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The Lakers fell to the Warriors last night on Tuesday night on the home floor at the Crypt. Yeah, somebody

I hate it. No, No, that's facts. Right, Steph has been a.

Unique He's been a unique star that no one has put the emphasis on. And that is his conditioning. In this movie, we we have scud none. We have changed the lead to mimic Golden State Warrior Steph Curry without dissecting Steph Curry for who Steph Curry is.

Yes, he can shoot the ball, that's not his skill. His skill is he's very.

Great moving without the ball in inpeckable shape.

Right. That allows him to move and move like he.

Has the Rip Hamilton mixed in with the Miller, the Reggie Miller. Right, you have a guy who's moving one hundred miles an hour all the time. So you if you're not in shape his shape to keep up with him, right, you are not comfortable guarding him. And the problem that is the problem with him that he himself, by far in the last ten years and then nine to nine ten years, has been probably the most in shape basketball player.

That's good.

Yeah, Like his usage of running and moving without them the ball is on another level and that is what makes him great.

And how do you keep because when we get tired, we're not the same people. You don't can't you can't run the route with the same ferocity. That's why when guys run a couple of goals in the two minagery, they tap the head and they come out and somebody else comes in.

He has to maintain that pace.

And you know, he might start he might start at the top, and then he'll go up under and then he'll come through.

He just weave his way through.

I mean, he's in and out of traffic, and you could never relax with him. The moment you relax is that's when you get bit. It's kind of like playing Steph curR is like being a snake handler. If you ever relax, you get bit. You relax, he's gonna splash your three in your eyes. And then when you try to overplay him back door and then he lays the ball up.

So it's so hard to be right with him.

And yeah, we've never seen we've never seen anything like him. He's so great that they she's changed the way the league plays. Everybody wants to find Steph Curry. Everybody wants to find out they can launch up three and you gotta sell you gotta sell them five guys.

That shooting threes. Yeah, yeah, I can tell you right now.

The problem with that is you're never gonna find another step Courry because you.

Rest too much.

You got too many days off, right, he ain't taking a day off.

From uh from cardio.

No. This reminds me of Steve Nash when we when we had to guard Steve Nash the week before we got to them, I was doing extra trademill stuff even though we're gonna have three or four games before we get into them, because I do it. Every time we scored, he was gone. So for the most part, I'm always in full speed. There was no walking the ball like for me to get rest, I had to walk the ball up right.

I had to wrestle offense against Steve Nash.

Right, that's the same thing with with with with with Kurby. You have the rest on your offense because when he has the ball, you're you're, you're, You're in full speed the whole time.

So and the problem is it's just not steph it's play. Also Also that's the problem.

I mean, if it's a pawn and it's like, you know what, there's a gator in there. Okay, I see the gate over there, but it's that damn, it's two of them, two of them and that's the problem. And then you had Kevin Durant. That's I mean, it was, it was, it was, it was. I mean, it's just it's just amazing. But I'm gonna just be honest with you.

We ain't worry about them right now. Okay, we're not worried about all they.

Shotting and shooting that they did they timp spots.

Steal yeah, yeah, we uh we didn't. They didn't have it last night. De loc didn't have it going last night. Lebron Lebron was what thirty three, eleven and seven played. Prayed played really well. Uh Reeves played really well, but we needed we need to deload and hit some of them threes early to match, and every time they got it close, they got it to four.

And then GP GP the second he hit a couple.

Uh Wiggins couldn't miss from three last night. You I've been I can I can tell. I can tell the way the game said when Draymond hit that's here we go. I said, if Draymond hit the what the hell you think Stephen Klay gonna do if he.

Hit them like this is listen. I was hoping Phoenix lost. I hope they have I was hoping they lost, but they took that win on.

And this is getting crunchy because Golden State got three games, that Blazer's Pelicans Jazz, which bigger win, all those.

They gonna they canna if they get Now.

This is the problem, this is this is what's relicans. Okay, this is what's good. If if New Orleans loses to Golden they got to play Golden State and the Lakers. If they lose the both of us, they can be in the eight seed. Phoenix can go to the sixth seed. We can get the seventh seed. We need to be seventh seed. You need to win one game and you in the playoffs. And and I think that's what's gonna happen because because.

New Orleans, New Orleans have what they got three more games?

Yeah right, they got Golden State, Lakers and what the Grizzlies, right, yeah.

