 What's the word y'all welcome back to the playoff recap we had some big things happen today some teams And we thought might have been down and out fight back to to keep a series alive. We got a legendary performance from a 1722 I don't know how old Jason Tatum really is. I know the memes, but I legitimately couldn't tell you is he 23 He's old enough to father tile because deuce is always in the core after pops put up a big game Every time Jason Tatum puts up 40 plus you can expect to see his son Summer really close seem like a son is only dead when things are these are going great was was was a son there for those first two games Maybe he wasn't there. That was why Jason Tatum played so bad in those first two Actually deuce is not jumping on the bandwagon. He is the he is the controlling factor in Jason Tatum's performances But we'll get to that a little bit later. Let's start for the first game of the day the Atlanta Hawks Get a win at home. Take the lead on this series when a lost game to Trey young was walking off the court We see y'all in the a we see y'all in the a they saw him in the a and I they Kicked them in the a as well You know I'm saying this man Trey young came out and it's just so cool to see so many young players and this year's playoffs Like think about all the young players that are leading a team or just having big-time performances We saw three in every single game today. We saw a player that is younger than 24 23 I don't know have wrist historic great performances, right? We got Trey young We got we got Luca Don just even though they end up losing and of course Jason Tatum No, we just talked about it's just so cool to see man You just use can't help but to look at me like the NBA's in good hands because I'm projecting that all three These players will be in the playoffs a bunch throughout their career and they can I guess only get better to some extent but the Atlanta Hawks get another one and a lot of that is due to the fact that Nobody showed up for the New York Knicks They had literally no offense other than Derek Rose and I felt so bad for D Rose man Because these are those type of performances that if you get a win with a performance like this You won't you everywhere every time Derek Rose does have a great performance It's all of a sports center because everybody loves their gross He's a fan favorite across the entire league across the entire globe Everybody knows that but to put up 30 and be the only source of offense in the playoff game kind of sucked for D Rose man Julie's Randall third game in a row where he was is absolutely absolutely terrible And I've been seeing people calling them a fraud and all these type of things Oh, shouldn't have won most of who player and that's always so weird to me. It's literally a regular season award You know, it's a regular season award and it's not like I don't know I never understand it, but he's getting clamped up to the maximum. I'm giving a lot of credit to maybe millen I'm giving a lot of credit and I mean a ton of credit to this man a DeAndre Hunter going into this series I think one of the things I said in my preview is Julius Randall average like 40 points per game against them this season Look it up. It was close to 40 points per game in those three games They played against Atlanta and I'm like, bro Obviously he could just dominate this team. He did it all regular season But what I did not remember what I did not realize is DeAndre Hunter didn't play in two out of the three games of the regular season And DeAndre Hunter is one of those dudes that is going to be one of the greater perimeter defenders in this league He's already great He's already great and he's a he's a relatively young player I know he spent a couple years in college instead of the typical one and done that we see nowadays But he's a young player and he has the ability to do something like guard a guy that is as physical as Julius Randall Because there's one thing that Julius Randall loves and that is contact. He absolutely loves contact He's banging bodies a strong old man. The Atlanta Hawks match that energy and have been destroying them They've been they've been shutting them out There was plays in this game where Galanari who's never been known as a great defender Um, he had his years where he's actually pretty solid I guess but never known as a great defender gets to Julius Randall Simon he's drawing fouls. He's getting in the picking pockets and calls and turnovers. You're like, man They really had a scheme because honestly speaking New York Knicks had that run Like a like a month or and a half two month run with their offense was like top 10 But other than that for the rest of the regular season, they weren't an amazingly Gifted offensive team. They had they have held their hat on the defensive side of the ball and for the most part in this series They've been doing a decent job defending But in 2021 putting up 94 points in a game is typically a L, right? So they've never been a great offensive team. So the may big men was like, hey, we're gonna focus on their all-star Take him out of the game completely and let everything else fall into place R.J. Barrett has another really bad game the top two scores for the team in the regular season both put up stinkers 4-4 if I for for 24 as a as those two alone for 21 points. That's me doing quick mathematics with my somewhat of a high school degree college degree a little bit of both a little bit of both Is it over for the New York Knicks? Not by any means not by any means because the one thing we could take away from another game in this Today of Jason Tatum going off for 50 is that it just takes a switch Jason Tatum was terrible for the first two games Terrible for his standards like I think he was average of what 15 points per