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24:44Shannon Sharpe:Ocho Ant-Man and the T-Wolves moving to the fourth in the Western Conference thanks to a 117-108 victory over the Nuggets. Minnesota beat Denver for the first time in four games this season. Ant-Man had 21. Bones Highland had 15 of his 18 in the first half. And Minnesota sweeps its three-game road trip to improve to 38-23, jumping to fourth in the West. Minnesota now moves a game ahead of Denver in the Western Conference. They're just two games separating the third seed, which is the Rockets, and the sixth seed, which is the Lakers. They got an outstanding performance in the fourth quarter from Naz Reed, who looked like Kobe Bryant.

25:22Shannon Sharpe:He did an in and out, got an A and one. He did an out and in and threw it up with a left hand. He got that, he had a big three. So he played unbelievable. They got great contributions. Ant-Man didn't go off like he had been in the last couple of games, but it was a total team effort. It was too much for the joke to overcome joke and Murray. But they got sloppy with the ball late in the ball game. Ojo, watching this game, what did you like about what Minnesota did? I mean, Nas Reed obviously being able to insert himself towards the end of the game. I think that made the difference in it. Ant-Man not having the game that he's had the past previous games, obviously he's been on fire, he's been hot, but he was efficient enough.

26:00I think he was 9 for 19. He had 21 points, if I'm not mistaken. And outside of that, they look good. They look good. And obviously, the goddamn Nuggets didn't help themselves turning the ball over and missing some opportunities and chances to score in vital moments that could have changed the outcome of the game.

26:17Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, they didn't really get the contribution they needed from Cam Johnson. And I think he was 0 for. Yoke is going to be Yoke. I think he was, what, 35, 14, and 9. Jamal Murray came on strong late. I agree with you. The turnover was late. Definitely didn't help their cause. But they're going to have to do a better job because they were terrible when Yoke was off the floor today. They can't give up that kind of – I think they were minus 15, minus 16 or 17 when Yoke was on the floor. And he played a lot more minutes than I'm sure Adelman wanted him to play in this ballgame. And it seemed like every time he went out, which he only went out, he played – what he does is that he normally plays the entire first quarter.

26:54Shannon Sharpe:And then they try to give him somewhere six to eight minutes in the second quarter. Yeah. And then play the entire third quarter, obviously, the coming out of the half, and then try to give them a big break in the fourth. But they had to bring them back a lot sooner than they wanted to because the game started to slip away. But give the team Wolves a lot of credit because every time the Nuggets made a run, they quelled it. Somebody hit a big three. Devin Tenzo played unbelievable today, especially in the first half with those four three-pointers. Naz Reed picked it up. Naz Reed picked it up in the fourth quarter.

27:26Shannon Sharpe:Hit a big three, in and out, out and in. Did some great jobs. They did a great job of rebounding the basketball. They just got to do a better job because I thought, you know, the start of the game, the way the Nuggets started off, I'm like, damn, they might sweep this series here. And the next thing you know, here come the Nuggets. Here come Ant-Man, Devin Chinzo, all those guys making contributions. And they ended up winning this game. But it's going to be, look, I think for me, the class of the Western Conference is OKC Steel. They got Shea back and he comes back. They play the Nuggets in his first game back.

27:59Shannon Sharpe:He drops, I think, 35. And he didn't play in overtime. He didn't play late in the ballgame because they didn't want him to overextend himself in the ballgame. They want to gradually build him back up. And thankfully, they didn't need him because I know that was really tough to watch a game of that magnitude. And now they've already given you a minutes restriction and said, well, you're not going to play over this. I don't care what the circumstance called for, even though it was a close ballgame, late in the ballgame, and they could have definitely used him. They guys were, oh, Caruso did a great job down the stretch.

28:27Shannon Sharpe:But looking at this ballgame, Mocho, they're going to have to find a way. This is why they got rid of Michael Porter Jr. Because they felt in situations like this. And maybe he wasn't a good fit. Because you look at what he's doing with the Nets. He's a guy that can legitimately be a one or two scorer. Yes. But he was never going to be anything more than the third scorer here. Because you got Yoke and you got Murray. So Cam Johnson is going to have to be, he's more equipped to that. And his mindset is more equipped to be a third option. because pretty much that's what he's always been. And in that situation, I just think he has to be better.

29:01Shannon Sharpe:He hadn't been good in a couple of games. In order for them to get to where they need to be, he's going to have to be that third piece. Bruce Brown does what Bruce Brown does. I like what Kristen Brown does, but it wasn't enough today. Give Minnesota credit. Minnesota played a heck of a ball game. Yeah, I mean, Minnesota played a heck of a ball game, But for me, and I think about mentality, I think about confidence, especially who comes to any sport right now. The specific topic is basketball. And for Cam Johnson, I think he needs to insert himself a little bit more. I understand that there's a pecking order when it comes to shot selection and who has a green light to take as many shots as they want to.

