Chris Broussard reveals the key to the Celtics taking 2-0 lead over LeBron's Cavs | NBA | UNDISPUTED

what happened last night we can see the statistics we can see every time your defensive zone your initial defensive zone gives a score forty one two three wait it's hard to beat we would say in LeBrons no in that defensive zone yes we are saying no It's on that backwards, so even if you just say two of your starters score 41, three for two, another one I'm sorry, you know whatever you want to call it, you have to commit 15 turnovers, they commit five, that's tough. to overcome, yes, but ultimately this comes down to The Cavs have run into a smart, talented team that executes tremendously, but most importantly, they have guts, they are tough, they are tough, every fumble that was important , they came to each ball 50/50, they came every time it was necessary. an offensive rebound, they seem to understand it, the Cavs don't want it, they don't want that type of fight anymore, they don't do it anymore, if you look at the teams that LeBron has taken to the depths of the playoffs or to the finals that weren't so talented players that didn't have superstars like Kyrie or the ones he had in Miami, they had guys with energy and grinders Delonte West Anderson Varejao Eric Snow other than Tristan Thompson there is no one else you can even think of putting in that category and the Cavs have gone soft, the Cavs like to hit you hard early and then you submit and then they want to slide.

You saw it against the Pacers when they got into the rhythm, every time they get a big

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, they relax and the next thing you do is I know they're in a two-point game and they have to grind it out. They no longer have the heart for this type of fight. The Celtics have the eye of the tiger. I don't want to be cheesy, but they remind me. from Rocky like you can't, he keeps hitting them. I mean, they have 18 wins this season and rec and playoffs. They are more talented than Rocky, yes, I will admit to you that they are more talented, which makes it even more difficult, yes, but they have that kind of heart that you can never be there, never dead, and all they do is execute it.

Never mind Inc, I mean, outside of the timeout skill, they execute, they get great, they get great situations. I felt like LeBron went nuclear in the first quarter, they only got four points, you usually have some separation if Kevin Durant. if James Harden gets angry like that in the fourth oh, you're going to have some separation, but here he is, he gets angry like that, you're just willing to say, hey, it's like George Foreman skipped the rumble in the jungle, he's a me. Get to Hollywood, all I know, say hello, Lorraine, that's all you got, yeah, that's all we got, so last night LeBron James huffed and puffed and tried to blow his house down in the first quarter and he was blowing sideways.

It rained heavily. yeah, he hit it with 21 and had a good run because I think he had worked hard that morning on his three-point shot, he was shooting 26% for the playoffs and all of a sudden he scored four in the first quarter with four outs. of seven and to your point, Jalen Brown is also making three threes at the same time and he scored 14 points and that was enough to keep them afloat for a quarter and then LeBron, who had huffed and puffed and tried to blow up his house. down he was literally huffing and puffing in the second quarter because suddenly his points dropped to four points in the second quarter.

Well, maybe LeBron Siddur, twenty-three years old, 33, maybe I could have kept it up, maybe he would have. I just poured it until they said there was no moss. I thought there was a point in the second quarter where Boston was close. Boston looked pretty shaky in the first half on offense. I must tell you that they were not in sync, they were on their heels. They didn't click on offense, but they managed to barely hold on. Remember they made two plays at the end of the second quarter that barely kept them afloat for seven and a half.

Marcus Morris made a running shot on those days and then turned around and they got an easy basket at the end, so it's a seven point game and I still thought LeBron and company had them on their heels and then the third quarter happens and it's 36 to 22, which is just incomprehensible to me and I'm at the bottom. line here and I'm not going to give this LeBron a pass at 33 years old after 15 years in this league, he just plays little to no defense and doesn't set the tone for the rest of the team that he is. clearly by far their best player, you think he's the best player on the planet so I'll grant you that for the sake of this discussion he's the best player in the NBA and he plays little to no defense and the stats back me up. in this because now he has fallen in the defensive wind stocks in the 274 postseason, it is pretty terrible because the entire top 10 is populated by Golden State Warriors because Draymond is 1 and Clay is 2 and then we go down the list Steph is 4 on defense general individual.

