KG & Matt Barnes break down why Deandre Ayton got dominated by Jokic | KG CERTIFIED 

You have the best playoff highlights bruv

He really is full of life and heart for a guy that’s 96 years old

Hopefully he can cut down on the obscenities when he reaches old age.

He's being himself and not pretending to be something he ain't.

Shud become suns assistant coach with Sam Cassell as the coach

True definition of intensity I'm glad we had him for the few years he was in Boston, forever my fav player.

😆lol! you're so right. i mean he is commeneting or make observations about jokic and he sounds like he is getting ready to play him in a couple days!

@@swarajthapa5798 lol you gonna tell him?

Amplive

It was a true blessing watching him in his prime in Minnesota and tail end of it at Boston. One of the last of a dying breed.

Sativa v Indica. 😆

ID TAKE KG AT MINNESOTA OVER JOKIC ITS TOUGH BUT I LOVE KG ON MINNESOTA

Matt is probably thinking "Stop it, Jokic would own you like Dirk and Timmy did. Even Zach Randolph gave you headaches."

@@PSi-fp8ve The Wolves KG that got owned by Dirk in the matchups and swept by Dallas 😂 KG is a piece of the puzzle, not a centerpiece franchise player like Jokic.

He already said he cant because he'll kill someone eventually

@@leagueleaders Lmao and I believe him

​@@leagueleaders haha too true. they say it's a nightmare being a coach bc you're not in direct control, and nobody would hate that more than kg, he would be going back to the locker room to suit up 1st time there's a breakdown on defense

What he's saying is simple stuff. The thing is you can't teach high energy, high motor, you have to want to stop someone and ayton just doesn't have it

@@kautetahi True. Defence comes down to "bully" mentality. You just have to be willing to break into a dude's wife and take his shit, and dare him to do something about it. If you don't have this mentality, then you will always be one step behind. Even if you have the IQ and skills.

Even when you do that, Jokic still finds a way to be impactful 😂💯

That’s exactly why the clippers blew a 3-1 lead

He needs to go in the lab with you in the summer KG.

Lakers in 5 🥱

haha yeah

It’s the European culture… they don’t try to show people up or run their mouth like you see with American born basketball players. It’s a good quality to have.

​@@calebjakande4294 that's bullshit and you know it bruh

He did the same with Towns and Gobert. Towns was a good sport about it though. But provocation would never happen between Jokic and Ayton. You could tell Ayton looks up to Jokic, Jokic might be his idol. It's like that with many bigs around the league. They all admire and respect Jokic as a person and basketball player. Watch Davis be similar to Ayton because he too respects him.

@@front331 I think the respect is mutual between the 2… Jokic has always praised Ayton… Jokic actually said in an interview that Ayton is his toughest matchup. Well this series Ayton played bad. Jokic always has big games against the Suns so that did not surprise me but… in the past Ayton has always played him tough and made him work for it… so watching Ayton out there was surprising and disappointing. this series Jokic just dominated the entire Suns team.

​@@calebjakande4294you're lying, See Luka Doncic

Denver built that team the right way.

AD and the King are coming Lakers

@@shurace and the Nuggets will expose that overrated Lakers team Nuggets in 6

​@@dxtremecaliber exposed is in 4, maybe 5 for the gentlemen's sweep. 6 just means y'all won

Phoenix sun's did not adjust to jokic his too good of a player to not show him different looks in defense. You gotta either play him starlight up and get his and try to make it difficult for him or take his passing away. He got both in this series, his slicing them up with his scoring and passing that can't be a great game plan for this dude his a back to back mvp. The sun's been a bad defense team all year, so it makes sense they wouldn't make any adjustments.

I kinda feel the opposite. There has always been this sort of "his game is so good but it's a next level, subtle, kind of good that you have to really understand the game to appreciate" when people talked about him. I'm glad fans who've never really watched him play, but heard all the debate about his MVPs, are seeing that whatever else he might be as player, he's also an unstoppable baller who can drop 50 in a playoff game dropping shots from all over the place. His game is sublime, but now they know he's a straight up dog too.

