Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas react to LeBron James & Lakers embarrassing loss to Kings | Nightcap

Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas react to LeBron James & Lakers embarrassing loss to Kings | Nightcap

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Left the game with 356 to play went straight to the locker room Darin ham said they’re real they’re evaluating him uh at the moment so no update the Lakers led by 19 in the first quarter before a massive turnaround and the second quarter had them down 15 uh at the half

And the game never got within single digits I think they cut it to nine maybe once in the second half but I think that was as as close as they got and this was a consequential loss for the Lakers because instead of pulling a half game uh behind Sacramento for the seventh

Seed and tying Dallas for the eighth they fall four games back at the king with the loss two and a half uh uh uh back in the overall in lose the season tiebreaker to the Kings for me gil before you get into it it really wasn’t the second quarter it

Was the end of the first quarter in which they were up by 19 they were up by what 19 and they allowed the Kings to go on that 10 run to close it out so they got outscored in the second quarter 44- 20 but when you add that 10 points that

They gave up in the last minute last minute 15 seconds of the first quarter they really out got scored 54 to 20 and so I thought that was a difference in the ball a lot of the difference in the ball game especially in the first half

But what did you look at what did you see in the first half what did you see overall in this ball game yeah dur during that time on that 10 run I think um Austin Reeds took four of those shots and missed all four they were good shots but four of those shots

Um he he missed they kept passing in the ball and he kept taking it so there would have been a time where you know usually you miss two in a row you know and they’re making a run I think they should have called a timeout a little

Bit earlier I don’t know why why Darin ham you you see that the other night he just like even with the Nuggets let’s go back to the Nuggets uh not to cut you off Gil you saw the Nuggets make the run and he steing on the sideline like Phil

Jackson bro Quil that run call a timeout you ain’t Phil Jackson you know so um you know sometimes you know a coach will allow you to play through those um Those runs to build character but you know uh at this point in time you can see um you know Reeves are

Struggling a little bit so the fact that he did take four or five of those shots that that uh that was part of that uh 10 run um other you know for a team supposed to be great at defense you know you gave up too many points in the

Paint you gave up too many points in the paint you know to be such a great you know so you have you know you do have LeBron back there you do have um ad80 back there so ruy back there so the fact that you gave up 70 something points you

Know to a team that shoots a lot of Threes is is is not a winnable for formula yeah you look at dearn Fox he’s he’s the Laker killer and he’s averaging 30 coming into the game and it’s what last five or six games against the

Lakers he drops 44 on 19 of 32 shooting and you know the thing was uh again sabonis outplayed ad he outplayed him he had he had a triple double by the end of the third quarter you look at Malik mon comes off the bench I think he gave him

Give him 26 28 he gave him 26 uh 10 of 19 shooting three of five from the three-point line davan Mitchell came off the bench he went four4 from the field four4 from the three-point line but let’s just say for the sake of argument if you can get LeBron LeBron LeBron was

Great I don’t think he took enough shots he was 10 of 16 10 of 10 from the free throw line he was 31 13 and five 31 points 13 assists five block uh five five rebounds uh one Ste only had three turnovers so you could live with that

But ad had 14 and 11 but sabonis gave you 16 20 and 12 so you can’t you can’t and see that’s what that that happened the last couple of games yic out played him you can live with joic out played him joic is the first and second best

Player in all of basketball but you can’t let sabonis out play you you got to play him to a standstill because Darren Fox is going to hey Darren Fox basically outscored D Russ and and and and and and he outscored ad DLo and atin Rees by

Himself they had 42 between the three he had 44 alone yeah with sa bonus to be honest it’s one of those type of stats where he outplays you but there’s nothing you can do about like he’s going to get all the rebounds so it’s not like he got a lot

Of offensive rebounds the the assist him pass to his teammates that’s his job so you can’t really Quantum Quantum that um but he’s pushing it he’s pushing it you see him get the rebound he’s pushing it he’s going he yeah but you can’t like that’s not

That’s under you know that’s not in 80s control where that’s his style of play you know the the Euro the Euro bigs just has more tangibles um you know so the assist you know kind of pushed him above the American big right now because they can get their teammates involved when

