Gilbert Arenas Questions If Klay Can Fit On The Mavericks

Does does clay then speaking of dallas does clay then make them better like that Just play style How does that that's what we all worried about? How did that gel like i'm gonna give right now i'm gonna give Jason kidd the credit. That's what we say. I'm gonna give him the credit to put in some type of plays For clay, but clay has been used to movement. That's right past chase. Yes Jason running around coming off doubles, right? You got to treat him like rip hamilton. Um What jkid had um If you don't treat him like that and he's just sitting in the corner just waiting for a shot Yeah, so you'll make them look bad So my question is can you win with those guys the lucas the guys like the hardens who say? Going into a system. I am a system Can you win a championship with those kind of guys because that is the question right now that everybody wants to know to answer too Can you win a championship with those kind of guys? To me and i'm gonna let you answer that because me when you talk about that clay like it's gonna be way more of an adjustment For clay than it is for dallas. Oh ----. The ball's gonna be he's used to past chase I'm a little like he's gonna be like right now the way it's being uncomfortable being uncomfortable That's what that's what i'm getting at. But like you just talked about it He had he had derrick jones and pj washington both really good players But clay is not used to just sit in the corner being a catch-and-shoot dude and you're not gonna to me it's the hardest thing for they put a lot of pressure on jkid because The way they make the finals was putting those two And ball screens and creating everything for everybody else clay ain't used to that I think with luka, it's There's just certain players that You have to like like a magic johnson like think of magic johnson With someone like luka, right? The ball is in his hand. He's a bigger guard You can't go small with his talent Right going small hurts him. Yeah. Yeah, he you You can't have kairi at the two Clay six seven at the three then you got six eight at the four. That's not how you win with this guy You have to go big You have to go with seven foot seven because now Who has to guard him? Yeah, you can't hide it now. He gets to pick Apart now when he's coming down the lane, he gets to do whatever he wants You have to have a big lineup with luka, right? That's the only way look when you put smaller guys around luka It hurts him he's gonna get his numbers, but that's not how you win You gotta have big shooting guards be like his shooting guard should be six eight You know what? I mean? Yeah, he needs a big shooting guard big three like they're sitting there. They can all switch Yeah, and that's now everybody posted now you now you're forced to say. All right derrick and um Drew yeah, we're gonna have to sit you we're gonna have to put tatum at the one brown at the two But we're gonna have to have lineups like that against luka because These guys are too small because the shooting guard is six eight and the three is six so we can't now it's a luxury boston has that they were able to switch those picking roles and Dallas wasn't able to take advantage of that. I mean you're switching derrick white you're switching um I'm having a goddamn brain freeze Drew switching drew on to him And you're not getting anything out of those triggers because the guys are not able to post those guys up And now you just spread the floor When they put tatum on on gaffer, you know And they didn't just throw the ball down the gaffer just five straight times just to see what's gonna happen Right, even he kicked the ball out of bounds. It didn't matter just like you're gonna put oh, no, we're gonna Let's let's let's try to see what happens with the fact that he's just sitting there Minnesota tried to throw the ball to rudy down there on a couple times That ain't go right The most frustrating in the world, right When you see the mismatch and then you throw it back you throw it down and like Oh, man, it's gonna be a long night, bro I mean because you want to be able to exploit that somewhat just to a degree Yeah, he doesn't have to score 60 down there But if he can make you want to you want to make an adjustment Think about it Because here's the deal the coaches the coaches are the biggest overreactors in america. Yes Yes, so so if you do it one time, I can't do that no more. Yeah, instead of instead of just picking their poison Okay, well rudy gobert's gonna have to have 50 against they'll never do that. No like to me in my life We're cool with this thing, but they're the biggest overactors in the world If we just give it to ruby one time he lays it in they're like damn we can't do that Go back go back. Yeah And now that we talk about some of the things that you have to be cool with that's one of the things that we talk About is that we're playing against boston be cool with them making a contestant. Yeah, be cool with them making a contestant three It's okay. Don't overreact. You had your hand there. You was in his face. That's a 35 I mean, excuse me a 25 20 25 percent shot be cool with making that but they got to make them for four quarters Yeah, I mean you gotta you gotta take away