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Welp, the first round of the Western conference is done. Here's some of what I saw, and what I believe is coming as the NBA gets a 2nd round match up that very well may top the finals in terms of viewership.
HELLO!
Wanted to correct the hilarious mistake in the video where I'm saying AD had 55 BLOCKS in 6 games
I ain't been sleeping and I'm not sure what I heard on broadcast that got my wires crossed
He had 26 BLOCKS in 6 games ☠️
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LAL best midseason team upgrade I have ever seen. LAL in 6 is logical, but I hope for GSW. If they grow in playoffs they are hard to stop. But they come from a long way away.
Question I’m the suns if they do end up going out this round would 3 team trade involving Rudy gobert going to them and ayton going to other team work for them because I feel Rudy would be more effective in this team than ayton
Yeah I had to rewind that 55! Even 26 is crazy!
a 6 seed hosting homecourt in the playoffs is ridiculous 😂
😂
You know what else is ridiculous? An 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th seed in the 2nd round.
I love it makes everything unpredictable
@@blue-phoenix115you know what else is ridiculous? Every single seed 1-8 is in the 2nd round of the playoffs
😂😂
I mean AD had crazy block numbers but 55 in 6 games is kinda wild Dom that’s 9.16 blocks per game 😭
Yeah no AD had 26 which is still crazy
@@kleatise52 yeah 4 and a 1/3 blocks is insane
@@rex6830 Dom2k said this man had 55 Blocks! LMAO 26 is still great but dude said 55! I instantly checked stats cuz surely I'd have heard about this ninja having 55 blocks.
The whole lakers team had 55
No lie it felt like 55 it was a block party out there 😂
the NBA scriptwriters deserve a raise for these playoffs
I hope they wrote in a Suns Vs Lakers
Lakers/Celtics finals
@@1coven not happenin
@@1coven Fingers crossed 🤞🏾
On God I'm smoking a Jay right now and cough laughed so hard I almost puked 😅😂😂😂
This is the first time in NBA history with one of each seed number in the second round
Woah fr?
Denver, Celtics, 76ers, sun's, Knicks, gsw, Lakers, heat. I have no clue historically but that's pretty neat
Means the for every seed winner the same seed in the other conference lost. Which is cool symmetry
I just checked dude is correct, first time in nba history that each seed made it to 2nd round. 1994 1997 2007 2011 2012 2023 are the six times.
Neat
Ain't no way Adam Silver and the league of shadows were gonna let a LeBron vs. Steph series slip out of their hands.
Oh come on man, are we really gonna go with the refs narrative??? So now the refs droped that 50 bomb... Stop, just stop
Here we go with the refs rigging. We all know the refs favored the kings more than gsw. What killed u in game 7 wasn’t the refs it was Sabonis and free throws. If y’all shoot 59% on ft with 27 attempts it results in a loss. On top of Sabonis being the mvp runner up but plays really like a Ben Simmons. He has no rebound game, no offense game, no defense game. In the 3rd quarter he went 0 pts with 0 rebounds he was exposed this series
What about from 2020 - 2022 , when they missed each other 3 different times in the playoffs 😂
@@Astelch beside all of that... do u enjoy the basketball games today?... got year after year its getting more bored. am i the only one?
@@Kushenable only one
If you exclude the 2021 playoffs(AD injured) for Lebron, the last time Lebron was eliminated from the playoffs that wasn't from a finals loss was 2010(2nd round exit). The last time time Curry was eliminated from the playoffs that wasn't in the finals was in 2014(first round exit).
Someone is being eliminated in the 2nd round. It will feel weird because when we think of the teams of Lebron and Curry, they usually go to the finals and win or lose. It's been a long time since either one lost before the finals.
And it didn't look like a setup either!
