The problem with guarding Steph is any lapse in concentration could lead to a 10-point-Steph-run in under a min. And if Steph gets that 10-point Steph run going, the rest of the team gets hot and you have a 20-point avalanche coming. The man has the greatest momentum game in the history of the NBA.

Eric Snow caught 45 strays in this conversation 😂😂😂

Realest take here, I told people over and over A.I. Was double to triple teamed his whole career and still wasn’t stopped

I can just imagine a one hour team meeting preparing for the 76ers. 59 minutes and 30 seconds are talked about A.I. and the last 30 seconds coach say "alright now here's what we'll do with these guys" 😂

I watched A.I give a prime Gary Payton a 40 ball like it was nothing. I ain't never seen nobody abuse Payton like that in my life and made it look that easy. It's ashame how people don't realize how devastating he was. I'm going with A.I in both cases.

Kyrie has a deeper bag, but A.I was constant frenetic energy. Steph is the only thing comparable to that, in terms of energy expended. Trying to stay in front of A.I was grueling.

Someone once said guarding A.I was like playing defense with roller blades on 😂

Maaaan finally Gil giving someone they FULL props. A.I. was the biggest little migraine.😂

Iverson never picked his spots. He was active the whole game. Constantly moving at 100 mph. He got you tired. Then he’d break your ankles and lay it up on 7 footers lol

People forgot about A.I. Most people didn't even watch him play.. zoomers. A.I was a problem

I love how much love AI is getting from them. Lol he was a real problem for teams. And that’s no disrespect to Kyrie but Ivo was tough to deal with

Brandon Jennings said it perfectly. "How do you want 50 on your head?"

Off ball Iverson was crazy. They call that double high post screen out the horns set “Iverson cut” for the guard going wing to wing. Steph is Iverson favorite player after him & steph touch is crazy

Last warriors vs kings game there was a possession with like 5 seconds left on the clock steph gets a rebound from under the rim dimes the ball out to the wing, immediately sprints away from the paint gets to his position, tween, tween hesi, creates a Centimeter of space then bang all within a timespan of 5 seconds he’s different.

Allen iverson, even though he lost to the Lakers, he still led his team to the finals!

Gil said it perfectly... there is no rest when it comes to guarding steph which is why hes the most ungaurdable... which goes for MJ, bron, KD, melo, tmac, kobe, etc etc etc... Shaq is ungaurdable... but only in the paint.. and only when someone else gets him the ball... kobe and MJ are unguardable but only when they have the ball... steph is ungaurdable... from every spot on the court... and even when he doesnt have the ball... MJ and scottie are famous for full court pressing players... picking them up 94 feet... imagine having to pick up a dude... 47 feet out and further ... when he doesnt even have the ball..

For Steph vs AI, it depends. One way to think about it is you can stop AI at times. But with Steph all you can do sometimes is just hope the ball doesn't go in. Some of the shots Steph makes there is no defense for

MJ’s fade away was absolutely unguardable

For anyone saying Kyrie, y'all never seen the answer actually carry a team in his prime playing damn near every minute of the game

Also, AI's prime was in an era where it was slow paced defensive era. Meaning, pretty much everyones FG% was lower.

"My crossover is just a move that got me here....and ppl respect it. When my opponents take my crossover away from me, I'll just do something else." A.I. rookie shoe commercial. "Opponents" meaning the league office

Don't forget, Iverson was playing against the Refs too.

You know you a problem when someone say give me the fast guy 😂

Kyrie makes the difficult look easy as if he's the sum of the evolution of all offensive bags in history and he is the end product. AI was passionate fury embodied, no days off try hard sweaty. He was coming for you, no load management, no personal time off, no excuses, AI was doom. Steph Curry on fire, is Reggie Miller, Rip Hamilton and Ray Allen combined AND he's launching it from half court AND he has elite handles AND he has a layup package. Steph on Fire is the most unguardable out of all three.

AI was a real threat. It’s a real pity in his prime he was not paired with another super star

Remember that Kobe said A.I. lit him up for 40+ and made him go back into the hotel room and destroy it in a rage, smashing TVs, coaches, etc. I don't even think an old Kobe had that kind of trouble against Kyrie.

This is not the first or last episode Eric Snow has caught strays 😂😂😂

Allen Iverson !

