The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Alley Oop 9 (Part 2): Haliburton’s Dad Loses His Mind and Hield Is The Hero w/ Kofie

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

Juju Gotti and the sports video game content creator Kofie Yeboah discuss the Warriors, Buddy Hield, the phenom Thomspon Twins, rivalries, and Haliburton’s Dad trying to start something over nothing. Alley Oop talks all things basketball and hoopers. #NBA #Playoffs #NBAPlayoffs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Nice. On behalf of Air Canada, nice travels. Wifi available to Airplane members on Equip Flight, sponsored by Bell Condition Supply, sieracanada.com. Bruh, that was the lamest, goofiest thing I had ever seen in my entire life, bruh. As far as from a parent in a damn basketball game, you mean to tell me you finna get your behind on the court and wave a flag in Giannis' face? What would happen if Giannis was just a Darth Vader to him?

Just a quick little yoke up, pick him off the bull off his feet. You know what I mean? Let his feet dangle in the air. I ain't, no one's stopping him with that wingspan. You feel me? If you came up to me and said, who do you think will not be the hero of game 7? Like guaranteed. I put like I would have put Buddy Hill at the forefront.

I would have never expected this from the boy. Like salute to him perseverance with the kings, the Pacers. He done went through a little struggle bro. He even got introduced to Steph Curry last week by Steve Curry. He was like, yo, meet the greatest shooter in the world, please pass him the damn ball. I can't believe them boys made the Houston Rockets look like that. They were stuck in the mud. What you think about that series, how it went down? I feel bad for Houston Rockets fans because this is the second time they've lost to Curry

in a game seven. And I feel like it was just an absolute disaster class by everybody not named to men Thompson. I mean, Shangoon was really struggling finishing. Jalen Green was basically a non-factor for every game except for the game where he had more than 30. It was just rough. But we knew that Houston wasn't a good shooting offense, and they had their bread and butter around the offensive rebounding and stuff. And I know that the double big lineup against the Warriors was doing really well in game five and six,

but the Warriors kind of countered that with a little bit of a zone action, that the Rockets didn't really have the facilities to figure out, but there has to be something. The facility. I didn't have the facility. They had the facilities to figure out the tone. I mean, because they were, because I saw, it was like three minutes left in going into halftime and the Rockets have 39 points. Yeah.

I'm like, I'm like, is this 2004? Like, what's like, what is that and seeing that? Curry didn't have any points didn't have any points for the they didn't have points for a long time of that first half and the Warriors were still getting the lead It was one of those things where I'm like, you know that step curry that that's not gonna last the entire game because that's so uncharacteristic that but no the Warriors support and cast held through and I just feel bad for Rockets fans because they had, they really did have a good season. They got the second seed after all of this and you have so many bright spots on your roster and to be fair, this Warriors team is better than a seventh seed because they

have looked like a really good team since the Jimmy Butler trade. So they are actually better than their rating so it on paper it looks worse than it was but at the same time really, really must be heartbreaking to see your team go down like that. Bro the Thompson Twins, the parents of the Thompson Twins, round of applause, you raised two dollars because Asar was covering Jalen Brunson the entire series well. A-Man covering the Steph Curry the entire series well. Like you say, bruh had no points. It wasn't till I think A-Man got hurt a little bit and went out, Steph Curry woke up like

whoa, whoa, whoa. Who on me now? Like bruh was really carrying them boy offense. He did a behind the back, reversing the first half. I was like, who is that? Was that Clyde the Glyde? Yeah, dude, on a set defense. Right.

