@@cantripleplaystheir starters are really good. They'll probably pick up some more scoring before trade deadline, and they have Jokic who is unguardable.
Giannis is very human, flaws and qualities, but not an ego monster like other stars. Its hard not rooting for him. Hey americans, are there Giannis haters out there ? I feel like he is mostly respected.
not a Giannis hater but he do got a decent amount of dirty plays ngl he just plays too reckless sometimes but can’t deny his greatness and his 2021 performance was special and hope he finally gets a healthy playoff run
OKC lacks size. No matter how good your defense is, if you're playing an all guard lineup or your center is natural SF, Giannis will eat you alibe in the paint. You cant teach size
I wouldn't say OKC didn't have a backup plan. It's more like their back up plan of getting into the paint and relying on Shai middies didn't pan out. The Bucks walled off the paint in the second half and Shai's primary defenders played excellent defense on him.
6:03 idk where u get ur footage from but stuff like this is such a joy to watch. Such insane athleticism, footwork and (contested) shotmaking in slowmotion & 4k like that is just a joy to watch man
NBA is becoming unwatchable. So many "entertainment" stops between plays. Watch Euroleague Partizan - ASVEL, you see real passion. Big songs, big show at the beginning then it's all about the game.
tv ratings will tell us that fans don’t care about the “nba cup” because it doesn’t affect playoff standings or anything, or isn’t a real tournament like what european futbol does with the champions league.
Tv ratings fall every year and aren’t an indication of anything because they only take into account American tv watchers. The finals have been in free fall viewership decline for years. I’m not even American along with all my family and friends that watch the nba so we’re not counted for 1, but 2 because of the expenses we all watch it on free streaming services and I believe that’s how most people watch it nowadays because there’s about 50 comments in a second on some of the sites and 99% of people just don’t comment while some other sites don’t even have the option to. The NBA is losing out on so much revenue and trackable views from that but finally 3 tv watching is just on the decline. All the younger people view short form content on social media which the NBA blows everything out of the water on. How to effectively monetise and cater to that properly to make it effective idk. But actual fans of the game and basketball care about the NBA cup and we watched and are still watching in more ways than ever but just not being counted
this just makes the MVP race between Jokic and Giannis that much closer imo, who's else is doing what they're doing? they're single handedly saving the league with their greatness.
Jokic won't have a chance unless the team gets a top seed. Voters expect much more for a back to back. Shai is the leader by a decent margin right now followed by Giannis who also needs a good team record to win it. Voters always prefer a new face so if the Thunder keep the first seed it's guarantee for Shai
Okc fan here... Okc down by 1 at the half. Only 1/15 3pt at that point. Id like to think 50% of rhe shots were good looks. Some were just thrown up as a hail mary after a while. Refs were calling pretty fairly both sides. But there were quite a few Sus calls. Like the one in your thumbnail which you didnt care to mention? Lu dort on the ground with complete possession of the ball, Giannis jumps on him and Dort gets called for the foul?? Hartenstein called for offensive interference eith refs saying rhe ball was in the cylinder. But was definitely out and trajectory away from rhe cylinder. Bad shooting game for us, gg to the bucks. 7 game series with Chet will be different.
Well it’s not the Finals I was there I bought tickets in the upper section ended up near courtside on Lower Levels not one person claimed that seat and yes the atmosphere was terrible If they say it was sold out it was a lie
@@terrellewilliams2188the competitive levels of the games were great but yeah the atmosphere is off being a neutral venue tbh. Unless you’re the Lakers with a diehard global fanbase which made it work well in terms of the crowd last year, any other team unfortunately just isn’t going to attract as feverish of a crowd in America unless you go international to somewhere with a lot of passion that has one of their guys in the team. But if it’s just 2 mid or small market teams playing in a neutral venue where most of the attendees will just naturally be locals because you don’t even know who’s going to be playing until a couple days out of the game, it’s just naturally going to feel like an exhibition game more than anything in terms of crowd atmosphere for sure
@chasebarricklow1154 name 1 player in the last 5 years who has more skills than the oldheads other than Wemby? There's more 40 year olds playing now than ever before. NBA is cooked
@@bigt4591 They're still obvious contenders though my boy, do you know what "contender" means? "Champion" and "contender" are not synonyms. I was there, I know they didn't win the championship last year, the mavericks didn't either. That doesn't mean the celtics are the only "contenders" lol
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5/32 from deep is insane. doesnt matter how good their defense is, if the thunder cant hit their 3s they're playing a losing game
That's why I see Mavs or Nuggets coming out of the west, they got both defense and offense.
