Gil's Arena - Gil's Arena Reacts To Sabonis COOKING LeBron & The Lakers

Episode Date: March 14, 2024

Gil's Arena Reacts To Domontas Sabonis COOKING LeBron James & The Los Angeles Lakers as they break down the Sacramento Kings' win over the Lake Show and how Sabonis' 10th straight victory over Anthony Davis sent LeBron home sorry. They also dive into a SUPERSIZED edition of Hibachi Time discussing Demar Derozen cementing his place as one of the most clutch closers in NBA History & Daniel Gafford's pursuit of breaking one of Wilt Chamberlain's seemingly unbreakable NBA records. Finally, they play a game of Facts or Cap breaking down Steve Kerr's comments that the Warriors can make a deep playoff run, the idea that Jaylen Brown could put up MVP numbers if he were the #1 option on a team and Shaquille O'Neal saying that no player has ever feared LeBron James. Please consider giving us a like and subscribe!!! Gil’s Arena premieres every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET. Sign up for Underdog Fantasy HERE with promo code GIL and get a $100 first deposit match: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-gil's-arena Use code GIL for $20 off your first SeatGeek order https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/GIL SUBSCRIBE: / @gilsarena APPAREL PARTNERS TUFF CROWD: https://www.tuffcrowd.com/ ADIDAS: https://www.adidas.com/us/agent-gil-restomod-basketball-shoes/ Gr8ness: https://www.gr8nss.store/ Order Rashad's Book Here - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CD9ZQ3HD?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420 CHAPTERS: Intro 0:00:00 Show Start 0:02:08 Mike Tyson Training Video 0:05:42 Decision You Instantly Regretted 0:13:14 Zeke Thanks Kenyon For Riding For Him 0:18:16 Kenyon Doubles Down on Zeke Cooking Gil 0:22:38 Demar DeRozan The Most Clutch Closer 0:30:04 Daniel Gafford Hunting Down History 0:41:22 What Player Do Would You Want To See Courtside 0:48:33 Can The Warriors Make A Deep Playoff Run? 0:52:39 Could Jaylen Brown Avg 30 PPG As A #1 Option? 1:00:11 Shaq Says Players Don't Fear LeBron 1:13:01 LeBron's Sad Ride Home 1:30:13 Sabonis Cooks AD & The Lakers 1:34:16 Breaking Down The NBA Playoff Picture 1:37:53 NBA Changes to Defense 1:43:22 Dillon Brooks Defensive Trick 1:56:11 MostlyFans 2:14:13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We got to bring the energy ourselves. Are you doing that? I'm trying. You're right. I'm done. Ladies and gentlemen, St. Patrick's Day is this weekend. Since we don't do shows on the weekend, we had to show a little love. It's strong.

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Woo woo. As always, we got the legend Gilbert Arenas here with us. Very festive. I see you greened out. Thank you. Appreciate it. The big cap. Shout out Rashad.

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Oh, Lord. Y'all trying to get people out here fired. I told y'all that I gotta go coach some kids later this year. You know, we got obligations after the show. Not me. Thank God I'm going to run them out. No! No.

Thank God I'm going to... Oh, that's a shot! Yeah. That's what they said. That's why I put it down. No, thank you. We got Brandy Jennings back here with us. Festive. We appreciate it.

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Ain't nothing but some polo. Here's what's cracking in the arena today. DeMar DeRozan dropped 46 on the Pacers, but where does Debo rank amongst the best closers in the league? Steve Kerr thinks a healthy Warrior squad can make a deep playoff run, but is that facts or cap? And Shaq says he's heard players say they fear MJ, but never heard a player say they fear LeBron.

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To drink that one? We are turning up in the arena today. Got to wait this half hour somewhere at least. We're getting happy a little early today. So in preparation for his fight with Jake Paul on July 20th 57 year old iron Mike Tyson is back in training He dropped this video The fun just begun

Day one no fat. Oh, my God. J-Paul about to get his ass whooped? Hmm? Is J-Paul... You think not? I think if he don't, there's gonna be some questions to ask. No, that's the problem. If he...

Because we just seen him lose the other Fury. Yeah. Right? He got whooped up over in that other country with the other Fury. So if Mike Tyson don't knock him out in the first 30... three seconds, right? First punch, he should be dead. Right?

If that don't happen, we're going to question this fight. If he still has a pulse. Yes. This ain't Roy Jones. Roy Jones know how to dodge a little bit. Roy Jones has some weight on him, so he could take a couple of those hits. But you can see Roy was getting hit hard. And he was...

I wonder what they paying Mike for this. Got to be something nice. They in Texas, though, that's the... Got to be something nice. Okay, if they was in California, I'd be like, okay, this is kind of rigged. Because there's rules in California that you can't do certain stuff. There's no rules and listen, right? So this fight is gonna be more legit than the Roy Jones fight Yeah

Ten like I'm seven figures for sure more more than that ten more than that Tim this in this day and age for for Mike Tyson, what Jake be getting? What he be paying? What he be paying? Yeah, he got to come out. He got to give Mike at least a dub, a quarter. He getting some. Yeah, he.

Okay. I mean, it's Mike. In this day and age. He paying him, dude. He paying. And to get Mike off the couch? Yeah. Because Mike getting money.

Yeah, not for sure. In other ways. Yeah, for sure. He still got the Tigers. To get him off the couch, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, not for sure. In other ways. Yeah, for sure. He still got the Tigers. To get him off the couch, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just...

I mean, Jake doing a lot. I mean, you know, you can say whatever we want about your brother. He's doing his thing. He's a business man. Yeah. He's a business man. Absolutely. Only in America.

He doing it now. I just, yo. I would have jumped in there for 10 million, but I don't want to get hit. You fight Mike Tyson for 10 million? Hell yeah. Underdog. Underdog. You heard the man.

The first ever Gil's punch out. Gil, just get hit once and go down. He ain't going to have no choice. Shit. You better get, man. Listen, I understand that's the plan, but that's going to be the plan. You looking like Martin. I mean, that ain't going to be the plan. That is the plan. I'm saying that's the plan. to that's gonna be the plan

Going up with that plan you like I'll be like snake eyes. Yeah, are you going over the plan? But nobody tell Mike it is the same outcome, right? Yeah, it's a plan but did nobody tell him No, I'm not getting hit in the rib. You going to get in the face? One thing he going to do. You going to take that punch. He going to hook you to your body. A hook from Mike to the... That's going to be in the back of the head.

Yo, he going to hook you to your body. Your hands going to drop. I'm going to just turn. Oh, you're an actor. So you going to go face first. Face first. The first ever Gil's Punch Out presented by Underdog Family. Yeah, most of them in fight over.

Yeah, most of them in fight over. Yeah, most of them in fight over. Yeah, most of them in fight over. Yeah, most of them in fight over. Yeah, most of them in fight over. Yeah, most of them in fight over. Yeah, most of them in fight over. Yeah, most of them in fight over. Yeah, most of them in fight over. Yeah, most of them in fight over. So you're going to go face first? Face first. The first ever Gills Punch-Out presented by Underdog Face. Yeah, most of them in fight over. How you like Mac training.

Yeah. Yeah, any time you go face first and you see a boxing match, any kind of fight, go face first. Nine and a half times out of ten. Yeah, I don't want to be sitting here twitching on the back. And I never see no twitching in the front. No, no, the worst I've seen is to do get knocked out and he's yeah yeah you know that's your bad you on your back and you still punching you out so if Mike Tyson is doing this at 57 years old we're gonna do a little hypothetical what age would Mike Tyson

have to be for you to have a legitimate chance to beat him in a fight? He's 57 right now Cuz this is this is Rama I'm sorry, but there's a question and you asked it don't blame me do you your only state that I'll fight my type Is that state where it is? I? Don't know. It starts with a P. Okay. He's shivering a little bit.

Okay. He don't have his motor skills. About 97? Yeah. About 97 years old. I think Mike said, my back. My back is broken. Spinal!

I might have a chance. Mike was gone. Spinal! Nah might have a chance. Mike was gone. Spinal! Nah, I won't. Can't even with age, with Mike Tyson. Mike was gone. Mike didn't know where he was at.

Cool, 80? Yeah. I still feel like 80, he still had the motor skills. It ain't gonna be, it ain't gonna have that much oomph behind it no more at 80. No, no, no.

What is George Foreman's age? Right now? Didn't he hit, wasn't he hitting the bag? And he was moving it? No, that was, I don't think. Yeah, he's 75. Yeah, nah.

That's why I said cool 80. Cool 80? At least 80. 30 more years. At least 80. What? He's 57 now, you see the way he's moving? Yeah.

Hey, J-Mamba 8, we on the same page. We on the same page. That's the only way I fight Mike. That's the only way. When he's legitimately pushing Pete, we got it. Yeah, when he pushing Pete. Other than that, I'm good. Let's keep it moving.

A fan was hanging out with Jon Jones recently, asked a UFC heavyweight champ to kick him in the leg, not once, but twice. We got the video. Not surprisingly, the decision was more than dumb. Oh, hell no. That was a good one. The second one wasn't. He took it.

Boop. Oh. Yeah, he didn't get him. Oh, shit. Yeah. And the dap up after. The dap up after. But he was letter-seed on crutches.

Big-ass bruise on his leg, yeah. That was from the first one. He didn't get him good on the second one. That's like that jackass shit back in the day. They used to do stupid dares, like... So, Brandon, I ask you, what's the decision you made you instantly regretted? That you feel comfortable sharing on Gil's reasons that I'm under

dog fantasy woo woo. Uh, that I regret? Wait, that instantly regret it? You made it right away, you said, ah, I shouldn't have done that. Shit. I mean, shit, I think everything else. Gil. Hey. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, there are some things that don't need to be spoken there, I understand. Kane, how about yourself? A decision you made you instantly regretted.

Oh, that I can share. That you feel comfortable with. Okay, yeah. Within reason. Yeah, definitely within reason. As an adult? Any stage of life. Oh, shit.

I was a badass kid, man. Trust me, we know. We got a sense of that. So, man, so we used to... When we played sports, it was a Salvation Army right by our house. And we were project babies, so we played outside a lot.

So we used to go in the woods. There was trails and shit in the woods. So there was a trail that one day me and two of my partners decided that we gonna play with a lighter and fucking wires and leaves mmm yeah like a five alarm blaze to say the least right instant yeah did you get in trouble what a nigga snitched on me. Oh. Yeah. Two brothers. Yeah.

Hell yeah. Right named Wee Wee. Wee Wee. I beat both of them up. As you should have. My mama beat the shit out of me. My mama had to leave work, dawg. You know, listen, black mama got to leave work.

And she had to catch work dog you know but listen black mama gotta leave work yeah and she had to catch the bus you know the whole ride nigga she boiling so the closer she get yeah i got it so i instantly yeah when i said i got because i'm my dumb ass this is how stupid brain work kid brain i run to the house right try to go the little thing that come in your lunchbox. Mm-hmm. Look thermos. I feel that up a water I Run back to the entrance of the thing to go to I Get back that shit. I like He said it Gotta go back to the house, bro. Hey, I go in the room. My sister's sitting in there, just like, what's wrong, son? You said.

I go right in my room, bruh. Next thing you know, they knocking on the door. Is your brother home? I heard my sister, you're here in the room. I was afraid that he not here. Oh, no, nigga, it's the motherfucking, people got badges. Shit, shit, don't know better.

That's right, I'm a wee-wee. Oh, yeah. Wee-wee. Absolutely. Motherfucking people got badges. She said no no better Mess around with we oh yeah, we we Kill what horrible what's the decision you made you instantly regret it that you can comfortably share on your franchise namesake show presented by You knew where I was going. Damn. Comfortable, Gil. I would have said the same thing. The day I got hurt. Because I got benched on, they thought I was going to be late. Because I usually show up at a certain time on back-to-backs.

So normal games I show up at 3 o'clock. Back-to-backs I right? So normal games, I show up at 3 o'clock. Back-to-backs, I show up at 5.30, right? So we'll usually have shoot-around at 5. Something told me, just show up early. So I showed up early. I didn't go through shoot-around. Just watched, but I was there at the beginning. Game starts, and coach decided that I was going to be late,

so he took me out of the lineup, so it was pre-planned. So I was like, I'm done, I'm going home. Well, fuck, I ain't got... Ten games before playoffs, and we over here still fucking with lineups, I'm good. I'm going home. And Karan told me to come on back. I come on, man, it's about the team.

Fuck, what are you talking about? All right, bet. One minute into the game when I got in, Jerry Wallace, I thought he was going to shoot a three, so I went to go box out. And then I guess he pump fake, drove, reverse layup,

got pushed, fell into me, landed. That's what tore my knee up. I'm sitting there, man. I knew I should have just stopped playing. I should have went home and went on the X box as soon as I felt that pain I was like I should have just like it stayed home got a zero mmm got a zero that was my stat sheet got a zero was that your first game not scoring hell yeah of course yeah in a minute hell yeah I at least got a zero. Was that your first game not scoring? Hell yeah, of course Yeah in a minute. Hell yeah, I at least got a shot in one point two point three

Yeah, and you know them does to a scoring Like that the average crazy. I don't care about the injury part. Damn you need let me get 28 at least But they're big get his average. All right, well, let's keep it. I got another basketball one that's horrible, but we'll... When I got hurt in UC. What happened?

Shoes I got hurt in. Mother told me don't wear them. Oh, yeah. Jordan Fives. We weren't supposed to... They look clean though once post they told him told our dumbass don't wear me if couple of us when I thought of them all they complimented the uniform oh it was great I definitely was fly or this

one don't the same candy oh yeah, yes, but unless you want that bit Do that on the bad knee, huh? Hey, I just regretted that Another is the karma is the karma is the decision but let's keep it moving So Kenny you've told the story of how you went upside Karl Malone's dome during the game in your second season of league as Retribution for the mailman elbowing Isaiah Thomas back in the day, causing Zeke to get stitches. So during Zeke's appearance on the Draymond Green show, he talked about how much he appreciated you for riding for him.

Oh, shit. I called him up and said, thank you. And actually, he gave me, you know, I'm one of them supposedly hard guys. So I took 42 stitches in the head, not 14. Right. But, and this is what I want to say to you, right? You never know who you're touching.

And you never know who that little kid is going to grow up to be. I had no idea that I had impacted Kenyon Martin, you know, NBA player, you know, in the NBA final. I had no idea that I had impacted his life from Saginaw that way.

So, when did Z call you and how did it feel getting some love from one of your childhood heroes? Oh, you know, I was already in the league. We had already had some dealings, but we had never talked about that. When I was with the Nuggets, I found out later he was trying to get me, he was trying to trade for me with the Knicks when I was there, but they was asking for too much back and all of them, saying the Nug sending nuggets wasn't so whatever that was. But then, you know, I ran into him a few times,

saw him on vacation, wasn't the right environment to talk about it. We talked about it, man, on the phone. It was dope, man. Me growing up a Pistons fan. And I just remember that shit. It was like, like, damn, just remember Zeke laying on the ground leaking. And I don't know what, what, what, just never knew it was going to happen. Just was in that position one day. So you didn't go into that game like... Nah. Okay.

