The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Spliffnotes and a Check-In with Taylor

Episode Date: April 29, 2024

Juju joins the show to discuss the weekend in the NBA Playoffs and his critiques of today's show. Then Taylor joins us to give a quick update from his 28-hour journey to Game 5 of Knicks-Sixers, how he is eating despite not having any snacks and what happened to his playoff beard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and this is not the best of him the best of him is yet to come Juju you thought what because we didn't talk very much about that series from the celebrated end we talked a lot as people will today about Phoenix but they Phoenix may have been lost and Phoenix may have been Improperly built but they were taken out of the playoffs and they were taken out of the playoffs on a day when they got what? they needed to from Kevin Durant and Devin Booker and Anthony Edwards is still making seven threes and being done with them Right, and it's all the team.

It's a great example of you can't just pay for a team. Salute to Ishby and everybody who, the new management, but that's an actual rooted team. Like they have all of the pieces that I needed, like the supporting cast, Gilder's Alexander cousin, what's his name? My dog Alexander, the other Alexander. I call him the other Alexander.

That's my nickname for him. But the whole supporting cast now from top to down, McDaniels, Naj Reed, the sixth player of the year, they all stepping up and in the playoffs. You feel me? So because Ant be having the starts, slow starts. First quarter, he didn't he get off the blocks as fast as he might want to. But the supporting cast and the team carries him enough until he gets it going and man to do it in the playoffs against his goat against a super team

dare I say man it's hard to not it's hard to overlook that. When I was expecting Rudy Gobert to get played off the court and Rudy Gobert to be a different playoff player the way that he's been the last few years because it's hard to keep him on the court when you start going small on the other side and when they start throwing guards at you, but The Timberwolves have been great all season was there anything else from the basketball weekend that you found interesting before we go back to

anything else from the basketball weekend that you found interesting before we go back to critique of the show and before we go out to Taylor who's on a train ride to New York which will drop him off right at Madison Square Garden? Yeah I mean I think the Clippers Maverick series is so interesting every play doll every piece of that series has been interesting from the beach, the heated arguments, Russell Westbrook is Russell Westbrook, and it's a lot to say, and Luca Dantzik, if there's an opportunity for Luca to show us why that he gets all the praise, and I think that the same says for Paul George

with Kawhi being out, can Paul George actually beat the narrative, playoff PB down? Like so I think that series deserves a lot more attention. That's as big as Paul, go ahead, go ahead. No that's his biggest shot as Paul, Paul George has made in the playoffs. We're used to making fun of him. That's an enormous shot to keep him from going down 3-1. Exactly, now hats off to him because we show Paul Long whenever he's doing bad. So we gotta send a salute his way whenever he does something well and look out for the Orlando Magic as well because

They're not getting covered. You know, I mean the Cavs in the Magic series is actually It has taken off because the Magic defended home court and now they have the Cavaliers on the ropes So they're not getting the covers they deserve. I'm not going to look out for the Orlando magic I refuse to look out for the Orlando magic But just to put a bow on that Clippers Mavs game that you're talking about Yeah, if Paul George misses that shot from the corner and they blow a 31 point lead because Kyrie Irving is doing Miracle shit around the basket when he's got three players guarding him and he looks like some sort of magician like they were in a Difficult spot and he hit an enormous shot yesterday. What did you think of today's show?

What was the good and the bad from today's show? Man, it was a lot of good from the show man. Like the chemistry is just coming out I just I love to see what my dog Mike Ryan is in a good mood for some reason I when he's smiling bro, I feel like the whole show is in a good place But uh, we did have a couple of concerns. They wanted y'all to talk about Ezekiel Elliott going back to the Cowboys a little bit, you know, I mean, that was a big breaking story and Also on one of the polls where it was uh, what was the poll do? I should tell the people incidentally, yes,

this Ezekiel Elliott goes back to the Cowboys. The Cowboys have had a pretty disastrous off season after being all in. They got rid of Ezekiel Elliott and he didn't do very much in New England and now he comes back and essentially, it's the remains of Ezekiel Elliott. It's not his prime anymore.

He comes back cheap. And they wanted us to talk about that? To say what? I don't know. They said no attention has been talked about. So hey, I'm a man of the people. The people will say that. I just reading it and letting the beat down. No, you're not taking any, you're not taking any blame for this commentary. You're just saying the people have spoken. Right. Also is the waiter lying to you when he complements your choice of order Somebody compared that to do you also think the stripper likes you? Whatever she complements you so much. So I do just You look like the type that would get fooled by that in fact you ain't cheating

You look like the region of America that will get fooled by that in the strip. I ain't cheating in this great line. Taylor, are you out there somewhere with bad wifi? Are you having a meal? How long have you been on the sad train to New York? I boarded at 810, we are in Winter Haven. Nice. I got my Jaylen Brunson jersey. I keep saying it's not that bad

and then I keep thinking about it and I'm like, man, we chopped 24 hours. And I was ill-prepared. I did not bring any food on this. So I just had to go to the cart and I got a sad hot dog that I already housed. I got some Hemindams, a chocolate chip cookie, and a water. But I will say fans of the show have been reaching out

to me on DMs and being like, let us know when you're stopping through our city, we wanna stop by and help you out with food or drinks, whatever you need it. So shout out to all the fans of the show. That's very strange. How much does that overpriced box of sad train lunch cost? It was about $15, I think

You better watch out for that hot dog in my eight hours cuz I don't know how to train bathroom set up bathroom to New York with 28 hours of people stuck on it. Deeply unpleasant. A toilet bowl filled with bad, sad, boxed hot dogs. All right, good job. Good job, Taylor. Thank you. No problem. Yes, sir.

All right, Juju. Bro, we're having to the playoff beer, bro. Dude, my barber doesn't speak English. I don't Spanish. There was a miscommunication. So I just had to take it off. Understood. Understood. Talk to you later.