Gil's Arena on LeBron's status: "Scary hours" are in store for the rest of the NBA.

What are your thoughts on Merle Chalmers saying nobody fears Brown? It's correct. But it's an it's you can't use that as a negative against LeBron to say, you know, everyone feared Jordan and that's why he's better than LeBron. Did anybody fear Magic Johnson? No. Did anybody fear of John Stockton, Carmelon? No, right? The fear comes from what that person capability is right as an offensive player the capability of what Jordan's going to do if you're not on point, that's what a fear came in at. So Michael Jordan was feared Allen Iverson was feared Kobe was feared guys who have the ability to score 30 to damn 70 points. They're feared right LeBron James. Was a all-around player even though he gave you 40 it wasn't the same 40 versus someone like an Allen Iverson or Kobe or Michael Jordan. Yeah, so you didn't fear you didn't fear the capability of what he was going to do to you, right? You did that with you know, Jordan Kobe and Allen Iverson you feared the capability of what they were. I mean you you fear what they were capable of doing that's where fear comes from. It's not feel like I'm not afraid of a guy who's going to give me 29 99. I'm afraid of a man who's going to go for 60 if I'm not careful. Okay, like like a Steph Curry. Yes, like a Steph Curry's feared because it's like you think people fear Steph more than they fear LeBron him. Yeah, Dane. Yeah. Yeah, but just from a I'm gonna get cooked stand just because it's like that thing can get it can get ugly like and get really ugly Bron. He's more like, you know, he's gonna pass. He's going, you know, it's like you say it's 40 is not going to like a like it's like as I think to as a guard though. It's as a guard. We're like, you know, this dude dropped 50 on us at 40. It's like damn you can't kind of kind of come back from that or you like when he scored that 55 all the guards. I had to guard him after that was like, oh ----, who's the young fella like it puts it, you know, it puts him in a whole different because now we can see what his capability is, right, you know, so it's it just changes. So saying that, you know, no one feared LeBron. You're right, but no one feared 90% of the greats. Yeah. Yeah, you talked about one fear Duncan one fear Tim Duncan talking about Brandon dropping that 55 piece and other guards being afraid get where you one of those guards. Yep, who guards them? Who's guarding them me? I'm not guarding. But why would Mario Chalmers say that anyway because he's there but but it makes it listen. It makes sense. It does. What is the point though of it? I'm like, what's the because they're trying to just that everyone's trying to justify why Jordan will be better. Like it's two different animals. I couldn't wait to play against Miami but because of Mario Chalmers. Yeah, we should say. Yeah, this is gonna be easy night and he was a defensive player, but it's easy. Yeah, easy night. And I remember Brian and I'm used to be like, you know, try like what you gonna do tonight? Yeah, easy 30. Yeah, and he asked you what you were going to do to Chalmers. No, no. I'm just saying like it you could just tell they would be getting frustrated. Like you're going, you know, it's like no, but the team, you know, they team was great when he says nobody fears LeBron. I'm also want to know how many people would you talking to before the game? Like yo dog, you fear LeBron tonight. Like I just don't feel like those were conversation. No, they're not converse. You listen. You're not it's not conversations. You're having it's just the way the game is played, right? You know, like Shaquille O'Neal was feared, right? Shaquille O'Neal was feared. What about him? Don't Hakeem was feared. Tim Duncan. No, no fear for Tim Duncan. No, David Robinson. No, the game was so boring that it wasn't. There was no fear. Just I didn't give you the 2527, you know, who I feared Derek Rose after Derek Rose. That's after that second year when we had to play him four times. So I got him four times that year and I used to just be like, man, one of them go to bed because and he had that taking over in the fourth every time you knew every fourth quarter. He was coming over to take over and that's just a fear. Like they hit. Yeah, he had a game winner on me. But no one like right now. No one fears Luka. There's no fear that he's putting in. No one fears Joker. They fear Giannis. They're going to fear Embiid. It's just it's just a capability of what you can what you can do and not to say that that Joker 30 piece. Well, you know the honest because you only can give you 40 or 50 