Rashad McCants Most INSANE NBA Takes of All Time! Gil's Arena 

“Now we know” no you don’t lol. He literally took accountability one episode on what led to him not getting resigned after averaging 15 off the bench

What led to his NBA career being a bust was him just not being a very good player. He averaged 15 ONE SEASON. Every other season he just wasn’t good enough to be on a roster and his personality/attitude made it an easy decision for nobody to want him even after his 1 good season. The dude is a dumbass when it comes to basketball knowledge.

@@MasterTrickShot he’s a bum 🤣 he legit disagrees with anyone else’s takes/points just for the sake of disagreeing 🤣. Even when he knows he’s wrong he still gets on there just to bs. Dude shouldn’t even be on the show. No one’s gotta agree with everything, but this mf argues about everything 🤣

@@ClutchDre__ make your own podcast, then don’t invite him. You’ll never have to hear from him again. But instead you tune in 4 times a week, every week just like every other dumb comment. I couldn’t imagine supporting shows/platforms I know I don’t like. It’s almost a mental health issue in my opinion.

@@MasterTrickShotrashad I know this your burner

Facts!!

Fat

Man, that was the most absurd thing I've ever heard on an NBA related podcast and that saying something.

Nah Skip is an act, Rashad really believes his nonsense

I have been saying this..skip 2.0

You have to be a kid saying this….Odom was a dog in his prime

⁠@@Woodgang14700he was pretty good in his prime but he’s not a top 10 power forward ever 😂

@@Woodgang14700 a guy that never made an all star game or all nba, is a top 75 player of all time? 😂

@@Woodgang14700 He’s a dog for sure. Doesn’t make him top 10 though

@@Woodgang14700power forward is the second best position in terms of all time great. Odom isn’t even top top 25 in his era

to stir that pot

No they don’t

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Naw if he ain’t agree one thing but he say dumb shit on purpose

lol fr, and he really believes what he’s saying that’s what makes it gold.

He coached the Spurs to 48 wins and a playoff spot without Leonard in 2019 and they were in play-in spots in '20 (before it was made), '21, and '22. They've only been near bottom of the league bad for the past 2 years.

lol you the same type a dude praise lebron going 8 straight finals but for 7 of those years straight he had the best roster dude is in the west with horrible players they will be in playoffs next year if they make some pickups

@@thomaslee2558 ur projecting "dude". i dont even like bron like that.

@@drago2689 2018-19: 48-34, 7th seed, 1st round exit 2019-20: 32-39, 11th seed, out of play-in contention 2020-21: 33-39, 10th seed, play-in team, play-in exit. 2021-22: 34-38, 10th seed, play-in team, play-in exit. 2022-23: 22-60, 15th seed. 2023-24: 21-61, 15th seed. Even with demar on the team from 2018-19 to 2020-21, they only had a winning record once. My whole point is that if pop was actually a good coach and was not a product of a great set of players from before (parker, duncan, ginobili, kawhi), he should def have had some winning seasons with the team that he had. Obv, they started to tank after demar left, but that doesn't take away from the fact that he still did not maximize the roster he had when demar and murray was still there.

Special Ed comment

You’re talking about Pau right? Because if so I somewhat see your point but still cap if you like that you’re just like that! The guys you named don’t shoot or pass like Jokic and I’m Not saying he’s better than all of them but Only Shaq was as dominant then as Jokic is now! If you’re talking Marc this isn’t even a convo

Gil had a good point tho.😂😂

He really doesn’t like at all

@@JohnJones-xw2zj which is why I said the last few weeks. Lmaoo

Duncan is in my top 5 as well but I don't see how that effects Popovich being all time great coach. Pop has made countless players significantly better and been as consistently successful as any coach ever. Most wins regular season, 2nd most playoffs, and most combined. Tied for 2nd most championships and has the 5th highest win % of any coach with 10+ seasons I mean Jackson had Jordan, Pippen, Rodman and then Kobe and Shaq, and then Kobe and Gasol, he never had a season where he didn't have a top 10 player of all time to put that into perspective. When Pat Riley coached the Heat and they didn't have a ton of talent outside of Wade they were terrible as well. The idea that a good coach is supposed to overcome a complete lack of talent of on a roster is absurd. Also Popovich still had the Spurs contending after Duncan for a few years and then a near 50 win playoff season after getting rid of Leonard too.

