Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas are DISGUSTED by LeBron & Lakers after loss to Kings | Nightcap

Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas are DISGUSTED by LeBron & Lakers after loss to Kings | 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 Kings sweep the lake sweep the

Season the season series from the Lakers uh 40 they win tonight’s game 120 to 107 the Kings dominated the Lakers in the second half I think they out scored him something like 28 to 11 28 to 17 outscored him by 11 uh Dam Mones sabonis is now 10 and0 against Anthony Davis he

Had another triple double uh he leads the league in triple doubles how he’s not if he’s not going to be an all NBA player they should do away with it I don’t care if you say it’s cheap or not uh he finished tonight with 177 points 19 rebounds and 10 assists 14 defensive

Rebounds five offensive rebounds and he was a plus 10 was only he only took 10 shots so he was outstanding uh and they thoroughly dominate the Lakers in the second half and they win comfortably 120 to 107 Gil you watched this game in its entirety what did you take away from

It uh listen um we we always have a great first quarter right Hal time we’re trying to make a comeback that third quarter kills us um yeah we we come out flat um there needs to be some plays uh there needs to be like first five plays

At a uh after halftime has to be some way to get the team going um sabonis plays against ad like like 8 O’s for sure yeah yeah he he he owes that man something because you know every every time he sees ad’s face he’s in he’s in

He’s in he’s he’s not intimidated by him at all he go he goes at it that’s what makes me question defensive players because you you a top defensive player and you got a guy coming at your head like yeah you lunch me out there yeah let me take it to my sport ain’t

Nobody say oh you know what I want to block LT oh I give me Reggie I want Reggie White oh you know what I think I want to run around against time huh defensive guys when you like no I don’t want none of that let’s go over

Here to the other side yeah well if I get Jackson Hayes on me if I get LeBron 69 I’m 71 I want that matchup I don’t want one of the Premier Defenders help Defenders own ball defenders in the NBA he’s I don’t give a damn about that give

Me the ball I’m going at him facts and he goes at him and and and and his showing his dominance so you know when it when it comes to just the intimidation Factor you don’t have none over that team they feel that they have your number they feel that

Um you are easy work one through one through 12 so it’s one of those teams you don’t want to play in the playoffs so now we have to check off we don’t want to play hell no and you don’t want to make no what because we don’t have no

Advantage over them and now they have all the confidence in the world going into a playoff series so those are the two teams we do not want to match up with and we don’t match up very well the uh warriors did us a favor last year by

Knocking them off in in seven games Steph Curry goes Bonkers in game seven I think he scores 50 but the problem that the Lakers have is that they can’t deal with dribble drive so now you got to send help now they kick guys wide open

If you look at it they only had of of guys that played Major minutes only Malik Monk and Daron Fox shot under 50% sabonis was six of 10 Harrison Barnes was eight of 15 Keegan Murray was seven to 13 uh Ellis was five of eight and you

And and Barnes was 71 from three Keegan M Keegan murer was five of 10 Ellis was three or five other I mean they shot 50 they shot 52% from the floor they shot 46% from the three they out rebound the Lakers again the Lakers keep getting out rebounded Second Chance points uh fast

Break points and so because they can’t because they don’t do well quick point guards give them problems Murray is a problem for them here and is a problem from them Shay Gil is a problem for them but he doesn’t have enough help on the other end so

That’s why they that’s why they match up well against uh uh uh OKC but a but a a quick guard like Murray a quick guard like Darren Fox that has helped because you know Murray has yoke and then you know you you you try to take those guys

Out they can kick the ball to uh Michael Porter Jr but quick guards gonna always give them gonna give them a problem because it’s so hard for them to stay in front of anybody and so now you get wide open shots uncontested shots or you get somebody going into the basket and so

Yeah the uh uh uh the Kings I don’t want to see those kings in the playoffs I don’t want to see them in in the playin tournament I don’t want to see them at the AA tournament I don’t want to see them at the black top I don’t want to

See the Kings no more this year the rest of the year I don’t I hope we don’t see the Kings yeah you know the the real the real issue that we have as as just the Lakers themselves and we we can’t Jamar Mur first of all somebody Jamal Murray is not a forward

