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You need the moon. You need the moon, aka the playoffs, for the Wolves to—

Welcome back to the Alley Oop. I am Juju Gaidi, joined by my sister as always, Trista Crick. How are you doing, sis?

I'm conflicted, Juju, because I think I'm at the part of sports fandom where you go through a cold streak. And so you got to watch what you say, because if you get too excited about the teams that you want to continue to win, there's a chance God will smite you and then the opposite will happen. So I'm keeping everything inside, wanting to crip walk all over the San Antonio Spurs grave, but I'm just gonna keep it cute.

I can dig it. Look, in that vein, Ant-Man returned. The Wolverine himself returned last night, man. 21 points, if I'm not mistaken, and timely, timely points, allowing Terrence Shannon, salute. You get one of these big ones. Extend my boy right now. Minnesota Timberwolves, you might want to extend Terrence Shannon right damn now.

You know he's going by TJ now?

TJ?

Instead of Terrence Shannon Jr., he's going by TJ Shannon.

TJ Shannon, let go. Hey, his mama called him TJ, I'm gonna call him TJ because that boy is so explosive, getting to the hole whenever the hell he want to. You would think he was a veteran. And might I add, bruh, Ayo, ayo, he went down. He gave you 45 last, last series. Guess what? Another one. Didn't even play, bro. What you think about this Timberwolves, the grittiness, just the overall team effort from them boys?

Well, I, I just want to kind of ask, like, how the hell Ant Edwards was able to play. Like, we— I thought this— they said it will be weeks, don't even ask about him, okay? So I didn't even ask about him. You've got, you've got a team that is missing, missing Io, you've got missing Dante DiVincenzo, you got Ant on a minutes restriction, you missed a bunch of free throws, you're on the road, Wemby set a playoff block record, and they, and you win that game, Juju! And We talked about this throughout the season because I was watching a lot of people, but it wasn't us, say, hey, are the Wolves in trouble? They're coasting through this regular season. Even John Krasinski, the great John Krasinski, that is not Jack Ryan, it's the guy from The Athletic who covers the T-Wolves full-time. Even he was confounded and flummoxed by what this Timberwolves team was doing. Like they just wouldn't wake up. But guess what? You need the moon. You need the moon, aka the playoffs, for the Wolves to—

oh, oh, bro, you right though, bro. And might I add, Julius Randle, salute, sir. We get on you when you don't do it, so we may as well give you a flower or two. Since you did it, brother. What did he have, uh, 21 and 10? Come on, bro. Like, and all of them was necessary and timely, right? When the Spurs go down and be like, you know what, let's, let's bring this thing home. Them boys said, uh-uh, jab step, and one. You may as well hang the and one up because they're not hitting free throws until they matter. But at the same time, bro, this Timberwolves team has surprised me up and down the year, bro. Jaden— we ain't even said Jaden McDaniels' name yet. And the offensive threat that he's become, like, hands in his face, it don't matter. He shoot this way, he shoot to the moon. So what you gonna do?

I think this is a great point because, you know, you've, you've heard over the years Anthony Edwards give interviews, and I thought it was just him pumping his teammate up. They were like, who's your favorite player in the league? He's like, Jayden McDaniels is my favorite player in the league. Jayden McDaniels does way more than you could even think he does. And Jayden McDaniels and Ant Edwards came up in high school at the same time. They've been playing hoop together since AAU. So Jayden McDaniels was that man. He just now has stepped into his offensive greatness because sometimes the role— I think it's interesting, the role dictates sometimes what you show you can do. There's players out there I bet you could give you 40 They've got these one dribble pull-ups, two dribble pull-ups, step-back three. They've got the hesi, they've got the up and under, they got the euro, but they're allowed to stand there in the corner. You just stand there in the corner and shoot the three. Just stand over there. Don't do anything else. Don't put the ball on the ground.