He only scores so much bc no one is touching him or making him run back to play defense his stamina hasn’t been tested bc he rests on defense and has so much energy to score and assist really like KG said put a body on him early not just letting him trot up and down the court he will dominate otherwise

Matt Barnes is the only player in nba history to play for all 4 California teams take that New York they call New York the Mecca but has only 2 rings California teams 25 rings

Cant really call Matt Barnes a laker when he's played for like half the teams in the league

​@Doc Holiday Rent Free Lol Get NY balls out your mouth😂 NY being called the Mecca has nothing to do with the NBA but if we're talking NBA, only in NY can you have a trash team for a decade with no Stars like LA and still be in top 3 in attendance and value, that's a benefit of NY being the Mecca.

It's pretty elevated in this clip...they're like the "Adderall/Thorazine Combo" in this one! Lol.

kd overlooking just how good Jokic is. Jokis has been the best offensive player in NBA for the 3rd year running; and his playoff performance thus far has been even better

Yeah but now he's in the argument of best passer of all time. I'd say ZBo and Bird because of this. He just mentioned Dirk cause Dirk knocked him outta the playoffs. Now personality wise He and Dirk is more alike as Dirk was as Humble a Superstar as you get and Jokic will never toot his own horn. But he will stand up for himself. You don't want to make guys like Jokic mad, Cause they don't get mad just to trash talk and blow off steam. They rarely do and they lose it because they aren't doing it for show.

You could throw bird in there. Magic too.

This is a decent comp, but missing the passing Element. It just describes the offensive rebounding/scoring.

​@Treechi Gotti the fact that you chose those specific words to address and not what he was talking about makes you Hella sus. You got sumn you wanna tell us tough guy, lmao. PAUSE

@Treechi Gotti it buggs me out how some people are insecure..... Charles on TNT keeps sayin wild ish and nobody would call him gay... keep it basketball yo

Naw it’s weird for someone to add “pause” to their comment. I’ve never actually seen that when commenting on basketball and it is suspect.

​@@deelak2329 should be dirk, zbo/timmy duncan, and webber for passing

-- Agree. KG has the passion and Barnes is smooth as a motha'. Pierce? He's is the Kenny Smith of TNT. And Capt Jack? Kenny's older goofy cousin.

Put them all on one cast

KG speaks so fast he hardly knows what he's saying half the time, ya 'no I'm sayin'?

​@@jlui21 Pierce not no Kenny foh don't ever disrespect a hall of famer the truth.

Stak is low key fake. His energy doesn’t seem genuine but hey this is just my opinion

YEAH BUT ALSO HE WAS GOOD TOO HE WAS NEXT LEVEL NEXT LEVEL AT MINNESOTA ID TAKE HIM OVER A TON OF BIGMAN THAT YEAR WEAR THEY LOST TO KOBE IN THE WESTERN CONFRENCE FINALS

That's the thing KG understands about defense on players at the level of Jokic. It's not about stopping them, you can't. It's the thing that the players who defended (not stopped, not shut down) players like Kobe, Jordan, LeBron, etc. the best understand. It's about letting them know you're gonna be there all day and make them work for every moment they're on the floor. His most important point was about meeting him at the free throw line and running up the court with him. Make them work continually for everything. If your effort begins when players at that level get the ball, you've already lost. You do that relentlessly, game after game, and the last 5 minutes of a vital 4th quarter of a game 6 or 7, maybe they can't quite get to that special level because the tank is nearly empty. You didn't stop them in that moment, you stopped them 6 games back making them work their ass off on a simple inbound pass half way through the first quarter. It's not easy to bring that intensity and never let up when they are dropping shots on you left and right, but it's why the KGs and Rodmans of the game were special.

Dwight was a really good defender in his day, I'd say he'd do better than KG also because he's 25 pounds heavier. But Jokic in the bubble doesn't compare to now. He's much much smarter and more mature.

