Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas react to LeBron & Lakers’ eighth win in nine games | Nightcap

Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas react to LeBron & Lakers’ eighth win in nine games | Nightcap

Hello it’s your favorite sports Unk here don’t forget to hit that subscribe button to join the fastest growing community on YouTube Remember night cap doesn’t happen without you so please subscribe or you’re going to make oo cry Gil let’s get right into it tonight the Lakers beat the Wizards 125

120 La approved to 44 and 33 finished the six game Road Trip 5- one the game really shouldn’t have been this close but ended up having to put the starters back in with about 35 seconds to go because of what a 12 or 13-point lead

Got cut down to five so uh there six and five and one on the road trip they’re currently tied with Sacramento and Phoenix in the Lost column but two games back no no TI in the win column but they’re two games back in the Lost column LeBron James another magnificent night

2579 Anthony Davis was dominant 35 points on 10 of 17 shooting 15 of 15 from the free throw line 18 rebounds two steals three blocks and they hold on to beat the Wizards 125 to 120 as you watch the game not just this let’s go all the

Way back and if you can remember the games that they played and they played really well on this road trip Gil what have you liked most about what you’ve seen from the Lakers that they’ve um they’ve beat the teams that they were supposed to beat um they they they they

They did what they were supposed to do um James has stepped up um ad has played well and the role players that we we we were having troubles with let’s say around the end of December January those guys are playing more consistent now right you’re talking about getting into the playoff

It seems like everybody is is ramping it up for the playoff and on the same same Mission here yeah I I like what I saw uh LeBron has been really really good and as he mentioned he says look guys the last year I had to deal with foot so

Basically I was just playing the games I wasn’t I wasn’t able to get any onc Court activity I couldn’t do you know practice I couldn’t do shoot rounds or anything of that nature now I come out here before the game I’m able to get my

Shots up before the game I’m able to get on the court with the guys uh for shoot around I’m able to you know work on my shot and you can tell uh nine of 10 the other day uh what 40 points on 17 shots comes back last night I what was he

Eight or 10 10 or 12 uh very few shots again very very efficient last night against Toronto another efficient night another 50% shooting night tonight but as you said Gil we knew this was on the horizon horizon they knew we knew they were gonna play a lot of sub 500 teams

And if you’re trying to get to where you ultimately need to beat these are the teams that you need to beat these are the teams that early in the year that was sub 500 when they was in November and December that was beating the Lakers and you’re like what the hell and it’s

Still it’s still troubling to me with Anthony Davis playing as well as he is and he’s played 72 games LeBron is being LeBron and here we are 44 and 33 and we’re in the night we’re in the night spot Gil I still can’t understand that

For the life of me you know what I want to give Prince his credit right um at the beginning of the season right my my complaint with him and V was you guys are sitting in the corner being atmosphere right and as of late Prince has been diving a lot more getting into

Into those Open Spaces yeah yeah he’s been he’s been slashing diving because the defense didn’t expect that so he’s getting a lot of easy points and keeping the defense Honest by moving just little things like that is what makes those guys important if you sitting in a corner just be atmosphere it’s harder

For ad and LeBron so the fact that has played this well LeBron has played this well and we are struggling I will take that to see how we’re playing now right and plus the thing is DLo DLo has vastly improved from the end of January say beginning of February until

Now DLo has been Sensational had he been playing like that all along the trade talks would have never come up yeah no you’re right it wouldn’t have it wouldn’t have and I think because of the trade talks it put some urgency into his game right um know when you when you

When you start off a season you don’t want to be traded hell no like we can count the million you can count all the money in my pocket but leaving the city that I call home to go somewhere else to learn that City to learn that players to

Learn the routes The Roots money has no impact on that you know if I take you from your job no matter how much you makeing and take you to a whole another city you’re gonna have a tough time struggling especially M right I think

And I think I don’t know if he has a wife or a significant other I know he has a small child that I see him with from time to time after the games now you get because it’s just not you yeah you have to think of other people you

Have to think of your your wife or your significant other the kids and I think he really wanted to be back in LA because I’m not so sure he really wanted to leave La in the first place so he looks at it as a second chance I got a I

Got a second opportunity to come back and fulfill or correct the wrong that happened before yeah and so I don’t think he really wanted to leave La the first time and I know for certain he doesn’t want to leave now because he said I want to be a Laker next year and

He’s playing like he wants to be a Laker next year he’s shooting the ball extremely well doing a great job of of running the offense uh when he’s asked to do so uh but I love the way he’s played LeBron is LeBron is LeBron I mean

I it goes without saying we don’t the guy’s shooting 54% from the floor Anthony Davis is giving you 25 and basically 13 on a nightly basis ruy has been Sensational also I mean he he’s shooting the ball at a high level Austin Reed is Mr consistent um you know what

You’re going to get but I do think Gil we’re going to probably need a little bit more for our bench then wt’s going to have to give us a little more Prince is gonna have to give us a little more we know what to expect from Jackson

Hayes he’s an effort guy he’s gonna challenge shots at The Rim he’s gonna run get you some putbacks get you some lob dunks so I don’t know really I’m not expecting him to give us 12 if he can give us six and eight a couple of blocks

Uh some time you know some solid defense okay we can live with that but I think Den wit it I think Tori and Prince those are our two main bench guys those guys going to probably need to be be in the double figures in order for the Lakers