@@fringe_minoritynuggets 3 point shooting isn’t too much
Man half of those shouldn't have been taken. So many off balance or contested threes because everyone is obsessed with them now
@@cantripleplaystheir starters are really good. They'll probably pick up some more scoring before trade deadline, and they have Jokic who is unguardable.
@@YunisRajabbut how much of that do you blame on coaching? Cuz obviously we know but at what point do you say hey ts ain't working let's try sum else
When you see one player having such impact on the number 1 defense that speaks for itself dude
So is Darvin Ham now 2 of 2 in the cup?
Yeah so is Taurean Prince lmao
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Giannis is very human, flaws and qualities, but not an ego monster like other stars.
Its hard not rooting for him.
Hey americans, are there Giannis haters out there ? I feel like he is mostly respected.
there are some giannis haters because of 2021, but majority of fans respect him
I don't see how you can hate him he has the mamba mentality and still has a fun personality
not a Giannis hater but he do got a decent amount of dirty plays ngl he just plays too reckless sometimes but can’t deny his greatness and his 2021 performance was special and hope he finally gets a healthy playoff run
Nice video like always man, you are a champion too
This channel is way better for recap than the "GOAT" channel.
The GOAT has to recap a lot of games in a week unlike heat who only does 2 to 3 games a video.
Nah goat is aptly named
Goat channel 🔥
What happend to rate game !?
Glad not to have to hear about it in videos tbh.
What I don't get is that if 3s are not going there is no backup plan
Welcome to modern NBA
OKC lacks size. No matter how good your defense is, if you're playing an all guard lineup or your center is natural SF, Giannis will eat you alibe in the paint. You cant teach size
@@Rebounder1010that too
I wouldn't say OKC didn't have a backup plan. It's more like their back up plan of getting into the paint and relying on Shai middies didn't pan out.
The Bucks walled off the paint in the second half and Shai's primary defenders played excellent defense on him.
6:03 idk where u get ur footage from but stuff like this is such a joy to watch. Such insane athleticism, footwork and (contested) shotmaking in slowmotion & 4k like that is just a joy to watch man
Darvin ham is undefeated in NBA cup play which is kind of hilarious.
What's hilarious? The nba cup or ham being undefeated?
So is Prince lmao
@@perrodepaja Both
Now I finally know everything!
NBA is becoming unwatchable. So many "entertainment" stops between plays. Watch Euroleague Partizan - ASVEL, you see real passion. Big songs, big show at the beginning then it's all about the game.
preach, my friend. 👍
Amazing recap Stephen thank you as always!
Giannis is looking unstoppable.. and passing like Jokic when he’s double/triple teamed 🤯
tv ratings will tell us that fans don’t care about the “nba cup” because it doesn’t affect playoff standings or anything, or isn’t a real tournament like what european futbol does with the champions league.
Tv ratings fall every year and aren’t an indication of anything because they only take into account American tv watchers. The finals have been in free fall viewership decline for years. I’m not even American along with all my family and friends that watch the nba so we’re not counted for 1, but 2 because of the expenses we all watch it on free streaming services and I believe that’s how most people watch it nowadays because there’s about 50 comments in a second on some of the sites and 99% of people just don’t comment while some other sites don’t even have the option to. The NBA is losing out on so much revenue and trackable views from that but finally 3 tv watching is just on the decline. All the younger people view short form content on social media which the NBA blows everything out of the water on. How to effectively monetise and cater to that properly to make it effective idk. But actual fans of the game and basketball care about the NBA cup and we watched and are still watching in more ways than ever but just not being counted
They badly needed Chet on defensive end.
The bucs are bringing back two bigs. Can anyone acknowledge it. You won't win if you can't stop two bigs.
Okc has 2 bigs, ones just injured
The brook lopez and giannis combo is so much deadlier than people realize on top of that brook can also be a stretch big
The Friday Cavs/Bucks game is about to be good.
