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[Mark Cuban Calls Out Skip Bayless - Debate]

[Skip Bayless] Source: LYBIO.net
Stephen A. Smith i think just tonight there is very little pressure on lebron james

[Skip Bayless]
9 years in, 3 MVP’s, so many playoff disasters, last year ( ) on the tournament ( ) on the stage.

[Skip Bayless] Source: LYBIO.net
Lebron James is getting the benefit of every doubt from the collective referrers of these finals, who like so many people who feel like Lebron has suffered enough.

[Skip Bayless]
He can’t shoot – Lebron he really can’t shoot. That would of made Lebron nervous ok.

[Stephen A. Smith]
So disrespectful.

[Skip Bayless]
If the Heat win tonight, the pressure will go through the roof and it will be billed as a coronation for King James

[Jay Crawford] Source: LYBIO.net
Alright that was Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith on Sports Centre Tuesday and shortly there after. Twitter Beef was born between Mark Cuban and Skip Bayless, here’s what started it.

[Mark Cuban]
Great move by espn having steve javie on explaining calls. Have him during games. Skip bayless discussing nba….my 2 yr old knows more

[Jay Crawford]
Mark later Tweeted:

[Mark Cuban]
Hey Skip. Bring it on. I got you. Signed Jake Cuban. 2 1/2 (LIKE FATHER NO.1 LIKE SON)

[Jay Crawford]
And that led to Skip follow:

[Skip Bayless]
I’m told @mcuban taking Twitter shots at me. Mark, you’re welcome to come debate me face to face in Bristol, unless you’re afraid.

[Mark Cuban - Background]
I was terrified Skip.

[Jay Crawford]
Then Skip followed with this:

[Mark Cuban] Source: LYBIO.net
@RealSkipBayless @mcuban And what specifically would you want to debate Skip ? Who can offer the best woulda, coulda, shouldas ?

[Jay Crawford]
No this was actually Mark back to Skip.

[Jay Crawford]
And you were so terrified that you didn’t wait till we got back to Bristol, you phoned immediately and said: “Let’s do it” and your here. There you are.

[Mark Cuban]
Ya

[Mark Cuban]
I was gonna be in Miami anyways for meetings and there’s not chance I was going to Bristol and I was terrified – I was just – I was just terrified of the possibility so

[Skip Bayless]
Well – welcome to the real shark tank.

[Jay Crawford]
That’s well said, Skip. This is the shark tank and we want to start by finding out what is your, you may have more than one, but what’s your biggest issue with Skip?

[Mark Cuban]
It’s not just Skip. Its sportswriters and sports media in general, where everything is generalities, right? Excruciating pressure what the hell is that, right? You know, need leader

[Skip Bayless] It was excruciating pressure¦ that’s what it was.

[Mark Cuban]
Meaning what, Skip?

[Skip Bayless]
Meaning that you personally watched up close and personal what Lebron went through against your Dallas Mavericks, was it not the biggest collapse of a superstar that we’ve ever witnessed on a – finals or championship stage?

[Mark Cuban]
No, I mean first of all its a team game. Right? You guys like to talk in complete generalities where no one can question you, right? You don’t ever use facts, you don’t ever use substance.

[Skip Bayless]
I don’t ever use facts?

[Mark Cuban]
No

[Skip Bayless] Source: LYBIO.net
That’s all I use on this show.

[Mark Cuban]
What – Excruciating pressure? Undeniable this, you know, it’s just all generalities.

[Skip Bayless]
There’s never been a star under more pressure going into a finals, championship series or game than Lebron James is under after nine years and three league MVPs.

[Mark Cuban]
First of all, you have a presumption that people care what you say. They don’t. That when guys When the guys go out there -

[Skip Bayless]
That’s fine. That’s your opinion.

