The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Alley Oop 147: DENNIS SCHRÖDER HITS THE GAME-WINNING BUZZER BEATER Knicks vs Celtics, Brunson Drops 47 & Trae Young Exposed

Episode Date: December 23, 2025

Dennis Schröder was ice-cold when it mattered most, drilling a game-winning buzzer beater and reminding everyone why he’s one of the most dangerous clutch guards in the NBA.  On this episode of the Alley Oop Basketball Show on DLS Hoops, hosts Juju Gotti and Trysta Krick break down Schröder’s huge night and what his performance means going forward. The conversation doesn’t stop there. The crew dives into the Eastern Conference power struggle, asking the big question every fan is debating right now: Are the New York Knicks legit contenders, or do the Boston Celtics still own the East? With Jalen Brunson dropping an incredible 47 points, the Knicks are making noise — but is it enough to dethrone Boston? Plus, Juju and Trysta take a hard look at Trae Young’s shortcomings, discussing what’s holding him back, how defenses are attacking him, and whether his style of play can actually translate to winning basketball when it matters most. From clutch buzzer beaters to MVP-level performances and uncomfortable truths about star players, this episode has everything NBA fans are arguing about right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I want to know who 14 is on the New York Knicks. Come on, man. Is that Josh Hart? No. May. Oh, Anthony Mason? You got to know, man. Yes, sir.

Rest in peace to the Lord, man. I didn't know Anthony Mason was dead. Yes, sir, man. Rest and peace to my boy. People don't know this right here. And Miss Rebecca and they ain't even catch this out of nowhere. We don't talk. How both of us pulled up

in our New York Knitmerch today, you feel Come on! Come on! I don't know what is. It's the reason for the season. I'm a Celtics fan and a Timberwolves fan. But what's the reason for your shirt today? You want to know the truth?

Yeah. I slept in it. There we go. See that? You want to know the truth to my... I've been guilt going and going so much, Ju-Ju. I did my hair. I did my makeup or brushed my teeth.

And I said, you know what? I kind of like the shirt It kind of fits I was about to put on the jersey And I couldn't find the scully For that one But this one was on top So I was like

Go New York, go New York Go How do you I know this is like Such a non-sequitur Do you put the beanies The skull caps With the jersey

Like in the closet Like do they go together Or do you have like a hat area and a jersey area? Yeah I got a hat area In the kitchen And then the Jersey area Is in the back

Kitchen. It sounds crazy. Yes, it does. But that's dims the facts and the brakes. You'll be surprised to know right now, I'm not too far away from the kitchen right now as we speak, ma'am. So this kitchen do a lot of work. If you got right, like literally if we went an inch off camera,

it would be the sink in the dishwasher right there. Not the sink in the dishwasher. You want to see it here. Behind the scenes look at the alley-o of what the kids' living room actually look like. Boom. Whole kitchen right there, man. Boom. I like these sound drops.

I like these sound drops. Me and Juju were on Levitards all week well Wednesday through Friday and I didn't realize that they had a button for unintentional racism. I feel like that button could probably get pushed to me sometimes when I'm like, or like where I'm like,

this is the whitest avocado. This is how, you know. Yeah, you're more racist to white folks than black people for sure. No, 1,000,000% 100%. Hands down. But speaking of black and whites

together, man, and since we hear the New York Knickerbockers, man, Jalen Brunson put up 47 big ones over the Miami heat and my boy, Carl Anthony Towns put up

two big ones against that same heat, bro. What's going on in New York right now? Great win over the heat, but still, two points from cats. What are we doing?

When you say, speaking of black and whites together, I thought she was going to skip that because I kind of got caught on the ledge right there. And I was like, damn, my sister will forgive that. She's going to push past that because what was I talking about? I was like, was he talking about the fact that Jalen Brunson's mom and dad are so obviously black and white? And then I was like, I think Carolina that he towns is also mixed. Are we just like, is it, I think John, and I was like doing some math in my head, some genetic math. is Josh Hart also white and black

I was like maybe it's the mixed brothers the light skin mixed guys This is what your friends do to you ladies I know it'd be the one They just twirled and mistake and just Twist it ring it out But yes if I had my flags here I took my flags with me to Miami

I got my flags here 15 yards on me What the hell was that black and white? Speaking of black and white Jalen Brunson had 47 I was like maybe he means this T-shirt and this black and white I don't know Jalen Brunson

