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15:36Chad Johnson:Hey, hey, hey, hey, look, at the end of the day, bro, just have accountability, man. You know what I mean? That's it bro. Hey, let me know when y 'all done. You heard me?

15:49Shannon Sharpe:I ain't got nothing to do with it. Let me know when y 'all done. Hey, I ain't got nothing to do with it. My name's Shay, and I ain't came to play. Hold on, hold on, hold on. So if the floor is yours on your - Hold on, let me get to this real quick. Hold on, let me get y 'all together real quick.

16:10Chad Johnson:don't don't be calling your baby mama no no no i ain't gonna do that i'm gonna do that

16:17Shannon Sharpe:yeah don't call the co-parent we don't there are certain terms joe that we try to stay away from because they're not politically correct and we don't want people talking about unc ocho and joe they using term on nightcap talking about baby mamas so you don't have to call your co-parent Hold on, hold on. There it is. There it is. Hold on, hold on.

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20:53Shannon Sharpe:Hold on. I'll tell you before you go. We got a very special guest joining us. He led the Prairie View A &M Panthers. You know a little something about Prairie View. He's on the plane right now. They beat Lehigh to advance to take on number one seed Florida. Panthers earned their first NCAA tournament victory in program here. Dante Horn joined the program tonight. Dante, how you doing, bro?

21:19Chad Johnson:I'm doing good. How you doing?

21:21Shannon Sharpe:I'm doing amazing, man. Thanks for joining us. Yes, sir. You got Ocho and you got ISO joining us tonight. Dante, what's up, bro? I'm not so sure. I'm not so sure. There you go. Outside of you guys in that building, the coach and people at Prairie View believe this could be possible. How were you able to pull this off today? Man, just believing in God and trusting in our system on defense. Like I said, I have wonderful teammates that don't mind getting dirty on the defensive side,

21:46Chad Johnson:and they just translate to our offense.

21:51Chad Johnson:That's what's up. Hey, what's up, bro? This is Joe. This is Iceman. I know who you are. What's up, bro? Hey, look, y 'all about to get ready to play Florida now, right? Boy, I need y 'all to go and get them up out of there. That's the goal. Look, we ain't going there to lose. I need y 'all to get them up out of there. Hey, I need y 'all to get them up, boys. Hey, it's going to be tough. Hey, what do you think is going to be the biggest thing you guys are going to have to work on to continue to advance, you know, in this tournament against Florida? Is that the biggest thing? Yeah. What do you think the most important thing y 'all are going to have to work on as a team to continue to advance?

22:26I feel like Florida being a big team, we've got to do way better defense than we have been playing. We've been having some mislapses. We probably got to play like a perfect game, but I think everybody on my team is ready to go. we're not scared. So we're not going to Florida just to say, Hey, we play Florida. We're going to Florida to slay the dragon. Right. Yeah. Right. That's what's up, bro. Hey, D you had a great game tonight, man. You was 11 for 22. You know, you had 25 points, but understanding, knowing that you're playing a team like Florida, you're going to have to come in and lead that pack.

22:55You're going to have to have an out of body experience, man. And pretending you like you got them Superman along with being able to get them involved as well. So how confident are you that you guys can pull this off and shock the goddamn world? You know, we're real confident. Our non-conference kind of prepared us for this moment. We played a lot of big teams doing our non-conference. And I mean, the end of the sport didn't look well, but doing them games was right there with them.

23:21Shannon Sharpe:So we know what we're going up against.

23:24Chad Johnson:That's what's up, bro.

23:26Shannon Sharpe:Dante, you know the biggest thing is weathering the storm early. You know they're going to try to storm. You mentioned the size disparities that they have in their favor. So you know they're going to try to pressure you, try to speed you up, turn you over, and try to get out to the big lead. And then, you know, hey, say, well, we're going to save our legs. If you can weather the storm early, make them get late into the ball game, and you're still hanging around, now the pressure shifts on them. They're supposed to get you guys out of there. They're probably a 40, 50-point favorite. But you have other plans.

23:58Yes, sir. That's true. That's definitely true.

24:03Shannon Sharpe:So what kind of welcome do you expect to get back when you go back to prayer? Because I'm not so sure. You know, you guys believe. Because sometimes everybody say, yeah, we're going to win. We're going to win. But they don't really believe. But you guys had to believe or this moment isn't even possible. Man, we had to. You know, I feel like when we get... Hey, so we need... This is going to be easy. We think we're here. We believe.

24:33Oh, it's freezing.

24:36Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I think it's camera. I think he... Oh, you got it? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was saying, I feel like it's going to be crazy because a lot of people didn't think we would make it here, but we did, so PV going to be jumping when we get back. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Hey, the party going to be short-lived because of what you guys play, Friday night? Yes, sir. So by the time you get back, basically, and it's time for you guys to pack and change and get ready to hit the road again. Huh? That's what I'm saying, but the prayer view's in Texas. Oh, y 'all, hold on. Y 'all going straight to Tampa from where you - Yeah, we're going right now.

25:14Shannon Sharpe:Oh, so y 'all not going back to preview. We're going right now. Oh, okay, well you're straight. Hey, you good, you good then. We ain't wasting no time.

25:22Chad Johnson:Yeah, that's the best thing. Keep them boys locked in. Hey, listen, hey Dante, you know now Florida got them big boys in the paint, man. You need to tell your big men they need to be carrying their lunch pail because, boy, they got some work to do. I know. We know it. We know we got... Hey, it's about who wanted more. It's about who wanted more at the end of the day.

25:46Shannon Sharpe:Hey, Dante, you know if you get a chance, they got that dude that's like six, that's seven, nine. You got the punch on it. Hey, if I get that chance, hey, look, I'm going to make it work. I need all them pictures. Don't post them so fast. That's unbelievable, man. Congratulations on a big win tonight. Airbride at PV is excited. They're celebrating for you. We at Nightcap and our listeners and subscribers, we're excited for you. We couldn't be more proud of the job that you guys did tonight. Dante Horn led Prairie View to their very first NCAA tournament victory. They earned a right to go take on the Gators at Florida.

26:27Shannon Sharpe:Dante led the way 25 points on 11 of 22 shooting. He played the entire game. So did three of his other starting teammates play the entire ball game. Dante, congratulations. Tell the team congratulations. And night count. We proud of you. I just want to say thank you. I just want to say thank you. And me and my pops are super Bronco fans. So it's an honor to be on this. Thank you, man. Appreciate it, Dante. Take care, bro. All right, bro. Hey, what's up, fellas?

26:58Shannon Sharpe:That's what's up. That's what's up, man. All right, thank y 'all. Congratulations to the prayer view. God, thank you.

27:04Chad Johnson:Oh, man. Hey, that's what's up, bro. PB got it done.

27:10Shannon Sharpe:Yes, sir. They beat Lee High. Well, I don't know. Y 'all got to change y 'all name to Lee Low because y 'all wasn't high tonight.

27:21Shannon Sharpe:Hey, Joe. But, okay. So, Joe, you get your hair cut. Yeah. take the cape off you headed to the you headed to the game yeah yeah oh the game being oh choco be in the same i'm looking fly looking down up there oh yeah yeah yeah y 'all finish y 'all hey y 'all finish man let y 'all tell the story three times already you keep going back you keep going in circles whoa whoa whoa we listen to you tell your story the other night you told your story four times i told it one time uh-uh you kept telling everybody else

27:53Chad Johnson:I totally told you. Hey, but Ocho, did you take accountability though, bro? I did. I did. Okay, that's it. That's it. Hey, look, look, look. Hey, look, look. Cause if you ain't take accountability, I can't hang with you, bro. For real. I can't be rolling. That's fine. That's fine.

