The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Alley Oop: A’ja Wilson DOMINATES Game 3 | WNBA Finals Recap | Thomas & Sabally Go Cold

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

A’ja Wilson DOMINATES Game 3 of the WNBA Finals!  The Las Vegas Aces’ superstar put on a CLINIC — owning the court and proving why she’s one of the best in the game. Meanwhile, Alyssa Thomas and Satou Sabally struggled to find rhythm  as the Mercury just couldn’t keep up.  On this episode of Alley Oop, hosts Juju Gotti and Trysta Krick break down every highlight, the intensity of Game 3, and what’s next for the WNBA Finals. From A’ja’s monster performance to the Mercury’s defensive breakdowns — we’ve got all the takes, all the laughs, and all the hoops talk you need! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The tequila. That invented tequila. Broximo.com. Please drink responsibly. Quervo. Welcome back to the alley. I'm joined by my sister as All-Eezis. My sister Tristeasy, Christezy with the dog Neesie.

A.k.a. LaTree with All-Easy right here. The six-pound Pomeranian long. hair, she wha-wha-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-haw-hazia Wilson, ladies and gentlemen, she is not a chihuahua-ha. She is a big dog. She is proving herself right before our eyes, game-winning shot against the mercury, putting them up 3-0. Ms. Rebecca, do you got the iconic moment of Asia Wilson hitting the game-winning shot with 2.2 seconds left against your phoenix mercury she got it and I know you're vamping

I know you're vamping mama's coming I swear to God here we go mom is coming mom's coming I was stretching my words out I was like gee whey w in the here we go look at it oh man that's beautiful what you thought about that shot sis well first and foremost

I think what you cannot see on this photo is that Asia Wilson's jersey jersey is number 22, and she hit that shot with 2.2 seconds left on the clock. So if there is anything that you could say about like a higher being, there's one

little element of proof or coincidence or quinky dink or some sort of kismet because Asia Wilson hitting that shot, this is going to go down as one of those like probably commercial poster moments

And, like, she raised up so high that she, I don't even know that she saw Alyssa Thomas. Right, she couldn't. I mean, it's like, shoulders don't go that high. She can't raise up her arms. That's another issue with the torn labrums. You can't contest shots over someone like Asia. And then DB, Dewana Bonner, aka Alyssa Thomas's fiancee, I don't know what she thought she was doing trying to pretend to can test the shot over there, but baby, you're not even close to in the way.

I got you and your fiancé. I raised up over you and your fiancé. Enjoy Mexico. I think it's time for you to have the silent ride home to the crib. Tell the kids, the babysitter needs to put them to sleep because we've got some things to discuss because we're sitting there on the verge of elimination and a sweep on the heels of that girl who's. Pretty much now going to go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest player in WMBA history.

Moving on, as iconic as that shot is, that just going to be on posters. There's another shot that will not be on posters. This will be on the bloopers of all time shots. The other angle from the other side where you see my sister, Meg the Gustafson, calling for the damn bomb she like asia i see you with it give me the rock right now i'm open what's like baby girl we're not drawing the play up for you there's five seconds left on the clock i don't even know if you're like gather and release time is like short enough to get the shot off meg gustavson i'm not getting meg gustavs in the ball under any

circumstances that's going to Jackie, that's going to Chelsea that's going to Jewel like there's a bajillion people I'm giving the ball to before you why are you holding and like I'm staying ready I'm staying ready coach

that's crazy three point stands man May hit the window oh my God hey mama hey quench up hey you right here right here what are you doing right imagine if she would have passed her that damn ball.

We would have been an overtime faster than you could say, DeWanabana. Like, get her up out of that. Salute mad, though. You got to be ready. She reminded me of Thomas Bryant. Remember Thomas Bryant was calling for the ball during the Brown's 20,000 points. Salute of Thomas Bryant, NBA champion Thomas Bryant.

