IMPRESSED OR DISAPPOINTED?! Shannon Sharpe REVEALS his take on Luka, Kyrie & Ant Man | First Take
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2024
- On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe and Monica McNutt join Molly Qerim to talk through the Dallas Mavericks vs. Minnesota Timberwolves series.
0:00 More impressed with Luka Doncic-Kyrie Iriving or disappointed in Anthony Edwards and Karl-Anthony Towns?
2:30 Shannon responds!
6:00 Timberwolves vs. Mavericks lookahead and series so far
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Luka 5 steals 1 block; 33 points 5 assists 7 rebounds
“he doesn’t play defense”
- ESPN/First take/Stephen A. Smith.
11 astocks
@@bo0gi3 lets be fair, his whole career he's played dreadful defense. Their criticism has been completely justified in terms of defense
And ant never put Jordan-esque numbers, can't defend 32yo guard, gassed, taking oxygen but he's still the next MJ@@gray_gogy
It's not enough for racists
Luka going to force the media to put respect on his name
Preech!!
@@fasadogg7715 *preach
Stephen A will still find a way to hate on Luka.
Lol he has no rings what is there to talk about .
Facts💯!!!!!!
Ofcourse they don't want to hype up Luka and kyrie doesn't fit the narrative
kyrie rewriting his story for sure this playoffs run
Why are so many of yall crying for Luka to get praise?
@@MikkiChavezbecause they’re so quick to give shai, ant unlimited praise while just gloss over the fact luka is also 25 playing historic ball
@hikureid6790 he's BEEN doing it tho. What's wrong with giving other ppl shine who are emerging? Shits crazy af lol When Mavs go to Finals watch how much they praise Luka if they win lol He's a BEAST
@@MikkiChavez I think its more furstration that hes got voter fatigue for an award he hasn’t even won yet
Legler was the only person right on the show
he is a former player but also a real good analyst and journalist.
That’s why we fw Legs. He’s the man
Legler has known the Mavs were special since well before the regular season was over, he was the only analyst paying attention to what was going on in Dallas.
Nah bruh..”Madd Dogg” lol; don’t forget about him.
Shannon as well
We thought ant was Jordan’s son… turns out he’s just Lukas son
on me
Facts💯!!!!!
😂😂
EXACTLY!! Stephen A talking bout KAT in last 2 mins - WHERE’S JORDAN ?
Not yall non athletic weirdos putting pressure on a 22 year old. And where did Ant say he was MJ?
stephen a be like "luker doncic"
Luker Don Chick
It make me laugh everytime 😂😂
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Minnesoter
Rob Palinker
Kember Walker
He probably does the same with the n word
He says Luka’s name with a HARD R! 🤣
When Luka was coming just short of beating Kawhi and PG by himself playing with Boban Marjanovic for 45 minutes in game 7 he didn't get the "oh he gassed" excuses.
Agreed and I am a Kawhi fan
there's no need to say that --- Pooka is doughy & overweight... he's always gassed
“By himself”.. why do fans casually forget that he had Brunson and Porzingis 😂😂
@@colbyclarke2209 do you realize Brunson was so bad in that series to the point that his minutes got cut down? Or do you realize that Porzingis ADMITTED on J.J. Reddick’s podcast that he sabotaged that series? How tf does Boban got 30+ minutes in a game7 ?
@@colbyclarke2209 cuz he already packed bags (porzingins) by that time and brunson was not brunson you are seeing in NY.
how does ant have no help? Jaden Mcdaniels has had 2 of his best games and Naz shot 7/8 from 3 in game 2
He only has an all star, a depoy, an all defense teammate and 6moty but ya lmao
@@karlbans7393 ESPN "He need help"
@@karlbans7393maybe he needs an MVP and another all star, then we’re talking lol
Yeah
6 double figure in wolves
U call it no help.. They are just beaten by a better team and better player in LuKai
It's so funny how they're trying to act like Wolves aren't the most stacked team in the west
SAS not giving Luka credit, typical
Luker*
His worst nightmare. White euro player dominating the league
Yall are stupid they are told what to talk about and what to focus on by the network itself lol
Quit the stupid race baiting nonsense it has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with home grown American talent taking precedence over international talent.
So why do you watch him then?
Anthony " we'll be alright " Edwards 😂
They'll be fine in Cancun
Anthony "I got Kyrie" Edwards
@@doubaya2959 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@ShaneDouglas713 I think Galveston Bay would be a more proper destination. Sponsored by Chuck!