28:07Shannon Sharpe:I hang by myself anyway. I'm good. That's fine. I ain't giving. Hey, Joe. Joe, your boy coming down there. We good. We going. All right, bet. Let me know, man. Let me know.

28:17Chad Johnson:Let me know. You already know. Hey, Joe. I done time to talk to Joe already. I told, hey, Joe, you get on me. You get on me, you know. But listen, listen, listen, listen to me real quick. Listen, my baby, when you hit me, I was with my baby all day. Now, listen, I told Unc, trick me out, right? I told Unc, I say, man, listen, boy, what BM say, boy, listen, I need you to readjust what you got going on. The baby has a tournament coming up. Not only does the baby have a tournament coming up the weekend, it's the Miami Open. So I'm going to be taking my baby to the Miami Open. so you need just what you got to do because that needs you this day.

28:56So I... What's the Miami Open? Hold on. Was she playing in the tournament? No, no. She played in the tournament in the morning and then they go from the tournament they play in to the Miami Open to meet the players. She didn't say it yet.

29:07Shannon Sharpe:Oh. So let me ask you a question. When did you realize that she had a tennis tournament and she should be going to the tournament and meet the players afterwards? But she moved what she wanted to do with the baby with me on Monday. She she moved right and I don't know that she didn't tell me at a time in the fact that it made it inconvenience Well, actually because it's the baby. It's not inconvenience. So whatever I have to do, right? I can't do it I can't do it. I'm seeing all the facts So you so you didn't realize you didn't realize that you had made place So you didn't call you couldn't call Joe that morning So when did you find out that she needed you to make the rearrange Early early morning by eight o 'clock eight o 'clock call.

29:45Well, it got called listen. We come we coming down I need you. Boom, we went to the nail place. Boom, we going to ride. I had to go ride horses. By that time, we locked in having a good time. We gave busters. I'm like, well, God damn, I ain't going to. It's kind of messed up. And then when Joe hit me, right? Boom. Doug and Ryan hit me too. Hey, listen, we need you to get on the flight. Tuesday morning at 6 o 'clock, right? Hey, Joe, you know I got my soccer podcast, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got an opportunity to meet with the MLS commissioner so you can sit down and talk to him about X, Y, and Z, how he got the job, whatever.

30:22So that's why I'm in New York now. Boom. So I had to do that Tuesday morning. My flight was at 8 o 'clock in the morning. I ain't leave here until 2 because of all the flight. I don't know what's going on with flights and airports right now, but I had like a 7-hour delay. Boom. So it was a rough two days for me. Now y 'all jumping on me, getting on me. Joe's so mad at me. I'm snapping on me. And then I got to hold on. I don't listen.

30:49Shannon Sharpe:Don't try to throw up in here. Hey, Joe, but I'm looking at the Miami Open schedule. They've been playing the Miami Open for an extended period of time, and it's been on the schedule for at least two years. If this is what their website is saying. Now, if that's a lie, the website is just going to be wrong. What does it have to do anything? We do the same routine every Miami Open. Exactly. So you knew the Miami Open that you were going to have to – You knew your daughter was going to be going to the Miami Open before you made the trip. What did you have to do with what I'm talking about? Because you made it seem like the Miami Open just rang out like your daughter got in this tournament.

31:27We normally have the party on the weekends, right? Are you listening to me or not? But there's a tournament this time, this weekend. I'm trying to figure out how they...

31:34Shannon Sharpe:But the tournament, the Miami Open, is always around your daughter's birthday on the weekend. The birthday is normally on the fucking weekends. this time because she had determined to play. Are you listening? She had determined to play this time on the weekend. She moved it up on a Tuesday because the kids were on spring break. So it was different this year. So when did you realize that your daughter's birthday wasn't going to be on the weekend, it was going to be on the weekday? She told me we were moving everything on Monday morning when I woke up. What was the problem? Is there a problem with that?

32:08Not because you and Joe. No, it's not because me and Joe already talked about it. You keep instigating it. Hold on, hold on. We just tried to get clarification. I done talked to Joe already. Now what's going to happen is... Hold on. Where you talk to Joe? What you mean? I talked to Joe the day two and yesterday. Twice. You know, I say, Joe, listen. Listen, if you need anything, let me know what I owe you back. Joe, I'm going to get it to you. You hear me? Whatever that wood costs, I got you.

32:33Chad Johnson:The money ain't the problem, no. That money ain't even the issue. You know what I mean? What's the issue, Joe? What's the issue? What's the issue, Joe? The issue is when you got your ass up and you knew you weren't coming to Atlanta, you should have been like, hey, bro, I ain't gonna make you, I'm gonna get that song. Joe, what you wanna do? You wanna fight, Joe? Let me know. Yeah, we can go. Hey, give me three minutes with him, Unc. You can ref me. All I want is three minutes. That's all you need three minutes. I'ma have them gloves. I'ma have them gloves for you when you see me. Hey, matter of fact, matter of fact, from, hey, it's on site, Joe.

33:03It's on site. Say last, I'ma be ready.

33:05Chad Johnson:I'm gonna be ready. Hey, that's the one thing I know I can do. I can whoop your ass, Joe. I bet you can. Okay. I like this. As a matter of fact, you laughing, you gonna get your ass whooped too. Hey, man, I don't know what the problem, man. I can buy it in my business. Hey, it's cool. I'm gonna give you three minutes. No, no, no. I don't want no three minutes. It ain't gonna even take that long for what I gotta do with it. It ain't gonna be no three minutes, Joe. It's gonna be about one minute, boy. You hear me? It's gonna be, I'm gonna jump on your ass like a chicken on the June bug, Joe. You hear me?

33:37Chad Johnson:The problem is you gonna have to take one or two of these just to even get up in here. And one of them gonna put you to sleep. I'm coming in there, Joe. That ain't gonna be enough. That ain't gonna be a - I'm coming in there, Joe. You talking about Carissa, Jake Paul, Logan Paul, damn them, you got ISO. It's me and you, partner. Three minutes. Hey, it's gonna be longer than three, bro. You hear me? But hey, I'm gonna take eight. All right, need y 'all three minutes. I'm gonna keep them around three minutes just to get, just to get the people in the chat, just to give them some to watch.

34:04Shannon Sharpe:Jake Paul, Logan Paul, Cliff Paul, Chris Paul. ISO in five.

34:10Chad Johnson:Hello, hello. ISO in five. ISO going to sleep, right? You hear me? ISO going to sleep. Hey, hey. That was a good one. Hey, see that? Hey, that's a good one. The Miami Ohio Redhawks.

34:24Shannon Sharpe:I'm not finished. I'm not finished. I'm not finished. What you mean? I thought you said we were done. We ain't done, because y 'all kept going. It's my turn.

34:33I love y 'all, man. I love you.

34:37Shannon Sharpe:Hey, all Joe say he wanted. Joe say the money, I don't want no ROI. I don't want no return on investment. All I want this man to do is accept accountability. When you realize that early that morning that your co-parent had called you and said that there had been a change of schedule, the next call you should have made, hey, Joe, check this out. My baby, my co-parent called me. my baby's birthday normally we celebrated on the weekend.

