Rockets Force Game 7! Shannon Sharpe, Ocho & Robert Horry React to Warriors Struggles | Nightcap

Rockets Force Game 7! Shannon Sharpe, Ocho & Robert Horry React to Warriors Struggles | Nightcap

Hello, it’s your favorite sports here. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button to join the fastest growing community on YouTube. Remember, night cap doesn’t happen without you. So, please subscribe or you’re going to make oo [Music] cry. Game seven, the Rockets. Yep, the Rockets are going back home thanks to a a definitive. Now, don’t let the score fool you. 115 to 108. But when they emptied the benches, uh, I think if I’m not mistaken, they were down by like 15. But the Rockets did an unbelievable job. Uh, they got great performances. Fred Van Fleet played 40 minutes. He was 69 from the three, nine or nine from the free throw line, 29 big points. Shung had 21 and 14 and six. He played outstanding. But Rob, you know this. When you play on the road and you’re trying to force a game seven or you’re trying to close out a series, your stars, your guys that you count on need to play well, but you need to get some production from somebody you don’t expect it. Now, I don’t know if this is the most points that Steven Adams has ever scored in a game. I know it’s not the most rebounds or the most blocks, but this might be the most impactful game that he’s played his entire career. And he’s played a lot of playoff basketball games. He’s played a lot of games, but tonight I believe he was the differencemaker because he got rebounds. He kept possessions alive. He blocked shot. He changed it when they went to that big lineup with him and Shingoon in there. Yeah, that change that changed it. Go ahead, Rob. Yeah. You know, the one thing you can’t teach is size. And I say that all the time. You know, you just say your your favorite team just went down because they they elected not to use their size. And when you got a small team, Golden State is a small team. And you know, you and we know how strong Draymond is, but he ain’t strong as Stephen Adams. And Stephen Adams, he be he be carving out that room. He be grabbing rebounds, be pushing people out the way. He’s an enforcer. When you got guys, if you look at this Rockets team outside of Dylan and maybe Shingun, they all little guys. And so you need protectors out there on that floor. And and that’s what Stephen Adams is. You know, you look at J’s missing that right now. So you need a guy like that. Oh, Joe, I mean, you look you looking at this and I thought I thought Jabari Smith Jr. He made like two or three buckets with the shot clock winding down. He had two big threes. He had one streak. He got up off the floor. There was a scramble for the ball. Bran Fleet gets it. He kicks it back. He gets up off the floor. Hell, I thought it was Ray Allen for just a second. Not not the scale of the game, but he gets up off the floor and he cans a three as Golden State was trying to make their move, trying to create a turnover. I thought the bench was outstanding for the Houston Rockets tonight. I think they got 32 32 big points. No, 16 33 36 big points from the bench. The guys played really well. Their starters played well. Brooks got in foul trouble and uh uh uh Udoka didn’t h didn’t have a choice but to send him to the bench, but I thought their backups played extremely well. your role players. You got what you expected from Van Ple outside of that first two games. He’s been light side rock from the three-point line. He’s been going crazy. I mean, crazy. And then you got Shingun. He’s an all-star for a reason. He gave you that. And then you get Adams coming off the bench and giving you what he gave you. They got a lot of confidence cuz they won backtoback games. They forced the game six. Now they forced the game seven. The Rock the Warriors have their work cut out for them. They went cold in that fourth quarter to start. They couldn’t get anything to fall and and and a lead that was what three four points all of a sudden went to 12 and uh the Rockets didn’t let off the gas and they didn’t look back. Oo. Yeah. Warriors. I thought Steph had it going. He got got hot there for a second. Him and Jimmy, but they didn’t get enough from the auxiliary players. Hey man, listen. The Warriors, the stars showed up. It showed up. Obviously, we didn’t we didn’t see the Steph Curry we’re used to seeing. Obviously, he had 29 points, but it took 23 shots to get there. Jimmy Butler had 27. But listen, some goon, but young bull is special, young bull is special. And Van Fleet showed up tonight and did what he needed to do at being the veteran presence that the Rockers do have. Listen, them young boys, them young bulls looked like they wanted it more, the intensity, they they played on both both sides of the floor. Spacing was really good. And that goddamn Steven Adams, listen, he was probably the differencemaker. When you when you talk about the size in which the Rockets have and how small how small the Warriors are, I think it comes down to making more shots cuz those those those second those second what do you call it? Um when you get the second attempt Yeah. Bingo. That’s that’s