Clippers losing GM 7 to Nuggets is the 'biggest choke in NBA history' — Shannon | NBA | UNDISPUTED

i'm jenny taft with skip bayless and shannon sharp should i even ask how you guys are doing shannon's celebrating skip let the show go on it's a beautiful morning again it's a beautiful morning beautiful morning i got a great nice lead uh jamal murray murrah yolk they did their thing yep how you doing i'm not here you know what yeah you here you right here you riding i'm not doing the show you know what you can do it by yourself snoop sent me a little something for you to say but gifts get one of these you're gonna calm him down and everything will be okay in about 15 20 minutes i need one of those little things to get you up oh no i got that this right here right here go get you right none of this none of this will get you up you will think you up but you really you really now hey give me how you doing i'm doing terrible how are you why why you why are you doing terrible at least he's honest about it since lebron just won his we're not talking about lebron i can't believe it i can't i i just had to get turned into a nuggets fan who who would have ever really i'm now a nuggets fan really and since you mentioned being a denver fan skip let's talk about what exactly they did to your clippers last night the nuggets made nba history becoming the first team to ever come back and win a series down 3-1 twice in the same postseason kauai who went six of 22 from the floor for 14 points and the clippers were left stunned as their championship aspirations were cut short of even a conference finals appearance paul george didn't help matters with only 10 points on 4 of 16 shooting last night so shannon i start with you what's the biggest reason for the clippers collapse one name two words kawhi leonard this is not about skip bayless tells me this is not about complimentary superstars this is not about auxiliary players this is about your stars this is about a superstar this is about the best player in the nba which he's never been but people got so mad at lebron they get so tired of talking about lebron people do yes yes everybody you know there are nine billion blind witnesses no we're talking about analysts we're talking about analysts they've been trying to give this guy the mantle the pedal the pedestal for the last three to four years although he's never won a regular season mvp he's never been the best player in the nba it was he won two finals in vp but was he the guy this was a tim duncan this was manu this was tony parker's team he came in the background he won he went to toronto there was no expectations they were not the favorite now instead of being the hunted you instead of being the hunter you're the hunted let me tell you what kawhi leonard did as the best player in the world he just blew a three one lead and in all the games he had a double digit lead if you're the best player on the planet that cannot happen two-point skip can i interest you in two points in the second half on one four eleven shooting wow and he was flailing away he was crying and well before i go before i before i get this i'll make one make sure i get this let's get it in here skip yeah one two three cancun you remember how paul george and pat bell was yacking at damn lillard oh you going you packing you mean to tell me they're about to go in the luxury tax they gave up their future 2022 2024 23 25 you got swaps to go one extra round to go one extra round that's what it did they can't even get to the western conference finals no because your guy the guy that minnie said is the best player on the planet gag he choked there's no other way around it if the be the greatest the greatest choke job in nba history i defied you to find me another superstar that had a 3-1 lead and gagged like kawhi leonard did he gag i told you sometimes a man can make his destiny on the very road he took the board dj can you drop that track because i want to narrate over it because jenny i know you remember opening night jenny's not here okay but anyway bayless are you here opening night something transpired boom it detonated like that earthquake that happened in july he shocked the conscience of america he did this whoa whoa whoa whoa what i did that it's not your attorney talk let me talk i'm narrating over this yeah you can see this down in the background as i'm talking you see a little keychain dangling he pulls up in his sixth vote he rides low on kauai town he exit kauai avenue oh this is new kauai kawaii kawakawa he's never ever going to live this down he gagged 3-1 and he choked them off skip you mean to tell me you could only get me two points and you couldn't stop hold on a team full of dogs nobody can lock in like these guys and they'll go doc using that again that energy and they've been playing together i'm done with excuses there is no excuse for this or when pat beth when kawhi leiter and paul georgia on the floor they're 11-0 and then they were 11-1 and then it was 13 in one and y'all nobody can beat them oh no one can beat this team the nuggets spotted them two games and walk them skip bayless this is embarrassing i told you nothing will kill a legacy more than expectation because that's what he had he wanted paul george i bet he was your kyle lowry