Allen Iverson could score however he wanted, at double the speed Kyrie did, in half the time. He wore out defenses so bad, and as Gil said...he was the ONLY offensive threat on his team so the entire defensive game plan was to stop him. Kyrie only saw real success when he had another major threat along side him to take attention off.

Taking away AI crossover would be like Taking Steph's Ilegal Screens

That 58 point A.I. game came across my feed too.🤔

If Kyrie trying to score 50 he’s getting that 50 & with efficiency

Fun fact, steph is more efficient in isolation than either of the other two, despite how people act. And steph is the best playmaker too, so when he's not scoring he's still hurting you

3:00 - 3:40 mega factsssss! Kyrie for most of his career had a top #75 player to help spread defences. Lebron, KD, Harden... Now Luka in Dallas... Kyrie has always had significantly better offensive teammates to take pressure and spotlight off of him. The game now also is more 3pt oriented, which also contributes to diluting defensive intensity in the mid range and paint where AI was cooking. Furthermore, AI was straight up running at the Shaq's, TD's, KG's, Dikembe's, Mournings in the paint, as well as being hunted by the Kobe's, GP's, Stockton's at the half court, with double teams in between... He faced far more intense defenders. People saying Kyrie is disrespected here truly don't understand the magnitide of what I just mentioned above. Gil and K-Mart know that AI was just a different beast. Also, considering the fact that AI is 5'11 with the same amount of scoring titles as KD makes it all the more insane how gifted he was.

Love listening to Vets like Gil and K.Mart talk basketball. Greal players with great basketball IQ✊🏿

How does scoring in a Cisco League How does scoring and assists correlate? How does scoring and assist s connect with each other and have a relationship

“It’s like guarding ai and rip Hamilton at the same time”😭😭😭😭😭 how is that fair

Gil has so much respect for his favorite player A.I I love it

Gil said on another podcast A.I Was a problem .deadlier than kyrie & steph .& Even kobe said iverson was a problem..but nobody could beat that right

When Gil mentioned that the NBA BANNED AI’s crossover, the FIRST thing that came to mind, If they allowed for James Harden to do HIS signature move TODAY, If AI was playing in his bag TODAY with that killer crossover, he would more than likely average well over 40 a game because they couldn’t stop him WITHOUT the crossover how do you guard him with one of the most DECEPTIVE moves in basketball history next to the “shamgod”?

Kobe studied sharks to get a understanding of AI game folks also forget AI gas tank was ridiculous dude could play every min of a game on 100

Guarding Steph is like guarding AI and Reggie Miller (not Rip Hamilton, but I get it). Only reason I say Reggie is cuz Reggie shot 3's.

Eric Snow somewhere holding his chest like damnnnn lol

That’s actually such a valid point they took a move away from AI

I finally agree wit gil about something 💯 AI is/was a problem that you couldnt solve 😭

steph is def the hardest. just the constant movement w/o the ball is exhausting, and u know he can pull up from wherever whenever. w that his finishing is unmatched as well.

“Bron you can’t look at the ball no more before you shoot it” 😭

I agree with everything Gil and Kenyon said. It's not even close

It’s something about being drilled in the face from 3 that’s so demoralizing, despite your best contest. And Steph is hitting that sometimes 10+ a game!! And he’s being fouled and they’re still going in. That’s tougher to deal with in my opinion

Your package had to be minimized is crazy😂😂

Eric Snow stay catching strays 😂

Kyrie. Better handle, finisher and pure shooter and more creative. AI had superior athleticism and a good handle. Great finisher. Great in transition. Relentless. Streaky shooter. Also, Kyrie does not take as many shots a game as AI did neither.

Love KMart energy and language

All facts!

The scariest thing about guarding Steph is if you sleep for a half second chasing him around he launching.

Does Gil play the "PAUSE" game? Because saying "pulling out half your package and he's coming" is wild 🤣

I saw what happened in the Nets vs Celts series which makes me opt for AI

I just looked up Josiah basketball at ucla he played with my guy Dre Patterson

This is them praising old players and keeping it real. Even tho they know kyrie has a better package. They are trying so hard to make AI better than he actually was. Kyrie Irving is better at literally everything AI was good at.

Kyrie I swear people act like he only does so many moves to score he can but he doesn’t do it all that time. AI isn’t going to kill from 3 or score from the post like Kyrie. KAI has no weaknesses

Ya should do who’s more lethal: A.I. or Prime D-Rose?