There will be known besmirching your name. Your name is forever besmirch by me. I don't even need to do anything too besmirch. Just know that I've been besmirching you behind your back. We don't even need to go into it. We got too much. to do. Damn, bro. My sister to be besmirching with the best of them, though.

You're a besmircher, bro. You'd be besmirching your ass off. I can't lie. Listen, once you know that the besmirchin's coming for everyone, don't even take it personally, though. Like, you made the list. You made the besmirch list. The besmirch, box, like birch box. Come on, man. For 1499.

Also, Ms. Rebecca, if you got a video of Dijunay Carrington, Dijunay Carleton, let us know earlier within the series like what is the absolute answer for asia wilson what can you do when asia got the ball is there an answer if so here is the answer for asia wilson someone said how can you stop asia wilson wilson in the paint don't ask me do not ask me don't nobody got that answer I for sure don't I hope she fell out

she fell out she fell out it's not even how you stop Asia Wilson in the paint it's how do you stop Asia Wilson when she has the ball anywhere on the hardwood she hit a three pointer and I was like okay well if she's hitting

threes from the wing you're dead good night because if she's got that stroking baby elbow frito line paint around the rim all of it

is going in defenders draped on her open spin move all of it is in the bag when she's hitting threes from the wing at her height I've been stroking that's what I've been doing I've been stroken

you can't stop that you can't stop that she legitimately has the footwork and the ball skills and just the grace and athleticism and the like all the things that like really on another level that almost no player in the w has right now exactly think about it she'd be at the house going against bam just right by the trash can right quick uh-oh got you i think about it every time she does one of those one dribble pull-ups i'm like she probably's done that on bam a thousand times right right Right, man, that's how you prepare for these. That's why I was like, bro, it's hard for these women to even come up with a game plan on Asia when she locked in because she'd be doing that tabam probably at the house, like practice court, Miami Heat Facility, wherever.

Even if she getting her shot blocked, she getting her shot blocked by U.S. Olympian gold medal and the multiple champion, Eastern Conference champion, bam out of bio. With that, with that wingspan, too, there's nobody that's going to have. his height and his wingspan that she's ever going to see that's why she's raising up higher than you've ever seen asia i think has like the vertical and the body type of some of those volleyball strikers where if you can raise up like that no one's going to be able to get into your eyesight nobody's going to be able to put their hand anywhere near where that ball is let alone your eye line especially nobody with no damn shoulders and a negative bag attached speaking the negative bags. I don't like to do this, man. I like to do it. But Alyssa Thomas, man, this finals,

if you hurt, sis, I'm pretty sure after the final we're going to hear. Oh, man, she's been dealing with this, the whole series. Bro, if you hurt, you might need to take a little pause and sit on the bench because your offensive bag, ma'am, I know you are the assist queen, rebound. Oh, my God, triple double legend. But I'm talking about what have you done for me lately? Brough, You need to get you a little bit deeper offensive back because your handles, ma'am, are, wow, like, you look like me out there. Whoa, fumbling out of the, bro, clutch. Br, she hit the ball out of the backboard.

This was, the game was tied. Before that age of shot, miraculous. The Mercury had a chance to go up, two points. Clear out. Alyssa Thomas, click clank out the backboard. I'm talking about Carlton Bank style backboard. What you think about AT, bro? Before the series, you was like,

Melissa Smith, barbecue chicken. Do you still feel the same way? Well, no, I don't. It's obviously not. AT just hasn't given us what we saw her give us in the series against the links. She hasn't given us really. anything outside of what we saw in game one against the the liberty which is like not a lot not a lot of shot attempts you've got some miss free throws you've got crucial layups being missed

and badly and badly missed i'm talking about in there if she wasn't built like a like a safety right Matt truck. And Matt truck using her big physical shoulders that are broken to get her body into space and bowl you over. I don't know if anyone would even guard her. I don't know if she'd be able to get those assists and pass because the lanes would be clogged. The passing lanes would be clogged because it was like, just let her go to the rim. Like we used to let Janus just go to the rim and then like create. that wall for him it's kind of like that we know she's using her physicality to do all the things