[Mark Cuban]
No, no, I’m talking about media in general. When guys get ready to play and they’re in the locker room, they’re not thinking ok well what’s written, what’s going to be written, what’s being said, right, I mean, they’re getting prepared. And if you’ve got a good coach and you’ve got a good culture, then guys are ready to play no matter what, like you guys were just talking about, you know, Miami wanted it – wanted it more or less, that is just such horse-you-know-what, right. There’s no such thing as – It’s not that Oklahoma City didn’t want it more, I think Miami was better prepared to play the game than Oklahoma City in terms of of adjustments and changes, now if you want to start to talk about double-teams and how they were used and whether they should have played zone, um, what defensive structure was in place, that’s a valid conversation. But just saying they wanted it more, that’s ridiculous.

[Skip Bayless]
Ok.

[Mark Cuban]
When you’re Kevin Durant, or you’re, uh, Derek Fisher, and you’re Russell Westbrook, etc, and you’re at that – that close out game, there’s nobody who wants it more. It’s just a question of who executes better and then you decide why

[Skip Bayless]
Who played harder? in the last games. Miami did, every game.. Lebron played harder than Kevin Durant did four straight games.

[Mark Cuban]
That is the most ridiculous thing any sportswriter has ever said. Now, if you think when Kevin Durant walked off the court he thought, yeah, I didn’t play quite hard enough, right?

[Skip Bayless]
Umm

[Mark Cuban] Source: LYBIO.net
Now you can say like he wasn’t put in a position to succeed, you can say they didn’t write – run the right plays, they didn’t get the ball to him on the block enough. And if you were smart you’d come out and you’d have substance. You’d say you know what, this is how many plays they ran to him on the block. Here’s how Miami defended it. Now you can also argue the Pat – Pat Riley way is always the same way, all the time. Miami played it the same way all the time, and then we can have a discussion about adjustments. like last year, did we play harder than the Heat, is that what you think it was?

[Skip Bayless]
No, I don’t. I think Lebron disappeared, and shrank in crunch time of the fourth quarter. I can just show you the numbers of what he didn’t do in every fourth quarter.

[Mark Cuban]
So we – so we get no credit for not putting him in a position to succeed. RIght. We played the Heat

[Skip Bayless]
He put himself in, all he did was stand out on the perimeter.

[Mark Cuban]
Now how do you think we defended that? Why do you think he was standing out there?

[Skip Bayless]
Uh, uh, you didn’t have to defend him.

[Mark Cuban]
Oh right, so no matter what we did, he was just going to stand there and do nothing?

[Skip Bayless]
Well – well that’s all I saw. That was a lot of it.

[Mark Cuban]
That’s exactly right, that’s all you saw.

[Skip Bayless] Source: LYBIO.net
That was a lot of it – Hope that Dwyane Wade saved the day for him.

[Mark Cuban]
You’re exactly right. That’s all you saw. You didn’t look.

[Skip Bayless]
Umm

[Mark Cuban]
Right? I mean, that’s a complete insult to us, to say you know what, the adjustments that we made [interrupted]

[Jay Crawford]
What did you do to force him out there?

[Mark Cuban]
We we had different, we had like five six, seven different types of match-ups in our zone –

[Skip Bayless]
Hmm humm

[Mark Cuban]
- and we played man-to-man, and we had a variety of different switches, right? So we knew that – that ninety percent of the shots were going to come from the left-hand side, right. We knew that if you gave him room from the left, he was going to drive. Now, we didn’t have the athletes that Oklahoma city did, so we had to plan differently

[Jay Crawford]
Sure

[Mark Cuban]
So we need to make sure we pushed him out, away, and that we gave him different looks every time he had the ball, because just making, force – just forcing him to make a decision, right, to think about what he had to do, taking the time to read, are we in a zone, what type of zone we in, how are we matching up, what type of rotations are we in, making him think forced him to pass around the perimeter, which gave us a chance to adjust.

[Jay Crawford]
Right

[Mark Cuban]
Now they’re smarter, they’re a better team this year, they deserved to win this year, but you know, that’s the way we played it. And so it wasn’t just Lebron. Lebron actually played it right more often than not. He made the right pass to the right guy, who didn’t make the right play. And that’s exactly what we wanted: we wanted to get the ball out of his hands and and into the hands of somebody else. We wanted him to play Michael Jordan and make somebody play Steve Kerr. Now last night Mike Miller¦

[Jay Crawford]
They had several Steve Kerrs.