Nah. Just the moment presented itself? Yeah. That's all, and that's exactly what went through my head. Like, he was on the break, they dropped it off to him. He had a wide open layup or a dunk, whatever he was going to do. Yeah, I just. Did he trust one of those? No, he didn't get a chance to.

Yeah, no. And the thing, like, me knowing, like, in real time, right, all the muscles and what he did to Zeke and the way people thought about him, I'm thinking he's finna get up. So, I'm ready for whatever. And when he didn't get up, I was like, man, fucking Lee, soft. That was my moment, right?

Then, I'm like, these motherfuckers soft out here. Because Jerry Sloan was the guy, he was motherfucker you I kick your ass like so it was and I went right back But I kick your old ass old man Too old man Yeah, so and the funny shit so when I was a free agent before I signed with Denver They wanted me to come to Utah. This is for the like when Boozer just signed Boozer signed for that 66 to go there right he was talking to my agent about it and he told my agent the story yeah yeah I remember Kenyon told me he was gonna kick my ass doing the game like yeah

he meant it yeah now but Zeke now like I said I was a bad boys fan growing up man I was a Pistons fan. Everybody was riding the Chicago wave, but me being born in Saginaw, my grandma used to send me, like, everything Pistons. Birthdays, Christmas, just randomly, T-shirts, hats. So that's the only thing I knew, you know what I'm saying? I wasn't... Me being in Dallas, the Mavericks sucked, right?

When I was a kid, like, they were awful. So I wouldn't... So, yeah, but no, just being in Dallas, the Mavericks sucked. Right? When I was a kid, they were awful. So I wouldn't... So, yeah, but no, just being in that situation, I never knew that it would present itself. But... Took advantage? Oh, yeah, yeah. No, Karl Malone, yeah, he was the...

He was the... on the end of a disturbed young man. So we talked about this a little yesterday, but do you still believe that Isaiah Thomas could cook Gilbert Arenas? Yeah. No doubt. He cooking, listen, man, he cooking Gil.

Just wanted to confirm. Hey. You didn't know if I heard you, frankly, yesterday, so. Benny Hunt, a hibachi chef. He cooking the hibachi. With what moves? The moves that he had, yeah, yeah. Then who you guarding? They didn't even. Yeah, yeah. Who you guarding?

They didn't even have crossover then. Who you guarding? He did. He did. In between legs. He did. In and out between legs. He had it all. I was on all that. Like you just said yesterday. Cooked me in my era. I was on all that. Who did you play defense on? Huh? Everybody. They do pick and roll.

I was bad on defense. Pick and roll and down screen. I wasn't fucking with none of those. They start kneeing and doing all that. Zeke played off the ball. On the ball. He was going to win. He's a little ass.

He's cooking you. He's cooking you. I would have had 100 against him. In high school, Brandon. Like you said. No, no. Go back to what you said yesterday. So who's going to guard you, though?

And he's not guarding you. Yeah, that guy was the same height but slower, but he would know gardening with no boost Nobody guarding you know right no boosties. Well, like I said, he's not in Zeke still cooking you Oh, no, no, no little defensive moves like back then. They were still they were still doing this type of defense You join with his hand. He was coming across body steel. I guess it removes that we're talking about this I like are you like this and then they'll try to steal with this because they knew what the move was We talked about you guard him Who got that me

Who Did he make all defense did he make all defense first thing he cooking you no no I was that did he make all defense Percy because I make all defense? First team? He cooking you. No, no. I want to say, did he make all defense first team? Because I can tell you one thing, one thing for sure. Who? If you ever made first team all defense, I took that personal. Mm-hmm.

No. Oh, so he would have got about 30 there. Who? Everybody who made first team, 40 and up. 40 and up. 40 and up. I had to test your knowledge on defense. That's crazy. If you was on first team, you've got 40 put on you.

He's still cooking you. That's lit. He would have had a cool 20. He's still cooking you. That's 20. He averaged 20. Like I said, he not guarding you on nothing. 20.

He averaged 20. We're talking about two different ends of the floor, right? 20, man. We're talking about you guarding him. 20's a bad. I got booed at 20. We're talking about him. him. 20's a bad, I got booed at 20. We're talking about him. You guarding him. We didn't show up for 20.

You guarding him. Talking about you guarding him. Come on, they didn't have any moves in the 80s. He cooking you. They didn't have no moves in the 80s. He got to use the same move. You can't give him no moves. He did. You can't give him no moves.

He did. This right here. One thing, he can shoot. Barely. No, no, I actually like Zeke. I'm actually liking him more since he's talking. It gives us perspective on what it really was back then. And he'll cook you.

High school Brandon versus high school Gil cooking. I just want to say Gil, you know. He was little, man. He weighed 102 pounds, bro. I don't know. He weighed 102. Look at the jacket, man. Look at that. He's little today. I'm the same. I'm the same. How much you weigh right now?

180. Still go play. Speedy, though. 180 now. How much did you weigh when you entered the league? 165? 169. Ricky, you're... I was all of 200.

The only way I put on that weight, though, because I tore my Achilles and I gained... I was all of 200. That's true. You couldn't go... I was right past you. I was faster than you. No, you wasn't.

What? Yo, you've never been faster than me. Are you serious? Even when you was healthy. Do you know my track speed? I was the than you. No, you wasn't. What? Yo, you've never been faster than me. Are you serious? Even when you was healthy. Do you know my track speed? I was the fastest dude in the league. Why don't y'all race right now?

Can we race? Jay's the kid that was quicker side to side. He can move side to side. But straight up speed? Oh, no. Come on, man. You weren't faster than me and Ty Lawson. Me and Ty Lawson was the fastest niggas in the league when we first came in. Because I was injured already.

That doesn't change our... Ty Lawson was the fastest niggas in the league when we first came in. Because I was injured already. That doesn't change that. Your producer wanted to just let you know Isaiah Thomas scored 25 points in a quarter in the final game on a bad ankle. He had 60 against Kobe. Oh, my God. So there's a suggestion that you would get that work. I was guarded by all shooting guards,

and they got that work. Yo, didn't you get Kobe 60, then go to Phoenix and have 50 and then and then I had it I was guarded by Rajah bail and a matrix and Kobe Nobody Don't know what off it what defense't know what defense. Like, I studied defense, dog. I studied this. Like, dude, I know what you fucking pushing. I'm not talking about Isaiah guarding you.

I'm talking about you guarding him. He cooking you. He had 20. He had a quarter of 20. He cooking you. I mean, you know. In the game or a quarter? Damon Jones had 20.

20 and you having 50 is, that's not. No, who said that? He gave him 20. Isaiah going to cook him. Because Gil not trying to foul out. Gil not trying to fuck no foul. You're trying to score to do this Yeah, he don't have a fuck. So I don't know if that that's coming. Yeah, I mean hey I will speaking of cooking. Let's get into some hibachi time Isaiah Thomas

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Oh, that's a personal matchup too right there. Yeah, you know. You know that's personal. Can't guard him. Who wants it? There we go. Siakam. Oh, that's a personal matchup too right there. Yeah, you know. You know that's personal. Can't guard him. Who wants it? There we go. So he came up huge in crunch time, including the bucket to help send the game to OT.

Right there. I mean, this dude is phenomenal in these moments. And a big three in overtime Helps seal the win We got it right here. Oh who wants it again? So you say this is a personal right here Damn Game time So during that game in that 46 point performance

Deebo passed Elgin Baylor Dwayne Wade and Adrian Dantley on the all-time scoring list I am to move into 32nd place three motherfuckers Y'all got a little bit So we usually get tomorrow and especially what he's able to do in crunch time I think he's a first or second in league and clutch points gone. No, you don't like that clutch that clutch that but Where does DeMar rank amongst the best closers in the league? Without going to Google and looking up what everybody did

Just knowing what he's he's done and the shots he's made and you know, whenever we do see him he's hitting clutch shots I Mean you can argue for at least top five, right? You know, you're going to have Kobe, Jordan. I'm just meaning the league currently, but we can branch out. I mean, currently? Well, you say top five. Currently, he's probably number one at clutch shots.

I think him and Steph, I want to say. I forget who. Steph is first. Most clutch shot? Clutch points. Okay, well. Yeah, see, I don't know what that is. Last five minutes.

Who got the most game winners out of the two? Last five minutes in the game, game winning. Who got the most game winners? Yeah, game, yeah. It's going to be the Rosen probably, right? Yeah, I don't know what the clutch shot is. I don't know what the clutch shot is. It's a new one.

It's a new one. I don't put in extra shit. They try to say clutch is like under five minutes, but clutch shot is like the game winners. That's a game winner's clutch shot. Clutch shots are tying shots. Those are what basketball players consider clutch. Game winners or tie that motherfucker at the buzzer.

And that's the only one. That's right there. Game winner and then three, two, one, tie. Yeah, okay. That's it. That's it You hit it you hit a shot with a minute left and nobody scores. Nobody get fucked about that. Okay, that's called clutch defense Close deep is that I don't I'll just be me how come the people who never play the sport make up all our rules? Right there making up all rules that have more to do with the sport I Know this with a grind your gears. I'm just on this Thursday. I mean, I'm just saying we over here trying to figure out What the hell cluster we know what clutch shots is but there's

under five minutes with minutes with under three seconds. But let's go back to something you said. You said DeMar top five all time? Yeah, I mean. From, you know, just from just throwing it out there without doing any research. I mean, Kobe, you know, Jordan, Kobe, you know, obviously LeBron, you know, with, you know, as many game winners and clutch shots as he made. What about you? Paul Pierce. No, what about you?

Your game winners. How many game winners do you have? Probably like anywhere from seven to thirteen. That's a lot. That's a lot. Yeah, I know. I had to throw. I just, I know. Like that's a lot. Like that's tough. Just random shit. I just got to, I just got to block out of field this shit. I'm like wait.

Seven to thirteen, somewhere in between. I'm like, that's a lot. Like that's a tough five. Because you know when you get fouled, they don't count those as a game winner. Right? You know, you and three, two, one, and you get fouled, goes in, and then they're like, all right, you shoot the free throw, too. They don't count that as actually a game winner. But do you count that, right? Of course.

Hooper's counting. That's all that matters. You lost at that layup, motherfucker. Free throw's just extra. The icing on the cake. No, DeMar's playing well, man. He just got to get out of Chicago. Yeah.

He just got to get out of Chicago. He wasn't even top 75, was he? No. Yeah, that was some bullshit. Because I think out of the top 75, I think he was like top three in most points out of the group that was making it. I'd like to see him come home.

Clippers or Lakers? Lakers. Okay. I don't think he's not. He can't put on, he can't wear Kobe's and put on a Clipper jersey. No, he can't have that. I hope they never made

no Kobe's in Clipper colors. That'd be a disrespect right there. I mean, if they did, it's red, white, and blue American. No, that's just, that's just, yeah.

Okay, what do you think about DeMar, what he's been able to do historically in this season with the Bulls? The under man, obviously Zach Levine's been out the mix. Lonzo's been gone.

Patrick Williams out for the season. I've always been a fan of DeMar, man. He's a hooper. He didn't change his game because everybody else started to. Kachin mid-range your ass to death. So I like it. I think he underrated I don't think he gets enough respect for the body of work that he's done. He doesn't complain about the situations that he's been in that they put him in, just goes out and hoop, right?

Yeah, no, I just, no, I like his approach. But, no, he's definitely hit some big-time shots in his career. In every spot that he's been in, you know, the ball in his hand, you can always count that he's going to get a good shot because he's going to get to his spot, right? He's not going to be forced anywhere else but where he wants gonna get to his spots right not gonna be forced anywhere else but where he want to get to so now that's the that's a result of a lot of hard work man like a lot of hard work in the gym man and and just being diligent about it like I like I said that he he didn't conform for the for the new NBA

for sure he knew what he was he knew what he brought to the table and we talked to tomorrow a couple years ago and one like his three-point percentage was bad but to your point he just said I like my mid-range game more that's what I'm gonna go to do you think we'll ever see the mid-range come back yeah global I mean for the whole NBA? No. Only the true superstars besides someone like Klay. I mean, someone

besides someone like Curry, right, who sits at the three-point line. That's just him, right? That's just the one player. Everybody else is mid-range, right? You know, Jimmy Butler's mid-range. Tatum, for the most part, is mid-range, right? You know, Jimmy Butler's mid-range. Tatum, for the most part, is mid-range.

Devin Booker. You got KD, who's mid-range. Dame is here and there. But for the most part, your best players throughout history is mid-range guys because that is a dead zone, right? Once you start taking a guy off the dribble, if he has a beat on you, you're going to have to cross your feet to try to beat him to the spot. That's when that pull-up game is right.

So, you know, the best players are going to always be mid-range guys. You think we'll see the mid-range come back, or is it? I do. It's here. I mean, I think guys like, like you said, Anthony Edwards, Jason Tatum, Devin Booker, they should be getting with DeMar in the summer. Luka. I mean, Luka hasn't been.

Like, you know, all those, they should be getting with DeMar in the summer because that's, you know, like that's why he's scoring all those points. Like he's over 20,000 scoring points and is able to save you later in games. So I think that's going to be the next test for them youngins, like getting with a guy like him to be able to help them later on in those games. You know, tough situations. Everybody's always trying to get the three. Under five minutes is the reason why he's able to score like that

because he's just getting to his spots. You've got to find those spots. And he's using the NBA against him. Everybody's used to the guy shooting threes and wanting to be the hero in that moment. And going all the way to the back. That's where Russell, I think that's where Russell missed the,

you know, because he was averaging a triple-double, I remember it was like, was it second or third year where he was coming full speed and stopping at the pull-up, right? And he was actually having success with it. I think when he got comfortable with just getting to the rim, getting to the rim all the time, he stopped working on that mid-range. And he didn't realize that that was his evolution. He moved so fast with

so much power that when he's coming and you see he's already loaded up, you already ran back to the basket. And he would have had a – those were wide-open shots for him. Because, you know, for me to stop him from getting to the rim, I had to back all the way up. And if he would have just continually just worked on the mid-range and made that a staple of his career. That was his game, though, college, early in the league. I remember him at UCLA.

That was 15, 17-footer. But he realized that he can get all the way to the basket in the NBA and realize, hey, these dudes ain't trying to play no D. There ain't no zone here. We're going to hit Mimi at the rim. You only had five game winners. Cap. That's Cap. That's cap.

That's what I was told. Who Googled that? McCants. That's what I was just told. McCants gave you that. That 1,000%. Most game winners in NBA history. Michael Jordan, nine.

