The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Alley Oop 7 (Part 1): Rooting for the Pistons, KAT, Schroder, is Steph the GOAT w/ Trysta Krick

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

Juju Gotti and sports analyst Trysta Krick discuss the initial playoff games of the Eastern Conference NBA finals. Will it be Pistons, Knicks, Grizzlies or Thunder? As always, Alley Oop talks all things hoop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Conditions apply to all benefits. Visit pcfinancial.ca for details. He be talking about, I'm the best three-point shooting big man in the history of the world. It's like, bro, we don't give a, get your ass in the paint, you hear me? And grab a damn board. But I do want to just say like you you doing the RuPaul like That's just that's mad disrespectful that's mad disrespectful as three snaps in Z formation that way cat be out there zesty as hell What's the deal Leonardo the Capri movie where they dreaming? You look like you got that going on about inception.

Is that about the dream? I think it was a dream within a dream. I'm just trying to be like you, Ju. Honestly. Plus, let's be honest, between us it's just me and you on this, right? It's just nobody else is listening. I need to get my eyelashes redone. Me too. so you don't

even know I gotta get a little swaggy out just to say I woke up like this it's like well no you didn't you went to a salon and had them glue this mink shit on your eyes just so you can try to look glam you know it is what it is true yeah it is what it is Detroit basketball Yeah it is what it is Detroit basketball versus your I don't know about your New York Knickerbockers I know you love the Blazers but you are you a former New Yorker so you know what's going on in those streets. Talk about this series where's this series putting you mentally? Well I think I have to say I didn't imagine that I would be rooting for the Pistons as much as I am

When I was watching game three, I really wanted Detroit to win that game I'm just very tired of the true blue Knicks fans being like Knicks in five, Knicks in five And you know who I'm talking about, you know who I'm talking about We have friends that are like, Carl Anthony Towns in the corner like he's selling weed sacks. It's like, no, no, no. Carl Anthony Towns is walking like he is on a treadmill at two miles an hour, is what Carl Anthony Towns is doing. We were at game one, and I think that was when I was like, Oh yeah, I don't really like this team. And I think Tobias Harris said it best when they said what's the difference between what's the difference between this year's Knicks team and last year's Knicks team and he's like oh it's a whole other

situation over there they got a different composure they got it basically he was trying to say cat and them are soft right and we can bully those boys around and that's what they're gonna try to do They're gonna try to see him in the back dark alley with a with a sock full of nickels Yeah, the bodega cat they're like we're gonna chop cheese on him right now put him on the hibachi and I don't know if you saw it. They probably should have messed around and lost that game the next They had point five seconds left to go Jalen Brunson shoots the free throw and misses on intentionally It goes up in the air. No one touches it right and then it's like oh, that's a violation You can't do that actually now all the Pistons have the ball and so everything you were trying to do

You just failed that and also Jalen Brunson probably should have had a backcourt violation So it was shaky good for the Knicks for having a gritty win on the road But I think this thing has all kinds of ups and downs and side roads and little like story side You know what I mean? This thing could go seven, right? Right. It's all according to which cat are we gonna get from a night to night basis. Are we gonna get the Bodega cat who got, like you said, got the weeds in his back pocket, walking up the court,

sagging with his timberlands on, getting back when he wants to, as he did in the game that we saw, game one? Or is he gonna be this guy who's just got all the energy, long range cat, in the bank, posting up? You feel me? Like getting the job done cat. If, posting up, you feel me? Like getting the job done cat. If he show up, it's going to be trouble for them Detroit Pistons every

night because who can really stop him in that mode? But that's been cat's whole entire career. If you play like that and stop trying to get the flowers and stuff. What was that again? Stop with all that. Then bro, you are the most dominant big man in the game. Every game you play him he be talking about I'm the best three point shooting big man in the history of the world. It's like bro we don't give a get your ass in the paint you feel me. And grab a damn board. But yeah he stepped up I got to keep respect on his name for the last game and respect on Detroit scoreboard operators.