that she wants to do but when you know she can't shoot it changes the entire complexion of how you defenders like i'm not worried about aty go on a t we'll just hack you and send you to the line with that little push shot because you can't lift your arms up i think we kind of all the the rap the information the news is all out which is like AT's broken She's broken, and it's time for you to get into the operator's room and sort it out. Let's go. I'm talking about surgery, schedule it now, because you made it to the pinnacle again, the WMBA finals. Here we are, and we're saying that, damn, if only the person defending Asia Wilson could have got up a little bit higher.

Damn, if only the person that was wide open for the game winner would have had a little bit more finesse. on her shit versus scrape darks it really is it really is bad it really is and it's not a good look for our league like it looks if this is the one that's top five in MVP it looks insane if you've never watched any eliza thomas before and you haven't seen how good she is in other things in other you're like this girl you if you're new to the game the casual right If you just start watching this shit, you're right. The casual, you just are, you're like, damn, this girl is garbage. Right, right.

DB up and down, up and down, up and down. She went crazy. We had people, I was watching the sports gambling podcast, and they were putting her on the Habachi. They were like, she can't play. She needs to be, after game two, and game one, they were like, she can't play anymore. She's unplayable. She came through. For game three, that's why you put her in the game.

That's why you have her out there. You have to just hope that she gets hot at the right time, which she does a lot of times. My biggest indictment for her for game two was, yeah, you might not a score, you might not have been an offensive threat, but zero rebounds, ma'am? No, no, no, no, no, we're not doing zero rebounds. She has zero rebounds in the game two. At that height. Right, no, what's you all right here doing? I respect, Dee Bizzle, you got to know legend.

But come on, you can't just be out there getting cardio. We need to affect the game. But, yeah, man. AT surgery, please, sis. Like, come on, man. Let's just get, this is not, come on. Let's knock it off. And SOTU, we've got to talk about SOTU as well.

Yeah. Yeah. First of all, everybody already knows. We're just going to say it because this is what you got to say. But we mean it, but we are saying it out of formality. Prayers up for Sautu. Okay. For sure. 100% press up.

Concussion, very bad-looking injury. She leaves the game, probably not playing for game for. Yeah. But Satu in game two was taking so many unnecessary, ill-advised, contested deep threes when the lane was wide open for her to just go to the rim. That is what crushed them. Such bad shot selection. And I think that Satu's biggest issue,

is between the ears. That's why they got blown out, I think. That's the biggest reason they got blown out is you can't take deep threes with three people around you from the logo, two seconds into the shotgun. You're just, now the transition bucket, Chelsea Gray hits the outlet, cherry pick. Oh, that's a lay. And then you do it again, that's a lay. Oh, now you're down 15, 17, 22 points. And now she's making a movie out of you.

Oh, my God. Now she's doing this going up at a court. Yeah, I feel you. I think also too what hampers to Phoenix Mercury is they're not getting the hitman Sammy Sam that they're used to get Sammy Wickham they're not getting the lower the as big of a contribution from a lower McCona like I remember Lasca I'm old enough to remember Lasca from the bench was getting good minutes and knocking down big shots during the season I'm old enough to remember Kalani Brown yeah a force in the paint playing at all at all I'm old

enough to remember you put Kalani Brown on Asia. Let her use a couple of those files that you give me. Let her feel it. You feel me? Come on. I'm old enough to remember that. So I'm not understanding why the bench is so short. I understand it being shorter

during the playoffs, but man, you got to put, calling all cars, man. Y'all boy down 3-0 right now. You need to get it. Who can play? Who's going to get out here and give me something against these folks? Because they're on Dynasty time right now. Aces, one more win, they're on dynasty levels.