Dwight’s success came because he’s in terrific shape physically and plays ABOVE THE RIM on both ends. That’s Jokic’s kryptonite. Those centers are gone now and fat out of shape centers like Jokic are all that’s left. He’s no MVP with Shaq or KG or Dwight roaming the paint. He’d be dawg food. Luka too.

@@VillainArch22 LOL

@@VillainArch22 why are they gone

@@VillainArch22 Just another dumb black racist. Maybe you should take a IQ test and think long and hard on what exact questions you failed on that you thought were Racist. Finding none, then you have to turn inwards.. And I guarantee you would have a lot to chew on if you were ever man enough.

Usually you can't trust people like that

You like looking into men eyes

@@cutc2k764 Its about respect.. Only kids are avoiding eye contact.

@@PartyFighter123nah you sus

Unless he is aboriginal, which I suspect he is not, he is more likely a flaky individual. Which doesn't surprise me given all that weed he smokes.

This is not true, he said the same about Embiid

​@@Ericoo365They been saying that about Giannis for 4 years straight. And I'd love to see the day a team plays Giannis 1 on 1 like they did Joker. 😅

Hakeem already called Jokic "The One" if anything, that shuts it down. Dream said it and meant it, his word means more than KG tbh.

@@TheAbielBeluts This. Hakeem's word on it has the heaviest weight imaginable.

They weren't gonna get out the 1st round with that squad

@@guillermovalenzuela537 you don’t know that. They were good regardless of the starters constantly being injured. They were among the top in the west even with Crowder and Cam J not playing. Then even more injuries happened especially to the starters and they still avoided the play in. Healthy they looked like a really strong team even with not trading Crowder yet

@@indamaking agreed. They were all starting to come back from injury while Mikkal was already shinning since ‘23 started. Plus they had trading assets. They had Crowder and Saric + picks. Another wing defender would had made this team tough. I wanted them to wait till the end of the year if it didn’t work then go after KD but i understand why they went for it

We lost by 30 to the mavs with that same heart of team guy, also he disappeared in the finals the year before. Got swept round 1 with the nets also and didn't play well lol

@@tru3dialect the other team had the best player in the series. Mentioning a young role player disappearing in his first finals let alone playoffs is pretty wild

They had it with the Pacers.

@@theklr they held his ass hostage then got mad when it didn’t work 😂😂😂

@@aboutmillions then fired the coach who wanted him gone…

@@aboutmillions u dumb ash if u don’t think they tried to trade him. Bro was asking for ultra mega super max. Nobody wanted him

@@theklr RIGHT!!!! lol and they prolly gone trade him this summer. Just idiotic GM'ing all around.

I agree but then I think that’s kind of hard with KD & Book on his team offensively…

Exactly ppl keep letting him just mosey down the court he barely breaks a sweat on defense and offensively he gets to his spots to easily

He would play hard unlike Ayton who isn't lol

@@baldeagle7800 Jokic is that guy, no doubt

Jokic is in a lot better shape than most of these guys think he is. Dude has to play half his games at altitude, and anyone trying to push the pace on him there is going to be gassed early and then Jokic can just toy with them the rest of the game. Outside Denver, they can probably push it longer, but Jokic is going to have more wind there, too.

Wilt was the Most Dominant on the inside. But Jokic is the most Skilled Big man ever. Both have Strength and Skill and share some overlap. but both are off the charts at what they were the best at. Shaq toots his own horn. But he was like a Bigger, more muscle bound Z-Bo(but way less skilled). He's a all time great but not as great as he is inside his own head. You put Wilt in the late 80's with all the pills and personal coaches and cooks, That man would be absolutely killing shaq. You put shaq in the late 60's and 70's and without all those personal trainers, cooks, pills(Cause you know you gonna be Rich as opposed to what they paid players in the 60's) and he really would be just a Fat Giant with little skill. Think Oliver Miller instead of Big Aristotle.

have you ever heard of a guy named lebron james 🤣

@@marcrego196 You ever heard of a discussion about best All Time Centers and some Idiotic Fool comes in with PF(Look that up) Lebron James and some stupid crying smiley face emoji as if he owned anything other than his left thumb which he is sitting on with it stuck way up his arse.

