The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: The Super Zagackto

Episode Date: April 30, 2024

Mike is still frustrated trying to understand the difference between an Exacto, a Zagackto, a Super Exacto and a Super Zagackto. Aren't they all just the same thing? Also, Dan wants everybody to stop for a moment and witness the passing of the torch as it seems LeBron James' reign of the NBA is over following his Los Angeles Lakers defeat to the Denver Nuggets. Plus, did anybody know Magic and Cavs is tied at 2? Where can we watch the swing game tonight? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Yeah, why wouldn't you concede that there is absolutely zero difference between a super exacto and a zygacto, which is why the zygacto name was coined. If there's no such thing as a super exactoActo it just became a Zagakto. He just made it up. It was unbelievable. We were already confused by it. And then he said that there was a super Zagakto. He never once explained what a super Zagakto is. He is saying the X-Acto is just matching up the player and the team. I know what it is.

But then he's super X-Acto is getting the trade, getting the order correct. But that's a Zagakto. But he even said he admitted it they're one in the same he said aka exactly that means otherwise known as but he confused the process by saying the super exacto is a zygacto just use zygacto and then he opened up a whole new can of worms by saying that there was a super zygacto when he started explaining it it was the very definition of zygacto there was nothing super Zagacto when he started explaining it, it was the very definition of Zagacto, there was nothing super about it. It's a nickname for the super Xacto is Zagacto.

Yes, but you said that there was a super Zagacto. If you call the triple play a Zagacto, you're not wrong. Correct. Although technically it's called the super, the super Xacto. Yes, but where did the super Zagatto come from that is not a thing no it's no because the super exacto is a Zagat yes but yes said that there was a super Zagat I may have misspoken he also may have not have misspoken but I thought he just opened up a portal

to a whole new world that we didn't know about. We were all ready to run after him, but he just misspoke. Is a super Zygacto like a run of three straight Zygactos? No, it's not sequential order. No. Anyway. It just exists, but there's nothing to assign it to. I want to, before we get out of here.

Did you just shrug at me? I mean, he's trying to get a word in here. Yeah, it's Dan Schoenlein talk. He's trying to move out of here. Did you just shrug at me? I mean, he's trying to get a word in. Yeah, it's Dan Schoenlein. Trying to move things along here. But I do think he just misspoke instead of opening a portal to a new world of Zagaktos. Being such a man and just say, you know what? He got me there, I misspoke.

No, you didn't get me there. I wrote the book. They just spoke, we're back. I wrote the book on Zagaktos. And on Klossy! You can't say, maybe I misspoke! And then, what is it? Take a stand!

In the immortal words of Edwin Pope, my mentor, you may be right. You misspoke, or you spoke? Pick up your mind. It can be both. It can be both! Look at here. Look at you. Hey Drifter. Okay. Exactly. I ain't cheating. Wilson. Super Xacto and Zagacto

are synonyms. Yes, we established that. But then you, again, the whole bribe. You said there was a super Zagacto. There was a super Zagatto. I don't remember hearing it that way. You can say super Zagatto. Ain't no log in it. You can say that. You tell them. Okay? It's no problem. The thing that I wanted to discuss very quickly here just before we get out of here Stugatz

because playoff basketball as it changes and morphs into whatever America's gonna be consuming in 10 years, frustrated with the three pointers, frustrated with oh my God, when would Yammer ruined everything? I don't understand what I'm watching, I don't like it anymore. Foreigners or whatever's going to happen to the NBA in the next 10 years.

I just wanna stop for a moment, for just a moment to witness a passing of the guard in the NBA that allows us to celebrate all the amazing things that LeBron James has been as an unprecedented athlete in sports for 15 years, to get knocked out by a champion from war-torn, a joyless, war-torn, scarred ogre warned it a joyless war torn scarred

over who has changed everything about how people understood basketball could nobody wanted him and now he's dominating the sport to watch the change in that sport from okay the stories are going to change now all the old guys have to go and you might be less interested because you don't like basketball as much and you now. All the old guys have to go, and you might be less interested because you don't like basketball as much. And you like stars, and the old guys are gone now.

You like Stefan, you like LeBron, and you like the players you liked. But you like new stars. NBA fans like new stars. You have to love basketball, Stu Gottson. What I'm talking about is making your league palatable to everyone and growing it over years with streaming services, partnering up for the next 10 years of the league because please, please do not disrespect what these men have done in carrying this league

and evolving it during the age of player empowerment so it could be what it is now. And after Michael. Correct. Yes. But in the age of LeBron James is handing over the torch and the old guys are giving over the league to hear come the stories and I want it to be other something other than denver because It'll get

Droning if he gets to do why is that because the style of play that he has is actually very unique for the league and if you're a part of the and if you're a part of the NBA sports fandom chapter that has an issue with how the games all threes and whatnot he has elements to that in his game but he plays a very old-school game. I would say to you that generally speaking when people think about their attachments to the sport it is high-flying athleticism yes it is soaring. It is flight. It's Michael, it's Dr. J. Which is being taken away by everyone

hanging around the perimeter. And you can make yourself a legend as a Paul Pierce or a Larry Bird with a game that we don't totally understand. But flight, athletic, Anthony Edwards is 20, Shane Gilder is Alexander, I can't believe how fast he is. What can't that guy do? How fast he is. And they're fighting an ogre.

They're fighting someone we don't understand. The ogre has some good athletes as teammates. No, I understood but what I'm saying to you is you've got a cement mixer moving through the lane that doesn't turn the ball over and it seems fundamentally immune to the fact that there are helicopters swooning around his face. There's no real hole in his game at all. No, there isn't. Nothing. You can't send him to the line. You could say defense if you want, you could say not enough of a rim protector but offensively as an offensive player he just

knocked out the best and I don't want to leave yesterday without knowing without everyone sort of genuflecting on the fact that the oldest player in the league gets and eliminated last night what it takes is a champion it's two points and still we're all like yeah lakers you probably need to draft brony and keep that because i think the next two years of that

he's going to try and keep getting into the championship game he's not going to just let the young people have his sport. It's interesting because the Lakers actually have I think three first-round picks and plenty of cap space yet he is not giving any indication whether or not he's going to be there. It's going to be another fun offseason of Lebron and he can dominate the transaction while making Hollywood movie deals, but the league that he no longer presides over as the king because he doesn't get to be the king anymore, Stugatz. He would in New York.

Did you know that Magic Cavs is tied at two? There was a game three over the weekend that I was sure was game three, but apparently that was game four. I miss game three entirely. Big game five tonight, NBA TV. Swing game. I found out yesterday. When did this game happen?

I'm certain it happened on NBA TV, but I missed it. I was so sad. I was so sad on Saturday, driving around, listening on the radio to the Cavs score 10 third quarter points against the Magic. Magic down nine at the half, Thunderback. I watched that. I was sad about my life.

I just had no idea it was to bring the series level. Totally missed the third game.