FIRST TAKE | It’s disgusting: Steve Kerr slams NBA after Nikola Jokic shoots 18 free throws -Shannon

FIRST TAKE | It’s disgusting: Steve Kerr slams NBA after Nikola Jokic shoots 18 free throws -Shannon

Welcome back it is time for some quick takes because we had some Luca magic folks with a 128 to 114 win against the Suns mavar Luca donic became just the fourth player in NBA history to score 50 in a Christmas Day game while also casually passing the 10,000 career

Points Milestone so Shannon where does this rank in Christmas Day performances you know guys I’m going to have to go with just the Christmas Day performances that I saw with my very eyes so I’m going to have to exclude Will’s 59 36 on Christmas uh Lebron had a 27o triple

Double and got the best of Kobe but that’s not it for me I saw nicolea yage have what a 415 and 15 last year that’s not it for me my greatest memory of a Christmas Day game was Bird Dog King burnard King went for 60 in the garden

On Christmas Day and that’s his highest scoring game ever so that was the best one for me although Luca 50 and 15 was something special but Bernard King on Christmas Day on 1984 was the best one I saw with my own eyes not going to lie I

Agree with you Shannon all right as um I’m just going to keep agreeing with you you know what you’re talking about you’re in the big seat all right as mentioned earlier the Golden State Warriors fell to the Denver Nuggets 120 to 114 yesterday and yic finished with

26 points despite a four of 12 showing from the floor he set a career high with his 18 made free throws and the Nuggets were 26 of 32 from the free throw line now after the game Steve Kerr sounded off about the officiating of the

Night I have no no problem with um the officials of themselves um they’re all across the league we have really good officials I have a problem with the way we’re we are um legislating defense out of the game that’s what we’re doing in the NBA the way we’re teaching the officials we’re just

Enabling players to BS their way to the foul line um if I were a fan I wouldn’t wanted to watch the second half of that game it was disgusting that was a very interesting uh sound bite right there all right perk and birthday boy legs back with us now perk

Where Steve Kerr’s comments fair or foul they’re foul and over the last couple weeks a lot of Steve Kerr comments have been fou matter of fact they’ve been making my damn skin crawl when I think about it number one if you’re going to call out something don’t hide behind subliminals put an address

On it you were talking about Yoki in his 18 free throws because 18 of his 18 of his 26 points came from the free throw line last night that’s number one and number two jic is one of the like most high IQ players the game has ever seen I

Played with a great player in Paul Pierce that when he didn’t have it going offensively his shots Wen falling he got to the free throw line secondly I’m going take a line from finesse two times it’s cool when they do it it’s a problem when I do it when golden state was and

Winning championships with KD without KD and calls were going their way everything was fine and dandy not Steve Curry do you really want to go back to the old school rules because that might hurt your offense do you really want to go back to Old School hand checking

Stopping progress holding up Steph Curry getting physical with Klay Thompson do you really want that or do you want to address the problem at hand last night that Steph Curry was 7 for 21 Klay Thompson 3 for 13 that was the real problem like address that it was nothing

Wrong with that game last night you’re absolutely right well get hey Steve C let my recommendations be you go get you a player that can BS his way to the line to the free throw line because that’s your problem you can’t get fou because you’re selling for jump shots and teams

Are smart enough not to file your jump Shooters they got Nicole yic it’s just like Joel andb well how do you stop him you’ve got to file him especially when you’re a small team like Golden State Golden State doesn’t have a big that you

Can drop the ball down to and say go get me a bucket or go get foued and so when Steph Curry is shooting all those jump shots and they’re not going in and Klay Thompson is shooting all those jump shots and they’re not going in they’ve

Always been a team that didn’t shoot a whole lot of fou shots legs and perk because they shoot jump shots they don’t got nobody that can bang they got nobody with it back to the basket and can go get easy buckets or he gets fou that’s

Bull job Steve Kerr like I said the problem was you had is that Nicole yis didn’t have it offensively uh uh uh shooting the ball but he was able to draw fouls and get to the free throw line and had a great stat line but that’s your that’s your guy’s fault

Because you’re not a big team well look I look there’s a lot of nights I watch NBA games and I have a little bit of a problem with some of the calls that are made and sending guys to the line with very minimal contact I guess that’s just part of my mindset

From when I played it’s it is different in that way but here’s the thing here’s where Steve cerr is wrong when he makes comments like this after a game against joic it seems like he’s now putting the shine on joic like he is the poster child for guys that do this and the

Truth of the matter is yic only gets to the line about six times a game I think for his career he averages 4.6 free throw attempts per game like this is nothing like you get with embiid and Giannis both of those guys I think they have yeah they have five seasons each

Where they’ve averaged 10 or more free throws a game joic for his career averages six uh or 4.6 he’s averaging six this year it just so happened on this night against a smaller team a physically weaker team a team that just has a propensity for fouling a lot jit

Took advantage of getting the calls went to the line on on a night when he wasn’t feeling it with his jump shot he only had four field goals he wasn’t really having a normal yic offensive game guess what great players do they find another way to beat you so on this particular

Night that’s what he did he took advantage of the smaller team against him smaller matchups they were trying to put against him and he got to the line 18 times so that’s where I have a problem with Kurt making these comments after this game because it seems like

He’s trying to Signal out jic as a guy that’s taking advantage of this by doing a lot of acting and the truth just doesn’t bear that out when you look at the facts nobody touches the ball more in this league than joic 101 touches a game he only shoots six free throws a

Night it just was one of those nights for Steve Kerr unfortunately that yic was able to take advantage of it well in speaking of fact if I may if I may interject gentlemen Denver enter entered Monday shooting the worst free throw percentage in the NBA

So it was a it was a good night but like the facts are the facts here right they made them I mean you go 18 for 18 everybody’s going to complain but legs you remember when James Harden used to draw those files and he was shooting 10

13 a night okay if it was a situation like that I get it but Nicole yage is 6′ I mean 6′ 10 7 foot tall and your guy and you they put him in a pick and Steph Curry’s on him or Klay Thompson’s on him

Or Wiggins is on him what do you think he’s going to do it’s crispy cream time and they hot he about to eat them up they creamy in the middle yeah all right okay on that note on that note we’re gonna we’re gonna take a break gentlemen all right don’t go

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FIRST TAKE | “It’s disgusting” Steve Kerr slams NBA after Nikola Jokic shoots 18 free throws – Shannon