before max he came back in the game They had to wipe out Brazilian his head like was a Reggie Jackson and rondo guarding him. He's like nah, I'm gonna sit here at 20 feet out. I mean, I guess it don't matter at the end of the day But there's definitely one play on the low post or per zingers had and Rhonda on them the man didn't put the ball in the floor to like maybe back Rhonda down He just tried to turn around a shoe right over him and completely completely completely missed people like man I don't I don't see the Dallas Mavericks shooting 50% from three again Dora Finney Smith ain't gonna hit that many threes. You're right. He probably won't But then you're Tim Arthur with junior hitting his threes and of Luca has been an up-and-down three-point shooter his whole career If he's making five of 13, it's unstoppable. It really just is Who else who else? Really cally stein and his 15 minutes was really big for the team This is the definition of a front team to watch. It just really is so shout out to the Dallas Mavericks taking his lead And then they going back home It's hard to say anything other than hey the Dallas Mavericks win this series But it's the NBA and anything can happen so sad to them at least it was fun It was a fun game overall to watch that I spent ten minutes talking about that I surely did let's get to game number two before we end today's episode because the Lakers bounce back I was ready to name this video um The city of LA city of winners It's just something corny if both of the LA teams won But one of them then first of all the NBA is really just messed up by starting these games 30 minutes apart from each other So like as much as I wanted to deep dive into the Clippers game or I guess the Mavericks game or deep dive into this Lakers victory I couldn't because I was trying to dual screen it and listen to commentary on one But switches to the other one a commercial came on but this is what I took away from the Lakers win Anthony Davis came to play we knew he wasn't going to put up 12 a game in this whole series and he came to play He showed he played show this fire drew a ton of fouls He drew a ton of fouls, but like people are always say kidding. You look at the look at the free throw this Barrage, but it wasn't it was one and I know Devon Booker shot ten free throws in the last Minute and a half um, but like when you when you talk to me about a team getting more calls than the other Put together a video and show me this this was not a foul or this was a foul because I was watching this game When Anthony Davis was fouled he was fouled, you know what I'm saying? He worked hard for those 21 free throws and they needed that LeBron James obviously had a better game than game number one But he ain't he ain't playing with that same aggression as he has in this entire career And maybe that goes to what he said before the playoffs even started I'll never be at a hundred percent because he's not driving to the lane whatsoever They didn't really need it today LeBron hits again another game where he had one of the most crazy Threes to ice it or put it away just LeBron type things Drummond good game from Drummond It wasn't one of those games where you look at the stat line and be like oh he had 12 and 12 where he was As today was a game where he had 15 and 12 and it felt like he had a positive 15 and 12 in this game especially early into it and like I mentioned earlier. We got the Marcus all Minutes the Marcus all minutes were great. He was flabby. He was everywhere They were leaving them open and he capitalized. There was one late in the fourth quarter Where he got the ball on the wing open for three He took like four seconds winding that shot up and he made it, you know, they were guarding him out there And he made that shot. Um, what what else came here KCP? He looks at the basket in the first quarter and he'll miss his first two shots And he'll stop looking at the basket LeBron got to get into his ear because MVP KCP is a real thing So we need him. I'm saying we they need him to shoot better But the real MVP other than of course the top two guys we didn't assure they're playing Dramatically better in game number two than game number one, but I hated this game Mostly because CP couldn't play he finished with 22 minutes and he didn't play down a stretch now luckily for the two I mean, maybe not luckily they still lost. Cameron Payne is a backup has been Tremendous for them But when it mattered the most when it was the last couple minutes of the game You can desperately tell that you needed Chris Paul out there. You just didn't Cameron Payne is cool. Devon Booker is a good playmaker But they needed that veteran because you have to remember without Chris Paul on his team This is with the second youngest team in the playoffs, you know, I'm saying so if Chris Paul is not on the court You're running out players that have never played playoff minutes before and you saw that in the last couple minutes Man, they couldn't get a bucket. They turned them ball over a few times and a couple just bad shots Chris Paul would have Nope, I got this. Let me get to my spot in this little mid-range area I'm gonna make a few, you know shift the momentum a little bit Especially since we at home, but they didn't have that I don't know what the status is gonna be for my boy for game number three But it's just even in the minutes. He did play. I'm like, I was just thinking to myself Just don't play him, you know, let him rest. He ain't he's not here I know he wants to I know the team wants him to because he's such a big part of it But at this point, he's more he's not playing like himself. So I'd rather I'd rather have camera pain play right now Well, what a what a time we live in it. That is a real sentence DeAndre Aden followed up his first diamond a game with another one But obviously the Lakers also brought in their firepower with the big man It was it was a good game again I didn't like it because Chris Paul didn't wasn't able to play and if Chris Paul is playing They I think they I think they win this game. Michael bridge is not a good game. J crowd are not a good game I don't expect them to continue to shoot this poorly But it is what it is man. It is what it is the other game that happened to scrimmage. I turned it off after the first couple minutes Then Blaine Leonis, which I had no interest after the first couple minutes We were at the studio The not the studio the set I think because when I say studio people think like music studio not music studio We were at the set and this game came on we start watching it And we were like y'all gonna go get some food. So we went to go get food Looking at the box score here. Here's my analysis strictly based off the box score Kyrie James Harden Kevin Arant Joe Harris Blake Griffin are all all very very good at basketball. So Yeah