Club Shay Shay - Nightcap - Hour 1: Kings smoke Lakers, Shannon's secret to success

Episode Date: March 14, 2024

Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas discuss the Kings big win over the Lakers and what can be learned from Mr. Beast's incredible success on Youtube. 0:00 Introduction03:40 Kings sweep season series against Lakers19:20 DLo says Schroeder was the reason he couldn’t establish a relationship with Darvin Ham31:00 Mavs beat Warriors52:40 Daniel Gafford is 33-33 over his last 5 games54:45 Steve Kerr believes Warriors can make a playoff run #Club #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Let's help get his subs up. Gil, let's get right into it tonight. The Kings sweep the season series from the Lakers 4-0. They win tonight's game 120-107. The Kings dominate the Lakers in 4-0. They win tonight's game 120-107. The Kings dominate the Lakers in the second half. I think they outscored them something like 28-11. 28-17. I would score them by 11.

DeMontis Sabonis is now 10-0 against Anthony Davis. He had another triple-double. He leads the league in triple-doubles. If he's not going to be an all-NBA player, they should do away with it. I don't care if you say it's cheap or not. He finished the night with 17 points, 19 rebounds, and 10 assists,

14 defensive rebounds, 5 offensive rebounds, and he was a plus 10. He only took 10 shots. So he was outstanding, and. He only took 10 shots. So he was outstanding and they thoroughly dominate the Lakers in the second half and they win comfortably 120 to 107. Gil, you watched this game in its entirety. What did you take away from it?

Listen, we always have a great first quarter, right? Halftime, we're trying to make a comeback. That third quarter kills us. Yeah, we come out flat. There needs to be some plays. There needs to be like first five plays after halftime has to be some way to get the team going. Sabonis plays against AD like AD owes him rent money.

Yeah, for sure. Yeah, he owes that man something because every time he sees AD's face, he's in, he's in, he's in, he's in, he's not intimidated by him at all. He goes at it. That's what

makes me question defensive players because you a top defensive player and you got a guy coming at your head like, yeah, you lunch meet out there. That's what makes me question defensive players. Because you a top defensive player, and you got a guy coming at your head like, yeah, you lunch meet out there. Yeah, let's take it to my sport. Ain't nobody say, oh, you know what? I want to block LT.

Oh, no, give me Reggie. I want Reggie White. Oh, you know what? I think I want to run the route against time. Huh? Defensive guys, when you like, nah, I want none of that. Let's go over here to the other side. Well, if I get Jackson Hayes on me, or if I get LeBron 6'9", I'm 7'1", I want that matchup.

I don't want one of the premier defenders, help defenders, on-ball defenders in the NBA. He's like, I don't give a damn about that. Give me the ball. I'm going at him. And he goes at him. And it's showing it's dominant so you know when it comes

to just the intimidation factor you don't have none over that team they feel that they have your number they feel that you are easy work 1 through 12 it's one of those teams you don't want to play in a playoff.

So now we have to check off. We don't want to play Denver. Hell no. We don't want to play Sacramento. Because we don't have no advantage over them. And now they have all the confidence in the world going into a playoff series. So those are the two teams we do not want to match up with. And we don't match up very well.

The Warriors did us a favor last year by knocking them off. Yeah, facts. In seven games, Steph Curry goes bonkers in game seven. I think he scores 50. But the problem that the Lakers have is that they can't deal with dribble drive.

So now you got to send help. Now they kick guys wide open. If you look at it, they only had guys that played major minutes. Only Malik Monk and De'Aaron Fox shot under 50%. Sabonis was 6 of 10. Harrison Barnes was 8 of 15. Keegan Murray was 7 of 13.

Ellis was 5 of 8. And Barnes was 7 of 11 from 3. Keegan Murray was 5-10. Ellis was 3-5. Other than, I mean, they shot 52% from the floor. They shot 46% from the three. They out-rebounded the Lakers again. The Lakers keep getting out-rebounded second-chance points,

fast-break points. And so because they don't do well, quick-point guards give them problems. Murray is a problem for them. Ter. Murray is a problem for them. Darren Fox is a problem for them. Shea Gilgis is a problem for them, but he doesn't have enough help on the other end. So that's why they match up well against OKC. But a quick guard like Murray, a quick guard like Darren Fox,

that has help because Murray has yoke. And then, you know, you try to take those guys out, they can kick the ball to Michael Porter Jr. But quick guards are going to always give them a problem because it's so hard for them to stay in front of anybody. And so now you get wide open shots, uncontested shots, or you get somebody going to the basket. And so, yeah, the Kings, I don't want to see those Kings in the playoffs. I don't want to see them in the play-in tournament. I don't want to see them at the AAU tournament. I don't want to see them at the blacktop. I don't want to see the Kings no more.

This year, the rest of the year, I hope we don't see the Kings. Yeah, you know, the real issue that we have as just the Lakers themselves, and we can't stop teams that pass. Jamal Murray, first of all, Jamal Murray is not a forward. Jamal Murray is a guard. Keegan Murray is a forward. Keegan Murray is a forward.