Dyson Daniels. But yeah, neither here nor there, bruh. It seemed like, bruh, neither here nor there. I bet on all them standing in the corner brothers on my parlay this weekend, and it was pissing me off. Jalen Suggs, you are a terrorist and you don't care about any human life other than your own. I saw that when you lost that Game 7. Right quick on your ass. The New York Knickerbockers behind a— I mean, a great performance for everybody, for real. But Jalen Brunson is always gonna shine in these moments. You, you put a challenge in front of them By God, I think he's gonna conquer it. Cat gave you good minutes. OG gave you good minutes. Macau has risen from the dead. Macau is risen, ladies and gentlemen. My boy is back. What do you think about these New York Knickerbockers?

Well, Jalen Brunson just feels like unguardable. They had everybody trying to keep him down, you know. You had VJ Edgeholm, who I think is one of the better defenders, one of the better young defenders in the league, and they just couldn't do anything with them. I think really the story is how— and I don't want to make this and put besmirch the New York Knicks in this dominant win. Yeah, but didn't the 76ers just play on like damn near Saturday?

Not even damn near, Saturday night. That's damn near Sunday.

Yeah, it was damn near Sunday. They played just the— my mom was like, didn't we just see them yesterday? I go, no, we didn't. It was just— but it feels like yesterday. And they played a 7-game series, a very hard-fought 7-game series. You got Joel Embiid trying his best after an appendicitis surgery. You got him moving through molasses. So I just think in general, once the Sixers didn't have it, they were cooked. They were like, you know what, you can have this game one, bro.

He was moving through molasses because Mikal Bridges had a handshake with a $100 bill in it, if you was— if you understand what I'm saying. My boy went straight to the appendix. Hiya! On that one play, 6% from the three-point line this half. It's an 8-nothing New York run. Oubre's drive and beat, feeling terrible. Oops, my bad, that's a foul on me. Oh, my boy wasn't the same the rest of the game.

He was not the same. He's— I mean, he— somebody check his sutures. You don't— literally, the, the sutures haven't healed yet, okay? He's— if you lift up his jersey, you can still see where they cut his body open.

Either way it goes, Sixers, y'all better tighten up because, you know, look, the Boston series— yes, we want Boston, salute Coach Mazzulla.

Goofy.

He used to be cute. It used to be hilarious. He used to be, oh, this little guy is just— he says anything, he loves Jesus. I'm done with him, bruh. No adjustments. You're looking goofy post-game. Your quotes ain't quoting. You ain't got— bruh, get him out of here. I'm so sorry, bro. I'm over it. Neither here nor there.

You want him fired?

I want him to have a stern talking to. How about that? Like, somebody pull him to the side and be like, hey, bro, no more of the town. If you say the town again, say it, say it, say the town. You feel me? Like, somebody just needed to sit his ass down and let him know this shit is for real. We spending big money on these folks, man.

If you try to tackle Peyton Pritchard in the locker room one more time and try to put him in the DDT Okay, you're fucking out of here.

You're out of here. And what the hell was that Voochie Man move? Voochie Man, why did we get Voochie Man? Why did they— why did they get Voochie Man? Nikola Vucevic.

And we don't see no Voochie Man.

DMPs after DMPs over there eating boogers on the sideline. You think I'm playing? It's video proof. My boy was eating boogers, man. Come on, you deserve to lose. I actually bet the Sixers was gonna win, so salute. My boy! But at the same time, bro, this is goofy.

They've had crazy ways that they've gotten exited— crazy way. Jalen Brown going on a Twitch stream and literally play-by-playing Game 7 Literally slowing it down like it was film room with a bunch of excuses talking about, oh, you see me, you see me block Embiid right here. You people don't even know, like, Embiid be flopping. The league is ruined because of Embiid.

Whole crew look crazy right now.

And this group is a special group. So proud of this group and the way we played. I wish we trusted that style of play a little bit more, but I know playoffs kind of shifted our rotations and what we wanted to do. But I'm so proud. And it was my favorite year of the— of my basketball career. One, streaming with you guys, chat, was awesome. Like, being able to talk to y'all was like therapy every single day, you know what I mean? I mean, not every day, like once a week or whatever, what I was doing.

