Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas react to Celtics 52-point win over Steph Curry & Warriors | Nightcap

Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas react to Celtics 52-point win over Steph Curry & Warriors | Nightcap

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Opened up the Tea Party On The Warriors the Celtics beat the Warriors by 52 the Celtics become the first team in NBA history to win at least three games by 50 plus points in a in a calendar SE season let that sink in for a second in one season they’ve already beaten three

Teams by at least 50 points the Warriors have won 13 of their last 16 games 11 straight and that comes with no Kristoff Pingas 13 of 16 and no Pingas and you know hey the Warriors had been playing well the Warriors had been playing extremely well the Celtics won by 52 in

The game was over at half if I’m not mistaken I think the game was what 82- 38 at the half I I’ve never seen a score like that Gil I mean I’ve seen team get to I remember I think the Phoenix Suns scored 103 or 105 in a half so I’ve seen

Teams get to like the 80s and get to a 90s like I said I remember the Phoenix Sun scored over 100 at the half but I’ve never seen a score this lopsided at the half what 44 points yeah 44 points at a half 82 to 38 and it was you know

They’re playing without Pringles and as I mentioned the warriors were playing extremely well so what did you take away from this ball game what did you take away from what Boston did and how well they played and what did you see from Golden State uh it it it showed exactly why

It’s hard to guard people in today’s game right there’s so much offense on the court that when you try to let someone shoot like today they went into the game letting Jaylen Brown shoot the ball right the guy who makes 250 something million doll he’s the guy 304 yeah

She let we gonna let we gonna let Mr 300 shoot those shots and he had 19 points the score was 19 to 21 he had 19 points in the first quarter which they finished 4422 yikes like they got out scored what it was 2121 they scor out scored 28

To3 and then they finished finished a quarter 44-22 it just shows you how much scoring power is is in the game now it is and it it’s tough like you said but here’s the thing when you let a professional I mean just think about what you’re saying you’re letting a professional do

Something uninhibited oh he’s not the best receiver so we’re not gonna guard him that’s basically what you’re saying well he’s not their he’s not their best shooter so we’re not going to guard him so you’re gonna I mean a guy with within you there’s nobody within six feet of it

So he’s basically this is a walkthrough for him this is a shoot around practice for him he’s going to knock that more times than not Gill a guy of that caliber you make it seem like you you you you you leaving the the 12th guy on

The bench open he’s a starter he’s an Allstar and you gonna show you gonna basically and he said you know he’s uh uh Steve CT said our strategy that was our strategy going into the game with the SAG off someone okay Jaylen Brown says oh I hope other teams use strategy that’s

Disrespectful that a man of his caliber that you say you know what we’re not going to even guard you it’s embarrassing I remember uh when I used to play and you know we had Jared Jeff you know on the court and they’ll double off him and I’ll pass it and he

Wouldn’t shoot the ball and you know when you get frustrated you you say some things you don’t supposed to say like yo you you a NBA player and you letting them come off you to come double me oh come on man you got to take some pride I don’t give a if

You kick the ball in the stand at this point you better do something because it’s just dis you are a NBA player and they doubling off you ain’t no way you gonna go leave me as an NBA player to go double another NBA player I’mma feel disrespected right and that’s how

Everybody should take the Ben Simmons ain’t no way you gonna sit at the free throw line on me I’mma run jump I’m hey you going you better take a charge for the free throw cuz I’m coming right and and I I don’t think enough players take pride into shooting yes right the

Fact that you can just leave your man and go we gonna sag off him like he ain’t that dude right and I’m glad Jaylen Brown all right I got you you gonna sag his 19 yeah he got he’s got he’s got to make him pay I think the

Thing is uh uh Gil the biggest problem with say Ben Simmons it’s not that Ben Simmons can’t shoot he’s afraid to shoot and see if you’re afraid to do something I can’t teach you how to do it you see if I’m Afra if you’re afraid of the

Water I can’t teach you how to swim if you’re afraid of animals you can’t be a veterinarian if you’re afraid of blood how do you become a doctor B I don’t know how Ben Simmons because he was so great at everything else that oh and see I thought every coach he’s had because