Jamal Murray is a guard Keegan Murray is a forward so all you guys come on Jamal Murray plays for the Nuggets he is a guard all right go ahead G um the problem is we any team that passes the ball more than two times we struggle with right that’s our that’s

Our real ailles where when you have teams that actually drive Pass and Pass because when you got a guy that’s 39 when you got ad0 when you got most of the guys that just I can stop you the first pass and then when you pass pass Lakers give up on that

Right so you a team like the Kings who do extra passing even even U Boston does extra passing but they’ll be better against Boston because Boston wants to play one-on-one so now gets the load up LeBron gets to load up when you got a group when they have those multiple pass

Type of teams that we’re going to struggle with them you you are and you needed Braun to give you more tonight he did not play well tonight Anthony Davis did not play really only two guys played well tonight that was Ru and Austin Reeds those are I mean I mean and there

Are some shots that uh uh uh I’m not gonna beat d d DLo up because he had some looks at some threes early shots that he be I mean he had been knocking down threes I mean I mean I didn’t expect him to to shoot 50% for the rest

Of the season from the three-point line but LeBron missed two bunnies at The Rim how many how many like six-footers did ad Miss Point Blank he missed a bunch of those and so I could kind of tell early on that LeBron was not in a rhythm because he missed those shots he missed

Those layups early one with a righty uh reverse and the other would have left it so I like uh and then you know he hit a hit one three I was like okay maybe he’ll get it going but he didn’t play well tonight ad didn’t play well tonight

And when you go to the half and you look at okay ruy and and and uh uh Austin reev are shooting this and then the rest of the starters are shooting that you’re like we’re in trouble we in trouble no I mean not NE not necessarily because you

Know ruie and Austin are getting their their they’re getting their points because they’re open right you know so you know the fact that you know someone like LeBron and AD are making that pass so they can get those shots you’re depending on them to hit those shots so

When it’s time to score in the fourth quarter you have the room right so you know um it makes sense right you’re going to defer to those guys get them going so in the fourth quarter you’re playing one-on-one basketball and you’re not focusing on me now my dri become a

Little bit easier just sometimes you take yourself out of Ry and that’s what I’m saying about LeBron I mean once like ruy and Austin had it going so he’s like well I’m not GNA interject myself because they got it going let’s not take them out I don’t know why Darin ham took

Austin Reeves out I understand you like okay you going Austin you going to play the first seven eight minutes of the game but the man go five or six on the floor you’re not coming out uh that that’s not called coaching most of them are not coaching they’re

They’re they have a piece of paper that piece of paper tells them when they’re gonna sub not the game itself that big problem in the game because they’re not watching the game in following it they their sheet and they got their time slots or when they going to sub in and

They have the little blueprint and they’re not paying attention to Austin just had five threes we G nah they they just they just all right uh sub you go you go it’s it’s pre-plan you pre-plan a game and they do that and then you look at it you look at it Gil

It’s like now you don’t bring it back into like seven and a half minutes of the second quarter so you sitting for like the final five minutes the final four minutes of the first you get that you get the break and then you don’t bring it back to like five minutes five

Minutes of going in the second I’m like what the I mean let the let the man cook hey bro hey you might have to go the whole quarter I understand hey I don’t know who he’s I forget who he subbed in for him but I torian Prince I don’t care

Or or maybe Spencer or maybe D Wy came in but and that’s kind of that’s what I hate about analytics because analytics just says okay if it’s this this and this but analytics doesn’t take into account momentum of the game y analytics doesn’t take those

Those factor in and so when you look at it and like you said okay I got a card it says okay I’m going to Ser Austin Reeves at the this minute Mark or I’m gonna Ser this guy at the that minute Mark okay if you watching the game you

See Man Austin got it going hell no hey bro hey yeah keep keep it going and that even if you miss shots even if you miss shots but they look like they’re good shots like you have to be inside of the game in real time right but most coaches are are time

Managers they’re not coaching the game and sometimes but Austin’s not at that point yet where he get to wave a sub off there’s been plenty of times where you got it going in and you get that hit on your shoulder man you better go get somebody else you better get somebody

Else hey subing for dude he ain’t hit nothing all day that’s that’s happened plenty of times there’s been plenty of times where like this is where that happens at where a coach is drawing a play up and you come to the to the what’s it name huddle and