The Lakers. The Lakers got the Grizzlies on Friday. We got the grit we got so we got two games. We got the Grizzlies and the Pelicans left. Where do they play the Pelicans in New Orleans? They don't even matter. We were smacking both of them. But they need to Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We So what happens is if Golden States beats Great is least.

Who else plays again?

Go to State has Grizzlies, we have If Grizzlies lose two more games, they are no never mind because they only got they only got thirty two losses and.

The Lakers got thirty four right of thirty five. Huh Lakers got what thirty four thirty five? We got thirty five? Yeah, yeah, yeah, So they need to lose out. They need to lose out.

But even if they get to the seventh spot, if we can get to the sixth fot because Sacramento has they got Sons and the Blazers.

So they go one and one and we go too. And oh they needed that. They needed one of those games.

They either needed the game last night or the game that AD went down in preferably. We were trying to we're trying to get out of Denvisie. I'm so we're trying to get out of them. Aside, you mess righting, you mess right to be out of the NBA. I you'll be out to you be out to play here,

What you think? What do you? What do you?

What do you think? What's his what's his upside? What's the best Brownie can be?

Oh, it's difficult because he has a Westbrook engine right, so he has a forty three inch vert. He has all the fast touched muscles, so he has Westbrook's engine in him right. He uses a very defense. He can pass the ball, he has great vision. He knows how to plays very unselfish, which he's too unselfish. He can hit the shot didn't didn't shoot very well and in college so far. But when when he turns it on, he turns it on, he can be He can be a more explosive Drew Holiday type of player.

Okay, right, Patrick Beverley is defense. Patrick Beverley was a score.

But Patrick Bedley didn't have the the the physical tools to be a be a good offensive player right in at the NBA level.

I mean, he averaged thirty seven in high school.

But uh, to be a guy you can get like you're there's gonna be times where.

You get a switch on Ronnie. Ronnie's taking it to the basket right, and he can jump.

So he's not offensively minded, but he has the tools. So the people he named the people they name that he can his game is after He's way more athletic and skilled than those guys.

Okay, So you think he'll be a first round, late first round pick this year or is he going back to school?

I think it's one of those things where you test it, right, this is the advantage. This is the advantage that we these kids have today. I'm going back to school, but I get to test it now. If I test it and ace to test, I'm saying, I'm staying in the draft. Right, There's been guys that they were projected late first the matrix, right,

You start putting him against other players that's.

Supposed to be drafted in the first round, right, and he can put himself against some of those guys and he's ding up and getting to the basket. He can shoot in the draft. But for the most part, you go and test the waters. You go back to school.

Russell Westbrook says he's the best NBA's bench player. He said, ain't nobody better than me coming off the bench, and this league Russ Preus provided. Russ has provided eleven point per game five rebounds and a little under five assists, often providing the spark off the bench with his energy, attacking and aggression and playmaking. Is Russell Westbrook the best player off the bench this season?

Okay, well, okay, you have to put it in the context that he is putting it in right.

First, he's the most you know, he's the most accomplished player coming off the bench. He's not better this year than Malik Monk coming off the bench.

But but he don't have Milik Monk's time. You give him Elik Monk's time, He's gonna be better than Milik Monk.

That's what he's that's the energy's saying.

You know right now, with the time he has and the team he has, he's averaging eleven four and five.

That is not Westbrook, right right?

I mean yeah, with the number that but for the amount of time that he's getting, I mean he's got decent numbers.

Yeah, So you know.

The Westbrook that he's saying that I got, I got three other Hall of Famers playing.

I have to sacrifice.

You put me on the bench, you give me bench time with the elite guys who's getting bench time?

Oh I'm blowing in numbers out of the way.

I'm age eighteen seven and seven and stuff like that, So I understand where he's coming from.

Where he's coming from.

When it comes to this game of basketball, and we talking about going out there playing, Ain't nobody coming off this bench.

Better than me? Right? Yeah, playing twenty two minutes.

But I'm playing twenty two minutes because I got James Harden, I got Paul George and Kawhi in.

Front of me, right, That's who I got in front of me.

I don't him with Norman Powell might be better than he is. Right now, do you know how many minutes Norman Power you to night?

But but but Norman Power is supposed to score. My job being to score. My job is to give Norman powder ball. I'm spoking, I'm giving him the ball. That's why he looks good. But if you want me to go out there and get you a twenty and cut everybody off, yeah, we might not win shit.

Yeah, show you what I got to take twenty six. Norman Power averages twenty six minutes a game. Maya, I don't think Russ is that? What is Russ?