I honestly I don't want to poo-poo or dismiss the Knicks talk because we did come correct as a unit You did But I placed a bet today Juju

Oh Let me in Let me in Boston Celtics to win the east And we are back Ladies and gentlemen Come on man That's T

That's a little clock that one Yeah you got to know Tell them why, sis. Listen, top two defense in terms of points allowed in the league right now. Top five offense with absolutely nobody, with nobody, with Nemeas Keda and Go Ducks, Peyton Pritchard, and Jalen Brown doing his best turkey AI, like talking about how his greatness is on his hairspray and how he's getting his championship greatness on people. That's the kind of trolling we need from Jalen Brown.

No Tatum. Tatum could be back in March, they say. Derek White, balling out of his goddamn bald head. Mine. This is a team that has all of the tools. They've already done it. And they continue to separate themselves. They're on a win streak.

They're sitting pretty much right in the mix in the East Cavs stink. I'm dead. The calves are dead to me. They're ready to break up, Ju-Ju. They stink. They're a butt. I'm breaking that team up, A-Salt. I'm sending Jared Allen to, I mean, my bad.

I'm sending Jared Allen. The hell up by the town, Ace out, him and that Afro microphone, head ass. So you tell me it could be the Knicks and the Celtics again in the playoffs, and you don't think the Celtics are going to have some revenge for that ass? Yeah. Come on now. Look, and that was very, not only they beat the Celtics, but how they beat the Celtics. As brad, it was so humiliating Celsius up 20, three games in a row.

Come here, boy, every time after the game took the heart from them, boy. They gave him the Raiden. You remember Raiden? Come here. Or the Scorpion, Scorpion. Get over here. Come over here, yeah. Come on, man, at the end of the game.

Bro, I don't hate that take, man. Stay tuned for my sister. You might want to lock that bet in, witsies, or you might not. We can't tell you that. Eight to one, depending on where you get your bets. You feel me. But yeah, bro. But back to the niche.

Branson 47, Kat, two points. Does that matter? Or is it just, hey, man, sometimes I'm going to have 47. Brunson is going to have two points. I'd be damned. I don't think there'll ever be a world where Kat has 47 and Brunson has two. Not in the world of Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson wants that ball.

They're moving the offense around quite a bit. Mm-hmm. It's in motion style that we haven't seen. seen in the Tom Tibidot era. But Jalen Brunc still wants that Rocky Rock. Okay? He's not letting that thing go. I like Cat on this team.

I really do. He doesn't, the question that I have, juju, is did they get the win or not? They did. They got the dog. It's like getting the car crash. Almost getting a car crash on the highway. Did you die, though?

Like, you right. So, yeah, they got the dog. They got the dub. That's, I want to see. obviously more balanced scoring. But the truth of the matter is, as long as you're getting a win, we're going to have nights clunker days from Carl Anthony Towns.

There's just what he's known for. I like that. I like where your head is that says. Keep doing that. That's why you, the top analysts in the sporting world right now. I'm talking about trending the whole way up, the whole way, you feel me?

But speaking of scoring, I'm not sure if this is balanced or not, but the Bulls beat the Hawks. 152 to 150, no overtime. Brough, let me repeat that, ladies and gentlemen. The Bulls beat the house, 150, 150 points to 152 points in no overtimes, just scrape four quarters. Drey Yon had 35, Jalen Johnson had 36. Matas Sabeuzele's from the bulls, 28 prints.

But what's going on? Is defense going to be played between Steve's teams? Should we shoot, Trey, y'all? I like the hearts a little bit better without Trey. I don't want to say it too loud. But at the same time, sis, what you thought? The besmirch is coming. Oh, no, put your jackets on, ladies and gentlemen.

Your umbrellas. I like that. Grab your umbrellas, ladies and gentlemen. It's about to get real lightning. I've been waiting for Tray Young to get healthy. Bless his heart. I've been waiting for this Hawks team that was on a heater, one of the better defenses in the league.

Jalen Johnson's a stud and a star on Yaka Akangu. I've been waiting. Let me see what they're talking about when Trey gets back. And you know what they're talking about again, Juju and Trey Young gets back? Them else, them else, the defensive woes. It's impressive, juju, how badly, how, no, how impactful Trey Young is when he's on the basketball court. To have 30 plus points, still give up 152, and it because of you, sir, is just you. Trey's got to go right now.

