The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Alley Oop 168: JAYLEN BROWN 41-PT MASTERCLASS | Celtics BUZZING | Luka & Caitlin Similar?! Lakers + Hawks Win Streak

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

Jaylen Brown just went OFF for 41 points and had the Boston Celtics absolutely buzzing — and Juju & Trysta are here to break it all down.In this episode of the Alley Oop Basketball Show, the crew dives into: Brown’s dominant performance and what it means for the Celtics moving forward The latest on the Los Angeles Lakers — are they figuring it out or still stuck in chaos? The fascinating comparison between Luka Dončić and Caitlin Clark — do they really have the same bag? The Atlanta Hawks heating up with a serious win streak Toronto Raptors fans going absolutely off the rails And a hilarious MMA fail you NEED to see From elite scoring performances to wild fan moments and crossover debates, this episode has everything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's tearing up my heart when I'm with you. And when we are apart, I feel it too. And no matter what I do, Michael B. Jordan is the best actor in the whole world right now. No matter who you are, where you're at, though. If you got a lighter at the house, put them up, put them up. How you doing today, Truster, man? What you've been up to? You've been on the road, my sister.

I've been traveling my little ass off. I was in town, Miami for like less than 48 hours. I think I was in the plane more than I was in Miami. Hold on. Hold on, though. We saw the pictures from the weekend. My sister stepped out. Ali stepped out.

Come on, man. When that time you seen a dog with a tuck song, man? Get yourself together. I just saw that photo this morning. That's an awesome setup. Come on, man. Where you get a dog tucks from, sis? I got it from Amazon.

You got to let them know Zania. It's Alexander Wang. It's a collaboration. You got to let them know what you got. You know, these big baggy t-shirts aren't because I got anything to hide. You do it just because I want to be comfortable. You feel me? And speaking of knowing what you got, the Lakers got themselves a three-man triple weave going on right now with Luca.

Austin Reeves and LeBron and Luca Donchish lately, bro. I mean, I don't know if it's the custody battle. I don't know what's going on. No, you didn't. But my boy is going nuts right now. Have you seen them? I think we need to take a small chronic break to investigate how many custody battle correlations with All-Star, All-MBA, MVP-level offensive performances.

I think that's something that needs to be studied. It certainly seems like it has been a piece of the puzzle for Luca that I hadn't put together. Like it's always sunny in Philadelphia with the board. You just gave me the last piece, the corner piece of the puzzle, Juju, and I applaud you. I think it's been seven days, though, since we said that the Lakers had a real problem with LeBron on the floor. Whoops. Yikes. I don't know.

But I do think they're fun. Yeah. And I love Marcus Smart on this team. He adds a level of grit and intensity. I don't know if you saw that last four minutes between the Lakers and the Rockets where are my guy, D'Andre Dominating, actually did dominate. He did make it look like Clint Capella was a lesser version of him. He was offensive rebounding. He was putting up putbacks.

He was getting fouled. He was doing everything out there. He was defending. He was stealing the ball. He was leading the team in transition. So, yeah, I mean, these Lakers are starting to gel on probably beginning of March, we'll say, is when the jelling has sort of started to happen. There's been a lot of injuries on this team.

There's been a lot of fat things happening on this team where Luca was gaining weight in the middle of the season. He seems like he's starting to lose weight now. So, yeah, I think that the Lakers is a three-seed or a four-seed is, a problem, especially considering that we've talked about this is that the Minnesota Timberwolves can't get right. They just can't get right. And I don't know what to make of them.

So to me, the Lakers do feel like they could at least win a series. Brough, 32.9 points right now for Luca leading the league right now. Crazy. Also third in the league, which is 8.5 in assists. So my boy, look, as aggravating as he is at times for complaining to that ref, he is efficient then I'm a good. I'm going to say this. Luca Donchich's WMBA

comp might be Caitlin Clark. Okay. Okay. I'm going to take a chronic break on that later on too. By chronic break, that's, yeah, yeah, okay. Take a small chronic break on Luca Donchich, Caitlin Clark comp is this.

Okay. When Caitlin Clark is on the floor, she is one of the players that your eyes just naturally always gravitated. to. She is a ridiculous electric box office type score that does some of the

similar, it's not the same, but similar type of moves that Luca does where it's like, holy hell, how did you get that shot off? Holy hell, why did you even attempt that? Holy hell. And then the assists component is not even something anyone gives either player

credit for. Nope, no, not really. And yet, and yet they're always putting up these double-digit 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 assists. They have eyes in the back of their head, and they're extremely polarizing for how they treat the refs and white skin. I think that's extremely accurate, bro, if you take into the fact that Caitlin is just a faster, sped-up version of Luca Donchis.