Russ might be like eighty twenty two twenty two. Yeah, what is malikue Monk? I mean, Monk might be at like twenty eight. I got to be a twenty eight. I mean it don't look like minutes a league Monk player. Malague was balling for he tweet that knee. I mean, he was going crazy. He was gonna win it. And I still believe he will win six Man of the Year. I think he's done enough. Milik is the only.

Average twenty six minutes a night only only, but you're the go to guy.

Yes, it was a good but that's what I'm saying.

There's a difference Malik coming in as a go to score or Russ book is I'm running the team.

But two different jobs. You know, it's two different jobs. Yeah, that has to do different things.

But I think Russ in his role, uh does a great job. Malik in his role. I hated to see Malik go, Damn. I wanted to Kim stay with the Lakers. Can you imagine him coming off the bench with the Lakers.

But then that's who we need, That's what we need off the bench right now.

Who I mean we we.

Normally we had we had good production with Ruin coming off the bench, but now the guy that was started in front of the road was so bad we had to put Ruige to the starting lineup. Oh man, I can't wait that Christian Woods put that Damn.

I can't wait till he get back. Are you coming back this year?

I think he's still I think he's still in Porto Ranch, stuck at the girls house, still trying to find himself.

Oh yeah, you don't. Jumped the fence and got it tired and flat. The man put him on, put him on, float, put him on.

I don't trust the dude who don't know how to serve a person where you know where she lived. She knew how to jump your damn gate and take your license plate off, but you don't know to serve her with no papers.

Come on, doll, Yeah man, y'all did I mean come on?

She em?

How about this way? As she jump your gate? Got you're looking at the wrong house. Stop looking at her house. Look at your house. She's somewhere high in your garage. Damn, but I can't find look look on your cabin.

But they got to they got a kid together, right, Yeah, and so yeah, I think a lot of that has to do.

I don't you know, I don't want to be the.

One to put put my put my kids mom in jail. And I you know, I mean, I really, I mean sometimes, you know, sometimes you have to do what you have to do.

But I was always conscious of that.

Now I'm not so sure it was always reciprocated, but you know, I'm very I was very conscious of, like, damn that my kid was gonna grow up, go grow up. Was they're like, my dad put my mom and had my mom put in jail. I had my mom arrested, and I did. I didn't want that. I didn't want that on my conscious. But I also, you know, jumping the man fancy scratching his car and not doing all kind of poolicees next time out for that.

Don't don't be don't don't don't be that.

You know what the problem is with that, We have a conscience when it comes to in the court said this, they said, they're starting to lean to the less of the two evils, and the less of the two evils is the man.

Usually, when the man is coming.

To court, he's fighting for fifty to fifty mm. When the woman is coming to court, she's fighting for old custody. One every single time right, So the less of the two evils is the person who wants to have a fifty to fifty. So with that, so with the two mindsets, that's a different playbook.

Right. Your job as the woman, you're trying.

To put me in jail so you can get full custody, that is right, as long as I am unfit. You So your job is to find me unfit, to find out what kind of dirt to try to make me go crazy so you can get the full custody because the full custom comes with a better check.

Yeah. Right, So there's things.

As men, we're not going to cross those lines because we do have a conscience.

Yeah.

I just like even men who won full custody, right right, the ones who won full they still gave back some Yeah, because I mean shit full cousin just took away to pay. I'm not trying to take your responsibility away, right right, You're trying to take the responsibility and the money.

Like that. Okay, you can get the money, like I do you get the money? Can I? Now? Can I be the father? Yeah? That's the thing.

I mean you have to let I think the thing is gila, Like you know, you when you're young and you know, are you arguing? Are you arguing? Are you disagreeing to be right or to do right? Because if we're trying to make a city, if we're trying, if you're trying to be right, it ain't gonna because sometimes, you know, you get to say your head. I just want to be right. Are you arguing to be right or arguing for right? Those are two different things. Now, Gila, I don't think that.

Listen, well, I can only.

Speak for myself, and I think for the most part the course are starting to really understand that the men want.

To do right.

All men for the most part, want to be in their children's lives.

They just don't want to deal with what comes the other side of it.

But it shouldn't cost me for it shouldn't cost me ten, fifteen, twenty thirty thousand a month to be.

In my child's life.

Now, I ain't got no problem paying if you can show me, say well, Shannon, baby formula costs fifteen thousand a month, okay, and parables is another twenty another twenty five miles a month. This is why I need forty five dollars for the key. Okay, boom, I come on.

Now, I was in.