I don't know what his trade value is. I don't know if a team in the NBA wants him. Oh, I don't go that far because I'm pretty sure. Sacramento got a jersey hot off the press right now for his ass. You know, that's a fair point. And that's just because they need to sell tickets and they need to find a certified franchise bucket getter and they don't have one. But like if you're trying to win for real, you don't want Trey Young for real. No, not for real.

Especially they had a chance to win the game at the buzzer. the last second shot from Trey Young, and guess what my boy trying to do? Draw the damn foul. Yeah, man. That's what he always does. How many of these moments, Juju, have we seen where it comes down at the last moment to Trey needing the ball and needing to make a Superman play? Get this motherfucker.

Sorry. To the door. Right. The bus smircher. Play that again. There it is. Oh, I love that. That's so fire.

But speaking of them kings, man, the kings. Russell Westbrook pulled out the cape, man. Three-pointer, Traybaud, corner pocket, man. Corner pocket to force the overtime. And then once they got into the overtime, Dennis Schreterl with the bucket to seal the game. Yeah, you ain't know I was German. You feel me? I feel you, Dennis Schreterter.

You feel me? Don't. Do you know that? I grew up over there for real. Come on. You feel me? I'm from Germany for real. Give me, give me the donkishun.

Donkishun. Yeah, you did. Up here's head. Dunkin. You feel me? What's handing player? Can feel like. Fuck you're talking about.

But yeah. Play that, Ms. Rebecca. Are you guys something to play for us? Let's play it. Yeah, Miss Rebecca. She's like, yeah, I'm tired of this German. My boy, Dennis Scluder, man. Come on, man.

With the game on the line. Who else do you go to? Oh, Frank. line. Oh, flower line. Up here's in. Awbo. That's great. You feel like me? Come on. That's the Euro Cup league MVP right there, man.

The Euro MVP didn't screw their. I think he's a Eurobasket MVP. But yeah, bro, what you think? I mean, of course the Kings need a lot of help, man. He wins is few and far between. But I like seeing my boy. Russ get after the game, be able to talk his talk, man. And boy, I say, man, you got one of the best rebounding guards ever. He said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, the best.

I'm, um, him. Stop playing with me. Next question. What you think, sis? Yeah, Russ is the most unfairly criticized guard in the NBA right now that's active. Yeah. And he just happens to be in a situation where, like, nobody for real wanted him. And he couldn't go to the places.

he really wanted to go and he was on a championship contender with Denver and they kind of did him dirty and said we know you got a player option but like we don't really want you to pick up your player option which to me I don't care I'll make it awkward I'm coming back to Denver and playing with you like I don't it's either make things awkward and play for Denver and probably get traded somewhere or end up in Sacramento right I think I'm going to take my chances with Denver no shade to sack but so he ends up on this team and he's got to be this leader and I'm sure it's going to end up working out okay for a guy like Devin Carter who we know has no hairline and probably

Keon Ellis absolutely not or Keon Ellis who they're hiding in the back of the bench it's just a tough time for Kings fans you had Tyrese Halliburton you had here Fox and now you have neither and now you got you got to try to finesse Zach Levine over to the Milwaukee Bucks to try to get out from under that cap space issue so I love some Russ it's a tough it's been a tough few years for Russ. It has, but I'm still one of the Rush biggest fans. I love how he just love.

You feel like I love how passionate. That's what we're missing in the game, somebody who, the give a damn aspect. And my boy ain't never low on that. And especially when he was going through his time, whenever, what was, Skip Bailey were calling him West Brick. And then he was right, my kids going through this at school, bro, please calm down.

Folks still coming at him. So he started defending. itself, you feel? I like how Russell Westbrook go about it. And I love how he loved Nipsy Hustle as well. And his wife. Russell Westbrook's wife, we got to really make her the goat.