They kicked it down the road his Middle School coaches they kicked out said when he get to high school they’ll teach him how to shoot and when he an aaou when he gets to college they’ll teach him how to shoot and when they got him like hell we

Only got him a year hell they gonna have him for 10 15 years in the NBA let them so everybody Kick the Can down the road and here we are we got an NBA player that that was an Allstar that was a rookie of the year that was an all

Defensive player who was a budget and defensive player of the year and he can’t shoot no better than I can and I had shot of basketball in 30 years because he’s afraid G I’ve watched him three Summers he can shoot the ball like he can shoot the ball like the mechanics is

Good uh feet the his feet placement is good especially for a left-handed guy um he doesn’t have that uh what will go to the side shot like that um I I think his his his depths perception I think it’s off because you know in a smaller gym so

That happened that H I don’t know if that’s a football thing but in the NBA some players are excellent Shooters in small gyms when you put them in an arena for some reason they can’t gauge that that basket no more right so when they get into the game it’s too far for them

So they don’t know how to gauge which I tell I tell guys yo as much as you practice in the the gym the practice gym you need to go into the arena too you can you can see how how large and F the space because that’s a real thing and I

Think that’s actually his problem because when it comes to shooting I’m sitting there I’m like no the boy can shoot the ball like he can shoot the ball but wining the game I’m like what’s going on here I think I think some of the things that well considering that because like

Outdoors everything is outdoors so the space is the same outdoors and maybe it’s a little different in the dome sometimes you can lose the ball up in the lights and especially at night okay the ball get you know and so that’s why we did a lot of walkthroughs if we

Played the night game we always did a walk through the night before the game or or at some point in time so to get our eyes used to light looking up in the light and catching it because it’s different same thing with the sun sometimes you get a glare but at night

It’s a little different because there’s lights that’s lighting up the stadium and so you have to be able to adjust to the ball and plus it’s dark it’s you know just like anything it’s it gets up on you so your your you know your vision

Has to be really you have to be really focused to play at night because the ball is still the same size they don’t inflate the ball the ball doesn’t be get get big bigger so you could see it at night and so you have to like hone in I

Really tried to pick the ball up coming out of the quarterback’s hand now that wasn’t always the case because sometimes I had Defenders into uh in front of me and a lot of times the ball was coming over my shoulder so I had to track it

And and look it in but I just think the thing is deal with him is that maybe he he and I’ve seen him in open runs too and he’s shooting the ball but something happen maybe it’s stage fright and you know some people get on the stage and they like

And maybe that’s what it is with him because at 610 and he could and he could do everything he could handle the ball he could defend he had decent post up game not great but I mean when you’re 610 it shouldn’t be that hard to post up

Especially the guys that you’re gonna be posting up because most of them are gonna be smaller than you but he he lost it somewhere but the Golden State they got issues because really they are a two you know I look at kaminga kaminga is really coming in into

His own and Steph is Steph so we don’t need to offer an explanation for Steph he had one of those games and he hadn’t had you know guys don’t have like him don’t have guys have games like that often kaminga I love his game but when

You look at it what are we really talking about Draymond is not the offensive threat Looney plays limited minutes Moody still is searching they’re still looking for him to find his game um what’s the young guy I forget his name but anyway but what are we really talking about I mean

They make it seem like oh if they get their stride they’re not going to get their stride they are what they are they got one Superstar and that’s Steph uh Moody’s looking for his game like yoat looking for oo he ain’t coming he ain’t coming y’all it’s it this this is what you’re

Stuck with right here right the Golden State Warriors the only reason we say they have a chance is because of Curry right because Curry brings it out of us to always give them a shot but for the most part playay is not himself anymore he got put to the bench wi Wiggins don’t

Know if he wants to be America or if he want to go back to Canada because for the most part he’s there half se he got we don’t know what we got going on he got some things going on baby I know mo most likely if it’s if it has to do

Because this happened last year maybe pops is is in trouble again so you know I’m I you know I do you know pray for you know uh Wiggins but before this even happened he wasn’t doing anyway let just so for the most part the team is