They’re not having a great offensive game they can make those passes like sabonis I think he’s leading in triple doubles this year over he is yook and and and and Luca so you know uh he’s really going under the radar with how dominant he’s been playing see that’s

Why you that’s why you cook his ass on the offensive end you go get 30 you go get see this is where he needed one of those 355 games so now all of a sudden he’s exerting a lot of energy he didn’t really have to exert a lot of energy to

Get those numbers I mean you yeah he played 38 minutes but he had a triple double at the end of the third and so now he’s just adding to that total and that’s where ad need ad is gonna have to like you know he’s five or 13 he missed

Some shots early I didn’t think he was as aggressive as he needed to be uh but you got when you get a guy like that that can score on the offensive end and he’s not a guy that’s gonna give you 30 but he’s G quietly he can give you 20

And 20 and 10 in 2020 and 15 you’ve got to punish him ad needs to have that was the game ad need to that 35 15 six game yeah you know what’s so funny is is he reminds me I call him 50-50 players where if they hit their first two shots

They’re GNA have a good game if they miss their first two shots they’re gonna have a bad game that they’re going to be unaggressive right you you’re hoping that they go one and one and stay be and still be interested in the game right um you know what makes a real star

Is I can have a 0 for five first half and then give you 45 or 50 in a second KD last night you still struggled the whole game he got it going late in the fourth and then overtime he took the game over that yeah you can’t just just call it a

Night oh I missed three four in a row it’s it’s done I’m done right you know you have to still be engaged and do some of the other things that keeps the team involved until you get your momentum and your Rhythm and your confidence and that’s and sometimes what what happens

With ad is when he starts missing early he just he just becomes um uninterested offensively yeah they didn’t play any defense Daren Fox got whatever he wanted he got to wherever he wanted at some point in time Gil what if I trap him and

Get the ball out of his hands is that ER an option in an NBA game to trap somebody and get make them give the ball Up N not when not not not not not somebody that fast right you just compromising you just compromising comprom talk but I see he got it going

Yeah everybody can’t have it going Gil you you know what you know what it is they haven’t understood with fast guys like him what fast guys like him wants to do Dereck Rose I did it um John Wall does did it we want to set the pick

At the damn half court start just if you dumb enough to bring your ass up there so we can just zoom by you right because we have more Running Room with those type of guys you sit at the three-point line to take away their burst of speed they don’t realize that because they

Want to pick it up we’re gonna set the pick as high as possible and then we get a run at the big man which that’s what fox does very well um I thought the key I thought the key to the run with the Lakers was when is it uh Hayes got the n

One and they called it a offensive foul on a natural way of jumping like I’m gonna I jump like you know with your right handed your right leg come up it’s pushed forward so what happens is that put them within nine yeah right that put within nine he gets the free throw eight

And then they came down and made a three so the fact that they took that away they took away that threo possession you know 15 point game and they get a couple more n what could have been an eight game now is a 19point game yeah you know and I think that was

One of those key moments with the refs and you know as one of the refs who actually played I forgot his name but he he did play basketball um who the officials um something wood oh yeah is it Alwood Leon wood who who was the ref today um

Hold on up here where would I find in the refs at was it Derek Collins Derek Collins played right Derek I know uh there was there was a uh I don’t know if he had yeah there was a a wood that not woods but there was a guy that

Played I yeah see I think I think Derek played well you understand that when you jump that’s how you jump so he didn’t leave with his right his knee didn’t leave with his knee for offensive foul that’s just a natural jumping ability you don’t jump with your leg straight

Down so that that was a call that they messed up I thought that was the point of the game where they needed that because that and one then you come down shoot a three it’s a different vibe especially at home so um once they took

That away I think it was um it kind of it took it took away some of the momentum Kevin Cutler I know K uh Scott tarski and Derek Collins yeah um it was just that I was like ah they need that’s what they needed you know

What Gil the thing is with the Lakers I was thinking Orlando wood that’s what big big I I think the thing is for me uh uh Gil is that the Lakers they all what what is there 20 games left so you really because you put yourself in this corner you have no

Margin for error you’ve got to win these games when you get the when you get the Nuggets down by 11 you’ve got to have you got to find a way to win that ball game you get the Kings down by you’ve got to find a way to close that