Because Luca, he's going to do his thing in slow-mo like Kyle Anderson, like fade away right in your face. And now that you say that, bro, she makes some of those passes that, I wouldn't have never thought to make. Luca the same way. He'll throw it behind the back between your legs and find Vando for two. So, yeah, I think that might be the one. I know Reggie Miller got in hot water comparing her the Payne Pritcher.

Excuse me, Payne Pritcher. I think she just said, too, Juju, that Luca was her favorite player to watch. Case closed. Let's just start calling her that. We're going to be that then. We're going to be the first people to say, Caitlin is Luca. Caitlin equals Luca, no matter what. I think Luca has better handles than her

Yeah For sure But like in terms of like It handles to his comps right Okay yeah there we go there we go You know what I mean like of course He's got better handles than her straight up But like to the comp of the league

Yeah you're right You're right You're back You're still considered like to be a Has a bag in the NBA I think Caitlin's Their main people's main concern Or main besides all the other stuff

but like their main basketball criticism is that she has a hard time creating her own shot off of just the dribble versus just the like step back that she has. So that's the one like big difference between them. But like when you said, because I didn't even think he was like leading the league and assists. I would eight something. And then I was like, oh, like that's just an underrated stat line that nobody gives either one of them any credit for. And that s's matters so much, bro. That's like the second most mattering thing, finding your guys for two or three you did.

But neither here nor dare. Moving on to finding your guys. I'm going to bring up my guy over my right shoulder right now. Last night, my boy had 41 punch, man. 41 bit punch against the suns. And when that happened, I would start thinking, because I was BS in the first saying, uh, Jalen Brown MVP.

You know what I mean? It was cute. It was a cute fun thing to say. But now that I think about it, bruh, this reminds me of when Josh Allen versus Lamar Jackson were the two finalists in the MVP.

And yes, Lamar is doing spectacular flashy things with Derek Henry and all those people over there. But Josh Allen, you take Josh Allen off the bills, they lose the rest of the games. And so I feel like that is more valuable than what Lamar gave you.

And that's why Josh got the MVP. You take Jaylen Brown off the Celtics for that 20 game stretched or 15 games that SGA missed, which OKC didn't skip a damn beat. You feel him? You take Jalen Brown off themselves, bro. Them boys is going to lose all those games, in my opinion. They might win a couple, but it ain't going to be like that.

Second place in the East, three games back with a couple games left, allowing Jason Taylor to feel comfy. Be able to rest. Come on, man. And being able to defer to Jason Taylor when he gets back. I think that's, to me, a very valuable trait, you dig when we start voting. Let me ask you this, and I know we're a basketball pot, not a football pot, but. Man, we're a culture pot.

We're everything pot. Yeah, we're everything. We're everything. Let me ask you this. Do you think the voting for NFL MVP is more valid in what MVP truly means? than the NBA's voting of what MVP truly means. I think so, bro, because there are instances where I saw them give it to Joelle and B. You know what I mean?

I saw them give it to Steve Nash on the shack year or the Kobe year. I don't saw crazy things happen just because the stats said this and the win column said this. But the reality, the eye test sees that, bro, that ain't real. So to answer your question, yeah, NBA be tripping, bro. NBA needs to understand what most valuable player means. Because right now it's best player on pretty much on the best team. Unless you do something so outlandish, we have to give it to you like the Russell Westbrook averaging a triple. By the way, if averaging a triple double mattered that much to the voters, then Nicole Enochitz would be winning it every year.

Come on. Apparently, that doesn't matter anymore because Nicole Eukich is just so good that it's just normal to average. average triple double now. When Russ did it, it was like, oh my God, we got to give it to Russ because the MVP is a triple double. It's so crazy. But because Yokic is so tall, it's like not as big of a deal. Exactly.

That's how I feel about you. You my MVP every day. Thank you. Because without you, where the hell am I at all? This show was very awesome before you got here. But now I feel like this is the second best show in the entire world. If you out there, see, I'm getting choked up about it every time I say it. If you out there, I let you guess what the number one show is.

But we number two, no matter what. We just got to get these eyeballs over here. So, Trista, you are Nicola Yokers. Nobody sees you flying from Portland and Miami. Nobody sees, that makes you sleepy as hell. And you got to take Ollie with you. You got to feed him. He got a peepee.

Ali got to eat too. Come on, man. You got a peepee. Here's something that I read last night as I was getting outraged about Senors not winning Best Director or Best Film. Yeah. when the masses cheer and when the power structure cheers simultaneously, there's something wrong in the water.

I'm happy with the masses cheering and not the power structure cheering. That's why you're the MVP. I don't need the accolade. Yeah, exactly. Now, you're going to get my accolade every time. Thank you. But I would like an article in variety or something. I mean, it just would be nice.