KD is 6 and Iggy, the Hamptons end 5 is 11 so they have all five starters in the top 11 and the defensive wind shares that they are the best postseason defensive team and you can argue that they are the best team as well offensive. Did you think I was going to get to where they are? They could sweep Houston out of the playoffs. Stay in a game like this. This is where LeBron misses Kyrie the most because he gets like that. Now he can hug me like a fourth I, I agree because no, you take it, yes, no one else.

I wouldn't mess up the shot with him without LeBron's help, so now I could give the ball to Kyrie, stand in the corner, Kyrie does what he does, gets buckets, shoots in the mid-range game. the three or you end up at the rim, but now you see he comes out 21 and gets the four and now you look like, well, yeah, well, so here's the problem, while LeBron was leaving in the first quarter, his defensive task was Jalen. Brown and Jalen Brown were shooting wide, he was just getting it and they were just rotating it and he was like wow, I got this and I'm just going to shoot a free throw from the three-point line and then in the third quarter, LeBron.

The defensive task, in quotes, was Terry Rozier and finally Jeff Van Gundy, he just didn't call him by my name, but he said, hey, you can't play like that, it's not back-to-back road games during the regular season. he has to run out and try to defend the 3 point line and Terry Rozier shooting free throws three point shots is clearly saving him obviously on defense because at his age and he's playing more with Denny, but not regular season more minutes minutes I know that he has to have a lot and you're right, I mean he's not because he doesn't contest shots at the rim unless it's from behind, maybe but he doesn't contest and you know I was even Surprised, I thought he would try to chase Rozier on that play when he was still at a point in the game and at the last second he said no I'm out and you just stopped.

I had some discomfort. Rozier has some distance on him. It would have been difficult to get to him, but yeah, well, what makes it so difficult and what Brad Stevens is doing a great job at is that LeBron usually tries to put LeBron on the player who has the least offensive talent so he can roll. but in this lineup he jumps yeah he has to play with Jason Tatum or Jaylen Brown because when you start TT and Kevin Love one I have to play with Mars and the other one plays with Al Horford so who do you put LeBron because Terry Rozier had been? pretty calm and they said, let's try you on Rozier in the third quarter and all of a sudden he went off in the third quarter and they cut Rose here, he's too sneaky, he runs too much Andy, that's what you do.

I'm going to run with you, LeBron. I'm going to take you out of some of these picks and LeBron doesn't want to exercise that energy fighting opinion so he just says oh you basically say he just stays in the lane and it's like you can take that path to go to the right . I'll give you that yes, it's like he's doing it all on the offensive side, you're doing it all on the defensive side. I'm going to stick with my Cavs pick and six, but that's just what they know. four in a row I'm going to say this, although there's a big part of me that would rather see Boston in the Finals because I think they'll make the Finals harder.

Cleveland will be shaved. They are that simple. Boston. They could fall in five, maybe six, but they will be difficult games because they have players who can lift Green, but more than that, they have a great coach and, once again, they do not give up, they play with a lot of heart and I think the United States I could say: you know what this David versus Goliath thing is, although Cleveland would be the big loser. LeBron was never David because he is LeBron, you know that, so this would be a real David against Goliath. I think they are doing it.

Surely you're not trying to save LeBron from himself and not inflict this on him. Golden's well, it would be ugly, no doubt about it, but I think they would make a more difficult series. Look, you see this, I mean, come on. Georgia skip, did you know before the trade? Do you know who led the NBA in three-point field goal percentage? A George it was. I think George Hill has probably made three more threes in this playoff than I made. I haven't tried any, hmm, if you can. You won't win as a skip. I'm telling you, if your starters remember now, that's what happened to Houston, remember PJ Tucker Trevor Ariza, you see what happened and they got that bird score with Daley, but George Hill is known for his defense, he knows that has been. but analytically his defense hasn't been that good, but you're right, he knows that, yeah, I keep looking at this team and saying this team felt like 29th out of 30 NBA teams in defensive efficiency in the regular season, right. , Boston.

He was number one in defense from start to finish for a reason because they're smart, they've got a high basketball IQ, they've got the basketball backbone, they've got all those things that they've taught you, all that grit and skill and all that, except young skill. they're athletic and they can see that the Cavaliers can rotate once and that, and if you spin the ball again, someone has an open view, look at countless, the Celtics, you can rotate multiple times, once, twice, three times and someone still appears to contest your shot. Well, the Cavaliers don't have those young legs like that again and then they said this is how we're going to win.