And don’t none of you get picked up at 24 hour fitness talking about Galveston lol
They excuses that ant is gassed when he the youngest player on the floor like Luka older and on bad knees talking bout gas 😭
And lost his best big mid game
Ant is definitely gassed but that’s the learning process. He’s going to have to work harder in the offseason and get in shape for deep playoff runs! Also he needs to learn how to pace himself and still remain effective.
@@lennybeason1110 putting somebody on a poster in the 4th don’t seem gas or out of shape he a good player but I dislike the excuse of a player being tried and other people on the floor doing the same
It’s about what he was tryna do on both sides of the court. Luka and Kyrie not really having to work on the other end. But still it shouldn’t be an excuse.
@@TeeFelz I see where u coming from but they both step up their defense in the playoffs from the thunder series kai was making an impact on defenses and just last night luka had career high in steals
Not giving credit to Luka is one thing but calling Ant man as the face of nba right now is ridiculous.
Is just ridiculous and nonsensical…. The media and their manipulation isn’t going to work on me
No way they gonna let european be the face of nba. Americans are americans.
Antman gassed because he using the wrong Pym particles
Now antman has no help 😂😂😂
Bro , I’m honestly not even taking their word serious anymore.
Not to mention- they can only seem to find old FOOTBALL players to talk about the NBA
Dude has a super team filled with DPOY, 6MOTY, All stars and elite role players but he has no help💀💀💀
@@josephle2381 Super team 🤔😆🤣
Are y’all really this dense and incomprehensive when the statement is made “has no help”? Doesn’t mean Antman doesn’t have good teammates, just they aren’t stepping up right now.
Naz Reid & Mike Conley have no help
Media is trying so hard to not talk about Luka it’s getting ridiculous. Luka can win finals mvp and they’ll still talk about how Tatum disappointed
Don’t watch the media then
Nobody has given any credit to the Mavs it’s so infuriating
The mavs defense is shutting down the Wolves, Stephen A cant see that because he doesnt know basketball.
Just watch first things first it’s a better show anyway
Because these idiots only talk black athletes not white european Luka 😂
Boo hoo go cry in a corner, they can talk about what they want to talk about it's their network .
@@TouchdownTamagotchidang got me good touchdown tamagotchi! I’m beside myself in the corner 😢😢😢😢😢
26 pts on 24 shots, but Ant had a good game 😂😂😂😂…. The average age for the Mavs is 25, but the Wolves are young 😂😂😂
Saying ant man has no help more like naz Reid and Mike Conly have no help them 2 have been the best timberwovles this series
This 💯
Ant still been our best player but he’s not been playing as well as he did in the previous series, Conley and Reid have both had 1 good game, so nah, the only player you could argue has played better than ant for the wolves is jaden but he has 2 points in game 2
How does Ant have no help? They've got Jaden McDaniels!
I'd McDaniels over Ant. Speaking of help... how about the 3 time DPOY? Or add in the 6th man of the year?. The problem is...THEY don't have any help. If ant had played better on games 1 and 2... a good chance they win one of those.
Yeah, mcdaniels had no help from ant in game 1, naz had no help from ant in game 2. And in game 3 ant shrinks in the 4th quater. He only played 1 of the last 12 quaters good. He is to plame
Apologize Stephen A. You were so crucial about Kyrie that he was the problem. Saying he should retire.
critical*
Yes bravo...like SAS also forget quickly who is that man who droped 73 on hawks...that is no good,to slow,overweight dude who plays with some magic.🎉
Why do yall keep complaining about Stephen A, but will still watch him ?
@@nikes4444 You do realize this is NBA on ESPN, right? its not The Stephen A Smith Show. We watch this channel because its the biggest nba sports channel, that doesnt mean we have to agree with everything Stephen A says. If he has bad takes, which is more often that not, we can criticize him.
How hard is it to pronounce names? Who’s Luker?
Also, Anthony Edwards is Devin Booker’s Brother
Twins
Minnesoter is having a tough time guarding Luker Donchick and they're happy to avoid kawhi lennid
They acting like antman played well. He was 11-24 last night. He hasn't shot over 50% in his last 4-5 games.
Luka is a Hall of Famer right now. Sorry, that is just the reality of it. Kyrie too. Kyrie is probably the most skilled basketball player to ever play the game. I am very impressed by him. That is reality.
People just don't realise it's basketball hall of fame. Luka's international resume is enough for that
Exactly...pure truth🎉
Who tf Luker?