Kobe, eight. Joe Johnson, eight. LeBron James, seven. Paul Pierce, seven. Andre Iguodala, five. Gilbert Arenas, five. Dwyane Wade, five. Vince Carter, five.

Who gave you that? I just got... Who gave you that? I just way five Vince Carter five who gave you that I just got who gave you that Google Gave it to you. Holy holy that's the Google Pro, right? That's a go. So that's why I said in between because when I hit the game winner against Golden State I had on all orange We was tie game hit the game winner, Golden State, I had on all orange. We was tie game. Hit the game winner, right? And then they called the foul, right? Free throws is a game winner.

So I shot the free throw. That would have been a game winner. No, free throw game winners, not free throw game winners. Bro, that's the biggest pressure of it all. That Golden State where we were down two and I got fouled no time on the clock. So I'm shooting two. Coach got a technical, so it gave me a third. I made all three to win the game, no more.

And then same thing, I beat Boston with game-winning free throws. They don't count. So if you get fouled, it don't count. That's what I said. Technically, what did Michael Jordan have? They said nine. Technically, technically, I could be him. I could be him if we add the game-winning free throws

when they called the foul at the end after I made the basket. Gil, the chat is saying stat man, stat man. Hey, McKenzie's the one throwing it up in the chat. No, I'm just kidding. Hey, man, don't you got shit to do? Listen, didn't he say he was busy in Chicago doing something? Go do that. Leave us alone over here.

That's that man's business. Let us cap. That's that man's business. All right, let's move on. So, Mavs big man Daniel Gafford on the verge of making NBA history. Over his last five games, Gafford has made 33 straight field goals. You heard

that right, ladies and gentlemen. 33 straight field goals. A lot of layups and dunks. And we got all 33 right here. Second longest streak in league history. Too shy a time. Wilt Chamberlain's record of 35 consecutive field goals that was close kept it going There you go, yeah, I say I mean Yeah Hey, so yeah busted Scott. I mean Detroit as Stewart? B-Stewart. He got him. Oh. Hey.

So Gafford. Busting Chicago, I mean Detroit ass, ain't it? Right? Goddamn. So Gafford has started the Mavs' last four games, averaging 15.7 rebounds, close to four blocks in that span. Last night they played the Warriors, he had 10.6 rebounds, seven block performance in that win.

The Mavs have won the last four games that he started. So 33 straight field goes over five games. In high school. I haven't seen a big actually play like that in a minute. Everything is all to the basket. I mean, Giannis. Yeah, but he's like a true center. Damn, all right. Mav traded for him before the deadline. Block shit, true sinner. Yeah. Damn, all right.

Mav traded for him before the deadline. Block shit, dunk shit. Yeah. Yeah. A big. What? Block shit, dunk shit. Got to get you paid.

Mm-hmm. Be who you are. Be who you are. I know you love defense. What's better for you, dunking on somebody or blocking somebody's dunk? Oh, it depends on what kind of block. But who and who? Yeah, the block that you'd be going to the third floor. Yeah, one of them or me grabbing your shit out the air.

Like, one of them two. Wow. Are you more happy about that than... Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because there's nothing more intimidating in sports than defense. Yeah. No matter what sport you're playing. So, yeah, block.

Okay. For sure. I heard defense. I checked out. I'm not even going to lie. I'm not going to lie. Like, when you can't score... For sure.

Dunking on somebody. For sure. What? What? Like that lob Isaiah Thomas threw to me in high school. Oh, man. Ah! So let's go back to Gaffer for a second.

How impressive is this 33 straight field goals in five games, two shy of tying Wilt Chamberlain's record? I want to see Wilt's 35 straight. You know how you're feeling it, Gil? Not a record you're running with on a Tuesday. Did you even know? I didn't even know who he was. Who? Nah, you knew. Yeah, I'm not gonna front

Oh Gavin who's with the one I you could play no Washington. I even get it in sister. No. Yeah I didn't decide because he been with the fucking Wizards. Oh Yeah, I know Can I know who it is? He's been stuck. Okay. He was in Washington Even stuck in turmoil shit for the last few years, but he's been solid Big man shot blocker hustle guy don't dunk shit Block shit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's what he gets the record When you get real we need to get rid of some old old-ass breakers that got nothing to do with Oh, we get the record and get paid like I like when somebody get they chance

Yeah, and they get they chance and they get that record young fella and you got to make a move Don't make it unless it's on a small No, he's trying to dunk that bitch. He and he know this record is at stake So he's trust he ain't gonna do nothing to jeopardize it. I can tell you that shit right now. It's questionable He'll take that turnover guys He might be a similar guy Nah What? Turnover guys Know who they play next we pull it up

Y'all be on my toes. Hey, man. I appreciate it. Oh good your wife. I was tripping again I don't know what it next Steve the Thunder today 7 p.m. It came back. Yeah, he can get that and get it no resistance at the rim. Oh, yeah, you get that So so what's the shooting streak that would impress you like how many through to somebody you need to make in a row? To get the reason of Gilbert arenas Shit anything over five is impressive Anything over five is impressive. What's great in a row Thanks making five five threes in a row. Yeah, okay Cuz after choose I oh shit, hold on. Mm-hmm. And then in that third fourth and fifth you was being guarded And it depends on where you are. I

Mean shit, they said Steph made a hundred threes in a row. I'm talking about we're talking about in game game. Oh in game Oh, yeah. Oh, oh mean, any time I heat check. Yeah. Like a heat, like if you. Like two in a row. Yeah. Three in a row. Yeah.

Like that heat check, like if you get a heat check, this nigga nice. He's nice. Right, this nigga's nice. Like, yo, I don't care. Because you got a lot of balls and you bold to come down and shoot it three or four times. That's like getting probably three dunks or four dunks in a row. That's hard to do. And you like just boom come down back boom One more. Yeah, we hold on to God

And then the last And the last one like off the rim or something damn it's like damn that's for sure two dunks in the road That's damn near timeout three someone getting cussed out and benched Even though it's six points the game is again oh wait Keegan Murray hit 11 in a row at one point you know what threes in a game damn yeah it was this year correct yeah that was this year oh shit impressive all right but now it's time for our seed geek. Give him some smoke, yo. Eleven threes in a row.

We got the green. Oh, no, it's just the lighting. Smoking. Look at this. That's crazy. Look like smoke room. So now it's time. Wait, was it, like, hold on.

Yeah. Was it, like, through, like, the whole game? Like, he took 11 threes for the game or was this in one game? He hit 11 one game in a row And a quarter not I don't believe it was one quarter go over wait who did this Keegan Murray Still it's not missed though from three. You might make a three miss two layups then come Tricky right there Lair could be like the whole game took 25 shots, but just you love you love for the three

But it's 11 threes in a row I never done it so it, so, yeah. Thank you, Joe. It's impressive. I don't even know if I made 11 free throws in a row. Your shit is 12. Huh? Your shit is 12. Threes made? Yeah. What?

In competition? Yeah, in competition, it's 12. But that wasn't in a row. I probably made two in a row. He was 12 for 15 for the game from three. 12 for 15? Yo, because I left and came back, you know back. That nigga said, yo, I got 12. I said, who got who?

He said, I got 12. I said, you got what now? The first ever Gil shootout presented by Underdog. I was trying to make it. We know, Gil. We know. Now it's time for our Seat Geek question of the day. Okay.

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We're okay. Let's see a good question of the day if you could have a courtside ticket to watch one player in the league right now Who you picking? Right now just one play the whole season Anybody that's in the league right now. I could even be people or a game or season for One player or just one player so that means the season just you want to do the city to do this is your show Gil Ja Morant. I'm going Ja. So you get courtside season tickets to watch Ja Morant?

Yes, sir. Brandon, if you could have a courtside ticket to watch one player in the league right now, who are you picking? I love I ask a question and you always got some loophole. I'm just saying, like, one game, one season. Whatever. You're a big baller, so you can get season tickets. A lot of us, we can only get one game. Jah.

I'm going to go Luka. I'm going to go Luka. Why are you picking Luka? Because he could have 70 that night. And then Kyrie also on the court. Okay. That makes sense. I'm getting both.

Two for one. Getting spoiled. Tricky bastard. You're going to have a court-side ticket to watch one player in the league right now. Who are you picking? Anthony Edwards. And if you go to a Clippers-Timberwolves game, it would be significantly cheaper than the Lakers. I'm just telling you how to maximize your SeatGeek bread.

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Trying to keep this show on the air. You all right, Gil? Okay. You knew we was about to be festive, right? And you decided that everything in your closet, you should go say, fuck us, huh? And just put a hat on. Huh?

You one of those, huh, coming to school? You know what the game plan was. You and the nigga over here. Yeah, I had to look like everybody in green. I had to look like, hold on. Where's your green that besides the hat that was just sitting here? Now go ahead and put on a dollar. I was about to while I was in my backpack.

You know, I'm a bigger gentleman transitioning. Transitioning. Stay in black. Transitioning. Green is not necessarily a color that works well with my current body format. We're getting there, though. We're getting there. I had to look at it like, yeah, okay, yeah. You know, look at the green socks.

Oh, got the green socks. Yeah, every time I get these memos, I forget. Because they tell me, I say, I got some green. I'll figure it out. And then I woke up and forgot. But I do have a green hat, so there will be no pinching. And if there is a pinching, I'm reporting you on HR. So now it's time for some facts or cap.

We do not have a sponsor for this yet, but shout out to Seat Geek. So the Warriors are currently holding down the 10th seed in the West, but Steve Kerr still has faith in his squad. During an appearance on 95.7, the game's Willard and Dib show, Kerr gave his thoughts on how this season will play out if the Warriors can stay healthy down the stretch. I feel really strongly that our team is primed. If we can really stay healthy here down the stretch,

get Steph back and stay healthy from there, I feel like we can make a really good run. And you never know what happens. If you do that, you could end up in a good spot and set you up for a good playoff run. All right. So if healthy, the Warriors can make a deep playoff run. Facts or cap? Brandon, we'll start with you.

Facts, for sure. Why do you believe that? I mean, they've been in so many situations, I mean, every situation when it comes to the NBA. You know, they're champions, and I think that they can, I just think collectively they can beat a young team coming up. Oh, no, I was laughing at what he was saying. No, I agree with him.

Yeah. If they get in, yeah, they got championship pedigree, so I agree with Brandon, 100%. So right now, Laker? And they got some young, hungry animals over there, and Kaminga and Jackson and what's the rookie kid? I forget his name. Yeah, yeah, him.

I don't want to butcher his name. They played Denver first round. So I was going to. Yeah, yeah. If they get Minnesota first, if they get... They play Denver first round. So I was going to point out... They're going to get their ass whooped. So just like anybody... If they play Denver. Right now, Denver holding down

the top spot. Lakers and Warriors. If they get Minnesota, they can get Minnesota out of it. 9th and 10th seed. They can only get to the 8th seed, right? They can't get... As of right now,

unless they can finish 8th or better, they will be vying for that 8th spot. If Denver don't finish one, then they have a chance, for sure. Cat? Who? Who y'all got? I got Denver to win it.

I'm not saying who you got. Know what I'm saying? No, if they play Denver first round. Know what I'm saying is you got Steph going to be Steph. Yep. So by chance they get in. I mean, Steph can win a series by herself. No.

Yes, he can. We saw it last year in Sacramento, game seven. Yeah, but he needs a little help from the other players. And at this time, they're not mentally ready to do nothing. Draymond going to play. Draymond going to show up. But he don't got Klay to pass it to like he used to. Klay still, all Klay gotta do is just shoot it and then Kaminga, he gonna be alright.

Kaminga's alright. Yeah, with the right, let's just call it what it is, with the right match up in the, if they- Right moon and the sun. Yeah, all they got lined up, the stars got aligned, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, it gotta be a Tuesday Like it's like all this shit, right? Like you said all the lights got to be green and unless you go. Yeah, we're going to work like shit Yeah, it is when no traffic on the motherfucking All seven games. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, yeah, they got Chris Paul over there puts false on all the games. Okay, I get it Okay. Okay. Well, I would say foster Foster on all the games. Yeah, okay, I get it. Okay, okay.

I would say Foster on none of those games. None of them. You're right. I said that wrong. My bad. Yeah, no. With the right matchup in the first round and, you know, and beyond. But, yeah, no, if they play Denver in the first round, that's a tall ask.

Right now, Nuggets are top spot. Thunder and Timberwolves are right behind them. It'll be one of those three teams more than likely. They can get OKC. So what's that going to do when the Lakers don't make the playoffs this year? Come on, stop. Bring them into this conversation, please, Brandon. No, no, no.

Y'all always bringing the Lakers. Yeah, exactly. I just want to know, what's y'all's secondary team? Because Denver going to be there, Milwaukee going to be there, McKenzie, he got Boston, so what other team y'all going to... He don't have no one else. Remember, I do have sons.

You're right, you're right. No, I give you that. I'm LeBron or bust. I give you that. You said Bucks? I said LeBron or bust, but I will use that Bucks plug. Shout out Marcus Johnson.

Like, if you ain't notice, he ain't... I will accept free tickets. plug shout out Marcus Johnson. Like if you ain't notice he I will accept free tickets. I'll be in my water. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, go to my car So yeah, bring the by extension the Bucks have always shown love. Yeah, some were arguing I'm gonna eat saying we ain't gonna make the playoffs Oh wizards No, no. We're in the lottery. You have never said a true statement on this show. We're in the lottery.

You have never said a true statement, my brother. We're in the lottery. Y'all definitely, y'all going to have the most balls in the motherfucking ping pong. Oh, no, you good with the ping pong. I might tell, hey, let me come up there and grab it. Nine. Yeah. You good with that? Number one. Nine. Seven. Nah, no, you good with this one, bro. I might, I might, let me come up there and grab it. Nine. Yeah. You good with this one. Number one.

Nine. Seven. Nah, we don't know that. Do it again, do it again. Do it again. Three. Do it again. One more time, one more time.

They said, give that boy, that shit gonna come. 13. They gonna be like, God damn it, Gilbert. Any chance. Last pick in the lottery,

like, yo, man, who told a nigga he can show up, man? Any chance you could become a Knicks fan for this postseason? Knicks? I don't have no ties to New York. Okay. Sure.

Not yet. I mean, I can't just jump. I can't just jump. We should do a show in New York. Bagging. Would you want to go to New York and do a show? Yeah, of course Milwaukee Okay, you don't go to Milwaukee for the finals

Finals what the National Basketball the finals, okay, Detroit I got listen Wizards and then I can go for the magic I can go for the magic the magic I can go for the magic Cuz they should be my childhood team so Exceptional, you know in the playoffs, right? They are gonna make the playoffs. Oh, they are for the magic. Then I'll say yeah, let's go out there go dizzy We're magic, baby Bob let's go to Florida speaking of

Quinn Richardson get down to Number five in the heat. Number five. Let's go to Florida. Speaking of, Quinn Richardson get down, too, on the grill. Oh, you do? Oh, yeah, we got him there. I'm my bad, y'all. Quinn Rich, we got you on the grill, son. We are always plotting. We have Mary Miles versus Kenyon.