Last NBA Cup champ was a 1st round exit in playoff, let’s see how it is this time.
that's what you called experience shai
this just makes the MVP race between Jokic and Giannis that much closer imo, who's else is doing what they're doing? they're single handedly saving the league with their greatness.
luka
Jokic won't have a chance unless the team gets a top seed. Voters expect much more for a back to back. Shai is the leader by a decent margin right now followed by Giannis who also needs a good team record to win it. Voters always prefer a new face so if the Thunder keep the first seed it's guarantee for Shai
Crazy to say but Cade Cunningham is balling
crazy...not a jokic fan but he's the best in the world by a mile
Should have done half bucks half okc court
Cool idea
So Davin ham wasn't the issue, let's hope for Playoff sucsses as well!
Is Soraire the same as TopShot?
Okc fan here...
Okc down by 1 at the half. Only 1/15 3pt at that point. Id like to think 50% of rhe shots were good looks. Some were just thrown up as a hail mary after a while.
Refs were calling pretty fairly both sides. But there were quite a few Sus calls. Like the one in your thumbnail which you didnt care to mention? Lu dort on the ground with complete possession of the ball, Giannis jumps on him and Dort gets called for the foul??
Hartenstein called for offensive interference eith refs saying rhe ball was in the cylinder. But was definitely out and trajectory away from rhe cylinder.
Bad shooting game for us, gg to the bucks. 7 game series with Chet will be different.
Okc same tactics that were foud out a few games ago
Darvin Ham is undefeated 😂
It was a boring atmosphere in the stadium and it felt not like a "Finals" game.
Well it’s not the Finals I was there I bought tickets in the upper section ended up near courtside on Lower Levels not one person claimed that seat and yes the atmosphere was terrible
If they say it was sold out it was a lie
@@terrellewilliams2188the competitive levels of the games were great but yeah the atmosphere is off being a neutral venue tbh. Unless you’re the Lakers with a diehard global fanbase which made it work well in terms of the crowd last year, any other team unfortunately just isn’t going to attract as feverish of a crowd in America unless you go international to somewhere with a lot of passion that has one of their guys in the team. But if it’s just 2 mid or small market teams playing in a neutral venue where most of the attendees will just naturally be locals because you don’t even know who’s going to be playing until a couple days out of the game, it’s just naturally going to feel like an exhibition game more than anything in terms of crowd atmosphere for sure
Giannis is lucky that Chet is injured. He would have dominated Giannis on both sides of the ball.
Us this a joke or you're serious
are you not gonna talk about the arena viewers? 😅
who's your MVP now @shaq?
Why doesnt the court look like colorful garbage?
the baseline camera angle is terrible!
shai only got 21 because he didn't shoot 20 freethrows
Like this OKC are way too far for title 😢
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1:18 This is where Giannis should start his attack and not from the 3pt line.
I'm tired of 60 threes a game. It's absolutely disgusting, there is no skill in today's NBA
Please dont watch or post anything if you dont like it. Your negative attitude is not helping anyone.
I agree it's trash basketball
@@maartenvz I'm not watching, I'm protesting this trash. I'll say whatever the f0ck i want to
I agree with you but no skill is crazy
@chasebarricklow1154 name 1 player in the last 5 years who has more skills than the oldheads other than Wemby? There's more 40 year olds playing now than ever before. NBA is cooked
GIANNIS JOKIC DONCIC three best players in the NBA, can't wait for the Eurobasket
Sga whooped Luka hell nah
@@xafeuforgot last years playoffs?
@@maartenvz It's this season not lat season playoffs
OKC forced alot of shots n that's hurt them caz they never attacked
Take a deep breath and relax. They won the Cup, not the championship.
This just shows that okc is not a contender
No, no it doesn’t
@@Cell9074then why they lost last year against the mavericks?
You don’t know ball
@@bigt4591 They're still obvious contenders though my boy, do you know what "contender" means? "Champion" and "contender" are not synonyms. I was there, I know they didn't win the championship last year, the mavericks didn't either. That doesn't mean the celtics are the only "contenders" lol
Without Chet they are close to being a contender. With Chet they are the team to beat in the west.
we already watched it . We know
It’s called a recap
Why comment just to hate? Just hit The “Don’t recommend channel” button
Good for you, I didn’t watch it and find these videos useful
@ my fault bruh, enjoy the recap
Good for you Joel, thanks for sharing