You feel me? They tried to keep Detroit in the game. They put the clock on.5 and let it go. They're like, oops, our bad. I guess it's our ball on the side. I do want to just say, you doing the RuPaul ain't nothing bad to, you know? On Cat, that's mad disrespectful. That's mad disrespectful. That's three snaps and Z formation.

That a boy Cat, but y'all are there zesty as hell. Salute to Cat, I ain't gonna do you like that, bro. You're getting it done in the playoffs. One of the biggest surprises in the Detroit locker room has been Dennis Sreuther. Like, bro has stepped up and been that guy who when Tim Hardaway's having a bad night, or when Malik Beasley take all the games to get his shot together, should

have been consistent, you feel me? Talk about the consistency up and down that Pistons roster, even though they down 2-1 right now. Well, what's crazy to me is that we had this Pistons team win 17 games last year and they didn't add a lot and in fact one of the players in Jayden Ivy isn't even playing right? Damn. And so he's out for the rest of the season with an injury but you add Dennis Schroeder who by the way champion, played for the Lakers, fumbled the bag, as we know, back in the day. Also a German monster in FIBA, so we know him.

But like, he's just kind of a role player. They add Tim Hardaway Jr., who was getting put on the Twitter streets, getting cooked out there because he was just falling back in the rotation when he was playing for the Mavs. They wanted to get rid of him, they couldn't trade him. He ends up going, you got Malik Beasley, who's kind of been a role player, who's been a three point shooter.

But none of these guys were guys we thought, Tobias Harris, who was rejected and hated by the Philadelphia fan base for many years, because that famous line, "'You chose Tobias Harris over me, you chose Jimmy Butler. So you add these guys that we didn't have any clue how they were really gonna fit into the picture, right?

They needed shooting, they needed some veteran leadership, but are these the guys that can get that job done? And now you're in a war with the Knicks in the first round. So you're right, J.B. Bickerstaff deserves the mantle for Coach of the Year, and Dennis Schroeder actually in the game that me and you watched, he barely hit his point prop. We had it at seven and a half, he had eight in game one, and then finally became the Dennis Schroeder we knew he could be. Twenty points in game two, eighteen points in game three, shot three and four threes respectively. So we just need more from the role players if we're gonna,

if you're the Detroit fan, that's what you need. You need Tim Hardaway to hit all those threes like he did in game one. And you need game two, and you need game two, Kade, every game. You can't have like, oh the lights are too bright for me. Right, bro, if we could have had a camera on us in a random spot in the fourth quarter

when Dennis Shrooter hit his points, I don't know where, we've been quiet the whole game. Both of us like, there we go! Good shot, Dennis! What do you want me to hit? Right, I thought y'all rooting for the damn Knicks. Moving on, your favorite to the other series. Oh my goodness gracious alive. Ja Morant goes down with an injury. They was up at least 974 points when he went out. They had the Memphis Rockin'. I think I seen Project Pat. I seen Juicy J. I seen Sat Randolph. They had that thing rockin' for three quarters, two and a half quarters. And then the Thunder put the hat on and said,

uh-uh, we still are those guys and them boys. And then, sadly, fall down three to zero, the Grizzlies did. And, insult to injury, Jama ran out for game four as well. Talk about this series, sis. What the hell can the Grizzlies do? I don't know how you emotionally come back from that loss. You're up 29 points, you're up 26 points in the first half, you're putting belt to ass, Shea Gilder's Alexander probably who's gonna win the MVP is doing nothing.

You're basically getting production from everybody. Scottie Pippen Jr.'s out there doing his thing. You know, you got Desmond Bain out there doing his thing. Jaw barely had to do much. He had 15 at that point. And so as soon as Jaw goes down, you kind of knew. I think even when it was a 20 point game, I was like, man, I think OK, he's going to win this game.

And I was watching the Clippers game at that point cuz it had yeah There was some like crossover, you know, and I was like, well, I have this okay C series They're just let us beat in the hell out of them. I don't want to see a destruction to this level So I'll go and watch the Clippers nugget series, which is much better and then I'm like, okay So you just cut that to nine. I should probably go back over here. I'm like if they cut it to nine They're gonna win this game and Alex Caruso The thing that kind of crushes crushes fans is you've been putting Alex Caruso in the Hyperbaric chamber pretty much all season. He was just not anywhere to be found

He's on a milk carton, right and you're like is Alex Caruso hurt? No, like no no, baby. We got a plan here. Don't you worry about us. And now Alex Crusoe's over here playing 30-something minutes a night, playing strap down, put you in the seat belt, put you in your bassinet, put the, what's that, pacifier in your mouth kind of stuff. Wiping noses.