​@@drago2689how is it a lack of talent they rebuild jus as long as okc so far n lost ja made Memphis instantly better Victor nice but over hype up n this season prove pop jus had elite talent n legend in Mr fundamental

@@Rapastoned both comparisons you made are terrible. Spurs have only really been in rebuild mode for the past 2 years. All the time before that they were either a playoff or play in team. Thunder are a bad example because OKC had one of the quickest rebuilds in sports history because of the insane amount of assets they were able to trade for. They got an MVP candidate in SGA, JWilliams, Chet, Dort, Giddey, Joe, Wiggins, Wallace, and a bunch of other picks. And they were pretty mediocre for a number of years. Pretty unfair to compare them to a team with a lot less assets and being comprised of Devin Vassel, Keldon Johnson and Jeremy Sochan, Zach Collins, etc... And Memphis improved by 1 win with Ja the first year and missed the playoffs. They also then picked up JJJ, Bane, Adams, Vale, Clarke, Jones, Melton, Brooks, etc.

@@Rapastoned and don't really get how you're gonna argue the Spurs have any real talent. Outside of Wemby who is literally a rookie they have a couple decent role players and then just a bunch of young inexperienced players and bums. They have one of the worst rosters in the league objectively. If you got this roster to any other coach in the league past or present I don't think they'd be doing so well either.

​@@drago2689 and who s fault is that ??? Pop has the same pull in SA as Riley in Miami ... meaning he basically and executive and a coach...

You're fucking high if you think the Gasol brothers are better than Jokic

And that’s why no one liked your take.

Lmao. Jokic is the best passing big of all time by a decent margin and has had one the best offensive stretches of any player ever. Jokic is a 2 time MVP, probably about to be 3 time. Pau and Marc were never close to being MVP caliber players. They have 1 All NBA first selection COMBINED in their 31 seasons. Jokic has 4 in just 9. Jokic has been the best player a championship team and the FMVP. Pau was 2nd best on both of his and Marc was like the 5th best on his and both we of course never FMVP either... This take has to be a joke? Jokic averages 30-11-9 since breaking out in 2019 against Rudy Gobert (3x DPOY, maybe 4 after this year) Averages 22-11-7 against Embiid who's an MVP himself and All Defensive center. Averaged 34-10-8 on Wemby this year who is a DPOY candidate. 27-11-10 against Giannis and Lopez who are DPOY and All defensive players 21-12-7 against Bam who's all defensive guy. 24-11-7 against AD who's a All Defensive and DPOY candidate

​@@drago2689 Gil was right, Jokic is just a more advanced version of the Gasol brothers. They were bigs who could pass and shoot, were mobile and had a soft touch around the basket. Marc was also a very good defender. They had great basketball IQ and understood the game playing the right way. Jokic just tops them on all categories being able to do everything they did and more while being the leader of a championship team. There's really no comparison. Dirk would have been a better comparison, but I think the Joker might have already surpassed him too

@@MoralesCorner I mean "more advanced" meaning better in basically every way then sure. They might have semi similar skill sets in terms of what they're good at but the skill gap is big and how they play is fundamentally different from Jokic. Jokic isn't just the best passin big ever, he's one of the best passers ever overall. He's been averaging more apg the past couple years then Pau and Marc did in there best seasons COMBINED. His career average in ppg and TS% are higher than either Marc or Pau's best seasons ever. He's definitely already passed Dirk in terms of prime/peak, only thing Dirk has on him now is longevity and even then I don't think I'd use that to warrant him over Jokic at this point especially if Jokic gets another MVP/championship this year.

You're right Kawahi didn't carry the Warriors........

He really averages 15 that year lol

You're fucking high

Stop when it comes to skill, Jokic is above both brothers

@@limbcollector22 ur a casual pau gasol was ahead of his time….. he could do the same thing with a team built around him…. Skills means he has an arsenal of moves so please tell me what jokic does that gasol can’t

@jalenstanislas8149 Pau's best season he averaged under 21 points per game, he never won a single MVP or Finals MVP, also he got to play with Kobe so while Pau was before Jokic, that in no way means he was better

@@limbcollector22 u clearly didn’t read my first post noone in that time period was building around foreigners so how could he average 20+ with Kobe Bryant like straight stupid shit….. he was a perfect number 2 to kobe and before that he did average 20 ppg for Memphis, he would do EXACTLY what jokic is doing Buh ya have recently bias so ya don’t kno ball

Could be the case but it's a moot point considering the argument at hand. When Iggy won FMVP the Cavs didn't have Love or Kyrie and still went to game 6. The Cavs might have won without injuries. But for real Iggy was never close to Kawhi prime or career wise. Maybe a good comparison would be 14 Kawhi and 15 Iggy but prime Iggy is no where near the player prime Iggy was.