See I just hit three shots we’re not drawing this play up erase this that’s where that that’s where that comes in at because you’re drawing a play that has nothing to do with the rhythm of the game right now and you see sometimes you like you see sometimes like okay you

Start the fourth quarter and your starter start on the bench you like okay we out of this game and the and the uh uh uh the backup the second team gets it going no let them keep it going you all a okay start to go back a you see that

Came back from 25 down and now we three you thought I put the started in let’s keep it let’s keep it going and uh uh uh torian PR should say nah coach hey leave him in there he cooking now he got it go now let’s not let’s not interrupt this

Groove yeah but that’s players too players got to understand you know sometimes you got to sacrifice but that’s championship teams will do that championship teams if if if the the bench got it going and the coach like are y’all ready to go back in those players were like n they cooking wait

For a timeout wait for dead ball wait for the rhythm is being broken right you know if they’re on a 12 run the guys on the bench is not going to break that right but that’s a team Collective thing too but that’s that’s that that next level of of basketball they just

Gota that’s something will do that’s something Boston would be doing right now yeah I I just think the thing the Lakers this is not a good match up for the Lakers I mean there’s no way around it uh Deen Fox is cat quick he stays he

Lives in the lane he can get shot that he wants any time that he wants so if you trap him take the ball out of his hand obviously you have to bring two people to do that because you don’t have one by guy that’s on the ball that can

Make him give it up so he’s gonna get to wherever he wants to get on the court so now when you send that help now somebody’s open okay now you try to run him off a spot now you left somebody else open now you get guys scrambling so

Even if they put a shot up because you’re scrambling the ball goes everywhere now they run gets the re they run get the rebound they track the rebound down on you so that’s that’s what’s going to be hard for the Lakers I don’t I don’t like I said I I don’t

Think they could they could beat the Nuggets I don’t care if they played a 15 game series I don’t care what they how many games they went to they play one game they play 15 games I don’t believe they can beat the Nuggets especially as

Good as the Lakers are in in clutch time the last five minutes the game within five points the nuggets are better yeah you you know what I don’t see in this in this game right now is the defensive like Tori and Prince how I will play him is if we’re playing

Against de dearon fox or Murray when you come in the game you pick him up full court pick him up full court so what I’m gonna do is pick him up full court let him use energy coming up the court right and then on the other end put him in

Pick and rolls if he switches put give it to that guy let him pull let him run let him run his energy down so by the time the fourth quarter comes he has a little bit less energy than he usually has that’s what we used to do to Chris

Paul right when I was in when I was at Memphis uh Tony Allen picks him up full court just keeps that’s all his job is to make him use a little bit energy and then Chris Paul is guarding Conley conie gonna throw through three or four pick

And rolls first before he starts offense just gonna beat him up because they’re trying to wear him down for the last five minutes so by the time the last five minutes kick in Chris Paul’s don’t have legs that’s what you need to do with your defensive guy you can’t just have

Them back there sitting on defense waiting for the man to come no use them him go up there hassle something go in there and be a net that’s your job be a net get these dudes tired let him use his energy from Full Court pass it deny him this is

Chess right you’re trying to you’re trying to protect that fourth quarter so that fourth quarter he don’t have full energy coming in the lane dancing having fun flickering on your big man like he wasn’t even there yeah well they got two uh what they get tomorrow they got Friday they got a game

They got a Prime Time game against the Warriors we’ll see whether or not Steph is going to be there uh Saturday night ABC Prime Time game I’m hoping steep Play because I’m actually going to that game and I’ve never seen steep play so I actually want to see I don’t have I

Don’t have night cap that night so I’ll get an opportunity to sit and enjoy the entirety of the game so I’m anxious to see the Lakers play uh the war and I’m hoping Steph plays but then again it greatly increases our chance of winning

If he doesn’t play but I want I want to see it play I want to see I want to say uh my my my goal in life now is to see all this generation’s great players get to play uh so okay that’s my thing okay

Uh uh Gil in the big Laker news of the day D’Angelo Russell believes Dennis shuder was the reason he couldn’t establish a relationship with Darin ham his relationship with Darin is the reason I couldn’t have a relationship with Darin when I was struggl I would

