Gil surprises Unc by ranking Dwight Howard over Shaquille O’Neal as Magic centers | Nightcap

Gil surprises Unc by ranking Dwight Howard over Shaquille O’Neal as Magic centers | Nightcap

Hey guys it’s your favorite Unk here go ahead and click that subscribe button below so you don’t miss a single episode of night cap that button right here come for the sports stay for the stories the magic will retire shaqs number 32 there’s no question he’s the best

Player in in Magic history um followed closely behind Dwight oh you think you get oh you got Dwight in Magic history you know was only there four years that’s it right like we’re not talking about you know Shaq’s body of work we’re just saying Orlando that’s four years I mean

Yeah you was breaking back board and stuff but you know three time all NBA Defensive Player of the Year you know you got you know Rebound in champ all star six all NBAs and six like his resume is just bigger than shaqs in that Jersey yeah impact I mean

The best the better player of course talent-wise Shaq but in that Jersey see white right Shaq made a statement earli winning Rookie of the Year averaging 23.4 points 14 rebounds in his first four first uh campaign as rookie of the year he led the magic to the NBA finals

In 1995 and posted four All-Star season okay let me ask you this where do you have Shaq in your alltime rankings I have him I have him I bounc from four to five you got him that high between yeah him and Magic yeah because because I I seen him up

Close you know what I mean I seen him up close that’s High Gil I seen how he talked to to the defense and what we had to do to try to stop him like I have him four or five is between him and magic at the four five but he’s my number one

Draft pick I’m drafting him number one he’s my fourth or fifth but if I got the first pick I’m grabbing Shaq every time wow that’s very interesting because you know uh the the number one overall pick that gets voted all the time is LeBron yeah yeah no I know who who’s gonna get

Voted number one but I know what happens when you have Shaquille L O’Neal in the game right yes and you’re gonna have to draft players you’re gonna have to like hey hey you hey hey you know how to play basketball you know how to lift weights

Come on they got to go to Gold Gym for for Shaq yeah you ain’t I got football who who want to come come can you run you got you got to go get a miles gar you got to go get some defensive line with some 65 275s to deal

With Shaq that’s used to that physicality because I don’t there’s not an NBA player that’s ever been physical enough to deal with him one onone no that’s why he I mean they created a hacker Shaq because he was just he was just Unstoppable you got one and he’s gonna

Punish you on the Block he’s gonna clear it out he’s gonna drop step and he’s gonna dunk it he ain’t laying nothing up I don’t know I’ve ever seen Shaq lay the ball up no and he ain’t trying to and what’s so funny is I had Baron Davis on

Today and he said the same thing that I I I I was always alluding to when because how physical Shaq was he didn’t block shots he didn’t do but because he was so massive and his defense was I’m gonna hit you so hard you’re not going to come

In this Lane no more which made everybody else look like they were great defensive players because like so when I want to drive it’s like oh no I don’t want to get hit by that dude be injured like I’m I’m you know what I mean so that was his presence too the defensive

Presence of LeBron ain’t driving Dwayne we ain’t driving like you know AI come in there but you know AI gonna get hit we were scared to go in there and get hit by Shaq we didn’t want that first Shaq hit or that second sha hit once

That guy is third all right if I can get the fourth on him yes at the half Co other than that hell no yeah you better not let him have one or two uh uh coming out in the half oh no yeah cuz he GNA say hey let let

Him let him come on here and drive I got something for him right yeah I mean but you know early in his career Shaq was a shot blocker I think he had average over three point three blocks a game his rookie season yeah yeah he was I mean

When he was at Joba when he got to LA and he realized that I would not get dunked on if I if I if I if I give an example and that’s that example was I’m just G I’m gonna go like this and I’m gonna use my hip and hit you out the

Air yeah it’s it’s interesting I don’t have him in my top five uh um before I give you my top five Giannis guess what number Giannis is wearing in Milwaukee 34 who wore 34 in Milwaukee Ray Allen I mean nobody thought hello if they thought jannis was going to be this

They’ took him earlier yes he was he was a skinny kid uh what did he go like 13 or 14 skinny kid out of Greece yeah and I mean you don’t know uh it it’s it’s you okay what you look for in draft 15 he was taking 15th gu

Yeah I think it was like right outside the lottery what happens what what happens in the NBA when you have someone who’s 18 19 right you’re going off of the skill set the potential long arms right um can they run up and down and then you hope that they have the work e

That to want to get better yes but for the most part you’re looking at measurements and his measurements was like okay we can do something with this yes and you know what so and that’s if if they know oh this is gonna be him and he’s gonna gain 30 something 40

Something pounds in the next two years and be an MVP number one pick yes but they’re not looking at those men they’re looking at okay we can guide him and he looks like he can be 15 maybe one time Allstar we can deal with that the mere

Fact that we have to debate Shaq being in the top five of the travesty because of his size his athleticism had he as he worked his tail let’s just say he had a third of the worker think against Kobe or Jordan or LeBron Shaq’s supposed to have 35,000 points yeah yeah

If the refs called the game like they were supposed to he would have had 35,000 points right you know it’s it’s it’s one of those things un where in the NBA the stronger players cry the most because the stronger players are getting hit the most yes right and that’s just

How the game is if Shaq is coming down there to post up and he’s posted up on me trust me they’re gonna allow me to do whatever I can yeah yes to try to get him out of this Lane so imagine what people were trying to do to get him off

That spot right two hands we sitting here doing this hey we G you got six hands in the back and Shaq is just like come on come on down here come on down here and and and it was one of those things so the fact that if they just

Called the game fair which you can’t right right you can’t he would be 35 free throws a game because you gota you you have to foul him or yeah I I think the thing is is that when you look at Shaq and you see the athleticism I mean he’s a bigger more

Shaq is more athletic I’m talking about just athletic I’m saying he don’t have the touch to feel like a Joel embiid but as far as just running drop step Shaq had it all people don’t realize how big Shaq was and how athletic he was get up

And down the court but he didn’t take training serious he didn’t take his diet serious because had he had he taking that serious maybe he could have wed off some of those injuries because you know that’s a big man that’s a big that’s a big man that’s a lot of weight that

You’re asking to get up and down the court playing 35 37 minutes A Night at 335 345 pounds and you’re asking him to play at least 70 games a season that’s asking an awful lot Gil and so had he taking care of himself put the time in

The condition put the time in to eat right even without the because a lot he missed a lot of games because of injuries so even even even without the fouls just being on the court just think about he just being on the court goingon to give you 25 20 24 25 a

Night what they know today they didn’t know then right you know it’s like even today you tell Giannis hey you need to work on your jump shot to extend your career to make the game easier it’s an MVP and a champ right right we look stupid telling them that

Just like people will look stupid telling Shaq who got MVP finals mvp3 rings that hey man you need to get in shap he gonna look at you for what yeah like right now I’m the best player in the league right now you give me the guy that’s eating salad I’m gonna bust his

Ass yeah that’s that’s that’s how Shaq that’s how Shaq thought but but you’re right because once it it’s hard to convince somebody when they’ve had success doing it their way to convince them to change it Gil like change what I’m a two-time league MVP I’m a Finals

MVP Shaq is like bro do you see how dominant I am yeah but just think about how do you could have Been

Shannon Sharpe and Gilbert Arenas discuss the Orlando Magic retiring Shaquille O’Neal’s number. They debate who is the greatest Magic player of all time, Shaq or Dwight Howard, and Gil tells Unc why Shaq is a top-5 player of all time in his eyes.

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