Done as we know it you don’t Kay Klay can have a game here or there and every time he has one of that game oh here comes clay if he can summon this if he can do this say for the next 30 Games hell if he could we wouldn’t be asking

Him to do it for the next 30 Games it would be a given when we ever before when will we ever question uh uh clay we never question clay because we know what he was we know what he was going to give us he was going to give us somewhere

Between 20 and 25 he’s gonna be 40 plus perc from the three-point line and he wasn’t gonna be we weren’t gonna be out there on a hope and a prayer that he has a great game there’s a reason why he got he’s a four time NBA champion he’s an

Allstar and he’s been relegated to the bench because of his inconsistent play and so now you’re going to ask him when he gave you or he gives you 35 man if he can just do that if he could he wouldn’t be on the bench he wouldn’t be coming off the bench

Gil now I I I I think it shows you know just for just for just hoop fans out there it shows how fast you can lose confidence in yourself because it’s not like he does not shoot the same amount of shot put in extra work it’s the same

Routine same thing the mental has changed he’s questioned his ability right we don’t know if it was a move something happened on the floor something happened in the media something happened at but he questioned his greatness and you can see the reflection and you can see that it

Hasn’t came back same thing that happened to Russ Russ went from average in a triple double came here got booed and we never seen the same Russ again and people you can we lose it you know I me it does but I think the thing is

People like well hey you see how Russ is playing well look Russ is playing on a minimum contract the numbers he’s giving you on a minimum contract is fine but when a guy is making 40 plus million dollars the number that he’s giving you that wasn’t acceptable I don’t know why

People don’t understand that it’s not like and Russ r what Russ is a top 75 player he’s an All-Star two-time All-Star MVP he’s a a league MVP his resume is complete but let’s not but let’s not kid ourselves because and he was willing to accept the role in CL

In for the Clippers that he was never willing to accept for the Lakers they tried it they tried to get him to come out the bench and he was unaccepting of that role but I guess because he looked at it and says the guys that you want me

To come off the bench for aren’t better than me that are starting and so I guess he looked at it but and so I guess he’s looking at it like okay James Harden is better at this point in time James Harden is better than I am but I think

Terence man Terence man ain’t better than is Terence man I mean he gives you more he can rebound he can defend better than Russ but Russ didn’t give the Lakers what he gave but maybe it’s price maybe because we looked at well he’s making 40 plus million dollars a year so

You expected him to give you 20 10 and eight but how is he gonna give you that because he’s not gonna get those shots because LeBron and AD are first and second option now see I think the problem when it came to Russ is this you know when he

Came here right he was expected to be the third option right um LeBron and ad was hurt for most of that year he played 77 games he he was the only star out of the three that really played and held the held the team up and because of that

He got the backlash because we wasn’t gonna say that about LeBron or Anthony Davis because they were Champions so we said all right we’re gonna give it to you Russ well what if him getting home it kind of really was unfair what if he

Gave us okay he used to be what if he gave us what he gave the Thunder give us 30 a night because you said he’s the number one option so there’s no LeBron there’s no ad on most nights how about he give us what he gave OKC now there’s

Your opportunity to give us 28 30 a night yeah but that Playbook is made that Playbook was made for him this Playbook is not made for him right there’s a lot of factors that factored in and you know so the following year he’s the only one that played 77 played

Well played well and then he said come off the bench and he’s like to who right I the hard got somebody else in the in theck room that I don’t know about but I’m not coming off bch of these guys right here you know so you know coming

To the Clippers it’s not him or Terence man it’s him Harden he’s like all right uh with all of us out here we’re a little too small we need more movement okay I do it okay and he and he did it I mean you know it’s like hey I don’t know

If if tou because of he of his accomplishments it’s hard to I mean think about it now we’re talking about a guy that’s a top 75 we talk a guy that’s an MVP an allstar game an all NBA player multiple times yeah and you say no bro

You going to the bench he had to and I think the thing is he embraced the role he accepted the role give him credit I I want to I’ll be the first because I did a good job of beating him up because I I didn’t think he played well I thought he