​@Marc Rego did not know lebron is a center.

Jokic doesn't dominate defensively. Therefore, he will never be the greatest center of all time. Period

AD ain't handling nobody

@T Love I already knew this, but hearing KG say what he would do and thinking that its nothing like Anthony Davis was just funny considering what ppl are saying 😂😂😂😂

AD can’t handle Jokic 😂

no one guy can but I think he's more equipped to than anybody else, none of the other shot blockers in the league have the same combination of strength, mobility and length except jjj. I'd rather leave him alone with AD than send help

AD is 250 at the best, Jokic is 290. He will eat AD at the post. And from the last time they met, Jokic is much better than he was.

i bet la would like to have kg in roster now :)

"maybe" I mean at this point the only maybe is if he's the best passer of all time full stop

@@QGfk1 Exactly, he might be the best passer ever, not only for a big man but for every position and im a Lebron fan, Jokic is just an ALL TIME great player and some people hate analytics but these same people will tell you MJ, Lebron, Shaq, Wilt, Kareem, Curry, Duncan, Hakeem, KD ect are Top 10 and guess what, they all dominated the analytics stats, almost every years (Like 90%) the MVP lead the league in most analytics stats, and both MJ and Lebron who are the 2 GOAT dominated the analytics stats like no other players, and Jokic right now look like he is in the middle of his GOAT peak …

@@QGfk1 he is a great passer, no question. But I’m not convinced that he’s better than Magic or Bird.

@@QGfk1 he’s not a better overall passer than magic or bird yet. There’s also kidd, peak cp3, bron, Nash, and others that are comparable or better. Now he’s definitely in the convo. But not quite the best just yet.

Well what you’re talking about is not the same as a “dig”…what you’re talking about is a full commit. A “dig” however is where the guard is basically halfway between the perimeter player and post player. Defender is feinting at the post player but not fully committing unless the post turns his back. It’s to discourage all the post dribbling and staying in position to double or go for a steal if the opportunity presents itself, but you can also still close out on the perimeter defender. If you played college, you basically spend 3/4 of practice doing it lol. Problem is that most NBA players, especially the younger ones, don’t know how to play defense….and the ones who do don’t really want to. Plus add in fans who don’t really want to see that. But trust there were MULTIPLE things they could’ve done to slow him down

Who is Zobo?

@@AVC2323he meant “Zebo” Zach Randolph

To be frank, anybody playing the Joker quits. It's pointless actually even trying to stop him.

The coach & star players already quit on him. The franchise didn't believe in him to give the max & the team doesn't feed him to maximize his talent. He's a 20-10 center. Nd can be more impactful if given the heart. Or maybe he just don't love the game

@@Atlas365247 Not true, he actually worked very hard to improve his game, which he did and ended up signing a 4 year 132 million dollar contract. I hate it when people make up narratives, like they know a guy, when they're just fans who have no idea what's going on. If people want to talk film fine. But don't speculate on an actual pro athlete's character, when they most likely have probably worked most of their life being a supreme basketball player. Deandre Ayton can always say that he will be closer to the level of a Lebron James in his prime than you as a fan can say you personally are compared to the worst NBA player in the league.

​@@kanajingly8957 ayye bro loosen those knee pads you got on. It's not making you think straight

@@Atlas365247 thank you!!! They didn’t believe in him. If you look at it now they didn’t believe in the process. They don’t utilize him and it’s very diminishing when a 2 time MVP does his thing but you don’t get the opportunity to go back at him. We lost this series because we stopped playing Suns basketball. Stopped the ball movement and 0.5 offense to iso ball and stopped using our bench. If DA was the main reason for the issue then we shouldn’t have gotten embarrassed again

Fools Gold, but ya it's super Confusing seeing flashes because inevitably they'll be more let downs than flashes

Unfortunately as much as we blame DA from his lack of interest. That ‘21 run both Monty , James Jones and us fans let him down. Monty allowed him to get embarrassed by the all time great Giannis , James didn’t show him the respect by not giving him the contract be earned that post season which mostly he was our most consistent player, and us fans were so harsh on the kid we blamed him so much for alot of things that weren’t his fault. I Can really see this guy being great in another team and us as Suns fans dont admit to all those facts

He doesnt like the coach, the kobe wannabe in Book and the showing up to work in that environment. Just needs a change of venue.