And Gil. I can't cook for shit, but I can fuck shit. No, it's two of those guys. Gil Green versus Knuckleheads. I got a trick. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah. Yeah, yeah power versus power People show up. I listen I got a trick down. Yeah, no, I'm talking about. Go ahead. Let's get it. Yeah, really. Yeah Us versus knuckleheads and grilling. I'm pretty sure we can beat

All the smoke we got them cuz they're gonna be high fucks. Yeah, both They gonna burn a shit for that? Y'all like the bowl? They're going to burn this shit for sure. That's the best way. Y'all like the bowl? To be honest with you. Bowling. Oh, we can do that too. You want to see what I put in the chat?

198. I like that. That's what's happening. That's cool. I mean, that's on a drunk night. That's McCann's what I gave to him. You don't bowl 200. You can bring that little ball that's in there dusty, that bag that you...

Big armor cracking? That's Katrina. Hurricane Katrina. Tissue it up. Gotta love it. Lord, please help Gilbert. I'm winning. I'm winning.

I'm sorry, my bad. I'm sorry, my bad, New Orleans. Let's go bowl and watch the ball. Goddamn, we can't get through one show. So when it comes to a healthy Warrior squad, being able to make a deep playoff run this season. Going all the way off. Facts.

You got outnumbered. All right, let's talk about Jalen Brown. Last summer, Jalen Brown signed the richest contract in NBA history. Five-year, $304 million deal with the Celtics. It'll likely get surpassed when he was at the right place, right time. So it's not bad for a guy who isn't even the number one option on his team with that distinction belonging to Jason Tatum. So recently, Brown liked a tweet that raised some eyebrows.

So wait for it. I will just read it for you in the meantime, in between time. So the tweet said, if Jalen Brown was the number one on a team, he would average over 30 points per game and be in the MVP conversation. So Jalen Brown would average 30 points per game and be in the MVP race if he was the number one option on the team.

Cap. Facts or cap? Which part of it? Both. It's a two-part. Him averaging 30? Averaging 30. Or him being the MVP if he averaged 30?

Averaging 30 and being in the MVP race if he was the number one option on the team. Tatum's the number one option. He ain't even really in there. So, I think this person's saying if he was on a different team, or this team, and was the number one option. So, if he was on this team and Tatum was gone, they wouldn't be in first place. Right, they probably wouldn't even make... But would he be in the MVP race?

In last place Sure You say first to last I'm just saying if he's the number two option and they're in first place and the number one option Who's averaging about? 28 29 if he ain't really an MVP candidate what makes him think that he will be one what? Listen I think he just liked it because it was a compliment mmm right now tell me you you average 40 in today's league like not dog you wrong fuck out here What is it like? F-O-H.

What was it supposed to do? What was it supposed to do? Fuck outta here. Fuck outta here. I wouldn't be shit if I was the number one option. What? What you trying to say, dawg? Ladies and gentlemen, this is Gil Zerino,

presenting my $100 fantasy download app. You can take a fancy to it. I'm not gonna lie. What you trying to say, dog? Ladies and gentlemen, this is Gil Zarina presented by Underdog Fantasy. You can take offense to me. The Browns currently average at 23 points per game this season. Tatum's average at 27, just for that out there. But Brandon, if Jalen Brown would average 30 points per game and be in the MVP race, if he was the number one option,

facts or cap? Cap. Big cap? the number one option. Facts or cap? Cap. Big cap? Yeah, big cap. Like gill size? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, big cap.

Yeah, just like that leprechaun that come out there on that court. Some lucky charm. Kenya? Cap. Oh, well. Not a particularly difficult subject. And when it comes to JaylenBron averaging a 30-piece and being an MVP candidate, if he was the number one option...

Stop the cap. What happens... I mean... Can he be an effective number one option? Like, if the ball just went through him without any other star, so he gets all the double teams, everything is just... There's no Tatum on the floor. He'd turn the ball just went through him without any other star. So he gets all the double teams. Everything is just, there's no Tatum on the floor. He turned the ball over too much. He turned the ball over too much.

He turned the ball over too much right now as being the number two option. Like in just the wrong time. It's so hard to see him as the number one option because he's never played as the number one option. Right? one option because he's never played as a number one option right so um if everything was focal on him like you are the dude that gets the double teams the scout report is on you now you have to create offense passing for everybody like you know that's that's that's what people don't realize people just look at the person in the number two option and say, all right, he's averaging number 23 as the number two option. If the number one option was gone, he can boom, boom, boom. No, that's not how that works. Because the number one option is taking

all the heat and all the responsibility. The number two option, number three option, they don't have no responsibility. Just make open shots and create offense when everyone's, you know, paying attention to me. So if the offense was just sore everyone's you know paying attention to me so if the offense was just sorely on you and you have to take on those double teams and triple teams and you know that's a different that's a different thing and not even that your his workload is gonna be different yeah to be the number option I mean you got to work ten times harder like and I don't even know he even working it like working ten times harder now That's like to be done like, you know, I'm saying be number option, but you're you you're working ten times

People just think that you can just turn into number one options and not realize that next step is very Different than a number two option. Yeah, you have to be prepared, you physically have to be prepared, right? You have to really understand triple teams, double teams, trying to take you out of the office, getting somebody involved, dealing with this person, dealing with that person. I ain't touched the ball. Number two now complaining, I ain't touched the ball, right? When Tatum has the ball, Jalen Brown's sitting there like this. When Jalen has the ball,

Tatum is resting. Right? That's two different things. Now, you switch it and he's sitting there like, yo, come on, get the ball up. You done shot three, four times in a row. That's a whole different mentality.

And my thing is, like, when they're still young and they got time and they're going to, you know, keep going, just don't turn into that Scottie Pippen, Mike shit. Yeah.

Like, you know what I'm saying? Don't let the media... Yeah, like, don't get into that. Because both of y, Mike shit. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, yo. Don't let the media, don't let the media. Yeah, like don't get into that. Because both of y'all got a chance to really do some special things up there in Boston. And you know, you don't want to look back in years and be like, oh shit, like, damn, we fucked this off because I felt like I was supposed to be

the number one option, or you was getting too much press. It's like, figure it out now why y'all got the chance. Because y'all been to the finals Lat what two years ago and you know, they've been making a run to the Eastern Conference final So it's like it was time for you to get over the hump So okay. What was that adjustment like for you to? Becoming a number one option in time. I was number one The go say words you're the number one option. Yeah, I was just on the bench. I just didn't get in the game yet. But you always had that number one option.

That's the number one option mentality. I was just in the game. I was number, you know, at this point, I was just number 15 waiting for my turn. And then eventually I had to weave myself. But that's how you have to, I mean, I'm just going to be honest. If you don't think like that, man, the number one or two option is not going to allow you in there. All right? If you don't have the confidence in yourself, why are they going to have the confidence in you?

The stars in the NBA is not sitting there talking about, hey, man, we believe in you. Just keep doing this. If they're doing that to you, they really don't fuck with you like that. Right? It's like, yo, come on, man. they really don't fuck with you like that. Right? It's like, yo, come on, man. Hey, come on. Get your shit together.

Right? That's what you want to hear. Get your shit together, man. We ain't got time for this bullshit. Right? That means they respect you enough to know that when you fucking up, they're going to say something to you.

So, that's just something that's inherent in dudes. Like, you always had that going from college. Even college, I know you talk about you were kind of the last dude on the total poll in terms of recruiting But came in and said I'm taking everybody's probably had a very spirited discussion in the group chat man confidence is built through work ethic

Right when you're sitting there working and working and working and working you're seeing the game change you're seeing the results, right? You know how much time you but you can't trick the results like you can work you can work out you know a thousand hours a day you're going to see results if you say you worked out a thousand dollars thousand hours a day and you don't have the results you're not going to have the confidence in yourself but you know your confidence gives you that that mindset right when you when you when you look at someone like a Kanye or a Jay-Z or a Chris Brown, those type of guy, they know how much time they spend in the studio.

They know what they're doing. So when they speak in certain tones, it's because of the work that they put in. You can hear somebody who's second-guessing, right? Clothesline them. I'm like, all right, What you about to do? Oh Nothing. What was this first day? Oh the NBA soft because in his mind This is probably one of the toughest dudes that the NBA had at the time

So he clothesline him and he didn't get up his mind is the whole day soft So now everybody from moving forward they soft. I'm gonna just bully through everybody now so basically you have to have that mentality and Brandon what was your mentality like coming in your rookie season playing overseas you feel like you had that that mindset I had a lot to prove because I didn't play the whole year and I made a decision where you know I knew that you know if this if I would have left overseas then you know I would have looked overseas, then, you know, I would have looked at it as a failure. So I was already put on a pedestal of, you know, Jay Bullis and everybody doubting me and telling me that this wasn't work.

So coming in, I was on fire. I was hostile. I just wanted a chance to play. Yeah. Just to be able to show. And then getting with Scott Scowles was the best thing for me. A point guard and, you know, just went in there and did my thing. I think, Kane, how about yourself, mentality?

Number one overall pick, obviously a lot of expectation. But did you come in like, I'm the guy? Yeah, just going to hoop, man. Like, there ain't no pressure. Yeah, like Gil said, man, like, when you know the work that you didn't put in, everything else is easy. You going out there bitch, daily working your ass off, busting your ass to exhaustion. If you ain't damn near making yourself throw up and shit and work out, you ain't working.

So if you ain't did that and know what it is to be counted on in that regard, because that's what it is, man, just being able to be counted on in certain situations, showing up and doing your job. So, you know, if you put the time in, man, like I said, the results come. Is that something you always had in you, even growing up? No, I developed it, man, when I got to college. Like I said, I didn't have the skill trainers

and none of that shit. I just went out of the hoop. Then when I got to college, I developed that and knowing what it was to work, like what it was to put the time in the weight room, on the floor, and I saw the results each year of me getting better, right? Like people ask me, like,

what was the difference between my junior and senior year? I didn't miss a day. I might've took a day off a week, maybe a Saturday, but not, maybe probably just one day a week. I took maybe Sunday off. Cause what was said to me before my senior life, the people wanted to see more from me offensively.

All right. So that whole summer, I don't think I probably didn't dunk the basketball one time. Jump shot or something. No, just jump shot. I already had the jump hook. I already had the jump hook. I already had the jump hook. That was perfected sophomore year, junior year. That was hugs diligently.

This is what you need to give it. So I'm working on that, the counteroffer, that up and unders and shit like that. But then that summer, I didn't touch the rim. I shot the ball in the paint. It was all elbow to elbows and threes and turnaround jumpers. Like, that's face up, glad. Like, that's all I did, like, day in, day out. So by the time my rookie year came around,

I had the confidence that I could play with anybody. So we asked to chat with Jalen Brown, average 30 points per game is the number one option. 40% said fact, 60% said cap over 2,000 voters. Stop the cap. I mean, well, so you changed it. I didn't change anything, Gil. I'm merely a vessel.

No, no, no, you changed it. You said if he was the number one option, would he average 30? That's facts. He can average 30 as the number one. You said and win MVP. Yeah, that's what the tweet that he likes said. But what did you just say right now? What did you put as...

I didn't put anything. You can see I'm busy hosting the show. No, no. Jaden Brown would average 30 as a number one option. That's it. That's a fact. Yeah, no, that's fact. That's fact.

That's a fact. You said and win MVP. See, you're a tricky motherfucker, man. Yo, my hands have been sitting right here on this couch as that ball went up. You're tricky with the word. Contrary to sitting right here on this couch as that ball went up. Tricky with the word. Contrary to popularity, I do not make the beats on this show. Everybody put fact. It's supposed to be St. Patrick's Day, y'all.

No, I'm just kidding. All right, let's keep it moving. So Mario Chalmers caused some heat last year after saying players don't fear LeBron. During a recent appearance on the big podcast, Shaq echoed those sentiments. So I've heard players say, including myself, I feared Mike. I've heard players in your generation say they feared Kobe. I've never really heard any players say they fear LeBron. And you know I got killed for that.

Why is that? You're not going to get killed here. No, I'm just saying when I first said that, people killed me for that. I'm with you. I didn't think players really feared LeBron like they did Jordan. I never heard anybody say it. And it's not that you shouldn't fear LeBron. I just think at the end of the day, LeBron has been through so much that he wanted to be liked. So it was kind of like.

He's a nice guy. Yeah, I'm going to do things now where people like me, people respect me. You're always going to respect what he did, but you actually like Bron and want to be a fan of Bron now. So I think that's what that was. Never a dull moment in Gil's arena presented by

Underdog Fantasy. Talk to Gil about the relapse. Players don't fear LeBron. Facts or cap? Canyon, we'll start with you. I remember when Rio said it, people were like, damn, he's hating

and shit like that. I don't think the masses look at LeBron as a killer. Despite the stats, despite the resume, he's a likable guy. He's a likable teammate. He's a... Yeah, he's...

Yeah, so with that regard, yeah, I just don't think... Even though he's put teams to bed, he's went on runs and the shit he did to Detroit when he was young, like, you know, he's had situations that he could be looked at as that and be feared, but I just think the fact that everybody likes LeBron right most people like LeBron in this era um yeah so I don't teammates as well so I don't think he's I agree with him I just know in the sense of basketball he's a bad bad man. But it's it just the optics looks it's a difference.

So you're saying that people don't think LeBron has that killer in him just by his... Go ask his teammates. Go talk to Mike. We know the way Mike teammates think about him. We've heard what Cole teammates had some

like, it's not the same thing in the locker room, right? Yeah, he got your back. He gonna go to War Witch and this, but it's just not the same thing, I don't think. But, the bad man on the

basketball floor, but it's just the difference with Hoopers and the conversation, I think. So, Brandon, players don't fear LeBron. Facts or cap? I mean, it's facts. Why does it matter if they fear him or not? Like, I mean, he's changed the game. He's done things the way he wanted to do it.

I just feel like when you got the gun and, you know, the NBA is putting it, giving you everything, it's all about how you want to, you know, everything to go. But, I mean, I don't really care for the whole thing about him being feared or all that. Like, that shit don't mean nothing. Like, at the end of the day, get between these lines and at the end of the day't mean nothing. Like, at the end of the day, get between these lines,

and at the end of the day, let's win. And at the end of the day, what type of men are walking around being feared by the next man? Anyway, in anything. Can no man fear me? Like, you might be better, you might have more money, but fear? The fuck? You put on one shoe just like me every day.