35:03Chad Johnson:He ain't have to do all that. He ain't have to say all that. All he had to do is say he can't make it. Boom. Just leave it alone, just leave it alone, bro. You all ready for it to catch your ass with behind and I ain't, that ain't what I was trying to do. I was just trying to talk to you. Hey Joe, can you hear me? Can you hear me, Joe? Go ahead, bro. I love you, man. Love you too, bro. I'm gonna beat your head.

35:33I love you, Joe. I love you, Joe. I love you, Joe. Hey, love you too, bro. Joe, can we move on now? Anything you ever need from me, Joe, I got you, Joe. Huh?

35:43Chad Johnson:I still want my three minutes over. Huh? Yeah, I want my fade, my nigga. I want my fade. Hey, Joe, hey, Joe, hey, Joe. Whatever you want to do, homie. Whatever you want to do. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. yeah hey hey hey i still love you like hey hey hey joe when you lumped up i don't want to hear no excuses talk about oh i'm a tie oh my knee hurt i don't want to hear none of that hey hey hey hey i'm coming from right here i ain't got to go all the way back here i'm coming from right here yeah yeah all that all that yeah i just want you to know yeah i just want you to know yeah you think

36:21Shannon Sharpe:his play player hey joe that's what i'm saying he think because you don't really do no whole lot of talking you don't talk loud that he just gonna run through joe hey i said man joe quiet i said you gotta watch them quiet was nothing quiet loud hey hey oh you know why you know why we quiet

36:41Chad Johnson:because see once we get going we can't even turn our damn that's what i'm saying that's why that's

36:46Shannon Sharpe:why i let joe with joe say hey uh let me run this i go ahead go ahead take the floor joe i don't say I'll let it happen. I'll tell you this, whether you loud, whether you quiet, when it comes to your goddamn hands, I'm gonna put them on you. I don't care who he is, how tall, how big. Okay, I wanna see it, I wanna see it. Okay, I wanna see it. Yeah, you gonna see it. Hey, you gonna be Ray Charles, you ain't gonna be see these hands.

37:06Chad Johnson:Three minutes, I'm just keep you around so the people can have a little fun, why? Hey, you remember when Flo fightin' that little YouTube with Noreen that's - Yeah, yeah, hey, you gonna pop, pop up. Yeah, I saw it. Hey.

37:19Shannon Sharpe:Hey, did y 'all see the thing? Did you see the fight today? The guy, I guess he's with his girl, and the brother had slapped him in front of his girl. Oh, man. He sent his girl home. He came back. He said, catch this. He lumped over up, called his girl, FaceTime, said, look at him, baby. He leaking.

37:38Chad Johnson:Hey, hey, Unc, Unc, when I seen that, I admit it.

37:40Shannon Sharpe:I sent it to you, Ocho. I sent it to you.

37:42Chad Johnson:I straight up thought about Ocho. So as soon as I seen it, I said, man, dude came back standing on business. Hey, Ocho, dude was a little bigger than him. He came back. He said, no, I want the fan, homie.

37:52Shannon Sharpe:They got the tussles, Ocho. He said, oh, I like you even more now. What about what about what? I'm talking about little dude. Hey, he said, I ain't got no blood. I ain't got no knife. He said, bro, I ain't on no Jackie Chan. I ain't got none of that. He said, I'm going to throw these hands on him. Hey, Joe, that's what's going to happen to you right there, Joe.

38:12Chad Johnson:Boy, I should have thought about you when I seen it. I said, ooh, I'm gonna hit Ocho just like this here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Abbie, you got, Joe Ocho, do you know how far you got to go to get Joe out of character?

38:28Shannon Sharpe:Do you know how long it took us to get Joe to open up? Man, Joe on the show for five months. When Joe around me, he gonna open up anyway. This me. You know, it don't matter how shy you are or how much you don't talk, I'm gonna get it out of you. Just like I'm gonna get his ass off. You got the man wanna put hands on you, Joe. Oh, Joe. That man wanna put hands on you. Man, I'm gonna put Joe to sleep. Joe playing, boy. It's a joke, Joe. It ain't even possible. Hey, hey, hey, hey, Joe.

38:53Chad Johnson:Hey, hey, hey, how you gonna get up in? How you gonna get up in? Hey, Joe. When I had that cage, I got a big cage too. Joe, my hand is registered in Vegas. I don't give a damn what they registered at. How you gonna get up in here? You want me to take your hat? How you gonna get up in here? You want me to take your hat? I'm gonna pressure you, Joe, with a high guard. Joe, you not gonna do it too. And that's what I'm saying. You're gonna have to eat one or two of them. Eat one of them, gonna put you in sleep. That's all. Hey, Joe, how I'm gonna eat them if I'm blocking everything, Joe? You ain't gonna be blocking nothing, yo.

39:21All right, matter of fact, yo, hey, I'm gonna be out there in the palace at your front door, man. Yo!

39:28Chad Johnson:Yo! That's it. Yo. What? Yo. Hey, you know what? Hey, this is why we the best. This is why we the best, hey, Joe. you know, this is - Cause we hold each other accountable. Not only that, hey hold on, not only that, but can't nothing else out there touch this. Not even close. You're not, you're not, you're not, you're not understanding, you hear me? We ain't got to talk about nobody. We ain't got to create no controversy.

39:59Shannon Sharpe:We gon' be on, hey Joe, we gon' be on camera. We gon' hey, hey Ocho, then you boy on get an ISO in the game man, wish you we were good bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What game y 'all going to? No, we ain't telling you.

40:10Chad Johnson:We ain't telling you. We ain't telling you. I'm gonna probably be at a cigar bar anyway. It's cool. It's cool. Yeah, you see. It's cool. Hey, y 'all gonna leave me for real? Yeah. Yeah, man. I had the mayor at the game sitting right next to Andre. The mayor, I know the mayor. Andre Dickens, we chopping it up and everything. Yeah, mayor. Talking about the house and everything. Trying to do around Atlanta, how they fixing Atlanta up. I'm trying to introduce you to people, man. Right, right, right. Man, I hear you trying to get me indoors. I ain't really been in before, huh? Yeah, that's all I'm saying, man.

40:45Chad Johnson:Just, hey, it's two down, 26. Oh, to all that fly. I mean, we ain't doing accountability in 2026.

40:52Shannon Sharpe:Hey, you know I'm all about that. Hey, Joe, make sure you account for these fucking hands then, Joe. Make sure you account for these hands you about to get. I'm three minutes, bro. And that just to keep you around so the chat can, they can have a little fun. I want you to think it's a joke until you touch this goddamn jab. When I hit you in your nose and it start bleeding, I don't want to hear nothing. Bruh, bruh, bruh. He said, hey, you got to get inside old Joe.

41:16Chad Johnson:Joe said he got to take one or two of these just to get him. Yeah, yeah. And one of them is going to sleep in. See who? I don't even sleep that night. I seen that chin, that little glass chin you got. I already know what's going on. Come on, Joe. Come on, Joe. Come on, bring it, Joe. As a matter of fact, hit Netflix, man. Get us on the Pacquiao and Mayweather undercard. We'll open it up. We'll be the first fight. I don't give a damn, ain't nobody in there. I'm gonna whoop his ass. Hey, hey, Joe. Yeah, yeah. Get us on Netflix. Joe said he wanna be on the undercard. I saw Ocho, we put us on the undercard.