29:38But I think players like Cam Johnson in that role of when Jokic is not doing well, when Murray's not doing well, I need to insert myself into the game. How do I do that? I already already need to be in rhythm. I need to have some type of confidence about my game where I don't feel scared or I don't feel nervous or gun shy to take certain shots. And there's only one way to do that is being able to get yourself in rhythm and find ways to insert yourself into the game, even when it doesn't call for you to do so. And I think if he's able to do that late in ballgames, in situations like this, then he'll be able to insert himself and feel okay about taking certain shots where it means much more as opposed to the first three quarters in the game where it matters between wins and losses.

30:21Shannon Sharpe:Well, I think the biggest thing, you mentioned confidence, is that getting into a rhythm early. It's hard to miss all those shots and then because, you know, shoot or shoot, but confidence goes a long way. And because he struggled the last couple of games, he was 0 for the day, scored zero points. And I'm looking at Yoke. Yoke was 15 of 26, 1 of 4 from 3, but he was 35, 13, and 9. You look at Jamar Murray, 25, and wasn't efficient at all. He was 9 of 22, 2 of 6. Christian Brown was 15 points. He played really well. Strother gave him only two points. So you got two of your starters, Ocho, gave you two points.

31:01Shannon Sharpe:Two points, and they played a combined 40 minutes. You can't have that. Valanchunas, two points. Hardaway Jr. played well. He was 5 or 6, 3 or 4 from the three. Bruce Brown, six points in 34 minutes. but they just got to fight they got to fight they got to fight a third option because you know exactly what you're going to get from Yoke and sometimes people just going to see look we can't stop this man Yoke is going to get somewhere between 30 and 40 he's going to get somewhere between 12 and 17 rebounds and he's going to get somewhere between 8 and 12 assists we just can't let him get 40, 20, 20 that's what we got to stop so we're not going to stop him from getting those you know 28, 29, 30 points.

31:45Shannon Sharpe:He's going to get that. He's going to get the rebounds. We've just got to control him getting those 15, 18, 20 assists because he's getting his points and he's getting other people involved. Once he starts getting other people involved, now what do we do? Because we can't leave anybody. There is nobody that's going to be able to deal with him one-on-one. So you try to make it as difficult as you possibly can, and maybe you let him go one-on-one and says, look, I'd rather give him – well, the Clippers tried that, and then he ends up getting 56 and 13 and 17. But I can't let him get 15 assists, Ocho.

32:18Shannon Sharpe:I can't let him get 18, 20 assists because he's going to have somewhere between 20 and 30 points. He might even get 35, 40. So now he has 40, and he's contributed because of those 15, 20 assists, you know at least seven of them on three-pointers. Yeah. So you can't have that, but they're going to have to find a consistent third option. Cam Johnson has been in these moments before. He won a championship, if I'm not mistaken. with the, no, he's on that team that ended up losing to Milwaukee. But he's been in pressure situations before, and he's just going to have to come through because right now he's not playing well, and I don't know what happened.

32:52Shannon Sharpe:I think he did have an injury, Ocho, so I think he might be coming back from an injury. But look, they don't do excuses in pro sports. No. You don't. Either you do or you don't. And right now he's not doing. Go ahead, what did you want to add? Oh, I forgot. And Drew Randall played an unbelievable game. Now, he didn't have 25, 30 points, but I thought the 14, 9, and 7 that he did have came at a very opportune time. He did a great job on the glass, but I thought all the auxiliary pieces, look, and McDaniel played well. They're more than just Ant-Man. I know Ant-Man gets a lot of the pub, and rightfully so, because he's electric.

33:29Shannon Sharpe:He's a dynamic scorer. There's nothing he can't do. He can block a shot to save a game. He can hit a clutch three to win the game. He can play outstanding defense when he wants to sit in the chair and guard. But he's a consistent player, and we know what he is. He's a superstar. But when you get contribution from Randall and McDaniel and DiVincenzo and all those guys starting to jump in, now it makes them difficult. You know, Rudy Gobert was Rudy Gobert. He gave you six, eight points, 15 rebounds. And so that's what he's going to do. But I thought overall, I thought Minnesota going on the road, the end of this road trip, going to Denver, And that's not an easy place.

34:07Shannon Sharpe:And plus, the Nuggets have been playing well, even though they lost a tough game the other night to OKC. OKC. But when you deal with Yoke and Murray, and we know what those two guys represent, they're as good as duos that we have in this league. They can put you in the pick and roll. Obviously, Yoke can hit the three. He can roll. He can hit the mid-range. Jamal Murray is sensational. You see him poke on Rudy Gobert. So he's sensational. He can hit the three. He can in and out you. but I was surprised how well Minnesota withstood everything that they had going on especially the first quarter to withstand that because I'm looking at it and they had like a 12 point lead and then they cut it down to like five and a half and anything I know the team was up seven I'm like well damn that was quick and it didn't take a whole lot of effort but we'll see how this thing play out I think they got about 20 games left Ocho in the season.