So, I don't know. That's just my take on it. So, Gil, we done with the 90s. Players don't fear LeBron. We done with the 90s, bro. Shout out Mike Pick. Because they letting you know exactly what their mindset was. He said Kobe too. Huh? He said Kobe too, so. Who was the one man that, what'd they tell Kobe when he first got in the league? Don't look him in his eyes. And Kobe said what?

Who? Don't look who in the eyes. Yeah, so that, yeah. So that lets you know, what kind of, what kind of, this is the toughest era in basketball. They're scared of the dude. They're fearful of the dude.

Then they're shaking up the dude. Number 23 fearful of the dude. Then they're shaking because the dude number 23. Oh shit. I got to guard MJ. That's what they're telling you. They're telling you the dude with the number 23 on we're scared of him. We respected his game so much

that we're afraid of him. Damn. I'm sorry. That lets me know y'all's are some hoes. Yeah, I'm with you. Because Kobe at 18 came in and said, don't look him in his eye. Who? Him. Oh, he looked human. I'm not scared of this dude. That's the only thing I can go from. I'm looking from the vision of a real killer. Yeah.

Jordan was the killer. Everybody else, he killed. And they're running around telling you, don't look him in his eye, he gonna kill you. And then another killer faced up like, nah, I'm gonna look him in his eye

because I'm a killer too. Isaiah Thomas, killer. So the fact that that's what you want to run around and say nobody is scared because there's more killers today that says, we're not going to be scared of a dude.

He's going to have to guard me like I'm going to have to guard him. That just lets me know mentally y'all was weak in that era then. I would think like throughout the duration of it. Whatever. I see both sides of it. Right. I mean, that's what I'm saying. You came in, you hooked the dude and said, oh, this is what y'all.

I'm not worried about y'all. Yeah. Next. Right? Like, next one. Next. But think about when you get, that's what you're saying. Like, I hooked him, waiting for some action, and then nothing happened.

Oh, they weak. No. Yeah. I mean, what I'm saying is. Everybody ain't built that way. Huh? Everybody ain't built like, everybody don't have. So the fact that y'all going out as grown assass men talking about, he's a black cat, he...

Oh, shit. He coming! Yeah. Don't look. Don't look at him. Don't look at him. Don't look up, nigga. Bruh, y'all are tripping.

Y'all... Don't look up. Oh, my God. Y'all are scared. Y'all really believed in the boogeyman, dude. And what Eddie Murphy say about the Prince shit? Yeah. Was it Eddie Murphy or was it Jamie Foxx?

So you looked in his eyes, didn't you? Say, shit, what happened? I've been fucking him for six months. Please don't look in his eyes. I don't like that whole fair thing with Ron. Like, just, like, it don't matter. But that's what I'm saying. You're trying to discredit someone,

but you make yourself look stupid at the same time. Yeah, like, who cares? Yeah, you can't discredit him because the't make yourself look stupid at the same time. Yeah, like who cares? Yeah, you can't discredit him because the body of work is what it is, right? So whether guys did or they didn't When he first came in when nobody gone and I era He was good basketball player, but we came in ain't like Ain't nobody. Yeah, buddy. He was still doing Pistons was supposed to be the toughest

and you see what he did to them so they didn't fear him I'm pretty sure Paul Pierce didn't fear him either it ain't even about that but I'm just like just ask the teammates

and then you'll get a clear understanding on what this conversation is. Because I never played with either one of them. You never been on a team with anyone. Yeah, so it's just, but you go talk to their teammates, I think it'll be a different conversation. No one fears Shea right now. No one fears Luka right now.

And obviously, them motherfuckers whooping y'all ass. So, you know what I mean? It's a different time. That's what I'm saying. Saying it out loud makes you look bad. That you are a grown-ass man in the NBA scared of another NBA player. Just... Yeah, I was looking at some shit earlier.

Like, Mike was really out here toying with motherfuckers though. Like that. Yeah, you saw the highlight earlier. Yeah. What's Amy Brown doing? Britt Price. Yeah.

Motherfucker. Yeah. Fuck it. He's moving the ball on them. Yeah, like a little midget sitting there just waving and shit. Like come on, dawg. Don't do that, man. He just make you look stupid out there.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, he was real out here toying with them. He was a freak. He was out there. Yeah, he was real out there toying with them. He was a freak. He was a freak. Yeah, he was. But then, like, to everybody, like, they had never seen anything like this.

They can say all that shit they want. Dr. J was doing it when he came out. Cool. It wasn't doing that. They didn't see it move like this. Not at all. Not in the air, not with Grace, not with, like, just some of the layups.

Like, this shit was, like, yo, this man was out here really toying with y'all, man. Like, we knew it, but the more you see how the more they digging in crates and finding shit. Like, yo, this dude. Like, when we played, I would say, like, we could see they was afraid of Mike, afraid of Kobe, afraid of Shaq. Absolutely. I mean, the whole league was afraid of Shaq. I mean, like, the rules was afraid of Shaq. Like, we had to put in extra bodies and rules, no handshake.

They was trying to figure out how to, and then, AI. Yo. Tom McCullough asked, they traded Tom McCullough for Dikembe who was with the Nets. He said, he told the management he said, did y'all trade me because I couldn't guard Shaq? He was like, no no. He said, no that ain't the reason. He said, shit because I was going to tell you, shit Dikembe can't guard

him neither. Hey. Now I think the thing about fear with Bron is like they should fear the way he came into the league, how he planted his seed with his friends and was able to get on outside of doing it the way everybody else wanted to do it. Putting Rich on, putting Mav, putting all his boys on.

I think that's more the fear of anything people should fear about. The next young'un coming up, looking at how he removed it around the league for 20 years and doing it next because he did it his way. That's a lot of his hate too. A lot of people hate him because he did it his way with his own friends. So that's the fear. If you want to fear, you better fear the next young guy that sees that. I mean, we talk about the fear. I don't think fear is a man, right? Obviously, but fear of what they could do to you on the court and how they can embarrass and humiliate you. It's more of like, you're more afraid of let's say like guards right you're more afraid of kairi than you would shea and kairi

averaged about 24 shea averaged about 31 yeah because she is gonna just get buckets right kairi's moves will embarrass you put you on sports center you know shit like that you're that's what you're afraid of you're fair for you're afraid of. You're afraid of the embarrassment. Like, I was afraid of, like, if I had to guard someone, like, I don't want to, like, be on the highlight with Steve Francis, right? Because, one, he going to do something, try to throw it between your legs and flick it in. Sit here and bop you, bop you, bop you down the lane off the Wilson and like, no, I want

to be on SportsCenter. And the motherfucker had a total of eight points, but it looked like he had 45 Yeah, but that's what afraid like, you know, I mean like it ain't really to get like no one fears Joker You think people know your game doesn't his game doesn't make you fearful But you think I'd give a shit if he gave 20 assists out? Like, you know who got... 20 assists, 30 rebounds. What the fuck they got to do with me individually?

Ooh, he got to the rebound. He scores 22 to 23 points. I'm not scared of that. Would you say people fear Luka, then? No. But you don't get that 70? Because it's the game.

It's the game. What I'm saying, it's a style of play that you're afraid of. Like, you'd be afraid of more of Embiid. Giannis. Giannis, because he's coming down the lane, you're ducking on you the whole time.

You know what I mean? Downhill muffler coming at you all game? Yeah. So you're more afraid of Wimby than you are most of the NBA because his style of play is just different. He might throw between your legs He might give you the sham God and like you're afraid of that style versus Some of his other stuff. Yeah, cuz also these got we can also come back at these guys in the 90s

Of course, they gonna fear Mike. They ain't coming back down getting the ball So you get cooked every time. Oh, they get the ball, but it don't look like that Yeah, I can tell you that shit, but they got a pat like they ain't got the green light like Mike today man Luca come down. I'm coming right back down Right back at it like back then the 90s man No, I'm saying whoever the shit the mood when he played the Nets He jumped outside the paint went through the hole whoever had the green light on that team ain't doing motherfucking that Yeah, I want to know.

We got to talk to the era when AI came in with that crossover. When he hit MJ? Oh, I know they was. Oh, my God. Just him just low enough for it. I know you was afraid of that. He was yanking the hell out of you. Listen, they had to take it away from him because it

looked so bad. Yeah, I want to ask about who actually played in that game. Yeah, like yo, I mean I mean, yeah, like or somebody who was even Jay will in this past and people were scared of the things he was gonna do And then Shaq for more of a physical to dominate Listen I had the recent in locker room and they talk about Hey, man So you gonna suck to set me up to win? Y'all had bigs. We had. Y'all had bigs.

We was loaded up on them. Y'all had bigs. I think my first matchup was kind of like, whoa. Was you on the team with Jihadi White? Yeah. If Jihadi was taller, right, he's the only person that probably physically could have had a chance. He had a, yeah.

If he was a couple inches taller. Yep. Him and Aaron Williams. Mm-hmm. Few inches taller, far as just pure strength, probably the only couple people had a chance. Like, Train was strong as shit. He just, six.

Six. Six, yeah. Right? Strong as goddamn ox. But, but yeah, nah, like I said before,

man, father time guarded Shaq. Yeah. Nobody guards Shaquille O'Neal. Trust him, man. Still can't. Man,

listen, dog. Shaq would have ate right and worked and ran and all that shit and kept that weight around. Good luck, goddammit. I'm telling you right now. I mean, shit, we even saw what he was doing when he said he was 400. Like, fearful.

I'm going to replay them in the playoffs and he didn't even show up for two games. He said, for what? You're right. We didn't have nobody to stop him. He just figured that we didn't, I don't need to go out there and play. I'm just going to play the home game. Y'all are terrible. What team was he on?

He was with Miami Heat. He just beat the Bulls. We had to play them in the second round. And those first two games let him know he need to play no more Yeah, we sweeping y'all. Hey, you're right. Yes. We thought we wanted y'all we did so when it comes to players not fearing LeBron Facts we asked to chat Players do not fear LeBron. 52% said facts. 48% said cap.

So since y'all want to talk about Lakers today. People fear Tyson, right? Mike. I don't feel like there's anything wrong with that. You could die. No one fears Mayweather. No. Look at his record, though.

You know what I mean? So what does what I mean? So what does it really mean? Yeah. A L is a L no matter how you take it. That is fair. It's just time. They just got a better way of going to buy it.

But you watched that video of Mike Tyson like we saw earlier in the show. Yeah. I think that's somebody that's- You think golfers fear Tiger Woods? Mm-hmm. I don't know if it was fear. They just didn't think they could win. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I don't know if it was fear. They just didn't think they could win.

Yeah. Like, they just, like, they was out there bitch playing for second. Yeah. Like,

like, like, okay, we gonna play for second today, so let's... Wanna come close. Yeah. So that's all that shit was.

What about somebody like a Serena, though? Like, on the tennis court? Yeah. Hell yeah. You see how fast that shit... How hard she hit. I feel like. Hell, yeah. You see how fast that shit. How hard she hit.

She was big. Oh, yeah. So since y'all want to talk about Lakers conveniently, I don't know why. Who talked about the Lakers? You said earlier in the show. Who said anything about the Lakers? King, earlier in the show, said you wanted to talk about the Lakers. The King.

King, you did. You guys were kicking as you like to say. Kicking. There was some key key ago Love just said he gonna bring up our team At some point. Yeah, we have bills to pay and they had a game last night The Kings beat the Lakers Wednesday night to sweep the season series for the first time since 2016. I'm just reading the information Yeah, you know bring so at least let it be positive. You might bring them over sweet

We never use the word sweep to beat the for y'all lost all the games Y'all lost all the game that y'all played against the Kings this year the Kings Won every game against the Lakers this season that they met up in for the first time since 2016 So after the game LeBron posted several stories on his IG Driving back home while rocking gloves, listening to Lose Control by Silk. He's going 81 miles per hour, too, for those.

Yeah, he ain't passing nobody, so good. Driving good. Driving well. Down to 101. One of my favorite freeways. Gil, you're fluent in Bronies. What does this mean? I Just know when you when you got him listen to slow music ad you just got to do better

Y'all got our man listen to the slow Somebody go somebody gotta go we can't read nobody read now somebody whatever this the last year this shit though You didn't listen to slow music after games Yeah, all the time all the time all the time we just never filmed it right yeah Yeah, he had all gloves to Somebody in the chest said let's speed racer OJ Simpson Last time I went home with gloves like that when Derrick Rose hit the game went on me

I turned all the lights off in my house. Damn! I told everybody, don't come in. Don't come in. Were you just sat in the dark? Yeah, I was pissed. How long did you keep the lights off in the house? Until the next day, until the next morning.

Until the same came back? Okay. I'm like that. I was pissed. They look bad. Will Smith and I am legend. Huh? I ain't want to say nothing.

What? It didn't look good. What? The game winner he did against you. I was right there. I mean, crossover, step back, the hand right there. That made it worse. Turn out the...

You became part of the picture. But you know what, though? I don't back down from shit. I took that challenge, though. That's fine. Good shot. Turn off the light. I love you. Turn off the light. That's good. I said, challenge, though. That's fine. Good shot. Turn off the light. I like that.

I like that. I said, turn them off! Okay, just the fact that LeBron posted this, I'm sure he was flying back from Sacramento to L.A., but Lose Control is a song selection by Silk. Do you think there was any deeper message? No, shit. Don't know if we've ever heard the bra playing so in a video just seems like a

Interesting song choice those driving gloves Hell no See every time you get me Get this motherfucking Jason Statham only transporter Was the key Optima You know why about making a big deal about him going 80 Yeah, like what's the LA you fucking better? Them you ain't gonna get their flow of traffic

Traffic that shit Get there. Flow of traffic. Yeah, shit. Flow of traffic. That shit. Mm. There's no easy way out. Felt like the Rocky IV scene after Krieg I got by Drago. Yeah, he did. Yeah, he... Hey. Should've been playing some Frankie Beverly. Frankie Beverly Mays.

He was just vibing out, man. That's all it is. Look at... I don't know what AD was playing on his ride back. I don't know what he was playing. I don't know what he was playing. I don't know what he was playing. I can barely make it vibing out man It ain't my fault Let's keep it moving. Part two. According to Shams Tarania... I don't get all... We on the topic, goddammit.

You want to talk about him, goddammit? Let's talk about him. Let's talk about the way Sabon has been motherfucking busting AD ass. You don't want to talk about that shit, do you? Exactly. Kane, this is your opportunity to talk. Goddammit, no.

You're Lakers. Goddammit, speak on it. What, is AD now... He's just speak on it. What is 89 right now? All right All right now they talk to Wayne at the game top beauty top digs in the league bigger centers Generally the European variety. Oh, yeah There's not too many American Center. So yeah What happened to the game? I love

him busting listen Post his ass up motherfucking put him in the bag He laying on the ground, hold his goddamn face Man, if you don't get your ass up, man Go get out the end and go get a bucket It ain't even wet over there I've been having little questions Yeah

We done played them four games, right? There have been four matchups Between the Kings and Lakers this season In them four games, right? There have been four matchups between the Kings and Lakers this season. In all four games, he's been left-handed, right? Correct. Let me think. Yeah. Yeah, right?