Have been able to come up come uh come to the coach and say hey bro this is what I this is what we should do like I can help you instead there was no dialogue I just accepted it and we got swept and here I am and he’s not and I

Like our chances uh I don’t think I I don’t think this is new I mean you you’ve been in you played this game with players having coaches that they don’t feel they could communicate with and I think I read somewhere in the article and I think

Somebody maybe it he spoke about it or maybe maybe the uh uh players have spoken about it before it seems to be Darwin has a longer leash with players that he had prior relationship with so he was in Atlanta when shuder was in Atlanta with bu with bud and so he had a

Prior relationship and it seems like he had a longer leash with guys that he had a previous relationship with than not and so I think that’s what uh uh you know and I’m not here to make D’Angelo make excuses DLo I’m anxious to hear what you have to say but he said that

Was one of the reasons that he feel that he didn’t have a a relationship with d ham is because ham had a prior relationship with shudder and he couldn’t communicate with him like shudder could I mean that’s that’s that’s that’s nature right that that is part of sports

Right um you know the coaching staff the head coach has better relations with certain players right you know when you’re talking about the the coach and the player relationship you’re talking about a bond um obviously the bond with shooter is going to be tighter than the

Bond with you he knows him he trust him they’ve been through War together so when he has to relate something to the team you’re the point guard he’s the shooting guard but we speak the same language so yes when he wants to get something to the team he’s going to go

To the guy he knows is gonna relay that message the way he perceives it and the way he’s trying to deliver it that’s just that’s just natural but as a point guard and as a player on a team you still have to try to find your own way to talk to the

Coach right right this is this is no different than the relationship right if you don’t know what’s going on in the relationship and you don’t want to speak obviously can’t get done I think the biggest thing is you know what I tell people all the time A lot of times

I say you know what’s the biggest cause the biggest reason relationships in and people like to say infidelity people like to say uh finances it’s uncommunicated expectations see Darin ham had an expectation of what he had wanted DLo to do or DLo had expectations of what he thought but nobody communicated those

Expectations you see if I’m in a relationship man I thought oh she want me to take she’s thinking oh Shannon gonna do this for my birthday you know blah blah blah he got this hotel rented out we gonna go get a dinner it’s going to be nice candle lit they’re gonna be

Playing some music then we gonna go to the hotel he got she got he got rose pedals and he got I got a Birkin bag I got blah blah blah but see those are your expectations but they were uncommunicated after a while too many too many uncommunicated expectations so

Now it keeps building I you keep having expectations but you keep not communicating those with me sooner or later no matter how much you put it doesn’t matter how much some something wa if you put enough of that something on there it’s going to break my Granda used to say boy he used

To give give me and my brother a task or something and I would say papa that’s that’s too heavy he said boy you can carry anything if you cut it up in enough pieces see I was looking at it from one standpoint a six-year-old trying to carry a 25 pound bag of feed

Or a 50 pound bag of feed he said no he say put it in put it in the in the in the foot tub and you might have to make x amount of trips but you get it done so because they never can whatever the case may have been neither person

Darving ham or DLo communicated but both had expectations so it was those uncommunicated expectations that caused the relationship to break down but let me ask you this Gil with that being said how rare is it for a player to say that while he’s still playing for s now that’s

Different hey that’s different right um but it’s easier for him to say it now because he don’t have no no guy to go to right and I don’t really I didn’t I didn’t really understand where D was coming from because for the most part it was just the last four games it was

Against well he didn’t really play well against the Griz either but he didn’t play play well but he did like the last four games or the last three games is the only time DLo didn’t take double digit shots other three series the other two Ser DLo was

In double digits and shooting just got a little uncomfortable those last three so we don’t know if it was how you started the game and he just subbed you like it it’s that’s something that they had to have that conversation about but I’m looking at just one series and say man

You didn’t show up you say well coach wasn’t you know messing with me then that that can be that’s all hear say at this point but the fact that you you’re voicing it now like haha he’s gone so you got to deal with me unless you know

At the end of the season Darin ham is gone so you don’t really care and plus I’m playing well what you gonna say now remember I dropped 44 when you didn’t have Braun if you look at the games that Brun didn’t play I’ve been playing well

And I’ve been playing well as of as of late so and like I said look I’m not expecting DLo to drop 44 30 but he has played extremely well the last 20 ball games let’s give him credit for that facts and so uh like his big shots

