 What's the word y'all welcome back to the recap today? I got a lot to talk about me. I got a lot So before we even talk about The heat letting us down the Lakers toying with their food Austin rivers taking over a game. I had a rant about something man A lot of y'all were expecting an episode of called game recap yesterday and my apology Something came up that didn't allow me to watch as much basketball as I normally do and if I don't feel like I watched enough I'm not gonna force a video You know what I'm saying, but three things happen yesterday that I have to talk about have to run I have to ramble So give me a few minutes before we talk about today's slater games. Okay first thing to happen Russell Westbrook goes down with an injury He's walking back into the tunnel and a fan from DC decides to pour an entire thing of popcorn on Russell Westbrook's head If it wasn't for the training staff and those guards that were there Russell Westbrook was pulling the Steven Jackson pulling the metalware piece and going into going into the DC stands and smacking everybody So said out to the trainers for holding him back and excusable effects by the DC fan The second thing to happen We have this amazing series between your Lena Hawks and the New York Knicks Madison Square Garden is jumping the Knicks win a game and they're in the streets had going crazy for winning the playoff game But in the process of winning that playoff game Trey young is inbound in the ball and a fan that is close to court sad decides He wants to spit one of the biggest loogies I have ever seen and Trey young direction and I don't care the circumstance I don't care if you are my worst enemy spitting on somebody is the worst thing you can do It literally is the worst thing you can do in my eyes So that happened and the third thing that happens that may not have been getting that much press and that much coverage Is that the Memphis Grizzlies? They're new top course for game number two I'm a rent is in the process of having his best game of his NBA career, right? Like I said, I didn't get to watch as much basketball yesterday So this is one game that I miss live, but I went back to watch it. Jamarra is being unstop unstoppable. They lose his game Jamarra doesn't travel alone. He's got his family there So his family his dad and some other people in his family are cheering him on as they should the man Is having the best game of his young NBA career and while he's cheering his guys on Pop skits into a little altercation with a Utah Jazz fan and his altercation leads to the Utah Jazz fan Send some inexcusable racist things towards Jamarra and his family shout out to the teams because they found Individual culprit and banned them for life amazing But still this is one day of playoff basketball. We have three inexcusable offenses from fans Now, I'm not saying that this fan that dropped popcorn is speaking for the whole DC Every watch the Wizards fan same thing with Madison Square Garden same thing with the Utah Jazz fans But these things happen and it has to go away If there's one thing you learned from me ever ever my job is to talk basketball. I'm blessed I'm fortunate, but you have to remember It's just basketball, bro. It's a game And I know we're deeply invested in our favorite teams are deeply invested in the league, but it is just basketball, bro I see I see way too many times that people end up in these big old crowds were would like mindedness happens And they lose themselves, but you know, I actually I take that back I take that back the three people that did these three things They were assos going into it It don't matter if they were in a group mentality or what these are bad people doing bad things But I have to remind people we are just doing it's bouncing a little orange ball, bro I know we use it to get away from our normal lives and it's great. It's a good outlet, but it is just Basketball you could hate Trey young you can hate Russell Westbrook you can hate John Morett and his family But they are still people that you don't really know you don't know these people as much as you follow them on social Media is a thing you don't know these people these people have families and things I'm always pro protect the players or protect the people Like it's it's so crazy that it has to even be said But the fact that somebody decided that he wanted to And try to spit at somebody that he doesn't even know oh because Trey young has had two good games against your favorite team Because Trey young told you to shut up at the loudest and re That's my rent. It's just basketball y'all and even to a lesser scale We see stuff like this on Twitter all the time and part of it We're gonna talk about today. We should get to that Lakers game Let's start off by talking about the Miami Heat because just like that they are down 3-0 and another abysmal performance from the Miami Heat another performance that makes you really Mad and listen, I ain't going for either these two teams I thought this is about to be one of the better series when you think about what happened last year, right? The Miami Heat punched them Milwaukee Bucks in the face. You kind of figure the Miami Heat are basically the same team They lost Jay Crowder. They tried to supplement him with with Iggy They tried supplement him with with a little bit of Trevor Riza And I know the Milwaukee Bucks made a couple moves here But you expected this series to be more than the 3-0 series and I saw somebody on Twitter That was like, oh what a surprise the team with a negative net rating the whole season is actually bad Which is uh, I just I don't know man. Maybe we just got we got we got confused by the bubble run That's what it is. And I'm not one of the people to call them bubble frauds I've been seeing people photoshop them on like bubble guppy things. That's crazy. Y'all y'all are going a little bit too far But for them to be three games into this Jimmy Butler at one point in this game had like half of the team points early in the in the first half But in the second half he didn't do a thing. Bam out of bio is on a Missing poster. I don't know what happened to them out of bio this this series specifically because the whole season He's been good. He didn't make the all-star game, but he's been good He's