Left-handed. I was trying to figure out when he goes right All four games he did the same fake spin back to his left with the same move on One game one two three and four I'm pretty sure after game one you should have adjusted and realized let's see if he has a right-hand hook shot. Okay, so you didn't get that in game three. Game three, we figured you was going, let's see, once he goes right, let's let him finish with the right-hand hook shot.

No, no, no. Okay, so game four, and the same, that was the same move that got his ass hit in the mouth. Yeah, absolutely. Huh? Turn around, boom. Maybe just next time, just let him stay on that side and see if he can do one of these.

I doubt he can do one of these because the last three games before this, he didn't even try it. Yeah. Hey, dawg. Yeah. So what you got to say to that, Josiah? Whatever you would like to say, K. About your Lakers. Yeah, talk about your Lakers.

Come on. You got it. No, we just getting ready. Don't Lakers. Yeah, talk about your Lakers. Come on. You got it? Nah, we just getting ready for it. Don't do that. We just getting ready for the playoffs. Peaks and valleys. Y'all getting ready for a play-in. Peaks and valleys, yo.

A play-in. No, no, no, no. Postseason. Let's get it correct. We're getting ready for postseason basketball. You're not getting ready for the play-off anything. Postseason basketball. No, the reason we like the play-in.

No, y'all are team 60-67. Revving up. In the incident, no, before it was 60-14, right? The first four. Now y'all the first four are out. Niggas got to go to data. We like that because we got a game. Y'all six days.

Y'all selection, son. Remember, everybody else is sitting. Everybody else is sitting for about a week. Rev up. By the time we get there, we in full motion. We get that first win like always, baby. This was the plan all along, man. This was the plan all along. Le win like always baby. This is the plan all along It's wrong playing all along the boss tactical. This was the plan all I know what the y'all better. Hope y'all catch Denver

Shit now. Yeah, not particularly were worried about it. We're not worried about it ain't worried about no No, you said I shot the get is eight, right? Seven seven eight much much more back. I'll let you play it in Like I said, the highest y'all can get is eight, right? Okay, I'll just remind you. We went to the Battle of L.A. Cardiff CSC gig. You said the Lakers were going to get their asses kicked. Oh, they were. Until I left. Then God said no.

I jinxed it. God said no. I said I jinxed it. I left. LeBron, very wise man. He looked up at the floor in there. Oh, they gone. We all felt the same way. But let's talk a little bit about just these playoff standings right now

because there's going to be some situations going on that need to be talked about. So let's look at 7 through 10. We got Suns at 7, Mavs at 8, Lakers at 9, Warriors at 10 currently. Kings and Suns are kind of flipping back and forth in that 6 and 7 spot. So it's 9 and 10. Which two of those teams, currently, okay, currently, which two of those teams do you feel like will not be making it to the actual playoff?

I just told you. 9 and 10? So Warriors and Lakers? Dallas and Golden State is over for him if I'm the NBA we need the Lakers and Golden State in it so you know that's problem is Phoenix Phoenix is seven oh they're seven right now right now that's a week to me man oh shit Sacramento oh no Sacramento go right Sacramento go on a out of there Be out of there you need you need step carry LeBron James in the playoffs. I don't play all year, right? He just that shit is

I'm just talking about seven and eight. Yeah, we don't want to hear that, man. They made a new rule, baby. If eight, nine, and ten got the same record, I agree. Eight, nine, and ten, uh-huh. I don't think seven should be in the play at all. Yeah, that's... With this shit, dog. And the only way that eight, nine, and ten is in the play, if eight, nine, and ten got the same record, then you should have a play in-game shit.

I get it in that regard. I totally I like if you and if you under 500 for damn sure you shouldn't have a chance Oh shit, that's damn the whole East Coast, right? What I'm saying nine and ten like eight not like it just you shouldn't have a chance to get in the playoffs Like seven should even be in this conversation No, I believe the only team that should be thinking about who they're going to play is one. Right?

Two through, that shit should be, come on, man, that shit ain't fair to them, dog. What's so funny is 10th is 34 and 31. There should be nine and eight, right? Like I'm saying, if they have the same record, right? Eight, nine'm saying, if they have the same record, right? Yeah, that's only...

Eight, nine, ten. If they have the same record. If they have the same record, then you have a playing situation. Yeah. If ten is a game out behind him, then he out of the fucking equation. Eight and nine, okay, I get it.

Nine could have been an eight, seven at one point. A injury happened late in the year. They buzzed, beatater. Whatever the case may be, cool, you're a decent team if you're in nine, but you 10, come on, let's stop this, dog. Yeah, 10th is four games away.

You had a bullshit season. Right? Yeah, 10th is four games. That team in that 10th spot right now is the Golden State Warriors. Yeah, that's what I said. They're four games away. And shit on the West Coast, 10 is six games away from eighth spot. Yeah, I just, that shit. Yeah, this shit, I mean.

That shit's weak, man. I mean, they might as well just do it like the tournament. Everybody just, everybody just first place, second. They should just do it like the tournament. just Everybody just first place saying they should just do it like to marry body makes it Might as well. How do you feel about just the top 16 teams make it regardless of conference then? Top 16 stop 16 teams no matter just go by your record Best six no take this best 16 team. I think that's dope. That'd be hard. Fuck all the East, West. Yeah, no matter who it is, one play 16, two play fifth, just like, yeah. Or if you want to even make it more teams, give those top two or four teams a bye in the first round

and then let the, you know, do an NFL. One have a bye. Yeah, one and two have a bye. You know, the top teams in each conference. Oh, no, just each team in each conference have a bye? Yeah. You remember, so like the West Coast, right? They're going to all be sitting at damn near one or maybe two, three, four, five, six on how their record works.

Well, hey. They just make them up. Second place got 42 wins on the East. So you have Celtics at one, right? No, so you have Celtics at one. It'll be Denver, OKC, Minnesota, then it goes, uh, nah, then it goes Cleveland, then Milwaukee. So you got three Eastern Conference teams and four. Yes, I go one East, then two, three, four, five, and then six, seven, eight, five. Yeah, and then six seven eight

Nine yeah, this is wild ten So like somebody that's like let's say like New York right there and fourth They're gonna be they'd be facing damn near Boston infer. Okay. Hey, you play tomorrow ready? Yeah Hey, you should have a beat on you. You're in the same conference with them. You said beat. That's what's gonna happen. Right? Beat.

You should have some knowledge of what the fuck you're getting yourself into. And if you did it that way right now, just based on everything, the Celtics played a Heat, I believe the Nuggets played a Pacers, Thunder Sixers, Timberwolves, Mavs. Man, there's some... Yeah, I just don't... Yeah, you're taking teams... We were just talking about a fairness standpoint.

It'll be some good games, though. It'll be some... Yeah, yeah. All right, well, let's keep this thing shaking. Yeah, that's just super weak. So, according to Shams Charania, the NBA Competition Committee

met Tuesday to discuss ways to incorporate more defensive freedom into the league, especially when it comes to physicality. This season, NBA teams are averaging nearly 115 points per game, which is the most since the 60s, and teams also have the highest offensive rating and three-pointers made per game in NBA history. If you were in these competition committee meetings, what would you tell them about the state of defense in the league? Yeah, I know you don't care about defense. Okay, new Your more physicality be allowed

To what I think like the only thing that I think you should be able to do Motherfuck coming crew through the lanes should be I should be able to reroute you a little bit That's all like on the perimeter guys facing, you know This is, nasty basketball. People don't want to see that shit. But it's... It's not necessarily an NBA problem. Mm-hmm.

Right? Like, to Gil's point, and like we said before on this show, you want better defense, then you got to go to fucking college, get college players in this motherfucker. Right? That's just what it is. Like, because they been, you got to go get you some juniors and some seniors that's been motherfucking playing defense for three or four years in college and been getting yelled

at for not fucking closing out the right way. Going better defense. And to Gil's point, the Europeans have expanded the game. There's more offense on the floor. So to circumvent that, what you're going to see, you start getting some kids from college that know how to play defense or you You don't get your pit So it just you got to pick which one you want and the fact that they're not gonna pick there's so yes There's no point right though. There's a way there's a fucking waste of time

Yeah, I'm talking about you know, how you're gonna get more defense in the game. There's no way You can't open you can't close Pandora's box. You already opened it, right? You already opened the idea of five men becoming three-point threats, right? You can't rewind a player like Joker, Sabonis, right? What is it, Wagner, right? You can't, these guys are the sixth, 10, seven foot shooting threes. You can't rewind it. You can't put it back in the box,

right? That's now, that's not a guy in the lane waiting for someone to, you know what I mean? So even if you try to do three seconds, no three seconds, what are you going to do? Rudy,

when you're guarding your kids, you're sitting there, he's shooting a three, right? Or they just play small ball five, right? It's a, What are you going to do, Rudy, when you're guarding Jokic? You're sitting there, he's shooting a three. Right. Right? Or they just play small ball five. Yeah, small ball five. Right?

Right now you're talking about more physical. More physical for who? All the centers, for the most part, are thin mints. That means Joker gets to try to play bully ball. Right? Who on defense is going to be trying to play defense against him? There's nobody built for it. Embiid, he's just going to play bully.

Fucking Giannis will really be running through people, right? You try to make it more physical for him. He is more physical than everybody. The reason he don't run through people is because there's a charge, right? If there was no charge, you're not going to keep this man out of the lane. He's going to get to it. For now, you're talking about what? The guard play?

Now you get the really bang with Luka. He's 6'9". At the point. He's 6'9". What is Steph going to do? What is Ja going to do defensively? You can grab the motherfucker. He's still going to do? What is Ja going to do defensively? You can grab the motherfucker. He's still going to push through you.

Ant-Man, you try to get up on Ant-Man and try to bully Ant-Man. He's stronger than them. The guys are stronger, bigger. Defense is cool. Offense can be really more aggressive than defense. You're still at a disadvantage. That's what I said. So at this point,

it's pointless. Right? Stop listening to the fucking media. You're letting media try to dictate what are the owners complaining. Hey, your pockets are fat, right? Huh?

Wallets is good. Vacation is good. Wife got her new jewels on because of the offensive game. If the answer is yes, then just yeah Shut up, so there's nothing you can do. Yes, I'm going to visit the other day since now like I was sitting over Cameron I'm just thinking what made me think about it. I'm watching The drills and shit they doing in practice and coach like this a light day. Yeah, right. He's all know

This is like that. We got a game tomorrow. So we ain't gonna get after it too much camera looking at me like that it's like this every day right they working on fucking defense they got a game tomorrow but they doing closeouts yeah right so if you want better guys on the ball that's what i'm telling you better guys on the ball you're not gonna stop these guys but you'll get a better product of guys that know how to play on-ball defense. You can't stop guys. Guys are really fucking good offensively. It's just a better product overall if you go get college kids, right? That's not because – how many college kids are actually good?

They're not. That's what I'm saying. It's a play in the NBA. They're not. But that's the problem. Like, when we talk about college, for the most part, every year there's, what, 40-something. Yeah. Only 15 or 20 are going to actually play. Yeah.

And how many of them are actually locked down defenders? Oh, yeah. I'm just better on the ball. You're drafting just these defensive players messing up your offense. You got your Tony Allen. Yeah, you got a whole bunch of Tony Allen. Yeah. Like, you got a whole bunch of Patrick Beverly's

that's going to sit there. And for the most part, he still gets lit up. Yeah. But he tries. Yeah, that's all. Right? So you're going to take away your offense for some more defense.

You can go out there and put five defensive players out there. They ain't going to score the ball for shit. I can tell you that. You can get Robeson. What's the dude? You can get Robeson, Pat the do you get all about you get Robeson Pat you can get some some Mb on item B, but you can get Ben Simmons, right? You can get a whole bunch of them. Good luck offensively Got a whole 12 points for the game

It's cool. Yeah, you notice the score still 100 56 So this really just an issue with fans bitching too much? It's fans, man. It's fans, old media, man. They complain when the score was low. ESPN, don't y'all got some more firing to do? Go on and do it already. God damn.

Shit, just keep letting the motherfuckers go. They stupid. Yeah, it's barbershop talk. It's barbershop talk. People ride. So, but as you guys watch the game, how do you feel about watching the game? Look, I watch the game, and this is what I'm watching, right? Remember this.

We have super teams. Other than super teams, we still have team teams, right? We just talked about Jalen Brunson. Brown. I'm sorry, Brown. He's the number two option at 300 million. He's not a second option making

3 million a year. He is the second option making 300 million. Your third option is a Euro that's seven foot that can shoot threes, jump, and block. Fourth option is an all-star. An all-star defensive player that plays the right way. The weakest link was considering the all-star this year.

Hey, we need to put Derek Wright as all-star. That's your fifth option on the team now. So what are you doing? What are you doing? Phoenix, they're letting you know our weakest link is

Grayson Allen. So when you decide to double 56% shooting, you're, shooting in that corner. Miami, when they go, our weakest link is Kevin Love. That's our weakest link. Sitting there, shooting shots.

It's a different game. They are building teams so you can't stop their best player. We done seen Kaminga sit on the bench all motherfucking year. He plays in the game. Look what they got sitting on the bench. They got Kaminga sitting on the bench. It's a different game.

They're building these teams so you can't stop their best product they're making it hard for you to actually guard someone shea you can't guard shea because no like yeah they're young they don't have any all-stars but what do those guys around him actually do spread the floor that's that's why they're good. You can't guard their best player because the supporting cast, they got, they're expert at what they do.

They got 35. 38% shooting is the worst. And that's Chet. It's only his first year. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He's the worst shooter. Like, alright, we're gonna double off Chet. He's still shooting it. Now he's rolling to the rim. I mean it's just it's it's pointless. There's nothing you can do man.

So I guess for me it's like instead of fans bitching and complaining they should be appreciative of how the game has evolved now and there's y'all know coming up at the four or five man Doing shit that fours and fives do now that was unheard of it was back to the basket getting the post Occasionally you see a stretch for here or there just watching the game in general is just like shit Like more scoring like I said you see this like it was only like one or two niggas scoring Yeah, yeah, like you know There's a swing swing It was only like one or two niggas scoring. Yeah. Are you guys as easy to swing, swing? Back in the day, that swing, swing,

because you always put your worst shooter away from the ball. So if we run into offense here, hey, man, go sit in the corner right there, right? And then they come double down. We got to swing, swing, and obviously he can't shoot, so he got to swing it back, and now that becomes a deadly shooter. The first pass out, that dude is a deadly shooter now.

Ten years, fucking five years. When Chris Paul's been retired, when LeBron retired and all this, what's coming next is more shooting. That's the thing. The one thing you got to do in the NBA now is you better be able to shoot the ball first. Yep. Shoot the ball. Yep.