Done. Done. Get on it out there. If you listen to it out there, let's write some articles about how special sister is because it's getting unnoticed and I don't like it. You know who's going unnoticed, Juju, is the fucking Atlanta Hawks 10 in a row. MVP, MVP, MVP. Come on, bro, talk about it. Let go. Listen, Jalen Johnson, second most triple doubles in NBA history for a wing.

Only number one is LeBron James. Jalen Johnson is that guy. He's leading the way. They're playing extremely fast. They're dunking on everybody's head all the time. They're cutting. We're seeing the culmination and the end result of what we were applauding all offseason long by Anzi Sawah by Bryson

Graham. I almost said Bryson Tiller. I thought you were about to say Tiller too. I was saying right in two. He can also do that. No, we're seeing everything sort of gel together and the outcome of what that looks like.

got off of the Chris Das Porzenga's contract. I'm loving that for them. That's super helpful. Like this is a team that now also has the New Orleans Pelicans pick to add to them. Who the fuck are they going to get in the draft, Juju? It's kind of starting to be like scary hours for the rest of the lead. And nobody seems to be talking about it. All they want to talk about is how Magic City Monday got canceled.

Exactly, bro. I'm talking about it. And this is my gripe too. Because living in Atlanta, I don't know if you experienced this. Last night, the game was on NBC Peacock. Do you know that that was one of my first times getting to watch a full Hawks game as a person who lives in Atlanta? Because they black it out. You know, when you got the league pass, they black out your local channel.

And our local channel that I have to download is the competition network. And I'm not downloading that on my TV. I'm not downloading that two-syllible competition to my TV network. Uh-uh. No, sir, no thank you. I'm a draft king guy. So, therefore, yesterday was my first time being able to see the Hawks play a full game. And let me tell you, bro, I am impressed.

I didn't know, I ain't know little cuss had it like this. Little Cuzz had 41 points last night. Excuse me, pardon me. What's my, uh, damn. I call him a little Cuss on which I forget his damn name. Uh, Nikiel Walker Alexander. Yeah. McKeel Alexander Walker.

No. Exactly. Come on, man. Come on, man. My boy had it. So, yeah, bro. Hawks, you better look out them boys on the rise, man.

Talk about a guy that is not getting enough shine. Jalen Johnson averaging eight assists a game as a win. Eight assists a game as a wing. You got Dyson Daniels still averaging two steals per game. Nobody's talking about that because remember last year, remember last year he was averaging like three a game, four games, craziness. Bro, where was you whenever you realized Dyson Daniels was Australian for Beds, Fosters?

I thought he was a hood brother from the west side. He started talking to him postgame interview. Everyone said, bloke. I was like, what the fuck? Salute the Dyson Daines. Yeah, this is a team. And they get Jonathan Cominga, they kind of stole Jonathan Ciminger, to be honest, who's averaging 15 points a game on this team.

He's giving you eight rebounds a game. he's playing heavy minutes, 25 minutes a game. Like, C.J. McCollum is there as the elder statesman. Also, after my hit on Kim and Mace, if you know, you know, C.J. McCollum followed me right after that. I don't want to say

what that means, but I don't know what that means. Let go. Let go. Come on, man. We already know what that mean. Rocket ships into the sky. Jack Landell is that guy, another one from overseas as well. I think he's from Down Under. I think it's New Zealand, though, not not Australia, but do not, do not quote me on it.

I don't know. So, yeah, this is a team. It's really, really fun, really good. And they have to win games because they don't have their first round pick. So you look at the NBA standings and you say, could they cause a problem? They're an eight seed. They are a problem for the pistons. They are a big problem for the pistons.

Juju? Juju? If the pistons get bouncing. The first round, I'm going to be really annoying. Like, so, so annoying. I know. Unfortunately, I understand, and I get it, too. Detroit, please get it done because you don't want this rap or this smoke over here.

Anyways, moving on to a segment we like to call bus stop. So we got Scotty Barnes. I don't know, get slapped in the head by a little person. Is that what this looks like? Hey, man, look, brad. Parents out there, get your damn kids. Ain't no, boy, do you know what my mama would have did to me? If she saw me go down there and hit a basketball play upside the head,

like I ain't had no home training. Oh, you know what it is? He didn't dapp them up. Bro, it don't matter. You don't hit nobody in the head. Little Caucasians. It was just, yeah. See, if it was a black kid, you wouldn't have minded it.

You might be right. But I feel like Scotty Barnes, if he wasn't on so many cameras, he was told a little. He looked back like I looked at Samson when he told me I was wearing PJs. Exactly. Bitch, what? Also, real quick, not to get too in the weeds and like inside baseball, but the fact that neither one of Dan or Samson had heard anyone call them bitch in that way means they've never been around. Exactly. in a real and intimate way.