35:02And when you got the kind of closeness between three and six,

35:06Shannon Sharpe:obviously you want to stay in the sixth spot because you don't want to go into the play-in. So you want to try to maintain where you are. Because right now the Lakers are in the sixth spot. And so you got the 7, 8, 9, 10 are in the play-in tournament. You don't want to get into the play-in tournament. You want to play as few games as possible. and playing those, you know, obviously, what is it, seven, seven plays ten, eight plays nine. So obviously if seven wins, they're in. Yeah. Whoever wins the 7-10 matchup is in. And then a situation like that, and then the losers play each other for the chance to finish up the 8 seed.

35:47Shannon Sharpe:So you got OKC, that's 47-15. You got the Spurs are 43-17. They lost, got blown out today. The Rockets are 37-22. The Nuggets are 38-23. Excuse me. No, the Timberwolves are 38-23. The Nuggets are 37-24. The Lakers are 35-24. Phoenix is 34-26. Golden State's in the eighth spot. And it's reported that Steph Curry is going to be out another at least five games. And I don't know where they get offense without Steph Curry. Portland is in the ninth spot at 29-33. and the Clippers fading, obviously, you know, they're not going anywhere. Kawhi alluded as much. He said, I think this season is already over.

36:33Shannon Sharpe:They're 27-31. So that's where they are right now. That's the rankings. I mean, right now, with the rankings where they are right now, where we are in basketball season with 20 games left, I mean, based on your expertise and watching the game and your knowledge of the game over time, if you were to take your picks now for coming out these and coming out the west planning the finals who would you have to this point right now unless some team just comes out of nowhere and does some extraordinary you know the last 20 games and and shocks everybody i think okc would really love somebody to knock off san antonio because so they don't have to deal so they don't have to deal with that yeah they don't have to deal with wimby and those guys that's the team that causes OKC the most problem.

37:21Shannon Sharpe:Me, personally, I think it's probably going to be San Antonio and OKC in the Western Conference Finals, but you never know because Ant-Man has been there and done that before. So he knows how to rise to the occasion. The Nuggets have won a championship before. I just think the Rockets, I'm surprised the Rockets did not get a point guard. Chris Paul was there, and maybe they didn't want to deal with Chris Paul, and I don't know what that issue is. But they need a point guard, and they don't have a point guard. And I think that's the biggest thing. That's the biggest hindrance to them. Phoenix, okay, book is out.

37:55Shannon Sharpe:Dylan Brooks has a broken hand. How soon can those guys get back? Do I think even with those guys back, they can contend in the West? I do not. I do not think they have enough firepower to contend. The Lakers don't play good enough defense to contend. We saw last night Austin Reed get blown by. Aiton, I just don't know. I just don't know about him. I just don't know. Really, all things being equal, I mean, look, I think there's four teams, seriously, that could end up in the Western Conference Finals. That's Denver, Minnesota, San Antonio, and OKC. Those are my teams that I think can make it to the Western Conference Final when realistically, realistically,

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44:30Shannon Sharpe:Giannis Antetokounmpo returned tonight in a 108-81 blowout loss to the Celtics. And the Celtics did this without JB, who's an MVP candidate. In his first game in more than five weeks after straining that right calf, Giannis had 19 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists. In the defeat, I think he played about 27 minutes. He set out the past 15 games after injuring himself on January 23rd. Doc said in pregame that he would return on a minutes restriction. He ended up playing 25 minutes, excuse me, not 27. Joe, you see where the Bucs are. The Bucs are way back. Therefore, Charlotte's in the 10 spot, and they're four games back of Charlotte.

45:11Shannon Sharpe:Detroit's one, Boston's two, the Knicks are three, Cavs are four, Toronto is five, 76ers are sixth, Orlando is seventh, eighth is Miami, excuse me, Atlanta Hawks are ninth, and the Charlotte Hornets are ten. And Milwaukee is way back. How did, considering that he's been out five weeks, he's missed 15 games, how did you think Giannis looked in his return? Anytime you take that much time off Arcan Ocho, you're going to be a little rusty. I mean, that's just what it is. You can tell. But I thought Boston just, you know, without JB, man, it's such a well-oiled engine that just run, plug-and-play guys, different guys step up and make plays.

45:53but I think it's going to take some time for Giannis. They got a pretty good, they got a pretty decent roster. Okay, Ocho, I don't understand why they're outside of the play-in. I feel like they're good enough to at least be in the play-in. So I expect Giannis to pick it up, you know, and have a late surge to try to get them in the play-in so they can make some noise in the playoffs. But they're first-round exit, guys. First-round exit. That's how you feel, Joe? It ain't nothing? Yeah. Ocho, they, rely so much on Giannis putting up these gaudy numbers, bro. And, you know, he's been out. He's going to be rusty.

46:30Yeah, he'll get back to form to where he's averaging 30 and putting up, getting 15 rebounds. But, man, he's going to need some consistency from them guys around him. They're going to have to step up and make plays and play big in order for those guys to even make a run in the playoffs. So, I guess we'll see what happens.