Like John Moran's right-hand man, Bane, what he can do? Shoot them. Shoot the ball. Dylan Brooks, what he doing this year? Shooting them. Shooting the ball. Shooting them. He realized all that, hey, what's that, all that defensive shit?

What he can do, though, is still shoot the ball now. Because he knows, realize at some point, if he can't put the ball in the basket, he ain't even going to be on the court to play defense against somebody like LeBron.

Sacramento. Who can't shoot on that floor? When they say, oh man, Fox is fast. We know he's fast. We know where he's going. Why can't you stop him? Oh, yeah, because you got Harrison Barr in that shoot.

You got Keegan Murray. Keegan Murray's shoot. Sabon in his shoes. Monk going to shoot even if he think about touching the ball. That ball. I seen him on the bench. He sitting there counting. I'm like, yeah, I would have had one. That would have been the shot. That would have been the ball. That ball, he got... I seen him on the bench. He sitting there counting, like, yeah, I would've had one.

That would've been the shot. That would've been the shot. Yep, I for sure would've shot that. You got all shooters on the court now, man. It's just different. I don't give a fuck what nobody say. Yeah, we gonna do this. We gonna double rotate it.

That 90s and early 2000s shit sounds amazing. It sounds amazing. We're going to pre-rotate that, and then that man over there shooting 52% now. You get the sense people want us to go back to that. Goes back to that. They're going to be bitching about... We got no shooter.

We got no shooter. This fucking score is 86-55. I ain't pay my money to see this bullshit. Of course, that's why I said, man, it's pointless. Let it go enjoy the game And you let the all-star game just get y'all into this little thing that we need more deep is it? All-star get rid of all-star game. They're gonna be bitching man. We get no money no more. We all our jobs Mm-hmm

Well on the subject of defense you mentioned Dylan Brooks and what he's had to do on the offensive side But let's talk quickly just a little bit about a defensive trick that he's using now. So Dylan Brooks emerged as one of the best defenders in the league with second team all defense last year. Has a few tricks up his sleeve. We got this video. He's got this strategy of basically high-fiving guys as they're shooting. So if you make contact with the shooter's hand after the ball is released, consider legal.

And it's a pretty – that one actually went foul, but seems like a reasonable strategy how to approach the game. And obviously he's crafty. So he legalized fouling. It's not a foul. You don't think it's a foul? The high-five, if you shoot – Mike Bibby used to do that to me. My rookie, I used to get annoyed, but the ref told me.

He was like well this gone So if he hits your hand after it's gone is it is what it is like Mike Bibby was doing that to me true so But like you know if it's gone, and then he tapped my hand after it's like how's that a foul? It's gone if he just slapping hands with me loose ball foul I mean like I mean it's like anything. If I go up and I make a layup and then I smack your arm, the layup's already gone, they call that foul. Right?

I'm smacking your hand, though. You know what I'm saying? It's anything after the ball is gone, they're calling the foul. If I shoot the shot and it's already shot and I come and chop your ass to the stomach, they're going to call a foul. Right? You know what I mean? So's but hand out a part of the ball Yeah, that's I think that's what it is. They say a hammer ball. So like if you shoot I can slap like

Yes, so if you shoot I can get your high-five so I can hit you anywhere in your body That does not affect the shot. It's a foul the one thing that do can affect the shot. They're not calling a foul. It's already gone Lupo, I don't know. It's already gone, but you can see people are clearly airball Huh cuz you can't follow through not allowing you to follow through as far you think is a big also Mike Remember I'm sure it's not your year. I'm not in your wrist You couldn't off my follow-up. Yeah, you can't even that's why everybody shot short. Yeah, I just airball like there's a reason Okay, this is good. They're not calling it. Oh, well, would you use that strategy if they weren't calling it? Yeah, of course tonight if they're not calling it, of course, you're gonna use yeah, of course

I'm like maybe with that shit was annoying I'm like baby with that shit was annoying I'm like yo cuz My girl what the fuck you do? So when you look at the game today who has more cheats or tricks at their disposal players are offense or players on defense offense offense What just got done talking about the question before that Josiah? offense offensive explosion in the Listen man ain't helping defense out in this bitch man office. The offense got it. They can try, like, even something like this.

This is, this is. I saw, I don't mean to cut y'all, but to your point, I saw a clip, like, a few days ago. Dad had his son. I don't know if the shit was cap or whatnot, but he had the fucking bands around him and had him defensive sliding for, like, a half a mile or some shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen that.

I was like, that ain't going to work. But, yeah. For like a half a mile or some shit. Yes, and I was like that ain't gonna work But yeah Do not practice in defense man Offensive way more tricks and shit up there. Go ahead. But you said though you said you the guy should they got shooting coaches They got trainers. They should employ a defensive coach if you're trying to be a complete basketball player Yeah, and then you got it. But you're trying to be a complete basketball player. You got to put time in. You got to watch film. The dude's not doing it. He's watching

mannerisms. You're watching mannerisms. You're watching how somebody picked the ball up on their shot. You can give their telltale signs. An offensive player has telltale signs. But for the most part, majority of defense don't pay attention to it.

But we're paying attention to it. Like you just said with A.D. and Sabonis. Yeah. Right there. Great defensive guy, but obviously you can't tell he's going to push you right to come back left. He does it every time, and you still haven't figured out the same one move that he does every time he goes right. Yeah. Right?

Most guards, right, they're pushing low to come back high. Right back in the day, they used to, like the New York guards used to drive, and then they'll cuff the ball, right, and then come out of it. Yeah, Norm Nixon used to do that all the time. Right, yeah, that was the Marbury? Yeah them all that was a mall bear not realizing Once he covered just grab the fuck out of his muscle and by the time he come out of it That's that's a mislay up, right? So do you had guards doing that trying to connect to the ball because a ref can't see right? That's when I saw all right I'm gonna expose the ball

Knowing that a player is gonna reach Alright, if I throw the ball here You you want to reach, then I can pull up. Or come in here and throw the ball in your chest, knowing you're going to swipe at it like this, pull it away, stupid. You know what I mean? I use it all the time. Put it right here, you grab one of the other. Dumbass, right?

You know what I mean? So the offense has more. We have more tricks to give to a defensive player. Like, you know, we know, like, if I'm posting up, he'll hit me one time, make me want to do one of those, he pulls a chair, right? So, you know, the defense. One of your favorite strategies. Oh, pull the chair. Boom. Like, mother? So, you know, so, you know, the defense... One of your favorite strategies... Oh, pull the chair

like mother. Boom! Like mother! Ah, move. I might wait a whole quarter. Whole half. I'm strong as shit

with you. Fight the shit out you. It's coming. It's coming. Man, you look stupid. So, but, you know, you know, offense just has more,

they have more, you know, more things to do. Okay, obviously, you got, offense just has more. They have more things to do. Okay, obviously you had a lot of stuff like that up your sleeve as a defender. What were ways that you manipulated offenses to gain a defensive advantage, knowing that obviously they can do way more? Like, first and foremost, like, making you catch the ball where I want you to catch it. Right? Gil said everybody has tendencies. Guys work on these moves in these spots daily. Why would I let you catch the ball in the spot that you work on daily in

a move that you work on daily? Why would I let you catch the ball there? No, you don't catch that bitch where I want you to catch it. You get to that spot and still make it I'm a patch on yes. Hey good shot dog But first for I'm gonna more girl like that's just what it is I'm playing defense on the baseline side. I'm not letting you spin I'm grabbing you I'm like I'm squeezing your waist and your fucking side and making you think about that before you go into your move I feel you twitch not release and your waist and your fucking side and making you think about that before you go into your move. I feel you twitch.

I release. It's more preventative. I guess for defense, it's more doing your work before the guy touched the ball, hitting him, hitting him here, taping, stepping on him. You know, you got to do all that before he catches.

Once he catches, then you have to doubt all the rules of defense now. You're handicapped by that before he catches. Once he catches, then you have to now all the rules of defense now. You're handicapped by whatever the rule is. My last year, we were playing Miami. Young animal, seven-foot whatever, Hassan Whiteside. Right. He going to the offense.

That's in the scouting report. He's offensive rebound. He's doing it. You got to keep him off the glass. Cool. He checking the game We ain't even play the ball the ref still got the ball. Yeah, I'm touching him got my hand his chest Irritating right off the boy the ball ain't no more in play yet

I'm hitting him boom. No, he's not working like night knocking my hand off. I got you now. Oh you ain't even now. Oh, you ain't even worried about the play now. You supposed to be going to set a pick. I'm boom. Boom, now we're in the action. I'm still touching. We go down on offense, I'll shoot you one. Come back down on defense, now I'm steady. You ain't went to the offensive glass one time yet.

Right? That's part of the defensive shit. That's part of the strategy, man. Like, I'm not going to, no. So, we'll pull in the chair. Gotcha. Yo. And more mental on that side, too.

I'm saying just in terms of fucking with the offensive guys. Get them out of their game. Yeah, you're doing certain things, but no, man. It's paying attention to tendencies, man. It, you're doing certain things, but nah man, it's just paying attention to tendencies man It's knowing what guys favorite move taking that away I'm gonna make you go to three. Mm-hmm. You're not gonna do one and two against me And bring out about yourself offensively, what were ways that you manipulated defenses just run right past him. Just run right past him. Just get the ball and just go full speed. That's true though. Yeah, yeah.

Seriously, just use my speed. My speed was my advantage. Yeah. Seriously. You better use it. My speed. And then just being small and being able to get over bigs. Like, you know, y'all, long back. So being able to just remove her. But a lot of that happened for me overseas though. Even though I wasn't playing, I was working with trainers every day. Like, you know, they work out every day. So just being able to see the game from a different style also helped me coming into the league a lot.

So that was my advantage. For sure. I just talked. The whole game? Just like, oh, yeah, I'm about to blow pie you. And then I'm about to shoot, but I'm telling you, beep, beep, right? Oh, yeah, you slow. Beep, beep.

I'm shooting. Are you saying beep, beep? Yeah, beep, beep. Man, y'all, you annoy me playing. No, look, I had. No antics. Beep, beep. Listen, I had it on my shoes because I called myself the road runner.

Job well. Beep, beep, right? So I'll pretend that I'm about to just blow past you to shoot a three, and you just start saying stuff like, oh, yeah, hey threes bro coach said no threes you know what i'm gonna shoot lay up right you just talk like bb even on defense i'm like man they say you're great you're a great shooter you can't even shoot without your right thumb like you can't even shoot without your right thumb you ain't no shooter now you got them seeing that they can just little things like that. Nigga be listening to you?

Yeah, they be just listening. Oh fuck that. You can hear when niggas be talking. Yeah, be beat by them. You can hear when niggas be talking. They be like, oh Gotti or something like when they shoot. Oh you got no back line, you got no back line. Oh, shot.

Gotti. You'll be surprised. You'll be screaming hibachi every time he's shot. It's like, come on, man. You'll be surprised. You'll be surprised. You'll be surprised. You'll be surprised.

You'll be surprised. You'll be surprised. You'll be surprised. You'll be surprised. You got no back line. Help. You got no back like oh shot. Got it. Like he's like, oh, here's the Habachi. Every time he shot. It's like come on, man. You'll be surprised. You'll be surprised if you just tell somebody what you're going to do. Like, you know, I didn't get three. No threes, no three. For guys backdoor layup. Well, you got to talk a little bit, man. See what they thinking.

Crack a joke. Yeah. See where you at today. So, Gil, there was a story from back in the day about you and Kobe. And I believe Kobe said something along the lines, you were taking bad shots every time you took a shot. When Kobe was guarding, you yelled out, quality shots. Quality shots?

He was just throwing shit up. What did he say in saying the interview he said he was just throwing shit up yeah throwing shit up there that was so funny after that it was all quality shots baby every shot I took quality he was just throwing shit up that's what I knew he was hot bro he was hot as a bro I read I said he's hot he's hot coming from somebody who throw up a lot of shots just like that's why I knew he was hot. He was hot as a bro. I read I say he's hot. He's hot Coming from somebody who throw up a lot of stuff. Just like that's why I said he don't like it What is what it come back on you? No Yeah, he's like me just don't want to

Look at the highlights every shot is Like just throwing shit up there bro Bro, that shit was funny. Was that something you saved for Kobe or did you continue doing that from then on? It was just there. Nah, bro, that's funny though. For someone who actually do it, get mad at somebody else that do it. I practice these shots. It's quality.

Me too. That's why. Quality shots. He just throwing shit up there. I do it. That's what I practice these shot. Yeah, it's quality He just Last thing on the topic I just want to know I'm hate who are the craftiest player during your era like brand you seem like an extremely crafty player to Me just with your ability to manipulate defenses get buckets You know crafty the same thing like I remember I was tell the story you played us where you said later Arizona I think you had zero points first half and start talking shit to you 32 piece second half in overtime

But just the ability to get buckets crap man. I'm all right crafty to me to me. It crafty is like Andre Miller Mm-hmm, right like Andre Miller's crafty to me because he's like the way he could score He's not athletic like that. He plays at his own pace and I think he had like 52 one game No three-pointers so like Andre Miller like that like that's crafty to me like some that were it's like damn post your answer Yeah, like you know so that's Shout out to Andre Miller What no legend still cool this Jamal Timsley playing his own speed

like this like just crafty like this let me guys Agree athletically, but they were gonna figure out a way. I look like a Luca nowadays and he does that little slow to Start like I'm just like yeah, he'll be considered crappy They will be considered. Yeah, I'm gonna go with two lefties. I got two lefties Manu mm-hmm and Lamar Odom They'll always crafty dog. No that motherfucker was gifted. It was gifted. He was crafty when you had to be used it Yeah the guard there crafted

But I'm a gold medal, you know, I'm going with is this craft you're just unorthodox Antoine Jameson on orthodox on off that there. Yeah on the doctor. Yeah, because it's not nope is Cuz you don't know when he gonna shoot this beer. You don't know when he's gonna do it Is there some level of craftiness to being on north? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah it is Zeebo Zeebo. Zeebo was crafty around that rim. Would you put Paul Pierce in there? Huh.

Paul, I mean, he was early athletic. He was early athletic. It's still crafty, though. Be built like a straight angle would do it, but I'm saying his body control in the air, though, when you would see him do stuff, like, it was just like, he should be doing that looking like that and i love paul i'm just being real like yeah could we look at just probably somebody who wasn't athletic yeah that's what we look at a lot yeah but got it fucking done yeah right and use what they have like just What's the dude now Anderson Kyle Anderson, right slow mo Kyle Anderson slow mo slow mo Right somebody like that watching it watching him play those cuz it's like Joe Ingles Joe Johnson Joe Johnson crafty is a mother. Yes. Yeah, that was a good one

damn Yeah, it's a lot of Yes. Yeah, that was a good one damn Yeah, it's a lot of crap. Yeah, it's like That's like that's up just a part of learning the game to write the goals to put the ball in the basket You don't got to be the biggest. I think Tyrese Halliburton. Yo, I hate it. Go. He's right James. That's why you're here. So Be sitting there posting up Yo, what was that?, be sitting there posting a, uh, uh, uh. Yo, that shit pissed me the fuck off, man. Go up under my arm. Yeah, yeah. I'm playing great D.