I'm about to throw up. I'm about to throw up. I'm about to throw up.

Who are these guys behind them? Who are these 8 Mile redheaded dudes from the trailer park with backwards caps, ginger beards, and Oakley sunglasses from the 1980s. Juju, who are these guys, bro? Why are they standing behind you?

That's what I'm saying. Is this a little Bow Wow video from when he was threatening Soulja Boy? Like, why is they— why do you have your— why is your goons like— I'm— oh, this is embarrassing. I got Fifth-hand embarrassment from this. Like I said, I love my boy, man, but I gotta change my profile picture, bro. This your crew, bro? Hell nah.

Can I ask you a question?

Go ahead, man.

Be gentle. This is not taking into account anything that they do on the basketball court. This is strictly mentality, off-the-court activities. And if you want to use I'll just keep it there. Is— are these some of the goofiest superstars in the NBA, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown?

This is the wrong week to ask me that, man. I can't— I plead the fifth. They're not the goofiest. They're upstanding young men. They've never been in trouble. All the stuff that Jaylen Brown would say if he saw this and retweeted and quoted Where the— bruh, it don't even matter, bruh. This is lame. You don't— when you lose, sit down, go somewhere for a week, a couple weeks. They say go to Cancun for a reason. It's a joke that lands on Twitter that says, yeah, we sent you to Cancun, but Cancun is beautiful, my brother. Cancun is— it got a lot of stuff out there you can look at. You can watch it move on the beach. You can distract yourself from what just happened. You don't just come on and cut on a damn video talking about he flopping. You look so lame, bruh. And you my boy, you know, if anybody ride with you, I ride with you. But I gotta keep it real. This is the lamest thing I saw this year.

The craziest part of the whole stream was when he broke down the Paul George push-off and then said how many times he does that same move. And he believes that there were certain refs out to get him specifically, like that they had a conspiracy in a room where they were like, when Jaylen Brown does it, we're gonna call it an offensive foul. I know this era. This is an everyone's against you era. This is a chip on my shoulder era where all you see is the world conspiring against you. Go to Cancún, let it all out, empty yourself out, and get back right.

Come on, man, because even if you telling the truth, even if you right, even if there is a meeting with referees and that thing conspiring against you, don't nobody want to hear that shit right now, bruh. Take a walk. Talk to us in the summertime when all this shit is over. He did. They missed— I didn't— I didn't know he was gonna miss Drew Holiday this much, bro. Drew Holiday was so important. But moving on, thank God, because we talked about it and I need— still need to go to therapy later for me. I got a little appointment set up. Salute the doc. But Pistons got it done, sis. Them Pistons came back. They proved a lot of folks wrong, man. Kay Cunningham looks like the best player on the East right now. I'm so sorry. Talk about it. Do you have anything on that series that concluded?

They did what they were supposed to do. They're one seed playing a play-in team, and yet people like you are giving them credit. This is like what Listen, I got Cameron trolling me daily about this. Literally, he's enjoying every moment of this, but I can just take his words and use them against him. He's saying this about the Knicks. You didn't do anything. You didn't win anything, Knicks. You won the first round. Congratulations. You beat the Hawks. Congratulations. The Pistons beat the Orlando Magic that we didn't even think was gonna make the playoffs, and it took 7 games and one of the most historic collapse and scoring droughts in NBA history. 45 minutes of real time without an Orlando Magic bucket in order for the Pistons to stay alive. What you think you did something? You did nothing. You literally are just confirming what I've already been saying. It's just now more moments for you to get your hopes up and for me to be right.

Look, man, I know that that's exactly what happened. They beat the Orlando Magic in the first round, but at the same sometimes how things happens matters. Yes, the USA was supposed to beat Serbia, but the way it happened— holy fuck! We were supposed to beat France, but oh my God, that's all I'm saying. It's like he was in the zone. It didn't matter what Orlando was throwing at him, they got it done, man. Salute to Sloop to the whole Detroit.