Big dog sitting next to Gil keep some shorts on every episode 😂😂😂😂

Steph Curry easily…

Irving can score in every way AI can and then some, TF they're talking about?!?

How did the cast come together for this show?

Gilbert wit the Jeromey Rome look at 8:24

“By far” the disrespect to Kyrie is insane

I understand what Gil is saying. AI was on a mission, was obligated to try and score as much as he could each game because that was the only way Philly was gonna be able to score consistently back in the day. But the way AI scored, you can design your help D to be able to slow him down especially when he goes kamikaze in the paint. With Steph, mofo probably sold his soul to someone in exchange for his basketball skills especially the shooting part.

“To guard?” Lol, what popped in my head was, in Gil’s voice, “what do you mean, guard?”

K-Mart reminds me of Boomhauer from King of the Hill

Kyrie has the better dribbling skills and layup package, but AI had speed and elevation. The dude was dunking on people, sometimes with two hands. When you're that fast and shifty and jump that high, you won't need as much dribbling and layup variations.

Both steph and AI are running around 40 minutes. Kai likes to work within his spots.

Gil said it best it’s the effort level

Crazy... a.i. say.... he came from... football.... damns the way be moves....

AI struggled from the 3. Kyrie is a sniper from 3 and a dribble god and a nasty layup package.

Allen Iverson 26.7 ppg on 42.5/31.3/78 splits For Comparison Russell Westbrook 22.4 ppg on 43.8/30.5/77.8 splits

lolololol Jamison guarding Snow so he can hang in the lane!!!

bro where you get the redeem team hoodie

AI would always go right. It don't matter what happened. If you forced AI off the ball, it was easier to handle him despite being active. Steph requires 100% of your concentration and cardio from full court with and without the ball. You could at least battle with AI even if you got cooked. You could only look at your coach with 'what do you want me to do?' If the light skin fella lights you up from 40ft.

The answer is SHAQ! PERIOD!

4:53 yup, this is the exact reason we always played 4-dribble 1v1 in college and when I went overseas. In the 2000s and early 2010s, EVERYONE had a Kyrie bag. But it was so much wasted movement that we didn’t do it because it was inefficient…also coaches would yank you out of the game back then so you didn’t have the freedom to do “entertaining” stuff

Good to see Kenyon speak 👏 truth

Kyrie is harder to guard. He dribbles way more and his bag is ridiculous

The question is most unguardable wth. Last time I checked a i can’t shoot like Kyrie, dribble like that nigga, or finish at the paint like him. So what are we really talking bout

“Your package has to be minimized” what, to Gil chill?

"They even put a zone in the league to try and stop him."

obviously ai is harder to guard lol, theres a reason he averages more points than kyrie

What tf does playing w Lebron have to do w anything? Didn’t. Melo play w AI? Gil and them be saying anything I swear

Yall must be high 😂

Let’s talk about that freestyle tho Gil … SUPAHOTFIYAH .. went to the Staples gave Kobe 60 💣 😂 🙌🙌🙌

Kyrie .. Better footwork better offensive package better shot

Both are hard as hell. Acting like it's AI all day is craaaazy. WTH are you going to do to stop Kyrie? Not a damn thing. Besides THE GOAT, those are my 2 favorite players ALL TIME. No bias at all.

A.I was truly playing 1 vs 5 and winning I hated the Lakers that year 😢😢😢

KOBE said it best " We were lucky A.I. wasn't 6'6

Kyrie Irving

Kyrie has multiple games where he scored over 40 with 70+% had a 50 something point game with 82.6%. Ai doesn’t have none so that obvious answer is kyrie he will drop just as much as AI while doing it more proficient. But people not going to give him his props it’s cool

Once again tho I think the team component is important ! Guard Steph on the teams AI had or AI on those same teams I m pickin steph up I don’t want that smoke with AI cause those teams weren’t gonna draw the attention to buy Steph the time off the ball to slip a defender the same way his GS team does. His team you have to respect the guys on the floor because of how well they play as a unit. AI didn’t have a “scary” second in line. What makes steph dangerous is his teammates ability to play and having him run around keeping the defense honest. Because hey we couod kick it to klay too

They both all stars Iverson with Irving would've been insane

Poor take Gil, it’s Kyrie. Guarding Kyrie is tougher than Guarding AI.

Kyrie out there creating masterpieces like da Vinci .. it’s just different in his bag frfr