what you’re trying to say. The second attempts that the Rockets had is the reason why they won the game. And obviously them playing with a little bit more fire like they want a little bit more. Even though the experience of the Warriors who have been in positions like this before and have the experience with the Draymonds, you know, the Jimmy Butters that are used to being in playoff atmospheres, them young Bulls look like they wanted more. And listen, like you say, UNP, they got they got their uh stuff cut out for them having to travel. Now they got to go to goddamn Houston and seal a deal. And uh uh what is it? Uh you got to believe what what they what they uh uh never Rudy uh Rudy T never underestimate the heart of a champion. I don’t know if these rockets are the champions, but that’s what Rudy G coined the play coin the phrase and it stuck. I think the thing is that when they went to that big lineup because Draymond is undersized, you can’t play Looney cuz he give you nothing on offense. Post wasn’t hitting any shots so you can’t play him. So you’re really trying to say Draymond, I need you to keep 7 foot 300lb Steven Adams off the glass. I need you to keep 610 611 Shingun off the glass. You’re asking too much. And you see they started to wear him down over and over, over and over again. Second chance points. They did a great job of finding Shingun in the high post. And then guess what? He take one dribble, he drops it off to Steven Adams, a dunk or he drops it off, he finds uh Thompson for a layup. He played extremely well tonight. I expected I expected Van Fleet because they got to do something with Van Fleet. They because he’s walking in shooting shoot around threes. He’s feeling that you know for me I knew the Warriors was in trouble from jump because anytime you change your lineup that’s like a sign to the other team like oh we don’t know what to do with you now. The Rockets you know they when you’re that young anything can give you emotion, give you spark, give you energy. They over there like, “Oh, we got him.” They scared. They changed their lineup. And you think about this, they changed a lot. Look, put Gary P Jun in there because they wanted somebody to slow Van Fleet down. But why, you know, don’t why change? Because you just talked about offense. You know, that’s no offense right there. And then you got Buddy Hill. We all know Buddy Hill is not a defensive player, but the one thing that’s that Kerr is going to he’s going to do the same thing that JJ Reic did and bite himself in the butt with it by not playing Kaminga. Yeah. Because you need size and you need athleticism to go up against this young and athletic. Yeah. But you going to you mad at this dude. I don’t know what’s going on. If you curse him out or something, he won’t play him. But this is your third leading scoreer on the team. He was your second leading scoreer on the team until you got But Butler, but now you’re not playing him. So, I don’t know what’s going on right there, but that’s going to cost them in this series cuz now you done gave the Rockets all type of energy and they gonna go back and probably win this series because you elect to do some dumb stuff like in game four, I mean game five and game and tonight. You know, you know what, go ahead. Before you go, what I think what I think for the words obviously going into game seven, what’s going to have to happen regardless of what the Rockets do, I think it’s going to have to be Jimmy Butler and it’s going to have to be Curry. Curry going to have to be a little bit more efficient from the field to overcome all the things that the Rockets do, whether they go big, whether they go small. The only thing you do is put the goddamn ball in the bucket and have more points and just hope. Just hope whatever you can do, you got you got to lean on Curry. That’s the only That’s the only way. That’s the only way. game seven going going into I don’t know what stadium it is that the Rockers play in in Houston Toyota Toyota that’s the only way it’s gonna happen. Yeah. I think the thing is I I I like what Yodoka did. He went to a zone and every time Steph got the ball they trapped him. They said no bro we going I don’t care if you I don’t care if you’re at the timeline. We going to get that ball out of your hands. Somebody else is going to beat us. We don’t believe in a moment like this here cuz you know there’s a difference between hitting shots in game 1 2 3 4 5 cuz this is an opportunity for advance and now I you like oo said you’re going to have to rely a little bit more on Curry and Butler because a lot of these guys haven’t been in moments like this. Draymond has but I’m not counting on Draymond to give me a whole bunch of points. I’m counting on him to give me somewhere between four and eight points. He’ll give you six, seven rebounds, five, six, seven assists. That’s what I’m expecting for him. But your production is going to have to come from Jimmy Butler and Steph Curry, guys that have been in this moment. But I thought you did a great thing. He went to the zone. He said, “Look, do not get back picked because they’re going to try to come and set that back picked and