So can we go out here and slay this dynasty? Look at yourself in the mirror. And this was the year that the Aces looked the worst. Yeah. Scary. Come on. That is very scary. This is like the 22 Golden State Warriors that I said wouldn't go 9 and 1 to start the year without Clay Thompson.

And Clay Thompson didn't come back until Christmas Day or New Year. Eve or whatever game that was. So he wasn't even there until almost the trade deadline, almost All-Star, and I'm like besmirching. You know, I've got every besmirch in the book for the Golden State Warriors. I'm like, this team is lame. They don't have it figured out. They're getting older. The dynasty's dead.

Underarmored shoes, whack. Just like you got ankle brace on ankle brace. I never besmirch Steph. But everybody else awesome bums. You besmirch Kvon Loney? I've been smirched Kavon Looney. What is he? Is he a center?

Is he a four? You know what he was doing, giving you good minutes against the Boston Celtics? So they look dead in the water. Dynasties closed, and they get another chip just when you think it's over. And that's kind of the a ACEs. Like they had to have this momentum to get into the playoffs and to get a good seed, which they did, 17 in a row. And so if you're Phoenix, you're like, they're tired. Every game has been an elimination game for these aces

But then you've got so many injuries You know Sammy like you said She's not giving you good minutes Because I think there's something wrong with her spine right now I mean look that's my problem Like bro if you are not a hundred If you're not 80 Let us know sis

So we can do something We can make other adjustments and other arrangements We got Westbelt on the bench She wet Westbell be Stone Cold from the three Like, bro, come on man

Like There's I think it's just A lot more to do We keep having Jeweloy games You feel We keep having them

Over and over And we don't even need Too much of a contribution From Melissa Smith On the offensive end We just need her to be A imposer Impose herself

The same way Tell us See, he know The same way We could put Kalani Brown in over here That's what they are already Doing with Melissa Smith She's clogging up that painting

and making it ugly no matter what. Yes, she's going to have seven files in the first quarter, but at the same time, you ain't going through her. You're going to have to earn them from the charity strike. They're not making me, they're not making them earn it right now. I feel like they're just going out, going, Ka, come on, Ka. Come on, Ka. You can't just wake up in the fourth quarter.

Yeah, you can't do that. That's another thing. That's another thing. Kalea Koppur needs to be in every quarter of bucket. Yes. I do not want to wait. for it to be wee-wee-wee

urgent time. You are going home. Sound the alarm. Break the glass. And then it's like, oh, Kalia Koppur can score again. It's like, no, no, no.

I need you to do it. I need nine in quarter one. I need nine and quarter two. I need six in quarter three. I need eight in quarter four. Every single quarter, I don't think that they can really guard Kahlia Koppur. They can.

That's the problem. Yeah, they had a hard time with Kelsey Mitchell, Collier Copper can do everything Kelsey Mitchell can do. And maybe even more. She is an absolute automatic walking bucket. So why aren't you acting like it? Probably because

AT is running the offense and she's not touching the rock. But guess what? Tell her and her no shoulders have an ass. It's my time. Look, bro. You right. She got to be more involved, man, because it ain't going to get you. That's the same way I feel about

McCall Bridges with the Knicks. brus when macao bridges get you about 16 17 shot attempts up it's gonna be a rough day for whoever got playing them like bro because now you gotta worry about this joker this joker this joker this joke oh they're putting up the vs for building over time out we need to turn like come on they're not even making it hard for them so yeah bro salute to the merks but i fear is it's over with

yeah the hurt merks it's over with neither here nor there moving on we got a little breaking news out of the NBA. LeBron James is being sued for $856. He's going to people's court. Right. And Small Claims Court from a Lakers fan

claiming that he was duped by LeBron's ad. He said he bought tickets to the game versus dimming the calves thinking that it was a retirement situation. Wasn't a retirement. Turned out to be a Hennessy. Now his tickets ain't worth for damn. Boy, this is truly,

the definition of boy stop. This is truly the definition of that. Are you joking me? You went out and bought tickets to a game based on what was clearly a preview to an ad. If you did that believing it, you deserve to be finessed. You do not get to just sue LeBron for an ad.

