Anthony Edwards posterizes John Collins, Jordan comp & Lakers beat Hawks | NBA | FIRST THINGS FIRST

Anthony Edwards posterizes John Collins, Jordan comp & Lakers beat Hawks | NBA | FIRST THINGS FIRST

The footage that’s not going to C I can’t do it yet that’s not going to well then help me out teammate you ready there we go live from New York it’s the show that spent three hours guy researching one topic it’s first never been more invested in a I love that guy

Love it right uh all right Brew how impressive was the dunk it it was awesome there’s no doubt about it I agree with him that that was his best dunk ever on a scale of one to 10 I’m going to give it a nine a nine I’ve seen

Better dunks I mean I mean really Vince Carter’s dunks were better some of his dunks uh I think Blake Griffin had a couple that were better oh I don’t know um Blake Griffin was I’ll show you Blake’s Blake the one that he threw in Blake used to do that constantly uh he

Did it on Timothy mozgov here’s this one throw it in like like now that one I don’t think was better correct okay I got Anthony in between this one so better than this one better than this one but not quite as good as Blake’s on Kendrick Perkins I mean that’s just

Ferocious we’re simply talking what looks better all right and I actually think J which I don’t I don’t know if you like this one or not this is when I got J as my guy J’s in the playoffs against uh the Timberwolves timber wolves I think that was better just

Because he rare back and it was like a tomw can I ask this was awesome so I for this conversation yeah cuz I just want us all be having the same conversation I think setting it has to be regular season postseason agnostic no what you okay well I’m going to ask Brew because

You’re about to list 30 dunks that you think are better and so I mean this is wild has never had this many sheets I will say this to you Wilds I think Anthony Edwards is like a combination of Michael Jordan and Dominique that’s High Praise when he

Dunks yeah he’s got now he doesn’t have the all the grace of Jordan but it’s it’s close and he’s got the power of Dominique and every time he jumps for a dunk it looks like where’s the trampoline yes I mean it literally looks he’s so explosive to the rim that it

Looks like he’s jumping off here’s how explosive athletic he is he has in the last 10 days had the block of the year and the dunk of the year and on both of them he hurt himself the block of the year he hit his head the dunk of the

Year he dislocated his finger and so so I’m going to say something that I think people might reflexively react negatively to but I’m gonna before I even say it I’m gonna ask brw back up on something okay Brew despite the fact that I think LeBron’s

The goat do you do you agree that I maybe more so than almost anyone in the media other than maybe yourself and a few others give respect to every year of basketball and and that I respect the history of it so this is not about you don’t think LeBron’s better than Jordan

Because of the era I just think he’s better okay and I have massive respect for guys ABA era all of it I look at Duncan the way I look at track and field and swimming it is just logical and obvious that the best the a a disproportionate

Amount of the best are going to be right now be dun not basketball players as a whole but dunking because it’s about athleticism explosiveness vertical Leaf now is there the occasional Dr J as Florence Griffith Joiner or Edwin Moses sure someone that was way ahead of their

Time yes and because of that I watch that Anthony Edwards dunk and I say that might be better than any ingame dunk Jordan ever had no there not the okay but what’s the what’s the Jordan dunk that comes to mind cuz if you tell me not oakley I mean I agree it’s not

But there were several dunks he did that that were similar to this and better S Wilds you’ve got a great list here this one’s great and so but do you before I understand your the concept I have a different concept tell me if you buy it

Okay yeah cuz I do not view it as gymnastics with a basketball like you do where it’s like okay things are advancing Simone biles is just better naturally like than Mary L Retton than Mary L Retton probably but but I that’s not how I view it this is how I break

Down the pie chart this is the wildest amount of research I’ve ever seen no I didn’t get the pie chart cuz I just came up with it okay go ahead but I have a list of dunks be here for a while yeah the stakes of the dunk 15% that’s where

You said let’s stay in the regular season but I just put I put it at 15% yeah sure the saltiness of the dunk again 15% the anger yeah so obious this one the guy he dunked on and this is going to be legendary this is going to