46:46Shannon Sharpe:This is when you know a team is really, really good and really, really deep. You look at OKC the way they play without Shea. You look at the way Boston play when they're without JB. That's when you know. You see, they don't play like, oh man, JB's not in there. Oh, we can't win this. Giannis is coming back. Man, please. They blew him out by 27. You look at OKC and what they do when Shea is not in the lineup or when J-Dub is not in the lineup. It does not matter. We don't care who's in the lineup. All we care, we don't care who's out of the lineup. We care who's in the lineup. And it is our job, it's incumbent upon us to go out there and play rather Shea, J-Dubs in the lineup, whether JB or Quato's in the lineup, it does not matter.

47:26Shannon Sharpe:We're going to play our asses off. And you see, and it's very reflective of that when you look at Boston and when they play. You're like, ain't no way they got no business beating Milwaukee by 27 without an MVP candidate. There's no way OKC should still be a top without a league MVP. And he's probably the front runner, again, for the MVP. But it just goes to show you the depth in which they had and how they have and how these guys take it serious. By Boston. And again, Pritchett, doing what Pritchett does. Doing what Pritchett does. Yeah. 25-9. That's off the bench. 25-9. Off the bench. And, you know, I was wondering why they didn't start him, but they probably wanted their spark plug to come in just in case, you know, things didn't start off right.

48:15So I'm giving Joe Mazzulla, the head coach for the Boston Celtics, I'm giving him a lot of credit. Although the players got to go out there and compete and play in between the lines. But man, he has a mean scheme, bro, for them to be successful night in and night out. No matter who suits up, you know, Boston's always going to be in it. Now, before the season started, a lot of people, even including myself, I didn't think they would be in the position that they in right now. Me too. Me too.

48:43Shannon Sharpe:No Jason Tatum. You trade for Zingers. Horford leaves in free agency. You trade holiday and I'm supposed to thank without Tatum who's a perennial all NBA selection a perennial all star so without that and all that what you get what all you moved on because clearly you thought you weren't going to be in that position that's why you gave those guys up or unless they knew something that we didn't know they knew that might be also it Joe but I think Jalen JB has showed everybody why he was you know finals MVP on Canocho. He could potentially win the MVP this year. With the numbers that he's putting up with the success that they're having as a team man, Boston's going to be a scary team in the postseason, fellas.

49:30Not a lot of people going to want to play them, man. They're playing great basketball right now. You know, you think they will still be the same, obviously, when Jason Tatum does come back. Does that throw the rhythm and the camaraderie off a little bit? I think it'll kind of take some adjusting because Because, you know, I think at some point those guys will, to some degree, kind of defer to Tatum. Yep. You know what I mean? I mean, it's a pecking order. And it could throw everybody off their rhythm. So you never know how that will pan out. Maybe he comes back. Maybe he don't. Who knows?

50:03Shannon Sharpe:I'm sitting down. The last thing you want to do, Joe. Because sometimes, you know, you got to protect an athlete. We want to play. That's what we do. We dream of this. our entire lives. And when we get this opportunity, we ain't trying because once it's over, it's over. But the last thing you want to do is to go out there and re-injure yourself. Man. Because of why? Because you tried to prove that I could come back from a serious injury in six months, in eight months, in nine months. For me, the reward doesn't outrate the risk. Right. That's just for me. He might see it a whole different way. The Boston Celtics organization might see it entirely different way.

50:44But for me, like, okay, we could win a championship.

50:48Shannon Sharpe:Okay, you could. But what happens if you re-injure that? Absolutely. Now what? Absolutely. For me, JT got another decade in him. The last thing you want to do is have that type of injury there. So me personally, I think, and it's hard. It's easy to say from the outside sitting in because we've all sat in that athlete's chair. And we've all been deemed. and we've all like, okay, the best thing for me is to play. Because I already know I only got so many. There's only so many 16 games, don't you? Seasons I got in me. Right. And hey, once you get to five, once you hit 10, you closer to the end, the beginning.

51:26Shannon Sharpe:You ain't about to have, everybody think they're going to have a Tom Brady-type career. Everybody think they're going to play Aaron Rodgers. They're going to play 20, 21 seasons. You're not. Be thankful. 3.3 years, that's about the average of an NFL career. Most NFL players are done at the age of 27. You live till 75, so what? That means you got 48 years left for your life. We don't look at it like that, though. You don't. You don't. You don't. Because so much of what you've done your entire life has prepared you to do what, Joe? Play basketball. Or do what? Play football. And so you're kind of tied to that.

52:01Shannon Sharpe:And you think you're like a dark-dorn lawyer. Man, I'll be doing this when I'm 60. No, you're not. You might be talking about it when you're 60, But you damn sure ain't going to be playing it. Right, right, right. And so you've got to get, and that's why I always tell guys, guys, maximize this. Make sure you never look back because the last thing you want to do is when you're 40, Ocho, man, if I had just prepared a little. How many times have we heard guys, man, if I had just did this, I ain't no telling what I could have done. Man. We all got homeboys. Man, Joe, if I had just did like you, Joe, went home and not tried to do this, Ocho, just hung on the street, hung on the corner.