Shannon: " He shot 11/24"
Stephen A: " That's not bad he flirted with a triple double"
If it was jayson tatum and he had similar scores not that long ago he's inefficient, he's not playing good and gets crucified stephen a is a hater.
Then don’t watch him
This lady is killing them, especially this brother in the pink suit 😂
eehh I would agree if she didn't invent a new excuse "young team" the 8 players un the rotation are like 27.6 old on average this is not young especially for an NBA team
Ah yes...the young Timberwolves, 31 y-o Gobert, 28 y-o KAT and 36 y-o Mike Conley in the starting lineup
ESPN keeps discrediting LUKA like, “Oh he’s white, he can’t be the face of the league”
He’s not face of the league material get over it
@@anthonypugh28 He is single handedly carrying a whole continent. I stay up late only to watch mavs games because of luka, and Im from Barcelona so that should tell you something...
Jerry West, Larry Bird, Phil Jackson NbA don’t care, he’s not charismatic enough, he do his job and go home. The “Face” has to come with more than jsut basketball skill. Should be Ja Morant but he messed that up
@@sportytv718 get over it the white European is the face of the league now. he is dismantling all your false faces of the league. your only hope is JT now.
@@Boschxif you telling americans that, they think Barcelona is a country in paris…
SAS starts off the segment by saying "Luka" then a few seconds later he remembered to use his fake "accent" and said "Luker." Man how fake is this guy? Then you have McNut in there as well, trying to be the female version of SAS. Can't they justhave Legler on there?
They can't have legler because he will actually praise Luka he's been doing that since years now and SAS can't stand that.
Don’t watch Stephen A then
@@djkido316has Stephen A not praised dirk before?
Thank Monica to show Kyrie and Luka respect
Luker?
Yoooo lol I thought I was the only one
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I AM YOUR FATHER
SAY MY NAME
He says his name with a HARD R....
The only reason the games have been close is because of the role players on the timberwolves how the hell can they say that Ant
Doesn’t have help if anything it is him who isn’t helping
Exactly! The role players are keeping the games close. It's over for the Wolves.
Mavs in 4 🪄
@@oskie6025role players have played pretty standard, maybe a little above, you must not watch the wolves because there a deep team that has two stars that are choking, ant a little, and Kat really bad. Naz is always good for 1 or 2 big games Conley is usually steady, and jaden although playing great lately, has been cancelled out by Alexander walker being garbage lately. I hope they keep the team together with a few minor roster changes because if ant continues to improve and Kat doesn’t have a historically bad stretch we will be right in the thick of it again, Conley would be the only question mark but I think he has 1 more season in him
@@kjwdog7453 I'm talking about this particular series. Both your all-stars are playing like trash and the role players have been keeping the games close.
Idgaf about the what happens to the wolves next season
@@oskie6025 fair
Monica I like this girl so much now.
She’s objective.
She's objectively hot that's for sure
I like how she laughed SS off by saying ‘I’m only giving stats’. 😢😢
Credit to J Kidd and Dallas defense
Luka had 5 steals and a block. The guy stopped the game winning lob last week and yall refuse to even bring up his defensive improvements. He ROSE to the challenge and you guys ignore him after years of talking bad about his defensive.
Joker and Luka - two best basketball players in the world. I know it's hard for the 'Murican talking heads to give them credit but that doesn't diminish their greatness.
One is at home because that's all he'll ever win is ONE chip. the other one needed a black American man named Kyrie Irving to come and take him over the top😂😂😂 let that sink in... they are not the best players in basketball you f****** idiot😂😂😂😂
People gave dirk credit when he was in the league, stop playing the race card
Thank you Monica
Has it ever occurred to these people that the Mavs are also just playing better/smarter defense?
I told everybody Anthony Edwards is not “Michael Jordan”..Not even close
McButt before a couple of weeks "Wolves are true contenders along with Nuggets and Celtics, Mavs are not". Now, all of a sudden..Kyrie is a champion, Luka has had a longer playoff run
Monica definitely had the best take!
RAS’ worst nightmare: white european player dominating his wllmart mj and kitty kat
for real 😂😂 and this racist clown has a mvp vote. he would never vote for a european guy
Monica has the best take of the three. Their two brains combined were not enough!
That Ocho cry, maybe gambling his whole year Nightcap salary on the Wolves was crazy
😭😭😭
Dude is a whole goofy lmao 🤣
7 min for the losers and 2 for the winers💀💀
What's a winer?
@@lakersin556 Who win the game?
Saying he is dissapointed in kat and ant, shooting badly and bla bla bla. What if their numbers are a just a result of dallas’ defence?!
