Glad he showed Vince some love ppl forget how great he was in his prime

Kobe dropped 30 on this man while splitting time guarding prime Melo.

I remember kobe dropping 60 point on Jones with the Grizzlies 😂😂😂

Players always give respect and props to VC...non players never do and disrespect that man in every way.

I think he was being honest about Vince Carter. I'm a Jordan guy but just on talent alone. Vince is as good as it gets. He could do everything from an offense stand point.

Love when people put some respect on Vince Carter’s name.

The Mamba had no weakness. This fool Dahntay a Kobe hater & anyone who witnessed those games would tell you this man truly has hatred in his heart. He blamed everything from minutes, the triangle, coaching substitutions, iso plays for Beans success against him lmao. Best part is him saying Kobe started doing work as soon as he was subbed out that game versus Atlanta, implying his greatness as a defender.

Kobe knew that man's minutes lol that's crazy. Just played with him until it was time to take him out and then just go off lol

I remember Kobe went into Memphis and dropped 60 and Dahntay caught a lot of them. I remember Dahntay was in Denver and Kobe destroyed him.

The slight dissing on Kobe will not be tolerated 🙅🏾‍♂️ Kobe averaged 27ppg against this guy with a 60 point game shooting 54%

About time players gave VC his flowers. Just cause he never won a ring he doesn’t get his respect. VC FOREVER!!

He was aggressive with Kobe in Denver and still got cooked in the WCF.

Vince definitely was nice I remember him going against the sixers in the playoffs

It’s crazy how people forget how great Vince Carter was a great shooter n defensive player. Vince was a dawg.

I remember watching the game where jones slid that foot under Kobe at Atlanta. Kobe was cooking him up. Most of his career Jones was a solid defender, but he would get cooked up.

*Finally somebody paying Vince his due*

He hurt Kobe on purpose! He would’ve gained cool points if he just kept it real. Kobe was bussin his ass

Kobe used to give this dude HELLLLLLL

No lie, prime Vince Carter was MUST SEE TV 📺… bring the 🍿

Jones talkin DRUNK. We ALL saw Kobe give that man hell on countless occasions till the point all he had left was to try to hurt that guy. Vince wasn't out there ever working Jones like Kobe was. And truth be told no one ever looked at Jones as a defensive player. He was hella pesky but not on a Tony Allen/Shane Battier level. Not a knock on Vince cause he was a BEAST but to say Kobe didn't give you problems like Vince did... WILDIN.

Man, being a defensive specialist in the NBA. That's a tough fucking job.

Kobe torched him in the playoffs. 34 pts on 48% shooting lol

Let’s remember that mad Vince was the 2000 Olympics Vince. If he only had that anger during a whole NBA season, oh man, we would’ve seen some NASTY stuff.

Nigga acting like he was tony Allen 😂😂

The story on kobe was crazy kobe knew when they would take him out a genius rip 24

I rather hear this convo with tony Allen but great discussion.

I always tell people if Vince wanted it he could have been the greatest. If he had the Jordan, Kobe mentality it would have been over for the league.

Obviously, Kobe made the most impact on him the way he talked about him and but he feels most competitive against him that refuses to give Kobe the credit that he was the toughest matchup that he had.

He salty that Kobe cooked him… it’s okay 😂😂🤣

Saw Dahntay & Jay Williams playing pick-up at the Duke Rec center around 2001-2002. Dahntay was freaking ripped back in the day. I know most basketball players have low bodyfat but he and Jay Will also had some muscle relative to other basketball players during that timeframe. Dude was super athletic.

Never seen Jones lock anyone up in the NBA. But he was a decent player in his younger years but never a defensive problem

Vince is ranked number 2 in blks alltime as a SG for the people sayin he lack defense

Idk why y’all are so upset. Y’all are acting like he called Kobe a scrub. He gave Kobe props throughout the whole vid and even said he idolized him coming up.

Bro the film don't lie. He played dirty against Kobe.