@@DavidGarcia-on9gn I understand that man but he is supposed to use that as a motivation to prove everybody wrong … that’s how a competitor would think but he lack confidence or I don’t know what’s happening in his mind.

@@Supervagabond3 Ayton always wanted to have a bigger role in the offense… and Monty just shunned him. Ayton has done everything the Coach and organization has asked and never complained… that changed last season when they didn’t want to give him the max. He sacrificed offensive stats and concentrated on defense for the sake of the team during that Finals run. And then they didn’t want to pay him. If they truly didn’t want him and believed he wasn’t worth the max then they wouldn’t of matched the Pacers offer. James Jones just wanted to try and retain Ayton on a cheaper contract and now it’s blowing back on them. Shoot even bringing in KD I knew it was going to make the team worse… only player to benefit playing with KD was Booker… CP3’s assist went down, Ayton and the rest of the team other than Booker’s scoring has went down… the team got significantly worse on defense… no chemistry and they offense has become way more predictable with this heavy iso offense. Now they are hard capped so bring in new additional players will be impossible and they give up 4 future first round picks.

Ray Lewis killed a guy and no one cares lol

Faacts,like he alluded to as far as physicality...nobody and I mean noooobody in todays game fouls out anymore. Like you got 5 of them thanks for a reason..try to frustrate your opponent,throw off his rhythm,etc..the crazy thing is Jokic perimeter D is a lil sus so why not let DA come out a little to show some skills but as I type this shit..Yeah dat nigga Joker the truth fr! Didn't have him as my MVP..had Greek Freek but um yeah!

@@antoniomcmahon3499 Ayton just isn’t a dog like that yet.. the moment was to big for him, he was playing that soft ass defense against Joker the whole series! like KG said, Joker wasn’t complaining one bit 😂 he took all that space Ayton provided him and simply picked the whole damn defense apart

@@BIGZphillybirdfan yeah maan, he definitely needs new scenery but that contract may be hampering! Me and my brother get into it all the time about why no one plays in post anymore...and you right, u gotta want it up in there!!!

@@antoniomcmahon3499 great post work takes a lot of skill, having footwork, timing, knowing how to create a little separation, having touch.. it takes a lot of time and practice

Yea but he was quick to rule out ever coaching because he believes he would be fired the next day following his hire

@andysmilos lmao that is funny honestly. I believe he would be a good coach on any team with a thriving big man, maybe not a head coach but he had knowledge to give.

He got fed to start every game, he couldn't convert. He's also getting paid $30 million a year to do the dirty work, is that not motivation enough? Plenty of big men around the league get less touches and are paid less, but don't seem to have a problem doing the dirty work (Looney, Zubac, Robert Williams, Poeltl, Capela, etc.)

Yeah I'm sure they had strategies against Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Shaq, but at the end of day some players are just too great to be stopped.

💯

"it's just not the same as it used to be" is how every single thing has been described forever. there were probably ancient Greeks complaining about how these Olympians nowadays are soft, not like they were 20 years ago

​@@Wyndamn jokic is such a unique problem too bc nobody can guard him alone (maybe ad can actually do a decent job, at least better than anybody else), but if you try to double or send help at best he's gonna hit a guy for a wide open 3, but he'll probably hit a guy for a layup. and you cannot ever switch on him

@@QGfk1 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 man these Olympic athletes soft AF, ain't nobody died , had sex with there mother or killed a minotaur or nothing!!!

We will see next match up ayton didn’t play physically at all with joker like kg said gotta get physical with with elbow him bump him joker did it to ayton that’s why he sat out last game with rib injury

I was with you till you said he was the best passer ever. Better than Nash, Stockton, magic, and Bron already huh? Okay

@@paulturner8550 Yes he very well could be, just youtube jokic passing. Dude has like 45 minuet reels of just otherworldly vision. And he's only 28, he's only getting better.