I will say this, I will say this about Cade. Yeah, he's a bad man. Yeah, he is a bad man. You know who he kind of looks like out there? He kind of looks like a, a defending— if Luka could play lockdown defense, that's who Cade looks like. The step-back splash threes Now he's not the best 3-point shooter, which is why I've not been always a super fan of his. And I'm also not a super fan of Lucas for the same reason. Very streaky shooters. But he's, he's so strong. He gets to his spot, can remain balanced, go up for the mid-range, go up and under, takes contact, pause very well, like, and, and timely threes, daggers that are just completely wet, like just not an inch or a millimeter of rim. Has touched that ball. And you're like, wow. And the way that the net like goes up inside of it, right? Right. Oh yeah, that's, that's, that's super wet. That's super wet. Yeah. Yeah, bro. My mom say he looks like he's 80 or he looks like he's 20.

That's a good one. My boy look like he could be 100 years old or 17. You know who I still want to shine before we move on from that series? Jalen Suggs. You are a mf-er, you dig? We gonna work on that one. I don't know what I'm gonna call my boy.

He says you're struggling with the hate and the seething that's coming out of your body with wanting to be a nice, respectful man in case he sees this. Here's the thing, Jalen.

No, it's not even that. I wanna— I wanna not get the show canceled because I want to call him what I want to call him for what he did Saturday. He was like 3 for 36 his last 36 shots. I ain't make that up. I'm pretty sure it's factual. It's actual, if not factual.

That's terrible. No, he was absolute ass. It was ass. And guess what? You're about to be traded.

Before we get into some more videos, back to the Spurs right quick. Victor Wembenyama, if you gonna play— I mean, you're gonna play right into their hands if you shooting them long-ass fadeaway threes. He went 0 for 8 for 3-pointers. And I feel like, bro, that tell me everything I need to know with what you was up to that game.

How come he couldn't do that in the first round? First round against the Blazers? What happened to that?

Exactly, exactly. And he broke the record, quote unquote broke the record for blocks. Miss Rebecca, do you got the Wemby's blocks from last night? Because he got— if he got 12 blocks He got really 7 blocks because 5 of them boys was goaltending. I'm sorry, look at that, hit the bad boy first. Yep, that's one of them. Let's see another one. Rudy, foul, that's a block, foul on his arm. It's just a foul. Watch his arm.

Foul, foul, straight grab. I like this, this is the kind of shit I love. Let's besmirch you.

Yep, goaltending. A foul and goaltending. It hit up the net, right? Look, this is just a straight foul.

Yeah, on his head, on his shoulder.

Goaltending hit the bad boy first. Referees don't give a damn. This is what I'm saying, referees, like for real, for real, referees, if you out there, that's blatant right there. Come on, hit the bad boy super first. If you out there and you listening to this show and you got a referee in your phone, like if you know a referee Text his ass and tell him to lock in right now. I'm talking about just no reason, lock in, bruh, because y'all embarrassing the game, bruh. This is what non-NBA players or non-NBA folks, they post stuff like this saying, oh, the NBA is unwatchable. Come on, man, step in.

And they say it's rigged, and they say it's rigged.

Exactly. And now if I'm watching this, I would have a hard time thinking that the tall brother don't get, uh, his own set of rules.

By the way, that little splash NBA logo that on NBC, heart, brings me back to the '90s hard, hard.

Hey yo, but, but you know what else bring me back to the '90s? The New York Knicks and their damn fans, man. They ain't seen this much success in a while, man. If the New York Knicks happen to win the championship, if they get to the championship, the city is going to burn. Look how they treated the Sixers fan outside there.

Oh my God, bro.

What?

Oh my God, bro, come on now.

What if my boy had to—

trying to jump him into being a Knicks fan?

Exactly. It looked like they trying to die is what it looked like. I mean, if I'm— bro. Like, what's going on? Like, what if— what if bro had anything on him?