Bro, bro looking good. He played too good for Jalen Green to be out there playing Solak Luster, man. Like, I don't understand it all bro And it's so different cuz like, you know, there's the category of players where if they're not scoring They're not really bringing the rest like they're not really bringing that much else to the table where yeah I feel like if a men's Thompson if he had only 12 points yesterday even eight points yesterday

You could still see him affecting the game in other facets. Whereas with Jalen Green, the ball has to go in the basket or else we should probably bring in Atari Easton or try any other different lineup because it's just not working if you're not scoring the ball. And the sad part is that this rocket scene,

the way this rocketets team is constructed, you would think that a Jalen Green that could take the next step would be the perfect kind of thing for this Rockets offense, but he really hasn't shown any sign of improvement over the last two or three seasons. I would never imagine Steven Adams had a bigger impact on this series than Jalen Green, bruh. You got the Kiwi in like what, just trades or off-season maneuvers. I know they ain't expect this to be the biggest deal

within the series and bro was keeping them in the game. Offensive rebound after offensive rebound. Keeping the peace between Draymond and the squad after the game. Like, oh, Mike, it's just hard basketball, Mike. I ain't hear one Jalen Green sound bite. The last I heard is from Jalen Green is, man, and this is aggravating and bruh, whenever Dre Mon was talking about, go paint your nails.

Go paint your nails. I'm like, bruh, get his ass Jalen Green. Now, I don't let him talk to you like that, but that was the last time I heard from the boy in the series, man. Yeah, and it's frustrating to see one, because you see the highs. You see what the highs could be, they just do not happen that often. And it's just the inconsistency of it all where especially when you're given you're given seven games in terms of like Your this this team won three games with you playing like this team won multiple games with you not like

Performing at your regular say to what you want to say what you stinking up the joint, bro Are you being the nice which you playing? How you know? the nights with you playing how you know what Mud them boys got a game seven with you being ass sir. Can you give us one more please? it's just it's just it's just frustrating to see because I feel like a lot of Rockets fans and a lot of NBA fans also because I mean you might not be tuned into Rockets basketball day in day out But when you see it on the national stage, you're like, oh wait This player averages 20 points a game in the regular season.

What's going on? It shouldn't look this easy to take you out of a game. Rob Markman Moving on to the East Coast, the Cavaliers, they playing the Pacers now, you feel me? The Pacers had a great series against the Milwaukee Bucks, but the goofiest, I still can't understand how this goofball really thought that he would get this shit off Halliburton daddy, bruh. Like, bruh, that was the lamest, goofiest thing

I had ever seen in my entire life, bruh, as far as from a parent in a damn basketball game. You mean to tell me you finna get your behind on the court and wave a flag and yawn his face? Like, bruh. That's crazy, that's crazy. Number one, you didn't beat the damn thunder or nobody. to get your behind on the court and wave a flag and yawn his face? Like bro. That's crazy. That's crazy. Number one, you didn't beat the damn thunder or nobody.

You beat the books, the lowly books. Bro, like everybody hurt on the books. You getting out there doing all that, bro. Shame on you, bitch. Even your son had to clean it up after the game. I don't know what my dad was. It was a bath salts. I don't know what the hell, bro. That was so goofy to me, bro. What you thought

about that situation? That was that situation. I mean, good on how good on Tyrese recalling his dad out and saying he's doing too much. I know there are probably some other players that probably wouldn't have done, but like that's a, that's a good sign of self-awareness. But it wasn't, it didn't surprise me. I mean, these two teams do not like each other they do not like each other no they remember that incident they had with the the game ball yeah yeah yeah I dropped this and then someone's like no but our rookie scored their first place that our ball the ball should be ours and that started now these teams don't like each other on top

of that you had the they have the Halliburton Lillard rivalry that spanned for multiple years I totally understood that even though this the series ended in five It was a series where they they actually are they're personally personally invested, right? You take you take Piston's Knicks where it's like yes, historically we do the fan bases don't like each other But now the players other, but now the players are in it. Now the players are involved. Maybe they haven't seen the Knicks as the post season adversary or vice versa, but we have that now. The Pacers and Bucks already had that installed. And this Pacers team is one of the, I think it's one of the teams in the league where Dude, if you are not

Prepared for how they play it doesn't matter how good your team is They will run you off the floor like if you're not if you're you can have all the talent on like as soon as they as soon as you make a Bucket the Pacers are looking to get whatever opportunity and they can take that bucket right back and then some and I mean We don't give an I don't think that we give the, I don't think we give the Pacers enough credit for how close they played Boston last year, respectfully. Like it was, yeah, it was the game, I think it was a sweep, but still every game you're just like, man, this Pacers seem playing really hard and Boston really had to game plan against

them really well. Right. Yeah. Remember Jaylen, Jaylen Brown had to hit a corner three buzzer beater to get to overtime in one of them games. Yeah, all them games was crazy. As a Boston fan, I was like, man, somebody take them out.

