'OH PLEASE' - Stephen A. reacts to JJ Redick's Top 🖐️ hardest NBA players to guard 🤦‍♂️ | First Take 

😅 who told you Shannon coming to ESPN 🤔 LOL

They will be good, Stephen tries his hardest to make the show entertaining with these annoying people

@@Darealtwill There is a rumor Perk is probably moving to Undisputed and Shannon is coming to ESPN, rumor says lot of people didn't like Perk's racist comments earlier this year against Nikola Jokic and lot of people in the league took offense to that not to mention it ended any possibility for Jokic getting his 3rd mvp.

@@Mixer2904his point was valid tho was it not ?

@@tucansam3147 In what way was Perkins takie on Jokic "valid" lmao

Right????

Out of the Bayou

Embiid allways gets hurt...but more unguardable

@@xavierb9061 His numbers go down in the playoffs substantially, Lukas always go up.

@@hottakes2633 Joel hasn’t played a playoff series healthy start to finish stop it

@@pjspointofview1545 if he is always hurt then that's his new normal

Joel gets double and triple teamed he’s way more unguardedable😂

Hes playing skinny centers

@@xavierb9061 He's playing skinny centers while he himself is a point guard.

@@chasebeecham12 Did you see the nuggets-suns series? 45% from 2, 22% from 3. Cody Zeller is more unguardable than friggin KD

@@chasebeecham12 sorry Lebron never avg a triple double in a playoffs series leave alone the whole playoffs while having a very low usage rate like jokic. If one man puts up a 30 point triple double with less touches on the ball that man is surely the most ungaurdable player in the league. Can’t even say he’s stat padding at this point.

Well, Giannis shouldn’t be in too if this list. He’s not the most hardest player to guard

Now you know why people like Skip Bayless hate on Giannis too. The problem is not Skip, the issue is Stephen A

​@@rafaelisslaam1894 ur name says it all u don't know ball stop it

@@Cloudcity20 ,🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🤣

LeBron at 38 is harder to guard than Giannis lol

He is but in a good way

@@davyjoneslocker4859 so a staff sheet stuffer?

@@davyjoneslocker4859 jokic stat pad the right way and without even trying. Almost seems like he do it in a dominant way, that’s why heat trying their best to not allow jokic to get any assist because everytime jokic gets a triple double nuggets wins the game.

if only jokic didnt have to screen for his teammate , his stats will be more scary😂

-Noam Chomsky (1928-) “One of the functions that things like professional sports play, in our society and others, is to offer an area to deflect people's attention from things that matter, so that the rich people in power can do what matters without public interference.”

Jokic is taller and has more skill than KD, so your first point is already invalid.

Luka?? He’s going to be crying to the referee every time he touches the ball

Listen I mostly agree with this list, but did u see how Boston guarded Durant last year? He got clamped. Stephen curry is top 5 all time to guard. His speed is mental with the ability to hit any shot on and off a basketball court.

@@Jackson54321 Steph is definitely not top 5 anything besides shooting but still other players are harder to guard especially when they’re alot taller

Riding jokic like the rodeo

@@samuelhong4272 ESPN always right.

insane dickriding

dumba$$es like you are why he wrongfully won mvp twice

He doesn’t play defense…that’s a big part of the game

Those days are long gone

He’s never healthy though

Kawheelchair just robbing the clippers as planned

He was healthy in the bubble and choked😂

Tough 3 days guarding him lol

Jokic is #1 bro is a walking triple double, giannis can get shut down like how it was in the heat

@@joeku2004 keyword walking

Giannis got hurt if it was giannis from 2 years ago. Heat wouldn't have won

​@@Miller73 yes hog and layup is 3 times the player run n dunk is

@@lawlessnessx but heat beat giannis 3 years ago...

1. Shaq was extremely skilled and smart. He had game. Like legit game. Legit post skills. Very high basketball IQ. Only thing Shaq lacked was a jumpshot. 2. Shaq had about 100lbs on Giannis. Giannis been bullied by the corpses of Kevin Love and Blake Griffin(I have seen it). He just long and athletic. Like a faster Rudy Gobert. There is a Ben Simmons side to Giannis. No bag of tricks whatsoever.