Cause you know, Kings and Lakers would've brought back a certain historical reference 😆
Big facts right there
The historical reference being a time the league was already caught setting something up lol 😂
Steph was running the court like the Roadrunner😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
All series, meep meep lol
Road runner is a good one
Like Sonic The Hedgehog To Be Exact LOL
Adam Silver was so relieved when the warriors won game 7😅
The toxicity of the bron and curry stans will be at its peak. This will be cinema
I’m a curry fan but I always put respect on bron. Even at age 38 he’s been amazing. When these two retire within 5 years people will then notice what they been taking for granted
let us all pray we get a healthy seven game series 😎
Please be a 7 game series 😭😂😂🤣. About to be toxic asf
As a gsw fan this will be fun to watch and read those upcoming comments from both sides can't wait to see those arguments LMAO.
Been following you for a few years now, i gotta say it's really hard to find better nba commentary and analysis content than yours dom, u great!! keepin us well updated all these years
Honestly when Dom explains why a team is going to win, I usually trust his insticts.
55 blocks
Boy I can't wait for Dom to do a sequel to that Bulls-Celtics series with this Kings-Warriors series
3 years later I’m still waiting on Bulls v Celtics 2009 playoff
You missed ONE but VERY important issue with Sabonis, his inability or rather his unwillingness to go right in any way, shape or form. Nobody but to blame but himself for his woes, he clogged and limited himself to only one half of the key because of this which made defending him easier than it should have been
Not too many people seem to realize he has a broken thumb and has been playing on it since December
So happy for Kevon. When Curry haters make the "He has a superteam" argument, Loony's name will pop-up now.
What last year bro ! No super team
warriors has not been a superteam ever since kd left and klay came back from the injury.
Looney can be called for a foul at almost every rbd, he pushed back Sabonis all the time, but smh the ref never give a call for sabonis
Wow you got all your predictions right, well done
we still have the next few years to watch Ja vs Fox.
And I will always root for Fox. He plays beautiful basketball like gsw and is humble enough to respect whenever he loses. Ja on the other hand the Cancun dynasty never doubt
Fox > Ja
Funny how a calendar year changes the perception of 2 players
Ja has one play off series win in his career and Fox has zero.
You might as well he asking to see the Magic vs the Hornets 😂😂😂
@@mattr2626 hell naw 😂
The play at 2:59 from Curry is crazy! The dude’s incredible
Incredible double dribble
@@krlllx on second glance looks like he got away with one. Man he’s the first ever player in NBA history to have a non call like that huh? The way he dribbled circles around the Kings was still crazy! U guys bitch over everything nowadays!
@@krlllx ok and dosnt take away from the shot and the refs will miss calls it’s old heads with human eyes and response times genius
@@jrdb04 Double dribbling on a play definitely takes away from a shot. Imagine how much easier it would be to score it would be if that was allowed.
It’s not about what’s allowed-It’s about what you can get away with
No matter who wins it all this year is exciting. Even if warriors/ celtics win its huge for player rankings and all time rankings.
12:46 AD really took that to heart
Oh yeah!! Glad to see your predictions again!!
As a Lakers fan I really wanted you to pick the warriors so we would avoid the Dom Curse….thanks a lot Dom.
@BuzzinFromda4z we’ll see
@BuzzinFromda4z facts
@BuzzinFromda4z Lebron lost 2015 & this is a 7 game series instead of one and done lol. Don’t count your chickens
@@webslinger4733 without k love and Kyrie though
Anti-Dom Curse has been activated, the curse is reverted back to his own team the Celshits
I've always gone with if two teams match up in talent levels, then I pick who has the coaching advantage and Kerr blows that match out of the water
Bogut going down played a bigger role than people give credit for, that was a pretty integral tool that kerr no longer had to work with
@ToldYouSnowBenIsBest this is the point I bring up when people talk about that they won a championship the year before by taking bogut out of the lineup. They used there "death" lineup which was more effective
Update: the eastern conference got interesting with harden popping off for 45 beating the Celtics in the racism dome
with rockets harden Philly is unstappable
I'm glad we finally get to see a Warriors-Lakers series where both teams are at a comparable level. Agree with your thoughts - I think a couple things will be key -
1 - How will LA and Golden State target each other? We know Anthony Davis is much, much more mobile than Sabonis. The Grizzles felt that. I'm expecting to see more switching from AD, less paint presence for the Warriors, just as I'm expecting Draymond's defense on LeBron (or whatever other big wing he guards) to be critical, but given that AD is mostly a non-shooter, will the Warriors be playing off of him, what form does that take, and how will that compare to how LA will try to exploit Draymond? Will we see some screens inside the 3-point line to get Davis open as a lob threat, like earlier in LA's season?