41:53Chad Johnson:Man, I'm gonna tear this blood, man. I'm gonna be talking about weight class. Hey, Ocho, you know how bad it gotta be.

41:58Shannon Sharpe:Joe said he don't even wanna do the one-on-one tournament, no, 303 no more. You want to get his ass whooped in front of the world. That's on him.

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46:12Chad Johnson:Hey, I'm going to fly it up. I'm going to see it. I'm going to see it.

46:18Shannon Sharpe:The Miami, the Miami of Ohio Redhawks beat the SMU Mustangs by the score of 89 to 79. Remember, they started the tournament. They had, they're the only team that hadn't lost their regular season game. And then they get into the tournament and they lose right away. And they were on the cusp. I mean, many didn't think they were going to get in, but they get in at, in the play in tournament and they beat SMU by the score of 89 to 79. They put four players in double figures and they basically led from start to finish and they win this ball game 89 79. Ocho, are you surprised that even at what they were 30?

46:53Shannon Sharpe:I think they were 30, 30, 30, 30 and oh, going into the tournament and they were all basically had to get into the play in in order to get to the final 64. Are you surprised with a record that they had in the regular season? They still needed to be in the play in just. I mean, obviously, I'm not sure how that really works, especially with a team that played as well as them and had to be in the goddamn play-in. But obviously, they made their statement and they made their presence felt tonight. That goddamn Elmo, boy, he was phenomenal. Obviously, he played 24 minutes. He had 23 points. Man, from three points, he was, wait, he was 8 for 11?

47:266 of 9. No, he was 6 of 9 from three. Man, hell, goddamn. How do you say that? Skyjack? Is it Skyjack? Skyjack had 17. Byers had 19. Man, them boys was balling. And the fact that they had to play in the play-in, and I really don't understand why they had to play from the play-in based on what I saw tonight and watching them play, they played really good basketball from start to goddamn finish. Obviously, SMU closed the gap a little bit. I think it might have been the third quarter. But, listen, after that, let me talk about third quarter. In the second half, man, they young bull started hitting them threes back-to-back, Joe.

48:00Man, it wasn't undone, boy. Man, listen, Ocho,

48:06Chad Johnson:the Miami of Ohio playing in that, what's that, Mid-American Conference? Yeah, yes. And SMU playing in the ACC. They've been tried and tested, playing against some of the top teams in the nation. And I don't think Miami of Ohio has been tested. Now, I think the best thing for them was them losing coming into this game. Okay, Ocho. because I'm sure they probably wanted an undefeated season. But they came into this game already coming off a loss. You know, I knew they were trying to bounce back some way somehow to prove that they're still one of the top teams in the NCAA tournament. So kudos to Miami of Ohio, bro.

48:45Chad Johnson:They came out and played well. And, hey, them white boys, they got ain't no punks over there. Yeah. They buckled down. They made shots. They played hard. They competed, bro. They competed. It was a fun game to watch.

48:59Shannon Sharpe:Hey, Joe, you know J.O.'s son played with SMU.

49:02Chad Johnson:Yeah, I seen him out there. J.O. I seen him out there. J.B.A.D. O 'Neal. Yeah, he didn't get but a few minutes. But you look at Booby Miller, the guy from SMU, that's their best player. He had such an off night. He the injured for that team, bro. If he's playing well, going, got it going, then they front running, they playing well. But he struggled. He struggled tonight.

49:27Shannon Sharpe:But that's the thing, Joe. You know, like in the NCAA tournament, it's hard to overcome if you're best player. Because most teams are so dependent on their best player. It's not like, you know, like in the NBA. All those guys are really, really good. But normally you got one or two guys that's head and shoulders above everybody else on the team. And if one of those guys have an off night, it could happen. but it happens rarely in college that your best player is off and you're able to overcome that.

50:00Chad Johnson:Yeah, yeah.

50:01Shannon Sharpe:And that's why, you know, that's what happens. And if you are a junior-senior-laden team, that's why UConn has been able to win those back-to-back titles because if you look at those guys, those are older guys. Yeah. It's hard to put you asking 17-, 18-year-olds who's been the number one guy on their team for as long as they can remember. Now he's playing with three, four, five other five-star guys. We got to share the ball. It's hard to blend that. That's why you see it so infrequently, that as talented as Duke has been, they don't win when they got seven, eight five-star guys. Kentucky, when they had Boogie Cousins and John Wall and all those guys, they didn't win year after year after year after year because it's hard to get 17-year-olds to play together when they've been, man, I'll give me 20 shots a night.

50:56Shannon Sharpe:And now all of a sudden, you've got to take that down. Yeah. Maybe eight, 10 shots a night. And Joe, the funniest part about it too is when you go from playing where you the man and then you go to obviously the next level, obviously college where everyone is somewhat just as good, the shot selection actually decreased. But you actually have to pick the right shots and then you have to be goddamn efficient. so you can't have off nights like you know brother miller had tonight as great as he is everything runs through him or if you have to have if you have when you come to tournaments like this this is when you really don't want to have off nights you want to be as efficient as possible if you're not efficient then you need the other foe i need you to make up for what i

51:35Chad Johnson:can't do tonight yeah yeah experience matters in in college basketball now this is why when it Because you're recruiting Uncle Ocho. They no longer really recruiting guys straight out of high school unless you're a phenom. You're a five-star. You're a Cooper flag. You want to go get a Cameron Boozer. Absolutely. Because college basketball is a business now. It's a professional sport. And they want guys who are proven or who has the talent to be able to compete. That's why in a portal, that's why in college basketball now in a portal, you have to re-recruit your own guys just to see if they're going to come back.

52:13Chad Johnson:Like, it's crazy now, bro, but everybody wants experience. You have to be – that's why you can go to junior college for two years and still have four years of eligibility at a power five.

52:25Shannon Sharpe:But they're doing that in football, Ocho. You know now, unless you that dog, they're going to get somebody out the portal. They're going to get somebody else quarterback. They're going to get somebody else running back on wide receivers. Yeah. So that – and Joe is absolutely right. I've got you on contract, and they're like, well, I got to – hey, I got to entice you to stay. So I got to give you an extra hundred, a quarter of a million. I got to buy you a Lambo or a Ferrari just to get you to stay and you already on my campus. You see what they did? Hey, if this was reporting is true, you see what they did for Malacatoni?

52:59Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. He get a sweet ticket to all the Dolphins home game. He get used up a booster's yacht. He get X, Y, and Z.

53:07Chad Johnson:And he get an extra$500 ,000 for every year that he stays there. Hey, listen, when you come from them big cities like that and they got the money to pay it, why not, man? Put it in your contract. Put it in your contract. Hey, hey, hey.