52:37Shannon Sharpe:tell them Ocho tell them I could have been with you tell them Ocho absolutely we all know them cats yeah so you don't want to you don't want to have that regret but Boston Boston has surprised a lot of people Joe because I was one like well they're not doing it and I was thinking that's why they're selling off these pieces I said they're selling off these pieces because they know they ain't got no chance so why why go into that second apron why have to pay$100 million $250 million with no chance. JB said, wait a damn minute. I'm still here. I'm a finals MVP. I'm an instant conference MVP. What you mean we ain't got no chance?

53:16Shannon Sharpe:Hold on. And the funny thing about it too, Joe, if you think about it, maybe they did see this coming. Maybe they did see it coming, which is why they let those pieces go because they understood even though Tatum is hurt, we believe there's a good chance, depending on who you ask, that JB might be our best player. even though there may be a pecking order even though the people on the outside or those that are part of the NBA culture might see it differently at Jason Tatum you know being the best player but hell JB I mean maybe inside the organization you're like well hell JB didn't show this enough we can let these pieces go and know that we're still going to be in contention yeah I agree Ocho depending on who you ask yeah definitely you you definitely have a a pretty good argument.

54:01But, you know, I think the Celtics went younger, fellas. I think they gave up a lot of those older guys and Holiday and Horford and Porzingis. And they had development of a lot of young cats who've stepped in this year and has played great throughout this whole entire season. So I commend them, man. It's fun to see those guys go out night in and night out and compete at the highest level. And JB taking a challenge every night. I know he didn't play tonight, but he's been playing awesome.

54:28Shannon Sharpe:I think the thing is, Prozinga stays hurt. Yeah. I mean, I'm paying$25 to$27 million for what, Joe, to get 10, 15 games a year? I hope he comes back. He missed 20 games. He comes back for five. He missed another 15. Okay, well, he's going to miss the first round of playoffs, hopefully, and then we get him two games in the second round, and then we don't see him again until the finals. It's not worth it. And as you said, Holiday was getting on up there in age. Al Horford is on up there in age. Hell, Al Horford got to be damn near 40. I think Al Horford came out, what, 2006, 2007? Because I think won back-to-back titles in, what, five and six?

55:04Shannon Sharpe:I think Al Horford's got to be like Twitter Joe. He played with you here. Yeah, he played with me. Yeah, Al got at least be 40. I think I'm probably four or five years older than him, so I think, yeah, I think he got at least be 40. But, yeah, man, they've done a great job. And it takes some of that salary down, too, because, you know, those guys making big money. These young cats they got, These guys ain't making the type of money that Holiday and Isle and Porzingis was making. But to your point, you know, Porzingis, since the finals run, since the year they won it, you know, he came in and played in that finals run.

55:36Ever since then, he hadn't been the same. He came here to Atlanta, and I think he has, like, some type of— I don't want to misquote it, but I think, like, some type of respiratory infection that kind of has him sick a lot. So it's hard. That's why you hadn't seen him play none for the Hawks pretty much this year. And he got traded to Golden State. I'm sure he probably won't even play for them no more. His career could potentially be over.

56:01Shannon Sharpe:You know what, guys? He really has never been the same since he tore that ACL. Because I was reading where they said a guy tearing his ACL. I don't know if they'd ever seen a guy that tall actually tear his ACL. So you're asking someone 7 '3 1⁄2", Joe. I mean, look, he could shoot the ball. He was a great rim protector, a weak side defender. And, you know, for whatever reason, you know, when you start getting that tall, there's only a handful of people. They might not be. How many seven footers do you think there are of eight billion people? There might not be a hundred of them in the world. So and when you start having those injuries, I mean, so what what is our study?

56:38Shannon Sharpe:You know, they got they got studied. OK, somebody this size, wait, this height and this weight. This is the recovery time. But when you don't have someone to go off of, it ain't very many seven footers. that you can go study and says, okay, he tore his ACL or he tore his ACL or he tore his ankle or he had this and the studies say, it's hard to find those guys like that. But I think Boston, they looked at it like this, Joe and Ocho. They said, hold on. Why are we going to go into luxury tax when there's not a chance for us? Because I think if they thought they had a realistic chance, I think, you know what, we probably could stomach it.

57:20Shannon Sharpe:But they did sell the team. And part of the new owner was like, well, hell no. Y 'all not finna strap us with that burden. Get those pieces up out of here. Absolutely. And we just spent$6.4 billion, a little over$6 billion or whatever they spent. And then you wanted to come in and take on another$150,$200 million. Oh, and we got two guys that's making$300? Oh, no, no, no, no. Y 'all got to get up off some of them pieces. And so that was a part of it. But considering how well JB's played, all it does is that when they come back, when JT comes back in 26, 27, I think they move to the front of the line.