game That's unacceptable for a guy like Jason Tatum just like it is unacceptable for a guy like Julius Randall was an all-star to play like this But he could be better and he probably will be better in game number four Maybe it's a possibility that he does suck me game before as well But a lot of credit to the Atlanta Hawks man a click a pellet I don't know how I got this far into without mentioning the name click a pellet because if you watch my podcast Listen to my podcast You know that hit click a pellet like top three of my defensive player of the year voting and hopefully you saw some of that Or you're seeing some of that in the playoffs right now When he's on the court the defense is just ridiculous and you saw a lot of that John Collins still hasn't had a game just yet in the playoffs Getting early fouls and game two in an early thousand game three He finished with 14 points, but I'm assuming that John Collins is gonna have a performance that's over 20 points relatively soon I don't know if it's this series and if they get out of this series I don't know if his next series with John Collins is too talented I'm offensive player for him to only be putting up 14 points and then Lou Williams had a stretch where he scored like What six points by himself and that has happened and a couple of these games where they ended up winning? So south in Atlanta Hawks taking his lead. I know that players or people like Like Spike Lee who are the die-hard fans that are traveling with not with the team because I don't think he's on the plane I think he'd like he's got enough money to get his own little private jet Games like this and I understand they have two games in Atlanta But you fly on the private jet to watch your team in the playoffs and then they lose like I will be Kind of mad on that that playing right home like I was on the team But they got one more game in Atlanta now if they lose both of those then yes, Spike Lee's plane ride back home is going to be Not amazing. Let's move on to the next game The next game is the Brooklyn Nets versus the Boston Celtics like I mentioned a couple times about the series It is very hard for me to focus in on two games at the same time And while the Atlanta Hawks and the New York Knicks game was going on the Brooklyn Nets of Boston Celtics game started and I mean I was keeping up with it But obviously I wouldn't go as in-depth in this one as I would be in some of the other games Unfortunately because I guess I missed I didn't miss it But I didn't get the full extent of an absolute banger of Jason Tatum dropping 50 if you watch my podcast You know that when we were previewing this series What I said is for the for the Boston Celtics to just get at least one game two things have to happen Jason Tatum needs to go for 50 and they need to kill the offensive glass Both of those things happen today Look at me now. I'm wrong about a lot of stuff, but I'm gonna run away with this win I'm running away with this one Jason Tatum putting up 50 and the crazy thing is the way he got the 50 The Brooklyn Nets I mean it took him a very very long time to stop switching Kevin around off of him Like it would be the smallest a little low screens and they're like, all right All right, it's your assignment now Kyrie and Kyrie's what six seven inches shorter and Jason Tatum Just gonna shoot over you then they start to bring a double team It didn't matter he was shooting over the double team with James Harden and Kyrie Irvin he's one of those guys man They can single-handedly bring you a victory because he is so gifted on the offensive side of the ball and he's only This many years. Oh, I don't know the numbers. He's he's young He's young and he's already doing these things at the biggest moments in the biggest stages and in that home That's big man. A lot of people counted them out and I'm gonna keep it a buck I'm still picking Brooklyn to win the series This game doesn't change that but it's good to see the fight in them Especially after those first two games like the last recap we had on the day a game day for them I told you I stopped watching after three minutes It is very rare for me to be like I don't know watch this playoff game That is how bad they had been as a team leading up into this game So you got the 50-point arm for Jason Tatum and then the last couple minutes Marcus smart showed his value I mean, I guess throughout the entire game He shot 72 73 percent from the field But what I saw in the last couple minutes was him drawing thousand Kyrie Irvin him John thousand Kevin Out of a timeout hit him hitting shots and him being that leader that you need him to be a lot of people expect him to be It's unfortunate that of course they're missing Jaylon Brown I mean this team is significantly different with Jaylon Brown But Marcus smart stepping up Kimba Walker had a dreadful game when it comes to scoring the ball But he hit one of the biggest shots in the game and he ended with a bunch of rebounds Speaking of rebounds Christian Thompson was the reason that they killed on the offensive side of the offensive glass Ended with nine offensive rebounds by himself right The Brooklyn that's that is there the reason I had said Whatever team is going against the Brooklyn that's in it's gonna be the Brooklyn that's needs to kill the offensive glass There's a reason I said that because they don't have that they don't have the great defensive rebounding player They have DeAndre Jordan, but DeAndre Jordan doesn't get PT anymore. He's just saying as good as he was back in a day So like yes, like I said the Brooklyn that's are winning the series right Next round they're probably going to get Milwaukee Milwaukee is an amazing offensive offensive rebounding team Could that be the x-factor we go I'm getting a little ahead of