So all you guys, oh, come on. Jamal Murray plays for the Nuggets. He is a guard. All right, go ahead, Gil. The problem is any team that passes the ball more than two times, we struggle with. Yeah. That's our real Achilles heel,

where you have teams that actually drive, pass, and pass, because when you got a guy that's 39, when you got AD, when you got most of the guys that just, I can stop you to first pass, and then when you pass, pass, Lakers give up on that. So you have a team like the Kings who do extra passing. Even Boston does extra passing, but they'll be better against Boston because Boston wants to play one-on-one. So now he gets to load up, LeBron gets to load up. When you got a group

sons, when they have those multiple pass type of teams, we're going to struggle with them. You are, and you needed LeBron to give you more tonight. He did not play well tonight. Anthony Davis did not play. Really, only two guys played well tonight. That was really Austin

Reeves. And there are some shots that I'm not going to beat D'Lo up because he had some looks at some threes early. Shots that he had been knocking down threes. I mean, I didn't expect him to shoot 50% for the rest of the season from the three-point line.

But LeBron missed two bunnies at the rim. How many six-footers did AD miss? Point blank. He missed a bunch of those. And so I could kind of tell early on that LeBron was not in a rhythm because he missed those jocks. He missed those layups early. One with a righty

reverse and the other with a lefty. So I'm like, uh. And then he hit one three. I was like, okay, maybe he'll get it going. But he didn't play well tonight. AD didn't play well tonight. And when you go to the half and you look at, okay, maybe he'll get it going. But he didn't play well tonight. AD didn't play well tonight. And when you go to the half and you look at, okay, Rui and Austin Reeves are shooting this, and then the rest of the starters are shooting that, you're like, we're in trouble.

Not necessarily because, you know, Rui and Austin are getting their points because they're open. Yeah. The fact that someone like LeBron and AD are making that pass so they can get those shots. You're depending on them to hit those shots so when it's time to score in the fourth quarter, you have the room. It makes sense. You're going to defer to those guys, get them going. In the fourth quarter, you're playing one-on-one basketball and you're not focusing on me.

Now my drives become a little bit easier. Just sometimes you take yourself out of rhythm doing that. Right, and that's what I'm saying about LeBron. I mean, once like Rui and Austin had it going, so he's like, well, I'm not going to interject myself because they got it going.

Let's not take them out. I don't know why Darvin Ham took Austin Reeves out. I understand you like, well, I'm not going to interject myself because they got it going. Let's not take them out. I don't know why Darvin Ham took Austin Reeves out. I understand you like, okay, you're going to play the first seven, eight minutes of the game, but the man go five or six on the floor. You're not coming out. That's not called coaching. Most of them are not coaching.

They have a piece of paper. That piece of paper tells them when they're going to sub. Not the game itself. That's a big problem in the game because they're not watching the game and following it. They have their sheet and they got their time slots of when they're going to sub in. They have the little blueprint. And they're not paying attention to, Alston just had five threes. Yes!

Yes! They just, all right, sub, you go, you go. It's pre-planned. Yeah. Pre-planned a game. And they do that. Yeah. And then you look at it, you look at it, Gil, it's like,

now you don't bring him back in to like seven and a half minutes of the second quarter. So you sit him for like the final five minutes, the final four minutes of the first. You get that, you get the break, and then you don't bring him back to like five minutes, the final four minutes of the first. You get that. You get the break. And then, you know, bring him back to like five minutes. Five minutes are gone in the second. I'm like, what? I mean, let the man cook. Hey, bro. Hey, you might have to go the whole quarter. I understand. Hey, I don't know who he is. I forget who he subbed in for him. But I don't care.

Or maybe Spencer or maybe Dinwiddie came in. And that's kind of what I hate about analytics. Because analytics just says, okay, if it's this, this, and this. But analytics doesn't take into account momentum of the game. Analytics doesn't take those factors in. And so when you look at it, like you said,

okay, I got a card that says, okay, I'm going to sub Austin Reeves at the this minute mark. Or I'm going to sub this guy at that minute mark. Okay, if you're watching the game, you see, man, Austin got it going. Hell nah. Hey, bro, hey. Keep it going. Even if you miss shots, but they

look like they're good shots, you have to be inside of the game in real time, right? But most coaches are time managers. They're not coaching the game. And sometimes real time, right? But most coaches are time managers. Yeah. They're not coaching the game. And sometimes, but Austin's not at that point yet,

where he gets to wave a sub off. Yeah. But there have been plenty of times where you got it going in and you get that hit on your shoulder, man, you better go get somebody else. Yeah. You better get somebody else. Hey, sub in for dude.

He ain't hitting nothing all day. That's happened plenty of times. There's been plenty of times where, like, this is where that happens at where a coach is drawing a play up and you come to the what's-his-name huddle and see,

I just hit three shots. We're not drawing this play up. Erase this. That's where that comes in at because you're drawing a play that has nothing to do with the rhythm of the game right now. Right. And you see sometimes you say sometimes like, okay, you start

the fourth quarter and your starters start on the bench. You're like, okay, we out of this game and the backup, the second team gets it going. No, let them keep it going. You want all of a sudden, okay, starters go back. Ah, you see that and came back from 25 down and now we

down three. You know I put the starter there. Let's keep it going. And Torian Prince should say, nah, coach, hey, leave him in there. He cooking now. He got it going now. Let's not interrupt his groove. Yeah, but that's players too. Players got to understand, you know,

sometimes you got to sacrifice, but that's championship teams will do that. Championship teams, if the bench got it going and the coach was like, are you ready to go back in? Those players were like, nah, they cooking. Wait for a timeout. Wait for a dead ball. Wait for the rhythm is being broken. You know, they're on a 12-12 run. The guys on the bench is not going to break that.