the open coaching. They gotta make contestant ones for 48 minutes coaching There's gotta be adjustments, but if you're making major adjustments in a playoff series, you're gonna get boned anyway Well, once again, now we're talking about major adjustments in the playoff series Let's go back to the conversation that we had earlier habits because the playoffs is where your habits are revealed for sure Lack of are revealed in the show. No facts. We talk about joker and we talk about mb and I say that yes Joker is great. And yes, you start your team with joker if you're picking a team today But I say it's only because joker has better habits if you're asking me who is the better talent I'm going with mb seven days a week and twice on sunday and me and mike was arguing for about an hour But that's but that's but that's but that's the argument right one is super talented one has better habits, right? Who are you starting your team with right now? If I had to pick one You gotta win a championship If I gotta win a championship i'm gonna go with joker right or the reason is mb is no different than Some of the most talented players we've ever seen right? They're so talented that They don't They don't jump into the next category, right? Why do I need to get in top top shape if i'm averaging 35 and 15? That's what we were talking about. Do you think he ever figure it out? No, it's too easy for i'm wishing for him He's making 65 million and getting bucking I mean just just seeing what he's capable of I would love to see what that would look Like if he figured it out, that's that's just me. I'm a fan, you know We all agree that and this is when we say this out loud They think we're hating. Oh, hell no like like like when I said yannis yo yannis if you got a back to the basket Post-up playing it. You know how great you will be like you averaging 32 just running downhill If you learned how to play this game, oh my god, man, my love what's your engine? Man, my last 45 career my last four or five years was based off getting rid of bad habits And they got paid and go down the list of guys that got paid that came to miami that were undrafted or on their way out of the league and Figured out how to change their habits and they got paid Like with mb it's more like you just look at little things like like there was a picture of you There was a video of yoke is playing street ball Oh, I saw that and you're saying like look how in shape he is I saw that you and me Bro, if you put down I don't mean to be rude you put down the full hamburgers before the game You eating all this before like they'll get healthy my dude right but him being healthy is is is part of the Reason why he can't reach his potential and part of the reason why he can't reach his potential and he's not healthy is because of It's just his habits with with the with the way the game is now and all those young talent coming in who you start your team with right now How how young we going? I mean just that the league sits right now Players in it you you get you get one player Uh I'm gonna go wimby wimby The reason I like with wimby is As as a general manager, you don't have to be brilliant. No, you don't You know what? I mean? You don't really have to be smart You're allowed to make a few mistakes dropping same thing with someone like jokers, right? Because he can pass he can post up he can do a lot of things If I pick him Moving forward I can make a couple mistakes and his talent can adjust to it I mean You can go on free agency and get guys that players that other teams don't really value for the low and what he's gonna do is get them paid because they're gonna come in there and he's gonna Dot them up. They're gonna be a lot better and also they're gonna get the money to go somewhere else But they can continue to it's a revolving door. All right, who's next? Oh, you didn't like him over there, but he shot 38 Okay, come here. You're gonna be back cut. You can put real play through use. I mean wimby's is wimby's a good choice I mean, it's hard to argue that It's just it's easier from if I have to go like guards or like I'll say Probably ant-man Right because he has that besides the marketing with the charisma stuff he he has that What a coach needs from a star player never never seems like he's ratting yes, right so no matter if you're down Oh three in the playoff game. Oh two just lost by 30 when he talks You don't know if he lost or won Right. Oh, yeah, you know, you know a little rough today, but we gonna get him already told him we gonna get him Yes, we coming back like and you know, you need that type of player's confidence man, because you know, we've been in locker rooms where you can you look at a star player and he just Yes, i'm like yeah man, let me go ahead Man I love the fact that he's changed the The mindset he's changed how we look at the minnesota team, you know, he's changed that I think they've somewhat as a team collectively Have embodied his attitude and his personality just a little bit and I think that's helped the way we view minnesota Yeah, we don't view them as the losers and obviously they've been to the playoffs a couple years But we don't view them as the losers that we used to view them as and we also viewed them as soft