What on gods green earth is 'LUKER' lmaooooooo
Ebonics, lol.
so dallas defense has nothing to do with how ant and kat are playing lol i swear they need me on first take
Exactly, the mavs defense are shutting them down. Literally anyone who watches basketball would be better than Stephen A.
Stephen A: Luka plays great and wins its because Ants teammates sucked. Antman plays great and wins its because he is MJ.
SAS was the guy that says he don't care how many times kat shoots, you don't take him out last 9mins of the game lol..
I don’t think we have ever seen 3 games back to back to back where the stars in the clutch win the game. Literal greatness
When are we going to acknowledge that the Mavs defense makes for a large part for the shooting inefficiencies of the wolves?! The Mavs rim protection makes it to where the wolves have to rely on jump shots and the Mavs have such a good perimeter defense that they won’t give up too many good looks. The Wolves don’t have much in the way of mid range shots so they’re taking a ton of threes out of rhythm and missing them
The self-proclaimed best shooting big man choked in front of the actual best shooting big man (Dirk).
Agree bc dirk would go inside and shoot from the wing abd that opened yp his 3 pt game. That was icing, he didn't even need a 3 pt shot.
You are being obvious stephen. Dislike.
Racist A. Smith
Dang I love Stephen but you right they jus refuse to give Luka credit. They talking about the wolves and everything else instead of bout 5 mins giving Luka his credit
A white person complaining about racism is crazy 😂 and he said nothing racist
Oh y'all finally believe racism exists now how convenient..
No reason to cry about race buddy
@@CuatroCinc0 Right!!💯💯💯 Stephen A Smith has been so hard on black athletes that a lot of players won’t talk to him, including Kyrie.
@bk2kfc is just talking garbage for likes
As usual, another stupid question from ESPN 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤡🤡
Facts💯
Yea and they answered it way wrong too
And yet everyone is here 😅
They had to find a way to make the segment about the TWolves, and simultaneously give Ant an out, for the narrative
Ant has no help? he been arguably the second or third best player on his team the last 4 games. You guys smoking crack. Also, if Timberwolves wins game 4, i guarantee you that they will not talk for a moment about how Mavs played bad, but there will be only flowers for Ant and his team.
I'm telling you, if "Luker" or Jokic wins, is always because someone else fault.
I’m getting tired of people saying the timberwolves are a young team the only guys that are young on the team is ant man and Jaden McDaniels the rest are vets or in the middle of there careers
I don't understand why they never give luka and Kyrie credit. You should easily be more impressed with Luka and Kyrie because Stephen a Smith and the other analysts other than Shannon Sharpe had the timberwolves in the finals
Stephen A Smith:
Mavs will lose to Clippers
Mavs will lose to OKC
Mavs will lose to T Wolves.
Mavs now up 3-0, Oh we expected this
Crazy how when it goes well, Ants the face of the league. When it goes bad, he doesn’t have help.
Ants fallen off entirely over the last 4/5 games including an abysmal Game 7 but it’s now KAT’s fault. Like anyone expected KAT to match up to either Kyrie or Luka
SAS never gives credit he downplays the other team so the star guy doesn’t shine too much.
"Ant Man has no help"... I think you mean Jaden McDaniels has no help.
McDaniels, naz and mike conley are the best and consistent players in this Series for the timberwolves. But ant already gets the excuses from the Media like "ant had no help" "ant was tired"🤣
Don't forget "young team" the top 8 players that are gertting minutes on average are 27.6 old....
Devin booker has another brother now
Casual
@@kjjr3270keep crying
Luka fans secretly wishes booker was they boyfriend
@@juwanharris5425 that must be what you think
Steven A doesn't like Luka Doncic as the face of the NBA and it shows... very petty.
Stephen a smith with the Joker suit on !
Dallas' defense is better than any other defense they have faced this postseason. Of course, the wolves' efficiency would drop, but they still refuse to credit the Dallas defense smh
This take isnt surprising from Stephen A. Bro wouldnt recognize greatness if it slapped him in the face. Same thing as last year, nobody at NBA on ESPN had Denver winning any series last year. Stephen A just doesnt know what hes looking at.