Right? But that's a team collective thing, too. But that's that next level of basketball. That's something that's got to do. That's something Boston would be doing right now. Yeah, I just think the thing, the Lakers, this is not a good matchup for the Lakers. I mean, there's no way around it. De'Aaron Fox is cat quick.

He stays. He lives in the lane. He can get any shot that he wants, any time that he wants. So if you trap him, take the ball out of his hands, obviously you have to bring two people to do that because you don't have one guy that's on the ball that can make him give it up. So he's going to get to wherever he wants to get on the court.

So now when you send that help, now somebody's open. Okay, now you try to run him off a spot. Now you left somebody else open. Now you get guys the court. So now when you send that help, now somebody's open. Okay. Now you try to run him off a spot. Now you left somebody else open. Now you get guys scrambling. So even if they put a shot up because you're scrambling, the ball goes everywhere. Now they run, get the rebound. They track the rebound down on you. So that's what's going to be hard for the Lakers. I don't, like I said, I don't think they could beat the Nuggets. I don't care if they played a 15-game series. I don't care how many games they went to. They played one game.

They played 15 games. I don't believe they can beat the Nuggets, especially as good as the Lakers are in clutch time, the last five minutes, the game within five points, the Nuggets are better. Yeah, you know what I don't see in this game right now is the defensive, like Torian Prince. How I will play him is, if we're playing against De'Aaron Fox or Murray,

when you come in the game, you pick him up full court. Yes. Pick him up full court. So what I'm going to do is pick him up full court, let him use energy coming up the court. Right? Right. And then on the other

end, put him in pick and rolls. If he switches, give it to that guy. Let him run his energy down so by the time the fourth quarter comes, he has a little bit less energy than he usually has. That's what we used to do to Chris Paul.

When I was at Memphis, Tony Allen picks him up full court. That's all his job is to make him use a little bit of energy. And then Chris Paul is guarding Conley. Conley going to throw him through three or four pick and rolls first before he starts

offense. He's going to beat him up because they're trying to wear him down for the last five minutes. So by time the last five minutes kick in, Chris Paul's don't have his legs. That's what you need to do with your defense. A guy, you can't just have them back there sitting on defense waiting for the man to come. No,

use them. Use them. Go up there and hustle something. Go in there and be a gnat. That's your job. Be a gnat. Get these dudes tired. Let him use his energy from full court. Pass it. Deny him. This is chess. You're trying to be in that, get these dudes tired, let him use his energy from full court, pass it, deny him. This is chess. You're trying

to protect that fourth quarter, so that fourth quarter, he don't have full energy coming in the lane, dancing, having fun, flickering on your big man like he wasn't even there. Yeah. Wake up with football every morning and listen to my new podcast,

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Saturday night, ABC primetime game. I'm hoping Steph play because I'm actually going to that game and I've never seen Steph play. So I actually want to see it. I don't have nightcap that night, so I'll get an opportunity to sit and enjoy the entirety of the game. So I'm anxious to see the Lakers play the Warriors and I'm hoping Steph plays,

but then again, it greatly increases our chance of winning if he doesn't play, but I want to, I want to see it play. I want to see, I want to say my, my, my goal in life now is to see all this generation's great players get to

play. So there we go. That that's my thing. Okay. Gil and the big That's my thing. Okay, Gil, in the big Laker news of the day, D'Angelo Russell believes Dennis Schroeder was the reason he couldn't establish a relationship with Darvin Hamm. His relationship with Darvin is the

reason I couldn't have a relationship with Darvin. When I was struggling, I would have been able to come to the coach and say, hey, bro, this is what we should do. I can help you. Instead, there was no dialogue. I just accepted it. And we got swept.

And here I am. And he's not. And I like our chances. I don't think this is new. I mean, you've been in, you played this game with players having coaches that they don't feel they can communicate with. And I think I read somewhere in the article and I think somebody, maybe he spoke about it or maybe the players have spoken about it before.

It seems to be Darwin has a longer leash with players that he had prior relationships with. So he was in Atlanta when Schroeder was in Atlanta with boot with bud. And so he had a prior relationship. And it seems like he had a longer leash with guys that he had a previous relationship with than not. And so I think

that's what, you know, and I'm not here to make excuses for D-Lo. I'm anxious to hear what you have to say. But he said that was one of the reasons that he feel that he didn't have a relationship with D. Ham is because Ham had a prior relationship with Schroeder and he couldn't communicate with him like Schroeder could.

I mean, that's nature, right? That is part of sports, right? You know, the coaching staff, the head coach has better relations with certain players. Right. You know, when you're talking about the coach and the player relationship, you're talking about a bond. Obviously, the bond with shooter is going to be tighter than the bond with you. He knows him. He trusts him. They've been through war together. So when he has to relay something to the team, you're the point guard. He's the shooting guard,

but we speak the same language. So when he wants to get something to the team, he's going to go to the guy he knows is going to relay that message the way he perceives it and the way he's trying to deliver it. That's just natural. But as a point guard and as a player on a team, you still have to try to find your own way to talk to the coach, right?