He was guarding Jaron Jackson Jackson Jr. one on one. Making Jarrin look silly. Come on bro you can't go against Alex Caruso and then look like that when you're 12 feet tall. Alex Caruso looking like Elmer Fudd from Space Jam with the headband on. Like salute to the bud. But bro be out there doing a lot of work. You would think like bro do you just got a couple of games of this per year or can you just turn it on for us on a random Tuesday in January? You feel me?

Up and down the roster. The callers be calling in with the great taste. Ooh, I love calls. Great questions, you feel me? We gonna load some of them up and answer some of them guys with my sister right now. Mr. Rebecca, load us up sis. Juju, it's Graham from Seattle. Here's my crazy take.

Steph Curry is the GOAT. He doesn't have the physical gifts that LeBron or Jordan has, but he's far more technically skilled at the game than honestly either of them. And he is, not to say he's not a great athlete he is but he's just not the other world lead level that those two other two are and that's my take Steph Curry go. Steph Curry salute to Seattle man y'all y'all boys. What is going on what is going on I got an ad. What is going on? What is going on? I got an ad.

Crowd going wild for that tape, my brother's singing. Look, I think Steph Curry's one of the ghosts just because you got little kids, you got adults, you got doctors walking around wearing under armor shoes, bruh. I never thought I'd see the day when them ugly ass shoes would be as popular as they are. Them things be coming in in pinks yellows it don't matter folks gonna buy them and eat them up So for that you sir are the goat to me. What's your thanks is you think Curry's the goat? This is a joke take I gotta take it with a grain of salt cuz that of course

I don't think he's the goat but I'll give him a little bail money What I will say is the things that Jordan did around the rim are just absurd. His body control was crazy. His athletic ability, obviously, above the rim was insane. Changed direction, handles, but more importantly his his defense, right? And so you even go back and watch him today this guy I can tell this guy I can tell is like a Gen Z er he's like a Cuz cuz he needs to go to YouTube and check out some Jordan highlights

Because what you see that Jordan does is just more impressive now. I will say that Steph Curry, he's one of the most unrealistic players because he'll get draped around and then all of a sudden he shoots gets open somehow or maybe doesn't and you're like oh yeah even from the logo that's going in doesn't matter when doesn't matter how much they're down there's nobody that instills this much hope. If you're a fan, then Curry does. You can be down 15, 20 points and you're like, all Steph Curry needs to do is shoot five threes

and he can do that in 30 seconds. If you guys don't score every time down, he will heat check you. And so to that end, this guy probably is from San Francisco, probably didn't grow up when Michael Jordan was in his prime. I was right at the tail end of it. But Michael Jordan, when you go back and watch him, I think you just kind of see what he's able to do.

But I would say Steph Curry is very much up there. Just would not put him in front of LeBron or Jordan. And I will say this, if it wasn't for Kevin Durant, and it wasn't for Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving getting injured, I think probably the Warriors don't have any rings. Oh, now there's a take. You feel me? Zero rings for my boy. Look, in Trista's record book, them boys ain't got no damn rings, so take them all away.

You feel me? Anything you want to tell the people on the way out? What I will say is this, me and Ju met each other in the Super Bowl media area in the Phoenix Super Bowl. And Ju's over there looking like he doesn't really belong in the media section. I'm all iced out. I got my sunglasses on. I think I was rocking some J's. And so we looked at each other like, hey, you also don't look like the rest of these guys. These like sort of sloppy, sort of like very pasty white journalists. What's going on here with you?

And she's like, I work for Metal Art. And I and I'm like oh I do a betting show and it's been like this ever since and now we just rock together. Legitimate, legitimate. But stay tuned next time. We gonna be back next week same bad time same bad channel. Your diggers.