**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
Kyrie Irving was going crazy at the Top 100 Camp.
They had a Can You Guard Kyrie Challenge. Check this out.
**Chad Johnson** (1:20)
Hey, you know what's funny, Unc Joe? It's one thing to be able to see Kyrie do this to the NBA players on the court, being able to manipulate them, get them going one way, get them going one way, and use their leverage and their momentum against them.
He's one of the best handles, one of the best finishers, right hand, left hand, it really doesn't matter. He can get to any spot on the floor whenever he wants to get to it. And what I like about this drill, what he was doing with those players, is for one, he's gonna always be two or three steps ahead of everybody else, and having a plan in his head, and what he wants to do with the ball, to be able to create that separation, man, he's one of the best. So to be able to see him doing it with those at his camp, man, it's dope to be able to see it like that, up close and personal as opposed to from TV, watching at home, but being able to see exactly how he's able to execute that stuff. Man, Kyrie, I'm sure no one would argue the fact that he's probably the greatest ball handler and finisher at the rim of all time.
**Iso Joe Johnson** (2:14)
Yeah, you're right, Ocho. I think Kyrie out there using them boys' cone drills.
He just got that ACL back right. Ocho, he out there testing against them young boy because he already know he's two, three steps ahead of them. Mentally, physically, they too many years behind to be able to even guard him. He knows and understand that.
But what makes him so great is at his size, he's never going to be the fastest. He's never going to be the most explosive. None of that is angles, bro. He know how to take and use angles and use his body to create contact or to play off contact. He knows how to cut you off in the pick and roll. He has obviously one of the greatest handles we've probably seen. And he understands and knows how to manipulate the defender in front of him, bro. How to get by you. He got too many tricks in his bag.
**Shannon Sharpe** (3:18)
He's a guy that he's thinking, okay, this is what I'm going to do. But if he does this, this is my counter.
**Iso Joe Johnson** (3:25)
Yeah.
**Shannon Sharpe** (3:25)
If he does that, this is my counter. If he does this and then this, here is my counter. So he's always got a counter to your counter. And like you said, look, God, he knew what he was doing. Why would he ever make Kyrie Irving 6'7 with that?
The hell? If you look at it, he already can post.
**Iso Joe Johnson** (3:46)
Yeah. Yeah.
**Shannon Sharpe** (3:48)
He could already play with his back to the basket.
**Iso Joe Johnson** (3:50)
Yeah.
**Shannon Sharpe** (3:52)
Now, okay, you give him the ball at the top of the key. What are you going to do?
That's why they put the ball in his hand. And when they got that switch, because they knew Golden State was going to switch everything, and he's like, okay, still.
**Iso Joe Johnson** (4:08)
I'm headed down.
**Shannon Sharpe** (4:09)
Shall we dance?
**Iso Joe Johnson** (4:10)
Yeah.
Bing, bing. Trey Bar.
**Shannon Sharpe** (4:14)
And what do you already know? In, out, hop, side, bam.
He gonna get to that. That's his shot.
**Iso Joe Johnson** (4:22)
Yeah, yeah.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, that boy gonna be looking to get back in that conversation when that season start back up, makes you mean like being one of the top guards. I already know. He gonna come back. He is. Oh yeah.
**Shannon Sharpe** (4:38)
I mean, you talk about a guy, he's a 50, 40, 30, 50, 40, 90 guy. He can shoot 50% from the floor, 40% from the three. He can 90% from the free throw line. Oh, I mean, he's a three level score.
**Iso Joe Johnson** (4:49)
Yeah.
**Shannon Sharpe** (4:50)
A guy that, I mean, yeah, he can dunk, but you talk about a guy that doesn't play above the rim. Nobody can finish below the rim like he can. The angle in which he can, the English in which he can put on the basketball.
Nobody.
**Iso Joe Johnson** (5:03)
My boy, nice. Yeah.
He's nice.
**Shannon Sharpe** (5:07)
Man, please.
He is, he is ridiculous. Hold on.
**Iso Joe Johnson** (5:14)
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