Brad Stevens was able to convince them that this is how we are going to win. Guys, let's rotate, let's play. great defense and we're going to get out of the young guys that do it, which got us all excited when they made that trade, you're not ready, for example, they have Rodney Hood and Jordan Clarkson are nocturnal and Larry Nance Jr. missing that alley dunk -oop, you know it wasn't a player, it's them, but they're not ready. B, maybe they should be part of the trip, but look at everything that says Boston hasn't been good on the road.

I think this goes back to two and all Cleveland has to do is win one game, there could be five, you could say we didn't have to be one of the top two, so it's not over, no or the neurosis, Chris, well, I only chose them out of six, yes six. seven, whatever your offer was about what you felt, they didn't, how about going through six or seven cousins ​​if my life depended on it, I'd choose Boston, I'll be honest, and seven in a game, seven as much as Did LeBrons do it? and I would just say you know what I believe in LeBron James, man, these guys, I wouldn't want to see them in a game seven, let me be a little active in Boston, three game three in three game two this year.

LeBron James averages 44. 10 and 10 and he's 2 and 1 it's not so much just about me I know he doesn't do anything that's exactly my face I know what you're going to give me I know they don't give me Saturday either now make sure a Bernstein will get you something well placed, don't go anywhere because you won't miss it, maybe you should consider playing in the first game, he plays in the game to see Joey C Joe with his meanness, I mean this game, hairdresser, she would do it. actually I say go to Miami no, it's better than not, if you're a fan, I'm doing it, I get off the boat and I'm done, I'm done with everything.

Buckley was a butyl back hug, I don't know, no, they did us wrong, so Boston. it's 1 and 4 on the road in the postseason two one came to Philadelphia when Belinelli looked like he hit a three that turned out to be a two and it goes to overtime and Jason Tatum took over overtime a kid a rookie took over and that it's the only game in double figures and Baines scored nine points in 17 minutes and you know you might have almost seven guys and the Cavaliers got three, well how about this? Boston took 42 completely uncontested shots and the Cavaliers took 11 uncontested shots.

Do you think it's going to happen? Yes, these guys are too good, yes, three in the second half that would have the Kappablues to stay in uncontested shots. Boston beat Cleveland 52:13. What do you think will happen? You're going to lose if Indiana had some. with more talent they probably would have won that series Toronto showed up like I said Cleveland hit would you do that? Know? I'm saying look, that's what they try to do this, you can't do it with this team, but you know you're analytical as you grow, you get the fight, you get tougher, they break it, yeah, you better be glad they broke it , so you beat a prank with a total release, yes, you have to worry.

I'll make one more point. To Cleveland's credit, what's it like to see your glasses half full while trying to see that the fourth quarter was weird last night because there was no Kyrie in the game?court for the Celtics and remember from 11 minutes to 6 minutes? no one could score was why not, I mean, I guess a mature, the girls didn't make it, boss. He was giving it to them and they, Cleveland couldn't close. Austin went Oh by seven from the three-point line in the fourth quarter Oh, by seven, of course, Cleveland went Oh, by eight in the fourth quarter from the three-point line, but all that you know what the score was in That five minute mark, it was Cleveland 5 Boston 3, so the Celtics scored three points. in almost a six minute stretch of the fourth quarter I would win that was right there it was very different I'm going to say this and no I don't think anyone on earth outside of the Boston Celtics fans and players one is LeBron being out because I was Like, oh please don't make him get a concussion, but he might have gotten a concussion because you saw his eyes were glassy when he got hit and he wasn't the same, he still had his moments, but he wasn't anymore. .

Same thing when he came back, it was a tough blow, oh you have a car to play with, that was tough, he said he took all the tests and he completely remembered Steph when Steph in the playoffs supposedly took some tests and came back and played. but then he was eliminated like the next game, wait a minute, now we're going to give you the concussion, no, just no, no, they have to be like that. I wouldn't be surprised if it had been good, that's the way it goes. It will help if we live he has players who love Bron and Korver scored 75 points the rest of the team scored 19 I don't know how we were doing, when exactly did I become the third option?

I think it's a good third. option, what that was for BJ, a good player, Chris, thanks for joining us.