now i better have pascal for outcome now um this is utterly this is embarrassing kawhi leonard shot 27 in the fourth quarter in this series is that good no no no everybody hold on where are those next-gen stats that says kawhi literally is the best closure in basketball what does this level you skip you read it you read those stats right that's not my stat you're right i did not read it our producer read it to you did not do it on the show i defy you to go find you mentioned it i did you mention it i don't believe it dude if i if i brought it up it's because i don't buy it no no no no i never told you he was a closer i've always told you he's not a closer don't put words in my mouth hold on i thought he was a shutdown defender though did you tell him you told me he's the best defender in basketball lebron james is not even close to kawhi living well he wasn't you told me lebron quit playing defense three years no no no i didn't say he quit playing defense i say he don't devote that kind of energy because he's asked to do even more offensively well same for this guy whoa whoa whoa this guy became the whole offense and nothing whoa whoa what what so so that's why they got 83 points on but anyway neither here nor there scale i want to know when jamal murray starts cooking he can't stop that says you know what guy paul george uh or other guys y'all take the offensive end it's on me it's incumbent on me to shut jamal murray down okay now he tried to do something with yolk yolk had his way with him skip you see these numbers look look at what they got they got 14 from grand they got 16 22 and and 13 from uh yolk they got 14 from harris they got 40 from jamal murray so i'm trying to figure who is he guarding yeah so they so the clip was playing with poke and then paul george get before i'm gonna turn it over to you paul george this is what paul george did in game in series ending elimination games last night he was 416. what would paul george have paul george parker 10 points 4 16. uh uh series ending loss in utah 2019 three or 14. see ascend season ending laws at utah 2018 2 for 16. season ending loss elimination game against cleveland 5-21 yep always wow what do i call him help me out what do i always call him george paul don't i call him that well jamal murray outscored kawhi pg and lou will 40 to 31. there's no other way doc rivers gag kawhi paul georgia said shannon shaw hold on who's lost more 3-1 leads doc okay then who has more game seven losses than any other coach in nba history who has the second most game seven wins in nba history to red hour box second most yeah who has the most ales the most hell six and eight yep yep the man has blown three three one deficit you remember in orlando skip i do have tracy mcgregor great gonna be so great to go to the first the second round up three one boom yep this is the ultimate choke job and i wanna see you wiggle this one but somehow i'm gonna see your wiggle way out of this go ahead are you ready i'm ready you better put your seat belt on because i'm about to just destroy most of what you do you can't you can't because they're not going to the player you can't go going no further you can't destroy it just for the record the all-time greatest choke job we have ever seen in the history of this sport happened to your man lebron james in the 2011 finals he was up two games to one there was a chance and he made a list according to my friend stephen a smith he reported that lebron went back to the hotel in dallas texas and made a list of i told you so's and i was at the top of the list first i'm going to tell so is skip bayless okay okay and then what happened he melted down the way we've never seen any superstar in the history of the nba meltdown okay in games four five and six he disappeared and he had just joined forces with dwyane wade and chris bosh because they were going to dominate the dallas mavericks and win lebron his first ring and it did not happen because of lebron james who was widely acknowledged as the best player on the planet by then for sure okay okay so nobody ever said that kawhi leonard was the best player on the planet i don't know what you're talking about yes they have yes they have have i ever said that charles barkley has said it all those guys on espn from jaylen rose all of them have said it don't do that skill don't try to do it because now all i've ever heard is he's the best two-way player because for a while he was the best defensive player and he did win a defensive player of the year he won two of them okay well what i'm saying is he when once he broke through and won the first one then people started saying wait a second he can score and he can really defend so he's the best two-way player because at that point in lebron's career he was starting not to focus on the defensive end of the floor so best two-way player but i don't know anybody who really said he's the greatest player on the planet internet do your thing i need you to get those clothes put them in my inbox and we'll try to get them up at some point during the time during the show go ahead and said that okay now back to the larger point here i have been covering the national basketball association for the longest time i started with kareem's lakers here in la in 1976. so