been a defensive player of the year conversations. He's always been been solid But three games in this man has an impact at the game positively at all At all and I'm super excited to see what this office is It looks like for them because if I'm not mistaken. They have a max spot They have the heat culture that people are always talking about but is that real? Are we questioning the culture now? I want to give a lot of love to Milwaukee Bucks, man The honest before the series even started was like, I don't know if things are gonna be different. I don't know He didn't get too high. He didn't get too low And you know what? He probably has the same mentality right now because though it is a 3-0 series And it's like a 97% chance that you're gonna win this series He still has to know that hey, we want to put our foot on their nests Don't get them a single game and if the heat walk out of here with no games. Oh That's rough, bro That's really really rough. Drew. Drew Holiday has been the absolute xx factor that everybody thought he was Them giving up all the picks them giving up players And it doesn't matter at this point because Drew Holiday has already cemented himself in these three games as as the reason as the The saving grace of the Milwaukee Bucks because if you do not remember After the Drew Holiday trade, Yannis was like you got me. I'm in deal. I'll sign it. I'll sign it So you get your holiday who's been amazing for you You extend him you get Yannis of course to come back and now you have all these pieces around them They're a more complete team and this is gonna sound crazy because of all of the things that happened with coach But throughout the regular season and last year I was calling for his head last year because he made literally zero adjustments in the series last year Making adjustments in a series, but we saw a team last year that really switched anything to a team That is switching everything and being dominant this defensive performance that they've put on through these three games Has been led. I don't know if the statistics are gonna tell you this but it feels like it is as legendary They won by 30 and they didn't have a good offensive game You hear me they won by 30 and they didn't perform well on offense until we got like to the fourth quarter They start to pick it up, but until up until that point. They didn't even have a good offensive game I'm excited about this next series. I'm calling it's a wrap. I mean 3. Oh, it's a wrap You know I'm saying of that if the he can make a push and make a comeback that'd be crazy But you you don't come back from 3. Oh, especially with this type of momentum. I mean, it's it's insane shout out to the Bucks I'm excited for next series when they go against the Brooklyn Nets next game Let's talk about this Lakers versus Sun's game because things got really really chippy and I'm already seeing things on Twitter between the fan bases going at it this and that because before we even talk about the stuff That happened that mattered within the game. Devon Booker fouls out and the last foul Dennis shooters in the air Devon Bush Devon Booker pushes him and Jay Crowder kinds of give him a shove too and in my eyes I've seen people called calling them both ways and it's just been a few minutes since that game is wrapped up I've seen people calling them both ways that is a dirty slash bad play from Devon Booker. I love Devon Booker I even like Jay Crowder But I have to call a spade a spade Devon Booker did not go for the ball whatsoever and saw a player in a vulnerable position And made it even worse and excusable, so I'm okay with the ejection you have to send a notice I know these two teams are your chirping at each other is to play off This I think is what Anthony Davis says to playoffs the chirping at each other That's all cool and even the occasional hard foul is cool, but a defenses guy in midair. That's that's not cool to me That's not cool to me and I like I said, I want the Phoenix Suns to be competitive. I want the Phoenix Suns to win this series But the fact that Chris Paul can't play Is the real detriment to the team obviously? I mean he was the all-star player He's the captain. He's the guy that's an MVP conversations to some people and he just can't play I mean he ended with 27 minutes played. He's not shoot. I watched Chris Paul for a decade He very rarely unless he had a super big defender on him He very rarely goes to a different shot like a shot form since the shoulder injury Every shot is look different. He hasn't even felt confident enough to attempt a three in the whole series The entire series Chris Paul has not attempted a three because I don't know if he feels confident in that shoulder Now he did look better today than he did in game number two And maybe there's a bit of optimism for them for game number four because game number four is a do or die game I know people come back from 3-0 But I find it hard to see I don't see LeBron and Anthony Davis and company blowing a 3-1 lead I just don't see it. I just don't see it So they need to go into LA and win game number four and hopefully by the time this game happens Chris Paul is healthy This is a bad game for Devon Booker that the two players that came to show up was was Deodre Aiden and Cameron Payne I always wanted to call Cameron Payne a tank commander because of all the years He spent in Chicago how bad he was here We need so much better now man He was better than Chris Paul today and he was one of the reasons why they had that many come back in this game Because he had a couple shots. He was diving on the floor. He was getting steals He was everywhere today. I love to see a player out there really playing hard because I mean I guess his next contract is not really promised But after this playoff push, maybe it is J crowd absolutely terrible Absolutely terrible today man shot some shots some things that well didn't even look like they had a chance to go in I was seeing the number circulate on Twitter He he was like two for 30 or something from the three this entire series not the J crowd of me And you know not the J crowded that we got last year that helped that he get to the finals He's been he's been really really bad And it doesn't help that he's also guarding LeBron and LeBron Anthony