Be talked about for years got tested for concussion I actually think bad news I actually think it was too too much injury it’s better to go like that’s the violence that’s the what did you say it saltiness K and he didn’t have a concussion he just had a head contusion

I don’t know there’s a true difference that’s great storytelling 40% oh well that’s that’s what it is what the sto that John Starks is dunk is not not a great physical dunk but it is because of the storytelling and the stakes it defines John Stark’s career and defin

Kind of this was a better dunk that was a better moment and here’s the other part 30% I like that standing in the way so John Collins solid defensive player but in order to have like an all-time great dunk you need to go up against

Kevin here we go see he knows this stuff he’s a true student of don’t you dare but I’m going give you a lot of this W I’m going to give you a lot of this let’s just boil it down to how it looked yes I mean seriously how like I just

Think the Blakes over Kendrick look slightly better so I I don’t because I think J looked better I I don’t because I also think Anthony Edwards being on the smaller size helps how amazing his dunks look which I felt similar about J I also think like what I think the

Greatest dunk of all time the greatest dunk of all time is Vince Carter over freder advice that’s correct I have that as an unable how do how does that fill out your silly pie chart Stow were the Olympics but it was a no stop the stakes were the olymp actually

We almost lost that year didn’t we liia no because we lost previous four years and this was a sign of America’s greatness return so let’s say the stakes were pretty high standing in way is Fred Vice SF footer so that matters yeah the storytelling was like Vince becoming an icon seven

Footer and the saltiness of it wasn’t was kind of like I can’t believe I just did it and the great reaction it was 10 of 10 on everything on score at 100 Vince is the greatest dun are you going to you have all of all all right I will

Read dunks this I’ll be honest have video well can we see dunks you can see them in your mind’s eye J imagination is the most powerful thing you have you’re such a more powerful than any weapon on Earth your imagination quickly true uhhuh number one tell me when you when a

When we hear a DK hear a dunk that this is better then I’ll stop all right good go again it’s great for the Pod go rock the baby Dr JM Michael Cooper no Kemp on Alton liser no uh Vince on alst yes no no no hold

Onist that’s an iconic D you guys are misunderstanding stop stop stop you guys are misunderstanding everyone he’s listing when I say no I’m saying this isn’t better then so so we are we agree keep going my goodness gra sorry okay LeBron jumps over Jason Terry well that’s it’s great okay sure LeBron jumps

Over Damon Jones sure sha dunks on Chris Dudley and then throws the ball out no this is better than no it’s not it’s an alltime great dunk that was the only D going to talk about this D the only thing good about the Dudley thing was

Him throwing the ball best dunk ever he backs him down dunks on Magic had shaqs dunks were the the the backboard came down we do need the video also America one of the Reas PR and forgot about the video I didn’t forget about I’m doing a

Podcast Centric thing I told you one of the reasons and then we can move on that we did this segment was because Wild’s also best take he didn’t even get to because you are so so afraid of people yelling at you do it helps if it was a

Dunk he doesn’t think a dunk what’s a dunk a dunk is when you are so high that you throw it down into the rim whether your hand grabs the rim or not what’s a finger I think this is more impressive than just a dunk you got to be up high

And you know what here’s the proof there is something that we have called the NBA Slam Dunk Contest if you go to the slam dunk contest and do do a really fancy nice layup are they going to give points on it are they going to Che let me see I

Got it the white ARR let’s see the Superman he didn’t come close to the rim but it was a LED it I loved it I was there I was it got me out of my seat jump shot you can’t you got to get up so

High to do that that is a dunk 10 ft 8 in that if he goes and lays it up that’s not giving points on that that’s the the Cape is flying it got a on it well the cape has as much to do with as throwing the basketball to somebody

Vince on Alonzo Morning what Kobe onwi Jordan on Mumbo I got to tell you are you have never had more support from our support staff than you rolling off these dunks people are like aimen wild get him thank you Chris he’s look Anthony Edwards mark my words will have better

