The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Alley Oop Ep. 4: Ja Morant’s Finger Guns, Giannis Goes Gonzo, and No One Can Stop Steph Curry (feat. Dragonfly Jones)

Episode Date: April 9, 2025

DLS’s Juju Gotti and Dragonfly Jonez, aka Tyler Puryear of Jenkins & Jonez, discuss those Morant finger guns, Curry’s unstoppableness, and Westbrook’s inability to finish the job during a key basketball game. Alley Oop is all things hoops and hoopers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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As a matter of fact, a lot of people has to lose. Whenever you take a loss, bro, that's just a loss on that aspect. That's just a loss right there in that arena. A lot of these losses be shaping us to be the person that we need to be for the next W we gonna get, you feel me? All the people who take losses in these tournaments, bro, you will never see them say, okay, cool, I quit now.

Well, we lost, we didn't win the championship, I quit now. You don't see Steph Curry, they didn't win the championship last year. He didn't quit now. That boy just dropped 52 this year in a regular season game. So just remember out there when you going through

life's ups and downs and catch an L here and there in life, bro that L is really what, let that be a lesson. Let that, turn that loss and make that stand for a lesson, you feel me? And keep it moving and push that to the agenda, to the front of the agenda for that next W you gonna get. Because bro, somebody gotta win and next time, why not be you? You feel me Let's celebrate the A's because that's gonna make us who we need to be to get them W's. You diggers Hey, you got to know you got to know you got to know

Hey, don't I be with you you serving everybody. Hey, appreciate you having me, big dog. How is everything, man? Everything cool, man. I got surprised. I'm so happy and so proud to live in an era where my dog, you know, L.A., is really like actually rising from the ashes like the Phoenix to with the black boy, white boy swag with the haircut boy with the crosses on me everywhere. Oh my God, I'm blessed. white boy swag with the hair club boy with

the crosses on me everywhere. Oh my god. I'm blessed. Yeah, man. It's yeah. You know, it's a beautiful thing. I'm love I I love seeing the anti revival too because bro, that's an all time record. Him, Tip, Drove, everybody went in bro. Classic

for sure. Exactly. That's it. It'd be turning up the whole Atlanta. I'd be I'd be in certain parties like going to NBA events and stuff like that. They'll play that not knowing what they playing. I'm like, I'm finna actually turn up the whole. Yeah, like this is an Atlanta national anthem right here. Right, that and a couple of other songs,

Rest In Peace to Shawty Low, Rest In Peace to Young Scooter, man. How you feeling today, bro? I'm good, man, I'm good. You know, we gonna have a good sports weekend coming up. You know, got the Final Four popping off. You know, we getting into the hunt where we're playoff seeding is on the line with each NBA game. It's a great time of the year, my guy.

Hell yeah, it's a great time of the year. But bruh, it's not a great time for my dog, John Morant, and his pockets. I mean, it's always a good time for his pockets when you got that much money, extra sniping. But man, them gun gestures, the NBA done gave my dog a warning. Then he came right back with two other bazookas. Next game. Next game, he came back with the pow pow. You feel me? He came back double. Double the trouble. Yeah. It's why. And you know, it's a big discussion going on on social media about how unfair the NBA's been here. And dog, and dog like look I'll be the first to ride with you when you call them the NBA

out on their hypocrisy on their inconsistencies and all that but this ain't it like they warned that man yesterday not to do this he did it the very next day dog like I get that people won't have an axe to grind on the NBA base with how they do disciplinary actions with serious topics like domestic violence and such and how this doesn't align with how, you know, seemingly lenient they are on that. I get that, but I feel like this ain't the argument to kind of take that stance on,

because this ain't about that, dog. This is just an employee not giving a damn about what his boss is telling him he can and can't do. That's all this is, dog. You can't go straight from the commissioner office or the phone call or the Zoom or whatever they talk to him on and go straight to Miami and first shot to my first quarter, he shot left the hand.

Early in the day, right? He lit it, early. Early. Yeah, yeah, he a wild boy, man. He a wild boy. But yeah, I mean, bro, like I just think people are taking it way too serious. Like I said, I don't think this is an indictment on John.

I don't think this is the NBA having an agenda against him. Bro, it's just a worker and his boss seeing how far they can push each other. That's all this is. I feel like we had a couple of historic performances this week with the Joker 62, 10 and 10, a loss, epic loss with my my dog Westbrook. Hurt my soul. Russ is my guy, but bro. It's like, I got two reasons.

Number one, you're only up one point. So go in and lay it up. Maybe I see the point or the angle you're trying to get them to real quick, but you got to dunk that home at least. You gotta make sure you get down I mean I think 2018 Westbrook woulda yam that but he ain't got it no more you know the lift ain't there but yeah and then the foul on the three I don't know I feel like that I feel like that that's more on the rest but I also feel like Russ you shouldn't even been close bro just get just keep your feet on the ground and

just put your hand up when you run out on the shot like Russ, you shouldn't even been close, bro. Just keep your feet on the ground and just put your hand up when you run out on the shot like that, bro. Right, you're gonna have to be a hero tonight, Nikhil Alexander Walker. Right? Big nob. Right, we went from that to Steph Curry being, Steph Curry, I don't know if he turning back the clock

or that's just his time. Like, he, the job, and that's the problem I kind of got with Jai a little bit. Bro, you shoot the guns whenever Steph Curry ain't around dropping 52 on your head but you're gonna shoot him against uh what Tyler Hero in the game. Yeah. Don't do

it like that because I feel like you can't allow uh I don't care how great you are 52 when playoff seating is this important to your team and that team. Bro like talk about how I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm still incredible. Like I always knew Steph's game was gonna age great because it's a very low impact game. His game revolves around him yanking you and getting space or running around the screen and getting space.

