Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas react to LeBron & Lakers loss to Jimmy Butler-less Heat | Nightcap

Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas react to LeBron & Lakers loss to Jimmy Butler-less Heat | Nightcap

The Heat beat the Lakers 110 to 96 and I think this is an unforgivable because they’re playing without their best player or second best player is Jimmy Butler whether it’s bam or Jimmy but they’re right there one a one B you can’t lose by 14 to a team that doesn’t

Have their best one of their two best no that’s facts I mean it’s it’s embarrassing at this point um I mean you know how many games you’re going to go when the same two people are not giving you any offens production right it’s you know both the same two people we’re

Talking about you know can’t V and Prince they zero and zero yes so unless your unless your the guy you were guarding scored zero and zero someone has to make up that point differential and and did I do go ahead go ahead the problem like you know you

Guys combined for zero the guys you’re guarding combined for 37 so that means someone has to take on that responsibility and that’s what ends up happening with team when you do when you have lineups like this yeah I’m looking they had one two three four five six seven eight they had

Eight guys in double figure the heat did and the Lakers Anthony Davis has been great I saw him man an event the other night over the last five games he’s averaging 303 five assists three and a half blocks almost two steals shooting 58% from the floor and the Lakers are

One and five in those ball games LeBron did not have it tonight played 38 minutes he was six of 18 all six from the uh three-point line and he didn’t attempt a free throw he didn’t that that tells me he wasn’t as aggressive as he

Needed to be uh six he did have six rebounds six assists uh but he was minus 20 tonight and that’s very unlike him um for him to play that many minutes and shoot that poorly from um but that just go what end up happening is is is the whole thing of

What I’ve always been saying if you have two guys on there that’s not meant for offense meant for defense that means we’re gonna sit and net LeBron so we’re not going to allow him to come so you’re going to guard you’re guarding LeBron I’m right behind you my other guy’s

Right behind you so he’s seeing three people all the time and we’re like passing to the guys now this guy takes one shot why am I why am I ever going to Le guard why am I going to stop guarding LeBron with you he takes one shot like he’s not a

Threat you have you’re playing you’re playing three on five so it’s easy to keep LeBron James out of the lane if he has to run through three people so he’s forced to shoot jumpers it’s like playing his zone right you can’t play that many minute um torian Prince played 29

Minutes he gave you zero points cam reddish played 19 minutes he gave you zero points Jerry vanderbel played 16 minutes he gave you four points so those are guys that you were counting on and between the three of them they gave you four points and and that’s what happens

Gil let’s just say and and this when you look at a when you look at a team if my Superstars one of my Superstars isn’t having a good day where else can I get offense from can I get some of my role players to go give me 20 can I give can

I get two of my role players one give me 20 the other give me 15 cuz ad both those the likelihood of both those guys being off isn’t very likely one of those guys are going to have it going and so I know I’m gonna get somewhere between 20

And 32 from one of those guys now both of those guys they normally give me around 50 and 20 rebounds a game uh a night LeBron didn’t have it tonight Austin Reeds played great seven to 12 eight or n from the free throw line he was Sensational but I’m counting on

Jerry vanderbel I’m counting on torian Prince I’m counting on cam reddish I’m counting on him to do what what what exactly am I count counting on them four and what am i counting on them uh you counting on them to have a nice cardio day is what you count

Like there’s a problem when Kevin Love when Kevin Love plays 28 minutes you know there’s a problem Kevin Love yeah 28 from love 35 who could oh my God like when I seen he was playing I’m like you go at at least go at him he had 10 points and 14 rebounds

He couldn’t even play in the Denver series nope nope and the thing is the Lakers the Lakers out rebounding them by 11 the Lakers out rebounding them by 11 and you and you lose the Lakers they got to get better three-point shooting I mean they got out

Shot from the three-point line 16 made to only the Lakers were 430 from the three-point line you’re not going to win very many games even if your two superstars go off you shoot that poorly from the three-point line and you allow the other team to plus 13 you from the

Three-point so they got 39 more points from that line than what you got the likelihood of you winning and the Lakers was 22 they were 22 or 24 from the free throw line so they were aggressive but you’re getting ones and twos they’re getting threes it’s like

Okay if we translated the football it’s like having Lamar Jackson but he has no receivers at all right there no rece so it’s easy to set the defense knowing that you can only run you cannot pass the ball because there’s nobody here to catch it it makes it it makes it harder

And that becomes the problem with LeBron and AD it makes it harder when you have nobody who can shoot the long ball right we’re just gonna sit in here and wait for you guys to come to us what do the Lakers go from here now they’re under 500 at one point in time

They were great I mean we saw them in the uh in the season tournament they go seven and0 in the End season Tournament game they win that last game against Indiana by double digits uh I think 15 20 points and we like okay they’re on to something guys are playing really really