[Mark Cuban]
They had everybody stepping up and they deserved every bit.

[Skip Bayless]
Ok let me

[Mark Cuban]
You know, so you talk in generalities.

[Skip Bayless]
No I’m not.

[Mark Cuban]
Yeah, you are.

[Skip Bayless] Source: LYBIO.net
Okay you spewed out some generality -

[Mark Cuban]
I’ll show you

[Skip Bayless]
- about players don’t care. Okay, let me tell you for a fact and Stephen can validate this. Lebron James listened to what I said for about, what, eight years? Because that’s all I heard. He said I was his Howard Cosell.

[Mark Cuban]
(smiles).

[Skip Bayless]
And this year for the first time to his credit, he tuned out all the noise, that’s all we saw in the Finals was, he’s reading The Hunger – Hunger Games trilogy before the games. He’s meditating on the bench before the games. He tuned us out.

[Mark Cuban]
See this is – this is a Skip Bayless special. Lebron lost last year because he was paying attention to Skip Bayless.

[Skip Bayless]
No.

[Mark Cuban]
Lebron won this year because he wasn’t

[Skip Bayless]
That’s not true

[Mark Cuban]
That’s what you just said.

[Skip Bayless] Source: LYBIO.net
Ok

[Mark Cuban]
Did he not just say that? (laughs)

[Skip Bayless]
Okay here’s –

[Mark Cuban]
(laughs)

[Skip Bayless]
Here’s what he didn’t do against you guys.

[Mark Cuban]
Okay

[Skip Bayless]
He let you off the hook, because he didn’t do what we saw him do for four straight games. He didn’t drive through your zone, and slash it up and dish. He – he didn’t post up at all. He – this was a new deal, this was a new post-up game that we saw this year from Lebron. He shredded the Oklahoma City defense because he drove and he dished.

[Mark Cuban]
Ok.

[Skip Bayless]
He did not drive.

[Mark Cuban]
What – what kind of defense when he was driving?

[Skip Bayless]
He wanted to be a pretty jump shooter against you guys and it played right into your hands because he’s a below-average jump shooter from the perimeter.

[Mark Cuban] Source: LYBIO.net
Ok, Skip, so when he was on the post, what were the different defensive schemes that Oklahoma City ran last night?

[Skip Bayless]
They had, they – they used Sefolosha on him, they used Durant on him

[Mark Cuban]
When he was in the post what were the different defensive schemes they used?

[Skip Bayless]
Ibaka was supposed to come hard

[Mark Cuban]
Was supposed to come hard?

[Skip Bayless]
And keep him from – And he did not come hard, he let Lebron get to the rim repeatedly, and Perkins was nowhere to be seen.

[Mark Cuban]
I just asked a simple question.

[Skip Bayless]
Ya I just told you. I gave you a simple answer.

[Mark Cuban]
No –

[Skip Bayless]
I gave you a simple answer.

[Mark Cuban]
- you said so and so was supposed to¦, no they, they doubled from down, right, and they doubled, and they passed and they hit their shots, right, when they kept on doubling, they changed, right, because they passed it passed it out and Mike Miller hit the open shot. But that’s just one example. ( ) after that?

[Skip Bayless]
Did he get in the lane against you guys last year? Not at all in the fourth quarter.

[Mark Cuban] Source: LYBIO.net
Why – Why do you play a zone, Skip?

[Skip Bayless]
Well, again, I’ve seen him slash up any kind of defense, when he feels like it.

[Mark Cuban]
Skip, one of the things about

[Skip Bayless]
He’s a freight train! You just said you don’t have the athletes that they have.