​@@paulturner8550 I too was hesitant to go that far already, but after watching Thinking Basketball's video about Jokic potentially being the best passer ever, I started to include him in these conversations, his IQ is off the charts

@@paulturner8550 he’s no where on those player’s level when it comes to passing. He is the best passing Center I’ve seen but to compare him to PG’s like Nash, Magic, Stockton and Kidd is ridiculous. Westbrook, Harden, Luka are also high assist players… nobody has them as all time great passing guards.

Imagine Jokic with Ayton's athleticism or Ayton with Jokic's skill and touch.

@@71SanClare wilt chamberlain is his name

@@71SanClare wilt chamberlain

What are you watching? Homie has no touch around the basket.

​@@someguy9981 He actually has a great touch. Just no heart.

Did you see AD worry about getting his 'touches' last night? He just worried about touching every rebound and touching anyone's shots who came near the paint.

@@someguy9981 I’m actually watching, that’s the thing. Your comment proves to met that you don’t watch

@@daveclark8337 horrible comparison, AD was and is a star, he has nothing to prove in the league. He gets his touches no matter what, he’s not asked to be a glue guy. Not close to the same situation

same stats as duncan,duncan just had better team and coach so he win more

@@ziginaigra Of course and the impact of TD to win was different.

That’s what he wanted, he was very clear about not wanting to be there, they were signaling that they didn’t want him there. He wanted to be featured, like a normal #1 pick so he signed with Indiana and begged the Suns not to match his deal. They matched.

I really don't understand Ayton man...I feel like every time I watch the Suns he's getting like 12-15 points in a quarter and then 2 points the rest of the game.

Hahahaha he just doesn't love it.... Cp3 has been feeding him all season his motor just doesn't burn hot

that sounds like an Ayton problem, no drive

problem is when you pass to him he loses the ball half the time

They would pass more to him if he didn't fumble the dang ball so much

Truthfully, he hasn't been the same since then

True

@@charlesconner9044 Truthfully he got dominated by Jokic, because Jokic is the most dominant player we've seen at 7 feet tall since Shaq.

Wow. He/his team got dominated by top 10-15 players of all time. No one ever calls out players that got dominated by other stars like Shaq, Bron, Jordan. We tend to praise the offensive players. But when someone finds a scapegoat they will run with it.

calm down man, he dominated by all time greats, not some randome dudes

Sabonis is an awful defender what are you talking about????

He is average, why do you say he is awful because he is white you clown?

what?? didnt jokic put 40 on sac this season?

Sabonis was soft like Charmin against the Warriors. He was awful in that series!

@@philb.1502 Does Jokic play for the Warriors?

KG’s mentality getting get him a ring in Minnesota though. DA isn’t the reason they don’t have two rings. He’s actually one of the main reasons they even made the finals

​@alberth1150 KG was never the "reason" those Minny teams didn't win a chip. Matter of fact, without him they wouldn't have sniffed the playoffs, so stop da 🧢.

​@@alberth1150the regular season may have 15-30 games that mfkas really go hard in...the playoffs is where you stamp ya name...and Ayton got embarrassed 2 years in a row....First by Luka...and now by Jokic. Ayton has no drive, no heart. Sleeping on silk sheets makes it hard to grind if all you ever wanted was to "make it". Ayton is happy not to be a cab driver or fisherman back home, period.

@@817akamrtalktoomuch stop it!!! Just stop it! So you wanna blame him for losses but no credit for wins? Didn’t realize DA was guarding Luka lol He’s suppose to Stop Gianni’s while keeping Lopez/Portis off the glass lol. Middleton worked Bridges, Luka work Bridges yet it’s all DA’s fault lol

No! Suns would have 2 rings if Monty Williams had Eric Gregg Pop, Steve Kerr or Doc Rivers mentality. He's an idiot.