Gilbert Arenas
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135 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Yeah, every time I've watched them lose, it's the same motto. They're going 10 for 60, 15 for 45. It's not very great shooting percentage from the three-point line. It's like these guys are living and dying by a... Three pointer. Yeah, you're going to go up 20, but you get caught easily. Right.
It's not like you're, you know, you're going up by 20 and then now beating them to the basket and, you know, getting this free throw like it's threes or layups. And right now they're just living on threes. And I said it last year. I said the kiddies heels is if they have these horrible shooting nights from a three point line, they don't actually take enough twos. Right. to cushion that.
And you play, you know, I argued, if you play a team like Giannis, Giannis plays old school basketball. He's going to get you in foul trouble. He's trying to make layups. They're going to beat you. Right. You play against Brunson. Brunson plays old school basketball. He's going to layups mid-ranges, try to get you in foul trouble. He's a foul baiter.
And in last five minutes, he's the closest thing we have to Mamba mentality. Right. The real Mamba mentality, like, you know, from 96 to before he passed, not after he passed and it became, you know, a watered down version of what Mamba mentality was. The Mamba mentality, the selfish thing no one liked, that killer mentality that wants to take over the world.
That's what Brunson has in the last five minutes.
Last year is last year. And, you know, we have a new year playing against a new enemy. And this enemy is... has came back twice while we were up 20. Yeah, we're up 20, but we're losing at the end, so we're doing something wrong. Me, personally, as a coach, I've watched us lose and how we've lost. For some reason, you guys don't realize that we've missed five or six threes in a row.
One of you guys go make a layup. Right. Beginning of the game, first person to shoot a fucking three,
out i'm subbing you out i don't care who it is at this point because i need i need to reverse engineer what they're doing because obviously they're closing out on a three they're playing for the three jason tatum they nicks went up jason tatum literally inbound the ball got it back in full court layup yeah Like that's how easy it's been. You just go to the basket. Yeah. Yeah.
You remember, you remember the hardest team that, that people don't, no one really paid attention to was the second year or LeBron's first championship with Miami. When him and D Wade said, yo, we're not shooting threes this year. Yeah. Yeah. And did you see how hard they were guard? Because when LeBron drove, D-Wade dived, they was doing this double lob type of play.
And nobody was ready for two guys with 40-inch verticals slashing and dunking. That team was really hard to guard. And I... That was the best LeBron. And, you know, they put it in their minds. We're not going to be sitting here chucking threes and bailing the other team out. Like you guys are, you guys, Jalen and Tatum is the most athletic dudes on the court.
And you're doing sidestep threes at 6'9 and 6'10.
That's ridiculous.
Yeah. I don't know how that's mapping for you guys, but that is horrible.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you're one of those games. You're right. They're going to shoot 45 to 50, 70% from the three point line. They're going to win by 30. Yeah. In a seven-game series, that's a one-gamer. Yeah. One-gamer and a one-halfer. And you better hope it happens in the second half, not the first half like it's been doing.
I mean, when you're talking about the Pacers, the Pacers is no different than, like, the Phoenix Suns was, right? Yeah. Their style is running and trying to run you out of building. New Jersey Nets 01, 02, or 2000, 2001, when Jason Kidd got there, right? They're conditioned. But when you're talking about somebody like Donovan Mitchell, he's conditioned to do what he does.
What happens with some of these comebacks when you're talking about Indiana versus Cleveland? When you have this free-for-all, everyone gets to touch and shoot the ball, the last five minutes is your star's game, right? The first 43 is team play, right? The Bulls, we got the triangle. Last five minutes is Michael Jordan, right? We've watched it.
If you look at how the game is being played now, Cleveland Cavaliers, last five minutes, team basketball. Everyone gets to touch it. We all did. You know, this is a team project. And what happens is some of those guys who are not built for the moment don't realize score time and possession. Everyone's not smart. Everyone's not the fucking quarterback on the field.
You do got some dumb bots out there that's playing. And they've done missed 0 for 4. They don't know time and possession. They don't realize there's a 13-0 run. And he wants to shoot a 3 because he's open. You're open for a reason. Right. Because they know you're dumb enough to shoot that shot. And they usually do for the most part.
Now, when you look at the Knicks, there's only one person getting the ball last five minutes. And he's going to dictate every possession. Same with Indiana. Tyrese is going to dictate every possession. Now, Cleveland, Garland being out kind of hurts them. Because now Donovan has to play the point and the shooting guard when he's just better at being the shooting guard.
and let Garland actually figure out the great plays that he needs to make when you don't score.
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