In the mid 2000s, the great scorers were (not in order) Kobe, T mac, AI, Vince Carter, Lebron, Melo, Wade and Dirk and obviously I'm missing some players.

I remember when Gary Payton almost made him cry on the big 3 lmaooo

We can comment on youtube all we want, this dude was on the court with this people and was tasked with guarding them. I respect it

Bold words coming from a player who averaged a career high of 10 ppg just once and that was the only time he came close to averaging 10. This man was a bot and was never known for being a great defender cuz he rarely even got enough playing time to even develop that reputation. If Kobe was still here and heard this madness, he would laugh at him then invite him for a 1v1 and if he were bold enough to accept it, he would literally 10-0 that man easy without breaking 1 sweat. He'd be palming the ball while laughing and telling that man what he was about to do and would still do it and drop buckets with eaz. Child please

Kobe was making history that year. Also being noticed by Skip Bayless as MJ like. But D. Jones slid under him and caused a really really bad ankle injury which later became the pre injury to the ruptured Achilles.

Wait….. kobe murdered this dude every time???

Only guy who can ever talk about "locking up" Kobe is Tony Allen.

Such a realistic analysis.

This guy talking about he knew Kobe weaknesses and Kobe wasn't working when he was guarding him. I hate when nobodies wanna give themselves a bigger existence than they actually have.

Iverson should be on difficult player to guard list of every lock up perimeter defender of of the 2000s.

Kobe gave you the business in the playoffs!

Damon Jones be living in that selective memory section of his brain.

I REMEMBER YOU SLIDING THAT FOOT UNDER KOBE LOL THAT WAS ON PURPOSE LOL

He's no hating he's basically giving Kobe his props for being so cerebral

You gotta interview the guys like him and Iman they were the dirty work guys that matches up with our stars

This dude defended the greats and the coaches gave him that job which means he was good

Jones talked more about Kobe than others

Vince just didn't see the game like Kobe did , it was just basketball to Vince, to Kobe it was life

This guy is probably the reason why Kobe ruptured his Achilles.

Respect to All the players that had/has to guard the Elite scorers. Too bad Elite players don't always guard each other. Especially in today's era of playing defense. Maat Hotep

Gilbert “Cause you gotta remember”Arenas

Gil loves when people speak on how good he was 😂😂😂

Vince Carter Baby!!!

Vince isn’t talked about as much in terms of unstoppable scorers

Is it just me or does he look like a Great Value Kobe

never knew I loved dahntay jones so much ahahahahahahahaha

People use to sleep on Vince Carter..

Kobe the goat

Y’all talking like Kobe ain’t cook everybody. Getting cooked doesn’t always mean you’re the hardest to guard.

A.i has that speed my boy

The fact that there only year apart he actually believed he was on Kobes level and was resentful and jealous. Like he said "Kobe got every call he had the refs". No he had your hacking ass! 😂 his pride still won't let him say it. Kobe was the toughest to gaurd cause he was never on happy time with you. 🤷🏽‍♂️😂

You can at least admit he tried to hurt him on purpose.

Vince had all the talent there wasn't anything he couldnt do the difference between kobe and vince was Kobe's work ethic and killer mentality to win

I think also Kobe knew he had to play 40 min a game, and sometimes if you don't have to, you don't need to spend that much energy when it's not necessary,...i look at MJ, he only went 100% when he had to (now brothas are shooting 40 3's so it's hard to coast lol) but Giannis is 1 player I can count that goes 100% all the time and he is gassed and needs 2-3 extra min. off, so Kobe was doing self-preservation.

Everyone say it's slight dissing...nooo, it's his perspective 😆, if he feels Vince was harder to guard who are you to say different

This was a good segment. Its really interesting hearing top defenders explain what its like guarding great players

Yoo unrelated but get T-Mac on the podcast already!!