I was in, I was in, I was in court, and we were doing family the family therapists, and and I said, this is not a this is not a parenting issue.

This is a money issue.

I said, all these women and men in here, this is a fight about money.

This is not a fight about parenting.

If you took money out of the equation and said, hey, why can't this person take care of their kids, they don't have an answer for you. The excuses is coming because there's a money attached to it. Take the money away from this, this fatherhood.

You take the money away from it and say let's be parents. There wouldn't be no argument because I was a great parent when we was together. Now all of a sudden, now yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, yea.

Right out of garantee, because I can tell you for one thing, if you give the man the kids, he ain't gonna be asking you for no money. He's not gonna be sitting there trying to put you on child support and do all this stuff. You don't even exist in this this moment. You want to see your children. Okay, Other than that, we can get a n name, can

And that used to be my argument. Well, if she can't.

Take care of the kids and she needs my money, won't you give the kids to me?

I don't need her money. It's easy like that.

If the person who can take care of the kids without the other person should be primary.

Right, and then they normally give that, they normally give that, normally give they normally give that to the woman.

Now, yeah, you're taking my money to make her primary. Shit, don't take my money to make her if she can't sell it. If you can't take care of the kids by yourself, then give it to the parent who can and then you go from there.

That's yeah. But once once it becalled a pocket book. Yeah, well we're gonna lose. That's a fight.

There's always a fight over money. That's the fight. Is not about the responsibility of the kids. It's the fight about the money of it. If you take money out of it, you too child support out of trust me, there's gonna be some dead beats out there, right for sure. Out there for sure, But for the most part you would get it right when you take out the money.

Yeah, I may everybody. Everybody knows me. I got a big heart. I ain't got no problem with the money because I can go make some more of that. Just show just show me where the kid needs this, and we got it.

Don't show me. Hey, hey, bring them over here. Do you know what I'm saying?

Hey, because I'm look, I can get Look, I had a team. I had a teamate of mind that that he and this I think girlfriend of something broke up and he got the kids and you know, he got a nanny, go to work, he comes football practice, and he did everything that he needed to do and he you know, he go pick it up, pick picked the child up.

Hey, I get it. I ain't got no problem.

Like I said, I ain't never had a problem responsibility, and I'll pay whatever I need to pay whatever. First of all, I went up to Jodge say I'm gonna pay anyway. I ain't find the key, and keep going back and forth. But you know, sometimes, you know it was just like I said, we were both we were young, and you know, everybody wanted to be right, and you know it was and so I was just like, man, you know what, And I said, because at the end

What we keep going, making this, making this, giving this guy all this money. I can be putting this away for the kids. What's your need?

What's what's gonna make you happy? What's realize? I say, What's what's gonna make you happy? Let's get out of here. I'm done because people don't I mean, I don't know if anybody out there know, but when I when you go to court as the man, as the man me and our situation, we gotta play for hard turney two.

So he don't he want to keep he or she wants to keep it going.

Those billable hours are going to somebody they no campaign.

Yep, And that's that's that's the problem with the fight, right when you have zero.

And don't matter what you're fighting for because you gonna get something. It's no different than divorce, right, Right, if a man has one hundred million and you getting fifty percent you don't realize if you take the lump sum after the fifty you only get twenty five.

You don't care about the twenty five because you got twenty five. Molde in your hat.

Anyway, as long as you get what h what you didn't have. I got twenty five million more than I had before. I don't give a shit if the government took twenty five, I don't give it. What if you give me too, it was too more than he was gonna give me.

Get it to me.

They don't care about how much you spending. As long as they get some of it, that's all that matters.

I was just young. I'm glad.

I'm glad we were all labored to come together and and have a great relationship. I had to soften because I just felt like, I don't like to be taking advantage of I don't and because I'm gonna give you, but I don't. I don't want you.

I don't.

I don't like feeling take advantage of, taking advantage of difference used okay, but don't take advantage of me man, because I'm gonna give you because I want my child to have and and.

You have the child.

So I don't want my child liberal this quality conditions, So I'm gonna make sure.

But come on, now, let's be reasonable. Mm hmm. I wanted to that lifestyle.

They wanted the lifestyle they had, but you can't, you know, that's just the way that Yeah.

So but it was good. We're great. I called and check on them. I always had, you know, I call and check on to make sure, you know, happy Mother's Day. You know, you know, I don't remember hell, I don't remember no birthdays. Hell, I barely can remember own. Yeah, I don't know. I don't do that. My brother, my brother, my sisters, my kids. That's that's about. That's about all my mom. That's about all I got. And granted because it's always falls around, but it's made the twelve. I

I ain't think we're gonna be here though, Gil.