Don’t worry he will chew his own words when Luka wins finals MVP! SAS is a 🤡
It’s not a surprise that the Mavs are up 3-0 Steven A is more disappointed in the wolves stop it no one expected this from the Mavs including myself
Either you do or you don’t best line 😂
Of course luka doesn’t get his flowers …. Could have guessed that coming from sas😒
Stephen A’s ridiculously thick NY accent puts R’s at the end of every A 😂😂
7:38
Stephen A tells Monica she knows the definition of choking . . 😂😂 pause
SAS is such a hater , the man won’t praise luka performance of 33 points, 7 assists 5 steals and 1 block but is making excuses for ant going 24 for 11 saying it ain’t that bad 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
That exchange @ 3:58 has me 😂😅
ESPN reminding people daily that racism goes both ways.
Stephen A. Is in big denial that Edwards is NOT what he think the guy is. Keeps on saying "he hasn't shown up"... he only have 2 very good series under his belt... stephen A talks as if Edwards is clutch and has shown up in playoffs in the last 4 years. He basically has NO track record to justify that "he's not showing up"
Exactly ant ain't do nothing in the playoffs for us to say he didn't play well two series is nothing they acting like he's Steph curry with 4 rings and multiple scoring performances in the playoffs
KAT turned into a UFC fighter and took Lively out the game yesterday and it still didn’t work.
Dude, if the Mavericks win the title, Stephen A is still going to say that the only reason why the Mavs won was because the other teams played terrible, not that the Mavericks earn it by playing hard. He'll never give Mavs credit...lmao
If Ant doesn’t have help how the hell are the games close, it’s not like Ant is giving you 40+ a night with 70% TS, he’s the one who’s not showing up in the clutch and he’s scared of big moments like in game 2.
Maybe the most impressive part of Luka’s performance is that he is doing this on an injured knee.
14% from 3 by KAT tbh a shooting percentage where u question how In the heck are you a professional basketball player. That is ABYSMAL
Also worst 3 percentage in history over 30 attempts, in 5 games in playoffs and keeps shooting.
anyone who pays attention to basketball closely knows FAT has never been "that guy" --- he's one of a dime-a-dozen players who is simply satisfied with playing well until they get a max contract... but when it comes to being great-great & actually being special-special, anyone with decent critical thinking abilities knows he would rather take the easy route & accomplish nothing of substance.
Wolves are the first team to lead in the last 5 minutes of all 3 games and be down 0-3 the truth is somewhere in between, these teams are well matched but Luka has been a beast in the clutch and Kat has been missing in action. Could see the wolves pushing the series to 6 if Kat finds his shot but it’s too little to late
Finally putting the segments up on TH-cam
What can Luka do to get the respect he deserves?????
Be black and American
...good question....when a young guy torched hawks and drop 73 on them and thats nothing...😂🎉...hate or sanity or really racism.😮
@@tonibratina when he dropped 73 they said the hawks defence was 💩 and it’s not a valid 73.
7:35 yea you shouldn’t say that SAS 😂
Luka is European, Kyrie’s past actions put a bad taste in the media’s mouth with their sheep mentalities…. AND a Dallas team is dominating a sport rn. And it’s not a big market team so ofc these guys aren’t gonna give the Mavs credit
Most people who watch this sport lack brain cells so this will go over most of their heads.
Dallas is definitely a big market team
Yep. But they're just mad on Cuban.
@@Fanofstuff278 not in the NBA
@@kareja316 i would have to diisagree
😂 the disrespect for the Mavs is crazy
It’s no surprise but you picked Minnesota sounds like a surprise
Luka and Kyrie deserves to be part of Top 75 greatest players of all time than James Harden and Lillard
...yeah with ease,like when he droped 73 on hawks...🎉
I understand what SAS is saying because we said the same thing about Luka during the Clippers and OKC series. We all kept saying “ why is Luka taking so many 3’s.” Luka adjusted and started shooting more 2 point shots. That allowed his knee to heal up a bit and now he’s doing better.
Bruh everyone on this show just doesn't wanna give the mavs their flowers! Before this series they barley talk about the mavs even tho they were winning, then counting them out the whole time smh
kat low lights was crazy work
8:52 “ Yk the moth is attracted to the flame even though he knows how it’s going to end.” Unc was Uncling on that one
Monica knows… it is refreshing to see someone from ESPN give Luka and Kyrie their flower. Thank you!
Still haven’t heard Stephen A Smith be shamed on TV for his take that Luka doesn’t deserve to be first Team All NBA and Brunson should be in his spot. Did he apologize and admit how foolish this take was yet? No, he has acted like he never said that.
Monica: We know in the playoffs you don’t become a different animal.
Kobe: But do you stay the same beast?
LUKER??? 🥴 come on man say his name right
You know the world is falling apart when Skip Bayless has recently better takes than TMZ Sports uhm I meant ESPN