This is, this is no different than the relationship, right? If you don't know what's going on in the relationship and you don't want to speak, obviously she can't get done. Right. I think the biggest thing,

you know what I tell people all the time. A lot of times I say, you know, what's the biggest cause the biggest reason relationships end and people like to say infidelity people like to say uh finances it's uncommunicated expectations see darvin ham had an expectation of what he did had wanted d-low to do or d-low had expectations of what he thought but nobody communicated those expectations. You see, if I'm in a relationship, man, I thought, oh, she want me to take, she's thinking, oh, Shannon going to do this for my birthday, you know, blah, blah, blah. He got this hotel rented out. We're going to go get a dinner.

It's going to be nice candlelit. They're going to be playing some nice music. Then we're going to go to the hotel. He got, she got, he got rose petals and he got, I got a Birkin bag. I got blah, blah, blah. But see, those are your expectations, but they were uncommunicated. After a while, too many uncommunicated expectations.

So now it keeps building. You keep having expectations, but you keep not communicating those with me. Sooner or later, no matter how much you put. It doesn't matter how much something weight. If you put enough of that, something on there is going to break. Oh, no, facts, facts, facts. See, my grandpa used to say, boy, he used to give me and my brother a task or something. And I would say, Papa, that's that's too heavy. He said, boy, you can carry anything if you cut it up in enough pieces. he said boy you can carry anything if you cut it up in enough pieces see i was looking at it from one standpoint a six-year-old trying to carry a 25 pound bag of feed or 50 pound bag of feed he

said no he said put it on put it in the in the foot tub and you might have to make x amount of trips but you can get it done yeah so because they never, whatever the case may have been, neither person, Darvin Ham or D'Lo, communicated, but both had expectations. So, it was those uncommunicated expectations that caused the relationship to break down. But let me ask you this, Gil. With that being said, how rare is it for a player to say that while he's still playing for said coach now that's different hey that's different right um but it's easier for him to say now because he don't have no no guy to go to right and I don't really I didn. I didn't really understand where D'Lo was coming from because for the most part, it was just the last

four games. Yeah. He didn't really play well against the Grizz either. He didn't play well, but he did. The last four games or the last three games is the only time D'Lo didn't take double-digit shots. The other two series, D'Lo was in double digits and shooting, just got a little uncomfortable those last three.

So we don't know if it was how you started the game and he just subbed you. That's something that they had to have that conversation about. But I'm looking at just one series and say, man, you didn't show up. You say, well well coach wasn't you know messing with me then that that can be that's all hearsay at this point but the fact that you you're voicing it now like haha he's gone so you got to deal with me unless you know at the end of the season Darvin Hamm is gone so you don't really care and plus I'm playing well what you gonna say now you remember I dropped 44 when you didn't have Ron

if you look at the games that Ron didn't play I've been playing well and I've been playing well as of late so and like I said look I'm not expecting D-Lo to drop 44 or 30 but he has played extremely well

the last 20 ballgames let's give him credit for that and so uh But he has played extremely well the last 20 ballgames. Let's give him credit for that. Thanks. And so... Big shots. This is the... Like, this is the D-Lo that I remember when he was first in L.A. When he was his first injury here, he was playing well. Then he went to Jersey, was an all-star.

Yes. So, you know, even when he was in Minnesota, he played well. So that's the D-Lo that we got back and we're seeing glimpses of it. So we know now he can sustain that type of play.

He just has to figure out how to do that while Bron's on the court also. All that, you know what, Gil? Everything that D-Lo said might be true. But this is what we know.

He averaged six points, three and a half assists, and two rebounds a game. And no matter what the reasons are, people are not going to hear what he has to say. They're like, bro, we saw those bricks that you were shooting. We saw you average six. We saw you average three and a half, and we saw you average two.

We don't want to hear why you did that because that's unimportant. No, thanks. The Laker fan base, they're about results. I understand you got heartburn, but can you deliver

me a healthy baby? That's all I need. I don't want to hear about your back hurt, your feet swollen. So the Laker fans are saying, hey, just produce. Just give us good to great games. And we can live with whatever

else happens. But what we will not allow is for you to play bad and then seemingly give us excuses. Because everything that he said, it might be true. But it does not matter. No, it doesn't. No one cares.

No one cares if you're injured, right? No, you know, it's like when Dwight Howard's here. Nobody cared that you went through back surgery. Nope. No, we don't care. Nope. We don't care if you look like you limp and you can't bend down. As long as you're out there, we're judging you as of what we're accustomed to seeing.

