1:56:13 PRIME TIME GIL ARENAS! Personally I think the take of Gils NBA legacy being tarnished by the gun incident is gonna age like milk. This man has so much humour, insight and personality I wouldn't be surprised if he's remembered as one of the Godfathers of NBA New Media.
Please do time stamps to mark which topic is being discussed. I’d love the hear his takes on many topics but I’m not watching 3hrs video. Keep up the great work !
Yeah! Same here! Gilbert has that voice for Radio and Televison and I can listen to him all day and I’m Fifty years old. Gilbert besides DL compliments Dj Vlads show.
Kareem was schooling prime Shaq. Kareem had crazy foot work and post moves. When the only thing you can judge by are high light videos you don't see the whole picture. I get it because we are all the same way of out of sight out of mind. Most players before the 90s don't have alot of video footage because the industry had not advanced yet. For example I got cable TV in 1987. There was a total of 66 channels or so. How many had sport on them? Maybe 4 or 5. Tnt, abc,cbs,NBC, espn was just starting. Maybe fox and it did it was a new station so probably no sports yet. Any thing in the 80s or earlier was an Era of you had to be there to believe that it happened
I love how people always say Kareem had the Skyhook, like it's a detraction. He's a Big that can shoot. He also had a turn around jumper. He literately could score from anywhere inside of the arch. Shaq on the other hand was dunks and jump hooks most of the time. A Wemby sized Kareem went at Wilt, I'm sure a prime Kareem would've done well against Shaq.
Also klay isnt the same dude, steph is 34. But I think alot of ppl would lose respect for giannis. He may not get the it doesn't count narrative, but it would change peoples perception. Giannis is seen as a throw back that wants to compete not join up & that along with his fun personality gives him alot of resistance to criticism.
Love Gil and his views on the game but I’m not fully sold on bird vs bron 1v1 I’ll give you Larry’s shot but he mentioned strength and there’s no damn way Larry stopping him from driving to the rim consistently
How do you rank players from vastly different eras. Players develop the game over time. Can you say you're better than someone when your game is based on their game? Without him, would there be a you? IMHO the most impressive athletes, artists, and other creatives are those who made huge impacts in their discipline when there were little to no templates to draw inspiration from. If I birthed your style, how are you better?
Gil is showing he was very young like a baby during those years he wasn’t winning, they destroyed Jordan for only being a scorer and not caring about winning, the old heads shitted on him. If social media existed back in the day, he would be destroyed and still loved
He still didn’t have it worse than Lebron, with Jordan they were going by history. Historically a scoring champ had won a title very few times until that point, so that’s the main reason why they said that in those days.
He said by the time this interview comes out the series is gonna be over... nigga the Finals ended a month ago and this shit is just now coming out 😂 DENVER WON 🏆
Ppl, Magic was NOT a 1v1 on ball defender. In fact, it was his one & only deficiency cause he lacked lateral quickness. Go watch full games. The Lakers would hide him on D having him guard either slow white dudes or big men..... Furthermore, with MJs legendary HOF tier quick 1st step and ability to go either way, split doubles or pull up for a jumper, there was no man alive who could check MJ 1v1....period they end. This is NO exaggeration even in the slightest sense. It took multiple ppl on D just to slow MJ down. Go watch every Bulls finals game rn, not highlights. Start from 91 game 1 vs Lakers. Enjoy
One thing people love to conflate. Social issues with political. Black Lives Matter is more of a social movement than political. Politics aside. We just want people to treat each other better. So if you don’t like that message than something is wrong with you.
Kareem would have killed Shaq!!! People keep forgetting they had some of the most competitive teams back during the 80s and they were all much more physical. That was the Golden era of NBA centers with Bill Laimbeer, Artis Gilmore, Moses Malone, Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Robert Parrish. All big physical centers. Compare them to best centers in Shaq's era that he had to compete with. Tim Duncan was probably the best in shaq's era and he won five championships to Shaq's four. In fact I would put Tim Duncan over Shaq.
Can't say White Chicks can't happen reversed when Tropic Thunder happened around the same time and Rober Downey Jr got an Oscar nomination for his blackface. I'm not mad at it either just saying that's actually BEEN happening and has always been done w/o repercussions to the actors involved.
I get that Stephen A. Is the main stream guy but Vlad please stop plucking Quotes from that dude. He will say anything to boost his ratings and make people keep having these conversations about what he says,
Yeah out of them all that’s the one I disagree with most. Even against Jordan I believe Lebron just goes to the post. Why go dribble when you can take it down low where Mike could stop him or Bird.
Dude larry bird would kill lebron. If bird plays off of lebron to stop the drive, lebron is NOT going to out-shoot bird. Bird had GAME. theres a reason when people who played against him feared him. Plsyers dont fear lebron like that
When lebron left he was NOT the only one..a couple of players left...cavs brought in new coach....those were even GREATER factors then lebron leaving....then also the ENTIRE team was built around lebron...so ANY team would struggle with new players..coaches..systems....so the lazy "take" that cavs struggled just because of lebron is CAP!
If only JM could have looked into the future and seen NBA youngboy May 17th 2024 and the situation he's in... I feel like I just went back into the past like Marty McFly watching this video and then came back to the future to warn people.😂