He's not a Russell Westbrook who we just described who depended so much on that burst and that explosiveness. So I knew his game was gonna age well. But for him to just be still, still just like a top five guy at 37 years old, it feels like, right? That's unprecedented, man. You know who had an incredible performance last week that's not getting talked about enough, in my opinion? Yannis Ancetokounmpo. Bro put up, what was his stat line the other night?

A hundred, a hundred, and a hundred. Bro, no damn time, no real help for real on that bench. Kind of weak roster a little bit if you squint. But bro putting up historical numbers, dog. I I'm not going to be a real help for real on that bench. It's kind of kind of weak roster a little bit if you if you squint but putting up historical numbers, I don't think he get the respect he deserved in this day and age. What you think

bro? I totally agree. I totally agree. Um he had a 20 assists game. I think it was 502116 was was 501621 was the stat line just bro Just bro, like, I just don't understand why there isn't more talk around Yannis. And I think, me personally, I think Yannis is the second best player in the world. I think only Yogi's the best, right?

He's a dude who has given us 30, 12, and six for the past five seasons, and has been an all defense guy while doing it. He's in the class with Michael Jordan and Akima Lajuan is the only players to ever win MVP and defensive play over the same year. And it feels like there's no discussion around him. I don't get I don't know if if it's because we all know that Milwaukee is just not doing anything in the postseason. Maybe that's it. Maybe we know that that that team ain't

going nowhere. You brought Doc Rivers in to try to save you. That's when you know you're scrambling, right? Which yeah, Giannis is incredible, bro. It's and like I said, I just don't understand why there's not more discussion around. Moving on bro, we got some we got some people we got a hotline here on the show, man And we allow the fans of the show to give their calls in and just give us their takes, their wacky questions. So Miss Rebecca, queue some of those calls up for us right quick so we can go through some of them. You did me. Juju, this is Phumwin from Madison, Wisconsin.

I got a dogger coming in August. I got a question for you. How early is too early for me to introduce her to the great race relation movie Rush Hour? I'm talking about one of the two. All right, thanks man, bye. How early is too early to watch the movie Rush Hour? We gotta guess, I'm gonna let my dog Tyler hit that one first. What you think bro?

How early is too early to watch Jun Tao on the board? The great cultural commentary movie as he referred to it. First off, congrats to Sam for having a daughter on the way. Big shout out to that. Rush Hour, going back to what he said about how it is a great comedy that's rooted in cultural differences, which I wholeheartedly agree on. And the thing is, I see there's a lot of discussion around this movie every so often on Twitter where people are like, you couldn, there's a lot of discussion around this movie every so often on Twitter people like

You couldn't make a movie like this anymore everyone's to PC and and I don't think I agree with that because the comedy that was in rush hour, of course, it was rooted in and And and and and and notions of black people and the notions of Asian. Yeah, like that was the dynamic there but there was never anything that was Disrespectful or right, right, right? But there was never anything that was disrespectful or harmful. The comedy there was cracking jokes on the cultural differences rather than trying to crack jokes on saying that this culture isn't fair.

Exactly. You know what I mean? Because neither one of them is true for that. Yeah, exactly. Exactly that. Exactly that. You'll see people out here being like, oh, what happened to freedom of speech? We can't make jokes about black people anymore. It's like, bro, the jokes you're making are,

for one, they're not funny, and two, they're tired. It's jokes been here in the last 60 years. You're really out here fighting for your right to make jokes about watermelon and fried chicken. There's nothing funny there. There's nothing insightful there. For one, we're over it, and two, it's not funny, and three, it's coming from a place of disrespect,

which the jokes in Rush Hour did not come from. Right, right. You know what I mean? So yeah, you know, there can be, there for sure can be a new like buddy cop movie with where the jokes are rooted in the differences of cultures and ethnicities and such. But the jokes have to come from a place of genuine goodwill and not disrespectful trying to put people down, which is what Rush Hour jokes were never good at. You know what I mean?

So I think that there can for sure be a movie that emulates the motto Rush Hour in today's modern political climate or whatever you want to call it. Exactly. And that's how I feel too. You feel me like, bruh, go ahead and turn that Rush Hour on in the crib, bruh. Let them play it right now because like he said it was respect put on all cultures in that rush hour And it was like he said the most important thing be funny man Don't be fighting out here

Don't be out here trying to fight for the right to say what they got to say and don't be a damn lick of funny, bro Be funny. It'll be some some old-ass tired ass 1932 jokes that we've been hearing for 100 years. It's like, bro, you are not fighting for the right of comedy to be, you know, insightful commentary. You're fighting for the right to say tired, old, recycled racism. You know what I mean? And we can't rile that. Right. Yeah. So, yeah, man. Go ahead and turn them on.

My mom and dad let me watch Friday. And I think I was too young. I went to the movies. I had that on VHS, dog. I had that on VHS that summer and me and my brother and my homie wore that shit to the ground, dog. Hell yeah, brother. That's been another great episode of the Alley-Oo, dog. This episode was made 100% fantastic by my dog dog. I

Check them out on Jenkins and Jones. You're feeling one of the best podcasts out there with flavor with us You feel me? Come on, brother. Tell them for what you guys think you want to say before we get out of here? Yeah, man. Um, you know like my dog you said holla at us on Jenkins and Jones We got the YouTube channel you can find us on Twitter with that handle Jones is spelled with a Z not an S. So man, I appreciate you Juju. Always good chopping up with you man. Love what you got going on right here bro with Metal Lock man. Shout out to you. Yes sir man. Shout out to you 10 times more man. And that right there was the alley oop. Catch us again next week on the same bad channel at the same damn bat time. You dig us?

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