Because you can’t ask your starters to go out there and score 120 points every damn night no no you’re gonna need about I’ll say in the playoffs depending on who we match up match up against 20 20 25 30 points from our bench and 90% of that is coming from uh prince

Prince and then witty and then witty right and that’s just the way it is um and you know just like Miami you know Jimmy Butler played very well first two rounds and then I think it was Caleb Martin right that that almost won an MVP

Have won one of those games and they was they was chanting his name right those what we need we need different players stepping up at the right time because it’s not expected in the playoffs in the playoffs is grit and grind right we’re we’re we’re dialed in we know the

Playbook we know your first option we know your second option so to really be to really be like dominant in the playoffs you’re playing in your third option mode for the first time for for most part so when guys step out of their body right Austin Reeds goes for a 30 d

Goes for a 30 right ruy goes for those are the games that we need in those in those times if you look at last year against uh uh the Grizzlies remember that road game ruy goes crazy they like we gonna let you shoot the three Ru say

Okay thank you and the next thing the next thing you know you go back and you get your split and so now and then the next and then you come home Austin Reeves takes over a game y so they’re gonna be G look your star you need ad

And LeBron to be ad and AD but you also need a third guy yep at different points of a game it was ruy one game it was it was Austin Reeves another game and that’s what you need the because ad and LeBron is gonna be ad and LeBron y can

We get another game from a Roy where he gives us 20 to 25 can we get a game like that from atin Reed where he gives us 20 to 25 because I’m counting on LeBron them to give me somewhere between 50 and 60 on a nightly basis between him and AD

Yep him and AD to give us somewhere between 50 and 60 on a nightly basis now we get ruy a game we get atin Reed gives us a game to go along with those guys we get DLo to give us a game we get our bench to give us 20 between those three

Guys but the main contributor will be uh Den witty will be torian Prince uh uh uh uh Jackson Hayes but the main cor corporates would be those two guys Den W in Prince I like I like the Lakers chances um but they’re gonna and like

They have a big lead and then they give it away yeah they run back out to another big lead 17 18 points and they let Wizards get it all the way back down the two because I don’t I there when when LeBron when LeBron is not taking

Over the game those guys don’t know how to finish players off they don’t know how to just finish you right and I know this is a different League where threes really help you get back into game oh for sure a 20 point a 20o um a 20-point

Lead can be cut five four shots right you know you get you know three three threes and one and right you’re right back in the game and yeah that’s what the Golden State style was so you know sometimes when you have your foot on their throat you just gotta crush it

Yeah I gota do it I I think the thing is also Gil is that a lot of times when you get up and if you get up a certain way you keep playing that way but you keep taking bad shots and when they go in you like yeah everybody high five it and

Everybody like K keing but all of a sudden you take a couple of those bad shots and they race back to the other end get some easy bucket and the next thing you know they hit a couple of threes and all of a sudden like you said

Your 20o lead is not down to 10 maybe even nine now you like oh damn what happened because we just watched the Wizards go on a 15o run yeah so if the Wizards can go on a 15 o run you know Sacramento can do that you know uh uh

Phoenix can do that you know the Nuggets can do that but this is but but right now this is this is bad team’s best time to play basketball oh yeah oh this is oh this is it right now coach you can’t sub me right it is what it is season about

To be over you about to be fired I’m about to be traded free agency so right now is the best time for bad teams because you get no responsibility whatsoever and it’s basically it’s basically summer league basketball for these guys so you’re going to have a lot

Of teams playing a spoiler alert you know what Gil you knew I knew one thing K Ain played in the week but I know he’s gonna play against the Lakers yeah yeah yeah yeah you know what I’m saying because he he he wants to show y’all

Should have never got rid of me but and I and I I love the way he’s playing but he wasn’t gonna be able to do that with ad and LeBron and that’s what he doesn’t understand it I mean yeah I mean look at Bradley Bill Bradley Bill averaged 30

Bradley Bill is a 20 a average 31 year at the high 20s but he’s not gonna get the shots yeah it’s hard for a third a third option to be what he was when he was the first option especially when the first two options is Anthony Davis and LeBron

Yeah the first two options are book and KD KD and book so it’s hard for Bill to get those you understand that James Worthy J it’s a Hall of Famer but you know it was going to Karem magic okay everybody else fill in you know what

Bill um and you know I watched him a they overpass sometimes there’s times where that guy has that shot and he Swing Swing right you know those guys are playing unselfish sometimes to the point where your shot is better than that that that open Corner shot from

That guy and I think Bill does that a lot where he has the shot and he makes the extra pass and there’s going to be times where he could average 20 the shots are there the ball movement is there but I think because they trust each other so much

That they’re willing like he he’ll pass up a shot to pass it to Grayson Allen or Gordon where that’s sometimes in a Sit G you’re absolutely right and I noticed that also a lot of times when teams have big threes or teams just come together I’mma show you that I’m so unselfish

Yeah I’m G pass up this shot right here I see right what I did I gave up this good shot to get a great shot bro go ahead and take that take that already it already touched the main two guys hands boom boom it came to you

This is when you get to work so making that extra pass sometimes kind of takes away from what you do um but they will be dangerous in the playoffs so this gonna be a good one Yeah

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Shannon Sharpe and Gilbert Arenas react to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers defeating the Washington Wizards for their eighth win in nine games. They praise Anthony Davis and the Lakers bench for showing consistency they haven’t shown all season.

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