have Curry floating.” And they kept their eyes on him. They gave up a couple of, you know, back door cuts because, you know, they got I got eyes on Steph and guys snuck behind him. Draymond got one. Jimmy Butler got one. Couple of guys got But I give you that. The one thing I don’t want to have happen is Steph Curry hit a couple of threes and he hit a couple early and he got the crowd into the game. I want to keep the crowd at bay as long as I possibly can. And then the longer you kept them at bay and then come the fourth quarter they couldn’t buy a bucket. Steph had some great looks. Jimmy Butler had some great looks and it just wouldn’t go down for him. But hey Rob, I mean you could probably attest to this. Obviously being in that situation I I consider precious situations. obviously playing in the playoffs going into a game seven. But one of the things just from from me watching from the naked eye, three things that the that the Warrior can clean up, but one the turnovers. They had 16 turnovers tonight. They fouling. They had goddamn near 30 fouls and then under pressure. Let’s say EA goes to zone again in game seven. Relax. Tighten up under pressure. Relax. Continue to run your offense to do things in a relaxed manner. And if they trap if they if they trap Curry every time you get the ball, everybody else, including the supporting Cavs, you got to hit your shots. You got to hit your shots when it matters most. Yeah. You know, Steph got to hit his shots, too. Six for 16 from three ain’t going to cut it. And know sometimes I know Steph is considered the best shooter ever played this game. A lot of his threes to me were bad threes. I know he said, “Oh, that’s not a bad three for Curry.” But you can tonight was a bad threes. you can get off the ball because you move so much and the Rock is only going to play defense for so long. You can get a better shot. You know, that’s one thing about in the playoffs and I’m always harping on you want an okay shot, a good shot, or a great shot. I know every time Steph touches the ball from anywhere in the gym, it’s usually a somewhat great shot, but when you got a long defensive team like the Rockets, those turn into good shots. I don’t care how great of a shooter you are. And for me, that’s one of the things they got to do. And for me, Draymond got to keep his cool because you don’t know the little antics you do that adds to other adds to the other team spark too. And so for me, he going into Houston, you know, they’re going to be booing him. He’s going to get amped up. He’s going to have to play under control. Jimmy Butter’s going to have to play under control. But they going to have to go back to their starting lineup because that’s how that’s the rhythm they have. Because when you got a guy like Jimmy Butter who just came into your season and you change the lineup on him, that can affect him because now, okay, how do I play with this dude? I just learned how to play with this guy. It’s little intricacies like that that coaches don’t think about that players need to know because I know like I know what route you going to run if I’m the quarterback and that’s what and like think about that now. the Jimmy’s out there being the quarterback and all of a sudden you got a guy that’s not going to run to his point, meaning you know, uh, get to go. There’s depth on the route. Yeah. It’s like, okay, what do I do now? It messes up the rhythm. Yeah. So, hey, I think Go ahead, Oo. No, I was just going to ask Rob, uh, obviously, listen, you can attest to this, especially in a game situation like this and you got an athletic player that can match up very well against the Rockets. Do you think Kerr plays Kaminga this game a little bit more being that he No, no, I don’t I don’t I don’t think he’s going to play him at all. I don’t know what that situation is, but it’s been bad. You think about it since three games left in the season. He had he played him and he played him on the reason the other night because he needed someone and you know, you think about if he didn’t play him tonight and then in in garbage minutes to try to let him get some type of rhythm, he probably won’t play him um in game seven. So you rather you going despite he rather despite whatever situation they got going on. You rather chance losing game seven based on what you saw tonight and not make the necessary changes to give you give your team the best chance to win. Hey, I wouldn’t do it. I’ve been playing them regardless because you know for me when you’re that talented, that athletic, I know that you got to plan, man. So many coaches get pissed off at players and like, “Oh, I’m gonna show you.” No, you showing yourself because you only hurting your team. And you know, and I think that’s one of the mistakes that coaches make, you know, and it’s just hard for me to fathom that you rather have your pride get in the way of you getting a dub. Yeah. Well, you look, we’ve all played the sport for a long time and coaches would rather lose their way than win some other way. It’s just the way it is. And the part of coaching is coaching. Sometimes you’re like, “Okay, this is what we’re going to do.” But a really