2 - How does LA hold up against the Warriors' movement? They have great defensive personnel and size, and can shrink the floor while hustling and cutting off lanes to the rim, however, as good as Jarred Vanderbilt & Dennis Schroeder were at staying connected to guys off of screens, can they adjust when they have to go over and track Steph & Klay for a whole game? Do Vando's offensive shortcomings limit his minutes here, and if so, how do the Lakers respond?
3 - What version of LeBron do we see in this series? At times he had some solid games, but at other times, fatigue and his recent foot injury seemed to catch up with him. In a series where some of the bench pieces might struggle a bit, will LeBron be able to ramp it up? How much does having an off shooting year like this impact his ability to manipulate the defense and create open looks?
Also agree with your feelings about PHX. As a Suns fan (nominally, at least), I feel that (1) given that Chris Paul isn't what he was even last season, let alone two years ago, this is not a superteam; (2) they're clearly still integrating KD into the offense, and while Monty Williams is great at putting in structure and discipline on both ends, he's not an Erik Spolestra. He's not going to go out there and just do crazy shit nobody else would've thought of, and that structure is still being developed; (3) PHX lacks depth. And I mean they seriously lack depth. Outside of those four guys there's a big drop-off - no disrespect to Ish Wainwright, TJ Warren, Terence Ross, or Torrey Craig - they're valuable, but two of those guys as starters, when two picks are limited offensively and two defensively? I just don't think it's enough, and that, along with the math problem and Chris Paul's understandable lack of willingness to take a bunch of pull-up threes (and age limiting his ability to get to the cup) means I'm fairly confident Denver is winning this series. They still have defensive issues, and Jokic has had some weird stuff going on (his touch isn't what it normally is - I heard he might have a wrist injury), but I think their depth relative to the Suns and their ability to mix up their coverages a little bit will get them this series in 6.
I got the outcomes of the Lakers-Grizzles, Warriors-Kings, Celtics-Hawks, Clippers-Suns, & Nuggets-T-Wolves series correct, with the Warriors, Suns, Nuggets, & Lakers right on the money.
My predictions for these series were:
Celtics in five (will probably be wrong on the number since Philly won game one)
Nuggets in six
Lakers in 7 (just decided on this one)
Heat in 7
Honestly, I hope I'm right with these predictions, because then we get to see a Nuggets-Lakers and Celtics-Heat rematches that could lead to a repeat of the 2020 Finals or a classic Celtics-Lakers showdown, which is something we haven't had since...2010?
I think Bron will have a much better time in this series, even though his foot likely isn't getting any better. Sometimes he didn't want to drive bc he saw that JJJ was ready to play help side defense but the warriors dont have interior defense like that. I think the deciding factors likely will be the rebound battle between AD and Looney and if the Lakers can hit their outside shots at a decent clip. One huge advantage the warriors have is coaching, and it likely will matter a lot in this series since Darvin Ham has been very slow to adjust lineups and rotations
Great analysis but I think you mixed-up by asking "how does LA's defense react to Warriors" after point 1 and point 2 instead of saying "how does Golden State react to the Lakers actions" the first time.
Also one last thing you didn't mention but I think is significant with a Lakers/Nuggets and Heat/Celtic conference conference Finals would be the same as the bubble matchups, maybe that would finally put to rest some of the arguments for those teams (besides the Celtics) that those runs weren't flukes but legit since they were able to all do it again 3 years later - with the same stars but different supporting casts.
@@navonmyhand7999 Thanks for pointing that out! Yeah, having the matchups be the same as what they were in the Bubble would help put to rest some of the "fluke" talk, especially for Denver - it feels like a decent chunk of people are convinced you can't build a good defense around Jokic and are convinced he's not an MVP-level player because of that. For GSW and Miami, it'd be validation as well, but I feel like the expectations weren't very high for either team heading in. Either way though I'm really excited.