Because I saw 12 with Howard on the back. Ain't got nothing Dr. Elitrush went in your back and did surgery, infused a death score, took something out or put something in. We don't care. And that's what I tell guys. Look, if you're expecting the fans to empathize that you're out there and you're at Lippitt, they don't care. Because all they do is that they see 84 and they see

sharp on the back. They don't care that I didn't practice all week and I had 40 CCs drawn off one knee and 30 drawn off the other and I had to get painkilling injection in both ankles they don't give a damn it's like all I know is that I want to see you go catch touchdowns catch passes get open and help

the Broncos win this game that's all I care about same thing with the Ravens they didn't care about that and I understood so when I went out there on the field even though I took those painkilling injections every single week even though I was having fluid drawn off my knees, I knew there was a level of expectation that the fans

had. I also knew there was a level of expectation my teammates had. No, yeah. My teammates was like, hey, bro, and they're looking at that long-ass needle going in my knee. They see the fluid being drawn off, I mean, not my knee, in my ankle. They saw that big- up i mean in my uh not my knee in my ankle

they saw that big ass needle and they're asking me sharp man i don't know how you do it but bro hey we need you today what the hell you asking me you don't know how i do it but this same breath you tell it will you need me but that's the level of expectations that when you play of being a player that they're counting on and i looked at at myself as a very good to great player, I put those expectations on myself. And that's the thing that's going on with LeBron himself. We don't see you at a level, we can't,

there's no way, if we're talking about how he's playing now, there's no way LeBron can average 17 or 12 in this league. No. No. No. No team the tickets we paying the tickets we pay don't come with no discount no no i don't say well if ad got under eight and he's slipping he don't play we give you money back nah i'm paying full price regardless and

i won't if i'm gonna pay full price I need to see full price results yeah but and for LeBron for the LeBron numbers and them to win tonight with 18 and in the way he shot AD needed to probably have like 35 AD need to have a game close to what he had the other night a 27-25 game he need to probably have 30-17

and and Rui and Rui and Austin do what they did but you can't have you can't get you, you know, 20, what was that, 24 points between LeBron and D'Lo. And they shot eight of 27 from the floor. Yeah, no one ever gets off that game. Especially since you don't got nobody coming off the bench that's going to give you 12 or 15 consistently.

Nah, nah, nah. And we'll be having to get 15 between all of them yeah you got hello man you got 11 you got 13 points from your bench that won't cut it yeah that won't cut it they got 14 20 24 they got 26 you got 13 so they outscored you they outscored your bench by 13 and then your their starters beat you up also pretty good. So all their starters were in double figures. But the Lakers got to figure this out. The Mavs beat the Warriors 109-99.

Luka didn't get his A straight triple-double, but they got the win. Let me see. Hold on. Go back. You know, I got this new gadget in here, Gil. I've been learning how to work it. I feel like I'm Tom Cruise at Minority Report. You see my background?

I had to switch it up because everything got destroyed. Everything is destroyed here. So hopefully by Wednesday, what happened? What happened? Some new stuff coming in. Oh, okay. You get redecorated. Yeah, I had to move.

Luckily, I got a moving desk. Lucas scores 21. He only scored 21. Let's see what Luke. Yeah, he had a decent game today. 99-109. Yeah, that was one of them old 2001 games. Well, now, you see, what was that game?

Was that Philly and the Knicks? Somebody had 79 to 73. All kind of bulljacks. That was the Detroit game. Yeah. Yeah, Kyrie was 8 of 16, 1 of 5, 6 of 6 on the free throw line. He had 23. Luka had 21.

Wow. It was really, really a quiet night for Luka. 21 and 9. 21, 9, and 3? That's crazy, right? The Warriors must be some slaughter with some slot tonight cuz nobody really really went crazy well I mean well I mean you got to take a CP or there's no Steph

there was no Steph is not there and CP is there so with CB being there he's gonna he's gonna milk the clock there's gonna be one of those grinded out type of offenses so you know it wasn't gonna get it wasn't to be one of those grinded out type of offenses so you know it wasn't going to get it wasn't going to be one of those 130 135 type of games right and i don't know if they can get that without stephan in the lineup yeah um cominga played played well he was what eight of 17 two or two from the three-point line he had 27 um it looks like Draymond didn't play either.

Klay struggled. He was 3 of 13, 2 of 7 from the 3. He had 8 points. It's just, you know, for every game that Klay gives you a glimpse of what he was, he'll have 5, 6, 7 games that you're like, damn, Clay. We can sit here and ask, what's the problem? But we know it's more mental than physical. This is mental.

He got the same shots, doing the same thing, same plays, right? It's not like he's one of those guys that really needs space for his shot. This is a mental battle that he's having, right? It's from, you know, his contract, not getting that extension. We don't know what's going on in his personal life. He should have took that money. Huh? He should have took that money.

But it might be more than that, too, though. True. But, Gil, you got to, you know, a lot of times people make mistakes. Is that, well, he over there and that's what he got. But you're not over there. Yeah. They might not view your organization, might not view you like his organization view him. So you looking at someone else and saying, well, this is that.

You can't measure your worth by what someone else got. And far too many times, that's what happens. You look over there, you're like, well, bro, you can't measure your worth by someone else's. And I think that's what he's doing. He's looking at

guys like, man, I'm better than X. Man, he got 150. And y'all only offer me 24 a year for two years? You know what the real problem was? What? He's measuring himself up to people that there's not even the same category. Right? And what I mean by the category is, what option is Clay?

Third? Second up? Stop looking at number one options bro your third your career has been third option you've never been a number one option so when you're paying god no matter what your numbers are and who you are and your four rings you're a third option yes your team right and a very good one. Yes. Don't compare yourself to someone that's a first option or a second option. I don't care what your numbers are. Your

responsibility is different. You have none. You've played horrible this whole year, and Golden State still feels they can go deep in the playoffs because they're not on your back. They're on Steph's back.