it's a long time i've seen a lot of playoff basketball in my day in all my time i have never seen a team collapse the way the clippers collapsed i've seen lots of back and forth seesaw battles where the underdog finally wound up winning game seven and shocking the prohibitive favor but those games go back and forth back and forth where they take turns blowing each other out and embarrassing each other did the clippers ever get blown out by the nuggets from wire to wire no did the nuggets ever come out and just take over a game and you said man tonight was just the nuggets night no it didn't happen the oddsmakers kept saying clippers they indicted the clippers because they kept saying you are clearly better than the other team because for the first six games they were eight and a half point favorites last night they were seven point five seven so the point is that las vegas is saying you are clearly better than the other team and in each of the closeout games obviously games five six and seven yes they showed you for stretches really long stretches of the game they were the superior basketball team because they led the first game five last friday night they were up by 19. game six they were up by 16 and last night with four minutes left in the first half they were up by 12. so they kept showing you were this good this good and we're this good right and then what happened they utterly got devastated and blown off the floor by a team that psychologically owned them in in all the moments that mattered the the denver nuggets snatched their heart and then they snatched their soul but skip you told me they were the most mentally toughest team that's why they were gonna beat the lakers i agree that i it wasn't just me i heard it from all the analysts who said it everybody start with our chris broussard he's going to join us he was the first to say on this show the clippers just got too many dogs and we're talking about mentally tough dogs yes and for three straight fourth quarters they turned into nothing but choking dogs yes they turned back into the sorry laughingstock [Music] belong in the basement clippers yes that everybody in l.a ridicules and laughs at and last night they were even worse than the old worst clippers even you returned them to the basement you told them to go back to the basement go back to the basement because all year long they were often the favorite to win the whole championship going into the bubble i think they were co-favored they were with the lakers to win it all so it's not like they that they were sort of a mid-run no they were the favorites right okay so now what what do i believe happened here well here's what kawhi leonard did for the seven games just to refute your point he led this team in scoring he led this team in rebounding he led this team in assists is that good yeah he led this team in steals and he led this team in block shots that's for seven games he put up numbers that even lebron doesn't usually put up because he went all the way across the stat line and led his team in every category yes and he he shot 36 from three for the seventh game switch by for his standards he's not a great three-point shooters not bad he shot 87 for the seven games from the free-throw line which would shame lebron james in his wildest dreams he couldn't shoot 87 for a series okay so what did i tell you all year i told you again and again and you made one good point when kawhi was a spur he was the fourth wheel he wasn't even the second wheeler the third he was the fourth wheel and how he won the mvp of that 2014 finals when my team blew lebron and company off the floor in five games i don't know because you could have flipped a coin and you could have come up with any of the four stars in san antonio but they chose him for i guess because of the defense that he played on lebron but to your point lebron still put up numbers just in games it would be two three four and five he did pretty well on lebron and lebron was pretty quiet especially in the two games in miami which were games three and four okay okay so the point was he goes to toronto to your point nobody expected much they have a really good team because ciaco played much better last year as the coast like the second star right and obviously kyle lowry and van vleet that you talk about dogs mentally tough dogs okay so the point was yeah he won another finals mvp but i told you all year he's not the closer the clippers i don't know how many times i have to tell you lou williams was the closer and help me out did lou williams even want to go to the bubble in the first place he did not he almost opted out of the bubble and at the last minute somehow he opted out mentally he was there biblically he he opted out mentally and then i'm not saying he made it an excuse but he took a little excursion to atlanta because he wanted to go honor a father figure of his in atlanta right so he went to the service and then we all know he went lemon pepperloo went to magic city and it was a bad look for the clippers and i said at that point this is not a united basketball team because nobody seemed to want to be in the bubble pat bev took his break and then had the quarantine and then he had an injury right right and tres took a long break obviously grandmother