good coach say, “Well, you know what? That ain’t working. that wasn’t my original plan, but let me try to find something else to go instead of being bullheaded. Well, I said I wasn’t going to play this guy. Well, I’m not playing this guy. It doesn’t work like that. If you’re going to be a coach, you got to be a coach at all time. And sometimes you have to swallow your pride as a player, as a coach, whatever the case may be in order to get the victory. And I thought tonight, you I agree with you, Rob. uh uh him changing the lineup because even if you put when you put P pay Payton in, yeah, you get defense, but the floor is not spaced as much as when you got PMIC in there. So now all of a sudden the floor is a little bit more condensed. Yeah, you might get a little bit more on ball pressure with Van Fleet. But what you’re giving up on the other end because you want as much space as you possibly can for your shooters like a Steph, like a Buddy Hill, like ah Posh Pim Zimsky. But now it’s condensed. Draymond Draymond is not a threat. They’ll give Dre, if you notice, like the last three games, Draymond take the first shot. They’ll give him that three. Yeah, they shoot. Go ahead. You You’re not going to make enough of those to put fear. Ain’t nobody going to say, “Hey, get a hand up. Don’t even worry about it. Let him have that. Let him have Let him have that shot.” I’m not getting I don’t want open looks for Steph. I don’t want open looks for Buddy Hill and Pazimski. But here’s the thing, but he’ll gave you zero tonight. So, but he gave you nothing. You said, uh, Steph, I think the thing what makes Steph so dangerous and how he gets the crowd in is when that he takes those shots from 25, 30 feet away and it’s a bad shot for everybody else and it goes in. Not only does it gets the crowd going, it gets him going. So now he sees it goes in after he’s taken a shot and he turns and goes down before the ball goes through the net. Boy, you’re in trouble. you you you in trouble when that start happening because he he feels it and now there is no bad shot. If he see a couple of them things go in Rob, ain’t no bad shot for him the rest of the night. Yeah, but if they don’t go in, he’s six for 16. Yeah. Yeah. He needed he needed Look, you got great production from him and Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler 12 and 14 from the free throw line. That’s what Jimmy does. He’s going to put pressure on you now. He’s going to attack. Yeah. Uh they needed one other player. Uh Draymond gave him eight. Uh Buddy gave him nothing. Uh GP the second gave him gave him five points. That’s not enough. I thought Moody I thought Moody would get more minutes cuz he came and hit some big threes. I thought Moody would get more minutes, Rob, than what he than the 20 minutes that he got. 22, excuse me. You know what’s weird? Because Moody has been playing very well in this series. You think about you want a guy that’s going to give you 12 to 13 points and is active like he is and he hasn’t gotten as much play as I thought he would. You know, for me, if you’re going to start, keep him in the starting lineup. Do something. Let Buddy Hill, who’s been coming off the bench all year, keep coming off the bill, off the bench. And it’s just one of those things where Steph, yo, we know this is your arena. We know it’s your league. But sometimes defer, you know, I play with a lot of grace and them mugs sometime they come down like, yo, if you knocking out the shots, I ain’t taking no shots. You carry us. And that’s one of the things that Jimmy Butler’s really good at, too, cuz he can get it going and he will defer to other people. But that’s one thing about Steph though. Steph is not a guy that really defers cuz he doesn’t have to. But I think when he goes in Houston and that Houston crowd and he not knocking down them shots, he’s going to have to be a facilitator because he ain’t going to be able to do it on his own. You know, people forget the Rockets are a defensive team cuz you got Eay back there. You got a lot of guys that know how to play defense that long. They’re athletic. So, you’re going to have to share the basketball if they want to try to come back and win this series. Yeah. Um, you got Thompson who’s who’s long and athletic. Dylan Brooks is known as a defensive stopper. Uh, uh, Een, uh, Steven Adams. I mean, they they got guys that can pressure the basketball, but if I’m I’m doing everything I possibly can to not let Steph get going early in that game seven, that’s the last thing I want to do, have like 10, 12 points in the first quarter. Uh, now he gets an extended rest for the second because you got to think about it tonight. He played 42 minutes. Steph don’t normally play those kind of minutes. That’s a lot of minutes for a guy at his age. People don’t People talk about He runs cuz he’s perpetual motion. He’s not a guy that’s that’s taking a lot of breaks because he has to work. He’s working to get his shot. So, he’s from sideline to baseline to baseline. Mhm. And then you forget it’s not two games, two um rest days is play off play. So, he only got one day of rest, 24 hours before he back on that court. So, that’s