Look, that's another two-hour conversation for a whole other day, and I would love to have it. But to the little kids and, nah, to the parents, allowing your kids to go down there and mess with NBA play like that. Look, the second boy slapped them two at the end. Hey, man. Boy, stop, man. Get your damn kids.

When I was a kid. Actually, he got hit by three of them. It's like revenge of the, like revenge of the little tiny white kids. It was the one closest to the bench. And then the other one popped them. And then the other one got them in the back of the head. And Scotty Barnes actually turned around twice. Look, let's just know.

My mama was a great parent, but she would have had a conversation with me, if you know what I mean. Where they smile in public and they're grinning through their teeth? Like, just wait until we get home. It's a problem for you. Just wait. I'm not forgetting either. I'm just, you better hope you never leave this arena. Let's just say I would have been picking my own switch off the tree.

Oh, we're still doing this break. And in Ingram stuff? He's still doing crazy stuff? That's what I'm saying. Okay, Toronto plays like getting disrespectful all week, bro. He threw his towel. You know how they get the towel.

He'll take this towel with you. The fan done threw the towel back at Bia, bro. Why did they do that? Brug, the Raptors, y'all going to have to start swinging on folks, bro, bump it, brad. At some point, you can't let folk disrespect you like this every day, right? Now the kids disrespecting you.

Now the fans throwing towels back at you. I need to know who through the text. towel back. Right. Pablo Torrey. Yeah, Pablo, we need that one. It could have been security and he was just playing around, playing around. It could have.

But I hope. It didn't look like it went far enough to get to a fan. I hope it was that same little kid because he, he don't give a damn about no Raptor. He's just like, man, y'all my little brother. When was this? This was March 13th. Okay, so let's see, March 13th, Raptors score. Lord Jesus.

We're doing a little investigation. They beat the suns that night, so it's not even like they lost. I don't know what it is. I can't call it. Well, whoever threw that towel back at BIA. Boy, stop, man. That's a legend in the making. Slude the glow.

Maybe the fan is just a germaphoom because, Juju, would you accept a sweaty towel? You don't want a sweaty towel. I ain't going to lie to you. I understand the sentiment, but I wouldn't just accept a sweaty towel. Right. That's a great point because, bro, you've been sweating all game. I'm only damn, bur. See, Dillon.

Dylan might be an MVP today. And also, I did not consent to your sweat touching me without me knowing it was happening where I can choose what I'm touching it with. Right. This is polyester, brother. I don't need or sweat. Or skin. Right. Right. It's velvet, bro. I'm sorry.

Boy, stop. Matter of fact, yeah, let's flip it around. Branden English, boy, stop throwing your towel on, folks. Yeah. Last video, Ms. Rebecca, what we got? Okay, we got an MMA fighter who really takes the hype to an amazing level. Here we go.

Pay the fighters, man. It ain't why. Do the right thing, bro. Okay, let go. My boy getting hype for the fight, man. Let go, man. You are... Oh, no.

Hold on now. That's on the UFC, bro. Who left the gate open? Yeah, he should be able to lean back and there'd be something there for him. That's actually, nope, I'm suing. I'm calling my lawyer tomorrow. I'm coming up on the rough side of the mountain.

Who in the hell left the gate open? Whoever left that damn gate open? Boy, stop, man. You got to protect these fighters. Now my boyfriend to get into a real deal, new fight with a torn ACL, three patel attendants missing, and his pride on the goddamn flow, man. Boy, stop.

Boy, stop. And that's been a great episode of the Alley Oud, man. Thank you all so much for tuning in to your boy and your sister. Any last words on the way out? We got to cancel Jack Carlo. Damn. Damn. If you haven't heard it right now, Jack Harlow has a new album out there.

It's Neil's called again, Jiu. Monica, yeah. I mean, hey, man, as an artist, as a struggling artist myself, I have no place and no right to judge or cast aspersgents, but we're going to let y'all be the judge. You like the name Monica for a, white person to be able to slide in saying the n-word and the slippery slide-y way? Where he decides to slide and slip is none of my pay grade.

Oh, really? White people saying the N-word is none of your pay-rate? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. See, then we took it to the good thing. I can get real, but I'm going to stall them out right now. I'm just choose love. All right. Stall them out.

You've got to be canceled in my book. Yeah. Until he starts trying to cosplay Tay Diggs from the best man, I'm out. Look, that's a, that's a topic for me on another podcast when I have a little bit more loose reins from what I can say. You did. But thank you guys, as always, for tuning in.

Thank you so much for my boy, the Distinguished Dillon. Come on, man, MVP of the day. Also, my sister, Ms. Rebecca Donahue, as always. And without y'all listeners, Who the hell are we? Tune in again this Friday on the Levitart show page. Same bad time. Same bad channel.

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