​@@erikpuka2627 tell'hem. Shaq could fade, post and before LA jumpshot although not consistent

That wasn’t what Stephen A said tho was it?

Shaq was and is the most dominant center ever, but he did have weaknesses. Hack a Shaq was a real thing in 4th qtrs, so much so that he often got subbed out in some cases. Dominant, but not unstoppable.

@@vangjohnny08 people don't understand how big Shaq actually was. For ex. Dwight Howard(very underrated playerimo ) that was a crazy physical freak and arguably the biggest and ateongeat of his era was 6'10 280lbs in his absolute heaviest. Its rumoured he could bench press 440lbs which is insane for those type of long arms. Shaq was 7'2 345. Thats 4 inches and 65 lbs bigger than Dwight. If you takw off 4 inches and 65 lbs from Dwight you will get 6'6 215. Essentially Kobe Bryant. Thats how Big Shaq was. Essencially the gap in heofht and weight between h8m and Dwight was that of Dwight and Kobe. Shaq was a mythological creature

Dominance is hard to guard my guy. No need to be cute

@@xcwilliams7980 not necessarily.. being dominant vs. hard to guard in all facets of scoring the basketball are two different things.

Devin booker? The guy that's always choking in a elimination game

@@piplonf8591 And Embiid isn’t?

Embiid? 5/18 15 pts game 7

No he aint

@@Cyrus-rodn45 great rebuttal

Only reason Luka isn’t top scorer is cus his injuries which skewed his stats.

@@titan8084 yeah I think he has like 3 games this year where he left the game after a couple minutes but that counted against him

Jokic is nr 1, Luka is easily nr 2 in the world so you're absolutely right

nah

Not making the play in is crazy

@@daraythomas8888 that’s a team stat so makes no sense in this list

instead of who? u cant say that and not take somone out

what has he done? 😂

Curry over Giannis? lmaoo casual alert 😂

100% agree

@@SamoaVsEverybody814 no disrespect to giannis, but he gets boxed often other than Jokic, he is a walking triple double, curry is unguardable almost purely because of his off ball movement, for an example look at dellevadova, bro almost died trying to defend curry, you cant give him space anywhere on the court, he can get hot any time, his gravity on the court is unmatched, giannis gravity is nowhere near curry. For Jokic, it's almost nearly impossible to guard that slow 7ft tank hitting with the basic move

Giannis over KD is crazy.

@@BijinMCMXC not really. Luka not on this list is crazy

Tell Luka get a ring or MVP

Inside the NBA and it’s not even close.

He da best in da world ngl😭😭😭😭😭

Jokic barely averages 20 points a game for his career

@@FreedomFighter2112 what does that have to do with what’s been happening during this playoff run

​@@FreedomFighter2112you have no idea how good that is for a career 😅

​@@SSJRome because people wanna include Luka when all he has is stats....at least Jokic does have MVPS

Yeah he should be over steph in a 1v1 scenario

@@dexterjsullen lmao casual kyrie is trash

@@BD-qk2hm lmao causal for using the played out word "casual".

Hey Kyrie :) look i'd like to bet on where you're going in the off season, any help?

@@dexterjsullen curry is way harder to guard Kyrie haven’t even come close to averaging 30ppg. While curry averaged 32ppg in a season

But he can't, and he never ever will

@Harrison Pointer I'm not saying he will I'm saying is he is so incredibly hard to guard without being able to do those things that's why he is high on the list

The problem I have with Giannis being #1 is that other guys like Jokic and Steph are deadly from EVERYWHERE. Inside and out. When you double team them, they make you pay by making the correct pass. There is no way to stop them. Giannis is dominant on the inside, but there is a clear way to stop him - pack the paint or hack him. He's a decent passer but he isn't a magician with the ball like Jokic.