Well it hadn’t correlated coming out of the End season tournament as well as many thought it would especially myself I think you thought that same way also where do the Lakers go from here what do they need to do it it it kind of looks like they’re doing it in in real time

We’re we’re still judging them right I think they’re getting ready to trade because the fact that you didn’t play ruy tonight or DLo lets us know you’re shelfing them to probably make a move right and I I think they’re trying to make some type of trade to get some

Shooters here because they are benching players that should be playing so you know that’s what it that’s what it really looks like now this is that move when you like all right I ain’t playing today all right cool coach all right but Gil I I thought if you getting ready

To trade be like if I’m getting ready to trade my car sell my car I’m gonna clean it up I will I will put it I will put I will put a new set wax on that thing I’m gonna get a detail inside it out I’m

Gonna make sure the ties nice and neat I’m G do everything I thought I thought to add value or maybe increase the value of ruy or increase the value of DLo wouldn’t you like get these guys say come on guys y’all get give us something

No I think I think the value of ruy and dowo has already been set I think that’s what van came in in right like where the hell he comes from because I think they’re trying to show that he’s healthy his foot is healthy and we can probably

Move him and try to see if we can you know get some type of blockbuster trade yeah the thing about the Lakers they have very tradable contracts vanderbel contracts very friendly uh uh uh DLo contracts friendly Ruiz is is is is friendly I think Tori and Prince is

On a one-year deal if you want to decide to move him um yeah it’s just for whatever reason and I remember when they made the move last year and the gu’s like okay you got another you got a year under your system you played with ad you played with

LeBron you played with uh uh uh um uh Austin Reeves I really thought it was going to be a lot better and it started off better considering where they started off last year but you you know you were saying that because they didn’t have what they ended up getting now they

Start the see with that and for whatever reason it just has not materialized like many thought it would I mean the summer looked good it it was decent you just signed your players back you didn’t upgrade really in any position while everyone else was making moves so you

Know signing your players back sounds great if you had a great team but you know with the Lakers you you really needed a third a third star getting Landing Kyrie would have been amazing you know especially if you didn’t have to lose ad or Lebron so that would have

Been a great pick for for for this absolutely um and the fact that he was a free agent you telling me you couldn’t write no checks under the table what’s the point of being a billionaire you can’t write no checks under the table come yeah no you know the last

Team that wrote a check up under the table it almost ruined their franchise that was Minnesota with the Joe Smith situation you remember what it did to the Minnesota Timberwood when David Stern found out they had they had a under theed agreement it almost it almost it was the equ almost the

Equivalent of the death penalty that SMU got placed on them when they were playing player playing paying players in the not a fact that it did it did take I mean listen that that sh still hunting them now it’s still hunting them now um but I

Mean sometimes you just got to make a move right when you when you know this is about um sacrificing the chances right you know Gil you know what happened let’s make a long story short the long story short the Lakers Advanced to the Western Conference finals last year and they

Lost to the they lost to the eventual Champs in the Denver Nuggets and they thought if they had been healthy healthier or with another year of these guys playing together they would be better served they thought they had a team it was Fool’s goal because you got

LeBron you got LeBron playing out of his mind for someone that age with those many minutes ad gave you tremendous Austin Reed play played him play played his way into the contract that he rightfully earned but no one else now you did they didn’t think but what happens see you

Only think Forward Thinking man we gonna get better what happens if those guys don’t what happens if those guys regress which is just as good a chance or possibility or likelihood as them getting better based on their history and what we’ve seen from each individual

Guy in their tenure in the NBA you look at DLo you look at ruy you look at Van you look at torian Prince what has their history shown you so if you if you look at it like that we probably because you were hoping I’m not worried about LeBron I’m not

Worried about I’m not worried about uh I wasn’t worried about ad the only thing you’re worried about Can ad stay healthy and he’s all played all the games with the exception of two atin read you could see from the first year to the second year you could see Leaps and Bounds that

He had gotten better the other guys in their career in their history what have they shown you nothing slow movement and and but that’s the that’s the thing with franchises themselves right you’re happy with success you’re not building to think this is chess right what if Denver made a move move

Where would that put us what if Clippers made a move which they did what if uh Suns made a move which they did right you gotta go on it what if what if um Boston made a move they did what bucks made a move and they did right every all

The competitors that you would be fighting for a championship with actually upgraded but you didn’t right you they got exped you have to be thinking that hey when we go into the summer these guys are going to be looking to make moves to to jump in front of Denver

Right because as of now we’re not as good or we would have won so we have to get a piece to get in front of them so if you know everyone has to at least get a piece you should have been going after that too I Agree

Shannon Sharpe and Gilbert Arenas react to the Los Angeles Lakers 110-96 loss to the Miami Heat. They break down the poor roster construction around LeBron James and Anthony Davis and why the Lakers must make a trade for shooters if they intend to compete for the playoffs.

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