After Game 2 your Statement on the Nuggets/suns Stands true!!
That series is MID 🤮
The NBA is about to get all of the money they lost during the pandemic back with the GSW vs Lakers series.
No injuries, no superteams, no bullshit. I pray this goes to 7.
hey man i’ve been watching for over 5 years and it’s good to still see your content. thank you brotha
This rivalry is when I became a Knicks fan. And to be able to watch them currently in the playoffs vs the Heat is great series tied game 3 today. Go KNICKS!
Following Kevin from team to team is crazy😭 p.s. Aaron Gordan is grossly underrated, it’s the orlando years
WCF happening on the 2nd round already? Sheesh 🔥
I want the Lakers to win, but I feel like the Warriors are well made to counter all of LAs strong suits. Probably Warriors in 5
All the running they do and the pick and rolls, I don't think the Lakers can handle it unfortunately
@@twincitydezray yeeeeeeeeah.😓
@@LeRoiDuFresne
The Lakers have to make their shots and play intense D and maybe they'll have a chance
@@twincitydezray Maybe...
I'm exactly the opposite, I want Steph to get the W but this is gonna be hard af (and I'm generally a very negative person so...).
Literally unstoppable force meets immovable object, you don't know who to bet against with these two guys.
One thing I can agree with Dom tho is that this is gonna be the most toxic series in the last 30 years for sure, regardless of the outcome. Buckle up.
Warriors fan here. Kuminga 100% plays. For a couple of reasons. 1. He guarded Lebron well in the regular season and a few ball dominant super stars really(Kahwi and PG come to mind) Guarding in Iso is hos stronges skill. 2. Hes fresh and with a 1 day of rest set up we are gonna need him. 3. How much he plays will depend on his volume of mistakes. I can almost promose u he plays at least 10-15 mins game 1 and if those go well he could play as many as 25 in the series. The reason he didnt see the floor in the kings series is the ball movement. Hes a A- on ball defender but once the ball starts shooting all around he has a tendancy to foul and get flustered. Personally i think u also see alot more of Moody in this series. Hes also one of the most fresh and can guard like sized guys. Whitch is basically everybody besides lebron and AD. JMG could also see more minutes in this series because he basically DNPd the kings series. Hes more hit or miss though. Some games hes ass on defense and gets like 1 board and 4 pts. And some games he hits 3-5 3s has 5 boards and a block and isnt a traffic cone. But its alot more often that hes just meh. Jordan Poole has to fix his season in this series to keep pace with the lakers others. Thats the real X factor here. That and the lakers health....could easily see the lakers get thanosed into dust if AD breaks anything and with a 1 day rest speed run i dont think its likely he plays every game. Another factor in a complete shift of the warriors roll players is how small they all are. Trying to play Devenchenso and GP2 or lamb is asking for trouble vs this big ass team
Warriors or Lakers? I got Warriors winning in 6/7, most likely 6.
Lakers in 6
Lakers in 6 😂
@@youngsavage9874 not happening bud
@@quackmemes5410 not happening bud
@@saadsahi3741 my guy lakers in 6
Bro everyone forgetting Jordan Poole greatest strength. The baddies. Bro gonna go crazy in LA
Nuggets Warriors rematch!!
I like your take on the Warriors. Logical
No team with Chris Paul on it is a super-team, because we all know he's one mosquito bite away being inactivated.
7:25 I’m not going to lie, if Steven Adams alone wasn’t injured and was in play alongside Jackson, this series would have been seven games and a total toss up.
with "if" the Clippers would be on their 5th consecutive championship, if PG and Kawhi stayed healthy, if Westbrook was traded to clippers earlyer, if doc rivers never coached them
@@geyjibill1441 My guy, I just made an if scenario. We know its not reality. Besides, the Clippers are the Clippers. They'd find a way to lose no matter what. Lob City failed, this time failed, all other seasons failed, just failed. Although, one day, I do hope they win, just because of how special that would be.