57:55Shannon Sharpe:No matter how this season ends for Detroit, I think with JT and JB, with the way coming off the bench is Pritchard, and you got Derrick White, I think they would be the favorite, at least representing the Eastern Conference. Now, if OKC wins, OKC is going to be the favorite again. But that's my thoughts on that. The Rockets beat the Wizards 123-118. Trey Young earned his first ejection with the new teams before even making his debut with the Wizards. Trey was ejected when he walked on the court and complained to an official during a confrontation with Tari Eason and Jameer Watkins. Eason was ejected.

58:33Shannon Sharpe:Young made light of the incident on X saying, don't expect me to get ejected too many more times, DC, but I'm definitely bringing that energy and competitiveness when I'm back for my brothers. Trey would make his Wizards debut Thursday at home versus Utah. Damn, Joe. I mean, like when they asked Smokey Toad Craig, you got five of your day off. How you got on street clothes? How you get ejected? Man, hey, I'm watching the game. He was taking up for one of his teammates, Uncle Ocho. He's sitting on the bench with the Taurus Easton kid. He done pushed one of the dudes for the Wizards like deliberately, like twice.

59:12and the referee didn't even call and they just kept playing. So Trey kind of pointed it out and he got on the ref about it and they ended up kicking him out. But I feel him on that, man. You got to step up for these young dudes because they ain't giving the Wizards no type of respect. The refs, I'm talking about sitting there looking at the man. I'm talking about just literally just pushing, bro, two times. I'm talking about didn't call nothing. So Trey got on, bro, and they kicked him out the game for that. I'm taking that. I like it.

59:38Shannon Sharpe:It was a situation, Joe, before you go on, Joe, was it a situation? to the guy because you see this a lot, Joe. When somebody comes sit at the screen, you push the guy out of the way. Was it a situation like that? Because I didn't get an opportunity to see it. It was similar, but it was like he was standing right in – like the Eastern kid was standing right in front of him as he was going toward the pick. And he just had – he did his hands like this and just pushed him back like two, three feet. To the point if that was probably one of y 'all, y 'all would have been fighting. That's what I'm trying to tell you.

1:00:06Yeah. Like it was – I'm like, come on, dawg. What is the ref looking at? You got three refs out there, bro. Nobody calls that. Come on. That's how fights start out.

1:00:16Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you're not going to say anything? Okay, don't worry. Don't worry. I'll take care of it myself. Right. Because, look, you push the wrong person like that, his get back may not be right away, but he might catch you slipping under that goal and hit you in the back of the head with one of them elbow, one of them chicken wings, and make your vision go blurry. Now you want to kick us all out of the game. So you got to get a handle on that early, bro. I just felt the referees done a horrible job in reffing the game tonight, especially for the Wizards, man. I thought dudes should have got – I think Easton did get kicked out, but he should have – like, he shouldn't have took all that.

1:00:57Shannon Sharpe:Right. Yeah, but KD, this past three games tonight, KD was 30 points, seven rebounds, eight of 15. Last game, previous game, 32 points, eight assists, five rebounds. And then that game that he had where he had that 40-piece, 40 points, eight rebounds on 14 to 28 shooting. KD looks to me he might be better after the Achilles than when he was before the Achilles. He hadn't missed a beat. You see that little thin frame he got. He ain't carrying a lot of weight on that frame. He ain't got no weight on it. He ain't carrying a lot of weight on that frame, which I think it helps him. And, you know, he's a mobile guy.

1:01:37But, man, he's been so efficient helping these young guys. He don't come out and take a whole lot of shots. Uncle Ocho, he kind of, to some degree, he let these guys just play. He get his points when he need to. But for the most part, Ocho, man, he let these young cats rock out. The funny thing about it too, Uncle Joe, is he can do that. He can assert himself when he feel like it because he's so efficient wherever he's shooting from. It's so goddamn difficult to defend him. I mean, from the three mid-range, when he can, when he can put the ball on the floor, he can dribble by people as well. But hell, he ain't got to do that because he's so efficient from everywhere else on the goddamn court.

1:02:13Yeah. When he go up to shoot, bro, you just have to hope he missed, bro.

1:02:17Shannon Sharpe:That's it. Unless you win me, that's about it. That's it. When you look at KD and you look at, this is why it's so easy for him to fit in any system because he doesn't have to have the ball. He's not a ball-dominant player. Absolutely. So on 15 shots, he can give you 30 points. There's not a whole lot of guys. The efficiency in which he plays with, there's not a whole lot of guys that's ever played in the history of the game. Now, bigs are a different story because they play mainly around the rim. So you look at Elijah Wan and Robinson and Shaq and guys like that, they're going to shoot in the 50s and 60%.