This poker— when Cersei had to do the walk naked and they're like, shame, shame, throwing rocks at her.

At least she knew what was going on. Cersei knew though. Cersei was some bullshit. My boy just bought a ticket to see the Sixers lose and now he got to go through all this. Boy, hey man, no, that's crazy. I don't It's like, what do you do in that scenario though?

I don't know, take the jersey off?

I don't know, bruh, because my pride saying, bruh, I'm finna turn around, I'm knocking him out, I'm knocking him out, I'm sneaking him, I'm scooping little bro. But it's like, bruh, I'm not John Wick, and so I'm not sure.

There's thousands of them, right?

So I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to get all these kicks off. I'm imagining So what do you do other than just keep it moving, man? This is unfortunate. Y'all gotta do better than this, New York Knick fans. Come on now. I want to go to the Mecca.

They got Post Malone in a chokehold up there.

Exactly. Remember I went to the Mecca in the Spurs jersey? Thank God that— I really was violating, I ain't know it, but thank God they wasn't playing the Spurs, I guess.

Yeah, thank God, because you said you almost put your Pistons jersey on. Remember, you were like, oh, I should have put No, we would— I might not ever seen you again, Juju.

I had bought my Pistons jersey. But lest you think that it's just specific to Sixers fans, they also trampled J.R. Smith, bruh. Former Nick, my boy, outside just trying to turn up with the folks. You already know you don't go down there if you ain't trying to turn up with them, so he understand the game. My boy almost get trampled, man. Look at him, man of the people. You did. Come on now, back up. Look at this, man. God, what could possibly be so pressing that y'all done knocked this man over, bro?

They're treating him like it's BTS in Korea, bro.

You know what's crazy about this though? My boy J.R. Smith did not even drop his, uh, cigarette. Or his spliff. You see it in his hand? Yeah, that's the most gangster part of this whole video. My boy did not drop his spliff because it's New York.

That's crazy.

He's like, J.R. Smith, I salute you, bruh, because I just found that— that's a gem right there. My boy is in getting trampled and the spliff is still hell high. Boy happy 420, happy— what's today? Uh, Cinco de Mayo.

May the Fourth be with you, Juju.

Hello. And lastly, man, before we get up out of here, man, them Hawks, bro, you got embarrassed. It was, it was, it was too sad not to mention here, you feel me? We a basketball show, so we gotta mention it. Salute to the Raptors.

Salute to the Raptors.

But this is the—

oh my God, again the disrespect continues.

It's the saddest swag surf I have ever seen in my life, bruh. Cancel the performance if you see we down. We down 50. Hey, FLY, don't— no swag surf before the fourth quarter. This is before the fourth quarter, bro.

Come on, man.

Do better, bro.

Do better. Also, Juju, And boy, stop swag surf. I just want to say shout out to former basketball— I think he was VP of basketball ops for the Atlanta Hawks, Bryson Graham. Literally one of the smartest dudes in all of basketball. He's young like us. He's literally one of us, Juju.

Be cheesy.

He be cheesy. Gotta promote cheesy. He got the biggest job in all of basketball and one of the biggest markets in all of basketball, trying to bring back this team to its former glory. And grew up a Bulls fan. So shout out to Bryson Graham for getting the big job for the Chicago Bulls. And shout out to Lil Baby Reinsdorf for finally doing something fucking right. Guess what? I saw this. I hit up the head of comms for the Bulls. I said, oh my God, you guys did something good. Oh my God, I might not have to kill you every single time I get on Chicago radio, brother.

I know you got to go, but the Chicago Sky did something also very good. Catch us on Goodfellow tomorrow, you'll see us talk about that. But yeah, man, thank you so much if you out there listening and tuning in, man. We appreciate y'all so much. Without y'all Who the hell are we? Also, special thanks to Miss Rebecca Donahue and our brother, the Distinguished Dillon. Yes, sir. Catch us again this Friday on the Levertard Show feed on YouTube. Same bat time, different bat channel.

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