53:23Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, all I know is my grandma wasn't gonna be hungry. We wasn't gonna be eating no Spam no more. We wasn't gonna be buying the sausages. I can guarantee you that. If she had NIL, somebody paid premium. Yeah, absolutely. Hey, hey, hey look, Uncle Ocho,

53:40Chad Johnson:my mom would have been living in Fayetteville, Arkansas with me if I was getting there, if I was playing in this area, in this era. Man, listen, I would have, hey, hey, see when I went to college, Uncle Ocho, I came with a plan. I said I can't stay no longer than two years. Cause in basketball, if you stay more than two years, they thought something was wrong with you. You know what I mean? Unless you was Shane Battier, who was in my draft, and you had been at Duke for four years, probably won you two championships you know but outside of that anything over two years bro they thought yeah wrong with you so i remember how they was looking at blake griffin they look at

54:13Shannon Sharpe:tyler hands brought it like bro if you that why you not one and done man what you talking about yeah tyler hands that's when they look at tyler bro you at north carolina you acc player of the

54:24Chad Johnson:year you national player of the year and you a senior they look at you crazy yeah because if

54:31Shannon Sharpe:that dude you got to be you got to be one and done you got to be a kd you got to be those guys

54:41maybe i'm not developed enough to be able to go to the next level now you you lead too early and you get your ass exposed that at the next level then what well get me exposed because i want to

54:51Shannon Sharpe:be as close to that mid that that 200 million dollar contract that's coming in three years i'm about to be think about it ocho if i leave let's just say for the sake of argument i leave at 19. By the time I'm 22, 23, they're going to put $200 million in front of me. All I do by staying in college is delay that. Now that's 24. Now that's 25. I'm trying to get to the bag as soon as possible. That's why these kids, but that NIL money, that NIL, bro, NIL money, they ain't give you no$40 million. Mendoza's contract is about to be guaranteed. Fully guaranteed, $45 million.

55:25Chad Johnson:I think the only problem with that, though, is, you know, you get cats, they may not stay as long. Or you're saying they trying to get to the pros fast. Try to get to the back, absolutely. Joe, what if they're not good enough, Joe?

55:44Shannon Sharpe:That's what I'm saying. That's what I was going to say, Unc. If they're not good enough, Ocho, they're not going to select them. If you select me, the number one pick, you select me in the lottery, you think I'm good enough. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no. It's not my fault, Ocho, that you select me and I don't turn out to be right. Clearly you thought I was good enough. I thought you just meant players in general. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

56:05Chad Johnson:My thing is, my thing, Anka's talking about the 1%. It's only, you know, talk about all these guys going pro, but guys, there's only 400 dudes in the NBA every year. I ain't talking about this year and just next year, like every year. So that means if it's 50 coming in, it's got to be 50 going out. You know what I mean?

56:23Shannon Sharpe:We're talking about DeBanza. We're talking about Cameron Boozer. We're talking about Acuff. We're talking about Peterson. We're talking about guys like that. Yeah, there we go. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's what we're talking about. You're talking about Averill. You're talking about these guys at Ohio State that tested well, and you see all these guys running forward, forward, jumping out of the building.

56:41Chad Johnson:Yeah.

56:42Shannon Sharpe:Go back to college for what?

56:43Chad Johnson:Right, right. Absolutely.

56:45Shannon Sharpe:Because here's the thing. This is what I tell people all the time. What you go to college to do? Well, I'm going to college to get a degree, and you hope that degree do what? Help you make what? Money. Somebody is going to move that up. So instead of you being 23 and making money, hey, how about we do this at 19? How about we do this at 20?

57:05Chad Johnson:Yeah. But I want to know the medical student,

57:10Shannon Sharpe:and you can't do that, but I guarantee you if Goldman Sachs or J.P. Morgan, if somebody offered a financial student$2 million a year, they leaving.

57:19Chad Johnson:Yeah.

57:20Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, yeah. I work, guess what? I work night and go online and I'll get my degree, but I'm finna get this bag

57:28Chad Johnson:yeah

57:30Shannon Sharpe:work a lifetime I ain't promised tomorrow if somebody's about to give me a check today I'm taking the check today and I worry about tomorrow tomorrow that's what I would do I'm never gonna tell somebody to stay in school cause you go to school to get a degree so you can go apply to make money

57:48Chad Johnson:hey they told me hey son you gonna be a lottery pick you gonna be a top 10 pick When they told me that, say less. I'm gone. Hey, he got a lottery ticket that didn't play the lottery.

58:02Shannon Sharpe:He got a lottery ticket. Hey, his mom and dad sitting on a lottery ticket. So whatever you do, don't get hurt. Don't do nothing crazy. You don't need to get no motorcycle. You don't need to get no dune buggy. You don't need to do no skis, no jet skis. Oh, son, just get to the NBA.

58:16Chad Johnson:Man, I won 10th pick. Yeah, I won 10th. They told me I wouldn't go past 10th. And Boston had the 10th pick. that was my best workout i probably i probably missed two shots the whole workout i ain't gonna the whole workout you know like when you're going to the workout why should be so locked in so this is a dream come true i'm finna i'm finna be living the american dream this is something i dreamed about as a kid like a lot of times a lot of times ocho my rookie year bro i would just go to the gym at night i just sit there and being oh after a workout like i i can't believe i'm playing in the league bro like you know like that was a big accomplishment man like game been good It's been good to you, boy.

58:54Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, I'm up to you too.

58:58Shannon Sharpe:A lot of that little something that you spent the other night, but it's been good to you, Joe. It's been good to you. Yeah, yeah, hey, you know. My bad, my bad, Joe. You know what, Joe, you know, we're talking about this offline, we don't need to mention this no more.

59:09Chad Johnson:Yeah, I mean, I mean, hey, hey, listen. I'm saying, but he started talking, bro. I told you, I'm gonna give you three minutes, man. You ain't gotta say too much more about it, man. I don't really do a lot of dog wrestling. I do a lot of talking, Joe. That's part of my game, Joe. I'm letting you know, but I'm going to be on your ass like white on rice now, Joe. All right? Because I showed my remorse. I took my accountability, and you kept talking, Joe. All right, well, let it go. Let it go then.

59:35Shannon Sharpe:It's on. Hey, hey, oh, boy, your Lakers won tonight, right? Yeah, they do. We're going to talk about them. The Lakers beat the Miami Heat. The Houston Rockets for the second time in three days by the score of 124 to 116. Luka Doncic came a rebound short of a triple-double. He ended with 40 points, 9 rebounds, 10 assists. But the night, Goat James, in 34 minutes, he had 30 points, Joe, from 13 or 14 shooting, 2 or 2 from the 3-point line. He had 35 and 2. He was sensational. He dunking a – I think he leads the NBA in transition points. He's one of the few guys that's averaging 20, shooting 50 % from the floor with 5 rebounds and 5 assists.

1:00:20Shannon Sharpe:If I'm not mistaken, I think he and Nikola Jokic are the only two players that's averaging 25-5 while shooting better than 50%. Going 13 or 14 from the line definitely is going to help that 50%. But when Luka's playing like this, and don't look now, but I think they've won like seven straight games, and they've now beat the Knicks because they ain't beat nobody. Are the Knicks any good? Are the Timberwolves any good? Are the Nuggets any good? Are the Rockets any good? But you know what? They're going to find a way to try to diminish it. because old Goat James played well, so they're going to try to back.

1:00:53Shannon Sharpe:But, Joe, what did you like about what you saw from the Lakers tonight?

1:00:57Chad Johnson:Man, I thought Luka, you know, obviously doing Luka things, getting off to a great start, making it tough for everybody defensively. I thought what helps with LeBron is that he get a couple easy ones. You know, he made his first few shots. It's a wrap. Once he get the feeling good, he get the backpedaling on you. You know, he get that little backpedaling he got going. Oh, it's a wrap then because now he got it going. I think he went like 9 for 9 or 10 for 10. 9 for 9, yes. Oh, yeah, he was in the groove. It's going to be hard to beat him like that. But they game playing defensively against KD.