1:02:57Shannon Sharpe:But Kevin Durant is a mid-range specialist. He can shoot to three. So for him to be consistently in the 50 percentile, that just yet lets you know just how great he is at his craft yeah and they're not a whole lot of guys so that's why it was such an easy transition a seamless transition when he went to golden state because everything they do is predicated on ball movement absolutely but now we got a guy if we really need a shot we can double the kd down on the block and you can hit that turnaround and you ain't nothing you can do about it like joe said boy lord please let the joker miss this job because I ain't going to be able to do nothing with it.

1:03:31Shannon Sharpe:Right. That's all you got, Joe. That's all you can do. That's all you can do. And with the attention that he draws, he draws so much attention that he's going to find these other guys. They're going to make shots. Confidence goes through the roof. Now they're a tough team to beat. Singoon, he plays the point center, Anke Ocho. Like you say, Anke, Durant don't need the ball that much. He can go sit in the corner, and he know his man ain't helping that out. I mean, y 'all go ahead and play four on four, because I know my man ain't going to lead me. You know what I mean? So y 'all go ahead and have your fun.

1:04:01And when it's time to step up and play big, I mean, he was 11-11 from the line tonight. So he was aggressive. He was aggressive, man. And these other dudes just plug and play, bro. I like the Thompson kid. He defends, plays both ends of the court. When it comes to the playoffs, I'm not going to – I ain't going to lie to you. I'm a little skeptical because of the youth that they have at the guard spot. I bet they got the depth. Yeah, and those guys are so young being in that environment and that atmosphere. Not to say they can't get it done, but to have experience at that point guard position, man, that goes a long way in the postseason.

1:04:36Shannon Sharpe:And you're telling me you help off anybody but KD. Right. The help can come from anywhere else other than his guy. Absolutely. And he's a guy that he can hurt you on the outside. So your guy is going to have to come from – his guy is going to have to come from distance anyway. Yeah. It ain't like he's riding around there because, you know, sometimes you're the guy sneaking in there. Like Mike, like Mike did. Mike backtracked on Carvalone because he was trying to post up Dennis Rodman. He followed Hornacek through, and then guess what? He peeled back around. Well, KD already done way out the outside.

1:05:06Now, if you come way from that where KD is and get a steal, congratulations.

1:05:14Shannon Sharpe:But I tell you what, they must run and see you coming to swing that ball, and you left KD open for a wide open shot. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. He ain't missing. He ain't missing. But, you know, he looks, okay, Ocho, even though he's a hell of a scorer, one of the greatest scorers of all time, when he first catches the ball, he's looking to pass first before he goes into his bag, whatever it is he have to do, whether he has to go one-on-one, iso, whatever. But for the most part, he's looking for these guys, man. He's looking for the double to come so he can make these guys around him better. And I enjoy watching him play.

1:05:47Shannon Sharpe:Because he knows for a lot of times, Joe, the double's coming. And it's coming for him. So he says, you know what? Let me swing this ball because this shot right here, yeah, I could take it and go over too. But you know what? If I swing it, I might get a better chance to get a better shot. This is a good shot right here because there ain't really no bad shot for him. When you're seven foot tall and you got a damn near eight and a half foot wingspan and you shooting the ball 10, 11 feet up in the damn air, it ain't no bad shot. So he's like, you know what? I'm going to swing this ball because this is a good shot.

1:06:18Shannon Sharpe:This is an okay shot. But you know what? I can get a good shot. But you know what? This is an even better shot. As a matter of fact, let's swing it one more time, and I will get a great shot. Absolutely. And so that's what he's constantly looking for. Kevin Durant plays – I mean, Kevin Durant can play another five years. Oh, easy. Easy. Another five easy. Easy, fellas. Easy. Long as he stays healthy. I mean, the only reason – I'm not going to say the only reason he can play five years because he's not ball dominant. He can play off the ball so well. Yeah. Yeah, he really, I mean, outside, he's had some calf injuries, but outside that Achilles, KD really hadn't had a whole lot of injuries.

1:06:55Shannon Sharpe:And so that was a blessing in disguise. So he missed an entire season, and then guess what? He had that injury situation. I think they had to shut him down when he was in Phoenix. But, yeah, he can play another five years. Yeah, I think he can, and I think he's determined, fellas. He's determined to help get this Rockets team to the finals because, you know, he can say what he want about the Warriors situation. Everybody talk about, oh, well, if you had to go to the Warriors to get a ring, he wants to win a ring without, you know, being in that Warriors uniform. Coming to Houston, I'm sure he wants to catapult that team to a championship.

1:07:32So he's going to do whatever he can, man. He's a gym rat. He's always in the gym, loves playing the game of basketball, and it shows when he's out there on the court.

1:07:41Shannon Sharpe:That one ring that he gets outside of Golden State would be worth more than both of those that he got in Golden State. Oh, man, especially if they get one in Houston some way, somehow. Like, that'll be huge, bro. That'll be huge. Because people look at the ring that LeBron got in Cleveland, more valuable than two that he got in Miami. Absolutely. They look at the ring that Kobe got by himself, more than the three that he got with Shaq. Yeah. So when you leave and you're not with that dominant player, they go, oh, you got that because of Steph. Steph was an MVP. Steph was an unanimous MVP. But y 'all making sense, like, boy, did y 'all see what KD did?