Played okay everybody say 1877 but for that’s not I don’t think the Lakers would look at I thought they was I think the Lakers thought they were gonna get 20 plus I think that’s what they thought they were gonna get I don’t know you know I mean it’s one of

Those things where I don’t think they came into the season really knowing what they I knew it was going to be a clash because him and Brun play the I knew it wouldn’t work Gil I said Gil I went said look I’m sorry you know guys y’all know

How I feel about the Lakers but this ain’t gonna work it ain’t yeah both guys need the ball in their hand to be who they are their absolute best both guys need the ball in their hands and you tell me the team that Lebron James been

On and he ain’t got the ball in his hands 85 90% of the and and then that’s why I always say he’s the point guard you know we we can try to pretend that he’s a small forward no he’s a point guard he always the two

Guards with him is the two and the three yeah Ro right so you know Russell couldn’t play traditional too so it kind of messed his game because in order to play with LeBron you’re gonna have to be able to shoot the ball because he’s gonna have the ball so you making all

The plays and doing what he did and let’s just say an OKC obviously it was he and KD but he was the playmaker KD Lees he’s he’s outstanding he takes his game to another level even with James Harden he still found a way to the

Average 25 like 25 and seven it was like it was like he was slouch and there and James needed the ball and that was when James was going crazy that was that was James that was James hard at his absolute Peak and then he goes to Washington and average a triple double

For a year or so so for him he he I I I like I don’t I don’t really wear hats but if I had one I’d take my hat off to it because it’s not easy to be as credential as he is and accepting of a role when you believe

And I believe Russ believed that he’s a starter but he says you know what this is what’s best for the team and every a lot of a lot of everybody can’t do that see everybody you know this G everybody like I just want to win yeah but I want

To win my way I want to win I would my way so I that’s a caveat I ain’t gonna tell you that man I just want to be somewhere I can win but I need to yes go ahead yeah I think the difference between it like where Russ is and where

Clay is is I think Clay is where Russ was last year or two years with the Lakers coming off the bench wasn’t his idea right this wasn’t his idea oh I need to this was the team’s idea so now he has to try to try to accept this role right

Um if I’m if I’m the coach those last 15 games I really need to sit back and think about the chess move here and the chess move here is do I shut Curry down give him a 65 games but for the most part shut him down Draymond shut down play

Kaminga go cuz I need if I’m going to bring clay back I need clay mentally focused mentally prepared and ready I ain’t bringing it back in 24 million G what what two year 24 yeah oh yeah no I’m saying no not 24 a year I’m I’m Sor come on already I

Already gave him 200 million I gave I gave I paid him for what he did now I got to pay him for what I believe he’s gonna do no no no that’s not how it work no this ain’t football no hell no hell no you paying me you paying me

For what I did that’s how the NBA Works Dam so when I get when I get drafted when I get drafted the number one pick that’s not what I’m doing that’s what I did what I did from elementary junior high high school college that’s what I

Was rewarded for what I do the next four years I’mma get the next deal so my contract right here is I got a championship d i 20 some I got hurt a couple times so 48 million is cool I think we get confused sometime it ain’t about what I’m gonna do goddamn because

Whatever I do moving forward my contract is gonna reflect that well I should have played I should I should have played basketball CU that D sure how working football football say look here we already paid you we paid you for those Pro bowls or all Pros or Super Bowls now

What do I think you can give me over the next two to three years that’s going to just justify the compensation that you’re seeking but uh but back to the Celtics the Celtics have won their last five games by an average of 30.2 points a game and we talked about last last

Week on first take and I said the Celtics are in in a class by of their own and Stephen and per I per quickly say man you need to watch more games well I don’t know what TV you got but I want to know who you think like

Right now the way they’re playing I’m talking about right now now when it gets to the playoffs all best are off but the question was right now and they are they’re the only team right now playing like uh like an NBA champion I mean from you know how Denver

Looked last year that’s how that’s how Boston looks right now

Shannon Sharpe and Gilbert Arenas react to Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics’ 140-88 blowout against the Golden State Warriors. They explain why Stephen Curry’s greatness won’t be enough to elevate the Warriors to an NBA title this season and whether their dynasty is over.

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