And then he got to fly. Yep. So, and it’s a three-hour flight, maybe four hour because [ __ ] you might not take off in San Francisco with all that damn fog sometimes. So you you can’t get out of that. Fred Van Fleet in his last What’ you say? You said something. I was I was just going to say the good thing the good thing about Steph the chances of him having a game like this like tonight where it takes him so many shots to even get to 29 27 what however many points he had he ain’t going he ain’t going to double that. He not going to have another game like that. I think he going to be much more efficient. Buddy Hill probably going to be much better and they they probably going to get Buddy Hill Buddy Hill going early. And I really, for some reason, I don’t know why, where Kerr really understanding, I’m sure Draymond or maybe Steph will probably talk to Kerr with with great understanding, we need a little bit more help. We need a little bit more size. You know, you got to do something and get Kaminga in there some kind of way before we be sitting at home in goddamn Cancun. I thought the Rockets one thing for no reason. Put a lot of pressure on them. They shot 46 free throws, Bob. They shot 46 free throws. It’s been a while since I se seen the team shoot 46 free throws, but 16 of those went to Stephen Adams and a lot of that had to do it because they they was hacker Adams and he made, you know, down the stretch he made him pay for that. He was he was making them. Yeah. I’m It’s one of those things where you try to, you know, that’s all that pop stuff. Remember Pop did that Shaq and, you know, the hacker shack and you got to think about some of these guys. You make one, you make two, you got to go away from it because that guy has a little rhythm. You know, sometime you want to trust the process. You talk about following your game plan. There’s certain game plans you have to scrap. You know, Stephen Adams, you know, he don’t his um free throw percentage might be bad, but the dude, you look at his form, the way he approaches it, everything is fundamentally sound. So, he can knock him down. He just don’t knock him down because he don’t shoot a lot. So, it looked like a percentage of bad. Uh the Rockets, excuse me, the uh the Warriors shot 22 free throws. All of them came from three guys. Draymond was one for two, Jimmy was 12 of 14, and Steph was five or six. So that tells me they’re not nearly aggressive enough when you only got three guys that take your free throw attempts. That means like and but but the thing is that’s not that’s not who they are. That’s what you get from a a jump shooting team. When you shoot jump shots, you don’t go to the free throw line. And and the thing about, you know, you talk about analytics of basketball, shooting threes. I’ve always had the mindset if you’re shooting the threes, you’re playing soft. Why? Because you’re not trying to create shots. You’re not trying to get to the rack. So you taking the easy way out. So I’m just gonna pull up for a three. Think about that. If I pull up for a three, that’s easy. Now if I had to cross one of those, spin, get to the rack, that’s hard work. You think about Ant-Man. Ant-Man, he don’t mind that work. You just saw he put in that work. And now you get to these guys want to shoot jump shots. You’re not going to get to the foul line. And the only reason Steph gets those fouls sometimes because if you watch closely, he’s causing the contact. He’s really good at that. And also when he does that Yeah. And I hate when he does that because a lot of times when he does it, he’s not even concentrating on the shot. He’s concentrating on the foul. Just take the damn shot to make the shot. If you get fouled, so be it. Hey Rob, I got I just want to say one thing about you talk about Curry being able to put the ball on the floor and create his own space in his own shot. You you mentioned Anthony Edwards. John Morant can do it as well. But you got to think about it. When you look at the landscape of all the teams in the NBA, including those in the playoffs, it’s only maybe one or two players on each team that can do that, that can go ISO, that can put the ball on the floor and create their own shots. So it’s not that many of them. So once you take that up when you trap a player like a Curry and they have to facilitate then now you got to get everybody else involved and it puts pressure on them that I didn’t I didn’t know still a game of basketball and everybody like told me before everybody doesn’t have the green light to shoot the ball at will. Hell no. I I I just learned that. I’m thinking well hell if if I’m open just shoot it. N I if you open you open for a reason. That they help it out on your ass. That’s why you open. They going hey, they going to play the percentages. They going to let you take that shot. You know, you knock down two then it might guard you. I ain’t know all that. Now Fred Van Fleet last three games he had 29 points. He has six threes tonight. 