1:08:18Shannon Sharpe:KD averaged 35. Yeah, he wasn't coattailing now. He wasn't coattailing. He was MVP. Like, if they didn't have him, hell, they wouldn't even want him. They'd have lost. Yeah. They'd have lost. Because LeBron averaged 34, 12, and 10. They had nobody to offset that because they couldn't get those. Because think about it. So now you got KD and LeBron. And that's what you hope when you go. You got somebody, okay, this is a push. This is a wash. Yeah. Steph and Kyrie, that's a wash. Now we're about to play with your third and fourth best players. Right. Which is Klay Thompson, JR, or Kevin Love. Yeah.

1:08:58Shannon Sharpe:Now we got Iggy, we got Sean Livingston. That is our fourth and fifth best player. So we're going to get away from the two-on-two. Yeah. Because that's going to be a wash. But from three down, where are you?

1:09:12Shannon Sharpe:That's how you do it. Because your best player, you hope, okay, my best players are going to watch. If we play Jokic, whoever plays Jokic, your best player and him, they need to watch. Now, especially points. Now, you're probably not going to be able to match his points and his assist and rebounds because he handles the ball so much. Yeah. And he's going to get you double-digit rebounds. Yeah. But I got to neutralize that point production, Joe. I can't let him score 35 and then I get 15-20. Well, you're talking about Jokic? Yes. Yeah, the thing is with Jokic though, Unc, you want to play him straight up because you don't want him to get them other guys involved, but playing him straight up, hell, he'll get you 45.

1:09:54Shannon Sharpe:Ask the Clippers about playing him straight up. He dropped 56. He dropped 56 on them playing him straight up with Zubats. Yeah. So it's like pick your poison, man. What you want? I can give you this triple-double. I can give you this 50-piece with no biscuits. You hear me? Hey, Unc, and Joe, Depending on who you're playing, right, if you can't wash, if you can't match the point total with Jokic, then you just got to worry about everybody else. If he do get you 50, you got to hold the other foe accountable not to get damn near anything. They're going to score, of course. You only hope to stop people, but you can only contain them.

1:10:27But you can't let them get that much. That's all you got to do. I mean, it sounds easy.

1:10:31Shannon Sharpe:Well, you hope you're now, if your two guys don't wash, now I'm hoping Murray. You see tonight, now I don't know. Let's see what ends up happening. But Murray had like 43. Jokic had a quiet night. 43?

1:10:47Yeah.

1:10:48Shannon Sharpe:So as a matter of fact, Murray got 45. 13 of 19, 8 of 13 from the three. You see, Jokic only took 11 shots. He got 20 points. On 12 rebounds, five assists. So now what does that tell you? Now, okay, my next big gun has to go off, and Jamal Murray goes off. yesterday he was 9-22 from the floor. That really hurt him because now all of a sudden he's inefficient. Jokic did what Jokic was supposed to do. Jokic gave you 35-13-9. Now I need, I really, really need Murray to do his thing. Yeah, those two in the postseason will be tough to deal with. Obviously, they need Gordon to come back. You hope in the postseason Tim Hardaway can explode.

1:11:39and obviously win you a game or two in the postseason. But you're going to have to have these other guys step up, Ocho, in order for Denver to, you know what I mean?

1:11:48Shannon Sharpe:When Watson gets back, Joe. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was playing his ass off, Joe, before he got hurt. Yeah. He was playing his ass off before he got hurt. What did he hurt? I think he hurt his, what did he hurt? Was it a hamstring or a knee? That's the only thing. That's the thing about it. See, you know, right now we're getting down to neck cutting time, I'm arguing Ocho because, you know, everybody trying to jock the position for the postseason. And the guys that are banged up, nicked up, hurt, man, coming back, revving that thing up, playing at this high pace, you know, that's tough, man. That's tough to sustain, you know, if you got some knickknacks or you really hurt, you know what I mean?

1:12:28Like, so that's why I wonder how much can Gordon contribute in the postseason because we seen him last year. If he would have been there with them the whole duration last year, maybe they would have beat the Thunder. OKC in game seven, yeah. Yeah, then maybe they would have beat OKC. But, I mean, he's been out for a significant time this season. So, you know, we'll just have to see at this point. Joe, what's wrong with AG, huh? Hamstring. Hamstring.

1:12:53Shannon Sharpe:He's had problems with hamstring. You know, them things linger, boy. That ain't nothing to play with, boy. You try to throw that thing in high gear you want to. It grabs. Once it grabs, it's a wrap. That's one of the worst feelings. Once you come back from injury, especially anything soft tissue, and you try to exert that energy or you try to explode real quick and you feel that little pinch. Yeah. You can't do what you're accustomed to doing? Yeah. Watson half-string, Joe. He's ramping up. They say the next seven to ten days he should be back. Sam half-string for both he and Gordon. it's going to be tough for them, bro.

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