Please do make a video about a playoff for the ages, the 2022-2023 quarterfinals faceoff between GSW & the Kings. Quite a nail-biter of a series but quite breathtaking.
Dom the 🐐
The NBA, like American politics, is forevermore the realm of the geriatric. Same names duking it out until it all comes crashing down. Young teams should manage their expectations
True but unlike politics, the new teams eventually become the set standard. Hopefully the kings can be one of that same names.
L take young teams have beat vets in the nba there’s no politics at work here
yo just wanna say thanks for these consistent playoff videos, I always look forward to them
You sound more relaxed in this vid. Good takes, my dude.
The Kings put up more of a fight than my poor Blazers ever could. Seriously, the the past decade we’ve played them in the playoffs, I think we’ve won one game. Jesus.
I was waiting for him to talk about the Sixers and Celtics game lol.
That 2011 Miami and PHX comparison is excellent.. 2011 Miami were so razor thin…
Warriors are a team who only trying when it matters like if post season qualification was on the line or in the actual play offs. Hence the road record regular season.
You spittin dom. Everytime gsw hit one of those Gsw shots I was like ok it’s time for a run, then the kings answer😭😭
I also wasn’t worried about the road record. They are way to seasoned for that to matter
Kings was a carbon copy of gsw. It was hard for them to beat themselves, they never faced a team identical. Due to Mike brown knowing everything about them, and still lost. Lakers coach ain't make brown.
@Darealist187 but that speed and offensive pressure the kings put on won't be here in the gsw vs lakers seires
@@Kidkinsey exactly. We can't predict, can only hope to see how the games play out. First game is a test for both team, not knowing what to expect, what line-up will be thrown at each other to counter or match up. Series starts at game 3
Harrison Barnes man...one jumper away from going 3-1 with 2 of 3 at Sacramento.
Bricking in playoff games since 2016.
Dillon Brooks is that sorry ass side character in a anime who's thinks he's the main character and then he gets bodied 😂😂😂😂😂
I thinks lakers warriors goes in the warriors favor, the kings served as a wake up call, Wiggins has some games now, and the perimeter d is way worse in the lakers, Poole will be better, it depends on AD to be dominant for them to steal the series. Warriors in 5
LEGACY DEFINING MATCH 🔥🔥
Hatchamora was playing like mj in game 1 vs grizzlies 😂
I was so hype when Barnes took the 3. I knew he was gonna miss after selling us in Game 6, and 7 of the 2016 finals
Dom got the scripts Fr bro😂 he got lakers in 6 on the dot lmao
Great video thanks for sharing!
AD is the key to the Lakers beating the warriors if he goes crazy like 27+ ppg they can win it but idk what we are gonna get from him he needs to be him for this team
i just want the Heat to make the Finals. I’m not even a Heat fan
Same I’m a Bucks fan
Im a heat fan and same
Yessir laker in the wcf
Good calls cept for the warriors series
Aside from Giannis and Embiid being injured that sucks but heres hoping no more injuries
Nuggets won with Jamal Murray shooting 3-15…. And now Cp3 is going through his annual playoff injury. Suns are in big trouble
Here after the Suns fell down 0-2 and CP3 got injured (again). Nuggets in 5 or a sweep.
Taking a 3 on a 1 point game with plenty of time, is crazy
Dom2k: *drops video convinced Celtics will waltz into the finals*
Malcolm Brogdon: "How about no"
Like fine wine, glad the MVP is back
The Warriors will struggle with defense, they'll probably incorporate a box and 1 strat to clog up the paint to slow down AD. Offensively they can spam High PnR and AD will either be stuck in the paint or be put on an island with the faster Warriors team. I predict Lebrons passing will be what tips the scale in the Lakers favour and if the Warriors can stop that then D'lo will have a fantastic series as the Warriors will have to depend on him missing.