26 points, four made threes, 25 points, eight made threes. So his last his last uh three ball games. He’s got 18 made threes. Uh more points and threes than Steph. He’s been Look, he’s the veteran presence on this team. He’s the guy that’s been in championship moments. He’s the guy that’s been on that stage in the Eastern Conference where they were, you know, in the in the uh Eastern Conference finals. They went to a champion, they led Kawwai led them to an NBA title. He’s he’s the guy. So, this is what he needs to do. Hey, follow me. Follow me. He’s the leader. He did what he was supposed to do. He got great contribution from Shenun. Now, Shingun is the best player, but the man presence of the best. Better than Jaylen. Better than Green. Hell yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Jaylen Green was only had one good game so far in this playoff series. He was three of 11, one for six. He had 12 points. Shinon is an allar. I’m just talking about I’m talking about Yeah, I know Singon is the all-star, but I’m just saying Jaylen Green is supposed to be that next up and coming that boy in Houston. Or maybe am I mistaken? No, you you you’re not mistaken. But we kind of we talking about right now. We talking about what supposed right on the floor, which if you want to talk about totality, Shingun still the best player because he’s rebounding. He’s uh he’s he’s scoring points. He’s getting assist. Jaylen Green is just a high flyer right now and that’s all he’s living off of. He got to do more than try to, you know, that’s the one thing that but I’ve watched the NBA now, there’s so many guys that have become showman instead of playing the damn game. They want to, you know, do all these antics when they hit a three. They want to, you know, it’s it’s just play the damn game. You know, you make a damn shot, big damn deal. You know, you get back and play some defense. I How many times have you seen a guy make a shot and get their ass beat on the other end of the defense because they doing this [ __ ] Just get back and play. And that’s one thing that that you you watch Jay Jaylen Greeny play, he has a tendency to like try to get to the hole, look at the crowd, and next thing you know, you know, get your ass back on defense. So that’s why Singon, he’s just a hard worker, man. He in that pain. He dunking on people. He can get people involved. He’s the best player on that team. They thought it was going to be Jaylen Green. Shingun has taken over. Shingun. He leads the Rockets in points, rebounds, assists, and steals in the playoffs. Dang. Jaylen Brunson, gamewinner over the Pistons. What a shot. What a moment. The Knicks win the series. Rob, you’re one of the great clutch shots. Let me ask you this. I think for our audience, they want to know. In that moment, are you thinking like, man, if I make this shot, I’m a hero. if I miss it or you just going through the it’s the same whether the moment is there or not. It’s just like if it was the first quarter, the second quarter or third quarter, what goes through your head when you’re taking a shot that could potentially win you the game or lose you the game? You don’t think about anything, man. Because it’s just like when you in a gym, you taking all these shots to prepare for this moment. You you you put the reps in and that’s what you got to do. That’s why you see guys, you know, you take Kobe for instance, he’s been in the gym 24/7. So everything came easy for him. And if you put in the time and the work and the sacrifice, these moments like this, you don’t even think about it. You think about Jaylen Brunson, most guys, they like going to their off hand to pull up for their jump shot because you can square up a little bit better. He got you going left like he thought, “Oh, he’s a strong left guy.” He was setting him up. He set Thompson up. I’m coming right back over here to where I want to knock down this three. So it’s just it’s just a process that you go through each and every day. If you watch him, he is so good at manipulating the defense. He can get you on your hip and then he can cause the contact or he can get you he can he can gauge your speed. If you’re going too fast, he stops on a dime and pulls up and I think for him and any any guy who’s playing this game long enough, you don’t think about it. You just do it. Is it it’s just second nature thing to you, man. You just you just enjoy the moment and you just hope that you make that mug so you can talk a lot of [ __ ] He he does a great job, Rob, as you mentioned, but he gets his body in such a position to shoot that shot cuz like you said, he’s a left-handed player and most left-handed players are left-hand dominant. They’re trying to get to that left side. They want to go left. He did that and then if you notice, he stepped back and squared himself and let it go. He hit a uh Shruder. He got a and one on Shruder. Mhm. And he got a tough step back. He I mean the way he can like get his body in position to take and make tough shots for a guy his size. He’s not a big guy. I mean his body I mean you know what I’m saying? He’s you know he got a little little girth to him. You know he got some but he’s sure I mean he what you think six foot? I think he about 6 61. Yeah. But but his ability and he’s stronger than you think for a guy his size because the way he can like