You might average 20. This guy averaged 20, but his responsibility is way different than yours. So when you're looking at his contract, we got the same numbers. Yes, but you don't have the same responsibilities. You have none. He has more. Is he?

That becomes a different thing too. Hold on, Gil. Mr. Is he? You know, so that becomes a difference too. Hold on, Gil. Mr. Beast is in our chat. Hey, guys, give Mr. Beast a hand. Let's say hello to Mr. Beast. Hey, Jimmy. How you doing, bro? I appreciate that. Hey, he the guy. He the

standard in which we aspire to ascend. No, that's fact. Do we aspire to ascend to. That's fact. We aspire to ascend to. He come in, I'm thinking of a number 1 to 1,000. What is it? You're thinking of a number 1 to 1,000. 750.

Hold on. Hold on. Let me get mine right quick. What is it 240 he said he's thinking of a number 1 through 1000 what is it I'm going 244 alright

well we almost got a thousand we had 994 hey hey hey. 244, that's how many subscribers he has, so I'm going with that. Dog, he got 256 million subs. No, 244 million. He got 244 or 256?

It says 244 million. Okay. That's why I went with that number. Hey, Mr. Beast, send a couple of my to Nightcap, Gil's Arena, No Chill Gil, and Club Shady.

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so for him to join our chat that that's unbelievable. That's great. I guess we're doing something right, Gil. All right. But we really appreciate you taking time out of your schedule because I know you're busy. You have a lot going on doing what you do. So everybody here at Nightcap, we really appreciate you stopping by, being in the chat. So that was an unbelievable.

So appreciate it, Mr. Beast. His name is jimmy so i think his name is james but they call him jimmy right yeah his name he's from north carolina so it's an unbelievable honor to have you in our chat so we greatly appreciate you stopping by hanging out for a few minutes uh he's been at this thing a long time i think he's had he's been at it since a long time. I think he's had a... He's been at it since he was about 15, 14 or 15 years of age, Gil. And now he's 26. So...

Yeah, no, I used to... I watched a lot of his videos, even from the beginning on how he first started. Right. You know, he was saying something with how he was trying to find the algorithm of YouTube where all his four friends or his three friends, the four of them, will take on assignments.

Right. They want to take on thumbnails, want to take on videos, and they're trying to figure out what catches. And then they'll come back to each other and give each other the updates so they can put it in all in one video. Put it together. So instead of taking four years to learn some information, it took them one year to learn all the information. I'm just like, man, that's brilliant. This is what I do know about him and about people that work for him. Just by based it on like greatness and being around great players and seeing great players.

And when you hear them talk, they're obsessed. Yep. And everybody that's in their circle is obsessed. So when people say, oh, you can have this. No, you can't. No, you can't. You can't. No, you cannot.

Anybody that's and I'm not just talking about I'm not talking about the wealthy. You look at the Jones. You look at the Jordans, you look at the greats. I'm talking about the great. Now, if you just want to be average and you want to say, well, you know, hey, I'm cool with my nine to five. I'm cool doing what I do. Come home. I'm able to go to all the kids or to all the kids events and all that stuff like that.

That's fine. I'm not here to knock you for that. not here to knock you for that. I'm saying if you want to be the point 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.1, there's no other way. There is no balance to greatness.

There's no balance. Go listen. Y'all love Jordan. Y'all love Kobe. And still, until they start talking about what it took to be great, and then when they tell you what I'm actually saying, well, you don't want to, so sometimes it's the messenger. It's not the message because here's the thing, what I've noticed, and I'm a lot older than you

are Gil. If we like the messenger, we're more likely to receive the message. If we don't like the message, he could tell us you got the winning lottery ticket is being sold down the street. He's like, man, I'll later for you, bro. But if you don't like the messenger, you won't like the message. No, it ain't even about the, it can be about the message or the messenger.

If you don't have the willpower, it don't matter who gives you the message, right? We have all the information to our disposal. We know everyone that's watching knows how to be successful. Yes. They know how because there's so much information. There's so many successful people here

showing us, telling us with it. Yes. Telling us with words, right? January 1st comes every year. The first 30 days, what everybody, we got to get in shape. We got to do your,

yep. I'm going to do this February 1st, 99.9% of everybody went back to December last year. Yeah. That's just a fact. Like I tell my kids, listen, I don't give a, if there's 1,400 shots that you need to take a week, 200 shots every day. Want to come on to, well, I took 1,400.

How many days did you shoot? I did it in one day you suck it ain't about the 1400s it's about seven days consecutive it's about the consistency because that means three of those days you didn't want to do it and you still did it that is the greatness the 1400 ain't the greatness the everyday grind of it, the days you don't want to do it, the days you want to do it, you don't gain nothing. Them three days you don't want to

do it is where the gains come from. Yes. That's why one of my number one quotes my grandfather said, he said, boy, never mistake habit for hard work. See, what the thing is, Gil, a lot of times people do something over and over and they feel they're working hard. And the analogy you use is the gym.

How many times like, hey, man, I went to the gym today. I've been going to the gym the last three years, the last three months, and your body looked exactly the same. Because you're going to the gym out of habit. You're not working hard. Man, I don't know what it is, but when I work out, you ain't eating the gym out of habit. You're not working hard. Yep. Man, I don't know what it is, but when I work out, I just, you ain't eating a 45-pound plate. Yep. Man, my clothes, man, the dryer shrunk my clothes.