Nina. Nina's in the group chat, letting people know, like, Ms. Rebecca in the DLS chat. Like, yo, you ain't about to talk about my man's in them like that. Uh-uh. Come on. She's putting on her Instagram. She's putting it on the YouTube, the Twitter, whatever. And she's that's a ride or die. That's

somebody that you want having you in their corner yeah no having them in your corner see you were about to let that slide that's you feel me I saw it I was finished I was I was there I was like nah I'm gonna shoot my sister some bail money that was a sink and shipping moment it's our real levitart listeners know what's going on but we had some other sports flying this weekend in the w not the w I'm so used to the being the league, I mean the M, the M NBA, where, what's my boy name? Dylan Brooks versus the Warriors, bro. Now, we saw a couple of days ago, Dylan Brooks, contestant, Steph Curry, three-point shot,

go by him, still giving them a little tap in the stomach. Like, come on, you can't, that's Steph, bro. If I'm on the, if I'm on the end of the bench and I see you play with Steph like that, you ain't friend of the same night you thought you were going to have, you feel me. But lo and behold, they got another opportunity to go to Golden State and played on Warriors for a second time. And those spots was flying just as high. Did you see that game? You call that one? Yeah. I mean, the thing is, Dylan Brooks really is the villain everybody thinks that Draymond Green is. Draymond Green, if he did the type of things that Dylan Brooks did on the

basketball court he might be forced to retire like adam silver might take him into his office and say hey that's that's enough dylan brooks is a maniac the way that he punched step right in the chest for no damn reason come on son come on right and getting into it uh i think what jimmy buggler scored the point and then threw the bow and right at dillen bruce like threw it down in his chest referee were like uh i can't see man you saw something i ain't i can't do it was like I kind of like this Phoenix team. Yeah, okay. Colin Gillespie, I see you. Keep going. Yeah, I think when you have a lot of a team with a lot of stars, Juju, there's just real ones will

know. Sometimes these old heads that have been around the league for a minute, they feel like everything's theirs. They feel like they take up a lot of airspace. Their egos are outside. size. Do you know what I'm saying? And like the new kids on the block don't get an opportunity to show what they're about. And so that's Kevin Durant. That's that's our man, uh, Bradley Beale. They feel like they've got a specific way they want to do things. And really the team's much better when it's a bunch of like role players scrapping, trying to be, uh, make their way into league like a Colin Gillespie. Like, even a grace and Allen like these these exciting whites don't happen to just only live in charlotte juju i like how they've assembled their roster mark williams has been okay i kind of just feel like they have a little edge to them and that's without jalen green yeah they got a little something something going on yeah for sure for sure it's it's it's that edge that they got right now i feel like if they would have had that when they went to the chip that would have prepared them across them bucks

because they was just, oh, the fun team, McCall Bridges, Chris Paul, dominating. Like, it was all fun and games versus the discipline that conned with somebody that's not going to dive in the third row after you if you're playing like Dylan Brooks. But you mentioned the older guys and how things are going.

And it made me think of one team, bro, right now that's just on the struggle bus. Breaking news out of the NBA over the weekend. Zubots out for about what six weeks and so they say at least minimum even longer probably them LA clippers bro I don't know how it could get worse for these clippers all I'm going to say is at this point I just want them to free james hard free free free the beard bro at this point because he is still a phenomenal basketball player and he is showing you that every other tonight. I think that he, if you take him somewhere like,

um, put him at Houston. Orlando, you feel me? I was thinking Houston, but yeah, a team like Orlando who would, who could get there, especially that that weak-ass east, get to that Eastern Conference finals, bro, we don't need you to have every single 30-point game every night. We got Paulo for that. We got Franz Wagner for that. We got Katie for that, you feel me? We got a Thompson twin for that. we got shangoon for that but if you don't mind giving us 12 assists in that door we could be championship or bus in some cases what should think about them boys

the clippers have seven wins we're 28 games in the season that's crazy they've win they've win three games on the road all year. Bro, it's sad, man. The only team, they literally are worse, Juju, than teams that are intentionally tanking. The Utah Jazz have 30% more wins than them. Well, 10% technically, if you talk about percentage. I'm not holding you accountable for that.

I knew it couldn't have been right. When you said 30%, in my head, I said, blushed out. They actually, actually, it is. Actually, I did the math right, correctly the first time. The jazz of a 37. Since me, Rebecca, I don't believe you. I don't know. I need to crunch the numbers.

The jazz have a 37 win percent, 37% win percentage. The Clippers have a 25% win percentage. It's actually 12% more wins. And, brother, these folks pushed the nuggets to seven games last year. They needed a buzzer-beater from the Aaron Gore and don't to beat these folks. Sometimes, sometimes, like, don't. Don't change the recipe.