Kawhi*

Her name is Miko Grimes. She used to be a regular on the show until some drama went down.

@@kuunamithey need her bacc bad.

Not really. Spurs were bad this year because their best player is a rookie... you can chose any coach in history and they are not leading a team with a rookie best player, and a supporting cast of Devin Vassel, Keldon Johnson, Julian Champagnie, Tre Jones, Jeremy Sochan, etc to any significant amount of wins in a stacked West. The point Rashad was making was trash and has absolutely no validity if you know anything about good coaching. Pop has the most regular season wins, 2nd most playoff wins, 2nd most championships, and most wins total for a reason. He's made countless amounts of players significantly better. Parker, Ginobili, Kawhi, Murray were developed into stars because of him. Or look at the decent at best guys that Pop and his system gave career years to: Danny Green, Gary Neal, Boris Diaw, Tiago Splitter, Matt Bonner, Jonathan Simmons, Dewayne Dedmon, Bryn Forbes, Kyle Anderson, Patty Mills, Marco Belinelli. The 2014 are arguably the best coached team of all time, a top 10 team of all time with no real superstar. He lead the Spurs to 2 playoffs when Kawhi was out all of 2018 and then again when they traded him in 2019. Then they were a play in seed in 2020 (before the play in was introduced), 2021, and 2022. Spurs have only been really bad for 2 years and last year they were obviously just tanking and this year was more about experimenting and prepping Wemby for the NBA.

What's your point? I think top 15 for Kobe is completely fair and a sizeable amount of people would agree with you. Most people who aren't overtly fan boys probably have him in the 6-12 spots so top 15/top 10. That's quite a bit different than what Rashad is saying. Jokic is 2x MVP and best player on a championship team. Gasol bros were never close to that. Popovich is objectively a top 5 coach of all time, arguably number 1 and this dude said he wasn't even good. Odom was never even an all star and Rashad is basically saying he's a top 10 PF ever. These takes are atrocious, a person who has never even watched hoops before couldn't even fathom forming these opinions. The "opinions" he's sticking with are like the equivalent of trying to say Kobe isn't a top 100 player ever.

Overrated how?

@@drago2689 he hasn’t had the success has with a very good team. And although that goes for most coaches, he doesn’t come close to having a winning team at all without those “special teams “.

@@damiane1015 except not really. In 2018 Spurs made the playoffs with Kawhi out with injury the whole year, 2019 they made the playoffs again after trading Kawhi, 2020 they were a play in seed team (play-in didn't exist yet), and then they were a play-in team in both 2021 and 2022. They have only actually been bad last year when they had a bunch of injuries and tanked and then this year when they were mostly just experimenting and getting Wemby prepped and adjusted for NBA level ball. Like yeah they aren't aren't good because their best player is a rookie and the supporting cast is Keldon Johnson, Tre Jones. Jeremy Sochan, Devin Vassel, and Zach Collins... I don't see how he's overrated. Clearly a top 3 coach ever regardless.

@@damiane1015 and not winning with lackluster talent isnt a "most coaches" thing, it's a all coaches thing. Name one coach who has made legit success without star players? Honestly the Spurs have actually been the biggest overachieving dynasty in the history of the league given the talent. Manu and Parker were good but not as good as the 2 and 3 on any of these other dynasties and DRob was never the same after his injury in '97. And as pointed out in the video, Parker and Ginobili were developed into stars because of Pop. The amount of guys whose careers have been revitalized or built entirely by Pop and his system is ridiculous. The 2014 Spurs didn't actually have any player near superstar level (the core 3 were old and Leonard hadn't broken out yet, only all star that year was Parker with 16-3-6) and yet they won the Finals in dominating fashion and are arguably a top 10 team ever primarily because of great coaching.

@@drago2689 Miami Heat.