put that that shoulder in your chest Mhm. and get that and get that shot off and square himself and to knock these shots down. He was sensational. They couldn’t buy a basket for the first nine 10 minutes of the ball game and then all of a sudden he said, “Man, just give me the ball. What y’all doing?” And every shot that needed to be take taken and made. Now they got a huge tip in by Bridges. Somebody missed the shot and they didn’t block out. Bridges got the tip. They tied it up. But you know, once they missed that shot, I said, “Oh boy, y’all better y’all better get this ball.” Mhm. Because Thompson had just made a great defensive play like two possessions earlier. He got a shot clock violation on his he went to go up and he stripped him of the ball. He’s like, “Yeah, bro. I got something for you. I got something for you. Just hold that.” But hold on. I I got a question for you for for for Rob, man. For you and Uncle, right? As as great as Jaylen Brunson was in this series, as great as he’s been, obviously being a very very clutch player, hell, he just won NBA Cuts player of the year, right? All right. Obviously showing showing his offensive prowess tonight with 40. Is there any chance y’all giving the Knicks and winning this series against the Celtics? Any chance? No. No. No. No. And the reason I say no is because when you look at the Celtics, they got six guys that can score. And every time I look at the Knicks, I they remind me of AI. You know, they got this one guy that does all the scoring, everybody else does two or three things really, really good to make that pie hole. And you take out Bridges, who one of my favorite players when they use him and he’s able to score, they’re a totally different team. But I just think the Celtics has too much firepower. And one of the things they don’t talk about with the Celtics is you look at them, they got four good defensive players out there on that court, you know, and that’s and and we don’t talk about that because we so caught up in all the threes they shoot. But you think about, you know, White Holiday, even Brown, these guys are [ __ ] good defenders. And so they got bodies to throw at Bronson, a little short sale. And so that’s going to be hard. And I, you know, going back to Bronson, the one thing that makes him really good is, this is going to sound really crazy, is left-handed players are always uh have that ability to get to the line and do things because you’re not used to that. You hardly ever run across a left-handed player. You think about Manu Jovi, who I played with, he was so good because you’ll think he’s about to do something right like, “Oh [ __ ] he’s left-handed.” By the time you think about it, it’s too [ __ ] late. He done jade you up because it’s just not what you’re used to. It’s uncommon. But I just think he he I think the Knicks might win one game because they play hard. I think overall I just think the Celtics Yeah, it’s going to be a gentleman sweep, man. I just think this if the Celtics stay healthy, you know, they they’ve been getting a little banged up here and there, but I just think the Celtics are too good. Yeah, cuz when you look at it, think about where they go. They got Derek White that can defend. They got Holiday that can defend. They got JB that can defend. They got bigger Horford that can defend. Porzingis can protect the paint. And then they bring Pritchette off the bench that can score. Hower that can score. Cornet that can that can give you a little rebounding. Uh they’re they’re loaded. You we know JT can defend if he have to, but he can score. JB can score. Derek White can score. They got scorers and they got defenders. So they’re always going to have at bare minimum two quality defenders on the court at all times. And so when you have that, when you got two guys that could defend, but look what they start with. So if they start Holiday, you got Holiday, Derek White, JP, Al Horford. Honestly, I’mma tell you this. I like the Knicks winning at least three games. No, they win. You got to win three games. I got to win three games. I mean, hey Raw, you want to you want to you want to bet some on it? You want to throw a little throw wage on him? What you want? Make [ __ ] Make it light on yourself. Bet 5,200. That’s very specific. Why you said D. I’m just trying to I’m I owe I owe on 5200. So, I’m just trying to I’m trying to make it up some other kind of way. I’m trying to break even. Rob, let me ask you this. Of all the game winners that you’ve hit, what’s your favorite one? Uh Lakers against the Kings when the ball came. I tell you that game seven. Was that a game? That was game seven. No, it’s game four. Game four. You know, we lose that game, we go down 3-1. And the reason it’s my favorite because if you look at most of my gamewinners, they were all done on the road. And so this one was done at home. And you got a chance to rejoice in it with the crowd. Yeah. I got I grew up a huge Lakers fan, man. I grew up a big Magic Johnson fan. You know, you would never being a Laker, you used to them chanting Kobe, Kobe or Shaq. You know, when you get a chance to knock down a big three and hear them chant your name