but but he stayed out for a long time and missed all the the exhibition games and the seating games and then he had to try to play his way into shape and yet in the end it was about lou williams guess what lou williams shot for this series from the three-point line he shot four of 27 to do the math that's 15 of his threes i told you the guy i used to know and love last year he was the guy who have ended these games games five six and seven in the third or the fourth quarter he would have said no get out of my way i got this and and he'd have a salvo of 15 straight points you've seen it a hundred times i have a skill but don't you think that's odd a team with two superstars and you have a guy coming off the bench and he's your closer you got kawhi leonard who's the two-time finals mvp you got paul george who's an all-nba player a multiple-time all-star and you're asking the guy that comes off the bench to be the closer you don't find anything how many times he won six man three years three times so he is the team's closer and they kept looking to him and there was nothing there so look at the three straight fourth quarters where was lou williams in those three quarters three fourth quarters nowhere to be found he took seven total shots in three straight fourth quarters i kept saying go do it give him the ball let him operate no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no i'm not going to put that on luke because there were three four quarters in which paul uh kawhi leonard he had zero points last night he had two points another night three points no wrong in the fourth quarter go ahead look i'm talking about these three close-out games in the fourth quarter uh kawhi was really good because in game five last friday night kawhi scored 13 points in the fourth quarter that'll work made all of his free throws made three of five threes and they still got blown off the floor 38 to 25 because denver made seven of nine threes game six another closeout game kawhi was pretty good in the fourth quarter he scored nine points and again denver made seven of nine threes it's hard to overcome that and they got blown out that's not what you said skip hold on hold on just a second it's hard to overcome that but you didn't say that when the rockets made seven or nine threes and made that run on the lakers you didn't say anything about it it's hard to overcome yeah the the rockets lost a key piece to their puzzles oh you know what and i know what daniel house and that thing was will barton is not playing for the nuggets lou williams in in three straight closeout fourth quarters was three of seven not terrible but that's a grand total of seven points right scored he just wasn't shooting he wasn't part of the action every play started with kawhi and i kept telling you i first guessed this i told you again and again they have dangerously declined on offense because it's all about flipping to kawhi on the wing let him go against two they doubled him every time let him try to dribble dribble dribble maybe he can beat it maybe he can get in the lane and what was the weapon that i always said that he had second only to michael jordan's mid-range jump shot did you see him take or make any last night no quit shooting them i don't know why if you can explain it to me you're way beyond me because the ultimate weapon he did not utilize because skip it wasn't falling what i saw last night was a guy crying every time he shot a shot he was flailing like bev says about yoke that's what every time he shot the ball tell me one time in which kawhi shot the ball that he didn't think he got fouled he's got his hands up in there he's looking at the official skip do you remember game three mm-hmm they won a game in which uh kawhi leonard had three points in the fourth quarter so you kept giving me these numbers he had this many points and in the in the first two close-out games he was really good last night he was pathetic let me ask you this when you needed buckets could kawhi leonard give you those buckets i told you it wasn't the closer of this team uh no no no no the best player in the world got to be the closest and remember in the first two closeout fourth quarters game five and game six they went in up seven the first one and up two and he was really good because he had a lead to try to get home and when he was doing the best he could you can't blame him for those okay last night last night they were already done going to the fourth quarter they were down eight and you could see the handwriting all over the orlando wall i think steve my my my great producer me and him was talking i said it's over in a game of this magnitude skip this is what made football so unique is that the the underdog the longer you go in the game and the closer he stays to the team that's the favorite the more the team that's favorite starts to tighten up because they're not supposed to be in this situation you saw that last night the farther this game got to the third quarter into the fourth quarter and the clippers realized they were far too deep they couldn't swim back to shore and then all of a sudden everything was clank paul george shooting balls off the side of the backboard but uh kawhi literally airballing shots and yoke and murray just kicking just