1:01:30Chad Johnson:They're trapping him. KD don't understand how to get out of that trap without turning the ball over. For whatever reason, KD is having a problem with them trapping. See, they ain't just trapping them for him to give it up. They being aggressive with their traps. You know, they can steal off their traps, which are leading to easy baskets for the Lakers. because I thought I was tripping tonight when I was looking at the game. I said, hold on, this is the same game from the other night? Because I didn't know they played them back-to-back. But, yeah, the Lakers got Houston number right now. They got a nice little game plan for them boys.

1:01:59Hey, hey, hey, I wanted to give it an answer to Uncle Joe, right? I mean, I'm watching the game. Obviously, y 'all have a better understanding of the game than I do. And I'm seeing that KD had, but damn, two points at the half. How could he have two points at the half? I don't understand, especially a prolific score, maybe one of the greatest scores of all time in me history. How does he have two points at the half? Obviously, he started to get going after the half. In the third quarter. His shots started falling. But trapping him and catching him at half court, as soon as he crossed half court, they trapped him every time he got the ball in his hands.

1:02:29As soon as you see the double team coming, just get that thing out of your hands right away.

1:02:37Chad Johnson:Well, he's been talking about how teams have just been doubling him and making other guys beat him. So if you're playing the Houston Rockets, you want KD to get the ball out of his hands because he's such a prolific scorer. Like, I don't want him making too many decisions. And more importantly, Ocho, I don't want him comfortable, period, point blank. So I'm in this job. I'm in it the whole time. Ocho, look, and he catch it. We bring in the double team. Our double team ain't soft. It's going to be a tough double team to wear. We put these hands on you, you know, borderline foul to some degree, making it tough.

1:03:10Chad Johnson:And then the back line is like a DB. You know what I'm saying? you may have two guys for a split second. You feel what I'm saying? And they playing it to the tee, bro. They trapped him. They trapped KD and they trapped Singoon like that all night. Singoon kind of had it going, but they just want to get KD out the game. And I thought he came to the pressure, Arke Ocho, meaning he came out looking to facilitate. To pass the ball. Yeah, to pass the ball. Versus, man, you KD, bro. Just be aggressive. Get to your spots. Them dudes can't. You got to go quick when you get it because you know the double coming.

1:03:45Chad Johnson:You know what I mean? And I just thought he just kind of settled for it a little bit tonight.

1:03:48Shannon Sharpe:If you notice a lot of the double, they put Aiton at the top. Yeah. Now you got seven foot with his hands up, and you bring in a double. Here come Austin Reeves. Here come Marcus Smart. Here come Luke Kennard. They're bringing it because the one thing I don't want him to do, I don't want him to go left because if he dribbles left, he's going to pull up. You already know it. So now if you notice the double teams come from the left, to keep him from going left. We pin him. We get him pinned. We get him trapped up out of the line. We got him. We got to make him give it up. Now, the last thing that you want to do is try to trap LeBron or Jokic that high out.

1:04:25Chad Johnson:Right.

1:04:25Shannon Sharpe:Because they're going to be able to swing the ball all the way across court. Yeah. If you see, they trap Jokic. What did Jokic do? He found Hardaway Jr. way in the off corner for a knockdown three. That's what KD is a score.

1:04:39Chad Johnson:Yeah.

1:04:40Shannon Sharpe:I want to make him do something that he's not comfortable to do. Can he? Yes. But that's not where he's most comfortable. He's most comfortable. One dribble, pull up. One, two, three dribbles, pull up. One, two. Oh, I'm getting to the. That's what he wants to do. He does not want to like dribble, dribble and try to scan like, okay, where did it come from? That's not what he wants to do. Right. He wants to one dribble, pull up. One, two, pull up. One, two, three, pull up. Yeah. And if you can keep him from doing that, it's a lot easier said than done because he still can shoot over the top of you.

1:05:09Shannon Sharpe:But once I make him pick that dribble up, I got him. Yeah, because the thing, Uncle Joe, he's an aggressive scorer,

1:05:18Chad Johnson:but he's a rhythm guy. KD's a rhythm guy. So if I can disrupt that rhythm, because when he catch it on the ISO, you know he want to hit you with that hang, dribble, left, and shoot his pull up. He want to catch the rhythm. So if I'm the opposite, if I'm the defensive team, as soon as he tries to get into his bag, I'm bringing the double team. That's going to knock him off rhythm. Now he don't know if you really want to shoot it or if he got to get out for it. So then if I get you to start second-guessing yourself, you ain't even thinking about going into your bag no more. You thinking about this dude who coming to double.

1:05:48Chad Johnson:Now I just need to make sure I get it to Jabari Smith or Shepard or the Thompson kid, you know what I mean, versus continue to be aggressive to be able to make plays. But he going to have to figure that part out. And this is how you know he wasn't aggressive.

1:06:02Shannon Sharpe:He only had 11 shot attempts. That's what I'm saying. Jabari Smith Jr. had 15. Tari Eason had 13. Shingun, 15. Amen Thompson, 19. Reed Shepard had more shot attempts than KD. Long as I keep him down here in these numbers like this here, he's not in that 19, 20, 22 shot. I'm good.

1:06:23Chad Johnson:We got a great shot for him. I'm good.

1:06:25Shannon Sharpe:What? I'm good. I'm good. Hey, and he only shot three free throws.

1:06:30Chad Johnson:Yeah.

1:06:30Shannon Sharpe:So now he's not aggressive looking for his shot, and he's not putting pressure on the defense trying to get to the basket and getting fouls. We're cool. I'm good with that.

1:06:39Chad Johnson:Yeah, I'm living with that all day long. Great game plan. I thought the Lakers ran into the tee the past couple of games. I'm talking about, man, they had him so flustered out there. I could see the frustration on his face. Hey, Joe, you see how he kept looking at a coach on the side loud? Yeah.

1:06:56Shannon Sharpe:They need a point guard.

1:06:57Chad Johnson:They don't have a point guard.

1:06:59Shannon Sharpe:I don't care. Armin Thompson is not a point guard. That would be a much better tee. I don't know what it look. Chris Paul ain't done. He retired. That's long gone. And so I don't want to be that important. But when Van Fleet got hurt.

1:07:12Chad Johnson:I mean, man, he tore his ACL, Ocho, what, eight, nine months ago? I mean. Yeah, he done for the year. He done. I know. I mean, I can't see him coming back being this year and being effective. Like, I think they're going to kind of have to roll with what they got. I mean, I don't know if they can sign anybody.

1:07:27Shannon Sharpe:No. Ain't nobody out there that can help them. And the problem that they ran into Ocho and Joe is that they signed KD and then Van Fleet did that. Yeah. I don't know if they sign him if Van Fleet's out. Right. Because you're counting on him. You have somebody that can run an offense that can get him the ball in his spots.

1:07:46Chad Johnson:Yeah. Yeah.

1:07:47Shannon Sharpe:So I don't mind. I don't mind. I don't mind Shingun. I don't mind Armin Thompson taking those shots. No. Because I'd rather they take those shots than Kevin Durant taking those shots.

1:07:56Chad Johnson:There you go. There you go.

1:07:57Shannon Sharpe:I can live with them.

1:07:59Chad Johnson:There you go.

1:08:00Shannon Sharpe:I can live with them. But the Lakers look good. They're playing really well. Luka's going to be Luka. Luka's going to get off to a hot start. He's leading the NBA with almost about 12 points in the first quarter, which would be, I think, the most in a shot clock era if he were to average that in any quarter. So he gets off to that hot start. And once he gets it going, if he knocks down those first two threes, you can kiss it goodbye. Because now he going to push you. You going to try to hug up on him. Now he going to get by you, get you on his back. He going to stop. You going to jump into him, and he going to get an and one.