No, the refrigerator shrunk your clothes. That's what shrunk your damn clothes. So I don't know who you're trying to fool. See, when people start trying to, look, I don't know, and I tell people this, I don't know everything. I know a little bit about everything. But what I know a lot, what I know, I know a lot about. I know about the human body and I know about eating correctly. I know about a healthy lifestyle.

So you can't fool all that other stuff. You do all that talking. You can talk your ass off. Yep. Get your lips off my ears, as a matter of fact, because you're talking me to death. So all that other stuff that y'all be talking, no. This is what I do. And this is why I don't have time to talk about people, Gil.

I'm taping seven to ten shows a week. I'm trying to come up with content. Ash and I, she calling me. She's obsessed as I am. CJ is obsessed as I am. Yeah. CJ is obsessed as I am. That's the only way you can be great. Because, look, what y'all want to do? Do we want to be good?

Because this ain't good enough. This isn't good enough. And, okay. CJ, okay. So that's the mindset that we have. I need people that are obsessed. If you want to take vacation every three months, working for Shea Shea Media ain't for you,

and that's okay. For you. That's okay. I'm not going to knock you because, oh man, he drive or he work this jazz all time of the night. Yep. Especially because we got to stay on top of this.

That's the only way, Gil. That is the only way. We're our own boss. You have great hours. Mm-hmm. But you got to be obsessed. I was obsessed with football. And that's why I'm terrible at relationships.

Because I do not. i do not multitask i'm a i'm a singular focused guy that's why people say well he ain't never been married no because relationship that has never been the most important thing to me some people that is okay Okay, that's you. But for me. And people don't understand, that's a sacrifice. And some of those sacrifices came when we were little. And that's why it's hard for us when we're done. We sacrificed everything to get to where we were. Now when you take that away from us, there's nothing. We don't know nothing.

So now we got to sit here and mentally try to find something that is going to fulfill everything that fulfilled it when we was in sports. Fill that void. It has to be able to fill it all. And I'm sorry, there's no relationship that's going to fill the void of being an athlete. No. Not a healthy one. No.

Not a healthy one because everything that came with being an athlete, a healthy relationship, can't do it. And people don't really understand it. That's why you got golfing. That's why some of them can golf all day,

fish all day, right? To you, it seems boring. To them, ours, competitiveness, like it just it changes so many lives. That's why most athletes, even no matter what they do, they're competitive. You've been competitive for so long, how do I turn it off? It could have been a relationship.

It's in a relationship. See, and that's where we can't be competitive. The competitive part of us can't be competitive in the relationship. No. But see, Gil, for me, I always understood. I always understood. I never lost sight of. They applauded what I did, not who I was.

And see, football was what I did. That's not who I am. So I never lost sight of that. So once you understand your place, you'll be fine. Because eventually the applause and the adulation is going to stop. You walk on another job, people are like, hey, 85 ain't about to cheer. Ain't about to cheer Shannon Shaw walking down the street. And you're never going to get that high that you got running out in that stadium.

When you run out to the arena or they call and a guard, a six foot four, 200 pounds from Arizona, Gilbert. Nothing feels that. Nope. But I get the same high. I get the same high when I do a great conversation. I don't even look at, hey, I don't care.

I leave, I say, CJ, I put everything I had into that one. Yep. I know everybody ain't gonna like everybody that I interview, but you best believe I gave it everything I had. I left no stone unturned as far as CJ and I from researching and trying to get the person to open up just like I did in football.

I studied my ass off. I watched tape over and over again because I wanted to be the best. I didn't get into this thing just to get a check. Yeah, I know I can just do this. And no, no, I want to be the best. Yeah. I want people to come. Man, I can't wait to nightcap come.

Man, I can't wait to see the Who Club Shay Shay interviewing this week, man. I can't wait. That's what I want. Just like when those 80,000 fans in Denver, they wanted to see me in that lineup and they wanted to hear my name called and to run out that tunnel. That's what drives me, is to be the best in this space.

Not, but hey, I don't compare myself with what he does. That ain't got nothing to do with me. Mm-hmm. I compare myself to what I believe I can get to. That's the only thing I can compare myself to. I can't compare myself because

I don't know what they're doing. I can just only imagine. That's why I didn't worry about nobody was taking my job because I know when nobody was doing what I was doing. No, no, no, no, no, no. No way. No way. No way. Ask any of my teammates

in Baltimore. Ask any of my teammates in Denver. Did anybody train and was the first thing they're going to say? I ain't never met anybody as disciplined as Shannon Sharp. I ain't never. I'm the same way right now I go to bed thinking about

hey I call Ash okay how do we get better how do we beat last episode CJ how do we beat how do I do what questions could I have asked that I didn't? I'm not talking about the views.

The views speak for themselves. Some people might like it. They tell their friends. Some people might not. But how do I get better? And if I can get, because all I'm doing is comparing myself to last week. That's the only thing I can compare myself to. But that's what I need

people to understand. People say they want to be great. No, you don't. Y'all just talking. Yeah. Y'all think somebody's just going to have it like just all of a sudden

you're just going to roll out of bed and be great. It doesn't work like that. That is a lifetime. Some people are born great. Some people have greatness thrust upon them. It only matters what you do with the greatness that you have.