Cleveland, somebody take them out before we get to them if we have to play, if we make it past the Knicks, because I don't like it, bro. But, just to tell me this right here, the composure of Yannis in the Halliburton dance situation Bravo like very good example. He took to the podium and said a couple things Basically, I'm an NBA champion. You're not so Other stuff like what would happen if Yannis was just in the moment in that exact moment where they just squandered with some point

leading by the minute what would happen to be honest was just just just Darth Vader them just run one quick little yoke up pick him off the boy Office feet. Hey, I mean let me know what no one's not no one's stopping him with that wingspan and Strong that dude is brother. No, they throw multiple NBA defenders at you game in and game out Yeah, yeah, Giannis is, we gotta give a lot of credit to Giannis for keeping his composure, especially after just one of the most bizarre comebacks that I've seen in a while,

where this is one of those things where it's so easy to fully blame, it's funny to laugh and blame Doc Rivers and that. I didn't even look at that one. I was like, Jesus, there's something sinister going on here, Vince. It was just- Halliburton Daddy been banned from the games,

as he should, from the Pacers. Good on the Pacers for going ahead and taking that boy out, because, bro, it would have got really ugly, man. If you're honest, would have scooted the boy up, bro, by his ears and beat him with... I ain't gonna go into detail, but it could have got really ugly. You feel me?

Especially as Pacers got a history. Arches of the world, even Jackson of the world with fans. Come on, y'all. Clean it up, man. Moving on though, man. Knicks versus Celtics. The series, I feel like that will be heard around the world. Talk about that series bro.

What's your prediction in Celtics versus Knicks? Dude, that Knicks team is way scarier when they don't play Brunson Ball. And you know what I'm saying? It's not anything, I'm not saying that Jalen Brunson shouldn't be the main focal point of the offense. That's not what I'm saying. I think that the games that we were able to take off of them It felt like those games when it came down the stretch

It was just the offense was just Jalen Brunson do something Whereas a lot of the other games it was a way more balanced offense in terms of the fact that it's like cat was cooking Brunson Was cooking but then you still got Contributions from og and oh geez all of that. I mean this team is a very talented starting five and but I think that where Where the problem is that so the Celtics got a more talented starting five and they got depth, you know I think that's the fact where I depth is very important for a playoff series and when the

Celtics already, they got two guys that really can guard as guards in terms of Drew Holliday and Derek White. I mean, it's really not fair when you think about it. I'm predicting, I mean, I love my Celtics, man. I'm going Celtics in about five slash six according to how the referees blow the whistle, you feel me? Because the referees should be ashamed of their damn self. Like I was really hoping to play these Pistons cause that would have been more awesome and more fun.

But now it's like life or death. Cause I do not want to hear no Knicks fans all in my damn face talking about whatever the hell they be talking about. Like every year they the champions. Michael J. Lemprensa, get them out of here right I hate the Knicks fans y'all can do y'all know what y'all can do it's a PC show so yeah I'm gonna clean them boys up in five to six games man what's your prediction what you think how the series gonna go? I'm gonna go I'm gonna have to go Celtics in

five as well I just think that there's too much that there's too much on their side in terms of what they can do against the Knicks best players. We finna goddamn wrap this shit up. What you be looking for from the coaster? You dig it. Feel free to check out my YouTube channel, Kofi K-O-F-I-E, and feel free to join me on Nebula K-O-F-I-E as well. We'll be back with another episode next week, same bad time, right here on the network.

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