Dunks than that one in his career so is he going to have two of the top 25 dunks all time maybe you seem he’s going to have better dunks than that at least one yeah we haven’t in his career he’s young he’s just getting started he’s a babe

High flying highlight is the latest moment in ant’s meteoric rise some have said he’s the face of the league or he going to be uh some have said Kevin Garnett and Pat B they were early on this starting to look jordanes a little comparison okay are you buying the MJ

Comparisons well look there’s two comparisons to Michael Jordan there’s one in he could one day be as good as Michael Jordan or better and that’s where LeBron gets always got compared to Jordan not because stylistically they played like that then there’s the other one of the game is similar and he’s not

As great as Anthony Edwards is and I think he can be the go not the go I think he can be the best American player maybe the face of the league at least American players he’s not going to ever be in the goat conversation as great as

He will be he’s not going to be in the goat conversation but stylistically well I reached out to the goat today Michael Jordan Jordan said there are similarities in their games he agreed so Jordan said there’s similarities there similarities all right and what I like in addition to the

Athleticism and the explosive dunks all right his desire to play is like MJ’s I this is not today but in the past I talked to Michael Jordan about the concept of shortening the season to you know from 82 games it like sickened him he couldn’t understand why in the world

Wouldn’t players wanton 82 games Anthony Edwards is like I don’t want to low manage I want to play and this dunk is proof of it he dislocates his finger goes to the locker room gets it put popped back into place taped up and then comes back out in place how many players

Today would have been like I mean let look okay I’m I get it but there are gu sitting out just cuz they want to sit out he also took off the allar game had the worst quote about the allar ever but he also how about his defense he plays

Defense too so those are similar to Jordan too so I I like the comparison as far as the style of play before I give the answer quick sidebar with the fact that my television partner Chris brousard is chatting with Michael Jordan and my fake television rival JJ reic is

Doing a pod with LeBron James if I don’t get Kem Abdul Jabar on the phone soon I’m in bad shape I I am getting boxed in right now by my fellow TV compatriots all right so I did not speak to Michael Jordan yeah so instead I just said let’s

Just do a a fair because I agree with a lot of what Bruce said obviously he’s not gonna Anthony Edwards is not we don’t look at him and say one day is he going to be the greatest player ever but I other than Bobby Knight I don’t know

That a year into Jordan’s career two years in when he broke his foot people were like he’s going to be the greatest player ever Anthony Edwards has had three complete seasons all right so we can just do stack up how he looked compared to how Jordan looked guys it’s

Not fair I know Wilds is a win lost guy but it’s not fair to put can we put some actual stats on there okay there oh listen I don’t know what they going to put up there I I didn’t what oh he didn’t white oh was the line not exist

He probably had a better threo percentage than Larry Bird in his first was he a better shooter than Larry Bird again I’m not I’m what do you mean I just showed you some numbers I noticed you guys jumped to that you didn’t jump to the under 500 every year won one

Playoff game all I’m saying is Anthony Edward’s on a good Pace now in year four for a good pace for what well who knows we’ll see I’m not sure text Mike and see what he thinks of that screen going uh quickly Brew just uh the wolves are

47 and 21 they have the same record as Denver they’re the best team on the road they have the best defense and they’re 4-2 without cat and Anthony Edwards seems to have extended but it feels like The Narrative of this table and elsewhere is like hey I could see him

Going out in round one yeah well look the West out there’s Denver and everybody else is going to be in the postseason that’s really what it is so so I I get that you get the wrong match OKC could go out in the first round I mean really and they’re right there at

The number one seed too um I will say this about Minnesota and assuming they’re full at full health they have the size that theoretically could bother Denver and Nicole Le nothing stop right they playing fairly tough because you can put you could put cat or or Rudy or

Cat on them and then the other one can come in and help from weak side now obviously you giv up some threes maybe but I mean they got the sze and you got a Difference Maker like Anthony Edwards I wouldn’t pick them but could they make