Yeah. Maybe you just need to do the recipe a couple of times. And you saw that you're like, you pretty much had it. Why are we changing all these damn ingredients, sorry, poop, all these ingredients, adding in Brooke Lopez, adding in, like, I thought we were all in agreement that John Collins was kind of buns. Wait, hold on, when was that meeting? I didn't attend that meeting.

didn't attend that one? They didn't invite me at that one. John Collins is very talented. He can do a bunch of things. He can't. He's just never produced winning basketball outside of that one year they beat the Philadelphia 76ers, which we know it was more about Ben Simmons than about the Atlanta Hawks. So like, this is a guy who was in trade rumors longer than Miles Turner was in trade rumors.

It was like, oh, yeah, it's January again. John Collins is on the trade block for the eighth. consecutive year and like the jazz couldn't use him the clippers like he's okay he just doesn't produce wins so why did you go out and do all that stuff to get those guys that clearly are not helping your team listen you know i rock kind of ride for chris paul and i'm a little bit of a chris paul apologist but chris paul has done a hundred x more in his career than bradley beale has ever done. So don't come up in your Bradley Beale acting like you should be starting like your Carmelo Anthony on the Oklahoma City Thunder. Boy, stop. Get the hell out of here.

Break your foot. Go home, retire. They just made so many bad moves when they had the recipe right there that the nuggets on the rope. Right there. You could lead a horse to water, man, but you can't make them plant trees, I guess. And now brings us to the illustrious. segment that we like to call boy stop all right this first one i want to do this little fella here this little fella this big fella just listen to him and how he eats and tell me is it wrong to have certain foods in public places i guess bear with it because every morning and like i'll shoot around i bring in that's because i have for breakfast i have a pound of uh ground beef and six eggs. So it's all like mixed together. But like when you open it, eggs don't smell that

great. It's been sitting in like a heater for like an hour waiting on them. So he waits till he gets in a tiny room watching film and like it's not like it's literally as soon as everyone gets in there, door gets closed. Then he opens it and you just have to smell the meat and eggs for a whole like this is every morning. Every morning. And they all look right in the back corner. You know exactly what it is. It's like tear gas, bro. No. No. No. Take a side or you both like no. What's What's the smelliest food you've ever eaten in front of other people? Fish.

Hmm. You can't heat up fish in a public place. Everybody knows that, but everybody has to go through it to see why it is terrorism. If somebody brings something nasty to work, I'm poisoning them. Allegedly, ladies and gentlemen. Allegedly, like poisoning with all my love and negative comments. once I was on a diet that I started eating boiled eggs

in a movie theater never again that was disgusting I bet you had nasty boiled egg farts you're lucky I got my flag again boy there's in the movie theater Miss Rebecca what's going on I mean it's felt like some of the dog there we go

Dylan did that one that was good I like that I'd call police on you sis I think Stephen Adams though I think it could be a little bit remedy if he would just bring food for everybody. Because he don't stink as much

as you, if you eating it too. Like, bring me some of the eggs, brother, and some of that ground beef, brother. That's shit. How about just hot sauce? Hot sauce will mask everything. Mm-hmm. But yeah, man, another good, fun episode

of the alley oop as usual. Sis, any last words on the way out here? Chat, shame Ms. Rebecca, for all these old ass. I don't even know if she kept it in the show, but she gave us a video if you didn't see it because she deleted it. It was 48 weeks so old.

I think we need to source her some good stuff that are boys stops. And in the meantime, thank you all for listening, watching. Yeah, that's a good idea. If you're on Instagram and you see a funny video, send it to our sister, Ms. Rebecca. Also, head over to D.L.S. Hoops on YouTube, as well as our URL, you feel me,

at alleyoopshow.com. What is Trista, just marching me for? right now what are we doing I just never I just never heard anybody call it a URL that was our age or not my color

Mr. Becca put URL in the damn notes and so I'm trying to respect our elders Mr. Rebecca and read what she said you miss merger don't look tune in next time to see if we

still got a show because I'm about to go talk to Trista ASAP We're about to get subscribing on these these ad reads. But yeah, man, thank y'all for tuning in

without y'all. Who the hell are we? Catch us again next week. Same bad time. Same bad channel. You diggers. Logging.