Ball game I know it’s early in the game but you still have ad and LeBron they just stop playing defense there was a stretch they didn’t they were getting layup after layup after layup after layup and and the Lakers are like oh oh oh well or or wide openen uh uh uh shoot

Around threes we just gotta we just got to put this in perspective um right now S8 n and 10 is locked for S eight n and 10 that is a lock right uh Lakers is going to be in the playin game Golden State Dallas and Sacramento those

Are going to be the playin game teams right um Utah at 28 wins they’re F they’re they’re five and a half games out of you know uh the 10 spot they don’t they’re not they’re not moving so this is the four now let’s just be honest these four are

Playing chess no one wants to move to six because no one wants to play Denver first round right no one wants to play Denver so you only see Phoenix actually trying to get the fifth right Phoenix would rather play Clippers than Denver in the first round I want I want okay

S yeah so you know so but if I’m Lakers I I want to be eth spot because eighth spot gives me Minnesota and then it gives me four or fifth so I don’t have to worry about Denver to the Western Conference Finals again what about if I get SE what if I

Get the seven seed I want I want I want uh well I’m hoping the OKC thund to finish it too because I want them yeah I get yeah then I get Denver in the second round yeah yes yeah I don’t want Denver so I rather just sit back where I’m at

Right now knowing that I don’t really have to cut the engine on because 11 you’re you’re too far behind 11 right now so I want to sit in that eighth spot okay you know take take on tough Minnesota and then and then I have the Clippers New Orleans or Suns for my uh

What about the eighth spot that means you got to win two G no well 7 eight whoever wins becomes to seven seed right yeah to be honest I don’t even know how that works cuz somebody got to win two games okay cuz if you the seven seed and you lose whoever loses go

Down yes and then whoever whoever with nine1 you get one win you get one game whoever lose out of line 10 they out yeah seven eight yes they get to play the the uh the winner of nine10 yes okay man that that I just knew I mean and the Lakers shot

52% Gil they shot 52% from they shot 52% from the field 47% from the three 84% from the free throw line and they lose they give up 130 that tells me you didn’t play no G you didn’t even pinch anybody no defense you didn’t play no defense it’s

Like that’s what I’m said it’s one of those things where it’s like like are you just per are you just trying to sit in 10 spot spot must it’s some to be honest you know if I’m coaching I’m telling you right now this is what I’m

Going this is what I’m doing so I gotta be careful on the games I win versus the game I lose because I I want a spot so I want the 10th Minnesota H Minnesota Sacramento got up 16 more shots than the Lakers yeah with only one more with only one

More turnover so that tells me offensive rebounds they had the Lakers had three yeah and and that’s it Lakers got to find a way to do a better job of getting on the glass now this is a you know they got out rebounded the other

Night by um by Denver at some point in time you can’t keep getting getting that rebounding you giving too you giving teams too many cracks at you that’s why like like in in the football term Gil you can’t let teams keep getting picking up third Downs because you’re giving

Them too many cracks at you to get the ball into the End Zone on that one drive you want to get get them off the field you get them all you can do is get them in third down we didn’t give up a touchdown on first down or second down

We got him in third let’s get off the field that’s all you can hope for as a defense get somebody to third down and get them off the field you didn’t give up the touchdown on first you didn’t give it up on second you got him the

Third we’ve got to get off the field you keep letting teams convert on you on that on the same drive on third down the eventually to catch up with you you keep letting team get that many cracks at you on on the offensive end oh one gonna go

Down they’re not gonna miss all those threes they’re not gonna miss all those putbacks I don’t I don’t I don’t understand where I don’t think like I want to be inside the locker room when he’s giving out his speeches because um it is simple sometimes like hey ad I

Need this to be a 20 rebound game right you need to start setting like assignments there’s just games you have to lay assignments down depending on who you playing against hey ad and Braun I need to I need you guys to combine for about 35 to 40 rebounds between the two

Of you we have a very de we have a very defensive minded team we they they hit the offensive glass I you guys need to secure it I mean it’s simp I told my son he just had 53 right he had 53 the game before I said hey you’re not going to

Have 53 against this next team I’m expecting you to have about 20 and 20 I need you for your team to win you need as a guard you need about 18 to 25 rebounds that is the you get 18 to 25 rebounds you guys win this game you’re going to the state