1:08:39Shannon Sharpe:If you lay back on him, you try to lay back, okay. Hey, he going to snatch it, step behind the line, and shoot the three.

1:08:47Chad Johnson:He control the game, bro. Yes. He controls the game. He can foul bait you. Then once he go to foul bait you, you don't even want to foul. So now he know he can shoot that step back with no resistance. He know you ain't really going to contest. Now he got you at his mercy. You know what I mean? You dead, man. Yeah.

1:09:04Shannon Sharpe:And you see they try to bring Okogie in to try to pick him up full court. And they're like, okay, come on. That's what you want to do? Brr! Brr! He going to get you in foul trouble. So that's the thing. You've got to be able to throw a lot of different bodies. And the thing is, that's what OKC, that's what San Antonio can do. They can throw a lot of different people at him. There are not a whole lot of teams that have the bodies that can throw at Luka that can bother him. Right, right. But when you got Dort that you can throw at him, you got Wallace that you can throw at him, you got Casey you can throw at him, you got Caruso that you can throw at him, you can throw so many different guys at him.

1:09:45Shannon Sharpe:And obviously with San Antonio, with those guys, Champagne, and you got Castle. Castle needs to be first team all defense. I don't care what y 'all say. I agree.

1:09:53Chad Johnson:They built a way down. Listen, I know you love your Lakers. You know, Lakers and fans, all that joke. Yes. And, you know, we talked about regular season. Now, we talked about postseason. Now, do y 'all still have the faith in the Lakers to be able to win a series, even in the first round?

1:10:12Shannon Sharpe:Yes. It all depends on who they get in the first round. It's going to be very difficult for them to. But, look, when you got a guy like Luka, Luka can get 40.

1:10:20Chad Johnson:Yeah.

1:10:20Shannon Sharpe:LeBron, see, LeBron is playing the perfect role. this role for LeBron is the third option it only works if Austin Reed's going to give you what he's normally been giving you now he's kind of been off but if Austin Reed's going to give you his typical 25 points well it's no big deal for LeBron to play that third option LeBron don't even really be looking for his shots if you look at it he gets like 8 points on run out dunks he'll get one where they throw it to him down and he got the guy pinned on his back and he'll lay it up he'll hit a 3 and then other than that, but he's not really looking for his shot anymore.

1:10:55Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. And think about it. He got 14 shots up tonight. Made 13 of them. Hey, LeBron, is that aware where I don't need to be the aggressor anymore? I don't have to be the one to leave because Luka is doing what he's doing?

1:11:12Chad Johnson:Yes. Hey, old Joe.

1:11:14Shannon Sharpe:He's taking a career-low shot attempt. This is a career-low for him.

1:11:17Chad Johnson:You see how hard Kevin Durant got to work over there? And they wearing him down. Bron don't want to be like that, bro. You know, be that Swiss Army knife. Yeah, I'm going to come out and get you 20 to 30 points a night. Tonight he was feeling good, getting the rhythm. He going to be hard to stop his understanding of the game, knowing how not to get in the way of Luka and A.R. and just play his game. He's going to be perfect for him, bro. I think Unc and Ocho, I don't want to see them match up against the Timberwolves because the Timberwolves swept them. Maybe they want some get back, but it's just matchups, man.

1:11:57Shannon Sharpe:Oh, we've been putting that thing. We got the number now. Because, look, the thing is, Joe.

1:12:05Chad Johnson:What's up?

1:12:07Shannon Sharpe:Rudy Gobert ain't going to have a 27-20 game. He might have one.

1:12:12Chad Johnson:All he need is to have one, Unc. Nah. That's the problem. The problem is Ant-Man having two 40-point games. That's the problem. And McDaniel. Oh, Ant-Man going to have a couple 40-point games. I can promise you that. But the thing is, is that I think now the bench, you know,

1:12:29Shannon Sharpe:and I keep beating on this in chat. I don't want to be the dead horse. But Luke Kennard, when he comes in the game, he used to be a spot-up. Luke Kennard is looking to put the ball on the floor. He's looking to threaten the defense, and I love that. Yes, he can shoot the three. But, hey, run him off the line and see why he put it on the floor

1:12:47Chad Johnson:and get to the rim. He helping them win games. Absolutely. And this win streak that they got, he is definitely helping them win games. He has been a great piece. He was just out here in Atlanta playing with the Hawks. Yeah, we appreciate that. He get to L.A., he out there balling like a dog.

1:13:03Shannon Sharpe:Yes, I appreciate that. And you see LeBron, hey, getting to the rim, two-puts, flush, passing the eight. Hey, I ain't going to lie. I ain't going to lie. Pull up eight in chat. Pull up Aiden. Aiden was saying what I've been saying all along. Aiden said that ain't me. You got it? Well, Aiden look good. Yeah, put his whole quote up, yeah. DeAndre Aiden says he noticed how locked in Luca and LeBron are and said he's tired of being the odd man out. Aiden is also relearning how to make an impact without being the focus of an offense. He was like, we're going to pull his quotes up because he said like, bro, this ain't it.

1:13:44Shannon Sharpe:This ain't it. Well, hell, he showed it tonight. He was 8 for 10 with 16.

1:13:50Chad Johnson:Yeah. Well, he probably – It's his activity. Yeah, he probably had different expectations coming into this season, probably thinking they was going to play through him and things like that. But they need him to be high energy, pick and roll. Yes. Catch lobs, catch it in the little dunker spot. Make your little jump hooks, your little floaters right there in the paint. Be a big presence defensively. You know, yeah, you may not block a lot of shots, but we need you to alter a few down here. You know what I mean? And let's start the break and get going. And if he done figured that out, the Lakers might be on to something.

1:14:22Chad Johnson:Y 'all might be all right.

1:14:27I think the thing is, Joe, look, out of 30 teams,

1:14:32Shannon Sharpe:there ain't a whole lot of bigs getting the offense run through them. Yoke, Embiid when he's fully healthy That's about it Ain't no other big Get no offense, run through them No sir Yoke it and Embiid when Embiid is healthy

1:14:48Chad Johnson:Other than that Get it out the rim What about young boy down there in San Antonio Or he only had the four

1:14:56Shannon Sharpe:He don't play no pose He don't play no big He more like a stretch He a five But he's a stretch He's shooting threes. He's shooting middies. Okay. This is what DeAndre Ayton said. I just started looking in the mirror and said, yo, bro, you're not that guy. You don't need to be this on this team doing that and all. This team, you come in here to be an effort guy and to close out possessions, rebound, run the down floor hard as hell, make bigs work, make superstars work, and I'm having fun with it. I'm not going to lie. I'm telling you, once I sit that long, that's usually it. It's like, you out of the game for a reason.

1:15:43Shannon Sharpe:Go think about it. But lately, he's been DA. Nah, DA, you good. And I've completely bought in, completely, like 100%. I hope you see the work. Oh, Joe, what have you been saying? I like it. Yeah, you've been saying it for a minute. But listen, we talk about one game, right? And most of the time when it comes to players, Joe, you know, you know if it's in you or it's not you know you say the right things but it all comes down to your play if you ain't been that type of player your whole career all of a sudden you ain't finna magically turn into somebody else all of a sudden could you see what other players are doing on the court you should already be locked in he but here's the thing he's never been around two there you go he's never been around two players like luca and lebron there you go book is good but he ain't LeBron and Luka.