myself I know I'm getting a little ahead of myself, but that could be x-factor determine in what and who wins that series Are you got a 40 piece from James Harden that didn't mean a thing Kyrie had a struggle of a game for him But like KD and James Harden Had 80 is that mom at 80 they had 96 points is a big three and lost 96 out of 119 Nobody else showed up for them and they end up losing this game the next one. Oh, man This is a crazy one because the way it started off You thought this series was over Jalen Rose said this is the biggest game and Clippers history going into it And I completely understand why now I can see an argument of last year game 7 against Denver being the biggest game of history but this one might be bigger just because Kawaii could walk and losing Kawaii sets you back dramatically, but they end up getting his win, right? I mean Luca Dodges comes out what he hits the first 8 points for the team And then Tim Hardaway, June hits another one and now it's 11 to 2 to start the game You know the Clippers are getting punched in the mouth because they Credit to Tyloo, I can't believe I'm saying this credit Tyloo It took them two games in a couple minutes into game number three to realize this that you can't be switching Zubat since Luca Dodges, I don't know why I took him so long But eventually out of the Lucas court, you know what 8 points in the first quarter He's like, you know what Zubat you got to come out and the only reason Zubat is there is because you have like Porzingis you have Dwarf and Smith. These are bigger guys. These are big forwards So you need a guy like Zubat to box out box out I'm I guess not because Porzingis doesn't rebound the ball But a guy like Zubat you can see his value when it comes to the little things But they switch everything so there's no value in there because Luca's gonna see that he's gonna step back He's gonna hit that shot Tyloo takes him out of the game And then this is where the superstar power of the Clippers took over because we had Kawaii learning starting off I think 9 for 9 from the field and then Paul George decided he wanted to take off And have one of his best games of the series or his best game of the series one of his best games of the season because of the stakes That are involved in it big-time moments from him big-time game from them And then hey the one of the things we said when we were recapping game number two is that like this team was one of the Best three-point shooting was the best three-point shooting team in the entire league and I didn't project that they were gonna continue to Shoot 20% from three guys like Marcus Morris who was like number two in the entire league at 3 per percent Had a number two type of three-point percentage game, you know I'm saying he shot three for five So those are the little things that matter Reggie Jackson gets uncertain to start line up He has a positive impact if you ask me And it's just they played better in this game even when they could have rolled over because of how bad it started I mean if they would have went down 3.0 Wow the amount of memes everything on Twitter You know how the world hates the Clippers like the video that I dropped about the Clippers three days ago Or whenever game two was was one of my best performing videos of all time and I didn't even have anything click baby in a title I just said they embarrassed themselves which was affecting game number two Like I'm gonna have something in a title today about the Clippers winning a game And I guarantee you it doesn't do as good because it's not as fun to give Clippers the praise But they deserve it after this game They deserve it after this game, but the Dallas never still have home corn advantage The biggest thing from Luka Donch is that I could take away as beautiful as he was a 44 point game Man, he had to hit his free throws, bro. Oh My god, it was hard to watch For guy that gets to the free throw line as much as he does or a guy that like I believe he's gonna get better at Drawing fouls throughout his career. He's still super young. He shot 13 free throws today He shot 7 for 13 as a guard as the point guard. That's that's unacceptable. Honestly There are not many superstar players that can get away with this type of free throw percentage I think LeBron is like the only one But like the elite of the elite scores in the league Typically are at least positive free throw shooters and Luka has to get to that point sometime in his career Because I feel like it's gonna bite him eventually Him missing a couple free throws today six free throws today the grand scheme doesn't matter I guess if he hits every single one of these free throws, they still lose But it might hurt them down the line sometime I might hurt them down the line So I took a wash out to PG for keep fighting and that's pretty much it man. Tomorrow's slay the games We have game four of Milwaukee versus Miami. Could it be the end of the series? We all it's tomorrow Saturday Oh, I love Saturday, but I hate it too because it's basketball all day and sometimes the brother just needs some some sunlight We don't get that around here very often on Saturdays and Sundays because to get first game starts at 12 30 my time 12 30 12 30 and they won't stop it to like what midnight They don't give you an hour little thing between game two and between game three They give you like an hour to take a nap and that's simply what I do then after that it's like bro It's a straight basketball. It's a blessing in the curse, but it's part of my job I got to sit here and do those things so let me know what you think about these three games man South to Tatum South to Kawaii and PG and South to Trey young and Deandre Hunter I guess Klingopella It can't be herder and Lou Williams everybody play well for them