cooking they kept the think about this they double yoked almost every time they said we're not gonna make you a score we're gonna make you a facilitator he said okay okay that guy you you can have your luca that guy's the closest thing to larry bird we've seen since larry bird that guy the joker turned unbelievably the vaunted clippers defense into a joke he shredded it right at every turn in fact last night he only scored what 16 points but look what he had 22 rebounds and 13 13 assists and he had three blocked shots and i thought his rim protection especially on kauai last night was superlative he just took the the lane away from kawhi yeah now i want you to say it and i want everybody to say because kawhi leonard should be held to the same standard if this was lebron so you're saying kawhi is equal to lebron he's never been here he's never been why would we hold him but hold on but y'all been doing it for the longest you said he was better did you not say he was better than me hold on you have never said kawhi leonard is a better player in the last two years than lebron james you've never said that three years ago i said he had become the best two-way player in basketball you did not obviously offensively he can't even sniff lebron's no no no no so you've never said in the last year and a half that kawhi leonard is a better player than lebron james i have said one man is a better player than lebron james and his name is kevin durant and he's not playing hey yeah i need you to do this internet i need you to get them detectives i want to get this out i need you to wait i've said to you no no no no no no no no no this is one way i have consistently told you the best player on the planet is kevin durant i've considered and i i stand by that right now there are a lot of analysts and they know who they are they're on the other network and they all all of them play basketball there's a lot of them on tnt and there's some on the nba network that said kawhi leonard is better than lebron kawhi leonard should get the same praise and if he wins this title he should be in the gold conversation well i want him to be in the conversation for gag because other great players that have had playoffs like this they've eviscerated them i remember magic johnson they gave the nickname tragic because of what he did in 84. you remember it you probably was covering the series so he had one bad fourth quarter and it happened to be in game seven and he should be eviscerated for that but you made one game skip he had a 3-1 lead what great superstars you know have 3-1 lead named the superstar this had a 3-1 lead three exactly 13 in the fourth quarter of game five and nine in the fourth quarter of game six that'll work hold on that'll get you home no it's a hold on i thought it was about winning when lebron james give you these virtual wars and he lose you don't say nothing what was the only team who voted as a team to opt out of the whole thing after the kenosha shooting we did no no you didn't we did your superstar your quote-unquote best player on the planet said uh i don't want to leave i got two getters what did he do yeah they was up there talking he said i'm bouncing let's go all right you said no and i got one last point to your doc point i was very disappointed in a coach that i love because he just too much sat back and folded his arms and said they'll figure it out and they never figured it out because i'm not sure doc could figure out what was happening because he would see such long stretches of dominance and then he wouldn't go desperate and push a button or do something strategically or psychologically to flip the script because denver flipped it every time and mike malone did out coach doc rivers a whole different discussion that we need more time for and i'm sure we're going to talk clippers we're going to attack lakers we're going to talk kawhi in that commercial that's not going to age well thank you for watching you can subscribe here to get the latest from the show and be sure to check out more of the best clips from undisputed or go watch a few other segments from our other shows on fs1

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Length: 25min 53sec (1553 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 16 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Bluyy]

Chicken shit skip as usual . Keeps pointing to Lou Williams . Not giving much blame to the “best player in the world “

[u/Rapa_Nui]

Too bad they didn't pull Skip's tweets but they are on Shannon's Twitter.

[u/tatang2015]

This series should stop the comparisons of kawhi being the best player in the NBA.

[u/jtmachuca]

I fell asleep at 2 AM but I had my alarm for 6:30 to witness this. Well worth the 4 1/2 hours of sleep.

[u/Bamboo6]

Skip can't even show his face.

And he spent most of his time deflecting, misdirection, talking about KD and the warriors... Who had nothing to do with this conversation.

You backed the wrong team.. admit it.

[u/OhZone17]

Shannon’s sign: Clippers Choke D

Guess Fox wouldn’t leave the “on” in there

[u/Maverick2397]

Shannon Sharpe has been saving those cigars for that specific moment of the year XD

[u/Pharaoh-Lash]

Bro the Rockets losing to the Lakers due to House not playing is the weakest excuse ever...