1:16:33Shannon Sharpe:Chris Paul is good. And if you go back in Portland, yeah, but those guys are different animals. And he see how they approach it. It's hard when you watch LeBron, by the time you get there, he's already got a shoot around, he's already got a lift in, and he's just waiting on practice to start. So he's already done all that. You see that. You see Luka in every game. he's trying to literally kill somebody. And he said, all I got to do is run the damn flow. Think about how many lobs he get from Luka. How many lobs he get from LeBron. How many lobs he get from AR. That's all he... Hey, hey, hey, hey.

1:17:11Shannon Sharpe:He got 16 points.

1:17:12Chad Johnson:Hey, hey, Uncle Ocho. Man, and ain't nothing wrong with that, bro. They pay a lot of money for guys to do that. Yes! The rim run, block shot, rebound. Have high energy. you know act like you care when you act man they pay a lot of money for that bro yo joe you play you played the game right like at what point does it get like that to a point where it takes you being and playing with certain individuals for you to play a certain way when it should already be in you it's being well how you gonna tell me oh because now i'm playing with the lakers oh now i need to be a different player oh now i need to be motivated and inspired because of the way they play you should have been that animal long ago that's all i'm saying Hey, when it comes to you, when you play tight end, you ain't had to play with the greats in order for you to be great.

1:18:00You locked in. That's already in you. You can't teach that. Either you got it or you don't.

1:18:07Chad Johnson:So there you go, Ocho. You don't know until you get around some much better players, and then you're like, hold on. Okay, dude a little different. Or, you know, he trained a little different. Or he always locked in. You know what I mean? Like, you got some cats. They wait. Okay, game at 7 o 'clock, they wait till 5 o 'clock to focus and lock in. But then you got some cats, Ocho, they naturally just locked in from the night before. Like, they sleep about it. They dream about it. They love the game that much. You know what I mean? Some cats just don't move like that.

1:18:40Shannon Sharpe:Here's the biggest thing. Ocho, he was the number one pick in the draft. The number one pick in the draft, get the offense run through them. He's supposed to be the guy. He's supposed to be Jokic. He's supposed to be in B. You dump the ball down to me. You clear out so the double can't come and let me go to work. So in his mind, as the number one overall pick, that is his expectation. The number one overall pick, I get the ball. I handle the ball. As the number one option, I get whatever I want to get. If I want to shoot 25 times, I shoot 25 times. But that's not on this team. He's never going to be number one.

1:19:17Shannon Sharpe:So if he could get easy buckets, all he has to do is run the floor. Like Joe say, run to the front of the rim.

1:19:23Chad Johnson:Man.

1:19:24Shannon Sharpe:Put pressure on the defense. Either they're going to come take Luka, and he's going to lob it up, and you're going to get an easy dunk, or they're going to come get LeBron or AR, they bounce it to you, and you dunk it home. And when they go to the rim, follow them.

1:19:38Chad Johnson:Yeah.

1:19:38Shannon Sharpe:Because somebody's going to try to block the shot, and that's an easy putback for you.

1:19:42Chad Johnson:Yeah, and that's the bonus you get for playing with guys with high IQs like LeBron. Yes. Because not only can they score the ball at a high efficient rate, they're so great and they have such a great feel for the game that they understand, okay, boom, Aiden ain't had one. Let's give them an easy one. You know what I mean? Let's throw a lob. Let's give them a touch or two. Because we know if we give you a lob dunk or some easy buckets, we know how hard you're going to play on the other end. You know what I mean? So we got to keep feeding you every night and then. So all you got to do, you set them picks, rim run, get them dudes open, Lakers might have a chance to do a little something.

1:20:18Chad Johnson:Look at when Luka was in Dallas.

1:20:21Shannon Sharpe:Look at Lively. Look at Daniel Gafford. When LeBron played with Tristan Thompson, got Tristan Thompson,$80 million. He couldn't shoot a 15-footer. Nothing. I'm serious, bro. You didn't know if he was left-handed or right-handed, but, hey, the checks, every two, once them, the first and the 15th, the check was direct deposit.

1:20:44Chad Johnson:Hey, you knew you was going to get all out hustle from him. He was going to outwork his man. He was going to rebound and rim run. That's all he did, bro.

1:20:54Shannon Sharpe:We're not asking you to be Jokic. We don't need you to be Joel Embiid. All we need for you to give us consistent effort. That's it. Ocho, it would be great if he gave us 15 and 10 on a nightly basis, but we understand some night it might be 8 and 12.

1:21:12Chad Johnson:Yeah.

1:21:13Shannon Sharpe:All we want is consistent effort. And if you look at the last four to five games, that's what he's giving you. That's what they need from him. They got enough scoring. You got Luka and you got AR, you got LeBron. Rui going to hit you some big shots. Marcus Smart is playing extremely well. I like the way Marcus Smart is playing. He's a defensive round. Drawing charges, taking the ball away. I love the way he plays.

1:21:37Chad Johnson:Huge pickup. Huge pickup for the Lakers to get him. But I'll kind of piggyback what you said. I think Aiden has realized he wants to continue. He wants to continue his job and do it at a high efficient rate, which is why he's acknowledging, you know, hey, we got a chance to really be a pretty good team. If I just do my part, Bron do his part, Luka do his part, AR do his part collectively as a team, we might can come out of here and squeeze us a round or two. Uh-huh. Hey. And guess what, Joe? What's up?

1:22:12Shannon Sharpe:Man, I'm messing around the average 12 and 12 in the postseason. Somebody might write me a check for 200. Beep. Beep. Beep. Yeah. Man, what? Wait. Because guess what, Ojo? He's like 25, 26? Yeah. No, he's about 27. I think he's about 27.

1:22:33Chad Johnson:I don't think he's going to have to really do something in the postseason to get 200, it but he can he it can happen yeah yes he's 27 so you know them postseason runs joe they go a long

1:22:44Shannon Sharpe:way yeah yeah i remember your postseason run and finish got you like hey hey hey hey hey hey now

1:22:52Chad Johnson:hey joe joe would give them buckets hey hey okay oh joe i had my money made when i broke my orbital bone i ain't even had to come back but i came back anyway you know what i mean it gave me and put work on him. Oh man, we supposed to have got us one bro. Hey, we was only together one year, man. I got the chance to play with Nash one year. Obviously, Amari, Sean Marion, and Quentin Richland, I only got to play for one year. Man, them dudes like my brothers, man. I promise y 'all all we needed was three years. We at least got one. We got one.

1:23:27Shannon Sharpe:But I think that's the thing. They need consistent effort. And he's giving them consistent effort. The numbers are going to be what they beat. Some days he might give you 20 and 10. Some days it might be 10 and 12. Some days it might be a 16, four and two game. Yeah. But all they need is the consistent effort. If he gives them consistent effort, I can live with anything else. Oh, Joe, what do you tell us? Joe, just play fast. If you make a mistake, make it full speed. We'll coach up. We'll coach. So I coach up, but I just want you, if you make a mistake, make it full speed. Just don't have facet.

1:24:01Chad Johnson:Right. Right.

1:24:04Shannon Sharpe:Go, son, go, go. What are you waiting on? Out there thinking. Yeah. Go full speed.

1:24:13Chad Johnson:Yeah. Hey, I think.

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