He used to shoot that shit. I was like, yo, that shit going in, too. Floating from the 3.9. One dribble, uh. He started making me do that shit. I started doing it. I'd never seen him practice it. Nigga, I was shooting that bitch from the free throw line.

One dribble, floating that motherfucker. I'm like, that shit work for him. I never. I jump higher and more athletic than him. I know it. This from the free throw line. One of them floating that motherfucker. I'm like, that shit work for him? I never. I jump higher and more athletic than him. I know her. This shit got to be buckets. Threw that bitch over the rim the first time. Yeah, yeah.

Backboard. Touch. Touch. Like a little touch. Like, oh shit. Yeah, like damn. You know? Nah, that shit used to drive me nuts.

What about Flip Murray? You fuck with Flip Murray? Oh no, he was nice, dog. Flip Murray was nice. Yeah. Nah, he was, it was, that was just skill. Okay, alright. He was just, he was, it was like a, Tyreek Evans type.

It was just skill, it was just skill, he was just skill. I think Mike Bibby was crafty. Yeah, he was crafty. Mike Bibby was crafty because he wasn't athletic. Yeah. But. Yeah, it was cocky My baby was crying because he wasn't athletic. Yeah, but You say like like Mark Jackson I Like that like where they won't speed. It's like get it done. Oh, y'all didn't play against big dog big

Did I know I don't think you did. No big dog. What was he was you? Two dollars. I came 2001. Yeah, you did. Yeah, can we play the games? We played them in a play out here and play Milwaukee what that's a good sales crafty. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely saying Sam. Yeah, he's fucked me I knew Sam we doing a shooting contest right was in Miami joint and Miami at the joint. And people was betting, right? So I'm betting. I said, so I'm betting against Sam, right? Whoever he was shooting against, I'm betting against Sam. He getting ready to dribble the ball. I said, no, fuck, no, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

He can dribble it, but he got to dribble it with his right. It was like, what you say? I said, listen, if you let him dribble this bitch with his left, you're going to lose. I said, all right, him dribble this bitch with his left. You're gonna lose. Mm-hmm You know what you I said, I'll do it your way then That motherfucker. Yeah, wow. I'm like I told you He put that bitch in that left. Hey, you can count it There the big dog had this little hitching and shit you go eat and that shit you couldn't you can time it It's a little hit to get it off. I'm sitting on it. And you automatically, it just makes you react.

You're like, oh shit, went for the faint. Knockout. Alright, well let's keep this thing moving on to Mostly Fans on our St. Patrick's Day edition. Can you not? You got to pick the kids up today. We got a game. Okay. Or is this more skills? Trying to be on the clock. More skills.

Okay. When it got a little inebriated. When BD was more skilled. Courtesy of Underdog Fantasy. Download the Abuse Promo Code Guild. All right. Don't mess your first deposit up to $100. Our first question from Underdog user JDK23.

False. I ain't doing it. Yeah, I'm a little too serious right now. I was about to figure out something that would fucking fuck you up on that false, but I didn't do it. Who are the top five greatest in-game dunkers? And he goes on to say, I got Vince, Dominique, MJ, Kemp, and Blake Griffin. Top five greatest in-game dunkers. You said who?

Kenyon. Okay. Kenyon. KJ. Kenyon. And KJ. Okay. Oh.

All the KJs. A lot. All the KJs. Darling. So you said I got Vince, Dominique, MJ, Kemp, Blake. Dominique. I'm going Stoleile Swift in there. Absolutely.

The bird. You got to throw Strow in there, motherfucker. He'll windmill that bitch. What? In game? In game? Listen, so this is... Yeah, Strowmile, yeah, come on.

Fucking Keon Clark. Keon. It's junk. I like Blake Griffin in there. In-game dunker? Yeah, like that. Sean Kemp, Michael Jordan, got them Blake Griffin, Strohmile Swift, and Vince Carter. Amari?

Amari's top. That five I just went with is... LeBron. LeBron. LeBron LeBron in game LeBron. Yeah, I'm on has some shit in game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah LeBron's in there So let's go again I mean Dominic had one dunk No, no women was in Canada most of it was just More impressive yeah, and I left myself off the fucking list so here this one I'm so I left Amari off the list. I'm saying like but shit that Blake was doing Michael Jordan was doing Vince was doing

Stroke like Just you can go stroll or Mari. Yeah, or you gotta put where you admit me like this Like cuz we talking about I got bodies I know for sure Breakers and body you got got dead bodies. What? He got a dead body. Endgame, the shit that you're doing in-game, right? Whether it's on the break, whether it's on somebody, whether it's... All of these matter, right?

And a lot of them. Yeah, it's a lot of them. It can't be... I mean, how many Strowmiles had? And I'm just thinking about like... I mean, I think Strowmiles got a... If you're thinking about body, bodies... They got a highlight tape of it.

So that's why I would go stat. I put Amari if I'm picking that I would probably put Amari over the straw man we do okay okay but shit yeah we miss him so much so other names here green think about Shaggy I don't know how many we had the one no no no no no, no. He got a highlight. He was like, ooh. In the NBA. Yeah. In-game.

When he was like in Phoenix. When he played in Phoenix and played like, yeah. But that's what I'm saying. It's like how, you know, them. Sean Kim, for sure. Sean Kim, for sure. Michael Jordan, for sure. Hey, what about Derrick Rose?

Vince Carter, for sure. For sure. Derrick Rose had a year where it was just one year. He was a point guard. Blake. For sure. And Amari.rick Rose had a year where it was just one year. He was a point guard. Blake. For sure. And Amari. Yeah, yeah.

And Amari, right? And then we can go motherfucking DeAndre Jordan. We can go Strowman. I can put myself in that pitch. Dwight in there, yeah. Dwight. Yeah. Ja.

D. Rose, too. D. Rose. No, no. D. Rose is in there. That MVP year? Yeah. And I said it all depends. It has to be like how many you got? But just for just being like app just just your natural athleticism

Yeah, then you put like Zach Levine in there and you put over Ricky Davis. He ain't got the resume yet Hey, man, my son. Listen Jack Out of my first three years he got some bodies on his resume. Who, KJ? Your son, he was blocking all that. I don't know about that. I don't know about that. I saw it.

I got dunked on by Jason Terry. I seen KJ on my... KJ would have put you in the room. KJ would have put you in the room in high school. You would have put... He would have put his senior at Sierra Canyon. You would have been... He would have put your ass in there. Oh, no, no, no. I seen him. I don't know. Trust me. I got done by Jason Terry. Yo, he's seen yes

Don't pay attention to me Justin Terry had a 22-inch vertical and he caught me KJ puts him okay. They didn't put much actually put motherfucking miles Turner ass in that goddamn rim I was like, oh, hmm. I was turned a shot block and he dunked hard yes it's meaningful violence but he don't he dunk hard yeah so yes next question did he jump higher than you i think he's his one leg shit for sure yeah because his head at the rim there's one leg shit i could touch the room that's like still if i warm up in a good day i probably can touch the room. Hmm, I'm still if I warm up in a good day. I probably touch thing So I'm gonna top see you hit it right there top of the square. I think I'm 40

It's got a big were you talking about now? I'm 46 Nikki. Wait, no, no, no Yeah, you know you talk about the man I'm talking about the square Like I could probably get are you gonna the top of the square right right now? Yes Yeah, sir. Let me shut the fuck up. I've never done that any point of my life 40 right there. There's some 46 my nigga. He said for I was talking he's saying like right now go you know You gotta warm up and do all that KJ right now Oh, oh, oh, oh You talking about the game Not off the couch, not off the couch You talking about stretching You talking about warming up, yeah stretching

Yeah at 20, so KJ 23 right now, at 23 Us together like the same age Oh no, it's great, nah, I'm not gonna give it up that easy I was getting off the floor, post injury Oh no, no All that shit Yeah, yeah, yeah That picture he showed you on Yesterday me at Cincinnati Maybe 21 at the time 22. So now I was getting off the floor

So you could touch the top of us where a warm-up right now? Yeah, I warm up like give me a stick that I could stick it somewhere near the top of us. Oh, that's not okay Oh, man's, oh, no, okay. Arrow Man will go. All right, bro. I ain't saying I can get above it. No, no, no, I know, I know, I know. I ain't just put my whole hand above that motherfucker. Take a dollar, at least. My whole hand would be

above that motherfucker right now. Crazy, y'all. Take a dollar off there, leave some change. Yo, so his dad dunks the annual on his birthday, right? Even if I can get it, like. So his dad dunks

the annual on his birthday, like, still to this day. Like, dunking, right, it's so, like, the kids at the kids' party, like, can you dunk it still? Dunking is It is easy steel, but it is still easy to feel Not Duncan for sure. Yeah, yeah top of the square is pretty fish park impressed at 46, bro That's fucking impressive. You put a sticker. Oh, that's fucking impressive Duncan at 29, bro 29. I can still dunk I

Don't want to come down That's why you don't jump hard now right I jumped that motherfucker, but it's a Sort of land in this Even on the low rim I'd be like yeah Yeah, yeah, but you're there my son dad. Can you No, Daddy got a bad wheel today. Foot hurt. Damn, I broke my foot last week. No, I can't do it today. Playing with you.

Not out here. So our next question is from underdog user Ronaldo9. First question, how much points would Vince go to score in this era? Another question, who a better player, Prime Darren Williams or the Jalen Brunson we see now ooh

so he getting that two piece getting a man at $200 that's a good comparison what would Vince Carter average today is the first question what do you man is the same

what do you average what do you average what do you get at 20 something yeah 25 26 25

26 yeah okay and better player yeah that's yeah Yeah 25 26. Yeah Okay, and better player yes, yeah Better put we thought we was about to say 35 40 Fuck you'll say 50 so we can get about their internet The whole 2000 like are you capping now? Yeah. yeah. Yeah, he's like, nah, I ain't. And a better player, prime Darren Williams or current day Jalen Brunson?

I mean, it's two different players. But it's a good comparison. It is. It's a good comparison. But it's two different players, but it's a... I'm going to go D-Will. I'm going D-Will. I'm going D-Will, dog. I'm going D-Will.

I'm going D-Will, dog. Darren. 20 and 10. That double cross. And that flex. That'm going to you. Well, I'm going to you. Well, I'm going to you well dog there 20 and 10 That double can that that that that pop pop food Ellis get you going and bring you back. I'm sorry What's so funny is only one person's have to use this since him Katie That's one of Katie's signature move double get you going actually and that shit was that's really that Katie double cross was crazy. Yeah, he lost that He need to bring that back. Yeah that hot that it's like he don't need it. No get you going It is like you don't need it no more. I'll get you going. I'm just gonna shoot it. Yeah Yeah too much energy to keep the door cross and that one two step pop like ooh

Yes, no D will was yeah, the will was nice. So basically I'm gathering here is put some respect on D wills name No, no, yeah, he was not. Oh, yeah, that's enough. Yeah, I used to go at D will was the wheels nice the basic where I'm gathering here is put some respect on D wills name No, no, yeah That's enough. I used to go up D will though. I said yeah, what yeah, you said cap I didn't go idea. Well, go look at it. Don't look at it. Look at it The ball hit a D will This is D will know what I'm doing in Utah and this is D will up in it in the way So what is it a D will with the way with the way or missing this with the way with the way? With the way the D will with the waves my rookie here. No, I went at him. I have go look at the numbers

I did my thing. Okay. I'm just making sure not the one with the sunroof the one with the waves He had all this way about yeah, you talking about yet all of DC. He played with booze He had a shout a cave and a cave. yeah. You talking about. He had all of DC. He played with Boozer. He had a shallow. And AK. And AK and all the ones I said. But he was still losing his head back then, too. I'm just talking about which one, though. 07, 08, 09.

My rookie year. I don't know. It was my rookie year. What year did you come in? 09. So, Brandon, your rookie year, you gave him 23, 4, and 6, your second meeting. What did he have? What did D-Will have?

Was he all-star then? I gave him, like, 34 in one game. Damn. You also gave him 34 in 2013. 34, 6, 7, 6. That don't count. That was too down. It does count.

You're out there. Next game. It's like everything counted. The next meeting, 31 and 11 dimes. Yeah, like, I wasn't fucking around. Oh, okay. Oh, this is the all-star D-wheel. Okay, okay.

Oh, so I was killing... Oh, I was killing the... Ooh, I was killing the weak one. Yeah, most he gave you, Brandon, was 26. Yeah, he wasn't ready yet. He wasn't... He wasn't ready? Nah, yeah, he was still in the oven when I played.

He just came in? Yeah, he was still in the oven when I played against him. Okay. I can't even brag about that, Dan. Yeah, you didn't have to put all that information on there. I didn't know I had to look. I got to give him, you know. You could leave him with props.

Yeah, I got to, you know. I mean, you know, I didn't get that all-star D-wheel. Yeah. He was still developing. That was a big matchup for me, too, because he was, like, the best point guard in the NBA to me. Okay. So, yeah. Oh, okay.

So, him and Chris Paul was just, they just turned it on. Mm-hmm. So, our last question, email question. It's a little long, so bear with me. Okay, so yeah, okay. So him and Chris Paul was just, they just turned it on. So our last question, email question, it's a little long, so bear with me, from Underdog User by the name of TurnerJah07. So I know there was a debate on John Morant being on the Olympic team. Wouldn't it be better for the NBA and Jah himself

to be on the team so he can be around the other superstars and see how the best of the best move? He would get to be in a great environment around LeBron, KD, Steph, and can get advice from them as vets, since he has never really been around vets outside of D-Rose this past season. First off, he's injured, so. I'm pretty sure he ain't never been around when a whole bunch of superstars get around

each other. You know what happens when a whole bunch of superstars get around each other You know what happens when a whole bunch of stars get around? I Can just say when I was at when I was on the between the last thing we did was anything productive I can That was the last thing we Talk about anything productive It was gambling and trying to find things that we knew we should have been trying to do trying to find things that don't speak English There we go

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You want hot... You want hot, girl? Kind of like rush hour. I knew know you're gonna make the rush hour ever is good. I already was in Seoul Do you think was gonna happen I think you were just gonna be good teammates read the Bible again We was reading the Bible, you know, playing little cards, little gentlemen's game. That's some bullshit. Now we had Shane Battier's and we had some good guys on the team. We played in there. Why do I feel like those dudes were not invited?

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