Nothing else matters. How many times do you say, Gil, how many times do you know somebody you went to school with, you grew up with, had more talent than Gil? I know a lot of guys had more talent than Shannon. What does that say? Man, hey, I used to go back home all the time, Gil. Hey, Shark, tell him, Couldn't I have run you? Shaq, wasn't I stronger than you?

Shaq, hey, Shaq, tell him. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Shannon is the first team all pro for the third straight year. Yeah. Shannon just had his third straight season of 1,000 yards.

Yes, yes. At that point in time, yes. But what does that even mean? You should be embarrassed to say that you were better than I was at one point in time. I'm there and you're here. So you think

they're looking at him like, bro, do you realize what you just said? But that's why people like that, I big him up. Oh yeah, he was way better than me. my god he should have been there get right back in my mate back and get the fuck on out of there yeah this could have been him that's exactly right we all we all have those stories daniel gafford is now 33 of his last 33 over the last five games he's only three field goal three uh straight field goals away from wilt chamberlain's consecutive field goals made of his last 33 over the last five games. He's only three straight

field goals away from Wilt Chamberlain's consecutive field goals made. Wilt made 35 straight. Daniel Gafford. I think last year he was with the Wizards. He's with the Wizards and now he's on the Mavericks.

I thought you were talking football. No, hell nah. Daniel Gafford, he... Hey, Daniel Gafford is now 33 of 33 over his last five games. He's three field goals away, main field goals away consecutively from passing Wilt Chamberlain's record.

Wilt Chamberlain had made 35 consecutive. He's three away from making 30. Hey, I get it. People say, man, he ain't doing nothing but dunking the layup. I don't give a damn. You go out there. I tell you what. You go out there.

I bet y'all could just put you up under the basket. You probably couldn't make 30. I'm talking to the average person. And you probably couldn't make 35 in a row. Listen, listen. Get it, right? This might be the biggest thing he ever did, right?

I'm going to just be honest with you because obviously he's going to take shots that he know he can make at this point in time. He might get it because he just needs three field goals and if they're not wide, wide open. I ain't do a number of don'ts. If I ain't got no don'ts,

I'm going to pass it out, Gil. No, no. It's going to be one of those where if he ain't getting a real, real good look at it, he probably average, what, three, two points a game? Yeah. What Daniel Gafford average of that?

Probably, because that's the thing. I mean, think about it, Gil. I'm about to break a record. I'll be able to tell my grandkids, I broke a record real Chamberlain had. Real Chamberlain? What record you broke a will? Oh, he ain't bad.

11 and 8. He averaged 11 and 8. Oh. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Okay. I mean, obviously, I'm going to have to report on it any goddamn way,

so I'll do my research then. Yeah. Check this out, Gil. Steve Kerr believes the Warriors can make a deep playout run. I really feel strongly that our team is primed. If we can really stay healthy down the stretch, get Steph back, I feel like we can make a really good run. Man, he needs to be drug tested.

If they're doing drug testing on coaches, they need to do that right now ASAP. Listen, they are the champs. When they get into the playoff, they are deadly, but they have to understand one thing. They have two-star player or they have a second option and a third option. That's just not playing very well this year. Right. Kamingo's the second option now.

Kamingo's taking that role over. Okay, so yeah, Kamingo, you still got Wiggins who's not playing very well, so if he thinks they're just going to turn it on in the playoffs just for the whole 16 games, something's wrong with them. I'm sorry. It's just not one of those things that's going to happen, right?

That you guys in playing. I mean, if Klay played 15 games great this year, I'll be surprised. I don't know the last time anybody's talked about Wiggins having a great game. I don't know the last time anybody's talked about Wiggins having a great game. So that you're going to need these two players in the playoffs. And if you're counting for them to be great for 16 games to win a championship or to even go deep, I have something wrong with you. I mean, for the Warrior fans, great speech. Reality, sorry.

Yeah, I don't see it either, Gil. I haven't seen any indication of, I mean, has Klay played 15 great games this year? I don't think so. I mean, obviously, Kaminga. Kaminga's their second best player. Yeah, yeah, no. He's took the bull by the horns on this one. Yeah, he's their second best player. Yeah, yeah. No. He's took the bull by the horns on this one. Yeah, he's their second best player.

Athletic, rangy guy. Shots getting better. Obviously, he can finish at the rim. Has explosive leaping ability. Shooting the three ball better. Springy. Okay, I'm counting on him and Steph. But I'm doubling Steph.

I'm going to get the ball out of Steph's hands. Yeah, it's easier said than done. It's easier said than done. I'm trapping his ass. I wouldn't. The reason I wouldn't is you don't want to double him and you're coming off Klay and Wiggins and then they start getting confidence. I want them to just – I'm going to play,

let Steph get his 30-40, knowing that the other two players are just going to be dead. They're going to be dead fish over there. Yeah. It's just trying to double Steph. Steph still gets his 25, and now Klay got some life.

I'm not giving you no life. I'm going to let you, you're going to have to beat me one-on-one. Hey. No. I'm going to let you, you're going to have to beat me one-on-one. Hey, uh, no. Because, let's see, Clay is 3 of 13, Andrew Wiggles is 5 of 12. I ain't got no luck. Wake up with football every morning and listen to my new podcast, NFL Daily with Greg Rosenthal.

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