Davis and the Lakers Have won the mental game against the Phoenix Suns and this is this is from my perspective I don't know how true this is But the fact that you had a flag refowl that that ended in two ejections kind of shows in a game that was already out Kind of shows that the Phoenix Suns kind of lost the mental battle at least in this game I'm not calling it for the series and the part of part of the way the Lakers do that is that they clamp you up It's hard to score in them, bro They got a Devin Booker got a good dose of KCP before he went out with his injury He got a good dose of Wesley Matthews and a little bit of been Macklemore and that was enough to throw him off of his game Jay Crowder was doing all the app it's a LeBron a LeBron is yapping yapping back and the LeBron's like You know what give me four isolations in a row with Jay Crowder, and I'm gonna just score I'm gonna get the crowd involved I'm gonna get the bench involved one of the greatest things I see with this Lakers team and why they're still so Very dangerous is a guy like Montress Harrell who was a six-man of the year last year He's been a big part of this team up to this point is get his Dean getting D&P's coach decisions But he's still on the bench yapping at the opposing team. He's still dancing. He even got a technical foul from not mistaken For just talking trash or whatever he was doing So they have this team camaraderie that you cannot be whatsoever and and one of the main things that I see with this Laker series is like The Suns don't have a big other than Deondra Aiden now Deondra Aiden has been the most consistent player in this entire series 100% or 100% But if Deondra Aiden is not playing and in this game he had to play 41 minutes It's just like free cheese Frank Kaminsky got seven minutes of play and it was a bad seven minutes You know what I'm saying so and then the Lakers have technically four centers They have four centers that they can run out there like I said my trez is not playing Anthony Davis. I'm classifying Andre Drummond again another good game It's two games in a row where Andre Drummond is starting to find himself a little bit as long as you're not giving Andre Drummond's his own personal feeds like giving him post touches. He's fine You know catch some lobs get some offensive rebounds. You're good and then you of course Marcus all getting them back in the rotation They have so many bigs It's just not a good matchup for the Phoenix Suns that only have Deondra Aiden as good as Deondra Aiden has been in this series So that that's a game that the worst thing about these things though And I think I mentioned this on the last episode of the call game recap Is that they're starting these games so close together that they make they make you pick in the regular season I have no problem watching multiple games because you don't have to give your whole attention on a Cavs versus I don't know pistons game I can have that just up and checking scores and looking for moments, but we're talking about playoff games I want to be able to sit down dissect Analyze every single minute of every single game But with the nets or the nuggets versus a trailblazer game starting 30 minutes later I didn't get to watch as much of this game as I really wanted to and it was the best game of the day According to like the lat like the final score. It's really unfortunate because I have a method that remedies this But if I do this method then we won't get recaps anymore like my guy days kids does it He's like hey I'm gonna focus on Lakers versus Suns tonight and I'm gonna wake up early tomorrow morning to watch nuggets versus blazers I would do that 100% but I know y'all like these recaps the night of you know what I'm saying So let me let me break down what I saw because I tuned in the last six minutes Basically after the Lakers game was over and it was also Rivers taking over There's also Rivers taking over Yoko's gets that last bucket But the crazy thing is bro at one point I think this is like a 12-point game for like a minute and a half to go the trailblazers decided They want to hit they wanted to hit more threes in the last a minute than they did in the entire game Dang CJ mellow had some moments in that fourth quarter by the end of the day Didn't matter and you know I was on the edge of my seat because I saw the Portland Trailblazers do this before Against my favorite team. They did it against us earlier this season or like Yeah, it's a nine-point game with a minute to go. It's a foul game. Oh, you miss a free throw dame Go ahead and shot. Oh, you miss two free throws dame. Go ahead and shot Oh, we caused a turnover dame go ahead and shot and then against us dame hit the game winner But he didn't get the opportunity today because with with Who fouled out use of nerk it's fouled out of the game Now you got Robert Covington as the center and Yoko just overpowered him for the offensive rebound tip up Boom by the BAM MVP player makes MVP play and they end up winning this game and it gives them a 2-1 lead They take home court advantage back from the Portland Trailblazers and again, this is one of the group one of the greater series We have two MVP caliber players going hand-to-hand. That's pretty much all I have for today Let me know what you think about this whole fan situation. I don't think there's a Fix to it because 99.9% of the fans that were in attendance to all of the games so far this year have been great They've been cool But it's just that point one percent or whatever of people that just take it too far Take it too far like even I even tweeted you gotta love brawn. It's okay to not like brawn I was just tweeting for myself gotta love brawn because when he was toying with Jay Crowder I had I got flashbacks. I love when LeBron is being great, right? And then I just saw some some very disgusting comments under my tweet about LeBron And it's not a LeBron century tweet But the fact that you would say like oh, I want to see X player tear their ACL that's that's that's very wild to me And it wasn't I don't want people to think it was a site wasn't even a Suns fan It was just somebody that hates LeBron, you know, it's just it's very weird to me. It's very weird or activity See people with people and I think everybody gets along