LET'S GO DUBS
Just 26 blocks in 6 games my guy
Bold pick going Lakers! It'd be great to see AD play like he did in that series vs the blazers where they were the 6 seed and swept them. If the Lakers win it will be because of AD but I just can't count out Steph and Klay. This series is going 7 for sure
Not factoring in championship experience for the lakers and warriors series and confidently picking lakers to win is ASININE
Great video, Nuggets in 5
Warriors in 5, Nuggets in 5
Lebron vs Curry
Heat vs Knicks
Celtics vs 76s
The script is going crazy
Warriors vs Celtics is most likely for NBA finals...
The only surprise would be warriors not making finals or heat/Knicks making finals
I got warriors in six looking forward too it
besides bron vs curry warriors vs lakers will be a incredible series and will go 7 games interested to see how the lakers plan to guard steph and the warriors constant off ball screens and what team wins the series will be determined by which team has the better halfcourt offense
Rigged or not, this is EXACTLY what I wanna see
People just salty regardless but yes I agree rigged or not, they will STILL be watching
It’s clearly not 😂😂😂😂 DF y’all talkin bout
its not rigged
When I put 55 divided by 6 into a calculator and saw 9.1, I almost had an aneurysm. Thank god that was a mistake💀💀
Warriors in 7. You make great points, but I can’t bet against Steph right now.
I feel barns would be good on a second unit. But I doubt he'd be willing to take that kind of role. He's a solid non drama vet with a chip.
Laker vs Heat final
Amazing to see the seedings 1 to 8 in the second round 🤣😂🤣😂
All the hype and Ws win in 5.
Lakers dudes other than LeBron ain't ready. And AD will get hurt or gas out.
Praying the dom curse does it job for the lakers🙏🏾
TONIGHT WE GET LEBRON VS CURRY & HEAT VS KNICKS GAME 2!
As a half Lithuanian i am really upset about Sabonis performanece, because every Lithuanian can shoot 3 pointers not with 40% but he bricked a lot of 3s....
Shout out to Harrison for averaging 5 points in game 7's 😅
Why do you warriors fans hate Barnes 😅
@@NotGord no… its more kings fans. Just go to that video of Barnes talking about the elimination and him wanting to stay with the kings. They were all like “I want him to come back to gsw” and someone replies “yeah let him choke in the playoffs for you instead of us” and “Barnes sold us the series” and “let Barnes go”
Doesn't the NBA always get what they want... The league is fixed
They activated the magnetic strips in the basketball and cranked up the power on the rim . 50 from steph was in the tea leaves
holy fuck magnetic rims???????????
@@Voye555 yeah bro the basketball has magnets built into the rubber. They just have to flip a switch in the rim and it’ll start attracting the ball. The nba is an entertainment business, you really think they dont have a hand in how things go? I mean how convenient to have a team trash talk Lebron and lose in dramatic fashion, and for their rivals the warriors go down 2 games(which have only succeeded in 7% of playoff series) and come back in dramatic fashion. Oh and how convenient an underdog known for going hot just happens to totally take over against one of the biggest stars in the league. Real real convenient
@@myrusEW crazy how none of the hundreds of people involved in the production/use of these magnetic basketballs has ever blown the whistle on this stuff. fame, book deals, talk show tours, etc all there for the taking. i guess that loyalty to adam silver just built different
@@tahmed6052 that loyalty to them paychecks. Dolla dolla bills yall
@@tahmed6052 its entertainment, and what you dont get is that theres no lid to be blown. It would be like if someone in the wwe started talking about how its all staged. No shit its not a competition, its a show
Hey @dom2k has anyone ever pointed out that you use ratchet and clank 3 music for your videos?
One of my favourite games so I thought it was cool.
VANDERBELT ENTERS THE CHAT
Been watching u a few years.. yeen got naan prediction right
Warriors in 4
Completely off topic but how did that ref call Klay’s shot in the corner a 3 standing when he was standing right next to him right there at 2:57 🤣🤣
Brooks is now an unrestricted free agent. Wonder where he'll find a home
Clippers for sure
Lakers about to get bent over.
If you really that you don't know ball. Lakers size and D is exactly the kind of team that can be matchup trouble for GSW. See beyond the Steph love fest.
Adam Silver to Kings and Grizzlies : im sorry little one
NBA gave the lakers a huge advantage in getting in the playoffs.