[Mark Cuban]
Right. And that’s why we played more zone than possibly -

[Skip Bayless]
Umm umm

[Mark Cuban]
- Oklahoma City did. Because we had smarter players that are not necessarily as athletic. But the thing about the Miami Heat, they play the Pat Riley way. Right? They play the exact same way, all the time. And I thought this series was going to be about adjustments. Oklahoma City, you know, felt they had to do it a certain way, you know, it maybe – just didn’t work, right? But it certainly wasn’t the way we played them. And so if you want to sit here and discuss – look – let me – let me put it another way. Every team tracks everything these days. So in game, we have five guys tracking what happens in a pick and roll situation, what happens in a post-up situation with Lebron, what happens with Lebron’s posting and we run this type of zone, that type of zone. And you know in game exactly what the percentages are going. And if you are paying attention, you know those things as well. Oklahoma City didn’t seem to make the number of adjustments they needed to make.

[Skip Bayless]
I agree.

[Mark Cuban]
And if – and if you go through and look at the stats – stats then I’m sure – I’m sure they have, that’s what surprised me.

[Skip Bayless] Source: LYBIO.net
Ok but – well you can throw all those stats out the window because, as Doc Rivers always says, it’s a make or miss league.

[Mark Cuban]
Yep.

[Skip Bayless]
You won the championship last year because Dirk started making shots –

[Mark Cuban]
Yep.

[Skip Bayless]
- like he’s never made em before. He played as tall as he is. Seven feet tall. And Lebron and Dwyane Wade started missing shots, or whoever else you want to throw in the equation.

[Mark Cuban]
No, actually, actually, we put Dirk in a position to succeed because we knew what Miami was going to do. They didn’t make a lot of adjustments, they kept on playing the Pat Riley way. That increased our confidence as the game went by, as the games went by, right? So as – when we got to game four and everything was still the same, we knew we were going to win.

[Skip Bayless]
Are you criticizing the Pat Riley way?

[Mark Cuban]
Last year I was, this way it was perfect – this year it was perfect.

[Jay Crawford]
What was different?

[Mark Cuban]
Last year versus this year?

[Jay Crawford]
Yeah.

[Mark Cuban] Source: LYBIO.net
They made their shots, and I don’t think that they were there wasn’t as many – as many adjustments against them.

[Jay Crawford]
Right. That’s where I was going. I – your – your club made the adjustments throughout the series. How surprised were you that Oklahoma City did not.

[Mark Cuban]
It’s – you know, I don’t want to say anything negative about Oklahoma City because it’s not like they had all season to work on these things.

[Jay Crawford]
Right.

[Mark Cuban]
Right? We had the advantage of a full season where we played in, in, umm, Chicago preseason last year, we played a whole game in nothing but zone. Nothing but zone.

[Jay Crawford]
Right.

[Mark Cuban]
Because we knew we were going to have to go to the zone as our way to mix things up.

[Jay Crawford]
Umm

[Mark Cuban]
And if you look at the – offensive results against our zone, you’d see, it was good. This year, because we had new guys, we didn’t have as much time to practice, Okla Indiana, same thing, right, why didn’t they play zone? You don’t have time to practice zone in a lockout shortened season when you don’t practice.

[Jay Crawford]
Right.

[Mark Cuban] Source: LYBIO.net
And I’m sure Oklahoma City faced the same thing. It’s nice to say they could put in a zone, but if you don’t have time to work on it, they can’t. And I think that gave Miami a huge advantage.

[Skip Bayless]
So – so bottom line: You’re saying Lebron didn’t shrink under the pressure last year, you guys just took him out of the game.

[Mark Cuban]
I think we did a great job of taking him out of the game. Maybe he could have done more, but I think he played a Magic Johnson game last year against us and and he needed other guys to step up and they didn’t. This year he took –

[Inaudible]
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[Stephen A Smith]
Of all the things that have been said, I take issue with just one thing the great Mark Cuban had to say. I’ll address that in a second though. I know we’ve got to go to break.

[Jay Crawford]
We’re gonna take a commercial break.

[Skip Bayless]
The great Mark Cuban?

[Stephen A Smith]
I’ve always said that. I’ve always been fond of Mark Cuban.

[Jay Crawford] Source: LYBIO.net
We’re gonna take a commercial break, and when we come back, Mark will stay with us at the debate desk, more ESPN First Take’ from Miami, right after this.

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