Championship if you don’t if you sit around trying to be a guard y’all in trouble he had 18 he had 20 24 and 18 you have to lay some of these guys you have to give them an assignment so they can mentally focus on it and see here’s

The if you don’t do that then they just play the game normally and see here’s the thing when I say uh uh sabonis played ad he scored more points and he had more rebounds we understand the assist because a lot of the offense has run through him so we’ll we’ll con see

That uh uh joic having more assist than than than ad I’m not complaining about that but can’t let him beat me on the scoring end and on the rebounding end I’ve got I because if I’m losing if I lose two or the three against one of those guys I’m probably gonna lose that

Game if I lose all three of them I’m damn sure gonna lose that game Y and this is why this is why the the ideal of what people used to say about Russell Westbrook he stat he stat chasing one of those stats were two unselfish on or two of them stats was

Selfish assist that means he’s passing the ball and rebounding which takes effort I guarantee you they wish they had a dude tonight that that that cared about rebounding so much you know I mean sabona is almost out rebounded sabonis had 20 rebounds the Lakers starting five had

24 yeah see yeah 13 18 19 yeah see the fact that he’s rebounding so much that see the the the fact that he’s rebounding so much leaves a little room for offensive rebounding which there’s no Second Chance like he’s cutting off Second Chance points footb back points because

He’s doing 95% of the defensive defensive rebounding for for that Sting If you think about it he had more offensive rebounds than the Lakers had as a team that cannot happen Gil I mean technically technically if he’s getting all the defensive rebounds that means someone ain’t getting

Offensive rebound well well he found a way to get four and the Lakers found a way to get three so how did that happen yeah yeah see he’s doing his damn job see that’s that’s what I’m saying sometimes you just gotta sign [ __ ] yeah I thought ruy played good you look at Ru

Ruy has been playing well 13 of 17 three of five 29 Points LeBron 10 of 16 one of four from three 10 of 10 from the free throw line 31 points DLo struggled tonight uh he was three or 10 he had to go a little bit uh early uh two or six

From the three two or2 from the free throw line atin Reed 6 of 15 uh 4 OR7 from the three-point line but where they killed us is on the bench their bench came in and gave them 50 and the Lakers bench probably gave them did they give

Him 20 let’s see six seven 15 18 50 to 18 in bench points unless your starters go Haywire you’re probably gonna lose if a team’s bench out scores You by that margin unless you got unless LeBron goes for 50 80 goes for 30 you’re going to lose that

Game no no that’s facts that’s facts um it was just one of those games where they just didn’t they didn’t they didn’t they didn’t play all the way through they had a great first quarter and from there they just you know laid an egg all right Gil there’s an article that came

Out this morning talking about LeBron scoring his 40,000 Career Point a feat no one else has ever accomplished it said LeBron has privately questioned whether Laker Nation would fully ever Embrace him after seeing him battle their beloved Kobe Bryant for so long acknowledge the way the fans and the

Franchise showed up for him much respect and much loyalty to Laker fans to Laker fan base for showing me that love LeBron said being the first player to do something that’s pretty cool in this league are you surprised I’m surprised that LeBron surprised that he thought he was going

To be able to win over Laker Nation LeBron could have won a championship every year he would have been here and he still wasn’t going to surpass Kobe and he still wasn’t G to pass magic it’s it’s not going to happen just like for the most look he was a better player

Than D way Miami was gonna Embrace him like they did D way because D way originally there he D Wade grew there he was planted in that soil he grew there same thing with Kobe they dropped him off as a 17year old kid and he became a

Man he became a father he became a husband here it was never k I don’t know KD KD couldn’t have thought that he was going to ever be ingratiate himself in Warrior culture like Step St is he’s original yeah I I mean you know it deep

Down inside but you know you you have the idea when you come to town fans come out yeah right so you know when he came to La remember he’s only coming there once right once a year right Play It’s once a year year when he playing for the

Clippers he is the fan favorite when he came to town for the clip show right so sometimes you know as players we think our presence when we come to town is that’s us so I think he got a rude awakening or just reality hit his first week yeah they they defac the mural