like that, man, it’s the best feeling ever. I I I think yeah, for me it’s probably outside of Kobe’s last game is the greatest moment in Staple/Crypto and the if you every time I see the shot from above and had when I make it and the crowd just jumps up and cheers, I get goosebumps every time I see it, you know, even though I love what I did in 2005 against the Pistons in game five when I lit their ass. Yeah, that’s the what I That’s what I was thinking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, it’s something, you know, we as an athlete, we all got that ego. We all got that pride. You want to hear them fans chant your name. But I tell you what though, I only have like one picture up. I don’t even have that shot up in my house, but I do have the picture of me making that shot against the Pistons because I just like looking at the faces of the people in the crowd. You got some people like the no. And you got one guy in the crowd like this like Yeah. Cuz he knew it was going in. Uh people I I don’t know if people realize this, Rob, but before those black injuries, you were high flyer. You was ele I mean you was punching on folks. I mean you were up over the top. People look at you and it’s like man all he did was shoot threes. No no no no no. When you came in I mean I don’t know what it is about them Alabama guys. you and McNise, all them guys had up up up and away ups and and I don’t know if people realize that, but you were a high flyer, a 610 guy that finished above the rim and then you turned yourself. I think it was the back injury that you turned yourself in more of a shooter. You still could punch on folks, but not like you could when you first got into Houston. No, no. It’s so weird when you come into le story like my my middle son, he came to me one time like, “Daddy, you don’t ever dunk anymore. you can’t even dunk. And it was that one dunk in the playoffs against the Detroit Pistons that I dunked on Rip Hamilton when I took out outside the paint. And I said, “See, your dad can still dunk. I just don’t have to.” But you know, the weird part about it is when I got to the Lakers, they was like, “Oh, we don’t want you to, you know,” they said, “We need you just spot up.” And the worst thing as an athlete, if any athletes are listening, is don’t let coaches limit you, limit you in what you can do. And I think, you know, this day and age is a little bit different. back then it was a little bit more I need you to do this this and this and so in my mind became okay this is what they want me to do spot up and shoot threes and all this kind of stuff but I I I showed my my my my youngest son Christian who’s at UCLA I said let me show you something man come sit down and I’ll show him my highlights of me and Rockets when I used to dunk he looked at me like damn you had hops I was like yeah I just stopped doing it because they didn’t want I didn’t have room to do it cuz Shaq was in the damn that’s dope that’s Mhm. Hey, hey, hey, Rob. Was some of some of them clutch shots you hit, were you able did you ever keep any of the balls or especially especially I mean you you got some really really really good moments and and for me I would want to keep the I would I would I personally would want to keep those balls. You don’t you don’t have any? You know, I I really I have I have one. Go ahead. Um I have one from it’s actually the the game seven ball against the Knicks. I have that. And only reason I have that because I I I told the guys because the first two points of game seven was me dunking on Patrick Hume and I was like, I want that ball. I want that ball. So, I I have that ball and I wish I had the one I made against the Kings because [ __ ] I’m I if I lost, if I betted you and lost, I just sell that and get me a lot of money to cover that. So, I know you Laker fans would love that ball. Speaking out, you talk about balls and and being able to sell the ball and get you a lot of money. Listen, I got a prize possession. That’s what I meant to say. I’m supposed to have it in closing the case, right? But I got I got the game ball when LeBron hit his 50th point. 50,000. Yeah. Like, listen, 50,000 point. And that’s something that you would think he would keep. Show him. Show him. Show him the sign. Yeah. Uh, so it’s a 50,000 point ball right there. You see 50,000 point and LeBron sign. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, if if I ever fall on hard times, man, this this here going to come in handy. If you fall on hard times and try to sell that ball, you going to stay on hard times. Exactly. Hey, you might you might end up on real hard times. [Music]

Shannon Sharpe, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson, and 7x NBA Champion Robert Horry break down the Houston Rockets’ thrilling win over Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors, tying the playoff series and setting up a high-stakes Game 7. The crew examines the Warriors’ struggles, including Steve Kerr’s controversial refusal to make size adjustments in the lineup and whether Golden State’s veteran core can still compete with younger, faster teams.
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