I tell my kids how in HS we did a 3 on 2, 2 on 1 and D Jones, who was a year ahead of me was the 1 coming back and slipped and he ran like hell and thought he was gonna block the hell out of my shot. Well I threw the best head fake of my life and I will always remember the look on his face and hearing him say oh sh*t as he flew by me. Then the coach made him run for leaving his feet and not blocking the shot and for cursing. Best part was everyone going ooohhhhh. And laughing. I even remember seeing the coaches laughing and they didn’t do that very much.

How many defensive first teams did he make?

Everybody was tuff to guard for Him lol

He’s the one that hurt Kobe he hurt the Achilles… That would’ve been a foul now… 👎

Y’all got to watch the whole interview to get the full context he talks about why he did those dirty plays against Kobe

Gilbert has infinite respect for A.I. .(as he should). I personally think he should be number 1 on everybody's list. That lil mufugga scored five 40 pt games in a row AS A ROOKIE....unbelievable.

he said kobe complained alot to the ref...so yall gon get on kobe for complaining right?

You can always tell which players that Kobe rip their hearts out. Jones was ass cheeks nothing but a utility player. You can hear the jealousy in his voice. Go back and look at those Lakers and Nuggets playoff games and you be the judge

He thinks he locked Kobe lmao

I remember kobe killing Jones every game to the point jones tried to roll his ankle. Jones at Duke was a monster too

Try locking down prime Shaq and you get the black tornado usually its a spinning move from the low post if u dont clear from the spin u will take a elbow to the face or the chest and u gonna get posterized in ur face dunk after that I rather take 3s from Curry

Smh, Vince one of my all time fav, I’m sad he had the potential of Kobe but couldn’t truly reach that level

The man said when bron wanted to lock in smh don’t let that go over y’all’s head

Anyone got Gil and Jones' H2H? Did he really lock Gil up?

I just started thinking about this just now this morning let’s never forget when Kobe Jumped over Aston Martin Car 🐐 🐍 he’s the 🐐 for doing tht

Y’all too sensitive man just telling his side of the story.

I a,ways said Dahntay looks like the light skinned Kobe.

He know good and well he wasn’t doing nothing wit Kobe. We got the Denver vs lakers playoff receipts lol

Got ya..😁👌

Kobe never was better than Vince Carter in there prime, he nee it as well ,they all did

You can’t trust no grown man with no facial hair

Bruh enough about Gilbert arenas career. That’s all y’all talk about

You like defenders like this. I was pissed when he undercut Kob in that game vs ATL, but I mean i guess he had to throw everything at him as a defender

did he even make an all defensive team?

My man said you can’t rip Steve nash. Seem like you can but you can’t 😂

He kinda reminds me of Kobe the way he speaks and looks

Vince carter is like Russell Westbrook but taller, plus a high level jumpshot

W storys

In EARLY 2000s (2000-2009 let's say) the toughest 3 players to guard especially that Dahntay Jones would have guarded and there were QUITE A FEW (Malone, Duncan, O'Neal, McGrady, Carter, Francis, Wade, Lebron, Carmelo, Nowitzki, Nash, Pierce, Davis, Marbury, Bosh, and Garnett in general) were probably Iverson, Bryant, and Chris Paul (a little bit before Kyrie Harden Durant Westbrook Curry Rose among others). As good as Bryant was and he was a little bit better than Iverson, in terms of guarding, Iverson would run you ragged, super quick ability to blow by, a ton of moves off the dribble, could get to the line a lot, pretty good shooter and mid range game and an amazing ability on offense to use his small size, speed, and quickness to his advantage. Bryant had a post up game, great footwork, a solid body, athleticism, explosiveness, a decent outside shot, a good mid range game, an ability to get to the basket with ease, an ability to draw fouls, an array of moves and a silky smooth handle to create his own shot. Paul had the best handle of all 3 a good shot a good mid range game could create almost anything and a super creative passer. Not as good of a scorer as Iverson or Bryant but as big a headache as anybody in the league at the point guard spot especially on the fast break and as quick as Iverson.