I ain't think we're gonna be here the way we started out, it is started out good, but we ended on a good note.

We ended on a good note. It started off good, let's start off good. And it started off good, but.

We ended on a good end, a good and at the end of the day, give us what it comes down to. So uh we we we're great. Now we have a relationship. We can pick up the phone and call uh. And I think that's what it should be. And you know, for the kids, especially as as the kids started to get older and they could comprehend, like

Of granted, and you took great Grandma Mary Dixon. Wow, daddy. We yeah, yeah, your daddy did all that.

And now you know, especially when they you know, because my oldest came out here when I have my second surgery, she told my sister, well, I'm gonna take I want to take care of that.

So and she see like, damn, like had to help me.

You had to help me, you know, bathe me and get me up and do things like that and made sure I was walking.

And you know, she was like, who daddy.

Now, it's like now you she had They have an appreciation because they see how they daddy get around because they saw they saw I was so active Gil and you know, I'm still active for the every fifty six year old. But considering what I was into what I am now and how I get around, and you know, I don't move like I was. You know, I don't move like I was dead. They have a greater appreciation. The told that what I did took on my body

Now out of that. After that, Hey, hey.

My daughter, if they have they have a family, I'm gonna make sure I get four.

I'm gonna knock four.

Of them out the way, so fur I'm gonna have a great eight.

Hey, they between third and Home.

Ain't gonna gonna make They ain't gonna be standing on home they Hey, they ain't gonna stand at home plate but they gonna be between third and home plate guilt.

I'm just sitting there. Hey, hey, anything a popfly? Hey anything? You should make a home standing up. You ain't even gotta slide in the home. So that's that's it. That's what I do. Whatever that, and so I will make sure they're straight. Check this out.

Gil's Arena is live this Saturday, April fourteenth, at six pm at al Ray Theater in Hollywood.

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Gil's Arena is live this Sunday, April fourteenth, at six pm at the l Ray Theater in Hollywood. Tickets are still available. What can fans expect Gil from the show?

I don't know.

You know, it's it's it's it's live, you know what I mean, So you expect anything.

You know. We got a wild cast. We gotta we got a wild cast. You know.

We got special guests coming through that's gonna pop in and pop out.

So I just I got, I got my hats came in. My hats came in. So I'm gonna be signing aut the graphs.

But uh, it's our spirit but live.

We bringing our whole couch set. So we were bringing the couch set. We're trying to get the jumbo trying out there.

We're trying to make him really feel lively that to give that real experience of you know how it is inside the uh inside the arena downstairs.

Right, that's what you're doing Sunday. Oh y'all got your show? You might go there?

Yeah about Hey look here the next what the next

Uh I just got back. Huh yeah, we go keep that. We'll keep that wig wigle week huh later, as we get as we get closer, As we get closer, you can't keep anything a secret. You asked you that one kid that tell the other kid.

You know we got for Christmas? But uh, now, man, that's unbelievable. You'll have a lot. Have you guys ever did a live show before the first live show? Yeah, they're they're different. You could feel you know, I mean, the audience, the presence. Uh, you get instant you get instant gratification. Although when you see it on the chat. You see the emojis and and the people like that, but they hear the oohs and ah, the laughter, the you know that comes along with that. It's it's a

We was in? Yeah, super Bowl? Yeah that's I love that.

And so we're looking to do a couple of those before we start before the season cranks back up. So that's something Nightcap is looking forward to. Maybe we even take Nightcap to a nature bc U.

Hey man, okay, look, okay, listen, Nightcap has to have a certain time.

You had me listen, I'm.

Sitting here waiting for you, like you know them girls were waiting for the Uber driver.

Huh, I'm cad.

Well, I thought, but I was like, man, you know what I said, it needs some important game because normally we go at seven unless it's a big But I thought I thought Minnesota, and and and and and Denver, with so much riding on it, I thought that I thought it would I thought it was important, but I mean, I mean, now it's about to be the playoffs, So ain't tell her what type of the game gona be gonna be coming on, right, You're right, You're right, You're right.

It's all about improvement.

It's all about adapting and getting better at a particular thing, and that's what we want to do. Thank you for joining us for another episode of Nightcap. I'm your favorite unk, Shannon Sharp, He's your favorite number zero, Arizona Wildcat, Legend Wizard Great California's own Gilbe Arenas. Please make sure you