You, sir, are the dummy of the day. Yes, you, sir, are a joker, and I hope you have fun at Lakers Cavs and everybody sitting on the bench, arresting. Moving on. Speaking of Boy Stop, we got a segment here at the alley who called Boy Stop. Ms. Rebecca, it pains me to have to come back to you. Because you know she's going to struggle. I'm so ready. I'm like Meg.

She's like Meg. She got her hands up. You don't know what you're talking about. Here we go. what about this d dude you feel me come on that's the problem asia giving you everything she got on both ends of the court that's the problem i thought it's like no b not at the backboard all and you know she's throwing it on the down because she wanted to snatch it there is nothing nothing i would imagine because i've never been able to do it

because I'm five-foot-five, and I've always been the shortest. But a off-the-backboard block snatch-down go the other way has to be, like, one of the most gratifying things in all the basketball. I was going to say it feels good to even watch it, man. Oh, my God. She's like, who did I have those hands of that? Right there, she could kill Superman. Exactly.

When she bounced the ball and looked in the crowd, she could kill Superman, and that is that moment. That moment on it. she had and the crazy thing was she's grinning like a psycho just maniacically and she had I think uh like a little tooth jam in at the same time and she's smiling no double nose rings it's just demon time for Asia it's crazy to me her and Jackie Young got there man it's demon time They're not paying with you. The rap on as a headband, dude, I'm not messing around with you.

I'm not, like, it's, it's wraps. My finals MVP ticket that I've been telling everyone on the alley-oop, I was scared about. It's time for those, it's time for those beautiful ladies and gentlemen to pay me. It's time for them to transfer it in my account because it's gone. It's done. No Jackie Young, no Chelsea Gray, no other random contributors. Nope, it was Asia Wilson and all Asia Wilson at all facets of the game. Three, four blocks, 30-something points, 13 rebounds, a couple of assists.

Come on, comprehensive dominance. Mm-hmm. And one, get the hell out of my face. I didn't want to cut. I had to edit myself. Yep, I know. I was about to say, I almost said something bad just there too, but we stop. I like watching Trista just go full rant with a chicklet microphone.

I love that. It's real. Bob Barker, chicklet, the world's tiniest microphone. She's coming at your microphone. A lot of passion. A lot of bad. Listen here. Listen here.

I'm on the move, okay? Other stuff to do the fool with you with this big old sure microphone that weighs seven pounds. I brought it. Who me? I brought it to the hotel. No, not you. Rebecca. I brought the chair mic to the microphone over there.

I got flagged by TSA because they were like, what is this? Are you an influencer? If I would have this in the bag only, they wouldn't have said anything. They'd be like, oh, yeah, she's small potatoes. They thought it was one of the dildos you were going to throw in the court. They said, what's going on in here? Do you have any power? For our listening audience that can't see this,

Ms. Rebecca is walking around her living room with a microphone with a cord attached to it, like she's doing stand-up. That's the microphone she got plugged into her computer laser. It's an old-timey radio microphone. Miss Rebecca do stand-up, too, by the way, out there. Don't sleep on my dog now. Tell everybody. Don't tell her my secrets.

Keep that here. We're going to keep that here. Don't tell everybody my secrets. Yeah, let her know so I can come heckle her wherever she is next. And that's all the time we have today on the alley. Oh, thank you as always to my sister, Trista. Allie for going to get some good Scooby Snack soon because that Asia Wilson ticket is about to cash. Man, that was a fun show, Juju.

We'll have to... The next episode is going to be all NBA because by the time. this episode airs is going to be wraps for the Phoenix Mercury. So we'll talk about Janus and his ongoing saga to leave Milwaukee because we know he wants up out of there. Sayonara, suckers.

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