It interesting sure I know we have to move on just quickly I do wonder if Anthony Edwards continues this and if without cat they stay you know as the one seater in that vicinity if he could knock Tatum off some MVP ballots oh I do wonder that we talked about that a week

Or two ago that he’s the if they are the one seed and they’re he has all these moments numbers are great and right now Tatum it’s not like Tatum’s playing poorly but the last month jayen Brown has probably been the best player on the Celtics and so moment it’s going to be

Hard because T I mean they’re so far out everybody else he’s their best player but that’s I wonder if Edwards get on some bance like if they’re the one SE he’s the best player uh let’s talk about LeBron Lakers over Hawks last night 136 105 LeBron goes 257 and 10 Lakes show in

Ninth Place three games and two teams behind Sacramento if they want to escaped the play and here’s LeBron since Allstar uh top five in scoring top five in assists seven rebounds shooting almost 59% and 45% from three that’s crazy he’s the best shooter on the podcast which is shocking can wait till

The playoffs roll around can he keep this up uh so that’s the their only hope is that not necessarily 45% from three and we’ll show it in a second he’s 40% for the year right and so the there is LeBron has been fully healthy one playoff run with the Lakers they won the

Title cuz the next year was the year Solomon Hill did his trapes act into his ankle then next year after that they missed the playoffs and last year he was you know talking about I might need my foot operated on at you know he had the

Not Liz Frank uh I forget what it’s called but whatever he had the foot planter fasciitis thank you planter fascia good job Wilds um and so he has so I think the best LeBron year ever is 2013 I think the best playoff run is 2018 with the Cavs but the best year

That’s the year they won 27 games he almost won defensive player of the 27 games in a row almost won Defensive Player of the Year and famously that yeah he came in second for it uh that’s the highest he finished in it um and he

Was the reason a lot of people think was best year was his efficiencies so I just put that 2013 year next to this year for and look at theic efficiencies so that year he shot 60% from two this year it’s 58.2% the three point percentages are

Identical the points a tiny bit down the assists a tiny bit up and the minutes down and so that and again because he is not nearly the the defender I’m not arguing any of that and if people say the also the league I mean the scoring

Was much lower so then so that’s why I want to compare him to someone in the League this year and one number will jump out to you step this year look at that bottom number so that’s amazing so that is and I know that’s a number but I’m like yeah I

Mean I know you’re not saying he’s believe that okay no Steph is taking harder threes and Steph is taking twice as manyy much of course I I get all of that and I think everyone knows that but but that is but that is the numbers and

So that is the Lakers hope is that LeBron keeps up this post Allstar level which from an efficiency standpoint goes eye to eye with almost any year of his career LeBron has done is a efficiency is different nowadays everybody’s shooting over 50% really I mean like you

Look at teams but but bigger men okay yeah I mean look at look at Durant the the efficiencies are ridiculous because the defense is not what it used to be um but he he’s playing great and the adjust he’s adjusted to the game because now he’s shooting the three better than

Every I mean can you imagine if he shot the three like this like in his prime was Prime athleticism so he’s shooting the he’s shooting the three better and he’s driving more like he’s taking the shots that are more efficient in the paint and threes all right now he’s hitting some

Mid-range jumpers too but he’s driving to the paint there’s not as much resistance as there was early in his career at the paint so he’s doing well with that the question of can he keep it up is my concern is especially if they’re in the play in I mean the

Playoffs sometimes you get one day rest and LeBron as I said last week he’s had like every five six seven games or so he’s had to sit a game off now I don’t think he’ll sit a game in the playoffs but if it limits his Effectiveness you know

He’s playing but he’s not what he you know they need him to be as great as LeBron is playing and I agree they need that if they G to have a chance to get to the Conference Finals or the NBA Finals it’s still on ad LeBron can play

This well and if ad doesn’t play great y they’re not going to go that far but ad has got to step up and and give to support yeah good job uh as Caleb set up to succeed in thanks for watching subscribe here to get more from the show

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