but his his 20 the way he played his 20 seems like 40 if he comes on you if he comes and he dunks on you four or five times and them the and one. Yeah, it makes it look like he's done ruined your whole life. Okay, that's worth fear. When you say it's less of Joker driving the lane. I know. Do you think anybody for Jason Tatum or not? You fear Katie. I'm gonna call the Bronner. He called the brown ones almost caught him again. This is but fear fear like this when he's driving down the lane. He's around the hoop. Kyra feet people. Yeah, people fear. Yeah, people Kyrie. Yeah, because he's going to embarrass. He's going to embarrass you. Do you feel like other than stuff Kyrie's probably the most feared job guard at this point? He will cook. I think Dame is more. I will think Dame is more feared than Curry is. I don't think so because with Curry, I don't it's Dame is going to give you all 60 points him having the ball coming at you. Curry is going to get off the ball a little bit. If you if you're relaxing and kind of like I will rather guard Dame. Then Curry because Curry is going to score in too many different ways that it just it just irritates you as a player. Maybe Gordon Curry at the half. Yeah, I know. I know that's what I said. It's like at half. Like I mean Dame is there too though. Don't get me wrong. But like it did like it all depends. Like I rather I rather be scored on just like you doing it all here versus here drive. God damn it like coming off and it's because you're doing it too. Yeah, like I rather have this 60 and like, all right, I still can do something back with Curry is like he's just going to take everything from you. So Brandon mentioned Derrick Rose who is a player amongst that list? We know the usual suspect who is somebody maybe that people wouldn't expect that you actually fear Garden. I feared it. Actually, I did fear Baron Baron was nice because Baron had more in his game than he he that he put out if Baron wanted to score 30 a game with the way he played his body size and he can post up and he can get he had that bop in his game. You couldn't guard him but because he was actually still under the the pure point, you know, so when Baron went he was still looking to dish off when he had easy layups. So, you know when you get into the game, you're like which Baron is coming today, you know, you know Nash, you know, you feared Nash because you know, you know, I hate that pick and roll. I hated that pick and roll. I think I don't know if he was in the league. I want to say Lindsey Hunter was in the league when I was in the league still. I used to hate playing against him because he you know, 94 feet pick a fool like just like fear. It's like God damn. Here we go. Like I hope I'm not in the game with him like just like just annoying like some of the annoying players is just fear because he's like man. All right, here you go. You coming up in here. Well, yeah, Lindsey Hunter's last year was 09010. That was my rookie year. So yeah, okay, I don't know if he played much but just seeing it and then you talked about Baron. I think Bear probably one of the more underappreciated Hoopers just I mean you talk about him at UCLA but Torres ACL was able to come back still be a number two overall pick after that and that's back when the ACL injury was a big deal like, you know career altering career change and it's still carved out a great career in the league. So feel like BD don't get his flowers enough. No, he don't like like he was he was feared man. Like the like what what he used to do what he was capable of like it was just it was one of those guys that just got anywhere. He wanted and you know, we've met we never got to see like his whole full, you know output. Yeah. Yeah, this new this is what Baron is this I'm saying before the injuries like before all before the injuries before he was unreal. Yeah, like he was like, I remember watching him. It was him and Kenny Bruner dude named Kenny Bruner. They were battling for one and two Kenny Bruner was more just a straight defense defense a guy and then he was just a real nice playmaker like really like great playmaker and Baron just grew and they're not not a bounce can you know, yeah, not a bounce and that's what elevated, you know, Baron over over over Kenny and you know, just just the way they were just both shifty and got through pigs. It was just it was just it was just different. If if if Baron would have had a just a scores mentality, he had been hard to guard. He was already hard to guard, but he would have been big posting big posting lady everything. Like yeah, I heard like health healthy. They said BD top five.