This is the like this is the this is the dowlo that I remember when he was first in La when he his first Ure here he was playing well then he went to uh Jersey was an all star right so you know even when he was in Minnesota he played well

So that’s the DLo that we we we got back and we’re seeing glimpses of it so we know now he can sustain that type of play he just has to figure out how to do that while Braun’s on the court also all that every you know what Gil everything that DLo said

Might be true but this is what we know he averaged six points three and a half assists and two rebounds a game and no matter what the reasons are people are not going to hear what he has to say they like bro we saw those bricks that

You were shooting we saw you average six we saw you average three and a half and we saw you average two we don’t want to hear why you did that because that’s unimportant no facts Lakers the the Laker fan base they’re about results I I understand you got heartburn

But can you deliver me a healthy baby that’s all I need I don’t want to hear about your back hurt your feet swollen just the so the Laker fans will said hey Just Produce just give us G just give us good to great games and we can live with

Every whatever whatever else happens but what we will not allow is for you to play bad and then seemingly give us excuses because everything that he said it might be true but it does not matter no it does it no one cares no one cares if you’re injured right no you

Know it’s like when Dwight Howard’s here nobody care that you went do back surgery and you fall back nope no we don’t care we don’t care if you look like you limping you can’t been down as long as you’re out there we’re judging you as what we’re accustomed to seeing

Because I saw 12 with Howard on the back Ain ain’t got nothing do Dr ELR went in your back and did surgery infused a disc or took something out or put something in we don’t care and that’s what I tell guys look if you expecting the fans to

Empathize that you’re out there and you’re limp they don’t care because all they do is that they saw eight they see 84 and they see sharp on the back they don’t care that I didn’t practice all week and I had 40 CC’s drawed off one

Knee and 30 draw off the other and I had to get painkilling inje in both ankles they don’t give a damn they like all I know is that I want to see you go catch touchdowns catch passes get open and help the Broncos win this game that’s

All I care about same thing with the Ravens they didn’t care about that and I understood so when I went out there on the field even though I took those painkilling injections every single week even though I was having fluid drawn off my knes I knew there was a level of

Expectation that the fans had I also knew there was a level of expectation my teammates had was hey bro and they looking at that long ass needle going in my knee they see the fluid being drawn off I mean in my uh not my knee in my ankle they saw

That big ass needle and they asking me sh man I don’t know how you do it but bro hey we need you today well damn you asking me you don’t know how I do it but in the same breath you telling me you need me but that’s the level of

Expectations that when you play of being a player that they’re counting on and I looked at myself as a a a very good the great player I put those expectations on myself no and that’s and that’s that’s the thing that’s going on with BR himself we done seen you at a level we

We can’t there’s no way if if we’re talking about how he’s playing now there’s no way LeBron can average 17 or 12 in this league no no no because our T the tickets we pay in the tickets we pay don’t come with no discount nah n i

Don’t say well if ad got under eight and he’s limping he don’t play we give you money back no I’m paying full price yeah regardless and I want if I’m GNA pay full price I need to see full price results but and for LeBron for the LeBron numbers and them to win tonight

With 18 and and the way he shot ad needed to probably have like 35 ad need to have a game close to what he had the other night a 2725 game he need to probably have 37 and and Ru and Ry and Austin do what they did but you can’t have you can’t

Get you know 20 what was that 24 points between LeBron between LeBron and DLo and they shot eight of 20 they shot eight of 27 from the floor three of 12 from thech like especially since you don’t got nobody coming off the bench that’s gonna give you 12 or 15 consistently no

Prince gave you seven we’ll be happy get 15 between all of them you got hold on man you got 11 you got 13 points from your bench that won’t cut it that won’t cut it they got 14 20 24 they got 26 you got 13 so they outscored you they outscored

Your bench by 133 and then your the starters beat you up also pretty good so the starters were in double figures but Lakers got to figure this the Lakers got to figure this Out

Shannon Sharpe and Gilbert Arenas react to the Los Angeles Lakers loss to the Sacramento Kings and discuss Anthony Davis getting dominated again by Domantas Sabonis. They explain why LeBron James can’t be expected to carry the Lakers every night and criticize head coach Darvin Ham.

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