Are the points counted diff from where they are shot no. He still 30 pints a game

Jokic still OP

Max takes are straight from a drunk person

@@nathanfranks1476 Then where are SAS's takes from? Cause, Max had better takes.

Embiid aint effective at any of those things when the playoffs come. Luka should be on there

Everybody on the list has something Luka doesn't, you figure it out

@@geronimopratt7976 mvp doesn’t define the more unguardable player 🤦🏽‍♂️

Stop bringing Luka in this convo. Hes in a lower tier of players. He is in the Harden's tier.

@@mura0 Nah, Harden had to heavily rely on freethrows back when he was top of the league. Luka doesn't need to.

​@Pointy Head Prime Harden would shoot 10 FTs per game and that's exactly what Luka averaged this season. They shoot the same number of FTs

@@mura0 Guess you've never seen Luka play/potential before he fully adapted to weak NBA style ball, feel sorry for you and your ignorance

@@samjordan5342and who averaged 30 in the playoffs? Who took a team of zero all stars to the WCF. Oh okay

Bro! 😂

Yeah KD is harder to guard

Everyone player talks about the off ball movement of Steph Curry and say he is hard to guard because of it I would personally say he is 2nd hardest player to guard behind Giannis

​@@YourStepDaddy69 KD was so hard to guard that in game 7, he absolutely couldn't be guarded.....cause he had to be benched for being bad.😂

@Nick JJ never guarded bigs bro stop lmao y’all just be talking …one possession doesn’t count 😂

@@Gamechanger100vibe One possession more than Stephen A… and he still in the circle when the coaches drawing up their game plans on how to stop.. just cause he little don’t mean don’t know which players are harder to guard

Not even disagreeing with the list, but that logic is so stupid. You could get a different opinion from 20 different players. You can't argue any of them cuz they played tho. I guess there's now 20 perfect opinions.

Have you ever thought why players are not given voting rights for awards? Think about it smartass.

@@Relax-il7zn It’s not perfect but Stephen a has no valid opinion on this. I disagree with JJ for not having Luka but I’m not gonna make a big deal about it

Joker deserves at least 2 spots on the list. Maybe all 5.

Bro not even in the playoffs 😭😭😭😭

@@lorduvals Bro genuinely believes emplead > Luka 😭😭😭😭

@@thunderstar254 emplead😭😭😭😭😭

@@lorduvalswhat does that have to do with being the hardest to guard? People keep using team accomplishments to try defining an INDIVIDUAL STAT.

@@thunderstar254 jokic > Luka

Nobody will say Lebron because they have this weird "I have to hate on him" syndrome 😂

@@Dom2.0 weird obsession they have Idk how it happened tbh but they feel the need to constantly disrespect him

Bron literally said he went to the “lebron of foot doctors” and they said he was healthy. Stop this narrative

@@adeajayi1634 that's not what they said at all..lmao his foot still has a torn tendon and he still is gona have to have surgery

@@Mogpdgiff_ bron himself said that bro look it up. He ain’t make excuses, don’t make excuses for him

Who would you take of the list everyone on this list has an mvp?

@@Thefourlivingcreatures Being an MVP doesn't mean you're unguardable. .

Well, it's just a top 5 list, lol. There's only 5 spots and there's a bunch of difficult to guard players on this

@@cryptidian3530 True but answer my question who would you take of the list to replace both kyrie and Luka

@@Thefourlivingcreatures me personally IMO I’m taking out giannis I believe a lot of teams figured a way to stop him 🤷🏾‍♂️ I agree with Stephen A