But you would think that your greatness and I think you know everyone kind of like didn’t understand what I said said where he doesn’t deserve statue statue because he hasn’t he hasn’t LeBron James the name [ __ ] yeah has a statue LeBron James Laker resume doesn’t

Have a statue here his resume as a Laker is 89 probably 9,000 points as of today 9,000 if you got that one championship that is not a statue right jersey in the Raptors yeah okay 9,000 points um you know six time all Allstar five time all which would be six

You know yeah but a a statue outside n the the minimum he’s gonna need is the beat Shaq at 13,000 points in this uniform right that’s what I’m in this uniform his statue is going to be outside of Cleveland that’s where his where I would you well tell me the guy

That got two MVPs and two finals MVPs with four final appearances no no no no no no we’re not talking about his resume we talking about his relationship okay that’s a different okay that’s a different story have to have to leave before then yeah yeah so you know so we not

Talking about you know it’s it’s one of those things where you know he plays he plays three four more years and he gets to about 13 points right he can make your argument but that’s what I’m saying Shaq’s resume is three rings finals MVPs three finals MVP with 13,000 points

As a Laker and that’s the bottom end of you know of of the of the totem pole there so um he was a rental he was no different than you know uh Will Chamberlain when he came you know LeBron was a rental for the Lakers greatness and you know that’s

Just something that he’s just going to have to accept right even though most of his his his Milestones came in this uniform 30,000 passing Kobe passing Kareem 40,000 assist rebounds yeah the Milestones were hit here but the Legacy wasn’t built here I agree and that’s just something he’s just going to have

To really just understand and it’s just it’s just part of the game that’s all it ain’t nothing nothing personal right I mean if you was a if he was a this was the Clipper Nation Oh Oh Clipper take it but hell they take me

And you right now Gil I mean we went 50 we went 50 gam we get our jerseys H best to get best I to get to the NBA finals they going to build a statue of your boy they got [ __ ] you they have a c of the whole goddamn

James family out there come on now yeah but but I I think look uh I used when I was describing KD going to Golden State I said golden state was New Edition Bobby Brown left they brought Johnny Gil in Johnny Gil can have saying Bobby Brown but he was never gonna be accepted

By the fans because Robbie Brown grew up with those guys in rockboro y that’s just the way it is no Kobe Bryant grew here Magic Johnson grew here now we know what Kareem is but that’s why people never that’s why no one ever puts Kareem as the greatest Laker

Because he didn’t grow here he got three of those MVPs in Milwaukee he got one of those finals of that Finals MVP in Milwaukee so he that’s what oh they got they not most people 90% of the people got Kobe first and then the other 9% 99.5% got magic

Neck and then they then they’ll spr in maybe Kareem yeah that’s that’s just the way it is that that that’s you know it’s where it’s where you it’s where they see you grow see you know magic and magic and Co they watched them from kids adulthood right when magic guide

Here you’re talking about wide eyy kids still young teen or [ __ ] he’s 20 right still not old enough to get into the club right that’s who they seen grow to the Legacy that he became so you got to watch him build like Shaq came Shaq already had his name right uh will

Already had his name Kareem already had his name LeBron already had his name so there the go the golden children of Los Angeles is Kobe and magic and another one I was just thinking about it you probably don’t remember this but no matter who came like David Ruffin is

Known as the best singer of The Temptations they had others come in but they weren David ruffing y so that’s just that’s just the way it is who were the originals who were the OG’s and I don’t care they could have had somebody come in and that

Could play the guitar better than Paul McCartney or could sing better than John lenen but they didn’t start with them and they were never going to be embraced like them that’s just the way it is that’s just that’s just the way it goes yeah that that’s but you know

That’s everything that’s just everything in life right you know sometimes we get stuck we get stuck with what we like and we don’t like to add or change you know we’re going to always compare it to what the original was um and that’s just the way human human

Human nature is right we’re always and that’s same thing with the 80s right that first vision of basketball that’s what we like you change it from that we don’t like it up or down you know what I mean that’s just the first the the first thing we see

That’s usually you know what we go off of and that is the measuring stick moving forward

Shannon Sharpe and Gilbert Arenas react to LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and the Los Angeles Lakers loss to the Sacramento Kings. They also discuss reports that LeBron questioned whether Lakers fans would accept him after battling Kobe Bryant for so many years.

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