yes he will. probably needs to change his game a bit too. gotta avoid injuries. as much as we love to see down hill players, the reason why lebron has lasted this long is cuz he developed his back to basket iso jumpers. that mid to outside ranger game means longevity. Bully ball runs out of gas. And he's the greek freak, but he's not built like Shaq "Diesel" and his game is more elusive and angular not straight up and down like Shaq's. That being said, Giannis will need to prove he can stay healthy. Bully ball youre prone to injury and, even though Durant is Top 5 player, if not for the Warriors run, he's not all that great cuz he's been injured quite a bit. Even now, Durant is good, but to be honest, he keeps coming up short, and he always injured. Lebron is one of the greatest and is better than Durant cuz of his durability and availability. Maybe its Luck. But Giannis has got to prove that he can be healthy and available all year long. Them injuries really messed them up so bad that they fired their head coach during a tumultuous time in their coach's life. Which is pretty crazy, but he probably needed some time away, but kinda messed up to fire him, instead of just allowing him to take a leave of absence and then build through your coaching roster. Your head coach dilemma makes hard for Giannis. I think Giannis will leave the Bucks. Not cool of y'all to fire the head coach like that. whats the point of playing for organization that won't support their staff like that. I know its a business but really nobody wanna play in Milwaukee. They crazy to fire the head coach.

@@relentlessthedragon Man, i agree 100% about Giannis needs to develop some moves in the post but it is not his game. I think they need to find ways to get easy buckets in half court which was awful for 3 years now. The situation of Bud is sad ofc. Losing your brother is very hard. But, if it wasnot for that chip in 2021, Bud would have been fired. If Khris was there last year and we would have still lost, he would have been fired. The biggest problem with Bud is he is a great coach in the regular season. But in the playoffs, the man did not do anything to adjust. How many times against the C's or even against the Nets or the Suns we played drop coverage ?. I mean it os good to protect the paint but to not contest shots though ?. They did better this year but he was awful to see the Bucks blew leads in game 4 and 5. They were the 1st seed. Two times they got beat (Miami in 5 in 2020 and 2023). It is good for him to take some break. He will need that for sure.

Giannis is only second to Jokic but Giannis is the most unguardable and everyone knows this- you need a 3 players at least.

MJ has the highest scoring average ever in the playoffs as well as the regular season

Joel Embiid and Giannis are the two most dominant scores in the league. Sometimes it takes three people to build a wall just to stop Giannis. And Joel Embiid is always double teamed because he can’t be stopped one on one. Also Jokic only scores around 24 points a game. Meanwhile, Joel Embiid scoring around 33 points a game. It’s not even close.

Lebron?? Heck no he can't shoot

Key word….”When” Dude spends more time on the bench than on the court.

@@Memo76ers facts THATS why I can’t vouch for him at all. I just keep quiet

@@Darealtwill Kawhi still leads these playoffs in scoring. He's the most conditioned player in the game, and can't stay healthy. Tragic.

@@penkima4923 he played 2 playoffs games that scoring leaders doesn’t count

its not that crazy

@@joshuae4639 It is crazy, he's not in the playoffs, and hence not on the list.

Booker could be on the list of these media-guys. Cause, TV is a business, and Book made the playoffs.

facts

The fact that him and James Harden played more aggressive and with more urgency in game 4 than they did in game 7 is mind boggling to me. I’m not even a philly fan but as a basketball fan i was so disappointed. They got Doc Rivers fired with their lack of effort.

That’s because he didn’t make the playoffs

@@kyleparsons837 that doesn’t matter numbnuts nobody could stop him from scoring regardless

@@kyleparsons837 Guys, we found one. A goldfish.

@@penkima4923 oh that’s right he got wrecked by Wiggins the last time he actually made the playoffs 🥴

@@kyleparsons837 Just keep swimming.

Don't see why the list couldn't be based on 1v1.

Take Gianni out

First round exit. Shouldn’t be #1

@@moefit6257 KD GOT SWEPT

@@moefit6257 you wish you could have what he has

Giannis was running away from the ball, can't shoot and can't even hit free throws. Get a hike with giannis

Those screens man. Moving off ball Wear you out more than someone like Giannis who may get called for offensive fouls.

@@aaronlampkin284 No it doesn't. Giannis puts his shoulder into and attacks the rim with force. Giannis is harder to guard 1v1. Steph uses screens. But most great defenders can guard Steph 1v1.

@@StanleyMabonga Playing off ball still counts as defense because of the movement. If you never played ball I can’t explain it to you.